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Breathing Styles ( () (きゅう) (ほう) Kokyū Hō?) are swordsmanship styles that utilize Total Concentration Breathing which are practiced and taught by Demon Slayers.

Overview[]

Tanjiro using Water Surface Slice to cut the Hand Demon's head

A Breathing Style being used to slay a demon.

Breathing Styles are swordsmanship styles that makes use of an esoteric breathing technique known as Total Concentration Breathing practiced and taught by members of the Demon Slayer Corps and are used in combat by Demon Slayers (later passed on as traditional dances post-time skip).

All known Breathing Styles currently taught within the Demon Slayer Corps are derived from Sun Breathing, the first one ever created. The majority of known Breathing Styles mimic a certain element of nature (i.e. flame, water and wind) and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. The weapon attacks of Demon Slayers who use Breathing Styles are also longer ranged, possibly due to shockwaves or air pressure generated from their weapon itself when swinging and striking.

Mitsuri uses Swaying Love Wildclaw

Love Breathing: a Breathing Style created to meet its creator's needs.

New Breathing Styles are always being created to suit a Demon Slayer's combat needs,[1] which results in new weapons being utilized in demon hunting (i.e. flails and whips). Such Breathing Styles embody a bigger variety of concepts, like animals, plants and emotions (i.e. serpents, flowers and love). When utilizing a Breathing Style, users automatically visualize themselves manipulating the subject behind their style, making it seem as if they were using magic, though those that are less apt and proficient in their style will visualize less of it than one who is.

Tanjiro combines Hinokami Kagura with Water Breathing

Tanjiro combines two Breathing Styles.

It is possible to mix different Breathing Styles if the user cannot master one particular Breathing Style alone in order to use the stronger aspects of different styles to compensate. Tanjiro Kamado, realizing that he could not master Water Breathing like Giyu Tomioka nor could he handle the strain of Hinokami Kagura, showed to be able to combine the two techniques together in order to have stronger strikes than when he used Water Breathing alone and move for longer periods of time than if he used Hinokami Kagura alone. He did this to save Hinatsuru from Gyutaro,[2] and later used it once again during the Infinity Castle Arc to slay dozens of demons.

List of Known Breathing Styles & Users[]

The five fundamental Breathing Styles (Flame, Water, Wind, Stone and Thunder) originate from Sun Breathing, the first Breathing Style. Subsequently, numerous other Breathing Styles evolved as branches from these five core styles.[3]

Name Example Image Kanji No. of Known Forms Color Known Users
Sun Breathing Tanjiro uses Clear Blue Sky against Enmu 13 Black Yoriichi Tsugikuni
Sumiyoshi Kamado
Tanjuro Kamado
Tanjiro Kamado
Water Breathing Tanjiro using Striking Tide, Turbulent 11 Blue Sakonji Urokodaki
Giyu Tomioka
Murata
Sabito
Makomo
Aoi Kanzaki (Formerly)
Tanjiro Kamado
Flame Breathing Kyojuro uses Second Form against a demon 9 Red Shinjuro Rengoku
Kyojuro Rengoku
Mitsuri Kanroji (Formerly)
Thunder Breathing Zenitsu using Six Fold 7 Yellow Jigoro Kuwajima
Kaigaku
Zenitsu Agatsuma
Stone Breathing Arcs of Justice 5 Gray Gyomei Himejima
Wind Breathing Dust Whirlwind Cutter 9 Green Masachika Kumeno
Sanemi Shinazugawa
Moon Breathing Moon Dragon Ringtail 16 Light Purple Kokushibo
Flower Breathing Peonies of Futility 7 Light Pink Kanae Kocho
Kanao Tsuyuri
Insect Breathing Shinobu using Butterfly Dance Caprice on the Daughter Spider Demon 4 Lavender Blue Shinobu Kocho
Serpent Breathing Slithering Serpent 5 Lavender Obanai Iguro
Love Breathing Shivers of First Love (Anime) 6 Dark Pink Mitsuri Kanroji
Sound Breathing Constant Resounding Slashes vs Rotating Circular Slashes - Flying Blood Sickles 5 Amber Tengen Uzui
Mist Breathing Muichiro using Shifting Flow Slash to slice up a group of fish demons 7 White Muichiro Tokito
Beast Breathing Inosuke uses Fifth Form against Enmu 11 Indigo Gray Inosuke Hashibira

Breathing Styles Relationship Chart[]

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Sun
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Water
   
   
   
   
Moon
   
   
   
   
Flame
   
   
   
   
Thunder
   
   
   
   
Stone
   
   
   
   
Wind
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Flower
   
   
Serpent
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Love
   
   
   
   
Sound
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Beast
   
   
Mist
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Insect
   
   

Trivia[]

  • The names of Breathing Styles are very strict. For example, the Flame Breathing ( (ほのお) () (きゅう) Honō no kokyū?) should never be referred to as Fire Breathing ( () () (きゅう) Hi no kokyū?).
  • Breathing Styles were not entirely lost to history after the demons were wiped out. Instead, they eventually became traditional dances.[4]
  • Breathing Styles don't produce their elemental effects; they are just there for visual effects,[5] however, there are a few exceptions. For example, the Thunder Breathing users mimic lightning with such high fidelity that they cause the air to vibrate when poised to unleash a technique and create immensely loud sounds akin to thunder with their mere footsteps, so it feels like they are producing thunder to others.

References[]

  1. Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga: Chapter 90 (Page 17).
  2. Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga: Chapter 90 (Pages 8-19).
  3. Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga: Chapter 54.
  4. Kimetsu no Yaiba Second Fanbook.
  5. Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga: Volume 17, (Extra Pages).


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