Episode 54

Love Hashira Mitsuri Kanroji (恋柱・甘露寺蜜璃) is the 54th episode of the Kimetsu no Yaiba TV anime series, and the 10th episode of its third season.

Synopsis
Unfazed by the arrival of the Hashira, Zohakuten proceeds to insult Mitsuri by calling her a tramp, for trying to order him around. Mitsuri stares at the demon with disgust after being called a tramp and is offended by the insult. She compares him to her younger brother in a comical sense and is appalled by his behavior. Zohakuten begins to launch his attack against Mitsuri using the Crazed Cry of Thunder Death to attack her, but she is able to defend herself using Love Breathing: Third From - Catlove Shower to negate his attack. Mitsuri becomes annoyed with Zohakuten's sudden attack and leaves him surprised with her ability to stop his attack. This is where Mitsuri uses her Love Breathing, Second Form: Love Pangs and Love Breathing, Sixth Form: Cat-Legged Winds of Love consecutively. Zohakuten notices that she's keeping up with his speed and decides to put her down with a technique. He then uses his Blood Demon Art: Countless Striking Trees, but Mitsuri uses her Love Breathing, Fifth Form: Swaying Love, Wildclaw to cut through the attack, reaching Zohakuten's body.

Tanjiro sees this and shouts to her that Zohakuten is not Hantengu's real body. Zohakuten then releases his Blood Demon Art: Compressed Sound Waves, Mitsuri has no choice but to face the attack head-on. Mitsuri is paralyzed and loses consciousness, but survives the attack. Hantengu realizes that Mitsuri has immense strength, then decides that he is going to eat her before throwing a fist at her head. Mitsuri's life flashes before her eyes as Hantengu's fist is about to land. It starts with Mitsuri's first fiance telling her that only a bear, boar, or cow would take her as their wife. He also insults her hair color and says that it makes him shudder just to think about it being passed onto his children. He tells her to forget about him and the fact that their marriage interview ever even happened. That marriage was called off--she was 17 at the time. It then explains that Mitsuri has a special muscle composition. Her arms are thin and look weak, but her muscle density is eight times a regular human's.

At fourteen months old she was able to pick up a 33-pound pickling stone. She also ate a lot. She had an almost insatiable appetite, eating almost the same amount as three sumo wrestlers. The day her marriage was called off, she decided to hide all of her peculiar traits. One day a man appeared and said he wanted to marry her. Mitsuri is snapped back to reality when Tanjiro, Nezuko, and Genya manage to save her from Zohakuten's fist. Tanjiro and Genya say that Mitsuri is their last hope, getting emotional and encouraging her to get back up and fight. Hantengu releases another attack, however, Mitsuri cuts through his attack protecting the four of them. Mitsuri screams at Hantengu, that she won't lose to evil people and it's the time to get more serious.

Another flashback appeared with Kagaya Ubuyashiki telling Mitsuri that she is a special person chosen by the gods and she should be proud of her strength. Telling her that whoever talks bad about it is just jealous. Mitsuri sincerely thanked Kagaya and gets emotional over his words. Mitsuri also thanked her parents as all the demon slayers who took her in, all the people she protected, and Obanai Iguro for giving her striped socks and promised him to treasure it, but Obanai insisted that he will buy new ones, once it's torn apart. She rethinks how she wondered if it was okay to be strong because she was a girl and realizes that she herself suppressed her strength out of fear, she's isn't anymore. She is driven to protect the people to never have the same fate as the others. She cuts through Hantengu's attack and urges herself to get stronger.

Mitsuri tells Tanjiro, Genya, and Nezuko to start looking for the main body while Mitsuri deals with the other. Hantengu notices the trio looking for the body and tries releasing an attack there way, but it's cut down by Mitsuri before it can reach them. Mitsuri is moving faster than before and Hantengu doesn't know how. He then notices a birthmark on her chest. Hantengu releases another attack, but Mitsuri easily cuts through it. Genya, Tanjiro, and Nezuko are fighting a tree that is being controlled by Hantengu and has his real body in it, but they can't cut it when they're arms are occupied holding onto the tree. Genya has no choice, but to eat the tree.

It is then revealed that Genya cannot use breaths and has the special ability to temporarily inherit the traits of the demon if he eats its flesh. The top part of the tree falls to the ground after Genya eats a lower part of the plant, cutting through the trunk of the tree. Tanjiro then attempts to cut the tree up, but the branches are like whips. Nezuko sets the tree and Tanjiro's sword on fire with her Blood Demon Art and Tanjiro uses Dance of the Fire God: Flame Dance to cut the tree in half to reach the hollow inside where Hantengu's real body is, but he's already gone. Hantengu's real body has shrunken to a miniature size and is running away on the forest floor. Tanjiro screams at Hantengu that he will make the demon pay for every sin he has comitted. Hantengu remembers someone saying that everything he does is his responsibility, but he says he hasn't done anything wrong in his entire life. Then Genya angrily rips out a tree from the roots at throws it at Hantengu. The result only failed to accurately hit Hantengu, and the episode ends of Nezuko emerging at Hantengu.

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