Demon Slayer was one of the most phenomenal mangas of all time. Developed by Koyoharu Gotouge and published in Weekly Shonen Jump for about four years, the product came as a real surprise and achieved unimaginable sales. Hardly anyone can match him in numbers, not even Akira Toriyama’s legendary Dragon Ball.
While there weren’t any sales volumes, Demon Slayer was the best manga of 2021, at least so far, and beat Jujutsu Kaisen a bit. It is therefore normal for Shueisha to try as hard as possible to keep the brand going by announcing another special product.
As the anime’s second season looms on the horizon, it will Released a spin-off manga called Demon Slayer: Gakuen. This will be published on Saikyo Jump, Shueisha’s little magazine, starting with the August 4, 2021 issue. To draw and write it, it will be Natsuki Hogami, mangaka who had already published the Hell Warden Higuma manga on Weekly Shonen Jump, but too much success without finding it.
To celebrate the new release, Author Koyoharu Gotouge has prepared an illustration that will be featured in Weekly Shonen Jump # 31. The story of this manga has not yet been revealed, but given the title, Demon Slayer’s protagonists are placed in a school context, following a few brief offshoots already drawn by the author for the volumes of the original manga. So it won’t be a direct sequel, just an alternative setting and probably with a weird direction.
A Kimetsu no Yaiba spin-off called Kimetsu Gakuen! will start serializing in Saikyo Jump by Natsuki Hogami on August 4th.
– Shonen Jump News – Unofficial (@WSJ_manga) July 1, 2021
Koyoharu Gotouge drew a commemorative illustration in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue # 31.
