It was reported that the eighteenth compilation volume of the manga written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge, Kimetsu no Yaiba, has exceeded 3.3 million copies sold. According to the Japanese website, OriconThis release has become the first volume in a manga to exceed three million copies in circulation in just one year in the past ten years.

The last time this was observed was with the sixty-first volume of the manga written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One piece, which surpassed the barrier of three million copies sold just one year after its launch.

For his part, Gotouge began publishing the manga in the magazine. Weekly Shonen Jump from the publisher Shueisha in February 2016 and completed it in May 2020. The publisher published the twentieth compilation volume on May 13. The work inspired a 26-episode anime adaptation released in April 2019, and produced by the studios. Ufotable.

Additionally, the film is confirmed Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen, which will adapt the “Arc of the Infinite Train” and which will be released on October 16.

Synopsis of Kimetsu no Yaiba

In the Taisho era in Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kind and intelligent boy who lives with his family in the mountains. Tanjiro has become the head of his family after his father’s death, making constant trips to the village at the foot of the mountain to sell firewood and charcoal.

However, his life changes when one day, when he returns home after spending a night away, he discovers that his family has been killed by a demon. Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko are the only survivors now, but she has been turned into a demon, although surprisingly she still shows emotions and seems to have a sense of reason.

After an encounter with Giyuu Tomioka, a demon hunter; Tanjiro decides to become a demon hunter to hunt down his family’s killer and find a way to return Nezuko to normal.

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