We continue to offer a free 2-week trial of WrapPRO. If you’ve been wanting to check out our full coverage, now’s the time.Greetings!Anime is no longer niche content that can be ignored. That's the big takeaway from October, where Crunchyroll won two box office weekends in the month with "Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle" and "Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc." As our Jeremy Fuster notes, the two films combined for $168 million domestically, accounting for one-sixth of the approximately $1 billion in overall grosses over the past two months. For theater owners, the two films provided a badly needed injection of revenue, and even with their contributions, it was the worst October box office performance in more than a quarter century. Furthermore, "Infinity Castle" grossed nearly $670 million globally, exceeding domestic superhero films "Superman" and "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" and illustrating how Asian markets are producing their own homegrown blockbusters. So with theaters starving for content, should they be placing their bet on every new anime film? Not exactly. As Fuster notes, the anime medium, which dates all the way back to the 1920s in Japan, is as wide as it is deep, and there are some nuances to keep in mind, from how popular an individual property is to the type of anime film that gets released. Read on for our cheat sheet on what makes for an anime blockbuster. Roger Cheng 
How can you tell which new anime film will be the next "Infinity Castle"-style smash?... 
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