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The second Demon Slayer stage play—Stage Play Kimetsu no Yaiba Part 2: Bond—was set to kick off its opening performance in Japan on August 7. Before that, Japanese media got an early peek at the show’s dress rehearsal performance, and now we can all see …Read more »
It’s been a big week already for Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man manga, which just had its anime adaptation’s debut trailer showcased at the MAPPA 10th Anniversary stage event. Now we’ve learned that the Chainsaw Man manga has officially exceeded 11 million copies printed physically and …Read more »
It isn’t often that a weekly or monthly manga magazine sells so well it needs to be reprinted, but that’s exactly what happened to the Bessatsu Shonen Magazine issue with the final chapter of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga. The latest installment of the …Read more »
With Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time off to a strong start in Japan, the same can also be said for its theme song. Hikaru Utada’s “One Last Kiss” theme hit 72,000 downloads and topped the latest weekly digital single charts in the days following …Read more »
Have you noticed a larger variety of female voices in your anime in the last few years? If you have, well, good ear! Also, there’s a reason: the number of woman voice actors in Japan has just about quadrupled since 2001. That’s the word from …Read more »
The Demon Slayer movie may have dominated the cinematic box office discussions for most of the past few months, but we’ll always have that moment during which the Gintama THE FINAL movie managed to knock it out of first place. As one would expect, that …Read more »
Considering how tumultuous 2020 was, it should come as no surprise that theaters are struggling to stay in the black. It’s easy to forget just how tough things are, however, when Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train spent the latter half of …Read more »
Mangaka Gege Akutami has reason to celebrate. Oricon released its rankings for the 50 top-selling manga in Japan for the time period of January 11-17, and Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen manga placed from second place to sixteenth. And since there are exactly 15 volumes of the …Read more »
It was just around the middle of the month that we posted about LiSA’s Demon Slayer movie theme song, “Homura,” officially going platinum. Now the single has been awarded with the top honor at this year’s Japan Record Awards, where LiSA took home the Grand …Read more »
Just as the Mugen Train itself can’t stop chugging along and hitting milestones, the same goes for LiSA’s Demon Slayer movie theme song, “Homura.” The anison singer’s 17th single CD has now been certified platinum. According to the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), that …Read more »
Everyone’s excited about that other box office hit, but let’s not forget Violet Evergarden: The Movie. The film, a sequel to the Kyoto Animation series, has been going strong since its debut back in October. Oricon reports that Violet Evergarden: The Movie has officially surpassed …Read more »
Kodansha began the Noma Publishing Culture Award last year, where it awarded your name.’s director Makoto Shinkai, author Keigo Higashino, models Mai Shiraishi and Erika Ikuta, and publishers Ribon and Nakayoshi. This year the award goes to Demon Slayer creator Koyoharu Gotouge, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: …Read more »
The Demon Slayer: Mugen Train anime film continues to set milestones, and that extends to LiSA’s Demon Slayer movie theme song. Her new single, “Homura,” has topped Oricon’s singles chart for the third straight week, making her the first artist to pull off such a …Read more »
If you looked at the top spots for Japan’s Oricon’s comic sales list covering the week of October 19-25, you might think there was a mistake. But there wasn’t — the Demon Slayer manga is doing so well that its 22 volumes fill up every …Read more »
The Jujutsu Kaisen manga, which debuted in March 2018, currently has more than 10 million copies in circulation. This includes both print and digital copies, and Jujutsu Kaisen’s Japanese Twitter account shared the news, calling for a celebration.
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