Demon Slayer’s Inosuke Hashibira’s birthday is on April 22 and to commemorate the happy occasion Jump Comics and studio Ufotable revealed a trailer and visual, respectively. The trailer doesn’t have narration but it features some of Inosuke’s best moments from the manga:
Ufotable’s birthday visual for Inosuke features him without the board head mask and Kiyo, Sumi, Naho and Aoi, who are cheering him on:
Demon Slayer is a manga by Koyoharu Gotoge. It ran from 2016 to 2020 in the Weekly Shonen Jump and ended after 205 chapters, compiled into 23 volumes. It received an anime adaptation by the studio Ufotable in 2019 and quickly became a world-known phenomenon.
The first season had 26 episodes and was followed by Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Mugen Train movie in 2020. The movie was an enormous success, both in Japan and overseas. Season 2 of Demon Slayer started in October of 2021 with a TV version of the Mugen Train arc. The movie was adapted into 7 episodes and it included a special first episode that wasn’t part of the movie. The second part of the second season was the Entertainment District Arc, which introduced a new Hashira – Tengen Uzui.
The third season of Demon Slayer anime is currently ongoing and although Inosuke won’t play an important role in it, he appeared in the first episode. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka is voicing the character.
Source: Jump Comics, Ufotable
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