Following the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba panel at CCXP in Brazil, ufotable and Crunchyroll revealed a new visual for the Infinity Castle Arc, announcing the first film of the trilogy will premiere in 2025 exclusively in theaters. No exact release date has been announced yet.
So, at CCXP in Brazil, ufotable and Crunchyroll finally dropped the news we’ve been waiting for: the first movie of the Infinity Castle Arc trilogy is coming in 2025, exclusively in theaters. They even released a new visual to hype it up. Unfortunately, there is no new movie scene was shown in the new trailer.
The trilogy is adapting the final chapters of the manga, covering the Infinity Castle Arc (Chapters 137–183) and the Sunrise Countdown Arc (Chapters 184–205). This basically means we’re getting the conclusion to everything Tanjiro, Muzan, the Demon Slayer Corps, all of it.
The official announcement came back in June 2024, right after the Hashira Training Arc wrapped up in the anime.
Haruo Sotozaki is directing (same guy who’s been at the helm since day one), Akira Matsushima is back as character designer and chief animation director, and Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina are teaming up again for the music. So yeah, the A-team is on it.
Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures are handling the global release, though Japan and a few other Asian regions are excluded from that deal.
If you’re unfamiliar, the Infinity Castle Arc is one of the most intense parts of the series. It’s set in this mind-bending, ever-shifting castle created by Muzan, and it’s basically the battleground for the Demon Slayer Corps versus the Twelve Kizuki. It’s all-out war, with crazy emotional stakes and the culmination of so many character arcs.
For context, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba started as a manga by Koyoharu Gotouge in Weekly Shōnen Jump back in February 2016 and ran until May 2020. The anime launched in April 2019, and by the time the Mugen Train movie dropped in October 2020, the series had already cemented itself as a cultural phenomenon.
The film didn’t just succeed it broke every anime box office record ever. The anime followed up with the Entertainment District Arc in late 2021 and the Swordsmith Village Arc earlier this year in 2023.
This trilogy will close out the story completely, so if you’ve been on this ride since 2019, this is it, the endgame.
