{"id":739,"date":"2025-08-07T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:39:32","slug":"japanese-charts-segas-latest-demon-slayer-kicks-mario-kart-world-into-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/japanese-charts-segas-latest-demon-slayer-kicks-mario-kart-world-into-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Sega&#8217;s Latest &#8216;Demon Slayer&#8217; Kicks Mario Kart World Into Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Only just, though.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202508\/49284\">Famitsu<\/a> has provided the latest look at the Japanese boxed charts, and it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/demon_slayer_-kimetsu_no_yaiba-_the_hinokami_chronicles_2\">Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 The Hinokami Chronicles 2<\/a> that&#8217;s taken the top spot this week on the Switch. It&#8217;s only just beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart World<\/a>, but if you also take into account the PS5 sales at number five, then its lead is considerably more substantial.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a few new releases this week, including the boxed version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/castlevania_advance_collection\">Castlevania Advance Collection<\/a> at number seven. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> is also performing well, resulting in yet another week in which <em>two<\/em> MK titles have made the top ten. Remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/08\/japanese-charts-segas-latest-demon-slayer-kicks-mario-kart-world-into-second\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only just, though. Famitsu has provided the latest look at the Japanese boxed charts, and it&#8217;s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba \u2013 The Hinokami Chronicles 2 that&#8217;s taken the top spot this week on the Switch. It&#8217;s only just beat Mario Kart World, but if you also take into account the PS5 sales at number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belgiumoffice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}