Demon Slayer 鬼滅の刃 Complete Set Vol. 1-23 (Japanese Edition, Used)
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description: The complete Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃) manga, all 23 volumes, in the original Japanese. Not a translation. These are the actual Japanese tankōbon published by Shueisha, the same books read in Japan. Ships within the United States only. Our apologies to our international friends. A complete 23-volume set weighs about nine pounds boxed, and overseas postage on that costs more than the books themselves, so there is no way to send it abroad at a price that would be fair to anyone. We wish it were otherwise. Why this set is good for Japanese learners Every kanji has furigana (the small hiragana printed alongside). Demon Slayer ran in Weekly Shonen Jump, which is written for Japanese elementary and middle school readers, so the publisher adds readings to essentially every kanji in the book. If you can read hiragana, you can sound out every single line. That one feature is what makes shonen manga such a practical stepping stone into real Japanese. A look inside our own copy The furigana. Look just above the kanji: 信 is marked しん, 首 is くび, 動 is うご, 今 is いま. Every kanji in the book is labeled this way, so nothing on the page is locked away from you. The artwork. Gotouge's linework is quieter than the anime leads you to expect: fine brush lines in the hair, hand-drawn texture in the woven basket, and a lot of white space. Note the reading marks here too, on 禰豆子 (ねずこ) and 小 (ちい). Reading manga is a fun way to build vocabulary, absorb grammar patterns in context, and get used to how people actually talk, complete with the contractions, sentence-final particles, and dropped subjects that textbooks tend to smooth over. Roughly JLPT N4 to N3 territory once furigana does the heavy lifting on kanji. A few things to expect: the story is set in the Taishō era (1912–1926), so there is some period flavor in the speech. The Breathing techniques (呼吸) come with elaborate kanji names that even Japanese readers rely on the furigana for. And several characters have strong verbal quirks. Inosuke sho…
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