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50 free Demon Slayer trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Demon Slayer fan? Put your knowledge of Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Demon Slayer Corps to the test with our engaging trivia quiz. Whether you're a casual viewer or a devoted fan of the anime series, this quiz will challenge your understanding of the show's characters, plot twists, and memorable moments.
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Q 01How did Tanjiro's family make their living before the attack?
Making charcoal
The Kamado family made a living making charcoal; Tanjiro was in town selling charcoal the day Muzan slaughtered his family.
Q 02Who wrote and drew Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, a famously private artist who uses a crocodile as a self-portrait?
Koyoharu Gotouge
Koyoharu Gotouge serialized the manga from 2016 to 2020 and signs with a crocodile self-portrait; Oda, Toriyama and Kishimoto created One Piece, Dragon Ball and Naruto.
Q 03Which animation studio is responsible for producing the Demon Slayer anime adaptation?
Ufotable
Ufotable, the studio behind Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night, animates Demon Slayer; its first season aired in 2019 and its Mugen Train film followed in 2020.
Q 04After being turned into a demon, what does Nezuko Kamado unexpectedly refuse to do?
Consume human flesh
Nezuko refuses to consume human flesh; she recovers her strength by sleeping instead, and wears a bamboo muzzle as a precaution.
Q 05The family leading the Demon Slayer Corps is cursed with a disease that kills its members before what age?
Their thirties
The Ubuyashiki family's curse kills its members before their thirties; the Corps' leader during the story is only 23 when he dies, and Muzan was born into the same bloodline.
Q 06Which breathing style does Tanjiro spend two years learning under his first teacher?
Water
Tanjiro learns Water Breathing over two years on Mount Sagiri before the Final Selection; its ten forms include Water Surface Slash and Waterfall Basin.
Q 07Who is the first Demon Slayer that Tanjiro ever meets?
Giyu Tomioka
Giyu Tomioka, the Water Hashira, finds Tanjiro and the newly turned Nezuko in the snow; he spares her and sends the pair to his own old mentor for training.
Q 08Which breathing style does Zenitsu Agatsuma use, despite only mastering its first form?
Thunder
Zenitsu uses Thunder Breathing but masters only its First Form, Thunderclap and Flash; he fights while asleep, and fellow pupil Kaigaku learned the other five forms but never the first.
Q 09What is the name of Inosuke Hashibira's self-taught fighting style?
Beast Breathing
Inosuke invented Beast Breathing himself while growing up in the mountains; its forms are called Fangs, and he wields two chipped, serrated blades.
Q 10The story of Demon Slayer is set during which era of Japanese history?
Taishō
The manga ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020 and was collected in 23 volumes.
Q 11Before joining the Demon Slayer Corps, the flamboyant Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui was what?
A shinobi
Tengen Uzui was a shinobi from a ninja clan; he abandoned it after his father's brutal training killed most of his nine siblings, and he styles himself the 'god of festivals'.
Q 12Shinobu Kocho's unique combat approach as the Insect Hashira relies on what instead of brute strength?
Poison application
Her thin, sting-like blade injects rather than beheads; she later lets an Upper Rank devour her after dosing her own body with enough poison to cripple him.
Q 13Which Breathing style does Upper Rank One use, a demon who was once a swordsman and derives it from Yoriichi's original?
Moon
Q 21Besides beheading with a Nichirin weapon, which of these can kill a demon?
Direct sunlight
Direct sunlight burns demons to ash; Muzan is finally destroyed by the rising sun after the Corps holds him above ground past dawn.
Q 22Demons instinctively avoid places where which flower grows in abundance?
Wisteria
Wisteria blooms year-round on Mount Fujikasane, which is why the Final Selection is held there; demons cannot approach the flowers, and their extract is poisonous to them.
Q 23Which 2020 film was the first non-American production ever to top the annual worldwide box office?
Mugen Train
Moon Breathing is the style of Upper Rank One, who reshaped the technique of his twin brother Yoriichi into his own; crescent-shaped blades spin out from every slash.
Q 14What is the first opening theme of the Demon Slayer anime, a 2019 hit for the singer LiSA?
Gurenge
Gurenge, meaning 'red lotus', opened the first season in 2019 and became LiSA's breakout hit; she later also sang Homura for the Mugen Train film.
Q 15How did Muzan Kibutsuji become the very first demon?
A failed medical treatment
In the Heian period a doctor treated the sickly Muzan with an experimental medicine; the failed medical treatment turned him into the first demon, and he killed the doctor.
Q 16What is the group of Muzan's strongest demons called, each marked with a rank engraved on their eyes?
The Twelve Kizuki
The Twelve Kizuki split into six Upper and six Lower Ranks, and after Rui's death Muzan executes all the Lower Ranks but one.
Q 17Which Upper Rank demon duo did Tanjiro and Tengen Uzui face in the Entertainment District Arc?
Daki and Gyutaro
The siblings share the single rank of Upper Six; Daki lures victims through her work as an oiran, and both were dying in the district slums when Doma turned them.
Q 18Why did Muzan attack the Kamado family in the first place?
To breed a demon immune to sunlight
Nezuko later develops exactly that immunity during the battle with Hantengu, which makes her Muzan's primary target.
Q 19What is Tanjiro Kamado's primary motivation for joining the Demon Slayer Corps?
To cure his sister
Tanjiro joins the Corps to cure his sister Nezuko, whom Muzan turned into a demon; the first chapter opens with him finding the rest of his family slaughtered.
Q 20Which child of the Corps' leader appears at Tanjiro's Final Selection dressed in feminine clothing?
Kiriya
Kiriya, the only son among the five Ubuyashiki children, attends Final Selection dressed as a girl beside his sister Kanata; he succeeds his father as Corps leader at age eight.
Mugen Train topped the 2020 worldwide box office, the first Japanese film to earn half a billion dollars, and became the highest-grossing film ever released in Japan.
Q 24What color is Tanjiro's Nichirin Blade after he joins the Demon Slayer Corps?
Black
Tanjiro's blade turns black, a color so rare its meaning is unknown and its bearers are said to die young; it later flashes crimson when heated with Nezuko's flames.
Q 25Who was Tanjiro's first mentor in Demon Slayer, a former Water Hashira who always wears a tengu mask?
Sakonji Urokodaki
Sakonji Urokodaki also trained Giyu Tomioka, and his dead pupils Sabito and Makomo appear as spirits to coach Tanjiro on Mount Sagiri.
Q 26Which dance passed down in Tanjiro's family is also a powerful breathing technique?
Hinokami Kagura
The Hinokami Kagura is a fire-god dance Tanjiro's frail father performed all night each New Year in the snow; Tanjiro first uses its forms in desperation against a Lower Rank demon.
Q 27Which Hashira is regarded as the strongest combatant in the entire Demon Slayer Corps?
Gyomei Himejima
Gyomei Himejima, the Stone Hashira, is acknowledged by Kokushibo as the strongest Demon Slayer in three centuries; blind since childhood, he is reincarnated as a kindergarten teacher in the epilogue.
Q 28How many wives does the Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui have?
Three
All three served as kunoichi; when they vanish while undercover in the red-light district he goes in after them.
Q 29Kanao Tsuyuri, Shinobu's adopted sister, initially relies on what to make her decisions?
A coin flip
Kanao flips a coin to decide anything she is not ordered to do, until Tanjiro tells her to follow her heart; she is a Flower Breathing user with exceptional eyesight.
Q 30Which demon, Lower Rank One and the last Lower Rank left, puts everyone aboard the Mugen Train into a deep sleep?
Enmu
Enmu survived Muzan's culling of the Lower Ranks, got a dose of his blood, and fused himself with the train; Rengoku dies in the fight that follows.