Book Review
Title: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol 5 by Koyoharu Gotouge
Genre: Manga, Fantasy
Rating: 5 Stars
Volume 5 continues the fight between the demon slayers and the spider clan as Inosuke is separated from Tanjiro and left to do with the father while Tanjiro encounters Rui and the older sister. Rui attempts to kill Tanjiro but Nezuko jumps in to save him and this sparks something in Rui that he has been looking for and he demands that Tanjiro hands over Nezuko to him so she can continue to live after Rui kills him and Tanjiro refuses.
Meanwhile, Inosuke is having a hard time dealing with the father and is injured again but Giyuu shows up to save the day and deal with the demon before heading off in Tanjiro’s direction. Shinobu is also working hard as he treats Zenitsu’s poisoning before dealing with the older sister and saving some demon slayer trapped in her cocoons. At this moment the true battle between Rui and Tanjiro begins especially after Rui reveals himself to be one of the twelve demon moons. Rui’s threads are stronger than all the other members of the spider clan and Tanjiuro very quickly ends up breaking his blade after Rui takes Nezuko hostage playing on Tanjiro’s emotions. Tanjiro is quickly overwhelmed but remembers a breathing technique passed down from his father and uses this Dance of the Fire God along with Nezuko’s demon art to burn through Rui’s thread and seemingly kill him.
Tanjiro is now down for the count but Rui reveals himself to be alive and it is at this moment Giyuu arrives and finishes him off for good. We learn that Rui was just an ordinary boy with a weak body before Muzan made him into a demon and he ended up killing his parents after they tried to kill him but it was only after that he realised his father intended for all of them to die together and his mother even apologizes to him with her dying breath for not giving him a stronger body. Giyuu doesn’t understand why Tanjiro was so nice to Rui as he was dying and Tanjiro explains that all the demons were human once and deserve respect as they are dying. This chat is interrupted as Shinobu appears and tries to kill Nezuko since she is a demon but Giyuu prevents her from doing that leading to a fight between them.
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