Is ‘Demon Slayer’ season 4 already in production? All you need to know about the future of the anime series

Demon Slayer season 4 is reportedly in production after a 70-minute-long final episode premiere of the show’s third season in Japan. The fourth season will reportedly cover the hashira training arc. This takes place in the manga series’ volumes 15 and 16. Hashira training arc revolves around how Tanjiro rigorously prepares under the mentorship of Himejima, the Stone Hashira.

Initially, the fourth season of Demon Slayer was confirmed by a Twitter account called@oecuf0. The account is believed to be a reliable source among the anime community. Previously, the account had leaked a number of important visuals and release dates of anime, such as the release date of ‘Komi Can’t Communicate season 2’.

“It’s not huge news, but we can confirm that the next season is already in production!”@oecuf0 tweeted.

Later, the official Twitter account of Demon Slayer posted an official teaser of the fourth season.

Demon Slayer is aJapanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. The anime series adaptation was produced by Ufotable. The manga had more than 150 million copies in circulation as of February 2021. It eventually notably became the ninth best-selling manga series of all time.

Koyoharu was included in ‘Phenoms’ in Time’s annual list of 100 Most Influential People.Koyoharu thus becamethe first manga artist to achieve this. The author was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, on May 5, 1989, and uses a pen name to remain anonymous.

The author received the 2nd Kodansha’s Noma Publishing Culture Award in 2020, which is given to individuals to honour them for their contribution to ‘reinventing publishing’. The same year, Koyoharu also won the award for best screenplay/original story at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival – one of the author’s many other achievements till date.