Mortal Kombat nabbed the top spot of the American box office over the weekend, but Demon Slayer: Mugen Train came in second place and broke records as a foreign film. The Hollywood Reporter said that Mortal Kombat earned $22.5 million over the weekend and played …Read more »
The Demon Slayer video game Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hinokami Keppūtan is scheduled to come out later in 2021, and it will be playable on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and Steam. Early descriptions say that part of the game …Read more »
Yoshiyuki Tomino has set himself up in the history books as the creator of the iconic franchise Mobile Suit Gundam. But the 79-year-old is not ready to retire yet! He was recently on the Japanese TV show Hayashi Osamu no Ima Deshо! Kоza where he …Read more »
The Demon Slayer movie is coming to theaters in North America later this month, and ahead of that Funimation has plans for the Demon Slayer TV specials. All three started streaming on Funimation starting today, April 15 at 1:00pm Pacific Time. The trio of Demon …Read more »
Japanese sword expert Paul Martin, who once curated the Japanese section of the British Museum in London, is a Master of Culture for Honganji Temple’s cultural organization and is a specialist recognized by Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism as a promoter of …Read more »
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 »
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