Kanae Kocho

Kanae Kocho (胡蝶 カナエ, Kochō Kanae) is a minor character in the 2016-2020 fantasy horror manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and its 2019 anime television series adaption. She was the former Flower Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, the late biological older sister of Shinobu Kocho and the late adoptive older sister of Kanao Tsuyuri who was killed by Doma, the Upper Rank Two demon of the Twelve Kizuki.
She is voiced by Ai Kayano in Japanese and by Bridget Hoffman in English. 
==Appearance==
Kanae was a slender-built girl much like her younger sister, who was very tall for her age and, contrary to her pale complexion, had distinctly red lips. She had very-dark grey thick, straight hair that reached below her waist, worn down over her shoulders with two short clumps and bangs with arched ear-length on either side of her nose. Her eyes are pale-violet and slanting, shiny and bug-like to the sides of her nose with several prominent white sparkles reflecting light off them.
She wears a purple-tinted version of the traditional Demon Slayer Corps uniform, as well as a piece of fabric all over her calves and pale strapped sandals. She sported a pair of green-pink butterfly hairpins, which she wore painted on either side of her head and it was later used as a memento by her adoptive younger sister, Kanao Tsuyuri. She was also wearing a a white, light green and pink butterfly-patterned haori, which Shinobu Kocho currently wears following Kanae's death.
==Personality==
Kanae was the polar opposite of her biological younger sister Shinobu Kocho; she was a sweet, patient and kind girl with an easy-going personality, which is seen in the soft smile she almost always has on her face in the flashbacks of Shinobu and Kanao Tsuyuri. She was always kind-hearted and friendly towards others, even to the demons that she has faced and killed.
As Sanemi Shinazugawa chuckled at her leader Kagaya Ubuyashiki, she showed compassion for him and politely told Sanemi about how Kagaya is really caring for the Demon Slayers under his command. She also had a vision of being able to live alongside the Demons peacefully one day amid all the pain and death they caused on humans, which encouraged Shinobu to likewise strive to do. Tragically after Kanae's violent death, Shinobu abandons that effort and walked down a vengeful path which ultimately proved to be self-destructive, although after seeing similarity between Tanjiro and Kanae, she was willing to give Kanae's vision another chance.
==Etymology==
Her name is spelled with three katakana characters, which differs her sister, Shinobu Kocho, and it's similar to how her adoptive sister Kanao's name is spelled.
*The name Kanae is written in katakana (カナエ), which has no special meaning. 
** 佳愛 - "good, beautiful" (佳) (kana) and "love, affection" (愛) (e).
* Kanae's surname Kocho means "butterfly" (胡蝶), which reflects on her haori and hair clips.
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