Kimetsu no Yaiba Episode 15 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Mount Natagumo

Tanjiro, Inosuke and Zenitsu leave Hisa's home and travel to Mount Natagumo, where they enter the spider-infested forest. Ten Demon Slayers entered before them, and the survivors are being killed by their own comrades, puppeted by a white female demon's threads, while news of the massacre leads a man at a shrine to send Hashira. The episode ends with a pale child-like demon declaring that the five of them will live as a family, as Inosuke locates another demon on a distant boulder.

• Departure from Hisa's home

  After healing, Tanjiro's Kasugai Crow directs the trio north-northeast to Mount Natagumo. Hisa sees them off with a kiribi flint and wishes them luck in battle.

• Arrival at Mount Natagumo

  The trio reaches the mountain at night. Zenitsu refuses to enter, but Tanjiro and Inosuke see an injured Demon Slayer dragged away into the trees and follow the demon scent into the forest. Left behind, Zenitsu later goes in after them, worried about Nezuko.

• Forest massacre by controlled Demon Slayers

  A surviving Demon Slayer, Murata, explains that ten Demon Slayers entered the forest and began killing each other. Tanjiro and Inosuke free the controlled Demon Slayers by cutting the threads, but they reattach, and a white female demon is revealed to control them with spider threads. Meanwhile a Kasugai Crow reports the massacre to a man at a shrine, who decides to send Hashira, with Giyu and Shinobu at his side.

• Pale child-like demon's threat

  A pale child-like demon standing on a web high in the trees threatens them to stay away from its family's peaceful life, and Tanjiro senses it may not be the one controlling the threads. Inosuke uses Spatial Awareness and finds a different demon sitting atop a distant boulder, while the pale demon declares that the five of them will live as a family.

Recent Timeline

• Mansion demons beheaded and Kiyoshi reunited (Episode 12)

  Zenitsu, awakened by fear, strikes with Thunder Breathing First Form and beheads the long-tongued demon that had cornered Shoichi, ending the threat in the room. The masked Demon Slayer slashes off the heavy-set horned demon's arms and beheads it with Beast Breathing Third Fang, then moves on through the mansion. Kiyoshi, rescued after the demons fought over him, is reunited with his sister Teruko, who rushes to hug him in relief.

• Drum Demon Kyogai beheaded (Episode 13)

  Tanjiro defeats Kyogai, a former Twelve Kizuki member, by beheading him with a Water Breathing attack after sensing the Opening Thread in the Blood Demon Art. Before fading into ashes, Kyogai asks whether Tanjiro truly admired his Blood Demon Art. Tanjiro takes a blood sample for Tamayo before the body fades.

• Duel outside the mansion, burial, and wisteria house shelter (Episode 14)

  Outside the tsuzumi mansion, Tanjiro fights the masked Demon Slayer, a fellow Final Selection survivor, to defend Zenitsu, who was guarding Nezuko's box. The bout ends when the mask falls off, revealing Inosuke Hashibira, who collapses after a headbutt from Tanjiro. Tanjiro and Zenitsu bury the mansion dead and pray for the souls of the deceased with the children, and Inosuke, who first refused to help, joins them as they descend the mountain. That night the trio reach a wisteria-crested house whose family, once rescued by Demon Slayers, tends Demon Slayers for free as thanks; a doctor finds broken ribs in all three. Nezuko's box then shakes open, and Zenitsu panics and draws his blade, enraged that Tanjiro travels with a girl and insisting the Demon Slayer Corps is not something one joins for fun.

• Dispatch to Mount Natagumo (Episode 15)

  After a doctor confirms the three are fully healed, a Kasugai Crow orders them to head north-northeast to Mount Natagumo, starting the mission that brings them to the mountain.

• Mount Natagumo Demon Slayer massacre (Episode 15)

  Ten Demon Slayers sent by a Kasugai Crow enter the forest, and soon they begin slashing and killing one another under the demon's control, with only one survivor escaping. The Kasugai Crow reports the massacre, prompting Hashira to be sent.

Character Graph

Giyu Tomioka

Demon Slayer

A Demon Slayer who spared Nezuko after seeing she was different from other demons and sent Tanjiro to Sakonji Urokodaki. He stands by at the shrine as Hashira are ordered to Mount Natagumo.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Other, Mixed)

  Attacked Tanjiro at first, then spared him and sent him toward Urokodaki.

• Nezuko (Other, Mixed)

  Restrains Nezuko, then spares her after seeing she is different from other demons.

Makomo

A young girl with a dreamy demeanour who meets Tanjiro in the forest, teaches him Total Concentration Breathing, and corrects his form. She was orphaned and raised by Sakonji.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Mentor, Affinity)

  Teaches Tanjiro breathing and form and promises to look after him.

Nezuko

demon

Tanjiro's younger sister, turned into a demon, who protects her brother and does not eat humans. She travels in the box on Tanjiro's back and has grown stronger without drinking blood.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Family, Affinity)

  Older brother she protects even as a demon.

• Giyu Tomioka (Other, Mixed)

  Demon Slayer who restrained her, then spared her after seeing she was different from other demons.

• Tamayo (Other, Affinity)

  Hugs her after being healed.

Tamayo

demon · doctor

A demon doctor who freed herself from Muzan's curse, treats humans and is researching a way to turn demons back into humans. To make a medicine for Nezuko, she asked Tanjiro for blood from demons close to Muzan, and she has decided to move away to stay out of Muzan's reach.

• Medical work

  Treats injured people, transforms only those terminally ill or gravely injured, and asks them whether they wish to live as demons.

• Yushiro (Mentor, Guardian, Affinity)

  Her assistant boy, whom she turned into a demon after 200 years of waiting; she cares for him and worries about his future as a demon.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Colleague, Affinity)

  She asks Tanjiro to supply blood samples from Nezuko and from demons close to Muzan for her medicine, and he senses she can be trusted.

• Nezuko (Colleague, Other, Affinity)

  Studies Nezuko's blood, finding her rare for healing through sleep, and tearfully thanks her when Nezuko hugs her.

Temari Demon (Susamaru)

demon

A demon who fought with temari, one of the two demons sent by Muzan to take Tanjiro's head. She claimed to be one of the Twelve Kizuki, but she had no number in her eyes and died from the curse Tamayo triggered.

• Attack

  Her temari punch through the house, and she is excited by the upcoming fight, fueled by Muzan's blood.

• Muzan's subordinate

  Serves under Muzan and calls herself one of the Twelve Kizuki, though Tamayo later finds no number in her eyes.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Other, Hostility)

  Declares Tanjiro is the one Muzan wants dead and is eager to take his head.

• Yushiro (Other, Hostility)

  Beheads Yushiro with a temari; he hates her for hurting Tamayo.

Yushiro

demon

A boy Tamayo turned into a demon, who is fiercely protective of her and hostile to anyone who comes near her. He calls Nezuko an eyesore, yet hesitates to leave her behind.

• Attitude

  Protective of Tamayo, quick to strike Tanjiro, and calls Nezuko an eyesore.

• Protector of Tamayo

  Stood in the path of a temari to shield Tamayo and was beheaded, then healed.

• Tamayo (Mentor, Guardian, Affinity)

  His creator and mistress, whom he admires; she found him when he was terminally ill and cares for him.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Other, Hostility)

  Antagonistic toward Tanjiro, punching and flipping him for getting close to Tamayo.

• Nezuko (Other, Colleague, Mixed)

  Calls Nezuko an eyesore and doubts she is really a demon, but while grumbling at her head-patting, he admits she is a beauty.

• Temari Demon (Other, Hostility)

  Hostile to her for hurting Tamayo; vows she is unforgivable.

Zenitsu Agatsuma (Zenitsu)

Demon Slayer

A cowardly Demon Slayer who survived the Final Selection and is terrified of demons and of dying. He refuses to enter Mount Natagumo at first, then goes in after Tanjiro, worried about Nezuko.

• Background

  Fell into debt after being deceived out of all his money by a woman; was taken in by an old man who turned out to be a trainer of Demon Slayers, and entered the Final Selection hoping to die.

• Traits

  Whines during missions, attracts the attention of girls, snores loudly, and is terrified of dying at the hands of a demon.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Colleague, Mixed)

  A fellow Final Selection survivor who meets Zenitsu on the road and travels with him to the next mission; Tanjiro scolds him and protects him, and Zenitsu clings to him for protection.

• Nezuko (Other, Affinity)

  Furious that Tanjiro travels with a girl, he becomes smitten with Nezuko and chases after her.

Inosuke Hashibira (masked Demon Slayer)

Demon Slayer · Demon Slayer Corps

A Demon Slayer in a boar mask who survived the Final Selection, was raised alone in the mountains and fights with two serrated Nichirin swords. He follows Tanjiro into the Mount Natagumo forest and finds a distant demon with Beast Breathing, Seventh Form: Spatial Awareness.

• Introduction

  Appears in a room wearing a boar mask, startles Zenitsu, and later breaks through a wall to join the fight against the demon.

• Background

  Entered Final Selection after a Demon Slayer entered his mountain; he beat that Slayer and took the sword. Claims he has no parents or siblings and lives in the mountain to test his strength against others.

• Personality

  Reckless and blunt; does not care about the future and enjoys the present, and dismisses courtesy such as eating with chopsticks.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Colleague, Other, Mixed)

  First clashed with Tanjiro outside the tsuzumi mansion, where Inosuke attacked Nezuko's box and was knocked out by Tanjiro's headbutt. He now travels and fights alongside Tanjiro as a self-declared rival.

• Zenitsu Agatsuma (Colleague, Hostility)

  Quarrels with Zenitsu over his rudeness and mocks him; Zenitsu scolds him for being loud.

• Nezuko (Other, Neutral)

  Attacked her box outside the tsuzumi mansion, meaning to kill the demon inside, until Tanjiro stopped him.

Hisa

An elderly woman of the wisteria-crest house who cared for Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke, giving them clean clothes and tempura. She sees them off by striking kiribi flint sparks and wishes them luck in battle.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Guardian, Affinity)

  Took the group in and cares for them; Tanjiro thanks her before leaving.

• Zenitsu Agatsuma (Guardian, Affinity)

  Caretaker who gives him clean clothes and sees him off.

• Inosuke Hashibira (Guardian, Affinity)

  Caretaker who prays for the group's safety and wishes them luck.

Murata

Demon Slayer Corps

The lone survivor of the Demon Slayers first sent to Mount Natagumo. Shaken by the massacre, he holds off the controlled Demon Slayers alongside Tanjiro.

• Tanjiro Kamado (Colleague, Affinity)

  Fights alongside Tanjiro against the controlled Demon Slayers.

Shinobu

A Demon Slayer who stood behind the man at the shrine with Giyu when Hashira were ordered to Mount Natagumo. She asks Giyu whether demons and humans could ever get along.

• Giyu Tomioka (Colleague, Neutral)

  Stands with him at the shrine and asks him whether demons and humans could coexist.

Tanjiro Kamado

Demon Slayer · Demon Slayer Corps · Mizunoto

The eldest son of a charcoal-selling family, who became a Demon Slayer to turn his demon sister Nezuko back into a human. Sent to Mount Natagumo with the Mizunoto rank, he follows the demon scent into the forest and cuts Demon Slayers free from the controlling threads.

• Tasks

  Agrees to supply blood samples from Nezuko and from demons close to Muzan.

• Nezuko (Family, Affinity)

  Younger sister turned into a demon, whom he refuses to abandon and carries with him to Mount Natagumo.

• Giyu Tomioka (Other, Mixed)

  Demon Slayer who first attacks Tanjiro and Nezuko, then spares Nezuko and sends Tanjiro to Sakonji Urokodaki.

• Makomo (Mentor, Affinity)

  Makomo corrects his form and teaches him breathing.

• Tamayo (Colleague, Affinity)

  A demon doctor he has come to trust, who asked him for blood samples for her medicine.

• Yushiro (Other, Hostility)

  Repeatedly clashes with Yushiro, who strikes him for approaching Tamayo.

• Temari Demon (Other, Hostility)

  Determined to defeat her and crawls to his allies to do so.

• Zenitsu Agatsuma (Colleague, Affinity)

  Stops Zenitsu from chasing Nezuko and takes him along on the mission.

• Inosuke Hashibira (Colleague, Mixed)

  Constantly clashes with Inosuke, who headbutts him, yet they fight together.

World Memo

• Demons devour humans

  Demons devour humans and are nocturnal, so crossing the mountain at night is perilous and demons roam about at night.

• Demon physical prowess

  Demons have great physical strength and powerful regeneration.

• Demon Slayers protect people

  Demon Slayers exist to protect people and kill demons, fighting on even though they heal more slowly and die more easily than demons.

• Demon power scales with victims eaten

  Demons eat humans to gain strength, as humans eat food; a demon's power is proportional to the number of victims it has devoured, and a Demon Slayer's sharpened sense of smell can reveal that number.

• Blood Demon Art spells

  Some kinds of demons possess spells called Blood Demon Art, which grant them supernatural abilities.

• Demon Slayer uniform fibre

  The Demon Slayer uniform is made of a special fibre that is waterproof, flame retardant, and strong enough to repel the claws and teeth of a weak demon.

• Blood Demon Art naming convention

  Demon techniques are classed as Blood Demon Arts and given a name, such as Scent of Illusory Blood, Visual Dream.

• Blood transfusion sustains modified demons

  Demons whose bodies have been modified need only small amounts of blood to survive, taken by blood transfusion. A demon transformed by another needs less blood than the one who transformed them.

• Demons avoid forming groups

  Demons do not form groups because it would let them band together against Muzan; Muzan himself manipulates demons into staying apart.

• Only Muzan destroys demon cells

  Demons are normally unable to harm each other, but Muzan alone is capable of destroying demon cells.

• Marechi blood rarity

  Human blood has different rarity and value to demons; someone with rare blood called Marechi is worth fifty or even a hundred ordinary people when devoured.

• Twelve Kizuki demon rank

  The Twelve Kizuki are elite demons who serve directly under Muzan. True members have a number engraved on their eyeballs, so a demon without it is not a member whatever it claims, and their ranks are numbered, such as Lower Rank Six.

Clue Board

• Other children always watching (Episode 3)

  Makomo says there are other children like her and Sabito, orphans raised by Sakonji, who are always watching Tanjiro; their identity and purpose are not explained.

• Morphed demon imprisoned 47 years (Episode 4)

  The morphed demon says Sakonji imprisoned it on Mount Fujikasane 47 years ago, and the applicant doubts any demon in Final Selection is that old; the demon's origin and why it has lived so long remain unexplained.

• Black blade color (Episode 5)

  Tanjiro's Nichirin Sword turns black, against the smith's expectation of red for a sun-bright user; Sakonji dismisses it as uncommon, and the reason stays unexplained.

• Nezuko sensing siblings in victims (Episode 6)

  Nezuko touches the heads of Kazumi and the rescued girl and seems to see her siblings Takeo and Hanako within them, before charging the clones.

• Demon's silence about Muzan (Episode 7)

  The clone knows something about Muzan Kibutsuji but refuses to say anything after hearing the name. He recalls being threatened by Muzan not to tell anyone, since Muzan is always watching, and his fear grows more erratic.

• Muzan's feared hanafuda-earring enemy (Episode 8)

  Muzan suddenly becomes terrified while alone, recalling a past figure standing before him, a feared enemy who raised a sword while wearing hanafuda earrings. The identity of this enemy is not revealed.

• Medicine to turn Nezuko back (Episode 9)

  Tamayo believes there is a way to turn demons back into humans but does not yet know it; to make the medicine she needs blood from Nezuko and from demons with a high concentration of Muzan's blood, such as the Twelve Kizuki. Whether it will work is still unknown.

• Girl's voice asking for a temari (Episode 10)

  After Susamaru's remains are found, a girl's voice asks for a temari and asks to be played with, coming from the remains; the source and reason remain unexplained.

• Unexplained power increase (Episode 10)

  Nezuko's strength rises without consuming blood, and Tamayo states the healing serum does not increase power; the cause is left open.

• Marechi blood term (Episode 12)

  Kyogai calls Tanjiro 'Marechi', which Tanjiro's crow explains refers to someone with rare blood worth fifty or a hundred people if devoured; whether Tanjiro is Marechi is left open.

• Twelve Kizuki presence on the mountain (Episode 15)

  The Kasugai Crow's master wonders whether the Twelve Kizuki are on the mountain, and decides to send Hashira; whether they are there is unknown.

• Source of the rattling sound (Episode 15)

  A strange rattling sound travels through the air, unsettling Tanjiro; the surviving Demon Slayer says the massacre began after this sound, and its source is unexplained.

Deduction Board

Facts

• Declares a family of five

  Says that the five of them are going to live in bliss as a family while drawing a spiderweb in his hands.

• Controls Demon Slayers through threads

  Manipulates threads spun by the white spiders to pull the Demon Slayers' arms, making them attack each other and returning them to control when their threads are cut.

• Wants her dolls to fall apart

  Wishes to keep the Demon Slayers under her control until their arms and legs fall off, calling them her dolls.

Evidence

• Lack of Slayer etiquette

  Inosuke kept attacking Tanjiro bare-handed despite the taboo on Demon Slayers harming one another, until Tanjiro's headbutt knocked him out.

• Found sitting atop a boulder

  Inosuke's Spatial Awareness locates a different demon sitting atop a distant boulder to his left, apparently the one controlling the threads, while the pale child-like demon stands on a web in the trees.

• Thread pulls from a distance

  Threads pull Tanjiro's arm from a distance, and after he cuts them the spiders scurry away, showing they were the ones attaching the threads.

Inferences

• Treats any demon as a target

  His demands to kill the demon in the box regardless of its owner suggest he regards any demon as something a Demon Slayer must kill.

• Isolated upbringing

  Inosuke's ignorance of Slayer taboos and his spelling gap suggest he had little contact with Demon Slayers and learned about the selection and demons only recently.

• Cutting threads is insufficient

  Tanjiro concludes that cutting the threads is pointless if they can be reattached, so the controlling demon itself must be killed.

Suspicions

• Tanjiro as Marechi

  Kyogai repeatedly calls Tanjiro Marechi, which suggests Kyogai may regard Tanjiro as the rare-blood target.

• Rest of the family of five

  The pale child-like demon says the five of them will live as a family and speaks of a 'Mother', but who the other family members are has not been revealed.

• Possibly the one called Mother

  The pale child-like demon speaks of a Mother who will kill them; whether that is this white female demon is not confirmed.

Battle Record

Tanjiro and Inosuke enter the Mount Natagumo forest and fight Demon Slayers puppeted by threads, the white female demon, and the pale child-like demon. The battle is unresolved at the end of the episode.

Standoff at the mansion exit over Nezuko's box

Zenitsu vs masked Demon Slayer · Episodes 13–14

Location: Outside the mansion

Trigger: The masked Demon Slayer sees the demonic presence in Nezuko's box and attacks to kill it

Sides

• Zenitsu Agatsuma — Defender: Zenitsu Agatsuma
• Masked Demon Slayer — Attacker: masked Demon Slayer

Outcome: Tanjiro steps in, and the standoff turns into his fight with Inosuke

Tanjiro vs Inosuke outside the tsuzumi mansion

Outside the tsuzumi mansion · Episode 14

Location: Outside the tsuzumi mansion

Trigger: Tanjiro defends Zenitsu, who was protecting Nezuko's box, against the masked Demon Slayer

Sides

• Tanjiro — combatant: Tanjiro Kamado
• Inosuke — combatant: Inosuke Hashibira

Outcome: Inosuke is knocked unconscious by Tanjiro's headbutt; his boar mask falls off

Aftermath

• Tanjiro believes he has a concussion from the headbutt
• Inosuke wakes later and follows the group down the mountain

Mount Natagumo forest fight with the thread-controlling demons

Thread-controlled Demon Slayers in the forest · Episode 15– (Ongoing)

Location: Mount Natagumo forest

Trigger: Demon Slayers sent to Mount Natagumo massacred each other under demonic thread control

Sides

• Tanjiro's group — Demon Slayers: Tanjiro Kamado, Inosuke Hashibira, Murata
• Demons and puppeted Demon Slayers — Demons: white female demon, pale child-like demon / Puppeted Demon Slayers: Demon Slayers controlled by threads

Outcome: Unresolved at episode end

Ability Table

Season Summary

Season 1 — Season 1

Episodes 1–15

After a demon slaughters his family and turns his sister Nezuko into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado trains under Sakonji Urokodaki and joins the Demon Slayer Corps. He crosses paths with Muzan Kibutsuji, the progenitor of all demons, and promises the demon doctor Tamayo blood samples for a medicine that could make Nezuko human again. With Zenitsu Agatsuma and Inosuke Hashibira, he survives the tsuzumi mansion, where he defeats Kyogai.

Sent to Mount Natagumo, Tanjiro and Inosuke find Demon Slayers puppeted by a white female demon's threads, and a pale child-like demon declares that the five of them will live as a family. News of the massacre leads to Hashira being sent to the mountain.

Music Releases

• Gurenge (OP)
• from the edge (ED)