The official website for DEMON SLAYER -KIMETSU NO YAIBA- the stage announced that its next sixth show, based on the original manga's Hashira Training Arc , is set to perform in Tokyo in June 2026. The simultaneously released teaser visual features both Shogo Sakamoto and Fu Takahashi playing Tanjiro Kamado in a double casting. Singer-songwriter Sakamoto already played the role in the fourth show in 2023. Takahashi, who is also a member of the dance-vocal unit WATWING, marks his first appearance in the DEMON SLAYER -KIMETSU NO YAIBA- stage play series. Teaser visual The site also posted solo visuals of Sakamoto and Takahashi as Tanjiro. Shogo Sakamoto as Tanjiro Kamado Fu Takahashi as Tanjiro Kamado RELATED: Demon Slayer -KIMETSU NO YAIBA- the stage 5th Show Releases New Trailer, Visuals The stage play series based on Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga has run in Japan since January 2020. Including this latest sixth installment, Kenichi Suemitsu has handled the script and direction, with Shunsuke Wada providing the music. Crunchyroll streams both the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime adaptation and the first installment of Demon Slayer -KIMETSU NO YAIBA- the stage , describing the latter as such: One day in Japan during the Taisho era, Tanjiro, a kind young man who sells coal, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. Worse yet, the only survivor, his younger sister Nezuko, is turned into a demon. Despite his hopeless situation, Tanjiro makes up his mind to become a Demon Slayer in order to turn his sister back into a human and slay the demon who killed his family. This sibling duo's tragic tale, interwoven with humans and demons, begins now! Source : Demon Slayer -KIMETSU NO YAIBA- the stage official website / X (formerly Twitter)
