Kimetsu no Yaiba
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
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Kimetsu no Yaiba

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Blade of Demon Destruction
Japanese: 鬼滅の刃
English: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
German: Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba
Spanish: Guardianes de la noche
French: Demon Slayer
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 23
Chapters: 207
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 15, 2016 to May 18, 2020
Genres: Action Action, Fantasy Fantasy
Theme: Historical Historical
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)
Authors: Gotouge, Koyoharu (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 8.151 (scored by 293001293,001 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #4982
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #9
Members: 460,820
Favorites: 28,385

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Chapters: /207

Synopsis

Tanjirou Kamado lives with his impoverished family on a remote mountain. As the oldest sibling, he took upon the responsibility of ensuring his family's livelihood after the death of his father. On a cold winter day, he goes down to the local village in order to sell some charcoal. As dusk falls, he is forced to spend the night in the house of a curious man who cautions him of strange creatures that roam the night: malevolent demons who crave human flesh.

When he finally makes his way home, Tanjirou's worst nightmare comes true. His entire family has been brutally slaughtered with the sole exception of his sister Nezuko, who has turned into a flesh-eating demon. Engulfed in hatred and despair, Tanjirou desperately tries to stop Nezuko from attacking other people, setting out on a journey to avenge his family and find a way to turn his beloved sister back into a human.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Kimetsu no Yaiba ranked sixth and 17th in the 2020 and 2021 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division, respectively. Following the series' success, Koyoharu Gotouge was awarded the Special Prize at the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021. As of February 2021, over 150 million copies of the series have been sold worldwide.

As a part of the JUMP START initiative, the first three chapters of Kimetsu no Yaiba were published in English in VIZ Media's digital Weekly Shonen Jump on the same day as the Japanese release. VIZ Media published the volumes as Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba under its Shonen Jump imprint from July 3, 2018, to August 3, 2021.

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Reviews

May 17, 2020
Kimetsu no Yaiba is a series that is loved and hated in equal measure. The only manga to outpace One Piece, and not by a small margin. The manga received a tremendous boost from its anime adaptation by Ufotable, but even before that, its quality led it to become very popular.

I'll be honest, is it the most original work? No. Is it the best thing since sliced bread like those long queues in Japanese bookstores and the constant tweets on AniTwitter lead you to believe? No. What it is, is a really really good story, though. It does the little things right and does a ...
May 17, 2020
Mixed Feelings
As of the time of writing this review, I have yet to see the anime adaptation. Therefore, I’d like to offer you a point of view untainted by the ufotable hype. Note that this review might contain some spoilers, though nothing too specific.

“Why should it matter if you’ve seen the anime or not?” is what you might be asking, so I’d like to address that first. I suspect that the anime adaptation had a huge impact on the manga ratings. It’s understandable to an extent, sure, I bet ufotable did a good job with the animation of action scenes which are the core of this ...
May 17, 2020
This review will contain spoilers!!

If you are easily triggered. Then please turn away from this review since I will not be holding anything back at all. I've said my piece about the first season of Demon Slayer anime. It was rough around the edges but land and sea above the awful of a mess known as the manga depiction. No hard feelings to anyone who enjoyed this crap. I mean, I was one of you as well for a very short period. Then I woke up and saw that Demon Slayer is not the least bit deserving of all the hype and fame it's getting ...

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Recent News

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