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The Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie feels like a turning point in anime fandom [Popverse Jump]
Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie review/opinion piece
For fans who have been following anime for a long time, it is hard to deny that things feel different these days. Where we used to have to shell out $20 for a VHS tape with maybe four (badly translated) episodes of Dragon Ball on it, we can now stream more anime than we could possibly watch delivered to our screens every month. But it isn’t just the sheer quantity of anime available to watch that is driving the fandom along now. As Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle hits cinemas in the United States, it proves that anime isn’t just a niche interest; it is well and truly mainstream now.
I’ve known that anime was going mainstream in the West for a long time now. Goku and Luffy are now mainstays in the iconic Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, coinciding
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