{"id":81034,"date":"2024-03-09T07:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=81034"},"modified":"2025-03-01T05:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:42:07","slug":"demon-slayer-hashira-training-arc-begins-on-may-12-reveals-trailer-and-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/03\/09\/demon-slayer-hashira-training-arc-begins-on-may-12-reveals-trailer-and-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon Slayer: Hashira Training Arc Begins on May 12, Reveals Trailer and Visual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A May 12 premiere date, key visual, and trailer have been revealed for the upcoming <em>Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Hashira Training Arc<\/em> was announced last June after the end of the previous season,<em>&nbsp;Swordsmith Village<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Arc<\/em>. It will have an hour-long special premiere. Aniplex USA describes the synopsis as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Hashira, the Demon Slayer Corps&#8217; highest ranking swordsmen and members. The Hashira Training has begun in order to face the forthcoming battle against Muzan Kibutsuji. Each with their own thoughts and hopes held in their hearts, a new story for Tanjiro and the Hashira begins. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc  |  OFFICIAL TRAILER\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7w5Vfjozzb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The <em>Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba<\/em> series is based on the Shueisha-published manga by <strong>Koyoharu Gotouge<\/strong>, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2016 and ended in 2020 with 23 tankoubon volumes.&nbsp; The other anime entries include the 2019 first season, the 2020 movie <em>Demon Slayer \u2013 Kimetsu No Yaiba \u2013 The Movie: Mugen Train<\/em>, the 2021 TV broadcast version of&nbsp;<em>Mugen Train<\/em>, and December 2021 to February 2022&#8217;s <em>Entertainment District Arc<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Viz Media describes the manga as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Learning to destroy demons won\u2019t be easy, and Tanjiro barely knows where to start. 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\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a9Koyoharu Gotoge \/ SHUEISHA, Aniplex, ufotable<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Staff (returning unless stated otherwise)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:\u00a0<strong>Haruo Sotozaki<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer and chief animation director:\u00a0<strong>Akira Matsushima<br \/><\/strong>\u2022 Art directors:\u00a0<strong>Masaru Yanaka <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Yuri Kabazawa<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Art supervisor: <strong>Kouji Etou<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Compositing director:\u00a0<strong>Yuuichi Terao<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Color designer:\u00a0<strong>Yuuko Oomae<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Script production and animation production:\u00a0<strong>ufotable<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;font-size: 12pt\">Cast<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Hanae Natsuki<\/strong>\u00a0as Tanjiro Kamado<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Akari Kitou<\/strong>\u00a0as Nezuko Kamado<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Hiro Shimono<\/strong>\u00a0as Zenitsu Agatsuma<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022\u00a0<strong>Yoshitsugu Matsuoka<\/strong>\u00a0as Inosuke Hashibira<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemonSlayerUSA\/status\/1766472817225171215?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span 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Hashira Training Arc was announced last June after the end of the previous season,&nbsp;Swordsmith Village&nbsp;Arc. It will have an hour-long special premiere. Aniplex USA describes the synopsis as: The Hashira, the Demon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":81037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1625,720,8130],"class_list":["post-81034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-demon-slayer","tag-demon-slayer-kimetsu-no-yaiba-hashira-training-arc"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/demonslayerhashiratrainingarc_keyvisual1-1-scaled-e1709996741643.jpeg?fit=1809%2C1019&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-l50","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81034"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113802,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81034\/revisions\/113802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}