Kanao Tsuyuri

Appearance

Hair color: Black. Eye color: Pink-lilac Kanao is a young girl with large, soft, lilac-pink eyes framed by thick eyelashes. She has straight, thin black hair with straight bangs, which she keeps tied in a ponytail on the right side of her head and held in place by a pink and green butterfly-shaped hair clip that once belonged to her adoptive sister, Kanae.[4] Her Demon Slayer uniform is the most customized of all the main characters, whose fabric in the anime is lightly dyed purple, having a pleated skirt that reaches to the bottom of her knees instead of the traditional hakama pants that is held up by a white leather belt on which she keeps her Nichirin sword hooked, which in her case has the guard in the shape of a pink inner circle with the engraving of a lotus flower, with white edges, the guard of the same color combination with the pink cutting blade and instead of using traditional Japanese sandals, she uses a pair of white lace-up boots whose laces are dark yellow and its tip is beige and a white cape with a fuchsia ornament.

Personality and Past

At the time of her introduction, Kanao is portrayed as an autistic and silent girl. Before meeting the Kocho sisters, Kanao suffered multiple abuses in her childhood from her parents, which caused her to begin suppressing her emotions as a form of defense mechanism. As a way to suppress this defect, Kanae gave her a coin which she uses to make decisions by flipping it in the air. [6] Over the years, after seeing everything the Demons did to Shinobu Kocho's relatives, Aoi Kanzaki and Kiyo Terauchi, Kanao began to develop a hatred towards the creatures of her own accord. Since Kanao does not know how to do housework or nursing duties, she ended up training to become a Hunter under Kanae Kocho's tutelage by learning the Flower Breathing techniques. Despite her apparent lack of emotions or desire, Kanao made the decision to participate in the final selection on her own volition, without consulting her superiors for permission, implying that her will had been growing stronger the entire time. Some time after Kanae's death, Kanao began to revert to old remnants of her former personality, making decisions by flipping a coin before taking an action item, however when Tanjiro says goodbye to her, she simply says goodbye, being unable to continue the conversation and showing a propensity for giving automatic responses to everything. [8] Through her interaction with Tanjiro, she is slowly able to come out of her emotional shell, being able to make her own decisions without relying on anyone and being able to speak complete sentences with less ambiguity. [9] Through her interactions with Tanjiro, Kanao is shown to be more open and communicative, being more emotional and expressive.