Nezuko Kamado

Nezuko Kamado is the deuteragonist and main heroine of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba franchise.
She's the younger sister of Tanjiro Kamado, who was the sole survivor of Muzan's massacre of the Kamado family, but was turned into a Demon by him. Despite this, Nezuko managed to find a way to control her demonic nature and her craving for human blood, becoming a pivotal motivator and frequently helping her brother's quest to become a Demon slayer in hopes of finding a cure for her condition.
==Portrayals==
===Voices===
*Akari Kitō - Japanese
*Kim Yeon-woo - Korean
*Abby Trott - English
*Annie Rojas - Spanish Latin 
===Live Action===
*Akari Takaishi - 2020 Stage Adaptation
==Biography==
Nezuko was originally an ordinary girl born into a poor yet happy family. The second born of the six Kamado siblings, Nezuko maintained a strong bond with her mother and siblings, especially with her older brother Tanjiro and her youngest brother Rokuta.
While her older brother Tanjiro went out to town to sell charcoal to villagers. A demon named Muzan Kibutsuji came to the Kamado household one day and murdered everyone present in that tragic day. Tanjiro goes home at dawn, he detects the scent of blood, only to find out that his whole family to be murdered. Tanjiro carried Nezuko having said that she was the one who survived the massacre and her older brother Tanjiro had a hard time carrying Nezuko, because the cold air causes his breathing to weaken. Nezuko begins to twitch and rearing up as she groans into an animalistic manner. Tanjiro asks Nezuko if she is able to walk on her own, and he will carry her to town to treat her wounds, he didn't realize that Kibutsuji had transformed her into a demon. Unfortunately this meant Nezuko had a strong craving for human blood and initially attacked Tanjiro.
However, after a Demon Slayer by the name of Giyu Tomioka arrived on the scene, the swordsman initially wanted to kill Nezuko, as he swiftly gets Nezuko away from her brother's hands. Tanjiro insisted that Nezuko will never eat a human and she remembers that Tanjiro is her older brother. Giyu was skeptical of his claims, as she was trying to devour him earlier. He promised to turn Nezuko back into a human, but is told that becoming oneself into a human is irreversible. Angered, the Demon Slayer reprimands him for begging in the face of others and that he is only creating an opening for others to kill him. He stabs Nezuko on the shoulder, which caused Tanjiro to retaliate by hurling a stone at the swordsman. Seeing his weak effort, Giyu knocks out Tanjiro, he questions that where did the hatchet go, to his surprise the hatchet was the flying object, nearly killing him. Nezuko breaks free from the swordsman's hold, which distracted him and curses himself that Nezuko will pounce and devour her older brother. Nezuko was able to hold back her urge to devour and defend her brother after Tanjiro had tried to protect her from the Slayer. As a result of this, Tomioka spared the Kamado siblings and instructed Tanjiro to train under his former master to become a Demon Slayer himself. Although approved by the lord of Demon Slayer Corps. of continued existence, Should a day come when Nezuko ever take a life of human, then Tanjiro, Giyu and Sakonji (who guaranteed Nezuko's non-aggression) must kill Nezuko and take their own lives by committing seppuku as a restitution for her transgression. Luckily that day never came.
Miraculously, Nezuko never devoured a human and went on to accompany her brother on his quest to find a cure for her and slay Muzan Kibutsuji. Because Nezuko was injected with a very large amount of Muzan Kibutsuji's Demon blood, she is extraordinarily powerful for a fledging Demon.
==Personality==
As a human, Nezuko was a kind and caring girl, who thought of others before herself much like her older brother, Tanjiro, and was a responsible older sister to her younger siblings. However, she is not afraid to get in harm's way, protecting her friends from Demons even after being returned to a human state.
As a Demon, however, Nezuko seems to have forgotten a good portion of her memories as a human, besides those related to her family, and thus doesn't retain the exact personality she had before transformation. (She initially attempted to attack her brother, but she reconsidered and decides to protect him instead, showing a display of restrain.) She is still very caring and protective towards humans who she sees as members of her family, although this is mainly due to the influence Sakonji Urokodaki had on her while she was asleep for two years. Nezuko also retains some of her human emotions, as she has been seen to cry when sad and smile when happy, but in general she appears more detached than her human cohorts, although she is still much calmer and less malicious than most Demons.
Since becoming a Demon, Nezuko also appears to have become rather brazen, and does not seem to fear fighting; she fiercely guards her brother as well as her allies. She has also developed a strong willpower, which can be seen through her refusal to consume human flesh or blood, even in cases of extreme injury or exposure to human blood, which can be seen when she refuses Sanemi Shinazugawa after he attempts to lure her into biting him with his Marechi blood. Her strong willpower remains even when she is no longer a Demon, which is demonstrated when she willingly leaps in front of Inosuke to protect him from her own brother, who had become a Demon and was attempting to kill those around him, which she didn't hesitate to do despite the great risk to her own wellbeing.
On the rare occasion that Nezuko attempts speech, she has been seen to stutter a lot, which may be due to her bamboo mouthpiece, which is seldom removed, and the fact that she didn't speak for a number of years after her transformation. However, after developing resistance towards sunlight, which allows her to go outside and interact with others more often, her speech has shown signs of improvement and she is able to fully pronounce words if someone else has just spoken them or she hears them repeated frequently enough.
==Powers and Abilities==
Despite not being a member of the Twelve Kizuki, Nezuko is a very powerful demon. Her most prominent traits is her extraordinary growth rate possibly due to the high amount of blood she received from Muzan Kibutsuji when he turned Nezuko into a demon and the fact that she doesn't need to consume human blood to survive. This was shown across many battles in the course of the series where she could defeat her enemies despite being overwhelmed by them in the beginning. She has shown to defeat her enemies by increasing her own physical capabilities, enhancing her regeneration, or developing her own Blood Demon Art in dire situations.
Despite being a young demon, Nezuko has displayed great combat proficiency and skill in battle, overpowering the Temple Demon or the Swamp Demons. Nezuko's accelerated growth also seems to mirror Tanjiro's own incredible growth rate, as she could take on members of the Twelve Kizuki and match Upper Rank demons in months. However, the trait that sets her apart from all other demons is the fact that she has the ability to conquer the sun, prompting the Demon King to call her the "chosen demon".
*Abnormal Demon Physiology: As the "chosen demon", Nezuko has several unique demonic traits that set her apart from all other demons. Most notably, Nezuko can continuously restore her power without consuming any human blood like any other demon would need to do. Instead, she recovers her strength through sleep alone, though she would have to spend a lot of time sleeping in order to recuperate and regain her power. Moreover, Nezuko has an extraordinary growth rate, as shown multiple times when she grows stronger without any training or consuming humans. This ability is shown to trigger even in the midst of battle and with huge power boosts. This is best exemplified during her battle against Susamaru where her foot was blown by the Temari demon's ball attack, but after regenerating she was able to face her in an even match kicking the ball and eventually surpass her.
**Advanced Demon Form: Nezuko has the ability to enter a berserk state where she becomes more demonic in appearance, transforming into an adult version of herself with vine-like tattoos that circle her body, a single horn protruding from her right forehead side. This awakened form greatly enhances Nezuko's physical capabilities as well as increasing her regeneration level to match that of the Upper Ranks'. When she first awakened this ability in her fight with Daki, she became frenzied in battle, lost her usual restrain to human blood, and the only way she could revert back to normal is to have Tanjiro sing her a lullaby. During the Demon Slayer's fight against Hantengu, Nezuko manages to control this form at will, allowing her to fight more effectively while maintaining her usual composure and restrain from feeding on humans.
**Sunlight Resistance: During their battle against Upper Rank Four, Hantengu, Nezuko developed immunity from sunlight, a feat impossible for demons, even by the Demon King himself. With this immunity to sunlight, she is able to completely walk and go about in the daytime without being burnt to ash, prompting Muzan to shift his goals to hunt and absorb her to conquer the sun himself.
*Blood Control: In addition to her Blood Demon Art, Nezuko has shown in her Awakened Form to have immense control of her own blood. When her limbs and head were all severed and she was going to be cut into pieces by Daki, Nezuko managed to control her severed limbs and head by instantly congealing and solidifying the blood spraying from them before the streams could break apart. With this, she was able to command her limbs to grab and stop Daki's sashes, and, even though it was done with floating, severed limbs connected by blood, she was able to do it with such strength that the sashes were stopped dead in their tracks. She was then able to pull all of her limbs back together through those blood streams, allowing her body to regenerate.
*Immense Regeneration: As a demon, Nezuko has enhanced regenerative abilities that allow her to heal in the blink of an eye. When she first became a demon, her regeneration was relatively slow compared to other demons, taking a while to heal slash wounds. However, once in her awakened state, her regeneration ability evolved to the point it matched the caliber of the Upper Ranks, allowing her to reconnect her whole torso and body parts as well as regrow her arms and legs instantaneously. Daki noted that Nezuko's regeneration then surpassed her own.
*Immense Strength: Nezuko possesses naturally enhanced physical strength as a demon. Even at the start of the series when she first became a demon, she was strong enough to decapitate another demon with a kick. Nezuko also punched the Swamp Demon so hard that he coughed up blood, even overwhelming the demon with powerful punches and kicks. As she has no combat experience, Nezuko relies on brute strength, using her legs as her main weapon to deliver fast and strong kicks. Nezuko has also shown to increase her strength in battles during dire situations, like strengthening her legs to kick back Susamaru's handballs despite having her legs torn off by them earlier. In her awakened state, she could pierce through the back of an Upper Rank demon with a kick and hold down the clones of Upper Rank Four, Hantengu.
*Size Alteration: Upon being transformed into a demon, Nezuko displayed the basic ability to change and alter her body's size and height. She was able to shrink herself into the physical size of a small child in order to fit inside a small box or a basket in order to hide from sunlight when traveling through during the daytime with Tanjiro and could enlarge herself into a much bigger form, in order to be able to battle against demons.
===Blood Demon Art===
*Pyrokinesis: Nezuko's Blood Demon Art allows her to generate and manipulate special demonic flames created from her blood that are pinkish in color. Nezuko can do this by igniting her blood or creating it from thin air. Her flames have a special property which makes it only harmful to demons and objects of demon origin while being completely harmless to humans and other objects. This was shown when her fire could burn Rui's threads, Enmu's dream spell and Genya Shinazugawa who had consumed demons but unable to affect Tanjiro and the Mugen Train. These flames of purification have been noted to hamper the regeneration of demon's to an extent too, as shown with Daki being temporarily unable to regenerate from being burned by her flames.
Nezuko has shown to be quite proficient in using her Blood Demon Art, from setting demons on fire to enhance the potency of her attacks, burning away Gyutaro's poison to save Inosuke and Tengen Uzui from dying and turning Tanjiro's Nichirin Sword bright red, which gave him a much needed advantage against Hantengu's clones.
=== Fighting Style ===
* Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Nezuko's fighting style mainly revolved around the use of her powerful legs and sharp nails. She was skilled enough to fight back the likes of the Upper Rank demons in the Twelve Kizuki, and numerous demons before that. She doesn't use her Blood Demon Arts as often, as using too much blood could make her fall asleep.
==Trivia==
*Nezuko is the first demon to ever be a member of the Demon Slayer Corps.
*In the 21st century, Nezuko's great-granddaughter, Touko Agatsuma, bears unmistakable resemblance to Nezuko herself, indicating that Nezuko and Zenitsu Agatsuma eventually married and had children (probably also a son, so that the surname Agatsuma has passed in several generations). This was confirmed in the bonus tankoubon chapter 205.5 in which the pair did in fact marry.
**In present time, Nezuko and Zenitsu's descendants live in the big mansion while descendants of her brother live in an apartment. Readers speculate that Agatsuma family became wealthy. Whether Agatsuma family became rich while Zenitsu and Nezuko were still alive is unknown.
*Her Japanese voice actor, Akari Kitō, also voiced Isaku Senagaki in A Girl & Her Guard Dog, Nene Yashiro in Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun, Ms. Marvel in Marvel Future Avengers, Ashley Graham in Resident Evil 4, Barbara Pegg in Genshin Impact, Latte Cookie in Cookie Run Kingdom, Na'el in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Inglis Eucus in Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire, Mitama in Kamikatsu: Working for God in a Godless World, Erika Amano in A Couple of Cuckoos, Kanata Konoe in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, Kaho Hinata in Blend S, Noa Himesaka in WATATEN!: An Angel Flew Down to Me, Eiko Tsukimi in Ya Boy Kongming! (audio manga), Libeccio in Kantai Collection, Kotoko Iwanaga in In/Spectre, and Kyouka Uzen in Chained Soldier. To portray demonized Nezuko as realistically as possible, Akari performed while placing her fingers on her mouth.
**Interestingly, Akari's surname Kitō(鬼頭), means "demon head".
*Her English voice actor, Abby Trott, also voiced Windblade in Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy series, Yoh Asakura in the 2021 reboot of Shaman King, and Kim Wu in Killer Instinct 2. To portray demonized Nezuko as realistically as possible, Abby performed while placing a gag on her mouth.
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