Kimetsu no Yaiba

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
鬼滅の刃
Blade of Demon Destruction
Guardianes de la noche
Demon Slayer

Manga8.1316368 votes23 volumes · 207 chaptersFinished

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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]

Publication notes

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 July 2025, over 220 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.

Published

Feb 15, 2016 to May 18, 2020

Authors

Gotouge, Koyoharu

External links

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Main characters

Tanjirou Kamado25302 fan favorites
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Age: 13 (at the start of the manga); 15 (after completing training with Sabito and Makomo) Height: 165cm (5'4") Hair color: burgundy Eye color: dark red Tanjirou Kamado is the main protagonist of Kimetsu no Yaiba, who becomes a Demon Hunter and joins the Demon Killing Corps to hunt down the demon who murdered his family and turned his sister Nezuko into a demon. Tanjirou is kind by nature and has been described by others as having very gentle eyes. He has a great deal of determination and will not give up once he has a goal to achieve, an example being finding a cure for Nezuko. Even though he is relatively strong on his own, he isn't opposed to asking others for help when he needs it. He is very protective of his friends and even more so of his younger sister. His biggest attribute is his ability to empathize with anyone, even demons. (Source: Kimetsu no Yaiba Wiki)
Zenitsu Agatsuma16797 fan favorites
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Age: 16 Birthday: September 3 Height: 164.5 cm Weight: 58 kg Zenitsu Agatsuma is a member of the Demon Killing Corps and a traveling companion of Kamado Tanjirou. Zenitsu has fair skin and downward-sloped, scared-looking eyes that fade from soft brown to gold. He has short, yellow hair of varying lengths, cutting off squarely at the ends where it fades to a darker orange color, that falls in front of his face in uneven bangs. Before he became a Demon Slayer, Zenitsu's hair was originally black, but it turned the color it is currently when he was struck by lightning during his training. His name is pronounced "Zen-itsu."
Inosuke Hashibira15419 fan favorites
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Inosuke is a member of the Demon Slayer Corps and a traveling companion of Tanjirou Kamado. He is often seen wearing the head of a boar.
Nezuko Kamado14640 fan favorites
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Nezuko is Tanjirou's sister.