8.5/1032 votes#1 - Final Selection
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/2019
To pass Final Selection, one must survive for seven days on Mt. Fujikasane where demons captured by the Demon Slayers have been imprisoned. So begins the battle for survival between the young swordsmen and the demons. Armed with the breathing techniques and stances he'd learned from Sakonji Urokodaki, Tanjiro slashes demon after demon. His two years of training have not gone to waste. But just then, a morphed demon appears out of nowhere.
Director: Shinya Shimomura
Writer: N/A
8.2/1012 votes#2 - To Defeat Muzan Kibutsuji
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 5/12/2024
The Hashira, Sanemi and Iguro, along with their comrades head to an abandoned castle on top of a mountain for a mission, while Tanjiro is being treated at the Butterfly Mansion for the wounds he suffered at the Swordsmith Village. Later on, the Hashira gather at the Ubuyashiki Mansion to hold a Hashira meeting, where Muichiro reveals how the marks manifested. In an effort to strengthen the entire Demon Slayer Corps from the bottom up, the Hashira Training begins...
Director: Shinya Shimomura
Writer: N/A
8.1/1029 votes#3 - Temari Demon and Arrow Demon
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/1/2019
It was two demons named Tamayo and Yushiro who came to Tanjiro’s rescue. Using the “Eyeblind” spell, Tamayo guides Tanjiro and Nezuko to her house. There, through his conversation with Tamayo, Tanjiro learns that there is a way to return demons to human form. Just then, two demons in pursuit of Tanjiro locate the house and unleash a furious assault...
Director: Shinya Shimomura
Writer: N/A
8.0/1033 votes#4 - Sabito and Makomo
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/20/2019
The Demon Slayer Corps... An organization that's been hunting down demons since ancient times. Sakonji Urokodaki starts training Tanjiro for Final Selection, the test for joining the unit. Navigating a mountain riddled with booby traps, dry sword swings, waterfall immersion and breathing techniques... A year later, Urokodaki informs Tanjiro that he has nothing more to teach him, and gives him one last hurdle to overcome in front of a giant boulder.
Director: Shinya Shimomura
Writer: N/A
8.0/1022 votes#5 - Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2021
Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku receives new orders: Travel to the Mugen Train, where over forty people have gone missing, and conduct an investigation. Leaving the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters, he sets off on this new mission.
Director: Shinya Shimomura
Writer: N/A
7.7/1025 votes#6 - Tsuguko, Kanao Tsuyuri
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/21/2019
Tanjiro, who's undergoing rehabilitation training at the Butterfly Mansion, works hard to keep up his Total Concentration Breathing techniques all day long. Though at first, he's helpless against Kanao, a swordswoman in his class who's training him, he slowly but surely begins to make some headway. Seeing Tanjiro devote himself to training every single day, Zenitsu and Inosuke resume training as well, but...
Director: Shinya Shimomura
Writer: N/A
6.6/1028 votes#7 - Someone's Dream
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/2023
An Upper Rank Demon has been defeated for the first time in a hundred years by Uzui, Tanjiro, and his comrades' effort. This news causes a ripple effect not only among the members of the Demon Slayer Corps, but also the Upper Rank Demons, who have been summoned by Muzan Kibutsuji. Meanwhile, Tanjiro is recovering at the Butterfly Mansion when he discovers that he has upset his swordsmith Haganezuka after chipping his sword and decides to head to the village where the swordsmiths live to talk to him in person.
Director: Shinya Shimomura
Writer: N/A
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"Final Selection" is the best rated episode directed by Shinya Shimomura. It scored 8.469/10 based on 32 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 4/27/2019 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "To Defeat Muzan Kibutsuji".