Takanori Hoshimiya

**Takanori Hoshimiya** (星宮 高紀, *Hoshimiya Takanori*?), also known as the **The True Strongest Taisho Era Demon Slayer**, is the main protagonist of *Kimetsu no Yaiba Narratives: Taisho Anecdotes* alongside Tanjiro Kamado. He is a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slayer Corps, the Taisho Era's Stellar Hashira (星柱, *Sei Bashira*?) and the Hoshimiya Family's 102nd head and 95th **Kijin** (鬼神, *Kijin*?, lit. "Demon God").

## Etymology

Takanori's surname means "star, sign, starry sky" (星, *hoshi*?) and "palace" (宮, *miya*?). His given name means "high, tall, excellent, famous, respect, arrogance/pride, increase" (高, *taka*?) and "era, chronicle, order, rule" (紀, *nori*?).

## Appearance

Takanori is a tall Chinese-Japanese man of fair skin plus a physique and body frame that ranges between Tengen Uzui's and Sanemi Shinazugawa's, and slightly wide pale gold eyes with an arrogant grin on his face. He has hime-style ash blond hair reaching his shoulders that is tied into a bun behind his head when on missions. His face is almost similar to his ancestor, Gensuke Hoshimiya, only with some Chinese elements in them.

After becoming a Hashira, Takanori wore a lapis blue-colored customized version of the Meiji-Taisho Demon Slayer uniform, with the top appearing similar to a Changshan that reaches the beltline with the kanji of **Destroy** (滅, *Metsu*?) engraved on the left breast with a large Chinese Dragon engraved on the front-right part plus a lighter blue, long-sleeved shirt underneath it, plus matching slacks that are tucked into black and laced mid-calf boots (with a zipper on the inner ankles).

After the Demon Slayer Corps was disbanded, Takanori grew out his hair to mid-back length and tied into a high ponytail with a kumihimo, a gift from Kiyoko, his female second cousin (once removed).

## Personality

Takanori is known to be a straightforward, strict and focused individual who will not hesitate to tell anyone off. He is known to be extremely harsh. During Tanjiro's trial, although was vouching for the former and Nezuko to continue serving the Demon Slayer Corps, he had propesed the question plus statement of "would you be willing to sacrifice the entirety of Japan for your sister or would you sacrifice your only living relative for the people should such a situation arise? Think it. Ponder it. With someone who is overly as kind as you, ask yourself if you would have the will to make that decision" which would further emphasize the Kamado boy's indecisiveness during the events of the Swordsmith Village.

He also comes off as arrogant and prideful (like his first name suggests) and looks down on people, which he knows about and enjoys doing so, but only when necessary. He enjoys to mentally, psychologically and physically torment people. Towards Obanai Iguro, the Serpent Hashira, he stated he will continue to call him "slit mouth" and even threatening to take Mitsuri Kanroji, the Love Hashira, if he didn't accept himself for his flaws and man up and accept all his sins as part of himself. Towards Sanemi Shinazugawa, the Wind Hashira, he calls the latter "brat", "fool", "stupid" and merely hates the man's presence, personality and even how Sanemi treats his only living sibling harshly, even if Takanori knew that it was to protect Genya, he still knew it was a stupid way of protecting him. He enjoys tormenting and beating up and belittling Sanemi. After the battle against Kokushibo, Takanori wanted to torment Sanemi more by whispering in his ear "Hey brat, be sure to savor the sight in front of you forever, as you face the consequences of pushing away your only family" when Sanemi was about to wake up and Genya was disappearing into nothingness. Towards Giyu Tomioka, the Water Hashira, he continues to try his best to cheer up the latter and explains to him numerous times how he deserves the title since he worked hard for it and to not waste the sacrifices Tsutako and Sabito made for him, and try to let a woman into his life and live with her forever. Towards Shinobu Kocho, the Insect Hashira, he enjoys calling her a insect that he can step on however he wants and hates how she always wants to kill herself in a battle she knows she can't lose. Towards Gyomei Himejima, the Stone Hashira, where he stated to Gyomei that on how there will always be people who sacrifice others for their own gain, who are good for their own personal benefit and others who are just manipulative further stating that is the truth of society and how he faces it, whether by changing to it adapting to it and be at the top, or be crushed by it. To Tengen Uzui, the Sound Hashira, he hads once talked to the former shinobi, telling him that he should have annihilated both his father and brother and wiped the slate clean for the Uzui Family, the same way he did by cutting down his own father and siblings during the family's "kodoku ritual".

Takanori knew of the Hoshimiya Family's barbaric ways and even their "kodoku ritual" that made the individuals kill each other as children ever since he was. He would even go as far as participate in the ritual to be the strongest Demon Slayer in his family and in the corps in the Taisho Era, kill his siblings with no hesitation and after winning, face of against, win against and brutally kill his father and grandfather, all for the sake of positively reforming the family and destroying what was and creating what is new, with his father at his death, acknowledging his son's efforts even if they were gruesome.

Takanori hates those who are weak yet wonder how they ever got to where they were and are not even doing anything to better themselves. Due to this, he hates Zenitsu Agatsuma the most as he coldly talks to him, reminding him of his uselessness and always stating that he wondrered what Jigoro Kuwajima, the former Thunder Hashira, saw in both him and Kaigaku, an individual he had always reprimanded and beat up for his rudeness. After hearing of Jigoro's death, Takanori had finally stated that Zenitsu will not make it far and that only a miracle can save him from Kaigaku, further showing that he didn't believe Zenitsu couldn't defeat him.

From the people he killed, mainly his family, Takanori expected to receive curses from them at their deaths so that he can carry them with him to the afterlife. Everyone who knew him knew of his plan and instead of cursing him, they cast blessings and words of encouragement to him, including his father, who stated that Takanori's mindset and his views are what the Hoshimiya Family needs to move to a poisitive future, which further surprised him and carried their blessings as a curse that helped him create a Hoshimiya Family that was different from the one that existed from the Heian era up to his appointment as Kijin.

## Abilities

### Overall Abilities

Takanori is the strongest Demon Slayer of the Taisho Era, plus the Hoshimiya Family's Kijin, making him the family's strongest member as well. Ryoya Hoshimiya, the former Kijin after their battle, stated that Takanori had even surpassed the likes of Gensuke Hoshimiya himself. As the 95th Kijin, Takanori is stronger than Gyomei Himejima and has ever defeated the individual five times, which led to Gyomei going to receive medical treatment every time he lost with no losses on Takanori's end. Due to his overall power, Takanori has surpassed his other peers in all aspects but gave the credit to Gyomei in arm wrestling and Tengen in terms of speed, so as to spite them and state that he can beat them anytime he wanted and there was nothing they could do.

To demons, as he is the Kijin, Takanori is already stronger than all demons whose strength is below the strongest Upper Rank demons, further stating that if he was at the Mugen Train, the first Upper Rank to be killed wouldn't have been Gyutaro and Daki, but Akaza. This claim was backed up by Kokushibo himself stating that in a one-on-one battle, Takanori with his physical and cognitive abilities and his intuition in battle to decipher techniques, he would have killed Akaza and been on equal grounds with Doma.

### Physical Abilities

**Immense Strength:** Takanori is the strongest Demon Slayer of the Taisho Era in terms of physical strength despite his build, although he is ranked the second-strongest due to him asking that way, just only to spite individuals like Sanemi, Tengen and Obanai. This came about due to the immense training that he took part in which involved fighting demons bare-handed, punching and kicking trees and uprooting them from the ground after he is chained to them. After his appointment into a Hashira, Takanori's punches alone at the age of 19 are capable of making people like Tengen Uzui and Gyomei Himejima cough up blood and are rumored to be able to rupture Mitsuri Kanroji's muscles and can shatter the bones of demons stated to be in the upper calibre of the three strongest Upper Rank demons. At age 25, during the Rehabilitation Training Arc, Takanori was shown to easily tire out and cause Sanemi to bleed a lot from his mouth and nose due to the strong punches that ruptured some organs and kicks that knocked people out for a day or two. During his battle against Shichimaru, the new Upper Rank 5 and a former Star Breather in the Hoshimiya Family in the Infinity Castle, Takanori's punch was able to totally break the humerus bone of Shichimaru in half, including the femur while his kick made Shichimaru's head twist like a bottle cap and completely shatter the left side of the skull. During the battle against Kokushibo, his strong kicks, plus the hidden blades in his shoes and the metal attachments that stick out of his fingerless gloves were able to stun the strongest Upper Rank momentarily for some seconds, making Kokushibo admit that even without the metal attachments, Takanori's punches and kicks would still be fatal, and that if that strength plus the momentum produced from that strength were to be added into a sword swing, Takanori would have taken the Upper Rank's head clean off.

In he battle against Muzan Kibutsuji, Takanori peaked the interest of Muzan when he was surprised with the immense strength the Stellar Hashira when he was able to rip off the tendrils on his back and spine with his bare hands. After Tanjiro Kamado returned to the battlefield, Takanori displayed his full physical strength when he pulled on one of Muzan's tentacle arms to pull the Demon King to his direction which led to Muzan receiving a double kick in his face that broke the demon's neck and with just one sword swing from his two katanas that nearly bisected him horizontally. His strength is further proven to where he was able to turn his Nichirin swords plus the Nichirin knuckles in his gloves and the hidden Nichirin blades in his shoes bright red to the point it is estimated to be half to three-quarters the power of Yoriichi Tsugikuni's bright red Nichirin katana, allowing him to easily deal a lot of damage to the Demon King and previously, to Kokushibo with just his tanto, the knuckles on his gloves and the hidden Nichirin blades in his shoes.

After Tanjiro's new demonification, Takanori aided Giyu, Zenitsu and Inosuke in restraining him, with Takanori deciding to beat him up to weaken the newly transformed demon, which included punching him so hard that it sent him crashing into a nearby building and a kick that cracked the demon's sternum plus restraining all of Tanjiro's bone whips leaving room for Kanao to inject the antidote.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes:** Same to strength, Takanori is the fastest Hashira of the Taisho Era in all forms of speed like running speed, attack speed and combat speed, yet purposefully states that Tengen is the fastest. With his speed, Takanori was ble to easily defeat Sanemi during the events of the Rehabilitation Training Arc, throw punches and kicks as many as 50 in five seconds, plus cut down demons as many as 200 in the infinity castle. During his battle against Shichimaru, he was able to blitz the New Upper Rank 5 and delivered many sword slashes with his katana, wakizashi and two tantos plus delivering many punches and kicks that further incapacitated the demon and aided in killing the new Upper Rank demon. During the battle against Kokushibo, Takanori managed to execute many Star Breathing techniques all in a spam of a few seconds and was so fast to combine his swordsmanship with his hand-to-hand combat prowess that even Kokushibo with the Transparent World activated was having a hard time to keep up due to the fact Takanori, through reading the Hoshimiya Family records, knew the speed limit a seasoned user of the Transparent World, be it human or demon, can track and decided to increase his speed to surpass that speed limit which thus led Kokushibo not to track his movements.

During the battle against Muzan, Takanori's reflexes allowed him to be the only Hashira to not get get scratched, if only slightly, by Muzan's tentacles and was wise to get out of the way when Muzan's arm and thigh whips sent everyone flying with him only receiving a scratch on his left arm and his right leg, eventually making him ditch the top of his uniform and return to the battle, where after Tanjiro rejoins the battle, he was able to cut off all the thigh whips at the base with his Bright Red Nichirin wakizashi without Muzan registering what had happened. After Muzan was pinned into a corner, he used a wakizashi laced with a poison more deadly than the one Shinobu had in her body that used against Doma to deliver many stabs and cuts on all of Muzan's vital organs in six seconds which further weakened Muzan for the Demon Slayers to have their victory in the end.

Against Demon King Tanjiro, Takanori decided to use **Total Concentration: Limitless** a final time to augment his speed to be faster than Tanjiro so that he can beat him up to weaken him whilst waiting for Kanao to inject him with the antidote.

**Immense Stamina and Endurance:** Out of all the Hashira, Takanori has the highest stamina. Due to the training he received in the Hoshimiya household that is stated to be much worse than the Uzui Family training, being one of the few to survive the training, plus fully mastering the esoteric art of **Total Concentration: Limitless** (全集中：無限, *Zen Shūchū: Mugen*?), the highest form of **Total Concentration Breathing** (全集中の呼吸, *Zen Shūchū no Kokyū*?) that surpasses even **Total Concentration: Constant** (全集中・常中, *Zen Shūchū Jōchū*?). Using this technique, Takanori was able to spare his stamina and increase his endurance which allowed him to clear his family's kodoku ritual and eventually fight, defeat and finally kill his father, Ryoya Hoshimiya, thereby allowing him to claim the title of Kijin and be the 102nd Hoshimiya Family head.

During the Rehabilitation Training Arc, when Takanori and Sanemi fought, Tanjiro Kamado who was still present wondered how Takanori was showing no signs of fatigue whilst Sanemi was about to collapse from exhaustion and the injuries he sustained from Takanori's heavy blows to his vital spots. In the Infinity Castle, during his fight against Shichimaru, Takanori was able to keep up with the New Upper Rank 5 and push in a corner to the point where Shichimaru had to use up all the blood in his body for one final Blood Demon Art which proved useless since Takanori continued to fight as if nothing happened and decapitated the new Upper Rank.

During the battle against Kokushibo, by using **Total Concentration: Limitless** to increase the flow of oxygen and blood to all parts of his body, mostly to his hands, around his eyes and his legs, Takanori, matched and slightly surpassed the speed of the Upper Rank 1 whilst the latter tried to track down the Stellar Hashira with his senses. He tried the same in the battle against Muzan which impressed the Demon King. After Muzan unleashed the attack that sent all Hashiras flying, Takanori was the first to get up and joined the battlefield with Tanjiro Kamado simultaneously. During the continued battle, he unleashed the full extent of **Total Concentration: Limitless** that helped in driving Muzan into a corner that aided in the latter's defeat and left Takanori exhausted. After the creation of Demon King Tanjiro, Takanori summoned up more stamina to fight on equal grounds with and restrain Tanjiro's skeleton whips while Kanao Tsuyuri injected him with the antidote.

## Battles

Takanori Hoshimiya Battles

**Pre-Series Battles**

* Takanori Hoshimiya vs Ryoya Hoshimiya

**Rehabilitation Training Arc**

* Takanori Hoshimiya vs Sanemi Shinazugawa

**Infinity Castle Arc**

* Demon Slayers vs Muzan Kibutsuji: Part 1
* Takanori Hoshimiya vs Shichimaru
* Muichiro Tokito, Genya Shinazugawa, Sanemi Shinazugawa, Gyomei Himejima and Takanori Hoshimiya vs Kokushibo

**Sunrise Countdown Arc**

* Demon Slayers vs Muzan Kibutsuji: Part 2
* Tanjiro Kamado vs Demon Slayers

## Quotes

* (To Gyomei Himejima) "*What do you expect? There will always be people who sacrifice others for their own gain, people who are good for their own personal benefit and others who are just manipulative. That is the true face of society. You can't* *change it. It's either you adapt to it and be on top, or be crushed by it*."
* (To Tanjiro Kamado) *"Although I've accepted your sister, you specifically, I feel uncomfortable when it's you. Why? Maybe It's because you are too kind without any flaws. Look, Kamado, everything "human" has flaws that sets them apart from another. No one is perfect, not even you. Even the gods have their own distinctions and personalities and mistakes they made that make them different from one another. But for you to not have any flaws, that is against all natural law. If you can't find any flaw in yourself, then you can't call yourself human, then."*
* (To Shichimaru) *"Time to beat the living hell out of you, my stupid little brother. Let's dance in the pits of hell until one of us gives out."*
* (To Tanjiro Kamado during the final battle) *"You're not the only Sun Breather in this battle, chibimado."*