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Jeopardy question about Demon Slayer shows how far anime has and hasn’t come in the U.S.【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 24, 2025
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Bare-minimum otaku knowledge could have scored contestants US$2,000.

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba–The Movie: Infinity Castle • Infinity Castle • Jeopardy • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • movies • Mugen Train • video)

Real urine-triggered fight breaks out during Demon Slayer movie as anime action crackles on-screen

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 19, 2025

U.S. moviegoers in no mood to put up with would-be urine hashira’s behavior.

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• USA
• (anime • crazy • crime • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba–The Movie: Infinity Castle • gross • Infinity Castle • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • movies • weird)

There are now zero Japanese live-action films in the country’s top 10 highest earning movies, but why?

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 6, 2025

The new Demon Slayer anime movie knocks the final Japanese live-action work out of the country’s top list.

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• Japan
• (anime • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba–The Movie: Infinity Castle • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • movies • society)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is “jacking” everyone’s seat at the movies in Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 6, 2025

The new Demon Slayer movie isn’t just taking over the box office, it’s taking over seats too.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba–The Movie: Infinity Castle • cool • Demon Slayer.Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • movie theaters • movies)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba comes to Dodger Stadium for fan night, first pitch, and drone show

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 30, 2025

Crossover caps to be given away in latest team-up between Los Angeles baseball club and hit anime.

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• Japan
• (anime • baseball • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Dodger Stadium • Dodgers • Kimetsu no Yaiba • Los Anageles • Major League Baseball • manga • MLB • sports)

Huge 301,390-square foot Demon Slayer anime rice paddy art project planned, Tanjiro will be eaten

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 21, 2025

Volunteer recruitment means you could help plant, and then eat, Demon Slayer’s protagonist.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • crazy • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Gyoda • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • rice • rice paddy • rice paddy art)

Demon Slayer anime studio creates crossover video with Major League Baseball【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 6, 2025

Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts granted Hashira-like powers by Ufotable.

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• Japan
• (anime • baseball • cool • Demon Slayer • Kimetsu no Yaiba • Los Angeles Dodgers • Major League Baseball • manga • Shohei Ohtani • sports • Ufotable)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba gets new roller coaster attractions and food at Universal Studios Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2024

The Demon Slayer story goes on at USJ.

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• Japan
• (Amusement Parks • anime • Demon Slayer • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • theme parks • Universal Studios • Universal Studios Japan • USJ)

Style that slays – Japanese fashion brand Mayla creates gorgeous Demon Slayer hair accessory line

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 14, 2024

Mayla Kimetsu no Yaiba Iconique Hair Object + Kanzashi is a lot to say, but also gives fans of the anime franchise a lot to love.

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• Japan
• (accessories • anime • beautiful • Demon Slayer • fashion • hair accessories • hairpins • kanzashi • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • Mayla)

Louis Vuitton’s fancy new bags look like anime character merch to people in Japan【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 9, 2024

One person’s damier pattern is another person’s Ichimatsu, with all that entails in a post Mugen Train world.

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• Japan
• (anime • bags • Demon Slayer • fashion • funny • Ichimatsu pattern • Kimetsu no Yaiba • Louis Vuitton • manga • Tanjiro)

Here’s why you should visit Japan’s best winter-night hot spring town on a summer afternoon【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  May 31, 2023

We went looking for an anime connection, and found a whole bunch of new reasons to love this Yamagata onsen town.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful • COK • cool • Demon Slayer • Ginzan Onsen • hot springs • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • onsen • SNJO • travel • Yamagata)

“Have fun seeing what comes out” gacha machine is a mystery in more ways than one

• Oona McGee
  Dec 10, 2022

What the heck will come out of a machine like this?

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • Demon Slayer • figurines • gacha • gacha vending machine • Hokkaido • Japanese vending machines • Kimetsu no Yaiba • Manbekun • Oshamambe Station • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • vending machines • weird)

These gigantic SD Demon Slayer plushies definitely aren’t chibi【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 17, 2022

Massive, and massively cute, stuffed Demon Slayers to share your home with.

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • big • crazy • cute • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • interior • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • plushies)

Demon Slayers in the sky with new Kimetsu no Yaiba anime-themed airliner from ANA

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 11, 2022

Series star and its two biggest scene-stealers will escort fans to their destination…even when it’s the same airport they departed.

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• Japan
• (airplans • All Nippon Airways • ANA • anime • cool • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • travel)

First preview for Demon Slayer’s new Swordsmith Village Arc is here!【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 18, 2022

And Tanjiro looks angry.

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• Japan
• (anime • Demon Slayer • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • Swordsmith Village Arc • video)

Demon Slayer pulls off feat no other series has done with Japan’s biggest anime magazines【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 16, 2022

“This is the first, and probably the last, time for us to try something like this.”

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• Japan
• (Animage • anime • art • clever • COK • cool • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba • illustration • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • newtype • SNJO)

Demon Slayer anime is heading to Swordsmith Village as new season is immediately greenlit

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 16, 2022

Teaser visuals put the spotlight on Mist and Love Hashira.

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• Japan
• (anime • Demon Slayer • Kimetsu no Yaiba • video)

Tour space with a cat guide while the sweet aroma of catnip and paw pads fills your nostrils

• Katie Pask
  Feb 14, 2022

This will be one space trip cat fans will never forget.

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• Japan
• (anime • cats • cool • cute • Demon Slayer • Kimetsu no Yaiba • planetariums • relax • relaxing • science • technology • Tokyo • weird)

Demon Slayer teams up with beef bowl chain to excite fans, test their dexterity with Tanjiro bowl

• SoraNews24
  Feb 5, 2022

The Tanjiro’s Charcoal-grilled Mayo Chicken Bowl is lunch, cuisine cosplay, pun, and skill trial all in one.

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• Japan
• (anime • beef bowls • COK • Demon Slayer • food • gyudon • Kimetsu no Yaiba • manga • rice bowls • SNJO • Sukiya)

High-ranking U.S. politician confirmed as a Demon Slayer music fan

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 7, 2022

Secretary of State is also fan of anime song.

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• Japan, USA
• (Antony Blinken • Demon Slayer • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train • government • Homura • J-Pop • Kimetsu no Yaiba • LiSA • Mugen Train • musc • politicians)

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