Season 1, Episode 24: ‘Rehabilitation Training’

Finally closer to recovering, Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke put through “rehabilitation training.” Aoi creates the plan for them. Zenitsu doesn’t start right away. He’s been given the impression from the exhausted look on the faces of Tanjiro and Inosuke that the training is daunting. He is (as expected) petrified by attending the training. However, when the training is explained to him, stretching by girls, then a reflex game and finally a game of tag, Zenitsu is overjoyed by the chance to touch and be touched by pretty girls. After initially finding Zenitsu to be annoying and over the top, I’ve become accustomed to his personality. Zenitsu remains the primary source of comedy in this series, I appreciate that about him.

This episode isn’t all fun and games however. While, Inosuke and Zenitsu abandon training after they fail to capture Kanao, Tanjiro focuses on mastering his breathing. He’s informed that all the Hashira’s and Kanao can use the “Total Concentration Breathing” all day long. Tanjiro begins to increase his training hoping to achieve the feat. He must become able to use his breath to explode special gourds of increasing size, if he’s going to reach the next level. Finally, Tanjiro and Shinobu have a conversation on the roof. She reveals that she’s always angry, after Tanjiro asks why the scent he receives from her is always angry.

He sister was killed by a demon. Like Tanjiro she had sympathy for demon. Shinobu tried to emulate he sisters smile, but she finds it exhausting to do so. Shinobu decides that she will leave Tanjiro with the mission her sister started, forging relationships with demons. Unfortunately, the new character development seems to suggests that Shinobu will die soon. It think she will find the demon that killed her sister and finally let go of that anger to kill it. This coupled with the fact that Kanao has not so subtly been position as her successor, training under Shinobu and already achieving feats that the other Hashira’s can do. However, I don’t think this will happen this season.

Kyojuro Rengoku on the other hand will likely die this season. In the beginning of the episode, Shinobu asks him where he’s going. He’s likely going to encounter a member of the Upper Ranks. Since Giyu so easily defeat Rui a member of the Lower Ranks, I think we can assume that the higher ranks are significantly stronger. My prediction is that Demon Slayer will leave us with a understanding that Hashira’s aren’t enough and no one is safe. Regardless, Tanjiro, Inosuke and Zenitsu are going to have to get stronger.

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Reviews of the Other Episodes

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 01: Cruelty
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 02: Trainer Sakonji Urokodaki
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 03: Sabito and Makomo
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 04: Final Selection
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 05: My Own Steel
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 06: A Friend of All Humans
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 07: Muzan Kibutsuji
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 08: The Smell of Enchanting Blood
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 09: Temari Demon and Arrow Demon
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 10: Together Forever
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 11: Tsuzumi Mansion
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 12: Zenitsu Sleeps
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 13: Something More
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 14: Wisteria Family Crest
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 15: Mount Natagumo
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 16: Letting Someone Else Go First
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 17: You Must Master a Single Thing
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 18: A Forged Bond
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 19: Hinokami
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 20: Pretend Family
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 21: Against Corps Rules
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 22: Master of the Mansion
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 23: Hashira Meeting
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 24: Rehabilitation Training
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Episode 25: Tsuguko, Kanao Tsuyuri