Written by Naomi Perez, Staff Writer
This year’s new, up-and-coming anime/manga series Kimetsu no Yaiba aka Demon Slayer has taken anime fans by storm, gaining popularity with its newly adapted anime series that aired April 9, 2019 on television and just ended its first season.
Demon Slayer was created by Koyoharu Gotōge and began as a manga series in Weekly Shōnen Jump in February 2016. The main protagonists are siblings Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado who fight side by side in the Demon Slaying Corps to nd and defeat the main antagonist Muzan Kibutsuji who is involved with their family’s death.
The story has evolved with its manga showing how well rounded the series’ characters are and how it all connects in such a unique way. There have been similar stories with man-eating monsters, but Demon Slayer puts its own twists and turns on it, taking place in a world of traditional Japanese culture combined with a great industrial revolution era. The series features pleasing animation visuals and battle scenes that make you feel pumped up. Demon Slayer’s comic book, manga in Japanese terms, has great artwork, showing great detail in battles and scenery. It certainly has come a long way from its humble beginnings by setting a record outselling the classic One Piece series by 200,000 more copies sold, according to comicbook.com.
Demon Slayer’s success even got the show to have its dubbed version aired on Oct. 10 on Cartoon Network’s late broadcast network for anime, Toonami.
That’s not all though. On top of that, the series will also be having its own movie The Infinity Train Arc, which is in the manga part of the series, with an expected release in 2020. The movie will be accompanied by a live stage play set to run from Jan.18 to Jan. 26 in Tokyo.
This Demon Slayer series is truly a great one and well deservedly has millions of fans behind it. I rate the series a 5 out of 5 stars! Want to watch and see for yourself? The series can be streamed on Hulu, Crunchyroll, and Funimation.