‘JuJutsu Kaisen’ Forged Shares the ‘Secret’ to Efficiently Bringing Anime to Huge Display

After the success of Demon Slayer: Infinity Fortress on the U.S. field workplace in October, voice actors are predicting the place Hollywood may take issues subsequent for different beloved anime collection.

Talking with Polygon at New York Comedian Con, in an interview revealed on Sunday, Oct. 12, the English dub voice forged of JuJutsu Kaisen opened up in regards to the potential affect of Demon Slayer‘s success on the massive display screen.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Film: Infinity Fortress, which made its stateside theatrical debut from Sony’s Crunchyroll on Sept. 12, just lately grew to become the highest-grossing worldwide movie ever within the U.S. It totaled $128.5 million domestically and earned $128.6 million and counting, per estimates from Field Workplace Mojo.

“Hollywood will strive to take a look at this and be like, ‘Oh, man, anime movies, let’s go, proper?’ However I believe the true method to an anime movie’s success is you actually need these construct up seasons,” mentioned Kaiji Tang, who voices Gojo in JuJutsu Kaisen.

“It is advisable to have adopted the story for 2, three, 4 years. To see the end result of that story, or no less than a really large a part of it, on the massive display screen is type of a reward for being there for all these seasons,” he added. “That is if you get the large Demon Slayer numbers. That is if you get all these followers hype for the film, that is the key.”

Tang concluded, “I believe in the event you simply began releasing random anime films, you are not going to get the Demon Slayer numbers.”

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Robbie Daymond, who voices Megumi Fushiguro within the English dub, informed Polygon that he was “honored to be the final technology of shoes on the bottom voice actors doing anime.”

“I am going to say it out: As soon as these corpos come up with it, it is simply gonna be a bunch of celebs poorly dubbing anime, and hopefully they do a terrific job. I want them nicely. That is pure bitterness,” he mentioned, as Tang floated the concept of Chris Pratt voicing Gojo.

The most recent Demon Slayer movie additionally grew to become the highest-grossing anime movie in North America, surpassing classics akin toYour Title, Spirited Away and Suzume. The movie, directed by Haruo Sotozaki, follows 4 seasons of the hit collection tailored from Koyoharu Gotouge’s manga Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and it options voice-acting abilities from Channing Tatum, Zach Aguilar, Abby Trott and Rebecca Wang.

As for JuJutsu Kaisen, the anime primarily based off Gege Akutami’s manga collection of the identical identify, premiered in 2020 with its prequel movie, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, having arrived in theaters in 2021.

The subsequent iteration of the collection, titled The Culling Sport Half 1, is scheduled to reach on Crunchyroll in January 2026.