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The Iguro Family are minor antagonists of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. They were the wicked relatives of Obanai Iguro, the Serpent Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps.
Biography[]
The Iguro Family are an opportunistic, abusive and rotten family of women that worship the Snake Demon. Some time ago, the Snake Demon and Iguro family members made a pact: the demon would kill people, rob them of their wealth, and give them to the family. The family, in return, produced babies and offered them to the demon (Snake Demon was a picky man-eater that fed only on human infants) as sacrifices. Under this agreement, the Iguro family managed to gather an immense amount of wealth.
The first male in the family isn't born for over 370 years. When Obanai Iguro is born, he is confined to a jail cell by his He grew to be a boy in that same cell. His family offered him a bunch of food every single day to fatten him. The jail where Obanai was imprisoned had no ventilation and the smells coming from food stayed in the jail, making Obanai constantly feel sick. The Iguro Family did this to him not out of love, but to sacrifice him to the Snake Demon. In other words, they raised Obanai not as a human being, but as a sacrificial pig - in fact, they comforted Obanai as if pet owners soothing their pets.
Then one day, family members brought Obanai before the Snake Demon, and it was revealed that Obanai was born as a male and had heterochromia. The Snake Demon thought that, since Obanai was such an unusual and rare offering, it would be a waste to eat him immediately after his birth. The demon decides to hold off on her scheme to eat him until Obanai grew bigger - hence he was not eaten as a baby like the others before him. But to satiate her demonic urge to feed, the demon ordered the Iguro family to rip Obanai's mouth so she could drink blood coming out of his mouth. The family eagerly complied, much to Obanai's unimaginable suffering. After the mutilation, Obanai's mouth looked like the Snake Demon.
Realizing that he was only living on borrowed time, Obanai planned his escape from imprisonment and, with careful preparation and superhuman determination, succeeded in breaking out of his confinement. However, Obanai didn't get far, as the Snake Demon noticed his escape and chased after him. Just when Obanai was about to get caught and eaten, he was saved by Shinjuro Rengoku, the former Flame Pillar demon slayer who easily slew the demon by chopping her to pieces. When Shinjuro took Obanai to his relative, Obanai's cousin, instead of welcoming and comforting him, she shoved him violently and started berating him to no end. Because of his escape, the enraged Snake Demon slaughtered almost all Iguro family members (50 of them) for failing to secure her offering. Obanai's cousin went as far as to condemn him and proclaim that he should have just obediently accepted his fate and died. This behavior was too much for Shinjuro to tolerate and he eventually stepped in to stop her.
The Iguro family's abuse and unjustified denunciation profoundly traumatized Obanai, causing him to close his heart to others. Even though Obanai knew what his cousin said to him wasn't true, he still felt guilty and began to detest his own bloodline. From Obanai's perspective, because he was born from a wretched family who became rich at the expense of others, he believed himself to be cruel too. For a long time he displayed a deep mistrust towards other humans (especially towards women); the only other being he ever trusted was Kaburamaru, the snake pet that he befriended during his confinement. Obanai's experience with his family made him very anti-social and difficult to approach.
Fortunately for Obanai, upon joining Demon Slayer Corps he began gradually to change: by eradicating Demons and taking his rage born of his tragic past upon them, other people expressed gratitude for his bravery. Hearing people's praises of him killing demons comforted his troubled soul. Furthermore, Obanai found the love of his life, Mitsuri Kanroji - a fellow demon huntress who Obanai developed a crush on and eventually became involved with. Upon meeting Mitsuri, Obanai's mistrust towards women was partially healed. With Mitsuri, he learned to eat foods with grease (greasy foods made him retch due to his past). Obanai seemed to finally be free from his family's abusive grasp.
But even with his newfound life as a demon hunter, Obanai still felt that he was responsible for their crimes. Even after many years, Obanai still felt the harsh karma his malicious family left behind. Obanai once confessed that, as a member of his family, he still felt the rotten essences of his departed relatives weighing on him. He believed the sins of his family were so unbearably heavy that the only way to truly wash away his bad karma was to have his flesh destroyed and to be reincarnated.
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Trivia[]
- Iguro Family's residence is in Hachizo Island, Japan. Hachizo Island was actually infamous for being a dumping ground for criminals and convicts. Because of this, readers in Japan suspected that Obanai might have suffered a traumatic past. Their suspicions were confirmed once Obanai's past was revealed.
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