Shinobu Kocho

Shinobu is the Insect Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, the younger sister of the late Kanae Kocho and the adoptive older sister and mentor of Kanao Tsuyuri. She's also the owner of the Butterfly Mansion, which serves as a recovery base for injured members of the corps, using training regiments to facilitate the recovery progress. Despite being less powerful in regard to physical strength than the other Hashiras, Shinobu is a very intelligent and cunning swordsman.

Appearance: Shinobu is a petite young woman with a slender build and a fairly pale complexion. She has large eyes that lack pupils, only a haze of gradient purple, making her eyes appear similar to those of insects, and rose pink lips. She has raven-black wavy hair that fades into a dark purple hue at the ends, styled at the back of her head into a flat yakai-maki bun fastened with a white, turquoise and light purple butterfly ornament. She has center-split, ear-length, voluminous curtain bangs that flow down to frame the sides of her face, with two slightly thinner chin-length locks of hair in front of her ears below them.

Personality: Shinobu displays a bright, friendly and cheerful demeanor, always having an easygoing smile on her face regardless of the situation she is in. However, her outward behavior is shown very quickly to be a façade. This is displayed in the way she enjoys teasing others, to the point of being rather sadistic about it but secretly that her outwardly calm and tranquil disposition is worn as a mask, as Shinobu holds an intense hatred for demons due to the loss of her sister Kanae Kocho.

Skills: Shinobu may not have the physical strength to decapitate a demon but she created a poison lethal to them using wisteria flowers. Her niricin blade is also different from other katanas. Shinobu’s katana is called a Stinger Katana and is made for stabbing and only stabbing. It has a slit in the middle of the blade for putting poison. Shinobu also made her own breathing style called Insect Breathing, allowing her to enhance her agility.