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Jeopardy! Quiz Show Answers, 'What Is Demon Slayer?'

Popular America trivia show Jeopardy! featured an answer about the hit anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba on the U.S. opening date of its latest film, September 12. (The unique reverse format of Jeopardy! gives contestants clues in the form of "answers," and the contestants can win if they give a correct response in the form of a question.)

The episode's “Movie Sequels” category offered this "answer" for US$2,000: “Films based on this anime series including 'Mugen Train' & now one with Tanjiro facing foes at 'The Infinity Castle.'” None of the contestants even guessed the correct question to the answer, as seen in the video on the show's YouTube channel:

Crunchyroll Instagram account also featured the Jeopardy! answer with the caption “What is ________? 👹 Did you catch this answer on @jeopardy last Friday?” As of press time the post has received over 26,000 likes.

(Not coincidentally, Sony Pictures Television, a sister company of Demon Slayer's distributors Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Releasing, has produced Jeopardy! since 2002.)

This is not the first time Jeopardy! has featured answers or categories related to anime or manga. The show's YouTube Channel has three videos regarding the subject. The oldest video, from December 2019, features answers about Nintendo franchise Pokémon. A February 2025 video features the category “It's Manga! It's Anime! It's Both” and an August 31, 2025, video has the category “Manga.”

Sources: Jeopardy!'s YouTube channel (link 2, link 3, link 4), Crunchyroll's Instagram account