these will always be one of the most beautiful series of panels in the whole series for me. shinobu and kanae’s kimonos, the cherry blossoms falling, kanao finally being able to let herself go and grieve how she wanted, it’s all so heart wrenching and exquisite
me explaining to all of my friends that taylor has to announce speak now tv today because it’s the 3rd day of the 3rd month it’s 2023 speak now is her 3rd album and it would be the 3rd re record and she’s 33
i never noticed until just now that hakuji was tearing up here☹️ he never imagined that he would be able to to live life as a husband, to have someone else to look after and love him despite being a former criminal. he must have felt a huge burden lifted off of him in this moment
sanemi has always been a well designed character but in chapter 168, he looked especially beautiful. he had some kind of glow to him in 168 that i can’t get over
he wanted nothing more than to tell mitsuri he loves her. his love for her was so pure and came from one thing he desired the most, feeling like a normal young man. he wasn’t treated as normal growing up and she brought that out of him. it was genuine love he experienced for her.
one way he expressed his love through defense is him having the desire to protect mitsuri from anything that could put her in danger. he wanted the person he loved to be safe before worrying about himself.
- he feels like he shouldn’t even be allowed to stand next to mitsuri, a kind and lovely woman that came from a genuine family, while he himself came from such a dirty family that hasn’t shown sincere affection even once. he believes that even if they met under other-
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i keep seeing the whole “you’re my favorite” thing going around with the people he’s talking to. does he think that’s gonna prevent y’all from saying anything??
to start off, we learn that obanai was born into a very disgusting family that took heavy advantage of others. for example, they bought luxuries with money that wasn’t theirs to begin with and offering other humans to a snake demon they worshiped.
after he escaped and was saved, he met his cousin who survived the attack by the snake demon but instead of comforting each other, she lashed out at him with words that would stick with him throughout the rest of his life. after this, he believed he couldn’t live a normal life.
obanai experiences natural compassion even if he doesn’t recognize it himself. he turned to defending others from demons because he wanted to use it as his outlet. he learned how to love on his own in ways he felt were right and one way he would express it was defense.
while he started his plan to escape, a snake he called kaburamaru, wandered into his cage and he felt he was the only one he could trust. they just ended up finding each other and he probably found it so easy to love him even though he never had any sincere love to learn from.
obanai was also the first male born into the family in 370 years so they treated him a lot differently than his sisters or cousins living there. they kept him locked in a cage until he ended up escaping. according to his family he was only meant to be a sacrifice and nothing more
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i can’t imagine how dramatic ittl be depicted when it’s animated i can imagine he’ll be taken aback kinda like he was when he first ran upon the explosion
hakuji probably realized he truly meant something to koyuki here. she remembered a conversation from years ago and that was something that she would never let slip from her mind. even though he didn’t remember, she kept that memory so close to her and hakuji was determined-
even though he experienced hell living with his family, he learned how to love from what was already in his heart and express it his own way even though he thought that he didn’t deserve the love he would have with others because of what he had to live with.
even though he has genuine love and care in his heart and shows it through his actions for those he cares about, he still believes that his corrupted bloodline overrules everything good he has done in his life. -
stage 5: acceptance,
during the final fight against muzan, giyuu was fighting alongside sanemi, obanai, and gyomei when his blade slips out of his hands. he brings himself to grip his blade again because he knows exactly why he’s here. he’s in this spot right now to fight until-
the only thing he knew for 12 years were the ways of these horrible people. the affection given probably wasn’t too sincere from his pov or at all. they were only doing this to keep him alive for the snake and nothing more. he was not treated like a human at all.
stage 2: anger,
when giyuu and tanjiro are fighting against akaza in the infinity castle, akaza slammed giyuu into a wall then gets back up to fight again. giyuu states that he doesn’t even want to wield to his best ability against him but since akaza’s strength was so refined-
-circumstances, it still wouldn’t have worked because how he believes he’s carrying generations of karma with him no matter what. even if he believes he’s getting closer to purity, they’ll continue to pull him back down to their level even though he was never once at their level.
stage 3: bargaining,
the bargaining stage for giyuu would have to be after sabito d!ed and he started training harder. this is just speculation but in terms of grief, what if his thought process was making a deal with himself which would make this bargaining. -
the final selection they were in together. he also didn’t believe he would be able to manifest the mark but believed sabito would have. he had to have thought that if sabito was still alive, it would be sabito that would be the water pillar so the role wouldn’t make sense for him
end of thread :)) this hurt to write man. re reading doesn’t make me cry often but this time it did. really thinking in depth about his character is a lot and letting it sink in how he views things is so saddening.
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SOPHISTICATION ISNT WHAT YOU WEAR OR WHO YOU KNOW
OR PUSHING PEOOLE DOWN TO GET YOU WHERE YOU WANNA GO
THEY DIDNT TEACH YOU THAT IN PREP SCHOOL SO ITS UP TO ME
and overwhelming, his senses were awakened which cause him to gain his mark which he didn’t believe he could obtain before. after this moment of anger and realization that he was in this situation, it probably pushed his mindset of denying he’s the water pillar farther away.
some events may be a little out of order like for example, we know we learn his backstory in the middle of the final battle but i’m explaining it first instead of going in order of the story.
stage 1: denial,
in the earlier to the rising action part of the story, giyuu denies himself as being the water pillar because he doesn’t believe he’s worthy of the title. he believed that sabito would have been more deserving of that title because he defeated so many demons in-
stage 4: depression
when sabito d!ed in the final selection, giyuu fell into a state of depression most likely wishing that he was the one that d!ed instead. he knew sabito would have gone far in life and become an amazing swordsman if he were to live past the final selection.-
wishes at this moment. tsutako protected him so he could live a good life and sabito wanted him to live up to what his sister protected him for. sabito knew there was a reason for him to stay alive and this is probably one of the factors that fueled him to keep going on.
to begin, muzan is the demon king and kagaya is the leader of the demon hunters of his time. muzan is what kagaya’s family has been striving to defeat ever since a curse was placed on the family. muzan is extremely egocentric and driven towards his main goal: immortality.
muzan and kagaya come from the same bloodline. muzan was born thousands of years before kagaya and because muzan became a demon through treatments, a curse was placed on the family. children born into the family were so frail and weak that they barely lived at all.
-the sun rises to defeat muzan. giyuu has gone through a rough period of learning to accept that he deserves to be the water pillar and at this moment we see he’s accepting of the role and he’ll fight to protect his friends and humanity. he fulfilled both sabito and his sister’s-
end of thread :) giyuu’s character development throughout the story makes me so incredibly happy he really deserved everything he worked up towards and even post war, he’s able to live a life that tsutako and sabito shielded to protect. he makes me so emotional man
to start off, akaza mentioned several times that he despises weak people. he thinks that only the strongest will make it out because of the laws of nature. he was also repulsed by kyojuro’s logic of staying human rather than becoming a demon. to akaza, his weakness would overrule
to start, kanae was shinobu’s older sister who was a demon hunter alongside her. unfortunately one night, her life was tragically ended at douma’s hands. she begged shinobu to leave the slayers because she wanted her to live a longer life than herself and to be a normal girl.
kagaya on the other hand, is very selfless. he cares a lot about the slayers he takes in and calls his children. he wishes the best for each of them. he is driven towards his goal as well as the goal of many others: to defeat muzan so the demon race will perish.
when the hashira training sessions were just starting, shinobu had a very serious talk with kanao and broke the shattering news to her. in order to defeat douma, he would have to absorb her body. this heavily shocked kanao because she couldn’t fathom loosing another sister to-
tanjiro counteracts this by saying that akaza was once weak himself and needed to be protected by someone stronger than him. one thing he mentions is that the weak will become strong once they have someone to protect them and then we see akaza with sort of a relaxed face.
what if he thought that if he trained harder to become hashira level, he’ll begin to accept or realize he’s worthy enough to believe that this is what both sabito and his sister would have wanted for him. he also made a deal with tanjiro that if tanjiro beat him-
however, a priest gave the family some advice and the said that in order for the family to keep living on, they must dedicate their whole existence into defeating muzan, the eyesore, monster, and disease of the family. kagaya, alike muzan, is very driven towards his goal.
as the final battle was going on, obanai admits that he plans to and must d!e battling muzan. he planned to do so because there was nothing else he could have done to cleanse himself of his guilt and his family. dy!ng at muzan’s hands was going to be the final blow because-
disclaimer: the events won’t be in order, i just want to explain different events of his story as each of the 5 stages because i think the concept fits him really well :)
what tanjiro said triggered a little bit of akaza’s memories which then caused him to see keizou in tanjiro even though he didn’t know it was keizou at the time. a hallucination of keizou says that the only opponent he’s fighting is himself and that he’ll be able to help others.
-in the eating contest that he would participate in the training. giyuu wanted to live up to what sabito and tsutako entrusted to him and getting stronger to fight against upper moons plus muzan was one of those ways and he wanted to fulfill that.
shinobu didn’t want to do that at all. she wanted to a avenge her big sister first and foremost and the only way she could do this is if she knew who the demon was that did this to her. she couldn’t live her life normally knowing that someone did this to her older sister.
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the sheer thought of knowing they probably won’t see each other again was running through all their minds rapidly while also worrying about what they’ll probably run into while they’re apart
akaza believes that he made empty promises as hakuji and hates himself for it so it could be him trying to cover up his human memories and feelings by fighting and wanting to become stronger to forget. hakuji wanted to become stronger to protect but it wasn’t the case for akaza.
flow throughout her whole body and if a demon were to eat her, they would be consuming 70x the lethal amount. she wanted to save this unique method of defeat for douma if she were to encounter him or muzan if she was able to make it that far. she was ready to d!e to protect her-
-the same demon that took kanae’s life. shinobu knew that her body was in excellent condition because of her abilities and she knew for a fact that that on top of the fact that she’s a woman, would prompt him to eat her. shinobu continued to absorb wisteria poison so it would-
akaza then punches the air after this because it most likely reminded him of how he wasn’t able to be there to help his loved ones when he was hakuji and even after he practiced soryuu, he still couldn’t keep his promises to them and seconds later he starts recklessly attacking.
the final blows of her plan would have to come from someone else and in her eyes it was preferably kanao. she had everything worked out in her mind before they even came across douma and her willing to sacrifice herself to avenge her sister was able to advance everyone forward.
hakuji was a known criminal in his town and when his father k!lled himself, he wrote that he was sorry for being a burden to his own son and this caused hakuji to go on a rampage. he would have done absolutely anything for his dad and he didn’t get why the sick apologized.
kanae then began to describe douma in such a way that would make shinobu immediately recognize him the moment she would encounter him. as soon as she received that information from her, she knew she had to make it her mission to defeat him but her method to do so was unexpected.
in the case of obanai, he was brought up in an extremely materialistic and corrupted family who only cared about themselves and their riches. they tortured him and were even planning to sacrifice him all in the name of the snake demon that lived there and they worshiped.
akaza starts to remember his human memories as hakuji when koyuki grabs him and asks him why he wants to become stronger. hakuji cares for his sick father as well as koyuki even though they were weak. hakuji would do whatever he could have to help the two of them.
akaza also detects battle spirit which is a person’s desire to fight or to k!ll. this could have came from when a rival dojo poisoned the well which caused the death of koyuki and keizou. hakuji thought these people were the scum of the earth for what they did to who he loved.
he knew the only way to truly get out without getting eaten was to find a way to escape this hell he was living in. as he ran away, the snake demon was enraged and she took out almost every single person in her path besides obanai and his surviving cousin. her anger took over-
to begin, michikatsu and yorichii were twin brothers that were treated very differently as early as birth. yorichii was seen as hideous because of his birth mark at first which then prompted their father to want to have him removed but he wasn’t. they even had different clothing-