Sakonji Urokodaki

Sakonji Urokodaki (鱗滝 左近次) is a supporting protagonist of the popular manga and anime series, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba. He is a former member of the Demon Slayer Corps, as well as the previous Water Hashira. He is also the teacher of Tanjiro Kamado, Giyu Tomioka, Sabito and Makomo.
==Portrayals==
===Voices===
* - Japanese
*Brook Chalmers - English
===Live action===
*Tomoyuki Takagi - stage
==Appearance==
Sakonji's real face has never been shown throughout the manga due to always wearing a red tengu mask, although according to what Tanjiro revealed through a Taisho Secret, it's very calm and gentle. As a more elderly man, he has grey hair, but as a younger man, his hair was black and fashioned into a topknot.
He wears a white cloud-patterned jinbei kimono with a light blue shirt, dark blue pants fastened on the shins with white kyahan guards. He has a black traditional socks tabi, wears similar sandals to the ones Tanjiro has, with the only difference being that the straps are dark blue. When he travels, he also wears a white cloth that covers the head and wraps around his neck. 
==Personality==
At first, Sakonji appears to be a grumpy and stern old man. However, he's revealed to be an extremely kind and passionate man, who cares deeply for others. During their training, he pushes the students really hard, as demonstrated when he took Tanjiro under his wing, during which Urokodaki made the latter's training increasingly difficult and dangerous. The main reason he pushes them so hard is so that they can become as strong as possible. He sees his students as nothing short of family, as shown when he said he didn't want to send Tanjiro to final selection because he didn't want anymore children to die, and also when he burst into tears and hugged Tanjiro after he came back from final selection. He's also one of the few people affiliated with the Demon Slayer Corps to trust Nezuko, and vowed to commit seppuku if she ever killed another human. He also told Tanjiro that he has no doubt he'd be able to restore Nezuko's humanity.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Before sakonji's face was finally shown, there were only two people who knows how Sakonji's real face looks like: Koyoharu Gotoge (the author of the manga herself) and the editor of Shonen Jump at the time.
*He is a poor drinker.
*Fox is his favorite animal; hence he gave masks to his students that had faces of foxes.
*His Japanese Voice Actor, Hōchū Ōtsuka, also voiced Joseph Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, Jiraiya in Naruto, Alfred Pennyworth in Batman Ninja, Rob in The Duke of Death and His Maid, Chibodee Crocket in G Gundam, and Bookman in D.Gray-man Hallow.
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