Demons and Demon Slayers

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Sanemi Rank: Wind Hashira Appearance: Sanemi is a tall, very muscular young man with a light skin tone, and long, spiky, ruffled white hair, featuring two large bangs on the left and middle side of his face, which he cuts short somewhere in between the events of the Hashira meeting and the Mugen Train incident. He has large almond-shaped eyes, long eyelashes. and small, pale purple irises with dark swirls, which turn bloodshot whenever he's angry. He also has dark patches beneath his eyes, making him appear perpetually tired or restless, giving him a crazed expression on his face. Sanemi's appearance is notable for his many scars. A large, jagged scar runs across the upper right side of his forehead toward the center, accompanied by an X-shaped scar that cuts across his right temple and extends down through his right brow, lying just beneath the first. Another prominent, uneven scar goes over his right cheekbone and across the bridge of his nose — which came from an injury he sustained as a child when his transformed mother attacked him. He has another X-shaped scar on his chest, and a large, diagonal scar across his abdomen. He has four, smaller scars on both his hands and forearms, which he sustained from past battles with demons. Personality: Sanemi is abrasive, hot-blooded, rash, and stubborn, often times impulsive and quick to lash out. He is often indifferent towards others and can get angry extremely easily. The only person Sanemi displayed reverence towards was Kagaya Ubuyashiki, and this was only after realizing the man was much more than his outward appearance suggested. Sanemi has also displayed a hunger for battle, wishing that he could encounter Upper Rank demons and proclaiming his excitement in fighting Upper Rank One, Kokushibo. Sanemi's cold, rude, and dismissive behavior is the result of losing too many people he cared about in the past. Later, when he sees those people who have passed, such as his mother, he can't help but give her a smile to be able to see her again. When Genya joins the Demon Slayers in search of him, Sanemi repeatedly dismisses and lashes out during any chance of seeing him, but Tanjiro Kamado is able to tell Sanemi didn't truly hate him; and in fact still bore the same brotherly love he had for him in childhood. This was however never expressed outwardly as he tried to push Genya away from him and the Demon Slayers so he wouldn't be exposed to danger. He only revealed his care for Genya during the battle against Kokushibo, enraged by the demon's maiming of his younger brother. He sorely grieved Genya's death after the battle, proving that he truly loved his brother. Breathing Style: Wind Breathing (風かぜの呼こ吸きゅう Kaze no kokyū?): A Breathing Style that Sanemi learned and mastered with Masachika Kumeno after tutelage from an unknown cultivator. As the Wind Hashira, Sanemi is considered to be the most skilled Wind Breathing user of his generation. His level of skill with Wind Breathing reminded Kokushibo of the first Wind Hashira during the Sengoku Era, the Golden Age of Demon Slayers. Skills: Marechi Blood: Sanemi's blood was revealed to be one of the rarest blood types, making it incredibly intoxicating and mouth watering to demons. It is also unique due to its intense potency that the smallest whiff of his blood immediately causes demons to salivate and lose focus, as his blood was able to affect the strongest of the Upper Ranks, Kokushibo. However, its effect waned after a while and was proven to completely ineffective against Kokushibo after being accustomed to it and Muzan. Despite his blood's potency, Nezuko was shown to be able to resist it due to her own strong conviction and will not to eat humans, which is even further cemented and strengthened by the hypnosis planted in her brain by Sakonji Urokodaki. In addition to its potency against a demon's senses, Sanemi's blood was able to coagulate through his mastery of Total Concentration Breathing, which enabled him to stop his bleeding entirely and continue fighting even when cut.

Gyomei Rank: Stone Hashira Appearance: Gyomei is a hulking figure in the Demon Slayer Corps, standing as one of the tallest characters in the series and easily towering over his fellow Hashira. He is a powerfully built, extremely muscular man, with a slightly tanned skin tone. He has a medium, spiky, black hair that is shaved along the sides of his head and a prominent scar running horizontally across his forehead. Having been blind since childhood, he has white eyes with no visible irises or pupils. His eyes frequently tear-up when he gets emotional. Gyomei wears a standard black Demon Slayer Corps uniform, tinted dark gray in the anime. His uniform consists of a button-up jacket with a stand-up collar and long sleeves, featuring gold buttons, a left breast pocket, and the kanji for Destroy (滅めつ Metsu?) engraved on the back of the uniform. However, Gyomei’s jacket is heavily customized; it is worn with only the last button fastened, and the sleeves of his jacket and undershirt rolled up. His uniform is secured at the waist with the standard white belt and paired of matching tattsuke-hakama pants. Beneath the uniform, he wears a purple kimono, complete with a prominent white yuban collar. Around his lower legs, he wears a white bandages wrapped around his shins in place of traditional kyahan. For footwear, Gyomei wears white zōri sandals with gray straps, notably without tabi socks. Draped over his shoulders is a distinct olive-green happi, which features religious iconography. The collared frame of the happi bears the kanji for the Japanese Nianfo/Shin Buddha chant (南な無む阿あ弥み陀だ仏ぶつ Namu Amida Butsu?) from the top-down, along with the separate kanji all over at the back. Around his neck, he sports a large red-beaded necklace and carries a set of red ojuzu beads when not in battle. Personality: Gyomei is soft-spoken, restrained, quiet, and sensitive, in stark contrast to his outwardly intimidating appearance. Stoic and proud, yet alert and perceptive, he speaks with an air of both imposing authority and strength, and of genuine care and gentleness. He is also shown to be quite pious, carrying his prayer beads at all times and offering prayers in poignant situations. Most notably, Gyomei easily cries over the most insignificant things, accentuating his soft nature. This could be due to his love for all living creatures brought about by his religious upbringing, and insinuated when he felt so disgusted by beating up a demon that he would never forget that feeling for the rest of his life. Like the rest of the Hashira, Gyomei has a great deal of respect for Kagaya Ubuyashiki, of which no small part was due to the Oyakata saving his life. He is also one of the most respected individuals among the Demon Slayer Corps, not only due to being a member of the Hashira but because he serves as a symbol of hope due to his immense strength: Shinobu Kocho had once stated that when Gyomei fights, it puts everyone around him at ease. Furthermore, Gyomei serves as a leader for them, as seen when he sat at the front during Hashira meetings and was often looked to for his word and opinion. He was entrusted by Kagaya to give out orders to them, due to both Gyomei being the oldest and because Kagaya had known him for the longest out of anyone outside his own family. Breathing Style: Stone Breathing (岩いわの呼こ吸きゅう Iwa no kokyū?): A Breathing Style Gyomei either mastered himself or learned from a cultivator. In his own version of this Breathing Style, Gyomei incorporates his superhuman sense of hearing and physical strength to utilize a spiked flail and axe to use its techniques. As the Stone Hashira, Gyomei is his generation's most skilled Stone Breathing user. He displayed mastery of Stone Breathing in his battle against Kokushibo, where he was able to unleash attacks that were able to match the demon's Moon Breathing Skills: Enhanced Hearing: Due to being blind, Gyomei has compensated and alternated his senses to adapt to his condition, effectively developing an extremely heightened sense of hearing. His sense of hearing was so acute that Gyomei can accurately discern and interact with his surroundings normally, even engaging in high-speed combat with demons without trouble. More impressively, Gyomei was able to hear the sound of Muzan Kibutsuji's flesh regeneration during their brief confrontation and used it to determine that he is unlike any demon he has ever faced based solely on the sound the Demon King gave off.

Rengoku Rank: Flame Hashira Appearance: Kyojuro was a young man of tall stature and lean-muscular build, with fair skin. He had long, somewhat messy, bright yellow hair that flares out around his face, with red streaks akin to flames along with two shoulder-length bangs, two chin-length bangs on the side of his head, and wears a messily ponytail behind his head. He had black forked eyebrows, and golden eyes that turns to red around the irises with white pupils. He was known to be charismatic and had an air of great optimism, having an enthusiastic smile plastered on his face nearly all the time. Kyojuro wore the standard Demon Slayer Corps uniform, which is black in the manga and tinted a deep brown in the anime. It consisted of a brown button-up jacket with a stand-up collar and long sleeves, featuring gold buttons and a shirt pocket on the left breast, with the kanji for Destroy (滅めつ Metsu?) engraved on the back of the uniform. Beneath the jacket, he wore a white long-sleeved collared undershirt. His uniform was fastened with a white belt at the waist and included traditional tattsuke-hakama pants of matching color. Over this, Kyojuro wore a striking haori draped on his shoulders like a cape, with a white-to-yellow gradient pattern and red flame-like ridges at the end. This haori originally belonged to his father, Shinjuro Rengoku, and was more than likely worn by him when he served as the Flame Hashira before Kyojuro inherited the role. For legwear, he wore a pair of red kyahan decorated with yellow flame motifs rising from the bottom up, brown tabi socks, and a pair of white zōri sandals with red straps. Personality: Kyojuro was greatly enthusiastic in regard to his duties as a Hashira, and often came across as cheerfully eccentric. He was amiable, pure of heart, and boasted extraordinary technique and swordsmanship stemming from strict practice and discipline. He was an honorable warrior who adhered to his code of morals and principles that was instilled into him by his mother at a young age; the most significant being his belief that those who were born strong have a duty to protect the weak. Kyojuro also loved his family immensely, displaying great respect and worry towards his father, Shinjuro Rengoku, despite him growing slowly more aggressive and apathetic towards Kyojuro. He was incredibly encouraging and optimistic towards his little brother, Senjuro Rengoku, believing in him and wishing him the best no matter what. This was further accentuated during his death where his final words for his father and his little brother were "take care of your body" and "follow your dreams no matter what". Kyojuro also believed that if someone lacks immense skill, their hard work towards their dreams and desire to help people doesn't count for nothing. Beneath his enthusiastic demeanor, Kyojuro was very logical and tactically intelligent, acting quickly and precisely in battle, especially when the lives of others are on the line. Kyojuro was also great in seeing talent in others, even in Nezuko Kamado, a demon that he wanted to kill beforehand, after seeing her risk her life to fight and protect others. Though he was extremely optimistic, Kyojuro did sometimes have a sense of foreboding that those he believed in might die, especially his friends who he cared deeply for. He, like most Demon Slayers, absolutely detested demons, usually because of their heinous deeds or because of their clashing moral values. Despite this, Kyojuro recognized and accepted Nezuko as a member of the Demon Slayer Corps after seeing her risk her life to protect the innocent, showing that Kyojuro was capable of not letting his hatred for demons cloud his judgement. Breathing Style: Flame Breathing (炎ほのおの呼こ吸きゅう Honō no kokyū?): A Breathing Style taught to Kyojuro by the previous Flame Hashira, Shinjuro Rengoku, and later mastered by reading the instruction books left behind by previous Flame Hashira in the Rengoku Family. As the Flame Hashira, Kyojuro is his generation's most skilled Flame Breathing user. He became evidently proficient in fighting with this Breathing Style. Skills: Extrasensory Perception: Kyojuro had incredibly honed senses, such as when he was able to sense and perceive Akaza's immense presence and demon aura. Kyojuro was also capable of sensing demonic presences faster and more accurately than Tanjiro Kamado, who harbors an acute sense of smell, when he detected two demons right after another on a train before anyone else noticed. This ability also allowed him to precisely gauge the regenerative abilities and weaknesses of most demons, like Enmu. Kyojuro was also able to perceive Tanjiro's injuries and torn blood vessel accurately, which allowed him to teach him how to plug up that wound and prevent him from dying of blood loss. Furthermore, he was able to detect malice in Enmu's spells and prevented himself from getting incapacitated.

Tengen Rank: Sound Hashira Appearance: Tengen is a very tall, broad-shouldered, and incredibly muscular man with lightly-tanned skin and white hair. His hair is of an uneven length, the longest strands reaching his shoulders, and is styled with three more notable, shorter clumps arching up to fall as bangs between his eyes and on either side of his face. He has thin, dark fuchsia eyes that appear to slant inwards, each with one long eyelash flowing to the far side of his face. He also painted his fingernails and toenails with claret and bright green color. He is considered very attractive as noted by many women and even by Zenitsu; this has led him to use his looks as a tool for his missions whenever persuasion is necessary. During his service as the Sound Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Tengen wore a highly customized, sleeveless version of the standard Demon Slayer uniform. His uniform was black in the manga and tinted a deep dark turquoise in the anime. It consisted of a sleeveless button-up jacket with a stand-up collar, gold buttons, and a shirt pocket on the left breast, with the kanji for Destroy (滅めつ Metsu?) engraved on the back of the uniform. Underneath, he wore a white sleeveless collared undershirt. The uniform was secured with a white belt at the waist and included matching tattsuke-hakama pants tucked into burgundy cloth wrappings around his calves. On his feet, he wore white zōri sandals with white straps and dark turquoise tabi socks to match his uniform. Tengen is accessorized flamboyantly, wearing two thick, golden rings around his upper arms and a pair of fingerless purple gloves. These gloves were secured with two silver bands around the middle fingers and fastened at the wrists with two thinner golden rings on each side. As well as this, Tengen sports a white head-wrap that covers his hair, leaving only a thin ponytail visible to fall behind his head from between its layers. Adorning his forehead was a striking pale gray headband, embellished with six pale pink gemstones—three large ones arranged in a horizontal row across the center, and three smaller ones arranged in a triangular formation on the far left side. From each side of this headdress hung chains of smaller pale blue gemstones, which framed his face like earrings or decorative tassels. Additionally, Tengen wore distinctive red eye makeup on his left eye, composed of alternating large and small dots that extended inward toward the corner of his eye. He also wears a pair of two golden cuff earrings on each ears. Personality: Tengen is an eccentric and flashy individual, always wanting to be "flamboyant", possessing a need for everything to be flashy and outstanding, even proclaiming that he is the god of flashiness and festivals. This is shown when he gets excited imagining how "flamboyant" it would be if Tanjiro Kamado's blood vessels exploded, and tries to forcefully haul Aoi Kanzaki off to the Entertainment District with him so she can unwillingly help him with a dangerous mission, even spanking her. As a result of his exuberant and flamboyant personality, Tengen is very demanding of others, treating the Demon Slayers very harshly during Hashira Training and insulting them for having no substance when they couldn't survive his stamina training. Furthermore, he also abhors the idea of unflashy things, as shown when the Hashira openly expresses his hate for plainness. He is usually seen talking boastfully, proclaiming that he is "god" in front of Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke, even calling them trash and declaring that if he tells them to become dogs, they must become dogs, and if he tells them to become monkeys, they must become monkeys. Tengen even demands for the trio to always humor and stoop down to him, imploring him for favours and always doing their best to flatter him. This was also shown in his initial encounter with Upper Rank Six, Gyutaro, proclaiming that he was in tip-top shape despite being severely poisoned. However, Tengen does possess an extremely caring side that is masked under his flamboyant façade, one he only shows to those that are extremely close to him, most notably his three wives, Makio, Suma, and Hinatsuru, who Tengen is shown to truly love and care for, praising and encouraging Makio and Suma after their undercover mission and assuring Hinatsuru that she has completed her mission and telling her to get out of harm's way. Furthermore, Tengen also declares that they must value their lives above all others as they are precious to him. This is especially shown when Gyutaro gags Hinatsuru with his hand, Tengen panics and furiously yells at the demon to leave his wife alone. After the events in Yoshiwara, Tengen also becomes more friendly towards Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke. Breathing Style: Sound Breathing: A Breathing Style that Tengen created himself. Sound Breathing seemingly combines Tengen's heightened sense of hearing, his Musical Score technique, his shinobi expertise as well as his dual Nichirin cleavers and his anti-demon bombs. Skills: Enhanced Hearing: Tengen has a heightened sense of hearing similar to Zenitsu Agatsuma. This ability allows him to easily hear noises deep underground, and he uses it to immediately discern that there are channels of underground tunnels and caves directly beneath him when he was looking for Tanjiro Kamado and Daki. He also uses his superhuman hearing the monitor all the activity in Yoshiwara in an attempt to find the location of the demons dwelling in the area. Tengen also used his hearing to discern whether people are still present on a floor in a building. Echolocation: As an advanced application of his hearing, Tengen also possesses echolocation. When trying to find the location of a battle underground, he analyzed the sounds reflected and resonated through the air by the walls of the caverns, and accurately locates and is even able to guess the number of people inside the tunnels by listening to the sound bouncing from their physical bodies. Musical Score: A technique Tengen developed using his heightened sense of hearing and battle analysis to work in conjunction with his Sound Breathing, where he analyzes combat maneuvers and deconstructs the rhythm of his enemies' attacks into sound, reading them like sheet music to the point every fight becomes like a song. This allows Tengen to gain an understanding of his opponent's habits and tactics, as well as their blind spots, giving him the edge against them. While it takes a long time for Tengen to construct the score, once completed, Tengen was able to fight Gyutaro on even terms despite having lost his left hand, but due to the poison he was pushed to the limit and was unable to strike at the Upper Rank's neck.

Shinobu Rank: Insect Hashira Appearance: Shinobu was a petite, young woman of slender build and pale skin complexion, which sharply contrasts with her pink lipstick. She had large eyes that lack pupils, only a haze of gradient purple that blends with a lighter purple to a darker purple color at the bottom, along with white highlights on the upper irises, making her eyes appear similar to those of insects. Her eyes are framed with black eyelashes. She had wavy hair that was raven-black, fading into a dark purple hue at the ends. Her hair is styled at the back of her head into a flat yakai-maki bun, fastened with a white butterfly ornament that consists of a light purple trim on the outer side of the wings, along with turquoise speckled spots. She had 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. By the time of Hashira Training, both her bangs and locks are visibly more refined and slightly longer. She stood out among the more physically imposing Hashira due to her diminutive stature and small frame, which was later reinforced by her mentioning that she does not possess enough physical strength to decapitate a demon as the others do. Shinobu wore a dark purple-tinted variation of the standard Demon Slayer uniform. It consists of a button-up jacket with a stand-up collar and long sleeves, featuring gold buttons and a shirt pocket on the left breast, with the kanji for Destroy engraved on the back of the uniform. Beneath the jacket, she wore a white long-sleeved collared undershirt. Her long, saggy tattsuke-hakama pants are also tinted dark purple and are fastened at the waist with a white belt. Her legs were wrapped with a pair of unique white kyahan—with butterfly-patterned design—that fades from pale turquoise to pink gradient around the lower legs, and tied securely with white ribbons. Her tabi socks match the dark purple color of her uniform. Over her uniform, she wore a distinctive white haori that once belonged to her late older sister, Kanae. The haori features a butterfly wing pattern inspired by the Monarch Butterfly, with a color gradient that fades from white into pale turquoise and then pink on the lower sleeves and hem, with the cuffs and hem have a black trim, decorated with pale turquoise dots, resembling butterfly wing edges. For footwear, she wore white zōri sandals with purple straps, and she conceals a hidden blade in the right sandal—used as a last resort weapon. Personality: Shinobu displayed a bright, friendly and cheerful demeanor, always having an easygoing smile on her face regardless of the situation she was in. However, her outward behavior was shown very quickly to be a façade. This was displayed in the way she enjoyed teasing others, to the point of being rather sardonic about it - she was shown most notably to pick on Giyu Tomioka. Despite her relaxed exterior and her initial claim of wanting to get along with demons, she could be rather cruel towards them, which was seen when she killed Spider Demon Daughter after giving her false hope of helping her, and immediately attempting to kill Nezuko Kamado without giving her brother Tanjiro a chance to prove that she was harmless to humans. Later on, she was shown to have a more compassionate side towards the Kamado siblings after hearing their full story. Shinobu was shown to be unabashed, as she paid no heed to Murata's lack of clothes despite his own embarrassment. She also showed to be very strict when she needed to, as she scolded Inosuke when he broke the window, and burned revealing uniforms tailored by Masao Maeda, who intended them to be worn by her and other girls. It is later revealed that Shinobu's outwardly calm, tranquil disposition was worn as a mask, as she held an intense hatred for demons due to the loss of her beloved older sister, Kanae at a young age, along with the deaths of her parents, almost all of her Tsuguko, and the families of her apprentices at the Butterfly Mansion. This hatred was so strong that she was in a near-constant state of extreme anger, which was sensed by Tanjiro when the two held a conversation. Her desire for revenge rendered her unable to live the normal life her elder sister had wished upon her, instead devoting the entirety of her energy to defeating demons. Breathing Style: Insect Breathing: A Breathing Style created by Shinobu, who designed it to compensate for her lack of physical strength to cut off a demon's head. Combined with the lethality of her poison, this Style allowed her to defeat countless demons, and even battle Upper Rank Two, Doma. Skills: Extrasensory Perception: As a Hashira, Shinobu possesses incredibly honed senses, being able to pick up things outside the normal range of perception, such as discerning the aura of a demon's from a human's, such as being able to discern that Nezuko was a demon on her first meeting with the siblings, even when she was a distance away from them. Furthermore, Shinobu's senses happen to have refined enough to discern and perceive how many humans Spider Demon Daughter killed and consumed, even when the human corpses are covered from her eyesight due to Daughter's silk thread cocooning them, and pick up the scent of blood from afar, as shown when she smells blood even before entering Upper Rank 2, Doma's Eternal Paradise Faith cult and witnessing him consuming his disciple. Lastly, albeit post-facto, Shinobu detects and perceives the Upper Rank's techniques, and critically analyzes and assesses them, further deeming that breathing itself was dangerous due to his Blood Demon Art of frozen mist.

Tomioka Rank: Water Hashira Appearance: Giyu is a fairly tall young man of a lean muscular stature and pale complexion, who is almost always seen wearing a stoic expression. He has choppy raven-black hair of uneven lengths, with jaw length side-bangs, a low messy ponytail at the base of his neck, and bangs falling over his eyes in a choppy fringe. His eyes are sharp and moderately large, having irises that are a lapis blue color, fading into a lighter blue color at the lower part of the irises, and navy blue pupils. His irises are sometimes completely opaque and empty, just in lapis blue color, and are framed by thin eyebrows. Giyu wears the standard Demon Slayer Corps uniform, colored black in the manga and tinted charcoal blue in the anime. It consists of a button-up jacket with a stand-up collar and long sleeves, featuring gold buttons and a shirt pocket on the left breast, with the kanji for Destroy engraved on the back of the uniform. Beneath the jacket, he wears a white long-sleeved collared undershirt. The uniform is fastened at the waist with a white belt and includes a pair of matching tattsuke-hakama pants, which are wrapped at the calves with buttoned white kyahan. On his feet, he wears tabi socks that match the charcoal blue tone of his uniform, along with white zōri sandals with navy blue straps. Over this, Giyu wears a distinctive haori that is split down the middle into two contrasting halves: the right half being a carmine color, the left half decorated in a traditional geometrically patterned rhombi - consisting of green, dark green, orange, and yellow. These haori halves are sentimental mementos, with the red side formerly belonging to his late older sister, Tsutako Tomioka, and the patterned side to his deceased friend and fellow apprentice, Sabito. Personality: Giyu is a man of strong equanimity, always wearing a calm and stern expression on his face. Having a stoic personality, and possessing a very strong sense of justice and responsibility, he had no tolerance towards those who don't know their own limitations and throw away their lives.Despite letting Nezuko Kamado live due to Tanjiro Kamado's determination, he shows zero hesitation when killing other demons and has no respect or mercy towards them like most Demon Slayers. Even so, Giyu violated the Demon Slayer Corps' code of conduct without hesitation to protect Nezuko during Shinobu's attempt to kill her. This implies that he doesn't completely despise demons as some other Hashira do, and is willing to make an exception for a demon by letting them live if they don't kill and eat humans. This shows that he is more pragmatic and impartial in dealing with demons rather letting his hatred cloud his judgement. Due to his aloof personality, Giyu is not close to his fellow Hashira. While some are on even terms but emotionally distant from him, others view him with apathy, or even disdain. Sanemi Shinazugawa and Obanai Iguro were particularly contemptuous of the Water Hashira due to unfoundedly misreading his aloofness as arrogance. Giyu also expressed surprise when Shinobu Kocho mentioned that he is hated by the others; despite this, he remains on good terms with her, with both having a great deal of history together. Breathing Style: Water Breathing (水みずの呼こ吸きゅう Mizu no kokyū?): A Breathing Style taught to him by the Water Hashira before him, Sakonji Urokodaki. As the Water Hashira, Giyu is his generation's most skilled Water Breathing user. Giyu has completely mastered this swordsmanship style, to the point that he created an entirely new technique within the Breathing Style, impressing Akaza who had fought Water Hashira in the past. Skills: No special skills.

Muichiro Rank: Mist Hashira Appearance: Muichiro is a boy of fair skin complexion, short stature, and a lean-muscular build, being described as thinner and smaller than Tanjiro, but deceptively strong. He has straight, waist-length hair, transitioning from raven-black to turquoise. He wears his hair loose with two clumps protruding slightly from each side of his head, a set of marginally shorter hair left down to frame his face, and unruly bangs over his forehead. He also possesses large, empty-looking turquoise irises with a teal center. He is identical in appearance to his older twin brother Yuichiro. Following his meeting with Tanjiro Kamado, and the return of his childhood memories, Muichiro's once empty looking eyes seem to now have a hopeful glimmer that is accompanied with a more upbeat and cheery expression, reminiscent of his former demeanor before the death of Yuichiro. Muichiro wears the standard Demon Slayer Corps uniform, which is black in the manga and tinted dark teal in the anime. The uniform includes a button-up jacket with a stand-up collar, featuring gold buttons and the kanji for Destroy engraved on the back of the uniform, with a shirt pocket on the left breast. Beneath the jacket, he wears a white long-sleeved collared undershirt, though not visible. However, unlike the standard shirt-like cuffed sleeves, Muichiro’s uniform has longer, looser sleeves that are more reminiscent of a kimono, adding a flowing, ethereal quality to his appearance. Instead of the typical tattsuke-hakama pants wrapped with kyahan, Muichiro wears his hakama in the umanori style—a more traditional, horseback-riding cut—which, combined with his oversized sleeves, gives his entire outfit a loose and oversized silhouette. His uniform is fastened at the waist with a white belt. For footwear, he wears dark teal tabi socks and a pair of white zōri sandals with teal straps. Personality: Muichiro is an air-headed individual who seems to constantly wander off in thought and is unable to focus on anything. Extremely impassive - and at times obtuse - he tends to think only for himself and operates on logic alone, never letting emotions guide him. This makes him seem apathetic and indifferent. However, Tanjiro Kamado sensed that Muichiro wasn't being apathetic on purpose as he didn't emanate any animosity. Despite his mostly uncaring and unserious demeanor, he has been shown to become serious when it is required and is intensely devoted to his position as the Demon Slayer Corps' Mist Hashira. Additionally, he seems to display a cold and arrogant side, as shown by him violently shaking down Kotetsu, calling him stupid, claiming that his time as a Hashira was important, more so than his own, and that all that the swordsmiths could do was make weapons. Despite this, Muichiro doesn't seem to be indifferent towards Kagaya Ubuyashiki, most likely due to his immense respect for his master. Breathing Style: Mist Breathing. A Breathing Style Muichiro learnt from a Mist Breathing cultivator. As the Mist Hashira, Muichiro is his generation's most skilled Mist Breathing user. He became so proficient with Mist Breathing that he even created a new Mist Breathing technique, which ultimately enabled him to beat Gyokko. His skill with this Breathing Style impressed Kokushibo, who implied that his proficiency in this swordsmanship style was beyond his expectations. Moreover, Muichiro wears loose and oversized clothes that hide his limbs from his enemy's line of sight to obscure his movements when using Mist Breathing, further improving the unique strengths of this Breathing Style. Skills: Extrasensory Perception: Muichiro has extremely honed senses, being able to pick up things outside the normal range of perception, such as discerning the aura of a demon's from a human's. In his attempt to help Kozo Kanamori and Kotetsu reach the former's work shed for his new blade, Muichiro was able to sense the presence of Gyokko hidden in the bushes without seeing him, which surprised even the Upper Rank and earned him his compliments.

Mitsuri Rank: Love Hashira Appearance: Mitsuri is a curvaceous young woman of pale skin complexion, whose slender, graceful build belies her deceptive muscular strength. She stands slightly taller than average. She has large, round, bright pale green eyes with a darker green center, long black eyelashes, and many notable white sparkles reflecting light off of them, a small beauty mark beneath each of them, and light pink lipstick. Mitsuri has long and visibly thick pink hair that fades into a lime green color at the halfway point, which she wears in three thick braids. She has five shorter, choppy clumps hanging over her face as voluminous bangs, the tips lime green as well. Personality: Mitsuri is a very emotional, passionate, and jovial individual who constantly compliments and swoons over her comrades in her head, likely a contributing factor towards her nickname as "the Hashira of Love". Although she can be shy and is easily flustered, she is shown to be a very kind and caring person, always showing others her love, which befits her Hashira title. Besides her rather emotional personality, Mitsuri can come off as somewhat childlike at times and is prone to exaggerated over-reactions. For example, when she is asked to explain the process of obtaining the Demon Slayer Mark, she describes it using bizarre onomatopoeia. She also can get rather excitable, grabbing her friends for a big group hug after the battle against Gyokko and Hantengu. Breathing Style: Love Breathing. A Breathing Style Mitsuri created herself based on her experience using Flame Breathing, from being a student of Kyojuro Rengoku. Love Breathing incorporates elements of Mitsuri's superhuman flexibility and her unique whip-like Nichirin Sword. Using this Breathing Style, she can unleash attacks that cover a wide range of motion as well as long ranges that a normal katana would be unable to accomplish. Flame Breathing: A Breathing Style that Mitsuri learnt when training under the Flame Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku. However, although Mitsuri has learnt it, she was not as skillful with it and could not fight to her fullest using it. Thus, she developed Love Breathing, a Breathing Style more suited to her that could properly make use of her strengths. Skills: Abnormal Muscular Constitution: Mitsuri has a special muscular composition, making her muscles eight times denser than that of a regular human. While her limbs are thin, they possess unbelievable strength and endurance capable of maintaining her body's structure after a point-blank sound attack from Zohakuten. To maintain the composition of her body, Mitsuri eats as much as three sumo wrestlers.

Obanai Rank: Serpent Hashira Appearance: Obanai is a young man of short stature, pale skin complexion, and a lean, muscular build. He has straight-edged, raven-black hair of varying lengths, with the longest reaching down to his shoulders, while the shortest stop at his cheekbones, which he wears down with two shorter strands hanging between his eyes. His eyes are almond-shaped and tilted upwards on the far sides, and are uniquely colored due to Obanai possessing heterochromia. His right eye is yellow with a black pupil, while his left eye is teal, with the lower rim of the iris being a lighter shade. He is partially blind, barely being able to see out of his right eye. Obanai's mouth is usually hidden with white bandages over his lower face to hide his large facial scars, which were the result of his family horrifically cutting open his mouth to resemble that of a snake's gape Obanai wears the standard Demon Slayer Corps uniform, which is black in the manga and tinted a deep koamaru color in the anime. The uniform consists of a button-up jacket with a stand-up collar and long sleeves, adorned with gold buttons, a shirt pocket on the left breast, and the kanji for Destroy engraved on the back of the uniform. Beneath the jacket, he wears a white long-sleeved collared undershirt. The uniform is fastened at the waist with a white belt and paired with traditional tattsuke-hakama pants in the same koamaru hue. Over his uniform, Obanai wears his signature black-and-white vertically striped haori, with the hem and cuffs are striped horizontal ways rather than vertically, which covers his hands. For legwear, instead of the standard kyahan, Obanai wraps his lower legs in white bandages, giving the visual impression of traditional kyahan wraps. He also wears another set of white bandages around his lower face. His footwear consists of white zōri sandals with purple-blue straps, worn over koamaru-colored tabi socks to match the color tint of his uniform. He is also always seen with his white snake, Kaburamaru, wrapped around his shoulders. Personality: Obanai is a very harsh and strict individual who shows no concern for those who do not abide by the rules of the Demon Slayer Corps. His expectations for his fellow Demon Slayers are quite unrealistic, as he was seen berating Tengen Uzui for suffering heavy wounds against the lowest Upper Rank whom he called the "weakest" and telling him to "fight to the death" after Tengen insists on retiring. Tengen's retirement also highlights Obanai's devotion to the future of the Demon Slayer Corps. He does this often at others' expense such as when he tied up lower-ranked Demon Slayers and used them as obstacles during Hashira Training - all for relatively petty reasons. He also sees the newer Demon Slayer recruits as weak and incapable of improvement, expressing extreme surprise when Tengen informs him that Tanjiro Kamado survived the battle with Daki and Gyutaro. Obanai has a rather prominent habit of pointing at people with his finger in an accusatory manner while berating or talking unfavorably about someone. Like all the Hashira, Obanai has a great deal of respect for Kagaya. Breathing Style: Serpent Breathing. A Breathing Style Obanai created and mastered. This swordsmanship style makes use of twists and turns similar to how a serpent slithers to attack in strange ways. Obanai also learnt to incorporate his pet snake, Kaburamaru, into this Breathing Style, extending his physical abilities. Skills: Obanai, having always been partially blind in his right eye, developed a combat technique utilizing his snake Kaburamaru. Kaburamaru possesses a unique ability that allows him to read and predict a target's attacks, then relay that information to Obanai. Kaburamaru also seems to be capable of understanding human speech and emotions.

Inosuke Rank: Hinoe, which is the third-highest rank for a standard Demon Slayer, Appearance: Inosuke is a young man of average height and pale skin complexion with an extremely toned and muscular build for his age. In sharp contrast to this, he has an incredibly pretty and feminine face, which made Zenitsu almost believe that he was a girl. He has large, wide eyes that are framed by an array of long eyelashes, their iris a dark to soft pale green with black pupils that has a small, white dot on the center of the pupils, thin eyebrows, and what could be a small, well-mannered mouth. His thick, raven-black hair reaches just past his shoulders, fading into blue at the tips and forming an unruly and uneven fringe that falls just above his eyes, puffing out before curving and thinning towards his forehead. Inosuke, in his unique fashion, has customized his Demon Slayer uniform to suit his personal style. His altered attire consists of baggy hakama pants in a dark gray-blue shade, secured at his hips with a thick belt adorned with fluffy brown deer fur. Unlike his fellow companions, Inosuke forgoes wearing a haori. Instead of the customary leg wraps, he opts for knee-high socks made from bear hide in a black color tone, which serve as a base for the sandals he wears. Notably, his heels and toes are left exposed. However, the most distinctive aspect of his appearance is the gray, hollowed-out boar's head that he wears as a mask, with sky blue eyes with darker blue irises and black pupils, a pink snout, and a shade of pink on both of the upper portion of the ears. Inosuke has modified the boar's head, altering the eyes to allow him to see while wearing it. Personality: Inosuke is short-tempered, confrontational, abrasive, and proud. He always likes to think he is the strongest fighter in a situation, constantly challenging most people he comes across and wanting others to respect and praise him for his skill. This often leads him into unnecessary danger since he tends to overestimate his abilities in comparison to who he is fighting and refuses to accept when he's been defeated, which can be seen when Giyu Tomioka has to tie him up after his fight with Father of the Spider Family to prevent him challenging the Hashira to a fight while still severely injured from his previous battle. This constant wanting to be the best can also cause Inosuke to be very provocative, as he often tries to goad others, most prominently Tanjiro Kamado, into fighting him, although in the case of the latter he usually fails due to Tanjiro's obliviously kind nature. Inosuke possesses a rather vengeful side to his personality, especially when the people he cares about get harmed. He refused to help the injured train engineer who stabbed Tanjiro and was convinced he was right in letting him die, only helping him when Tanjiro begged Inosuke to do so and forgave the man. He immediately attacked Doma upon learning he killed and devoured Shinobu, and he became truly angered when he found out Doma was also the one who orphaned him, challenging the Upper Rank by himself and declaring he would create hell for him. Additionally, in the final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji, he challenged the Demon King directly and demanded he atone himself by dying for mutilating and nearly killing all the other Demon Slayers. Due to him having been raised by boars, Inosuke has also been shown to possess little understanding of normal human interaction, at least at the time of his debut, as he seems to frequently assume that people who approach him want to attack him and doesn't appear to understand the kindness others show him. He also cannot read or write and struggles to say people's names correctly, saying Monchiro instead of Tanjiro or Monitsu instead of Zenitsu. In part due to his lacking understanding of the norms and customs of people, Inosuke can be rude without malicious or outwardly negative intentions, and he initially treated everyone as an enemy at first. However, as he continues to learn and grow along in his Demon Slayer career, Inosuke is influenced more and more by Tanjiro's ways and becomes more accustomed to affection and generosity. Breathing Style: Beast Breathing: A Breathing Style distantly derived from Wind Breathing and the personal creation of Inosuke Hashibira himself after living in the mountains and fighting for survival. It is a self-taught style that uses and blend several atributes of different wild animals that Inosuke had observed in the mountains as a basis for his style of attacking. Skills: Enhanced Somatosensation: After growing up in the mountains, Inosuke developed a sharp and incredibly sensitive sense of touch. His skin can even feel the smallest vibrations in the air. Inosuke incorporated this ability into his Spatial Awareness technique, where he uses his acute sense of touch to locate all the demons spread out across a giant mountain and later uses it to detect the location of the Father of the Spider Family. By using this ability, he can tell if anyone is looking at him, especially if they have any hostile intentions. He can even pinpoint the exact location they are looking at, which gives him an edge in combat. His sensitive skin also gave him an edge against Doma, as his sense of touch naturally steered him away from inhaling his dangerous frost. Extrasensory Perception: Inosuke's instincts and intuition are honed to such extremes that he possesses a form of extrasensory perception that allows him to detect things outside the normal range of perception. Inosuke can sense how serious his opponents are, as seen when he sensed that Daki's sash attacks were relaxing a little bit, which gave him an opening to attack, and how strong Akaza and Kyojuro Rengoku were. He was also able to sense a person's malice and intent to kill even when they were outside his range of sight, which prevented him from getting killed by Gyutaro's scythe attack. Inosuke was also able to sense that Daki's obi had living people trapped inside it, which prevented him from accidentally harming them when fighting.

Tanjiro Rank: Hinoe (the third highest rank for regular demon slayers) Appearance: Tanjiro is a young man of average height with lightly tanned skin and an athletic, muscular build. His hair is ruffled and black with red tips (appearing black that turns to burgundy at the tips in the anime), and is swept back to reveal his forehead. His eyes are wide and dark red, fading into a burgundy hue with white pupils that appear lighter toward the lower section of the iris, while the upper portion is markedly darker. He bears a distinct scar on the upper left of his forehead, first seen when his mother took him to watch his father perform the Hinokami Kagura dance. Originally, it was a light pink, patch-like mark — an injury he received after saving one of his siblings from a hot brazier. It remained so until his battle with the Hand Demon during Final Selection, after which it developed into a dark red, jagged mark. Personality: Tanjiro is very kind by nature and has been described by others as having very gentle eyes and a compassionate persona. He exhibits a great deal of determination and will not give up once he has a goal to achieve; the best example of this is his relentless quest to find a cure for Nezuko. Even though he is relatively strong on his own, Tanjiro isn't opposed to asking others for help when he needs it. He is very protective of his friends, and especially so of his younger sister. However, despite his kind and understanding nature, Tanjiro does have a limit to his tolerance and has a distaste for rudeness and cowardice, as he easily becomes annoyed by Zenitsu Agatsuma's constant whining and angered by Inosuke Hashibira's barbaric actions. Tanjiro is direct and very honest, taking everyone's words with sincerity and seriousness. Upon hearing Tengen Uzui claim he is a god, he asked what area he was the god of. He has difficulty lying, and doing so causes his face to contort severely as his honest nature clashes with the insincerity of his words. Having grown up in the countryside of Japan, Tanjiro has no experience of life in large urban areas. During his missions to Asakusa and Yoshiwara, he stared in wonder at the bright lights enveloping the cities. He naively believed the Mugen train was perhaps the land's guardian spirit before being corrected by Zenitsu, and, just like Inosuke, he does not know what a red-light district is. Under Tanjiro's rather kind and friendly shell is a person with a growing fire of rage and vengeance inside of them. This side of him leaks out when Tanjiro first confronts Muzan Kibutsuji, ready to take out his sword and attack him. When Muzan escapes, Tanjiro releases his frustration and declares he will be the one to kill Muzan. On Mount Natagumo, when the captured Demon Slayers had their necks snapped by the Mother Spider Demon's threads, Tanjiro showed noticeable anger that even Inosuke sensed. Upon seeing Daki smirking after witnessing her slaughter innocent people indiscriminately with her sashes, he seethed with rage and confronted her alone. Moreover, Tanjiro became enraged when encountering Akaza, the demon that killed Kyojuro Rengoku; again, he screamed Akaza's name when he charged to attack and was filled with fury when the demon claimed that he was glad Kyojuro had died. This side of Tanjiro is fully exemplified after Muzan's comparison of himself to a natural disaster while demanding the Demon Slayers cease from seeking further revenge against him; Tanjiro calmly told the demon that he can no longer be allowed to exist any further. In the face of irrational evil, Tanjiro shows a more cold and terrifying side of himself, acting more violently towards his opponents as a result. Breathing Style: Water Breathing: Taught to him by Sakonji Urokodaki, a previous Water Hashira and Water Breathing Cultivator, this was Tanjiro's initial Breathing Style. He became extremely proficient in it, to the point where he had surpassed Sabito, one of Sakonji's best students, and could modify pre-existing forms to suit his circumstances. He also used Water Breathing to take on two members of the Twelve Kizuki, namely Rui and Enmu. However, due to his body not being suited to Water Breathing's techniques, Tanjiro decided to switch to the Hinokami Kagura as his main Breathing Style. Despite this, Tanjiro has not abandoned what he was taught, combining Water Breathing with the Hinokami Kagura, due to the strain Hinokami Kagura placed on his body, in order to have stronger strikes than when he used Water Breathing alone and move for longer periods than if he used Hinokami Kagura alone. He did this to save Hinatsuru from Gyutaro, and later used it once again inside the Infinity Castle to slay dozens of demons. Hinokami Kagura: During his near-death experience in his battle with Rui, Tanjiro awakened this in a memory of his father teaching him this Breathing Style. As his body was more suited to the Hinokami Kagura, he quickly overpowered the Lower Rank demon. However, the sheer force and fatigue it placed on his untrained body caused him to weaken significantly when using it; thus he, only saved it for last-ditch attempts to beat his adversaries. Skills: Tanjiro possesses an extremely sharp sense of smell. Before becoming a Demon Slayer, Tanjiro was known in a village as a boy who had an extremely strong sense of smell. He is able to pick up even the most subtle of scents and track their location with terrifying accuracy over long distances. It is strong enough for him to smell the Opening Thread, the slight pause in an enemy's movement that allows him an opening in which to strike. His sense of smell is so keen that he can perceive his surroundings through scent alone. Extrasensory Perception: Through his heightened sense of smell, Tanjiro can perceive things outside the normal range of perception, like the intentions, feelings, and thoughts of other creatures, even animals such as insects and birds. He can also sense the aura and presences of demons and even tell their strength level at a glance by how disgusting and rotten their scent is.

Nezuko Appearance: Nezuko is a young girl with fair skin, visibly large, prominent fangs, a slender build, and sharp, stiletto nails with a base color of light pink and ombre fading to a red-orange color at the end where they point. Her hair is long, black, and wavy. It reaches just below her waist, turning a flame-orange color as it passes her elbows, and appears to be crimped into large, straight ridges, worn side-swept drastically to her left. She has soft-looking, pink eyes that appear a lighter color around the rims of their irises and a persian pink center; they slanted downwards toward the sides of her face and framed by notably long eyelashes. In the manga, Nezuko can sometimes be shown with more than one bow. According to Tanjiro, Nezuko was known as a great beauty in their home town. She wears a light pink, short-sleeve kimono with an asanoha (hemp leaf) pattern, the lining a paler pink layered with the white wavy yuban underneath as a medium-length trailing skirt kimono to freely move as a demon; this, the white clothes lowly cover her knees then goes down to almost her ankles making a open window, secured by a red and white-chequered hanhaba obi with an orange-threaded obijime and a green obiage. Over this, she sports a long, dark-brown haori that reaches her calves, as well as a pair of zōri with pink straps and white tabi socks, wrapped with thick pieces of black material resembling kyahan. Nezuko also wears a small pink ribbon on the left side of her head to keep her hair out of her face, along with the bamboo muzzle Giyu Tomioka gave her, which is secured around her jaw with a strip of red cloth. Personality: Since becoming a demon, Nezuko appears to have become rather brazen and does not seem to fear fighting; she fiercely guards her brother as well as her allies. She has also developed a strong willpower, which can be seen through her refusal to consume human flesh or blood, even in cases of extreme injury or exposure to human blood, which can be seen when she refuses Sanemi Shinazugawa after he attempts to lure her into biting him with his Marechi blood. Her strong willpower remains even when she is no longer a demon, as shown when she willingly leaps in front of Inosuke to protect him from her own brother, who had become a demon and was attempting to kill those around him. Though she could have been killed, Nezuko did not hesitate to protect her brother. Demon Features: Abnormal Demon Physiology: Nezuko has several unique traits that set her apart from all other demons. Most notably, Nezuko can continuously restore her power without consuming any human blood, like any other demon would need to do. Instead, she recovers her strength through sleep alone, though she would have to spend a lot of time sleeping in order to recuperate and regain her power. Moreover, Nezuko has an extraordinary growth rate, as shown multiple times when she grows stronger without any training or consuming humans. This ability is shown to trigger even in the midst of battle and with huge power boosts. Her rapid growth in power was first displayed during her battle against Susamaru; though her foot was initially blown off by the Temari Demon's ball attack, upon regenerating, she was able to take the force of her attack and engage the demon in a back-and-forth skirmish that she was even able to come out of triumphant. Advanced Demon Form: Nezuko has the ability to enter a berserk state where she becomes more demonic in appearance, transforming into an adult version of herself with vine-like tattoos that circle her body and a single horn protruding from her right forehead side. Nezuko's physical capabilities in this state are drastically increased to the point where she could sever Daki's limbs by stomping on them and kick her extremely far distances, destroying multiple buildings in the process. Her regenerative abilities also become on par with those of the Upper Ranks of the Twelve Kizuki. When she first awakened this ability in her fight with Daki, she became frenzied in battle, lost her usual restraint to human blood, and only reverted back to normal when Tanjiro sang her a lullaby. She eventually became able to transform into her Advanced Demon Form while maintaining her usual composure and keeping herself from feeding on or attacking humans during the battle in the Swordsmith Village. Sunlight Immunity: During her battle with Hantengu, she suddenly managed to develop immunity to sunlight, allowing her to be active regardless of whether she was in the sun or not. Blood Control: In addition to her Blood Demon Art, Nezuko has shown in her Advanced Demon Form that she has control over her own blood's viscosity. When her limbs and head were severed and she was going to be attacked by Daki further, Nezuko managed to control her limbs and head by congealing and solidifying the blood spraying from them before the streams could break apart. She was able to command her limbs to grab and stop Daki's sashes, and, even though it was done with floating, severed limbs connected by blood, she was able to do it with such strength that the sashes were stopped dead in their tracks. She was then able to pull all of her limbs back together through those blood streams, allowing her body to regenerate. Immense Regeneration: As a demon, Nezuko has enhanced regenerative abilities that allow her to heal in the blink of an eye. When she first became a demon, her regeneration was relatively slow compared to other demons, taking a few moments to heal her wounds. However, once in her awakened state, her regeneration ability evolved to the point where it matched the caliber of the Upper Ranks of the Twelve Kizuki, allowing her to reconnect her whole torso and body parts as well as regrow her arms and legs instantly. Daki noted that Nezuko's regeneration surpassed her own. Size Alteration: Upon being transformed into a demon, Nezuko displayed the basic ability to change and alter her body's size and height. She was able to shrink herself into the physical size of a small child in order to fit inside a small box or a basket, and she could also enlarge herself into a much bigger form. Skills: Combustible Blood: Nezuko's Blood Demon Art allows her to combust her blood into pink-colored flames at will. Activating it required Nezuko to physically bleed from open wounds, inflicted by either demon opponents or herself via self-mutilation. Notable examples of the latter were when she ripped her arm off when wrestling with Karaku to splatter blood on him, and slid herself down Aizetsu's yari when impaled to douse him. Her flames have a special property that makes them exclusively harmful to demons, objects belonging to demons, and Blood Demon Arts while being completely harmless to humans and other objects. These flames can hamper the regeneration of other demons. This is shown when Daki's burns took much longer to heal than traditional wounds, and the emotional manifestations of Hantengu had their regeneration stalled after being decapitated with a Bright Red Nichirin Sword ignited by Nezuko's blood, with Karaku wailing about the pain. Nezuko's Blood Demon Art was also able to neutralize Gyutaro's poison to save Inosuke Hashibira and Tengen Uzui from dying. Her flames also have the ability to temporarily turn Nichirin Swords bright red, increasing the strength of attacks inflicted by them. A drawback to Nezuko's Blood Demon Art is that overuse of it can cause her to fall asleep.

Zenitsu Rank: Hinoe. This is the third-highest rank in the standard Demon Slayer Corps hierarchy Appearance: Zenitsu is a young man of average height with fair skin, a muscular build, and downward-sloped, worried-looking eyes that fade from soft brown to a brilliant gold and golden, forked eyebrows that sharply fade into a warm orange color. He has short, yellow hair of varying lengths, cutting off squarely at the ends where it fades to a darker orange color, that falls in front of his face in uneven bangs, loosely resembling a bowl cut. Before he became a Demon Slayer, Zenitsu's hair was originally black, but it turned the color it is currently when he was struck by lightning during his training. Personality: Zenitsu is cowardly, pessimistic, weak-willed, insecure and anxious, often claiming that he doesn't have long to live due to the dangerous job of being a Demon Slayer. He has rather low self-esteem despite his talent and strength, even considering himself useless. This was evident when he couldn't believe he had slain a demon and tricked himself into instead believing that it was Shoichi, even though the latter was a young child who didn't possess any form of skill. Zenitsu is in a constant state of fear, and he frequently tries to run away at the sight of danger, claiming he wants to live a modest, normal life instead of that of a Demon Slayer. Due to this, Zenitsu screams and shouts a lot, much to the annoyance of the people around him. He is also shown to be pessimistic at times, especially during Hashira Training, where he lashed out at Tanjiro and Inosuke for viewing the training positively. In spite of his weaknesses, Zenitsu desires to live up to the expectations others have set for him and will try his hardest when he needs to. He holds great respect and admiration for his comrades and his deceased teacher, Jigoro Kuwajima, and his inner focus and drive to avenge him help to wash away his cowardice and second thoughts when he is in a pinch. Zenitsu also hates himself for how cowardly and incompetent he is, despite genuinely striving to better himself. Zenitsu is also shown to be something of a wannabe womanizer, stemming from a desire to not be single should he be killed. He appears to be severely needy for affection and approval by other people, traits which can be traced back to his younger years as a lonely orphan who was exploited emotionally by his former partners. Such desire influences him to hit on girls who he thinks are cute and asks them to marry him or wants them to care about him, much to their annoyance. He is shown to have perverted traits at times, evidently when he confronts Tanjiro and Inosuke during Rehabilitation Training where he draws attention to a girl’s physical features. This womanizing nature is shown to override his docile and quiet personality, particularly when he believes his comrades are "flirting" with cute girls; he would snap and go on long hysterical rants and complaints. Zenitsu is shown to have a strong attraction to Nezuko, openly expressing his affection for her and always rushing to protect her as if on instinct. During these times, he is also shown to become physically aggressive, lashing out at people in frustration. Though, despite his shallow behaviour in this regard, Zenitsu does show respect for women, telling Daki to let go of a girl that Daki nearly tore the ear off of and later demanding that she apologize, showing no fear at all in front of the enraged Upper Rank demon. Breathing Style: Thunder Breathing: A Breathing Style Zenitsu learned from a cultivator and his teacher, Jigoro Kuwajima, but failed to master all the forms in the swordsmanship style and could only be able to use the first of the six forms in it, known as Thunderclap and Flash. However, Zenitsu has become incredibly talented and proficient in fighting demons using the first form alone by quick drawing his Nichirin sword to sliced and even decapitate demons faster than they can react, even creating several variations and modifications to it and being able to successfully perform the technique even while unconscious, even helped slay Daki alongside Inosuke. Later, with more combat experience, Zenitsu even created an entire new form in Thunder Breathing, something only a Hashira, specifically Giyu and Muichiro, had done before. This form allowed him to turn the tables against his opponent, Kaigaku, and overpower and decapitate him instantly. Skills: Zenitsu possesses a heightened sense of hearing, allowing him to detect danger from even the faintest of sounds. With this, he has displayed the ability to decipher layers upon layers of sound in one of the brothels and even in the Infinity Castle. As another testament to his great sound detection ability, he can perfectly replicate any tune he hears on a shamisen and koto only after listening to it once for the first time, possessing perfect pitch despite having no musical background. Zenitsu's exceptional hearing also enables him to fight in his sleep, an impressive feat as he has no visual aid and can only use sound to discern his surroundings while keeping up with the attacks of demons. Extrasensory Perception: Zenitsu's hearing allows him to hear and pick up sounds outside the normal range of perception, such as detecting a person's thoughts, emotions, and even their personality, just by picking up the subtle sounds they produce. Moreover, he can discern a human from a demon by comparing the sounds they make, which also allows him to determine their strength to an extent, as Daki, an Upper Rank demon, has a more terrible sound than normal demons.

Genya Rank: Hinoe. This is the third-highest rank in the standard Demon Slayer Corps hierarchy Appearance: Genya is a tall young man with a rough and feral appearance, with a fair skin tone, muscular build, inward-slanting, large almond-shaped eyes, featuring dark purple irises, a large, jagged scar that ran over his right cheekbone from his ear to the bridge of his nose, and a furrowed brow, giving him a constant angered expression. He also has numerous scars across his upper body and arms. He has long, black hair in a style of a mohawk with strands framing his neck. After joining the Demon Slayer Corps, Genya’s outfit consists of a dark olive-green variation of the standard Demon Slayer uniform. This includes a button-up jacket with a stand-up collar and long sleeves, silver buttons, and a shirt pocket on the left breast, with the kanji for Destroy engraved on the back of the uniform. A white long-sleeved collared undershirt is worn beneath the jacket, and the uniform is secured at the waist with a white belt. Over this, Genya wears his signature sleeveless, purple yukata, with the lower part of his yukata being a darker color tone. He also wears matching olive-green tattsuke-hakama pants and a pair of white jika-tabi on his feet. Personality: Genya was initially a hostile and ill-tempered individual; a "lone wolf" who refused any help from others and did not show any interest in being polite or having any manners. During Final Selection, he roughly handled Kanata Ubuyashiki by grabbing her hair and yelling at her due to his impatience, and he later provoked Tanjiro Kamado into directly confronting him with physical force as an attempt to diffuse the situation. His ill temper and brash way of speaking heavily resembles that of his older brother, Sanemi; both their behaviors mirrored that of their abusive father. However, although he was still brash, Genya mellowed with age. He became more open to cooperation during the battle against Hantengu, the Upper Rank Four, where he worked alongside Tanjiro, Mitsuri Kanroji, and Nezuko Kamado. After some time, he learned to become more sociable and less ill-mannered towards others, particularly towards Tanjiro and his friends. Genya also appears to be very confident in battle, telling Aizetsu to focus on him despite the latter already having stabbed Genya with his Yari, and later announced his name to the demon and declared that he is the one who will kill him. Breathing Style: Genya utilizes both a sawed-off, double-barreled shotgun with Nichirin cartridges and a Nichirin wakizashi placed on his rear hip. He is shown to excel at blending both long-range and short-range combat against demons. Against strong targets, Genya usually sneaks up on them to fire his shotgun and switches to using his wakizashi should he fail to do so. Genya demonstrates a high degree of marksmanship, being able to shoot off Sekido's head and blow off a huge portion of Karaku's and Aizetsu's necks. He also severed Sekido's hand even while being shocked by electricity. It has also been stated that he is more adept at using his shotgun than his wakizashi. Skills: Demon Consumption & Empowerment: Genya possesses unnaturally strong jaws and special digestive organs which allow him to tear off and consume the flesh of demons without any adverse effects and tear off even the likes of tree bark. By devouring demon flesh, Genya temporarily gains demonic characteristics, such as fangs, dark sclera, and unique yellow tips in his hair. Sometimes, presumably because of how concentrated a demon’s blood is, Genya can gain attributes related to the demon he devours, like when he gained Kokushibo’s eyes, hair, and Demon Slayer Mark, with his shotgun even gaining the appearance of the Upper Rank’s katana. More importantly, Genya is able to become stronger after consuming a demon, receiving a bigger boost in power depending on the strength of the demon he consumes. For the most part, Genya gets an enhanced physical constitution (which makes up for his inability to use Breathing Styles) along with potent regeneration. The physical attributes he gained enable him to out-speed Aizetsu and nearly decapitate him, as well as pick up enormous trees and hurl them over tremendous distances quite easily, and rip off the arms of Hantengu's hefty resentment clone, Urami. His regenerative abilities enable him to heal after Aizetsu's technique tore numerous holes straight through his body, and it even allowed him to survive after being cut in half by Kokushibo, a trait unqiue to him as according to the Upper Rank, a previous swordsman with a similar ability was killed after being bisected.

Kanao Rank: Tsuguko to Shinobu Kocho Appearance: Kanao is a young woman of short stature, with large and gentle eyes of a dark lilac color that turns to a lighter color at the lower of the irises and a purple center along with notable bright light reflecting, that are framed by thick eyelashes, and pink lips in contrast to her pale complexion. She has medium-length, thin raven-black hair, tied into a side ponytail on the right of her head and fastened by a green butterfly ornament with a pink trim on the outer side of the wings, and decorated with white speckled spots, that once belonged to her adoptive sister Kanae. She has straight cut bangs, a straight fringe, and two loose, chin-length strands that curve downwards from above each of her ears. Kanao wears a slightly purple-tinted variation of the standard Demon Slayer uniform, consisting of a button-up jacket with a stand-up collar and long sleeves, featuring silver buttons and a shirt pocket on the left breast, with the kanji for Destroy engraved on the back of the uniform. Beneath the jacket, she wears a white long-sleeved collared undershirt. Rather than the traditional tattsuke-hakama pants, her uniform is customized with a knee-length pleated skirt in the same tinted color, secured with a white belt around her waist. Over time, however, the skirt was noticeably shortened to only cover her thighs, a modification implied to be the work of the notoriously lecherous uniform tailor, Masao Maeda. Draped over her uniform, she wears a short white cloak, fastened on one side by a dark pink triple knot. On her feet, she sports distinctive knee-high lace-up white boots with tan soles, heels, and toes. During the Final Selection, she wore a light pink yukata stop a white undershirt and a magenta pair of hakama pants. She also wore white ankle socks and pink sandals. Personality: At first, Kanao was an indecisive and quiet girl due to the abuse she endured in her past before meeting the Kocho sisters. She became unable to make decisions by herself and repressed her emotions as a defense mechanism, to the point that she believed she lacked emotions and desires. In order to help rectify this problem, Kanae gave her a coin to flip to decide which path to follow when she didn't know what to do. For many years, Kanao continued to show little emotion or desire. However, after seeing what demons did to Aoi Kanzaki, Naho Takada, Sumi Nakahara, Kiyo Terauchi and Shinobu's loved ones, Kanao developed a strong hatred against demons directly from her own will. Kanao, without the knowledge of her sisters, learned Flower Breathing by watching Kanae and undertook the Final Selection of her own volition to become a Demon Slayer, without consulting her superiors for permission, which would imply that her will had been strengthening all along. Shinobu, oblivious to this fact, was afraid that Kanao wasn't acting on her own volition and thus instructed Kanao to simply cut off the heads of demons without thinking since she seemingly had no will of her own. Between Kanae's death and the Rehabilitation Training, Kanao recovers slightly, but still relies on her coin to make most of her decisions. She displays a somewhat mechanical response in conversations; when Tanjiro Kamado approaches her to bid to her farewell, she repeats "goodbye" when he attempts to continue the conversation. However, he eventually manages to start bringing her out of her shell and she starts to make more of her own decisions, in turn relying less on her coin. She gains the ability to speak unambiguously and gradually becomes able to express her emotions and wants more openly, as seen when she begins to show her own desire to fight, expresses immense relief when Tanjiro recovers from his injuries, displays joy when she tells Shinobu that she wishes to train alongside her, and expresses shock and distress at Shinobu's plan to defeat Doma. Breathing Style: Flower Breathing: A Breathing Style Kanao learnt and later mastered by simply observing Kanae Kocho. Skills: Enhanced Vision: Kanao possesses extremely sharp eyesight, being able to accurately predict her opponent's next attack and movements by simply observing the subtle shifts of their muscles, joints and the slight movements of their eyes. This allows her to make effective counterattacks and dodges and stay ahead of her opponents. Doma comments on this feat and remarks that due to this skill, Kanao may be more skilled than Shinobu.

Kokushibo Rank: Upper Moon One Appearance: Kokushibo is a tall man with a muscular build, and a pale skin complexion. He possesses long, spiky black hair with red tips that he keeps in a ponytail, along with two shoulder-length, flowing, wavy bangs on each side that reaches to his collarbone. His most notable feature is the three sets of eyes on his face with yellow irises and red flesh sclera that have black, straight lines diverging from each iris. His middle set of eyes has the kanji of "Upper Rank (上じょう弦げん Jōgen?)" on engraved on his left eye, and daiji for "One (壱いち Ichi?)" on his right. His other sets of eyes feature black pupils and a cracked pattern in the irises. His top set of eyes replaced his eyebrows. Kokushibo also possesses a Demon Slayer Mark that resembles flames on the top left side of his forehead that extends down to his left temple, and the bottom right of his cheek down to his right side of his neck. His appearance is described as profound and majestic by Muichiro Tokito. Kokushibo wears a purple-and-black hexagonal-patterned nagagi kimono and black umanori-styled hakama pants tied with a white uwa-obi. He also wears a pair of zōri with purple straps, and white tabi socks. He carries a fleshy katana at his waist that has eyes in the space between the tsuka ito wrapping of the handle of his sword. The tsuba and blade are shown to have eyes and veins. The scabbard is also fleshy in appearance. Personality: Kokushibo is reserved, silent, and aloof, maintaining an aura of unnerving tranquility and mystery that complements his position as Upper Rank One. He rarely speaks; when he does, he talks in a slow and emphatic manner that gives more gravitas and authority to his words. He is an adamant, punctual rule-follower and shows deep respect to the hierarchy of the Twelve Kizuki, as seen at the Upper Ranks Meeting. Kokushibo is shown to be humble as well, and isn't hesitant to admit his failure or complain of any difficulty. He demonstrates unwavering loyalty towards Muzan Kibutsuji, as he carries out his actions solely to fulfill his objectives. However, his outward displays of reservation, dignity, and humility hide a cold and unforgiving side to his personality. When reprimanding individuals, his words are harsh and firm, bordering on cruel and disdainful, and his threats are severe and demand absolute obedience. Blood Demon Art: Crescent Moon Blades: Complementing his Moon Breathing, Kokushibo's Blood Demon Art allows him to create and manipulate dozens of sharp blades shaped like traditional crescent moons from his flesh katana. They are implied to have been created from his blood and can be either a bright yellow or a bright blue in color. These crescent moon blades are innately chaotic, constantly changing in size, direction, and speed, making Kokushibo's attacks extremely unpredictable and unreadable as they have no set pattern at all. This Blood Demon Art greatly enhances the power of his techniques, making every single one of his sword swings extremely deadly and dangerous. He also seems to be capable of using his Blood Demon Art as long as his katana is unsheathed, allowing him to create crescent moon blades even without swinging his sword or unleashing a technique. The volatile nature of his Blood Demon Art makes it extremely challenging for Demon Slayers to circumvent; Sanemi stated that if not for his years of experience in the field of demon hunting, he wouldn't have been able to defend himself from Kokushibo's attacks. Skills: Extrasensory Perception: Kokushibo possesses honed sensory abilities that allow him to detect the presence of others outside his normal range of perception, as shown when he dodged Genya's gunshots and appeared directly behind him despite Kokushibo looking in the opposite direction. Kokushibo also seems to be able to keep track of the locations of his peers around the Infinity Castle, evident as he no longer felt Akaza's presence when he died. Menacing Aura: Kokushibo possesses a menacing and overwhelming presence that startled even Akaza, the holder of Upper Rank Three and an extremely vindictive and aggressive demon, into silence and temporarily made Muichiro Tokito, a Hashira who has faced and defeated an Upper Rank on his own, lose the will to fight, causing his body to tremble uncontrollably.

Douma Rank: Upper Moon Two Appearance: Doma is a tall young man of muscular build. He has an extremely pale skin complexion and possesses long, pointed nails that appear to be stained with a pale purple. He possesses long platinum blond hair that he wore parted to his right, the shorter parts around his face seeming to flare out to either side around his head, curving backwards with one lock slanting down to the right of his face to fall between his eyes, while the longer parts were left to drape centrally down his back in a thinning spiral. Due to his appearance, he was seen as a divine being, and as such, he was made into a cult figure. His eyes have been described to be incredibly rare and beautiful, as, in color, they appeared to be made up of an array of rainbow pastel tones, fading into one another as they circle his irises. This unusual appearance even caused people to believe Doma is a blessed being who could communicate with the gods. The kanji for Upper Rank (上じょう弦げん Jōgen?) is etched across his left eye, and the daiji for Two (弐に Ni?) or Six (陸ろく Roku?) at the time when he first met Gyutaro and Daki on his right, with thick eyelashes and a set of notably thick black eyebrows acting to frame them above. Doma wore a blood-red turtleneck of a design that made it appear that the section between his neck and upper chest is covered by a black substance that looks like it is dripping slightly down his body. This same design is repeated at his wrists and down his hands, as well as on the small, circular red and black "stain" that adorned the top of his head. Below this, he wore a pair of straight, tan-colored hakama pants of a pinstriped design, their cuffs visibly loose, which he secured with a pale green-tinged golden belt (originally colored black, and colored white in the anime), its buckle a bright silver. He also only wears plain black tabi socks on his feet. Personality: Doma is outwardly friendly and cheery, possessing an approachable and charismatic air. Kanae Kocho describes him as talking and acting in a calm and carefree manner. However, in truth, he has psychopathic tendencies and adopts twisted beliefs and habits, such as devouring his cult's followers with the belief he is saving them from their suffering and pain by letting them live inside his body. Because of his carefree and waggish persona, he was prone to facetious and inappropriate behavior. Even amongst his fellow demons, he was disliked by Muzan Kibutsuji and Akaza for his casual and childish behavior, along with his indifference to the strict hierarchy that showed complete and total obedience towards the Demon King, demonstrated by him speaking in the same merry cadence during Muzan's rants. Even Gyokko, a demon with an amicable relationship with Doma due both sharing morbid tendencies, was perturbed when the Upper Rank attempted to accompany him and Hantengu to the Swordsmith Village without Muzan's explicit permission. Blood Demon Art: Cryokinesis: Doma's Blood Demon Art grants him extremely powerful cryokinesis. He can generate ice, freezing mist, and frost from his flesh and blood and can spawn it anywhere in his vicinity, as well as manipulating it at will, allowing him to unleash incredibly potent ice techniques. Additionally, the ice created from his Blood Demon Art is extremely lethal to those that inhale it, causing the cells of the victim's lungs to die and rendering them unable to breathe very quickly. His ice and frost have also been noted to be extremely cold, as shown when the air around Doma's frost was cold enough to make Shinobu's lungs feel as if they were about to burst and nearly freeze Kanao's body and surroundings just by coming into contact with it. Skills: Extrasensory Perception: Doma possesses extraordinary sensory abilities which allow him to detect things outside the normal range of perception, as shown when he could perceive attacks even from places he is not looking at, allowing him to nullify the effectiveness of sneak attacks. Later, Doma was capable of detecting Akaza's transformation into a demon immune to decapitation by Nichirin Swords despite being extremely far away from him. He was also able to suddenly sense Akaza's presence was gone when he was defeated.

Akaza Rank: Upper Moon Three Appearance: Akaza was a very muscular young man of average height with skin so fair it appeared bright green-tinged white, decorated by a pattern of thick blue lines, which resembled the criminal tattoos he had as a human. Akaza had short, cerise hair that fluffed out around his head and inward-tilting yellow iris with cerise eyelashes and blue sclera that somewhat resembled cracked glass. The kanji for Upper Rank (上じょう弦げん Jōgen?) was etched into his right iris, and the daiji for Three (参さん San?) was etched into his left. The lines on his face curved through each of his eyes from below his ears to over his temples, another blue line running from the center of his hairline to the bridge of his nose, with two more lines running around his neck, three others branching off the lower one to his torso. The middle line ran directly down his chest to halfway down his stomach, and the other two branched off to the sides over each side of his chest to join the two other lines. This same three-line pattern also repeated around his waist. On his arms, lines were running down the front of his shoulders that ran into two more, which went around his biceps before continuing to run down to his wrists, below which each of his fingers was also dark blue with an orange fingernail. His toes and toenails also sharing this unusual appearance as his fingers and fingernails. Akaza wore little and only sported a short, sleeveless dark purple-pink haori cut off at his waist, left open to expose his chest, and decorated by a square pattern on his back. Below this, he sported a pair of baggy white pants that he rolled to just below the knee with a turquoise rope belt to secure them at his waist, with bright pink tassel ornaments hanging on the front and the back of the rope belt. Akaza preferred to go barefoot but wore a pair of chains of large, round, red pearls around his ankles. Personality: Akaza was a headstrong, stubborn, and battle-crazed social Darwinist who enjoyed fighting, especially against strong Demon Slayers. He purposefully drew out fights to savor every moment of it; the Upper Rank tended to become enthralled whenever he was hit by a powerful opponent, not due to masochism but out of a genuine admiration for their skills. Akaza always complimented his opponents when they unleashed powerful techniques or landed blows on him, usually remarking that their techniques and swordsmanship were magnificent and intriguing. Akaza looked down on anybody he deemed weak, so much so that his skin would crawl at the sight of them. He genuinely respected those who were strong in his eyes, demanding to know their names, and would not stop until he found out; he remembered all the names of strong opponents of the past and committed them to memory as a tribute to their strength. Akaza also presented an opportunity for those he recognized the strength of to become demons, believing that preserving their refined techniques and skill was right and feeling pain watching the deterioration of those blessed with extraordinary gifts as they age, and going so far as to kill them to preserve their magnificent skill himself should they decline his offer to become a demon. He also did not discriminate against strong warriors who were weak before, as shown when he praised and complimented Tanjiro Kamado despite initially attempting to kill him over how weak he was during their first encounter, even going so far as to thank Kyojuro for Tanjiro's growth. Akaza believed strongly in social Darwinism, believing that the law of nature dictates that all weaklings shall be eliminated. Blood Demon Art: Destructive Death (破は壊かい殺さつ Hakai Satsu?): Akaza's Blood Demon Art revolved around martial arts, merging the manipulation of his destructive shockwaves and the Soryu-style martial arts he mastered as a human. The shockwaves he controlled appeared in a striking blue hue (that occasionally flashed red) and could manifest in various forms, such as nigh-invisible air pressure, circular energy-like shockwaves, or cannon-shaped spikes. He could generate them at will, from any distance, and seemingly any part of his body. In combat, Akaza infused his own punches and kicks with his shockwaves to amplify their destructive capabilities, enveloping his every strike in a faint blue light. At the start of a battle, Akaza initiated his Blood Demon Art by deploying a special technique called Technique Development (術じゅつ式しき展てん開かい Jutsushiki Tenkai?). Akaza started by going into a stance unique to the Soryu Style, which had two versions. He performed the first stance by bending his knees in a half-crouch position, extending his right arm with a half-clenched fist facing his body, and bending his left arm with an open palm; the second version was nearly identical, except he opened his palm on his right arm while fully clenching his fists in a downwards bend on his left arm. Using the shockwaves of his Blood Demon Art and the Soryu Style, Akaza could attack his targets with destructive long-ranged barrages and precise short-ranged strikes. During his battle with Kyojuro Rengoku, he could keep the Flame Hashira at bay with his shockwaves, forcing him to close the gap and putting him in range of his bare-handed fighting style, which was to the Upper Rank's advantage. The shockwaves generated from his Blood Demon Art were extremely powerful, once being able to smash Kyojuro's ribs and even internal organs after he took a barrage of larger shockwaves head-on, the same Hashira who survived explosions being rained down upon him with insignificant injuries. Akaza could also use his Blood Demon Art in his kicks to generate additional destructive force to launch his opponents extremely far. More impressively, he could create countless shockwaves that surrounded his target with a hundred blows that struck them everywhere almost simultaneously. His Blood Demon Art also included his crucial Compass Needle technique, essentially an advanced form of extrasensory perception that allowed him to sense a person's will to fight. With this information, he could instinctively aim for their vitals and weak points, determine their strength at a glance, predict his opponents' next moves, sense their location in his vicinity, enhance the lethality and accuracy of his punches and kicks, and evolve and adapt to their attacks over time. In addition, when in a dire predicament, Akaza could even temporarily will several energy clones of himself with Compass Needle, in order to multiply the already plentiful amount of shockwaves he can produce. Skills: Extrasensory Perception: Akaza possessed supernaturally enhanced sensory abilities that allowed him to perceive things beyond the normal range of human perception. In addition to sensing the auras of demons and humans, Akaza could also detect what he referred to as "Fighting Spirit (闘とう気き Tōki?)", which encompassed a person's will to fight and their intent to kill. With this ability, he could assess the strength or weakness of individuals with just a glance, anticipate his opponents' attacks and weaknesses, and sense their presence within the environment, enabling him to react to attacks from unexpected angles and blind spots.

Nakime Rank: Upper Moon Four Appearance: Nakime is a pale woman with a grayish complexion, who has sharp, blue-stained nails and notably dark pink lips which sharply contrasted the tone of her skin. She has glossy, hip-length hair of a black color, which she wore falling down her back in slight waves that cut off sharply at the ends, with two chin-length strands left to frame her face and long bangs that obscured her large eye set in between them, swept to either side of her nose. Nakime dons a plain-loose black kimono with a white loose yuban underneath, secured with a striped pale brown-striped obi, white socks and no shoes or clogs. She was always seen holding a four-stringed wooden biwa with a large bachi pick. Since becoming an Upper Rank, Nakime took to wearing her bangs as to not obscure her face, showing that she possessed a single large, pink-colored eye with the daiji for "Four" (肆し Shi?) engraved into its iris. The upper portion of her face was also revealed, and appeared to be a darker gray color than the rest of her pale skin with prominent veins surrounding her one eye. In addition, her hair would grow extensively and resembles roots on a nearby wall. Personality: Unlike most demons, Nakime was not particularly violent or sadistic, and instead is aloof and taciturn, almost never speaking and displaying little to no emotion or will outside of obeying orders. She was extremely loyal to Muzan, listening and following his every order faultlessly which was something he appreciated; in fact, her unwavering loyalty to him marks one of the very few instances Muzan ever complimented an individual, though it seemed more likely that he was satisfied to have a powerful tool to use at his disposal. Despite this outwardly one-sided relationship, Nakime graciously accepted his words and told her master she was honored to be of great use to him. Blood Demon Art: Infinity Castle: Nakime's Blood Demon Art is an alternate dimension that houses a fortress of immense scale called the Infinity Castle. As its owner, Nakime possesses complete control over the space, being able to manipulate and alter it at will by simply strumming her biwa. In her fortress, there are countless rooms with seemingly endless variety, like an open room filled with giant pillars where the fight against Kokushibo took place, a small garden where the fight against Doma took place, and a corridor leading to several other rooms where the fight against Akaza took place. Nakime sits at the center of the Infinity Castle, with the entire space being distorted around her. Teleportation: Nakime can also teleport individuals within or out of the Infinity Castle. She first demonstrated this by transporting the Lower Rank demons in order to face Muzan at his behest during the Lower Ranks Meeting, with Kamanue being caught off-guard by his sudden presence inside the dimension. After the meeting concluded, she instantly took Muzan from deep within the Infinity Castle to the surface. The same occurred during the later Upper Ranks Meeting when it concluded, as Nakime teleported Gyokko and Hantengu to out of the castle after being assigned by Muzan to destroy the Swordsmith Village; she also teleported Doma back to his domain within the castle when she became annoyed by his invitation to be with him. Tatami Door Portals: Nakime can also spawn portals to transport people outside her fortress or to anywhere within it in the form of tatami sliding doors. She can use her portals for offensive and defensive purposes as well, displayed when she created a portal to negate Mitsuri Kanroji's attack. One of her main duties was to act as a mode of transport for the other Upper Ranks when they are sent on missions and presumably assist Muzan in moving around the country undetected. During the first major confrontation between Muzan and the Demon Slayers, Nakime spawned her portals beneath the attacking Hashira to trap them inside the Infinity Castle. She would do the same to the rest of the active members of the Demon Slayer Corps. Skills: Extrasensory Perception: Being able to teleport anyone she wants to wherever she is directed to, Nakime is able to sense the presence of anyone inside the Infinity Castle. This can be used to either help give demons easier transport, like controlling the castle to escort Akaza to the Upper Ranks Meeting. Offensively however, Nakime can also force Demon Slayers into the presence of powerful enemies, best shown when she manipulates the Infinity Castle offscreen to both forcefully separate Muichiro Tokito from Gyomei Himejima and bring the Mist Hashira into the presence of Kokushibo, and later escorts Muzan so he could personally face Tanjiro Kamado and Giyu Tomioka. Nakime can also keep track of hundreds of individuals with her eyeball familiars at once as she was able to trap every single Demon Slayer within her Infinity Castle, even as they were scattered throughout the mountain.

Gyokko Rank: Upper Moon Five Appearance: Gyokko had a very bizarre and grotesque physiology, taking on the form of a pale white, abstracted, grotesque humanoid figure with a muscular upper torso that has no arms. His form resembles that of an armless statue growing from a white porcelain vase that is decorated with branch of green leaves and red, yellow, and dark green with purple leaves, similar to a djinn. His midsection is a red-violet color while his lower-half, or his tail is black. He had multiple underdeveloped and infant-like hands with red fingernails; four on his head that replaced his ears and were always present, and several lining up his body and tail which he can retract at will. He also possessed thin fins on the top and back of his head that were akin to hair, which were of a blended hue of purple and a blue-violet color and shaped in the style of cornrows and a ponytail. Gyokko's face was even more distorted, with large green-lipped mouths located where one would expect his eyes sockets to be located, which always displayed his hyperrealistic teeth and sometimes had one of or both of his tongues sticking out, along with a sharp nose. His actual eyes were located vertically from one another on his face; one eye, golden yellow iris with a honey brown center and visible veins, appeared in the constantly open bottom mouth and the other, similarly golden yellow eye with a honey brown center and visible veins, was seated at the center of his forehead. Three brown dots were on top of the latter eye. The kanji for Upper Rank (上じょう弦げん Jōgen?) was engraved on his forehead's eye and the daiji for Five (伍ご Go?) was engraved on his mouth's eye. In addition, his twin green mouths are generally expressionless and only move when speaking or eating, while the mouth that displays his lower eye is the one that contorts to display Gyokko's emotions. Personality: Gyokko was shown to be an easily excitable demon, constantly fawning over new inspirations for what he deems his "art" or what he finds to be sublime, sometimes even going against his initial impressions. He was easily swayed into euphoria whenever Muzan Kibutsuji was involved, trying not only to please him, but finding joy in being decapitated and having his head held by Muzan. Although he was dismayed he would have to work together with Hantengu, he nonetheless reasoned it was fine since Muzan ordered it. He also seemed to be somewhat sardonic and condescending; upon sensing Akaza's presence within the Infinity Castle, he almost let out his inner feelings to the demon about being glad he believed him to be dead before correcting himself mid-sentence, even if Akaza was not fooled by his false support. Blood Demon Art: Porcelain Vase Spells: Gyokko's Blood Demon Art revolved around his porcelain vases. He was able to spawn them anywhere within his vicinity and create multiple pots of varying sizes at once. Gyokko first displayed the ability to freely teleport from one pot to another instantaneously, offsetting his lack of legs and allowing him to travel far distances with minimal effort as well as to evade attacks easily.Gyokko could also trap objects (such as people) inside his pots. If the object he wishes to seal is too big, the pots can simply compress them to fit inside. The pots also seem to give Gyokko liberty of whatever was inside, which he uses to merge the swordsmiths together in impossible ways and allows him to create whatever he pleases inside them. During his attack on the Swordsmith Village, Gyokko spawned numerous gigantic fish-like amalgamations to terrorize the village and kill its inhabitants. They were unable to be killed by regular means and only die when the pots on their back are destroyed. These creatures all possessed unique traits and characteristics, some had sharp claws, some had multiple humanoid legs or even monstrous teeth. They also seemed to be decently powerful, as these amalgamations were able to kill the Demon Slayers that were meant to guard to village. However, their strength still paled in comparison to the Hashira, as Mitsuri and Muichiro swiftly subdued these spawn with ease. Gyokko's Blood Demon Art was notably themed around the sea and aquatic lifeforms, as his techniques were based on summoning non-sentient creatures that resembled fish from his pots. These fish monsters similarly possessed differing abilities and characteristics: some of them could shoot out a barrage of poisonous needles at his targets or leave behind dangerous poison once they are killed.[36] He also summoned goldfish-like monsters with scythe-like appendages to threaten Hotaru Haganezuka. Gyokko could also summon giant octopus tentacles from his vases to restrain his enemies or destroy the surroundings. Lastly, Gyokko could also manipulate and create water from his porcelain vases, which he can use as a cannon-like attack in which he shoots out powerful streams of water or shape water into sharp, high-pressure tendrils to cut targets like a sharp whip or even suffocate his targets by trapping them inside an extremely durable vase made of water.

Daki Rank: Upper Moon Six Appearance: Daki was a tall, curvaceous woman with lime green eyes with a dark orange center, long eyelashes, and very pale skin, complemented by neon pink lips. Her initially black hair was styled in a full, long ponytail with kanzashi hairpins (three on each side on the top, and two on each side on the bottom) holding up the ponytail, along a small, golden comb on the back left side of her hair. The kanji for "Upper Rank" (上じょう弦げん Jōgen?) was engraved in Daki's left eye and the daiji for "Six" (陸ろく Roku?) was engraved on the right. Her fingers ended in sharp, dark purple nails. She had a pink obi with black hexagon patterns on all of it, along with light grey blue flower with darker on the center and light orange three length lines on it wrapped around her waist, used as her Blood Demon Art. Her toenails shared the same dark purple color as her fingernails. She sported two pink flower-like demon crests on her face and light purple on the center, one on her cheek and another on her forehead. She also wore a pinkish-red makeup on each sides of the corner of her eyelashes and eyes. Personality: Daki was a very arrogant, dismissive, and sadistic person, taking enjoyment in toying with her victims before killing them and not showing the slightest bit of guilt or remorse for taking the lives of her victims. She dismissed all non-Hashira Demon Slayers as not worth her time and got incensed when Tanjiro Kamado spoke to her, because she looked down on him. This was also shown when Daki said that she might spare Tanjiro if he told her how many Demon Slayers are present in the Entertainment District, and when Daki openly expressed how slow the Demon Slayer's techniques were and her boredom, which further showcased her dismissive personality. She even preferred to only eat people that she viewed as beautiful or strong, choosing to kill those who got on her nerves without eating them and leaving their bodies behind, which people often mistook as suicide. Blood Demon Art: Obi Sash Manipulation: Daki's Blood Demon Art allowed her to create flower-patterned obi sashes from her flesh, freely manipulating them at will. Daki often created these sashes from her back and retracts them back into her body when not in use. She has also displayed the ability to exert control over her obi from extremely far distances. Her sashes are noted to be soft like silk yet as sharp as a Nichirin Sword. In combat, Daki used her obi sashes as powerful and fast tendril-like whips to unleash long-ranged interweaving attacks while also being able to use it to form a shield around her body if need be, making her Blood Demon Art an extremely effective blend of offense and defense. Her sashes were so powerful that they could repel and block attacks from Tengen's explosives and slice up buildings with ease. Furthermore, they are especially difficult to cut because of their soft properties, and can further loosen the effectiveness of slash attacks by bending and weaving. Skills: Extrasensory Perception: Daki had the ability to share her senses and mind with her elder brother, and also allowed him to control her body by implanting one of his eyes into her forehead. Through this eye and the link, she can send him logistical information in order for them to better coordinate their attacks. Furthermore, through her sentient obi sashes, Daki can gain information from multiple places at once, even being able to telepathically communicate with it. As her obi sashes were able to tell that Tengen was a Hashira from his presence alone, it can be assumed Daki can do so as well.

Gyutaro Rank: Upper Moon Six Appearance: Gyutaro was a tall man of pale gray complexion speckled with black blotches. His anatomy was quite strange in that his upper torso, arms, and legs were all defined with musculature, whereas his waist was incredibly skinny to the point of looking skeletal, with his pelvis jutting out at an unnatural angle. His spine was prominently visible through his back, and he was usually shown being hunched over. Gyutaro possessed thin eyes that were slanted drastically downwards at the sides, giving him a permanently haggard gaze. His miotic irises were green with a dark orange center, and his sclera was a bright yellow-orange with visible veins. The kanji for "Upper Rank" (上じょう弦げん Jogen?) is carved across his right eye, and the daiji for "Six" (陸ろく Roku?) carved on his left. During his fight with the Demon Slayers, he lends his left eye to Daki and spends the rest of his battle with said eye shut, giving him a permanent wink. Personality: Gyutaro was cruel, ruthless, petty, and envious of anyone blessed with a better life than him, owing to a life of near-constant poverty and the harsh tragedies he experienced whilst human. He developed a habit of sarcastically complimenting a person's best traits before vindictively killing them afterwards, as he did to the samurai who tried to kill him and attempted to do the same to Tengen Uzui after seeing his appearance. Because of the hardships he faced as a human, Gyutaro attained a personal belief that to take from those who have a better life than he had as a human was justified. A habit that developed from this belief was the penchant to inflict harm to himself whenever he was angry, frustrated or jealous, as seen when he scratched himself hard enough to tear deep wounds into his own flesh when he grew jealous of Tengen. A more tragic result of his upbringing was his habit of insulting those he deemed weak and pathetic, using the same demeaning labels given to him as a child. Blood Demon Art: Haemokinesis: Gyutaro's Blood Demon Art allowed him to manipulate his own body's blood in various ways. He was shown to generate them from his flesh kama, from open wounds on his body, or release blood at will from his veins. It was implied that Gyutaro doesn't run out of blood due to his regenerative abilities, giving him a virtually infinite source of blood to fuel his techniques. In combat, he usually created barrages of solidified sickle-shaped projectiles as sharp as blades that can travel at immensely fast speeds to attack his opponents. Gyutaro was capable of freely manipulating these blood slashes at will, altering their movements until they hit his opponent or shaping them however he pleased. Furthermore, his blood sickles were coated in poison, making them even more dangerous as the damage they cause was worsened by the effects of the poison.

Kaigaku Rank: Upper Moon Six Appearance: After Kaigaku became a demon, he gained four navy blue flame-like markings on both sides of his cheeks, emerald green irises (originally colored cyan in the manga) with black sclera, elongated canines resembling fangs, sickly pale skin, sharp blackened nails, and pointed ears. By becoming a member of the Twelve Kizuki and rising to the position of Upper Rank Six, his eyes became etched with the kanji for "Upper Rank" on his right, and daiji of "Six" on his left. Kaigaku still retained his signature kimono, which was secured with a blue obi over a stylized version of his Demon Slayer uniform that has yellow flame-like markings near the chest area and an unbuttoned collar. His forearms are seemingly wrapped in white kyahan-like material, and he wears additional necklaces on his wrists. The magatama on his pendants are now blue instead of yellow, and have a light turquoise strings instead of blue. Personality: His gleeful demeanor as a demon contrasted his personality as a Demon Slayer in training. During this time, Kaigaku was a depressed malcontent, who was in a constant state of dissatisfaction despite his great talent, promising future, and his life with individuals who valued him. The moments where he smiled or showed happiness were few and far between, and Kaigaku usually seen sulking by himself. According to Zenitsu, Kaigaku emitted a perpetual sound of discontent no matter the time; he compares his attitude to a "box-of-happiness" with a hole spilling out its contents, and it's implied that Kaigaku finally patched the symbolic box by his newfound strength as an Upper Rank demon. Kaigaku was a foil to Zenitsu; while Zenitsu was a defeatist who was self-aware of his shortcomings and desperately wanted to improve upon himself, Kaigaku was a determined yet conceited egoist who barely reflected on his own cowardice, misdeeds, or misfortunes, regarding them as meaningless past actions he committed to survive. While Zenitsu found companionship through Tanjiro Kamado, Nezuko Kamado, and Inosuke Hashibira, Kaigaku was a solitary individual, with other Demon Slayers disliking his arrogance. In addition, despite his cowardice, Zenitsu was willing to risk himself if it meant protecting others; Kaigaku, on the other hand, was someone who folded under pressure when faced with the threat of death. Blood Demon Art: Electrokinesis, Complementing his Thunder Breathing, Kaigaku's Blood Demon Art allowed him to generate actual lightning from his flesh and blood, which is colored black and blue (sans Fifth Form: Heat Lightning, which is red and black). His electric attacks crack and rend his target's flesh while burning it, greatly augmenting the lethality and offensive capability of his attacks. The bleeding caused by the electricity nearly destroyed Zenitsu's eyes and severely injured him after their fight, leaving him in need of Yushiro's immediate aid to save his life. Kaigaku used his Blood Demon Art to great effect, combining his lightning with his Thunder Breathing techniques to enhance his attack range and speed, which even Zenitsu had trouble keeping up with. It is implied that this Blood Demon Art helped make up for Kaigaku's inability to perform Thunderclap and Flash.

Enmu Rank: Lower Moon One Appearance: Enmu was a slender young man of pale skin complexion who appeared to be in his mid twenties. He possessed a medium build and was of average height. He had ringed blue eyes that tilt sharply down towards the sides of his face, the left one of which had the kanji for Lower (下か Ka?) and daiji for One (壱いち Ichi?) etched into its iris, and a horizontal goat-like slit on his right instead of a pupil. He had three square-shaped markings on each of his cheeks, each separated by a smaller square, which fade from green to yellow in color, and straight chin-length black hair which he wore parted to his right, the right side tucked behind his ear. His hair faded into a red-pink color near the ends, but appeared blue at the tips of the two longer, shoulder-length strands that curve upwards and outwards below the base of his neck, from under the rest of his hair. Enmu wore a long, black button-up coat that arched upwards on either side of his legs so that only the two tails in front and behind fall down below his knees, and a white dress shirt, the cuffs of which appear over those of his coat. He also wore a pair of pinstriped pale gray pants and white heeled shoes. When Enmu received more blood from Muzan Kibutsuji, his left hand formed a mouth at the back, an eye next to it and most of his fingers had the kanji for Dream (夢ゆめ Yume?) etched on their skin. In addition, his face noticeably had several veins popping out. Personality: Enmu was cold, callous, and sadistic, openly stating that he enjoyed the pain and suffering of humans; his favorite method of torment was giving them a happy and pleasant dream before turning it into a nightmare and taking pleasure in the agonized expressions they made as he tortured them. This sadism even extends to his fellow demons, as he relished seeing his fellow Lower Ranks being killed right in front of his eyes. Contrasting his depravity however, Enmu was also effeminate and soft-spoken. He spoke with a tender tone and frequently referred to humans as his "child". As well as sadism, Enmu was shown to exhibit masochistic behaviors, a multitude of times he had expressed positive reactions to pain inflicted on him. This enjoyment, however, seems to be limited to those he only respects and holds himself loyal to, the required power over him mostly being hierarchical rather than literal. This masochism was shown most prominently in the Lower Ranks Meeting, during which, upon being gifted with Muzan's blood, a typically torturous and painful experience that could have potentially killed him, Enmu appeared with a smiling and flushed expression, enjoying the experience. Though, these masochistic tendencies were not prevalent in his battle against the Demon Slayers as when they successfully attacked him, he was seen only being amused, shocked, or frustrated by his failures. Like most demons, Enmu was shown to have little to no care for human life; he saw humans as nothing more than mere pawns, as he did not bother to warn his human minions of the various dangers of facing Demon Slayers, and simply considered them to be expendable. Enmu was shown to be very predatory in who he chose as his pawns; he targeted the grieving train conductor and a young man suffering from tuberculosis by promising escapist fantasies. He also seemed to revel in turning humans into his desperate servants by using his power to give them nice and pleasant dreams, before he pulled them out and falsely promised to give them more if they helped him. Enmu was also intelligent and cautious in approach to anything he executed, having complete understanding of his power's strengths and weaknesses and making sure to both exploit and avoid them respectively in order to succeed. Blood Demon Art: Sleep Inducement: Enmu's Blood Demon Art granted him the ability to force anyone into a deep sleep. He can do this through different means, some more subtle than others, but all effectively leaving his foes vulnerable and unable to fight. The slumber induced was very potent and it took considerable effort to wake the victim up, as seen when Nezuko headbutted Tanjiro quite hard but failed to awaken him. However, his state of sleep was not perfect, as Enmu carefully preferred to stay away from Demon Slayers out of fear that his bloodlust could awaken them, although he was far less cautious against normal human targets. In addition, intentionally or not, Enmu's ability could also be used for physiological warfare, as shown in battle against Tanjiro. The Demon Slayer had grown paranoid and disoriented from continuously being forced to fall asleep, leading to him almost accidentally committing suicide to "wake himself up" when conscious, mistakenly believing that he was in a dream. However, his Blood Demon Art is less effective against individuals with indomitable wills, as they can still move in their sleep as it can be seen with Kyojuro who is able to repel a girl when he detected her threatening his spiritual core. Dream Manipulation: Enmu's Blood Demon Art's secondary ability was his power to enter, manipulate and control someone's dreams when they are asleep. When using his technique, his victims experienced joyous dreams normally suited to each person, taking advantage of their vulnerabilities and ensuring they are unable to tell the difference from reality, thus rapidly seducing them to embrace the utopian visions that lay before them. This level of vulnerability made it far easier for Enmu to manipulate his prey, bribing people to do his bidding by giving them happy dreams, which also doubled as a means to perpetuate his own sadistic practices. Just like he can bestow dreams, Enmu was equally capable of forcing nightmares, which he uses both as a psychological attack and a means of torture, something he was particularly fond of when preying on humans. But similarly to his ability to induce sleep, Enmu's dreams, while extremely potent, were not perfect, as one can be capable of resisting its effects through sufficient willpower, which allowed an affected person to realize they are in fact living an illusion. However, realizing they are in a dream is not enough to end the induced sleep, as Tanjiro was only able to force himself out of his induced slumber by committing suicide inside his dream, something he was forced to do repeatedly during his battle with the Lower Rank, doing so instantly every time he was forced to sleep. It's implied that Enmu's ability to conjure dreams that specfically appeal to the target relays info about them back to him. For instance, after Tanjiro experiences a dream where his whole family was still alive, Enmu is made aware of the Kamado family and their demises, which he uses to mockingly bribe Tanjiro. However, Enmu could also use the information gained for physiological warfare, as shown when he forces Tanjiro into a nightmare where his bloodied family berate him for failing to save them. In this instance, Enmu preyed on the knowledge of the Kamados' murder and Tanjiro's guilt to specifically engineer a nightmare that he thought would break the Demon Slayer's spirit.

Rui Rank: Lower Rank Five Appearance: Rui was a boy of short stature and small physical build. His skin was solid white, with red dots appearing at several spots on his face, located above his eyes where his eyebrows are supposed to be, below his left eyelid, ending above his nose, and finally a vertical one running the length of his right cheek. His hair was white and bore resemblance to spider legs. The sclera of his eyes was dark red, while his irises were white, having teal colored eyelashes. Due to holding the position of Lower Rank Five, Rui had the kanji of Lower (下か Ka?) and daiji for Five (伍ご Go?) engraved into his left eye, signifying his ranking. His right eye on the other hand had three pupils, with one large one in the center, and two smaller ones to the right and left of the center pupil. Personality: Rui was a quasi-calm, aloof, and somewhat polite individual, rarely raising his voice, and talking to anyone, demon or Demon Slayer, with a reasonable tone and vocabulary, though his low and guttural way of speaking seems to imply repressed anger and annoyance. Every time he spoke with Tanjiro Kamado during their initial duel, he remained somewhat civil in speech. Blood Demon Art: Filukinesis: Rui's Blood Demon Art allowed him to create thin razor sharp threads indiscernible from spider silk from his own flesh and manipulate them however he pleased. He typically extended the threads from his fingertips like a puppet master. Due to his own body's durability, the threads Rui manipulates were extremely durable and powerful, being capable of cutting Nichirin Swords and blocking strikes from them as well. Rui can further amplify their strength and durability by infusing his blood through them, giving them a blood red color. Rui displayed terrifying proficiency in utilizing his threads for combat purposes, making use of the environment to spawn a barrage of slashing attacks or manifest unavoidable web techniques to trap and slice his opponents into pieces.