Infinity Castle Reaches Crunchyroll. The Free Film Shelf Is Three Sailor Moon Movies.
We index 226 anime films with a free episode row. Almost all of them are a few minutes long. Here is what is actually left.
By Sana Whitfield · AnimeSphere staff · July 29, 2026
Anime Corner reports that the Demon Slayer film, billed as Infinity Castle Arc Chapter 1: Akaza Return, is now streaming on Crunchyroll, and that a Blu-ray has been released in Japan. That is the whole announcement.
The announcement stops there, and so will we. It does not give a date, a price, or a list of countries. It does not say whether the streaming version carries subtitles or a dub. It does not describe what is on the disc or what it costs. If you came looking for any of that, it is not there, and we will not guess.
What we hold of Demon Slayer: nothing
Our index carries 12 Demon Slayer / Kimetsu no Yaiba entries, counting specials and shorts. Across all 12, the number of free episode rows is zero. Free, US-reachable episodes: zero. Nothing from this franchise has ever been free here. That answer belongs at the top, not buried under the things we do have.
226 films, and then three
Our index records 226 titles as films with at least one free, US-reachable row. That number looks healthy until you break it apart.
- 220 of the 226 come from a single YouTube channel, GEIDAI ANIMATION. They are short films: our index records most of them at three to eight minutes, and the two we opened ran seven and 13 minutes. The uploads are Japanese-language, with creator names in the titles. The channel carries no verified badge.
- Three more are Winter Cup Highlights compilations tied to a basketball series, from the It's Anime (REMOW) channel.
That leaves exactly three commercially released feature films. All three are Sailor Moon.
The three that are actually there
All three sit on the YouTube Movies channel, which carries the verified badge. Each has an authored English subtitle track, so English subtitles are proven rather than assumed. Each plays free with ads, with no rental or purchase requirement, and each runs at full feature length.
- Sailor Moon R: The Movie, recorded year 1993, 3,661 seconds, about 61 minutes.
- Sailor Moon S the Movie: Hearts in Ice, 1994, 3,600 seconds, exactly 60 minutes.
- Sailor Moon SuperS the Movie: Black Dream Hole, 1995, 3,605 seconds, about 60 minutes.
Region is US. Three feature-length films, free.
Why the shelf looks like this
The shape of that census is structural. A free catalogue assembled from rights-holders' own uploads is inherently bad at new theatrical releases and good at old television. So 226 collapses to three, and the three are from the middle of the 1990s.
If tonight was going to be Infinity Castle, it cannot be here. If it can instead be a 60-minute film from the mid-1990s, with English subtitles and no paywall, we have three of them.
Source: Anime Corner