LiSA’s Demon Slayer TV Anime Opening Theme Becomes Top-Selling Digital Single Song in Reiwa Era

Oricon, a Japanese research company that provides news and rankings on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music, released the "Oricon Reiwa Ranking," which summarizes music sales trends over the past five years of Japan's Reiwa era (2019-2023)

Oricon, a Japanese research company that provides news and rankings on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music, released the “Oricon Reiwa Ranking,” which summarizes music sales trends over the past five years of Japan’s Reiwa era (2019-2023).The top-selling song in its digital single ranking was LiSA’s 15th single song “Gurenge” (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba TV anime’s first opening theme), which was downloaded 1,469,264 times. Additionally, “Homura,” her 17th single song featured as the theme song for the 2020 anime film Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train, also ranked fourth in the ranking with 1,086,056 downloads.

“Since the Reiwa era began, since I produced and released the song ‘Gurenge,” many things have happened in the world, and I feel that these five years have been spent with ‘Gurenge’ in both its bright and dark periods,” LiSA said in a message video posted on Oricon’s official YouTube channel. “This song ‘Gurenge’ was the first opening theme for the TV anime Kimetsu no Yaiba. I remember that we had so many discussions packed with love while creating the music for this song. Since I have not yet sung ‘Gurenge’ overseas, I am looking forward to seeing how ‘Gurenge’ will be received not only in Japan but also across various borders. I hope you will listen to it a lot in the future! Thank you very much!”