What if we told you that the rules of the game are changing, at least in the Western consumption of cinema and in the conception of cinema? anime? We may be facing something specific, the result of chance and the rise of Japanese animation on streaming platforms, but it seems clear that it is no longer part of a residual niche.
Over the years, anime has been winning over several generations of viewers with its productions on the small screen, and everything indicates that this has exploded recently, with 2025 looking like a before and after for the Japanese industry.
And we are not talking about a small thing, but rather the fact that an anime film is capable of surpassing the big annual productions of Hollywoodto the most powerful tapes of A.D and Wonder. This happened this year with Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Infinite Fortressbut the saga of Koyoharu Gotouge I’ve been warning you for the last few years.
He has not only built a solid fan base with the manga and anime series, but also with the film Kimetsu no Yaiba: Infinite Train The franchise has already sneaked into the first division of the big screen in 2020. And now, after 5 years of uninterrupted training, this anime has won the league and its new film could exceed US$1 billion in revenue with its imminent debut in China.
Furthermore, the whirlwind that the film is leaving has allowed the rest of the anime films released this year to also have a notable performance at the box office, although not with the stratospheric figures of the new adventure of Tanjiro. And of course, this attack on Hollywood by anime did not go unnoticed.
In fact, some voice actors like Zach Aguilar and Abby TrotTanjiro’s voices and Nezuko in Kimetsu no YaibaThey had no qualms about commenting that we were facing a paradigm shift in the film industry in which anime is no longer a niche.
Furthermore, they point out that anime has gone very far in the West, but we don’t know how far it can go, given the circumstances. The truth is that they are not wrong at all, taking into account the great popular impact of Japanese industry, not only on a social but also an economic level.
What is your opinion about the words of these voice actors and the success that the anime is achieving in theaters? Is this furore really here to stay or are we facing another fad on the big screen?
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