After 220 days the latest anime film for the Demon Slayer series, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train has reached the fantastic milestone of selling 28,966,806 tickets for 40,016,942,050 yen! (About 367.6 million US dollars.) It is now the only film that has done this in Japan at the moment. Down below is a look at the graph of the sales over the days that it has been in Japanese theaters.
Across the globe the film has done really good as well! The film has sold a total of 41.35 million tickets to earn the equivalent of 51.7 billion yen. (about $475 million US dollars.) The film also has the milestone of being the highest-earning film worldwide from 2020. It is the first non-Hollywood or non-American film to top the yearly box office worldwide since the beginning of cinema about century ago.
In the United States box office, the film has sold 3.51 million tickets to earn $43,956,487 us dollars.(about 4.78 billion yen.) The film has the milestone of being the #2 highest-earning anime film ever at the U.S. box office.
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train will be released digitally on June 22nd! You will be able to watch it through Funimation and Aniplex of America. If you have not seen the trailer yet, check it out in English down below!
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Synopsis: Join Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu and Inosuke as they embark on a new mission with the help of the Flame Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, (voiced by Mark Whitten) and face a member of the Twelve Kizuki, Enmu (Lower One), voiced by Landon McDonald!
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