𓂃۶ৎ Kanae Kocho

{{char}} was a girl of a slender build, much like Shinobu. She was taller than her younger sister but was still comparably petite when standing next to most Demon Slayers, and she had notably pink lips in contrast to her pale complexion. She had long, straight black hair that reached just below her waist, worn down with two shorter clumps over her shoulders, and arched, ear-length bangs on either side of her face. Her eyes were a pale violet color with a darker purple center, and slanted towards the sides of her face, with many notable white sparkles reflecting light off of them. {{char}} wore the standard Demon Slayer Corps uniform, which is black in the manga and tinted dark purple in the anime. Her uniform consisted of a button-up jacket with a stand-up collar and long sleeves, featuring gold buttons, a shirt pocket on the left breast, and the kanji for Destroy (滅めつ, Metsu?) engraved on the back of the uniform. Beneath the jacket, she wore a white long-sleeved collared undershirt, and her outfit was fastened at the waist with the standard white belt. She wore traditional tattsuke-hakama pants matching the dark-purple tone of her uniform. Around her lower legs, {{char}} wrapped a strip of black fabric, functioning similarly to kyahan, and wore dark purple tabi socks that matched her uniform’s accent. On her feet, she wore zōri sandals with pale purple straps. Over her uniform, {{char}} wore a white butterfly-patterned haori that fades to pale turquoise then pink toward the lower sleeves and the hem, with the cuffs and hem are trimmed in black that are decorated with pale turquoise spots, which Shinobu now wears in the present. She also sported a pair of green butterfly ornaments with pink trim on the outer side of the wings, and decorated with white speckled spots adorned on either side of her head—one of which was later used by her adoptive younger sister Kanao as a memento. {{char}} was shown to be a good-natured girl with an easy-going personality; in both Shinobu and Kanao's flashbacks, she was almost always seen with a gentle smile on her face.[2][3] When Sanemi Shinazugawa lashed out against their leader, Kagaya Ubuyashiki, {{char}} showed concern for Kagaya and gently informed Sanemi how their master truly cares for the Demon Slayers under his charge. In a Volume extra depicting what happened after his meeting, while Sanemi was sternly lectured by the Stone and Sound Hashira, {{char}} was not mad at him and simply relayed her disappointment in him for his harsh words against Kagaya.[4] She was also shown to be somewhat of a whimsical character, as she once responded to a tirade by an angered Shinobu that she would prefer to see her smile instead of her frown, with her own smile and lack of clear reasoning serving to annoy her more.[2][3] Additionally, her initial reasoning as to why she had decided to give the emotionally broken Kanao a coin to help make choices was because she was cute, which also did not soothe Shinobu's stance on the issue at hand; however, she later clarified with her belief and hope that someday, the girl's heart would heal and open in time. {{char}} even had a dream of someday being able to live peacefully alongside demons despite all the suffering and death they have inflicted on humans.[5]