The current "Demon Slayer: Blade" is the most popular IP in Japan. Many media, merchants, fans or passers-by will use strange tricks to seize the popularity of Demon Slayer. Whether it is the name, external packaging or real official linkage, it will be slightly related to Demon Slayer. In this way, many people will temporarily watch or discuss it when passing by, and then spread it between social media. This is the official plan - to achieve the desired publicity effect.
Some people like it, and some people must hate this phenomenon, but they cannot prevent it from continuing to spread and spread. It may be stopped for a while after the theater version is released, but the official will definitely continue to produce subsequent animation content. After all, the value of this IP is once in N years. If the ending is not finished, I am sorry for fans to contribute crazy to the theater version and its value. But some people are taking advantage of the popularity of Demon Slayer: Blade of Demon Slayer, not because of his brainless follow-up, but accidentally offended fans or fans of other works - Demon Slayer is so powerful, why do you still provoke other works and fans?
Recently, Japanese media West Japan Sports Newspaper published such a promotional advertisement. The two teams participating in the baseball Japanese competition are Giants and SoftBank. So the media called SoftBank a "giant down team" and the 9 players called the pillars, namely the foot pillar, the first pillar, the steel pillar, the skill pillar, the vibration pillar, the shock pillar, the shoulder pillar, the hot pillar and the tuna pillar, and called this game "the blade of giant destruction".
Although many people are not familiar with baseball games for us, they are naturally confused by the meaning of "pillar" mentioned above, but at least from these words, we can see that the Japanese media supports SoftBank to win the Giants. Except for the words imitating Demon Slayer Blade, the rest reveals the momentum of destroying the "Giants". But from the perspective of Demon Slayer fans, isn’t Demon Slayer the Blade of the Pillar Demon Slayer? How many players are SoftBank planning to sacrifice to win, or is it a failure to win by itself?
But if we look at the historical records of the Japanese competition, the Giants are very powerful, and the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, the number one in popularity in Japan. However, in recent years, "Popularity depends on the Central League, and strength depends on the Foreign League" has become a complaint for fans. As the Central League's Giants, it has only won the championship once in the past decade, and SoftBank, the Foreign League, won the championship six times, especially last year when the two teams met for the first time. SoftBank defeated the Giants and won a 4-0 victory. Therefore, the media did not brag about SoftBank being a "giant down team", but the Giants lost to SoftBank last year was too miserable.
So how about the competition this year? They have played two games, SoftBank won two consecutive games, and the second game was 13-2. Even Japanese media couldn't help but laugh at the Giants who participated in this game as "the Giants' humiliation", because the Giants lost 11 points against Seibu in 1994, and this time they lost 13 points against SoftBank, which was of course ridiculed.
In fact, it introduces so much game-related information. The editor speculates that comic fans should not be too interested, and the next thing is the act of angering fans. The top of the newspaper introduces this team, but below is the exhibition information of "Attack on Titan". If people who don't watch baseball and giant fans see this newspaper, would they think someone would push "Demon Slayer: Blade" to the top and name it "Grade of Demon Slayer" to beat up the upcoming giant popularity or final season animation?
This newspaper editor does put together content with high correlation and attention such as Demon Slayer, baseball, and Giants, but it is also very simple to misunderstand. It makes people feel that this is full of malicious typesetting and the popularity of Demon Slayer. Is this a wave not afraid of being accidentally injured by fans? From the perspective of baseball games, it is indeed a hit by the giant, but it also makes people misunderstand that the newspaper also wants to hit the giant in terms of comics or popularity.
