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Demon Slayer

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2016 to 2020. It has been licensed for an English release by Viz Media. Several spin-off manga and light novels have also been released, focusing on specific characters and exploring their backstories. The spin-offs include colored 4-koma manga, one-shot chapters, and gaiden stories drawn by Ryōji Hirano centered on characters like Giyu Tomioka and Kyojuro Rengoku.

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Demon Slayer

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2016 to 2020. It has been licensed for an English release by Viz Media. Several spin-off manga and light novels have also been released, focusing on specific characters and exploring their backstories. The spin-offs include colored 4-koma manga, one-shot chapters, and gaiden stories drawn by Ryōji Hirano centered on characters like Giyu Tomioka and Kyojuro Rengoku.

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Manga

Further information: List of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba chapters


Written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was
serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 15,
2016, to May 18, 2020.[7][8] Shueisha collected its chapters in twenty-three
individual tankōbon volumes, released from June 3, 2016, to December 4, 2020.[9]
[10]

Shueisha simultaneously published the series in English on the Manga Plus service
starting in January 2019.[11] Viz Media published the first three chapters of the
series in its digital magazine Weekly Shonen Jump as part of the "Jump Start"
program.[12][13] During their panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 20, 2017, Viz
announced that they had licensed the manga for the North American market.[13] The
first volume was released on July 3, 2018.[14]

Spin-offs
Giyu Tomioka Gaiden (冨岡義勇 外伝, Tomioka Giyū Gaiden), a two-chapter manga spin-
off, was published in the 18th and 19th issues of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump on
April 1 and April 8, 2019. Gotouge is credited with the original work, and Ryōji
Hirano drawn the manga. The manga follows the character Giyū Tomioka.[15][16] A
side-story for the manga was published in the first issue of Shōnen Jump GIGA on
July 20, 2016.[17]

Kimetsu no Aima! (きめつのあいま!), a colored 4-koma spin-off by Ryōji Hirano was


serialized between April 7 and September 29, 2019, on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ app
and website. The manga featured chibi versions of the characters from the main
series.[15][18]

In May 2020, after the main series finished, a spin-off titled Kyojuro Rengoku
Gaiden (煉獄外伝, Rengoku Kyōjurō Gaiden), illustrated by Ryōji Hirano and centered
on Kyojuro Rengoku was announced to be released.[19] The two chapters of Rengoku
Gaiden were published in the 46th and 47th issues of Weekly Shōnen Jump on October
12 and 17, 2020.[20] A collected gaiden tankōbon volume, which includes Giyu
Tomioka Gaiden, Kyojuro Rengoku Gaiden, and Kimetsu no Aima!, was released on
December 4, 2020.[21] Viz Media will release the volume, under the title Demon
Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Stories of Water and Flame, in Q2 of 2022.[22]

A 19-page special one-shot chapter written and illustrated by Gotouge, centered on


Rengoku's first mission, was published in the 44th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump on
October 5, 2020.[23] An 84-page booklet, titled Rengoku Volume 0, which includes
the 19-page one-shot chapter and interviews with the staff and cast of the film,
was given to the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train theatergoers
on October 16, 2020.[23][24][25] The booklet had a limited print run of 4.5 million
copies.[25]

A spin-off manga series, title Kimetsu Gakuen! (キメツ学園!), related to the Kimetsu
Gakuen Valentine-hen anime shorts, will debut in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine on
August 4, 2021.[26]

Light novels
A light novel, titled Demon Slayer: Flower of Happiness (鬼滅の刃 しあわせの花,
Kimetsu no Yaiba Shiawase no Hana), by Gotouge and Aya Yajima, was published in
Japan on February 4, 2019. It chronicles the lives of Tanjiro and Zenitsu before
the start of the main series, as well as glimpses into the lives of Aoi and Kanao.
[27] It also features a single chapter of an alternate universe where the
characters of the series are attending an ordinary high school.

A second light novel, titled Demon Slayer: One-Winged Butterfly (鬼滅の刃 片羽の蝶,
Kimetsu no Yaiba Katahane no Chō), by Gotouge and Yajima, was published in Japan on
October 4, 2019. It details the lives of Shinobu and Kanae Kocho before and soon
after they joined the Demon Slayers after Himejima Gyomei saved their lives.[28]
[29]

A third light novel, titled Demon Slayer: The Wind's Telltale Signs (鬼滅の刃 風の道
しるべ, Kimetsu no Yaiba: Kaze no Michishirube), centered on Sanemi Shinazugawa, was
published on July 3, 2020.[30]

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