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鬼滅の刃
Also known as Kimetsu no Yaiba, Demon Slayer, Blade of Demon Destruction
A charcoal seller takes up a blade to turn his demon sister human again.
Tanjiro Kamado sells charcoal to support his family in the mountains of Taisho-era Japan, until a demon attack leaves nearly everyone dead and his sister Nezuko transformed into a demon herself. Rather than kill her, Tanjiro sets out to find a cure, training under a retired swordsman before attempting the Demon Slayer Corps' brutal entrance trial. Armed with a heightened sense of smell and a breathing technique that pushes his body past ordinary limits, he takes missions across the countryside, confronting demons who were once human and are now bound to the will of their progenitor. Along the way he falls in with two volatile fellow recruits, Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke Hashibira, and learns how little the Corps' swordsmen can afford to lose.
In a Japan where demons hunt at night, a kind-hearted charcoal seller returns home to find his family slaughtered and his younger sister turned into a demon who still shows flickers of human feeling. A passing swordsman spares her, and Tanjiro accepts a harsh apprenticeship so he can join the Demon Slayer Corps, a secret organisation that hunts demons outside official knowledge. His goal is simple and nearly impossible: find the demon responsible and restore his sister to human life.
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Episodes Episodes 1-5
Tanjiro returns from selling charcoal to find his family slaughtered and Nezuko turned into a demon. Spared by the Water Hashira Giyu Tomioka, he trains for two years under the retired swordsman Sakonji Urokodaki, then survives a brutal trial on a demon-infested mountain to earn a place in the Corps.
Episodes Episodes 6-10
Dispatched on his earliest assignments, Tanjiro learns how little a new recruit knows. In the lantern-lit streets of Asakusa he catches the scent of Muzan Kibutsuji, the demon progenitor hiding in plain sight, then meets the demon doctor Tamayo and her guardian Yushiro while fending off Muzan's assassins.
Episodes Episodes 11-14
Inside a house whose rooms rearrange at the beat of a drum, Tanjiro crosses paths with the terrified Zenitsu Agatsuma and the boar-masked brawler Inosuke Hashibira. Rescuing trapped siblings forces the three to cooperate against the demon Kyogai, and the mismatched trio becomes permanent.
Episodes Episodes 15-21
Sent to a fog-wrapped mountain, the trio finds slayers being puppeted by a family of spider demons. Zenitsu is poisoned and Inosuke outmatched, leaving Tanjiro and Nezuko to face the family's cruel "child." Giyu and the Insect Hashira Shinobu Kocho arrive to finish the nest.
Episodes Episodes 22-26
Tanjiro is dragged before the assembled Hashira to answer for protecting a demon, and only the Corps leader's judgment saves Nezuko. Recovering at the Butterfly Mansion, he trains with Kanao Tsuyuri and the staff to sustain Total Concentration Breathing, then departs with his friends for a new mission.
Episode Episode 1
Final Selection Arc
A near-perfect opening hour: a warm family portrait collapses into snow, blood and desperation, and the confrontation with Giyu establishes both Tanjiro's stubborn compassion and the series' stakes.
Episode Episode 12
Tsuzumi Mansion Arc
Zenitsu's first真 fight reveals the lightning-fast swordsman hidden beneath his panic, delivering one of the show's most electrifying sequences and reframing a comic-relief character entirely.
Episode Episode 19
Mount Natagumo Arc
Widely considered a landmark in modern TV animation: Tanjiro unlocks his family's Dance of the Fire God while Nezuko fights beside him, scored by an unforgettable vocal theme.
Episode Episode 21
Mount Natagumo Arc
The spider family's story closes with sorrow rather than triumph, as Hashira power is unleashed and Tanjiro's refusal to hate the creatures he kills is tested hardest.
Episode Episode 23
Rehabilitation Training Arc
The Corps' nine elite swordsmen are introduced in one tense tribunal, expanding the world enormously while putting Nezuko's survival and Tanjiro's convictions on trial at once.
Every episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba with its broadcast title and air date, grouped by arc. Watch links search Crunchyroll for the series.
Every character has a full profile covering their history, abilities and relationships.
AI companions from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, each portrayed as an adult and written to stay in character.
Tanjiro's entire quest grows from an older brother's refusal to abandon his sister. Nezuko's struggle to stay human, and her protective instincts, keep their bond the emotional engine of the story.
Nearly every demon dies remembering a human life. Tanjiro's habit of offering kindness in their final moments turns monster-slaying into mourning, and distinguishes him from colleagues who feel only hatred.
Breathing techniques reward relentless drilling rather than genius. Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke each win through stubborn repetition and self-knowledge, with training sequences treated as seriously as battles.
The Demon Slayer Corps is an unofficial army of young volunteers with a brutal attrition rate. Rules, ranks and the Hashira's authority repeatedly collide with individual conscience and grief.
Ufotable's adaptation turned a modestly selling manga into a publishing phenomenon, with Japanese sales climbing into the tens of millions of volumes during and after the broadcast. The studio's blend of hand-drawn figures with digital compositing, especially the watercolour-like water effects, became a reference point for television action animation. LiSA's opening theme was a chart fixture and a karaoke staple, and the series' Taisho-era styling fed a wave of merchandise, stage adaptations and tourism to locations echoed in its settings.
Content notes: Graphic violence, including decapitation and dismemberment, Heavy blood and gore, Body horror and grotesque creature designs, Murder of family members, including children, Cannibalism as a core premise, Grief, trauma and depictions of suicide.
The first television series runs 26 episodes, broadcast between April and September 2019 and animated by Ufotable. It follows Tanjiro Kamado from his family's slaughter through Demon Slayer Corps training, early missions, and a new assignment announced in the finale.
Yes, in many territories, though catalogues differ by country. Crunchyroll also streams the series widely, and Hulu carries it in the United States. If a platform lacks it locally, check regional listings, since licensing shifts over time.
The 26 episodes adapt roughly the first six volumes of Koyoharu Gotouge's manga, around chapters 1 to 53. Readers continuing from the finale pick up shortly before the Mugen Train storyline, which was adapted separately afterwards.
Episode 19, "Hinokami," climaxes the Mount Natagumo arc as Tanjiro faces the spider demon Rui. Its fluid effects animation, paired with LiSA's insert song, went viral online and is widely credited with turning the show into a phenomenon.
It is aimed at teenagers and adults. Demons decapitate and devour victims, blood is frequent, and the opening episode depicts a massacred family. Comedy and warmth balance the horror, but younger or squeamish viewers should approach carefully.
Start with the 2019 television series and watch its 26 episodes in broadcast order; nothing precedes it. A compilation film recut the earliest episodes for cinemas, so newcomers lose nothing by going straight to the TV version.
