Rib) and 2015’s Haeniwa no Zigzag ( Fly Garden Zigzag). Two one-shots published in Weekly Shonen Jump are also included in the collection, those being 2014’s Abarabone-san ( Mr. Yet, Gotouge’s 2014 one-shot Monjushirou Kyoudai ( The Monjushirou Brothers) graces the cover of the collection – perhaps to avoid any confusion when placed next to the latest Demon Slayer releases on the bookstore shelves. The collection includes the ‘prototype’ manga Kagarigari, which won the 70th Newcomer Treasure Award in 2013 and went on to inform the development of Demon Slayer three years later. Released last Friday alongside Demon Slayer volume 17 and the Demon Slayer light novel side story Kataba no Chou ( Wings of a Butterfly), the Koyoharu Gotouge short manga collection Koyoharu Gotouge Tanpenshuu collects four different one-shots published by the author before their big break with Demon Slayer in 2016. A new Koyoharu Gotouge short manga collection seeks to encapsulate that.
But there was a time when the artist wasn’t quite so lucky – back when they were just a rookie, scrambling for serialization and trying to find their big break in the manga industry. While Gotouge maintains anonymity in public, Kohei Ohnishi-an editor at Weekly Shonen Jump, the manga magazine that publishes Demon Slayer-says the writer’s personality shines through the series, in particular in Tanjiro’s “serious nature, honesty and strong sense of responsibility.” And with the Demon Slayer television series now streaming on Netflix and the film slated for release in North American theaters later this year, the reach of Gotouge’s work promises to go even further.It’d be an understatement to say that Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer ( Kimetsu no Yaiba) is now a massive hit. The manga follows Tanjiro, the teen protagonist who trains vigorously to fight against demons-while feeling immense empathy for these creatures who were once human.
Writing under the pen name Koyoharu Gotouge, the author published the first chapter of the serialized Demon Slayer in 2016. That changed last year, when the animated film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train logged the biggest opening weekend in Japan’s history and wound up grossing a record-setting $313 million-a surreal achievement that only deepened interest in the mysterious author and illustrator at the franchise’s heart. For almost two decades, Spirited Away was Japan’s highest-grossing movie of all time.
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