by The teaser visual of the new TV animation “Kimetsu no Yaiba Pillar Training Hen” of the popular anime “Kimetsu no Yaiba” has been released.
Hieh… Too scary! Staring at the Immortal River The new visual of the Pillar Training Arc has been released. The teaser visual drawn by character designer and chief animation director Akira Matsushima features five of the demon slayers’ highest-ranking sworders and pillars, and the Water Pillar Giyu Tomioka, Insect Pillar Shinobu Kocho, Snake Pillar Iguro Obanai, Wind Pillar Minami Fushikawa, Rock pillar Screaming Yumei has been drawn to create an eye-catching and vivid finish.
In addition to the teaser visual of the five people gathered, visuals of each pillar have also been released, and the visual of Immortal River has the line “I’m brave enough, Temeehaa.”
In response to this, the fans commented, “The episode of the brothers in the swordsmith’s village arc made me cry…”, “Fushikawa-san, you’re such a hot man,” “He gave a bad impression when he first appeared, but he’s a nice guy,” “He’s so kind,” and “Favorability.” is soaring!”
“Kimetsu no Yaiba” is based on the manga of the same name that was serialized in “Weekly Shonen Jump” from February 2016 to May 2020 and is a popular work that has sold over 150 million copies in total. Set in a world inhabited by man-eating demons in the Taisho period, Tanjiro Kamado, a boy whose family was killed by monsters, returns his younger sister Nezuko, who became a demon, to a human, and avenges the demons who killed his family—a story about joining the Demon Slayer Corps and going on a journey.
The first season of the TV anime was broadcast from April to September 2019, and it became a social phenomenon with its popularity. The movie “Kimetsu no Yaiba: Infinite Train Edition,” which is connected to the final episode of the anime, was released in October 2020 and became a huge hit with domestic box office revenue exceeding 40 billion yen, and the movie will continue from December 2021. The second season of the TV anime “Yukaku-hen” will be broadcast. Then, the continuation of the second and third seasons, “Swordsmith’s Village Edition,” was published in April 2023.
“Pillar training” is an episode from the 15th to 16th volumes of the original comic, in which Tanjiro and his friends receive training from the highest-ranked swordsmen and pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps to become even stronger.
