In Japan, the movie is deemed PG enough for the shounen age group of 12 through 18 year olds, but it didn’t receive the same treatment abroad. With swords come bloodshed, and in no modest quantity when it comes to ‘Demon Slayer’. In an effort to avenge his family and find a cure for his sister’s curse, Tanjiro joins the Demon Slayer Corps. Tanjiro’s younger sister, Nezuko, was also attacked and became a demon herself, though she survived with some of her humanity intact. The story, set in Taisho-era Japan (1912-1926), follows the journey of Tanjiro Kamado, a young boy whose family was slaughtered by demons. It’s a story about – you guessed it – slaying demons A second season is expected to premiere sometime in 2021. While the manga series ended in May 2020, only one season of the anime adaptation (aired April-September 2019) has been released so far. As a shounen manga, ‘Demon Slayer’ was written for a targeted male audience of 12 to 18 year olds. The anime is adapted from a shounen mangaĬreated by manga artist Koyoharu Gotouge, ‘Demon Slayer’ was published as serialised issues in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2016. Because it’s not a standalone film, it helps to familiarise yourself with the series before jumping straight into this full-length feature. This film, ‘Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’, is an immediate sequel to the most recent episode of the Demon Slayer anime series. Here’s everything newcomers should know about the hit anime as well as why it's worth watching. The adulation for the film is palpable, but it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the hype if you’re not clued in on the Demon Slayer franchise. ‘Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’ surpassed ‘Titanic’ and ‘ Spirited Away’ to become Japan’s highest grossing film of all time and – just this weekend – became the highest-grossing opening out of any foreign language film released in the US. What was surprising, however, was that the full-length anime went on to shatter box office records in Japan as well as overseas. Japan likes to do things traditionally, so it didn’t come out as left-field when animation studio Ufotable went ahead with releasing the Demon Slayer movie in local cinemas last October. We are, after all, living in the Netflix era, where many studios are opting to take their films straight to online streaming platforms rather than showing them in cinemas first. But when asking Astrid to make a pair of silver shoes for her, Lenore reveals her disturbing past and the true meaning of her request for these shoes.To release a film in cinemas in the middle of a pandemic is to take a bold leap of faith. In "The Silver Shoes", Astrid is surprised by a visit from Lenore, a newcomer who acts as if the village’s customs and laws don’t apply to her, leaving her friendless. Her fellow villagers believe the previous dragonslayer has been killed by a dragon, but Astrid knows the real reason he’s gone missing and this knowledge haunts her. In "The Dragonslayer’s Sword", Astrid the blacksmith struggles to choose between protecting herself from a new dragonslayer’s unwelcome advances and the necessity of keeping his weapons in good shape so he can protect her village from dragons. (Appropriate for adults and teens, ages 14 and up.) These are her Dragonslayer short stories, both of which were recommended for the Nebula Award. Years before Resa Nelson wrote her 4-book Dragonslayer series (The Dragonslayer’s Sword, The Iron Maiden, The Stone of Darkness, and The Dragon’s Egg), she wrote two short stories that were published in Science Fiction Age magazine.
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