Three volumes of Kimetsu no Yaiba were the first to sell more than 5 million copies

The eighth, first and seventh volumes sold 66,000, 69,000 and 107,000 copies in the week from December 28, 2020 to January 3, 2021, respectively. The seventh volume contains the arc adapted into the film Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha henwhich explains the increase in sales.

It is worth noting that the sixth compilation volume of the manga was written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo, SPY x FAMILY, which was released in Japan on December 28th, took first place in the sales ranking with 538,000 copies sold in the same period and is the second volume of this franchise to reach the first place after the fifth volume.

For his part, Koyoharu Gotouge began to publish the manga in the magazine Weekly shonen jump from the publisher Shueisha in February 2016 and finalized in May 2020. The publisher published the twenty-second compilation volume on October 2 and the twenty-third and final volume on December 4.

Synopsis of Kimetsu no Yaiba

In the Taisho era in Japan, Tanjirou Kamado is a kind and intelligent boy who lives in the mountains with his family. Tanjirou became the head of his family after the death of his father and makes 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 a night out, he discovers that his family has been killed by a demon. Tanjirou and her sister Nezuko are the only survivors now, but she has been turned into a demon, although surprisingly she still shows emotion and appears to have a sense of reason. After meeting Giyuu Tomioka, a demon hunter; Tanjirou He decides to become a demon hunter in order to hunt down his family’s killer and find a way to get Nezuko back to normal.

Source: ANN

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