‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’ movie coming soon on PH cinemas

Tanjiro Kamado in “Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train”. Image: screenshot from “Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train” trailer on Facebook/@demonslayer.anime

Tanjiro Kamado and the Demon Slayer Corps’ hunt for demons will resume as the highly-anticipated “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” film is set to hit Philippine cinemas.

“Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train” (also called “Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Train”) is set to pick up directly from where the first season left off in 2019 as it acts as the sequel.

The local counterpart of ODEX, a Singapore-based company that licenses and distributes anime across Southeast Asia, announced last Saturday, May 9 that the film will be shown in the Philippines.

The company did not disclose the exact release date of the film but noted that it is “coming soon.”

https://www.facebook.com/ODEXanimePH/posts/3338790666133959?__tn__=-R

The trailer for “Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train” has also been released last April on the anime’s official Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/demonslayer.anime/videos/252158919271247/

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” tells the story of Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy whose family got slaughtered by a demon and whose sister got turned into a demon. He joins the Demon Slayer Corps in a bid to kill the demon responsible for his family’s massacre and restore her sister back into a human.

Tanjiro, his sister Nezuko and co-Demon Slayers Inosuke and Zenitsu will be joining Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku aboard the Infinity Train in the film. JB

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