The next word we are looking at is

Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Yaiba, yes.

Demon Slayer.

This is an anime.

Did you see it?

No, I haven’t seen it.

I heard it’s playing in theaters now,

so I’m thinking of going to see it soon.

Oh, it’s in the movie theaters?

Yes’ it’s in theaters…

It’s not on TV?

It’s also on TV? How do

you say it in English?

Demon Slayer.

I watched a little bit of this yesterday.

I watched one or two episodes.

I thought it looked pretty interesting.

Yes, it is.

It’s very popular.

I think it will probably continue

to be popular in the future.

It’s so popular that it’s even been made

into a movie and played in theaters.

It’s especially popular now,

so

I

think that’s why it made it into the list

of the most popular words.

I watched it yesterday and I thought

the images were really beautiful.

I thought the animation was amazing.

I think the pictures are probably

better than Attack on Titan.

I think you might be right.

This is the first time I’ve

heard the word “Yaiba”,

but it refers to a sword right.

That’s correct.

A Yaiba is a sword.

When I heard “Yaiba”,

I thought again that there

really are a lot of words

for swords in Japan.

Yes, there are a lot of them because

swords were used for a long time.

Words like “Ken” and “tou”.

Yes, yes.

Especially, “blade” often refers to

the blade part of the sword.

Often say the nose part,

if it was a blade.

The blade is often referred

to as the blade part.

A sword has a place to hold it

and a case to put the sword in.

The pointed tip?

Yes, the cutting part

is especially associated with Yaiba.

Yaiba.

I feel that it sounds like a Yamato word.

It sounds like a word that has

existed in Japan for a long time.

I don’t know about that.

As for the etymology of the word,

I can’t say for sure,

I wonder.

I’ve never really thought about it.

Yaiba

Yaiba

And this is the first time

I’ve heard of this “Kimetsu”.

When I looked it up in the dictionary,

which I have, it didn’t come up.

It

‘s only natural that it would not come up.

I think this is probably some

kind of newly created word.

I think that Japanese people can

understand the the meaning from looking

at the kanji characters for “Kimetsu”,

and that’s whey they chose the title.

kimetsu means to “mesu” the “Oni”, meaning

to defeat the demon.

It is referring to a sword

that can defeat the demon.

Is this “annihilation” the annihilation

that can be find in the word “extinction”?

Yes, the same one that is in

“annihilation”.

So let me explain a little

bit about English.

So this is Kimetsu no Yaiba which has been

translated into English as “Demon Slayer”,

it’s a very popular anime.

I guess we should take a look at what it

looks like for people that haven’t

come across this yet.

So it’s an anime about people fighting

“Oni”. This “Ki” is “Oni” right?

That’s correct.

So another reading for “oni” is “ki” and “

metsu” being to” It’s “destroy” or “kill”.

They seem to have a lot of them including

“Ken”, “Tou “We’re saying that the “Yaiba”

is particularly used about the end

of the sword, the part, so not like the

hilt of the sword or the sword itself.

We’re saying that the “Yaiba” is

particularly used about the end

of the sword, the part,

so not like the hilt of the sword or

the sheath of the sword but the actual

sword itself, and especially the end,

the point of the sword.

So “ki” being “oni”, “metsu” So “ki” being

“oni”, “metsu” being “destroy”,

“The Sword That Destoys the Oni”.

So when I saw this show,

this I thought the demons were

pretty zomby-ish.

They’re not really “oni” are they?

So that’s something that has become

very popular in Japan this year.