Tanjiro Kamado
Tanjiro Kamado is a male anime and manga character who features in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
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Biography
Tanjiro Kamado (Japanese: 竈門 炭治郎, Hepburn: Kamado Tanjirō) was a male human born centuries ago in the lands of Japan.
During the Taisho period, Tanjiro lives a modest yet blissful life in the mountains with his family, consisting of his mother and five younger brothers and sisters. On a snowy morning, Tanjiro prepares to leave for the nearby town and sell charcoal in preparation for the new year. However, his younger sister Hanako Kamado and brother Shigeru Kamado hold him back, begging for him to bring them along. Their mother intercepts and tells them how Tanjiro would not be able to carry them if they were tired. Upon hearing his family's conversation, Takeo Kamado also expresses disappointment and states how he was initially hoping to cut wood with his elder brother that day. Tanjiro bids farewell and starts making for the town. He quickly encounters his sister, Nezuko Kamado, who is carrying their youngest brother, Rokuta Kamado. Nezuko comments on their siblings' attachment to Tanjiro and sees him off. Upon arriving at the town, Tanjiro holds friendly conversation with the townsfolk and some ask for his help to perform errands. After spending the afternoon at the town, Tanjiro begins to make his way back home but is suddenly stopped by a man named Saburo. Saburo requests that the boy stay at his house for the night and warns him of the dangers in the mountains. Although Tanjiro tries to deny the offer, Saburo continues pushing and emphasizes that Demons are active during the night. Tanjiro finally relents and listens to Saburo talk about Demons as he falls asleep. When Tanjiro makes his way back home the next day, he returns to see an unconscious and wounded Nezuko lying in the snow and shielding Rokuta with her arms. Devastated, he realizes that the entirety of his family has been slaughtered, except for Nezuko. Tanjiro picks her up and, while attempting to carry her to the nearest doctor, discovers that she has been transformed into a Demon and is promptly attacked by her.
Tanjiro struggled to fend off his Demon-turned sister and is overwhelmed by her strength, narrowly managing to block her attack with the handle of his hatchet. As Nezuko begins to grow in size and overpower him, Tanjiro internally apologizes to his family for the suffering they must've felt during their last moments and begs his sister to retain her humanity. Upon hearing her brother's words, Nezuko begins to cry. The siblings are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Giyu Tomioka, who attacks Nezuko from behind, only for his attempt to fail when Tanjiro moves her out of the way. Recovering quickly, the swordsman asks Tanjiro why he protected the Demon, and he desperately replies that the creature is his sister. Looking at the maddened Nezuko, Giyu questions this statement before swiftly removing the girl from her brother's grip. As Tanjiro calls out to Nezuko in alarm, Giyu tells him not to move and states that it is his job to kill Demons. He listens to Tanjiro's attempt to defend his sister and explain their current predicament. As Tanjiro expresses his confusion with Nezuko's transformation, Giyu comments that her change is simple to explain: any open wound bathed in Demon blood causes that person to become a Demon themselves, thus increasing their overall numbers. Tanjiro exclaims that his sister hasn't eaten any people, but Giyu reminds him that she had just attacked her previously and bluntly tells him that there is no way to cure a person once they are turned into a Demon, despite Tanjiro's plea to the contrary. As Tanjiro continues begging for his sister's release, Giyu brings his sword up to Nezuko's throat. Tanjiro then bows before the swordsman and begs him to spare his sister's life. Giyu grows angry, and yells that Tanjiro has no authority over who lives or who dies, given he was too weak to protect even his own family. He labels all his talk about finding a cure for his sister's condition and his family's killer as ridiculous, since neither he nor the Demon Lord would have any respect for such a miserable display. Giyu demands that Tanjiro prove his dedication to protecting his sister by drawing his axe. While Tanjiro hesitates upon hearing these words, Giyu silently encourages him to find the resolve necessary to accomplish all of the lofty goals he had placed upon himself. He then stabs Nezuko in the chest, causing Tanjiro to throw a stone at him in fury.
Giyu blocked the stone with the hilt of his sword and avoids another one of the projectiles as Tanjiro charges at him empty-handed. Seeing the attack attempt as only a simple act of emotion, the swordsman angrily drives the hilt of his sword into Tanjiro's back, knocking him out. Staring down at the fallen boy, Giyu realizes his opponent's hatchet was missing and looks up to see the weapon spinning towards him through the air, narrowly dodging it. He muses over Tanjiro's clever strategy and realizes the boy's plan was to defeat him with the flying hatchet after he was knocked out. Distracted, the swordsman was attacked by Nezuko, and he dodges backwards from her kick. Cursing himself, Giyu watches as the girl reaches for her brother, certain that she was going to devour him. To his surprise, she instead stands protectively in front of his vulnerable body before charging at him in rage. Giyu recalled Tanjiro's previous statement that Nezuko would not eat humans, noting that somebody a long time ago had said the same thing and had been killed regardless. He reflects on the nature of Demons, in particular, the high amount of stamina lost during the transformation process, and what they do to alleviate the lost stamina and prevent starvation: eat humans, even those closest to them. Seeing that Nezuko was not following this example, Giyu sheaths his sword and incapacitates the unusual Demon with a barehanded blow to the neck. While Tanjiro and Nezuko are unconscious, Giyu wraps the latter in a clean cloth and straps a bamboo muzzle-like tube across her mouth. When Tanjiro wakes up after seeing a vision of his deceased mother and siblings, Giyu instructs him to visit a man named Sakonji Urokodaki at Mount Sagiri and to not take his sister out in the sun, vanishing swiftly afterwards. A surprised Tanjiro watches him leave, and he takes Nezuko to dig graves to bury their family and pray for their souls in the afterlife. The pair then leave their home and head towards Mount Sagiri.
Later that day, Tanjiro hides Nezuko in a small cave entrance and goes to the nearby farm to buy a broken basket plus straw and bamboo, comically insisting on paying as the owner was willing to give him the materials for free. Reaching the cave entrance, Tanjiro quickly assembles a basket large enough to carry Nezuko on his back, with a little help from her shrinking abilities. Near sunset, Tanjiro is told by a villager that to reach Mount Sagiri, he would need to pass through a perilous mountain where people were disappearing. Unafraid, he ignores the warning and encounters a way station with lights on, immediately smelling blood. He goes inside to check in case there were harmed travelers, but instead encounters a Demon feasting on three humans he had just killed. When the Demon notices them, he senses something odd but nevertheless jumps on Tanjiro and tries to strangle him. Nezuko avoids her instinct to eat the human flesh in front of her and kicks the Demon's head off, saving her brother. Even without a head, the Demon still commands its body to attack and grows a pair of arms on its head, much to Tanjiro's shock. As the body furiously attacks Nezuko, Tanjiro headbutts the head twice in order to get an opening and pins him to a tree nearby. With half of the Demon restrained, Tanjiro goes to help Nezuko by tackling the body of the Demon and throwing it off a cliff. Although Tanjiro nearly falls off as well, Nezuko is able to catch him in time. Despite the excruciating pain caused from the destruction of his body, the Demon does not die. anjiro realizes the Demon pinned in front of him smells different from the one he sensed in their house and concludes his family's murderer was someone different. As Tanjiro prepares to kill the Demon with his knife, the hand of a figure wearing a Tengu mask touches his shoulder and tells him he would be unable to end the Demon's life with such a blunt weapon. Tanjiro questions the man on how to properly kill a Demon, but he is told that he would need to figure it out himself. To the man's disappointment, Tanjiro is too compassionate and overthinks, accidentally letting the Demon perish by the sun's first rays. After watching the Demon's death, Tanjiro notices the man already giving a proper burial to the Demon's victims.
A crow then told the group their next assignment which involved eliminating demonic activity at the Natagumo Mountain (那な田た蜘ぐ 蛛も山やま Natagumo yama?). They were to join others slayers in clearing out the area of the Spider Family.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Tanjiro had a natural heightened sense of smell that he used in his life even prior to becoming a demon slayer. After his training, this talent grew strong and skilled enough allowing him to smell the line of interval. Kamado was even able to tell the hidden emotions of a persona through the scent he could pick up from them.
From Sakonji, Kamado was taught the Breath of Water (Japanese: 水みずの呼こ吸きゅう, Hepburn: Mizu no kokyū?) technique allowing him to increase the amount of oxygen in his blood by controlling his breathing pattern, which increased his strength and agility to equal that of a Demon. Initially, he could only utilise this technique for a short period but whilst at the Butterfly Estate he came to learn to maintain it constantly to the point that he kept it even when he was sleeping. This greatly improved his stamina and skill allowing him to match more skilled Demon Slayers.
Through this style, he came to learn a number of fighting techniques that included:
- First Form: Water Surface Slash (壱いちノ型かた水みな面も斬ぎり, Ichi no kata: Minamo giri?) : by generating momentum, he was able to create a powerful single concentrated slash.
- Second Form: Water Wheel (弐にノ型かた水みず車ぐるま, Ni no kata: Mizu guruma?) : Tanjiro leapt in the air and vertically spun forward in the air while releasing a flowing attack in a circular motion. A variation of this was Second Form Modified: Lateral Water Wheel (弐にノ型かた・改かい横よこ水みず車ぐるま, Ni no kata kai: Yoko mizu guruma?) where he instead made a horizontal spin.
Notes
- Tanjiro Kamado was created by Koyoharu Gotōge where he featured in the setting of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba universe.
In other media
Television
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Appearances
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba:
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