r/BetterKimetsuNoYaiba

A fun project I finished recently! I'm planning on doing more demon slayer in the future!

Model designed by Samiho Studios

Before everyone comes after me, before everyone gets angry, yes, he was a very powerful Hashira—the Hashira with the greatest potential considering his age. Yes. But when it came to being a good person, he wasn’t a good person. He wasn’t a Hashira who cared about people’s lives.
And this is because his mindset, being similar to that of his deceased brother, was primarily focused on completing the mission, unlike someone like Rengoku, who would probably clash with this attitude the most.

Rengoku could fail the mission and let the demon escape, but as long as he didn’t lose any lives, he still considered it a victory. As he himself says in Mugen Train.

Tengen does lose some lives in the Entertainment District, and he makes sure to defeat the demon, but again, he prioritizes lives in a specific order. Obviously, his wives come first, then any civilians who can be saved without putting his wives at risk of dying, and finally, he puts himself and the mission as a whole last. Defeating the demon isn’t the absolute priority. The absolute priority is having survivors and saving as many people as possible.

However, Tokito wasn’t like that. Tokito was willing to let people die, even when he could save them, if they interfered with the main objective of the mission: defeating the demon as quickly as possible. Losing people he considered especially powerful or strictly necessary would mean that they were expendable.

In other words, civilians were expendable if he had to choose between protecting them and defeating the demon as quickly as possible.
We see this with Kotetsu, when he tries to leave him behind, and Tanjiro’s words trigger memories that begin breaking through the amnesia Tokito had been living with for several years.

This isn’t necessarily a criticism of the character himself, but if the mission were at stake—if there were a chance that the demon might escape for even a moment—and the other option was saving you or saving all of us in general, he would have left us to die in order to defeat the demon.

After Kokushibou got beheaded he regenerated and turned into a monster and after Akaza was decapitated they still had to fight his headless body and Tanjiro said it was like Akaza was trying to evolve, and Akaza did regenerate half his head before ultimately accepting defeat, but if he hadn’t and fully regenerated would a monster form be the next step or would he stay as is without being susceptible to decapitation

>!So why did zenitsu wait so long to use his 7th form in the fight against kaigaku? is he stupid!<

UH YEAH. ALSO THIS IS A SHIT-POST (SO DONT TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY ITS A JOKE) PLEASE DONT UH FIGHT IN THE COMMENTS

Something I’ve been curious about for a little while:

When Kokushibo converts Kaigaku into a demon, he mentions that it takes varying amounts of time based on the Demon Slayer. He also mentions that in some rare cases, people just “can’t” become demons.

Both of these statements interest me.

For one, this implies that at least one other breathing user has been turned prior to Kaigaku and after Koku. Otherwise he would have just told Kaigaku it would be 3 days. Obviously this breathing user (or users) is now dead, but I am curious as to what kind and when it would have happened. I think you could even expound upon the thought a little, and reign in people who believe Kaigaku, given more time, would have beaten Akaza and claimed UM 3 at least. Well, if my theory is correct, that there indeed were other breath using demons over the past several centuries, they were either killed by Hashira (and therefore not on Akaza’s level) or challenged him and failed. It would seem to indicate a breath user becoming a demon does not automatically equal greatness.

As for people who can’t become demons; anyone got any theories? I can’t imagine it’s tied to physical strength, even though Muzan likes to say stuff like “can you withstand the amount of blood I’m giving you”, and Daki, Gyutaro, and Akaza were all basically at death’s door when converted. Blood type related? Marechi blood? Maybe, but then again demons crave Marechi so it doesn’t seem incompatible. I have other thoughts but don’t want to ramble. Thoughts?

Please note that one being above the other is not me saying they were necessarily better written, just my enjoyment and thoughts of them.

Reasoning:

Muzan had a really good final battle, I liked his appearances throughout the show and manga of him blending in as well as his interactions.

Akaza imo is the best upper moon, his fights in the infinity castle and against rengoku. I also think his backstory was the most interesting.

Gyutaro had one of the best arcs and fights in the series, though since daki got slightly more focus there could've been more time with him to flesh out his personality as well as they did with his backstory.

Douma did great, had a good dynamic with inosuke and was generally really interesting as a whole. He did need more time to explore his cult and things like that, plus his final fight is relatively lacking in emotional beats when they really could've used his connection to inosuke a lot more.

Hantengu had one of the weaker back stories and weakest arcs but he made up for it with a really interesting and op bda as well as a decent fight after zohakuten.

I DON'T THINK KOKUSHIBO WAS WORSE THAN HANTENGU

Just for clarification. I really enjoyed kokushibo, he had prescence, a good backstory and bda, but I personally really found his final fight weak compared to what it could be. In truth, I think the staggering plot armor for the slayers really minimized his threat and that while the end of the fight was just fine, it was really sudden. Should've been one of if not the best fight.

These two are bums and the designs don't hit that hard.

Yoriichi ruined this gorgeous potential couple.