Koyoharu Gotouge’s popular manga, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, has officially ended. The final chapter was published in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and was made available online on VIZ Media’s Shonen Jump app.
A short spinoff manga for the flame hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, was also announced. It would be titled “Kimetsu no Yaiba: Rengoku Gaiden”
Studio ufotable recently adapted the franchise into TV anime series in 2019. An anime movie sequel to the anime series was announced for October 2020.
Aniplex of America describes the series as follows:
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.
Source: Official Twitter account for Shonen Jump
