In 2020, Gotouge received the 2nd Kodansha's Noma Publishing Culture Award, which honors those who have contributed to 'reinventing publishing'. Gotouge has mentioned Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto Tite Kubo's Bleach and Hideaki Sorachi's Gin Tama as influences on their work. It became a success, with over 150 million copies in circulation (including digital copies) as of February 2021, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. The series was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from Februto May 18, 2020.

Gotouge's debut work Kagarigari would serve as a basis for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Three more one-shots followed: Monju Shirō Kyōdai (文殊史郎兄弟), published in Jump Next! in 2014 Rokkotsu-san (肋骨さん), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2014 and Haeniwa no Zigzag (蠅庭のジグザグ), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2015.Īfter Haeniwa no Zigzag failed to be a serialized series, Tatsuhiko Katayama (Gotouge's first editor) suggested to start a series with an 'easy-to-understand theme'. In 2013, Koyoharu Gotouge debuted in the 70th Jump Treasure Newcomer Manga Awards with the one-shot work Kagarigari (過狩り狩り). The author maintains anonymity in public.

Koyoharu Gotouge was born in Mansfield, Ohio, on May 5, 1989. As of February 2021, the manga had over 150 million copies in circulation (including digital copies), making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. This follows earlier reports of a spin-off series being in the works, and to celebrate this announcement, original Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba creator Koyoharu Gotouge shared a new sketch of Tanjiro and Nezuko in the same school uniformed looks that they take on in the spin-off series.Koyoharu Gotouge (Japanese: 吾峠呼世晴, Hepburn: Gotōge Koyoharu, born May 5, 1989) is a Japanese manga artist, known for the manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2016–2020). You can check out the first look at this new manga below: Titled Kimetsu Gakuen!, this new series will be making its debut in Shueisha's Saikyo Jump magazine on August 4th and feature chibi-like looks for each of the main characters. The newest issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has officially announced that the Kimetsu Gakuen anime shorts (that sees all of the Demon Slayer characters put into a hilarious new school setting) will be getting a manga of its own from Hell Warden Higuma creator Natsuki Hokami.