Original Sound Track (OST) - Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer)
Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) is an extraordinary manga and anime series that has gotten traction the moment the first episode came out and even non-anime fans couldn’t help but take notice. The animation, the humour, the charming characters, and the series’ phenomenal original soundtrack. Old fans and new fans alike have, no doubt, played “Gurenge” by LiSa and “From the Edge by FictionJunction feat. LiSa thousands of times over.
Whether Tanjiro and the group is racing through a forest, Nezuko fighting with her demon-nature, or beloved Demon Slayers fighting Spider Demon Family in the Natagumo Mountains, the soundtrack strengthens these moments and takes it to another level.
Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) OST Composers
The two composers and music producers that made the music in the series possible were the two heavyweights in the anime community, Go Shiina and Yuki Kajiura respectively.
Masaru Shiina, goes by the name Go Shiina and started back in 1998, making tracks and theme songs for video games like Hammer Champ, Idolmaster, as well as Tekken 5, 6, and 7 before his talents started to get noticed, especially in the soundtrack of God Eater. Shiina started making songs and music arrangements for anime shows like Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack, Tales of Zestiria, and then Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba alongside Yuki Kajiura.
Yuki Kajiura is another well-known musician, composer, and producer for many popular anime series like Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Unlike, Go Shiina, Kajiura started in making movie soundtracks in 1995 like Ruby Fruit before getting into anime series and video games soundtracks before composing five of the series’ most important songs like the “Kimetsu no Taiba” main theme, To Destroy the Evil, Brace Up and Run!, Survive and Get the Blade, Boy, and Voices from the Past.
With such an emotional and impactful OST, fans hope that more series with Go Shiina and Yuki Kajiura match-ups will happen again in the future. Especially with the release of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train coming out in Summer 2020.
Demon Slayer Soundtrack Point
The Demon Slayer anime series and accompanying soundtrack are epic, but not in the way many fans would first expect. The beauty of it is in it’s slow pacing, calm-tone, and build up. With guitar solos or an artist letting loose on the drums. Many of the OST starts innocent and soft, some slow with the sound of a piano or violin. The songs almost have a god-like quality to them. Gradually, they begin to add in more elements to make the music swell, making it more complex and enhancing the singer’s beautiful voice than when the songs initially starts, but continue to have a controlled energy that gives every song on the soundtrack and grandiose aura to it.
One of the greatest talents of the OST is how the songs can almost take the listener on a journey. None of the songs follow the same pace for very long, they always add in more instruments, a clash of cymbal or background opera singers that will suddenly change up the tone completely. Sometimes, without even seeing anything, the tone of the song immediately with the invisible atmosphere the musicians manage to create. A point that is highly praised about the Demon Slayer’s OST.
Episode 19
One of the most popular songs in the Demon Slayer OST is the soundtrack for one of the greatest moments that surrounded Episode 19 along with the music that takes it to a whole new level.
Tanjiro Kamado’s Song is the ending song of the legendary Episode 19 that was sung by the talented Nami Nakagawa, who’s worked with Go Shiina in the past on the ending theme of Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (OAV). It is a very special song in Demon Slayer connected to one of the greatest moments of, not just the series, but one of the greatest anime moments as the Kamado Siblings show Rui that their bond can never be severed as Tanjiro’s water dragon turns to fire as they defeat the powerful spider demon.
Soundtrack Song List
- To Destroy the Evil
- Brace Up and Run!
- Survive and Get the Blade, Boy
- Voices From the Past
- Family
- House in the Night
- Nightmare
- Cruel Villain
- Despair
- Nezuko’s Theme
- Stubborn
- Nezuko's Practice
- Demon Smell
- First Demon Encounter
- Lost
- First Meeting
- Vanishing
- Resolution
- Beginning
- Demon Slaying Corps
- First Training
- Second Training
- Nezuko's Thoughts
- Third Training
- Sabito’s Theme
- Fourth Training
- Makomo
- Fox Mask
- Purify
- Opening Thread
- Wisteria Blossom
- Ubuyashiki
- Selection Begins
- Hand Demon Appears
- Fear
- Hand Demon
- Breath of Water - Hand Demon
- Persuit
- Warm Hands
- Purify - Part 2
- Demon Confrontation
- Wisteria Blossom - Dawn
- Nezuko - Reunion
- With Sakonji Urokodaki
- Haganezuka
- Wonder
- Kamado Tanjiro - With Kasugaigarasu
- Family - Memories
- Water Breathing - Bundle
Compilation Albums
- Demon Slayer Volume 1 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 2 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 3 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 4 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 5 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 6 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 7 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 8 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 9 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 10 Special CD
- Demon Slayer Volume 11 Special CD