Baseball season is just around the corner with the Los Angeles Dodgers facing the Chicago Cubs scheduled for two games in Tokyo. Given that both teams are visiting Japan, Major League Baseball has partnered with animation studio ufotable to create a unique promotion involving hit anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
The Japanese love baseball, so it’s no surprise that two of the country’s star players — Dodgers hitter Shohei Ohtani and Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga — make an appearance in a short video narrated by Sakonji Urokodaki from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. It’s a blend of baseball and sword-swinging intensity, to build hype for the opening of the 2025 MLB season and the upcoming film Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle.
Further details regarding promotional materials are expected in the coming days.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is experiencing a resurgence ahead of its finale, a film trilogy chronicling the series Infinity Castle arc which premieres July 18th, 2025 in Japan, and September 12th, 2025 in Canada.
In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, teenage Tanjiro Kamado and his sister Nezuko survive the slaughter of their family at the hands of demon Muzan Kibutsuji. Vowing take to revenge and return Nezuko to her human form, Tanjiro joins the Demon Slayer Corps in partnership with the panicky Zenitsu Agatsuma and the boar-masked Inosuke Hashibira, in a quest to hunt down and defeat Muzan once and for all.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine between February 15th, 2016 and May 18th, 2020; in North America, Viz Media publishes the manga in print and digital formats. The anime premiered on April 6th, 2019; Crunchyroll is licensed to stream the series globally outside of Asia.
The Dodgers and Cubs play first on Tuesday, March 18th and then again on Wednesday, March 19th.
Source: @MLB
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