Do not underestimate Japan’s hit “Demon Slayer” franchise, in which a small group of trained fighters have reached the beginning of a multi-year, three-movie “final battle.” But also, do not get it confused with “KPop Demon Hunters,” the animated one-off that became a monster success for Netflix this summer, but is something else entirely — so different that fans of either might bristle at the comparison, which begins and ends with the word “demon.”
A long-running manga series that became a popular anime show, which then developed a passionate enough following to support several blockbuster theatrical features, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” is something like a religion whose characters and rules one must already know to appreciate in any form. The first three movies were basically glorified TV specials to launch each new season (the last episode of one arc combined with the first episode of the next). Then came “Mugen Train,…
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