Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 12

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a shonen action manga set in Japan during the Taisho era. Its protagonist, Tanjiro Kamado, is a village boy who makes a living selling charcoal. One day he returns home to find his entire family slaughtered by demons, and his only surviving sister, Nezuko, transformed into a demon. To restore his sister's humanity and to avenge the family he lost, Tanjiro joins the Demon Slayer Corps, fighting while searching for a way to turn Nezuko back. This volume (Vol. 12, subtitled "Upper Rank Gathering") picks up from the fierce battle in the Entertainment District at the end of the previous volume: for the first time in one hundred and thirteen years, an Upper Rank demon has been killed, leaving a vacancy among the Upper Ranks. Enraged, Muzan Kibutsuji summons the remaining Upper Ranks and issues new orders. Meanwhile, Tanjiro's blade was badly chipped in his fight with Gyutaro, and the swordsmith Haganezuka is furious about it; to obtain a new sword, Tanjiro sets out for the swordsmith village where Haganezuka lives, meets new companions there, encounters the people and places of the swordsmith trade, and stumbles into the Upper Ranks' ensuing schemes. This volume collects chapters 98 through 106. The traditional Chinese edition was published by Tong Li Publishing, translated by Lin Zhichang.