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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 gasps! 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! | „ |
| ~ Enmu thanks Muzan Kibutsuji for leaving him to be killed last, only to be spared seconds later. |
| “ | Perceptive Demon Slayers sometimes wake up sensing the presence of bloodthirsty demons. The dreams I give them are not unlimited, so cut their ropes and be careful to not touch their bodies. | „ |
| ~ Enmu instructs his subordinates on how to kill the demon slayers. |
Enmu (魘夢, Enmu) is a major antagonist in the manga/anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and a member of the Twelve Kizuki, holding the position of Lower Rank One.
Enmu first appeared during the Rehabilitation Training Arc, where he was summoned to the Infinity Castle by Muzan in response to the death of Rui, the Lower Rank Five. While he was there, he witnessed Muzan purge the other Lower Ranks for their incompetence and braced himself for his own death, only to be spared for his loyalty and given the chance to prove himself by killing Tanjiro Kamado. Knowing that he could potentially be promoted to the Upper Ranks if he succeeded, Enmu decided to kill Tanjiro by using the Mugen Train, only to completely fail with the latter killed him first with the indirect aid of the Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku. As such, he serves as the main antagonist of the Mugen Train Arc.
He is voiced by Daisuke Hirakawa in Japanese and Landon McDonald in English, who also voiced Eso in Jujutsu Kaisen. In the Japanese live-action stage, he is portrayed by Taiki Naito.
Appearance[]
Enmu wears a black suit. He has black shoulder-length hair, that fades into red and blue near his neck. As a demon, his skin is gray, visible veins appear on his head, and yellow markings appear under his blue eyes. On his left eye, Enmu also has the mark of Rank One in the form of a Kanji 1; this shows him to be one of the Twelve Kizuki. His right eye's pupil is a horizontal slit. His upgraded form gives him a second mouth on the back of one of his hands.
Later, Enmu takes the appearance of a black train called "Mugen" after fusing his entire being with it. Eyes can be seen throughout the fleshy masses on his body at this point.
In his final moments, Enmu is reduced to a dark red blob that can produce a single pseudopod. His marked eye and another eye can be seen on the surface.
Personality[]
Enmu is very sadistic and psychopathic who 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 his master (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). Enmu 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, only for him to break his promise once they are asleep.
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.
Biography[]
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 scammed and convinced patients who did not have long to live that they had recovered their health, although they realized it was a lie, he kept trying to scam/convict them again.
Before Enmu's transformation into a demon, Muzan Kibutsuji came to Enmu's house to devour him, and succeeded in killing him and turning him into 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 Enmu thanked his master for having being able to create so much suffering as Enmu dreamt. 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 Enmu can kill Tanjiro or the Hashira. Enmu's body could hardly process so much new strength from his upgrade 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, Enmu 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 his opponent found a way to resist Enmu's magical spells; to wake up, Tanjiro drove his sword through his neck. After the battle, Enmu's second body was beheaded. He then revealed that he fused with the train and felt invincible, mocking Tanjiro and enjoying his shocked expression as he attempts 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 complete his task successfully.
In the Game[]
In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Hinokami Chronicles, Enmu is fought in the second-to-last stage, which takes place aboard the Mugen Train. Enmu has five phases to his battle.
During the first phase of his battle, Enmu uses his humanoid body, trying to put Tanjirō to sleep and fighting with multiple sleep-based powers and some martial arts. Enmu's sleeping powers automatically strike Tanjirō for every 25% of his health Enmu loses, triggering the next phase once Tanjirō wakes up from his nap. To conclude these four phases of the fight, Tanjirō has to drain Enmu's health with repeated attacks.
The fifth phase has Enmu's mutant form. Enmu is stationed near the train's head, not moving from his spot. His attacks involve him pounding the ground with flesh mallets to deal damage and putting his opponents to sleep. Once Enmu has his health depleted, Tanjirō must land the killing blow with help from the player inputting a special code.
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 been stationed close to the train, Akaza did not lend any assitance or back up to the Lower Rank One and only entered into the battle after Enmu had lost his own life. 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, having Enmu fret about his plan being a complete failure.
External Links[]
- Enmu on the Demon Slayer Wiki.
- Enmu on the Pure Evil Wiki.
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