Upper Rank 4 Hantengu (半天狗)
(Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃))
Hantengu is a major antagonist in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. He is introduced as one of the Twelve Kizuki, serving as the Upper Rank Four. He is the main antagonist of the Swordsmith Village Arc.Hantengu was once a human thief and murderer who pretended to be innocent through his elderly appearance and frail look, constantly blaming others for his crimes.
DEMON SLAYER UPPER RANK 4 HANTENGU INFO
- Japanese Name: 半天狗
- Romaji Name: Hantengu
- Affiliation: Twelve Kizuki
- Gender: Male
- Height: 166 cm (5'5¼")
- Weight: 56 kg (123 lb)
- Combat Style: Blood Demon Art
- Japanese Voice: Toshio Furukawa (Hantengu), Yūichirō Umehara (Sekido), Kaito Ishikawa (Karaku), Soma Saito (Aizetsu), Shunsuke Takeuchi (Urogi), Koichi Yamadera (Zohakuten)
- English Voice: Christopher Corey Smith
DEMON SLAYER UPPER RANK 4 HANTENGU APPEARANCE
Hantengu is a short frail man with a very thin and skeletal body, covered with veins and wrinkles and is usually seen crouching. His most noticeable feature is a large bump on the top of his head, accompanied by two curved horns. His face is thin with a sharp chin and he constantly wears an expression of terror and fear, with a prominent brow ridge that lacks eyebrows. His eyes are narrow and often appear to be squinting, lacking any visible pupils. Hantengu also has the kanji for "fear" etched into his tongue. He has dark shoulder-length wavy hair with a low hairline, only growing out from the back of his head and ears, which themselves are sharper and longer than normal humans. His nails are long but not sharp like most other demons and retain their natural square form. Hantengu wears a dark kimono that is split in the middle, the right half being covered in a pattern of flowers and lines with the left half being dark and lacking any detailed features. He also wears black hakama pants and a pair of zōri.
Sekido (積怒, Sekido?) is a tall and muscular young man with long wavy hair that goes past his shoulders and narrow, deep red eyes that have the daiji of "Upper Rank" (上弦, Jōgen?) and "Four" (肆, Shi?) engraved into them. He has two prominent curved horns on his forehead and markings under his eyes that give his face a cracked appearance. He also has the kanji for "anger" etched into his tongue. As a demon, Sekido has pointed ears and sharp nails on each finger. He is usually seen wearing an irritated or enraged expression on his face. Sekido wears the same kimono as Hantengu, with the right half being covered in a pattern of flowers and lines with the left half being dark and lacking any detailed features. He also wears dark hakama pants and a pair of zōri. Sekido is always seen carrying around a Khakkhara (錫杖,Shakujō?).
Karaku (可楽, Karaku?) is a tall and muscular young man with shoulder-length hair and narrow, deep green eyes with the daiji of "Upper Rank" (上弦, Jōgen?) and "Four" (肆, Shi?) engraved into them. He has two prominent curved horns on his forehead and cracked markings under his eyes, similar to Sekido. Karaku also has the kanji for "pleasure" etched into his tongue. Like all demons, Karaku has pointed ears and sharp nails on each finger, like Sekido. He is usually seen wearing a gleeful expression on his face. Karaku wears nothing but hakama pants, a pair of zōri, accompanied by a Yuigesa harness. Karaku is always seen carrying around a fatsia leaf-shaped Uchiwa (團扇, Uchiwa?).
Aizetsu (哀絶, Aizetsu?) is a tall and muscular young man with shoulder-length hair and narrow, deep blue eyes with the daiji of "Upper Rank" (上弦, Jōgen?) and "Four" (肆, Shi?) engraved into them. He has two prominent curved horns on his forehead and cracked markings under his eyes. Aizetsu also has the kanji for "sorrow" etched into his tongue. As a demon, Aizetsu has pointed ears and sharp nails on each finger. He is usually seen wearing a dejected expression on his face. Aizetsu wears a black kimono with white lines running through various areas of the clothing and rope-like accessories tied around his shoulders. He also wears hakama pants and a pair of zōri. Aizetsu is always seen carrying around a Jūmonji Yari (十文字鑓, Jūmonji Yari?).
Urogi (空喜, Urogi?) is a tall and muscular young man with long wavy hair that goes past his shoulders and narrow gold eyes with the daiji of "Upper Rank" (上弦, Jōgen?) and "Four" (肆, Shi?) engraved into them. He has two prominent curved horns on his forehead and cracked markings under his eyes. Urogi also has the kanji for "joy" etched into his tongue. Like all demons, Urogi has pointed ears and sharp nails on each finger. He is usually seen wearing an overjoyed expression on his face, similar to Karaku. Unlike the rest of Hantengu's humanoid manifestations, Urogi possesses an avian physiology, possessing two large wings on his back and raptor-like feet armed with sharp talons that take the place of his hands and legs. Urogi only wears hakama pants tied together by a chain of large round pearls.
Zohakuten (憎珀天, Zōhakuten?) is a short and muscular child with short hair that spikes up at various angles around his head and narrow orange eyes with the daiji of "Upper Rank" (上弦, Jōgen?) and "Four" (肆, Shi?) engraved into them. He is usually seen wearing an angry scowl on his face, similar to Sekido. Zohakuten's clothing seems to be a combination of Sekido's, Karaku's, Aizetsu's, and Urogi's clothes. He wears black hakama pants covered with a piece of cloth bearing a close resemblance to Sekido's kimono and tied together with a long strap of white cloth. He also wears long sleeves that bear a resemblance to Aizetsu's kimono. Finally, he dons a plate of armor that is gold in color that only covers his chest. Zohakuten has a series of drums connected to each other that are inexplicably floating behind his back, with each drum having the kanji of "hatred" displayed on them. He also carries around a bone-like dagger in each hand.
Urami (恨み, Urami?, lit. Resentment) is identical in appearance to Hantengu, except that he is much bigger in size, towering over Tanjiro and Genya, and has the kanji for "resentment" etched into his tongue. Unlike Hantengu, he also wears an exasperated and furious expression on his face instead of an expression full of terror and fear.
DEMON SLAYER UPPER RANK 4 HANTENGU PERSONALITY
Hantengu's primary form has a persona of extreme cowardice and agitation. He is easily frightened by what occurred in his surroundings, showing traits of paranoia, fear and delusion. He is always shown to cry out in fear at even the most insignificant things, such as the number of years since the last meeting of the Upper Ranks being 113. Moreover, during said meeting, Hantengu spent most of the situation crying out and cowering in fear over everything around him. This extreme paranoia is especially evident in the fact that he always chooses to crawl instead of walking up straight. Even in combat, Hantengu was shown to be extremely cowardly and afraid, crying when he was slashed by Muichiro Tokito and when he was hiding from the Demon Slayers throughout most of the battle.
Hantengu seems to believe that he is completely innocent despite the obvious evidence pointing toward his numerous crimes as a human. He has a habit of deflecting the blame towards anything but himself, even proclaiming at one point that his hands were guilty but not himself as a whole. Even as a demon, killing and eating scores of innocent people, he stubbornly and erroneously maintained that he was innocent, and claimed that he deserved the sympathy of others.
As the manifestation of Hantengu's anger, Sekido is in a constant state of vexation, irritation, and rage, even towards his fellow clones, which could be seen when he easily got angered when they failed to meet his expectations and were subdued by the Demon Slayers. Sekido is also seen to care very little about his brethren, as shown when he forcibly absorbed them against their will to form Zohakuten, even as Aizetsu protested. He also showed himself to be the most dominant of the emotion clones and appeared to be the leader, as he was the one who gave out orders to them and took charge at critical junctures when they were battling the Demon Slayers.
As the manifestation of Hantengu's pleasure, Karaku showcased himself to be the most relaxed and laid-back of Hantengu's clones. The entire time he was battling against Genya, Tanjiro and Nezuko, he was constantly praising them and, instead of taking the battle seriously, he saw it as nothing more than a game, seeming to only take interest in the new experiences he was obtaining in the battle. This was demonstrated during his battle with Nezuko, when, instead of finishing her off immediately, he decided to tease and play with her despite being able to easily overpower her anytime he wanted. He also seems to display masochistic tendencies, which could be seen when he happily expressed his interest in the new sensation upon being shot by Genya, commenting that he had never been injured like that before.
This behavior easily got on the nerves of his fellow clones, such as Sekido, who constantly berated him for not taking on a serious outlook in battle, and Aizetsu, who was confused at why he was taking so long to kill Nezuko.
As the manifestation of Hantengu's sorrow, Aizetsu is portrayed to be completely dejected, sour, and negative, constantly describing everything as depressing. Out of all the manifestations, Aizetsu was shown to be the calmest and most collected out of all five of them, as seen when instead of frivolously wasting time on entertainment as Urogi and Karaku or immediately getting agitated and enraged by anything like Sekido, Aizetsu was shown to calmly analyze his opponents and think out his strategy and figure out his opponents' abilities and weaknesses before attacking. His perpetual dour and sadness even extends towards his fellow demons, as seen when he complies with Sekido's orders to make him stop yelling.
As the manifestation of Hantengu's joy, Urogi is the most jovial and giddy of Hantengu's clones. Similar to Karaku, he seemed to view the entire battle against the Demon Slayers as nothing more than a game or as a source of entertainment, as seen when he happily complemented Tanjiro on his intelligence for correctly guessing that neither one of the four clones was the "real" body and constantly exclaimed that the entire fight against Tanjiro was delightful.
As the manifestation of Hantengu's hatred, Zohakuten shared many personality traits with Sekido, as he too was easily enraged and was incredibly spiteful and hateful towards his enemies, due to him deeming them as "evil" for bullying the "weak and innocent" Hantengu. Like Sekido, he was also incredibly foul-mouthed as seen when he constantly insulted his opponents and referred to Mitsuri as a harlot, constantly calling her various degrading names in his thoughts.
He also seemed to harbor an immense sense of loyalty towards Muzan, as seen when he told Mitsuri that he only heeds and follows the orders of one man in the entire world. Out of all the clones, he was shown to be the most intelligent and insightful, aside from Sekido, as seen when he easily analyzed why the Love Hashira survived his powerful attacks and figured out the true source of her strength. Moreover, he was not above admitting to his own weakness, as he determined that the best way to kill Mitsuri was to exhaust her endurance and strength through incessant attacks upon seeing that she was capable of evading and attacking his Blood Demon Arts successfully.
As the manifestation of Hantengu's resentment, Urami was shown to be just as hypocritical and delusional as Zohakuten and Hantengu, as he angrily told Tanjiro not to bully and hurt his "weak and innocent" self. He angrily asked why Tanjiro couldn't "see" his innocence and, true to his name, he has shown to be the embodiment of Hantengu's resentment due to him being punished and persecuted for crimes that he was "innocent" of.
DEMON SLAYER UPPER RANK 4 HANTENGU SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Enhanced Stealth
- Immense Durability
- Immense Speed & Reflexes
- Size Alteration
- Biological Absorption
- Flesh Manipulation
- Immense Speed & Reflexes
- Flesh Manipulation
- Immense Strength
- Unlimited Stamina & Endurance
- Flesh Manipulation
- Stamina & Endurance
- Avian Physiology
- Menacing Aura
- Size Alteration
- Emotion Manifestation
- Electricity Generation
- Wind Blasts
- Sonic Scream
- Wood Manipulation
- Ability Combination
- Weeping Spears
- Crazed Cry of Thunder Death
- Countless Striking Trees
- Compressed Sound Waves
DEMON SLAYER KIMETSU NO YAIBA CHARACTERS
Demon Slayer Corps
Demons
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