LiSA‘s new single “Homura,” the theme song for the Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen anime, has ranked #1 on Oricon’s weekly digital singles ranking chart for six consecutive weeks. It is the third ever single to accomplish the feat in the chart’s history, after Yonezu Kenshi‘s 2018 single “Lemon” and […]
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The Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen anime has sold a total of 19,397,589 tickets for 25,917,043,800 yen (about US$247 million) in 39 days — thus earning more than Shinkai Makoto‘s Kimi no nawa (23.35 billion yen) and Disney’s Frozen (25.03 billion yen) to become the third highest-earning film of all […]
The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA) released its preliminary Anime Industry Report 2020 findings on Friday, and plans to release its full findings in a report on November 30. The preliminary report found that the anime industry rose 15.1% to 2.5112 trillion yen (about US$24.18 billion) in 2019. The market […]
NHK revealed the lineup for the 71st Kōhaku Uta Gassen (“Red and White Song Contest”), Japan’s most-watched music television program, on Monday. The yearly New Year’s Eve contest pits two teams of female singers (the red team) and male singers (the white team) against each other. The lineup reveals that […]
The official Twitter account for Kishimoto Masashi‘s Naruto franchise revealed that Boruto manga storywriter Kodachi Ukyō will retire from the manga, and Kishimoto himself will take over as the storywriter. The Twitter account stated that this change was “planned from the beginning.” Kishimoto will take over the role starting with […]
This year’s 50th issue of Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed that Fujimoto Tatsuki‘s Chainsaw Man manga will have a stage presentation at this year’s Jump Festa ’21 event. The stage presentation will be part of the Jump Studio series of stage presentations that will be held at the event. […]
The Official Twitter account for Gotouge Koyoharu‘s Kimetsu no Yaiba manga announced that the Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-hen anime film has sold a total of 17,505,285 tickets for a cumulative earning of 23,349,291,050 yen (23 Billion Yen, about US$223 million) as of Sunday, November 15, with 31 days in […]