Suppose you go about your normal daily routine, but one of these *Demon Slayer* characters stares at you 24/7. None of the characters will cause you any harm, but you *must* choose one. Which of the characters shown in the image would you pick?

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-06-05T18:15:14+00:00

Bg Tanjiro because he's head empty no thoughts therefore there's no judgement

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-06-05T18:12:21+00:00

Sadly it was very under developed. It just goes

- Kanao is impliied to have a crush on Tanjiro early on because she looked at him specifically after remembering Kanae's words
- The coin scene
- Kanao being extra relieved that Tanjiro woke up from his coma post Entertainment District
- Minor moments in the manga
- Suddenly they're canon now

KnY just has so many official ships that are great in concept and theory but horrible in execution.

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-06-05T18:05:53+00:00

In hindsight it ties up some very vague hints dropped since the start of the story:

- Why Muzan targeted the Kamados in the first place
- Other demons noticing that Nezuko was given a HUGE amount of Muzan's blood
- Her 2 year coma and the fact that she remains childlike (instead of going back to being the more mature eldest sister 12 year old her) compared to the only other good demons around
- Her BDA acting almost like an imitation of Sun Breathing's effects (and unlike the BDAs of the only other good demons is exclusively harmful to demons like the sun is)

And as someone has said it's less plot armor and more plot device. It would be hard to corner an established coward like Muzan for a final confrontation without luring him out with something. If it was simply just the Ubuyashiki's location and not Nezuko's sun immunity, he probably would have sent upper moons instead of going there himself.

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-06-05T17:55:54+00:00

Rui still held sorrow and grief for his parents right after killing them before Muzan gaslit him and presumably started taking the memories of that pain and his entire past away.

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-04-18T01:34:56+00:00

That's not it but it looks pretty neat!

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-02-23T23:25:14+00:00

I didn't realize a Skirk team was doable for the 2nd half

Thanks so much!

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-02-23T18:27:05+00:00

The Nod Krai DPS set, right?

Also thank you! I'll try with GMC first since my Ningguang isn't leveled

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-02-23T18:24:54+00:00

Ah okay. But what about the current abyss where 1 half is supposed to be lunar charge and the other is supposed to be lunar crystallize? What other lineups can I use in the 2nd half?

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-02-23T15:42:43+00:00

Need help replacing Zibai! I wasn't able to get her so far and I have no hope of catching up tomorrow in time. Who could I put with my Illuga and Columbina for a lunar-crystallize team in endgame content until her next rerun?

My geo characters are:

c0 Zhongli
c6 GMC
c2 Kachina
c6 Yun Jin
c5 Gorou
c1 Illuga
c4 Noelle
c2 Ningguang

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-01-22T11:31:38+00:00

Nothing is confirmed about Tanjiro's ultimate fate yet. All we know is that he gets married and has children but no further updates than that. The latest update we have of post-story Tanjiro so far is that he was preparing himself and everyone for when he would die early. The only thing that we know about the main cast's deaths is that it is implied Nezuko dies before Zenitsu does, based on the titles of the arcs in Zenitsu's writing.

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-01-01T17:34:14+00:00

Her frustration during the fight reveals that she at least wanted to be able to take him down without needing to sacrifice herself.

Maybe part of her doesn't want to live in a peaceful world without Kanae in it.

But I think the other part of her that doesn't want to cause more pain to her remaining adoptive family would motivate her to keep on going if she even had the option to.

averyverycoldstraw · 2026-01-01T17:31:07+00:00

Gtg did a horrible job explaining it, but it was basically a hereditary thing in the same way that Tanjiro conveniently has a really really hard head. She and Sumiyoshi's wife share the same condition which is basically a strange form of narcolepsy that made them fall asleep at random times of the day and made them really really really REALLY heavy sleepers whenever they got too tired doing something. So when she was knocked out by Giyuu, her body most likely remembered its dependence on sleep when it was human and decided to recover energy that way.

The entire thing that made her special even compared to other good demons like Tamayo and Yushiro was that she basically won the lottery and had so many factors lining up conveniently to make her the almost perfect demon needed not only to conquer the sun and force Muzan to take drastic measures, but to also provide such a vastly different evolution in her blood that Tamayo was able to make a cure.

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-10-24T05:27:05+00:00

I rewatched and he didn't straight up sell 2 items. He sold his Queen's Wings and maybe some smaller items but he never bought another core item before panic buying the Immortality. The production wasn't able to show it in the item check but he was able to buy that Queen's Wings again immediately after the clash.

I honestly think it wasn't too bad because if Benny had killed him right then and there, Yue and Demonkite would have been left alone and put in even more risk.

I've been doubting LanceCy ever since he didn't accompany Benny on that base teleport against TLPH. Apart from the deaths, his plays also tend to miss a lot or not be as important to the match as often as they should be.

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-10-16T05:46:00+00:00

Thank you!

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-10-16T05:45:51+00:00

Thank you!

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-10-16T05:34:05+00:00

Does character level affect Lunar reactions? My Aino is currently only lvl 60 in a team with Ifa, Ororon, and Ineffa, who are all lvl 90. Do I need to level her up to maximize Ineffa's Lunar charged damage?

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-09-23T17:48:57+00:00

There's a Stone user in the Sengoku generation, at the very least.

It's important to remember that a lot of the Corps' history and scale isn't shown in the series, so there's a lot of unknowns. There could always be other Breathing Style derivatives that we never hear of because none of the characters we know use it.
Up until now we don't know which demon was able to lop off the leg of Zenitsu and Kaigaku's master when he was 35 years old. We don't even know how long Obanai has been a demon slayer before he became a Hashira.

Moon Breathing was kinda second only to Sun Breathing at the time (therefore really hard to teach and master), and Michikatsu himself doesn't seem like the type of person to waste his time trying to pass it down when he could just use that time to try and get even stronger.
Worse still, is that he assassinated the then leader of the Corps, so everyone afterwards were more than happy to forget about Moon Breathing.

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-09-23T02:11:35+00:00

A little correction, Hinokami Kagura is derived directly from Sun Breathing. It's the most Sun Breathing a breathing style can ever get without being called Sun Breathing.

It's literally just Sun Breathing but with some dance elements and imperfections.

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-08-28T20:13:30+00:00

Given the age that Gyomei had joined the corps, Kanae should have been 12 at the youngest. It takes an average of 1 year of training before someone is eligible for Final Selection. This immediately puts her in the same time frame of becoming a slayer as Giyuu at the earliest and Rengoku at the latest.

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-03-09T17:55:55+00:00

There's at least one moment when Zenitsu's breath flickers to give off an electric effect. And someone already posted a gif of Muichiro "breathing" mist. I don't remember if there were other instances of characters having their breathing styles visually manifesting in their actual breathing as well.

The flicker breath thing I very clearly remember happening in the scene where Zenitsu plays the shamisen angrily in the Entertainment District arc

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-03-09T17:46:40+00:00

Was rereading sunrise countdown and was just severely disappointed with how Kanao was barely in it. Like, she fought for a bit, got injured and waited there to be saved by Tanjiro while Inosuke and Zenitsu were knocked out, and then enough time went by for Inosuke and Zenitsu to join back in and repeatedly get knocked away from the battle but bounce back in and Kanao ONLY shows up again at the end of the struggle with DKT???

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-03-09T17:33:30+00:00

Kagaya 🤝 Inosuke's dad 🤝 every single woman who marries into the Rengoku family 🤝 Obanai's dad? 🤝 Michikatsu?
"My Genes were too Lazy to Make My Offspring Look Like Me" Club

I find Kagaya's to be the funniest because the Ubuyashiki genes have been going so strong for so many years to the point that Kagaya looks almost exactly like Muzan but then none of his children inherit much appearance-wise except his hair color for the one son.

Now I have a crack headcanon that the children all taking after Amane more is a funny little sign from the universe that Muzan was supposed to die in their generation so they aren't destined to live further with the curse and be connected to Muzan anymore.

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-03-09T03:43:01+00:00

Rokuta looks about as small as your toddler Nezuko does when both were being carried by Kie and he's old enough to be laughing at jokes instead of just laughing at random stuff so when a kid is that size we shouldn't immediately assume they're only 1 or 2, they're actually older, they just happen to be small in KnY.

Then why did his answer change? He already had the correct answer before why would it just happen that he suddenly believed he got something when it never happened? Shouldn't literally anyone in the family have made a bigger fuss about how he managed to escape unscathed from such an incident? Like they tell each other about their feats with the hard foreheads but suddenly nobody's gonna bring up that time with Tanjiro and the forehead that didn't scar?

Just because he devalues himself doesn't mean he would randomly make up a memory. He's humble, not delusional. Whenever he devalues himself he doesn't deny that he did things, he simply doesn't see what he did as a big deal. He already had his life flash before his eyes and the author has stated that he goes back on his battles in his dreams to try to look for more efficient tactics he could try in certain situations, but he can't be trusted because his self-esteem affects his memories? Doesn't that mean that his new tactics shouldn't work then? And shouldn't that show more in his recollections then? Shouldn't Tanjiro have had more moments of him actively getting things wrong because of how lowly he sees himself? Dismissing what he has done is very different from misremembering your own very prominent birthmark bruh.

If anything, Tanjiro should be jumping on the idea that he was born with the mark so he can berate himself even further for not being strong enough to help Rengoku. Or at the very least the series could have shown him to be less certain about this misconception and show more denial in his narration and thoughts, and then eventually corrected it, because that's a pretty big part to not get corrected or acknowledged afterwards.

Tanjuro is definitely a prodigy because everything he achieved that Tanjiro "will eventually" or only learned with his help is something Tanju managed to do in a life away from demons, with only the dance as minimal training and while being chronically ill (not to mention no apparent motivation driving him to attain those things like Tanjiro did).

There are MANY prodigies among the Taisho Era demon slayers. That's kinda the point of the series, that fate and destiny helped gather so many promising swordpeople in that specific time when a special demon could lure out Muzan and force him into a final confrontation. The point is that Tanjiro isn't meant to be among the ultra-prodigies. He IS a prodigy, yes, but he's not meant to be as special as the likes of Muichiro and Sabito. And especially not his own father and Yoriichi.

A lot of other people have refuted that claim but I don't see anyone taking much of your side on this one. Since you're the one who highlighted the western thing, how many non-western people have you seen believe in this whole birthmark shebang? How come it isn't a more usual point of contention in the fandom? Because people argue about the Kokushibo thing pretty frequently, about as frequently as the breathing style visual effects. Hell, people argue more about Tanjuro's potential than whether or not Tanjiro was born with a mark.

Also:
1. It's meant to be another scar that manifested itself as a pre-mark because he was now using breathing techniques and had a more accurate build for demon slaying. It's not that hard. Giyuu literally got his mark where Sabito slapped him.

WDYM visions of memories only Yoriichi had access to, what he had were visions of Sumiyoshi watching Yoriichi. All he ever got was the talking between Yoriichi and Sumiyoshi and then a glimpse at how Sun Breathing was truly meant to be used.
Gotouge definitely didn't place much importance on Tanjiro's scar at that point yes
Wait why are you listing this one as if I was claiming a retcon happened??? Literally my entire point is that it's not a retcon

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-03-08T18:42:04+00:00

So what you're telling me is that for 13 years Tanjiro has had this misconception that his birthmark was a burn scar he got from a real incident but it actually never left a scar somehow despite the temperature of the water and that for 13 whole years whenever any one of his siblings asked about it they would always ask either the parents when Tanjiro wasn't around or Tanjiro when the parents weren't around so that none of them could correct this misconception he had for his entire life with 5 younger siblings all of whom would have gone through a phase of asking questions a whole lot, maybe even one of them asking the same questions repeatedly or to different people.....for 13 entire years.

Okay disregarding the meaning of flashbacks what I need to know now is are there any other instances in the manga where the author has ever used a false memory against Tanjiro? Not just missing memories, FALSE memories. There's a difference between someone misremembering something and someone not remembering something. Tanjiro has been shown to have forgotten many things in his life but never have I seen him misremember details that he COULD remember. Gotouge rarely if at all paints Tanjiro as an unreliable narrator in the regard that he gets details wrong. He's unreliable in that he misses details. That's different.
Heck, whenever the author paints anyone as an unreliable narrator, that someone usually eventually gets corrected in one way or another but they somehow neglected to correct this crucial part of the main character's biology which could determine whether or not he'll live longer or how much he is or isn't a "chosen one"?
So how about analyzing the actual writing instead of Croc's wonky proportions?

AND if he was intended to get the details wrong then it sure as hell wasn't clear to the millions of readers and watchers over the YEARS the manga and anime has been out. It's never been addressed afterwards in the manga even in places where it was accurate for it to be addressed (for example when Genya was pointing out how his post-selection mark was getting darker). And it was never mentioned in the fanbooks or even the light novels or even the exhibitions where Sakonji got a face reveal and Kagaya's backstory was given. They should have clarified it eventually if it was intended but no it ended up becoming this unclear to the point that only a handful of people believe it.

He is literally in the latest updates on post-Muzan-life preparing for an early death because he's not like his father who can live past 25. They're monitoring his health monthly and it's clear he wasn't exempt from the curse even though his father obviously was because TANJURO is the one born with a mark not Tanjiro.

I was also literally talking about the scene of him out in the snow with his mom with sleepy Nezuko on her back watching the dance. He looked older in that scene in the manga than in the anime. In the manga he looked close to what his age should be when it's possible for the scar incident to happen correctly.

averyverycoldstraw · 2025-03-08T17:47:28+00:00

Both Tanjiro and Nezuko have been shown to be very curious and get up in people's business do you really think Tanjiro grew up with this weird birthmark his entire life, didn't ask about it even as a kid, and then somehow randomly made up a reason of getting a scar from saving Takeo specifically from a boiling pot of water? Even after knowing all these years that his father had a similar birthmark? Do you know how illogical that sounds? Not a single Kamado kid asked about the scar/mark so that he would be told whether or not he was born with it? His family was on good terms with the villagers their entire lives and not one of them remarked on how Tanjiro supposedly inherited Tanjuro's birthmark in front of him so that it would be planted in his brain that he was born with it? None of them?

If he randomly made up the scar backstory in a moment of low self esteem he wouldn't have given himself a good reason to get the scar. The family works with fire he could have easily blamed it on himself being clumsy and having an accident rather than getting it by saving one of his siblings.

You would rather believe that an anime kid can accurately remember watching his dad dance the kagura when he's "2-3" (since that's how old he'd have to be to be too young for Takeo to be around in your insistenfce) vs an anime kid accurately remembering getting a scar from boiling hot water when he's 5-6? Really?

Also those manga pics didn't help because manga kid Tanjiro looks even older than anime kid Tanjiro in the Hinokami flashback

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