Some release dates for several big locals films were announced this past week:

Doraemon: Nobita's Little Space War - March 5th, 2021
Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet - April 16th, 2021 (rescheduled from last April)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final - April 23rd, 2021 (rescheduled from last July)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning - June 4th, 2021 (rescheduled from last August)
My Hero Academia Third Movie (Subtitle TBA) - Summer 2021
Masquerade Night - September 17th, 2021 (sequel to the 2019 blockbuster Masquerade Hotel)

And here are some Hollywood dates which may or may not be new, but they're obviously subject to being pulled completely:

Wonder Woman 1984 - December 18th, 2020 (moved up a week from December 25th, 2020)
Raya and the Last Dragon - March 12th, 2021 (rescheduled from last November)
Black Widow - April 29th, 2021 (pushed back a week from April 21st, 2021, after being rescheduled from last November, after being rescheduled from last May)
Cruella - May 28th, 2021 (I don't believe this one had a date until somewhat recently?)
Minions: Rise of Gru - Summer 2021 (rescheduled from last July)
The Eternals - October 29th, 2021 (rescheduled from last November)
West Side Story - December 10th, 2021 (rescheduled from this December)

Among the Hollywood films, Minions 2 probably stands the best shot of being released since Toho-Towa (subsidiary of Toho) has distribution rights to Universal films in the market. And it's not on the release schedule, yet, but I would expect Godzilla vs. King Kong to be released since Toho has the distribution rights to the Warner Bros. Godzilla films in the market.

Remember I said without Xmas-New Year it would have been a much closer race. I take that back. This would have cruised pass SA without those too.

Looks like 36Bn is back on menu.

Yay!! Welcome to the bright side charlie

Volume 23: All 3.95 milliom coppies of the 1st patch today were sold out.

Does the volume 23 will still count in 2020 (even when the totals are already done) or it will be for the 2021 total?
Sorry, idk anything about the manga industry

Counts for 2021. Oricon starts and stops counting around mid-November (2020 started at the 19th and ended at the 22nd of Nov for them), so everything after counts for the next year. The way things are going Kimetsu could still top 2021 manga sales

Demon Slayer : the Manga - Record of Slayed Records List

- Best Year in Oricon's history : 2020 with 82 345 447 sales.
- Best semester in Oricon's history : first semester 2020 with 45 297 633 sales.
- Best Month in Oricon's history : October 2020, from September 28th to November 1st with 11 571 206 sales.
- Best Week in Oricon's history : Week #49 of 2020, from October 19th to October 25th with 3 688 476 sales.

- First volume in Oricon's history to sell 4 000 000 : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 with 4 017 245 from June 3rd 2016 to September 27th 2020.
- First volume in Oricon's history to sell 4 000 000 in a year : Kimetsu no Yaiba #18 with 4 019 701 from December 4th 2019 to October 18th 2020.
- Fastest volume in Oricon's history to sell 4 000 000 : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 (limited edition included) with 4 041 316 from October 2nd 2020 to November 22nd 2020.
- Fastest volume in Oricon's history to sell 3 000 000 : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with 3 131 075 in 17 days, from October 2nd 2020 to October 18th 2020.

- Best selling volume in Oricon's history : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 with 4 665 511(ongoing).
- Best selling volume in a year : Kimetsu no Yaiba #20 (limited edition included) with 4 396 467.
- Best number of consecutive apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon ranking for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #02, #14 and #15 with 68 weeks (ongoing).
- Best number of apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon for a volume: Kimetsu no Yaiba #15 with 79 weeks (ongoing).

- Best selling fanbook : Kimetsu no Yaiba Official Fanbook with 1 298 071.
- Best number of consecutive apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon ranking for a fanbook : Kimetsu no Yaiba Official Fanbook with 11 weeks.
- Best number of apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon rankings for a fanbook : Kimetsu no Yaiba Official Fanbook with 31 weeks.

- Best selling limited edition for a volume in Oricon's history : Kimetsu no Yaiba #20 with 1 637 005 sales.
- Best number of consecutive apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon ranking for a limited edition : Kimetsu no Yaiba #20 limited edition with 8 weeks.
- Best number of apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon ranking for a limited edition : Kimetsu no Yaiba #21 limited edition with 11 weeks (ongoing).

- First manga to monopolise the first 18 spots of the Oricon top 50 weekly rankings : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 to #18 from January 27th to February 2nd 2020.
- First manga to monopolise the first 19 spots of the Oricon top 50 weekly rankings : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 to #19 from February 10th to February 16th and a second time from April 27th to May 3rd 2020.
- First manga to monopolise the first 22 spots of the Oricon top 50 weekly rankings : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 to #22 from October 19th to October 25th 2020.
- First manga to have its 17 first volumes present 42 weeks in a row in the Oricon top 50 weekly rankings, from November 18th of 2019 to September 06th 2020.
- Limited editions excluded, Kimetsu no Yaiba only missed 13 out of the 1051 possible spots in the 2020 weekly Oricon rankings , from november 18th 2019 to november 22nd 2020

- Biggest first week for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with 2 204 279 in 3 days.
- Biggest third week for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with 312 449 additional sales.
- Biggest fourth week for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with a minimum of 325 762 additional sales (missing the limited edition number).
- Biggest fifth week for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with a minimum of 194 335 additional sales (missing the limited edition number).


Here is the updated list of records for the manga, with the numbers from week #01 of 2021 (november 23rd,2020 to November 29th, 2020). After 27 weeks missing, the fanbook makes a comeback and is approching the 1 300 000 copies sold. December will be a very interesting month to follow, especially newt week^^.

ohhhh
so with current records like this, will it be possible for KnY to maintain it's position in at least the top 5? I mean, top 10 is sure-ball, but idk about top 5 and above since a lot of series will also have some kind of boosts.
I'm thinking that next year will be much of an even fight in the rankings.

"Could top". Not could, It will. The real question is by how much. This week's sales alone will most likely be enough to get a top 5 place in next year's ranking.

I've been reading Japanese twitter and it is pretty insane. People who haver never bought manga before (Not even Kimetsu volumes) are buying this final volume. I saw someone who has only watched the movie (has not watched the orignal anime or read the manga) buy the final volume.

Here is also an interesting article about the cultural impact of Kimetsu.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/202012 ... 31000.html

This article speculates the total economic effect to be at 270 billion yen. "Kimetsunomics"
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/14fc1 ... c66a892362

Very noice, also ketsunomics lmao
I mean, love or hate KnY, everyone has to agree that this is insane. KnY is really comparable to a once in a lifetime phenomenon.

Say what? All 3.95 million copies gone in 12 hours? I'm not surprised, well, I am that it sold out THAT fast, but do you have a source? Shueisha really should have included the second-print next week into this week's print-run.

And yes, this week ALONE will exceed 5 million copies for 2021, if the above is true (and it "only" needed to do near 3 million, really). That'll be enough to make the Top 10 for 2021. And there's still a lot that'll be going on with the series, too, such as season two of the anime and/or the next movie, spin-off manga/novels, entrance in the video game industry, and who knows what else. It'll clearly be #1 for 2021, as it'll probably exceed 10 million in just December.

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train - Daily Performance Tracker

10/16 - Fri.: ¥1,268,724,700 ($12.0 million) / 910,507
10/17 - Sat.: ¥1,701,723,350 ($16.2 million) / 1,270,234
10/18 - Sun.: ¥1,652,669,400 ($15.7 million) / 1,239,752
10/19 - Mon.: ¥735,000,000 ($7.0 million) / 545,000
10/20 - Tues.: ¥545,000,000 ($5.1 million) / 395,000
10/21 - Wed.: ¥635,000,000 ($6.0 million) / 505,000
10/22 - Thur.: ¥465,000,000 ($4.5 million) / 340,000
10/23 - Fri.: ¥700,000,000 ($6.7 million) / 510,000
10/24 - Sat.: ¥1,500,944,600 ($14.3 million) / 1,115,182
10/25 - Sun.: ¥1,540,504,150 ($14.7 million) / 1,157,654
10/26 - Mon.: ¥620,000,000 ($5.9 million) / 460,000
10/27 - Tues.: ¥410,000,000 ($3.9 million) / 300,000
10/28 - Wed.: ¥575,000,000 ($5.5 million) / 430,000
10/29 - Thur.: ¥390,000,000 ($3.7 million) / 285,000
10/30 - Fri.: ¥555,000,000 ($5.3 million) / 405,000
10/31 - Sat.: ¥1,212,312,550 ($11.6 million) / 887,893
11/01 - Sun.: ¥1,286,354,600 ($12.3 million) / 1,140,390 *Discount Day*
11/02 - Mon: ¥820,000,000 ($7.8 million) / 605,000 *Holiday Boosted*
11/03 - Tues.: ¥1,185,000,000 ($11.3 million) / 900,000 *Holiday*
11/04 - Wed.: ¥350,000,000 ($3.3 million) / 260,000
11/05 - Thur.: ¥230,000,000 ($2.2 million) / 170,000
11/06 - Fri.: ¥325,000,000 ($3.1 million) / 240,000
11/07 - Sat.: ¥863,827,750 ($8.3 million) / 628,614
11/08 - Sun.: ¥909,098,150 ($8.8 million) / 667,179
11/09 - Mon.: ¥315,000,000 ($3.0 million) / 230,000
11/10 - Tues.: ¥220,000,000 ($2.1 million) / 160,000
11/11 - Wed.: ¥295,000,000 ($2.8 million) / 230,000
11/12 - Thur.: ¥200,000,000 ($1.9 million) / 145,000
11/13 - Fri.: ¥310,000,000 ($3.0 million) / 225,000
11/14 - Sat.: ¥795,343,500 ($7.6 million) / 611,418
11/15 - Sun.: ¥726,313,550 ($6.9 million) / 535,986
11/16 - Mon.: ¥265,000,000 ($2.5 million) / 195,000
11/17 - Tues.: ¥165,000,000 ($1.6 million) / 120,000
11/18 - Wed.: ¥240,000,000 ($2.3 million) / 185,000
11/19 - Thur.: ¥165,000,000 ($1.6 million) / 120,000
11/20 - Fri.: ¥240,000,000 ($2.3 million) / 170,000
11/21 - Sat.: ¥439,606,550 ($4.2 million) / 314,726
11/22 - Sun.: ¥592,738,550 ($5.7 million) / 433,315
11/23 - Mon.: ¥460,110,250 ($4.4 million) / 357,741 *Holiday*
11/24 - Tues.: ¥125,000,000 ($1.2 million) / 90,000
11/25 - Wed.: ¥160,000,000 ($1.5 million) / 120,000
11/26 - Thur.: ¥120,000,000 ($1.1 million) / 85,000
11/27 - Fri.: ¥195,000,000 ($1.9 million) / 130,000
11/28 - Sat.: ¥556,443,300 ($5.3 million) / 392,017
11/29 - Sun: ¥448,060,450 ($4.3 million) / 320,031
11/30 - Mon.: ¥140,000,000 ($1.3 million) / 100,000 *est.*
12/01 - Tues.: ¥170,000,000 ($1.6 million) / 140,000 *est.* *Discount Day*
12/02 - Wed.: ¥125,000,000 ($1.2 million) /x95,000 *est.*
12/03 - Thur.: ¥x90,000,000 ($0.9 million) / x65,000 *est.*
12/04 - Fri.: ¥140,000,000 ($1.3 million) / 100,000 *est.*

50-Day Cumulative Total: ¥28,186,438,050 ($268.6 million) / 21,032,177

Note: Mon.-Fri. are estimates (excluding Holiday Mondays), therefore adding up each day won't equal the actual total.

This Friday might look higher than what the usual locations suggests, but the last two Fridays have come in a lot higher than estimated, so I'm going with a higher estimate with this Friday's estimate.

@Corpse, are you keeping a prediction for the weekend around $7.3M, or have you downgraded your prediction because of pre-sales or something ?

And besides, do you have the pre-sales figures for the weekend ? Are they good ?

No, I'll keep my early projection the same for now. I'll probably adjust it a bit once pre-sale data comes in later today, but I don't see any reason to change it right now. Checking some key locations, sales look good. Obviously way down versus last Saturday, of course.

But remember that since the film is on a see-saw, this weekend is a down weekend. Saturday will probably be down 40% or so versus last Saturday, while Sunday will likely be down around 20% or so, giving us a weekend drop around 30%. I remember the Saturday from two weeks ago, also one of the down weekends due to the see-saw effect, coming in around 45% below that prior Saturday and people were freaking out unnecessarily. That weekend ended up dropping near 30% (32%) as expected in the end.

Every other Saturday IS going to be down ~40% or something until January since every other other Saturday is going to see increases.

Also, in regard to presales: A new Fate film is opening today, so when pre-sales come out later today, it's very likely it'll have higher pre-sales going into Saturday. The Fate series has a big and loyal fanbase, but the films are also very frontloaded and their pre-sales represent a high percentage of daily ticket sales. No, it's not going to dethrone Demon Slayer.

Haven't heard anything about the 3.95M being out of stock at all.

Wouldn't be surprised if it drops a bit more than 30% this weekend but who knows, the weekdays were pretty damn solid after all.

19 hours left till the special fan screening in my country. There are only 6 shows total in the country.

Presale:

581/ 1077 (~54%)

The ticket price for these special fan screening is much (much more) expensive than normal ticket price in the market. There are many other people are waiting for normal ticket price in 3 weeks later.

And there are some new coronavirus cases which just appeared on this week after a long time no new case. So it can somehow make people afraid too.

So Demon Slayer should surpass ¥29Bn by Monday or Tuesday and then surpass 22 millions admissions by next Saturday and finally ¥30Bn by next Monday or next Tuesday ! Nice !

Quite a good hold in terms of pre-sales versus last Saturday. And it's even above Fate in pre-sales, too, which is surprising. Yes, they're down 62% (because last Saturday was up over 75% due to the giveaway), but more importantly, it's an improvement on the first post-giveaway Saturday (11/21) which was down 68% in pre-sales as it gradually improved to a 52% drop for the day and 32% for the weekend. (All percentages are from the usual locations.) A 40% hold today is pretty likely I'd say, which would be very good, and set-up a 30% drop or better over the weekend.

Biggest Eighth Weekends/Eight Week Totals (2000-)

¥1.120 billion ($11.1 million), +46%, ¥14.62 billion ($143.4 million) - Frozen (2014)
¥753.0 million ($6.8 million), +02%, ¥19.12 billion ($157.8 million) - Spirited Away (2001)
¥705.0 million ($6.8 million), -30%, ¥28.89 billion ($275.4 million) - Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (2020) *Weekend Prediction*
¥644.9 million ($6.1 million), -08%, ¥15.26 billion ($146.1 million) - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
¥507.1 million ($5.6 million), -11%, ¥10.97 billion ($121.6 million) - Avatar (2009)
¥505.8 million ($4.2 million), -31%, ¥14.73 billion ($124.1 million) - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
¥467.9 million ($4.5 million), -33%, ¥15.41 billion ($150.1 million) - Your Name. (2016)
¥455.6 million ($4.6 million), +34%, ¥9.77 billion ($100.2 million) - The Wind Rises (2013)
¥429.7 million ($3.2 million), -44%, ¥17.18 billion ($128.1 million) - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
¥424.2 million ($3.5 million), -22%, ¥14.39 billion ($122.5 million) - Bayside Shakedown: Save the Rainbow Bridge! (2003)
¥412.1 million ($3.7 million), +46%, ¥11.56 billion ($104.1 million) - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
¥378.1 million ($3.5 million), -26%, ¥13.44 billion ($125.1 million) - Ponyo (2008)
¥364.0 million ($3.3 million), -07%, ¥7.20 billion ($63.8 million) - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
¥347.2 million ($3.3 million), -16%, ¥9.93 billion ($93.7 million) - The Last Samurai (2003)
¥344.9 million ($3.1 million), -30%, ¥11.99 billion ($109.9 million) - Frozen II (2019)
¥287.0 million ($2.6 million), -05%, ¥10.95 billion ($97.0 million) - Beauty and the Beast (2017)
¥284.5 million ($2.7 million), -19%, ¥6.53 billion ($60.5 million) - Zootopia (2016)
¥253.6 million ($2.3 million), -16%, ¥6.68 billion ($61.3 million) - Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004)
¥253.5 million ($2.4 million), -39%, ¥12.18 billion ($113.2 million) - Weathering With You (2019)
¥251.6 million ($2.9 million), -09%, ¥9.98 billion ($118.2 million) - Toy Story 3 (2010)
¥250.7 million ($1.9 million), -21%, ¥7.79 billion ($59.7 million) - Monsters, Inc. (2002)

First time it's not going to break a weekend record, due to Frozen's crazy Golden Week 8th week/weekend. But remember the see-saw effect moving forward. This is a down weekend, and next weekend will be an up weekend. Just because it isn't going to break the 8th weekend record, definitely doesn't mean it won't break any future weekend records. The 9th weekend record, if it comes in around the prediction above, is pretty likely to fall for example as it'll likely stay pretty flat/possibly increase next weekend. And its 11th-13th weekends occur over the holiday period, so look for those to be pretty significant, too.

And the fact that its total is still about equal to the combined 8 week totals of almost any two films is ridiculous. And it's still tracking almost ¥10 billion ahead of Spirited Away.

Shoudn't Weathering with You 8th weekend be in the list too?
I remember it was over ¥250 million?

Indeed, thank you. It and Frozen II have been added.

Yeah, I checked because I copied the figures when released to make a comparison between WwY and Your Name.

@Corpse, can you detail the percentages of fall or increase each week that we could see from the fourth week of December until the end of the holidays to realize what effect the holidays will have on the box Demon Slayer office ?

What is the current record for most weekend at top 1?