The fifth episode "I Even Ate a Demon..." of the new TV anime "Hashira Training Arc" of the popular anime "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" was broadcast on June 9th, and the average viewership (Kanto region, Video Research survey, same below) was 5.8% for households and 3.3% for individuals. In the fifth episode, Tanjiro Kamado and other corps members were shown taking on the training of the Love Hashira Mitsuri Kanroji, the Serpent Hashira Obanai Iguro, and the Wind Hashira Sanemi Shinazugawa, and related words such as "Iguro-san", "Kanroji-san", "Mitsuri-chan", "Shinazugawa-san", and "Shinazugawa brothers" became trending topics on X (Twitter), becoming a hot topic.
In the fifth episode, after finishing his training with the Mist Hashira, Muichiro Tokito, Tanjiro Kamado heads to the Kanroji training hall, but the flexibility training there is much harder than it looks. At the Kanroji training hall, the scene where Tanjiro and other corps members are doing flexibility training in leotards attracted the attention of fans, and "leotard" became a trending topic on X. The depiction of the interaction between the brothers Sanemi Shinazugawa and Genya Shinazugawa also became a hot topic.
The "Hashira Training Arc" is broadcast every Sunday at 11:15 pm on Fuji TV.