Demon Slayer Season 3 AKA Kimetsu No Yaiba Season 3 AKA the Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village Arc or Kimetsu No Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc will premiere sometime in April 2023.

The third season of the anime was originally announced just before the release of the Demon Slayer Season 2 finale in February 2022, but now a new promotion reel trailer has finally confirmed a release window of April 2023 for Demon Slayer Season 3. Fuji TV will air the new season for Japanese fans, while Netflix and Crunchyroll will release it to international audiences outside of Japan.

We still don’t know how many episodes there will be in Season 2, but it’s been confirmed that the first episode would be a one-hour special. A special event called “World Tour Screening” will also take place in more than 418 theatres in Japan and 80 countries from 3 February 2022, where the 10th and 11th episodes of Season 2 and the first episode of the upcoming Season 3 will be screened.

The upcoming season will adapt the Swordsmith Village Arc from the manga, which ran from chapters 98 to 127.

The synopsis reads:

For the first time in over 100 years, the upper ranks of Muzan Kibutsuji’s Twelve Kizuki are not full. Angered, Muzan dispatches the survivors on another mission. Elsewhere, Tanjiro journeys to a village of swordsmiths and has to explain how his sword was so badly damaged to Haganezuka, the smith who made it. While Tanjiro waits for his sword to be repaired, enemies close in…

Demon Slayer Seasons 1 and 2, as well as the Mugen Train movie, are now streaming on Netflix. In the meantime, you can also check out my review of the Demon Slayer Kimetsu No Yaiba The Hinokami Chronicles video game by heading over here.