cliffhangers are not everybody’s favorite literary device. I especially hate them when they appear in a manga that’s going on a one-week hiatus. Chapter 202 of Kimetsu no Yaiba ended at a rather strange place. Tanjiro got injected with meds and Kanao could be dead after finally making an appearance. Since the manga is on a hiatus and we’re all anxiously waiting for kny 203. I am going to take this time and talk about what Tanjiro’s and the manga’s fate could be.



WILL TANJIRO HAVE AN EVEN SADDER DEATH THAN WE INITIALLY THOUGHT?



Starting out as the kindest guy in the series, things took a bad turn for Tanjiro as he ended up as the heir to the being he wanted to destroy and becomes a danger to the very people he cared about. In the kny 202 , we saw Kanao inject meds into Tanjiro. But I would be genuinely surprised if those meds worked on the perfect demon. A demon with all of Muzan’s powers, capable of using sun breath and one who has conquered the sun. We must understand that Tanjiro is a much different demon than all other demons ever made by Muzan. Tanjiro not only got all the blood of what was left of Muzan but also his powers too.

As beautifully theorized by Reddit user anastasiaaleexev in a Reddit post where the user breaks down the kanji in Tanjiro’s name, what the meds could actually do is that they, along with Nezuko performing her talk no jutsu could bring Tanjiro back to his senses maybe for enough time that he could surrender and somebody could put him down before he becomes a bigger, absolutely undefeatable threat with none other than Giyu being the one to do the deed with the Fifth form of his breath style that is only used when an enemy surrenders! Another Reddit user Yayuu also indicates a very similar tragic fate for Tanjiro in a post that brilliantly analyses the manga’s slogan and predicts how the kindest demon slayer is ultimately slayed as a demon. Well, Demon Slayer is still a Shonen so we can’t really be surprised at a happy ending for Tanjiro with him turning human or even the drug working enough for him to retain his senses but live as a demon like Yushiro does, especially after Kanao returned in kny Chapter 202 only to sacrifice her one good eye all to try and save Tanjiro. And Kanao? Well, her death could be a very good plot point if the author chooses Tanjiro to be put down as her death could contribute to him coming to his senses even for a bit but if Tanjiro is going to be a human/partial demon and live, then as I mentioned in my previous post, Kanao will definitely be alive unless the author intends for Tanjiro to commit seppuku!



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