Sanemi Shinazugawa

Sanemi Shinazugawa (不死川 実弥, Shinazugawa Sanemi) is a major supporting character in the 2016-2020 dark fantasy action manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and its 2019 anime television series adaption. 
He is the Wind Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, and the older brother of Genya Shinazugawa. He is known for his immense hatred towards demons due to experiencing several tragedies caused by them. Because of his hatred towards them, he has a hostile relationship with Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado, due to Nezuko being a demon. 
He is voiced by Tomokazu Seki (Japanese) and Kaiji Tang (English).
==Appearance==
Sanemi is a tall, muscular and slender man with spiky white hair, large pale purple eyes and his face and body are covered with scars, accumulated during his many years of fighting against the demons. 
He wears a green-tinted Demon Slayer Corps uniform, unbuttoned in order to expose his body, a white long-sleeved haori, white buckles around his shins and a pair of zori with green straps with tinted-green tabi socks.
==Personality==
Sanemi is a very aggressive, hot-blooded and stubborn man who is often pushy and quick to lash out. Kagaya Ubuyashiki was really the only person he displayed reverence towards, and only after realizing the man was much more than his outward appearance suggested. Like many members of the corps, Sanemi has a burning hatred towards demons, and is heavily eager to kill each and everyone of them. 
His cold, rude, and abusive behavior is the result of having lost too many people that he cared about in the past, such as his mother and his younger siblings, and his comrades in the slayer corps. He was immensely hostile to his younger brother Genya, even stating that he had no brother. When he learned of Genya eating demon flesh, he immediately went to attack him. However, it is revealed that Sanemi truly does love his brother and only act hostile with him in attempt to push him away from a path that would get him killed. 
==Etymology==
*The name Sanemi means "fruit, good result, truth" (実) (sane) and "all the more, increasingly" (弥) (mi).
*Sanemi's surname Shinazugawa means "immortality, eternal life" (不死) (shinazu) and "river, stream" (川) (kawa/gawa).
==Trivia==
*Tomokazu Seki (Sanemi's Japanese voice actor) has also voiced: 
**Toya Kinomoto in Cardcaptor Sakura series.
**Kyo Sohma in Fruits Basket (2001 series).
**Kenji in Pokemon.
**Whisper and Buchinyan in Yōkai Watch.
**Korosensei in Assasination Classroom OVA.
**Shinya Kogami in Psycho-Pass.
**Sousuke Sagara in Full Metal Panic!.
**Domon Kasshu in Mobile Fighter G Gundam.
**Yzak Joule in Gundam SEED.
**Aldebaran in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World.
**Viewtiful Joe in Viewtiful Joe.
**Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4.
**Brainy Smurf in The Smurf 2.
**Gilgamesh in Fate/Grand Order.
**Ginei Morioka in Rosario + Vampire.
**Itaru Hashida in Steins;Gate.
**Kamui Shirō in X/1999,
**Van Fanel in Visions of Escaflowne.
**Glen Fire in the Ultra series.
**Hiromu Shinbo in Chobits.
**Suneo Honekawa in Stand By Me Doraemon.
**Vyse in Skies of Arcadia.
**Haru Glory in Rave Master.
**Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
**Kenichi Shirahama in History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi.
**Yoshimitsu in Tekken.
**Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Assassin's Creed II.
**Ethan Waber in Phantasy Star Universe.
**Sly Cooper in Sly Cooper.
**Tokio in Crimson Tears.
**Mepple in Futari Wa Pretty Cure.
**Dart Feld in The Legend of Dragoon.
**Hastur in Hasuta.
**Keisuke Takahashi in Initial D. 
**Selkie in Fire Emblem.
*The letter '殺' on the back of Sanemi's jacket means 'to kill/killing, slay'.
*Sanemi is ranked 15 in the first character popularity poll with over 207 votes.
*Sanemi likes ohagi and considers it as his favorite food, cooking it frequently. And his pride refuses to tell him anything about it.
*Sanemi is one of only 4 Hashira that use a standard Nichirin Katana. The other 3 are Kyojuro Rengoku, Giyu Tomioka and Muichiro Tokito.
==External Links==
*Sanemi Shinazugawa in the Kimetsu no Yaiba Wiki
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