It seems Friday number of showings has an increase.
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Where can you see that ?

Doraemon's first week is up, so it's losing a large amount of its showings due to under-performing, including the largest screen and the majority of IMAX screens at every location, so theaters are giving them back to Demon Slayer.

And good think too, since it's a giveaway weekend and Saturday is filling up very fast. A third of showings are already reaching 50% full or better at the busier locations over a day out. I want to see how it looks going into Saturday to make any predictions, but right now if I had to guess, I'd say it's certainly aiming for a 400,000+ (admissions) day.

Note that the Friday seating includes many locations at 50% capacity since it's a weekday. The Saturday and Sunday seating will add 300,000 or more seats to that total, so it'll likely be back over 800,000.

So the chances are Demon Slayer will surpass 800k admissions this weekend ?

I'm not expecting a jump quite that high. I'm mostly expecting the weekend admissions to either be on par with last weekend, or maybe experience a slight decrease/increase.

Just need to watch over-predicting Saturday from the strong reservation status. The Saturday two weeks ago looked like it was aiming for a 20-30% increase over the previous Saturday, but it ultimately came in 2.8% below it. Still an incredible result at levels that high, of course, but the strong reservations were a bit misleading. I think the reservations this Saturday will give the illusion of an even bigger increase (probably starting out up to 50% higher) since last Saturday was just slightly deflated, but come down to maybe 25-30% or so.

So when the Saturday updates start to come in this weekend, definitely wait until later in the day before reading too much into them. There's a lot to "wait and see" going on this weekend, Saturday especially, but we do know that Saturday reservations are very, very impressive a day out now.

And @Corpse what do you think about my predictions ? Do you think they are realistic or inaccurate at times ?

Looks reasonable enough for such long-term predictions.

Personally, I think Week 12 will probably be a little stronger, while Week 13 will be a little weaker. Week 12 is where the real holiday boosts are going to come from, whereas Week 13 should be on more of a downward trend.

Also Week 14 has a holiday (the 11th), so while it will be down a good bit, I wouldn't expect the full week to be down more than 50%. Unless a film is skewing really young, 50% drops of any kind, even after holiday periods, are pretty rare. It's super, super early, but my guess is that week would drop more around 40% from whatever Week 13 earns.

And in general, the numbers through mid/late-January, and then later throughout February and March, and so on, are probably going to be stronger than a lot of people think. It'll slow down, sure, but it won't be on its way to wrapping up for quite some time. There are no October releases to reference, but some of the biggest November films, while slowing down a bit into mid/late-January, still performed well for several weeks, even months, afterwards. Really the only films that stall after the holidays are either younger-skewing films and/or poor-to-average received releases.

I don't know if it is some error but including independent was very high yday.

what this mean?

if im not mistaken, friday number can double what it is already starting from 6pm ?

So for example if it is at 40k admissions at usual locations at 6pm, DS can finish at 80k admissions at the end of the day?

Fridays are the weakest day in the morning and early afternoon, but they're the strongest weekday in the evening/night hours. Looks like it'll continue its trend of having a Friday on par with or slightly below Wednesday.

actually maybe I'm wrong but I think most of the people who saw Demon Slayer this week between Tuesday and Friday were the ones who didn't even know there was a giveaway on the weekend

Good night Corpse (I know you didn't hit the time but it was too close and I really wanted to use this)

The independent locations are performing very high on Mimorin. Wonder if there is some error.

How to check the independent locations??

A bit surprised to see a better drop today right before the start of the giveaway, looks like it'll improve a bit on wednesday even. I guess getting screens back helped a bit.

Demon Slayer : the Manga - Record of Slayed Records List

- Best Year in Oricon's history : 2020 with 82 345 447 sales.
- Best semester in Oricon's history : first semester 2020 with 45 297 633 sales.
- Best Month in Oricon's history : October 2020, from September 28th to November 1st with 11 571 206 sales.
- Best Week in Oricon's history : Week #49 of 2020, from October 19th to October 25th with 3 688 476 sales.

- First volume in Oricon's history to sell 4 000 000 : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 with 4 017 245 from June 3rd 2016 to September 27th 2020.
- First volume in Oricon's history to sell 4 000 000 in a year : Kimetsu no Yaiba #18 with 4 019 701 from december 4th 2019 to October 18th 2020.
- Fastest volume in Oricon's history to sell 4 000 000 : Kimetsu no Yaiba #21 (limited edition included) with 4 016 268 from July 3rd 2020 to November 1st 2020.
- Fastest volume in Oricon's history to sell 3 000 000 : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with 3 131 075 in 17 days, from October 2nd 2020 to October 18th 2020.

- Best selling volume in Oricon's history : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 with 4 623 478 (ongoing).
- Best number of consecutive apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon ranking for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #02, #14 and #15 with 67 weeks (ongoing).
- Best number of apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon for a volume: Kimetsu no Yaiba #15 with 78 weeks (ongoing).

- Best selling fanbook : Kimetsu no Yaiba Official Fanbook with 1 017 583.
- Best number of consecutive apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon ranking for a fanbook : Kimetsu no Yaiba Official Fanbook with 11 weeks.
- Best number of apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon rankings for a fanbook : Kimetsu no Yaiba Official Fanbook with 30 weeks.

- Best selling limited edition for a volume in Oricon's history : Kimetsu no Yaiba #20 with 1 614 858 sales.
- Best number of consecutive apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon ranking for a limited edition : Kimetsu no Yaiba #20 limited edition with 8 weeks.
- Best number of apparitions in the top 50 weekly Oricon ranking for a limited edition : Kimetsu no Yaiba #21 limited edition with 11 weeks (ongoing).

- First manga to monopolise the first 18 spots of the Oricon top 50 weekly rankings : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 to #18 from January 27th to February 2nd 2020.
- First manga to monopolise the first 19 spots of the Oricon top 50 weekly rankings : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 to #19 from February 10th to February 16th and a second time from April 27th to May 3rd 2020.
- First manga to monopolise the first 22 spots of the Oricon top 50 weekly rankings : Kimetsu no Yaiba #01 to #22 from October 19th to October 25th 2020.
- First manga to have its 17 first volumes present 42 weeks in a row in the Oricon top 50 weekly rankings, from November 18th of 2019 to September 06th 2020.

- Biggest first week for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with 2 204 279 in 3 days.
- Biggest third week for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with 312 449 additional sales.
- Biggest fourth week for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with a minimum of 325 762 additional sales (missing the limited edition number).
- Biggest fifth week for a volume : Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 with a minimum of 194 335 additional sales (missing the limited edition number).



Here is the updated list of records for the manga, with the numbers from week #53 (November 16th to November 22nd).
The record in green probably belongs to Kimetsu no Yaiba #22 if the limited edition sold 16 106 between week #49 and #53, which is certain but will only be proven with the yearly numbers release.

A final note : just this year, each volume of Kimetsu no Yaiba sold more than the previous record holder One Piece #61 (in a year) with 3 382 588 or One piece #63 with 3 390 679 (in more than a year).

Yes I believe the imax screens are helping it a little.

Other movies are performing better as well
I wonder if the COVID panic faded a little than last weekend

Your final note is a truly absurd fact. And I want to clarify that it's not just the volumes released this past year, but as you bold, each and EVERY volume (including the early volumes from four years ago) sold more than the previous record-holder. So it broke the previous yearly high 22 times over.

And the return of its IMAX screens today definitely helped it, as it will over the weekend, too. The film has been an absolute smash on IMAX, and they're always the first showings to fill up.

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Demon Slayer: Mugen Train - Daily Performance Tracker

10/16 - Fri.: ¥1,268,724,700 ($12.0 million) / 910,507
10/17 - Sat.: ¥1,701,723,350 ($16.2 million) / 1,270,234
10/18 - Sun.: ¥1,652,669,400 ($15.7 million) / 1,239,752
10/19 - Mon.: ¥735,000,000 ($7.0 million) / 545,000
10/20 - Tues.: ¥545,000,000 ($5.1 million) / 395,000
10/21 - Wed.: ¥635,000,000 ($6.0 million) / 505,000
10/22 - Thur.: ¥465,000,000 ($4.5 million) / 340,000
10/23 - Fri.: ¥700,000,000 ($6.7 million) / 510,000
10/24 - Sat.: ¥1,500,944,600 ($14.3 million) / 1,115,182
10/25 - Sun.: ¥1,540,504,150 ($14.7 million) / 1,157,654
10/26 - Mon.: ¥620,000,000 ($5.9 million) / 460,000
10/27 - Tues.: ¥410,000,000 ($3.9 million) / 300,000
10/28 - Wed.: ¥575,000,000 ($5.5 million) / 430,000
10/29 - Thur.: ¥390,000,000 ($3.7 million) / 285,000
10/30 - Fri.: ¥555,000,000 ($5.3 million) / 405,000
10/31 - Sat.: ¥1,212,312,550 ($11.6 million) / 887,893
11/01 - Sun.: ¥1,286,354,600 ($12.3 million) / 1,140,390 *Discount Day*
11/02 - Mon: ¥820,000,000 ($7.8 million) / 605,000 *Holiday Boosted*
11/03 - Tues.: ¥1,185,000,000 ($11.3 million) / 900,000 *Holiday*
11/04 - Wed.: ¥350,000,000 ($3.3 million) / 260,000
11/05 - Thur.: ¥230,000,000 ($2.2 million) / 170,000
11/06 - Fri.: ¥325,000,000 ($3.1 million) / 240,000
11/07 - Sat.: ¥863,827,750 ($8.3 million) / 628,614
11/08 - Sun.: ¥909,098,150 ($8.8 million) / 667,179
11/09 - Mon.: ¥315,000,000 ($3.0 million) / 230,000
11/10 - Tues.: ¥220,000,000 ($2.1 million) / 160,000
11/11 - Wed.: ¥295,000,000 ($2.8 million) / 230,000
11/12 - Thur.: ¥200,000,000 ($1.9 million) / 145,000
11/13 - Fri.: ¥310,000,000 ($3.0 million) / 225,000
11/14 - Sat.: ¥795,343,500 ($7.6 million) / 611,418
11/15 - Sun.: ¥726,313,550 ($6.9 million) / 535,986
11/16 - Mon.: ¥265,000,000 ($2.5 million) / 195,000
11/17 - Tues.: ¥165,000,000 ($1.6 million) / 120,000
11/18 - Wed.: ¥240,000,000 ($2.3 million) / 185,000
11/19 - Thur.: ¥165,000,000 ($1.6 million) / 120,000
11/20 - Fri.: ¥240,000,000 ($2.3 million) / 170,000
11/21 - Sat.: ¥439,606,550 ($4.2 million) / 314,726
11/22 - Sun.: ¥592,738,550 ($5.7 million) / 433,315
11/23 - Mon.: ¥460,110,250 ($4.4 million) / 357,741 *Holiday*
11/24 - Tues.: ¥120,000,000 ($1.1 million) / 90,000 *est.*
11/25 - Wed.: ¥150,000,000 ($1.4 million) / 115,000 *est.*
11/26 - Thur.: ¥115,000,000 ($1.1 million) / 80,000 *est.*
11/27 - Fri.: ¥170,000,000 ($1.6 million) / 120,000 *est.*

43-Day Cumulative Total: ¥26,472,043,800 ($252.3 million) / 19,802,589

Note: Mon.-Fri. are estimates (excluding Holiday Mondays), therefore adding up each day won't equal the actual total.