Like a blood-socked Pokémon , you gotta catch ’em all in this cult-smash Japanese anime , which follows directly on from the successful TV show of the same name. And that does mean directly; Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle , the first in a planned trilogy, begins in such res media that anyone not already steeped in Demon Slayer lore might wonder if they’ve somehow missed the first hour of the movie. That said, though it’s impossible for a newbie to understand exactly what’s going on, Haruo Sotozaki’s visually stunning fantasy has a certain rhythm to it, like Kinji Fukasaku’s hypnotic mid-’70s Battles Without Honor and Humanity series, but with sadistic monsters instead of yakuza.

There is no origin story here, however; and be warned that it will take at le

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