Film: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba- to the Hashira Training (Japanese with English sub-titles)
(Original title: Kimetsu no Yaiba Kizuna no Kiseki, Soshite Hashira Geiko e)
Cast (voice): Natsuki Hanae, Kengo Kawanishi, Akari Kito
Director: Haruo Sotozaki
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 104 min

A confounding comic strip-happy storyline, with fascinating manga-styled visuals expanded to Imax screen size presented in episodic fashion, this Japanese animation film feels more like a TV series than a feature film.

Telling this story in words wouldn’t make any sense other than to the fans. The training part comes towards the end and is only a small part of this cobbled together movie. A large portion of this film is a recap of what transpired in the series - basically reused footage from the end of the last season which everyone would have already seen and the newer portion is just exposition. So you get a repetition of the full last 2 episodes of the Sword Smith arc with the remaining portion filled with fillers. There are no new fights or events of importance to lure you here.