Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Hashira Training Arc Anime Confirmed!
Studio UFOTABLE has yet to announce the official release date of Demon Slayer’s next season.
The official website for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba TV Anime has announced, on June 18 2023, that the anime ain’t going nowhere after the ending on the Swordsmith Village arc and will proceed to adapt the Hashira Training arc.
A key visual and a short teaser were released on the occasion, featuring the 5 Hashira members, with whom Tanjiro and the gang are going to train under – Giyū Tomioka, Shinobu Kochō, Gyōmei Himejima, Sanemi Shinazugawa & Obanai Iguro.
Studio UFOTABLE has yet to announce the official release date of Demon Slayer’s next season.
The anime is based on Koyoharu Gotouge’s manga, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
It was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collecting a total of 23 tankobon volumes.
Demon Slayer’s first season aired in October 2019.
This was followed by a movie, titled Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train in October 2020.
A seven-episode arc titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc, which adapts the Mugen Train movie, debuted in October 2021.
After that, a one-hour special of The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Ykaku-hen) television anime debuted in December 2021.
Demon Slayer is being published in English by Viz Media and simultaneously by Shueisha on their Manga Plus platform.
Crunchyroll describes Demon Slayer as:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon.
To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself.
Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
Source: Demon Slayer Anime Official Site
