Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Officially Sets Streaming Record With 220 Million Minutes in 1 Week

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle has another impressive number to add to its growing legacy. Nielsen’s latest Streaming Top 10 data records 220 million minutes of U.S. television streaming in a single week, placing the anime blockbuster at No. 8 among streaming movies for September 28–October 4, 2026. Despite Infinity Castle — Part 2 running into challenges, the first part of the trilogy is also one of the highest-grossing movies of 2025 in the United States.

This figure encapsulates the total duration spent by U.S. audiences streaming the feature-length blockbuster across supported digital subscription platforms like Hulu and Disney+ during its designated tracking window.

Infinity Castle Shatters Streaming Records With 220M Minutes

Infinity Castle ranked eighth in Nielsen’s movie category, behind Toy Story 5 (687 million minutes), The Breadwinner (553 million), Unabomber (481 million), The Widower: ‘Til Death Do Us Part’ (388 million), Doing Life (360 million), Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (240 million) and Backrooms (231 million).

That puts Infinity Castle just 11 million minutes behind seventh-place Backrooms, while its total comfortably exceeded Coraline (198 million) and The Love Hypothesis (196 million).

Nielsen lists Hulu, Disney+, Netflix and Prime Video as the streaming providers associated with the film. Its chart measures viewing among U.S. audiences aged two and older, using television viewing data. The figure represents the combined duration of measured viewing, not 220 million individual viewers, ticket buyers, or completed watches. Nor should it be mistaken for a worldwide streaming total.

Still, the performance carries considerable weight given the film’s theatrical history. Directed by Haruo Sotozaki and animated by ufotable, Infinity Castle is the first instalment in a planned three-film adaptation of the final arc of Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer manga. The film opened in Japan on July 18, 2025, before expanding into international markets. By April 9, 2026, the film had sold more than 98.5 million tickets worldwide and grossed approximately 117.9 billion yen.

How Infinity Castle’s Staggered Release Impacts Its Streaming Record

Hakuji (human form of Akaza) and Koyuki from Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle. [Credit: ufotable]

To accurately analyze Infinity Castle‘s 220 million minute figure, it is essential to address how Nielsen aggregates and reports streaming viewership across multi-provider releases. Nielsen’s primary measurement framework calculates cumulative viewing minutes across all opted-in platforms where a title is simultaneously licensed, rather than breaking down specific, granular minute totals for each individual service.

For Infinity Castle‘s chart-topping premiere week, Nielsen lists its streaming availability across a combined ecosystem comprising Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, and Prime Video. Because Nielsen’s public Top 10 reports combine overall household watch-time for co-licensed titles into a single entry, the 220 million minute total reflects aggregate U.S. demand across these four major digital distributors combined, rather than an isolated total for a single storefront.

While syndicated measurement services bundle domestic TV watch-time, platforms dedicated exclusively to anime demonstrate the film’s dedicated fan engagement directly. On Crunchyroll, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle I boasts a stellar 4.9 out of 5 stars average rating across over 102,300 user reviews, with a staggering 95% of viewers awarding it a perfect 5-star rating.

This staggered pipeline fundamentally alters how we must contextualize its streaming performance. A high-profile streaming debut captures audience behavior during one precise Nielsen measurement window, not the cumulative global footprint of the movie. Audiences in territories with delayed theatrical windows or different home-video dates interacted with the property on entirely different schedules.

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Watch Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle on Crunchyroll.