If you’re in the market for the ultimate Demon Slayer Nezuko figure, Furyu Corporation has one on the way in Japan that will have no problem breaking the bank. The 44-centimeter Nezuko figure comes with a box just like Tanjiro’s, and she’s big enough to …Read more »
Award-winning rapper and noted anime fan Megan Thee Stallion is showing off her love of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba today. The artist just posted a pretty sweet looking Demon Slayer manicure on Instagram with the caption “Demon $layer $et.” Her nails feature Tanjiro’s signature …Read more »
Japan’s Shuppan Kagaku Kenkyujo (a.k.a. Research institute of publication science) has crunched the numbers and says that print and digital sales of manga in 2020 were phenomenal. Manga brought in more than 600 billion yen (a little under 5.5 billion dollars) during the year, breaking …Read more »
The bus stop Mekki, located in Toyama, the capital of Toyama Prefecture, has unwittingly gotten itself involved with Demon Slayer tourism. It’s for a reason non-Japanese speakers wouldn’t guess, but its characters are the reverse of how to write “Kimetsu” in Japanese. According to Japan’s …Read more »
If you’re looking for an eye-popping Demon Slayer figure to place on your shelves, you’ll find everything you could possibly hope for in a new Nezuko figure that has her blood demon art on full display. Inspired by an illustration for the ongoing Demon Slayer …Read more »
This year’s Free Comic Book Day will be August 14, and it marks twenty years of this event. “The variety of this year’s comic book selection is really exciting!” commented Free Comic Book Day spokesperson Ashton Greenwood. “There’s something for every kind of fan, from …Read more »
The Chinese company Lenovo is coming out with a special Demon Slayer PC gaming chair. Rather than take inspiration from lead Tanjiro Kamado, it looks to Giyu Tomioka, copying his clothing design for the pattern on the chair. But what perhaps stands out most about …Read more »
Osaka Customs says that illicit drug smuggling has gone down in their area since 2019, but anime counterfeit goods — usually relating to Demon Slayer — have gone up. Osaka Customs has suspended these items from import because they break intellectual property law. Some of …Read more »
McDonald’s is a very popular restaurant chain in Japan, so it makes sense they’d come out with Happy Meal stickers starring the characters from Demon Slayer, Japan’s current most popular anime and manga. But apparently they’re so popular that not only are stores selling out, …Read more »
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is a part of the Japanese government, and it has revealed who it’s rewarding for the 2020 “Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Fine Arts Recommendation Awards.” The Cabinet Minister Award in the media fine arts category went …Read more »
The nominees for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize have been announced! The award seeks to reward manga that follows Tezuka’s tradition, and this year nine titles are in the running. Without further ado, the nominees are: I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly …Read more »
After about twenty years of sitting comfortably in the record books as the #1 movie at the Japanese box office, Spirited Away was replaced by the smash hit Demon Slayer: Mugen Train. However, until recently, Spirited Away was still the number one Japanese film worldwide. …Read more »
Bandai’s DX Nichirin Sword line of toys continues to bring some of Demon Slayer‘s key weapons to life. The latest belongs to Shinobu Kocho, and just like the others in the line, this one plays voice recordings from the TV anime and lights up with …Read more »
Piracy is a major issue manga has to deal with, especially when it comes to digital piracy. But now Weekly Shonen Jump is saying that pirated physical copies of all 23 volumes of Demon Slayer are being sold online, including with some Amazon vendors. The …Read more »
At this point, anywhere you go in Japan is going to have some kind of Demon Slayer collectible, and that includes McDonald’s Happy Meals. Before revealing the contents, McDonald’s Japan made this not-so-subtle hint at what was to come.
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