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Well, let's see... This is like a dream for me. To die by your hand in person. And I so enjoyed hearing the other demons' last grasps! I feel so blessed! Because I love to see others in despair and agony. Because it's like a dream come true for me! I thank you for leaving me for last!
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~ Enmu describes his upcoming fate and thanks Muzan Kibutsuji for leaving him last, only to be spared seconds later and getting tasked to kill the Hashira and Tanjiro while being promised blood from him if he succeeded.
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If i kill the Hashira or this kid, i would get even more blood by master Muzan... This is like a dream!
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~ Enmu
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Perceptive Demon Slayers sometimes wake up sensing the presence of bloodthorsty Demons, the dream i give them is not unlimited, cut their ropes, and be careful to not touch their bodies
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~ Enmu finds people to kill the demon hunters.
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To be able to die while dreaming...Just how lucky are you? It doesn’t matter how powerful demon slayer you are!
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~ Enmu to himself after he tasks people to kill the demon hunters.
Enmu (魘夢) is a major antagonist in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, serving as the main antagonist of the Mugen Train Arc. He was a demon serving directly under Muzan Kibutsuji, as the Lower Rank One of the Twelve Kizuki. He was the last of the Lower Ranks to be left alive and then attacked a train with two hundred passengers, with Demon Slayers among them, whom he got tasked to kill the Hashira by Muzan Kibutsuji. Enmu uses his hypnotic powers to put those who confront him to sleep, and gives them sweet dreams while he very quietly tries to kill them without making them suffer.
He was voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa in Japanese and Landon McDonald in English.
Enmu wears a black suit. He has black shoulder-length hair, that fades into red and blue near his neck. As a demon, he has gray skin, visible veins on his head and yellow markings under his blue eyes. On his left eye, Enmu also has the mark of Rank One in the form of a Kanji 1. His right eye's pupil is a horizontal slit.
In his final moments, Enmu is reduced to a dark red blob.
Personality
Enmu is very sadistic and enjoys seeing others (including his fellow demons) suffer in anguish, despair and agony as he believes he was blessed to be left alive while hearing other demons dying painfully. He particularly likes their agonizing expressions. He is quite loyal to Muzan (though Muzan seems to not care about him at all and almost killed him) and he is thankful to himself for having been able to kill many people.
He is also arrogant and believes humans to be weak creatures (just like most demons). He often uses problems they have to his advantage and tricks them into doing his bidding by promising to give them dreams of what they most desire.
Enmu is also shown to be ambitious, as he seeks to kill Tanjiro Kamado so he can receive more of Muzan's blood to gain more powers in his bid to climb the ladder up to the Upper Ranks of the Twelve Kizuki.
History
Enmu barely withstanding the new power
Very little is known about Enmu’s past. When Enmu was still a human being, he had a tendency since his childhood not to be able to distinguish the difference between dreams and reality, which possibly messed up his head prior to the story, and is possibly the reason why most of his thoughts are about dreams. This also caused many problems for the people around him, like when he misused things like hypnotic therapies, or scamming and convincing patients who did not have long to live that they had recovered their health, although they realised it's a lie, he kept trying to scam/convict them again.
Before he became a demon, Muzan Kibutsuji came to his house to devour him, and succeeded in killing him and turning him as a demon only for Enmu to feel no pain.
Enmu then appeared at one of the meetings, when Muzan explained his plan to disband the Lower Moons. Enmu enjoyed seeing his fellow Moons get killed one by one (even claiming that Lower 3 was a fool to try to escape). Muzan then asked for Enmu's last words to which he thanked his master for having being able to create so much suffering. Muzan then decided Enmu was worth keeping alive so he can attack the demon slayers and gave him more of his blood making him stronger, promising him more blood if he can kill Tanjiro or the Hashira. Enmu's body could hardly process so much new strength and he almost died.
Enmu then attacked the Mugen Train with his newfound power and manipulated the conductor into helping him. Enmu sent some of his demon disciples to attack the passengers. He used his power to put the train's passengers to sleep. He planned to use some teenagers/kids as his servants by promising them happy dreams. He gave them a rope he created that allowed them to enter the dreams of the other sleeping passengers. They should then destroy the victims' "spirits cores", which would turn said victims into living corpses, that Enmu would find easy to later devour. He targeted the Demon Slayers first, as they pose the biggest threat to his life and destroying their cores severs the conscious from the unconscious and prevents them from fighting back. During that time, Enmu started to fuse his body with the train itself and detached flesh from himself to form another body to serve as a distraction.
Enmu attacks Tanjiro with his full power after becoming the train itself
Enmu was surprised to see that Tanjiro managed to wake up from his dream through his strong will. Enmu then explained that he enjoys giving people nice dreams, only to turn them into nightmares later. When seeing, that Tanjiro was the one Muzan was after, he saw his chance to get even more blood from him as a reward. He then tried to put Tanjiro to sleep again, but Enmu got confused and worried when Tanjiro found a way to resist to his magical spells. After a battle, his second body was beheaded. He then revealed how he fused with the train and felt invincible, mocking Tanjiro and enjoying his shocked expression and attempted to eat the 200+ people on the train. He prevented them from attacking the train by using the passengers as shields. However, Tanjiro worked together with Inosuke to cut off the complete front part of the car. Enmu was shocked, as he didn't even consider something like this to possibly happen and wallowed in disbelief as he died, while crying because he didn’t completed his task successfully.
Trivia
Enmu is the first Demon to survive decapitation, the second being Kokushibou. His method of survival was fusing his soul with the Mugen Train, although Tanjiro got around this by slicing the front of the train off with his Nichirin sword.
Coincidentally, they are both members of the Twelve Kizuki.
During his second phase, Enmu is the only boss in the game Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Hinokami Chronicles who doesn't move at all.
Enmu's ability to fuse with the train where Tanjiro fights him is similar to Pigma's fusion with a satellite to become the Pigmaparoid in Star Fox: Assault, although done by choice and sans making Enmu a mindless slave to another entity.
Enmu is the only Lower Number of the Twelve Kizuki to be seen physically in the movie. His fellow lower Numbers were slain: Kyogai and Rui were killed by Demon Slayers (The former died at Tanjiro's hands and the latter was slain by Giyū) and Muzan Kibutsuji slaughtered the other four (including the one who took the spot Kyogai originally held) in his rage.
Enmu is the second Demon to die in a different form from their original form. In his case, Enmu dies as a dark red blob with his normal form's eyes on it. Susamaru is the first, her form when she dies being a bloody puddle on the ground, up to three severed limbs, and a disembodied eyeball due to a curse that Muzan placed.
As seen from Akaza having appeared in the wreck of Enmu's Train after his attempt to devour humans in mass failed, Muzan likely did not have high expectations for him despite allowing sparing him and injecting him with more of his blood. This is seen where despite having Akaza stationed close to the train, he did not lend any assitance or back up to the Lower Rank One and only entered into the battle after Enmu had been killed. Alluding that Muzan likely expected him to fail to begin with and ordered Akaza to follow him in secret to eliminate the demon slayers who successfully killed him when they are weakened from their battle against Enmu.
His death, while not a redeeming quality, was somewhat played sympathetically.