10 Best Demon Slayer Covers

Summary Volume covers showcase iconic characters in dynamic poses with detailed art that captures their essence.

Each cover reflects a character's personality and fighting style, using color and design to convey their uniqueness.

The covers symbolize important moments in the story, from tragic beginnings to hopeful endings, capturing the essence of the series.

Demon Slayer by Koyoharu Gotouge is one of the best-selling mangas and most influential animes for its peak character design and intense art style that reflects the fight between the Demon Slayer Corps and Muzan with his Twelve Demon Moons. The Demon Slayer's volumes cover art appeals to readers for being very detailed, colorful, and full of movement, and for capturing the essence of every character.

All the volume covers feature a main character like Tanjiro, Nezuko, Zenitsu, and Inosuke and the Hashiras in a characteristic and dynamic pose, showcasing their nichirin swords and weapons.

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The volume covers of the Hashiras are so iconic that they are even used as promotional images for the characters. Koyoharu published 23 manga volumes during the Demon Slayer's run, and some covers stand out as the best in the series.

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10 Volume 3 Shows Tanjiro and Zenitsu's Friendship Under the Blue Sky

Believe in Yourself: Chapters 17-25

The cover of volume #3 is the only one featuring Zenitsu, but it was amazingly done to showcase his friendship with Tanjiro. The background of the cover is a clear blue sky just like the sky of the day when Zenitsu and Tanjiro first met each other. When Zenitsu remembers Tanjiro’s sound, he says he’s got the gentlest sound he’s ever heard, and the image that comes to his mind is a bright blue sky, which is what is represented on the cover.

There’s an emphasis on Zenitsu’s sword; his handguard is circular and silvery, with small yellow triangles in the middle, similar to Zenitsu's haori. Also, the sword’s golden handle is the main focal point on the cover, with the two small white ribbons hanging from it. Tanjiro’s expression is sweet and caring, and Zenitsu looks down like he has just heard a sound with his incredibly enhanced hearing.

9 Volume 9 Showcase the Sound's Hashira Flamboyant Strength

Operation Entertainment District: Chapter 71-79

Tengen Uzui has the flashiest and most extroverted personality among the Hashiras in the Demon Slayer Corps, but the cover of volume #9 seems to carry out his serious side, with a calm and collected attitude fitting to a pillar. Tengen looks like he holds a huge responsibility on his shoulders, just like he carries his two extra-large cleavers on his back.

The two cleavers are connected to each other through a metal chain attached to their hilt, creating a bladed nunchuck-like weapon that Tengen seems to be ready to grab and start fighting. The abstract background with a pastel color palette makes Tengen's stylish design stand out, and the lighting makes its uniform look like a black-cyan color. The squatting pose fits Tengen as a descendant of Shinobis, and his marked veins show his enormous strength to kill demons.

8 Volume 14 Exhibit The Love's Hashira Cheerful Beauty

The Mu of Muichiro: Chapters 116-124

Mitsuri Kanroji's sweet and gentle appearance is complemented by her color palette consisting of bright pink and green. Also, her long braided hair is unique and encapsulates her vibrant personality, and the hair knots are shaped almost like hearts, which is such a fitting design to her theme as the Love Hashira. Her light green socks match her warmth and liveliness.

Mitsuri’s extraordinarily long and thin sword, which is more like a whip, surrounds her body, curving like a spiral, and her poses showcase her movement skills and flexibility. Her sword’s blade pops out in a pink color, with the Hashira mark engraved on its side and the handle with pink little hearts across its length. Also, the handguard for Kanroji’s sword is shaped like a four-leaf clover, symbolizing good luck.

7 Volume 1 Started the Tragedy of the Kamado Siblings

Cruelty: Chapters 1-7

The first Demon Slayer cover shows the sadness after the tragedy that Tanjiro and Nezuko experienced and showcases their siblinghood as Tanjiro embraces Nezuko like he is trying to protect her. It also shows Tanjiro’s desire for revenge with his angry expression and his hand holding the sword, like he is ready to fight.

The pitch-black background goes with the obscure tone of the story and looks like they are being engulfed by the darkness of a world filled with demons. Tanjiro’s black blade stands out with the red diamond-shaped marks on the sword grip. The color scheme of the cover is well-balanced, with Tanjiro's hanafuda earrings, the green color of his haori, and the bright blue of his scarf contrasting the pink color of Nezuko’s yukata and her pattern chess obi.

6 Volume 6 Gives the Insect Hashira an Air of Elegance

The Demon Slayer Corps Gathers: Chapters 44-52

The cover has a gorgeous, eye-catching design, and the background instantly tells Shinobu’s special style of swordsmanship with the bright colors and her pose, reminding of an insect flying over flowers in a garden. The color scheme is mainly driven by the purple: the light makes her demon slayer corp uniform’s color appear purple rather than black, her big dark purple eyes, the highlights of her hair, and the background of the title text.

Shinobu’s white and pink butterfly haori, her sword’s hilt and her hair clip show her simplistic yet elegant aesthetic with the butterfly theme. Also, Shinobu’s expression with her characteristic smile showcases her outwardly innocent appearance, but her specially crafted sword in the middle of the cover makes a focal point and reminds of her remarkable and deadly skills.

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5 Volume 15 Highlights the Power of the Strongest Hashira

Daybreak and First Light: Chapters 125-133

The volume #15 cover is all about Gyomei Himejima, the Stone's Hashira, who is considered the strongest among the Demon Slayer Corps. This is showcased by his large physique occupying almost the whole cover, standing firm as a rock, just like his breathing, and because of the emphasis on his powerful and dominating weapon, a large axe chained to a heavy flail.

The chain is beautifully colored, stands out like real metal, and surrounds the cover just like if Himejima were fighting, swinging the axe to sense the enemy’s moves and position due to his blindness. The prayer beads contrast with the green of his haori, and his crying expression denotes Himejima’s sensitive personality. The black frame in the background with the golden light looks like Himejima is inside The Infinity Castle, while the light from other rooms filters through the door.

4 Volume 13 Brings Genya's Gun to a Sword Fight

Transitions: Chapters 107-115

Volumen #13 shows Wind Hashira's not-so-little, younger brother, Genya Shinazugawa, featuring his double-barrel shotgun and the bullets that are made up of the same material as Nichirin swords. Genya is the only demon slayer who cannot use any breathing techniques, so he had to rely on other ways to kill demons. Genya is holding his wakizashi with his mouth, which is a shorter version of a Nichirin sword, revealing his fangs, which brings light to the nature of his fighting style.

Genya's dynamic pose looks like he is reloading the gun, and the color of his sleeveless purple haori and the yellow highlights of his hair go with the title logo colors. Unlike the other demon slayers, Genya wears western-style pants and also carries a weapon from the west, but Koyoharu brings a Japanese style to the cover with a background that appears like light in purple tones entering through a shoji screen.

3 Volume 7 Gives Inosuke a Peaceful Side

Trading Blows at Close Quarters: Chapters 53-61

The boar mask, the absurdity of his personality, and being purely raised by boars and surviving in the mountains make Inosuke Hashibira one of the wildest characters in Demon Slayer. However, the cover of the volume reflects a different side of him, being calm and still. Inosuke always hides his face under the boar mask, but the cover shows his pretty, almost feminine face, which gives him a peaceful appearance.

The green color scheme is striking, and the background of the forest and the rays of light illuminating Inosuke from above really make the cover stand out from the others. Inosuke's short dark hair with blue ends contrasts with the boar fur, and his baggy pants with a dark blue color and a waistband of brown fur balance the color palette. His swords with teeth-like blades are on his back, just as he always carries them. The Wild Beast Breathing user is always unpredictable, and the cover suits him.

2 Volume 23 Embraces the Light of Tanjiro and Nezuko’s Bright Future

Life Shining Across the Years: Chapters 197-205

The last cover of the manga represents goodbye. The white flowers symbolize mourning in Japan, which is perfect for symbolizing all the Demon Slayer Corps' losses throughout the story. Additionally, Tanjiro and Nezuko's bright expressions and cheerful waving mark the inevitable farewell to all the Demon Slayer fans, but more importantly, the peaceful ending of their story and the hope for the future that the Kamado siblings now embrace.

The white background is opposed to the darkness of the first cover, proving that the story has come full circle. Tanjiro doesn’t have a sword; he doesn’t need to protect Nezuko anymore; they just need to live happily from now on with the bright light of tomorrow in sight.

1 Volume 8 Depicts The Blaze of The Flames Hashira’s Heart

The Strength of the Hashira: Chapters 62-70

The art is majestic for the depiction of the sheer force of Rengoku’s personality packed into every inch of the cover. Rengoku’s design is insanely striking, and he commands attention on this cover, because of his imposing pose and the glow surrounding him that denotes his fighting spirit. The wavy flame design of his hair, fiery brows, movement of his haori, and sword design are also dead giveaways of his breathing style, as he seems like he is burning in flames.

The background blazes up into a scorching heat with the use of colors red, yellow, and orange and is balanced with the flowers, which denote Rengoku’s purity and kindness. Kyojuro’s sword draws the eye with a flame-shaped handguard with a red and orange border, which has a really special meaning in the series and also matches well with the color of the blade. Additionally, a part of the Hashira’s inscription etched on the side can be read that reminds of his position as a pillar. Rengoku's volume 8 cover is stunning and undoubtedly the best cover art of Demon Slayer manga.