It’s been a lackluster summer at the box office, but last weekend proved a massive one for anime in theaters: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — The Movie: Infinity Castle topped the charts with a $70 million opening, shattering several box-office records along the way . The thrice-punctuated title is a win for Crunchyroll, which is responsible for the bulk of its overseas rollout, and a boon for parent company Sony, whose previous animated effort, Kpop Demon Hunters, broke out on streaming but netted the company just $20 million owing to its deal with Netflix .

If the scale of Kpop Demon Hunters ’s success was surprising, Demon Slayer ’s victory was anything but for those paying attention to the anime business, particularly on streaming . The movie is the first of a trilogy t

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