Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To The Hashira Training On Demand (2024)

Grab your Nichirin blade (or just your remote) and search for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - To the Hashira Training on your preferred VOD platform tonight. The final battle is coming, and you don’t want to show up unprepared.

For the uninitiated, this release (often labeled as the fourth season or a feature-length premiere) has caused a little confusion. Is it a movie? A season premiere? A filler episode? The answer is more interesting than you might think. Grab your Nichirin blade (or just your remote)

8/10 – A necessary, beautifully animated bridge chapter that respects the characters. Is it a movie

It picks up immediately after the devastating Swordsmith Village Arc. Muzan is on the move. The Upper Ranks are in disarray. And the Demon Slayer Corps realizes that sending wounded children into solo death matches isn't a sustainable strategy. The answer is more interesting than you might think

Do not go into To the Hashira Training expecting Mugen Train levels of tragedy or a boss fight. Go into it expecting a tactical war council. It is the Demon Slayer equivalent of the Avengers assembling. It’s tense, funny, and surprisingly heartwarming to see these broken warriors try to teach the next generation.