The latest season of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, premieres tonight, but how many episodes of the Hashira Training Arc will there be?
The hour-long opening episode of the season, titled ‘To Defeat Muzan Kibutsuji’, will be airing today (May 12) on Crunchyroll for anime fans in the UK and around the world, on the same day that it receives its premiere in Japan.
The synopsis for the upcoming new season states: “To the Hashira Training…the members of the Demon Slayer Corps and their highest-ranking swordsmen, the Hashira. In preparation for the forthcoming final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji, the Hashira Training commences. While each carry faith and determination within their hearts, Tanjiro and the Hashira enter a new story.”
The saga is based on the manga series by Koyoharu Gotoge, published under Shueisha’s Jump Comics imprint. The entire series consists of 23 volumes and to date has sold over 150 million copies.
The first instalment of the anime adaptation came in 2019 with the Tanjiro Kamado, Unwavering Resolve Arc, which was followed by the 2020 feature film Mugen Train, which made over $450million at the box office and became the highest grossing Japanese film of all time.
Since then, we have seen the release of the Mugen Train Arc, Entertainment District Arc and the Swordsmith Village Arc, all of which are currently available to stream on Crunchyroll.
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Earlier this year, the first episode of the Hashira Training Arc was bundled together with the final episode of the Swordsmith Village Arc in the cinematic experience, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Hashira Training.
How many episodes of Demon Slayer season four Hashira Training Arc will there be?
While the opening episode airs on May 12, it is not yet known how many episodes there will be in this season in total.
The Hashira Training Arc is, however, expected to be one of the shortest arcs in the series so far, with the season adapting chapters 128 to 136 of the original manga series.
The last arc, Swordsmith Village, consisted of 11 episodes, while the second season, which combined the Mugen Train arc and the Entertainment District arc, ran to a total of 18 episodes. Season one consisted of 26 episodes.
However long the season lasts, new episodes will be simulcast on Crunchyroll every Sunday for the duration of the run.
Dubs in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu will be made available in the future.