Demon Slayer 鬼滅の刃 Complete Set Vol. 1-23 (Japanese Edition, Used)
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 shouts, Zenitsu panics, and Nezuko barely speaks at all. A tip that works. If you have already watched the anime, start here. Knowing the story removes the comprehension pressure and lets you focus on the language, which is exactly the position you want to be in when reading your first long series in Japanese. The story Kamado Tanjirō (竈門炭治郎) comes home to find his family slaughtered by a demon. His younger sister Nezuko (禰豆子) survives, but has been turned into a demon herself. To find a cure and avenge his family, Tanjirō joins the Demon Slayer Corps (鬼殺隊). What follows is a story about persistence, grief, and unusual kindness toward one's enemies, which is a large part of why it became the phenomenon it did. Set details Volumes 1–23, the complete series Author Gotouge Koyoharu (吾峠呼世晴) Publisher Shueisha, Jump Comics (ジャンプコミックス) Language Japanese, with furigana throughout Format B6 paperback tankōbon, about 190 pages each Reading direction Right to left, as originally published Shipping weight About 9 lb boxed Price per book About $6 across the 23-volume run Condition These are used reading copies, chosen for readability rather than for collectors. Every volume is complete and fully readable, with no writing or highlighting, no loose or missing pages, and nothing heavily damaged. Expect ordinary signs of a used book: page-edge tanning and some shelf wear. Most volumes come without the obi (the paper band that comes on new Japanese books), though a few happen to still have theirs. We would rather show you than tell you. One of the photos above is a close-up of the page edges, so you can see exactly what we mean by reading grade before you buy. That tanning is what a well-read Japanese paperback looks like after a few years on a shelf, and it has no effect at all on the printing inside. We have more than one of these sets in stock, so the photos show a representative set from this batch rather than the exact copies that will ship to you. Every set is the complete 1–23 run in the same condition standard described above. Ships free within the USA. While supplies last, and when these are gone we may not be able to source more at this price.