It’s an unprecedented year for anime at the global box office as Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, the medium’s juggernaut, slashes its way past Hollywood superhero hits in terms of worldwide grossings. The anime feature debuted in US theaters in September 2025, garnering record-breaking wins that defied the unspoken Western constraints placed on the medium for decades.
At the time of this writing, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle sits on a worldwide box office revenue of $556 million, displacing all of 2025’s Marvel productions in returns. The film is also poised to surpass DC’s Superman, which grossed $615 million, as Infinity Castle is currently projected to accumulate over a billion dollars in global proceeds.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Crushes MCU’s Fantastic Four At The Global Box Office, Poised To Beat DC’s Superman
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is absolutely crushing it at the global box office with a trailblazing path that is redefining anime’s universal purview. With profound returns that shocked even Hollywood analysts, anime might be the key ingredient to a revolutionary change in the entertainment industry.
Astonishingly, Infinity Castle has outclassed all of the MCU’s 2025 feature films, taking advantage of the cinematic universe’s recurring slump offset by the Avengers: Endgame paradoxical effect. Consequently, Infinity Castle has topped Thunderbolts* worldwide profits of $382 million by $174 million, a substantial margin.
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Franchise |
Film Title |
Budget |
Global Box Office Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
|
DCU |
Superman |
$225 million |
$615,308,553 |
|
Anime(Demon Slayer) |
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle |
$20 million |
$556,570,617 |
|
Marvel Cinematic Universe |
The Fantastic Four: First Steps |
$200 million |
$520,635,214 |
|
Marvel Cinematic Universe |
Captain America: Brave New World |
$180 million |
$415,101,577 |
|
Marvel Cinematic Universe |
Thunderbolts* |
$180 million |
$382,436,917 |
It also eclipses Captain America: Brave New World ($415 million) and The Fantastic Four: First Steps ($520 million) in box office takings. Currently, in the superhero box office ranking, Infinity Castle is sandwiched between The Fantastic Four: First Steps and James Gunn’s Superman in box office rewards, with a propensity to outstrip the latter.
According to reports, Infinity Castle is set to premiere in Chinese theatres on October 8th, scaling the blockbuster to an estimated billion-dollar yield at the box office. Based on this hair-raising prediction, Infinity Castle is poised to trump even Superman’s $615 million haul.
In Revenue, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Outshines Every 2025 Hollywood Superhero Blockbuster
Infinity Castle’s revenue is unhinged. Crunchyroll and Ufotable collaborated on the anime feature, which had a $20 million budget. With the modest $20M budget and a staggering $556M gross, the film delivered over 2,000% return on investment — a jaw-dropping 27.8x return.
Comparing these metrics to the budget of Marvel and DC’s creations this year, underlines anime’s mainstream success, and the decline in superhero movie appeal. From the looks of it, Infinity Castle might be the spark that ignites Gen Z’s exclusive anime preference over Hollywood productions in the coming years.
- Release Date
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July 18, 2025
- Runtime
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155 Minutes
- Director
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Haruo Sotozaki, Hikaru Kondo
- Writers
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Koyoharu Gotouge, Hikaru Kondo
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Natsuki Hanae
Tanjiro Kamado (voice)
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Akari Kito
Nezuko Kamado (voice)
