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Topic: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

As you may already know, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba's next arc following the Hashira Training Arc, The Infinity Castle Arc, is not receiving a television treatment. It is instead being adapted into a trilogy of movies. Other notable anime, like Haikyuu!!, Konosuba, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Sailor Moon: Crystal, have taken this same approach of adapting canon content into exclusively theatrical releases. How do you feel about this practice? What are the pros and cons?

Brandon Reed

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Heather I'm not a big fan of it personally, one reason being that it's easier for streaming services to separate them, imagine like 3 cannon anime movies all being on separate services and the show being only on Crunchyroll. Another con is that it generally takes longer to get to the US for the theaters. The pacing may or may not be effected, I feel like it would be but I haven't given it enough of a chance for that point. Some pros are a higher budget, possibly better timing for the animators but I kinda doubt it. Watching things in theaters IS cool. I'm sure there are other pros but I'm so far, not a fan. Now adapting existing arcs in the show into movies is alright like Mugen train or what Gintama is doing with its highest rated arcs

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