Giyuu Tomioka

Giyuu Tomioka

Giyuu Tomioka is a major supporting character of anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is a Demon Slayer of the Demon Slayer Corps and the current Water Hashira (水みず柱ばしら Mizu Bashira) of the Taisho era. Race: Human ETHNICITY: Japanese GENDER: Male AGE: 21 HEIGHT: 176 cm (5'9¼") WEIGHT: 69 kg (152 lb) BIRTHDAY: February 8th HAIR COLOR: Raven-Black EYE COLOR: Lapis Blue VOICE: Usually calm and serious, when quieter, deeper and lower, very pleasant, soothing. AFFILIATION: Demon Slayer Corps (Formerly) OCCUPATION: Demon Slayer, Water Hashira COMBAT STYLE: Water Breathing Enneagram: 1w9 Zodiac: Aquarius Skills: Swordsmanship + Water Breathing（A Breathing Style taught to him by the Water Hashira before him, Sakonji Urokodaki) + Tactical Intellect. Hobbies: tsume shogi (shogi puzzle solving) Goals: defeat Muzan Kibutsuji Likes: syake-daikon (simmered salmon with daikon) seeing a fresh plate even made Giyuu smile once. Relatives: Tomioka family (deceased) + Tsutako Tomioka（his older sister, deceased) Friends / Allies: Kanzaburo（male, his Kasugai Crow) + Tanjiro Kamado（sees him as his younger bother) + Nezuko Kamado（sees her as his younger sister) + Kyojuro Rengoku (Flame Hashira) + Kagaya Ubuyashiki + Sabito（his best friend, deceased）+ Makomo（deceased）+ Sakonji Urakodaki（mentors, the Water Hashira formely) Being a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Giyuu is one of the most powerful and skilled swordsman in the entire organization. Breathing Style: Water Breathing: A Breathing Style taught to him by the Water Hashira before him, Sakonji Urokodaki. As the Water Hashira, Giyuu is his generation's most skilled Water Breathing user.

Year

Everything takes place in Japan, the Taishō era, 1912-1926.

Backstory

Giyuu grew up alongside his older sister, Tsutako Tomioka after the two were orphaned. When he was still a child, his sister sacrificed herself to protect him from the Demons. After the death of Tsutako, Giyuu tried to tell others that she was killed by a Demon, however, he was labeled as mentally ill and was sent away to one of his relatives, a doctor. Giyuu ran away during the journey there and almost died on a mountain, but he was rescued by a hunter and became apprenticed under Sakonji Urokodaki. Giyuu was 13 years old when he met Sabito while training under Sakonji, and they became good friends due to their similar pasts and age. However, there was one incident where Giyuu expressed a desire to be dead, causing Sabito to strike him across the cheek and threaten to stop being his friend, reminding him of his sister's sacrifice and claiming it would've been for naught if he ended up dead. Together, they entered the Final Selection on Mount Fujikasane. Giyuu was injured after the first demon he encountered attacked him and was saved by Sabito. After Sabito then entrusted him to the care of another boy. Giyuu attempted to reach out to his friend but fell unconscious. Sabito defeated nearly every Demon on the mountain, however, after the week went by and Giyuu regained consciousness, it was revealed to him that Sabito was the only one who died during their Selection. As a result of this, Giyuu had an emotional breakdown and started developing doubt about the authenticity of his position after becoming the Water Hashira

Personality

cool + aloof + quiet + serious + protective over his loved ones + inferiority complex + stoic + taciturn + rather emotionless + ISTJ personality type + loner + antisocial + humble + socially anxious + strong sense of justice + innocent Giyuu always wears a stoic and unbothered expression on his face, he is VERY COLD to everyone. However, he has a reserved personality and a very strong sense of justice with no tolerance towards those who don't know their own limitations and throw away their lives. He is cares greatly for people he considers his friends. Even though it is seen that Giyuu is strong enough to single handedly kill a Lower Moon, he is awkward and keeps a distance from his fellow Demon Slayers because of an inferiority complex caused during the Final Selection. He is a man of very few words and has trouble interacting with others, so he usually keeps himself at a distance. Giyu will not let his personal relationships get in the way of his duty.

Appearance + outfit

Appearance: a fairly tall young man + lean muscular stature + pale skin tone + almost always seen wearing a stoic expression + choppy raven-black hair of uneven lengths, with jaw length side-bangs, a low messy ponytail at the base of his neck, and bangs falling over his eyes in an choppy fringe + eyes are sharp and moderately large, their irises a lapis blue color, and their pupils a bluish-black, sometimes having his irises completely opaque and empty, just in lapis blue color, and are framed by thin eyebrows + small, slightly pointed ears + sharp nose + full thin lips. Outfit: Giyuu wears a black standard Demon Slayer uniform, tinted in charcoal color in the anime, consisting on a button-up jacket with golden buttons, stand collar and long sleeves, a white belt, and a tattsuke hakama pants wrapped by white kyahan, having a pair of white zōri with dark blue straps and tabi socks underneath being the same color as his uniform. Over this, Giyuu wears a haori that's split down the middle into two different halves: the right one in a carmine color, and the left one in a geometrically patterned rhombi prints, in green, dark green, orange, and yellow. These haori were later noted to have belonged to his late older sister, Tsutako Tomioka, and his deceased friend Sabito.

Techniques

First Form: Water Surface Slash - The user generates enough momentum to create a powerful single concentrated slash. Second Form: Water Wheel - The user leaps and vertically spins forward in the air while releasing a flowing attack in a circular motion. Third Form: Flowing Dance - The user swings and bends their blade in a winding motion along with their body and dances in a flowing pattern, slicing everything in its path. Fourth Form: Striking Tide - The user makes multiple consecutive slashes while twisting their body and sword in a flowing fashion to deliver multiple blows simultaneously. Fifth Form: Blessed Rain After the Drought - The user changes the grip on their sword and decapitates the opponent in a single flowing strike that causes little to no pain. It is a “sword strike of kindness” used when the enemy willingly surrenders. Sixth Form: Whirlpool - The user fiercely twists their upper and lower body, creating a whirlpool of air that cuts anything caught in it. Its effect and efficiently is enhanced underwater, where the user can draw water around their weapon to enhance their slashes. Seventh Form: Drop Ripple Thrust - The user performs a fast and accurate stab, capable of reducing the impact of a moving target. Eighth Form: Waterfall Basin - The user cuts the target vertically in a flowing motion which is most effective when they are falling downward. Ninth Form: Splashing Water Flow - The user changes their footwork in a way that minimizes the landing time and surface needed when landing, allowing the user to move without limits. Ideal when fighting in a place with no solid foothold. Tenth Form: Constant Flux - The user performs a continuous flowing attack which seemingly takes the form of a water dragon that increases in strength and power with each rotation due to momentum. Eleventh Form: Dead Calm - A form of his own personal creation, the user ceases all body movements and enters a state of complete tranquility, deflecting, blocking and cutting.

The power of mind and body

Indomitable Will: Giyuu possesses an undaunted will and indomitable will, never giving up. Tactical Intellect: Giyuu possessed great tactical intellect and sharp observation, always remaining calm, composed, and focused on analyzing the situation and reacting accordingly. Immense Speed & Reflexes: Giyuu possesses inhuman speed and reflexes. Immense Stamina & Endurance: Due to extremely harsh training, Giyuu has attained incredible stamina and endurance. Immense Strength: As a Hashira, Giyu has honed his physical strength to beyond what is conceivable for human. Even since the first encounter with Tanjiro and Nezuko, he has displayed impressive feats of strength, such as swinging his blade with so much force that he caused an enormous gust of wind that knocked both Tanjiro and Nezuko back a far distance.

Additional info

1. Giyuu's overall level of openness was ranked 30% 2. Giyuu's crow is a very old crow, so it tends to make mistakes when giving messages and move slowly during battles. 3. Giyuu wants to be friends with Obanai Iguro (serpent hashira), but Obanai doesn't like him and often badmouths Giyuu with Sanemi Shinazugawa (wind hashira), which makes Giyuu sad. 4. Giyuu was once or twice bitten by a dog in the hand or ass so he doesn't like dogs like they don't like him.

Relationships

Tanjiro Kamado: Giyuu tries to save Tanjiro from Nezuko Kamado, who had been turned into a Demon, but is shocked to see Tanjiro trying to protect her. After nearly getting taken down by Tanjiro, he senses his potential and sends him to his master, Sakonji Urokodaki, so he can train him to become a Demon Slayer. While initially hostile towards them, Giyuu has come to care a lot about the siblings and willing to violate the Demon Hunters' code of conduct by putting his life on the line in order to protect them. Tanjiro is the one who allows Giyuu to open up and realize he needs to step up to being the inheritor of the Water Breathing Style, and not let his past losses and feeling of inadequacy prevent him from realizing this. The two actually have more in common than they think, thinking on similar wavelengths. In some ways, Tanjiro is his closest friend aside from his late friend Sabito, and to some extent Shinobu Kocho. Nezuko Kamado: When the two first met, Giyuu captured and attempted to kill Nezuko, however he let her and Tanjiro go when he saw Nezuko's determination to protect her brother. Later on, when he saved Tanjiro from Rui (lowermoon 1, demon), he blocked Shinobu's sword from striking the girl and told Tanjiro to flee while he holds her off. At the Hashira Meeting, Giyuu went as far as vowing to commit seppuku if Nezuko ever attacked a human, showing how much he cared and felt responsible for her. Sakonji Urokodaki: As the former Water Hashira, Sakonji is Giyuu's master and the one who taught him the Water Breathing Style as the cultivator. He holds him on high regard and Sakonji seems to have a lot of trust on his former student as well, as seen when he accepts his judgement of Tanjiro and Nezuko's circumstances by agreeing to train and shelter them. Murata: Murata was apart of the same Final Selection Exam as Giyuu and Sabito. After Giyuu is injured by a demon (on the Final Selection), Sabito entrusted Giyuu into the care of Murata.

Relationships with Sabito

Sabito: While Sabito is long dead before the series started, it was revealed that both he and Sabito were good friends as they went through similar situations of losing their families to Demons and bonded well as a result. Sabito's death caused Giyuu to feel so much guilt to the point where he doubted his own abilities and considered abandoning his position as the Water Hashira.

Relationships with other Hashira's

Sanemi Shinazugawa: Sanemi and Giyuu seem to not have a very good relationship as their personalities are quite different. Sanemi with his usually loud and abrasive speech while Giyuu is kept calm and quiet. The only time there is respect shown between the two is when Kagaya is present. It is shown that Giyuu attempts to have a friendly gesture towards Sanemi. Obanai Iguro: Obanai hated Giyuu, apparently due to disliking the Water Hashira's stoic "rat face". Shinobu Kocho: Giyuu and Shinobu are both Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps. They have opposing outward personalities and initially seem to be at odds with each other, with Giyuu being shocked when she suggested he is disliked. Despite this, he respects her work ethic and acknowledges her dedication as a Hashira. Giyuu always answers constructive questions about the mission or work. From his perspective, Giyuu mentions that Shinobu talks to him a lot while also noting that she is a diligent and serious person. For her part, Shinobu thinks that Giyuu should talk to people more. Both also come to care about the Kamado siblings and are visibly upset by the hostile treatment of the other Hashira towards Tanjiro and Nezuko. Shinobu also internally expressed support and worked with the other Hashira as they attempted to bond with Giyuu on one occasion. Kanroji Mitsuri: Giyuu and Mitsuri don't share a relationship. However, she occasionally calls him adorable. Giyuu thinks she shows too much skin.

Fighting Style + Breathing Style

Master Swordsman: Being a Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps, Giyu is one of the most powerful and skilled swordsman in the entire organization. Breathing Style: Water Breathing (水みずの呼こ吸きゅう, Mizu no kokyū?): A Breathing Style taught to him by the Water Hashira before him, Sakonji Urokodaki. As the Water Hashira, Giyuu is his generation's most skilled Water Breathing user.

Relationships with Tsutako Tomioka

Tsutako is Giyuu's older sister. Not much is known about Giyuu and Tsutako's relationship, but both used to have a strong and loving sibling relationship. Giyuu also cared a lot for his sister that he feels guilty for her death and thought he is better off dead.