Following the premiere of the eighth and final episode of the current Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Training Arc on Japanese television, the end of the episode revealed that the final arc of the manga in the Infinity Castle Arc will be adapted into a movie trilogy.
To that end, Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment have also announced that they will jointly release the movie trilogy around the world in theaters, except in selected Asian territories and Japan. The first teaser and key art have also been released and are featured below.
Haruo Sotozaki directs the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba at anime studio ufotable, with Akira Matsushima as Chief Animation Director and Character Designer, with music by Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina.
Crunchyroll streams both the TV anime series and Mugen Train Arc movie in both sub and dub formats, with Episode 8 of the Hashira Training Arc subtitled episode premiering at 1:45 p.m. ET and the Hashira Training Arc English dub premiering later today at 4:30 p.m. ET. The season finale episode will stream out of its usual timeslot on Crunchyroll due to its extended runtime of 39 minutes.
Crunchyroll describes the series:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself.
Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle movie trilogy will also mark the finale for the the animated adaptation of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga authored by Koyoharu Gotouge. The franchise exploded in popularity during the COVID-19 global pandemic as a result of constant reruns and recaps on Japanese television in the wake of delayed animation production, while sales of the source manga reached peaks that necessitated multiple print runs after breaking local and international sales records in 2019 and 2020.
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