Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Graham Day, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This week, Haruo Sotozaki’s Kimetsu no Yaiba: Tsuzumi Yashiki-hen.
Four episodes of the anime series Demon Slayer that have been stitched together as an omnibus collection to broadcast on Fuji TV in the lead-up to the network television premiere of the Demon Slayer feature film, Mugen Train. These are the eleventh through fourteenth episodes of the show’s first season.
At time of recording, it was ranked 221st on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 19th February 2025.
- Kimetsu no Yaiba: Tsuzumi Yashiki-hen at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDb Top 250 at time of recording.
- The 250 discusses Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, July 2021.
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- The Economist reports on the box office success of Demon Slayer in Japan, January 2021.
- The Asahi Shimbun reports on the confluence of factors that led to the success of Demon Slayer on its release in Japan, December 2020.
- Rebecca Rubin at Variety reports on the box office success of Demon Slayer at the American and Japanese box offices, May 2021.
- Rafael Antonia Pineda at Anime News Network reports on Demon Slayer as the highest grossing movie of 2020 at the global box office, June 2021.
- Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku reports on the success of Demon Slayer on home media in Japan, June 2021.
- Tom Brueggemann at IndieWire reports on the success of Demon Slayer on American streaming services, June 2021.
- Danica Davidson at Otaku USA Magazine reports on Prime Minister Yoshide Suga referencing Demon Slayer during a budget committee meeting, November 2020.
- Narayan Liu at Comic Book Resources reports that Prime Minister Fumio Kishia is a fan of Demon Slayer, October 2021.
- Daiki Hiraoka, Chie Matsumoto and Benkei Kuroda write at Nikkei about the contributions of Demon Slayer to the Japanese economy, December 2020.
- Bruce Winkelman at The University of Chicago writes about the influence of Demon Slayer on religious practices within Japan, May 2024.
- Casey Baseel at SoraNews writes about the popularity of the Kamada shrine in the wake of the success of Demon Slayer, March 2020.
- Brianna Jacobs at Religion Unplugged discusses the collision of Buddhism and Shintoism in Demon Slayer, March 2023.
- Lynzee Loveridge at Anime News Network reports on how Japanese kids admire Tanjiro more than their own parents, December 2020.
- Ben Beaumount-Thomas at The Guardian reports on the controversy around Stormzy’s partnership with McDonalds, February 2025.
- Bradley Russell at GamesRadar reports on the planned release of a trilogy of final Demon Slayer movies, January 2025.
- Tommy McArdle at People reports on Vin Diesel’s promise that the Fast & Furious franchise will end with a trilogy of movies, May 2023.
- Trent Cannon at The PopVerse reports on the ending of the Demon Slayer manga, February 2024.
- Surej Singh at NME reports on the plans to convert the first season of Demon Slayer into a collection of omnibus movies, August 2021.
- Martin Scorsese writers in The New York Times about his concerns regarding the contentification of media, November 2019.
- Martin Scorsese writes about the shift from art to content in Harper’s Magazine, March 2021.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers The Book of Boba Fett as an example of “content soup”, February 2022.
- Matt Alt at The New Yorker discusses what the success of Demon Slayer might mean for the future of Japanese mass media, June 2021.
- Michael Penn at Al Jazeera reports on what Demon Slayer means for the future of Japanese animation, May 2021.
- Ami Nazru at AnimeHunch reports on director Takashi Watanabe’s comments about Demon Slayer setting the standard for Japanese anime, October 2024.
- Hilary Leung at Comic Book Resources reports on the controversy over the use of computer-generated animation in Demon Slayer, April 2023.
- Trent Cannon at The PopVerse reports on the use of computer-generated animation in Demon Slayer, February 2024.
- Kevin Collier at NBC News considers the importance of artificial intelligence in the context of Hollywood’s actors’ strike, July 2023.
- Andrew Webster at The Verge considers Hollywood’s plans to replace actors with artificial intelligence duplicates, July 2023.
- Eric Vilas-Boas at Vulture considers the “bleak, inevitable” future of artificial intelligence in animation, September 2024.
- Joe Fordham at CartoonBrew considers the impact of artificial intelligence in the specific context of the Japanese animation industry, January 2025.
- Joanna Damiani at ScreenRant considers the cost of producing Demon Slayer, September 2022.
- James Grebey at Vulture considers the production budget of Godzilla Minus One, March 2024.
- Louis Kemner at Comic Book Resources considers the influence of Bleach, May 2024.
- Sebastián Osíoat GameRant considers the influence of Bleach on the manga and anime that followed, June 2024.
- Tal Levin at New Republic considers the right-wing slogan “learn to code”, February 2019.
- Molly McHugh at The Ringer considers how “learn to code” came to be weaponised against journalists, January 2019.
- Daryl Harding at Crunchy Roll reports on how much Demon Slayer‘s creator earned from the success of Mugen Train, December 2020.
- Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku writes about the debate concerning auteurism in video games, February 2020.
- Jeff Spoonhower writes at Game Developer about the application of auteur theory to video game production, May 2021.
- Anna Pirie at Mancunion ponders “the age of the video game auteur”, March 2024.
- Yvonne Abraham at The Boston Globe considers Aaron Sorkin and the generation of proto-television-auteurs, December 2016.
- Emily Nussbaum writes at The New Yorker about Buffy, the Vampire Slayer as an under-appreciated milestone on the way to modern television, March 2014.
- Brett Martin writes at GQ about the emergence of television auteurs in the early twenty-first century, March 2012.
- Craig Fehrman at New Republic criticises the idea of the television auteur, June 2013.
- Rei Penber at GameRant reports on Oda’s decision to take a six-month break from writing One Piece, November 2024.
- Suzail Ahmad at GameRant talks about why Oda is reluctant to take breaks for fear of upsetting fans, November 2024.
- Angelo Delos Trinos, Jenny Melzer and Ajay Aravindat Comic Book Resources talk about the fan frustration with Yoshihiro Togashi taking an extended break from Hunter x Hunter, May 2024.
- Pamela McClintock and James Hibberd at The Hollywood Reporter explore the box office success of The Eras Tour, October 2023.
- Rebecca Rubin writes at Variety about the massive box office success of The Eras Tour, October 2023.
- Lucy Ford at GQ considers the back-to-back release of The Eras Tour and Renaissance in theatres, October 2023.
- Rebecca Schmid at The New York Times reports on the popularity of theatrical screenings of opera performances, April 2019.
- Brooks Barnes at The New York Times considers IMAX’s embrace of “event” screenings, February 2022.
- Tomohiro Osaki at The Japan Times discusses the difference between the American and Japanese age ratings on Demon Slayer, April 2021.
- Marcus James Dixon at Gold Derby reports on how the R-rating for Demon Slayer opens the potential for the anime to make awards history, March 2021.
- Kaori Shoji at The Japan Times asks whether Demon Slayer is appropriate for children, November 2020.
- Koh Ewe at Vice looks at the divide between intended audiences for Demon Slayer in Japan and America, April 2021.
- Hannah Allam at NPR considers “Electric Boogaloo” as a codeword for the Second Civil War, January 2020.
- Michael J. Mooney at The Atlantic considers the emergence of “the Boogaloo Boys”, January 2021.
- George Lloyd at Japan Today writes about “kotodama”, the power of naming things, July 2021.
- Nicholas Quah and Eric Vilas-Boas write at Vulture about the popularity of “sports anime”, August 2024.
- Matthew Hernon at Tokyo Weekender considers the box office success of The First Slam Dunk at the Japanese box office, February 2024.
- Patrick Brzeski at The Hollywood Reporter offers an account of the success of The First Slam Dunk at the Chinese box office, April 2023.
- Cristiano Benfenati at ScreenRant reports on the arrival of The First Slam Dunk on Netflic, August 2024.
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