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1st Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle Film Earns 7.31 Billion Yen in 1st 4 Days
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Update: The first Infinite Castle film has topped Mugen Train for Japan's best-ever opening weekend box office (when four-day openings are compared with three-day openings), best opening-day box office (Friday's 1.15 million tickets for 1.64 billion yen or US$11.1 million), and best single-day box office (Sunday's 1.42 million tickets for 2.03 billion yen or US$13.8 million). However, Mugen Train's opening weekend box office was for three days instead of four days.
Comparatively, Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train sold 3,424,930 tickets and earned 4,623,117,450 yen (about US$43.85 million at the time) in Japan in its first three days, when it opened in October 2020. The film sold 910,507 tickets and earned over 1,268,724,700 yen (about US$12.03 million at the time) on its opening day alone, making it the highest weekday opening day for Japan at the time.
The Mugen Train film became the highest-earning film in Japan ever as of its 73rd day at the box office, and has a listed total earnings in Japan of 40.43 billion yen (about US$272 million by current conversion). The film is the highest-earning Japanese film worldwide of all time, and was the highest-earning film worldwide in 2020. The film was the first non-Hollywood or non-American film to top the yearly box office worldwide since the beginning of cinema over a century ago.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai is playing on 443 screens (a franchise record) throughout Japan, including IMAX screenings. Outside Japan, Aniplex aims for the new film to play in over 150 countries and regions, which is wider than the franchise's previous world tour of over 145 countries and regions. Crunchyroll, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Aniplex will screen the first film in theaters, including IMAX and other premium large screen formats, in the United States and Canada on September 12. The film will screen in Japanese with English subtitles and with an English dub.
Haruo Sotozaki is directing the anime at ufotable, and ufotable is also credited for the screenplay. Aimer is performing the song "Taiyō ga Noboranai Sekai" ("A World Where the Sun Never Rises"), and LiSA is performing the song "Zankoku no Yoru ni Kagayake" ("Shine in the Cruel Night").
The first television anime of Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga premiered in April 2019. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc, a seven-episode arc that adapts the Mugen Train film, premiered in October 2021. The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yūkaku-hen) television anime then premiered in December 2021 with a one-hour special.
The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc anime premiered in April 2023 with a one-hour special and aired for 11 episodes. The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc anime premiered with a one-hour special in May 2024, and ended with a 60-minute-long eighth episode in June 2024.
Gotouge launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2016. The manga ended in May 2020. Shueisha published the manga's 23rd and final compiled book volume in December 2020. Viz Media published the manga in English. Shueisha announced on Thursday the manga has exceeded 200 million copies in circulation worldwide (including digital copies).
Source: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba franchise's X/Twitter account via Otakomu, Mantan Web
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