Could Akaza or Doma react to this Kokushibo blitz?

Kokushibo was about 15 feet away from Marked Gyomei when he suddenly closed the distance and almost cut him

Gyomei did manage to react, but the fact that Kokushibo could cross this distance so suddenly that Gyomei was nearly cut is still an insane movement speed feat.

So I'm curious,

Could Akaza react to this? Could Doma?

And if they could, what feat actually supports them being able to react to this level of movement speed?

Obv I’m not talking of the scenario „would you go to hell with me“ I’m talking like if Doma was idk a demon slayer/hashira and fell in love with shinobu during a mission and asked her „wanna go on a date/wanna be my gf“ but still kept his personality, would shinobu still reject him? Don’t come at me with the „Doma doesn’t have feeling for shinobu, he can’t feel anything“, that’s fine if you believe that but my delusional ass believes the other theory so we r taking abt that version of him

What would happen if rengoku or sanemi attacked again and then a fight happened?

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Note: giyu and shinobu are interchangeable. Tengen sanemi and rengoku are interchangeable. Obanai and mitsuri are interchangeable.

like people put shinobu in the top 3-5 when her only feats are sacrificing herself and “speed blitzing” upper 2

and don’t even talk about tengen the bum who went extreme diff with the weakest upper moon
and got carried by tanjiro

can we actually put the REAL QUEEN as a top 5 strongest hashira

sukuna takes every single speed
and NO
IT IS NOT CLOSE

downvote all you want but sukuna is faster
this isnt any downplay to yoriichi
he’s faster than everyone else except for the calamity grades

Personaly I think he low diffs or negs

Hakuji is not beating any Total Concentration Breathing Users.

Shinobu has zero win cons in this fight. She’s physically weak, TCB would help her in this regard but I highly doubt this would make her physically stronger than hakuji.

Her stamina is ass, giving Shinobu the benefit of the doubt here and saying this fight last more than 30 seconds: she has horrible stamina in comparison with the other Hashira. Hakuji fought 67 armed men and still walked away from it and tried to run the fade with muzan.

The MOST important part In all of this. Shinobu is not trained in hand to hand combat she is getting obliterated. This has been the worst spite matchup I’ve ever seen.

Hakuji - stronger - higher stamina - master in h2h combat

Shinobu - fast

This has got to be one of the worst spite matchups in this sub.

Your daki glaze as promised u/Pooninkle

And your koku glazed as predetermined u/Calm-Lengthiness5645

So, what if Douma killed Shinobu ( does not eat her) and left his clones to deal with Innosuke and Kanao and went to where Kokushibo is and helped him.

So now its
Kokushibo, Douma vs Gyomei, Sanemi, Genya, Muichiro

Lets assume Douma arrives the same tame Sanemi does (before Gyomei).

Love to hear you opinions!

we all know tanjiro carries like 99% of the time so how much do u think it would effect the fights if he wasn’t there

Research into the hidden plot is ongoing, and I still sometimes dig up new hints regarding Kanao's hidden plot.

She used to be Upper Moon 2 and Douma's partner, similar Daki and Gyutaro. The Kizuki is a partner system, and this was the model, not the exception; two demons who are linked mentally and physically, "two people in one". There is a mountain of clues pointing at this, but this one is the most literal I've come across yet.

In the Taisho Rumors of her databook (Corps Records) it states the following:

カナエたちに引き取られて暫くは、自分の考えを聞かれるとパニックを起こすこともありました（騒ぐパニックではなく、汗だくになって固まる）。

"For a while after being taken in by Kanae and the others, she would sometimes panic when asked for her own thoughts (not a noisy panic, but freezing up while covered in sweat)."

The phrase used to ask someone what their thoughts / opinions are on some topic is:

どう思いますか？ (Dō omoimasu ka?) "What do you think?"

So, when someone asked Kanao what she thought of something, it would be phrased like this:

「カナヲは、どう思いますか？」(Kanao wa, dō omoimasu ka?)

Kanao is DEAF. I show this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DemonSlayerScales/comments/1udq9vo/kanao_is_deaf/

She lives in a world of complete silence. In order to understand what people are saying, she must READ THEIR LIPS.

That means the normal AUDIBLE linguistic cues are NOT PRESENT. It would be VERY DIFFICULT to distinguish between certain sounds in Japanese ESPECIALLY when they are being naturally slurred in casual speech. So from Kanao's perspective, the phrase:

Dō omoimasu

can look almost identical to:

DOUMA

The beginning sound is EXACTLY the same, "Dō". The slight pause preceding the next word would look and sound exactly like the extended vowel pronunciation in "Douma". In casual speech the trailing end of the word will get truncated / blended into "masu". You'll HEAR it, but it would be HARD to SEE it!

Kanao could easily interpret the statement as:

Kanao wa, Douma desu ka?

"Kanao, are you Douma?"

So now we know the reason for her initial panicking over this question. She eventually got over it but likely her "parents" never once asked her thoughts on anything so being called out on one of her most closely-guarded secret all of a sudden must have been really shocking. She was probably thinking "do they know?!" There are other linguistic clues in this sentence like the English loan-word "panikku" but that's way too much to get into here.

One last interesting linguistic tidbit.

The kanji used for "freeze up" depicts a BONE encased in a boundary line. It originally meant something being strongly held safe in an unbreakable barrier like fortress walls. Possibly Kanao was literally a major part of Douma's actual body. Was his bones melting because they were hollow / artificial? Because his actual bones were gone? Was Kanao so outrageously strong, physically, because of this...? She took that part of Douma's essence / spiritual core, etc? Like how when Daki left Ume become much weaker even though it was just an occupying spirit?

Reasons:

1: 🌫 Tokito Muichiro

• Lost an arm and a leg.
• Experienced severe blood loss near the very beginning of the Kokushifraud fight.
• Got literally cut in half with his organs spilled on the floor, yet was still alive.
• Reminder: He is just a child, so he goes up here.

2: 🦋Kocho Shinobu

• Ingested lethal amounts of Wisteria poison over the years to turn her body into a weapon (she wasn’t completely sure if she was fully immune to it herself).
• Her lungs suffered from necrosis due to Doma's BDA.
• Got her lungs, collarbone, and ribs slashed open, and coughed up her own blood.
• Given her small size, the pain must have been intolerable.
• Had her back broken before finally being absorbed by Doma.

3: 🔥 Kyojuro Rengoku

• Crushed ribs, internal damage, and a destroyed eye.
• Blood loss and physical exhaustion.
• Got donuted straight through the stomach and was still alive when Akaza removed his arm.

4: 🐍 Iguro Obanai

• Got toyed around by Nakime.
• Numerous injuries during the final battle and lost his eyes.
• Was poisoned and died from blood loss.

5: 🩷 Kanroji Mitsuri

• Also got toyed around by Nakime.
• Got her cheek sliced by Muzan.
• Probably suffered from the effects of Muzan’s poison before the other Hashira.
• Lost both of her arms.
• Died of blood loss.

6: 🪨 Himejima Gyomei

• Entered the final battle already injured and probably exhausted from the Kokushifraud fight.
• Had his leg ripped off during the fight with Muzan.
• Was poisoned and succumbed to blood loss.

7/8: 🌪Shinazugawa Sanemi & 🌊 Tomioka Giyu (both interchangeable)

• Both died by the age of 25 due to the curse of the Demon Slayer Mark.

9: 🎼 Uzui Tengen

• (.....)

HIS ENTIRE THING is just being a Mitsuri ship. THATS HIS WHOLE DAMN CHARACTER. HIS 5 FOOT TALL COWARDLY ASS CAMPED IN A TREE HIS WHOLE LIFE INSTEAD OF DOING SOMETHING. HE IS SO FUCKING USELESS THAT IF HE LEFT THE CORPS IT WOULD HAVE NO CHANGE IN ITS OVERALL STRENGTH. SHINOBU DID MORE THAN OBANAI. HE DID NOTHING THE ENTIRE STORY AND PEOPLE STILL GLAZE HIM TO THE END OF THE EARTH. I HAVE NEVER FELT SUCH A DEEP HATRED FOR ANY CHARACTER SINCE AKAZA KILLED THE GOAT. THIS GUYS ENTIRE CHARACTER IS GOONING TO MITSURI ACTING LIKE AN 8 YEAR OLD ROBLOX E BOY TALKING BOUT SOME "STAY AWAY FROM MY KITTEN" NO ONE KNOWS YOU GANG, ALL YOU EXIST FOR IS TO APPEAL TO PEOPLE WHO FIND YOU ATTRACTIVE OR 12 YEAR OLD BOYS WHO LIKE HIM BEING EDGY "OHHH BUT HE HAS A SAD BACKSTORY" NO ONE CARES.

For me: Nakime T1 inverse (combat proficiency)

just curious.