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You okay pookie it been while😞

Leader is alive!! just dealing with matters that're keeping me busy!!

But enough about that, I recently saw the new ufotable post and i thank them so much for the crumbs of demon food they give us. Fingers crossed they keep it going and give us more

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i'll kiss anyone on the mouth if you can tell me the flowers they're holding and their meanings pLEASE

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hi again, here's a requested set of tomodachi life windows ♡ f2u

my other tomodachi pixels here

they wiggle wigglee

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Fem Hantengu👺

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I haven't used Spotify in a while mostly cuz of the intrusive ads, but I'm doing this anyway (my playlist is very aged and I don't listen to most of the songs now)

Main character - will wood

I love you like an alcoholic - the taxpayers

Are you satisfied? - MARINA

Damn, I'm ugly - your favorite martian

Problems - mother mother

World burn - mean girls musical

Seventeen - MARINA

Liquid smooth - mitski

Wrecking ball - mother mother

W.i.t.c.h - Devon cole

You can take guesses on what type of person I was back in 2022 lol. I don't have anyone to tag

Music Shuffle Tag Game!!!!!!!!!!!

Rules: shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first 10 songs, then tag 10 friends!

Tagged by: @yikesforever thank you love!

Only Living Girl in LA - Halsey

n/A - Bring Me The Horizon

number one girl - ROSE

Unfair (Felix) - Stray Kids

toxic til the end - ROSE

limOusIne - Bring Me The Horizon ft AURORA

Railway (Bang Chan) - Stray Kids

DArkSide - Bring Me The Horizon

Life of a Spider (Darft) - Halsey

Bounce Back - Stray Kids

Really this is thejust songs from three albums I listen too while I play Sudoku...

I tag: @kingsunboo, @we-survive-endlessly, @category-five-autism-event, @witchycitrine, @giant-sized-dork, @becomethebooks, @stonedlittlewraithx, @strawberry707, @bambiiie, and @moonearthangel

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I just wanted to be you...

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Sumiko dressed up as Amaterasu

i really like to think of yoriichi and the kamados as the children of sun in a way, their blood containing the essence of light. So this is basically her dressing up as her great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great.......... grandma

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The only day Hantengu allows him to do some of these weird stuff to him 🙄💞

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genya version of my last piece c:

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Nezukoooo 😭🩷

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This man is clinically insane and needs to be put in a mental hospital... But it's fine because I love him very much.

He's just a silly billy guy who could do no wrong. Ever. Yes, I know this is a lie, let me dream!!

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Do you think there is anything symbolic on why Sanemi looked the way he did? Out of all the siblings, he is the most distinct with white hair while the rest had black. His hair is also almost the same as his father’s. Whereas Genya looked like some of his brothers, specifically Hiroshi aside from the eyes. Why do you think Gotege made Genya look similar to him, as they both of Mohawks? Also, what’s your opinion on the means of their first and last names? Thanks!

A very interesting question! Thank you so much anon and let's dive in!

So, to start, let's examine what white hair in media typically represents.

White on its own in Japanese culture is often used to represent purity, divinity, truth, simplicity, humility, and mourning.

Traditionally, before Western influence, it was actually commonplace to wear white clothing to funerals rather than black.

In media, white hair can represent many things, depending on what the artist is trying to portray. It can represent wisdom and maturity, which is why you see a lot of mentor-type characters with white hair, like Kakashi from Naruto.

White hair can also be used to denote otherworldly powers, such as in the case of Gojo from JJK, or when you see fantasy races such as elves with white hair. You also see it appear in other places in Demon Slayer, such as with the Spider family.

One thing I've noticed is that Gotouge likes to give in-universe explanations for a lot of the stranger hair colors. Many rely heavily on anime logic, but Mitsuri's wild pink and green hair comes from an overabundance of Sakura mochi. The Rengokus' golden and red-tipped hair comes from a ritual wherein the mother, while pregnant, stares into a flame for hours. Even Zenitsu's striking blond and orange locks have an in-universe explanation - he was struck by lightning and got his wild dye job as a free side effect! The anime gave a retroactive explanation for Genya's yellow highlights too! It's apparently a result of his demon-eating!

But Sanemi is interesting because there is no in-universe explanation for his distinct hair. Even with Tengen Uzui, another white-haired character, when we are briefly shown a faceless shot of his other siblings, we can spot a few who also have white hair, and can infer that it's just a common trait in their family.

So, even amongst white-haired characters, Sanemi is unique in that none of his siblings and neither of his parents have white hair.

I believe Gotouge chose to give Sanemi white hair to denote that he is special amongst his family. In Japan, the most common hair color by far is black, and thus, giving the rest of Sanemi's family black hair may be a way to imply that the rest of Sanemi's family are just "ordinary" people. (Including Genya, who is regularly put down as weak and talentless). It also may be a hint at his Marechi blood, as there is no indication that Genya or any of the other siblings have even a weaker variant of Marechi.

For this analysis, I want to also look at another character who was given white hair, despite having a sibling and parent depicted with black hair: Ume.

In Ume's case, her hair as a human was very deliberately chosen to contribute to her most defining feature: her beauty. The author chose to give her white hair to give her more of an ethereal and distinct look, to emphasize that she was uniquely beautiful and to separate her from the rest.

I find it interesting that as a demon, she chooses to hide her white hair despite it being a carryover from when she was a human and not a specifically demonic feature. This shows, at least to me, that even in-universe, white hair is unusual.

So, we can see the author uses white hair in many ways, specifically to denote when something is unique about a character. They wanted to distinguish Sanemi from the rest of his siblings for many reasons, including: Sanemi always being the only one intended to survive, Sanemi being the only one with special Marechi blood, Sanemi quite possibly being the only one of the siblings even capable of becoming a Hashira, etc.

As far as in-universe explanations go, there's the boring explanation: White hair is a recessive gene in the Shinazugawa family, and Sanemi just happened to inherit all the right gene copies to acquire the white hair phenotype.

However, it could also be that the same recessive gene that gave him his white hair is also what gave him his ultra-rare Marechi blood.

Another theory I've seen floated around is that his hair went white due to stress. However, I feel if this were the case and Sanemi's hair were at any point a different color, we would have gotten some kind of allusion to it.

The final theory I've seen is that Sanemi has albinism. As fun as it would be to imagine, I find this one also highly unlikely, as Sanemi doesn't have any of the other symptoms associated with albinism: i.e., pale skin (he's no paler than any of the other characters), his eyelashes are dark, and he doesn't seem to have any vision problems (the color blindness is highly debatable), no sensitivity to sunlight, etc.

The most likely in-universe explanation is probably the first one: it's a recessive gene. I would place my bets on it being linked to the Marechi gene (there is no evidence to support this but I feel it in my bones).

As for why Genya looked so similar to his siblings, this was likely for the opposite reason they made Sanemi so distinct. Genya was set up narratively as being not special (despite him having one of the most unique powers in the series). Whether Gotouge succeeded at giving Genya the narrative of the "weak one", is another post, but that was the intent, in my opinion.

Now, for their names, Gotouge is well known for their love of hiding hidden meanings within character names!

For example: Tanjirou(炭治郎) I won't go deep into details but there's the kanji for charcoal, heal/cure, and son in there, which basically gives you a nice summary of his character and goal.

So, for the brothers, let's start with their last name: Shinazugawa (不死川)

不 means impossible while 死 means death, so put together, they are "immortal" (This is the Shinazu part of the name) while 川 (the -gawa) is river. Altogether, it roughly translates to "immortal river."

Now, for Sanemi's name. 実弥

実 - (Sane) - truth

弥 - (mi) - complete, full of

実弥 - Complete truth

Then there's Genya.玄弥

Now, keen-eyed readers may have already noticed something. The second kanji in Genya's name and the second kanji in Sanemi's name are the same! (弥) They actually function the same as well despite having different readings too!

弥 - (ya) - complete, full of

Now, 玄 (Gen) is where it gets a little muddied. There are a few different readings you can use for it. One reading is "mysterious, occult." This could be in reference to his demon-eating ability. 玄 can also mean jet black, but I highly doubt that's the intended meaning. And for the last reading, 玄 can mean illusion or lie.

So, with this final interpretation, when you put their names together, Sanemi is the true immortal river, and Genya is the false immortal.

This shows that Genya was always intended to die at the end of Sanemi's arc.

Sorry if this was incomprehensible in some parts. I didn't intend for this to get so long!

TLDR: Sanemi's white hair is most likely a plot device to set him apart as distinct from his siblings and maybe a hint at his Marechi blood and talents. Their names were foreshadowing for how their stories were intended to end.

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popular ship will kill the patient. they need fanart of that one character no one likes or cares about to live

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it’s for our own good…..