Thread 281530009

This whole thing is one big prank, right? Japan don't actually think this anime and manga is the peak of their medium, right?

>>281530009 (OP)
This is like if Busou Renkin became the biggest anime of all time.

>>281530009 (OP)
obaa-sans pay a lot

I kinda want to watch this at the cinema but i am absolutely sure it will be filled to the brim with people screaming. Any tips on avoiding this?
Even taking a break from work probably wouldnt work cause it will only make me have to watch this with teenagers.

Sex with Shinobu

>>281530009 (OP)
Just give it up already. No matter how much you hate it, the fact is that it’s selling like crazy.
If this were still 2020, you could cope by saying it was all thanks to COVID, or some short-term fluke, or a miracle.
But it’s 2025 now. That excuse doesn’t fly anymore.

>>281530108
Sub showing after it's been out a week or two

>>281530009 (OP)
Keep seething lol

>>281530163
I don't really follow the story and I don't really follow shonen much nowadays, watched it with coworkers but the fights / choreo / animation alone was a delight to see. I can see the appeal

>>281530032
I'd prefere busou renkin. It's better than onepiece and dragonball

>>281530009 (OP)
It's really good, anon.
It's been years. Stop seething.

>>281530163
5 years of shows trying to copy KnY’s formula with big budgets and flashy animation.
All ended as short-lived mid-hits.
JJK and Frieren did okay, but nowhere close.
CSM went all-in trying to surpass KnY and faceplanted.
The only survivor of the KnY boom… was KnY itself.

>>281530009 (OP)
It's cool and that's aççç that matters. I like how emotional it is, i like shonen that somehow manage to make me want to scream alongside the protagonist.
Though great part of the popularity is probably also due to the fucking amazing animations.
>>281530180
Yeah, probably that. Most will probably already have watched. Guess i will do that.

>>281530009 (OP)
Trash carried by ufotable. This is worse than the marvel slop americans slurp up

Just watched the movie, I know that it's supposed to be a faithful adaptation, but the constant flashbacks and inner monologue really ruined the pace of the movie.
Not sure whether I like them extending Zenitsu's fights (he actually fights back now instead of just defending before the climax of the battle), but it makes him not one shot UM 6 like how it was in the manga, so the climax is less impressive.

>>281530075
Young, heroic, erotic boys in different flavours is all they need.

>>281530009 (OP)
Not a prank. KnY won hard.

>>281530009 (OP)
KnY already secured the win.
First movie of the finale trilogy sold huge and was praised.
There’s no universe where the next two crash so badly the whole thing gets ruined.

>>281530269
I'm surprised there hasn't been a snk -> kabaneri thing where a studio tries to do an anime original version

>>281530271
I will always appreciate the author for ending it relatively quick and properly (compared to many other shonen) instead of dragging it on far too long with 2deep4me janky plot.
It's main value are the flashy fights, which is complimented very well by Ufotable. Then when they had enough, it ends. Very neat.

>>281530345
No one is ripping off a crap manga that became popular because of ufotable.

>>281530382
Tons of manga have ripped off KnY, they just fly under the radar.
Even Act-Age had a blatant Rengoku clone before KnY was even animated.

>>281530382
...

>>281530108
Go on a week day at like 9:30 at the mall a week after it's been out

>>281530294
His fight is the one im least interested in seeing

>>281530345
Once KnY ends, I think ufotable will probably try to do something similar again.
Type-Moon’s source material has already been exhausted, and Genshin is already fading into obscurity, so the only paths left for them are either to cook up some kind of prequel or sequel to KnY, or to create an original IP that feels like a fusion of Fate and KnY.

>>281530345
Once KnY ends, I think ufotable will probably try to do something similar.
Type-Moon’s source material has already been exhausted, and Genshin is already fading into obscurity, so the only paths left for them are either to cook up some kind of prequel or sequel to KnY, or to create an original IP that feels like a fusion of Fate and KnY.

>>281530440
KGB is miles better than Demon Slayer, though

>>281530463
Personally it's the highlight of the movie for me, but I understand that it won't be the case for everyone since some people hated his whiny personality, at least you can enjoy him being serious before he reverts back to being a whiny baby..

>>281530108
My theater was full of normies and even families taking their kids. Besides some chuckles at the comedic scenes and polite clapping at the end, the audience wasn't obnoxious.

>>281530440
This is a fucking naruto fanfic, bro. Not a kny one.

>>281530531
I saw families taking along their babies, what the fuck were they thinking, humanoid beings are being decapitated left and right in the movie

>>281530532
To be fair KNY is a naruto\bleach fanfic

>>281530009 (OP)
outsold your favorite anime. cope and sneethe

>>281530240
The anime is good, the manga itself is trash.

>>281530440
I’ve never read KGB, but I know there’s a technique in it that’s basically the same as the water dragon slash technique—except it turns into a black fish instead.

is there any reason to be angry about some random shonen action adventure story to be popular?

>>281530569
That’s true for Bleach, but there’s almost nothing or very few from Naruto.
The only exception might be the final scene where Demon King Tanjiro uses a technique somewhat like the Nine Tails.
KnY is basically built from a mix of Bleach, JoJo, Hunter x Hunter, Shigurui, Takato Yamamoto, and Berserk as source material.

>>281530624
Jealousy/shonen tribalism

>>281530009 (OP)
Its not peak but its fun

>>281530600
Animal visual attacks isn't unique to kny. It's literally in naruto too. And even then, the one in kny is pure imagination, there isnt actually a water dragon. Meanwhile, the goldish in kgb works like other series.

>>281530600
KGB's is much better because a) it looks cooler and b) it's actually real and the author isn't a fucking retard claiming "it's just a representation"

>>281530269
>5 years of shows trying to copy KnY’s formula with big budgets and flashy animation.
And they did try, jackass. Look around you, do you have any idea how much money gets funneled into generic shonen adaptations every quarter? That's whu anime originals are becoming a relic of the past. The anime industry has spent the last 5 years trying to find the next Demon Slayer with more sakuga-heavy trailers than actual narrative substance. And guess what? They all bombed because they didn’t have the freak fusion of
>Covid lockdown binge era
>Memetic episode moment (E19)
>An all-star seiyuu veteran cast and OST
>Sony Music Japan pushing it on every outlet from radio to fucking FamilyMart
>Sony-owned streaming platforms, Sony-backed retailers, Sony-anime conventions, Sony-music artists singing OP/EDs
Demon Slayer didn't succeed because "it was good." It succeeded because of a perfect storm, just like Woodstock 1969 and how it will never be replicated again. Gotouge just gave Ufotable the napkin sketch they traced over.

Demon Slayer just shows you that if you push your shit hard enough, then shit will sell hard enough.

>>281530593
How can he say this when Dragon Ball exploded in popularity worldwide thanks to the anime?

>>281530593
Where’s the actual source for this Torishima quote?
Do you have a screenshot of the interview or at least a full copy-paste of the text?
I’ve been looking for it but can’t find anything at all, so honestly, I think the credibility is highly questionable.

>>281530593
The manga is fine, better in some odd cases, people just don’t like the less than refined art

>>281530680
Dragon ball's anime is a copy/paste slop staright out the manga. It's serviceable, not amazing. There were better looking 80s anime at the time.

>>281530661
Are there any other examples of water-element slashes clad in an animal-form aura? Of course, I haven’t gone through every single work of fiction, but off the top of my head I honestly can’t think of any.

>>281530661
They aren’t pure imagination, they are visible to people in the series, it just isn’t literal water

>>281530593
I picked up the manga after watching S1 and the MT movie.
I then read the manga to completion.
So I must have been able to find some value in it, because I wouldn't have done that otherwise.
I would have simply given up on the manga and waited until the next arc was made enjoyable solely by Ufotable if I found the manga to be trash.

I wonder how Gotouge is feeling right now

>>281530679
KnY had already become a social phenomenon before the COVID lockdowns even began.
The manga volumes vanished from bookstores, shop managers were complaining about Shueisha not supplying enough stock, while piles of Samurai 8—the series Jump was actually trying to push at the time—sat untouched and unsold.
By the spring of 2020, when the lockdowns started, KnY had already sold around 50 million copies, and elementary school boys were swinging umbrellas around pretending to be Tanjiro or Zenitsu.
There was even news coverage at the time of parents worrying those umbrella-swinging kids might cause accidents.
It’s only six years ago, so if you dig through the news archives now, you can easily find reports of what it was like back then.

>>281530212
Ofc you pedos would think this.

>>281530805
>M-muh pedos!

>>281530716
Samurai Deeper Kyo already did it
So did a lot of other series
Read more manga, there's nothing KnY has done that wasn't already done before it

>>281530624
shonen jealousy
just look at the Big 3 shonen wars until today

>>281530820
You're trying to trivialize the one thing you can't. Good luck with that, nonce.

>>281530624
I think it’s less that it’s simply popular and more that its degree of success is actually kinda insane, the numbers are wild, and obviously numbers aren’t everything but it’s an easy way to ragebait other successful anime and manga fandoms

>>281530822
you're correct, of course

>Byatsuko
still hilarious, truly a relic from another time

>>281530624
Three main reasons:

1. Jealousy that their beloved anime can’t reach KnY’s level of quality and praise.


2. Boomer resentment toward the new generation, clinging to DB and the old Big 3.


3. Pure defensive instinct—fear that KnY might actually eclipse the shows they hold dear.
And let’s be real: the schizo who keeps sperging out over KnY usually falls into category #3.

>>281530679
>Covid lockdown binge era

These were the sales before Covid over one week.
The boost increased just after the end of Season 1, not because of Covid

>>281530009 (OP)
Nothing offensive about this series so i won't care if it become the most popular thing or something

>>281530822
This is clearly different in type from Constant Flux or goldfish.
Those two don’t release an animal-shaped aura like this instead, the water effect with animal aura is always attached to the blade itself, as if clinging to it.

>>281530716
saint seiya

>>281530797
False nostalgia is a hell of a drug. You keep talking like Demon Slayer was already a mega-hit before the anime, but that's not what Jump itself said. Hiroyuki Nakano, editor-in-chief of WSJ, literally said in 2020:
>Its success hinged on word of mouth generated after the anime’s run. It did not become a major hit until late 2019.
That's months after the anime aired and after E19 went viral. It wasn't some breakout manga like Jujutsu Kaisen that were selling millions before the anime. It was a low-mid tier seller that only blew up once Ufotable made it flashy and Sony cranked the PR machine.

COVID lockdown poured gasoline on that fire. It gave the series endless binge value when people were stuck at home, and it had the infrastructure like Sony-owned stores, Sony streaming platforms, Sony artists to blast it everywhere. That's not "just a good anime." It's a corporate-backed miracle. It's the Woodstock 1969 of anime, never to be replicated again. Which is why other series trying to ride the wave didn't fail because they were bad, they failed because lightning don't strike twice. You can't copy the perfect storm that was Demon Slayer's. You either get hit by it or you try your best and get compared to it forever.

>>281530752
she's retired to farm in the countryside

>>281531008
>Doesn't count because...
Nice semantics.

>>281531023
You’re cherry-picking Nakano’s quote while ignoring the reality on the ground. By the end of 2019 before COVID, before any “Sony conspiracy”, Demon Slayer had already crossed 50 million copies sold. Bookstores in Japan couldn’t keep it on shelves, kids were swinging umbrellas pretending to be Tanjiro, and the news was reporting on it. That’s not a “low-mid tier” manga anymore, that’s a cultural boom.

The idea that Sony somehow engineered an unprecedented craze is pure revisionism. If PR machines and flashy animation were enough, then explain Samurai 8. Same publisher, same push, same stores—dead on arrival. Explain why countless other anime with gorgeous sakuga, industry connections, and marketing muscle never sniffed KnY’s success. If it were “corporate-backed miracle,” we’d see ten more by now. We don’t, because it wasn’t.

What KnY had that others didn’t was Gotouge’s story and characters. Ufotable didn’t create its popularity, they amplified it. COVID didn’t “save” it, it only padded an already burning fire. Pretending otherwise is just cope from people who can’t accept that a new-gen series dethroned their nostalgic sacred cows.

Apologize

Yes, they think. Collectively. Like in a election, but every single citizen voted the same.

Everyone. Elderly and children equally.
Since the begining of japanimation, they all know in their Yamato Damashii souls that Demon Slayer final arc part 1 movir, It's UNRIVALED under the heavens.

>>281531023
>You keep talking like Demon Slayer was already a mega-hit before the anime, but that's not what Jump itself said.

Wtf
In the comment you’re pointing at, I never said that.

I’ve been saying that KnY only really started selling in the second half of 2019, after season 1 aired but before COVID.

Are you seriously so mad you can’t even read the words properly?

>>281531023
>It wasn't some breakout manga like Jujutsu Kaisen that were selling millions before the anime.

I see a lot of people saying that, but JJK’s volumes were selling a bit over 200k in one month before the anime, compared to 150k for KnY, not like the difference is as big as people want to make it out to be.

>>281531074
Nice strawman. You're confusing cause and effect. You keep bringing up the 50 million copies sold by late 2019 like that just magically happened. That was the anime boom, not some grassroots manga uprising.

Here’s the timeline you keep ignoring.
>Pre-April 2019 (anime debut)
Demon Slayer was selling 3 million copies in total, not yearly, total. That's low-mid tier by Jump standards.
>After Episode 19 went viral (August 2019)
Manga sales skyrocketed. It ranked #1 in Oricon by year's end.
>Hiroyuki Nakano (Jump Editor-in-Chief) in 2020
"Its success hinged on word of mouth generated after the anime's run. It didn’t become a major hit until late 2019." That’s the literal source telling you it wasn't a monster hit until the anime, not before it. You pretending otherwise is just fan-fiction.

Your Samurai 8 comparison also proves my point. That one didn't get a viral Ufotable-tier anime or a PR nuke. You're comparing a flop with no multimedia push to a Sony war machine that got radio, streaming, retail, and anime exposure timed perfectly before a global pandemic. And it's ironic of you that calling this "not a corporate miracle" when the literal same publisher and same producers (Shueisha, Aniplex, Sony) tried replicating the formula over and over with Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, Hell’s Paradise, TYBW, Mashle and none came close. Why? Cause it's a one-time lightning strike. It wasn' just "Gotouge’s story." It was Episode 19 + Covid lockdown + Sony blanket saturation. Demon Slayer's story didn’t change between Vol 1 and 19, its exposure did. And that’s why it exploded. You’re just rewriting history to protect your golden cow. I'll trust the actual Jump editor over (You) any day.

>>281530942
Honestly, I’ve never seen jealousy this ugly.
From what I can tell, the ones raging the most are boomers who just can’t stand the rise of the new generation of anime.
In their minds, DB, OP, Naruto, and Bleach must forever remain untouchable at the top.

>>281530531
>clapping at the end
Why do americans do this

>>281531214
Positive affirmation

The fact that this movie is already top 5 in Japan in a little over a month is bonkers.

>>281531256
Anime is mainstream now and they learn from shinkai that if you spend 90% of your budget in advertising you can make a lot of money

>>281531148
In 2019, there simply wasn’t enough supply of volumes, so bookstores everywhere had fierce competition and sold out almost immediately.
Since there was nothing to sell, sales figures would sharply drop, only to surge again after each new reprint run.
It wasn’t until 2020 that a stable mass production system was finally established.

And let’s be clear, selling over 50 million copies in such a short span of time is nothing short of a social phenomenon.
Even series in Japan that were also labeled as “social phenomena,” like Oshi no Ko or Spy x Family, have sales numbers that fall short of what KnY achieved at that point.

>>281530959
What are you on about? You keep spouting "it was already big before Covid" while showing me lifetime sales as if that proves your point. But the actual Oricon weekly data and sales timeline prove you completely wrong. Vol 1 debuted with 13,000 copies sold in its first week. Not 130k. 13k. That's not a hit, it's low-tier. Even by Vol 10, which dropped in 2018, it still only opened with around 130k which is basically mid-list territory. Picrel shows exactly what happened:
>Explosive growth starts at Vol 17-18
>Those volumes dropped in October 2019
>That was after E19 of the anime aired in August 2019, which went viral
>Covid hadn't even started yet, but the manga was already ending by early 2020
It wasn't a hit that Covid boosted. It was a mid-tier manga that only blew up cause of the anime, and especially cause of that episode. Then Covid supercharged the momentum. Also, stop pretending "50 million copies sold" by 2019 means it was already massive. That figure was entire cumulative sales across 19 volumes after the anime blew up. A 50M total across 19 books still averages out to barely 2.6M per volume. By comparison, One Piece was moving that per volume consistently for years, and JJK hit 30M per year at its peak. It wasn't some unstoppable juggernaut from day 1.

The Douma fight was extremely lackluster.

>>281530777
Why not collaborate with established games instead of creating a flop?

>>281531339
No supply doesn't explain low first-week sales across multiple volumes before the anime aired. Vol 1 through 10 were released well before 2019 and had average opening week sales of under 130k. If it were so high in demand from day 1, we'd see constant stockouts then, not years later after a viral anime episode. If "stock issues" caused drops and surges, we'd see spikes in reprint weeks. But the Oricon chart shows flat or slow growth for years, not erratic spikes. The real spike happened in Vol 17-18, which lined up perfectly with the anime's viral moment and it's not a supply issue, it's a demand explosion after the anime popped off.

You're ignoring that Shueisha prints to match demand. They've handled One Piece, JJK, Haikyuu, and other mega-hits for decades. If Demon Slayer really had that much hype before the anime, you think Shueisha wouldn't know how to supply it? Come on, man. 50 million copies sounds big, but most of that came after late 2019 like Nakano said. The series was limping along for 3 years with modest sales. The so-called "social phenomenon" started only after the anime aired and exploded on streaming, again exactly as Nakano said.

And now we're comparing it to Oshi no Ko or Spy x Family? Those series haven’t ended yet, and didn't get the perfect storm marketing push, massive anime adaptation, AND Covid lockdown to fuel binge-watching, binge reading and record-breaking viewership numbers. You're comparing a 5-year tailwind to a 1-2 year run. It's nonsense.

>>281531447
Nah, stop with the strawman shit. Nobody here said pre-anime KnY was already a social phenomenon. What’s being said is crystal clear: the boom happened post-anime but pre-COVID.
By late 2019, after Ep19, it was already #1 on Oricon and the books were vanishing from shelves.
That’s months before lockdowns.

You’re twisting it into “you guys think it was huge even before the anime” just so you can knock that down.
That’s not the argument.
The argument is that by the time COVID hit, KnY was already a full-blown craze. Nakano’s quote doesn’t contradict that — it literally supports it.

So either argue the actual point (post-anime, pre-COVID social phenomenon), or admit you’re just coping by moving goalposts.

I probably in the minority who like the manga better than the anime. The anime basically amp up everything which really hurt the more somber tone and the comedic timing. The jokes work better in the manga form than in the anime because Ufotable keep stretching the jokes.

>>281531575
I too feel this way about parts in the anime, like the final part of the fight against Gyutaro.
In the anime it's shorter because Uzui is almost dead and this is a last desperate push.
In the anime... it goes on for way too long. It makes it seem that Uzui can just go on forever.

>>281530009 (OP)
Why do weebs get so mad over the fact that a very Japanese show that appeals heavily to Japanese people is popular with the Japanese?

>>281531667
>In the anime it's shorter
I meant manga.

>>281531564
You're accusing me of strawmen arguments while doing the exact thing yourself. I never said the anime had zero effect or that Covid alone made Demon Slayer a hit. I said the actual timeline supported by data and official source tells a very different story than your sanitized "plpost-anime, pre-Covid craze!!" cope.

The anime aired from April to September 2019. Sales growth was modest until E19 dropped in August 2019 and that's when buzz started ramping up. Volume sales still hovered around 130k-150k first-week even after E19. That's not social phenomenon territory, it's popular mid-tier, not mainstream domination. VIt didn't become a full-scale craze until December 2019-January 2020.vThat’s when...
>Volumes started consistently breaking 500k+ first week
>It overtook One Piece on Oricon for the first time ever
>It crossed 60 million copies sold by February 2020
>COVID lockdowns began in March, perfect timing for binge reading + no new anime competing

Third, Nakano's quote LITERALLY says:
>The success hinged on word of mouth generated after the anime's run. Demon Slayer did not become a major hit until late 2019.
Meaning it needed time + streaming growth + lockdown binge effect to reach its peak. You're cherry-picking a partial point while ignoring the rest. You can rewrite history all you want, but the data and Nakano already did the talking.

>>281531447
You’re misunderstanding.
What I said was that, as of now, both Spy x Family and Oshi no Ko still haven’t reached the level of sales that KnY had achieved by spring 2020.

Spy x Family (3 years after its boom)
Oshi no Ko (2 years after its boom)

Even after that much time, both of them are still below what KnY had already sold just about half a year into its boom, by spring 2020.

>>281531671
Because muh consolewars

>>281530009 (OP)
Give up. Kimetsu is already a religion in Japan and in the process in the rest of the world

>>281531680
Bro you just owned yourself with your own numbers.
You’re saying “it didn’t become a phenomenon until late 2019” and then in the same breath admit it had 60 million copies sold by February 2020 — which is before Covid lockdowns even started. Do you hear yourself? That’s literally society-level craze already.
You can’t call that “mid-tier” with a straight face.
That’s bigger than what most manga ever achieve in their entire lifetime, and it happened pre-Covid.

/a/ can do nothing but flail impotently over people actually liking Demon Slayer

>>281531696
Demon Slayer was a unicorn and everyone admits that. It had a complete manga run. The perfect timing of a streaming surge and a global pandemic lockdown. A viral episode + constant Sony shilling and a final arc that was being binged in real-time by anime-first viewers stuck at home.

You can’t replicate that in normal market conditions and nobody has. Not even Spy x Family and Oshi no Ko had such conditions. The former boomed organically through digital platforms and anime without a pandemic while the latter exploded thanks to a surprise viral anime OP but it was still ongoing and hasn't even finished or reached its final arc like Demon Slayer has. They're on normal growth curves. Demon Slayer was a one-time combustion event.

Demon Slayer's "spring 2020" numbers weren’t normal either. You're bragging about 60M+ sold in under a year as if that's a reproducible benchmark. Even One Piece, the most consistently successful manga of all time, didn't match that kind of vertical spike. So if Spy x Family hasn't "matched that" in 3 years, then it's not a knock. It's called normal publishing trajectory.
>>281531784
Japan is not the world. The Japanese might be autistic with Demon Slayer, doesn't mean everyone else. Especially not America. It's just another popular anime with some pretty fights.

>>281531838
You're so butthurt over KNY being popular/successful it's unreal

Did we know why this manga get the ufotable treatment while other popular SJ manga only get mid studios?

>>281531575
I really like the music. Like that bit where Tanjiro is killing Hantengu in SSV, the music really made me feel that "this is Tanjiro with nothing left" that he briefly thought he was after Nezuko sacrificed herself. But I'm really more of a manga person overall and watching a story I already know play out in long slow episodes isn't that fun.

>>281531784
That’s exactly why the boomers who worship old shonen icons are seething.
For the first time in over twenty years, something came along that actually threatens their sacred cow “global religions,” so now they’re panicking and lashing out like rabid dogs.
Humans always get the most jealous and aggressive toward whatever they secretly feel threatened by.

>>281531878
The marketing story is that they liked that it was nighttime focused and they had a producer that was a fan. But man they really bet the farm on it, a 26 episode season and they apparently immediately started on Mugen Train when finished.

>>281531838
>Japan is not the world. The Japanese might be autistic with Demon Slayer, doesn't mean everyone else
Good thing only Japan matters when it comes to manga/anime then

People always seethe about the covid boost or the anime carry or whatever but fail to realise the biggest strength of this series does come from the manga: it's really, REALLY nip coded.
Katanas, the duty to family and society, honor and the right way to conduct oneself (sense of propriety), the dangers of selfishness and lack of morality, the strength of legacy and communal effort, all sprinkled with Buddhist themes like karmic retribution and reincarnation. Even the comedy is very japanese coded, without speaking of the artstyle and overall aesthetic mood which is also very japanese.

>>281531838
You’re actually proving my argument without realizing it.
If KnY had already hit 60M+ copies sold before March 2020, then that’s by definition pre-Covid.
You can’t seriously call that “not a phenomenon yet” when it had already overtaken One Piece on Oricon, was breaking 500k+ first week sales per volume, and had bookstores across Japan selling out faster than Shueisha could reprint.

Nakano’s quote doesn’t contradict this — it reinforces it.
He said the boom came “after the anime’s run” and “by late 2019.” That’s literally before the lockdowns.
Covid didn’t create the fire, it just added more oxygen to something that was already blazing.

So when you claim it needed “streaming + lockdown” to hit mainstream levels, you’re ignoring the obvious
Japan was already in full-blown Kimetsu-mania months before the pandemic even started.
Everything after was just escalation.

>>281531808
Nope, not a self own. You're confusing timing of the boom with what caused it to sustain and escalate. Get your shit right. Demon Slayer crossed 60 million by February 2020, but you know what else happened RIGHT before that? The entire anime finished airing, WOM took over, mass streaming kicked in, and global Covid warnings began in Asia as early as January. Late 2019 was the ramp-up, not the peakvand the anime aired from April to Sept 2019. E19 dropped mid-August. Real mass hype and explosive sales didn't come until late Q4 2019 and early 2020 which is consistent with Nakano's quote and Oricon tracking data. February 2020 was already fueled by:
>Streaming viewership of post-anime finishers (as Nakano said)
>Retail panic-buying due to early Covid reports
>Mass reprints and bookstore floods finally being fulfilled after low supply in 2019
60 million by February doesn't magically mean all of that happened before Covid.
>society-level craze
That's assuming Demon Slayer hit 60M in July 2019 and it didn't. It was gaining traction, but it didn’t break Oricon domination, weekly #1 streaks, or destroy competition until January 2020 onward. That's also when it swept merch, TV spots, stores, and triggered national discussion.

I think a generally unmentioned factor in Demon Slayer fandom was the Kyoani fire. I was so damn sad about that for months that it soured anime for me. But Demon Slayer was so sweet and good-hearted despite itself being very death-focused that it took away that bitterness of a mass-murder juxtaposed with Naroushit garbage.

>>281532017
Bro, stop coping.
You keep twisting the timeline like it helps you, but it actually blows up in your face. By February 2020 KnY had already smashed 60 million copies sold.
That’s before Japan even had a lockdown.
Trying to handwave that away as “early Covid panic-buying” is just pathetic—nobody was panic-stocking manga like canned food.
They were buying it because it was already a national craze after the anime wrapped and E19 went viral.

And this “vol 1–10 sold low” angle isn’t the slam dunk you think it is.
Most long-runners start modest.
What matters is that by late 2019 the series went from mid-tier to absolute domination, months before Covid.
That is a social phenomenon.
Acting like it “doesn’t count until lockdown” is just you moving goalposts because the actual sales data wrecks your narrative.

>>281532017
>"Oh no, the pandemic is coming from China! Better run to the bookstore and stock up on manga!"

>>281532158
>February 2020 KnY had already smashed 60 million copies sold
Yeah, and I mever denied that you, dickhead. The craze peaked in that window BETWEEN post-anime streaming and Covid lockdown ramp-ups. Your dumbass keeps acting like Feb 2020 is magically immune from early pandemic influence. Panic-buying started in Japan in January, and stores were already overloaded. Even Oricon noted delays and spikes due to supply chain surges during this phase.
>nobody was panic-stocking manga like canned food.
No, but they were binge-buying entertainment. Manga, anime, video games ALL spiked in early 2020 as people prepped for home life and needed distraction.bDemon Slayer became the binge-read series at exactly the moment people stayed indoors. It's not a mere coincidence, it's perfect timing. Just like how Animal Crossing blew up, not because it was the best Nintendo game ever, but because it dropped right when lockdowns hit. Same with Genshin Impact.

And you keep ignoring Nakano’s quote, so I'll reiterate again, as many times as I can to beat it to your head.
>Demon Slayer did not become a major hit until late 2019.
>Its success hinged on word-of-mouth after the anime run.
That directly contradicts your fantasy that the anime alone caused a pre-Covid domination. It confirms what the data already shows: momentum built post-anime and exploded early 2020.
>this “vol 1–10 sold low” angle isn’t the slam dunk you think it is.
It is when you’re pretending the series was always big. It took 3 full years for the manga to catch on and was a slow-burn sleeper until the anime + Sony machine kicked in. That's exactly why it looks like a rocket, because it was dead quiet until the ignition sequence.

i like kimetsu no yaiba

Why is it that people keep saying Kimetsu was the one that benefited from COVID more than anything else?
If you ask me, it was the other works that blew up between 2020 and 2022 that actually reaped the most benefit.
Kimetsu, on the contrary, had the bad luck of overlapping with the pandemic and has been unfairly slandered because of it.
A manga that had already sold tens of millions of copies in an explosive surge before COVID wasn’t suddenly going to cool off within a year or so
that’s just not realistic.

>>281532390
>people
it's a bot

>>281532304
Beo, you're stretching the timeline way too far, man.
Japan didn’t even declare a state of emergency until April 2020.
KnY had already blown past 60 million copies by February.
That’s months before any “lockdown binge” could realistically inflate numbers.

And no, people weren’t panic-stocking manga like toilet paper.
That’s pure hindsight cope.
The buying frenzy at bookstores in late 2019 was already being reported in the news — shelves cleared out, managers complaining about supply issues, Demon Slayer vanished.
That wasn’t Covid.
That was demand massively outpacing supply after the anime went viral.

So let’s not rewrite history.
The boom was already a social phenomenon by the end of 2019.
Covid might’ve added fuel later, but the fire was raging crazy before anyone in Japan was locked indoors.

>anon literally writing essays coping about kimetsu's popularity
sad

>>281531898
Lol. Demon Slayer is the textbook definition of an industry plant. Its entire populatity is manufactured.
>Sony owns Aniplex
>Ufotable are close contractors to Aniplex
>Aniplex controls the anime production
>Shueisha publishes the manga
And when those two combine forces, it's not organic growth, it's a state-sponsored marketing blitz complete with...
>Full PR saturation
>Controlled narratives
>Sales record framing
>Endless algorithmic amplification
It was never some underdog story. It was alway a corporate rollout disguised as cultural phenomenon. DB, Naruto, OP all built their success decades before this machine existed and had to fight for visibility in a time when anime was still niche and social media didn't exist yet. Neither of them had Sony's algorithm pushing them onto timelines, they had raw character, worldbuilding, and staying power, something Demon Slayer don't have. That's why literally no one talks about when there's no anime airing, because the actual content has fuck all to talk about.
>>281530942
>Boomer resentment
You think fans are mad because a newer show got praise? Nah. CSM is a critic's darling and fans don't shit on it. They're mad because Shueisha is out here feeding you candy and telling you it's meat, while DB and Naruto's legacy is being slowly scrubbed from the record books.
>fear that KnY might actually eclipse the shows they hold dear.
Nah, I don't fear anything. I just hate a poorly drawn, half-assed product. Demon Slayer is no different from AoT, it made noise, but lacks long-term appeal the same way DB and Naruto has. I'd pull a power move on you: Dragon Ball is estimated to be at 475M copies sold, 11M+ per volume average, and made $30 billion by 2004 alone. It's still outselling every single series without new content, past and present and Demon Slayer's entire run was shorter than Namek blowing up. Dragon Ball doesn't need Toei, Demon Slayer needs Ufotable like it's oxygen.

>>281532390
It’s just a single mentally ill dude who hates and obsesses over it.
By now, the majority has accepted KnY.

>>281532537
>—
How to tell one uses ChatGPT.
So I'd dismiss everything you say and call you a faggot.

>>281532651
>By now, the majority has accepted KnY.
NPCs don't matter. They liked slop since the break of dawn and they'll continue to like slop.

¥3.6B ($24.5M) intl weekend for Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle. Running total ¥5B ($34M). EXPLOSIVE debuts in SE Asia — already outgrossing Mugen Train in , , & with just weekend #. Smashes ¥30B globally, now at an est. ¥31B ($209M).

if US and Europe have same hype and outcoome. 250M USD from OVERSEAS seems possible right now.

It is impossible to properly convey the bliss I feel from having invested in knycoin very early on. You see, this short 8/10 shonen about killing vampires that reads like a JoJo Phantom Blood fanfic already had a special place in my heart before I watched a single anime episode, but then it just exploded everywhere, giving me the opportunity to talk about it with friends, relatives and anons of all ages. Better yet, the nonstop seething it causes on a very particular type of human being brings me a curious sense of joy. I see these poor souls struggle helplessly as they get trampled by the stampede of undeniable worldwide success, screaming that it should not be so, that it somehow "doesn't count" because of this, or that, while trying to assert their views to an audience that clearly doesn't care about their butthurt screeching, and better yet, only sees it as a source of mockery.
These are the facts, my friends:
This franchise was blessed by the Heavens, just like its author, Koyoharu Gotouge.
Divine Forces have decided it would be uplifited high above its peers, no matter what, no matter how. That it would keep winning, despite the despair of those who would wish to see it fail.
Ufotable? Sony? Covid? Lockdowns?
Every available tool that could be materialized in the fabric of reality somehow worked just right and changed the course of destiny, pushing KnY to new heights. It went to soar way above what its religious author could ever have envisioned.
How mysterious!
Gotouge wrote a story about Gods and ghosts literally pushing the noble-hearted heroes to defeat wicked monsters and send them to hell.
And somehow, this story in particular, that focused on basic morality and family bonds way more than its "cooler", more "stylish" and more "subversive" peers, was pushed by a very specific set of circumstances into becoming a megahit that would reach every corner of this planet. Oh, my.

Is this what it feels like to receive the Mandate of Heaven?

Demon Slayer Infinity Castle ends the Obon week with an est. ¥1.8B weekend, lifting its total to nearly ¥26B ($175M). Still running ahead of Mugen Train by 11% at Day 31. ¥30B is imminent, with a likely finish north of ¥35B, may be even ¥40B if the late legs go wild

>>281532628
Why didn't they make the CSM anime succeed in the same manner then?

>>281532689
>>281532714
with both estimations, KNY IC will reach 70B yen total and take the number 1 highest grossing japanese film spot by wide gap.

>>281532725
csm season 1 literally have all the marketing campaign and ads everywhere. and it was fall hard on their place.

KNY IC also project to beat F4 total gross. with 10x less budget too. lol. Jimbo's retard curse strike again.

>>281532725
because it's shit only liked by redditors lmao

>>281532689
90% of that from Japan, by the way. SEA don't matter. It has tiny local markets, it can drop in as many countries in SEA, what matter isn which countries actually move the numbers globally: US and China. It didn't make it to China which is already a hard cap. That's a market where a single hit can bring in $50M+ alone, more than SEA combined.

And in the US, it drops in a dump month of September where NFL is starting again, kids are back to and there's actually competition in that month too. Demon Slayer isn't even projected to have the biggest OW, that goes The Conjuring ($35-40M) and it drops one week before it, so it'll take lead and if WOM is positive, it'll steal screens. America also has more theaters than Japan, so they can only show a movie this many times per day.

Lastly, this movie is too long. It has a runtime of 2h35m meaning it gets 3, maybe 4 slots per day, max. Movies like The Conjuring can run 6+ times daily, doubling screen presence and revenue potential per screen. Japan has fewer screens than the US, so they'll run their movies longer and they're more lenient with long movies. That doesn't America are. Theaters hate long movies and groan at a runtime of almost 3 hours.

Stop thinking like a dumbass autistic Japanese who don't even live in Japan.
>>281532929
It's not even projected to have the highest OW of Septemeber, lmfao. Keep talking out of your ass, Spic. America is not Japan.

>>281532689
>Just from East Asia 1st week alone, it has already earned nearly half of Mugen Train’s overseas box office revenue.

Also, compare the exchange rate from 2020 to 2025. You can keep pulling all these fake milestones, Mugen Train still made more money in USD terms, the only currency that matters when we talk global box office. Not the shitty collapsing Yen. Lmao.

>>281530009 (OP)
>Japan don't actually think this anime and manga is the peak of their medium, right?
I don't think they care about anime and manga that much to be that autistic about it, like filthy gaijins do

>Well, damn! It was the biggest D1 seller, breaking the record set by Fantastic Four (1,087). And it achieved it with less than 40 screenings. Clearly demand will prompt theaters to set more screenings.
>Demon Slayer 2 Day 2 uber strong. Stronger Day 2 growth than anything I tracked this year for sure.Thu/Fri ratio have to be the strongest this early for a big ticket seller.

Coming from people who track ticket sales in the US, it seems like Mugen Train’s first week is going to be beaten easily

>>281532697
>Is this what it feels like to receive the Mandate of Heaven?

yes

>>281533025
no retard. can you count??? more income will come OVERSEAS/international compare to japan..
250+M USD vs 35B yen

>>281532689
Could it be that this is actually higher than the box office of Hollywood blockbusters in SEA?
I feel like this is on a whole different level compared to anime films up until now.
And this is only the very first week.

>>281530009 (OP)
>This whole thing is one big prank, right? America don't actually think this movie and comic is the peak of their medium, right?

>>281533097
even with shit exchange rate, its still will get 500M USD. why you are so retard?? you should glad yen is shit if not it will blow MT out by quite margin.

>>281533405
yes, breaking record anime-wise. or hollywood in general, only comparable since presale and opening weekend is ENDGAME.

>>281533358
>sumimasen wins against I am so wea- flashback scene - k
amazing taste japan

>>281533339
MT was around $21M the first week if I remember correctly. This one should hit $30M, maybe even $40M first week, for comparison only Pokémon first movie did better than that for a Japanese movie there

Out of curiosity, do other east/se asian countries do dubs of Jap anime?

>>281533420
jimbo is walking contradiction and retardation. if KNY did it, its bad. but if other did it its good.

This whole thing is one big prank, right? America don't actually think this show and drama is the peak of their medium, right?

>>281532697
>It is impossible to properly convey the bliss I feel from having invested in knycoin very early on.
this is your yearly reminder that Inosuke was /a/'s favorite character when the manga ended.

I am in my mid 30s and have never seen a single episode of Demon Slayer. Is there like one particular episode I should check out? Should I at least try and read the manga?

>>281530009 (OP)
>Female on poster
>This is supposed to be a shonen
>Forced sad backstory flashbacks for every villain x12
Kimetsu no fetus faggots are embarrassing

>>281533785
That's its fourth poster already.

>>281533048
its already sold more than MHA box office total gross globally (japan and overseas). lol. and half of what JJK 0 did overseas total revenue. and jimbo claim that JJK is did better overseas.

>>281533735
The one where he uses fire sword shit and the rest is downhill
The train movie is ok everything else is shit

>>281533785
Based. I refuse to watch ANY shounen with a slut. Battle shounen is for MEN.

>>281533888
Gay

>>281533688
I'm surprised that with all the GODjima posting back then he didn't get a higher spot. Although all the ones in top3 are perfect choices

>>281534809
I'm surprised U&G shitposting didn't land Gayuu higher myself.
But he had nothing as memetic as THAT PIC or kokucat.

>>281530681
someone asked this in previous threads and his source is a twitter post

>>281530009 (OP)

>I hate thing cause popular

Hot take.

>>281530009 (OP)
>>281530075
Why didn't this happen before the anime? I mean, Jump is the most popular magazine in Japan, lots of manga become popular before their adaptations (One Piece, Death Note, AssClass, MHA, Neverland), why Kimetsu took so long to 'explode'?

>>281535387
Because pretty animation.
Whatever the fuck makes you do this in every single thread for months. Why are you fighting this pointless crusade?

>>281533379
>more income will come
You're literally proving you don't understand box office, exchange rates, or how international revenue works, and you STILL want to talk like you know shit, you retarded Demon Slayer faggot.
> ¥25.8B = $177M USD
Not even $200M. That's Japan's ENTIRE haul over a full month with holiday boosts (Marine Day and Obon).
>more income will come overseas/international
Based on what? SEA? You realize countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand barely contribute a few million each, right? China's not happening, and already there, and already there did its revenue capout. China alone can make more money than every single SEA countries combined. US, it drops in a dump month with runtime + competition + screen limitations + NFL. Europe? Historically mid, except for France. Your 250M overseas'l cope is fantasy. The entire global total right now is just ¥31B (~$209M) which is not "exploding," it's already slowing.

Mugen Train made $507M USD with $49.5M from the US, during the pandemic where it had the entire theater to itself (MT ran from April all the way up to August) and a strong yen. Without China, with a weak yen, and dropping in weaker months globally, Infinity Castle simply can't match that.

So no, dickweed. It won't hit $500M. And the yen being weak as piss hurts your argument because in global box office, USD is KING. The weaker the yen, the worse your precious total looks on the world stage.

>>281535387
It was doing 150k/month pre anime, which is decent.
Artstyle was unironically a filter for this series, first few chapters are really unique in that regard.

>>281535503
You now remember you said it would barely reach 200-220 million worldwide total.
>Not even $200M. That's Japan's ENTIRE haul over a full month with holiday boosts (Marine Day and Obon).
Yeah, fastest ever, great.

>>281535474
That's my first post about the title, anon. Anyway, even if the animation was big part of the reason for the success, there must be other reasons because the success is too big. And I'm not talking about plot or artistic values, but cultural reasons.

>>281535510
It went from decent to the biggest sales phenomenon in manga history. It's weird.

>>281535598
It WAS a great manga that was being overlooked hard because of art reasons, pretty much.
Also back during covid nips treated it as a symbol of getting through it due to its themes (muzan being illness itself).

>>281535583
>Moving the goalposts again
No. And you claimed $500M+ global. I said that was delusional because:
>No China
>Weak yen
>Soft overseas performance
>Capped Japan
And you just reinforced my point, Japan's haul slowed post-Obon, and even at "fastest ever" pace, it's still not even at ¥30B after a full month while Mugen Train hit ¥30B after its first month.

Sure, I said "barely reaches $200M" if the overseas legs were flat. And guess what, motherfucker? They're still SEA-heavy, China is absent, and the US hasn’t even opened and it's not even projected to have the biggest OW of September. So far, I was right. You were wrong.

>>281535725
It's NOT a great manga. Not only is the art poor, the paneling is messy, there's too much expository dialogue and the plot is an endless rinse and repeat. Of the new generation, it's by far the one that plays it safe the most (along with Black Clover).

>>281536052
>it's by far the one that plays it safe the most
JJK and MHA wish they had the balls kimetsu did.
Ballsiest did JJK ever did was having the teacher die, to the final boss.

This is your reminder to not reply to the schizo.

>>281536052
Safe how?

>>281536095
What balls? The author played it safe like they did the whole manga and only started to kill characters in the final arc where it didn't even matter. How many "important" characters did this series kill before the final arc? Just Rengoku, and that's it. The author waits until the final arc because the story is nearly wrapped up, so it's the safest time to kill characters, and they're all underdeveloped anyway, so it's not like there's any sense of great loss. They reincarnate anyways.

Demon Slayer follows the Your Name formula: pretty visuals + emotional manipulation involving Japanese traditions (no wonder it's only a phenomenon in Japan).
>B-but the manga is good
Nah, it's mid at best. Even the WSJ editor-in-chief was surprised by the success.

>>281536150
>2hu garbage
Already replied just by name-dropping me, Kimetsu no Fetus FAGGOT.

>>281536211
>no wonder it's only a phenomenon in Japan
>movie is breaking records all over SEA
I'm so sorry, DB could NEVER:

>>281536052
I feel like MHA is worse about playing it safe

>>281536095
KnY is like anti-balls and negative stakes. The only time casualties come out is in the final battle, something which would have realistically spread the entire protagonist cast across the floor as bloody chunks. No matter how dire the situation the good guys will be given whatever asspull and plot armor needed to overcome it, there is no sense of a despairing situation. Even when there are sacrifices the narrative makes it clear that they ARE the winning asspull to let the more important protagonists win fights they should have no hope in. It was so lazy, transparent and fake.

It’s obvious, bleach and Naruto fans are the ones seething most over KnY’s success. It’s already supplanted both in Japan

>>281536211
>emotional manipulation

What big WSJ battle shonen had any stakes to begin with?
>Death doesn’t matter in Dragon ball
>no one important died in Naruto besides Jiraiya and there’s the rinne tensei
>Oda always fakes out deaths. No one important died after Marineford
>Bleach(lol)
>HxH hasn’t had anyone in ages
>no one important died in Gintama besides Takasugi, baa chan fakeout as well

Undefeated

>>281536318
Most viewed on Netflix bitch
Anime ended 8 years ago, manga ended 11 years ago and Naruto still mogs KnY

>>281535930
retard alert
retard alert
retard alert

you always wrong.
you never right ever.

>>281536484
Yeah everyone rewatches the original to ignore the crap sequel with his ugly kid

>>281536484
>400 episodes

>>281533785
People say every Demon Slayer villain has a tragic backstory, but in reality only about three of the main antagonists actually do.
The rest are just psychopaths, jealousy-driven assholes, or scumbags who were rotten from the start.

>>281536095
When will you shonenfags grow up and stop thinking that killing off characters = quality? Geez. That's the easiest and cheapest way to engage the audience.
>"I don't know how to develop characters, I just know how to kill them"
And in Demon Slayer's case it's even worse since most of them are nothing but plot devices. Rengoku exists solely to die.
>>281536187
As I said, it's a manga that needs to explain everything to the reader verbally all the time, it's a manga that uses sad flashbacks all the time to keep the reader engaged, it's a manga in which all the fights depend on a convenient power that always appears at the last second tos ave the hero's butt.

>>281535077
But he never post that.
That tells everything.

Imagine being this obsessed lol. Couldnt be me.

>>281530681
There’s not, the only source is that xtitter screencap and everyone with 0 brain cells fell for it

>>281536265
I didn't say it wasn't successful outside Japan. Your Name was also a worldwide hit. But there's a huge difference between being a hit and being a phenomenon.

>>281536484
To be fair, Naruto, One Piece, Pokémon, and Detective Conan are clearly benefiting in these kinds of rankings from their sheer episode count.

>>281536297
The problem with this series is just that it plays too much by the book and the plot beats are so painfully obvious there's no sense of suspense and unpredictability. It's ike literally everything is just the author checking off boxes on a list of common shounen anime tropes. I sometimes get this feeling that this series was written by an AI by of how repetitive it is.
>evil demon appears
>hero struggles
>hero has flashback
>hero uses new ability
>demon starts losing
>demon sob story with sad piano bgm
>sob reunion with people he knew when he was human
>goes to hell
>hero wins with severe damage to him
You could literally switch up the good guys with another demon and the outcome would change so little besides a few dialogue tweaks.

>>281536652
When something smashes box office records in your region, doing better numbers than fucking avengers, you can call it a phenomenon there, yes.

>>281530624
Men have to make everything into a competition, numberfags are always male

>>281533735
watching episode 19 of season 1 with no context is kind of like watching just the final battle of sword of the stranger

>OGNB DBfags
Makes me appreciate /dbs/ more

>>281535930
you are the one who move the goalpost, dumbass. IC still ahead of MT in 31st day. retard literally cant fathom that. the fastest to cross 25B. retard, IC will get 35B yen minimum in japan. 4B more than SA (2nd all time). the fuck you want??? you said its never cross 20B

will reach 500M USD w/o china
even with weak yen. you should glad yen is weak, if not, IC will destroy MT box office globally
SOFT OVERSEAS??? its breaking record. the fuck retard think we cant read and see the data.
Capped japan?? again projection will get 50/50 income

RETARD, MT reach 30B after 82 DAYS. you fucking stupid LIAR.

>>281536150
He's also a dirty redditor and twittertranny. Not worth anyone's (you)

>>281530624
Aside from several shitposters and boomers(?). you could probably factor the fact that there are a bunch of Gook and Chink posters in this board nowadays

I’m happy a manga I like is successful

>>281536756
His box office takes in his OTHER account are a fucking riot
>a weekend in in most of SEA and it's already reached his ww prediction
Nevermind it's easily hitting 30 billion in japan, which is basically his whole ww prediction in itself.

>>281536318
Honestly, I think it’s fair to say that its worldwide popularity has already surpassed Bleach.
And personally, I feel like it’s only a matter of time before it overtakes Naruto as well.

>>281536733
Pretty sure he’s shielding himself with DB (see wsj thread) because actual dbfags could care less and they are busy shitposting

>>281536826
His reddit pfp is THIS

those are record broken for anime-japan, btw. and ENDGAME.

>>281531938
This, the story isn't post-modern at all which helps it with the older crowd and provides something seemingly "fresh" to younger readers who are used to deconstructions, subversions, and irony-pilled stories.

>>281536795
Its now the 4th highest grossing film in Japan. I knew this movie would do great but god fucking damn.

Amerifat twitter trannies really were sure that demon slayer was yokai watch'd

they automatically hate anything they feel like they didn't make into a hit themselves by jerking it off on social media

>>281536795
Imagine with when the 4DX showings kick in

>>281536930
The previews already started and they kick in at the end of the month.
Jeremy gonna freak!

>>281536295
MHA is a manga in which instead of killing off the master to develop the student (a cliche), chooses to explore how the master will manage to live without glory and powers, without being a master. A manga that, instead of killing off the heroes' families to make the audience cry with sad flashbacks (another cliche) makes them a fundamental part of their journey. It may not be the best manga in the world but it for sure tries to step outside the comfort zone more than Demon Slayer. And visually Horikoshi plays with the page much more than Gotouge.

>>281536910
It's already a lock in for #2, the eventual top 5 in japan will be 4 kimetsu movies and spirited away.

>>281536906
Thats one of the reasons I started reading it. Just wanted some good old fashion shounen after years of subversions that shit on the initial story premise.

>>281536963
>chooses to explore how the master will manage to live without glory and powers
>makes them a fundamental part of their journey

Does it though

>>281536948
Ohnonono and if they make Gotouge draw a line and do the same with Rengoku oneshot, J is gonna have the worst aneurysm ever

>>281536963
>makes them a fundamental part of their journey.
So... how about Deku's family? Bakugo's?
All might becomes a glorified background character while deku gets a million powerups.

>>281536963
You're giving Hori too much credit. The guy cant commit for shit and the story kept harping on about All Might totally dying soon only for him to live for the entire manga.

>>281536681
When it surpasses the overall box office of Avengers and normal people integrate it into their daily routines and cultures, we can call it a phenomenon. Until then, it's just a hit.

>>281537030
i wish

450k presales in korea

this graph format broke jeremy's empty brain.

25.8B for 31 days. still 11% ahead of MT. and the floor is now 35B yen total, more if this have great legs.

The fact that there are people here who truly believe that killing characters = quality only reinforces how easy it is to emotionally manipulate the shonen audience. The Kimetsu anime understood this and invested heavily.

>>281536963
IRON MAN SUIT said otherwise. lol. what a stupid cope out

>>281536963
Didn't he introduce a powerful American hero and immediately kill her off to make the villain look stronger

>>281537086
the year is 40k, the human race venerates tanjiro as god and has conquered the milky way galaxy, jeremy malds

>>281537224
>>281536211

>>281537192
Omfg American movie is so weak in Japan now.

>>281536915
>Amerifat twitter trannies really were sure that demon slayer was yokai watch'd
Yup, still is the Yo-Kai watch of anime

>>281530009 (OP)
It's just fun bro, not that deep honestly there's nothing really to hate about it anyway or that can cause massive division like some pedostuff or whatever

>>281536824
Even in America, I feel like the younger generation already prefers Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen over Naruto.
Right now, the Big 3 in the West are One Piece, Demon Slayer, and Jujutsu Kaisen.

>>281537397
>One Piece

>>281536737
Thanks for the meltdown. Here's your L, in bullet points so even you can follow it.
>IC still ahead of MT in 31st day.
Yeah, for now. It had Obon + Marine Day. Mugen Train didn't. But Mugen Train kept climbing long past Day 31. You know how long it took Mugen Train to get from ¥25B to ¥30B, faggot? Just 10 days. Meanwhile, Infinity Castle stalled and didn't crack the ¥20B milestone until Obon.
>will reach 500M USD w/o china
Not even remotely. Global total now is ~$209M. Japan might crawl to $200M max and a little more, but you're betting on $300M overseas without China, with a weak yen, 3-hour runtime, screen limitations, no holiday bump in NA, NFL in full swing, and stronger domestic competition. No math supports this, just your fanboy dreams.
>SOFT OVERSEAS???
Yep. Still soft. SEA is tiny. Japan is doing 90% of the lifting. US and EU haven't even opened. You're calling SEA "explosive" when Vietnam and Indonesia combined make less than a week of US box office.
>again projection will get 50/50 income
Where? The math doesn't back it.
>Mugen Train: 72% from Japan
>Infinity Castle: Currently 86% from Japan
Unless you’re counting in pesos, that "50/50" is fantasy.
>MT reach 30B after 82 DAYS.
Absolute lie. Here's the real data from picrel (Box Office Mojo): Mugen Train was at $223M (~¥30B) after weekend #5 — aka Day 31-35, not Day 82. So guess what, dickhead? Mugen Train is STILL ahead of Infinity Castle at the exact same point. You're using fake timelines to cope. It's hilarious.

By the way, you're panicking right now and it's glorious.

>>281537420
>He doesn't know
Anon...

>>281537280
actually JW have respectable income this year compare to any hollywood movie. the biggest hollywood's problem is China's market, now china have their own blockbuster and hollywood did shit there. exc few, like avatar's cameron.

>>281537454
>Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train" reached ¥30 billion in Japan within 2 months of its release, according to Cartoon Brew. It achieved this milestone after 59 days, selling 22,539,385 tickets,

>>281537455
Doesn't know what? JJK is objectively more popular than KnY in the West. KnY has been a Japan thing. Same way Naruto blew up in the West but OP performs better in Japan.

>>281537454
>Mugen Train was at $223M (~¥30B) after weekend #5
Fir someone do obsessed with conversion rates, you sure failed to use 2019's value of it.
Un yen if you want to talk about it's national box office.
>>Infinity Castle: Currently 86% from Japan
At least admit it's been a weekend in most of those countries.

>>281537628
Isn't kny doing a Dodgers collaboration like right now

Final battle in KnY:
>7 relevant heroes die
>4 relevant heroes get crippling injuries

Final battle in Naruto:
>1 relevant hero dies
>2 relevant heroes get crippling injuries
>one of the 2 gets a robot arm

Final battle in Bleach:
>3 relevant heroes die
>1 relevant hero turns into a dog

Final battle in FMA:
>1 relevant hero dies
>2 tertiary characters die
>all crippling injuries get healed

Final battle in JJK:
>2 relevant heroes die
>a random murderhobo dies
>all crippling injuries get healed

Final battle in Dragon Ball:
>LOL
>LMAO even

Final battle in HunterxHunter:
>will never be written
>let's pretend it ended on the Chimera Ant arc
>Netero dies
>Kaito fucking comes back lol

Final battle in BNHA:
>hahahahahahahahah


KnY has more tension, stakes and consequences than all other big shonen. This is just a mathematical fact. Spare me your butthurt ramblings about how "it doesn't count" or whatever. Bring raw numbers, not your irrelevant opinions.

You will NEVER change objective reality by writing walls of text.

Numbers don't lie, everything else is cope.

>>281537671
Maybe, yeah, but not even Americans care about baseball anymore these days. Everyone still watches the Superbowl though.

>>281537713
>>Final battle in Dragon Ball:
>>LOL
>>LMAO even
Respeta a Padre ball

>>281530075
It's kinda cute seeing hags get so excited for a series

I see a massive resurgence of Douma art and I’m happy about it

>>281537628
>Athletes imitating the poses = a measure of popularity.

>>281537757
One piece also just had a baseball collaboration

>>281536446
Takasugi also got reincarnated

>>281537809
Douma fans are gonna be spoiled rotten with this and the next movie

>>281537454
LOL. you literally move the goalpost, again.
its only debut overseas this weekend, you dumbass. no shit its still not much.

dumbass. MT 31st days is 23.5B. IC = 25.8B. cant you count????? IC still ahead more than 2B

why panic?? you are the one who have meltdown everytime.

KNY breaking record everywhere.

>>281537454
read this, nigga
>>281537183
>>281536900

>>281537713
>>7 relevant heroes die
Shinobu: background character who didn't do anything until she was about to die, exists as a plot device, who cares
Muichiro: side character, who cares
Mitsuri: gag side character, who cares
Obanai: background character who didn't do anything until he was about to die, asspulls every power up possible, who cares
Tamayo: background character who exists as a plot device, who cares
Rengoku: side character who exists to job and make demon look strong, who cares
Gyomei: side character, who cares

>>281538027
>Final battle
>Rengoku
At least try idk THINK

>>281537628
lol. and KNY IC will destroy JJK0 box office on those countries (US and europe)

>>281538066
Brother that is bait

>>281537628
Kimetsu has sold 56 million copies of its manga volumes outside of Japan, but what about JJK?
Its overseas sales don’t seem to have been officially announced, but there’s no way more than half of its total 100 million copies sold are from overseas, right?

>>281538127
I dunno. JJK makes most of its in Japan, but I wouldn't hold it against me if KnY sold more than JJK. People watch anime more than they consume manga.

>>281537940
And it will be a feast for me

>>281530009 (OP)
You would have killed yourself when Pokemon movie came out
>DO THEY REALLY THINK THIS IS PEAK BECAUSE ITS SO POPULAR?!?!?!?!??!?!!!

>>281538111
Didn’t Mugen Train already crush JJK0 in the U.S.?
I don’t know about Europe, but I’d guess it’s probably the same story over there too.

>>281538027
As expected, the best you can do is opinion-driven nonsense.

Numbers, loser. Stop flailing around and start talking about things we can measure objectively.

>>281538491
yeah, objectively the kny characters are all background jobbers lol
here today dead tomorrow

>>281537628
KnY doesn’t really have those kinds of easy-to-do poses.
Almost every character needs some kind of weapon in order to pull off their fighting style.

>>281537713
>>281538491

damn, compared to CHADMETSU no Yaiba, all other shonen might as well be Disney movies

>>281536795
crazy we haven't even reached Kokushibo or the final fight

>>281538491
Numbers haven't been kind to Jeremy, not this month not for the past 6 years.

>>281538603
No numbers?
I accept your surrender.

>>281533688
I voted Zenitsu

>>281538670
>reincarnation trash ending
KnY sounds pretty Disney to me.

>>281538806
>extremely Buddhist ending
Yes.

>>281538806
Has Disney done Reincarnation?

>>281538806
you're thinking of "coming back to life", like in Dragon Ball. don't worry, I know reading can be hard for some people

>>281530009 (OP)
It was boring as fuck is what it was. Was the pacing in the manga just as bad? Because holy fuck, I didn't expect that they would drag a single shitty fight where characters just spam the same moves over and over again for the entire rest of the movie. The "writing" was also something else, like man, the solution to FINALLY beating the guy was the main character remembering that he talked to another character about specifically this kind of concept, and that his father had taught him about something that could specifically counter that (and despite getting taught about this super ultra "Transparent World" bullshit mode, he just never before thought about it, like it never occurred to him it might be useful to be able to do what his father did, despite that he also wants to learn his father's breathing techniques).

The whole power system also completely shit the bed, like the benchmark of all characters who were prominently featured in fights in the movie was speed, not what made them their fighting styles unique before and despite of the one character whose breathing is clearly supposed to be about specifically that. I also felt bad for the snake guy, because while earlier established characters at least got techniques that do different attacks, the few ones he has shown so far were
>snake that cuts heads off
and
>snake that cuts heads off called differently

>>281539000
Tldr

>>281530032
Kimetsu no Yaiba is the bootleg version of Fullmetal Alchemist. Tragedy strikes, mother dies and older brother must join a special group to help his younger sibling return to normal.

>>281539012
>boring, bad pacing, writing bad

>>281539255
And yet

>>281537713
I don’t mean to say that character deaths automatically equal kino, but I feel like in a lot of shounen manga, the characters are way too protected. Especially in Dragon Ball.
There’s no real tension in the fights when you already know from the start that they’ll just be brought back to life anyway.

>>281538836
Buddhism is also just Disney fantasy so yeah, reincarnation trash.

>>281538806
Did you see Irene at the end of Stone Ocean and thought "Wow! Jolyne came back!" ?

>>281539000
Wait till you see the UM1 fight. “Argh, can he see the future?!?! Anything a demon can see I should be able to see too! Wait, I see it!!!” Just FUCK OFF, what trash writing. It would be better not even to have Marks, Transparent World, Red Blades, etc if they’re reduced to asspulls THIS lazy.

>>281537585
False. According to Box Office Mojo (see my screenshot), Mugen Train hit ¥30B by Week 5, or around Day 35, not Day 59. That's $223M USD = ¥30B. As of Nov 14-15, 2020, its 5th weekend. So no, dickweed. Infinity Castle is behind, not ahead. You're either misreading Cartoon Brew or using it to spread misinformation.
>>281537946
>dumbass. MT 31st days is 23.5B. IC = 25.8B. cant you count????? IC still ahead more than 2B
That means nothing unless it holds legs.
Obon boosted it, just like Marine Day. Before then, it struggled and barely crawled to make it past the ¥20B mark after a whole month. Ask yourself: Can it do another ¥20B? With competition, runtime issues, and the tail end of summer? Unlikely. And without China and with soft US projections, your $500M dream is dead on arrival.
>>281537651
>Fir omeone do obsessed with conversion rates, you sure failed to use 2019's value of it.
First off, English. Work on it. Second, cry harder, faggot. Global box office = USD. Nobody converts everything back to the weak-ass yen when talking about global rankings, we use the USD because that's the universal industry standard and the weak-ass yen hurts Infinity Castle's worldwide rankings. You're just mad that $177M today doesn't look as nice as Mugen Train's $507M.
>>281538013
Cool story. And SEA still has tiny-ass ceilings. Your "explosive debut" in Malaysia or Vietnam is still like... $2M tops. That's half of one US weekday. Mugen Train had:
>$49.5M from the US (Covid played a factor)
>$20M from Taiwan
>$15M from Korea
And it was STILL dependent on Japan for 72% of its box office. Infinity Castle doesn't even have China or US yet, and you think it’s going 50/50 globally? You're retarded.

>>281539490
Yes. And Stone Ocean was also trash.

>>281539298
Butthurt anons wanna pretend "it makes no difference" because they know they have invested a lot of emotional energy in action stories that are toothless at their core, but here's the thing: I'm not saying that deaths equal quality, or that KnY killing characters make it better. But trying to gaslight themselves into arguing that deaths have no relevance whatsoever in action stories that are supposed to depict brutal struggles is just pathetic.
Just call a spade a spade.
Most shonen flirt with killing characters, they just can't pull the trigger. As a result, the fights, no matter how cool, end up feeling as a WWE match. It feels tongue-in-cheek, farcical. Lots of danger, lots of drama, but it never amounts to much, it's like watching the Power Rangers face yet another rubber-suited monster, and the final results, as far as consequences go, are largely the same.
Anyone who wants to pretend that the Gyutaro fight didn't have an extra dose of tension after Akaza killed Rengoku is in denial. Anyone who wants to pretend the second Akaza fight didn't have an extra dose of tension after Douma killed Shinobu is in denial. Anyone who pretends the Kokushibo and Muzan fights had more teeth and balls than almost every shonen fight ever will be unable to prove their points with any kind of tangible, measurable example.

These are the facts.
I don't care whether KnY is "better" than some anon's favorite shonenslop, but it DID present its villains as lethal with real feats, instead of hyping up villains that never manage to kill or cripple a single cast member.

>>281539712
>Mugen Train hit ¥30B by Week 5, or around Day 35, not Day 59. That's $223M USD = ¥30B.
No? Especially back then?
>　映画「劇場版『鬼滅の刃』無限列車編」が公開より59日間で観客動員数2,253万9,385人、興行収入302億8,930万7,700円を突破したことが明らかになった。

　10月16日に公開スタートとなった「劇場版『鬼滅の刃』無限列車編」が公開より約2カ月で興行収入300億円という大台を突破した。日本歴代興行収入ランキング1位の「千と千尋の神隠し」の記録である308億円へと迫っている。
t literally hit 30 billion as it started the christmas season for cinemas.

>He's STILL seething
Mathemagician pls...

>>281539820
>blah blah blah
When people talk about great shounen arcs, Demon Slayer never crosses people's minds first, not even that overrated Infinity Castle arc, because it's predictable as fuck. My opinion about it never changed even after I came to that arc that it's a painfully dull manga with a predictable formula.

If Inosuke, Kanao and Shinobu fought UM1 instead of UM2 the outcome would be EXACTLY the same: Shinobu would sacrifice herself and use her asspull poison to nerf Kokushibo and Kanao and Insouke would finish him off. It makes NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER that Kokushibo should be able to murder them all instantly without even being touched in return because Douma should have been able to murder them all almost as easily. But the characters in this manga aren’t characters at all, they are just collections of traits and a flashback, so they do whatever scene the plot wants them to do, and it will always make perfect sense for that reason. They have no autonomy.

The mangaka makes it obscenely obvious in some cases like when Douma randomly remembers a personal history with Inosuke’s mother, just fucking drop in ANY character into that narrative it’s so fucking transparent.

That's why Demon Slayer never crosses anyone's minds when they talk great characters, great story arcs, great fights. Chuunin Exams, Soul Society, Enies Lobby, Saiyan-Namek, Dark Tournament, Chimera Ant, Dio, Makima, Shibuya and so on are all constantly brought up in shounen discourse but never Demon Slayer. It's so painfully predictable. You know how every plot beat and emotionally beat plays out.

When people say, "I like Demon Slayer", they don't mean they like Demon Slayer the manga, they mean they like Demon Slayer as a Ufotable product.

>blah blah blah chat repost
Jeremy is pathetic.

>>281539876
>If Inosuke, Kanao and Shinobu fought UM1 instead of UM2 the outcome would be EXACTLY the same: Shinobu would sacrifice herself and use her asspull poison to nerf Kokushibo and Kanao and Insouke would finish him off. It makes NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER that Kokushibo should be able to murder them all instantly without even being touched in return because Douma should have been able to murder them all almost as easily. But the characters in this manga aren’t characters at all, they are just collections of traits and a flashback, so they do whatever scene the plot wants them to do, and it will always make perfect sense for that reason. They have no autonomy.
Retard detected. Stopped reading here

>>281539876
Tell that to Nasu

>>281539876
>blah blah blah
>no numbers

Bring them. Aren't you supposed to be a Mathemagician?

I find it really funny that for some reason, Shinobu makes him extra angry.

>>281539853
Nope, you're just mixing milestones. That Japanese quote refers to Mugen Train hitting ¥30.2B on Day 59, after it had already passed the ¥30B mark earlier. That was just the official press release celebrating it surpassing the 30B mark, not the first time it hit it.

Guess what that means, you Spic? Mugen Train hit ¥30B at around Day 31-35. Not Day 59. Not even close. You're just repeating a press article that marked the milestone's celebration, not when it actually happened.

Learn how exchange rates work. Learn how press releases work. Learn how to read timelines.

>>281531105
Handsome and straight

>>281539876
>When people say, "I like Demon Slayer", they don't mean they like Demon Slayer the manga, they mean they like Demon Slayer as a Ufotable product.
Then how come people are buying the MANGA instead of the BDs???
220 million for 23 volumes, baby
220 M I L L I O N. Checkmate, faggot

>>281539853
retard jimbo used double exchange rate, basically change yen revenue back then to dollars, and then used that dollar for currently exchange rate.
just retard.

>>281540086
They were being brainwashed by LiSA.

>>281539712
retard alert.
retard alert.

we got retard alert.

>>281539820
In KnY, especially in the fight against UM, there was always the tension that if a character made even the slightest wrong move, they could be dead the very next moment.
This is what I had hoped for in the Chimera Ant arc, but in reality, the only battle that truly carried that kind of tension was Shoot and Knuckle (and Morel) vs. Youpi.
The rest of it spent countless chapters dragging on with hostage negotiations, Welfin’s scheming, and other meandering developments that left me disappointed.
The Infinity Castle arc felt like it recreated the Chimera Ant arc I had been expecting, but in a different manga, and for that I’m grateful to Gotouge.

>>281540069
Very Hansamu!

>>281533657
Hey that show is good and the ending is not that bad just abrupt

>>281540032
YOU ABSOLUTELY FUCKING RETARD. how come they sell 1B extra in 20 days after that?????
YOU ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DONKEY BRAIN!!!!!
that so fucking WRONG.

this is like that graphic debacle again. when you doubling down for day then admit the mistake later on.

>>281540032
No? Actually read what it says
>according to the official source, mugen train has hit 30 billion after 59 days.
>Learn how exchange rates work
Maybe you should learn that?
30 billion in 2019 is around 280 million USD, so your image backs up that data.
Or are you going to go against official sources (again)
HEre, even more sources
https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1294971.html?
https://eiga.com/news/20201214/8/
You don't announce crossing 30 billion 20 fucking days after the fact.
These are its milestones in japan, now cope with it.

>>281536095
>He kills characters! How ballsy!
I bet your favorite manga are Death Note and Chainsaw Man. I also bet you're 13 years old.

>>281540032
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA.. his monkey brain still cant do math or read graphic.

what a moron

>>281540284
>it's the one that plays it the safest
>it's the only one that actually kills off characters while the other two just try their hardest to not kill anyone while doing ultimately generic plots

>>281540251
It's honestly not bad, they fooled us with the shorter ending, but the full ending feels like a proper goodbye

>>281532689
Isn’t it possible that just in Asia alone this could surpass Mugen Train’s total overseas box office?
And this is still only the first week in Asia.
Release in Korea, the biggest Asian market, still ahead.
Compared to how anime movies usually perform overseas, this feels like it’s on a completely different level.

>>281530009 (OP)
From what I've read, despite its box office success, the new movie is quite mediocre.

>>281540274
jeremy cant read data or count. he is so fucking retard. like everyone and their mother know that IC still ahead of MT by 11%, or 2B yen by this time period (31st days)

>>281540468
If you've actually read opinions and critics, most people fellate the movie.

>>281540468
IC have better rating than MT in japanese web-like rotten tomatoes or imdb. stop reading OPtard or jeremy hate blog

The Kaigaku fight looked awful, that’s the single worst thing about this movie.

>>281540500
> most people fellate the movie.
People, yeah. Critics, not so much.

>>281540510
>rotten tomatoes or imdb
Please, I'm talking about real film criticism here.

>>281540567
... but those places include real critic scores?

>>281540534
Nobody cares about critics opinions

>>281540298
He's clearly a standard deviation of IQ higher than you.

>>281540468
If you read the manga you'll love the movie.
If you like the anime you'll love the movie.
It's a technical marvel with an amazing ost and fantastic animation and if you are watching it you are supposed to like it already.

>>281540598
Yep, he's so fun, whatever software he uses struggles a lot reading x charts and he can't for the life of him understand them.
He also failed to read a second, different chart.

>>281540530
We now live in a world where Inosuke is gonna have a fight with better direction, better storyboard and better animation than Zenitsu's.

Pigchads, we won.

>>281530009 (OP)
I don't recall ever seeing a thread discussing Demon Slayer artistically. It's always about box office and sales. Or its animation technique. It's like James Cameron's Avatar in anime form.

>>281540530
It was just... literally what is in the manga.
Shinobu got a lot of love and akaza's is a whole different tier.

>>281539923
Nah. I'm not the one who's having a meltdown right now as we speak because the exchange rate isn't on your favour, Mugen Train still made more money in USD and thus looks far more impressive on a global scale, and I don't unironically believe my favorite slop manga is anything more but slop. Dragon Ball is unironically less formulaic than Demon Slayer too. You could literally switch any character and the outcome of the battle would be the exacr same with the only difference being a slight change in dialogue.
>>281539974
Okay, faggot. Let's do math.
>Japan: ¥25.8B = $177M USD
>SEA + Taiwan so far: circa $20M combined
>South Korea projection: $13-14M
Current Total = ~$209M (as reported)
>Add $10-15M more from the rest of SEA (Singapore, Malaysia, etc.)
>Add $15-25M from the US OW (September is a dump month + US theaters hate long runtimes + competition + NFL might actually cut OW especially by Saturday and Sunday)
>Add $15-20M from Europe & others (UK, France, LATAM, etc)
Total optimistic projection: $250M-$260M globally
>No China = No chance at $400-500M, even $300M is a stretch
>Weak yen = $ totals deflated further
>Runtime + September = US screens are limited and the US aren't as lenient towards long movies as Japan are meaning it'll 2-3 screenings/day, maybe 4 if lucky but competition will hinder it
>>281540013
Naturally, I hate characters who are worthless jobbers who exists to die and are popular with morbidly obese ugly women and underage faggots. For the same reason why I hate Rengoku. He's just a high budget Yamcha, lmfao.

>>281540284
>here is a story about facing a very dangerous enemy
>people die

I don't give a fuck if it's "ballsy" or not, at least it feels consistent with its premise, unlike most shonen arcs that underdeliver again and again.

>>281540530
that fight only last 1 chapter., who give a fck

>>281540762
>Total optimistic projection: $250M-$260M globally
Oh you bumped it.
>>No China = No chance at $400-500M, even $300M is a stretch
Wasn't 300 million completely out of the table with no china jimbo? uh? Already moving goalposts?

>>281540032
Why is this guy obsessed with KNY all year round?
It’s like he’s dedicated his entire life just to crying about KnY on /a/.
In a way, you could even say he’s more devoted to it than the actual fans.

>>281540762
>>SEA + Taiwan so far: circa $20M combined
... it's at 35M, after one single weekend in almost every single one of those countries.
Imagine the rest.

>>281540816
Go to the archive, search oricon through the year 2019, have fun laughing at him because it outsold, 3 times, MHA's lifetime sales in one year.

>>281540534
>>281540567
then TELL US where and who is this critique???????
like you come here accused nothing and bring fake stories.

again in japan, its have better rating than MT.

>>281540579
Until they say something good about a movie you like.

>>281540816
There are no blacks like him in it.

>>281540598
who the fuck are you?? his monkey's ball??? imagine like and agree with retard jeremy. or this is jeremy samefagging????

>>281540013
My queen making fags seethe.

Shinobu's stocks went to the moon with this movie, and I bet they will give her a glamorous treatment in the next one as well. Couldn't be happier.

>>281540911
Still gets MOGGED by Sakura. I've unironically never seen a more worthless character with a fanbase made up of fat ugly women and faggots (Demon Slayer faggots are unironic homosexuals, last shit thread I saw a faggot make fanfic of Muzan getting fucked by Goku rofl).

That shit for nothing character is solely carried by Saori Hayami and nothing more.

>>281530009 (OP)
It's good. Not amazing, but good. It didn't jump the shark, it didn't overstay its welcome, the ending was fine.
When you got used to mainstream manga being shit for years, then even manga that's just good looks like a masterpiece.
The anime helped too. It's a good spectacle even if you don't give shit about the characters or the story.

>>281540432
Glad to see a Fellow east fan that likes western series too, Right now I will watch the rip of the Weapons movie, after that one episode of Gumball season 4, I really need to start Kamen Rider I have 2 episodes of the first series since months, maybe after that I will finally watch the Mecha Brave Series in chronological order, maybe after that I will Read Some Books like Dragon Teeth? Still need to listen to some Albums of Quadeka, JoJi, Weezer, Wilco, Tyler the Creator Uncle Topelo, Tally Hall, Have a Nice Life and Kanye West.
I still need to find a way of Watching the Chernobyl Series, a band of Brothers and the New Ultraman, oh and there is King of the hill season 14 and the new Regular Show season.
So many things to do like Playing games like AntonBlast, Wario Land 2 and the new Truxton game. Read my Mahjong books and practice Chess in Lichess and Shogi in Lishogi, Learning how to sing with the help of Cheryl Porter Vocal Coach and Voiceover Masterclass, on YouTube.
Need to practice my Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Japanese, etc

I genuinely will never understand people that get bored the content is basically infinite

>>281540762
retard READ THIS. >>281536900

you are fuvking delusional and retard is insane.
already 34M, on OPENING WEEKEND, on SEA and taiwan.

>>281537183
and this. presales is great and close only to ENDGAME on south korea.

>>281540762
If shinobu didnt exist the demon slayers wouldn't have won

>>281540179
The UM fights had tension, but it was implied only. Protagonists received many deadly injuries which the plot just asspulled away, sometimes in absurd ways like Sanemi having his guts cut open which he fixed by....keeping his organs inside by clenching his muscles? And proceeded to continue fighting at full power? It was so openly absurd even the mangaka felt compelled to mention the absurdity of this via Kokushibo's commentary. Inosuke breathes in Douma's freezing mist and his lungs don't freeze because they're "tough". Tanjiro can't even see Muzan's attacks, but he keeps up with them anyway because of "pure instinct". The whole thing is this absurd trash. The problem is that the mangaka wrote the plot into this bad corner where supposedly mortal humans are being asked to get into sword fights with blatantly superhuman vampires. Humans beings can't take those hits without dying immediately or dying very shortly later on the ground. But genre law means the good guys have to win, and the win must be in honorable combat. The mangaka didn't have the talent to think of a good way to even the field so this is the result. At least in HxH there is Nen and various Specialty hax to help equalize things with the Ants.

>>281541062
>At least in HxH there is Nen and various Specialty hax to help equalize things with the Ants.
Yeah, almost all of them asspulls, yes.

>>281537183
This is really turning into something huge.
If it had been released worldwide simultaneously, wouldn’t the box office have been even more incredible?
At the very least, the damage caused by large-scale piracy would have been much smaller.

>>281541136
People who weren't going to pay for it wouldn't magically do so.
And honestly most people can tell when watching the leaks that it doesn't make it justice, because damn it looks good on imax (and analogues)

>>281540918
Post more Shinobu.

>>281540911
I don't think anyone hates her, they hate the horrible Douma fight. But it had to be horrible, there's simply no way it would have been anything but a slaughter with that lineup, so the mangaka had to drop him the LM level. If the protagonists were to be boosted too much it would take away from the UM1 and the narrative more important UM3 battles.

>>281530009 (OP)
it's a simple story that takes itself seriously and doesn't pretend to be anything its not. The good guys are good and honest, the evil guys are evil, resentful, and misguided, it's not complex and doesn't want to be, it calls upon noble sentiments of community, protecting, and fighting against adversity. That's the appeal, that's the success. Not every plot needs to be behind 14 layers of meta-irony to be good.

>>281541062
Flexing your muscles to keep your guts from spilling out is a pretty common trope.
Have you never read JoJo? There are tons of scenes where characters escape danger with even more ridiculous, Kinnikuman-style logic.
What you’re saying is basically the same as calling it absurd that Morel’s lung capacity is so massive it’s like a whale’s, letting him suck all the air out of a room and raise the CO₂ levels.
It’s the same kind of over-the-top shōnen logic.

>>281540762
so you already admit mistake about MT's 30B record???

total projection : JAPAN- 35 B = 240M USD
Sea, East asian - 100M USD, currently 35 M USD (w.o phillipine and s. korea)
EUROPE and US - 100-120M USD
S. America - 30M USD
..
TOTAL 480-520 M USD... currently 209 M USA (japan) (Sea and taiwan-opening weekend)

>>281541041
>if plot device didn't exist then the heroes would lose an asspull
You could switch up Tamayo with SHITnobu and nothing would change, because they're both interchangeable in being the walking plot device to the good guys. That's how worthless she is.

Demon Slayer girls are unironically among the worst trash written, Naruto also has trash female characters but they're written very realistically like how a woman would act and think.

>>281540530
literal who vs literal who fight
I could care less about zenitsu

>>281540530
It was always a shit fight, literally some fodder that was introduced as an upper moon in one chapter and died in the next so zenitsu had something to do.

>>281541062
>The UM fights had tension, but

It's okay to end it here.
You don't need to cope so much.
Yes, the humans in KnY are magical, just like the characters in any action shonen are magical. You're confusing mechanics with results.

The matter is simple:
>did we feel like the heroes might die?
yes.
>did they?
yes.

Then there was tension, and the tension was justified. Most action shonen can't even get to that point, ever. The most hyped Zoro moment ever (the "Nothing happened" stuff in Thriller Bark), when people felt there was a 1% chance the character might die or get crippled, is a normal Tuesday for KnY standards.

>>281541062
Sanemi being the one to asspull survive his injuries feels like some divine punishment. Fucker was not allowed to die and be with his family and brother.

>>281541219
Someone in this thread clearly does.

>>281541343
It required both Shinobu and Tamayo because they each had specific knowledge that the other lacked, one could not do the work of both because their specific skillsets were established early on

>>281540274
Box Office Mojo is crystal clear, dickhead. By the Weekend of Nov 14-15, 2020 just Day 31 after Mugen Train released, it was already at $223.1M, which at that time (with the 2020 exchange rate) = ~¥29.5–30B. So unless you think the yen was trading at ¥134 = $1 in 2020 (it wasn't, it was ~¥106-108), then yes, Mugen Train crossed the ¥30B threshold long before Day 59. The "59 days to ¥30B" milestone reported by Eiga and others was a press release, not a real-time revenue marker. It was announced after the fact, standard for box office marketing cycles. You're quoting a late PR release as if it timestamps the actual event. The data says otherwise.

Meanwhile, Infinity Castle, even with Obon and holiday inflation, is only at ¥25.8B ($177M) by Day 31. So no, it's not "ahead" of Mugen Train. Not in USD value with a collapsed yen, which makes even ¥25.8B look worse globally. Try again.

>>281541453
>It required Tamayo doing all the lab work with SHITnobu as her useless assistant
FTFY. Even SHITnobu admits Tamayo did all the heavy-lifting which serves to show you how worthless she is. You could have Tamayo in her place and nothing of value would be lost other than me being spared to hear Saori Hayami.

>>281540762
https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1msvuc4/sk_sunday_update_zombie_girl_and_f1_continues_to/

it can easily do 40-50 M USD on Korea. not whatever that shit numbers.

>>281539000
I liked the movie, but the dad flashback was terrible. Not only did it killing the pacing of the fight, especially because they fucking extended it, but it serves no real purpose. Tanjirou could've easily figured it out himself since he already tapped into stw when he killed upper 4. And now animeonlies are left wondering who the fuck his dad was, and this is the last time he's mentioned. Akaza's flashback also had no business being 23 fucking minutes long.

>>281541454
>it was already at $223.1M, which at that time (with the 2020 exchange rate) = ~¥29.5–30B.
... that's almost the current exchange rate, retard, where 30 billion is 200 million
Exchange rate back then was 1 USD = 110 yen aprox.
It legitimately needed to do almost 300 million USD, but you still aren't refuting the official sources telling you when it hit it and you keep posting data that backs up my claim.
You suck at math and reading charts, hard, so at least accept when official sources tell you stuff.

>>281541523
>Akaza's flashback also had no business being 23 fucking minutes long.
It did, that shit and his suicide were the best part of the movie.

>>281541453
It was also a necessary team-up for the story because it happened Shinobu accomplish Kanae's dream of "getting along with a demon".

Shinobu's final line in the manga is about sincerely complimenting Tamayo, so it completed her non-revenge character arc.

>>281541507
Now you're just making things up to be upset about. The manner in which the poison worked as a sneak attack was entirely Shinobus work, she's established as the poison person, and Tamayo had exclusive knowledge of how to work on demons, not poison. You're clearly baiting so here's your final (You)

>>281541596
That too, but this faggot obviously doesn't care about the story

Did Shinobu deny this man sex or something?

>>281541523
the extended flahbacks are the only reason it's possible to even present a bunch of fights as a passable cinema experience. it gives audience a breather from the action.

>>281541596
Still a jobber, still worthless. You can switch her with Tamayo and nothing of value would be lost because they both serve the same role as the medic/plot device.
>>281541617
Tamayo still made that poison which is what SHITnobu conceded to like the good little worthless background jobber she is. I take relish in seeing jobbers die like a dog.

>>281541062
>sometimes in absurd ways like Sanemi having his guts cut open which he fixed by....keeping his organs inside by clenching his muscles?

In Japan, there actually exists something called a sarashi that produces a similar effect by binding the body.
Back in the day, samurai would wrap it around their abdomen before duels to tighten their muscles.
Do some research before you talk.

>>281541665
Shinobu killed his dog and fucked his mom

>>281530009 (OP)
It's on the same level as Frieren.
Interpret that as you wish.

RenGOATku

>>281541776
>high budget Yamcha
Worthless.

Being young is thinking shonen is the best thing ever.
Being a teenager is growing out of shonen.
Becoming an adult is realising that shonen is pretty fucking cool and good shonen stories are incredibly enjoyable

>>281541787
Who

>>281541750
Based Shinbou

>>281530009 (OP)
keep crying shonen baby, only 40 something women can keep the industry alive

>>281541755
Lmao, it and Sunday Editor in chief wishes
Frieren isn't even half as big as Demon Slayer

https://animehunch.com/frieren-will-overtake-demon-slayer-says-weekly-shonen-sunday-editor-in-chief/

>>281541900
Imagine taking a pic with your friends then posting it on your twitter to be a memory you can fondly remember as you live your life... then a loser on 4chan saves it and use it for his shitpost

How would it make you feel?

>>281541669
That makes no sense. The mugen train movie didn't have this issue, so why is it suddenly one in this movie?

>>281541530
No, faggot. When I say Mugen Train was at $223M USD by Nov 14-15, 'm quoting Box Office Mojo, which already used the 2020 exchange rate at the time. That' not me applying an exchange, that's what it was worth in dollars in real time back then. You're misreading this as:
>30 billion yen should be $273-280M USD using a 1:110 exchange!!
That's FX math, not box office accounting. The USD number is the actual real-world USD gross earned across all markets, already reflecting currency conversion during ticket sales across Japan, Taiwan, the US, etc. It’s not some should-be number. It's what distributors actually took home in dollars.

If it was only at $223M by Nov 15 (Week 5), then clearly it already crossed ¥30B in raw yen value by then. You're quoting a press article (Day 59) that merely announced the milestone later, not when it happened. So no, you don’t get to pretend that 30B yen required $280M USD to "count", ignore that Box Office Mojo showed $223M = ¥30B at the time and act like Infinity Castle's current $209M is "ahead" when that's with a weak-ass yen and entirely inflated by Japan's summer holiday spike
>Mugen Train?
Crossed ¥30B ($223M) in just over 30 days. It did it without Obon or Marine Day boost and had real legs across every market, not just SEA. You're just shifting the goalposts every time you get caught lying. Official sources give milestones after the fact, not the moment they hit. BOM was real-time. Either learn how box office accounting works, or stop embarrassing yourself arguing with data you clearly don’t understand.”
>>281541875
>high budget Sakura but a jobber
Another worthless dog that I'm glad who died like a crying bitch. Fuck around and find out what happens when you act like you're a main character

Can't wait till I get to see high budget Hitsugaya get chopped up into pieces too. He's literally Potential Man, lmao.

>>281530009 (OP)
no because the peak of anime and manga is GANTZ

>>281530075
Made by obaa-san for obaa-san

>>281541523
Akaza’s flashback is actually the highlight of this movie.
The female audience goes to watch it just to cry at that scene.
The same will happen in America.

>>281542078
>which already used the 2020 exchange rate at the time
Yes? Exactly? It's working with 2020's exchange rate, so back then it did 25 billion, which is 220 million USD.
>hat merely announced the milestone later
Yep, every siongle source announced a big milestone a month later.
You realize they announced it beat spirited away at the end of december, THE VERY DAY IT HAPPENED? Right, unless you want to argue it did .12 billion in TWO MONTHS.

>>281542157
That’s not Gotouge

>>281542187
Also, the sources do say
>as of its 59th day it has officially crossed 30 billion with 30.2 billion yen.
in case you want to be even more retarded.

>>281530075
>>281541900
>>281542157
>fat ugly women are the biggest consumers
Torishima was right (just like he was right about Demon Slayer being a kuso manga).
>Question 2: In 1984, when Dragon Ball was launched, the population of boys aged 5 to 15 in Japan represented 8.22% of the total population. Today, in 2024 (40 years later), it’s only 4.2%. So the number of young boys (shonen in Japanese) has halved in 40 years. Given that, there are fewer and fewer shonen manga.
>How can shonen manga reinvent itself in the face of this shrinking readership?

>Torishima: It’s true that the demographic problem is a concern for the entire Japanese publishing industry. That said, there will always be children. We must continue to support those children who have stuck with us until now.
>The problem is that Shonen Jump and the rest of the professional magazines no longer make manga for children. And because of that, I think the future of manga is grim. There are more and more ways to read manga online, except access is limited for children, since they don’t have smartphones or credit cards.

>What’s more, when we read digital manga, the algorithm ensures we only read the same type of work. So we’ve reached a point where all manga have the same price, the same artistic direction, the same taste: we end up with nothing but Starbucks manga or McDonald’s manga.
>Japanese manga has lost sight of the idea of creating stories with an individual artistic identity. And I think that at Shueisha, if there are magazine editors who see the data but ignore it, and disobey the editorial direction that people like me set in the past, then the situation becomes very risky.

>>281542078
Who cares about all that? In the end, the movie is going to be the 3rd most-watched film of all time in Japan, and it could even become 2nd if it keeps going. Demon Slayer is 1 and soon 2 with the second movie, just show its total domination in Japan

>>281541523
the villain's flashback is the second highlight of the movie.
You don't want to end up like Bleach's final arc where the antagonists are boring one-dimensional caricatures with no meaningful characterization, no flashback, no proper reason to exist as an organic character whatsoever

>>281542258
*SPIT*
Get eaten like a Capri-Sun, bitch. And try not acting like a main character in your next background character ass life.

>>281542255
It has second place more than on lock, in a
>even if it barely hits a billion/week for the rest of its run it already won
way.

>>281542031
Mugen Train spent the equivalent of 4 episodes with Rengoku's introduction, dream sequences that either went for drama or comedy, and low intensity fighting with a weaker enemy. The main fight lasted the equivalent of 1 episode and a half.

This new movie is 7 episodes of non-stop sword swinging on a battlefield. It obviously would be too overwhelming without breaks, and the flashbacks provide that.

>>281542078
>High Budget
That she is. Out of your league since you're poor riffraff.

>>281530009 (OP)
I dropped this show after the first episode, did I miss anything besides the typical shounen tropes?

>>281542255
Crazy that it's dominating already when we haven't entered the main highlights of the arc (kokushibo and muzan)

>>281542394
What have you tried since then?

Some incredible Shinobu art here.
But, even after all these years, this remains my favourite.
Not even a fan of the ship, it just sums up the fight.

>>281542377
You can dress up a pig nicely, but a pig is still a pig. Just like a jobber is still a jobber. Sakura won her battle while SHITnobu got eaten like a Capri-Sun and that's grounds enough to put Sakura above her background ass.

Saori Hayami has never had a single good role in her career and that includes her too.

>>281542394
Well executed typical shonen tropes with almost no filler and generally looks and sounds great.

>>281542235
>Obaasans >>>>>>> Ojiisans

>>281542235
>Torishima was right (just like he was right about Demon Slayer being a kuso manga).

Ok but source?
I've been waiting.
Why don't you just post or copy and paste the original interview text?

>>281542424
I tried Boku no Pico, then I sucked cocks and drank semen for real after. Seems more up my alley

>>281539876
>If Inosuke, Kanao and Shinobu fought UM1 instead of UM2 the outcome would be EXACTLY the same:
subtle douma wank
kokushibo would absolute wipe the floor with those bitch ass losers
They were just lucky douma was a massive retard

>>281542431
Funny thing about this ship is that Shinobu is the self-insert.

>>281542507
>women are worthless haha!
Poor dude, terminal manchild.

>>281542485
Oh you’d love One Piece

>>281542531
>abusive schizo who wants to kill you
>but also very hot
Works with all gender combinations

>>281542441
Shinobu said no. Stop calling this house you peasant.

>>281530269
"KnY's formula"?
Bro it introduced nothing new

>>281542315
Reading comprehension is at an all time low in this thread. The complaint was about the length, not the flashback itself.

The long flashbacks are unironically the only reason why these movies are even possible. It wouldn't have mass appeal with every single demographic otherwise. Women and old people are NOT sitting through 30 minutes (heck, even 20 minutes) of nonstop fighting coreography and characters screaming the names of their special attacks out loud. The breaks are needed to give their eyes some time to rest, and to remind the casual viewer why he's supposed to care about all the fighting and screaming in the first place.

>>281542660
True. People don't realize that a breather is necessary for pacing
Nice to see a poster with a brain, really rare nowadays

I just want to see my boy Gyomei.

>>281542745
POST IT

>>281542745
Muichiro would have surpassed him if their lives was longer

>>281542187
You keep saying '25 billion = 220 million USD' but you're confusing currency conversion math with actual box office reporting. Box Office Mojo reported that by Nov 14-15, 2020 (weekend 5), Mugen Train had grossed $223,160,576 USD in Japan. That's public data, not a currency guess, not a fan estimate. That was the actual revenue collected, converted in real-time during sales. If $223M = ¥30B (using the rate at the time), then clearly it hit ¥30B before day 59. Your 'official' 59-day milestone is just when news sites announced it, not when it crossed it. Press lag =/= real-time revenue.

As for your example about Spirited Away, that was a record-breaking moment, so of course it was reported the day it happened. That's not the same as every minor revenue threshold being timestamped in a headline. You're arguing that BOM lied or was wrong about a real-time USD gross that was already over the 30B yen mark which just proves you don't understand SHIT what you're reading.
>BOM reported $223M by Nov 15
>That equals ¥30B at 2020 exchange
>That happened on week 5, not day 59
You lost. The only one moving goalposts here is you.
>>281542605
SHITnobu said ACK then got eaten like a Capri-Sun. One less jobber to stick up the neighborhood is always welcomed in this house.
>>281542398
>*SPIT*
Glad she's dead, and I'm even more glad she died crying like a little bitch. Acted like a main character for five minutes then got worthless ass smacked around the field. Sakura is LEAGUES ahead of that fraud. And less retarded too, her death was so preventable. Worthless bitches should never be fighters, they should stay in the background and let the men do the fighting.

>>281530009 (OP)
God, what a beautiful key visual.
It's not as good as the Akaza one, obviously.
That's definitely the best key visual the series has had, imo.
I believe my pic related is the worst one. They'll never make a worse one than this.

>>281542372
I have no clue what you're trying to say. Whether a flashback is extended or not makes no difference.

>high budget Kenpachi
Worthless.

>>281542636
KNY kickstarted the "speedy shounen with great animation" appeal. You literally can't convince me that JJK didn't ride KnY's wave during COVID
JJK literally got a spill of KnY's audience in Japan, and that's why the JJK 0 movie did well. Then JJK started becoming big on its own with Season 2 (Gojo flashback + Shibuya) since its got a traction and that was the peak of the series

>>281542882
>I have no clue what you're trying to say.

Yes, that became very clear now.

>>281542900
You keep saying "high budget" but you do realize that you're basically shitting on Bleach's characters and praising Kimetsu with that, right?

>>281542874
>It's not as good as the Akaza one
This is the one I mean.
The Mugen Train one with Akaza are also good, but not this good.

>>281542851
>BOM reported $223M by Nov 15
>That equals ¥30B at 2020 exchange
>That happened on week 5, not day 59
NO, Jeremy, check the articles AGAIN, I'll sum them up for you
>as of YESTERDAY, on its 59th day, mugen train has crossed 30 billion yen with 30.2 billion.
That's what happened and what the official sources reported THE DAY AFTER it happened, as they mention.
> it was reported the day it happened. That's not the same as every minor revenue threshold being timestamped in a headline.
Spirited away was at 31.2 billion yen, iof it took it five week, it means it took it an extra seven weeks to add another 1.2 billion yen.
Now think how retarded that is.

>>281542985
I like how they basically called the movie "Akaza's return" and shilled the movie with an Akaza poster, because they know the Mugen Train people remember him the most. They're still riding on that Mugen Train ass

Hey man you are a deranged lunatic

>>281543035
He's quite literally the only relevant villain in the movie and the one with the most screentime.
Douma and Koku are literal whos at this point, but koku will probably get the title for the second movie, something about his brother.

>>281542975
I mean exactly when I call the crying blind bara high budget Kenpachi. He's a neatly dressed pig, but still a pig inferior to the original product. Had one fight against high budget Madara that he could barely win and then died like the rest of the jobbers. Bad guy still liver (via MC) so he's a loser too. Kenpachi won 6 fights, he's better than that fraud carried by Sugita.

>>281542851
Hey, where's Torishima's quote source?

>>281542507
This shit is so obvious I could guess exactly how Shinobu vs Kokushibo would turn out. Kokushibo would spend half the fight praising her, effortlessly overwhelm her, and offer to turn her into a demon, offer to train her in his sword and make her strong enough to take her revenge etc. She’d accept the offer, and when Kokushibo approaches and cuts himself to deliver his blood, she’s grab him and deliver her own poisoned blood into his body thereby giving him the super dose of poison, draining her own life out. Then, just like with Douma, instead of this ultra dose of poison effecting him immediately, takes just long enough for Kanao and Inosuke to be toyed with, the only difference being is that instead of playing with them, Kokushibo is trying pressure them into becoming demons. When the poison kicks in, he’ll be immobilized, Insouke awakens the red blade for no reason and they win. It would be EXACTLY the Douma situation with only minor details and dialogue would change. Instead of Douma being connected to Inosuke’s mom, it’ll be Kokushibo remembering his face and relating the story of how he cut down his village, remembering the mom trying to protect her child. He would have delivered the deadly blow to Shinobu’s mentor, not Douma. You could literally drop in any characters in the same fight and it would basically be the same.

How does it feel to waste 6 years of your life crusading against KnY with literally nothing to show for it?

>>281543088
Koku doesn't pressure people, he kills them, he committed a full blown massacre where kaigaku was, except he could tell he was like him so he made the deal.
He literally killed two pillars in his fight.

>>281543088
Neat fanfic, lil ooc though

>>281543077
>my chicken won 7 fights
>so hes better than your chicken who won 2 fights
>ignore all sorts of contexts and circumstance btw, I'm stupid

>>281543035
For all of Jeremy's seething about "Aniplex's greed executives being too arrogant", they are going for the kill with remarkable competence. Every little bit of advantage and opportunity is being exploited to the maximum to put this movie above Spirited Away at the very least. And at this pace, they will get there.

>>281543181
>Spirited Away
Miyazaki's movie won't even be at the Top 5 by the end of this decade

>>281543205
No, it will be at the 5th spot.

>>281543181
I mean, it's great press and they'll leave it in cinemas as long as possible in case it takes longer than expected (optimistic results put the move at 30 billion by the end of the month).

>>281536455
I miss this thot hater

>>281530009 (OP)
I do not care about your mental breakdown.
I'm just here to post wife

>>281543205
Top 4 will be all KnY by the end of 2030.

>>281530009 (OP)
>Both fight Akaza for a bit and get their shit rocked
See a difference?

>>281543088
You haven’t read the manga.
Kokushibo is extremely elitist, so he doesn’t just turn anyone into a demon.
Especially someone like Shinobu, who has almost no physical talent — there’s no way he’d make such an offer.
On top of that, since Shinobu knows how to kill demons through poison concoctions, he would never do something so reckless.

>>281543042
>*SPIT*
One jobber down. Can't wait till I see high budget Hitsugaya kick the bucket too.
>>281543141
How does it feel that Sakura MOGS Demon Slayer's bitches by a landslide? Faggots and underages cried about Kishi being bad at female characters but he actually wrote the most realistic and she's officially Japan's favorite heroine, lmao.
>>281543179
Yep, and that alone makes Kenpachi better than the crying blind bara. Kenpachi won more fights while the bara barely won his and died before he could actually see his W so Kenpachi is better than that fraud. If this series is written by a woman, then it should be prohibited from them to write a battle shounen. Every Demon Slayer character is a jobber. The only one who didn't job like Akaza went an hero instead.

>>281543290
Don't you have your own thread

BTW, do you know WHY Douma absorbs people? The literal reason? To take Shinobu’s poison, and to do it in a genteel manner to spare her body from a gore scene. That is the one, sole reason for this trait.

>>281530294
people doing adaptions never seem to realize that narration/monologue on a page doesn't work 1:1 in an audio-visual format

>>281543088
Whe are you going to post the source about Torishima's quote?

>>281543261
>I do not care about your mental breakdown.
You cared enough to post, FAGGOT. My thread now, and you're all my bitches.

By the way, your "wife" is worthless and could easily be replaced by a dog and nothing would change. That's how dogshit this series is, lmfao.

>>281543290
>Giyuu after Hashira Training
vs
>Rengoku without Hashira Training

>>281530009 (OP)
>>281530032
actually made me laugh, fpbp

>>281543393
Dragon ball isn’t good

>>281543393
So when are you actually going to post the source for Torishima’s statements about KnY?
Or is it that you were lying to us all along, or heavily distorting what he actually said?

>>281543316
Bull. He spent the whole fight glazing the Hashira even though one-on-one they’re trash next to him. He’d absolutely praise Shinobu’s speed and courage even facing him, especially considering that she’s a woman. Maybe she’d remind him of his wife when he was human, whatever, the mangaka will make up whatever bullshit it takes the scene happen. How do we know? Because that’s exactly what happens with Douma.

>>281543290
This battle was a great way to show Tanjiro's growth.
I'm glad Tanjiro was able to fight and save the Pillar this time.

>>281543348
Yes, authors frequently create character traits with a single scene in mind, and then they lay the foundation for that scene to happen and deliver a payoff. This is even more true for KnY, since all the important fights were planned with the big emotional moments in mind, not only the "hype" of "exciting matchups".
Did you know that, especially in short stories, characters are not supposed to convince a particular strain of autistic reader that they are a videogame boss whose skillset and traits exist on some kind of blank slate context?

>>281539820
It's a factor, but not really a big one, as examples you've pointed out show. Characters die in Akame ga Kill and Kimetsu no Yaiba, but both are amateurly written slop. On the other hand, some of the best WSJ manga currently running and of all time (Dragon Ball, HxH, One Piece) don't have that many major character deaths.

>>281530295
this hag is pure sex

>>281543490
Douma is a charismatic cult leader who is established to be talkative and kokushibo is a fight autist facing off against the strongest pillar and another fight autist and his descendant (genyas there too I guess)

>>281543595
>genyas there too I guess)
He won them the fight, mind you.

>>281543348
BTW, do you know WHY the spider sister makes cocoons to devour her prey? The literal reason? To get Murata naked

>>281542851
How does this mentally ill man even live day to day?
It’s like he spends 24/7 glued to /a/ spewing nothing but jealousy and hatred toward KnY.
I honestly wonder what it must feel like to waste most of his life on something like that.

chain-samefagging to hit bump limit so a thread that causes you psychic pain is off the catalog, that's some real mentally healthy shit you're doing there

>>281543320
KnY fights are miles more entertaining than Bleach fights.
Bleach fights be like
>overpowered enemy appears
>some random character jobs to them because they explain their powers out loud to their opponents face for some reason
>another character entrance to take on enemy
>this character somehow has the perfect counter to the enemy and wins
>if the enemy didnt die, he'll get reborn with a new form
>rinse and repeat for a thousand times
>also the characters must teleport to their enemy's back for every panel and they must cut their shoulder for a finishing blow

Kimetsu's Infinity Fortress was a full-blown all out battle with 2v1, 3v1, 4v1 at the same time and everything character is going for the kill with each strike being a deadly move that can kill the MCs since they can't regenerate. It's bloody more entertaining and feels more desperate, so its better
Kimetsu actually have swordfights, Bleach's characters just swing their swords mindlessly like a retard then fire off a Rei Gun copycat

Do you know why Cell has to absorb 17 and 18?

>>281543710
Easy. It's for vore fetishists to have something to fap to

>>281543557
>WSJ manga currently running and of all time
One of that, HxH's author is fan of KnY since 2017 though.

man all u need to have a successful anime is just pretty colors and artstyles. of course no one thinks this is good, they repeat the same fucking arcs over and over with a mediocre ending

>>281543755
>is just pretty colors and artstyles
Show another one with its level of success then, should be EASY.

>>281543755
It sucks that 99% of current anime lacks pretty colors and artstyles.

Damn I fucking love KnY!

>>281543418
>Dragon Ball was said to have made up of 85% of Jump's sales in the Golden Age in 2002
>Dragon Ball was said to have made a revenue of $30 billion dollars in 2004, its current value could be around $45 (lowball) or $50 billion (highball) right now
>Oricon confirms that the Dragon Ball manga has sold 350M in 2008
>17 years has passed and that means Dragon Ball's sales has only gone up since theb, it should be around 450-475M right now
>Divide 450 or 475 with 42 and you get an average sales per volume of 10.71M (lowball) or 11.30M
>Dragon Ball has the highest per volume sales in manga history but Shueisha hates Dragon Ball and wants to sabotage it because it's TOO big
At the end of the day, Demon Slayer is just another Attack on Titan. It left a lot of noise but no impact. Dragon Ball will outlive every single slop you love. Past, present and future.

>>281542967
Coming from the guy that argued that flashbacks must be extended for this movie to not feel "overwhelming." Retard.

>>281543794
Dragon ball is bad

>>281543755
People thinks its good, of course. That's why they buy the manga and carry their feet to watch the movie
They have life, and they're not autistic so they dont dedicate their lives on some anime

>>281543687
Bleach characters don’t even really engage in sword fights.
Instead, they just fire beams from their swords or transform the blades for long-range attacks, which makes it feel more like Dragon Ball but with swords.

>>281543557
Yes, I have no problem with your conclusion.
I like KnY, you dislike it, and that's fair enough.
As long as people don't lie to themselves and try to deny that the story delivered on a very specific aspect while most of its peers didn't, then it's okay to say "yeah, but I still think this other shonen is better regardless".

Bleach could learn a thing or two from other shonen and NOT have 99% of battles be a fucking stomp. Killing Byakuya and some other characters would also go a long way.

>>281543794
Tick tock, Dragontard

>muh stakes can only happen in the form of number of corpses piled up
No wonder retards and NPCs praise shit like JJK so much when they see a side character with less than 1 chapter of screentime get unceremoniously killed off. Who cares that this in itself becomes predictable since there's no need to feel invested in a side character who's just there to raise the body count

>>281543687
Bleach is actually better if you just want to switch your brain off and read without thinking.
No matter what happens, even if someone gets a hole blown through their stomach, the characters basically never die.
Plus, a lot of the Bankai designs are pretty cool.
Demon Slayer has incredible tension, but reading it can be a little exhausting.
It gives me a similar feeling to when I’m reading Berserk or Shigurui.

>>281543964
Because kimetsu barely killed side characters, and most died during the final fights that were supposed to raise tension
By the you were more or less attached to quite a few and it looked safe, since rengoku had already died.
Then shinobu dies and doesn't stop.

My chocolate wife

>>281543801
It's okay, anon, you will get it one day.

>Story where people fight to kill each other
>People die
I think more stories should follow this simple formula

>>281543951
Tick tock, Kimetsufaggot.
The 260M was from 2002, 23 years ago. Which means Dragon GOD is WELL above 260M right now. 450M (lowball) or 475M (highball). Which also means...
>Dragon Ball is the highest selling manga per volume in history
10.71M (lowball) or 11.30M (highball) but Shueisha sabotages it because it makes every zoomer slop including Demon Shit look smaller, lmao.

>that time when the Demon Slayer corps faceless mobs charged on to Muzan to be shield of meats just so the remaining Pillars can catch a breath
Shit is brutal, and this is a shounen written by a woman? Getouge was something else

>>281544100
>Which means Dragon GOD is WELL above 260M right now. 450M (lowball) or 475M (highball). Which also means
[Headcanon]

If it was that big of a gap, they would've updated it already LMAO

>>281544100
>450M (lowball) or 475M (highball). Which also means...
>>Dragon Ball is the highest selling manga per volume in history
>10.71M (lowball) or 11.30M (highball) but Shueisha sabotages it because it makes every zoomer slop including Demon Shit look smaller, lmao.
And you still have no source beyond your headcanon for this.
Facts don't care about your feelings, jeremy. The only facts in existence is that kimetsu is the highest performing series per volume.

>>281543826
I’m a Dragon Ball fan, but I like Demon Slayer too.
Even if it takes the throne, I’m not gonna be mad.
Records are made to be broken eventually.
If some One Piecefag starts going like, ‘duuuh I’m da kinggg!!’ then yeah, that pisses me off.
But if it’s Demon Slayer, I’m fine with it.

>>281543687
>Kimetsu actually have swordfights, Bleach's characters just swing their swords mindlessly like a retard then fire off a Rei Gun copycat
Meanwhile, in the ugly-ass Demon Slayer manga...

>>281544256
Is that on the left side suppose to be good?

>>281544091
Its why MHA "war" felt like such a wet fart.

>>281543687
I don’t really have any complaints about the fights in Kinetsu, but the red blade was unnecessary.
I understand Demon Slayer Mark was needed, but the red blade felt completely superfluous to the story, and the explanations around it only dragged down the pacing of the battles.
If I were Gotouge and could time-leap back to around 2018, I would have scrapped the red blade idea.

>>281544141
>If it was that big of a gap, they would've updated it already LMAO
They did, FAGGOT. All the way back in 2008, confirmed by Oricon. And reaffirmed by Shueisha themselves in 2009 at a press conference (see picrel). Dragon Ball is the king with no equal and makes everyone else look smaller by comparison.
>>281544145
Facts don't care that Dragon Ball sold 350M in 2008 and sales has only increased. Cry more, FAGGOT. Dragon Ball is the highest selling manga per volume in history (not going to be surpassed) and Shueisha HATES it because it makes all their newer slop look like shit (lol).

Read it again, Spic. From Oricon themselves back in 2008. Read it NICE and SLOWLY.
>『ドラゴンボール』は、全世界で3億5000万部を売上げ、連載終了後10年以上経ってなお世界中で圧倒的な人気を誇る日本の大人気コミック。これまでもその実写映画をハリウッドが製作することや、伝えもれてきたストーリー、ビジュアルなどが話題を巻き起こし、映画の仕上がりについて様々な憶測を呼んでいた。
>"Dragon Ball" has sold 350 million copies worldwide, and even more than 10 years after the manga ended, it remains an overwhelmingly popular Japanese comic across the globe. The fact that a live-action movie was being produced in Hollywood, along with the rumored story and visuals, stirred up significant buzz and speculation regarding how the movie would turn out.
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/61072/full/

>>281544399
>and sales has only increased
no source.
> Dragon Ball is the highest selling manga per volume in history
you are extremely jealous about this and still no souce.

>Tanjiro wields Rengoku's sword guard
>Giyu wears his sister and Sabito's haori colors and pattern
>Akaza's vest has a symbol referring to Koyuki

I don't particularly care about kny but I've watched like 500 anime movies so I'll be seeing this one. My theater has standard, imax, and 4dx. Which should I see it in?

>>281544465
4dx if you can handle the movement, otherwise imax.

>>281544399
>40 volumes
eh. even if it gets to like 11 million per volume, that's surpasseable the very second KnY gets special editions in the future, which we all know will happen by the time the last movie gets released.

>>281544453
All of akazas colors are also in reference to Koyuki

>>281544465
4dx feels silly because of the nonstop chair rocking, IMAX is the way to go.

>>281530009 (OP)
T-T-This whole thing... is one b-big prank, r-right? Japan don't a-a-actually think... this a-anime and manga is the p-p-peak of their medium, r-right? AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>281544485
>>281544561
I liked 4dx for lagann hen but I heard people saying this movie benefits from the bigger imax screen. So I just don't know.

>>281544631
I watched it in imax and it really looks great in it.
This 4dx seems to even spray water at you.

>>281544622
As is tradition

>>281544421
>no source.
Cope, cry and most importantly, READ my little Spic, READ.
>『ドラゴンボール』は、全世界で3億5000万部を売上
>"Dragon Ball" has sold 350 million copies worldwide
That was 17 years ago BTW. Which means Dragon Ball should well be above 450M. It's probably at 475M or even 490M but Shueisha don't want to update it to protect One Piece and shill next gen crap like Demon Slayer. Lol.

>>281544734
>should
>probably
>conspiracy theory
So, no source, got it.
Hey, kimetsu should be at 300 million after the movie, shueisha just undercut its announcement!

>>281544631
IMAX for ufotable enjoyers. 4DX for demon slayer fans.

>>281544622
>>KnY thread turns into three Discord faggots having their shit thread taken over
Same way how your little clubhouse Black Clover threads are only ever full of three faggots, lmao.

>>281544146
Same.
What I can’t stand about One Piss is the way it always tries to cozy up to DB with this fake familiarity, like, "We’re buddies, right? Bro?"

>>281536189
>bro you have to kill characters to shock the audience like in my westoid tv shows otherwise you're playing it safe

>>281544601
Kek, he does sound like this

281544769
>Black Clover out of no where

>>281544759
Cry more, FAGGOT. I'll post it for you again as many times until you learn how to read like the good little Spic.
>『ドラゴンボール』は、全世界で3億5000万部を売上
>"Dragon Ball" has sold 350 million copies worldwide
From Oricon themselves BTW.

>>281544944
Yes, 350 million, sure, but where's your souce for everything else?
>should
>probably
>conspiracy theory

Still no source for those burned books.

>>281544963
Source: deez nutz, FAGGOT

>>281545159
>no source
>already coping
OK, kimetsu should have 500 million copies in circulation and has outdone One piece, happy now?

>>281545187
Source are from your precious Oricon lmao. The very same source you used to cape for Wan Piss yesterday.

Which makes it all the more funny. Black Clover faggots really love spreading their buttcheeks wide enough for other fandoms to fuck them. Is One Piece a part of your booty call for today? Got tired of your little Discord friends taking turns fucking you?

>>281545358
Yes, jimbo, 350 million, ok
Where's the rest of your headcanons?

KnY won again baby!

>>281545388
>Where's the rest of your headcanons?
Deez nutz

>>281545644
See, no source, just your cope once you can't even post through chat.
Kimetsu has the highest selling per volume performance and that's an undeniable fact supported by every source you can think of, except your mind.

>>281545677
See >>281543794 Spic.
See >>281544399 and read again, NICE and SLOWLY. Your coping is delicious.

Dragon Ball is the KING with no equal. It's like Michael Jordan. No matter how many new slop Shueisha pumps out like the slop machine they are, Dragon Ball will always be compared but NEVER surpassed. That's why Dragon Ball holds the record as highest per volume and NOT your shitty drawn slop manga for fat ugly middle-aged women.

Dragon Ball doesn't need Shueisha anymore. It's bigger than anime and manga at this point. Your slop will be forgotten when the final movie drops and Dragon Ball will outlive it, lmao.

KnY? Winner

KnY? Only popular with fat ugly middle-aged women, Spics and faggots (I bet you were the faggot who made that thread imagining Muzan getting fucked by Goku, didn't you BCcuck).
>Headline: Kimetsu no Yaiba, a manga and anime primarily popular with nerdy women in their 30s and 40s

I have the last word, Jeremy you lost

Error 404: Dragon Ball not found

>>281545793
>the record as highest per volume
>not a single source
All this just to seethe because kimetsu has the highest sales per volume.
And it's also making a killing without covid.

>>281546016
I have the last word here Spic, Dragon Ball is the KING with no equal. It'll outlive (You), your whole family and every single slop you dickride and fat ugly women love. You're living on borrowed time, lmao.

>>281546299
350/43=8.14 million
220/23=9.56
Kimetsuy WON

>>281546098
winner #1

>>281546098
$30 billion dollars (technically $45-50 billion lol), bitch. Dragon Ball doesn't need an anime much less a movie while Demon Shit NEEDS an anime like its oxygen.

>>281546324
>Kimetsuy
BOOM.

Done.

>>281546370
>deflection
BITCH.

>>281546437
That's right, FAGGOT.

Run.

KINGmetsu no CINEMA won btw

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>>281546324
475M divided by 42 = 11.30M
220M divided by 23 = 9.56M

You lose again, BITCH.
>>281546526
Carried by Ufotable.