Akihabara News (Tokyo) — In the eighth episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Tanjiro meets a demon doctor with Special Blood Art while demon leader Muzan Kibutsuji sends his minions to kill the young demon slayer.
The episode begins with Tanjiro having to subdue the man who Kibutsuji turned into a demon. During the kerfuffle, Kibutsuji disappears into the crowd, and Tanjiro is left trying to protect the bystanders from the rampaging demon. But he is also reluctant to kill the demon in front of his wife.
The police show up and try to stop Tanjiro from assaulting the demon as they are unaware of the nature of the situation. Tanjiro tries to tell the police how dangerous the man is while still trying to keep the demon under control.
A visible scent surrounds the crowd, and the police lose sight of the situation. Two demons, Tamayo and Yushiro, appear out of the scent. Tamayo introduces herself and Yushiro as demons, and Tanjiro is shocked. She then tells him that she is also a doctor and she shares his goal of wanting to kill Kibutsuji. Tamayo offers her help and Tanjiro accepts.
Kibutsuji is seen sending his family away as he needs to sort out some business. He lies to them, saying that he is going to talk to the police about the weird kid who confronted him in the city, referring to Tanjiro. Once his wife and daughter depart, Kibutsuji summons two demon helpers who he then commands to kill Tanjiro and bring back his head.
Tanjiro returns to the udon food truck to retrieve his demon sister Nezuko. He eats his meal before Yushiro arrives to take him to see Tamayo. He explains that Tanjiro would not be able to find them through their scents as they have concealed it through a magic spell.
Tanjiro goes to Tamayo’s home, where she explains that she and Yushiro do not kill humans for blood, but rather buy human blood in small amounts under the ruse of needing it for transfusions. She then explains that she turned Yushiro into a demon after two hundred years of being a demon herself.
Tanjiro asks Tamayo if she knows how to turn a demon back into human, to which she does not have an answer. She said she would need to study a lot of demon blood to be able to find a cure, and she asks if Tanjiro is willing to help her in obtaining demon blood. Tanjiro replies that he would do anything that would help turn his sister back into a human.
The episode ends with Kibutsuji’s demon helpers finding the group and attacking them.
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