Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃)

Tanjiro! Long time no see!

Welcome to my humble abode!

It's been a long time!

I'm so glad to see you doing well!

You, too, Tanjiro!

At three o'clock, I'm going to brew some black tea...

and make you some pancakes! So, put heaps of butter on them, okay?

B-Butter?

BUTTER

Pancakes?

PANCAKES

I just barely know what black tea is!

Sweets!

Bread!

Pancakes!

There you go! Enjoy!

Oh...

Go on, Tanjiro!

How am I supposed to eat this?

Well, here...

Tanjiro, open up and say "Ah!"

Uh... Okay!

How does it taste, Tanjiro?

It's so tasty, it's to die for!

Isn't it mind-bogglingly yummy?

Yes!

All right, Tanjiro...

when you're done eating, can you change into this?

Yes!

YES!!

All right, everyone stay in sync now!

Extend your arms!

Jump as far as you can!

Okay! Twirl all the way around!

It's extremely important to have a flexible body so you can make your moves crisper!

Limber up, get loose now! Let's limber up like there's no tomorrow!

Oh, no, that's not right at all!

I'll show you how it's done, so can I take your place?

Here we go!

OWWWWW

Hang in there!

This isn't limbering up, it's more like a power move!

All right!

Huh?

Why don't you give it a try, too?

What?

Are you ready?

Let's go!

Flexibility...

is hell!

Tanjiro Kamado...

I've been waiting for you.

I EVEN ATE DEMONS

- I'm looking forward to training— - Shut up.

- Or I'll kill you. - What?

Kanroji told me all about you.

It sure sounds like it was awfully fun training under her.

Huh?

So, training was fun, huh?

Here's a letter from Lady Kanroji!

Mr. Iguro, how are you?

After training today, I had tea with Tanjiro!

That Tanjiro...

When he eats or drinks something sweet, he looks like he died and went to heaven!

He's so adorable!

Kamado!

I'm not soft like Kanroji, all right?

From Day One he hates me with a passion!

This is the training I have in store for you.

Wha...

I'm going to have you swing your sword while dodging these obstacles.

To refine your swordsmanship skills.

Right.

So, is this place...

an execution ground?

The people tied up in here... Did they commit some kind of crime?

Well, you could say that.

The crime of weakness, the crime of failing to learn...

the crime of wasting my time, the crime of annoying me. That's it in a nutshell.

Oh boy! What am I going to do?

Take this.

I'm going to show you how it's done, just once.

That's it.

To swing with accuracy while navigating the space between the Demon Slayers at that speed...

Let's see you do it.

- Don't hit me! - Don't hit me!

Don't hit me!

DESTROY

Don't hit us! Don't hit us! Don't hit us!

Please don't hit us!

Get on with it.

Yes, sir!

What an absolute joke.

You call that training?

I'll take you on.

Strike me.

Strike...

Right!

Don't hit me!

You hesitated.

My hands are totally tied!

Here I come!

Cramped space or not...

I'm going to strike accurately!

You're slow.

No good!

I can't worry about the Demon Slayers while taking on Mr. Iguro!

Get up.

You're going to start all over.

The most terrifying training ever just started!

I may be using a bokuto...

but they'll be seriously injured if I hit them!

I have to run between these poor Demon Slayers while dodging Mr. Iguro's attacks!

Don't hit me! Don't hit me! Don't hit me!

This is seriously dangerous!

Because this man's sword strikes twist and turn in an abnormal way!

You're slow.

We're both wielding the same kind of bokuto, so how can it bend like that?

Those strikes slither into the narrowest of spaces!

Just like a serpent!

On top of that, I just can't unhear...

the inner voices of my fellow trainees as I aim for the gaps between them!

Please! Please! Please! Please! Please!

"Please, just don't hit me!"

I can really hear their cries, and it pierces my soul!

Don't hesitate, you piece of trash.

I'd never felt this much tension, and my hands shook like crazy!

If I don't swing my sword with pinpoint accuracy, things will get ghastly!

Hey! Sorry!

Kamado...

How can you keep going after training so hard with the Hashira?

Because I don't want to make trouble...

for the rest of you!

How about we join in, too?

Yeah, why not?

This is going to make our cuts sting, right?

That is so going to hurt!

Let's go, then.

Come on!

Yeah.

All together now.

Ready, set...

It stings!

DAY TWO

You're slow.

At that speed, this drill is pointless.

Yes, sir!

Now you're even lunging slower. How's that going to help?

It stings!

DAY THREE

You're slow.

You're slow!

You're too slow!

Dammit!

It sure does sting!

DAY FOUR

What's going on? You're just going to run, slowpoke?

I gotta focus on battling Mr. Iguro and nothing else!

In real combat, if your sword gets caught on a tree or boulder, it's fatal!

Avoid the obstacles and swing your sword!

It's just like that!

I'm starting to be able to strike with more accurate sword skills than I ever have before!

I can evade Mr. Iguro's attacks...

and unleash my own attacks on him, too!

When you land a strike...

and slash one of Mr. Iguro's haori sleeves...

they say that you're done training.

Thank you very much!

See you.

Now go die, you good-for-nothing.

Don't talk to Kanroji like you're chums!

It made me sad to know that he hated me until the end!

Why?

Um...

Was Mr. Shinazugawa's dojo this way?

Wrong! Turn right at that corner!

Birdbrain!

Oh, we turn right there, huh?

Zenitsu?

L-L-Let me escape!

Tanjiro! Tanjiro! I beg of you!

Escape? From what?

I can't stay upright anymore! I just can't, see?

I-I-It took me forever to get this far!

I came crawling along these walls!