'Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Jou-hen' Anime Movie Trilogy Announced

The reason for this decision were the nuances of adapting the last arc, or purely the desire to get maximum hype from the ending of the popular anime?

So, a few questions...

1. How much average length each movies need to be for the manga to be adapted faithfully?

2. Is Ufotable very confident on the BD sales for movies that need earlier content to be watched by audience? To answer that, on this context, how were Fate: Heaven's Feel sales?

3. Is making 3 movies more profitable than say, a 1.5 cour anime series?

4. Will Ufotable start new projects in between, like the Genshin Impact anime?

How many years will it even take lol. Fate or Tsukihime adaptations genuinely feel like a pipe dream at this point, given they're working on Mahoyo too.

@RobertBobert To make more money*

@MegamiRem So technically there was nothing stopping them from turning this into another season?

So we all agree that this is a pure business decision, right? Ain't no way there's a "quality increase". We just saw JJK pull off an arc with the same concept as this one, with better animation, as a regular TV season. They could have made it a season if they wanted to.

@RobertBobert Yea it's whatever the production board decides.

@MegamiRem Anyway, if they end the adaptation with a movie, will they be able to get more hype out of it than just the final season? I have to admit, I liked the hype surrounding the ending of Gintama and Titans.

I'm interested in this too. I'm not that big of a Fate fan, but I really REALLY want to see the Genshin anime.

You forgot to quote the second post XD.

@MegamiRem Wait, these three movies aren't adapting the final arc?

The money part isn't the major problem for me. I will be watching all three, and it is good that they will earn more.

What concerns/annoys me is the detriment to the pacing and style of the arc. Infinity Castle has a lot of stuff going on simultaneously, which is why I compared it to Shibuya Incident. It would flow beautifully as a season.

But now it gets divided over three years, I assume. We'll have plot threads introduced in the first film that take two years to get resolved. The Zenitsu development teased last week probably won't pay off until the second film. They can circumvent the problem by rearranging the arc and allowing the films to have a closed feeling, but that ruins the original interconnected idea of it.

Also, they went to the effort of calling it "Infinity Castle" and not the "finale". Are we even sure it will include Sunrise Countdown? Cause there's 70-80 chapters left. That is a minimum of 4 well-paced films, not three. There will be more after this.

TL;DR - The issue isn't them earning money. The issue is them ruining the storytelling quality (in terms of which Infinity Castle is the second best arc after Mugen Train, imo), due to it.

@RobertBobert No its not the final arc but the one before that.

Also I was talking about the second part of your quote. Genshin and Fate anime.

@MegamiRem So they'll turn the penultimate arc into movies? Wouldn't it be strange, then, to make the finale a regular season? It will also awkwardly feel like Hibike's final season after the film series.

@RobertBobert Idk what they want to do with the sunrise countdown arc. Maybe more movies who knows.

@MegamiRem It's just that while discussing the train, I heard that the last two arcs are quite large and bloodthirsty, so they would theoretically need quite a lot of time and effort to adapt the remaining material. However, then no one thought that they would simply compress the training to the 8th episode of the mini-series.

Based ufo milking the IP until it's drier than the Sahara.

@RobertBobert Didn't get your last point. You mean adapting the training arc in 8 episodes? If yes then it's actually more than 8 episodes as the first episode was double length and so is the last episode. Epi 7 was extended too by like 10 minutes. So it's roughly 10.5 episode length around a full cour.

@Enbu_Kirikaze The joke is that the mangaka didnt follow that route at all, ended it when she wanted and felt the best, and UFO was like, you crazy WOMAN?! SHIT we gotta do something about it.
Filler season and movie trilogy for maximum milking.

I don't mind seeing the movies in the cinema thought, but waiting for each would be a pain, so I might only go see the last one in the cinema, and wait for the first two, to binge them, and then get that ultimate experience with the final movie.

@Playcool The waiting between the movies is what worries me. With the Mugen train arc it was fine since it was a single relatively short arc, but with the Infinite Fortress it's going to be very tedious to wait years for them to come since they're connected. At the very least they will no doubt look spectacularly.

@Enbu_Kirikaze Why I waited till last moment to watch heavens feel trilogy. (Gave in before the third one lol.)

I remember joking about this happening as a meme but tbh I'm not surprised this is the route they're going. Doing this arc in movie format will probably hype up the fandom even more than Mugen Train, so if we thought Mugen Train killed it at the box office, oh man this is going to be cold-blooded murder. This arc is 47 chapters so each movie could adapt roughly 15 or 16 chapters, probably with, I imagine, some added scenes to stretch out some fights. Now my only question is, what about the Sunrise Countdown arc? As we can see, they've been adapting this series arc by arc since after S1, so I'm wondering if they'll do a short TV season to adapt the last of it after these movies, since there's no indication that they'll do that arc as part of these movies. Or shit, they might do another movie or two lol 😭


Oh absolutely lol, if it was solely up to ufotable they would probably just do a regular TV season but it's Aniplex and Shueisha calling the shots, so of course they're going to go with the option that brings in the most 🤑🤑🤑🤑 yea it sucks for us as the consumers, but I can't fault companies for doing what any company would do with a profitable IP like Demon Slayer: find any possible way to maximize said profits.

Its so funny seeing some people say that UFO is milking Demon slayer, if this was a different source material, yall would be celebrating. Adding additional scenes to flesh out the characters is not milking at all, and if you think it is then........ your an idiot

You are aware that studios are neither charities nor slaves, right? Ufotable is as greedy as both Aniplex and Shueisha since they agreed to this business model aka milk the franchise as much as possible. You people think for some reason that studios are like some small game studios that are mostly driven by passion to create things and not profit. Is this naïve mindset a new trend or something because I have seen it increase lately ... mostly after the attention seeker whiteknights started fighting MAPPA