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Saw this format somewhere and needed to do this immediately. Two sets of brothers here.

What Demon Slayer characters would compete in if they were in the Olympics

Zentisu: Track & Field

Tanjiro: Marathon Swimming

Inosuke: Artistic Gymnastics

Genya: Shooting

Sanemi: Boxing

Gyomei: Weight Lifting

Mitsuri: Acrobatic Gymnastics

Giyu: Sailing

Tengen: Figure Skating

Shinobu & Butterfly Girls: Synchronized Swimming

Rengoku: Triathlon

Obanai: Fencing

Muichiro: Tennis

Muzan: Eating Competition

Tanjiro: So you are blind.

*Waves his finger near Gyomei’s face

Gyomei: I can see you doing that. I see everything you see. Except I don’t see like you do. I use a super sonic wave from my mouth. Gahhhh

Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke: 🤯

*the scream was so loud that it abrupt the slayers’ training and somehow reached to the Demon’s base.

Akaza: Did you hear something?

Gyomei: Gahhhhhh!!! There I got a pretty good look at you.

Kaigaku: There is nothing more threatening to a demon than a human who is smart and strong. We have to pretend you are those things! Zenitsu: Wow, that's my big bro, everyone!

Obanai to the Kamaboko trio :

Also Obanai to Muichirou :

I love how he's softer to Muichirou than he is to Tanjiro and the rest. He's so baby in Obanai's eyes

Y'know i doubt he's overprotective and jealous if she talks to a fellow hashira's since he trust them with all his life.

And i doubt he'd be jealous with Muichirou if Mitsuri is loving towards him, he'd known the kid since he was like 11-13.

He favours Muichirou than the other kids and i live for that!!!

Rewatching KNY and seeing Zenitsu again is almost giving me whiplash, because he went from being one of my least favorite characters to one of my most beloved in a flash. It sucks that his defining moments are so frequently interrupted or otherwise disturbed by his obsession with finding a wife, and that it kept me from analyzing him the way I should’ve been doing at the start. Because, at his core, Zenitsu is a lesson on weakness — on learning to live and adapt when you can’t immediately overcome it.

This is evident from his very first appearance, where he’s shown mumbling about his inevitable death and his fear of demons after surviving final selection as one of the five senses (the hearing to Kanao’s sight, Tanjiro’s smell, Inosuke’s touch, and Genya’s taste.) It continues on in his actual introduction in the Tsuzumi Mansion Arc, where he spends the majority of his time crying or in various other states of terror. The two exceptions to this are when he falls asleep for the first time and when he defends Nezuko’s box from Inosuke.

The former is part of a larger discussion on his sleepwalking habit and its impact as a coping mechanism, so I’ll be talking about the latter;

Zenitsu outright says that he has a habit of trusting the wrong people, and that being able to hear their sounds hasn’t done him any good in remedying that. He’s known Tanjiro for maybe a handful of hours at this point, but he throws himself on Nezuko’s box anyway. Not because he likes her (not yet) but because she matters to someone he wants to believe in. For someone who clearly hates being in pain, that says volumes about who he actually is as a person. He might be a coward, but he’s also loyal and self sacrificing.

He earnestly follows behind the people he cares about even when it might get him into trouble. The fact that he’s a demon slayer at all is evidence of that — a testament to his love for Jigoro for believing in him and continuing to believe in him even when he seemed hopeless or tried to run away. There was nothing keeping him attached to the demon slayer corps after his gramps wasn’t there to drag him to the final selection or his missions (and we know from Aoi that he could definitely retire early) but he stays.

He runs and cowers and cries and he keeps moving forward, because his gramps gave him the courage to try again and again after failure;

This, I believe, is the reason behind his sleepwalking habit. It’s a response to his desire to change and grow as a person, manifesting in an unconscious state where he forces himself to shed his terror and pain so that he can actually work at his full potential. It doesn’t just apply to his body either, given that (as the series goes on) his sleepwalking also allows him to access his natural analytical abilities where his panic might have blinded him. He couldn’t get rid of the weakness that hindered him, so he adapted to it;

And then — when he learned what became of Kaigaku and that their shared mentor had given his life in repentance — he finally overcame his cowardice altogether and stopped sleeping;

He beat Kaigaku entirely awake, and he fought Muzan the same way. Being with Jigoro and Tanjiro and Nezuko and Inosuke and everyone else didn’t rid him of his fear, but it did teach him to adapt to and then overcome it. To push it aside to achieve his goals, protecting the people he cares about as more than the human shield he was when he held onto Nezuko’s box and desperately hoped that his body could withstand Inosuke’s abuse. More than that, they also taught him to be more comfortable in his own skin.

I’m not going to say that Zenitsu can’t be an annoying character — I can’t stand his behavior toward women and rather disliked him for the longest time — but he’s much more interesting than his initial impression would have you believe. He’s loyal, protective, self sacrificing, insecure, and surprisingly taciturn when he wants to be. The fact that he sleepwalks for every battle before the final arc and his resolution with Kaigaku really hammers his character themes home, and I find that he’s genuinely interesting to think about!

It's the twins bday today!

OK OK YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST REALIZED???

So much of demon slayer might not have happened if not for Kaigaku-

Listen, listen, assuming other slayers don’t somehow fill these plot points-

If Kaigaku had never betrayed Gyomei, We might not have the Stone pillar because Gyomei may not have met Ubuyashiki

If Gyomei didn’t meet Ubuyashiki, the Kocho sisters might have died to the demon that killed their parents because Gyomei wouldn’t be there to save them

If the Kocho sisters never joined the Corp, Kanao wouldn’t have been adopted, not by them at least.

If the Butterfly sisters weren’t around, there’s no butteryfly mansion the way we know it, and the Douma fight would look quite different

So would the Kokushibo fight, since Gyomei wouldn’t be there

Zenitsu wouldn’t be fueled by anger at Kaigaku for their masters suicide.

And without Kanao, Tanjiro might not have become Human again.

Jfc, is Kaigaku actually secretly important?

Tengen and the damn kids he adopted

When your dad falls asleep on you and you can't get up... (In real life this happen to me I was stuck for hours)

umm uhhhh

Group of weirdo’s… FREAKS even

My latest addition to the Pocket World lineup, Infinite Arc! This piece can be viewed right-side up or upside-down! Enjoy fun times with all the demon slayers hanging out at the Ubuyashiki manor, or flip it and check out what Muzan's been up to with all his demon lackeys.

Which side do you prefer? Slayers or Demons?

I'm very proud of this piece and hope you all enjoy it too.

KNY Harvest Moon AU 🥺💕💕

Tanjiro: why would anyone want to harm Inosuke? Zenitsu: Maybe because they met him?

Horse mask inosuke...

Rengoku: best dad

Don't touch me I'm soft and sad

(Quick redraw of my favorite manga panels uwu)

This took very lOnG-

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 200

I seen somewhere that right means dead and left means alive but I refuse to accept this god awful theory.

There will be very angry letters of complaint written to the creator if Tanjiro doenst live to spread his kindness again.