Recaps

Tanjiro survived Final Selection by defeating Rui with Heat Haze, while the Hashira tested the other candidates and Muzan learned of Tanjiro’s power. The arc ended with Shinobu revealing that Kanae had planned for her to marry Giyu alongside her.

• Urokodaki released Tanjiro from training, gave him a Warding Mask, and sent him off to Mount Fujikasane after his family said goodbye.
• At the selection, Tanjiro stopped Inosuke from attacking Zenitsu, returned Kanao’s coin, and urged her to follow her heart.
• Tanjiro entered the forest, killed demons to train, and saved Zenitsu, who later overcame his fear and entered the inner area.
• Sanemi and Shinobu confronted Rui, and Shinobu’s drug transformed him into a powerful spider demon.
• Tanjiro fought Rui, drew on the Demon Consciousness’s power, and used Heat Haze to consume Rui’s blood until the demon disintegrated.
• Sanemi defeated Inosuke and Zenitsu, while Kanao obeyed Shinobu’s order not to interfere with Tanjiro’s trial.
• Muzan saw Tanjiro’s red blade and Sun Breathing in Rui’s memories, then sealed the Infinity Castle and forbade the Upper Ranks from leaving.
• Giyu told Shinobu that Tanjiro’s victory would help provoke Muzan, but later rejected Shinobu’s advances in favor of Kanae.
• Shinobu drugged Giyu and tried to make him yield, then showed him Kanae’s letter describing their plan to marry him together.

Giyu and the Kocho sisters became a family before Giyu intercepted Muzan in Asakusa and drove him into the Infinity Castle. There, Giyu battled Muzan while Tanjiro fought Kokushibo, ending with both clashes still underway.

• Shinobu drank the aphrodisiac-laced tea, and she and Giyu spent the night together before he promised to protect her and Kanae, and Kanae welcomed the relationship and the three settled into life together.
• Giyu trained Kanae toward the Transparent World, then saw a vision of Tanjiro confronting Muzan in Asakusa and rushed there as Tanjiro tracked Muzan through the city.
• Tanjiro found Muzan but could not attack without endangering Muzan’s human family, and Muzan escaped after turning a passerby into a demon.
• Giyu intercepted Muzan outside Asakusa and fought him across the mountainside, countering his Blood Demon Arts until Muzan summoned Nakime’s portal to the Infinity Castle.
• Giyu followed Muzan through the portal and defeated waves of summoned demons with multiple Breathing Styles, then used Sun Wheel Moon Radiance Breathing against Muzan.
• Muzan and Giyu battled across the Infinity Castle while Kokushibo confronted Tanjiro, who borrowed the Demon Consciousness’s power, healed his wound, and turned his blade red.
• Tanjiro burned Kokushibo with his red blade and evaded his attacks, then charged into Kokushibo’s Moon Breathing storm with Sun Breathing.