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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train (Japanese: 劇場版「鬼滅の刃」 無限列車編, Hepburn: Gekijō-ban "Kimetsu no Yaiba" Mugen Ressha-bird), additionally referred to as Demon Slayer: Mugen Train or Demon Slayer: Infinity Train, is a 2020 Japanese lively darkish myth action film[three][four] based at the "Mugen Train" arc of the shōnen manga collection Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba by means of Koyoharu Gotouge. The movie, which is a direct sequel to the primary season of the anime television collection, changed into directed via Haruo Sotozaki and written through Ufotable team of workers individuals. The movie was produced via Ufotable in association with Aniplex and Shueisha.
The movie become launched at some stage in the COVID-19 pandemic, premiering on October sixteen, 2020 in Japan and overdue 2020 to mid-2021 across the world. It grossed over $504 million at the global field office, making it the very best-grossing movie of 2020, the first time a non-Hollywood manufacturing crowned the yearly container office. It set a number of field office statistics, which includes becoming the best-grossing Japanese movie of all time.
A 2d season of the anime tv collection started out its broadcast in Japan on October 10, 2021. The 2nd season's first component, Mugen Train Arc, is an prolonged and recompilated model of the film.[five]Plot[edit]
Tanjiro Kamado, his sister Nezuko, and his friends Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke Hashibira board the Mugen Train[N 1] to help the Flame Hashira Kyōjurō Rengoku in his project to hunt for a demon that has prompted 40 human beings to go missing. Soon after boarding, all of them are enchanted and fall right into a deep sleep. Enmu, Lower One of the Twelve Kizuki, instructs four passengers, all laid low with intense insomnia, to enter the Demon Slayers' goals and smash their spiritual cores in order that they cannot wake up again. In change, Enmu will supply them a non violent sleep.
During their sleep, Tanjiro and his companions have glad dreams; Tanjiro reunites with his deceased family, Kyōjurō reminisces on his beyond together with his younger brother and disapproving father, Zenitsu envisions a quiet lifestyles with Nezuko, and Inosuke imagines himself as an adventuring leader. The female who invades Kyōjurō's dream locates his core, however his immensely robust spirit manages to halt her even whilst nevertheless unconscious.
Tanjiro realizes that he is dreaming, tearfully leaving behind his family and attempts to wake up, succeeding after a vision of his father instructs him to kill himself inside the dream. At the same time, Nezuko uses her Blood Demon Art to sever the intruders' connection to the slayers, and awaken the passengers. In worry of Enmu, they assault Tanjiro, who knocks them all out, except for his intruder, who had grown especially guilty after uncovering his subconscious and discovering he possesses a pure heart.
While Nezuko awakens the others, Tanjiro confronts Enmu on pinnacle of the educate, who will become delighted to discover he's the "man with the Hanafuda rings" that his grasp, Muzan Kibutsuji, goals killed. In the ensuing warfare, Tanjiro beheads him, however, Enmu well-knownshows that he fused himself with the teach, preparing to consume all the attendants inside. An awoke Kyōjurō instructs Inosuke and Tanjiro to look for Enmu's neck even as he, Nezuko, and Zenitsu live behind to defend the opposite passengers. Tanjiro and Inosuke discover Enmu's neckbone in the engine room, however are stuck off protect by means of its defenses, inclusive of its Blood Demon Art that constantly puts him to sleep. The conductor ends up stabbing Tanjiro within the chaos, but together with Inosuke, they are in a position to show and smash Enmu's neckbone, killing him and derailing the educate. In the aftermath, Enmu laments his failure over being defeated with the aid of the Demon Slayers, disintegrating away.
As Tanjiro attempts to recover from his wounds, Kyōjurō arrives to assist train him the way to stabilize it along with his breathing strategies. However, they're unexpectedly attacked by Upper Three of the Twelve Kizuki, Akaza, who tries to steer Kyōjurō to show into a demon to become immortal, after sensing his already vast electricity. Kyōjurō without difficulty refuses, considering how his mother taught him to usually use his strength and items to protect others.
Kyōjurō orders Tanjiro and Inosuke to face lower back, while he and Akaza start in a combat to the dying which the others can barely preserve up with. Despite his perseverance, Kyōjurō is not able to healthy Akaza's regeneration capabilities, because the demon manages to fatally injure him by way of piercing his sun plexus. Kyōjurō attempts to keep him at bay for long enough for the solar to kill him, however Akaza manages to break loose and escape into the adjacent forest. In a closing ditch attempt to prevent him, an enraged Tanjiro throws his sword at Akaza, which impales the demon's chest, however he nevertheless manages to escape, as Tanjiro breaks down calling him a coward.
Kyōjurō succumbs to his injuries and encourages Tanjiro and his friends to preserve on his path, earlier than dying. The 3 are devastated over the demise, with Tanjiro specifically drawn into melancholy because of the nearly not possible energy gap between humans and Demons which Akaza has found out that Demon are capable of, but Inosuke reminds him to heed Kyōjurō's closing words and keep combating to get more potent. The last Hashiras get hold of the news of Kyōjurō’s demise, while the pinnacle of the Demon Slayer Corps, Kagaya Ubuyashiki, appreciates him for no longer letting a single passenger or comrade die in his presence, pointing out that he can be satisfied to reunite with him when he eventually passes.Voice forged[edit]CharacterJapaneseEnglishTanjiro Kamado (竈門 炭治郎, Kamado Tanjirō)Natsuki HanaeZach AguilarNezuko Kamado (竈門 禰豆子, Kamado Nezuko)Akari KitōAbby TrottZenitsu Agatsuma (我妻 善逸, Agatsuma Zen'itsu)Hiro ShimonoAleks LeInosuke Hashibira (嘴平 伊之助, Hashibira Inosuke)Yoshitsugu MatsuokaBryce PapenbrookKyojuro Rengoku (煉獄 杏寿郎, Rengoku Kyōjurō)Satoshi HinoMark WhittenEnmu/Lower Rank 1 (魘夢)Daisuke HirakawaLandon McDonaldAkaza/Upper Rank three (猗窩座)Akira IshidaLucien DodgeRuka Rengoku (煉獄 瑠火, Rengoku Ruka)Megumi ToyoguchiSuzie Yeung[6]Shinjuro Rengoku (煉獄 槇寿郎, Rengoku Shinjurō)Rikiya KoyamaImari Williams[7]Senjurō Rengoku (煉獄 千寿郎, Rengoku Senjuro)Junya EnokiCedric Williams[8]Tanjuro Kamado (竈門 炭十郎, Kamado Tanjūrō)Shin-ichiro MikiKirk ThorntonKie Kamado (竈門 葵枝, Kamado Kie)Houko KuwashimaDorothy Elias-FahnTakeo Kamado (竈門 竹雄, Kamado Takeo)Yō TaichiMichelle RuffHanako Kamado (竈門 花子, Kamado Hanako)Konomi KoharaRyan BartleyShigeru Kamado (竈門 茂, Kamado Shigeru)Kaede HondoJessica DiCiccoRokuta Kamado (竈門 六太, Kamado Rokuta)Aoi KogaPhilece SamplerShinobu Kocho (胡蝶 しのぶ, Kochō Shinobu)Saori HayamiErika HarlacherGyomei Himejima (悲鳴嶼 行冥, Himejima Gyōmei)Tomokazu SugitaCrispin FreemanTengen Uzui (宇髄 天元, Uzui Tengen)Katsuyuki KonishiRay ChaseSanemi Shinazugawa (不死川 実弥, Shinazugawa Sanemi)Tomokazu SekiKaiji TangObanai Iguro (伊黒 小芭内, Iguro Obanai)Kenichi SuzumuraErik Scott KimererGiyu Tomioka (富岡 義勇, Tomioka Giyū)Takahiro SakuraiJohnny Yong BoschKagaya Ubuyashiki (産屋敷 耀哉, Ubuyashiki Kagaya)Toshiyuki MorikawaMatthew MercerAmane Ubuyashiki (産屋敷 天音, Ubuyashiki Amane)Rina SatōSuzie YeungProduction[edit]
Yūma Takahashi, the producer of the anime series, indicated a choice to maintain manufacturing of the collection with the Ufotable Production Team. The sequel task changed into greenlit following the success of the television collection. A movie was determined to be the pleasant format for the "Mugen Train" arc due to the arc's shorter content and dramatic pacing.[9] The most important solid turned into made aware about the movie project halfway thru the first season of the television series.[10] The main manufacturing workforce from the anime television series, as well as the solid, were carried over into the movie's production. Haruo Sotozaki served as director, with Akira Matsushima and Manabu Kamino serving as animator and editor of the movie, respectively. The film changed into announced on September 28, 2019, right now following the airing of the anime series' season finale.[eleven]Release[edit]Theatrical[edit]