Bad News, Demon Slayer Fans: Infinity Castle Isn’t Hitting Crunchyroll Anytime Soon
Bad news, slayers: Crunchyroll is keeping Demon Slayer Infinity Castle locked to theaters through 2025, meaning no streaming debut until at least next year.
If you were hoping to stream Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle this year, I have bad news and it is very on brand for 2025. Crunchyroll is keeping the movie in theaters only for the entire year. No streaming. Not even on Crunchyroll. Earliest you can watch it at home: 2026. Brutal, I know.
The short version
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie - Infinity Castle will not hit any streaming platform in 2025, including Crunchyroll itself.
- Crunchyroll is locking it to theaters throughout 2025 to extend its box office run.
- The movie is a full-on phenomenon, pulling in huge numbers worldwide and crossing over beyond the usual anime crowd.
- Compared to the usual quick streaming turnarounds (think superhero tentpoles landing online in weeks), this is a major outlier.
What Crunchyroll is saying
This is not a vague 'sometime later' situation. Crunchyroll spelled it out: the plan is theatrical-only for all of 2025. Mitchel Berger, the company’s EVP of Global Commerce, put it pretty bluntly via The Popverse:
Go see [Demon Slayer Infinity Castle] in the theater because the theater is the only place you're going to be able to see this film in 2025. If you want to see it, go see it in the theater because that's the only place it's going to be available.
Why they’re doing it
This is a business play, plain and simple. Infinity Castle is one of the biggest anime films ever and has been smashing records across international markets. Keeping it on the big screen longer means more theatrical revenue, and clearly the demand is there to justify it. Inside baseball: Popverse framed the rollout as Crunchyroll prioritizing box office first, digital later. In a landscape where most studios chase quick streaming boosts, this is the opposite strategy.
So when can you watch at home?
If you can’t make it to a theater in 2025, you’re waiting until at least 2026 for any kind of home/streaming release. That’s a long hold for a modern anime movie of this scale, but given how the film is performing, it makes sense why they’re stretching the window.
Originally reported by Vritti Johar at SuperHeroHype, with additional context via The Popverse.