As the finale of the Hashira Training Arc aired, Crunchyroll announced that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle will be coming exclusively to theaters in an EPIC trilogy of films.
Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle Trilogy
Manga readers, anime onlys, this is the move for the monumental ending of Demon Slayer. Those of us who watched “To the Hashira Training” have gotten a taste for how insanely good Infinity Castle is going to look on the big screen. Then there was the final episode of the Hashira Training Arc that just aired on Crunchyroll yesterday. The internet collectively was going insane for the story and the animation that Ufotable cranked out. As someone who knows how it ends and knows that movies mean bigger animation budgets… this is 100% the best way this could end for Demon Slayer. So thank you to all the people who decided to make Infinity Castle Arc into a trio of movies.
“Demon Slayer has been a phenomenal franchise, and we at Crunchyroll are delighted to have been a part of it from the beginning,” said Rahul Purini, President of Crunchyroll. “Crunchyroll is thrilled to be able to bring this trilogy of films to fans, on the big screen, and it promises to be one of the truly epic and consequential pop cultural events of our time when it hits theaters.”
Infinity Castle Trilogy Release Date
The trio of films will be distributed by Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide, excluding select Asian territories including Japan. No dates have been released yet.
About Demon Slayer
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is based on the manga series by Koyoharu Gotoge published under SHUEISHA's JUMP COMICS, which consists of 23 volumes and over 150 million copies in publication. The franchise has won the admiration of millions of fans around the globe since its debut in 2018. The story begins when Tanjiro Kamado, a boy whose family is killed by a demon, joins the Demon Slayer Corps to turn his younger sister Nezuko back into a human after she is transformed into a demon.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba first premiered in April 2019 with the Tanjiro Kamado, Unwavering Resolve Arc, followed by the feature film Mugen Train in October 2020, and the TV series Mugen Train Arc and Entertainment District Arc from 2021 through 2022. In 2023, the Swordsmith Village Arc debuted on Crunchyroll, shortly after the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Swordsmith Village- theatrical release. In 2024, the Hashira Training Arc debuted, shortly after the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To Hashira Training- theatrical release. The animation production is by ufotable.
The latest films – Mugen Train, -To the Swordsmith Village-, and -To the Hashira Training- – have received both commercial and critical success. Mugen Train currently holds the record as the highest-grossing anime movie of all time and the highest-grossing Japanese film at the global box office, garnering over 500 million USD to date. It currently ranks as the second-highest grossing anime film in U.S. box office history. It also garnered a 98% critic score and 99% audience score (with 10,000+ verified ratings) on Rotten Tomatoes.
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