Hand Demon

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The **Hand Demon** (手 (て) 鬼 (おに) , *Te Oni*?) was a notorious demon who killed thirteen of Sakonji's apprentices, including Sabito and Makomo, as well as at least fifty other would-be Demon Slayers.

## Appearance

The Hand Demon was a monstrously large, veiny, hulking monster with olive green skin, blood red fingernails, and beady yellow eyes with cross-hatch shaped pupils. He used to have a very normal humanoid appearance, with regular hair and clothes, but after he started eating multiple humans, he started growing in size. He grew multiple arms and his mouth became huge, with jagged teeth. He grew so many arms that not only was he forced to stop wearing his clothes, using his arms instead to cover himself, he stopped moving around in a bipedal manner, instead moving on all his hands like an animal.

### Gallery

Hand Demon as a human.Hand Demon as a younger demon.
## Personality

The Hand Demon was ruthless in his treatment of humans, immediately killing them and even attacking the ones who fled. He bore a great hatred for Sakonji, cursing him for defeating and trapping him in the wisteria-riddled Mount Fujikasane, and vowing to kill all of his apprentices. He was also very sadistic, gleefully explaining his murder of Sabito and Makomo to Tanjirō. Despite this, the Hand Demon had a deep fear of death, being too afraid to close his eyes after Tanjirō beheaded him.

When he was human, he had a habit of asking his older brother to hold his hand, a trait which made his sibling label him a scaredy-cat. In his final moments, the Hand Demon extended a hand to Tanjirō for him to hold, shedding tears of gratitude when his request was granted.

He seemed to have a notable tendency to keep track of time, as he asked Tanjirō if it was still the Meiji era, and when told it was the Taishō era, he raged that he had passed into a new era, again, and that he was still trapped on Mount Fujikasane for 47 years.

## Abilities

**Overall Abilities:** The Hand Demon was by far the most powerful of the demons on Mount Fujikasane, having eaten a total of 50 humans, well above the average of 1-2 humans like the rest of all the demons in the area. 13 of those victims were Sakonji's disciples, well speaking of his battle prowess.

**Enhanced Durability:** The Hand Demon was infamous for his notoriously hard neck muscles, which allowed him to fracture blades aimed at it. Since beheading is the preferred method to defeat demons, this characteristic effectively downplayed his main weakness. However, he is not completely immune to blade attacks, as a sufficiently strong slash can in fact cut through his hard neck and decapitate him.

**Enhanced Regeneration:** As with all of his kind, the Hand Demon possessed potent regeneration, easily growing new arms and healing them throughout his clash with Tanjirō without stopping or slowing down. The incessant number of attacks gave him the edge, which forced Tanjirō to avoid evading his attack and attack him head-on to avoid exhausting himself.

**Flesh Manipulation:** Like all demons, the Hand Demon possessed the ability to manipulate his own flesh. In his case, he could manipulate his body to extend his multiple arms to several meters in length. He could do this with many of his arms at once and could either attack with a barrage of arms, or cluster his flesh into a bigger arm. He could put his arms to strategic use by even being able to burrow them underground and assault an unsuspecting target from beneath them.

## Battles

Hand Demon Battles

**Final Selection Arc**

* Tanjirō Kamado vs Hand Demon

## Trivia

* The Hand Demons ironically shares the same English voice actor, Kirk Thornton, as Tanjūrō, the father of the one who ended up killing him.