When the sakura season comes, Demon Slayer’s Nezuko leaves her box to view the cherry blossoms.
Cosplayer Naoko-Hime posted their dazzling Demon Slayer Nezuko cosplay on Reddit. With Nezuko’s light pink kimono and the magenta flower pinned to her flame-tipped hair, the cosplayer matches the beautiful cherry blossoms surrounding her. Cupped gently in her hands is a cluster of blooms. Nezuko is rarely seen without her bamboo muzzle when she isn’t fighting, but she likely forwent wearing it to enjoy the sakura blossoms to the fullest.
Naoko-Hime’s Cosplay History
As a huge Nezuko fan, Naoko-Hime has portrayed the demon in other photoshoots, including one where she seems to be in a dark forest with lights imitating fireflies floating around her. In this particular cosplay, Naoko-Hime wore the bamboo muzzle, which she said was “quite comfortable.” The cosplayer typically portrays characters from anime series in the 1990s to 2000s, such as Chii from CLAMP’s manga Chobits and Alter Saber from the visual novel Fate/stay night. Aside from Demon Slayer’s Nezuko, the cosplayer has also cosplayed as the eponymous character from Violet Evergarden.
Nezuko plays an important role in setting off the string of events in Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer. Protagonist Tanjiro Kamado returns home after staying at a nearby village to sell charcoal to find his entire family slaughtered save for his younger sister Nezuko who soon begins turning into a demon. While most demons cannot control their demonic urges and will not hesitate to kill people, including their loved ones, Nezuko appears different as she can resist her hunger and retains enough of her humanity to protect her brother and anyone she deems to be part of her family. Most of the time, Nezuko is quite sweet except when she is in her fully awakened demon form.
The History of Demon Slayer
Three years after Demon Slayer began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump, the manga inspired an anime adaptation produced by ufotable. The first season premiered in April 2019 and garnered a huge outpouring of praise from fans on the high animation quality. The adaptation picked up Best Work and Best Voice Actor at the Newtype Anime Awards in 2019. The second season which adapts the “Mugen Train” and “Entertainment District” arcs premiered in 2021, with the former first premiering as a film in 2020, becoming the first film in Japanese cinema history to gross 40 billion yen. More recently, Demon Slayer fans expressed being split over the inclusion of CGI animation.
Demon Slayer’s third season, which covers the “Swordsmith Village” arc, streams on Crunchyroll. Episode 6, “Aren’t You Going to Become a Hashira?” airs on May 14.
Source: Reddit
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