Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in August 2016, and ended it on June 15.
An anime adaptation premiered in January 2019. Aniplex of America streamed the anime on Crunchyroll, Hulu, Funimation, and HIDIVE as it aired. Toonami began airing the anime in April 2019. A second season of the anime was scheduled to premiere in October, but is delayed to January 7 due to the effect of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the production.
The
Stand By Me Doraemon 2 CG anime film dropped from #3 to #4 in its fifth weekend, and it earned 118,872,850 (about US$1.15 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has now earned a cumulative total of 1,986,991,900 yen (about US$19.22 million).
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train stayed at #1 for its ninth weekend. It sold 655,000 tickets over the weekend and earned 939,411,200 yen (about US$9.02 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has now sold a total of 22,539,385 tickets to earn 30,289,307,700 yen (about US$291 million) in 59 days.
It is the first film since Hayao Miyazaki s 2002
Spirited Away film to earn more than 30 billion yen at the Japanese box office.
Mugen Train is also the fastest to reach the milestone, since Spirited Away took 253 days to reach it. Spirited Away remains
Mugen Train s last rival for all-time highest earnings in Japanese box office history. (