Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (season 2)
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese anime series based on the manga series of the same title, written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. The second season adapts volumes seven to eleven (chapters 55–97) of the manga series and ran in two cours, with the first part titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Mugen Train Arc, a seven-episode recompilation of "Mugen Train" as seen in the 2020 film featuring new music and an all new original episode, which aired from October 10 to November 28, 2021.[1][2] The second part is titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Entertainment District Arc which aired 11 episodes, from December 5, 2021, to February 13, 2022.[3] The season was directed by Haruo Sotozaki, with character designs by Akira Matsushima, and animation produced by Ufotable; staff and cast from the first season and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train also returned.[4][5]
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Season 2 | |
![]() Cover art for the first Blu-ray volume of Entertainment District Arc, featuring Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui. | |
Country of origin | Japan |
No. of episodes | 18 |
Release | |
Original network | Fuji TV, KTV, Tokyo MX, GTV, GYT, BS11 |
Original release | October 10, 2021 – February 13, 2022 |
Season chronology | |
For the Mugen Train Arc, the opening theme is "Akeboshi" (明け星, lit. "Morning Star") while the ending theme is "Shirogane" (白銀, lit. "Silver"), both performed by LiSA. "Homura" (炎, Flame) is used as the ending theme of episode 7. For the Entertainment District Arc, the opening theme is "Zankyō Sanka" (残響散歌, lit. "Song of Reverberation") while the ending theme is "Asa ga Kuru" (朝が来る, lit. "Daybreak"), both performed by Aimer.[2]
Aniplex of America licensed the series outside of Asia and will stream it on Funimation[6] and Crunchyroll.[2] Muse Communication licensed the second season in Southeast Asia and South Asia;[7] they will stream it on iQIYI,[8] Bilibili,[9] WeTV,[10] Viu,[11] Netflix,[12] and Disney+.[13]
Episode list
No. overall | No. in season | Title [14][15] | Directed by [lower-alpha 1] | Storyboarded by [lower-alpha 1] | Original air date [16][17] | |||||||
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Mugen Train Arc[lower-alpha 2] | ||||||||||||
27 | 1 | "Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku" Transcription: "En Bashira Rengoku Kyōjurō" (Japanese: 炎柱・煉󠄁獄杏寿郎) | Shin'ya Shimomura | Takashi Suhara | October 10, 2021 | |||||||
Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku becomes involved in the hunt with a woman and her granddaughter. The woman remembers that his father once saved them as well, and his son is proud to continue the tradition. Kyojuro later boards the Mugen Train, where three underlings from the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke, join him to assist in the investigation of the train. | ||||||||||||
28 | 2 | "Deep Sleep" Transcription: "Fukai Nemuri" (Japanese: 深い眠り) | Toshiyuki Shirai | Takahiro Miura | October 17, 2021 | |||||||
Tanjiro and his friends Rengoku on the Mugen Train. When a train supervisor punches holes in their tickets, all Demon Slayers fall into a deep sleep. Enmu, Lower One of the Twelve Kizuki, is responsible. He used his Blood Demon Art to make them all fall into a deep dream. In his dream, Tanjiro reunites with his deceased family, and believes his whole experience as a Demon Slayer was a bad dream. Meanwhile, Enmu plots the Demon Slayers’ demise in their sleep. | ||||||||||||
29 | 3 | "Should Have Been" Transcription: "Hontō nara" (Japanese: 本当なら) | Masashi Takeuchi | Takahiro Miura | October 24, 2021 | |||||||
While the Demon Slayers remain asleep, Enmu’s instructs four vulnerable passengers to tie their wrists to them, fall asleep, and enter their dreams. Armed with a sharp pick, they must search for their spiritual core and destroy it, in order to render them incapacitated. Kyojuro’s intruder finds his core, but his intensely strong spirit manages to stop her in the real world. Tanjiro's demon sister, Nezuko, is not affected by Enmu’s spell, but fails to wake up her brother with her Blood Demon Art. Her attempt, however, is enough to alert Tanjiro that he is living a dream. In an ultimate attempt to force himself to wake up, Tanjiro decides to slash his own neck within his dream. | ||||||||||||
30 | 4 | "Insult" Transcription: "Bujoku" (Japanese: 侮辱) | Masashi Takeuchi | Takahiro Miura | November 7, 2021 | |||||||
Tanjiro’s intruder finds himself in Tanjiro’s subconsciousness. Figments of his spirit guide the passenger to the core. Suddenly feeling immensely guilty for having desired to destroy the core of a person with such a pure heart, the intruder refuses to do it. Tanjiro awakens, and discovers his peers deep asleep. Nezuko burns the ropes from the wrists of the Demon Slayers, which awakens the passengers. They attack Tanjiro, who knocks them out. Tanjiro spares his passenger, after learning how sick and desperate he was. Tanjiro confronts Enmu, and in the ensuing battle, beheads Enmu after the demon kept putting him repeatedly in increasingly dire dreams of his family, forcing him to keep slashing his neck to return. then Enmu makes Tanjiro endure a nightmare of his family turning against him, only to make Tanjiro pissed off & slices off the demon's neck in retaliation, However, Enmu does not die and reveals that he fused his entire body with the Mugen Train. Inosuke is woken up by Nezuko and teams up with Tanjiro to kill Enmu. | ||||||||||||
31 | 5 | "Move Forward!" Transcription: "Mae e!" (Japanese: 前へ!) | Toshiyuki Shirai | Takahiro Miura | November 14, 2021 | |||||||
With everybody now awake, Senjuro bro orders Tanjiro and Inosuke to search for Enmu's real head as he, Nezuko, and Zenitsu protect the passengers in the cars in the back. Tanjiro and Inosuke arrive at the control compartment and discover Enmu's real "neck". Despite constantly slashing the cabin, Enmu keeps generating defenses for his neck. The driver, wanting to protect the demon, stabs Tanjiro in the stomach. However, Tanjiro musters his strength, and, together with Inosuke, manages to expose Enmu’s neckbone. He performs his Hinokami Kagura technique and decapitates Enmu with a powerful swing attack. The entire Mugen Train derails and crashes into the ground. | ||||||||||||
32 | 6 | "Akaza" (Japanese: 猗窩座) | Hideki Hosokawa | Haruo Sotozaki | November 21, 2021 | |||||||
After the train derails, Enmu disintegrates. Tanjiro struggles with his near-fatal wound, but manages to stabilize it under Kyojuro’s guidance. They are met by Upper Rank Three, Akaza, who tries to persuade Kyojuro into turning into a demon, achieve immortality and reach a higher power, having sensed how powerful he was. Appealing to his integrity as a Demon Slayer, he immediately refuses, resulting in a battle to the death between the two. He instructs Tanjiro and Inosuke to stay behind. Despite Kyojuro’s tremendous strength and speed, Akaza overwhelms him with his unique martial arts and powerful regeneration, injuring Kyojuro severely. Tanjiro and Inosuke can not do anything but look from afar, helpless. | ||||||||||||
33 | 7 | "Set Your Heart Ablaze" Transcription: "Kokoro o Moyase" (Japanese: 心を燃やせ) | Haruo Sotozaki | Haruo Sotozaki | November 28, 2021 | |||||||
With all that is left in him, Kyojuro unleashes one last, powerful attack at Akaza, momentarily stunning him. However, Akaza fatally injures him, and seeing the arrival of daybreak, flees. In desperate fury, Tanjiro slings his sword with all his force at Akaza, who then runs away with it in his chest as an enraged Tanjiro calls the third upper moon a bastard & a coward before breaking down in tears. While Kyojuro succumbs to his injuries, he confides in Tanjiro messages for both his brother and father for him to give them. He accepts Nezuko as a member of the Demon Slayer Corps, and encourages Tanjiro to “set his heart ablaze”. He sees a vision of his proud mother, before passing away peacefully, devastating Tanjiro and Inosuke. The other Hashiras get the news of Kyojuro’s death, while the head of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kagaya, appreciates him for not letting a single passenger or comrade die in his presence. | ||||||||||||
Entertainment District Arc[lower-alpha 3] | ||||||||||||
34 | 8 | "Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui" Transcription: "On Bashira Uzui Tengen" (Japanese: 音柱・宇髄天元) | Shin'ya Shimomura Kei Tsunematsu | Takashi Suhara | December 5, 2021 | |||||||
Akaza meets Muzan, now disguised as a young boy, who reveals his disappointment on Akaza for not being able to kill the other three Demon Slayers other than Kyojuro. Akaza vows to kill Tanjiro as the latter goes to meet Kyojuro’s brother Senjuro and his father. Their father, a former Flame Hashira but now an alcoholic who detests the Demon Slayers and sees both of his sons as failures, dismisses Tanjiro violently. However, when he sees Tanjiro’s earrings, he explains to him he is a bearer of the first breathing technique, called “Sun Breathing”. Tanjiro headbutts him for disrespecting Kyojuro, knocking him out. Later, Senjuro thanks Tanjiro for passing him his brother’s messages. Four months after Kyojuro's death, Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke accompany the Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui to their next mission - infiltrating the famed Yoshiwara red-light district, where demons are said to reside. | ||||||||||||
35 | 9 | "Infiltrating the Entertainment District" Transcription: "Yūkaku Sennyū" (Japanese: 遊郭潜入) | Takashi Suhara | Takashi Suhara | December 12, 2021 | |||||||
In order to investigate the suspected demonic presence in Yoshiwara, Tengen had sent his three wives to infiltrate the three largest courtesan Houses in the district. However, having stopped receiving messages from them, he has started worry for their safety. As such, Tengen disguises Tanjiro, Inosuke, and Zenitsu as girls and sells them to the three Houses in which his wives were deployed, in order to find clues to their fate and whereabouts. Though with some difficulty, all three Demon Slayers are accepted to work at the Houses. As Tengen surveys the district from the rooftops, it is revealed that Makio, one of Tengen's wives, is held captive in a secluded room in Inosuke's House, being restrained by numerous obi, and enduring interrogation from a mysterious female voice. | ||||||||||||
36 | 10 | "What Are You?" Transcription: "Nanimono?" (Japanese: 何者?) | Akihiko Uda | Takashi Suhara | December 19, 2021 | |||||||
Inosuke investigates a room he believes to be Makio's, expecting to face a demon, but finds the room disheveled and empty. However, he quickly senses something moving through the ceiling and walls, and starts a pursuit, though to no avail. Meanwhile, in his own House, Zenitsu defends a girl from being scolded by Warabihime, the House's beautiful but intimidating Oiran. Zenitsu recognizes her as a demon but is attacked by her in anger. A few days before the mission, the madam of the house confronts Warabihime, having figured out her identity, but Warabihime kills her by dropping her onto the street from a great height. When Warabihime returns inside, she is greeted by Muzan. Muzan praises the demon, noting her strength and beauty, and addressing her by her demon name Daki: the Upper Rank Six. Later, Zenitsu wakes up, having been taken care of by the girls he had defended, and they thank him for standing his ground. After they leave, Zenitsu is stealthily captured by Daki. | ||||||||||||
37 | 11 | "Tonight" Transcription: "Kon'ya" (Japanese: 今夜) | Hideki Hosokawa | Takuya Nonaka Haruo Sotozaki | December 26, 2021 | |||||||
Tanjiro and Inosuke meet to exchange information. Inosuke claims his House has a demon, but their conversation is interrupted by Tengen. Realizing Zenitsu is missing, Tengen dismisses Tanjiro and Inosuke, not wanting them to risk their lives for his needs. The two refuse to abandon him and re-arm for battle. Shedding his disguise completely, Tanjiro approaches the Oiran of his house, who had been aware of him being a male the whole time, and bids her farewell. Meanwhile, Tengen questions the master of Zenitsu's House at knifepoint, aiming to gain information about the demon. Having just left his House, Tanjiro detects a scent coming from its direction and decides to return, only to be confronted by Daki, who has absorbed the Oiran into her obi. The two begin to fight, and Daki easily overpowers Tanjiro with her numerous obi sashes. With the impact of her attacks, one of the straps on Nezuko's box breaks, meaning Tanjiro can no longer carry her and has to leave her stationary. Realizing she will be the strongest demon he's faced thus far, Tanjiro readies himself to face Daki alone. | ||||||||||||
38 | 12 | "Things Are Gonna Get Real Flashy!!" Transcription: "Dohade ni Iku ze!!" (Japanese: ド派手に行くぜ‼) | Takuya Nonaka | Takuya Nonaka Haruo Sotozaki | January 2, 2022 | |||||||
Battling Daki by himself, Tanjiro tries to use his Hinokami Kagura but realizes the fatigue on his body is preventing him from fighting effectively. Elsewhere, Inosuke discovers an incredibly narrow passageway under his House, leading to a cavern which appears to serve as a holding cell, full of obi that Daki has used to absorb her victims. This obi turns out to be an entity that can function independently from Daki's body, and Inosuke first attempts to slay it, but decides to prioritize freeing the people trapped inside. Overwhelmed, he nevertheless manages to free Suma and Makio – two of Tengen's wives – as well as Zenitsu, all of whom assist him in his fight, before being joined by Tengen himself. | ||||||||||||
39 | 13 | "Layered Memories" Transcription: "Kasanaru Kioku" (Japanese: 重なる記憶) | Jun'ichi Minamino | Takahiro Miura | January 9, 2022 | |||||||
As Tanjiro and Daki battle, Daki causes immense destruction to the district, taking the lives of numerous innocents. The enraged Tanjiro retaliates with an incredibly powerful series of Hinokami Kagura attacks, nearly slashing her neck, though Daki saves herself by transforming her neck into an obi, making it difficult to cut. The two continue fighting, and Daki starts to see distant memories of a similar figure to Tanjiro, memories which she surmises must belong to Muzan's cells in her body. Unleashing another barrage of attacks, Tanjiro nearly cuts Daki's neck again; however, he had been fighting without breathing, and a vision from his late sister saves him from suffocating. He collapses, struggling to catch his breath. When Daki approaches the injured Tanjiro, Nezuko appears and destroys her head with a kick. Daki remembers Muzan talking about Nezuko as a rogue demon who must be exterminated, and begins fighting her. Daki seemingly bisects Nezuko with ease, but is stunned to see her incredible regenerative power. Biting through her bamboo muzzle, Nezuko matures in appearance, and faces Daki, filled with rage. | ||||||||||||
40 | 14 | "Transformation" Transcription: "Henbō" (Japanese: 変貌) | Seiji Harada | Takahiro Miura | January 16, 2022 | |||||||
Nezuko fights Daki, and despite taking major injuries, she regenerates them almost instantly, causing the shocked Daki to proclaim that Nezuko's regenerative ability is stronger than her own. Nezuko brutally attacks Daki, completely overwhelming her, and throws her into an inhabited building. While Daki heals, Nezuko notices that one of the civilians is bleeding. Blinded by her rage, her demonic bloodlust kicks in and she goes to attack the civilian, before Tanjiro intervenes, restraining her. Tengen soon arrives and beheads Daki with ease, doubting she is as powerful as she claims. However, Daki does not die. Instead, she wails and cries, causing her brother Gyutaro to emerge from within her. Gyutaro, who is also the Upper Six alongside Daki, reattaches Daki's head, and, full of jealousy at Tengen's good looks, begins to fight him using his sickles and Blood Demon Art. Overwhelmed, Tengen struggles to stand his ground while protecting the civilians, as Daki and Gyutaro fight as one. Tanjiro manages to calm Nezuko down, just as Zenitsu and Inosuke arrive to help. | ||||||||||||
41 | 15 | "Gathering" Transcription: "Shūketsu" (Japanese: 集結) | Ken Takahashi | Ken Takahashi | January 23, 2022 | |||||||
Taking Nezuko back to her box, Tanjiro focuses on the coming battle despite his injuries. Tengen trades barbs with Gyutaro and Daki for their individual beliefs clashing together. As a young man, Tengen was brutally trained by his father as a member of the Shinobi, and wanting to avoid the path taken by his surviving brother, he approached Kagaya, alongside his wives, who commended him on striving away from his past. As they fight, he forces the siblings apart, but realises he was poisoned by Gyutaro's earlier cut. Tengen is suddenly joined by Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke, proceeding to praise and acknowledge the three. The district is evacuated by Suma and Makio, while Hinatsuru recovers and approaches the battle. Planning to behead them simultaneously, the clash is split as Daki engages Zenitsu and Inosuke, while Gyutaro clashes with Tengen and Tanjiro. Syncing their powers and fighting as one, the Upper Rank siblings overwhelm the Demon Slayers. However, Tanjiro, realizing his Water Breathing technique is more useful to defend himself, uses it instead of his Hinokami Kagura to fend of Gyutaro’s attacks. Hinatsuru interrupts the fight and fires a barrage of kunai laced with wisteria-based poison at Gyutaro, giving enough time for Tengen to slice off his legs, which do not regenerate quickly, and for Tanjiro to move in with his sword. | ||||||||||||
42 | 16 | "Defeating an Upper Rank Demon" Transcription: "Jōgen no Oni o Taoshitara" (Japanese: 上弦の鬼を倒したら) | Jun'ichi Minamino | Haruo Sotozaki | January 30, 2022 | |||||||
Tengen remembers visiting his family grave alongside his wives, having promised them to live “the flashiest lives possible” in their honor. In the present, he and Tanjiro close into Gyutaro’s neck, but the demon has managed to neutralize the wisteria poison and regenerate both his legs. Using a new Blood Demon Art, he fends off Tengen and vanishes, suddenly appearing alongside Hinatsuru. Seeing her life in danger, Tengen reminisces on how he had promised his wives that they would retire from fighting, if they managed to defeat an Upper Rank demon. Unwilling to let another person die, Tanjiro combines his Hinokami Kagura and Water Breathing, unleashing a very fast charge that stuns the Upper Rank and saves Hinatsuru. Tengen shows him his gratitude and joins him in attempting again to slice off Gyutaro’s head, while Zenitsu and Inosuke continue to fend off Daki’s obi. Gyutaro stops the blades from hitting him and unleashes his Blood Demon Art again, forcing Tengen to throw himself and Gyutaro away to save Hinatsuru and Tanjiro. With Tengen continuing to fight Gyutaro alone, Tanjiro joins Zenitsu and Inosuke in battling Daki. Coordinating their attacks, Tanjiro and Zenitsu open the way for Inosuke, who saws off Daki’s head with his swords and runs away with it, preventing reattachment to her body. Without warning, Gyutaro appears and stabs Inosuke from behind through his chest, retrieving Daki’s head. Tanjiro turns around, only to see Tengen’s severed hand and unconscious body on the ground. Devastated for not being able to help Inosuke and Tengen in time, Tanjiro freezes. Zenitsu pushes him off the roof to save him from an incoming obi attack. | ||||||||||||
43 | 17 | "Never Give Up" Transcription: "Zettai Akiramenai" (Japanese: 絶対諦めない) | Toshiyuki Shirai | Toshiyuki Shirai | February 6, 2022 | |||||||
Tanjiro, having survived his fall, approaches Nezuko's box, and sees that she is still inside. Gyutaro arrives however, and mocks him for having been unable to defend her and his friends, slamming him around the burning remains of the city. With Tanjiro at his mercy, Gyutaro proposes he become a demon, willing to spare his life if he does; Tanjiro responds by head-butting him. Enraged, Gyutaro prepares to attack but is paralyzed by a wisteria kunai, stabbed in his leg when Tanjiro hit him. With the Upper Six immobilized, Tanjiro attempts to behead him with Hinokami Kagura once more. Daki sees this but is attacked by Zenitsu before she can kill Tanjiro, who attacks her with his fastest form yet. He manages to hit Daki's obi neck and begins to cut through. Gyutaro removes the kunai and quickly recovers from the poison. Before he can kill Tanjiro, Tengen, having slowed the poison's effects, intervenes and fights with Gyutaro evenly despite his lost hand. Tanjiro sees his chance and slashes the demon's neck, getting stabbed through the jaw doing so. Fighting the pain, he summons his demon slayer mark for the 1st time and begins to sever Gyutaro's neck. Meanwhile, Zenitsu's attack required a lot of energy and is beginning to falter, but he is joined by Inosuke; he reveals he moved his internal organs when he was stabbed, enabling Gyutaro's sickle to miss his heart. They join their swords on Daki's neck. The Demon Slayers then simultaneously behead the siblings, whose heads roll close to each other. As Tanjiro attempts to slow the poison, Tengen tells him to run, just as a large explosion erupts from Gyutaro's body, sending waves of blood blades and completely destroys the city. | ||||||||||||
44 | 18 | "No Matter How Many Lives" Transcription: "Nando Umarekawatte mo" (Japanese: 何度生まれ変わっても) | Hideki Hosokawa | Toshiyuki Shirai Takashi Suhara | February 13, 2022[lower-alpha 4] | |||||||
Nezuko burns away the blood blades with her Blood Demon Art. In the aftermath, Tanjiro realizes he no longer feels the effects of Gyutaro's poison and asks himself why is he still alive. He reunites with Nezuko, overjoyed that she is fine. He finds Zenitsu back in his cowardly state as he has awakened, who guides him to a dying Inosuke. Nezuko uses her Blood Demon Art on Inosuke, burning away the poison and saving him. They find Tengen at the verge of death, surrounded by his wives; Nezuko saves him as well. Unable to walk, Tanjiro asks Nezuko to carry him, where they go looking for the demon siblings' heads. They first find a pool of their blood, which Tanjiro takes a sample of, as Tamayo's cat appears to take it to be analyzed. They then find the siblings, arguing with each other over whose fault their defeat is, and insulting their relationship. As Tanjiro intervenes and stops their quarrel, Daki fades away first. Seeing her die, Gyutaro remembers his past life as a human. Born in the poorest caste of the Entertainment District, his extreme ugliness meant he had a dire childhood, being treated as a monster by everyone. Unloved by anyone and living in horrible conditions, things seemed to change when his sister Daki, whose real name was Ume, was born. Thanks to her beauty, the siblings began living a better life. However, when she was thirteen, Ume brutally attacked a samurai with a hairpin and was burned and left to die in retaliation. Finding her in a pit, Gyutaro is slashed from behind by the same samurai, asked by Ume's madam. However, he survives and kills both of them with his sickle. Cast away with no one to help, they are found by the Upper Rank Six of the time. He offers them to become demons and to eventually escalate to become Upper Ranks one day. Gyutaro meets with his sister in the afterlife, where they finally reconcile and promise each other to be together for the rest of time, walking to Hell together. Gyutaro finishes disintegrating, and Tanjiro wonders if they managed to amend their bond. Obanai Iguro, the Serpent Hashira, arrives and congratulates Tengen on the accomplishment of defeating an Upper Rank demon. However, Tengen remains steady on his desire to retire, and informs Obanai that Tanjiro is near his full potential, and is a good candidate to take over his spot. In the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters, an increasingly ill Kagaya is overjoyed at the news, and expresses his proudness in the three young Demon Slayers, noting that the feat of defeating Muzan is not too far away. Meanwhile, Akaza is summoned to the Infinity Castle, and realizes that an Upper Rank has been killed. Tanjiro reunites and emotionally embraces with Zenitsu and Inosuke, happy to be alive, amongst the ruins of the Entertainment District. |
Notes
- Information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.
- Mugen Ressha-hen (無限列車編)
- Yūkaku-hen (遊郭編)
- The season finale was a 45 minute special.
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