Demon Slayer recap: the story so far

No. 01 · 2019 · Series

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba recap

Tanjiro Kamado, a kind charcoal seller, returns home to find his family slaughtered by a demon; only his sister Nezuko survives, turned into a demon herself. The Demon Slayer Giyu Tomioka spares her when she protects Tanjiro, and sends Tanjiro to train under the retired swordsman Sakonji Urokodaki. After two years, Tanjiro masters Water Breathing and survives the Final Selection on a mountain full of demons, joining the Corps. Nezuko, sleeping and muzzled with a bamboo gag, travels in a box on his back and refuses to eat people. In Asakusa, Tanjiro meets Muzan Kibutsuji, the first demon, living as a human with a family, and allies with Tamayo, a doctor who is a demon working on a cure. Tanjiro is joined by Zenitsu Agatsuma, a cowardly swordsman who fights brilliantly when he passes out, and Inosuke Hashibira, a wild boy raised by boars. On Mount Natagumo, the three face a family of spider demons led by Rui of the Twelve Kizuki, and Tanjiro and Nezuko discover new powers in the fight.

How Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba ends

Giyu kills Rui, and the Insect Hashira Shinobu Kocho nearly kills Nezuko before both siblings are brought to the Hashira for judgment. The Corps leader, Kagaya Ubuyashiki, accepts Nezuko after she refuses blood offered by the Wind Hashira Sanemi. Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke recover and train at Shinobu's Butterfly Mansion, learning Total Concentration Breathing, and Muzan kills most of his Lower Moons. The three set out on a new mission aboard the Mugen Train.

No. 02 · 2020 · Film

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train recap

Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke and Nezuko board the Mugen Train, where dozens of passengers have disappeared, and meet the Flame Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, who is investigating. The Lower One demon Enmu puts everyone on board to sleep with tickets that trap them in dreams. Tanjiro dreams of his family alive, but realises it is false and wakes by killing himself in the dream. Enmu has fused with the train itself, making every carriage his body and two hundred passengers his hostages. While Rengoku, Zenitsu and Nezuko guard the carriages, Tanjiro and Inosuke find Enmu's neck in the engine and behead him, and the train derails. Rengoku keeps the passengers alive and treats Tanjiro's wounds.

How Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train ends

Akaza, Upper Rank Three, arrives and urges Rengoku to become a demon. Rengoku refuses and fights him until dawn. Akaza drives a fist through his body, and Rengoku holds him in place, but Akaza tears himself free and flees the sunrise. Rengoku dies smiling, telling Tanjiro to set his heart ablaze and that he accepts Nezuko as a member of the Corps. Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke weep.

Post-credits scenes

No. There is no post-credits scene.

No. 03 · 2021 · Series

Demon Slayer: Entertainment District Arc recap

The Sound Hashira, Tengen Uzui, has lost contact with his three wives, who went undercover as courtesans in Yoshiwara, the red-light district. He takes Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke along, disguised as girls, to search three houses. The demon hiding there is Daki, Upper Rank Six, posing as a top courtesan and trapping girls in her obi sashes. Tanjiro fights her and his anger nearly breaks him, while Nezuko, provoked, goes berserk in a half-demon form until Tanjiro calms her with a lullaby. Uzui beheads Daki, but she does not die: her brother Gyutaro emerges from her body, and the two share the rank, so they must be beheaded at the same moment. Gyutaro poisons Uzui and turns the fight into a long battle that levels the district. Uzui's wives join the fight, and Tanjiro, badly wounded, keeps going on willpower.

How Demon Slayer: Entertainment District Arc ends

Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke behead Daki and Gyutaro at the same time, with Uzui leading the attack despite his wounds. Nezuko burns the poison out of Uzui and Inosuke with her blood demon art. The siblings blame each other as they die, then are reminded of their human lives and reconcile on the way to Hell. Uzui retires from the Corps, and Muzan rages at the loss of an Upper Moon.

No. 04 · 2023 · Series

Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village Arc recap

Tanjiro's sword is broken again, and he travels to the hidden village of the swordsmiths to find his angry swordsmith Haganezuka. There he meets the Mist Hashira, Muichiro Tokito, who has lost his memory, and the Love Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji. Tanjiro trains with an old combat puppet, which turns out to hold a centuries-old sword. Two Upper Moons attack the village: Gyokko, Upper Rank Five, who fights from pots, and Hantengu, Upper Rank Four, who splits into emotion-based clones when beheaded. Tanjiro fights Hantengu with Nezuko and Genya Shinazugawa, a slayer who eats demon flesh to gain their powers. Muichiro recovers his memories and kills Gyokko, and Mitsuri holds off Hantengu's strongest clone, Zohakuten. Haganezuka keeps polishing the old sword through the attack so Tanjiro will have a blade.

How Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village Arc ends

As the sun rises, Tanjiro must choose between saving Nezuko from the sunlight or chasing the real Hantengu. Nezuko pushes him toward the demon, and he kills Hantengu. Nezuko survives the sunlight and can speak, the first demon to conquer it. Muzan learns of this and resolves to capture her. The Hashira learn of demon slayer marks, which boost their power but shorten their lives.

No. 05 · 2024 · Series

Demon Slayer: Hashira Training Arc recap

Knowing Muzan will come for Nezuko, the Corps prepares for war. The Hashira run a series of brutal training camps for the lower ranks, and Tanjiro passes from one to the next: Tengen Uzui's endurance training, Muichiro Tokito's speed work, Mitsuri Kanroji's flexibility training, Obanai Iguro's swordplay through an obstacle course of captives, Sanemi Shinazugawa's brutal sparring, and Gyomei Himejima's stone-pushing. Tanjiro persuades the withdrawn Water Hashira, Giyu Tomioka, to train with the others, and Sanemi and his brother Genya clash. Kagaya Ubuyashiki, the dying leader of the Corps, works with Tamayo on a drug to turn Muzan human, and the Hashira learn that the marks they have awakened will cost them their lives. Muzan, meanwhile, hunts for Nezuko and searches for the Ubuyashiki home. Gyomei tells Tanjiro what it takes to be a Hashira, and Tanjiro earns his respect by moving the boulder.

How Demon Slayer: Hashira Training Arc ends

Muzan arrives at the Ubuyashiki mansion. Kagaya greets him calmly, then blows himself and his family up in a trap. Tamayo stabs Muzan with her drug, and Gyomei and the other Hashira attack. As Tanjiro arrives, Muzan opens the floor beneath them, and the whole group falls into the Infinity Castle, leading into the final battle.

No. 06 · 2025 · Film

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle recap

Muzan survives Kagaya's trap and holds Tamayo captive, and the Demon Slayers are scattered through the Infinity Castle, his shifting dimensional fortress, fighting hordes of lesser demons. Kagaya's children map the castle with the Corps' crows. Shinobu Kocho finds Doma, Upper Rank Two, who killed her sister Kanae; Doma becomes immune to her poisons, kills her and absorbs her body, and Kanao arrives too late and takes up the fight. Zenitsu faces his former fellow student Kaigaku, who became a demon and the new Upper Rank Six, and kills him with a form of Thunder Breathing he created himself. Nezuko is given a cure made by Shinobu and Tamayo. Tanjiro and Giyu face Akaza, Upper Rank Three, who killed Rengoku.

How Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle ends

Tanjiro beheads Akaza, but Akaza keeps fighting without his head. His memories return: as a human, Hakuji, he stole to buy medicine for his father, and later lost his fiancee Koyuki to poison before Muzan turned him. Akaza accepts defeat, stops regenerating and dies, reunited with Koyuki. Muzan holds Tamayo in his flesh and remains confident. This is the first of three Infinity Castle films.