Demon Slayer
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the most successful anime series of all time and the biggest hit on year 2019 as the year was when the anime‘s first season debuted and the attention to the anime was impressing as the animation was perfectly executed, the characters were all perfectly designed and the story was refreshing.

The success of the anime reflected likewise on the manga as the series managed to compete with worldwide famous franchises like One Piece and many more.

Besides anime and manga’s sales success, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime’s opening theme song Gurenge which is performed by singer LiSA continues breaking records, reaching astounding milestones.

LiSA’s Gurenge single positioned #1 on Oricon’s digital single positioning graph for the April 27-May 3 week, with 22,105 downloads. This is the second continuous week it has positioned at #1.

The song has now positioned at #1 for five weeks.

The song has been downloaded around 800.000 times. In the April 20-26 week, and it rose from the fifth to the fourth most downloaded tune throughout the entire existence of Oricon’s advanced single positioning diagram.

Photo Credit: Studio Ufotable

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga arrangement composed and outlined by Koyoharu Gotōge. The story follows Tanjirō Kamado, a little youngster who turns into a demon slayer after his family is butchered and his more youthful sister Nezuko is transformed into a demon. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since February 2016, with its chapters gathered in 19 tankōbon volumes as of February 2020. The arrangement is distributed in English by Viz Media and simulpublished by Shueisha in English and Spanish on their Manga Plus stage.

An anime TV arrangement adjusted by Ufotable circulated in Japan from April 6 to September 28, 2019. The English adjustment started airing on Adult Swim’s Toonami lineup in October 2019.

The anime arrangement won a few honors at the 2019 Newtype Anime Awards, including best TV anime.

Aniplex of America portrays the anime:

”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.”


(C) Koyoharu Gotōge, Shueisha / “Demon Slayer” Production Committee”