Mitsuri Kanroji

## Portrayal

**Mitsuri Kanroji** is a minor supporting character in Demon Slayer: Blade of the Night, reprising her role as the Love Pillar from the original Demon Slayer story. She is the mother of Tsukuro Kanroji and one of the strongest human beings alive.

## **Appearance:**

Mitsuri is a curvaceous young woman of average height and fairly muscular build with a pale complexion. She has long, light pink hair that fades into a lime green color at the halfway point, which she wears in three thick braids.

Mitsuri wears a heavily modified pink-tinted Pillar Uniform, with her bust remaining visible, albeit she did change her skirt to a tighter set of pants. Atop it all, she wears a ruby colored kimono, which, albeit allowing her mobility, can also be easily removed for additional dexterity. Under her pants, she still wears the striped green thigh-highs Obanai Iguro gifted her

## **Personality:**

Mitsuri is a very emotional, passionate, and jovial individual who constantly compliments people in her head, and although she can be shy and is easily flustered, Mitsuri is always kind to others. However, despite her gentle and seemingly innocent demeanor, Mitsuri will show no mercy in the face of demons, instead expressing such sentiments with a fierce tone. She showcases a great amount of dedication to the Demon Slayers' cause.

Given her desperation for marriage, Mitsuri decided to become a member of the Core with the purpose of finding a suitable husband stronger than her, a rather difficult task given the astounding level of her physical strength. Upon joining the Core, she felt an immense amount of guilt for her reasoning behind becoming a Demon Slayer.

Mitsuri has displayed an odd amount of maturity as time passed, being capable of raising Tsukuro Kanroji successfully, entirely by herself. He may be wild and potentially dangerous, but Tsukuro is a loving son, and he can be cordial and behaves well whenever his fighting spirit is controlled. Her lack of a grudge towards Obanai, despite him abandoning her, an act which she doesn't understand, also displays her good heart.

## **Synopsis:**

Mitsuri was born among five siblings and displayed an unnatural strength at a very young age through her unique muscle composition. She grew up eating much more than the average person and developed an unnatural hair color, which led to her being seen as a freak and unable to proceed with a previously intended marriage when she was seventeen. After this rejection, she dyed her hair black, pretended to be weak, and forced herself to eat a normal amount in an attempt to fit in more with other girls, even if it negatively impeded her well-being. Shortly after making these adjustments to her physical appearance, Mitsuri was approached by a potential partner. At some point, her partner left her or she left him.

Mitsuri then encountered Kagaya Ubuyashiki, who told her to reject normalcy and embrace who she was as her strength was a gift. Because of this encounter, she joined the Demon Slayers and used her skill and ridiculous strength to rise to the status of Pillar.

## **Abilities:**

**Monumental Strength:** Mitsuri is one of the few people in the world with a condition named Eightfold, meaning she is extremely physically powerful.

**Monumental Speed:** Mitsuri is one of the swiftest Pillars in the core, using her agility not only to outspeed her opponents but also perform extremely difficult maneuvers.

**Eightfold Body:** Mitsuri was born with a condition named Eightfold. This condition makes it so her body packs eight times the normal amount of muscles. This makes her stronger and more durable than her frame indicates.

**Total Concentration Breathing:** Mitsuri has mastered Total Concentration Breathing for a long time, allowing her body to grow to heights beyond those of normal humans.

**Demon Slayer Mark:** Mitsuri has long mastered her Demon Slayer Mark, that takes the form of two hearts upside down and opposite from each other with angel wings on both sides where the two heart tips meet that appear near her neck, close to her clavicle.

## **Fighting Style:**

**Master Swordswoman:** As a Pillar of the Demon Slayer Core, Mitsuri is one of the most powerful and skilled swordswomen in the entire organization. Mitsuri makes use of a special swordsmanship style based around her thin and flexible Nichirin Sword-Whip. Her fighting style revolves around somersaults and acrobatics, with her sheer skill remaining unreplicated to this day within the Demon Slayer Core.

### **Breathing Style:**

**Flame Breathing** *(Hono no Kokyu)*: Her original Style, learned from Kyojuro Rengoku, was the Flame Breathing. However, Mitsuri eventually developed a new Breathing Style that fit her body much further, and with it, she rose to being one of the strongest humans alive.

**Love Breathing** (Koi no Kokyu): Mitsuri's own creation, the powerful and creative Love Breathing incorporates elements of Mitsuri's superhuman flexibility and her unique Nichirin Sword-Whip. While the Style can be used with a regular Katana (As it is most widely learned within the Love Sect), the Style can only come to perfection with the unique weapon, and body of its creator.

#### **Techniques:**

* **First Form: Shivers of First Love** *(Ichi no Kata: Hatsukoi no Wananaki)* - The user dashes forward with a series of extended whip slashes that winds around and through the target.

* **Second Form: Love Pangs** *(Ni no Kata: Ono Meguru Koi)* - The user unleashes multiple powerful whip slashes around themselves.

* **Third Form: Catlove Shower** *(San no Kata: Koi Neko Shigure)* - The user leaps and unleashes a series of ranged arced attacks in quick succession.

* **Fourth Form: Heat of Love** *(Shi no Kata: Ai no Netsu)* - The user will ready a dash, using the whip-like sword to slash all around them

* **Fifth Form: Swaying Love, Wildclaw** *(Go no Kata: Yurameku Renjo Midarezume)* - The user somersaults backwards through the air creating a long whip-like string of attacks.

* **Sixth Form: Cat-Legged Winds of Love** *(Roku no Kata: Neko Ashi Koi Kaze)* - The user twirls upside-down and creates multiple extending slashing attacks before retracting it and extending it again, all within a concise amount of time.

## **Equipment:**

**Nichirin Sword-Whip:** Unlike most Demon Slayers who use standard katanas, Mitsuri wields an extremely thin, flexible, and long katana akin to a whip. Its blade is magenta in color, as expected from a master of the Love Breathing, and her handguard is shaped like a 4 leaf clover; the leaves have a pink core with a golden border.

## **Familiars:**

**Urara:** Mitsuri's crow Urara Wears a clover-shaped crown similar to Mitsuri's Nichirin Sword handguard. It often appears to be nervous and fidgety. She rumored to have a sweet tooth as a result of how often she has tea time with Mitsuri.

**Dango:** Mitsuri's cat, Dango is her pet. It has no special talent, and it is extremely lazy due to how much she pampers it.

## **Battles:**

* Mitsuri vs Zohakuten
* Mitsuri and Obanai vs Muzan

## **Trivia:**

* Mitsuri's name can be broken down into the following: [Mitsu], meaning "Nectar", [Ri], meaning "Lapis", while her surname [Kanroji] is broken down into [Kan], means "Sweet/Sugary", [Ro] means "Dew", and [Ji] means "Buddhist Temple".
* Mitsuri is an oddity even among her family, as said by her brother Gin, she is the only one suitable to a Style even near the Flame Breathing, and she is the only one with an Eightfold Body, a trait that while was passed down to her son, seemingly started with Mitsuri herself.
* When putting her sword back into its sheath, she folds it multiple times and twirls it around due to its structure
* Mitsuri's level of openness was ranked at 90%.
* Mitsuri's views on her fellow Pillars are as follows: