The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga series has released a new key visual for the anime's second season, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc (Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yūkaku-hen), as well as announced that Ryota Ohsaka has been cast as Gyutaro.
Aimer performs the opening song "Zankyō Sanka" (Song of Reverberation) and ending song "Asa ga Kuru" (Daybreak) for the Entertainment District Arc.
The Entertainment Arc aired on 30 stations and channels (including Fuji TV and Tokyo MX) in Japan on December 5.
Funimation streams the Entertainment Arc in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Crunchyroll also streams Season 2.
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The cast from the first television anime season returned, including Katsuyuki Konishi as Tengen Uzui.
Miyuki Sawashiro joins the cast as Daki.
Shizuka Ishigami, Nao Tōyama, and Atsumi Tanezaki were cast as Tengen's 3 wives Makio, Suma and Hinatsuru.
Haruo Sotozaki is returning to direct the second season at ufotable, and Akira Matsushima is again designing the characters.
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted 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.
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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.