Highlights
- Hashira use powerful Breathing Styles with unique abilities, each derived from different forms like Flower or Thunder Breathing.
- Not all Breathing Styles are equal in strength, with some closer to Sun Breathing being more powerful than others.
- Each Hashira showcases impressive techniques with their unique Breathing Style, such as Resounding Slashes or Stone Soin.
The Hashira are some of the most powerful and talented individuals in the Demon Slayer universe. Each one of them uses their own Breathing Styles, which are powerful abilities that individuals can couple with their swordsmanship.
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While each Breathing Style has its own advantages, some of them are inevitably going to be weaker than others, especially the further they are from Sun Breathing.
This is a rxanking of their Breathing Styles and not their overall power.
9 The Power to Mimic An Insect
- Breathing Type: Insect Breathing
- Hashira User: Shinobu Kocho
While Shinobu is powerful in her own regards and makes masterful use of her Insect Breathing, it definitely isn’t the strongest and requires poison to even be able to kill demons, as it doesn’t provide enough power to decapitate them. This style relies on speed and on making deadly stings, like that of insects.
This Breathing Style is derived from Flower Breathing, which itself derives from Water Breathing, a product of Sun breathing. It’s the farthest breathing from Sun Breathing. One of the strongest techniques used by Shinobu is the Hundred Legged Zig Zag.
8 The Power To Use Sound
- Breathing Style: Sound Breathing
- Hashira User: Tengen Uzai
Tengen Uzai is a beloved Demon Slayer character who had an impressive showcase of Sound Breathing. This Breathing Style specifically relies on explosives, as it is best used with loud noises to disorient enemies with its sound. This Breathing Style is also known for its speed.
This style is derived from Thunder Breathing. A notable technique known for its power is Resounding Slashes.
7 The Power to Mimic Snakes
- Breathing Style: Serpent Breathing
- Hashira User: Obanai Iguro
Obanai Iguro makes amazing use of Serpent Breathing in Demon Slayer. This Breathing Style copies the movement of Snake, making slithering movements. Obanai goes a step further with his oddly shaped sword that resembles the body of a snake.
This Breathing Style came to be from Water Breathing, just like Flower Breathing. The Slithering Snake technique is a powerful one made use of by Obanai.
6 The Power to Manipulate the Mist
- Breathing Type: Mist Breathing
- Hashira User: Muichiro Tokito
Muichiro Tokito’s Breathing Style, Mist Breathing, heavily relies on disorienting the enemies, making use of the obscurity of the mists. The attacks from this Breathing Style can be quite sneaky, using obscured attacks to deal blows.
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This Breathing Style comes from Wind Breathing. One of this style's most notable techniques is the Seventh Form: Obscuring Clouds, personally created by Muichiro.
5 The Power to Utilize Love
- Breathing Type: Love Breathing
- Hashira User: Mitsuri Kanroji
Love Breathing is an ability utilized by none other than the Love Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji. This breathing technique makes use of incredible flexibility and agility to perform its attacks. This breathing style has an incredible range with its style, incorporating slashes with Mitsuri’s whip-like sword.
Love Breathing is derived from Fire Breathing. Its most impressive technique is, undoubtedly, the Sixth Form: Cat-Legged Winds of Love.
4 The Power to Manipulate the Wind
- Breathing Type: Wind Breathing
- Hashira User: Sanemi Shinazugawa
Sanemi’s Wind Breathing mimics the wind, as the name implies. This breathing type is very offensive and uses powerful wind bursts to cause damage to enemies.
Wind Breathing is one of the first ones to come from Sun Breathing, and from it came other Breathings, such as Beast and Mist Breathing. A powerful technique from this Breathing is the Idaten Typhoon.
3 The power to Mimic the Earth
- Breathing Type: Stone Breathing
- Hashira User: Gyomei Himejima
Undoubtedly, one of the most powerful abilities fans have witnessed in Demon Slayer was none other than Gyomei Himejim’s Stone Breathing. This power has a lot of destructive potential, much more than the Breathing of the other Hashiras. With his Stone Breathing, Gyomei was able to fight head-on against Kokushibo and his Moon Breathing, a feat that can’t be understated.
In general, Stone Breathing is derived from another powerful breathing type known as Sun Breathing. Some powerful known abilities of this Breathing include: Stone Soin, Volcanic Rock - Rapid Conquest, and Arcs of Justice.
2 The Power to Mimic Water
- Breathing Type: Water Breathing
- Hashira User: Giyu Tomioka
Water Breathing, Giyu Tomioka’s breathing style, is one fans are quite familiar with in Demon Slayer, as it is used by other characters as well. This Breathing Style requires the user to bend their body in a fluid motion, similar to water’s fluidity.
It is one of the main breathing styles derived from Sun Breathing, and will lead to the creation of other breathing, such as Flower and Serpent Breathing. A notable water breathing technique created by Giyu Tomioka himself is the Eleventh Form: Dead Calm.
1 The Power To Mimic Fire
- Breathing Style: Flame Breathing
- Hashira User: Kyojuro Rengoku
Flame Breathing is used by Kyojuro Rengoku. This breathing style runs deep in his family and is quite powerful.
This breathing style is one of the main 5 that are derived directly from Sun Breathing, the ultimate Breathing form. The most powerful technique that uses Flame Breathing from the Rengoku family is called the Ninth Form: Rengoku.
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