Episode
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Muzan Kibutsuji
Overview
Now split into three, the demons have driven Tanjiro into a corner. It is then that Nezuko attacks. Now that she’s become a demon herself, she’s no longer so weak that she needs protection. His mind made up, Tanjiro follows one of the demons into the swamp now spreading across the ground. Waiting for him there is...
Details
- Series
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 7
- Air date
- 2019-05-18
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Muzan Kibutsuji is Episode 7 in Unwavering Resolve Arc of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. It aired on 2019-05-18. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 6: Swordsman Accompanying a Demon
Tanjiro is now clad in the uniform of the Demon Slayer Corps. His Nichirin Sword on his hip, and Nezuko, now awake, in a special box made by Urokodaki on his back, he heads out for his first assignment. A town to the northwest where girls have been vanishing nightly. There, Tanjiro meets Kazumi, haggard with worry after his girlfriend's been abducted. Though he does catch the scent of a demon nearby, there's just no demon in sight. Tanjiro is sure that a demon is behind this sinister incident...
Episode 8: The Smell of Enchanting Blood
The next mission is in Asakusa, Tokyo. Tanjiro is taken aback by the opulent Taisho Era cityscape, but soon picks up the demon’s scent there. His pursuit of the scent leads him to Muzan Kibutsuji. Tanjiro attempts to strike him down. But Kibutsuji transforms a passerby into demon, triggering a commotion. As Tanjiro desperately tries to get things under control, someone appears before him...
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Episode 3: Sabito and Makomo
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Episode 11: Tsuzumi Mansion
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Episode 2: Trainer Sakonji Urokodaki
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Episode 12: The Boar Bares Its Fangs, Zenitsu Sleeps
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Episode 1: Cruelty
It is the Taisho Period (i.e. 1912-1926). Tanjiro Kamado is living a modest but blissful life in the mountains with his family. One day, when he returns from selling charcoal in town, he finds the remains of his slaughtered family in pools of blood after a demon attack. Tanjiro rushes down the snowy mountain with the sole survivor, his sister Nezuko, on his back. But on the way, Nezuko suddenly snarls, turning on Tanjiro.
Episode 13: Something More Important Than Life
Every time Kyogai, the master of house, plays his tsuzumi, the room spins and Tanjiro struggles. Debilitated by the fractured bones he sustained in his previous battle, Tanjiro tries to fire himself up as he desperately fights on, but he is overwhelmed by Kyogai's Blood Demon Art. Will he find a way to slice off Kyogai's head?