Kanae Kocho

Kanae Kocho (カナエ) was a Demon Hunter and the sister of Shinobu Kocho.

Appearance
Kanae has long, straight, hair that reaches her mid-back, as well as parted fringes. Butterfly hairpins adorn either side of her head. Her eyes seem to be a lighter shade. Shinobu describes that Kanae has a delicate build, however, she is still taller than her younger sister. Presumably, Kanae may also be capable of cutting off a demon’s head.

Kanae wears the standard Demon Hunter uniform which consists of a straight-lined black jacket with a white belt and black hakama pants tucked into a fabric around her lower legs along with Japanese sandals. The haori she wears when she was alive is also the same one Shinobu wears in the series. The pattern of the haori is similar to a butterfly’s wings.

Personality
She is shown to be a kind girl with a bit of an easy going personality. In some of Shinobu and Kanao's flashbacks, she is almost always seen with a gentle smile on her face.

However, Kanae has a much stricter side, as shown in Shinobu's final moments, where she orders her younger sister to stand up and face her opponent. Later Tsuyuri also implied that Kanae was also intelligent, having seen through Doma's acting and lies and deducted that he was in fact emotionless and empty and later stated that she also felt sorry for him due to his emptiness, showing that she was also a capable of showing a little sympathy to her enemies as well.

History
In the past Kanae and her younger sister Shinobu and their parents lived a peaceful life together,but this all changed when a demon attacked their home, where their parents were killed trying to protect their daughters, they survived this ordeal thanks to the timely arrival of Gyomei Himejima who slayed the demon and saved them,later the two of them made a promise to both join the Demon Slaying Corps themselves and made an oath to stop the demons from inflicting the same horror and pain they experienced to others,both of them soon became successful demon hunters having completed their training and mastered the use of the Breath of Flower. A few years after this while traveling through a village Kanae took notice of a little girl being dragged along by a leash by a man,who later told them that she was his slave, Kanae then attempted to talk the man to letting her go,only for him to say that if she'd wanted to free her she was going to have to pay him first,angered by this Shinobu,tricked the man by throwing a wad of money at him and while he was busy trying to collect all of it,the two of them grabbed the girl and made a run for it,having soon adopted the girl as their youngest sister and naming her,Tsuyuri Kanao,Where they then attempted to teach and mend her social issues by giving her a coin to help her in making her decisions by tossing it and trained her in the Breath of Flower.Later Kanae had run into and battled the Upper Moon Demon 2,Doma where she then lost her life in her battle against him.

Shinobu Kocho
Her younger biological Sister,being her only living close relative the two of them shared a strong and loving sisterly bond,with Kanae's death being Shinobu's main motivation for becoming stronger in order to kill the demon who killed her in battle and later even went as far as using herself as trojan horse and allowed herself to be devoured by the demon in order to accomplish her vengeance.

Kanao Tsuyuri
Her younger Adoptive sister,having saved her from slavery and adopted her Tsuyuri and Kanae had a close and loving relationship,being much more closer to that of a mother and daughter,having taught her the proper way to interact and socialize with others and helped her become slightly more independent by giving her a coin to help her make her decision via coin-toss and trained her on how to fight demons as well.With Kanae's death having greatly impacted Tsuyuri and much like Shinobu swore vengeance against the demon who killed her.

Doma
The Upper Moon Two with whom she battled and lost her life against,it has been said by Kanao that Kanae felt pity for the Demon due to his non existent emotions and even went as far as admitting this to her Sister Shinobu as she died.

Swordsmanship
She is a user of the Breath of Flower and once held the position of  the Flower Pillar of the Demon Slayer,showing that Kanae was incredibly skilled and deadly and having presumably mastered this Breath style as the primary requirement to reach the position of a pillar was being to be able to slay one of the Twelve Demon Moons further alluding and hinting at her strength.

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