How would you rate episode 1 ofGnosia ? Community score: 3.9 How would you rate episode 2 ofGnosia ? Community score: 3.9 © Petit Depotto/Project D.Q.O. Gnosia‘s premiere was a wonderful last-minute surprise entry for this fall’s Preview Guide. I’d already heard great things about the visual novel that the anime is based on (which has regrettably been sitting in …
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Anime NYC is an annual New York-based event to celebrate all things anime and related Japanese pop culture. It purports to be the largest anime convention on the East Coast, with over one-hundred-thousand people showing up for the four-day event. And with its association with Crunchyroll, has become an important fixture in the Western anime calendar. As such, it brings …
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There are between 700 and 800 people currently working on the wildly ambitious anime open world Ananta. The number won’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who’s seen the latest footage of the title, which blends the best of several different games, including Marvel’s Spider-Man, GTA 5, and Batman: Arkham Asylum. It’s still an absolutely staggering figure, though, and …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Push Square on YouTube161k We really like NTE, the other upcoming anime-style GTA game from Perfect World. But as this almost 10-minute trailer shows, Ananta – formerly known as Project Mugen – blows it out of the water. This trailer is just a non-stop medley of insane gameplay ideas. Most of the content is pulled …
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Key Takeaways Total 3-Day Weekend Gross:$74,592,021 | -49.6% Last Week / -8.9% Weekend 38, 2024 After an incredible, record-breaking performance in Frame 1, Sony’s Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle held onto #1 but fell below expectations at $17.3M. A pair of big studio releases -the horror movie Him and the romance A Big Bold Beautiful Journey– could not bolster the box …
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Image via Demon Slayer franchise’s X/Twitter account ©Koyoharu Gotoge / SHUEISHA, Aniplex, ufotable The Box Office Mojo and The Numbers websites reported that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle – Akaza Sairai, the first film in the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle trilogy, has earned US$70,611,098 in its opening weekend at #1 at the U.S. box office. …
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An anime film slayed its Hollywood competition at the box office this weekend. “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,” already a big hit in Japan, was the highest-grossing movie domestically, beating new films “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,” “The Long Walk” and “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues.” The film distributed by Sony Pictures and Crunchyroll opened with a …
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Key Takeaways Total 3-Day Weekend Gross:$147,907,505 | +16.2% Last Week / +36.7% Weekend 37, 2024 In yet another example of an unexpected hit disrupting the market, Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle brought in $70M for the biggest anime opening ever, proving there’s a huge emerging audience for the sub-genre. The Conjuring: Last Rites had a steep drop but still performed very …
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SATURDAY AM: Forget about the biggest anime opening of all-time stateside, that’s easy. What Sony has is their biggest opening of not just 2025 to date, but also arguably bigger than any of its hits last year in Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle which stands to open to $56M-$60M+ after a massive $33M Friday. Given the front-loaded …
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Talk about an unexpected September bloom at the box office that continues this weekend with a cornucopia of new offerings, led by the record-smashing U.S. debut of the Japanese anime sequel Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – the Movie Infinity Castle. The Sony-owned Crunchyroll is handling the movie. Based on a huge Friday haul of $33 million, including $11.4 million …
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