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Similar to another artistic business, anime is made by folks. And folks all have distinctive expertise and skills that they create to the team. Which is why keeping good folks is so necessary to making a present like Demon Slayer work. The truth is, in accordance to the collection’ director, keeping the Demon Slayer anime team intact has been a key half of making the present the iconic anime that it has turn out to be.
We had the likelihood to sit down with Haruo Sotozaki, who has been the director of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime since the very starting. That features directing the record-setting Mugen Prepare film and the newly launched (in Japan) Infinity Citadel film. He defined that keeping his animation team at Ufotable intact has helped make his job a lot simpler as director.
“We at all times give 100% when producing the anime,” Sotozaki-san instructed Popverse at San Diego Comedian Con 2025. “However ever since the Unwavering Resolve Arc, we’ve had, fortunately, the similar employees. So much of the core similar team members. So, I don’t have to go into a lot element, per se. I believe there’s a lot of shorthand communication, in order that they type of perceive what it’s we’re attempting to obtain.”
Followers will notice that the Unwavering Resolve Arc is the first arc in the present, so Haruo Sotozaki has had most of the similar team since Demon Slayer started. Having the similar team doesn’t imply Sotozaki and Ufotable are content material to simply coast, although.
“And there’s at all times gonna be a little bit bit of stress to try to enhance and higher no matter it’s we produce, however I believe as a result of of the team I’m surrounded with, I imply, it makes my job a little bit bit simpler in that regard as a result of of the belief that we constructed.”
You’ll be able to see the outcomes of greater than six years working with the similar animation team when Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Film: Infinity Citadel comes out in their space. It simply launched in Japan this month, however it’s touchdown in the US on September 12, 2025.