Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (の) is a manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotoge. It has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since February 15th, 2016. The series is republished in English by Viz Media.

The series officially ended on May 18th, 2020 (Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #24) with a total of 205 chapters.

Synopsis
Kimetsu no Yaiba is set in the Taisho era, Japan.

The life of Tanjiro Kamado, a kindhearted boy who sells coal for a living, changes one day after his family is murdered by a demon.

In order to turn back his sister, the only one who survived but turned into a ferocious demon herself, the two go off on a journey to seek the demon who killed their family.

A tale of bloodstained swords!

Spin-offs

 * Giyu Tomioka's Story, a two-chapter manga spin-off, was published in the 18th and 19th issues of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 2019. Gotōge is credited with the original work, and Ryoji Hirano with drawing the manga. The manga follows the character Giyu Tomioka and was compiled into Kimetsu no Yaiba: Stories of Water and Flame.


 * Kimetsu Between the Scenes!, a colored, 4koma spin-off by Hirano, was serialized between April 7th and October 6th in 2019 on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ app and website. The manga features chibi versions of the characters from the main series up to the end of the anime's first season.


 * Kimetsu no Yaiba: One-Winged Butterfly (の) is a light novel by Gotōge and Aya Yajima that was published and released in Japanese bookstores on October 4th, 2019. It details the lives of Shinobu and Kanae Kocho before and soon after they joined the Demon Slayers after Gyomei Himejima saved their lives.


 * Kimetsu no Yaiba: Flower of Happiness (しあわせの) is a light novel by Gotōge and Aya Yajima that was published and released in Japanese bookstores on February 4th, 2019. It chronicles the lives of Tanjiro Kamado and Zenitsu Agatsuma before the start of the main series, as well as glimpses into the lives of Aoi Kanzaki and Kanao Tsuyuri. It also features a single chapter of an alternate Gakuen universe where the characters of the series are attending an ordinary high school (the Gakuen universe has previously been shown in the omakes of the main manga series).


 * The Kimetsu no Yaiba Official Fanbook was released in July 2019. It features background information on several characters from the series.


 * Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Wind's Telltale Signs (: のしるべ) is the third light novel series from the Kimetsu no Yaiba manga written by Aya Yajima.


 * Kyojuro Rengoku's Story, another two-chapter manga spin-off by Ryoji Hirano, was published in the 45th and 46th issues of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 2020. It follows the character Kyojuro Rengoku and was compiled into Kimetsu no Yaiba: Stories of Water and Flame.

Trivia

 * Gotōge noted that Kimetsu no Yaiba was inspired by various other manga, most notably Gintama, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Naruto, Bleach and Berserk. They also noted that Gintama is the manga they most admired and was the reason they decided to create Kimetsu no Yaiba.

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