On the 12th, the average household audience rating of the movie “Kimetsu no Yaiba” Infinite Train Edition (7:00 pm) broadcasted on Fuji TV on the 10th was 9.1% (Kanto area). I found out through video research.
The average individual audience rating was 6.3%. However, the average separate audience rating of the previous broadcast, which was broadcast for the first time on September 25, 2021, was 21.4%, and the average personal audience rating was 15.7%. “Kimetsu no Yaiba” was serialized in “Weekly Shonen Jump,” released on February 15, 2016, and published 205 episodes without breaks for four years and three months until the same magazine was released on May 18, 2020. Set in the Taisho era, the main character Tanjiro Kamado (animation voice = Natsuki Hanae) trains to fight the demon that killed his family and joins the “Demon Slayer Corps,” and becomes a monster younger sister.
A story about fighting to find a way to turn Nezuko back into a human: from April to September 2019, the anime “Tanjiro Kamado Risshi Hen” was broadcast, and its popularity exploded. Then, on October 16, 2020, the animated movie “Kimetsu no Yaiba: Infinite Train Edition,” adapted from the original manga’s 7th and 8th volumes, was released and exceeded 40.3 billion yen in box office revenue.
The ‘Infinite Train Edition’ has been made into a TV animation, and all seven episodes will be broadcast on Fuji TV from October 10, 2021. The first episode is an entirely new episode depicting the mission of Kyojuro Rengoku (voice: Satoshi Hino) on the way to the Mugen Train after leaving the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters, and episodes 2 to 7 are on the Mugen Train. ‘s mission is depicted with about 70 cuts of new additional video, newly added BGM, completely new trailer, and new theme song video.
It has been announced that the “Swordsmith’s Village Edition” will start broadcasting on the same station in April next year. Furthermore, it was also announced that from February 3 next year, “World Tour Screening ‘Kimetsu no Yaiba’ First Quarter Gathering and To the Village of Swordsmiths” will be held.