Crunchyroll-distributed Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village hit North American theaters over the weekend and finished in fourth place at the box office with an impressive $10.1 million haul.
Screening in just 1,774 theaters, the fewest of any film in the top eight, the latest Demon Slayer feature averaged an impressive $5,703 per theater. Only Creed III, the weekend’s top box office draw, did better.
Although the film’s opening fell well behind that of its predecessor Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, which launched with a monstrous $21 million in April of 2021, the Swordsmith Village debut is a further demonstration of the drawing power that anime franchises have in the U.S.