Tanjiro
Kamado

Giyu subdues both, then stays his blade when Nezuko shields her brother. He points them to Urokodaki instead.

Nezuko, turned into a demon, fights her own hunger to shield Tanjiro. Whatever Muzan's blood did to her, part of her held.

First appearance. Protagonist, a charcoal seller whose family is slaughtered in the first episode.

Sabito and Makomo, the masked children who trained Tanjiro all winter, are the spirits of Urokodaki's students, all killed at Final Selection.

Completes Urokodaki's training by splitting the boulder, guided for a year by the spirits Sabito and Makomo

Water Breathing: First Form: Water Surface Slash. The first named form of the series beheads the Hand Demon during Final Selection.

Tanjiro's first kill. The demon that ate Urokodaki's students dies to Water Surface Slash, and Tanjiro holds its hand as it fades.

Tanjiro's Nichirin blade turns black, a color so rare that nobody can say what it means for its bearer.

The siblings' first fight together destroys all three split bodies of the kidnapper demon.

Tanjiro decapitates Yahaba by riding his own arrow vectors; Susamaru falls to Muzan's curse after Tamayo's art loosens her tongue.

Tanjiro reads the rotating rooms, honors the Drum Demon's art out loud, and takes his head.

Freed from Rui's terror by the prospect of death, she stops fighting. Tanjiro grants her the gentlest end he can.

Hinokami Kagura: Dance. Out of options against Rui, Tanjiro reaches for his father's ritual dance, and it answers as a breathing style.

Hinokami Kagura and Exploding Blood cut Rui's threads in the arc's defining moment, though Rui saves his own neck by severing it first.

Hinokami Kagura, his father's dance turned breathing style

Urokodaki's letter stakes three lives on Nezuko: if she ever eats a human, he, Giyu, and Tanjiro will answer for it with their own.

Total Concentration: Constant, held around the clock after training at the Butterfly Mansion

With Enmu fused into the whole train, Tanjiro cuts the neck bone hidden in the engine while Inosuke holds off the flesh.

Tanjiro pushes Hinokami Kagura past his limits inside the burning district until his body gives out, and Nezuko takes over.

Demon Slayer Mark, first appearing as his scar ignites against Gyutaro

Both Upper Six heads fall in the same breath. Uzui loses a hand and an eye; Nezuko's flames burn the poison out of the dying.

Bright red blade, ignited when Nezuko sets his new sword alight against Hantengu

All four clone necks fall at once, and it is not enough. The real Hantengu runs, and the fight becomes a chase against sunrise.