SLICE 'N' DICE — 切細裂き (Beast Breathing Form 4)

SLICE 'N' DICE

獣の呼吸肆ノ牙「切細裂き」

By Aine · Published 2026-07-20 · Updated 2026-07-20

Fourth Fang: Slice 'n' Dice (肆ノ牙・切細裂き, Kirikomazaki) is Inosuke Hashibira's fourth Beast Breathing technique, used three separate times across the series: against a demon on the Mugen Train (Vol. 7), against Daki's underlings in the Entertainment District (Vol. 18), and against Muzan Kibutsuji himself in the final battle (Vol. 23). All three confirmed VIZ pages print the identical callout "BEAST BREATHING / FOURTH FANG: / SLICE 'N' DICE!!" — the exact same English phrase VIZ uses for the unrelated Second Fang (切り裂き), even though the Japanese names share only a syllable and describe different techniques.

Japanese	切細裂き（獣の呼吸肆ノ牙）
Reading	きりこまざき
Romaji	Kirikomazaki
Official VIZ	SLICE 'N' DICE
Literal	Cut-to-Shreds Tear
Used by	Inosuke Hashibira

Japanese

切細裂き（獣の呼吸肆ノ牙）

Reading

きりこまざき

Romaji

Kirikomazaki

Official VIZ

SLICE 'N' DICE

Literal

Cut-to-Shreds Tear

Used by

Inosuke Hashibira

Kanji breakdown

Japanese original Demon Slayer Vol. 18, p.159 (Japanese) — Inosuke spins through Daki's severed-flesh clones, the callout reading 「獣の呼吸肆ノ牙」then 「切細裂き！！」down the left margin.

Demon Slayer Vol. 18, p.159 (Japanese) — Inosuke spins through Daki's severed-flesh clones, the callout reading 「獣の呼吸肆ノ牙」then 「切細裂き！！」down the left margin.

VIZ English edition

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 18 (VIZ Media), p.160 — this stretch of Vol. 18 runs one page ahead in VIZ's English pagination: "SLICE-N-DICE!!" and "BEAST BREATHING / FOURTH FANG:"

Every appearance in the manga

Vol / page	Japanese line	VIZ English
Vol. 7 p.192	獣の呼吸	BEAST BREATHING FOURTH FANG:
Vol. 7 p.192	細裂き！！！	SLICE 'N' DICE!!
Vol. 18 p.160	肆獣の呼吸	BEAST BREATHING, FOURTH FANG:
Vol. 18 p.160	の組裂き！！	SLICE-N-DICE!!
Vol. 23 p.15	肆の牙	FOURTH FANG:
Vol. 23 p.15	．．．切細裂き！！	SLICE 'N' DICE!!
Vol. 23 p.28	獣の呼吸肆？	BEAST BREATHING FOURTH FANG!
Vol. 23 p.28	切細裂き！！	SLICE 'N' DICE!!

Lines are byte-exact captures from a 26,000-pair bilingual corpus of the Japanese tankōbon and official VIZ Media edition.

Fourth Fang's Japanese name is built by inserting one extra character into Second Fang's: 切り裂き ("cut-tear," Second Fang) becomes 切細裂き ("cut-fine-tear," Fourth Fang) — the 細 (koma, "fine, minute, shredded") turning a single slash into something closer to mincing. It's a real escalation in the Japanese, the kind of naming logic you'd expect from someone building a technique list by intensifying the moves that came before rather than inventing wholly new verbs each time. VIZ's English translation erases that escalation entirely: both techniques come out as "SLICE 'N' DICE!!," word for word, panel for panel, across four separate confirmed appearances in three different volumes. An English-only reader has no way to know Fourth Fang is even a different move from Second Fang, let alone a deliberately more violent one.

This entry is also a case study in why the visual page, not the corpus's automated English pairing, has to be the last word. This hub's underlying bilingual database pairs one Volume 18 occurrence of 切細裂き with the English string "MINCE 'N' HACK!!" — a plausible-sounding, even rather good, translation for "cut-fine-tear." But the actual printed VIZ page (Vol. 18, correcting for this stretch's one-page pagination offset) shows no such thing: it reads "SLICE-N-DICE!!," identical to every other occurrence. "Mince 'n' Hack" does not appear anywhere in the real book. It's an artifact of this corpus's automatic alignment tooling, not a VIZ translation choice — which is exactly the kind of claim this hub verifies against the source page image before publishing rather than trusting any single database entry at face value.

What's real, and worth sitting with, is that VIZ genuinely does collapse two distinct Japanese fangs into one identical English catchphrase, three times over, across three separate volumes and translation passes. That's not a one-off slip; it's a sustained choice. "Slice 'n' Dice" is punchy and memorable, and reusing it may even read, to an English-only fan, as a deliberate motif — Inosuke's "slicing move," recurring. It just isn't the same move, and the manga's own naming system, however informal, was built to say so.