Muzan Kibutsuji

Muzan Kibutsuji

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Muzan Kibutsuji

Anime

manga

Theater

 Anime

Kanji

鬼舞辻無惨

Romaji

Kibutsuji Muzan

Characteristics

Race

Demon (Offspring)

Human (Formerly)

Kind

Male

Age

<20-29 (Physically)

≈1000 (Chronologically)

>10,000 (Biologically)

Cut

179cm (5'10½")

Weight

75 kg (165 lbs)

Membership

Membership

Twelve Demonic Moons (Chief)

Personal status

Status

To show

Beginnings

manga

Chapter 11

Anime

Episode 6

voice actor

Japanese

Toshihiko Seki

Lionel Tua (French)

Actor (theater)

Yoshihide Sasaki

Muzan Kibutsuji ( 鬼 き 舞 ぶ 辻 つじ 無 む 惨 ざん Kibutsuji Muzan ) is a demon , the first of his kind, the ancestor of many other demons, and the main antagonist of Kimetsu no Yaiba . He is also the demon responsible for killing most of the Kamado family members and turning Nezuko Kamado into a demon.

 

Summary

1  Appearance

2  Personality

3  History

4  Synopses

4.1  First Mission Arc

4.2  Asakusa Arc

4.3  Arc Recovery Training

4.4  Infinity Train Arc

4.5  Pleasure Quarter Arc

4.6  Blacksmith Village Arc

4.7  Pillar Training Arc

4.8  Final Battle Arc

4.8.1  Infinite Dimension Fortress Arc

4.8.2  Dawn Count Arc

4.9  Inheritance

5  Skills and Competencies

5.1  Techniques

6  Anecdotes

7  References

8  Browsing

Appearance

Muzan looks like a man in his twenties with abnormally pale skin with curly dark green hair and almond-shaped eyes. Her pupils are vertical, like cat's eyes, and plum red in color. He also has sharp, blue fingernails on his hands.

 

In his first appearance, Muzan wore a white fedora with a black ribbon and a somewhat extravagant outfit. The outfit consisted of a black embroidered tuxedo and white tie over a black dress shirt and white dress pants. He also wore black loafers.

 

As seen in Rui 's flashbacks of meeting Muzan, the Demon King sported a slightly different hairstyle and outfit in the past than when he first appeared. When he met Rui, Muzan's hair was straighter. He also wore a baggy tuxedo and a white half cape over it.

 

Muzan has the ability to change his appearance and shape. When meeting the lower ranks, he arrived disguised as an elegant woman wearing a long black yukata, which caused the lower ranks to initially not recognize him. He later transformed into his latest cover identity, the sickly adopted son of an old couple taking the form of a young child aged 10-11 with pale skin and black, silky, smooth hair. and neatly combed. His main outfit in this disguise is a plain white button-up shirt and black cargo shorts with long socks and loafers.

 

After neutralizing Tamayo 's poison and emerging from his flesh cocoon, Muzan's hair grows longer and turns white due to Shinobu 's poison accelerating his age. He also grows numerous mouths on his limbs, each lined with a set of incredibly sharp fangs, which he can use in attack and for regeneration purposes. His skin also appears to have a dark red mass growing from the tips of his limbs and spreading across his body.

 

It is later revealed that Muzan has an array of scars all over his body, from wounds inflicted in his first battle against Yoriichi , that he was burned down to the cellular level and these wounds were never fully healed despite hundreds of of years. They are not visible but reveal themselves as it weakens.

 

During his final struggle and as a means to slow down the effects of the sun, Muzan adopts an enlarged demonic baby form, approximately as tall as a 3-story building when he stands up. In this form, he has very pronounced blood vessels throughout his body, small claws, and hooked teeth.

 

Personality

Muzan is ruthless and exceptionally intelligent. He sees no value in the humans he has encountered and shows little value in his own subordinates. Rarely upset or visually happy, he seems completely monotonous and detached in most cases, even when cruelly murdering his own subordinates. The only times he shows emotion is when his vision of perfection advances or when his subordinates completely submit to his will. The manga shows him more expressive, especially when enraged and his facial features are exaggerated to demonstrate this as such (perhaps as a way to display his normally unreadable emotions). In the anime, his expressions change slightly and his tone of voice tends to be consistent at almost all times, emphasizing his detached attitude.

 

The most prominent trait Muzan possesses is extreme narcissism and obsession with becoming the perfect being. As he has had almost 1000 years to live and watch, with hardly any real challenges, his extreme self-centeredness is almost expected. He considers almost nothing as his concern except overcoming his inability to walk in the sun, which is his main motivation. His long life and obsessions have led him to want every plan he concocts to be absolutely perfect, and his god complex prevents him from seeing his own failures. His belief that he is the closest thing to a perfect being leads him to have zero tolerance for any failure, brutally punishing those who fail him or those he considers weak, even if the failures are minor.

 

His inflated ego and delusional sense of self-worth are so great that he cannot bear to be ridiculed or corrected in any way, believing that others only exist to serve him. It also means that he rarely takes any opponent or threat seriously. He brutally killed two drunken men simply for being rude to him, and killed their mate when she had done nothing, while proclaiming his own perfection and superiority over them. This event hints that Muzan has unpleasant memories of his weaker human past and is very aware of his abnormally sickly appearance, immediately afterwards with long denial that he is unhealthy, sick let alone on the verge of the death. In all likelihood, a bitter reminder that he is still flawed. When he finally succeeded in confronting Kagaya Ubuyashiki , the man responded to Muzan in a tone of pity and sadness for the life he had led. In Muzan's mind, this was only recorded as insults and threats, which he used to justify his hatred for humanity and Demon Slayers.

 

Moreover, his delusional sense of omnipotence is such that it compares to natural disasters, namely something that is far beyond what humans can compare to and struggle with. As a result, he believes the Demon Slayers are a group of deviants who cannot accept the natural order of things and resume their lives as normal when other people are simply moving forward in the wake of tragedy. His analogy speaks to his complete inability to feel sympathy or remorse for his actions, given that none of the murders he ever committed (directly or indirectly) were the result of an accident but of acts carefully orchestrated pure evil.

 

 

Muzan playing the role of a family man.

He was shown to be quite manipulative and cunning, able to blend in normally with human society, even having a family to add. A long life and continuous practice has enabled him to take on many roles in society and play them competently, including children and women if he so chooses. This life also gave him great intelligence and an ability to think tactically. Muzan is a quick thinker and strategist who can handle adverse situations quickly and fairly well, though this could also be because losing his subordinates means nothing to him in the long run.

 

Due to his perceived superiority and two-sided nature, he feels little attached to his henchmen, using and throwing them away as a disposable pawn whenever he sees fit. He does not allow his subordinates to question his will, regularly retaliating brutally if they did. Many of his subordinates, in turn, are deeply afraid of him and carefully measure their words and thoughts lest they say anything that displeases him. He is able to sway many demons to his side with promises of power, revenge, and greatness, as long as they serve him. His intelligence and manipulation shines here as many find the promises quite appealing, as he meets many of his subordinates at their lowest point, when their emotions are easy for him to feed. Alas, all of these promises are ultimately false, given that Muzan only cares about himself and has no qualms about killing his own men to protect his own safety.

 

When she's not hiding behind a facade, her sheer viciousness and overflowing violent intent are so incredibly cunning that they can be seen by others. Most notably, Yoriichi Tsugikuni described it as being like boiling magma rising from a volcano ready to consume everything.

 

Beyond his self-centered behavior, there's a sense of self-preservation that can easily outweigh his megalomania, paranoidly cursing his subordinates in a terrifying manner so that none of them can quite as much utter his name, or be instantly killed in a morbidly cruel way. When pushed into a corner, Muzan's usually calm, arrogant and superior stance crumbles, setting the stage for panic and fear to take hold as he desperately fights for his life, adopting measures more drastic to protect themselves. This obsession with survival may well explain Muzan's brutal homicide of three civilians after meeting Tanjiro the first time as he was forced to recall his sickly past with the former, and his encounter with Yoriichi with the latter, due to his hanafuda earrings, the two major events where he nearly lost his life.

 

Later, during his defeat and final moments as he was burned by the sun, Muzan showed a much more vulnerable side of his personality as he slowly disintegrated into ashes and lamented his life and his choices. It is revealed that Muzan's true fear of dying and overwhelming desire to live and survive was due to him being born "dead", where his heart stopped constantly in his mother's womb and was assumed stillborn until struggling to breathe before being cremated. Revealing that Muzan's desire for "life" and his almost constant struggle to simply breathe as a human, built up his obsessive ambition to survive, and he felt truly vulnerable whenever he was reminded of his human frailty due to that. Even on the brink of death, he is still completely unrepentant in his actions of murdering, murdering and consuming humans for a thousand years and even stated that when dying he could only remember one person. he had killed.

 

However, as Muzan slowly died of sunlight and his final reflection on his life, he came to truly accept Kagaya Ubuyashiki's words that everything dies in the end no matter what, and even him would experience death one day as the only true "immortal" thing in the world is someone's emotions, feelings, and memories. This realization brings Muzan to tears and genuinely stirs his heart, causing him to then ironically adopt Yoriichi and Kagaya's belief and stance of instead focusing on leaving "something" behind in order to truly become "immortal." ".

 

Story

When Muzan was in his mother's womb, his heart stopped several times. They say he was stillborn, had no pulse and was not breathing. However, when he was taken to be cremated, he cried out for the first time .

 

When he was young, he was diagnosed with a disease that would kill him before he reached the age of 20. The attending physician Muzan gave him a prototype special medicine. Furious at his worsening condition, Muzan kills him. It wasn't until he killed the doctor that he realized the drug actually worked and had given him a strong body. He realized that he had to consume the flesh of humans to survive, but he didn't mind. However, his new, more serious problem was his inability to walk in sunlight, as it burned him badly [2] . It was then that he truly regretted killing the Doctor before he could complete his treatment with his medicine, Blue Lycoris . He looked for the flower all over the country, but couldn't find it. That's why Muzan started creating other demons and planned to spread them around the world, hoping that one of them would find a way to defeat the sun or at least help him in his quest. of the plant. This desire to be in the sun again has become his only real goal and he spends hundreds of years pursuing this obsession.

 

Around the Oei era, Muzan finds a young girl named Tamayo , stricken with a life-threatening illness. She meets Muzan and, wishing to see her children grow up, allows him to transform her. Unaccustomed to her new body, she inadvertently kills her own family to survive, as well as another group of people. This decision haunted her to no end and she became resentful and hateful towards Muzan. But due to Muzan's immense power, she failed to successfully kill him. Muzan enslaved Tamayo and she followed him everywhere like a humble servant.

 

Soon after, he finds Michikatsu Tsugikuni , a Marked Demon Slayer and Moon Breath user . Michikatsu wanted to become more powerful than his brother and hated the fact that his Marked status meant his life would soon be over. Muzan proposed a compromise: he wanted to have a demon using the breath and in exchange, this one could live forever and perfect his technique. Michikatsu agreed and Muzan gave him an extremely high concentration of his blood, emerging three days later transformed and taking the name Kokushibo.

 

Later, Muzan and Tamayo encounter a Demon Slayer named Yoriichi Tsugikuni . As soon as they met, Yoriichi sensed Muzan's malice and anger, comparing him to boiling magma. Simultaneously, Muzan couldn't find anything in Yoriichi that looked like anything dangerous and didn't fear his opponent. Already satisfied to have Kokushibo as a subordinate, Muzan attempted to kill Yoriichi without warning. Yoriichi, however, was able to dodge the blows and discern Muzan 's weak spots, seven hearts and five brains moving freely around his body . Yoriichi combined all of his forms into a single strike and turned his blade bright red, allowing him to cut through all of Muzan's weaknesses and dominate him. For the first time in his life, Muzan was knocked unconscious, unable to heal, sat in a pool of his blood and glared angrily at Yoriichi, ignoring his question of what he thought a life was worth. When Yoriichi stepped forward to kill him, Muzan used what was left of his energy and split his body in a powerful blast. Although Yoriichi was able to destroy almost all of the fragments, the ones he missed escaped and allowed Muzan to regenerate again.

 

Muzan was deeply scarred by this encounter, and with the help of Kokushibo, the pair slaughtered anyone who used the Breath of the Sun , hoping to prevent another Demon Slayer who would have the power to kill him. They almost succeeded in completely exterminating this breath. Greatly fearing the man he believed to be the true demon, Muzan never directly confronted the Demon Slayers again and sent demons in his place mostly. He continues to fear Yoriichi even after his death.

 

Muzan hears news of a massacre involving the violent deaths of sixty-seven people. He goes to the village before meeting the culprit, an eighteen-year-old boy named Hakuji. He expresses his disappointment as he thinks it was a demon who did the deed, and not a human. Hakuji threatened him but was silenced by Muzan who pierced his head with his hand. The Demon King spoke of his plan to form a faction of twelve powerful demons and asked the young man if he was able to withstand the amount of blood given to him. Hakuji, broken by his loss and having nothing else left, did not resist and became the demon Akaza .

 

During the Taisho era, Muzan was able to locate the Kamado family who held the Breath of the Sun technique. When Tanjiro Kamado was in town, Muzan attacked his family and injected his blood into them, hoping to create a demon that could withstand the sun. However, he was disappointed when the family died from the poison of his blood, thinking that creating a Sun-resistant Demon wasn't so easy after all. He left their house, apparently unaware that there was a survivor, Nezuko Kamado , who later turned into a Demon.

 

Synopsis

First Mission Arc

 

Muzan is first mentioned when Sakonji Urokodaki reveals to Tanjiro Kamado that he is the enemy of the Kamado family and might know how to return Nezuko Kamado to human form .

 

Asakusa bow

 

 

Muzan during his meeting with Tanjiro.

Passing through a crowd in Asakusa , along with his "family", Muzan is accosted by an angry Tanjiro. Muzan's daughter asks him who the young demon slayer is, and the demon in turn asks if there is anything he wants from him. His wife then approaches them, asking if Tanjiro is someone familiar to their family. Muzan denies it, suggesting the boy mistook them for someone else. Then he quickly stabs a passing man, turning him into a demon . During the commotion, he and his family leave while Tanjiro is forced to deal with the transformed man.

 

 

Muzan reminiscing about meeting Yoriichi Tsugikuni .

Afterwards, Muzan sends his family away in a carriage without him, stating that he has work to do. He wanders into an alley, where a drunken man crosses him. The man then mocks and insults him, saying he doesn't like rich people like him. When the drunken man points out to him how pale his skin is, Muzan smashes him against a wall and kills his older brother with a swift kick. He then turns to the cowering drunk man's girlfriend and asks her if she thinks he looks pale or near death. Muzan answers his own questions and tells him that he is infinitely close to perfection. He then thrusts his finger into her forehead, injecting so much of his blood that her cells melt. Then he calls Susamaru and Yahaba and orders them to kill Tanjiro.

 

Arc Recovery Training

 

As Muzan is able to discern the location of the demons he has given blood to, he seems to be able to locate Nezuko at the Ubuyashiki domain [6] , but he is unaware that Tamayo has removed his curse from Nezuko, making him unable to locate her. .

 

 

Muzan as he prepares to kill Kamanue.

The six lower moons reunite and Muzan appears in the form of a woman. He is very disappointed with Rui 's defeat , so much so that he declares that he will disband the lower rank and only rule the upper moons anymore. He kills Kamanue after reading his mind when he had disrespectful thoughts and Mukago for contradicting him. As Wakuraba attempts to escape, Muzan decapitates him and renders him unable to regenerate. Rokuro attempts to plead with his master and demands more of his blood to prove himself. Seeing the Demon as a failure, Muzan becomes incredibly enraged and kills him for "ordering" his leader. Before killing Enmu , he declares how much he enjoys making humans suffer and thanks Muzan for letting him be his last victim. Seeing the potential in Enmu, Muzan gives him a large amount of blood. Enmu nearly dies from his new power charge, but manages to survive. Muzan then gives him one last chance to prove that the lower rank members are not useless.

 

Infinity Train Arc

 

Muzan lives another life among humans in the form of a little boy named Toshikuni and claims to have a skin disease that prevents him from exposing himself to the sun. After killing Kyojuro Rengoku , Akaza introduces himself to Muzan and announces his victory. However, Muzan is not happy enough with the Pillar 's death and is shown to be rather furious that Akaza let all the other Demon Slayers present escape, further blaming him for not finding more information about the Blue lycoris .

 

Pleasure District Arc

 

In the Pleasure Quarter , Muzan talks to Daki . He tells her how proud he is of her and that he hopes she will become even crueler and stronger. He also lets her know about Nezuko and leaves it to her to kill her.

 

After the fight, he orders the Upper Moons to meet in Infinity Castle . He stands on the ceiling and experiments, trying to overcome his weakness to the sun. Muzan tells them that he will not allow any failures, like Daki and Gyutaro . Muzan regrets putting so much faith in her and wishes Gyutaro had fought all along. He asks them to serve him with more suicidal devotion and states that he hates change. He thinks that change only means decline and that he hasn't changed for so long, since he is practically perfect. He then sends Gyokko and Hantengu to destroy the blacksmiths' village before leaving the meeting.

 

Arc Village of Blacksmiths

 

Muzan senses through the Hantengu that Nezuko was indeed able to become the Demon that defeated the Sun, thus making her assault on the Sun's Breath Family a success. He is disguised as a little boy when he hears the news. His adoptive mother and her maid enter the scene but Muzan kills them instantly. He is extremely excited and decides to grab Nezuko.

 

Pillar Training Arc

 

He appoints Nakime to higher rank 4 and makes her more powerful. He uses it to research the locations of all Demon Slayers. He is very impressed with her efforts and compliments her. He says he is sure to find Nezuko and Kagaya soon .

 

Final Battle Arc

 

Infinite Dimension Fortress Arc

 

Muzan appears at the Ubuyashiki mansion and spots Kagaya. He mocks him for his weak appearance and he tries to lecture Muzan and points out that the Pillars will never stop trying to kill him. Muzan laughs and attacks Kagaya. But before he can kill him, the mansion explodes, and Muzan is caught in the blast. This, which was accentuated by spike traps, manages to injure Muzan. Before he can fully regenerate, Tamayo appears and uses his Blood Power to hold him in place, while using a drug capable of turning him back into a human. Using this opportunity, Gyomei Himejima appears and destroys Muzan's head. However, the demon causes her to grow back instantly. As all of the other Pillars join the fight, the Infinity Castle appears as if it is sucking in everyone nearby and scattering them. Muzan claims he is going to slaughter them all tonight.

 

While the Demon Slayers manage to defeat the majority of the upper moons and try to locate Muzan, several of the lower level ones manage to find his cocoon. He comes out and eviscerates any Slayers that are nearby, while trying to regain the stamina lost during his fight against Tamayo. He takes her head and taunts her for failing to kill him, ridiculing that the medicine she designed was useless. She angrily asks Muzan to return her family to which he replies that she should join them on the other side and crushes his head; Yushiro perceives it. He then proceeds to slaughter Demon Slayers and reaffirms his vow to kill them all .

 

Thanks to Nakime's ability , Muzan is placed opposite Tanjiro and Giyu . Muzan asks Tanjiro why he is so concerned about revenge against him, when he came out alive from the massacre of his family, and can therefore resume his life if he wishes. Comparing himself to a "Great Calamity", he declares that it is impossible for humans to take revenge on natural disasters like rain, winds, volcanic eruptions or earthquakes that take the lives of loved ones, humans continue to live, and that to fight against him amounts to the same kind of madness. He therefore concludes that the Demon Slayers are fighting him because they are a group of deviants, and he is tired of dealing with them. An enraged Tanjiro claims that Muzan shouldn't have been allowed to exist.

 

The fight ensues, Muzan extending his arms into long-bladed whips, holding Giyu and Tanjiro at bay. The latter, furious at his opponent's inhumanity, tries to infiltrate between Muzan's blows, but fails and is injured near the eye. Giyu shoos Tanjiro away reminding him that Muzan's power is greater than all the Upper Moons. Muzan wonders if they can defeat him with only three Pillars, as he states that Mitsuri and Obanai were killed by Nakime. He performs other sweeps that Tanjiro can hardly avoid due to his injured eye, as he stumbles. Before he can kill Tanjiro, Mitsuri appears destroying the walls and attacking Muzan with her Breath of Love , but she is unable to inflict any damage on Muzan, much to his frustration. Obanai also appears and assures that they are both alive.

 

The demon, furious, demands an explanation from Nakime, but learns that Yushiro used his own bloodthirsty power to take over the moon and that he will force Muzan to leave the Infinity Castle. Annoyed by this opposition, he tries to regain control of the castle from Yushiro who attempts to absorb his cells through Nakime. An attack from Giyu and Obanai puts Muzan on the defensive, allowing Yushiro to maintain control, and Muzan blasts Nakime from a distance crushing his head. While Nakime's remaining cells are still alive, Yushiro uses them to take over the continuously moving castle. Muzan attacks again and manages to injure Tanjiro, while the castle shakes. Before Muzan can critically hit Mitsuri, Tanjiro throws a shattered Nichirin blade which stabs Muzan in the head, causing him to miss. He becomes furious with Tanjiro as the castle shatters on the surface.

 

Dawn Count Arc

 

In one town, the Demon Slayers are asked to occupy Muzan for another hour and a half, until sunrise. A furious Muzan, who now has whips on his spine, emerges from the debris and challenges them to try, swinging his limbs wildly. The Pillars take the opportunity to injure him, but to their surprise, he regenerates so fast that he cannot be decapitated. Before he can mortally wound them, hordes of lower-ranked Slayers cripple the Pillars, ready to die as human shields while Muzan slays dozens. He tells himself that they were lucky enough to die immediately and points to Tanjiro as an example to the contrary. Showing a horrible burn on his face, Muzan reveals that he injected his blood into Tanjiro during his previous attack and his body will be destroyed, boasting that he is already dead.

 

As Muzan and the Pillars trade blows, he notices that Demon Slayers with Mark activated can resist the effect of his Demon Blood. As Muzan tries to land a killing blow on Mitsuri, Gyomei saves her. Sanemi takes the opportunity to slash Muzan from behind, then throws vials filled with flammable liquid and proceeds to set Muzan on fire, to which the Demon protests saying he is dirty. Sanemi insults him saying that he is the one who is dirty and swears to kill Muzan.

 

As the battle rages on, the Pillars have difficulty fighting off Muzan who proves to be too powerful for them. An exhausted Mitsuri who does nothing but dodge is eventually injured and forced to give up the fight despite her desire to fight. Obanai takes notice and tries to fight Muzan harder, trying to slice and hit his severed limb to delay his regeneration, but makes little difference. Remembering his own past, he decides to fight for her and die to find her in another life.

 

Muzan's blood begins to damage the Pillar, Giyu loses the ability to hold his Sword of the Sun , with only a little over 15 minutes passing. Just as all seemed lost, Chachamaru , Tamayo's servant cat, appears and hurls syringes at the Pillars, dosing them with a serum that counteracts Muzan's poison. The latter kills the cat and is irritated to see that Tamayo always gets in his way, even after his death. Obanai thinks about how Muichiro was able to get his blade to blush and concentrates on his grip, making her blush as well, but he begins to lose consciousness from lack of oxygen, barely able to dodge Muzan's attacks and Giyu unable to reach her in time. Obanai is sent flying and miraculously manages to avoid Muzan's attack as Muzan's right arm and spinal whips are severed. Muzan wonders how this could have happened and realizes there is no way none of the Pillars could have cut him, he is then shot on his left arm causing him to notice the irregular cut he has in his arm. Muzan correctly deduces that someone is attacking him while hidden thanks to Yushiro 's technique . Feeling the air parting around him, he locates his three attackers, who are none other than Inosuke , Zenitsu , and Kanao , whom he manages to narrowly slash. Gyomei is surprised to see them alive and Inosuke brags about having a huge stash of Yushiro's paper so anything Muzan tries is useless, but he is reprimanded for chatting more than necessary.

 

Obanai takes the opportunity to slice off Muzan's arms, which regenerate more slowly due to his red blade, a fact Sanemi points out. Zenitsu and Kanao turn invisible again and attack Muzan in unison, causing the demon to complain about their little tricks. Gyomei is happy to have more support as he is able to clash his ax and iron ball together to heat them through friction, increasing their attack power. It doesn't take long to strike the left side of Muzan's torso. Sanemi and Giyu do the same and clash their blades which turn red. The Kasugai crow warns that there is 1 hour and 3 minutes left until dawn, and that the demon slayers have regained the advantage.

 

These take advantage of Yushiro's papers which allow them to see each other and launch incessant assaults on Muzan. Gyomei concentrates and is able to discern Muzan's unnatural biology, advising them to concentrate to be able to see them too. Suddenly, Muzan performs an undisclosed technique that allows him to defeat all of his attackers simultaneously, injuring them and causing them to crash into nearby buildings, mauling Gyomei's left leg and Giyu's right arm in the process. Kanao Tsuyuri finds himself with a broken blade, kneeling and in shock. Before Muzan can kill her, Tanjiro, having recovered, saves her by severing Muzan's arm, leaving him shocked, and takes her to a Slayer doctor to get her to safety. Seeing Tanjiro's mutated face due to his poison, Muzan comments that he looks terrible, and now wonders who the real Demon is between them. Seeing Yoriichi's image in Tanjiro , Muzan feels disgust for the Slayer.

 

Their fight begins when Tanjiro remembers the movements of the Breath of the Sun he witnessed in his dream, and his father's advice. He realizes that the movements must be used consecutively one after the other, which will lead to the 13th and most powerful movement. Despite feeling discouraged that he doesn't have Yoriichi's or his father's abilities, Tanjiro nevertheless ventures to attack Muzan, who sees the ghost of his former enemy in the young Demon Slayer. Tanjiro is able to discern Muzan's secret technique, a set of extra whips catapulted from his tights at immense speed taking his enemies by surprise after getting them accustomed to his current attack style. Turning his blade red, Tanjiro begins unleashing the Sun's Breath movements, trying to grow stronger on the brink of death.

 

Muzan is unimpressed as Tanjiro's technique is far from Yoriichi's level, seeing him losing his strength, he tries to secure himself the chance to finish once and for all with Tanjiro who is weakening from exhaustion and from his own wounds. Muzan, however, is unable to deliver a finishing blow, to his own surprise, and realizes that he too is weakening. He deduces that it is Tamayo's doing as he absorbed her cells and attempts to communicate with her essence in the cells to ask what the drug she injected into him really is. Tamayo's essence mocks him, which irritates Muzan, who destroys what's left of his consciousness and scans his memories instead. Seeing his memories, he learns the truth: Tamayo, Yushiro, and Shinobu Kocho indeed developed a drug that turns demons into humans, but they added an additional poison with a powerful aging effect that triggers on its own if the venom humanizing fails, aging Muzan at a rate of 50 years per minute. Muzan realizes his body has weakened as he struggles to retain his youth. He begins to calculate how long the drug has been active, which is about 3 hours, which means he has aged 9,000 years. Tanjiro continues to release successive movements of the Breath of the Sun, irritating the demon with his persistence. There are 59 minutes left before dawn; Tanjiro is able to connect all twelve moves and resolves to reuse them all faster than before.

 

It is learned that Chachamaru survived Muzan's attack as Yushiro had demonified the cat before the fight. He begins healing injured Demon Slayers. He concludes that Gyomei is unable to fight any longer due to blood and limb loss, before healing the others.

 

Muzan continues to harass Tanjiro who is gradually deprived of oxygen and loses his footing, but he is saved by Obanai, himself treated by Yushiro and having lost his sight when Muzan used his tentacles. Tanjiro is worried but Obanai reassures him that he can see through Kaburamaru, his snake. The two part ways as Muzan pursues Obanai and destroys a building to try and kill him, but he fails. Muzan is amazed that a single snake can help the Demon Slayer read his attacks, as Obanai and Tanjiro combine their attacks. As Muzan weakens from the aging venom and the efforts of his opponents, scars become visible all over his body. Tanjiro realizes that it is the wounds inflicted by Yoriichi, burned down to the cellular level that have never healed despite hundreds of years and reveal his weak points.

 

Muzan is horrified at the sight of his injuries, thinking that Yoriichi, a simple man who showed no apparent hostility was actually the real monster between the two of them crippling him like he did. Tanjiro and Obanai continue their assault on Muzan, with only 40 minutes left before dawn. The demon gets restless and tries to escape by trampling over the corpses of the demon slayers it has slain. Tanjiro is angry and throws many Sun Blades at Muzan which deflects them. Obanai stabs Muzan in the neck from behind, causing the latter to use his spinal whips which are stopped by Tanjiro; the latter attempts to give Obanai a pair of Yushiro's headbands so he can share Kaburamaru's vision. Although Muzan wounds them both to block their efforts, Kaburamaru manages to retrieve the papers allowing Obanai to fight in much better condition. Muzan slowly succumbs to panic as he is out of breath and his strength reaches critical. Their fight is followed from afar by Nezuko crying out of her right eye.

 

Muzan is increasingly pressured by attacks from Tanjiro and Obanai, and with 35 minutes to dawn Muzan deems it pointless to continue the fight and tries to split into pieces, escaping the same way as Muzan. he did it against Yoriichi. Tanjiro warns the Serpent Pillar about this and panics that between them they won't be able to destroy all the pieces of flesh. However, Muzan is unable to divide because a 3rd drug injected by Tamayo has the property of slowing down cell division. Muzan communicates with the essence of Tamayo who happily warns him that there were not three effects but four, with the fourth drug causing Muzan to cough up blood as it triggers cell destruction after the 3rd effect is activated. Tamayo's essence taunts Muzan by telling him that the death he feared so much is befalling him, adding that she doesn't need to be stronger than him to kill him, because the weakening is enough, and taunting him by telling him that, just as he will do anything to live, they will do anything to kill him.

 

The demon figures that normally the attacks used by demon slayers shouldn't be threatening and prolonged regeneration shouldn't be tiring, but Tamayo's drugs have turned otherwise manageable attacks into deadly threats and that he is unable to fully habituate to the toxins in his body, which are far different from those used to kill Doma . In a desperate attempt to survive, Muzan opens a gaping mouth in his chest and unleashes a powerful blast against Obanai and Tanjiro, leaving the latter convulsed and knocked unconscious. With only 25 minutes left before dawn, Kiriya , who is watching the fight from afar, begs someone to make Muzan wait. His pleas are answered when Inosuke attacks Muzan by throwing himself at the Demon, enraged at the previous defeat and mourning the comrades Muzan killed and injured. The latter, unable to use his technique, retaliates by plunging his arm into the ground and wrapping Inosuke in his tentacle.

 

The Slayer is saved by the timely intervention of Zenitsu who tells him that Tanjiro is still alive, begging him to do the same for the sake of Nezuko, who returns to normal. Muzan swings his arm at Zenitsu and crashes him into a building; the young man is saved by Inosuke who stabs Muzan's limb, before being knocked back with another blow. Muzan is very tired and irritated as the two slayers keep getting up to fight him.

 

Zenitsu uses his Lightning Breath , Seventh Move, managing to slash Muzan. However, the attack is more superficial than expected. Inosuke continues to attack Muzan with his techniques, forcing the Demon to use his Shockwave once more. Before he can attack the young man, Tanjiro recovers and unleashes successive Breath of the Sun techniques, realizing that Muzan needs to recharge before using his shockwave. Tanjiro weakens after using one of the breath moves, giving Muzan an opening, but he gets his tentacles sliced ​​off by Inosuke. Zenitsu attempts to join the fight but is unable to muster enough speed to use his techniques. Muzan carries Inosuke towards a building and Tanjiro loses his footing, as Zenitsu manages to recover enough to use one last attack, but he himself is injured by Muzan. Tanjiro takes the chance and stabs Muzan pinning him to a building, unable to use any other techniques as he plays everything to keep Muzan in place. The latter attempts to kill Tanjiro but suddenly Mitsuri, having recovered, clings to his tentacles and rips his left arm off while shouting at him to stop, while Muzan's right arm and tentacles are sliced ​​off by Sanemi. With little choice, a huge bestial mouth appears on Muzan's forehead and attempts to devour Tanjiro who can do nothing but stay put. To protect him, Obanai puts himself in danger by getting shredded by Muzan, as dawn breaks.

 

Muzan panics at the sight of the sun and desperately unleashes a powerful shockwave, catapulting his attackers apart except for Tanjiro who loses his left arm but stays firmly in place trying to redden his blade, when Giyu appears for the to help ; together they hurt Muzan. In response to the Sun's threat, Muzan enlarges and takes the form of a large demonic baby, absorbing Tanjiro in the process. As the demon tries to take cover, hordes of demon slayers block his way by throwing shelves and ramming vehicles, as he struggles to find a way through. He is soon pinned down by another group of slayers, who push a bus over him to prevent him from escaping. Muzan begins to burn under the effect of the star, which forces him to fight for his life. Before he can crush the Demon Slayers, Sanemi appears and sever his right arm, cursing the Demon's persistence and demanding his death.

 

As he attempts to scale the bus blockade, Gyomei ties a chain around his neck, aided by multiple Slayers who unite to bring Muzan down. As he burns more and more, Muzan resorts to digging to escape, causing Giyu, Sanemi, and Obanai to attack him to drain his stamina. Soon the chains break in what seems like a desperate moment; Tanjiro, still inside Muzan, manages to ignite his blade and injure the demon, causing Muzan to wince in pain as he begins to disintegrate in the sunlight. With his body entirely reduced to ashes, the once invincible Demon who ruled the shadows of Japan, spreading misery and suffering for millennia, has finally given up, ending this seemingly eternal war with the victory of the Demon slayers.

 

Heritage

 

Muzan's defeat, while significant, proved to be a costly victory for the Demon Slayers, leaving dozens of members dead, maimed, heavily injured, or dying.

 

Also, despite his death, Muzan managed, in his dying breath, to turn Tanjiro into a demon. By transferring his blood and memories into Tanjiro's dying body, Muzan manages to revive him as a demon, considering him the king among them. He influences Tanjiro to conquer the Sunlight and achieve his dream of ending the Demon Slayer Corps.

 

Tanjiro's poisoned eye is restored and his left arm regenerated, while the young slayer is unleashed in a savage state against the rest of the Demon Slayers and successfully defeats the Sun. Although the new Demon Lord is basically invincible, Tanjiro's consciousness fights to regain control with the help of Nezuko and Kanao, the latter having used the humanizing drug as a conduit for everyone's calls to reach Tanjiro. The memory of Muzan's will resorted to deception and psychological torture in order to convince Tanjiro to embrace his new demonic heritage. However, in stark contrast to everything the demonic ancestor has ever stood for, the young man rejects immortality and the powers of the demon to live out his remaining few years in peace as a human in the company of everyone. , leaving Muzan's spirit behind to permanently end his reign of terror once and for all, avenge the deaths of their tragic victims, and atone for his sins for eternity.

 

Skills and competences

Techniques

 

Black Blood, Brambles (黒こっ血けつ・枳き棘きょく Kokketsu: Kikyoku?) - Muzan uses his own flesh and blood to create multiple black-tipped barbed wire to entangle his target. [8]

 

Combat Form  : When fighting, Muzan can take on a more monstrous form, with a dark red mace covering his limbs, with large, sharp-toothed mouths, with his torso exposed. Her hair becomes longer and messy. His speed, strength, reflexes, and power are greatly amplified in this form to the point that, despite losing a large amount of stamina and stamina fending off Tamayo's human-transforming drug, he was still fully capable. to easily outsmart several low-ranking demons. Killers and consuming dozens within minutes of emerging from its cocoon. The sharp toothed jaws/mouths located all over his body in this form not only serve as his primary form of attack in battle, but also serve the purpose of helping him recover faster as he can use the jaws to rip through his opponents and eat their flesh, simultaneously killing his opponents and regaining his strength at the same time. [9]

 

Arm  Whips: Muzan can stretch his arms and grow multiple sharp blades in his extended forearms and transform his hands into multiple bladed protrusions, each ranging from 90 centimeters/35.4 inches to 10 meters/32.8 feet, which he could then swing like whips to easily tear through his opponents. The swing speed of his attacks is extremely fast, and the accuracy of his attacks is also extremely precise. And, due to the length of his arms, Muzan possesses such huge attack range that even three Hashira couldn't get close to him. [10]

 

Mouth Suction : Muzan's arm whips also possess numerous mouths full of sharp fangs throughout them. Muzan can use these mouths to breathe with absurd force and suction force that he can change at any time from extremely long ranges, which he uses to pull opponents within the strike range of his whips. This will prove severely hampering for Hashiras' moves, as dodging them will consume a lot more stamina.

 

Spine Whips : Later, after being enraged even more, Muzan grows 9 slender tubes, each 4 meters / 13.1 feet long, like spine-like protrusions from his back that extend into tentacles with blades resembling whips. With them, Muzan is able to greatly increase his attack range and number of tandem attacks with his arm whips, allowing him to easily mow down hordes of Demon Slayers and pin down four Hashira. Additionally, it's incredibly difficult to read the trajectory of each of the whips, making it even more nearly impossible to counter.

 

Leg  Whips: Muzan then grew 4 tubes on each thigh, each measuring 7 meters/22.9 feet long. Unlike his spinal whips, they are much faster, and with his immense shape-shifting skill, he can rapidly grow the whips and then dissipate them faster than human senses can perceive, allowing him to attack with ease. from his blind spots, shown when he manages to use them to seriously injure four Hashira and Hashira level Demon Slayers without them feeling or perceiving that Muzan's body has changed and transformed.

 

Shockwave Scream  : Later, after being forced into a corner by Tanjiro and Obanai and weakened by Tamayo's four-stage drug, Muzan showcased another unique ability from his Blood Demon Art, in which he transformed his torso and body. upper body into a gigantic bestial mouth. From there, it emitted a powerful shockwave scream, capable of seriously injuring anyone within its reach. When Tanjiro and Obanai were caught in the blast, even Kiriya and her sisters, who were connected to them by the crows in the area, bore the brunt of the attack. This technique is capable of causing convulsions, paralysis and respiratory disorders. It is primarily used as a defensive technique, however, intended to ward off attackers. This technique requires a cooldown before use and therefore cannot be used consecutively, although it is widely hinted that Tamayo's medication further jeopardizes his ability to use this attack. Its impact can be lessened through the use of a Nichirin Sword, as self-stabbing can dispel some of its effects.

 

Shield of Flesh  : After being cornered by the Demon Slayers and pinned by Tanjiro until dawn, Muzan, in a panic, transformed into a gigantic mass of flesh, resembling that of a gigantic demonic child, in order to protect his main body from being scorched by the sun so quickly. This form was shown to possess immense physical strength, as Muzan was able to easily crawl and push back an entire car that had been pushed by multiple Kakushi, and later was able to break Gyomei's chain despite the fact that he holds Muzan back with all his strength and being supported by several Kakushi.

 

Anecdotes

Muzan's name contains the kanji for "demon's dance" ( 鬼 き 舞 ぶ 辻 つじ, kibutsuji ) and "wretched, pitiful, merciless" ( 無 む 惨 ざん, muzan ).

Muzan's first name may also be a pun on the six words ( 六 む, mu ) and three ( 参 さん, san ), which is why Kimetsu no Yaiba 's official Twitter account refers to June 3 as "Muzan Day " .

Muzan was born and became a demon during the Heian period in the early 900s.

Muzan was ranked 11th in the series' first character popularity poll, with 285 votes.

After becoming a demon, Muzan settled down with five different women throughout the Heian period. However, due to his lack of empathy and sensitivity as a demon, he verbally abused his five wives to the point of driving them to suicide.

Kagaya Ubuyashiki hinted that the Ubuyashiki family are descended from the first blood relatives of Muzan, who, because the family gave birth to the original demon, were cursed with an unknown, incurable and untreatable recessive genetic disease, which killed all family members - past and present - before they reach the age of thirty.

Later, after his defeat and death, it is revealed that this "curse" was successfully removed from the Ubuyashiki clan as Kagaya's son, Kiriya Ubuyashiki, lived a full life, even surviving to become the strongest person. age of Japan at the time of the modern era [12] .

As seen, Muzan and Kagaya Ubuyashiki bear a very strong resemblance to each other, almost to the point that they could be mistaken for twins.

Muzan is the only antagonist in the series who appears on the cover page of the manga volumes (2 and 22).

A running gag among Kimetsu no Yaiba fans is that Muzan is often compared to the famous "King of Pop" Michael Jackson due to the similarity in their clothing and even facial structure.

References

↑ Kimtetsu no Yaiba manga - chapter 201 (page 1).

↑ Kimetsu no Yaiba manga - chapter 127 (pages 13–16).

↑ Kimetsu no Yaiba manga - chapter 187 .

↑ Kimetsu no Yaiba manga - chapter 11 (page 3).

↑ Kimetsu no Yaiba manga - chapter 13 (pages 13–19).

↑ Kimetsu no Yaiba manga - chapter 52 (page 2).

↑ Kimetsu no Yaiba manga - chapter 180 (pages 5–17).

↑ Chapter 139 (Page 8)

↑ Chapter 180 (Pages 5-11)

↑ Chapter 182 (Pages 2–8)

↑ Official Twitter account .

↑ Kimetsu no Yaiba manga - chapter 205 (page 14).