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| “ | Yeah...Oh no...We can't have that. My adorable little sister, trying as hard as she could...Left with no head on her shoulders. I'll kill everyone who messed with her...I'm gonna collect what's due. We'll pay you back for what you did to us! And as you lie dying, don't forget...That it was Gyutaro who sent you to the afterlife! | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro as he vows to kill the Demon Slayers who beheaded his sister. |
| “ | The sufferings of my past were lessons on what to do to others as revenge! If I don't cause misery equal to my own unhappiness, I'll never balance the scales! That's how it is when you're a demon! And we kill anyone who tries to tell us otherwise. | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro and Daki to Tanjiro Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, Inosuke Hashibira, and Tengen Uzui. |
Gyutaro (妓夫太郎 Gyūtarō) is a major antagonist in the manga/anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is the main antagonist of the Entertainment District Arc and its second season adaptation. He is a member of the Twelve Kizuki, holding the position of Upper Rank Six, which he shared with his younger sister Daki.
As a human, Gyutaro lived over a century ago during the Edo period and was a debt collector who lived in the Rashomon Riverbank of Yoshiwara, the lowest class of the Entertainment District, with his sister before they were nearly killed by a corrupt samurai and subsequently turned into demons by Doma.
After his transformation, Gyutaro would secretly accompany his sister by spending most of his time hidden inside her body and massacring any Demon Slayers that she wasn't strong enough to defeat on her own until he was finally slain by Tanjiro Kamado and the Sound Hashira Tengen Uzui. His death along with his sister's would serve as a turning point in the war between mankind and demon-kind, as they were the first Upper Ranks at that point to have been slain in over 100 years.
He was voiced by Ryōta Ōsaka (who also voiced Amy Kirio in Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun!) in Japanese and Brandon McInnis in English.
Appearance[]
| “ | My own ugliness became my pride. | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro being aware of his own appearance. |
As a demon, Gyutaro was a relatively tall man of a fairly muscular build with a black-dotted, pale grayish complexion. His anatomy was somewhat strange in that his upper torso, arms, and legs were all extremely muscular while his waist was incredibly skinny and his pelvis jutted out at an unnatural angle.
He possessed thin green and red eyes with bright orange sclera that were slanted drastically downwards at the sides, the kanji for "Upper Rank" and "Six" carved across them. He had unruly black hair that cut sharply off to a brighter green around the crown of his head, worn messily styled with uneven bangs. His body and face had noticeable ink-like markings in the form of black spots on his body and a flowing water-like pattern on his face.
Gyutaro wore no shirt or shoes, only sporting a pair of baggy blue pants and seven pieces of patterned red cloth to decorate his body, with one large one around his neck and three smaller ones around each arm.
Personality[]
| “ | No one saves us. It had always been that way. Our usual typical everyday lives. There were no 'humans' to save us. | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro reflecting the harsh life that he and his sister had as humans. |
Due to having grown up in extreme poverty and hardship as a human, Gyutaro had a twisted view of the world and was cruel, jealous, and petty towards anyone who lived a better life than him. He had a habit of sarcastically complimenting a person's best traits and then trying to savagely kill them afterwards, as he did with Tengen Uzui. As a result of the harsh misfortunes that he experienced as a human, Gyutaro developed a twisted personal belief that to take from those who had a better life than he did as a human was justified, and it soon became his oath once he and his sister were transformed into demons by Doma. Even in death and after regaining his memories of his human life, he expressed that he had absolutely no regrets in becoming a demon and vowed to become a demon again and again should he ever reincarnate into the human world.
Having lived for over 100 years and killed 22 Hashira over the course of that time period, Gyutaro was very arrogant and overconfident in battle, leading him to often underestimate his opponents and look down on them. He was also extremely sadistic, as shown by how he tormented Tanjiro for his own enjoyment and took great delight at the latter's failure to save anyone.
Despite all his personal faults, Gyutaro had a strong and genuine familial love for his younger sister Ume, even though neither of them remembered much of their human lives when they became demons. Having raised her on his own due to their mother's mental instability and eventual death when they were both children, Gyutaro tended to spoil her and allow her to do whatever she pleased, even if it went against his best interests. However, his love for her didn't stop him from venting at her and insulting her out of frustration, as shown when he blamed her for their ultimate defeat after she insulted him for his appearance and even went as far as to viciously claim that she was such a burden to him that he would've been better off had she never been born.
In his final moments, Gyutaro came to acknowledge that his one true mistake in life was how Ume turned out as a person, showing that deep down, he regretted that it was his negative influence that caused her to become the selfish and spoiled girl that she is today. He also came to believe that she would have lived a wonderful life had he not been a part of it and that he wasn't worthy of her love by genuinely wishing that she had been raised by someone else.
As a result of these beliefs that he had towards his sister, when he finally reunited with Ume in the afterlife, Gyutaro tried to get her to cut all ties with him and go into the opposite direction towards the light so that she could have a fresh start without having to be affected by his influence. However, when Ume tearfully refused to leave him behind and reminded him of the promise that he'd made to her long ago that he would always be by her side, he couldn't bring himself to abandon her, accepted her wishes, and proceeded to enter the fires of Hell while carrying her on his back, just like he'd always done before when they were humans.
Quotes[]
| “ | Is that so? 22 Hashiras lost their lives to us because they couldn't pull off that one simple easy feat! | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro to Tengen Uzui after the latter figures out how to kill them. |
| “ | You got three wives?! Ehhhhh?! Don't fuck with me!! Unforgivable!! | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro to Tengen when the former learns that Tengen has three wives. |
| “ | The two of us are one. | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro making his debut, to save Daki. |
| “ | How truly unsightly. You couldn't save your sister! Don't be saved by your younger sister, but rather save her with these hands as you are the older one! Hey you, how do you feel now? To have survived alone? Hey you, jackass, half-wit, maggot, retard, unhelpful nuisance, you. Why are were you even born? | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro virulently mocking Tanjiro with the same words that people used to insult him with as a human. |
| “ | Uwaaaaaah!! No! No! No! Don't take her from me! Why do you take from me while giving me nothing in return! I won't forgive you! I won't forgive you! Give me back my sister! I'll kill you all! Be it god or Buddha! | „ |
| ~ Gyutaro screaming at the world in anguish as he cradles Ume's charred body. |
Trivia[]
- Gyutaro is a Japanese slang equivalent to a gigolo.
- Gyutaro shares a similarity to Akaza that both are full of self-hate, resorting to extortion to make their living prior to becoming to demons.
- Gyutaro is essentially a foil to Tanjiro Kamado in the sense that both Tanjiro and Gyutaro are older brothers who look out for their younger sisters, Nezuko Kamado and Daki. But while Tanjiro is a kind and compassionate individual that cares and respects others, Gyutaro is a violent and ruthless individual that envies those for living a better life than he did and slaughters them as a result.
- Additionally, Gyutaro is what Tanjiro could've become if he encountered a demon instead of Giyu Tomioka.
- Kaito Ishikawa, Kosuke Toriumi and Yuichi Nakamura were considered for Gyutaro's role, but it was eventually given to Ryota Osaka after going through an intensely competitive audition.
- Gyutaro was one of Muzan Kibutsuji's favorites among the Upper Moons, as the latter held his greedy nature in high esteem.
External links[]
- Gyutaro on the Demon Slayer Wiki
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