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The golden age of DVDs isn’t over yet for anime fans

When it comes to anime, physical media’s far from dead.

Looking back at the menu-focused minigames that were included with the DVD releases of films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Shrek, it is somewhat hard to imagine people rushing to buy those movie discs just for their bonus features. But as DVDs became the new standard, those types of features were the first things to be cut for production costs, and Sevakis points to that initial period of paring back as one of the reasons that mainstream Blu-ray releases today tend to feel pretty bare-bones. But between Demon Slayer – Kimetsu No Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train becoming the highest-grossing Japanese film in global box office history and moving record numbers of Blu-rays in the process, it’s obvious that audiences are still interested in the genre.

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