One Headbutt Ends the Boar Mask Mystery
Episode 14 is where Inosuke Hashibira loses the mask, and Japanese entertainment news site Anime Anime captured the moment in a reaction roundup of the July 12 broadcast. Fresh off defeating Kyogai, the drum-playing demon, Tanjiro steps outside to find Zenitsu beaten half to death while shielding the wooden box that holds Nezuko. The attacker is a shirtless stranger in a boar mask. Tanjiro answers with a gut punch hard enough to break bone, then lectures him: Corps members do not draw blades on each other.
The bare-handed brawl that follows is Inosuke's whole personality in miniature. He fights low to the ground, bends in ways no human should, and praises himself twice in a row mid-fight. Then Tanjiro's headbutt sends the boar head flying, and the face underneath stops the show. Viewers flooded the timeline with comments like "the gap with his face is unreal," "he really is a pretty boy," and "an absurdly gorgeous boar."
Zenitsu mutters that a girl's face has been stuck onto a bodybuilder's frame. Tanjiro, sincere as ever, compliments the fair skin and tidy features. Inosuke bellows his name at both of them ("Inosuke Hashibira! Remember it!") and promptly faints from a concussion. Several commenters noted the bittersweet layer: Tanjiro means every word of praise, but the manga later frames that face as a sore spot for Inosuke.
Nine Broken Ribs at the Wisteria House
The episode's back half trades fists for comedy. Tanjiro asks for help burying the people killed at the mansion, Inosuke refuses, and Tanjiro decides his new acquaintance must simply be too injured to help. That polite misreading enrages Inosuke into doing the burial anyway, while Zenitsu watches the whole exchange in disbelief. "Tanjiro being purely off-kilter is adorable," read one comment, alongside "the only sensible ones here are the little kids."
Come nightfall, a crow guides the trio to a house bearing the wisteria family crest, a household once saved by demon slayers that now feeds, clothes, and shelters Corps members for free. A doctor examines all three and delivers the same verdict: serious. Zenitsu has two broken ribs, Tanjiro three, and Inosuke four. Viewers did the math and laughed at the combined nine, and the source notes Inosuke is more bothered by the lump from Tanjiro's headbutt than by any of his ribs.
Then the box rattles. Nezuko pops out in front of Zenitsu for the first time, and his terror flips instantly into fury at Tanjiro: "You've been traveling around every single day with a girl this cute?" followed by "Give me back the blood I shed!" Japanese fans crowned the scene "Zenitsu's fateful encounter," and one reaction summed up the new status quo: with all three finally together, the gag pacing has accelerated.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka Looks Back at Feral Inosuke
The official Demon Slayer account has been publishing a cast comment for every rerun episode, and episode 14's belongs to Inosuke voice actor Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, also known as Kirito in Sword Art Online and Fuutarou Uesugi in The Quintessential Quintuplets. He asked fans to compare this Inosuke with the current one, saying the personality has barely changed but "the fire in his heart is completely different." The boy who once asked what the point of burying corpses was can now cry for other people, Matsuoka said, and that growth is what the rerun puts on display.
The rerun itself started on April 5, 2026, one day short of seven years after the series premiered on April 6, 2019. It airs Sundays from 9:30 AM on Fuji TV and other stations, revisiting ufotable's adaptation of Koyoharu Gotouge's manga, which has passed 220 million copies in circulation across 23 volumes from Shueisha.
Looking Ahead
Next Sunday's rerun is a change of pace: the "Junior High and High School!! Kimetsu Academy Story" special, in which Giyu Tomioka appears as a gym teacher ordering students to remove their earrings and button their shirts.
International fans can revisit the same stretch of the series on Crunchyroll and Netflix, both of which carry Demon Slayer. The bigger date on the calendar is July 28, 2026, when Infinity Castle Chapter 1: Akaza Returns, the first film in the trilogy that opened in Japanese theaters on July 18, 2025, arrives on Crunchyroll and digital storefronts after a theatrical run Forbes pegs at $794 million worldwide. The source manga is complete and available in English from Viz Media.