Crunchyroll announced the US, Canadian, and worldwide release dates for when we’ll see the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movie in theaters. In North America, it’ll debut on September 12, 2025. However, it could show up as early as August 2025, depending on where someone lives. The Demon Slayer anime episodes leading up to the events of this film are streaming on Crunchyroll and Netflix now. 

This film is the first part of a trilogy that will start to bring us to the end of the Demon Slayer story. As the title suggests, Tanjiro, his allies, and the remaining Hashira head toward the eventual final showdown against Muzan. This means heading to the Infinity Castle where he resides. The release date trailer for the film helps set the stage for things, and it’s available now.

Here are also all of the release dates from the official Crunchyroll schedule for the film’s showings:

• August 14, 2025: Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan
• August 15, 2025: Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam
• August 20, 2025: Philippines
• September 11, 2025: Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean (Jamaica, Aruba, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Curacao), Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland (Italian-speaking), Syria, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates
• September 12, 2025: India, Mongolia, Spain, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Kenya, Latvia, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Romania, Southern Africa, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
• September 17, 2025: Belgium, , French-speaking Africa, Luxembourg, Switzerland (French version)
• September 18, 2025: Moldova
• September 25, 2025: Austria, , Switzerland (German version) 

Before that movie shows up, we’ll see a new game based on the series. Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles 2 is on the way to the Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC. It will be there on August 5, 2025, though if you pre-order the special edition you can access it early. 

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle will be in US and Canadian theaters on September 12, 2025, following the debut of the movie in Japan. The anime is streaming on Crunchyroll and Netflix. Viz Media handles the manga and other books tied to the series. 

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A special event to announce the release date of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Arc will take place on March 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM. There will also a special event, the Corps Assembly, leading up to this announcement.

The Corps Assembly feature the voice actors of Tanjiro (Natsuki Hanae), Nezuko (Akari Kito), Zenitsu (Hiro Shimono), and Inosuke (Yoshitsugu Matsuoka). It’ll take place in Ikebukuro, with details on the precise location to appear later. During the event, there’ll be a parade, as well as a wanko soba eating event. After watching a pre-recorded video of Shimono and Matsuoka trying to eat 1000 cups between each other, eighty guests can also try to finish it all. Afterwards, there’ll be a quiz, then a free live stream of some of the voice actors’ favorite episodes.

For the 7:00 PM announcement, the cast for the Hashira will appear to help Hanae reveal the release date of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Arc. Then, at the very end, Hanae will play the prologue of The Hinokami Chronicles 2. Hanae actually has a YouTube channel where he s Let’s Plays, and has played several Demon Slayer games in the past.

Demon Slayer is available on streaming platforms like Crunchyroll. We’ll know the release date of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Arc on March 1, 2025.

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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is nearing the end of its legendary anime run from Ufotable. To celebrate the conclusion of the series, the grand finale will be a three-part movie trilogy. While this sounds epic, there is part of me that wishes the Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie trilogy was just a new season of the anime series.

For starters, there is the fact that this franchise has already dabbled in movies in the past, including the highest-grossing Japanese movie of all time in Mugen Train. So, from a financial perspective, I completely get it. But Ufotable still turned around and converted that film into a TV series version. As such, I presume they will eventually do the same with this new trilogy.

Since that is likely to be the case, I would prefer to see the TV version first. In fact, it makes more sense to me to release the TV version first and then a compilation of movies that sum up and perhaps add a bit more at the end in of an epilogue in theaters after that. My main reasoning behind this is I just enjoy this franchise as a series more.

Sure, the epic grand conclusion of this series includes some of the likely best battles in anime history, but if anything needed a movie version, it was the recent Hashira Training Arc. That one dragged on way too long and had little going for it, so shortening it into a lightning fast movie would’ve at least trimmed the fat.

Then there is the fact that a movie trilogy is likely to lose some of the context and detail that a TV series would have. For instance, let’s imagine that it takes 24 episodes for a final season of Demon Slayer Infinity Castle. That would equal to roughly 480 minutes of the series, and that is if they are only 20 minute episodes each. Presumably, one or two of them would go longer.

Alternatively, even if all three movies are two hours long, that is only 360 minutes of content. Sure, I think the end of the manga can work this way. But that is a whole lot of time that a TV series version would be able to adapt better. This would allow for the proper time for some of the fights between the Hashira and the demons that non-manga fans are not ready for.

Not to mention, there is something generally special about waiting each week with the community. Everyone waits impatiently to find out what happens next. And I can already predict some of the great cliffhangers they might leave us on.

Sure, this can and will happen with the movie trilogy, but there is a problem here. We have no idea when the movies will release. We only know at this time that the first movie is coming in 2025. There is no guarantee that all three will release in 2025. In fact, I think it is a bit delusional to expect that. At best, we get two films in 2025 and a third in 2026.

At worst, though? We could see a new Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie every year until 2027. That would be an excruciating wait. This is doubly so since we’d presumably get the full final season in 2025. Even if the series did half of the season in 2025 and the other half in early 2026, it would still likely beat out the movie trilogy version.

This is also because movies have a stigma with them. An anime studio needs to go all out with even higher quality animation and details. You basically have to have the “finished product” so to speak in a theater. On the other hand, sometimes TV series have a bit of a roughness to them that can be addressed in a future Blu-Ray or movie release.

Furthermore, Ufotable arguably has the best overall animation quality in the industry. They don’t need to go any bigger or better than they already do. That just unnecessarily puts more strain and stress on the artists who are already overworked and underpaid enough.

Having the Demon Slayer Infinity Castle movie trilogy be a TV series instead is just the better option. It would allow everything to come out slightly sooner without the quality expectations a movie would require. In addition, a movie trilogy compilation release could still happen after the fact with extra content for fans. Regardless, I still look forward to watching the first movie in theaters in 2025.

The Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movie trilogy will release the first film in 2025. You can watch the main series on Crunchyroll right now.

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As expected from the Demon Slayer anime showcases at CCXP 2024, there were announcements about adaptations, but this time it involved Aniplex, Crunchyroll, and ufotable revealing a new movie called Infinity Castle. It is an adaptation of another storyline that is part of the Final Battle Arc, and it will launch in 2025.

To go along with the reveal, there are actually two new Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movie trailers. One of them is the standard trailer available worldwide, which features the Japanese voice acting. The other is Crunchyroll’s reveal of the English dub for the film. Both of them are quite substantial videos that are over two minutes long. They start with Muzan explaining he’s looking for permanence and the ability to remain a perfect immortal. We then see flashes of past Demon Slayer Corps characters and Hashira. From there, we see Tanjiro fighting alongside a number of the Hashira as they all move to attack Muzan at once.

Here’s the video with Japanese voice acting and English subtitles.

And here is the trailer with the English dub.

There is a Demon Slayer film you can watch online right now. Crunchyroll has the Mugen Train movie on the service right now. This is the adaptation of the arc of the same name. The seven-episode anime adaptation of it is also available on the service.

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle will appear in movie theaters worldwide in 2025. Past seasons of the anime are available to stream on Crunchyroll and Netflix. Viz Media handles physical copies of the manga outside Japan.

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