{"id":50230,"date":"2025-07-19T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=50230"},"modified":"2025-07-18T17:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:50:05","slug":"demon-slayer-manga-sees-overwhelming-sales-even-after-ending-5-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/demon-slayer-manga-sees-overwhelming-sales-even-after-ending-5-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon Slayer manga sees overwhelming sales even after ending 5 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The official Shonen Jump YouTube channel announced that the <strong>Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba<\/strong> manga surpassed 220 million copies in circulation worldwide on July 17, 2025. To commemorate the event, a special commercial that aired after the Hashira Training arc anime broadcast on Fuji TV was uploaded onto the channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JC\u300e\u9b3c\u6ec5\u306e\u5203\u300f\u5168\u4e16\u754c\u7d2f\u8a08\u767a\u884c\u90e8\u65702\u5104\u90e8\u7a81\u7834\u8a18\u5ff5PV\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QYdSwYVOc4s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Demon Slayer anime has yet to finish (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 The Movie: Infinity Castle \u2013 Part 1: Akaza Returns just released in Japanese theatres), <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231006-22124\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Koyoharu Gotouge\u2019s original manga<\/a> ended over five years ago. Thanks to the success of the franchise\u2019s other media forms, the manga\u2019s popularity remains strong to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010\u300e\u9b3c\u6ec5\u306e\u5203\u300f\u30b3\u30df\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\uff12\u5104\u90e8\u7a81\u7834!!\u3011<br><br>\u3044\u3064\u3082\u5fdc\u63f4\u3057\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u308b\u307f\u306a\u3055\u307e\u306e\u304a\u304b\u3052\u3067\u3001<br>\u30b3\u30df\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\u306e\u4e16\u754c\u7d2f\u8a08\u767a\u884c\u90e8\u6570\u304c<br>\uff12\u5104\u90e8\u3092\u7a81\u7834\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f!!<br>\u672c\u5f53\u306b\u3001\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\uff01<br><br>\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u3082\u3064\u3044\u306b\u300c\u7121\u9650\u57ce\u7de8\u300d\u3078\uff01<br>\u30b3\u30df\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\u3068\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u3068\u3082\u306b\u3001<br>\u5f15\u304d\u7d9a\u304d\u5fdc\u63f4\u306e\u307b\u3069\u3001\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7acFWekIJt\">pic.twitter.com\/7acFWekIJt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u9b3c\u6ec5\u306e\u5203\u516c\u5f0f (@kimetsu_off) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kimetsu_off\/status\/1945820780916273387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Post translation: Thanks to the constant support of all our fans, the worldwide cumulative circulation of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga has surpassed 200 million copies! The anime series is finally heading to the Infinity Castle Arc! We <\/em><em>hope <\/em><em>you will keep support<\/em><em>ing both the manga and the anime. Thank you very much!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the 220 million Demon Slayer manga copies in circulation, 164 million copies were sold in Japan, while 56 million were from overseas (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.co.jp\/articles\/d26323981306155b8b510cf242cd2a073c38c60b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yahoo! Japan<\/a>). This includes physical and digital copies sold in brick-and-mortar stores and online platforms respectively. Demon Slayer is the latest of publisher Shueisha\u2019s series to sell over 200 million copies, with the others being Akira Toriyama\u2019s Dragon Ball, Eiichiro Oda\u2019s One Piece, and Masashi Kishimoto\u2019s Naruto. With only the Infinity Castle and Sunrise Countdown arcs left to go for the anime, everyone working on the franchise is hoping for the continued support of the fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demon Slayer sold over 220 million copies worldwide, ranking among Shueisha&#8217;s top 4 sold manga alongside One Piece, Dragon Ball and Naruto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":50237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[17,66],"class_list":["post-50230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-non-gaming-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Demon Slayer manga sees overwhelming sales even after ending 5 years ago - 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