In total, Demon Slayer Mugen Train sold over 27,450,000 tickets and earned a total of 37,776,680,150 yen (~US$360 million) in Japan alone. Demon Slayer was climbing through the ranks pretty steadily. Just a little bit over a month ago Demon Slayer film became the 2nd highest-grossing anime film worldwide. Finally, 6 months after its premiere, Demon Slayer film managed to surpass Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away! The film was extremely popular in Japan, sitting in first place in terms of tickets sold for 13 weekends before it dropped to second place!
Also, you can watch the official trailer for the movie if you haven’t already:
In case you don’t know what Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is about, you can read the synopsis below:
Tanjirou Kamado and his friends from the Demon Slayer Corps accompany Kyoujurou Rengoku, the Flame Hashira, to investigate a mysterious series of disappearances occurring inside a train. Little do they know that Enmu, one of the Twelve Kizuki, is also on board and has prepared a trap for them.
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Demon Slayer film becoming one of the highest-grossing anime films surely was one of the things that brought us the Demon Slayer Season 2 announcement. ufotable did an amazing job with the production of both the first season and the film, so we hope that the second season will be just as good. We can’t wait for more of Demon Slayer in the future!
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