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This Japanese sports manga series tells the story of Hanamichi Sakuragi, the leader of a high school gang who joins the school basketball team to impress a girl, but quickly discovers a genuine love for the sport itself.

It follows our titular character on his mission to become the most skilled ninja and leader of his village. The story is based on traditional Japanese culture and mythology and is a wonderful introductory series for newer manga readers.

It follows teenage Tanjiro Kamado, who strives to become a demon slayer after his family was slaughtered and his younger sister, Nezuko, turned into a demon. The series follows Tanjiro and his companions as they learn to become demon slayers and face fierce enemies, all while looking for a cure to turn Nezuko back into a human.

The manga series, created by Koyoharu Gotoge, features boy character Kamado Tanjiro’s fight against demons to reinstate his younger sister Nezuko as a human, after she turned into a demon when other family members were killed by demons. The story is set in Japan’s Taisho era of 1912-1926.

Hajime Isayama’s manga “Attack on Titan” began serialization in Kodansha Ltd.’s Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 2009 and was marketed primarily at teen boys. The series has sold some 100 million copies including electronic versions. June 9 saw its 34th and final volume go on sale, and in addition to the standard edition for 572 yen (about $5.20), two special versions have also been released.

Shueisha explained, “Even before the anime adaptation of Jujutsu Kaisen, a book of illustrations from the original manga was exceedingly popular, and we heard from people saying they wanted extra value in the form of products like supplementary material, and so this time, we are preparing the special editions to respond to the needs of those customers.”

Now many hit series release special editions. Yamamori says gaming and publishing firm Square Enix Co. provided a catalyst for the trend in the 2000s. As with its popular manga series “Fullmetal Alchemist,” it made efforts via TV anime adaptations and other forms of media to create products that could become widely popular with male and female readers alike, and actively published comics with special items included.

The Research Institute for Publications, a market survey and research body, reported that in 2020 total sales from print editions of manga magazines and books had risen 13% from the previous year due to hits like “Demon Slayer,” reaching 270.6 billion yen (about $2.44 billion). Electronic book sales climbed even higher and far exceeded paper sales, rising 32% from the year before to hit 342 billion yen (about $3.1 billion).

“If you just want to consume the contents, then digital is enough,” said Yamamori. “But, if you’re selling paper manga, you have to create something that is appealing enough as a physical item for people to buy it. In recent years (each publisher) has placed an emphasis on the books themselves, including elaborate cover designs and the touch of the paper; it seems that limited editions are part of that strategy.”

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train” is the continuation of a hit television series called “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba,” which was, in turn, based upon a hit manga of the same title, by the artist Koyoharu Gotoge. The series is set in Japan’s Taisho era, which lasted from 1912 to 1926; the precise date is never specified. The hero is Tanjiro Kamado, a boy who ekes out a living with his mother and siblings in the verdant mountains of a rapidly modernizing Japan. One day, Tanjiro returns from an errand to discover that his family has been slaughtered by demons: vicious monsters that roam the land in search of human blood. For these malevolent creatures, humans are both sustenance and a medium of reproduction, for once bitten, a human will inevitably turn demon. A blend of Western vampire lore and local Japanese folk traditions, the demons are dark mirrors of the human condition, their appearances varying wildly depending on whatever negative traits they possessed as humans. The lone survivor of this massacre is Tanjiro’s sister Nezuko, who now teeters on the cusp of turning into a demon herself. Before Tanjiro can react, a mysterious warrior appears and tries to kill Nezuko; Tanjiro instinctively protects her. During the battle, it becomes clear that Nezuko has retained her human personality and is actively resisting her thirst for blood. The stranger fits Nezuko with a bamboo gag—better safe than sorry—then instructs Tanjiro to seek out a secret society called the Demon Slayer Corps. So it is that the siblings are thrust into a shadow war playing out between humanity and demon-kind.