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Shinobu Kocho - Beautiful Vengeful Butterfly: A Character Analysis

Conclusion: She’s a Bad Bitch

Shinobu is one of my favorite characters ever. Most of Demon Slayer’s characters make the list due to Koyoharu Gotouge’s impecable character writing. Absolutely gold tier. Literally a model for writers everywhere.

I wanted to do an analysis on her because I also think she’s one of Demon Slayer’s more complex characters. Girl has layers. And she’s so interesting.

This analysis is basically an expanded version of this post from my main blog.

Quick Spoiler Warning! This post will contain Demon Slayer manga spoilers! I don’t want anime-onlys getting all sensitive on me.

Contents:

Part I: Her Anger

Part II: Shinobu’s ‘Dream’

Part III: Giyu and Shinobu - The Inferiority Complex Pair

Part IV: Shinobu and Her Sisters

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Unpopular Opinion on Mitsuri Kanroji

Mitsuri’s character isn’t “shallow” like most people would say. Her motivation is NOT to just get married, she ALSO wants to be accepted for who she is, while putting her strength to good use.

Her character arc reflects on how society treats those who couldn’t live up to the ideal image of a “woman”, and how people generally shun those who are “different”. All her life, she was seen as an “undesirable woman” because of her unusual strength and hair color, of course this would severely affect her self esteem, which we see her struggle with time and time again. Imagine being seen as a “freak”/“undesirable” in an environment with such strict gender roles. Seriously, try to put yourselves into her shoes for a moment.

Mitsuris character arc is a about her realizing that she doesn’t have to sacrifice her own individuality, nor does she have to conform to the standards of being a proper woman, just so she can be accepted by others, instead she pushed through, and found the demon slayer corps, which became a place where she can be herself.

As for obamitsu, her falling in love Obanai, does NOT take away her character development, nor does it reduce her to a love interest, (I feel like people tend to overuse/misuse this phrase, like A LOT) because Mitsuri’s goal has always been to be ACCEPTED, and Obanai was the one who loved her for who she is, and that’s what makes obamitsu such a meaningful relationship, especially with how they complimented each others character arcs.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with a female character having a love interest, as long it’s not all there is to her, and that IT MAKES SENSE. For Mitsuri, she learned to love someone without being ashamed of herself.

I also want to talk about her design, this is from the perspective of a design student, and in my opinion, her design is really well crafted, because it expresses her personality REALLY WELL.

I just wanna get this straight, there’s nothing INHERENTLY wrong with a sexy female character designs, especially if it does its job on expressing that character’s personality, because that’s the whole point about her design, we are supposed to notice how bold and unique she looks, because it’s all about Mitsuri rejecting that normalcy in favor of being herself.

For that matter, I don’t think her character design is just meant to SOLELY appeal to men. From her hair, her socks, and her unique fighting style, all of these shows her vibrancy and her unique strength. Not only are these aesthetically pleasing to some people, these are all the traits that branded her as an “undesirable woman”, but instead of being ashamed of them like she used to, she decided to express it into her outfit in a way that she is proud of. To put it simply, it empowers her. I think that’s the meaning behind her character design, and why I think its beautiful. It’s a design that can also be appreciated by the female readers. 

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Demon Slayer Ending Explained And The Meaning Behind It!

The thing that needs to be recognised about Kimetsu, simply put, isn't a story in the slightest built off of things like lore or exposition. The entire narrative arc is built off the emotions of the characters. Training stages and growth are always framed through the lens of-

-the characters feelings. The villains are defined by how they threw away their humanity. The majority of the cast are directly people who lost loved ones to demons, and fight not for dreams but simply for those who loved them. No one fights gloriously, fights in-series are-

-violent, horrible affairs with people desperate for survival. Every battle ends in death and an air of tragedy.

It's because of that Gotoge kills so frequently. In a story like Kimetsu where misery is so endemic, death is almost a part of life. Yet, when they die, there's-

-always a monologue showing an acceptance of what happened...except with Muzan, who dies accepting nothing.

Kimetsu is a story of death, despair and tragedy which clings to the hope will build for ourselves.

Which is why, in the ending, the series kicks away its entire world. There is nothing remaining as the curtain falls. Demons (sans Yushiro) are gone. The Corps disband. All historical evidence of the story is Zenitsu's novel (believed to be hoax) and the framed photo at the end. A story of misery and tragedy won't automatically "get better" when the curtain falls. Life goes on. So the "happy ending" is simply showing a new life in a world where the characters don't have to suffer. Disagree with that perspective all you want, but Gotoge's answer to her story about good, kind people forced to fight terrible, unrelenting evil is to simply tell people to be happy a better world can now exist. It is our life.

Just live in a better tomorrow, no matter what.

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