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191 free Demon Slayer trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Demon Slayer trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Demon Slayer fan? Put your knowledge of Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Demon Slayer Corps to the test with our engaging trivia quiz. Whether you're a casual viewer or a devoted fan of the anime series, this quiz will challenge your understanding of the show's characters, plot twists, and memorable moments.
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Q 01How did Tanjiro's family make their living before the attack?
Making charcoal
The Kamado family made a living making charcoal; Tanjiro was in town selling charcoal the day Muzan slaughtered his family.
Q 02In the Demon Slayer Corps, what is a Tsuguko such as Kanao Tsuyuri?
A Hashira's chosen successor
A Hashira's chosen successor is groomed to take over the seat, yet need not share the master's style: Kanao serves the Insect Hashira but fights with Flower Breathing.
Q 03How does the Mother of the spider demons make Demon Slayers attack one another in the forest?
Threads that work them like puppets
Threads that work them like puppets: tiny spiders fix her webs to the slayers' bodies, and she keeps pulling the strings even after her victims' bones have broken.
Q 04After being turned into a demon, what does Nezuko Kamado unexpectedly refuse to do?
Consume human flesh
Nezuko refuses to consume human flesh; she recovers her strength by sleeping instead, and wears a bamboo muzzle as a precaution.
Q 05Why is the Ubuyashiki family, which leads the Demon Slayer Corps, cursed to die young?
Muzan shares its bloodline
Muzan shares its bloodline: the first demon was born into the family, and ever since its heirs have sickened and died before thirty, which is why it founded the Corps to destroy him.
Q 06Which breathing style does Tanjiro spend two years learning under his first teacher?
Water
Water Breathing is what Tanjiro drills for two years, but it never fully suits his body, so he later blends it with a style inherited from his father to keep fighting for longer.
Q 07Who is the first Demon Slayer that Tanjiro ever meets?
Giyu Tomioka
Giyu Tomioka finds Tanjiro and the newly turned Nezuko in the snow; when she shields her brother instead of attacking him, he spares her and sends the pair to his own old mentor.
Q 08Which breathing style does Zenitsu Agatsuma use, despite only mastering its first form?
Thunder
Zenitsu uses Thunder Breathing but has mastered only its First Form, Thunderclap and Flash; his fellow pupil Kaigaku learned the other five forms but never the first.
Q 09What is the name of Inosuke Hashibira's self-taught fighting style?
Beast Breathing
Beast Breathing is Inosuke's own invention, modelled on the wild animals he grew up among; he even chips his new swords jagged with a rock, to the fury of the smith who forged them.
Q 10The story of Demon Slayer is set during which era of Japanese history?
Taishō
Taishō: in this modernising Japan the Corps has no government recognition, so its slayers have to keep their swords out of sight in public.
Q 11Before joining the Demon Slayer Corps, the flamboyant Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui was what?
A shinobi
A shinobi: Tengen Uzui was raised in a ninja clan whose training left only him and one brother alive of nine children, so he walked away and now styles himself a god of festivals.
Q 12Shinobu Kocho's unique combat approach as the Insect Hashira relies on what instead of brute strength?
Poison application
Poison application is her answer to being too slight to behead a demon: her thin, stinger-like blade injects toxins she mixes herself.
Q 13Which Breathing style does the demon Upper Rank One, once a human swordsman, derive from Yoriichi's original?
Moon
Q 21Besides beheading with a Nichirin weapon, which of these can kill a demon?
Direct sunlight
Direct sunlight burns demons to ash; Muzan is finally destroyed by the rising sun after the Corps holds him above ground past dawn.
Q 22Demons instinctively avoid places where which flower grows in abundance?
Wisteria
Wisteria blooms year-round on Mount Fujikasane, which is why the Final Selection is held there; demons cannot approach the flowers, and their extract is poisonous to them.
Q 23What does the cowardly Zenitsu keep begging girls he has only just met to do?
Marry him
Marry him: Tanjiro first comes across Zenitsu on the road clinging to a stranger and begging her to be his wife, and has to pull him off her.
Moon Breathing is his own offshoot of his twin brother Yoriichi's style; as a demon he has kept refining it for centuries, and every slash scatters crescent-shaped blades.
Q 14What is the first opening theme of the Demon Slayer anime, a 2019 hit for the singer LiSA?
Gurenge
Gurenge, meaning 'red lotus', became a million-selling download and earned LiSA her first appearance on Kōhaku, NHK's New Year's Eve song contest, at the end of 2019.
Q 15How did Muzan Kibutsuji become the very first demon?
An experimental medicine
An experimental medicine: given to the young Muzan in the Heian period for a terminal illness, the untested cure saved him by making him a demon, and he has spent a thousand years since trying to become truly deathless.
Q 16What is the group of Muzan's strongest demons called, each marked with a rank engraved on their eyes?
The Twelve Kizuki
The Twelve Kizuki split into six Upper and six Lower Ranks, and after Rui's death Muzan executes all the Lower Ranks but one.
Q 17Which Upper Rank demon duo did Tanjiro and Tengen Uzui face in the Entertainment District Arc?
Daki and Gyutaro
Daki and Gyutaro share the single rank of Upper Six: she lures victims through her work as an oiran while her brother, who raised her in the district's slums, stays hidden inside her body.
Q 18Why did Muzan attack the Kamado family in the first place?
To breed a demon immune to sunlight
To breed a demon immune to sunlight, Muzan kept turning humans in the hope that one would overcome it; Nezuko later does exactly that, which makes her his prime target.
Q 19What is Tanjiro Kamado's primary motivation for joining the Demon Slayer Corps?
To cure his sister
To cure his sister: Nezuko was turned into a demon, so Tanjiro collects blood from the powerful demons he defeats to help a doctor develop a medicine that can make her human again.
Q 20Which child of the Corps' leader appears at Tanjiro's Final Selection dressed in feminine clothing?
Kiriya
Kiriya, the only son among the five Ubuyashiki children, attends Final Selection dressed as a girl beside his sister Kanata; he succeeds his father as Corps leader at age eight.
Q 24What color is Tanjiro's Nichirin Blade after he joins the Demon Slayer Corps?
Black
Black is a rare color for a Nichirin blade; Tanjiro's later burns crimson and grows far stronger when Nezuko's flames ignite it.
Q 25Who was Tanjiro's first mentor in Demon Slayer, a retired Hashira who always wears a tengu mask?
Sakonji Urokodaki
Sakonji Urokodaki also trained Giyu Tomioka, and his dead pupils Sabito and Makomo appear as spirits to coach Tanjiro on Mount Sagiri.
Q 26Which dance passed down in Tanjiro's family is also a powerful breathing technique?
Hinokami Kagura
The Hinokami Kagura is a fire-god dance Tanjiro's frail father performed all night each New Year in the snow; Tanjiro first uses its forms in desperation against a Lower Rank demon.
Q 27Which Hashira is regarded as the strongest combatant in the entire Demon Slayer Corps?
Gyomei Himejima
Gyomei Himejima, the Stone Hashira, has been blind since childhood and follows a fight by the rattle of the chain on his weapon; one Upper Rank calls him the finest warrior he has met in 300 years.
Q 28Who goes missing in the Entertainment District, prompting Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui to investigate?
His three wives
His three wives had gone undercover in the district's biggest houses and stopped sending word, so he took three young slayers into the district to find them.
Q 29What does Kanao Tsuyuri rely on to make any decision she has not been ordered to make?
A coin flip
A coin flip settles anything Kanao is not ordered to do, a habit her adoptive sister Kanae gave her; Tanjiro later persuades her to listen to the voice of her own heart instead.
Q 30How does the demon Nezuko fit inside the wooden box Tanjiro carries on his back?
She shrinks to child size
She shrinks to child size, a trick of her demon body, and returns to her full height the moment she has to fight.