Ikhtiyar Anime Review and Explanation: Demon Slayer : Kimetsu no Yaiba (chapter 04 explanation)

Total Anime Episodes :- 26 ( till now ) you can watch it online

Total Manga Volume :- 23 ( chapter :- 1 to 205 )

About the show

It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kind hearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.

CHAPTER 04:- TANJIRO DAIRY: PART ONE (THAT BLADE, AWAITS IT'S CROSSING)

DEMON KILLING SWORDSMAN :-Demon killing swordsman is reffering to DEMON KILLING CROPS. There numbers are around a few hundered. Is an organization that is not acknowledged by the goverment. However, they still exist and continue to kill Demons. Nobody knows who is leading this gang of demon hunters. Still shrouded in mystery. The demon killing corps fights the demons with their mortal flesh and blood. Due to them being humans their injuries recover slow and lost limbs will never regrow. Even so, they still fight the demons for humanity.

DEMON:- Main source of food of demons is humans. They kill humans and then consume theeir flesh. When they were first born or where they came from is still unkown. They have powerful physical abilities and even when injured, they are able to immediately heal themselves. Body parts hacked off will still have some sort of connetion and they are able to grow completely new arms and legs. There also exist demons that have the incredible ability to change their body structure. If one does not use a blade of special quality, even after chopping the demon's head off, the demon will not die.

Urokodaki told tanjiro that he is a "cultivator", as word describes he cultivate swordsman. "There are a lot of cultivators who cultivate swordsman with a variety of techniques in a variety of places" urokodaki said to tanjiro. If he wants to enter the demon killing corps then he must survive in the " FINAL SELECTION" on " FUJIKASANEYAMA" and urokodaki get decide either tanjiro are allowed to enter the "FINAL SELECTION".

Tanjiro decide to write a dairy for Nezuko. Tanjiro starts his training in mountain. He was slowly able to avoid the traps from descending the mountain repeatedly everyday, his stamina was not the only thing that increased his nose is able to detect smells even swifter than before. However the difficulty of the traps began to slowly increase and are filled with a heavy stench of killing intent.

Next day tanjiro took his blade with him to descend the mountain and this is really going to be annoying. "If my hands where empty then i would get tangled with the traps" tanjiro says.

Next day, tanjiro trying to swing his sword. However compared to today, it's more like he is swinging my sword everyday recently. After descending the mountain i still continue to use my drop dead tired hands to swing repeatedly. In the beginning urokodaki told him as well that the blade is easily snapped, even though the force of the strike of swinging vertically is strong, The force of swinging horizontally is very weak. When using a blade, one must swing along with the blade, the position of the blade and the direction one applies the force to swinging the blade must be exactly the same. Also, blades can be worn down as well which means that if his blade snaps, his bones will snap as well. That's the slight threat that he got from urokodaki anyways.

Next day, today is a wrestling festival. A trainig devised to allow him to get up quickly no matter what position he fell to the ground. Tanjiro held his blade and swing it at urokodaki-sensei. Urokodaki-sensei uses only his hands, without any weapons. "He's really strong i always fall to the ground after being flung out.

Today he practiced breathing and positions to do it in. Urokodaki got angry on him due to not putting in strenght towards his abdomen and started slapping his stomach. Also, Nezuko has lost consciousness for almost half a year.

Even though urokodaki-san asked for a doctor for a diagnosis immediately, there weren't any signs of irregularity but the fact that she continued to sleep itself shows that something is irregular. "I'm afraid that she would wake one morning and die just like that" tanjiro thinks. Tanjiro training of the mountain needs to be conducted in more dangerous and more oxygen lacking places. He thought a bunch of times that he was going to die there. "I don't have anything more to teach you" urokodaki said to tanjiro. A year after he arrived at narrow mist mountain, he suddenly said this. Urokodaki told him " from now on you're going to have to prove yourself, see if you can improve yourself upon the basics i have taught you". He also told him "If you are able to hack this rock in half then i will allow you to join the FINAL SELECTION".

Tanjiro thought that is that even able to be hacked apart?. He also thought " can i do it with a blade?, i don't think i can do it, the blade will snap". From that moment on urokodaki-san didn't teach him anything anymore. He continued to practice the things he learned from urokodaki-sensei every day. Jotting down basic things like holiding his breath and flexibility training, in his notebook helped a lot.

Though even after half a year he still wasn't able to hack apart the rock. He was getting anxious. " I can't do it?, nezuko will maintain her current state and die just like that?" tanjiro talk with himself. He getting depressed and thinking about giving up. " I need to work harder!! work harder!!!" tanjiro talk to himself. Suddenly someone scold on him " Shut up!".

A fox like mask wearing boy are setting over the rock and holding a woodden sword in his hand. "Such a shamefur dispray of a man shouting nonsense" fox mask said to him. "When did he appear!?, no smell, fox mask " Tanjiro shocked. Fox mask-man said "no matter how difficult and painful it may be, you shut your mouth and deal with it, if you call your self a man if you are a true man" and suddenly he attack on tanjiro with woodden sword and kick him. He said "slow, weak, rusty, your state is not a man by any definition".