Demon Slayer: Is Yoriichi Tsugikuni Related to Tanjiro?

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a popular anime series that has captured the hearts of fans all over the world. One of the most intriguing and mysterious characters in the show is Yoriichi Tsugikuni, the creator of Sun-Breathing, which is considered the most powerful of all the Breathing Styles in the series. Yoriichi’s life story is tragic, and his relationship with the Kamado family has left fans wondering if he is related to the protagonist, Tanjiro Kamado.

Yoriichi was born with the Mark of a Sun-Breather in a time when Breathing Styles did not even exist. His mother prayed to the Sun gods for him to be able to hear and gave him the Hanafuda Earrings as charms. Yoriichi was a master swordsman even as a child thanks to his ability to see into the Transparent World, allowing him to predict his opponent’s moves. Yoriichi’s tragic past includes the loss of his wife and unborn child to demons, which led him to meet members of the Demon Slayer Corps and teach them Breathing Styles. However, none of them were able to wield Sun-Breathing, including Yoriichi’s own twin brother.

Yoriichi’s encounter with Muzan Kibutsuji, the Progenitor of Demons, was fateful. Yoriichi compared Muzan to a volcano, boiling and seething as if to consume everything, and knew that he was born with the power of Sun-Breathing to defeat him. Yoriichi defeated Muzan in an instant, but he allowed him to escape after asking him a question. Yoriichi considered himself a failure for allowing Muzan to slip through his hands, and it pained him that his own brother, Michikatsu Tsugikuni, became a demon known as Kokushibo, Upper-Rank One of the Twelve Kizuki. Sun-Breathing was a sort of divine power that Yoriichi was blessed with, and he regretted not using it to rid the world of demons.

Despite their lack of blood relation, Yoriichi had a close relationship with the Kamado family, who he had saved from demons when he was still a Demon Slayer. After he failed to defeat Muzan and watched his brother become a demon, he visited the Kamados one last time. While he was there, Suyako asked to see the forms of Sun-Breathing, and Sumiyoshi burned them into his memory as Yoriichi performed them. Yoriichi handed over his Hanafuda Earrings, and the Kamado family vowed to pass down Sun-Breathing to their descendants in honor of their debt to him.

It is nothing more than a coincidence that the Kamado men have the same auburn hair as Yoriichi, and the Hanafuda Earrings they’ve passed down to Tanjiro are the very pair that Yoriichi once wore. While the Kamados passed down the forms of Sun-Breathing with near-perfect accuracy, it wasn’t until Tanjiro that the Mark of a chosen Sun-Breather appeared on one of them. Yoriichi and Tanjiro are connected by way of being chosen to wield Sun-Breathing, but Yoriichi died long after his wife and child, meaning he had no direct descendants. In the manga’s final chapter, Yoriichi and his family have been reincarnated, and they are seen in the deep background of a panel as Tanjiro’s own descendants head to school, adding an interesting twist to the story.

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