Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashira Training Pasts 1 Billion Yen In Japan
The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hashira Training Arc TV anime will premiere in Japan in spring 2024.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Hashira Training, the latest release from the Demon Slayer franchise, has crossed over 1 billion yen in its first week at the Japanese box office.
This is even before the screening in premium formats.
The premium format screening of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Hashira Training on February 23 in Japan, including 4DX, MX4D, and Dolby Cinema.
Kogyo Tsushinsha, a Japanese box office tracker, stated that the theatrical release has earned 1.25 billion yen (around 8.37 million USD) at the Japanese box office as of February 12, 2024.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training premiered globally on February 21.
The theatrical release includes the final episode of the Swordsmith Village Arc along with the first hour-long episode of the upcoming Hashira Training Arc.
The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hashira Training Arc TV anime will premiere in Japan in spring 2024.
About Demon Slayer:
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge.
It was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes.
The 26-episode first season of Ufotable was broadcast from April to September 2019.
October 2020 saw the release of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, a sequel that became the highest-grossing anime film and Japanese film of all time.
Demon Slayer entered its second season with 18 episodes, which debuted in October 2021 and concluded in February 2022, covering the Entertainment District arc.
Concurrently, in February 2023, a compilation film titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village was released.
From April 2023 to June 2023, a third season consisting of eleven episodes was broadcast, showcasing the Swordsmith Village arc.
Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Demon Slayer as follows:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon.
To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself.
Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
Source: Kygyo Tsushinsha
