Volume 1: The first long-awaited novelization of the mega-hit manga Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba! The setting is the Taisho era. Tanjiro is a kind-hearted boy who makes his living selling charcoal — until the day his entire family is slaughtered by a demon. His younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Vowing to turn Nezuko back into a human and slay the demon responsible for his family's deaths, Tanjiro sets out on the path of the Demon Slayer — but ...
A Good Way to Challenge Yourself
ENTERTAINMENT
Throughout the book Tanjirou has fights with several demons with different powers, so it kept things very interesting. If you like the anime or the manga, then this book will be great for you. Speaking of the manga, instead of the usual illustrations that come in light novels, these books take pages from the manga. Really adds more style to the book while bringing up key moments that tie in with the plot.
LANGUAGE LEARNING
The grammar wasn’t to bad, but there was a ton of vocabulary that I didn’t know. The series is set in the Taisho Era so perhaps that has something to do with it. Nonetheless, in this book alone I had to look up 138 words. This book does come with furigana on each kanji so it made looking things up very easy.
If interested, I talk more about the book here:
http://nihongonorenshuu.home.blog/2023/01/31/book-review-demon-slayer-volume-1/