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| “ | Since the day I was born I've never lied...not even once! I'm a good natured weakling! I deserve pity, but no one has any sympathy for me. | „ |
| ~ Hantengu showing his delusional nature. |
Hantengu (半天狗 Hantengu) is a major antagonist in the manga/anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is the main antagonist of the Swordsmith Village Arc and its third season adaptation. He is a member of the Twelve Kizuki, holding the position of Upper Rank Four.
As a human, Hantengu lived over 200 years ago as a serial killer and a thief who pretended to be innocent through his elderly appearance and his frail look, and constantly blamed others for his crimes as a way to gain sympathy for himself. After being captured and sentenced to death, he was saved by Muzan Kibutsuji and transformed into a demon, enabling him to maintain his charade of pretending to be weak and pitiful for centuries until he was finally slain by Tanjiro Kamado, after he and Gyokko attempted to destroy the Swordsmith Village.
However, before he faded to ash, Hantengu survived long enough to witness Nezuko Kamado conquer the sun, which ultimately led Muzan and the remaining Upper Ranks to engage the Demon Slayer Corps in battle several months later and attempt to capture her.
Portrayals[]
He is voiced by Toshio Furukawa in Japanese (who also voices Urami, the manifestation of Hantengu's Resentment) and by Christopher Corey Smith (who also voiced Spandam and Spandine in One Piece, Wonderweiss Margela in Bleach, John Bacchus in Future Diary, the King of Midland in Berserk: The Golden Age Arc, the Joker in the LEGO Batman games, Mister Sinister and Apocalypse in X2: Wolverine's Revenge and Oropo in Wakfu) in English.
Hantengu's avatars are voiced by Shunsuke Takeuchi (Urogi), Yuichiro Umehara (Sekido), Kaito Ishikawa (Karaku), Soma Saito (Aizetsu), and Koichi Yamadera (Zohakuten) in Japanese. In English, they are voiced by Chris Hackney (Urogi), Yong Yea (Sekido), Caleb Yen (Karaku), Brian Timothy Anderson (Aizetsu), and Ben Balmaceda (Zohakuten).
Appearance[]
Hantengu appears as a frail old man having wearing a tradtional kimno with red and black sides,with red eyes,horns on his head,and a Large bump on his head. When hsing his blood demon art he becomes as small as a mouse.Urami is a much larger version of hantengu but more muscular.
His avatars are all much more younger and lacks the bump on the head.
- Sekido wears the Red and Black kimono resembling a monk and has long black hair with red eyes,
- Karaku wears green hakama pants with a pair of zori, and a large leaf shaped uchiwa
- Aizetsu wears a black kimono and is represented by the color blue
- Urogi resembles a male harpie with yellow eyes
- Zohakuten resembles a child and has gold colors his appearance is a mix of Sekido,Aizetsu,Karaku,and Urogi as he is their combined form.
Personality[]
While having several other personalities and emotions shown through his clones, Hantengu himself is no doubt nothing but an embodiment of fear, cowardice, and hypocrisy. Even during his time as a human, Hantengu kept using his age and condition as an excuse, trying to weasel away from his crimes and blaming anyone, or anything - like his very own hand.
After turning into a demon/oni, Hantengu retained his human traits. While being an obviously cruel and horrendous demon who ended hundreds of lives, Hangtengu is still established as a cowardly, deluded, and hypocritical being, who kept blaming others and trying to pretend, or even to believe it himself, that he is fully innocent and that the ones he murdered were the ones who "attacked" him first.
His various emotion clones all have different personalities, Sekido is anger, Karaku is Pleasure, Aizetsu is sorrow, Urogi is joy, Zohakuten is Hatred, and Urami is Resentment.
His other most notable trait besides his cowardice is his devotion to Muzan. Despite heavily fearing his master's wrath, he's forever loyal to the demon king for believing in his "innocence" and aims to aid his master in accomplishing his goals. Before dying, he managed to scout Nezuko's immunity to the sun and show it to Muzan, ultimately earning the demon king's praise.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Overall Abilities: As the holder of the fourth highest title in the Twelve Kizuki, Hantengu is an extremely powerful demon and can be considered to have been the fifth strongest demon in existence. Through Hantengu's Blood Demon Art, he is able to create four clones of himself, all of them possessing the same caliber of strength as an Upper Rank demon. These clones were able to hold off and overwhelm the combined efforts of Tanjiro, Nezuko and Genya, all of whom are seasoned and trained combatants. Genya stated that Hantengu was particularly difficult to defeat as Demon Slayers would have to play cat and mouse looking for the main body while being chased down by four Upper Rank-level demons.
- Enhanced Stealth: Hantengu possesses immense skill in being stealthy, which can be seen when he managed to easily infiltrate the swordsmith village, one of their most vital and well-fortified bases, without any of the numerous Demon Slayers stationed there noticing. Hantengu later managed to sneak into Muichiro's and Tanjiro's room without any of them detecting him, despite the former possessing the ability to sense the presence of demons and the latter possessing an incredibly acute sense of smell that would've sensed a demon's presences from extremely long distances. His stealth ability is so strong that none of them realized Hatengu was a demon until they saw it.
- Immense Durability: Hantengu possesses a body so durable that not even Genya's bullets could leave a dent on his body, the same bullets which tore of the necks of his clones. Even when Genya tried to cut off Hantengu's body with his Nichirin Sword, his katana broke before it could do any damage. Even with Tanjiro's bright red blade, he couldn't make a dent in his neck.
- Immense Speed & Reflexes: As an Upper Rank demon, Hantengu possesses incredible movement speed and reflexes, being able to evade Muichiro's Mist Breathing technique and Tanjiro's Hinokami Kagura's technique without much effort. When he was in his tiny form, he could run fast enough that Tanjiro, Nezuko, or a demon blood-enhanced Genya could not keep up.
- Immense Strength: Karaku displayed superhuman strength when he was able to pierce Nezuko's durable body with a single kick and ripped her arms off with his bare hands.
- Unlimited Stamina & Endurance: Like all demons, Karaku(Hantengu) possesses infinite stamina and endurance. When Genya shot off his head with his shotgun, leaving his head dangling on a piece of flesh and having his neck bones exposed, Karaku never showed any signs of pain but rather exclaimed in excitement over how he's never felt an attack like that and proclaimed that it was fun.
Blood Demon Art[]
- Flesh Manipulation: Like all demons, Sekido (Hantengu) possesses the ability to control and alter his flesh to a certain extent. Sekido uses this ability to shape his flesh into a Khakkhara which he uses as a means to channel his Blood Demon Art. He is shown to be capable of creating more than one at a time.
- Size Alteration: Hantengu has the ability to change his size at will, as shown when he became a tiny version of himself in order to hide from the Demon Slayers.
- Biological Absorption: Sekido (Hantengu) displayed the ability to draw in and absorb the bodies of Karaku (Hantengu), Urogi (Hantengu), and Aizetsu (Hantengu), fusing to become Zohakuten.
- Lightning Generation: Sekido's (Hantengu) Blood Demon Art allows him to summon lightning bolts from the sky or from his Khakkhara. The lightning generated have a wide area of effect and can cause those hit by it to lose consciousness or paralyze his opponents in an instant, allowing him to subdue multiple targets at once. One drawback to his lightning is that it cannot pass through anything made from his own cells, such as the body parts of any of Hantengu's clones.
- Aerokinesis: Karaku's (Hantengu) Blood Demon Art allows him to generate and manipulate wind using his flesh maple-leaf shaped Uchiwa. By simply swinging his Uchiwa down, Karaku (Hantengu) can generate a gust of wind strong enough to blow Muichiro into a forest in an instant, leave gigantic craters, level an entire building, and crush Demon Slayer and demon alike under its immense pressure, even knocking them unconscious, However, this ability can be used against him by anyone who has possession of his Uchiwa, as shown when Nezuko used Karaku's (Hantengu) own fan to blow him away.
- Spear Projection: Aizetsu's (Hantengu) Blood Demon Art allows him to project the thrusting attack of his Yari over great distances, allowing him to attack his targets from afar.
- Avian Physiology: Urogi (Hantengu) has the ability to mimic the attributes and abilities of avian creatures, namely in his large, feathered wings and sharp talons. These large wings grant Urogi (Hantengu) the ability to fly at incredibly fast speeds while his talons are powerful enough to cut through diamond. A drawback to this ability is that his body has to be extremely light for him to fly, giving an opportunity for his opponents to use Urogi's (Hantengu) flight ability against him.
- Sonic Scream: Urogi's (Hantengu) Blood Demon Art allows him to generate powerful sound waves from his mouth. The power from Urogi's scream is strong enough to make Tanjiro bleed from his nose and ear.
- Menacing Aura: Zohakuten (Hantengu) possesses an extremely menacing and overwhelming presence. Tanjiro choked on his breath and felt immense pain in his heart from Zohakuten's mere gaze. His aura is so strong that Genya could barely stand and caused him to start sweating profusely.
- Ability Combination: As the combination of Sekido, Karaku, Aizetsu, and Urogi, Zohakuten can use enhanced versions of the Blood Demon Arts of all four demon clones as a part of his own Blood Demon Art. The dragon heads fashioned from wood that Zohakuten manipulates can unleash lightning strikes like Sekido (Hantengu), generate powerful gushes of wind that leave gigantic maple leaf-shaped craters like Karaku (Hantengu), emit powerful sound waves like Urogi (Hantengu), and manifest spear attacks out of thin air like Aizetsu. Zohakuten (Hantengu) is also capable of using these abilities from his body, as seen when he generated Urogi's (Hantengu) sound waves without the help of his wooden dragons.
- Wood Manipulation: Zohakuten's (Hantengu) main Blood Demon Art grants him the ability to manipulate and alter wood from the flora in his surroundings by tapping one of the many drums on his back. This Blood Demon Art can be used both close ranged and far ranged. Zohakuten (Hantengu) mainly uses this ability to shape the wood into 5 massive dragon heads that can stretch up to twenty meters in length. He uses his dragon heads to bite his targets or to swallow them and crush them inside their jaws. Zohakuten(Hantengu) can also create dragon heads within the main dragon heads in order to increase its length. He also displayed the ability to manipulate branch whips to use to attack his targets.
Fighting Style[]
Staff Proficiency
- Khakkhara: Sekido carries around a Khakkhara fashioned from his flesh and blood. It serves as his main tool in combat when used in conjunction with his Blood Demon Art, allowing him to summon lightning from the sky or from his Khakkhara itself to electrocute, paralyze and incapacitate his targets.
Skilled Spearman:
- Yari: Aizetsu carries around a Yari fashioned from his flesh and blood. It serves as his main tool in combat, being used to unleash close to mid-ranged thrusting or slicing attacks as well as allowing Aizetsu to block and parry attacks from his opponents.
Blood Demon Techniques[]
- Weeping Spears ( Gekirui Shitotsu): Aizetsu violently thrusts his Yari, creating multiple long-ranged projections of the spear attack.
- Crazed Cry of Thunder Death ( Kyōmei Rai Satsu): Zohakuten commands his wooden dragons to unleash bolts of lightning and powerful sound waves from their mouths.
- Countless Striking Trees ( Muken Gōju): Zohakuten commands his wooden dragons to attack his target, making them rapidly grow bigger and multiply as they rush towards his opponent.
- Compressed Sound Waves ( Kyōatsu Meiha): Similar to Urogi, Zohakuten opens his mouth and releases close ranged sound waves powerful enough to disorientate and knock a Hashira unconscious.
Trivia[]
- Muzan considers Hantengu to be normal but finds him to be annoying and intolerable at times.
- It is revealed in the second Databook that Hantengu had dozens of wives and children over the years, all of which ended up being victims of his killing spree.
- Hantengu is believed to be an elderly man due to his appearance, but his true age remains unknown due his background being constantly changed.
- Hantengu can be said to represent the sin of sloth. Hantengu is a cowardly cheat who prefers to have his clones do all the fighting for him while he hides away from the fight and waits for the outcome. Not only that, but as a human being, he also feigned on being blind (among other things) just so he could steal and murder anyone who doesn't see him as a "innocent" person.
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