In the bustling Tokyo district of Asakusa, Tanjiro catches the scent of Muzan himself, then clashes with two demons wielding strange magical weapons. Allies Tamayo and Yushiro join the fight, and victory promises rare secrets about the demon king.
Tanjiro and his friends follow the flamboyant Sound Hashira into the pleasure quarter of Yoshiwara, where his three kunoichi wives have gone silent while hunting a demon. Disguised as women, the young slayers slip inside to find a predator stalking the courtesans.
The eleventh and concluding arc of Kimetsu no Yaiba gathers the entire Corps for an all-night war against the demon king. As dawn approaches, holding Muzan in place a little longer could end a centuries-old struggle, but he unleashes his cruelest powers to break them.
The opening stretch of Kimetsu no Yaiba follows a charcoal seller whose family is wiped out by a demon and whose sole surviving sister is turned into one. His grief becomes a quest, ending with a brutal survival trial on a forbidden mountain.
With Nezuko's resistance to sunlight revealed, demon attacks abruptly stop and the Corps braces for Muzan's next move. In the quiet before war, Kagaya orders intense conditioning for every member, and Tanjiro pushes himself by training under each of the Hashira.
The Demon Slayer Corps is hurled into Muzan's ever-shifting fortress to end him once and for all. Scattered through its impossible rooms, individual slayers face the remaining Upper Ranks in brutal one-on-one duels while pushing toward the demon king's neck.
Newly inducted into the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro takes his first official mission: investigating the vanishing of young women in a town, a trail that leads to a demon able to tear open gateways into its own swampy hiding place.
The fifth story arc of Kimetsu no Yaiba sends Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke up a fog-shrouded mountain ruled by a clan of spider demons, where a fight to free Nezuko from their webs draws in more slayers and leaves not everyone walking off intact.
The seventh story arc of Kimetsu no Yaiba puts Tanjiro and his friends aboard a haunted locomotive alongside the Flame Hashira, where a dream-spinning demon and one of Muzan's strongest servants turn a single train ride into a brutal test of will.
The sixth story arc of Kimetsu no Yaiba brings Tanjiro before the Corps' leadership to answer for shielding his demon sister, then sends him into recovery and conditioning at the Butterfly Mansion while Muzan gathers his servants and tightens his hunt.
The twelfth and final story arc of Kimetsu no Yaiba is the closing half of the climactic showdown with Muzan, a race against the rising sun in which a battered Tanjiro is driven from the fight and must rally on a vision from his ancestor to end the demon king.
The ninth story arc of Kimetsu no Yaiba follows Tanjiro to the hidden village that forges the Corps' blades, where a delayed sword repair turns into a desperate defense as two upper-rank demons descend on the smiths and the slayers protecting them.
The fourth story arc of Kimetsu no Yaiba traps Tanjiro and his anxious new ally Zenitsu inside a shape-shifting house ruled by a drum-wielding demon, where rooms rotate at a beat and a wild boar-masked swordsman crashes the hunt.
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