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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃, Kimetsu no Yaiba, rgh. "Blade of Demon Destruction") [4] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes.
Koyoharu Gotouge (Japanese: 吾峠 呼世晴, Hepburn: Gotōge Koyoharu, born May 5, 1989) is a Japanese manga artist, known for the manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2016–2020). By February 2021, the manga had over 150 million copies in circulation (including digital copies), making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba won "Animation of the Decade" at the Funimation's Decade of Anime poll, where the fans voted for their favorite anime across multiple categories. [114] In the other fan poll, Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado were chosen as one of the "Best Boys" and "Best Girls" honorees, respectively. [ 115 ]
Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae, [1] Satomi Satō (child) [2] (Japanese); Zach Aguilar, [3] Allegra Clark (child) [4] (English) Tanjiro Kamado (竈門 炭治郎, Kamado Tanjirō) is the oldest son of charcoal sellers Tanjuro and Kie, whose family was killed by Muzan Kibutsuji while he was away selling charcoal; his sister Nezuko survived, but was turned into a demon.
On their journey, the presence of Naraku, a spider half-demon who was responsible for manipulating Inuyasha and Kikyo, comes to light. While pursuing Naraku, Inuyasha and Kagome recruit the young fox demon Shippō, the perverted monk Miroku (whose hand was cursed by Naraku), and the demon slayer Sango and her two-tailed demon cat Kirara.
As a demon slayer, Sango dresses in a black skin-tight jumpsuit, and pink armor plates made of demon parts, and a red sash. Of her broad repertoire of tools and tricks for fighting demons, Sango usually wields her most powerful weapon called the Hiraikotsu ( 飛来骨 , "Flying Return Bone") , a human-sized boomerang made of purified demon ...
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles [a] is a fighting action-adventure game developed by CyberConnect2.Based on the 2019 anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge's manga series, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the game was released by Aniplex in Japan, and globally by Sega, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in October 2021.
Early sketches of Nezuko and Tanjiro. Tanjiro Kamado originates from Koyoharu Gotouge's ideas involving a one-shot with Japanese motifs. Tatsuhiko Katayama, their editor, was worried about the one-shot crusade being too dark for the young demographic and asked Gotouge if they could write another type of the main character who would be "brighter". [3]