Anime fried Chicken here back once again with another Demon Slayer : Kimetsu no Yaiba discussion
video.
Today we’re talking about breathing techniques, no not Hamon ripple Jojo’s Bizarre adventure
nonsense get outta here with that baloney. Today we’re not here to kill vampires, we’re
here to neck some demons. And I’ve got 15 different schools of total concentration breathing
styles that will do just the job. So buckle in, take a deep breath, and get ready to swing
that Nichirin blade. Lets dive right in.
Water
First up is the style that has had the most screen time by an absolute mile, the Breath
of Water. It’s worth mentioning now that there are five main breath styles, Water Flame
Stone Wind n’ Thunder, and that other styles are essentially derivatives from these 5.
Users of the Breath of Water style include our boy Tanjiro, Urokodaki sensei, Tomioka
and the deceased student of urokodaki, Sabito and Makomo. The art and animation of this
style leans heavily on flowing water imagery for most of the attacks, with thick, bold
inking, giving the appearance of a moving painting based on edo era artwork.
Thunder
The Breath of Thunder is next seen being used by our zappy boi Zenitsu. Other known users
of the Thunder Style include his teacher, Kuwajima, and also the new Thunder Pillar,
Kaigaku.
Just as you’d expect from the breath of thunder, the attacks are flashy and speed
is the name of the game. Compared to the more flowing nature of the breath of water style
attacks, The thunder school strikes, are direct, precise, and over in an instant. From the
couple of attacks we have seen animated so far, it’s fair to say they have been electrifying.
Beast
The Beast style is derived from the Breath of wind and the sole user is our favorite
boar headed support character, inosuke. Not too many of his attacks have been animated
so far, but from what we’ve seen, his slashes could be categorised as more primal and less
refined, while more brutal than the other schools of fighting.
One aspect of the Breath of Beast style that is quite unique, is his 7th form attack, 7th
fang, spatial awareness. Allowing Inosuke to sense demons by minute disturbances in
the air. This skill proving useful when tanjiro’s sense of smell or zenitsu’s super hearing,
are for whatever reason being blocked.
Insect
The breath of Insect is a third generation style that was formed from the breath of flower,
which in turn was born from the breath of water. The single user of this form of swordswomanship
in Shinobu Kocho.
Personally I believe this to be the most creative methods of inflciting mortal wounds to demon-kind
so far in the anime. Shinobu’s blade is laced with Wisteria extract, and with each
strike she is essentially delivering a dose of poison. Shinobu second best girl.
Ok. This covers breath styles that we’ve seen attacks animated for in the Anime as
of the upload date for this video. From here on out we are in manga spoiler territory.
I’ll speed through this as I know most of you are anime casuals. some of the manga pannels
are tricky and readers may interpet the attack styles differently, so I’ll leave them for
you guys to analyse. Manga Spoilers incoming: You have been warned!
Wind The Breath of Wind is used solely by the wind
pillar Sanemi Shinazugawa. Quite simply, not much is known about this style. The art from
the attacks draw on imagery of gales, cyclones and vortexes in conjunction with strikes.
Flower The Breath of Flower has been used previously
by Kanae Kocho, the deceased sister of Shinobu. And more recently by the Kanao Tsuyuri. The
slashes in this school of the sword, are flowing, aptly as it derives from the breath of water,
and each of the forms of attack have names relating to various flowering plants.
Love The breath of love is used by Mitsuri Kanroji.
Kanroji is an absolute oddity as a charecter. It’s ntoed that her inhuman strength is
due to her muscles being 8 times denser than normal humans, she also posseses superhuman
levels of agility. This allows her to weild an infamously difficult to handle sword, with
a supple blade that dishes out whip like attacks.
Mist The breath of mist is used by the wind pillar
Muichiro Tokito. It’s hinted that some of his attacks embody mist and fog like tendenancies
to hide his movement and strikes by disorientating his opponents.
Stone The breath of stone is one of the original
styles and only seen so far being used by the pillar of stone, Gyomei Himejima. He duel
wields an axe and spiked flail, with strikes often having a brutal crushing effect, esecially
while attack with each simultaneously..
Flame The breath of flame style is practiced by
the pillar of flames, Kyojuro Rengoku. Kyojuro and his younger brother Senjuro were trained
the breath of flames style by their father, the former pillar, Shinjuro Rengoku.
The attacks are in this style are seen as explosive and high energy, somewhat matching
the personalities of the Rengoku family.
Serpent The breath of the serpent is used by Obanai
Iguro the pillar of the serpent. And as you would expect, its based on snake-like bending
and twisting of the sword. Somewhat similar to the breath of love, but where Kanroji’s
sword is mallable and whip-like, Iguro’s serpent nichirin sword is completely rigid.
This style is derived from the breath of water - aptly names because of the flowing nature
of a snakes fluid movement.
Sound The breath of sound, derrived form the breath
of lightning, is a style unique only to Tengen Uzui. This style allows the wielder to read
the sound eminating from an opponents as if they were beats to a song, or a composed score
- allowing him know exactly when to strike.
He also uses slashes in conjunction with bombs made from a special gunpowder able to wound
demons. A pretty flamboyant and noisy fighting style indeed.
Moon The breath of the moon is the exception to
the rule, and actually derives directly from the breath of the sun style. The sole user
of this style is Kokushibo the Upper Moon one demon. Yes a Demon!
Just as the shape of the moon changes through it’s cycle, the chaotic nature of Kokushibo’s
attacks are mostly sweeping crescent slashes that vary in size and number.
Sun To be honest, this one is a bit of a mystery.
We know that all of the other main breath styles are said to descend from this original
form. We’ve had Shinjuro Rengoku speculate that Tanjiro uses breath of the sun, based
on his hanefuda earrings.
And there are hints that breath of the sun is the same as Dance of the fire god, a breath
style passed down through the Kamado family.
Our protagonist Tanjiro learned this breath style from this father Tanjuro, and it has
12 forms of attack, has a stronger base level of damage compared to breath of the water,
but also takes a heavier toll on Tanjiro’s stamina.
And that’s it. I’m thinking of breaking down each of the breath styles individual
attack forms, let me know if you think this a video I should make! This was anime fried
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