'Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Jou-hen' Anime Movie Trilogy Announced

by Vindstot
Jun 30, 8:18 AM | 51 Comments

The eighth and final episode of the Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Geiko-hen (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc) television anime announced an anime movie trilogy adaptation of the next story arc, Mugen Jou-hen (Infinity Castle Arc), on Sunday. The official website also revealed a teaser visual (pictured) and teaser trailer.

The Hashira Geiko-hen (Hashira Training Arc) anime premiered with a 48-minute first episode on May 12. Crunchyroll simulcast the anime worldwide with subtitles.

The first anime season aired in 26 episodes in Spring 2019. Aniplex of America licensed the anime series and simulcast them on Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Hulu.

The Mugen Ressha-hen (Mugen Train) sequel anime movie opened in Japan in October 2020. A seven-episode television edit of the movie featuring new scenes aired from October to November in 2021.

The Yuukaku-hen (Entertainment District Arc) television anime debuted with a one-hour special in December 2021. The Katanakaji no Sato-hen (Swordsmith Village Arc) television anime also premiered with a one-hour special in April 2023.

Manga author Koyoharu Gotouge received an honorable mention at the 70th Jump Treasure Newcomer Manga Awards for their Kagarigari one-shot in 2013, which became the prototype for Kimetsu no Yaiba. The supernatural action manga began serializing in Weekly Shounen Jump in February 2016 and ended its four-year run in May 2020. Shueisha published the 23rd and final volume in December 2020.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in July 2017 and simulpublished it on its Shounen Jump platform. The 23rd and final volume went on sale in August 2021. Shueisha's Manga Plus service also simulpublished the manga in English beginning in January 2019.

Teaser Trailer

Official site: https://kimetsu.com/anime/mugenjyohen_movie/
Official X (Twitter): @kimetsu_off

Source: Oricon News

Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie: Mugen Jou-hen on MAL

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I excited about this movie 🍿

Aug 26, 6:33 PM by Roktim583A

Anime NPCs saying UFO is milking DS but at the same time admire One Piece and ther sahit shounen lmao. stfu you idiot fucks

Aug 23, 10:18 AM by exvxa

people are mostly being serious here but I just wanna admire how pretti Giyu looks 💕

Jul 2, 6:49 AM by daddymahitowo

I just hope this doesn't turn into AOT final season (dragged out for years to come.)

Jul 1, 6:26 AM by OctoberSpirit

Kimetsu no Yaiba will surely end in who knows when

Jul 1, 4:07 AM by KitsuFrost

I know they're milking it, but at least we know these are going to look amazing.

Jun 30, 10:03 PM by malvarez1

I don´t like it cause that means Western fans has to wait almost half a year for the movie to come to them. I hope they eventually make a tv version of these movies like they did with Mugen Train.

Jun 30, 8:56 PM by Zack312

MegamiRem said:

RandomPerson9348 said:
The money part isn't the major problem for me. I will be watching all three, and it is good that they will earn more.

What concerns/annoys me is the detriment to the pacing and style of the arc. Infinity Castle has a lot of stuff going on simultaneously, which is why I compared it to Shibuya Incident. It would flow beautifully as a season.

But now it gets divided over three years, I assume. We'll have plot threads introduced in the first film that take two years to get resolved. The Zenitsu development teased last week probably won't pay off until the second film. They can circumvent the problem by rearranging the arc and allowing the films to have a closed feeling, but that ruins the original interconnected idea of it.

Also, they went to the effort of calling it "Infinity Castle" and not the "finale". Are we even sure it will include Sunrise Countdown? Cause there's 70-80 chapters left. That is a minimum of 4 well-paced films, not three. There will be more after this.

TL;DR - The issue isn't them earning money. The issue is them ruining the storytelling quality (in terms of which Infinity Castle is the second best arc after Mugen Train, imo), due to it.

Well yeah movie trilogy means we'll have wait longer but that takes us back to the better quality point as they'll get more time to work on it compared to a continuous 1/2 cour season. Also no it won't adapt the sunrise arc.

I couldn't care less about waiting. Let them take 10 years to animate it. I'll wait.

To me, it's about the integrity of the art form, which is being destroyed by these greedy producers.

KnY has a really talented team working on it with a lot of potential, but ig who cares about giving the manga the most respectful treatment possible as long as the audience can have 20 extra minutes of sakuga and the producers can get a couple more billion yen in their pockets.

And no, I'm not talking about how much satisfaction the animators get out of it. Of course they will. They're doing a great job. I'm talking about how they're being forced to handle the storytelling because of it.

I understand that most people won't care and will think I'm just ranting. And yes, they'll be right. But as someone who's been an artist for more than a decade now, stuff like this has a different impact on me. I'm actively seeing one of the few good things humanity has left being destroyed by people who understand nothing of it.

Jun 30, 5:45 PM by RandomPerson9348

@Yubisoft Yes I'm aware ufotable probably has some say in these decisions but most likely not nearly as much as Aniplex or Shueisha.

Jun 30, 3:51 PM by thebrentinator24

@3inPunisher In other words you can't counter their comments >you became salty >and then so you started posting nonsense for attention ?

Jun 30, 3:50 PM by Yubisoft

thebrentinator24 said:
if it was solely up to ufotable they would probably just do a regular TV season but it's Aniplex and Shueisha calling the shots

You are aware that studios are neither charities nor slaves, right? Ufotable is as greedy as both Aniplex and Shueisha since they agreed to this business model aka milk the franchise as much as possible. You people think for some reason that studios are like some small game studios that are mostly driven by passion to create things and not profit. Is this naïve mindset a new trend or something because I have seen it increase lately ... mostly after the attention seeker whiteknights started fighting MAPPA

Jun 30, 3:47 PM by Yubisoft

@MegamiRem Must have been hell for sure. I don't have patience to wait that much lol.

Jun 30, 3:13 PM by Enbu_Kirikaze

Brilliant. To be fair, it's the best way to adapt this arc, due to its specific structure. Episodic format could do the work, sure, but dividing certain sub-plots of the Infinity Fortress arc into several movies can not only offer top-notch visuals, audio and flow, but also provide the best possible portrayal of said sub-plots, with everything they have to offer (action and non-action scenes).

Jun 30, 3:06 PM by Adnash

Will all the three movies release together or one each year?

Jun 30, 2:14 PM by Rom-Com_lover

I finished watching the season. Don't tell me that they will endlessly fight Muzan in this endless labyrinth castle for all three films.

Jun 30, 2:12 PM by RobertBobert

Wow! Incredible news.

Jun 30, 1:41 PM by jorel262

@Enbu_Kirikaze Why I waited till last moment to watch heavens feel trilogy. (Gave in before the third one lol.)

Jun 30, 12:55 PM by MegamiRem

@Playcool The waiting between the movies is what worries me. With the Mugen train arc it was fine since it was a single relatively short arc, but with the Infinite Fortress it's going to be very tedious to wait years for them to come since they're connected. At the very least they will no doubt look spectacularly.

Jun 30, 12:48 PM by Enbu_Kirikaze

@MegamiRem It just caused some debate about how they could adapt the manga after Train, since the arcs seemed too uneven to just make a bunch of seasons.

Jun 30, 12:38 PM by RobertBobert

Its so funny seeing some people say that UFO is milking Demon slayer, if this was a different source material, yall would be celebrating. Adding additional scenes to flesh out the characters is not milking at all, and if you think it is then........ your an idiot

Jun 30, 12:28 PM by 3inPunisher

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