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The opening installment of Demon Slayer introduces Tanjiro Kamado, a kind charcoal seller whose ordinary life shatters when his family is slaughtered and his sister Nezuko is turned into a demon. His desperate fight to save her sets the entire story in motion.

The second installment of Kimetsu no Yaiba sends Tanjiro toward Mount Sagiri with Nezuko hidden away from daylight. A grim discovery at a forest hut becomes his first real clash with a flesh-eating demon, and a masked figure arrives just as he falters.

The third chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba introduces the masked swordsman Sakonji Urokodaki, who tests whether Tanjiro has the resolve to be trained as a Demon Slayer. A brutal trial down the mountain decides his fate.

The fourth chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba opens Tanjiro's apprenticeship under Sakonji Urokodaki. Through months of brutal training he learns swordsmanship, breathing, and recovery, then faces an impossible final test: a masked stranger who declares him unfit.

The fifth chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba follows Tanjiro's training under Sakonji's mysterious students. A masked boy humbles him, a kind girl named Makomo guides his form, and half a year later Tanjiro finally splits the boulder that has blocked his progress.

The sixth chapter sends Tanjiro to Final Selection at last. After learning how demons truly die, he scales Mount Fujikasane, fells two demons with Water Breathing, and faces a monstrous foe whose limbs sprawl across the forest floor.

The 7th chapter of Koyoharu Gotoge's manga. The morphed demon reveals it has devoured thirteen of Sakonji's former students, including Sabito and Makomo, and identifies Tanjiro as the fourteenth. Enraged, Tanjiro fights through and beheads it with Water Breathing.

The eighth chapter closes out Final Selection as Tanjiro fells the Hand Demon and offers it a moment of mercy, then the handful of survivors gather to receive their ranks, swords, and Kasugai Crows as the Demon Slayer Corps takes notice of them.

Chapter 9 of Kimetsu no Yaiba brings an exhausted Tanjiro home from Final Selection to a tearful reunion with his newly awakened sister, then introduces the eccentric swordsmith Haganezuka, who arrives to deliver his very first Nichirin Sword.

The tenth chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba sends Tanjiro out on his very first official assignment, where vanishing girls and a faint demonic trail lead him to a creature lurking beneath the streets of a quiet town.

Chapter 11 of Kimetsu no Yaiba names the architect of Tanjiro's tragedy: Muzan Kibutsuji. As the Swamp Demon's clones overwhelm him, the truth about the kidnapped girls lands hard, and Nezuko bursts from her box to fight at her brother's side.

The twelfth chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba sees Tanjiro plunge into the Swamp Demon's lair to finish its clones underwater, while Nezuko holds off the final copy above ground. After the kill, the demon recoils in terror at the mention of Muzan.

The thirteenth chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba closes out the swamp hunt and sends Tanjiro to the city. After a cornered demon dies rather than betray its master, Tanjiro and Nezuko travel to Asakusa, where a familiar scent leads him face to face with the very man he hunts.

The fourteenth chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba sends Tanjiro after Muzan in broad daylight, only for the demon king to slip away. In the chaos two allies emerge, while Muzan's cruelty toward bystanders sets new hunters on Tanjiro's trail.

Chapter 15 introduces Tamayo and Yushiro, two demons who reject Muzan's curse. Tamayo explains her path toward a cure for Nezuko and asks Tanjiro to gather demon blood, just as two new enemies close in.

The 16th chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba continues the Asakusa Arc fight against the demon siblings Susamaru and Yahaba. Tanjiro must learn to see the invisible arrows guiding Susamaru's deadly temari balls to protect Tamayo, Yushiro, and Nezuko.

The 17th chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba pits Tanjiro and Nezuko, aided by Tamayo and Yushiro, against two members of the Twelve Kizuki. Hounded by Yahaba's telekinetic arrows, Tanjiro must find a clever way to turn the demon's own power against him.

The eighteenth chapter of the manga. Tanjiro endures Yahaba's final volley of arrows by stringing Water Breathing forms together, while Nezuko matches Susamaru blow for blow. Tamayo then baits Susamaru into speaking Muzan's name, which sets off his lethal curse.

The fight in Asakusa ends with Susamaru destroyed by Muzan's curse. Tamayo and Yushiro offer to shelter Nezuko, but Tanjiro chooses to keep his sister at his side. The chapter closes as a loud yellow-haired boy enters Tanjiro's path.

Tanjiro meets Zenitsu Agatsuma, a panicky, self-pitying Demon Slayer he recognizes from Final Selection. The two travel together to Tanjiro's next assignment, a mansion in the mountains where frightened children reveal that their brother has been dragged inside by a monster.

Tanjiro and Zenitsu enter the shifting mansion, only to have the two children follow and split the group into pairs. As the rooms rotate to the beat of a drum, Tanjiro faces the house's master demon while Zenitsu stumbles onto a stranger wearing a boar mask.

Chapter 22 throws a reckless dual-wielding stranger into the rotating rooms of the Drum Demon's mansion. As Tanjiro tries to fight smart, the masked newcomer fights only for himself, while elsewhere Zenitsu faces a fresh threat in the dark halls.

The twenty-third chapter of the manga. The sleeping Zenitsu unconsciously slays the Tongue Demon to protect Shoichi, while a boar-masked Inosuke makes his debut cutting down the Horned Demon. The Drum Demon is exposed as a one-time Lower Six among the Twelve Kizuki.

The twenty-fourth chapter of the manga. A flashback shows Muzan stripping Kyogai of his Twelve Kizuki rank for failing to keep eating humans. In the present, Tanjiro reunites the kidnapped Kiyoshi with his siblings and squares off against Kyogai despite his injuries.

The twenty-fifth chapter of the manga. Tanjiro adapts to Kyogai's drum-driven attacks and defeats him with Water Breathing, collecting his blood for Tamayo's research. He then emerges to find the masked slayer beating Zenitsu over Nezuko's box.

Chapter 26 reveals how Zenitsu's keen ears let him trust Tanjiro despite the hidden demon, and it puts Tanjiro in a fistfight with the boar-masked slayer. The brawl ends with a mask falling away and a surprising face beneath it.

Chapter 27 finally names the boar-masked fighter as Inosuke Hashibira and follows the trio as they bury the dead and seek shelter. A welcoming household offers rest, but Nezuko's emergence sends Zenitsu into a fresh panic.

The twenty-eighth chapter of the manga. After recovering at Hisa's home, Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke are summoned to Mount Natagumo, where they discover slayers being puppeteered by a demon. Elsewhere, Kagaya dispatches Giyu and Shinobu, revealing Giyu as a Hashira.

Chapter 29 deepens the battle on the spider-infested mountain as Tanjiro uncovers the threads controlling fallen slayers. Inosuke pinpoints the hidden demon, while a pale boy issues an ominous warning about his family.

Chapter 30 pushes Tanjiro and Inosuke deeper toward the Spider Demon called Mother, who is pressured by the boy Rui to act faster. The pair devise a way to disable their controlled comrades without killing them.

In the thirty-first chapter, Tanjiro and Inosuke finish their battle against the Mother of the Spider Family on Mount Natagumo. After downing her strongest puppet together, Tanjiro grants the surrendering demon a merciful end.

The thirty-second chapter shows the Mother of the Spider Family's peaceful passing and reveals the demon clan's true nature. Meanwhile, Zenitsu wanders the forest and runs into the Son of the Spider Family, who claims Zenitsu is already doomed.

In the thirty-third chapter, the Son of the Spider Family taunts a poisoned Zenitsu with the stages of his coming transformation. Flashbacks to Zenitsu's harsh training under his master frame his desperate stand.

In the thirty-fourth chapter, Zenitsu finally defeats the Son of the Spider Family with a self-devised extension of his single technique. Elsewhere, Tanjiro and Inosuke meet the towering Father of the Spider Family.

The thirty-fifth chapter follows the grueling fight against the Father of the Spider Family, whose thick hide resists every blade. Tanjiro is flung from the battle, Shinobu finds the dying Zenitsu, and Tanjiro stumbles onto Rui and his sister.

In the thirty-sixth chapter, Tanjiro confronts Rui over the false bonds within the spider clan, provoking the demon's fury. Meanwhile, Inosuke faces the Father of the Spider Family alone as the giant molts into a deadlier form.

The thirty-seventh chapter sees Inosuke nearly killed by the evolved Father of the Spider Family before the Water Hashira Giyu Tomioka intervenes and slays the giant. Elsewhere, Tanjiro's sword shatters against Rui's deadly threads.

In the thirty-eighth chapter, Nezuko shields Tanjiro from Rui's threads, awakening the demon's envy of the siblings' bond. When Tanjiro refuses to surrender his sister, Rui reveals his place among the Twelve Kizuki.

In the thirty-ninth chapter, Rui takes Nezuko hostage and traps Tanjiro in an inescapable Blood Demon Art. On the brink of death, Tanjiro's life flashes before him and he recalls his father's words about a special breathing.

The fortieth chapter of Kimetsu no Yaiba brings a buried childhood memory roaring back, as Tanjiro unlocks his family's fire dance against Rui and Nezuko awakens a power of her own to keep her brother alive.

Chapter forty-one peels back the secrets of the Spider Family and introduces the Insect Hashira, whose gentle manner hides a method of killing demons that has nothing to do with severing a head. Shinobu's poison ends the fleeing Daughter on the mountain.

The forty-second chapter sees Rui survive a beheading through a hidden trick, only for the Water Hashira to arrive and end the demon with a form of breathing no one has seen before. Shinobu frees Murata while Giyu rescues an exhausted Tanjiro.

Chapter forty-three lays bare the tragedy behind Rui, a sickly child turned demon who destroyed his own family, and closes with Tanjiro defending his right to pity the monsters he slays even as Giyu shields Nezuko from the Insect Hashira's blade.

The forty-fourth chapter brings the cleanup crew to the mountain, sees Giyu let the Kamado siblings flee, and ends with a wounded Tanjiro waking up before a gathering of the Corps' strongest swordsmen.

Chapter forty-five puts Tanjiro on trial before the Hashira, most of whom want him and Nezuko dead, and builds to a violent clash with the Wind Hashira just as the Corps' leader finally arrives to settle the standoff and the siblings' fate.

The forty-sixth chapter reveals the leader of the Demon Slayer Corps, who asks his elite to accept the Kamado siblings and discloses that Tanjiro has crossed paths with Muzan himself, raising the stakes for the whole organization.

Chapter forty-seven sees Nezuko refuse fresh blood in front of the entire Corps, proving her restraint and earning both Kamado siblings their place as members of the Demon Slayer organization under Kagaya's formal declaration.

The forty-eighth chapter takes Tanjiro to the Butterfly Mansion, reunites him with his battered companions, and launches the recovery regimen that will rebuild them after the disaster on the mountain.

Chapter forty-nine puts the recovered trio through the mansion's training drills, exposes Zenitsu's mixed motives, and ends with Tanjiro learning the secret that keeps the Hashira so far ahead of everyone else.

The fiftieth chapter follows Tanjiro's grueling push to hold Total Concentration Breathing at all times. Helped by the Butterfly Mansion girls and a heart-to-heart with Shinobu, he strengthens his lungs and finally outpaces Kanao in training.