They’ve been shitting out frequent movies on Pokemon, Naruto, One Piece, My Hero Academia over several decades that have always worked rather well with fans in Japan, but had a slower time making it outside; it feels like it’s been maybe a decade since they noticed the current biggest franchises had a real shot worldwide and putting more and more efforts in them. And it’s maybe because the Ghibli and the Shinkai movies in the last 3 decades have shown that people outside Japan do like anime movies when they’re really well done. Demon Slayer isn’t their first go, but maybe it’s the first real “anime movie from some popular manga,” not a big name like Ghibli, that movie people are really noticing. I think that’s where the trend is.
Crazy that Demon Slayer is somehow leading this trend but if it works, I guess it works
They’ve been shitting out frequent movies on Pokemon, Naruto, One Piece, My Hero Academia over several decades that have always worked rather well with fans in Japan, but had a slower time making it outside; it feels like it’s been maybe a decade since they noticed the current biggest franchises had a real shot worldwide and putting more and more efforts in them. And it’s maybe because the Ghibli and the Shinkai movies in the last 3 decades have shown that people outside Japan do like anime movies when they’re really well done. Demon Slayer isn’t their first go, but maybe it’s the first real “anime movie from some popular manga,” not a big name like Ghibli, that movie people are really noticing. I think that’s where the trend is.