Akihabara News (Tokyo) — In the fifth episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tanjiro makes it through the final selection process and receives his first assignment as an official demon slayer.
The episode begins with a flashback of his trainer Sakonji Urokodaki fighting a demon, which then turns out to be the morphed demon Tanjiro battled during the final selection process.
Upon killing the demon, Tanjiro sees the souls of the children whom the demon had killed and tells them they can finally rest in peace.
Over the next seven days of the selection process, Tanjiro is constantly having to fight demons to stay alive, but he tries to ask the demons if they know how to change his sister back into a human. He never gets an answer.
After the seven days, he survives the process, and is shocked to discover that he is one of only four to make it out alive. There had been so many of them when the selection started.
The successful four are congratulated and awarded a Kasugai Crow for communication purposes. They are then asked to select a metal ore that will become the basis of their very own Nichirin Blade that will take two weeks to forge.
Tanjiro struggles to get home to Urokodaki as he is fatigued from the selection process. When he finally makes it, he is embraced by his sister Nezuko who is finally awake.
Urokodaki is impressed that Tanjiro has survived the process. He warns him about special Blood Demon Art that provides some demons with enhanced supernatural abilities that are harder to defeat. He also speculates that Nezuko has regained her strength from sleeping.
Fifteen days later, Hotaru Haganezuka, a sword forger in a mask, arrives with Tanjiro’s sword made of scarlet iron sand and scarlet ore. He explains that these materials produce steel that can absorb sunlight.
Haganezuka says Tanjiro is a child of brightness due to his red hair and eyes, which is meant to be a cause for celebration. He predicts that the Nichirin Blade will turn red. However, as Tanjiro draws the sword, it turns pitch black, which Urokodaki says is uncommon.
The episode ends with Tanjiro’s Kasugai crow transmitting his first assignment, which is to hunt down a demon lurking in the northwest who is killing young girls.
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