Shows have sold 810,000 tickets since opening last Friday
Kodoani.com – “World Tour Jōei: Kimetsu no Yaiba Jōgen Shūketsu, Soshite Katanakaji no Sato e” (World Tour Screenings: Demon Slayer: The Upper Ranks Gather and Onward to the Swordsmith Village), theatrical screenings of the upcoming anime Demon Slayer – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Katanakaji no Sato-Hen), sold 810,000 tickets and earned 1.15 billion yen (about US$8.73 million) in its first three days in Japan. The film topped the weekend box office.
Screenings began last Friday, February 3, at 418 theaters in Japan. Screenings included episodes 10 and 11 of the Entertainment District Arc, as well as the first Swordsman Village Arc. Screenings will be shown in theaters in more than 95 countries and territories. Muse Asia will screen the episodes in theaters in Singapore and Malaysia, and will screen in Malaysia on 18-19 February.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc will premiere on television in April with a special hour.
Director Haruo Sotozaki, character designer and animation director Akira Matsushima, studio ufotable, and the main cast are all returning for the new season.
The first television anime of Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga premiered in April 2019.
Theatrical anime The Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train begins showing in Japan in October 2020.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc, a seven-episode arc adapted from the Mugen train series, premiered in October 2021. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yūkaku-hen) later premiered in December 2021 with an hour-long special.
Gotouge launched the manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2016. The manga ended in May 2020. Shueisha published the manga’s 23rd and final volume in December 2020.
