Do not underestimate Japan’s hit “ Demon Slayer ” franchise, in which a small group of trained fighters have reached the beginning of a multi-year, three-movie “final battle.” But also, do not get it confused with “KPop Demon Hunters,” the animated one-off that became a monster success for Netflix this summer, but is something else entirely — so different that fans of either might bristle at the comparison, which begins and ends with the word “demon.”

A long-running manga series that became a popular anime show, which then developed a passionate enough following to support several blockbuster theatrical features, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” is something like a religion whose characters and rules one must already know to appreciate in any form. The first three movies were basically

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