By Harry Kotsias, Spyros Kakaroumbas & Konstandinos Vasilakopoulos

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series. It follows Tanjiro Kamado, who tries to become a demon slayer after his family was killed by a demon and his younger sister Nezuko turned into a demon.

It was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in twenty-three volumes.

A 26-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Ufotable aired in Japan from April to September 2019.

A sequel film, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train was released in October 2020 and became the highest-grossing anime film and Japanese film of all time with huge profits despite the pandemic. A second season of the anime series, readapting the «Mugen Train» arc seen in the film and covering the «Entertainment District» arc from the manga, premiered in October 2021.

Both the manga and its anime adaptation have received critical acclaim. The anime series has received numerous awards and is considered one of the best anime of the 2010s. In 2020, the Demon Slayer franchise generated an estimated annual sales revenue of ¥1 trillion ($8.75 billion), becoming one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

Main characters

Tanjiro Kamado: is the main protagonist of Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is a Demon Slayer in the Demon Slayer Corps, who joined to find a remedy to turn his sister, Nezuko Kamado, back into a human and to hunt down and kill demons, and later swore to defeat Muzan Kibutsuji, the Demon King, in order to prevent others from suffering the same fate as him.

Nezuko Kamado: is the sister of Tanjiro Kamado. She is a demon and one of the two remaining members of the Kamado family. Formerly a human, she was attacked and turned into a demon by Muzan Kibutsuji.

Inosuke Hashibira:  is one of the main protagonists of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and along with Zenitsu Agatsuma, a traveling companion of Tanjiro Kamado and Nezuko Kamado. He is also a Demon Slayer in the Demon Slayer Corps.

Zenitsu Agatsuma: is one of the main protagonists of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and along with Inosuke Hashibira, a travelling companion of Tanjiro Kamado and Nezuko Kamado. He is also a Demon Slayer in the Demon Slayer Corps.

Muzan Kibutsuji is the main antagonist of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is the Demon King, the first of his kind, as well as the progenitor of all other demons in existence. Muzan is also the leader of the Twelve Kizuki, an organization of the twelve strongest demons in existence that serve directly under him.