Who is Koyoharu Gotouge, creator of Demon Slayer?

Who is Koyoharu Gotouge

Despite running for only four years, Demon Slayer was the best-selling manga in Japan in both 2019 and 2020, with the anime adaptation breaking box office records worldwide. Gotouge maintains a very private profile.

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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

2016–2020Writer & Artist

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

Tanjiro becomes a demon slayer to avenge his family and turn his sister Nezuko, now a demon, back into a human.

23volumes

205chapters

14times it opened the magazine

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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump No. 11 · 2016, on sale February 15, 2016. That same issue also carried Kochikame, One Piece and Gintama. Its last chapter in the magazine, number 205, ran in No. 24 · 2020 (May 18, 2020), after 4 and a half years of serialization.

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