Demon Slayer

by Koyoharu Gotouge

Tanjiro Kamado returns home to find his family massacred and his sister Nezuko transformed into a demon — but one who still retains her humanity. Joining the Demon Slayer Corps, Tanjiro trains in Breath techniques to find a cure for Nezuko and destroy Muzan Kibutsuji, the progenitor of all demons. The anime adaptation by ufotable is celebrated for its spectacular animation.

83 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Akaza — Upper Moon Three — a demon obsessed with martial perfection who despises weakness, invites every strong opponent to become a demon, and buried his hum
• Amane Ubuyashiki — Kagaya's wife — a priestess who married into a cursed family knowing she'd bury her husband young, managed the Corps alongside him, and chose to die b
• Aoi Kanzaki — A Butterfly Mansion caretaker who passed Final Selection but froze in real combat — she heals the slayers who can do what she couldn't and carries tha
• Chuntaro — Zenitsu's companion sparrow — assigned instead of a crow because even the Corps' bird distribution system knows Zenitsu is special, and somehow commun
• Daki — Upper Moon Six (shared rank) — a beautiful oiran demon who collects pretty things and pretty people in her sash, pampered by her brother's devotion in
• Doma — Upper Moon Two — the leader of a religious cult who has never felt a genuine emotion in his life, eats women because they taste better, and considers
• Enmu — Lower Moon One — a dream-invading demon who finds other people's suffering genuinely restful, survived Muzan's purge of the Lower Moons by being the o
• Genya Shinazugawa — The Wind Hashira's brother who can't use Breathing at all — so he eats demons instead, temporarily absorbing their powers at the cost of slowly becomi
• Giyu Tomioka — The Water Hashira who broke protocol to spare a demon girl — stoic to the point of social paralysis, he carries a guilt so deep he doesn't believe he
• Goto — A Kakushi cleanup crew member — one of the non-combatant Corps members who arrive after battles to treat wounded, recover the dead, and clean up evide
• Gyokko — Upper Moon Five — a demon artist who considers mutilation his medium, hides inside decorative pots, and genuinely cannot understand why people don't a
• Gyomei Himejima — The Stone Hashira — the strongest human alive, a blind giant who cries constantly and prays with every breath, who wields a spiked flail and axe becau
• Gyutaro — The true Upper Moon Six — a scarred, bitter poisoner who lives inside his sister's body, did all the killing so she could live beautifully, and hates
• Hand Demon — A massive demon trapped on Mt. Fujikasane for forty-seven years who fed on Final Selection candidates — he killed thirteen of Urokodaki's students spe
• Hantengu — Upper Moon Four — a pathetic, sniveling demon whose true body hides while his emotions fight for him as full-powered clones, each one a Hashira-level
• Hinatsuru — One of Tengen Uzui's three kunoichi wives — the calm strategist who holds the trio together, most trusted for the most dangerous solo operations.
• Hotaru Haganezuka — Tanjiro's swordsmith — a masked craftsman so obsessed with his blades that he tries to murder Tanjiro every time one gets broken, and so focused durin
• Inosuke Hashibira — A feral swordsman raised by boars who fights with two jagged blades and no technique anyone taught him — underneath the hollowed-out boar's head is a
• Jigoro Kuwajima — The former Thunder Hashira — a one-legged old man who trained two boys in lightning and ended his life when one of them chose to become the enemy.
• Kaburamaru — Obanai's snake companion — a small white serpent that reads enemy attacks and guides his blade, making the pair a single combat unit.
• Kagaya Ubuyashiki — The 97th leader of the Demon Slayer Corps — a dying man whose curse-ravaged body can barely stand, whose voice alone can calm the nine most dangerous
• Kaigaku — Zenitsu's senior disciple turned demon — a prodigy who mastered five of Thunder Breathing's six forms, became Upper Moon Six's replacement, and never
• Kanae Kocho — The former Flower Hashira — Shinobu's older sister whose genuine kindness was not an act, who believed demons and humans could coexist, and who was ki
• Kanao Tsuyuri — Shinobu's protégé — a girl so traumatized she stopped making decisions entirely, who flips a coin to choose anything, and fights with a Flower Breathi
• Kiriya Ubuyashiki — Kagaya's eldest son — an eight-year-old who inherited command of the Demon Slayer Corps after his parents' suicide bombing and directed the final batt
• Kokushibo — Upper Moon One — a four-hundred-year-old demon samurai with six eyes who chose immortality over dying in his brother Yoriichi's shadow, and spent eter
• Kotetsu — A young swordsmith's apprentice who guards a 300-year-old mechanical training doll and helped Tanjiro unlock a hidden blade inside it.
• Kyogai — The Drum Demon — a former Lower Moon kicked out for insufficient killing who found his real passion in writing, and fights by beating the drums embedd
• Kyojuro Rengoku — The Flame Hashira — a blazing optimist whose conviction never flickered, who saw strength as an obligation to protect and died proving that a human wi
• Makio — One of Tengen Uzui's three kunoichi wives — fierce and hot-tempered, the most combative of the trio.
• Makomo — A gentle ghost who guided Tanjiro's Water Breathing with quiet corrections and kind words — she died at Final Selection like so many of Urokodaki's ch
• Mitsuri Kanroji — The Love Hashira — eight times denser muscle fiber than a normal human packed into the most emotionally open person in the Corps, who became a demon s
• Muichiro Tokito — The Mist Hashira — became Hashira in two months at age fourteen, remembers almost nothing of his past, and fights with a prodigious talent so natural
• Murata — A rank-and-file demon slayer who keeps surviving battles he shouldn't — the everyman who shows what it's like to face demons without protagonist power
• Muzan Kibutsuji — The progenitor of all demons — a thousand-year-old monster wearing human faces who has spent ten centuries running from the sun and from the memory of
• Nakime — The Biwa Demon — Muzan's spatial architect who reshapes the Infinity Castle with every strum of her instrument, a living maze-maker whose music bends
• Nezuko Kamado — A demon who chose her brother over blood hunger — she sleeps in a box by day, fights with burning pink flames by night, and hasn't spoken a full sente
• Obanai Iguro — The Serpent Hashira — born into a demon-worshipping family that fed him their scraps and slit his mouth to match a serpent, he fights with coiling pre
• Rui — Lower Moon Five — a child demon who builds fake families by force on a mountain of spider webs because he destroyed his real one and can never forgive
• Sabito — Urokodaki's strongest student — a boy with peach-colored hair who protected every candidate during Final Selection, killed nearly every demon on the m
• Sakonji Urokodaki — The former Water Hashira — a masked old man on a mountain who trains children in the art of Water Breathing and has buried more students than he's gra
• Sanemi Shinazugawa — The Wind Hashira — scar-covered, foul-mouthed, and seething with a hatred for demons born from having to kill his own demonized mother with his bare h
• Senjuro Rengoku — Kyojuro's younger brother — gentle and earnest, lacking his brother's talent but carrying his spirit, who inherited the Flame Hashira legacy he'll nev
• Shinjuro Rengoku — The former Flame Hashira — Kyojuro's father who drowned in alcohol after learning that Sun Breathing existed and Flame Breathing was merely its shadow
• Shinobu Kocho — The Insect Hashira — a butterfly-light woman with a permanent smile who cannot cut a demon's head off, so she learned to poison them instead, and the
• Spider Demon Family — Rui's forced family on Mount Natagumo — demons terrorized into playing mother, father, and siblings, each given spider powers from Rui's blood and pun
• Suma — One of Tengen Uzui's three kunoichi wives — the most emotionally expressive of the trio, who panics loudly but fights when it counts.
• Susamaru — The Temari Demon — a playful, deadly demon girl who throws explosive handballs and believed she was one of the Twelve Kizuki until Muzan's curse prove
• Tamayo — A demon physician who broke free of Muzan's control centuries ago — she survives on purchased blood, cures her hunger with medicine, and has spent fou
• Tanjiro Kamado — A demon slayer with the gentlest heart in the Corps — a boy who smells the sorrow in monsters and fights with tears streaming down his face because he
• Tengen Uzui — The Sound Hashira — a former shinobi who traded shadows for spectacle, fights with explosive flamboyance, and ranks his three wives above any mission
• Yahaba — The Arrow Demon — a refined, dismissive demon who manipulates directional force through the eyes on his palms, paired with Susamaru to hunt Tanjiro.
• Yoriichi Tsugikuni — The strongest demon slayer who ever lived — inventor of Sun Breathing, the man who nearly killed Muzan in a single encounter, who spent his whole life
• Yuichiro Tokito — Muichiro's twin brother — cynical and sharp-tongued where Muichiro was gentle, killed by a demon while protecting his brother, and whose death created
• Yushiro — Tamayo's fiercely devoted assistant — the only demon she ever created, who considers her the most beautiful being in existence and will burn the world
• Zenitsu Agatsuma — A coward who becomes lightning when he passes out — the Demon Slayer Corps' most pathetic crybaby hides a Breathing technique so refined it cracks the

Locations

• Asakusa — A bustling Taisho-era Tokyo district where Tanjiro first encountered Muzan Kibutsuji walking among humans with a human family — the moment the demon b
• Butterfly Mansion — The Corps' recovery hospital — a beautiful estate run by Shinobu Kocho where broken demon slayers are rebuilt, retrained, and sent back to war.
• Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters — The hidden heart of the Corps — a traditional estate where Hashira gather, missions deploy, and the Ubuyashiki family directs humanity's war against d
• Hashira Training Grounds — A series of brutal training circuits run by each Hashira — the Corps' last-resort boot camp before the final battle, where every surviving slayer is p
• Infinity Castle — Muzan's impossible fortress — an infinite-seeming labyrinth of rooms, stairs, and corridors that reshape in real-time to the sound of a biwa, where gr
• Kamado Family Home — A charcoal-burner's cottage on a snowy mountain — where everything began when Tanjiro came home to find his family's blood in the snow and his sister
• Mount Fujikasane — The Final Selection killing ground — a wisteria-ringed mountain where prospective demon slayers must survive seven nights among trapped demons to earn
• Mount Natagumo — A demon-infested mountain wrapped in spider silk — Rui's territory where he forces captured demons to play family in a web-covered nightmare forest.
• Mount Sagiri — Urokodaki's training mountain — a fog-shrouded peak where Water Breathing students learn to survive by nearly dying, and where Tanjiro spent two years
• Mugen Train — The Infinity Train — a locomotive that Enmu fused his body with, turning every passenger into a hostage and every car into demon flesh in the fight th
• Rengoku Estate — The Flame Hashira family home — once bright with the fire of three generations of swordsmen, now dimmed by grief and alcohol, with only Senjuro keepin
• Swordsmith Village — The hidden settlement where every Nichirin blade is forged — its location is the Corps' most guarded secret, because without its smiths, no demon slay
• Tamayo's Clinic — A hidden medical practice where a demon physician treats human patients and researches the cure for demonhood — protected by Yushiro's concealment art
• Tsuzumi Mansion — The Drum Demon's shifting house — a mansion where every drum beat rotates rooms and changes gravity, turning a standard rescue mission into a spatial
• Ubuyashiki Estate — The Ubuyashiki family's personal residence — a place of serene gardens and quiet authority that Kagaya detonated with his family inside to wound the D
• Yoshiwara Entertainment District — Taisho-era Tokyo's pleasure quarter — a labyrinth of lantern-lit streets where courtesans perform and a demon oiran has been feeding for decades benea

Items

• Anti-Muzan Drug — Tamayo's masterwork — a four-stage pharmaceutical weapon designed to kill an immortal: aging, decomposition, cellular destruction, and anti-regenerati
• Blue Spider Lily — The flower that made Muzan immortal — a medicinal plant so rare it might be extinct, and the one thing the Demon King believes could make him immune t
• Demon Slayer Mark — A flame-shaped mark that awakens on elite slayers during life-or-death combat — it multiplies their power exponentially, spreads to other marked warri
• Hanafuda Earrings — Sun-and-mountain earrings passed from Yoriichi to the Kamado family — a four-hundred-year-old heirloom that sends Muzan into blind panic every time he
• Kasugai Crow — The Demon Slayer Corps' communication network — talking crows assigned to every slayer that deliver mission orders, relay intelligence, and occasional
• Kokushibo's Flesh Sword — A Nichirin blade fused with demon flesh — it regenerates, grows new blades from wounds, and has eyes that track opponents, making it the most terrifyi
• Nezuko's Box — A specially crafted wooden box that Tanjiro carries on his back — Nezuko's portable coffin and daylight shelter, treated with rock lacquer to block su
• Nichirin Blade — The only weapon that can kill a demon — forged from sun-drinking ore and changing color to match its wielder's soul, each blade is a swordsmith's life
• Sun Breathing — The original Breathing Style — created by Yoriichi Tsugikuni, parent of all thirteen derivative forms, preserved for four hundred years as a family fi
• Wisteria — The demon-repelling flower — its fragrance burns demon flesh, its extract makes lethal poison, and its blooming trees form the barriers that keep the
• Yoriichi Type Zero — A 300-year-old mechanical training doll with six arms built to replicate one swordsman's movements — because five arms weren't enough to simulate Yori

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