The official Twitter account for the TV anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga series has released the key visual for the franchise's two-day Demon Slayer Festival - Anime 3rd Anniversary Celebrations set for April 16 and 17.
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The anime is getting a third season, which will adapt the manga's Swordsmith Village Arc (Katanakaji no Sato-Hen).
Returning staff for Season 3 includes: director Haruo Sotozaki, character designer and chief animation director Akira Matsushima, the animation studio ufotable.
The main cast are all returning to reprise their roles for the new arc.
VIZ Media describes the Demon Slayer -Swordsmith Village Arc- as:
For the first time in over 100 years, the upper ranks of Muzan Kibutsuji’s Twelve Kizuki are not full. Angered, Muzan dispatches the survivors on another mission. Elsewhere, Tanjiro journeys to a village of swordsmiths and has to explain how his sword was so badly damaged to Haganezuka, the smith who made it. While Tanjiro waits for his sword to be repaired, enemies close in…
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