「鬼滅の刃」１億部突破へ　１０月に最新２２巻刊行

　吾峠呼世晴さんの人気漫画「鬼滅の刃」のコミックス累計発行部数（電子書籍を含む）が１億部を突破することが２４日、明らかになった。版元の集英社によると、１０月２日発売の最新２２巻で初版３７０万部を発行し、それに伴って１～２２巻合計の部数が１億部の大台に乗るという。
　同作は大正期の日本を舞台に、家族を鬼に惨殺された少年・竈門炭治郎が、生き残ったものの鬼と化した妹の禰豆子を人間に戻すため、鬼たちと闘うストーリー。２０１６年から今年５月まで「週刊少年ジャンプ」で連載された。最終巻となる２３巻は１２月発売の予定。（2020/09/24-11:08）

The cumulative circulation of popular Japanese manga series "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" will exceed 100 million copies soon, it was learned Thursday.
   Publisher Shueisha Inc. plans to sell 3.7 million copies of the first edition of Volume 22 of the manga series, to be released on Oct. 2. The cumulative circulation, including of electronic books, will thus exceed 100 million copies, according to Shueisha.
   The manga series, created by Koyoharu Gotoge, features boy character Kamado Tanjiro's fight against demons to reinstate his younger sister Nezuko as a human, after she turned into a demon when other family members were killed by demons. The story is set in Japan's Taisho era of 1912-1926.
   The manga appeared in the Shukan Shonen Jump weekly between 2016 and May this year.
   The 23rd and last volume is scheduled to be released in December.