Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (season 1)
| Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | |
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| Season 1 | |
 Cover art for the first Blu-ray volume, featuring the protagonist Tanjiro Kamado | |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11 |
| Original release | April 6 – September 28, 2019 |
| Season chronology | |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is an anime series based on the manga series of the same title, written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. The anime television series adaptation by studio Ufotable was announced in Weekly Shōnen Jump on June 4, 2018.[1] The first season adapts the first seven volumes (chapters 1–54) of the manga series, and it aired from April 6 to September 28, 2019, on Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11, and other channels.[2][3] Haruo Sotozaki directed the anime with scripts by the Ufotable staff. Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina composed the music, and Akira Matsushima is the character designer. Hikaru Kondo is the producer.[4]
The opening theme is "Gurenge" (紅蓮華) by LiSA,[5] while the ending theme is "from the edge" by FictionJunction feat. LiSA.[6] The ending theme for episode 19 is "Kamado Tanjirō no Uta" (竈門炭治郎のうた) by Go Shiina featuring Nami Nakagawa.
Aniplex of America announced that they have licensed the series,[7] and streaming on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and FunimationNow.[8] AnimeLab is simulcasting the series in Australia and New Zealand.[9] The series ran for 26 episodes and adapted the manga from the beginning of the first volume to the first chapters of the seventh.[10]
Prior to airing, the first five episodes screened theatrically in Japan for two weeks from March 29, 2019, under the title Kimetsu no Yaiba: Kyōdai no Kizuna (鬼滅の刃 兄妹の絆).[11] Aniplex of America screened the film at the Aratani Theatre in Los Angeles on March 31, 2019.[12] Madman Entertainment through AnimeLab screened the film in select theatres in Australia on April 2, 2019.[13]
In July 2019, it was announced that the English dub would premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami block.[14] The English dub premiered on October 13, 2019.[15][a]
As stated in the closing credits of the last episode, a sequel film, which is an adaptation of the Infinity Train arc.
Episode list[]
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| No. | Title [16][17] | Directed by | Original air date [18][b] | English air date [15][a] | |
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| 1 | "Cruelty" Transcription: "Zankoku" (Japanese: 残酷) | Haruo Sotozaki | April 6, 2019 | October 13, 2019 | |
| Tanjiro Kamado is a teenage boy who lives happily with his family until one day he arrives home just to find his widowed mother, three younger brothers and a younger sister murdered, except for another younger sister, Nezuko who has been turned into a demon. Giyū Tomioka, a demon slayer, arrives and attempts to decapitate Nezuko, but Tanjiro protects her and promises to turn her back into a human. Giyū finally decides to let the siblings go after being impressed by Tanjiro's quick-wittedness and Nezuko's strong will to protect her brother despite having been transformed, sending them to see a man named Sakonji Urokodaki on Mt. Sagiri and warning Tanjiro to keep his sister out of the sun. The siblings bury their family members and leave hand-in-hand. | |||||
| 2 | "Trainer Sakonji Urokodaki" Transcription: "Sodate Urokodaki Sakonji" (Japanese: 育手・鱗滝左近次) | Haruo Sotozaki | April 13, 2019 | October 20, 2019 | |
| Tanjiro continues to make his way to Mt. Sagiri, carrying Nezuko in a clothed straw basket on his back during the day. On the way they are attacked by another demon which they manage to restrain with their own efforts. Sakonji Urokodaki then appears and orders Tanjiro to kill it, but he hesitates until daybreak, where the sunlight burns the demon to ash. Despite worrying that Tanjiro's kindness and weak resolve could bring his undoing against the demons, Urokodaki brings him and Nezuko to Mt. Sagiri, where he leaves the sleeping Nezuko in his cabin and brings Tanjiro to the peak of the mountain, ordering him to return by daybreak, as a test to see if he is fit to become a demon hunter. Struggling against booby traps, coupled with the mountain's thin air, Tanjiro manages to use his keen sense of smell to detect the scent of the traps and evade most of them, allowing him to return just in time. Urokodaki recalls a letter sent by Giyū requesting that he train the siblings, and accepts Tanjiro as his disciple. | |||||
| 3 | "Sabito and Makomo" Transcription: "Sabito to Makomo" (Japanese: 錆兎と真菰) | Shinya Shimomura | April 20, 2019 | October 27, 2019 | |
| Over the next year and a half, Tanjiro trains with Urokodaki, improving his physical form and learning how to use a special breathing technique Total Concentration, to accelerate his stamina and speed. One day, Urokodaki declares that if Tanjiro can slice a boulder with his sword he will let him enter Final Selection — a survival test administered by the Demon Slayer Corps that will determine who can become a demon hunter. Tanjiro tries for the next 6 months, failing each time, while Nezuko continues to sleep. Worry over Nezuko and his continued failures push Tanjiro to the brink of giving up, until he is confronted by two children with fox masks, Sabito and Makomo. Sabito initially knocks Tanjiro out, reprimanding him for not ingraining Urokodaki's moves into his body, to help him train by sparring; while Makomo teaches and hones Tanjiro's skills patiently each time he awakens. Makomo reveals that the two of them are orphans raised by Urokodaki. After another 6 months, Tanjiro's blade finally reaches Sabito first during a match, slicing his mask into two. The adopted siblings smile and vanish. Tanjiro realises that his sword, which he thought cut through Sabito's mask, had actually cleaved the boulder into two. | |||||
| 4 | "Final Selection" Transcription: "Saishū Sembetsu" (Japanese: 最終選別) | Shinya Shimomura | April 27, 2019 | November 3, 2019 | |
| Two years have passed since Nezuko's transformation, and Tanjiro leaves for the Final Selection. Before his departure, Urokodaki warns him that a demon's strength is equivalent to the number of humans it has eaten, gifting him a fox mask with a protection spell. Tanjiro reaches Mt. Fujikasane, where wisteria flowers bloom year-round, creating a prison for demons, and is informed that to pass the test, the applicants must survive there for 7 days. During his first night, Tanjiro makes use of his training to defeat all the demons he encounters, until he and another applicant come face-to-face with a huge morphed demon made out of ghastly hands. The Hand Demon promises to kill him, recognizing Tanjiro as Urokodaki's student from his fox mask, and gleefully admits to murdering 13 of Urokodaki's students since he was captured by the man himself, Sabito and Makomo included. Tanjiro attacks him in a rage. Back at the boulder, Sabito and Makomo's ghosts wonder if Tanjiro can defeat their killer, having failed themselves to slice its neck. Sabito recalls that Tanjiro sliced through the toughest boulder of all of them and chooses to believe. By unleashing an array of attacks, Tanjiro successfully decapitates the Hand Demon. | |||||
| 5 | "My Own Steel" Transcription: "Onore no Hagane" (Japanese: 己の鋼) | Takashi Suhara | May 4, 2019 | November 10, 2019 | |
| The demon's body disintegrates and the souls of Urokodaki's students he killed depart to the afterlife. As the demon dies, he remembers when he was turned into a demon as a young boy and even after his transformation, had always been longing for a warm hand to hold, specifically that of his older brother's. Tanjiro smells sadness from its body and holds its hand, causing the demon to cry. For the next week, Tanjiro continues fighting the demons at the mountain, asking them for a method to turn a demon into a human again, though none answer. Tanjiro and three others end up passing the exam, all of whom are assigned the lowest of 10 ranks, Mizunoto, as well as a Kasugai crow to help in communication. They are also given uniforms and allowed to choose the ore from which their personal swords will be made. Tanjiro returns to the cabin and reunites with Nezuko, who has awoken from her year-and-a-half long slumber. Urokodaki deduces that Nezuko is compensating for not eating humans by sleeping to restore her strength. 15 days later, Tanjiro's sword is delivered by Haganezuka, the swordsmith. As Nichirin Blades change colour depending on the wielder, his turns black, a rare colour that superstitions make out to be unlucky. Tanjiro's Kasugai crow proceeds to deliver his first mission: head to a town in the northwest where young girls have been vanishing nightly, and kill the demon responsible. | |||||
| 6 | "Swordsman Accompanying a Demon" Transcription: "Oni wo Tsureta Kenshi" (Japanese: 鬼を連れた剣士) | Junichi Minano | May 11, 2019 | November 17, 2019 | |
| Placing Nezuko in a box he carries on his back, Tanjiro travels with her to the town where young girls are vanishing at night. There he meets Kazumi, whose fiancee Satoko vanished the previous night. Kazumi takes him to where his girlfriend was last seen and Tanjiro begins to track the demon's scent. Kazumi recalls how he was beaten by Satoko's father, who did not believe Satoko had simply vanished and assumed he had done something to her, realizing that Tanjiro is a member of the Demon Slayer Corps. Night falls as Tanjiro continues to track the demon. Another young girl is abducted from her bed, which Tanjiro notices, deducing that the demon travels underground in a liquid medium. Tanjiro and Nezuko fight together against the demon, which has morphed into three separate entities and is capable of a "Blood Demon Art" — special spells that demons can use when they gain enough power. Tanjiro recalls Urokodaki informing him of the thousand-year-old progenitor of all demons, as well as the only one who can turn humans into demons: Muzan Kibutsuji. | |||||
| 7 | "Muzan Kibutsuji" Transcription: "Kibutsuji Muzan" (Japanese: 鬼舞辻 無慘) | Takahiro Majima Masashi Takeuchi | May 18, 2019 | November 24, 2019 | |
| Tanjiro enters the demons' swamp to fight two of them, while Nezuko protects Kazumi and the human girl from the other. Although the air is thin and the swamp is dark, his Water Style shows its true power when underwater, allowing him to create a whirlpool that eviscerates the two and return quickly to the surface. The siblings confront the final demon, who has been severely injured, and Tanjiro demands that he tell him about Muzan, causing the demon to become completely terrified, shocking Tanjiro. Nezuko falls asleep after her battle and returns to her box as Tanjiro comforts the devastated Kazumi and returns Satoko's hair ribbon he found in the swamp. Kazumi is in grief at first, but after realizing that Tanjiro had gone through something similar, apologizes. Tanjiro journeys to Asakusa per his Kasugai crow's directions, and to his horror, locates Muzan living in disguise as the father of a human family by following his scent. Muzan, recognizing that Tanjiro is from the Demon Slayer Corps, casually slices the neck of a passerby, turning him into a demon. | |||||
| 8 | "The Smell of Enchanting Blood" Transcription: "Genwaku no Chi no Kaori" (Japanese: 幻惑の血の香り) | Hideki Hosokawa | May 25, 2019[c] | December 8, 2019 | |
| The newly-turned demon goes on a rampage, forcing Tanjiro to subdue him and giving Muzan the opportunity to slip away, although not before he hears Tanjiro vow to find him again. Police arrive and attempt to pull Tanjiro off, but he is helped by a nearby demon, Tamayo, and her companion Yushiro. While she is a demon, Tamayo is also a doctor and hence believes in the sanctity of human life. She gives the siblings refuge in her house, hidden from prying eyes by Yushiro's Blood Demon Art, and explains how as every demon contains Muzan's blood, their whereabouts and movements can be tracked by him: should they mention him to anyone, their cells will be destroyed — this is called "the Kibutsuji curse". Tamayo reveals that after 200 years of relentless research, she has finally managed to undo Kibutsuji's curse on her and learn the ability to turn humans into demons, although this procedure is only performed on patients that are dying and choose to be turned, Yushiro being one of them. She has also tweaked her and Yushiro's body so that they can survive on small amounts of human blood, purchased as blood transfusions. Tanjiro agrees to work with Tamayo to develop a cure for Nezuko, promising to let her study his sister's blood and bring blood from powerful demons related closely to Muzan for her research. Meanwhile, Muzan sends two demons, Susamaru with temari balls, and Yahaba with eyes with arrows for pupils on his palms, to find and kill Tanjiro. | |||||
| 9 | "Temari Demon and Arrow Demon" Transcription: "Temari Oni to Yajirushi Oni" (Japanese: 手毬鬼と矢印鬼) | Shinya Shimomura | June 1, 2019 | December 15, 2019 | |
| Susamaru destroys Yushiro's Blood Demon Art and uses her temari to pummel the house, revealing that she and Yahaba are members of the Twelve Kizuki, powerful demons that serve directly under Muzan. Tanjiro struggles to dodge all her temari, which swerve in physically impossible directions and are difficult to slash until Yushiro helps him see the arrows that Yahaba is using to telekinetically control Susamaru's temari. Although Nezuko attacks Yahaba, the siblings are forced to change opponents, with Yushiro joining in to fight Susamaru using his Blood Demon Art of concealing objects. At first, Yahaba overpowers Tanjiro by altering his trajectory as he tries to get close, and Nezuko's leg is blown off by a temari. However, Tanjiro recalls his training and despite his fatigue, unleashes a combination of movements to counter the arrows, managing to decapitate Yahaba. | |||||
| 10 | "Together Forever" Transcription: "Zutto Issho-ni iru" (Japanese: ずっと一緒にいる) | Yūki Itō | June 8, 2019 | January 5, 2020 | |
| As Yahaba disintegrates, he continues to attack Tanjiro, determined to kill him as he dies, forcing Tanjiro to unleash move after move to lessen the impact, leaving Tanjiro utterly exhausted. Thanks to a healing serum administered by Tamayo, Nezuko rejoins the fight against Susamaru and her strong will greatly sharpens her strength, allowing her to kick the temari back without getting injured. Tamayo then uses her Blood Demon Art to lower Susamaru's alertness through the scent of her blood, causing Susamaru to accidentally activate the Kibutsuji curse by saying his name, whereupon she is killed in gruesome fashion. After the battle, Tamayo notes that the two demons were too weak to be members of the Twelve Kizuki, as the members have their number ranks engraved on their eyeballs, but takes some of Susamaru's blood nevertheless. As day breaks, Tanjiro returns Susamaru's temari to her before she disintegrates from the sunlight. Although Urokodaki has cast a spell on Nezuko to make her view humans as family and demons as enemies, Nezuko sees Tamayo and Yushiro as humans to be protected, causing Tamayo to cry out of thankfulness. The siblings soon set off southeast on their next mission, and Tanjiro sees one of those who completed Final Selection with him, Zenitsu Agatsuma, begging a distressed woman to marry him on the street. | |||||
| 11 | "Tsuzumi Mansion" Transcription: "Tsuzumi no Yashiki" (Japanese: 鼓の屋敷) | Shūji Miyahara | June 15, 2019 | January 12, 2020 | |
| Tanjiro separates Zenitsu from the harassed girl, who slaps Zenitsu when he tries to push it. Zenitsu states he's weak and will die on his next job, which is why he had to get married. He tells Tanjiro he didn't want to become a Demon Slayer but got into debt with a woman, who gave him to his trainer who made him become one. Tanjiro's crow directs both boys to a mansion. Zenitsu's hearing is as sharp as Tanjiro's smell and he hears two scared kids who tell Tanjiro it is a demon's house and the demon took their older brother inside. A man is thrown outside the house and dies moments later, but it is not the siblings' brother. Tanjiro cajoles a terrified Zenitsu into coming into the house with him, leaving Nezuko (in her box) with the siblings to protect them. Zenitsu overreacts when Tanjiro says he still has broken bones as that means he can't protect him. The siblings enter the demon's house behind them as they heard Nezuko scratching and got scared, leaving her behind. The house suddenly rearranges itself, separating the group, stranding the sister, Teruko, with Tanjiro and the brother, Shoichi, with Zenitsu. Shoichi berates Zenitsu for his cowardice. While Zenitsu frantically looks for an exit he opens a door and sees a boar-headed man, who passes them by. The demon of the house approaches Tanjiro and Teruko hides. Tanjiro leaps at the demon, who rants a child with rare blood he found, his prey, has been taken, before flipping the room so they are standing on the wall. His blood art gives him total control of the house when he strikes a tsuzumi drum growing from his body. The boar-headed man unexpectedly leaps into the room, wielding a pair of chipped Nichirin swords. | |||||
| 12 | "The Boar Bares its Fangs, Zenitsu Sleeps" Transcription: "Inoshishi wa Kiba wo Muki, Zenitsu wa Nemuru" (Japanese: 猪は牙を剥き、善逸は眠る) | Susumu Takeuchi | June 22, 2019 | January 19, 2020 | |
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Inosuke Hashibira, the boar-headed man, launches reckless attacks against the tsuzumi demon, Kyogai, but can't counter his Blood Demon Art. When he steps on Teruko after the room shifts and Tanjiro throws him back, Inosuke declares a human's never thrown him like that and attacks Tanjiro, laughing. He states he chipped his swords so they would shred flesh, instead of neatly slice it like Tanjiro's. However, the room spins and Inosuke falls out of it. The rooms shift at the sound of an unseen tsuzumi drum, separating Tanjiro, Inosuke, and the demon. Tanjiro detects a scent that leads him and Teruko to a terrified human boy with a tsuzumi drum. Zenitsu is walking with Shoichi and screams fearfully when Shoichi breaks the silence. The scream draws out a second demon that chases them. Zenitsu eventually faints. While asleep, he stands and uses his Thunder breathing to kill the demon. He then wakes up with no memory of doing so and thinks Shoichi killed it. Inosuke comes across a third demon but effortlessly kills him with his self-made Beast Form. Kyogai wants to eat a marechi, a human with rare blood who is worth fifty to one-hundred humans, hoping to gain enough power to return to being one of the Twelve Moons. Kibutsuji had earlier decided he'd reached his limit and stripped him of his number. The boy Tanjiro and Teruko find turns out to be Kiyoshi, her older brother. He embraces her and tells Tanjiro the three demons fought over who would eat him and one of Kyogai's drums was torn out. When Kiyoshi hit it, it moved him to another room and he's been switching rooms anytime he hears someone approach. Realizing Kyogai is coming, Tanjiro tells the siblings to keep switching rooms when someone approaches and will find them through their scent. They switch rooms after he leaves. Tanjiro finds and battles Kyogai who begins flipping the room and using an attack that leaves claw-like gouges on the floor. Tanjiro has learned each drum controls one function, and is able to partially compensate, but can't get close because of Kyogai's claw attack, some of his bones still broken. | |||||
| 13 | "Something More Important Than Life" Transcription: "Inochi Yori Daiji-na mono" (Japanese: 命より大事なもの) | Yūsuke Shibata | June 29, 2019 | January 26, 2020 | |
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The entire house shifts its orientation suddenly, throwing Zenitsu and Shoichi outside through a second story window. The room Tanjiro is in flips, sending papers from a cabinet flying across the room. When Tanjiro lands, he takes care not to step on them. This causes Kyogai to recall how, as a human, he loved to write but was belittled, his writing discarded. Tanjiro figures out how to take quicker shallow breaths and reinforce the muscles around his leg to compensate and also gains the ability to smell the claw attack coming. This lets him get close enough to cut off Kyogai's head, but he tells him his Blood Demon Art was incredible before decapitating him. Before he dies, Kyogai finds himself crying as Tanjiro has recognized his Blood Demon Art and writing. Tanjiro collects a blood sample, which is taken by an enchanted cat of Yushiro's with an invisibility spell before he looks for Kiyoshi and Teruko. He is greeted by a book to the face when he finds them as their drum had vanished and they couldn't shift anymore. He takes them outside where he finds Inosuke kicking a badly wounded Zenitsu, who is protecting Nezuko's box. Inosuke had come out of the house after Zenitsu and tried to destroy the box since he was getting a demonic vibe from Nezuko within. Zenitsu recognizes him as the Fifth survivor of Final Selection, who was there but did not show himself. Zenitsu already knew there was a demon in Tanjiro's box as he could hear her breathing and heartbeat but trusted Tanjiro had a reason for declaring it was more important then his life and protects it. As Tanjiro sees Inosuke about to stab Zenitsu, he shouts at Inosuke to stop and rushes him. | |||||
| 14 | "The House with the Wisteria Family Crest" Transcription: "Fuji no Hana no Kamon no Ie" (Japanese: 藤の花の家紋の家) | Haruo Sotozaki Shūji Miyahara | July 6, 2019 | February 2, 2020 | |
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Tanjiro punches Inosuke so hard he cracks his ribs, sending him sprawling. He tells him Zenitsu won't fight because they're both Demon Corps members and they're not supposed to draw their swords on each other. Inosuke takes that to mean it's alright if they fight bare-handed and proceeds to charge Tanjiro, which isn't what he meant. The two fight and when Inosuke doesn't stop, Tanjiro head-butts him, which makes Inosuke's boar mask fall off, revealing a very human, though beautiful and girly face. Inosuke collapses from a concussion, though Tanjiro is fine. When Inosuke later wakes up he sees Tanjiro and the others burying the corpses. Inosuke doesn't see the point in it and challenges Tanjiro to a fight. Tanjiro thinks Inosuke won't help with the burial because his wounds hurt him too much, so Inosuke goes to bury corpses to one-up Tanjiro. Soon all the bodies are buried. A Kasugai crow appears and tells the group to descend from the mountain and follow him, which they do. The crow spits up a wisteria charm to ward off demons for Kiyoshi so he won't be attacked again and the siblings part ways from the Demon Slayers. The three are led to a manor with a wisteria crest and the crow tells them they're to rest inside until their wounds are recovered. The house belonged to a family once rescued by demon slayers, so they tend to demon slayers for free. An old lady gives them food and a change of clothes. Inosuke keeps trying to rile Tanjiro to fight him but he's too relaxed to rise to the bait. A doctor tends their wounds as all three have broken ribs. After they settle for the night, Inosuke tells them he joined the Demon Corps after beating up a Demon Slayer who came to his mountain and hearing about demons and Final Selection, thinking it sounded interesting. Zenitsu then asks why Tanjiro is traveling with a demon. Nezuko scratches at the box, freaking out Zenitsu. She comes out and Zenitsu is smitten by her beauty. He then thinks Tanjiro was carrying her around because she was pretty, joining the Demon Slayers to have a cute demon girl. He chases Tanjiro around the room, declaring he must be purged. Inosuke states it's too much thinking and falls asleep. | |||||
| 15 | "Mount Natagumo" Transcription: "Natagumo-yama" (Japanese: 那多蜘蛛山) | Yūki Itō Shinsuke Gomi | July 13, 2019 | February 9, 2020 | |
| Zenitsu has calmed down and develops a crush on Nezuko. A Kasugai crow comes after the doctor says they're healed and tells the three to go to Mt. Natagumo. They come in sight of the mountain, though Zenitsu is too scared to go on. Tanjiro smells something and runs to it, Zenitsu forced to follow so he isn't left alone. They find a wounded Demon Slayer collapsed on the path but he is yanked into the trees by threads attached to him. They find another terrified demon slayer, Murata, who tells them ten higher ranked demon slayers, including him, came to the mountain, but they started killing each other. An exhausted Kasugai crow is shown on the lap of the Demon Slayer's commander, who notes many have been killed and thinks the Twelve Kizuki may be there. He sends two of the Hashiras: Tomioka Giyū and Shinobu to the mountain as backup. Meanwhile, Zenitsu still sits on the path, having been left when Tanjiro and Inosuke ran forward. He cajoles himself into going when he realizes Tanjiro took "his Nezuko" into the mountain. At the mountain, the captured Demon Slayers walk out from the trees and start attacking Tanjiro's group. Tanjiro stops Inosuke from attacking as some are still alive. He smells the threads attached to them and realizes that's how they're being manipulated. Inosuke frees them but a demoness', the Mother of the spider family, spiders reattach the puppet strings to the Demon Slayers. A white-haired demon boy, Rui, suddenly appears above them, standing on threads, and says Mother will kill them before leaving. To himself, Rui says no one will stop the five of them from living as a happy family. While Tanjiro and Murata keep the controlled Slayers busy, Inosuke uses his Spatial Awareness to find Mother. | |||||
| 16 | "Letting Someone Else Go First" Transcription: "Jibun dewa nai Dareka wo Mae e" (Japanese: 自分ではない誰かを前へ) | Ken Takahashi | July 20, 2019 | February 16, 2020 | |
| Murata volunteers to hold off the controlled slayers so Tanjiro and Inosuke can go after Mother. The two are intercepted by a female controlled slayer who begs them to summon more help, having been controlled to kill some of her comrades. Rui appears before Mother and tells her she better hurry before he tells Father and she, terrified, begs him not to tell Father. Mother starts manipulating the female slayer's body so violently the movements break her bones. Another with broken arms and legs begs them to kill him. Tanjiro tackles the female slayer and throws her into the branches, tangling her so she can't fight and Inosuke follows his lead. As they go to tangle the last one, Mother angrily breaks all of their necks. Zenitsu, meanwhile, wanders around the mountain, calling for Nezuko. A massive headless demon doll with blades for arms suddenly intercepts Insouke and Tanjiro. Inosuke charges and is almost killed until Tanjiro saves him. Working together they hack the massive doll to pieces and it dissolves. Inosuke throws Tanjiro into the air, sending him hurtling towards Mother. Mother sees him falling from the sky and initially panics but realizes she'll be released from Father's threats if he kills her and lets him strike her down. As thanks for the peace of death, she warns Tanjiro one of the Twelve Moons is on the mountain. | |||||
| 17 | "You Must Master a Single Thing" Transcription: "Hitotsu no Koto Kiwame Nuke" (Japanese: 一つのこと極め抜け) | Shūji Miyahara Takuya Nonaka | July 27, 2019 | February 23, 2020 | |
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Zenitsu flees from a spider with a human head only to find the nest of the demon that made it, the elder son, whose venom turns humans into spiders. He reveals to Zenitsu he was bitten by one of his spiders and will lose his human form in thirty minutes. Zenitsu hides in a tree as other demon-spiders approach him. He remembers his days of training under Jigoro Kuwajima, who paid off his debt if he became his apprentice. He was struck by lightning while hiding from his training in a tree, which turned his hair yellow. He thinks to himself he is a pathetic person and wants to stop being such a coward. When Zenitsu realizes his hair is starting to fall out, he faints. While asleep he starts to attack the elder son. He remembers how he learned only one form of Thunder Breathing, but mastered it so well he perfected it. He remembers being bullied by Kaigaku, another student of Kuwajima, who considered time spent on him a waste. As an orphan, Zenitsu had no one who dreamed he would make something of himself, no one who stayed with him, except Kuwajima. The poison starts to affect Zenitsu, making him cough up blood, but he finishes the attack and, traveling at lightning-fast speeds, corners and slays the elder son. He wakes afterward but the poison has crippled his ability to move. Zenitsu uses a breathing technique to slow the poison as much as he can. Tanjiro hears Zenitsu's attack and decides to head to it. Before he and Inosuke part ways they come across the Daughter of the spider family, who flees and calls for Father. Father comes to her aid and the Daughter leaves. | |||||
| 18 | "A Forged Bond" Transcription: "Nisemono no Kizuna" (Japanese: 偽物の絆) | Akihiko Uda | August 3, 2019 | March 1, 2020 | |
| Giyū and Shinobu arrive at Mount Natagumo and split up to cover more ground. Tanjiro and Inosuke's blades barely scratch Father. Tanjiro drops a tree on the demon, cutting it down, but Father uses the tree to block Tanjiro's sword and throw him away. The poison has Zenitsu lose the use of his arms and legs when Shinobu suddenly arrives and lands next to him. Tanjiro safely lands and follows screams to the Daughter, who is being tortured by Rui. Tanjiro asks what Rui's doing, but Rui states it's between him and his "sister," a family affair, which upsets Tanjiro. One of the surviving demon slayers arrives, but Rui flings a web at him, instantly shredding him. Tanjiro then fights Rui, frantically blocking his threads with his sword, though he still suffers numerous minor cuts. Father pursues Inosuke until Inosuke realizes he's acting like Tanjiro and turns and attacks him. Inosuke wedges one sword in Father's arm and pounds it with the other sword, cutting through the arm. Wounded, Father flees. He suddenly sheds his skin, becoming larger and more muscular with a new arm, and turns on Inosuke, his speed, strength, and skin density enhanced. Inosuke's swords snap when he attempts to cut Father's neck and is sent flying. Father picks up Inosuke, about to crush his head, and Inosuke uses his position to stab his sword into Father's neck, to no avail. Giyū rushes over and cuts off Father's arm, making him drop Inosuke. Father regrows a new arm and charges but Giyū quickly kills him, leaving Inosuke shocked. Tanjiro becomes able to discern the threads' scent and attempts to get closer to Rui, only for the thread to cut through his blade and keep coming at his face. | |||||
| 19 | "God of Fire" Transcription: "Hinokami" (Japanese: ヒノカミ) | Toshiyuki Shirai | August 10, 2019 | March 8, 2020 | |
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Tanjiro barely dodges the thread but is left with a deep cut across his face. Inosuke marvels at Giyū's ability, who so easily killed one of the Twelve Moons, but Giyū says Father wasn't one of the Twelve Moons, or on their level at all. Inosuke challenges Giyū but Giyū ties him up, saying he was too injured and to stay there. Shinobu compliments Zenitsu on slowing his breathing and the poison's spread and injects him with an antidote. Rui launches a web of threads at Tanjiro, but Nezuko jumps out of her box and takes the blow. Rui realizes they're siblings and is shocked a demon would protect Tanjiro, seeing a genuine bond. He decides he wants it more than his pretend sister and cuts off Daughter's head, saying he'd kill her if she didn't kill the people on the mountain. The Daughter leaves with her head. Rui tells Tanjiro that if he gives him Nezuko, he'll let Tanjiro live, though Tanjiro refuses and says he'll kill him. Rui wonders if he can, revealing he is the Lower Moon Five. He uses his threads to pull Nezuko to him and Tanjiro charges. Nezuko slashes Rui's face with her claws and Tanjiro dodges the threads. Rui leaves Nezuko suspended in midair with threads cutting into her as punishment. Tanjiro uses the Final Form of his Water Style and charges Rui, becoming strong enough to slash the threads. Rui maximizes the strength of the threads, making a cage to enclose on Tanjiro. Tanjiro fears he will die and remembers his childhood with his family. His father was a frail man, but on New Year's he would dance a kagura dance as a prayer to the God of Fire to ward off harm, as their family worked with fire. Tanjiro wondered how his frail father could dance in the snow and his father told him of a special breathing technique that allowed him to dance forever. Tanjiro uses his father's kagura dance with his sword and is able to slash the enhanced threads. He comes within striking range, intent on killing Rui despite knowing Rui's threads will kill him in turn. Nezuko has a dream of her mother, waking her from her slumber to save her brother. Nezuko uses her blood on the wires suspending her in a Blood Demon Art that makes the blood ignite, burning the threads. The fire travels down the threads, severing the ones about to strike Tanjiro, and Tanjiro's blade lands. Tanjiro vows the bond between he and Nezuko can't be severed as his blade, with Nezuko's burning blood on it, cuts off Rui's head. | |||||
| 20 | "Pretend Family" Transcription: "Yose Atsume no Kazoku" (Japanese: 寄せ集めの家族) | Takashi Suhara | August 17, 2019 | March 15, 2020 | |
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Tanjiro collapses from his wounds and crawls towards Nezuko, who has fallen and isn't moving. He smells blood behind him and realizes he normally smells ash when demons were killed by his sword. Rui stands and puts his head back on. He tells Tanjiro he cut his neck with one of his own threads when he realized he would be decapitated by the Nichirin sword. Enraged, he encircles Tanjiro with threads, only for Giyū to arrive and save him. Giyū congratulates Tanjiro on holding out until he arrived. Rui throws a sheet of threads at Giyū, who uses the eleventh form of Water Breathing, which he created, to shred them. Giyū then beheads him. As the Daughter runs, she remembers when she was being chased by Demon Hunters and saved by Rui, promising to join his family. Rui fed her some of his blood, changing her appearance. There were many siblings Rui had shared his blood with and he insisted they pretend to be a family. If they did something Rui didn't like he'd punish them, sometimes by wounding them, other times stringing them up and letting the sunlight kill them. Thus the numbers decreased to five. The Daughter comes across Murata and ensnares him in a cocoon filled with acid that will liquefy him, only to be knocked to the ground by Shinobu. Shinobu asks her how many people she's killed, saying that once she tortures her appropriately for all the people she's killed, they can be friends and her sins will be forgiven. The Daughter refuses so Shinobu cuts her neck with her sword, which is sharp only at the tip as she lacks the strength to behead demons. However, Daughter dies from the wisteria-based poison Shinobu uses. Shinobu then frees Murata. As Rui dies, he thinks he made the pretend family because he had no memories of when he was human, and he thought if he could feel a familial bond, his memories would return. He looks upon Tanjiro and Nezuko, wishing he had what they had. | |||||
| 21 | "Against Corps Rules" Transcription: "Tairitsu Ihan" (Japanese: 隊律違反) | Takuya Nonaka | August 24, 2019 | March 22, 2020 | |
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As Rui dies, he is finally able to remember his human life. He was born with a frail body, rendering him bedridden - until Kibutsuji turned him into a demon, giving him a strong body. His father then tried to kill him while his mother did nothing, so Rui slew them both, angry as parents were supposed to protect their children. His mother's last words were that she was sorry she couldn't give Rui a strong body, and his father had intended to commit suicide after killing him. He realizes too late it was a genuine bond after all. Kibutsuji returned and told him it was his parents' fault for not accepting him and Rui accepted that rather than the truth. He suppressed the memory of them, but was never satisfied with his fake family. Tanjiro regains consciousness as Rui's body collapses just before reaching him and Nezuko. Overwhelmed by the scent of grief he detected from it, Tanjiro reaches out to Rui. Rui apologizes to his parents as he fades away, his spirit able to reunite with his parents'. Giyū steps on Rui's clothing after his body dissolves, and Tanjiro pleads with him not to, explaining that he will kill demons without hesitation but believes they are more tragic than terrifying creatures and Giyū suddenly recognizes Tanjiro and Nezuko. Shinobu runs towards them and Giyū blocks Shinobu's blade, surprising her when he takes a defensive stance in front of the siblings. Giyū tells him to take Nezuko and run, which Tanjiro does. Tanjiro is suddenly kicked to the ground by Kanao Tsuyuri, the girl who completed Final Selection with Tanjiro. Tanjiro tells Nezuko to run, only to be knocked unconscious by Kanao, who then tries to kill a fleeing Nezuko. Giyū has pinned Shinobu, who warns him he is acting against Corps rules. Kasugai crows, who had been watching, interrupt everyone by saying Tanjiro and Nezuko were to be taken into custody and brought back to headquarters, so Kanao, Giyū, and Shinobu all sheathe their blades. Inosuke is found, but seethes to himself as he couldn't do anything to stop a demon, and begins to ponder on the reality of his strength. Zenitsu and the other victims of the elder son, even those now spiders, have been treated by the Kakushis[d], and are to be brought to the Butterfly Mansion for further treatment. Tanjiro later awakens, tied up, before the Hashiras, the lead swordsmen of the Demon Slayers. | |||||
| 22 | "Master of the Mansion" Transcription: "Oyakata-sama" (Japanese: お館様) | Yūki Itō | August 31, 2019 | March 29, 2020 | |
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Tanjiro comes face-to-face with the nine most powerful Demon Slayers: Giyū (the Water Pillar), Shinobu (the Insect Pillar), Kyōjuro Rengoku (the Flame Pillar), Tengen Uzui (the Sound Pillar), Mitsuri Kanroji (the Love Pillar), Muichirō Tokitō (the Mist Pillar), Gyōmei Himejima (the Stone Pillar), Obanai Iguro (the Snake Pillar), and Sanemi Shinazugawa (the Wind Pillar). They put Tanjiro on trial due to him having violated Demon Slayer Corps rules by traveling with a demon, even if she is his sister. Tanjiro states she won't eat humans and can fight with the Demon Slayers to protect humans. Sanemi comes outside with Nezuko in her box, calling him deluded and stabs through the box and into Nezuko's shoulder. Tanjiro charges him and Giyū calls out that the Master will soon be here and to stop, which startles Sanemi, giving Tanjiro an opening to headbutt him and knock him to the ground, impressing the Hashiras. The Master of the Demon Slayers arrives before Sanemi can strike him back and all the Hashiras kneel, Sanemi forcing Tanjiro's head down. The Master is a blind man with scars across the upper half of his face, accompanied by two white-haired girls. The Master states he has sanctioned the situation with Tanjiro and Nezuko and asks the Hashiras to accept it, but the majority refuse. The Master has one of the girls with him summarize a letter from Urokodaki Sakonji, revealed to be the former Water Pillar, asking the Master to approve of Tanjiro's situation as Nezuko has neither lost her human emotions nor harmed a human. If Nezuko ever assaults a human, Urokodaki vows that he, Tanjiro, and Giyū will all commit seppuku, shocking Tanjiro at their faith. Sanemi states that regardless of how they kill themselves, it has no guarantee for their safety. Rengoku agrees, stating that if Nezuko kills a human, suicide won't bring back the human whom she kills. The Master agrees that there is no guarantee Nezuko won't attack humans but points out that there is no certainty that she will attack humans either. Even when starved, she has not harmed one in two years and that there are three people who would vouch for her with their lives, on the basis of which the Master decides to risk it unless the Hashiras can come up with a more convincing argument that she may. He then adds that Tanjiro has met Kibutsuji, shocking them as none of the Hashira have ever seen him. They start demanding that he tell them details about Kibutsuji until the Master silences them. The Master also informs them that Kibutusuji has sent pursuers after Tanjiro and this is the first time which he's revealed himself and the Master doesn't want to let him escape and asks if the Hashira agree with him now. Sanemi still objects stating that sparing a human is one thing, but after all which the Demon Slayers have gone through and losing countless of their brethren, housing a demon is unacceptable. He cuts open his arm, intending to prove that Nezuko can't be trusted. After tossing the box inside the master's house out of the sun and stabbing Nezuko twice more through the box, he opens it, telling Nezuko to attack him. An injured Nezuko emerges from the box and turns to him. | |||||
| 23 | "Hashira Meeting" Transcription: "Chūgō Kaigi" (Japanese: 柱合会議) | Ken Takahashi | September 7, 2019 | April 5, 2020 | |
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Tanjiro is pinned by Obanai but breaks the ropes on his wrists and run to Nezuko, Giyū grabs Obanai so he doesn't stop him. Tanjiro stops by the porch and calls out to her, unable to interfere directly. Nezuko remembers her family and controls her instincts, looking away from Sanemi, shocking him. The Master takes that as proof she can be trusted. The Master tells Tanjiro that there are likely others in the Corps who, even after this, cannot accept Nezuko, so the Master tells him and Nezuko to go out and defeat demons and prove themselves and Tanjiro declares the siblings will defeat Kibutsuji, though the Master tells him to start with a Twelve Moon, embarrassing him - though the Hashiras warm up to him some, admiring his spirit. Two Kakushi take Nezuko and Tanjiro to the Kocho mansion. Tanjiro tries to come back to headbutt Sanemi for each time he stabbed Nezuko, but Muichirō stops him by throwing three pebbles at his head informing him that he must not interrupt the master and is taken away again. As he leaves, the Master tells Tanjiro to give Miss Tamayo his regards, causing Tanjiro to wonder if he heard him right. At the Butterfly Manor, the Kakushi look for someone to ask permission to enter and find Kanao, a Tsuguko[e]. When they ask permission, she smiles but doesn't speak, confusing them. A Kocho girl interrupts them and escorts them to the infirmary. Zenitsu complains about the bitter medicine he must take to regrow his limbs, still deformed from the venom. Zenitsu and Tanjiro happily greet each other, and Zenitsu points out Inosuke, silently laying in a bed next to him. Tanjiro is relieved he survived and Inosuke hoarsely says not to worry, his voice damaged from the wounds he was given by Father. He's depressed and apologizes for being so weak. Nezuko is given a room of her own and quickly falls asleep. Tanjiro affirms his promise to turn her into a human. The Hashira, meanwhile, resume their meeting; the demons are in an active phase right now and the Corps needs to recruit new members and train them and the Masters asks for the Hashira's thoughts: Sanemi points out that the incident on Mt. Natagumo made it clear that the caliber of non-Hashira Demon Slayers has plummeted with most of them being useless. Shinobu states that it's difficult to recruit in this era though as many don't believe demons exist and the more humans there are, the less unified and harder to control they become. Gyomei states that only those who have lost loved ones to demons or those descended from demon slayers are joining the Corps and asking the average person for the same or even greater commitment would be too cruel. Rengoku believes that since Tanjiro met the Kizuki soon after joining the Corps, he is able to draw more out. The Master believes that Rui's drastic actions confirm Kibutsuji is nowhere near Mt. Natagumo as whenever he wants to hide, he creates a serious diversion somewhere else. After everyone leaves, the Master that vows they will bring Muzan Kibutsuji down. | |||||
| 24 | "Rehabilitation Training" Transcription: "Kinō Kaifuku Kunren" (Japanese: 機能回復訓練) | Shūji Miyahara Akihiko Uda | September 14, 2019[f] | April 19, 2020 | |
| Rengoku leaves on a mission, believing an Upper Moon has been located. Murata visits Tanjiro, Inosuke, and Zenitsu. Tanjiro and Inosuke begin Rehabilitation Training while Zenitsu joins them two weeks later. It includes forcing them into stretches, testing reflexes against Kanao, and playing tag with her and Aoi. Zenitsu becomes furious when he learns that come back so ghastly even though they get to frolic with girls 24/7. While they win against Aoi, none can come close to defeating Kanao. After a while of regular losses, Zenitsu and Inosuke stop coming to training, not seeing the point as they can't win. As Tanjiro walks back to bed he is met by triplet Kocho girls who admire how he keeps coming and tells him Kanao uses Total Concentration Breathing - Constant, maintaining that state all day and night, even when sleeping. They further explain that the Hashiras and Kanao have mastered it, while he only uses it in battle. He starts training to master it and the triplets tell him Shinobu made Kanao breathe into special gourds so hard they exploded. A few weeks later, he has noticed he has become stronger. That night while sitting on the mansion's roof, Shinobu joins him. Shinobu wishes to entrust her dream with Tanjiro - that humans and demons can live peacefully. He detects an angry scent from her and she says her older sister was killed by a demon and her hatred for demons grows more and more. Yet her sister pitied demons and though Shinobu tries, she can't feel the same. For her sister's sake, she will find a way to live in peace with demons as she wishes and never stop smiling, for her sister loved her smile. She had become tired of trying, but then Nezuko came, and Shinobu says she can feel at ease with Tanjiro to carry on her sister's dream. | |||||
| 25 | "Tsuguko, Kanao Tsuyuri" Transcription: "Tsuguko Tsuyuri Kanao" (Japanese: 継ぐ子 栗花落カナヲ) | Shinya Shimomura | September 21, 2019 | April 26, 2020 | |
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Tanjiro recruits the Kocho triplets to attack him if he stops doing Total Concentration Breathing while he sleeps. Tanjiro recognizes that the longer he keeps his breathing up the great stamina boost he gets. He can now keep up with Kanao, and explode a small gourd with his breath. Zenitsu and Inosuke watch realize they're being left behind. They ask Shinobu what Tanjiro's doing and she explains. She then encourages them by taunting Inosuke for not being strong enough to do it and telling Zenitsu by saying she's his cheerleader. They join Tanjiro in his training. Kanao watches the boys train and flips a coin to determine if she should join them, thinking back to her childhood. They lived in poverty and her father abused and starved her and her siblings to the point she broke. Even when her parents sold her into slavery she felt nothing. As she was walked to be sold off again by her new owner they were stopped by Shinobu and her older sister, Kanae. Kanao didn't speak when Kanae addressed her, not ever having been given a name. Kanae felt sorry for her so the siblings bought/stole Kanao and ran off with her. Kanao was so broken she had no will of her own, not even eating unless she was told. Kanae gave her a coin she could flip to help her decide things, which exasperated Shinobu, though Kanae told her a human soul would open up if given a chance. Kanao decides not to join the boys in their training by the coin. The reforged swords of Inosuke and Tanjiro are delivered to the manor, though Haganezuka tries to kill Tanjiro. The other sword-forger, Kanamori, introduces himself, having remade Inosuke's swords. He's very mild-mannered until Inosuke uses a rock to chip them like his old ones were, and then threatens to kill him. The next day in training Tanjiro wins against Kanao. Zenitsu and Inosuke train even harder to catch up to him. Tanjiro is declared physically fit and asks Shinobu about his father's Hinokami Kagura Dance, which she's never heard of, and his father's Fire Breathing, which she also doesn't know. She tells him about Flame Breathing, but that the naming is very strict and must be called Flame Breathing, never Fire Breathing. She doesn't know the details and advises him to ask Rengoku next time he sees him. Tanjiro visits Nezuko, who has been asleep since their arrival at the manor. He's a little daunted by everything he must do: help Nezuko, defeat strong demons, and get their blood to Tamayo but he thinks he hears the sleeping Nezuko speaking to him, encouraging him. On a train, a demon kills and eats the passengers. | |||||
| 26 | "New Mission" Transcription: "Aratanaru Nimmu" (Japanese: 新たなる任務) | Haruo Sotozaki Yūichi Terao | September 28, 2019 | May 3, 2020 | |
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Following Rui's death a few months earlier, the remaining five Lower Moons are summoned into a space warped and controlled by a demoness with a biwa. They don't recognize Muzan Kibutsuji, as he masked his aura and appearance to that of a woman until he commands them to kneel. He informs them that the Lower Five, Rui, has been killed and demands to know why the Lower Moons are so weak. He continues that they shouldn't be satisfied with merely being among the Twelve Kizuki, that they must devour more humans and become more powerful which is how they can become useful to him. He continues explaining to them that the Upper Moons have remained unchanged for over a century and only they have ever killed Hashira level Demon Slayers, and asks the remaining Lower Moons how many times which they have been replaced. Kibutsuji kills all except Lower One for doing things he deemed disrespectful. Kibutsuji asks for Lower One's last words and he says that it is an honor to die by his hand and thanks him for letting him witness the others' agony. Kibutsuji accepts this as a valid answer and infuses Lower One with a large amount of his blood to strengthen him and tells him to be useful to him by killing a Hashira; he concludes by stating that he'll give him even more blood if he can kill the Demon Slayer wearing hanafuda earrings (Tanjiro). The meeting concludes and Muzan leaves while Lower One is de-summoned from the space saying that more blood would be a dream. In the present day, a Kasugai crow wakes Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke with an assignment - to the Infinity Train, where 40 Demon Slayers have disappeared, and slay the demon there. Tanjiro encounters Genya from Final Selection while walking, who has a more muscular form but is ignored by him. Tanjiro visits Aoi, thanking her for helping him, but she tells him not to, saying she survived the Final Selection by luck, and that she was too cowardly to go into battle. Tanjiro says that he'll carry her feelings into the battlefield for her. He also says goodbye to Kanao, who flips a coin to determine if she should talk to him. When the coin lands right, she tells him goodbye and explains she uses the coin to decide things she hasn't been ordered to do, since she can't decide for herself. Tanjiro takes her coin and says if it lands heads she'll listen to herself and make her own choices. It lands heads and asks how he made it do that since she didn't see him cheat, but Tanjiro smiles and says it just did and he would have flipped it as many times as he needed for it to land heads. Just before the boys leave, Tanjiro sees Giyū and thanks him for helping. Giyū tells him to thank him by slaying demons, which Tanjiro promises. The boys make it to the train station but Inosuke causes a scene as he has never seen a train. They attract the attention of the police and flee. Zenitsu explains the Demon Slayers aren't recognized by the government, which doesn't know that demons exist. They jump onto the train as it leaves. On the train with them are Rengoku and the Lower One of the Twelve Moons. | |||||
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Adult Swim premiered the series on Saturday at 1:30 a.m. (25:30) ET/PT, which is effectively Sunday.[19]
- ^ Kimetsu no Yaiba premiered in Tokyo MX's Saturday 23:30 (11:30 p.m. JST) time slot.
- ^ Episode 8 premiered prior to television airing at Madman Anime Festival Brisbane, Australia at 1:00 pm AEST (12:00 pm JST).[20]
- ^ a cleanup unit of the Corps
- ^ A Demon Slayer who is chosen by a Hashira to be trained as their successor
- ^ Episode 24 premiered prior to television airing at Madman Anime Festival Melbourne, Australia at 1:30 pm AEST (12:30 pm JST).[21]
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Be among the first in Australia to feast on a smorgasbord of Demon Slayer episodes, before it heads to AnimeLab for its weekly simulcast season.
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