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Yurie

11889 Posts

September 21 2025 11:12 GMT

#9581

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is worst movie I have watched this year. Great fight scenes if you like anime ones. Great animation. Decent sound. But it is easily 1h too long due to massive amounts of flashbacks. Looks like they want to make it a trilogy instead of having sane pacing and making it one movie while skipping some content.

I went in having watched like 5 episodes of the first season of the anime years ago. With that as background I don't know why I should care about some of these characters. They realized this is an issue and thus did 1 min fight, 5 min flashback, fight continues, 5 min flashback, fight ends...

At the end when I realized this was the first of many movies I mentally started comparing it to the lord of the rings. I did not leave happy after making that comparison, this movie felt like it made no progress towards its stated goal of killing a super demon.

Overall I am just sad about the movie. So many good ideas (average soldiers saving stamina for the heavy hitters as an example) and animation I really enjoyed. Wasted on horrible overall writing. I assume they followed the manga too closely without having any idea if that is true. As a stand alone movie it fails since they give screen time to important characters that does nothing important in THIS movie.

Side note, if the default for new movies is >2h duration they should start with intermissions. Would make the movie theaters more money and likely make attendees happier as well.

ETisME

12479 Posts

September 22 2025 08:35 GMT

#9582

On September 21 2025 20:12 Yurie wrote:
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle is worst movie I have watched this year. Great fight scenes if you like anime ones. Great animation. Decent sound. But it is easily 1h too long due to massive amounts of flashbacks. Looks like they want to make it a trilogy instead of having sane pacing and making it one movie while skipping some content.

I went in having watched like 5 episodes of the first season of the anime years ago. With that as background I don't know why I should care about some of these characters. They realized this is an issue and thus did 1 min fight, 5 min flashback, fight continues, 5 min flashback, fight ends...

At the end when I realized this was the first of many movies I mentally started comparing it to the lord of the rings. I did not leave happy after making that comparison, this movie felt like it made no progress towards its stated goal of killing a super demon.

Overall I am just sad about the movie. So many good ideas (average soldiers saving stamina for the heavy hitters as an example) and animation I really enjoyed. Wasted on horrible overall writing. I assume they followed the manga too closely without having any idea if that is true. As a stand alone movie it fails since they give screen time to important characters that does nothing important in THIS movie.

Side note, if the default for new movies is >2h duration they should start with intermissions. Would make the movie theaters more money and likely make attendees happier as well.

I remember reading the same complaint from IGN, I assumed they didn't watch the show at all, and you pretty much confirmed it.
The manga was never about the fight all too much, the art couldn't carry it.
At some point it blew up with Ufotable doing these incredible fight scenes and I think too many went in assuming it's another naurto/bleach.

Ironically, it's one of the few anime movies where you go in and the theatre has all kinds of age group, the couple sitting next to me is probably 50-ish and they shred plenty of tears, not far from my seat is another young couple doing the same.

Yurie

11889 Posts

20 hours ago

#9583

I honestly don't like what they did with the fights. A fight scene is not served by having 2 long (or very long) flashbacks in the middle.

Something like building up to the climatic fight with the flashbacks acting as background on their journey to the fight location might have worked fine for me. Some minor tweak on content to make it work but I am not a fan of the way they handled it.

The emotional content didn't work for me either. I didn't connect with the characters and care about them. So the flashbacks didn't serve their intended purpose for me. Leaving the 10 minutes of fight scenes as the only part of the movie that had any impact. edit, I guess the introduction of the setting for the movie was fine as well.

On IMDB it currently has the same rating as The Green Mile, it has nowhere near that emotional quality (for me).

When I watched it I noticed multiple people near me bored in the long flashback sequence. But some other people applauded the movie at the end. So I know some people did connect with the movie.

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