Zenitsu Agatsuma

Zenitsu Agatsuma, also known as Zenko, is one of the main characters from the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba series.
== Charactah Account ==
Zenitsu is another young member of the Demon Slayer Corps who meets and travels with Tanjiro and Nezuko. Despite being cowardly and insecure, he still tries his best when push comes to shove. He fights better in his sleep than awake.
Zenitsu comes off as a coward, as he often claims that he doesn't have long to live due to the dangerous job of being a Demon Slayer. He also has rather low self-esteem despite his strength, even considering himself useless as seen when he couldn't believe he had slain a Demon and tricked himself into instead believing that it was Shoichi, even though the latter was a young child who didn't possess any form of special Demon-slaying ability. Zenitsu is in a constant state of fear and always cries and tries to run away at the sight of danger, claiming he wants to live a modest, normal life, instead of that of a Demon Slayer.
However, despite these weaknesses, Zenitsu still wants to live up to the expectations others set up for him and will try his hardest when he needs to. He holds great respect and admiration towards his comrades and his deceased teacher, Jigoro Kuwajima, and his inner focus and drive in avenging him help to wash away his cowardice and second thoughts when he is in a pinch. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Movie - Mugen Train
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train Arc
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc
* Junior High and High School!! Kimetsu Academy Story
* Junior High and High School!! Kimetsu Academy Story: Valentine Edition
=== Manga ===
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Stories of Water and Flame
=== Video Games ===
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Blood-Stench Blade Royale
* Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles
* Jumputi Heroes
== Trivia ==
* Zenitsu's surname means "my wife" (agatsuma), while his given name means "goodness" (zen'itsu). His first name contains the kanji for "good" (zen) and "special, unique" (itsu)
* Zenitsu's rankings in the popularity polls are as follows:
** Zenitsu ranked 2nd place in the first popularity poll with 4,299 votes.
** Zenitsu ranked 1st place in the second popularity poll with 17,451 votes.
*** Zenitsu also appeared in The Promised Neverland's 2020 popularity poll, ranking 29th place with 44 votes.
* Zenitsu has also been mispronounced by Inosuke. Examples including Monitsu and Chuitsu in his dream as a squirrel squire.
* In a Weekly Shonen Jump spoof 4-koma, Zenitsu plays the shamisen in the band "Chic-N-Scruffy Democracy," the other members being Tanjiro (vocals), Inosuke (taiko), and Tengen (harmonica). "Melancholy of Explosive Sound Skin and Modern Sense of Smell" is their debut single, and it reportedly made everyone who heard it feel dizzy and nauseous. Zenitsu also wrote a song entitled "Past Life Sins" for the band under the name "zenithu☆A."
* Zenitsu is the only non-Hashira Demon Slayer to have done feats specifically only Hashira have done:
** Create a new, original form in a Breathing Style with multiple users (done by Giyu Tomioka).
** Defeat an Upper Rank demon by himself (done by Muichiro Tokito).
* Zenitsu has an overbite.
* The pattern on Zenitsu's haori may be inspired by Uroko, a traditional Japanese pattern that symbolizes scales. Samurai would wear clothing with this pattern to protect themselves from harm.
* After the events of the story, Zenitsu wrote a memoir entitled "The Legend of Zenitsu".
* Zenitsu is superstitious as he was shown to be delighted seeing two tea stalks in his tea in the extra chapters. In Japan, seeing Chabashira or a tea stalk floating vertically in your teacup when you have Japanese green tea is a sign of good luck.
* There are six forms, but Zenitsu could only learn the first form said to be the basis for the others yet he honed it to where he could fight against several strong demons. He later created a seventh form and defeated his former senior who had become the Upper Rank Six of the Twelve Kizuki.
* Zenitsu is a city boy and has rode on trains before, which was why going out and training with his master in the mountains was tens times harder for him than it was for Tanjiro and Inosuke. He also doesn't really care for the inconveniences of the countryside.
* Zenitsu's hearing allowed him to hear the sickening remarks that girls made on him behind his back. This caused him to be scared of girls so much that he couldn't stand it anymore (though his naturally cheery and persistent nature allowed him to recover quickly).
* Though Zenitsu fell in love with Nezuko at first sight, he was skeptical of how Tanjiro described her. He couldn't believe that girls could be so one-sidedly kind. When he saw how Nezuko wasn't two-faced and was truly kind, he became so happy that he saw paradise for a moment and almost ascended to heaven.
* Zenitsu's debt is estimated to be around 600,000 yen in modern currency.
** This massive amount of debt likely came from his 7 ex-girlfriends. Despite all of them being beautiful, they treated Zenitsu like a slave, tricked him as well as robbing him of his money. Zenitsu also never got to even hold their hands.
* Zenitsu loves sweet and expensive foods (specifically "high-quality eel", more commonly known as kabayaki), so if he hadn't become a swordsman, he'd be chubby.
* In Kimetsu Academy, Zenitsu is a morals officer who ended up on the committee despite not wanting to. He does uniform checks every day by the school gate while being terrified of delinquents.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Zenitsu Agatsuma at Kimetsu no Yaiba Wiki
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