The climax for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc is upon us and the rest of the arc cannot be contained in just two normal episodes. Shortly after the airing of episode six of the Hashira Training Arc in Japan tonight, the official Twitter account and website for the Demon Slayer anime announced that the final two episodes of the arc will get expanded time slots with the final two episodes getting a theatrical screening alongside a stage talk.
The seventh episode of the Hashira Training Arc will air in a 40-minute time slot on Fuji TV in Japan while episode 8, the final episode of this arc, will be airing in a 60-minute time slot.
The final two episodes will also get a theatrical screening at the same time as the final episode broadcast on June 30 at TOHO Cinema Shinjuku. After the screening of episode 8, a special talk will be held starting around 12:20 AM on July 1 with some of the series’ cast. The talk will also be streamed on Aniplex’s YouTube channel. Tickets go on sale through a lottery system for the screening and talk on June 24.
Haruo Sotozaki continues to direct Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba at the anime studio ufotable, with Akira Matsushima as Chief Animation Director and Character Designer, and music by Yuki Kajiura and Go Shiina. Crunchyroll streams the entire series thus far, including the Hashira Training Arc weekly, describing the series as such:
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.
Source: Demon Slayer official website
