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“If you clear your heart and mind, even fire feels cold.”
As if training with Obanai Iguro and Sanemi Shinazugawa wasn’t excruciating enough, Tanjiro and Zenitsu begin to panic just by listening to Stone Hashira Gyomei Himejima’s regimen. Zenitsu hilariously passes out after Himejima simply runs them through the tasks they are expected to accomplish.
Titled “The Strongest in the Demon Slayer Corps,” episode six of the Demon Slayer Hashira Training arc mostly focuses on Tanjiro and the junior slayers doing their best to survive the quests set by Gyomei Himejima—a bulky, scarily intimidating man who is almost always near tears and evokes similar emotions in those facing him. His training expectations are so absurdly high that some of the slayers think he is bullying them with impossible goals as a sadistic measure. This isn’t a far-fetched theory, considering how Sanemi Shinazugawa dismissed Tanjiro after trying to kill him out of anger in episode five.
For many fans who have no doubt been wondering what the demons are up to and why they’ve been conspicuously absent in the episodes so far—we finally get a glimpse of Muzan Kibutsuji himself, in his Infinity Castle no less. While the slayers have been working tirelessly to prepare for the inevitable battle with the demons, Muzan has been meticulously looking for Nezuko.
Overall, this episode of Demon Slayer was comical and entertaining. It reunites Tanjiro with the boisterous boar-head Inosuke, who, as always, continues to be extremely competitive. Given the title, I was actually hoping for some flashback story to Himejima’s past, but his screen time is surprisingly short in this episode. Instead, we get funny sequences of the slayers struggling to keep up with his training, with Zenitsu being a total hopeless mess. However, in the end-credit scene, Tanjiro announces the next episode as “Gyomei Himejima The Stone Hashira,” so maybe we will get his backstory in the upcoming episode.
You can stream the series on Netflix, CrunchyRoll and JioCinema.
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