Doma

Blood Demon Techniques:

* Cryokinesis
* Barren Hanging Garden
* Freezing Clouds
* Frozen Lotus
* Cold White Princesses
* Wintry Icicles
* Lotus Vines
* Crystalline Divine Child
* Rime — Water Lily Bodhisattva

* Manipulating, murdering, and eating people in utterly twisted ways, especially women.
* Annoying Akaza.

### Goals

* To kill many people and bring salvation to end their painful lives.
* Transform the Shabana siblings into demons.
* Eat Kotoha Hashibira.
* Kill the Kocho sisters (all succeeded).
* Kill Kanao Tsuyuri and Inosuke Hashibira
* Destroy Demon Slayer Corps (both failed).

### Crimes

Mass Murder (Inc. Child Murder)
Mass Destruction
Attempted cultural genocide
Attempted infanticide
Man-eating
Undesired human mutation
Defilement
Torture
Psychological abuse
Conspiracy
Sabotage
Brainwashing
Mutilation
Corruption
Destruction
Aiding and abetting

### Type of Villain

Nihilistic Psychopath

**Doma** ( *Dōma*?) is a major supporting antagonist of *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba*. He is a demon affiliated with the Twelve Kizuki, holding the second highest position, **Upper Rank Two** (の *Jōgen no Ni*?).

Over a century ago, Doma held the position of **Upper Rank Six** (の *Jōgen no Roku*?), and during that tenure, he turned Gyutaro and Daki into demons and introduced them into the Twelve Kizuki.

He is also the leader of the Eternal Paradise Faith, a cult dedicated to worshipping Doma and a place where he listens to all his followers' troubles and gives them advice. It also acts as a place for Doma to capture and kill humans. This cult also took in Inosuke Hashibira's mother, Kotoha Hashibira, before Doma killed her for finding out that he was eating his followers.

**Doma** (in Japanese: 童磨, ***Dōma***) also spelt **Douma**, is a major antagonist in the manga/anime series *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba*.

Doma is a powerful Demon under Muzan Kibutsuji as Upper Rank Two (formerly Upper Rank Six) of the Twelve Kizuki. He is the misanthropic cult leader of a Eternal Paradise Cult and is responsible for the deaths of Inosuke Hashibira's mother, Kotoha, and Kanae Kocho, the elder sister of Shinobu Kocho (who Doma also kills), and the adoptive older sister of Kanao Tsuyuri. As a result, he arguably serves as the archenemy of Shinobu, Kanao and Inosuke.

He is voiced by Mamoru Miyano (who has also voiced Light Yagami in *Death Note*, Shuu Tsukiyama in *Tokyo Ghoul*, and Chrollo Lucilfer in *Hunter X Hunter*) in Japanese and Stephen Fu (who has also voiced Cho Sang-woo in *Squid Game*) in English.

## Appearance

Doma is a tall young man with a lean but toned and muscular body, who is of a notably pale complexion and possessed unusually long, pointed nails that appeared to be stained with a pale blue color. He possesses long platinum blond hair that he wore parted to his right, the shorter parts around his face seeming to flare out to either side around his head, curving backwards with one lock slanting down to the right of his face to fall between his eyes, while the longer parts were left to drape centrally down his back in a thinning spiral. His eyes have been described to be incredibly rare and beautiful, as, in color, they appeared to be made up of an array of rainbow pastel tones that fade into one another as they circle his irises, this unusual appearance even causing people to believe Doma is a blessed being who could communicate with the gods. The daiji for "Upper Rank" ( *Jōgen*?) and "Two" ( *Ni*?) (or "Upper Rank" ( *Jōgen*?) and "Six" ( *Roku*?) at the time when he first met Gyutaro and Daki) is etched across them, and they were shaped to slope downwards towards the sides of his face, with a set of notably large, thick black eyebrows acting to frame them above. Doma wore a blood-red turtleneck of a design that made it appear that the section between his neck and upper chest is covered by a black substance that looks like it's dripping slightly down his body, this same design repeated at his wrists and down his hands, as well as on the small, circular "blood stain" he adorned on his head. Below this, he wore a pair of straight, tan-colored hakama pants of a pinstriped design, their cuffs visibly loose, which he secured with a pale green-tinged golden belt, its buckle a bright silver. He also only wears plain black tabi socks on his feet. On occasion, Doma may also have been seen sporting a black cloak, which he drapes around his shoulders, two lengths of purple and black cloth with a rectangular pattern also hanging from it around his neck, as well as a black crown which is lined with gold around its frontal plates and has flowing black ribbons dangling from each of its sides. He is also usually seen holding a pair of sharp fans that were made entirely out of shining gold, a lotus design engraved across them and a green tassel at the base, which acted as his primary weapons.

## Personality

Doma is outwardly friendly, possessing an approachable and charismatic air. Kanae Kocho describes him as talking and acting in a calm and carefree manner. However, it is soon revealed that Doma has psychopathic tendencies. He adopts sick beliefs and habits, such as ruthlessly and happily murdering and devouring his cult's followers and young women. He believes he is saving them from their suffering by letting them live inside his body. Under his carefree and unassuming demeanor, Doma is a cold and calculating individual with an extremely keen intellect. His high intelligence may be the reason why he looks down on humans, genuinely believing that they are pathetic and stupid. He even cried out of pity for them. His condescending attitude towards humans was also showcased when he was decapitated by the combined efforts of Shinobu Kocho, Inosuke Hashibira, and Kanao Tsuyuri. He felt insulted to be killed by individuals whom he thought lowly of. It is later revealed that Doma is clinically apathetic, completely emotionless, and unable to experience proper emotions. Doma himself admitted that the concept of emotion was completely foreign to him, even as a human. Aware that this is abnormal, Doma compensated for his empty heart with his own charisma. He learned to express his carefree demeanor enough to deceive all but the most keen observers. Despite his innate apathy, he appeared angry when Kanao insulted his inability to feel real emotions, dropping his kindly façade and outright trying to kill her. His apathy could be tied to his psychopathy, or even be the source of it. This is shown when his mother murdered his father and then proceeded to kill herself all while being observed by Doma when he was a child; Doma didn't show any sign of grief or shock, but instead complained that their blood made the room stuffy. In spite of his apathy, Doma has a disturbing habit of primarily eating young women, as evident by most of his cult followers being women. One exception to this was Inosuke's mother, Kotoha Hashibira, who Doma didn't want to kill and instead wanted to keep by his side until she died of natural causes, though he eventually killed her when she tried to escape. The reason for this unique behavioural trait is still currently unclear, though it is implied that the reason is because women provide more nutritional value for demons as they can nurture babies. In addition to his incapability to feel genuine emotion, Doma also possesses masochistic pain tolerance, comparable to congenital analgesia. During one of his battles he stuck his finger into his skull, puncturing a hole straight through his temples, and then fondling and fiddling with his brain in order to stimulate his memories from his long life with a completely serene expression in his face. During his interactions with fellow Upper Rank Akaza, he showed no negative reactions to him delivering two fatal blows to his head in annoyance, one with Akaza swiftly punching the upper part of Doma's head off, then punching his jaw off. in fact, he considered this to be their form of personal "greeting" between two "best friends." Doma has even implied that he actually enjoys these physical abuses as seen when he morbidly asked Muzan with excitement on what type of extreme self harm he should inflict on himself as punishment for his failure, and again expressed delight upon the severe pain he felt at Shinobu Kocho's numerous attempts to poison him to death and even cheerfully expresses his delight on the feelings and sensations of the poison destroying his body and how he might actually grow to "like" it. Despite leading a cult, Doma is a nihilistic and misanthropic atheist who staunchly believed that gods, Buddhas, and the afterlife do not exist. He believed that after death there is nothing and that people who "could not accept something so simple" are naïve and dumb. However, after his death, he accepted that he is wrong and that Heaven and Hell actually do exist. Doma also displayed what arguably is his first true emotion, love, when he proclaimed his love for Shinobu after finding her cute.

## History

### As a Human

Over a century ago, Doma was born a child with extraordinary features. His rainbow-colored eyes and pale hair led people to consider him special and believed he could communicate with the gods. His parents, whom he considered extremely dim-witted, placed him as the head of a cult they formed, which became known as the Paradise Faith. Scornful of his parent's low intelligence, he nonetheless played along and accepted his role; despite this, he never once heard the gods' voices. Seated at an elaborately decorated room as the figurehead of the cult, Doma was met by numerous people who asked him for advice and help for suffering they had in their lives. He considered these stories extremely boring and was confused why they came to a child for help. These people asked him to lead them to paradise, causing Doma to cry, since he never believed paradise, the gods and Buddha were real. To him, they were nothing more that a fantasy created by humanity and he bemoaned that people believed in something so fictitious to him. Doma was also apathetic, being entirely unable to understand and feel human emotion. When he was still a child, his mother had a mental breakdown and stabbed his father to death for having numerous affairs with many other female cult followers. She committed suicide immediately afterwards by poisoning herself to death. However, despite these series of harrowing events happening right in front of him, Doma only felt annoyed by the bloody mess created in the aftermath and was disgusted by the pungent smell of blood. He simply wanted to air out the room before the stench permanently stuck to the furniture.

### Life as a Demon

At 20 years old, he met Muzan Kibutsuji, who transformed him into a Demon.Doma would continue to lead the cult, only with a new mission. He became convinced that it truly was his mission to help people into paradise, and did so by devouring his followers. To him, paradise and the cease of pain can be found if he devours them, and their deaths at his hand meant that they will suffer no more pain. Doma continued this twisted ambition for most of his life. At some point, Doma became Upper Rank Six of the Twelve Kizuki. During that time, while he was roaming around the Entertainment District and feasting off the flesh of the geishas and other young maidens, he stumbled across the siblings Gyutaro and his younger sister Ume, who were both at death's door—Gyutaro had been stabbed in the back and was slowly bleeding to death while Ume had been burned to the point of being unrecognizable. Being "kind hearted," Doma offered to turn the pair into demons and save them, proceeding to give them his blood to initiate their transformation. He challenges them to become powerful enough to be recognized by "That Man" and become an Upper Rank in the Twelve Kizuki. At some point, Doma became Upper Rank Two, surpassing Upper Rank Three, Akaza, despite becoming a Demon more recently than him. Fifteen years prior to the present, Doma had a brief history with Inosuke Hashibira. His mother, Kotoha Hashibira, escaped from her abusive household with his father and found refuge in the Paradise Faith cult. Kotoha's husband and mother-in-law entered the cult too, but Doma found them too noisy, murdered them, and abandoned their corpses in the mountains. Although Doma considered Kotoha stupid, her beauty and singing talent convinced Doma not to consume her and to simply let her live her life. However, she discovered he is devouring other followers and fled from the temple with Inosuke in her arms. Before she could be killed, she dropped Inosuke off a cliff into a river in hopes he would survive. Doma shortly caught up with them and proceeded to swiftly kill her and mock Inosuke for his fate, before eating Kotoha to the very bones. A few years before the present, he encountered and fought Kanae Kocho, the Flower Hashira. He mortally wounded her, but is forced to retreat from the rising sun before he could devour her. Before she succumbed to her wounds, Kanae was found by her sister, to which she gave a description of Doma to help her.

## Synopsis

### Swordsmith Village Arc

Shortly after the deaths of Daki and Gyutaro, Doma is summoned to the Infinity Castle by Nakime. Upon arriving there, he questions Akaza's lack of concern for him, placing a hand on his subordinate's shoulder. He expresses his worry for his comrades' safety, before engaging Gyokko in small talk about his pot and the one he had been given. An irritated Akaza tells Doma to move his hand, punching off his jaw when he didn't immediately comply. Regenerating the damage almost instantly, Doma compliments his fellow Upper Rank, wondering if he had gotten stronger since their last meeting. Soon after, Muzan arrived and Upper Rank Two listens as his leader reports Gyutaro's death. Doma apologizes: being the one who introduced to the Twelve Kizuki, he claims responsibility for their failure and eagerly wonders what kind of punishment Muzan would inflict on him, but is instead told that nothing is expected of him. The eccentric demon questions this but Muzan points out the continued existence of the Ubuyashiki family and the failure of them all to find the Blue Spider Lily, caused Doma to concede that he isn't the best at detective work. He later approaches Gyokko, eager to accompany him on his new mission, but has the top half of his head destroyed by Akaza for not following their leader's orders. Doma swiftly regenerates from this and attempts to placate Kokushibo, who had cut off Akaza's hand for disrupting the hierarchy. Hearing it hadn't been for his benefit, Doma notes that Kokushibo's suggestion that Akaza should apply for a blood battle would be a waste of time given their difference in strength and that he hadn't dodged Akaza's blow on purpose. He then cheerfully bids Kokushibo goodbye and tries again to engage Akaza in conversation, only to see him leaving the castle. He attempts to join Gyokko and Hantengu on their mission but see the two transported out of the castle. Failing on both accounts, he attempts to flirt with Nakime, only to be rejected and transported back to his master room in the Paradise Faith Cult, strewn with the kanji for "Sukhāvatī, Paradise" ( *Gokuraku*?) on the signs above his pedestial. Upon being told that his followers had arrived, Doma quickly puts on a ceremonial hat and instructs the messenger to bring them in.

### Infinity Castle Arc

As he is consuming a group of his disciples inside a room in the Infinity Castle, Doma notices Shinobu at the entrance to his room. He reacts with delight at having another meal walk right into his room, and thanks Nakime. One of his disciples, still alive, begs Shinobu to save her, and Doma, irritated by this, attempts to finish her off, only for Shinobu to jump in and save her. She asks the young woman if she is alright, but before she can answer Shinobu's question, the young woman falls to pieces and dies right in front of her eyes. Angered by this, and Doma's insistence that he saved the girl by killing her, Shinobu notices a pair of sharp fans that Doma uses as his main weapon, and angrily inquires if he remembers the haori that originally belonged to her elder sister. Doma finally remembers her by the butterfly wing design haori that Kanae once wore, and playfully expresses his disappointment at not being able to eat Kanae due to the sun rising, which further angers Shinobu. The Insect Hashira swiftly launches an attack at him using her **Insect Breathing, Dance of the Bee Sting: True Flutter** to inflict a powerful stab directly in Doma's right eyeball, which impresses him since he couldn't block it. Doma compliments Shinobu for her speed, before using **Blood Demon Art: Frozen Lotus** to force her back, causing her to accidentally breathe in the freezing air. When he tells her that decapitation is the only way to kill a demon, he suddenly hunches over and vomits blood, reeling from her poison. No soon after he is stabbed, Upper Two breaks down the poison and regenerates completely. Shinobu tries four more times to poison him but Doma is now completely immune to her usual attacks, all the while taunting her for breathing in his frost and her deteriorating condition. Now hedging her bets on injecting a large dose to kill him by using a six stab attack, Shinobu strikes him using **Insect Breathing, Dance of the Dragonfly: Compound Eye Hexagon** and successfully hits him. However, as she attacks him, he simultaneously attacks her, cutting her collarbone, ribs, and puncturing one of her lungs. Finally near her wits' end and almost losing any hope of victory, Shinobu attempts to draw strength from replaying her older sister's words of encouragement in her head. Shinobu then prepares to strike at Doma again, despite her serious injuries and the immense pain she is in, and attacks him using **Insect Breathing, Dance of the Centipede: Hundred-Legged Zigzag,** to confuse him. She strikes Doma directly through his neck, impaling him and sending him flying towards the ceiling. Exhausted and wounded, Shinobu believes she is triumphant upon seeing Doma being poisoned and seemingly dying from her attack. However, Doma recovers almost instantly from her attack, by which Shinobu is further enraged. Now exhausted, fatally injured and dangerously near death, Shinobu is caught by Doma as they were fall down from the ceiling. He embraces her in a bear hug, and begins mocking her and calling her entire attempt to defeat him a waste of effort, assuring her she will live peacefully as a part of him, and mockingly asking her for her last words. She spitefully curses him as as he begins to kill her. Doma breaks Shinobu's body in his arms and begins to absorb her, just as her disciple Kanao Tsuyuri arrives at the scene, but just before her death she manages to signal to her Tsuguko with her hand. Her death causes Kanao to go berserk in order to try and save her, only to be repelled by an irritated Doma, who tells her not to interfere when he's in the middle of absorbing someone. He successfully devours Shinobu's body until her butterfly-shaped hair piece is the only thing left of her. Doma notes aloud that Kanao must have been told something by the signal Shinobu gave her shortly before her death, wondering what she could have told her, as Kanao stands silently before him, enraged. As he licks Shinobu's hairpin, he says that it is a good night, as such fine feasts keep showing up one after another. After Akaza's death, Doma says that he felt as if the Upper Rank had turned into a different creature before he died, and that his demise is inevitable because he never ate any women. Doma begins to cry over his 'best friend's' death, but Kanao just tells him to stop with the lies. She explains that she knows that every word that comes out of his mouth is nothing but random babble, and that it's impossible for him to be genuinely sad over Akaza because he can't feel anything at all. She says that every person born into the world has feelings, but Doma cannot understand these feelings and covers this up by spitting lies. He has never felt happiness, joy, pain and bitterness, and she says that he is nothing but an empty shell, and asks Doma why he is even born. Doma's face turns serious, and asks how Kanao can say something so cruel, to which the young Demon Slayer responds that she simply hates the Demon and wants to send him to hell this instant. Suddenly, Doma appears behind Kanao, attempting to use one of his fans to cut her head off, but she quickly dodges and delivers a blow to his stomach, causing some of his organs to fall out. He doesn't seem to feel her blow, simply sending some of his ice lotuses at her and noting that her reaction speed has risen as she's able to adapt to his attacks. As he regenerates his body, he thinks to himself that Kanao could actually be stronger than Shinobu, a Hashira. Trying to suppress her rage, Kanao attacks Doma with **Flower Breathing, Fifth Form: Peonies of Futility**, which he avoids with ease, smiling and commenting on how pretty her attack is before sending his **Blood Demon Art: Barren Hanging Garden** at her, which she barely fends off with **Flower Breathing, Second Form: Honorable Shadow Plum**. Doma notices that the main reason as to why she is able to counter and dodge his attacks is because of her immensely keen eyesight. Kanao herself is able to easily predict and guess his every move due to taking note of the subtle movements of his shoulders, gaze, toes, elbows and knees to predict what he'll do next and from their react and counter whatever attack he uses.Having figured out the reason to her reflexes and reactions,Doma decides that the best course of action to defeat her would be to simply take her eyes out with a swing of his fans. However Kanao successfully dodges his attack, and charges at him with **Flower Breathing, Sixth Form: Whirling Peach** which is nullified by Doma's next **Blood Demon Art: Freezing Clouds**. The Upper Rank sends two more attacks, **Blood Demon Art: Lotus Vines** and **Cold White Princesses**, her way, which she only just avoids before his **Wintry Icicles** begin to rain on her from above. Kanao dodges again, moving farther away from the Demon, who laughs at her and says that she can't keep moving backwards if she wants to cut off his head. At a speed too quick for the eye to process, Doma runs at Kanao and snatches her blade, returning and planting it in the ground a distance away from her. He says she better come and get it quickly if she wants to survive him, before sending his **Blood Demon Art: Scattering Lotuses** at the Demon Slayer. At that moment, Inosuke breaks through the ceiling of the room, protecting Kanao from Doma's attack with his **Beast Breathing, Fifth Fang: Crazy Cutting**. He looks at Doma's eyes and notices that he's Upper Rank 2, which he screams out, happily shouting that if he beats the Demon he'll become a Hashira and asking Kanao what his Hashira title should be. Inosuke notices Kanao's beaten-up face, and asks, surprised, what had happened, saying that Shinobu will get mad if she finds her Tsuguko in that state. Kanao remains silent, and the boar-headed Demon Slayer comes to a realization and asks her if Shinobu is dead, to which Doma replies that she isn't; she will live inside of him for all eternity because he has "saved" her from her pain and suffering. Inosuke recalls Shinobu's kindness to him, and vows to Doma that he'll kill him as he rushes towards the Upper Rank with his **Beast Breathing, Fourth Fang: Slice 'n' Dice**. Kanao shouts out a warning to him not to breathe in Doma's cold air as the Demon remarks on how messed-up his technique is. Doma attempts to slice off Inosuke's head with one of his fans, but the Demon Slayer flips away from him, launching himself from the flat edge of the fan and landing next to Kanao. He hands her her blade, which he had taken back from Doma, and tells her never to let go of it again. Doma smiles and compliments Inosuke's speed as he jumps towards him, and the two swiftly engage in quick combat, launching Breath Styles and Blood Demon Arts at each other at alarming rates. Inosuke kicks Doma in the stomach, sending him skidding backwards as he dislocates the joints in his right arm and prepares to swing his sword at the Upper Rank's neck. He misjudges his swing and instead slices through Doma's eyes with his **Beast Breathing, Ninth Fang: Extending Bendy Slash**, and the Demon laughs at his unusual technique as his joints relocate. Doma calls Inosuke messed-up and says that he's never met a kid like him before despite his long lifespan, to which the Demon Slayer replies that that's obvious, since he is the great Inosuke. At an incredible speed, Doma lurches forward and snatches his mask from his head as he's speaking, and Inosuke, enraged, yells at him to give it back. The Demon notices his face, and says he remembers Inosuke from somewhere, asking him if they'd met before. Inosuke responds that they hadn't as he would remember meeting someone like Doma, but the Upper Rank insists that they have, proceeding to stick his finger through his skull and into his brain to try and jog his memories. Doma says that he knew Inosuke's mother, as his cult took her in, but Inosuke denies that he has a mother since he is raised by boars. Doma laughs and says that he must have a human mother since he's a human, and Inosuke shouts at him to quit spouting lies and give him back his boar mask, rushing in to attack the Demon again with **Beast Breathing, Sixth Fang: Palisade Bite**. His torso is slashed twice by Doma's fans, who smiles slyly and tells him not to interrupt before sending him flying back to Kanao with his ice. Doma then tells the story of Kotoha, Inosuke's mother, and how she and her baby son joined Doma's cult only to end up running away after she realized the Demon is eating his followers. He explains that she met her demise by Doma's hands, who still believes he is saving her from her abusive household by eating her, but dropped her son off a cliff before the Demon's attack in the hope that he would survive. Memories of her begin to come back to Inosuke, who recalls the song she used to sing to him. Doma calls Kotoha stupid and unfortunate, saying that there isn't a happy moment in her life, and Inosuke, now enraged, thanks Doma for allowing him to remember this story and promises to not only to kill him for what he did to Kotoha and Shinobu, but to put him through hell beforehand. Doma smiles again, and tells Inosuke that there is no heaven or hell in this world since they're nothing but fantasies created as a coping mechanism for weak humans. Inosuke shouts that he doesn't care if there's no hell because he can just make one himself, and tells Doma not to talk about his mother like she is unhappy. The Demon sends his **Freezing Clouds** at Inosuke, which he blows away with **Beast Breathing, Tenth Fang: Whirling Fangs** as Kanao prepares to use another Breath Style to attack him from behind. Doma bats her away with one of his fans and moves away, and Inosuke yells at him to get back down so they can continue fighting. He replies that he can't, since Akaza has been defeated and he doesn't have time to play anymore, and uses his **Blood Demon Art: Crystalline Divine Child** to create smaller clones of himself for Inosuke and Kanao to fight instead. The clones attack the Demon Slayer duo with Doma's techniques as the real Doma starts to walk away, the clones using his **Blood Demon Art: Scattering Lotuses**, **Frozen Lotus** and **Cold White Princesses** attacks to hold the duo back. Now at the exit, Doma thinks about how Inosuke has managed to avoid breathing in the icy air from his techniques, and takes note of his sharp senses, saying he will make sure to remember him. He spectates their battle for a few seconds, observing how they use each technique so that he'll be able to kill them quickly the next time they fight, and then turns back towards the door. Doma decides to create three more clones to let loose around the castle in order to kill the rest of the Demon Slayers there, and overhears Kanao shouting to Inosuke that they have to hold their ground just a little longer against the crystal children. He wonders what this could mean, but then dismisses it and begins to reach for the door handle. Suddenly, Doma's face begins to melt. He drops to the floor, one of his arms snapping off, and his crystal children begin to crack and disintegrate as he wonders what's happening. Inosuke asks if it's a trap but Kanao, having been informed prior to the battle of Shinobu's plan to kill Doma, tells him that it isn't, and that the Demon is being melted by the poison Shinobu had in her body when he consumed her. She tells Inosuke to aim for his neck to finish him off, and, in a panic, Doma plays his final and most powerful card, **Blood Demon Art: Rime - Water Lily Bodhisattva**. Doma's ice Bodhisattva statue slams down its hand on the floor of the room, creating a small earthquake that sends Inosuke and Kanao up into the air. Kanao notes that his technique lacks precision, and is clearly the Demon's last effort to protect himself with the little energy he had left, deciding to use her final form, **Flower Breathing, Final Form: Equinoctial Vermilion Eye** to try and break through him. Doma's statue grabs Inosuke in one of its hands as Kanao leaps towards the Upper Rank, hitting her blade against his neck. She is unable to cut it, so Inosuke, on the spot, comes up with and uses **Beast Breathing, Sudden Throwing Strike** to hurl his blades at Kanao's to give it the extra strength needed to cut Doma's neck. They succeed in beheading him, and Upper Rank 2 and his statue begin to disintegrate. As his head falls to the floor, Doma thinks about how pathetic he must be to have lost to a poisoner like Shinobu, someone who didn't even have the strength to kill a Demon by cutting its head. He thinks to himself that he shouldn't give up, and that he should try and regenerate his head like Muzan can and Akaza almost did, but soon comes to realize that that would be futile, and that he is going to die. In his final moments, Doma says that he is not afraid of death or even frustrated that he lost, and recalls his past as a human and his inability to feel any emotion. Now in the afterlife, Doma opens his eyes to Shinobu, who is holding his severed head in one hand. She asks if he's finally dead, and says that she can now rest in peace. Doma asks her if her name is Shinobu or Kanae, and she says that it doesn't really matter because he makes her sick and she doesn't want him to say her name anyway. He ignores this, going on to compliment her for her poisoning skills and express his surprise at not noticing it had circulated through him before it is too late, and she smiles and explains that a Demon called Tamayo helped her make it. Shinobu says she is frustrated that she couldn't kill him herself and the fact that she can no longer help the other Demon Slayers defeat Muzan, but that she is still satisfied with the result. Doma gives her a look, and Shinobu asks what's wrong, to which the Demon says that he feels like his heart is beating and wonders if he is in love with Shinobu. He thinks aloud that if love really exists, heaven and hell must do too, and asks Shinobu if she wants to go to hell together with him. She tells him to go to hell, and calls him a "worthless bastard".

## Biography

### Past

#### Pre-Transformation

Ever since his birth, Doma was hailed as a supernatural presence by his parents and his followers in the Eternal Paradise cult dedicated to him, since Doma was born with a pair of polychromatic eyes. However, Doma was born to be a sociopath who showed or felt no emotions, and he only saw his followers as foolish and pitiful worms begging him for mercy. When Doma was a boy, his mother killed his father after finding out he had been cheating on her, before she took her own life. However, Doma remained unfazed by the deaths of his own parents. When he was twenty years old, Doma met Muzan Kibutsuji, who granted him power and turned him into a demon. Soon, Doma began eating people, especially females, under the name of absolution. He single-mindedly believed that those he devoured will live forever with him. He continued to serve as the leader of the Eternal Paradise cult as its leader, of which he kept no more than 250 members to avoid being discovered.

#### Post-Transformation

A century ago before the main story started, Doma was promoted into the rank of Upper Moon Six, before his later promotion into the Upper Moon Two. One day, when he walked into the street of Red Light District while he was committing serial murders against girls, he accidentally encountered Gyutaro and a dying Daki, as the former spitefully vowed to seek vengeance for his dear sister and the mistreatment the siblings suffered. Sensing their despair, Doma offered a chance to him and turned both Gyutaro and Daki into demons. Fifteen years before the story started, Doma met a woman named Kotoha Hashibira, and left her family with her baby son Inosuke after being fed up with the abuse of her husband and mother-in-law. Doma invited Kotoha into the Eternal Paradise cult for sanctuary. He decided to spare her because of being impressed by her beautiful face and her sweet singing voice. However, one night, Kotoha accidentally encountered Doma who was devouring his victims. Doma tried to explain himself to her but she ran and he knew he had to eat Kotoha her (so Muzan wouldn’t punish him for his secret being revealed) and chased her to the cliff. Kotoha threw her son into the river to protect him, before Doma devoured her. Inosuke survived after being raised by a female boar. Later, in an undated period of time, Doma was promoted to Upper Moon Two and killed Kanae Kocho, the elder sister of Shinobu Kocho, and thus became her bitter arch-enemy.

### Red Light District Arc

Doma was first seen in the main story during the Upper Moon meeting in the Dimensional Infinite Fortress, after the deaths of Daki and Gyutaro, the duo of Upper Moon Six. Doma had placed a hand on Akaza's shoulder, the latter asked him to remove it, getting mad and punching his head off when he didn't immediately do so. This was stopped by Kokushibou, who sliced off an arm of Akaza for breaking the law of Upper Moon's hierarchy and calmed both of them down. Spitefully, Akaza challenged Kokushibou and Doma before he left. After the meeting was over, Doma returned to the base of his cult under Nakime's escort.

### Dimensional Infinity Fortress Arc

After the war in the Dimensional Infinite Fortress broke out, Doma resided near a lotus pool waiting for the arrival of a vengeful Shinobu Kocho. Ignoring her poison, Doma killed her and devoured her as a whole, unknowing it was already a set up of Shinobu ever since the beginning, as for years she had absorbed a 37 kilogram of Wisteria Flower Poison into her body, about seventy times the lethal and deadly enough to finish Doma off. After killing Shinobu, Doma confronted Kanao Tsuyuri, who pointed out Doma was unable to feel emotions. Shocked and infuriated, Doma proceeded into attacking Kanao and was about to kill her, but Inosuke interrupted him and saved Kanao. After discovering Shinobu's death at Doma's hands, Inosuke furiously attacked him. Doma then recognized Inosuke as the son of Kotoha because of their shared similarity in physical appearance, and revealed that he murdered Kotoha, whom he believed to have live in a hollowed life. Doma's revelation caused Inosuke to become horrified and enraged. Angrily saying how fortunate he was to find his sworn enemy, Inosuke vowed to kill Doma in order to avenge his mother and friends, as he and Kanao attacked Doma. However, Doma managed to overpower the two Demon Slayers until suddenly, the Wisteria Flower Poison in Shinobu's corpse took effect and started to melt Doma's body. Unable to fight back, Doma realized he was tricked but it was too late. He was soon decapitated by the combined force of Kanao and Inosuke, avenging Shinobu and her family. Trying to struggle for survival like Akaza, but lacking indomitable willpower as Akaza had, Doma's head slowly disintegrated and he met Shinobu's soul in the limbo, holding his severed head. Shinobu had refused to pass onto heaven until she personally saw to Doma's death. Ironically, Doma discovered that he was in the afterlife he once tried hard to deny, and he finally began to exhibit some emotion. He claimed that he fell in love with Shinobu and invited her to be his company to Hell. However, Shinobu, with her face still smiling (albeit dumbfounded), gleefully rejected and cursed Doma one last time as the latter was condemned into Hell off-screen. In the Dimensional Infinite Fortress, Inosuke happily stepped on Doma's ashes to spite him, finally avenging his mother as well in the process.

### Beyond the Sanzu River

in the bonus chapter, he asked the Demons who were hit by the breath of insects to forgive her because Shinobu is beautiful. However, Doma should not forgive Shinobu, but should be forgiven by Shinobu. It means he doesn't even regret his faults.

## Abilities

* As the holder of the second highest ranking member of the Twelve Kizuki, and the third most powerful of his kind to have ever existed, Doma is an exceptionally powerful demon. His combination of combative prowess and his potent cryokinetic Blood Demon Art in battle is powerful enough to overwhelm and defeat the Insect Hashira, Shinobu Kocho, without any difficulty, and he is also noted to have defeated Kanae Kocho, the late Flower Hashira, in the past. Afterwards, Doma could take on both Inosuke and Kanao, who were on par with the Hashira, simultaneously without much effort either. According to Doma, Akaza, who holds the rank of Upper Three, would have no chance in defeating him in battle. Moreover, Doma was able to surpass Akaza in a shorter period of time, showcasing the immense power gap between the two demons. As further credence to Doma's immense power, he rarely fights seriously and instead adopts a casual and carefree attitude even in life-and-death situations against the most powerful Demon Slayers, only ever becoming serious when his life is in serious danger, such as when the deadly effects of Shinobu's poisons became apparent.
* **Apathy:** Doma is diagnosed as clinically apathetic, unable to experience human emotions. Despite this, he maintains a friendly and carefree façade that deceives all but the most astute observers. Kanao is the only person who can see through his façade, thanks to her exceptional eyesight. She believes that Doma impersonates emotions in the hopes that he could eventually acquire the ability to feel them himself, a concept entirely foreign to him. Even in his childhood, Doma exhibited little to no emotion. When his mother killed his father before taking her own life in front of him, he remained unaffected by the traumatising event; his only reaction was annoyance over the blood that was making the room stuffy. This inability to feel emotions has become an advantage for Doma, as this allows him to calmly process, understand and analyze any situation he is faced with without being hampered by emotions, allowing him to easily and quickly come up with any solution for any adversary. Although, after his death, he seemed to have developed feelings for Shinobu Kocho, making it the first time he actually shows true emotion.
* **Keen Intellect:** Doma is exceptionally intelligent, which he displayed on multiple occasions. While in a fast-paced brawl with Kanao, he was able to process and deduce her abilities, surmising that it was her superhuman eyesight that allowed her to parry and dodge his ice attacks and immediately develop a strategy to counter it. In another instance, when he left Kanao and Inosuke to fight his ice clones, he construed that Inosuke had an acute sense of touch just by observing his behavior when near his ice techniques. It is also implied that Doma was able to trick and deceive all of his followers, allowing him to kill and eat them. He was able to keep this up for over a century with almost complete infallibility. Doma also possesses incredible memory, being able to remember even the most insignificant details from back when he was human, which was over a century ago.

### Demon Abilities

* **Biological Absorption:** Doma briefly displayed the ability to absorb human bodies through physical contact, shown when he completely broke down and assimilated Shinobu's body within only a few seconds of killing her. He mostly uses this ability as a faster alternative of consuming humans during battle.
* **Immense Regeneration:** As an Upper Rank demon, Doma possesses one of the most advanced and powerful regenerative healing factors in existence. When Akaza punched off both his lower jaw and the upper portion of his head, he instantly healed with ease, even considering the fatal attack to be a friendly gesture. Doma also took mere seconds to recover from Shinobu's onslaught of fatal Wisteria poison attacks and from a deep slash in his abdomen which caused his guts to spill out. Even when Doma absorbed Shinobu's body and ingested over 37 kilograms worth of poison, approximately 700 times more than the lethal amount needed to kill an average demon, it still took a considerable amount of time before it began to have any adverse effect on him.
* **Reactive Adaptation:** During his battle against Shinobu, he is able to break down and render all of the various poison mixtures Shinobu injected into him useless, immediately developing antibodies to her poison without much trouble. Shinobu herself was shocked at how fast Doma built a resistance to her normally fatal poison.

### Physical Abilities

* **Immense Strength**: Doma has incredible physical strength, mainly due to the amount of Muzan Kibutsuji's blood he assimilated, possibly making him stronger than Akaza because he is one rank higher. Doma can swing his dual fans at subsonic speeds rapidly and incessantly without fail. He can also swing his fans with so much force that it generates gigantic gusts of wind.
* **Immense Mobility**: One of Doma's physical capabilities is his extraordinary movement speed, being able to move immensely faster than the eye can process, making him subsonic or possibly supersonic. This ability has been showcased multiple times during his battle in the Infinity Castle Arc, the first being when Doma killed one of his cult members right in front of Shinobu without her reacting to it until after the woman's body exploded, another being when he was able to evade Kanao's superhuman vision and steal her Nichirin Blade effortlessly which even took her several seconds to process it along with him evading Kanao's **Flower Breathing: Fourth Form - Crimson Hanagoromo** with no difficulty whatsoever. Another example was when he swiftly stole Inosuke's boar mask without neither him nor Kanao noticing it.
* **Immense Durability:** As an Upper Rank demon who has assimilated a huge amount of Muzan's blood, Doma has an exceptionally durable body. This is shown when Kanao had difficultly slicing Doma's neck even when his body was falling apart due to the extreme dosage of poison he received. Kanao only succeeded in decapitating the Upper Rank when Inosuke used his swords to push her blade through Doma's neck.
* **Immense Speed & Reflexes:** Doma possesses inhuman movement speed and reflexes, being able to move so fast he appears to teleport. Due to their rankings, it is strongly suggested that Doma is faster than Akaza, who was able to keep up with a Marked Giyu, and Gyutaro who was able to keep up with and overpower Tengen, the fastest runner among this generation's Hashira. He first displayed his immense speed during the Upper Rank meeting, where he appeared to teleport to Gyokko, which caught him off guard. Later, when Akaza appeared behind him and destroyed his head, Doma claimed that he could've easily evaded it if he wanted to, but didn't do so on purpose as he wanted to get along with him. His imperceptible speed was further testified when he sliced a woman to pieces after Shinobu, the fastest Hashira Doma has met, brought her away from his attack range, taking the Insect Hashira a while to register the attack. Moreover, Doma was shown to be able to keep up with Shinobu's imperceptible speed for the majority of the fight. More impressively, Doma was able to deliver a deep cut to Shinobu before she could even react, effectively blitzing her. Against Kanao, a Hashira-level Demon Slayer, Doma was able to easily dodge her **Crimson Hanagoromo** technique while still busy absorbing Shinobu, and later managed to move so fast he appeared to teleport behind her, nearly decapitating the Demon Slayer's head. Later on in the fight, Doma managed to completely blitz Kanao, running up to her from a considerably far distance, stealing her Nichirin katana while she was still gripping onto it, and returning to his original spot so fast that Kanao, despite possessing superhuman vision, couldn't react to, let alone perceive the Upper Rank's movements, even taking several seconds to comprehend and realize what just happened. Similarly, Doma blitzed Inosuke, this time, stealing his mask without he and Kanao realizing it until several seconds later. Due to how casual Doma was when he performed the aforementioned feats, it is implied that Doma could've instantly blitzed and killed both Kanao and Inosuke had he taken the fight more seriously.
* **Unlimited Stamina & Endurance:** Doma possesses absolute and infinite stamina and vitality, never tiring and always remaining in optimal physical and mental condition all the time as well as being able to endure waves of onslaught as if it were nothing. He showed almost complete immunity to being repeatedly violently attacked by his fellow Upper Rank, Akaza, having his eyes slashed out by Inosuke, being repeatedly poisoned and stabbed by Shinobu, having his stomach slashed open by Kanao and inflicting various forms of extreme self-harm to himself. Doma never once expressed the slightest bit of pain, discomfort and panic at being wounded so grievously, having been able to nonchalantly and calmly continue fighting, talking or doing whatever else he is doing as if nothing is happening.

### Supernatural Abilities

* **Extrasensory Perception:** Doma possesses extraordinary sensory abilities which allow him to detect things outside the normal range of perception, as shown when he could perceive attacks even from places he is not looking at, allowing him to nullify the effectiveness of sneak attacks. Later, Doma was capable of detecting Akaza's transformation into a demon immune to decapitation by Nichirin Swords despite being extremely far away from him.

## Fighting Style

* **Tessenjutsu:** Doma is incredibly skilled in Tessenjutsu as shown during his battles against the Demon Slayers. It is implied that his skill in this martial arts surpasses Akaza's bare-fisted combat prowess due to his superior ranking compared to Akaza. Doma showcased his skill in dual wielding his Japanese war fans against Kanao and Inosuke, where he could easily fend off both combatants, displaying his ability in using his fans for both attacking and defending during high-speed battles, parrying and delivering attacks that overwhelmed the Demon Slayers. With his exceptional proficiency in Tessenjutsu, Doma could make use of techniques that require him to perform eight to nine fan attacks in the blink of an eye and generate huge gusts of air with them. Furthermore, Doma's Tessenjutsu incorporates his cryokinetic Blood Demon Art which enhances its range and lethality, making his fighting style a great blend of offense and defense.

### Blood Demon Art

* **Cryokinesis:** Doma's Blood Demon Art grants him extremely powerful cryokinesis. He can generate ice and frost from his flesh and blood and can spawn it anywhere in his vicinity, as well as manipulating it at will, allowing him to unleash incredibly potent ice techniques. Additionally, the ice created from his Blood Demon Art is extremely lethal to those that inhale it, causing the cells of the victim's lungs to die and rendering them unable to breathe very quickly. His ice and frost has also been noted to be extremely cold, as shown when the air around Doma's frost was cold enough to make Shinobu's lungs feel as if they were about to burst and nearly freeze Kanao's body and surroundings just by coming into contact with it. Doma is incredibly proficient in his Blood Demon Art, being capable of creating constructs out of the ice he generates such as frost lotuses, stalagmites, clouds of icy air and even miniature ice clones of himself capable of unleashing the same techniques as him. He has also shown the ability to use the ice he creates as extra appendages, as seen when he created ice vines to hold himself up the ceiling while he uses his arms to hug Shinobu. In combat, Doma usually incorporates his cryokinetic abilities with his Tessenjutsu, enhancing his fan attacks with ice and frost. Doma prefers to use his Blood Demon Art to create frost lotuses and crystal-like shards made of ice.

### Techniques

* **Frozen Lotus** ( *Hasuhagōri*?) - Doma delivers a forward fan slash that creates razor-sharp ice shards along with several ice lotuses.
* **Barren Hanging Garden** (り *Karesono Shizuri*?) - A series of 8 to 10 successive fan attacks that generates ice shards to slice the enemy into pieces.
* **Freezing Clouds** (て *Itegumori*?) - Doma creates a large wave of cold wind and uses his fans to scatter them. This technique nearly froze Kanao's eyeballs.
* **Lotus Vines** ( *Tsuru Renge*?) - Similar to his **Frozen Lotus** technique, Doma creates several lotuses made of ice and long frost vines that extend his reach and can capture or slice up his opponents.
* **Cold White Princesses** (の *Kanretsu no Shirahime*?) - Doma creates the upper body of two female humanoid figures at the end of lotuses using ice with the ability to blow icy air towards his target. The wind generated was cold enough to instantly freeze the surrounding wood bridges and water. Kanao noted that this technique is extremely broad and has a long reach.
* **Wintry Icicles** (ざれ *Fuyuzare Tsurara*?) - Doma spawns numerous icicles to impale his target.
* **Scattering Lotuses** (り *Chiri Renge*?) - Doma swings his fans and creates a blizzard of long-ranged razor-sharp ice shards shaped like lotus petals.
* **Crystalline Divine Child** (ノ *Kesshō no Miko*?) - Doma creates miniature ice replicas of himself to battle his opponents. He has shown to be capable of creating up to six clones of himself at once, all possessing roughly the same skill and proficiency as Doma himself in addition to being fully capable of using any of his techniques, albeit not to the same caliber as him. Furthermore, these clones are able to record any information it gathers during battle and relay it to Doma, allowing him to better fight his opponents. However, one drawback to this technique is that the clones require concentration in order to maintain their functionality, as seen when they disappeared when Shinobu's poison started to take effect on Doma.
* **Rime — Water Lily Bodhisattva** (・ *Muhyō - Suiren Bosatsu*?) - Doma creates an enormous Bodhisattva statue surrounded by lotuses made of ice. Its most notable trait is its ability to generate huge gusts of Doma's deadly ice from its mouth and deliver powerful physical attacks using its large arms. It is also able to grab targets using its hands.

## Equipment

* **Japanese War Fans:** Doma carries around a pair of gold-plated Japanese war fans most likely fashioned from his flesh (similar to all other weapons used by demons), that act as his main offensive weapons and aid in spreading his Blood Demon Art. His fans are of a golden color with several patterns resembling lotuses engraved on the side complete with a green tassel. They are extremely sharp and suited for his style of combat, being able to slice and slash as well as swords and generate huge gusts of air. They are also shown to be extremely durable, withstanding multiple sword slashes and attacks without breaking.

## Relationships

### Muzan Kibutsuji

Doma met Muzan and became a demon at the age of twenty. He steadily developed his powers over centuries and eventually became Muzan's second most powerful subordinate and held the position of Upper Two of the Twelve Kizuki. Doma seemingly adored Muzan and would continually talk to him as if Muzan were his friend. During the meeting of the Upper Ranks, Doma excited offered to gouge his eyeballs as response to Muzan's rant over his continual disappointment in their failure. Doma's lack of fear and inability to show true emotion infuriated him, who desired to be feared and respected, and Muzan never liked Doma as a result.

### Upper Ranks

Doma acted friendly towards his fellow Upper Ranks. It was his personal belief that superior beings should treat their subordinates fairly and as Upper Two, he was respectful of the demons lower ranked that him. During the meeting in the Infinity Castle, he chatted with Gyokko while waiting for Muzan's arrival, complimenting the pot he was given in his cult room. Notably, he respected Kokushibo's authority as the one demon more powerful than himself; as such, he gently tried to calm him down when he angrily reprimanded Akaza for attacking him, claiming that is their method of getting along. When told he was reinforcing the hierarchy of the Upper Ranks, Doma doesn't deny his words but also responds that they should treat them more justly as the two strongest demons.

### Akaza

Because of his desire to become stronger and Doma's strength allowing him to surpass himself to become Upper Two, Akaza harboured an intense hatred of Doma. Doma, as apathetic as he is, considered him his "best friend", seemingly ignoring the contempt Akaza possessed. His carefree and bubbly personality is in stark contrast to Akaza's headstrong and aggressive nature. Moreover, Doma would continually ask his subordinate to eat women, like himself, as they have more nutritional value to demons than men; Akaza vehemently refused to do so and Doma believes this was why he surpassed him in power. During the Upper Ranks Meeting, Doma approaches Akaza and nonchalantly asks if he was worried about him, claiming that he was worried about everyone since they were comrades. Instead of returning his words, Akaza commands him to remove his arm off his shoulder, before destroying part of Doma's jaw when he doesn't do so immediately.Doma doesn't dodge the blow but rapidly heals the damage, before asking if Akaza had gotten stronger. Akaza's hatred for Doma can also be seen when he loses his patience and destroys Doma's head, after he attempts to join Gyokko's mission without Muzan's orders. After Kokushibo admonishes Akaza for attacking him, Doma tries to placate his superior and claims that it is simply their way of showing "friendship". Despite this, he snarkily insults Akaza by claiming he would never defeat him in battle, despite become a demon more recently than him. Later on during the battle within the Infinity Castle, Doma begins to tear up after hearing word of Akaza's passing, mourning his "best friend." However, Kanao is able to expose him saying that he does not feel any emotion and is simply acting, proving that Doma did not actually care for Akaza.

### Daki & Gyutaro

As revealed by Gyutaro during his final moments, Doma was the one who had initiated their transformations into demons after finding them on the brink of death. After Ume had been burned alive and Gyutaro had been slashed in the back by a Samurai, the latter carried her half burned body across the district for help, but upon realizing that people who would offer aid to them did not exist, collapsed from exhaustion from his wounds. Doma, having been wandering around the Red Light district to devour the beautiful women in the area, stumbled upon the half dead siblings. Due to supposedly being a "nice guy", he offered to give the siblings his blood and initiate their transformation into demon and challenged them to become strong enough to become an Upper Moon such as himself by impressing "him". A centurie later, after their deaths, Doma was shown to have "felt" a level of responsibility for them, this is seen where he had offered to mutilate himself as punishment for their deaths to Muzan due to him having been the one to initially introduce them to him and join their ranks as Demons.

### Kanae Kocho

Prior to the beginning of the series, Kanae faced off against Doma. The two fought until dawn, forcing Doma to escape before the arrival of the sun. Kanae was left with major injuries and died soon after their battle. Doma himself was stated to have been greatly disappointed in their battle ending that way and he had hoped to eat her. As stated by him, Doma acknowledged Kanae's strength during their fight and commended her for it, when he faced Shinobu years later. As revealed by her younger sisters, Kanae was able to tell that Doma lacked the ability to feel and experience genuine human emotions and pitied him for his apathy and inability to feel them. After her death, both Shinobu and Kanao made a point of using this information to insult and degrade Doma out of spite for killing her, genuinely enraging Doma due to them seeing past his supposedly friendly persona.

### Kotoha Hashibira

Doma met Kotoha when she was roughly 18 years old, on a cold snowy night. She came to him while carrying her baby, and pleaded for him to save them from her abusive husband and mother-in-law. As a result, Doma killed her pursuers, and accepted Kotoha and her baby into his temple. Doma grew fond of her due to her beauty and singing ability, intending to keep her alive until she died of natural causes. However when she discovered that Doma was a Demon who was killing his followers, she ran from the temple to try to escape. Despite his fondness of her, Doma pursued Kotoha and murdered her in cold blood.

### Inosuke Hashibira

After joining Kanao to assist in the fight against Doma, Inosuke becomes eager to defeat him so he can become a Hashira, leaving Doma intrigued by the new opponent. However once he discovers that Doma has killed one of his comrades, Inosuke becomes enraged and immediately rushes in to attack him. Despite being immediately attacked by Inosuke, Doma becomes curious about him and manages to remove Inosuke's mask, mentioning that he recognizes his face. Although Inosuke refuses to acknowledge that he has met him before, Doma explores his memories and reveals that he met Inosuke when he was a child, and was responsible for killing his mother, causing Inosuke to fill with hatred and engage in combat with the Demon.

### Shinobu Kocho

Prior to their meeting, Shinobu harbored an intense hatred for Doma since he was responsible for killing her sister. Upon confronting him within the Infinity Castle, Shinobu becomes disgusted by his calm, bubbly demeanor claiming that he makes her feel sick and angrily tells him that her sister was killed by him. Doma adds insult to injury be recalling how displeased he was at not being able to eat Kanae, which causes Shinobu to stab him intensely through the eye, initiating a fight. Despite her animosity for him, however, Doma would slowly develop an admiration for Shinobu as she struggles fighting despite her small stature and inability to poison him fatally. As Shinobu lives through her final moments, she becomes frustrated that Doma does not appear to be affected by her attacks, nor her poisons and curses him to "go to hell" before she is killed. When they meet again the afterlife, Doma has a casual conversation with Shinobu, admiring her for stealthily poisoning him. Despite her hateful responses towards his comments, Doma comes to an unexpected realization by calling Shinobu cute and claiming that even though he "doesn't have a heart anymore, [he] feels like it's beating" when he looks at her. Although he alludes to having romantic feelings for her, Shinobu stares at him and calls him a "worthless bastard" after he asks her to go to hell with him.

### Kanao Tsuyuri

When the two originally meet Kanao is filled with hatred towards Doma for killing her loved ones, reacting with his usual exaggerated personality. However Kanao exposes his lies and makes fun of him for not being able to feel any emotion, which unexpectedly angers him. The two openly express their disdain with each other with Doma referring to Kanao as "the first time [he's] talked to such an unkind girl", with Kanao expressing her desires to "cut off his head and send him to hell as quickly as possible, initiating a fight between the two.

## Quotes

* (To himself) "*How sad... that paradise does not exist. It's a fairy tale that humans created with their imagination. The Gods and Buddhas don't exist either. These people had been alive for decades yet they couldn't understand something so simple. When you die, you just become nothing. You just stop feeling anything. Your heart stops and your brain stops. You rot and return to the earth. As long as you are a living creature, it is unavoidable. They could not accept something so simple. It must be difficult to be so dumb. I wanted to make the pitiful people happy and help them. **That** is why I was born.*"
* (To Kanao and Inosuke) "*The reality is that even those who live upright and good lives meet with misfortune while the wicked act as they please. They enjoy themselves and live life to the fullest. The idea of divine punishment is a joke. Wicked people going to hell after death? If humans didn't think like that, people with weak spirits couldn't keep going, right? I truly believe that humans are pathetic.*"
* (To Shinobu) *"You know, everyone's afraid of dying. And that's why I **eat them all up**. Now they get to live together with me. Forever. All the feelings of my worshipers. Blood. Flesh. I made sure to accept, rescue, and guide them all to enlightenment."*

## His Evil Ranking

### What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?

* Doma didn't have any emotions and humanity since childhood, and even when he saw the dying of his parents, he started thinking of venturing, saying he hated the smell of blood rather than feeling sad. Doma's past can be said to be a victim of abuse and exploitation by parents who have filled their desires with pseudo-religion, but Doma is unsympathetic and his excuse does not justify the atrocities he has committed, regardless of his background, like Muzan, who was born sick from birth, but never even worthy of sympathy. And he's been a misanthropic psychopath since he was human. Thus, all of Doma's Freudian Excuses were shut down.
* After becoming a demon thanks to Muzan, he carried out all kinds of cruelty freely. In particular, he caused the deaths of many women. He also worships Muzan, but it is only a fanatical worship to Muzan's demonic power rather than true loyalty.
* He appeared eating a woman in Gyutaro and Daki's past. He also turned and corrupted them into demons.
* He seduced mentally limited people into his own believers, and in this way he gathered believers and ate them. Moreover, Doma thinks of his believers as nothing but his own food and does not treat them with genuine care. This shows that he is not a savior, but a delusional hypocrite. And when one believer realized Doma's true nature, she screamed for Shinobu to save her, but Doma told her to be quiet and mercilessly killed her.
* When he was with Kotoha, Doma grew attached to Kotoha, but she could not prevent Doma's evil behavior. Eventually, when Kotoha discovered his true nature, Doma murdered and ate her. Before being killed, Kotoha tossed her son Inosuke from a cliff to a river as a last ditch effort to save his life and for this reason, Inosuke is raised by boars.
* He brutally murdered Shinobu's elder sister, Kanae, which forced Shinobu to live a hellish life of grief. And this also hurt Sanemi Shinazugawa, who loved Kanae unrequitedly.
* He have had the same sick and twisted view of art as Gyokko, decorating the pot given to him by Gyokko with the skull of a woman he had murdered.
* He had some comedic moments at the Upper Rank meeting, but in the Infinity Castle Arc, he lost all comedic traits and showed his true darker and brutal colours. Moreover, his crimes and misdeeds became too detestable that they outweighed all of his humorous actions.
* In the Infinite Castle arc, Doma met Shinobu, whose whole life was ruined by himself and ridiculed her before killing and devouring her. Also, in front of Kanao and Inosuke, he did all kinds of ridicule. This proves that Doma has no respect or honor, which is contrary to Kokushibou and Akaza, who show honor and respect as warriors.
* He pretended to care about Akaza. This is akin to the narcissism of "I am close to other demons." And this is also evident in his attitude toward Gyutaro and Daki. It is Doma that turned them into demons, but when they died, it turned out that he didn't really care about them at all.
* In front of Inosuke, he revealed that he had killed Kotoha, and he made fun of the fact that she was an unfortunate child.
* After trying to kill Kanao and Inosuke, he proceed with attempting to wipe out the rest of the Demon Slayers with his ice clones.
* As it turned out in the fanbook, even the demon king, Muzan, was uncomfortable with Doma. Also, Gyokko is afraid of Doma, and the rest of the demons try not to get close to Doma because of the inhumanity he holds dearly.
* When he died, he met Shinobu's soul in the afterlife and made a terrible remark about going to hell with him, who lived a hellish life because of him. And he, like Muzan Kibutsuji, Enmu, Gyokko and the Snake Demon did not have any regrets for his actions among the Demons, and, unlike Akaza, he refused to change.
* His death was portrayed as sympathetic, but his actions later in the afterlife deprived him of any sympathy. Even if he had a twisted mind because of his parents, it's all his choices and the results of them as he stays evil and willingly accepts going to Hell. He can't be sympathetic like the other Upper Ranks (except for Hantengu, Gyokko, and Kaigaku).
* Despite his complexity, Doma is considered completely unsympathetic, Doma is responsible for causing more tragic events than other Upper Moons. Except for Hantengu, Gyokko, and Kaigaku, most Upper Moons have a tragic background, honor and insecurity, but Doma has not. Writer Gotouge unraveled Doma's past and relationship with Kotoha, but Gotōge never portrays Doma as a pitiful character like the other Upper Moons. This proves that even the writer Gotoge sees Doma to be just as bad as Muzan Kibutsuji. His entire behavior is too horrible that he's not played for sympathy at all.

### What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?

* He has moral agency issues. While his tragedy is no excuse for his actions, because of his parents' treatment of him, treating him like a god and starting a cult solely dedicated to him, Doma is too delusional to have a proper moral agency, as he believes that he is genuinely saving the women he eats. Kanae Kocho even expresses pity for him due to him being so broken inside his head. However, this is a minor prevention, as Doma is aware he is abnormal and exhibits a sufficiently sadistic and manipulative nature.
* Although he is extremely vile, misanthropic, and heinous, he seems to have admired the concept of feelings he never felt before and he monopolized that human emotions at the moment of his death were nothing more than fantasy of another world to him, but afterwards, he realized that he had genuine feelings because of Shinobu in the afterlife, falling in love with her as displayed by him calling her cute. Realizing it, he felt the feeling of ecstasy for the first time in his life. However, even after meeting Shinobu in the afterlife, Doma stays evil even after understanding his feelings and he shows no reflection or regrets about his actions, and it should not be forgotten that he is the one who killed her so this is a very weak prevention.

## Trivia

* Doma's name contains the On'yomi reading of the kanji for "child" ( *dō*?) and "polish, improve" ( *ma*?).
* In the manga's original Japanese, Doma's hair is described to be very light blond/gold in color, "birch-colored" ( *shiro tochi*?), and this is how it's colored in the colored version of the Final Battle Arc. However, on Shonen Jump 2019 issue 29 and Chapter 162's covers (both of the covers he's on that were personally colored by Koyoharu Gotoge), in the anime adaptation, and in the manga's English translation, his hair is pictured/described as being a silver color.
* Doma's attire and Eternal Paradise Faith is an inspiration to Dzogchen Atiyoga, a tradition of teachings within the Karma Kagyu, a trasmitting lineage and practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Doma himself is represented as the Gyalwa Karmapa, the leading figure who teaches all to attain enlightenment.
	+ This leads back to Doma's entire Blood Demon Art techniques being centered around the teachings and practices of the Karma Kagyu. The lotuses being connected to the cycle of enlightnement along with the Lotus Sutra, religious Buddhist texts that teaches those about dharma (law), karma (action) and saṃsāra (cycle, world).
* Muzan never really liked Doma, despite his loyalty and worship of him. Doma also made Muzan the figure of worship within his Paradise Faith Cult.
* After Kotoha stumbled into his temple, Doma grew fond of her beauty and singing. He initially never intended to eat her as he enjoyed her company. Doma had planned to keep her near him until she died of old age.
	+ Kotoha's husband and mother in-law also went to the cult (possibly in search of her) but Doma found them noisy and murdered them. He didn't devour them though, only leaving their bodies in the mountains.
* In Kimetsu Academy, beyond fake marriages, Doma is a scam artist in various ways. He is infamous to the point that he gets covered in special programs on TV. He's also been involved in several incidents, but because the evidence is insufficient, he has yet to be prosecuted. After greeting a woman with pink and green hair, he went missing afterward. Earlier at the crime scene, the voices of a man and a woman fighting were overheard saying "I had a feeling you were lying".

* Prior to the confirmation of the casting, fans of the anime bombarded social media in their recommendation of Miyano for Douma. Ufotable, the creator and producer of *Demon Slayer* anime, announced to fans that it had been decided during *Mugen Train Arc* production that who would voice Douma. Miyano himself, realizing his fanbase's excitement and how popular *Demon Slayer* anime is, expressed on social media his eagerness to portray the villain. When Douma debuted in the anime with Miyano voicing the villain, people's response was an exhilaration.
* Doma's name contains the kanji for "child" ( *dō***童**) and (ma**磨**), which can mean 'polish', 'grind', or 'improve'. Among them, Doma's name includes the word "child", which can be said to be a very good match for Doma's personality. If he looks at his tone and actions, he can see that only his body is an adult and his mind is stopped by a child.
* Ironically, his extravagant clothing and overall design may act as a contrast to his complete lack of feeling.
* He has many similarities to Shinobu Kocho, an insect pillar hashira, in his tone, personality, and behavior. On the cover of Shinobu, there was a lotus flower symbolizing Doma, and on the cover of Doma, a butterfly symbolizing Shinobu covered one eye of Doma. And he has many similarities with Giyu Tomioka. Both are hated by certain groups, both have water-related abilities (Breath of Water, Ice Blood Demon Techniques), experience saving siblings, and crucially both are tied to Shinobu Kocho. And he resembles Kanao Tsuyuri in that he is immature at feeling emotions.
* Muzan did not favor Doma highly among the Upper Moons, as he did not like him. But Doma is fanatical about Muzan.

## External Links

* Doma on the Villains Wiki
* Doma on the Demon Slayer Wiki