Institute / Research Cases / QS-RC-099
Koyoharu Gotouge
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. The story of Tanjiro Kamado, a boy whose family is taken by demons, and the swordsmen of the Demon Slayer Corps grew from a serial in Weekly Shonen Jump into a national phenomenon. Its sales broke record after record, the film Mugen Train rewrote Japan's box-office history, and the work spread across the world. Yet its author has never shown a face or revealed a background, sending only the work out into the world. In April 2019 the television anime began, and the work exploded. What overlapped in the author's spacetime at that moment? Why was the serial closed by its own author in May 2020, at the very peak of its popularity? We read the structure of the time in which a world-moving dream was realised, and what comes round after it, against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Koyoharu Gotouge (吾峠呼世晴) — Manga artist
- Period analysed
- 1989–2026
- Three pillars
- Day 乙丑 / Month 己巳 / Year 己巳
- Void branches
- 戌亥 (Dog–Boar)
- Destiny area
- 0.000 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Editions
- Two editions — calculated as female (main) and as male (reference), as the author's gender is not publicly disclosed
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- This destiny carries the highest capacity for wealth and fortune, together with a condition under which it collapses.
- The year the work exploded worldwide lay inside a special span of time in which the frame of fortune comes off.
- In that year, the time that came round struck the birth pillars twice over.
- Just after the work exploded worldwide, the ten-year phase changed.
- A relationship emerges between a life lived out of sight and the type this destiny actually describes.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did Demon Slayer explode all at once in 2019?
- What overlapped in April 2019?
- Why was the serial closed at the peak of its popularity?
- What comes round after the dream is realised?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 2013 | 癸巳 | Honourable mention in the JUMP Treasure New Manga Award |
| 2014 | 甲午 | One-shots Monju Shiro Kyodai and Rokkotsu-san |
| 2016 | 丙申 | 15 Feb — Demon Slayer begins in Weekly Shonen Jump |
| 2019 | 己亥 (天) | 6 Apr — The television anime begins |
| 2020 | 庚子 | 18 May — The serial ends; 16 Oct — Mugen Train opens |
| 2020 | 庚子 | 4 Dec — The final volume 23 is published |
| 2025 | 乙巳 | 18 Jul — Infinity Castle Part 1 opens |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The key star and the mother
- The void and the double opposition
- The complete format and the metal union
- The shift into the 壬申 phase
- A life lived apart from destiny
- The four layers of April 2019
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
Purchase
Order this Research Case
¥50,000incl. tax · PDF · Japanese
Email the case number QS-RC-099. We reply with an invoice; the PDF follows once payment is confirmed.
Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii