Excitingly, ahead of the Season 2 release, Crunchyroll will also be streaming a new seven-episode arc of Mugen Train starting October Once again, all aboard the Mugen Train!
Right now!!! If a movie theater is understandably a no-go right now, you'll can also rent it on VOD platforms starting June The theatrical release is rated R for violence, if that gives you a sense of the anime's intensity. Considering the movie's massive success abroad, having opened as the number one movie in Australia and New Zealand in February and conquered the South Korean box office after its sweeping victories in Japan, the hype stateside was practically rabid, and the ticket sales have made it the highest-grossing R-rated animated movie and foreign movie in the US.
It'll sure make your movie-watching experience a whole lot less confusing if you do. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train is a continuation of Season 1's final arc, counter to many other movie adaptations of anime series that tend to recap the important points of the previous season s.
And unlike many animated spin-offs that are ultimately inconsequential to the central plot, Mugen Train is a two-hour stop-gap that bridges the narrative between Season 1—with the final episode putting Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu, and Inosuke on the titular train and setting up the powered-up big bad, courtesy of Muzan—and the upcoming Season 2.
No spoilies: As mentioned, the entire movie takes place on the eponymous locomotive we see our core crew chase down at the very end of Season 1 to meet up with the Flame Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, and help take down the demon s that have been killing passengers aboard. Primarily responsible is Enmu, the Lower One of Muzan's extremely powerful demons in the Twelve Kizuki who we meet at the tail end of the first season, who is able to put ticket holders into a deep sleep, making it easy for lesser demons who make it on the train to, uh, eat people.
Tanjiro and co. How Tanjiro finds his way out of his reverie, where his family is still alive and Nezuko is a human, is tragic, and the rest of the movie, stuffed with big action set-pieces, builds up to a devastating ending that, one, introduces an even stronger demon in the Twelve Kizuki, and, two, will affect the entire Demon Slayer Corps.
Want more Thrillist? Skip to main content Entertainment Streaming. Demon Slayer first debuted in , so fans have been waiting a very, very long time for this. In the interim, the Mugen Train movie broke all Japanese box office records and performed extremely well in the west at the same time.
Another side note is the fact that a new Demon Slayer fighting game is being released on October 15, which is made by CyberConnect2, and has animation extremely faithful to the original series.
Demon Slayer is a unique success in anime, breaking boundaries into film and into the west like few other titles before it. There is plenty of manga left to adapt, so I would expect to see it around for a good long while. Technically, Funimation is counting the 7 episode Mugen Train arc as part of season 2 going forward here, but the never-before seen stuff will begin in December once that has wrapped.
Plenty to look forward to, and stay tuned for more info including new trailers, no doubt, as we get closer. We can expect that same time for every new episode moving forward, too. There are seven 'recap' episodes of Mugen Train airing every Sunday, complete with some new scenes and music.
The official 'start' for season 2 will come later - on December 5. That's going to be a one-hour episode so it'll surely be worth the wait. New episodes will then run weekly across December and well into It should look a little something like this. In a surprise move, there's currently a seven-episode recap airing with minor new material to catch fans up on Mugen Train in case they missed it the first time round.
Demon Slayer season 2 will then air new episodes revolving around the 'Entertainment District' arc, starting from December. So you either need to watch the movie or the seven-episode recap. Or both, for completion's sake. Your call. Then Tanjiro's journey will continue in December with a post-Mugen Train adventure.
So far, only a handful of scenes are clearly new mostly the final bumpers of each episode and, if you've seen Mugen Train recently, there's not going to be much here for you to watch it again. The October 10 premiere, though, was an entirely original prequel starring Rengoku and is well worth seeking out. So, what can we expect from the story? Without diving too much into specific movie spoilers, the first season ended with Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke summoned to their first major assignment as part of the Demon Slayer Corps.
After the dramatic events of Mugen Train, and the end of the Infinity Train saga, Tanjiro, the Hashira, and the Demon Slayer Corps will then have to deal with the fallout of the movie, but also the emergence of dangerous new foes.
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