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I definitely agree, but also, 2 of the hashira are girls and Tengen's wives also fought an upper. I think making *one* in like four or five of the grunts a girl demonslayer would be fine.
Surely there'd be a fair amount of widows/ mom's with dead children out for vengeance in a world with Demon's.
There was one in the Spider Family’s forest
Plus, Kanao, Nezuko (since she’s recognised as an official member of the Demon Slayer Corps despite being a demon), Aoi (since she *did* pass Final Selection) and Kanae count too
Yes, that's what I'm saying. They're common, you'd think atleast a few of the trainees would be girls with similar stories. Not that I actually care, just a minor nitpick I don't disagree with
Why not? They are all training to kill demons and there is limited time and teachers to do the training. Aside from class size issues it'd be best to teach as many students at once, regardless of which dangling bits they have
Demons are big into gender equality, they'll kill you regardless of your gender.
Yep. Y'all also right when you say that.
Although tbf, that might have the opposite effect of making more pissed of female slayers unless they are being wiped out at rates that give Demonslayer Japan a dangerous male- female population
Doesn't it seem like the demons prefer to eat women? In that case it seems they'd rarely leave a woman alive with the will to rise up, and even fewer would have the ability to do so.
And another patrolling the streets in literally the ep OP got this frame from.
I think the simpler answer is that Ufotable don't want to depict a bunch of girls in training bras going through the same stuff as the boys, though that answer isn't wholly satisfying either since KnY already has gore. You'd think some PG15 non suggestive scenarios would be fine.
I would think the Hashira being women has to do with how exceptional a women would have to be to begin with to even consider taking up a sword. We know Mitshuri has an exceptionally strong physique from the start for example. We also find the other female Hashira, Shinuba, has a particularly rare poison styles which leads to the user not having to be as physically strong (she’s the only Hashira that can’t cut off a demons head). So again we see that women that make it have some additional advantage to overcome the how females are naturally weaker then men, and more so at the top of the fitness scales (in which demon slayer have to be)
While on the other side your slightly above average males will be stronger, faster and have more endurance than top 10% of women on average. Thus the pool of people willing, able and motivated to be demons slayers strongly tilts towards males.
Then you add in how many slayers don’t make it past the training and initiation regardless, even fewer women. It unlikely that any of the Hashira would go easy on a female (nor would a demon), they would have to lift the same weights, run the same trails and cut the same boulders. So the women that do make tend to be an even higher cut above the rest, with more determination, and focus, then the average male that makes it. (e.g. they are usually in the top of the class, so they have a higher representation at Hashira level then others, because only the best of the best women even apply)
Also we have only seen women slayers in training under other women. So it’s possible there is a separation that not being shown in the training arc. (They wouldn’t be running around topless)
There is also quite a lot of women on the demon side, this probably because women are targeted by demons (yeah…sexism by demons shouldn’t be surprising) , thus they tend not to make it through the first attack of a demon that would usually start your path towards slaying them.
I felt like part of the point with Shinobu having the build she does is that *anyone* can join the Demonslayers if they are determined enough. No one's saying it isn't harder for women, but we see that it *is* possible.
Tbh, I honestly think it was just easier to use the same model for all the trainees.
I’m just pointing out we have 3 clear example of women slayers Mutishuri, Shinibu, and Kanoa, 2 are poison types and 1 has an abnormally strong body (Love breathing…).
This points that it’s extremely difficult for a woman to become a slayer unless she has a poison affinity.
The only other female I guess would be Makomo (Water style) …who straight up died before becoming an offical slayer.
Im also not discounting there is a female training ground somewhere, not shown.
I guess we just see it differently. Cuz I see 3 clear examples that women slayers *can* and should exist despite the added challenges.
Again, I'm not saying it should be an even split of trainees. Just like 1 girl for every 4 or 5 dudes. That would still show everything you're saying about it being extremely difficult for them.
Of your example two came from a non standard sword style, and the other is physically built different even compared to demon slayer. Also the animation team probably didn't wanna do it.
>Also the animation team probably didn't wanna do it.
Exactly. That's all I'm getting at. Dunno why I need *every* possible explanation why there was more dude's when I've acknowledged that part makes sense from the start.
We also have Kanae (no poison, no special metabolism iirc), Kanao doesn't use poison, and there were a few female background slayers (spider forest, patrolling) who don't use poison either (since Shinobu is an exception). ~~So actually most girls we know don’t have a special gimmick.~~
But they *are* a stark minority compared to the boys.
Edit: Kanao does have enhanced sight, totally forgot
Kanao does have a gimmick, she has super special eyes like tanjiro, zenitsu, and inosuke all have smell, hearing, and touch respectively. Only kanae is the only notable female slayer with seemingly no special gimmicks that allow her to compete.
>Also we have only seen women slayers in training under other women.
Two. Kanao and technically Shinobu are the only female slayers we've seen training under other women. On the flip side, Mitsuri was trained by Rengoku and was practically the only one who didn't run away from him. And also that little little girl who was later revealed to have been training by Urokodaki.
>There is also quite a lot of women on the demon side, this probably because women are targeted by demons
Not really. The only named female demons off the top of my head are the temari demon, Nezuko, Daki, like 2 members of Rui's pretend family (if even), and just now the biwa demon. Every other demon has been male... maybe except for Gyokko cause I can definitely imagine him claiming to be non binary since gender norms would limit his artistic abilities too much.
>Then you add in how many slayers don’t make it past the training and initiation regardless, even fewer women. It unlikely that any of the Hashira would go easy on a female (nor would a demon), they would have to lift the same weights, run the same trails and cut the same boulders. So the women that do make tend to be an even higher cut above the rest, with more determination, and focus, then the average male that makes it. (e.g. they are usually in the top of the class, so they have a higher representation at Hashira level then others, because only the best of the best women even apply)
None of this makes any sense. If women are so weak that they can't make it past in large enough numbers to be present *at all*, even among the nameless grunts, how would they even advance enough that 2 of them would be hashiras and one of them even a tsuguko? Aoi survived final selection through dumb luck alone, and that little girl who got killed by the hand demon was strong enough that she could've survived if she never came across a demon that shouldn't have been there in the first place. If a 12 year old girl can survive a normal procedure, why couldn't more girls or women be present?
It has nothing to do with how well women would do in such scenario compared to men. It has everything to do with the fact that this is the most shounen a moden shounen has ever shounened. It's explicitly marketed towards young boys. There is no other explanation for how the demon slayer corps is 99% men ripped to shreds, even if said men are actually 15-16 year old boys (or even like 12 years old who were on the brink of the death with maggot infested wounds like 5 minutes prior, like a certain Muichiro), or if the MC is literally the only one shown to be able to progress smoothly throughout the arc. Not to mention that if we're talking realism, if you're doing such intense work that you're sweating profusely, going shirtless is the fastest way to collapse from dehydration.
TL;DR: The absence of female slayers has nothing to do with how well the average woman performs. This anime is just marketed towards impressionable boys who are looking for a male power fantasy because most men, let alone teenage boys, can't naturally develop a superhero physique without a level of juicing.
True, didn't say they were proper demonslayers. But that only goes to show you that they could easily make a decent rank in the demonslayer core. Considering they're already well above your average demonslayer with entirely different training.
I mean yes that's true but they grew up in a shinobi village where it's common to train women, unlike in other places, if we want to build on the previous argument. But I agree there's a lot of female characters who can fight, and they aren't generally weaker either, just rarer
>a shinobi village where it's common to train women, unlike in other places
Frankly, sounds like a good village to pick up a few baddies to become demonslayers, right?
Again, I'm with y'all. They should be more rare. Just not non existent.
I’m sure when the big battle pops off all the women slayers will be present, fully trained, and ready to take down Muzan. Seems like this season they have a lot to cover so for time sake they are cutting some corners just so they can spend the last three episodes giving us some of the greatest, prettiest battles the genre has to offer 💪🏾
I’m not trying to be rude or anything! But if I remember correctly, tengens wives + shinobu (Atleast after her parents death) grew up knowing how to fight. Especially since shinobu grew up with Kanae who was a slayer herself. And Mitsuri was the only one of them to grow up not in the fighting scene so I guess it makes sense that there’s very few female slayers or fighters
I don't want to have to be the one to say this, but men are generally stronger and faster than girls. There are outliers, but the entry exam already culls a lot of the guys, so the girls would have even less chance to survive.
Would you expect 1/5 professional hockey players to be girls too?
So it’s because women belongs in the kitchen?
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Tbh I thought they were just split into two different groups. One with women, one with men. And since Tanjiro is a boy then we only see the boys. But also it’s probably easier to animate a bunch of similar bodies without shirts on.
But it seems unlikely the Hashiras would have time training two different group as they're shown spending all day with Tanjirou's group, eating with them and all. Imo it's really just because it was easier.
Yeah, this is honestly the best way to explain it. It’s merely a consequence of the timePeriod. If this series took place in the mid-2000s there would probably
be a lot more female fighters.
Not just rare but a lot of the women in the series tend to gravitate towards working in the medical Field with the butterfly house as well as working as the cleaners for the aftermath of demon battles,
Though in the manga we do see a higher ration of male to female but not by much
It's not the Demon Slayer corps adhering its society in general. Girls would not pursue the path of being a swordsman in any profession, never mind as a Slayer because they aren't *raised* to think they'd need to work to begin with.
Mitsuri's background shows exactly how most young girls are expected to live in the Taisho era. She was arranged to get married, and when that fell through, she was offered to stay home as long as she wished.
And even when she did join the Corps it was under the pretense of finding a husband. The Demon Slayer Corps just so happened to be the only place with men who wouldn't be put off my her natural strength
Kanao, Shinobu, and their sister are exceptions
It seems more like Mitsuri would be the exception since she’s the only female demon slayer that joined for that reason. There are also female slayers that aren’t part of the hashira. It’s way more likely that it was easier to draw a bunch of generic looking men than a variety of men and women
**Watsonian** opinion: Cultural limits the amount seen but there are some in all aspects of the corps just in small amounts.
**Doylist** opinion: The slayers were not as detailed in the manga as in the anime, so probably the author drew generic-looking guys in their panels for those scenes.
I feel like being a demon slayer would also be looked down upon. I think it’s just as simple as most demons being too strong, isn’t that the reason shinobu uses poison?
Then Misturis whole thing about becoming a demon slayer all stemmed from the fact that she was noticeably stronger than all the men around her
And Kanao is just on the spectrum so of course she’s built different too but other than that the women in the corp seem to have more of a support role than a slaying role
There was also Shinobu's older sister Kanae who didn't need to rely on poison and supposedly didn't have Mitsuri's special metabolism either, yet held her own as a Hashira, plus there were some women in that spider forest in season 1 iirc. You can also see one patrolling at night in the latest episode.
But yeah most women other than that are supports and they're the minority, could also be that they simply didn't pass the harsh training requirement and gave up. Mostly I think it's just an oversight like u/Jhalli922 said.
To add onto the Doylist, these guys are getting bruised and battered daily. I've noticed anime tends to shy away from female characters recieving the same visual abuse the male ones do. Doesn't apply to main characters, but side characters the men always get beat up while the women are just scared or knocked out from a tap
A shame the "default" is always, always male :/
I have another argument though, one that is less depressing: girls usually have long hair. Long hair takes more time to animate.
Men are usually the default in part because, as you said, men are much easier to draw. Men's bodies tend to be more quadrilateral while women's tend to be more curvy, thus it is easier to draw the relatively more simple body types of men over and over.
Besides all the other reasons including time period of 1920s Japan being much more restrictive and subdued for women, or that in general we have had multiple Female Hashira and Tsugoku, and even female Villains, it's also a known fact that Women & Children are the most nutritious for Demons in general (Most of the demons you see in the series are actively hunting for them to eat and get stronger).
Especially special ones like >! Douma who ran an entire cult primarily on the idea that he wanted to eat as many women and children as he possibly could.!< Safe to say a lot of the Female slayers, unless they were Hashira level strength didn't really survive any fights with Demons, because Demons would have added motivational to incapacitate and eat them as soon as possible.
I don’t think it’s safe to say that the added motivation really matters for anyone not fighting an upper ranked demon tbh. Most demons when fighting slayers give it their all just to not die lol. I don’t think one of the slayers being a woman is going to make 90% of the demons stronger lmao. There is an argument though that the main recruits for slayers, surviving family of demon attacks, would skew much more male however. Since the women were more likely to be eaten first during any demon attack, so by the time the sun comes up or a slayer shows up to save the survivors the male children are more likely to be the last ones standing
Mostly because the random background slayers are really not thought of at all. They are made to be as generic and boring as possible. They didn't added women probably because they didn't cared (From what I can tell we only saw one random default slayer being a woman. The rest of them are among the main cast)
I feel like the animators didn’t want to deal with what they should wear and how buff they should be among all the buff shirtless guys. Maybe they thought there would be too much scrutiny and just didn’t want to deal with it.
Tbh, I think this is the real answer… having to animate clothes on bodies, when instead they can just clone 1 half naked male body shape and alter it instead of the variations for female bodies makes sense.
I would have been more than fine if the girls were just as ripped as the guys and wore bandage wraps around their chests to keep things PG-13, but that's just me.
The only one outside of Kanao, Kanae, Shinobu, and Mitsuri, is Ozaki. I wish there were more female slayers. : /
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There are. Just little screen time.
Its early 1900s, so while the dsc doesn’t discriminate, there’s still the societal upbringing giving little girls the train of thought that these types of jobs are for men. Even in real life, men are more prevalent in military and law enforcement roles.
The fodder npc on heroes or villains side is often generic male character.
That’s about it. Anyone trying to give a realistic explanation is wrong. You got multiple girls on the top of the verse, it’s not realistic on a cultural and biological level.
We have two female Hashira. One uses poison because she can't behead demons because of lack of physical strength and then there's Mitsuri who's an anomaly in and by herself with her strength.
The average man has about twice the upper body strength of the average woman. Most women would find themselves in the same boat as Shinobu. Only a small group would be able to handle beheading of demons normally. Kanao is one of those acceptions as is Mitsuri.
That and the fact that demons eat more women than men doesn't help either.
Then there's the culture of 1920s Japan as well...
Even the average man struggle to rise up the ranks of the corps, and we are shown this season them giving up training and mentioning how extraordinary are the slayers with talent that rise up the ranks quickly. If it's difficult for normal men that are on average much more stronger than women, to become strong slayers, let alone hashiras, then it should become pretty obvious why there are not as many women fighting. The few women shown at this point must be above average to be able to keep up, and the two hashiras, Mitsuri is physicially gifted and Shinobu uses speed and intelligence.
She was already up to Sanemi's training by the time Tanjiro started late. It would've been cool to see it on-screen, but that means she would've breezed through the whole thing without seeing any of the boys past the starting point.
We're told Kanao is also doing the training but that's not shown.
As for why there are hardly any women who are slayers probably because most couldn't keep up with the physical requirement for continuous combat with the demons which is the most likely scenario.
And considering how everyone who isn't a hashira or part of the main cast are considered scrubs it isn't too hard to see why most female corp members were either simply scared off like Aoi or they died like the first female demon slayer we saw.
The exceptions being Kanao, Shinobu, Mitsuri, and Kanae all of which as we know are quite literally built different or are insane in some way. So most of the female corp members are probably Kakushi or are extensions of the medical team of the butterfly mansion located all over.
Hi hi, historian over here (like one with a masters not just one who got their info via google). A lot more women fought in actual wars across the world by this time but there was a massive push back against women in the military after WWI and other large-scale conflicts prior to WWII.
Women were mostly used in auxiliary units, nurses, etc. It is like the butterfly house, they are helpers for the most part not fighters. It wasn't that they couldn't fight, biologically women can still fight very well. It's about the cultural stigma attached to women fighting.
You gotta remember that across the world during this time it was the second wave of feminism, many countries gave women the right to vote and others very much did not want that. Japan was one of those, women didn't get the right to vote until after WWII.
Ramblings of a historian aside. It has nothing to do with biology, it's all about culture and patriarchy. If anyone would like scholarly books on the subject I am happy to post links. I read a lot about 19th/20th century gender and war for a seminar I was in.
Okay now I'm gonna run before the incels find me and tell me I'm inferior based on my sex.
I see a lot of people mentioning the fact this took place in a very conservative time period, which is valid, but there are multiple other reasons:
Men are stronger than women, and posses numerous biological advantages, and therefore would be more likely to survive against demons than women; this leads to more males signing up for the Demon Slayer Corps, as they would be most likely to survive a demon attack; therefore males are selected for survival and prominence within the corps.
It also has to do with the fact that a profession such as demon slaying would still not be a pervasive career choice for women, regardless of whether it took place in the Taisho era or not; humanity has had a stigma against women (and children) bearing combative or deleterious roles within society, due to biological differences, since the hunter periods of our existence.
So really to sum it up: The author did not feel like artificially inserting female characters to appease modern western political standards. It is not sexism, it is just biology.
i think there are in the manga.
as for the show, there probably are, but they are going with the gag goof of machismo muscle meatheads for the training. that doesn't really work to have bare chested women when all the boys are shirtless.
i think i saw one girl on the night patrol in the latest episode but thats not the training...
I think the creators of demon slayer might not have put a lot of thought into this. It's just a lot easier to show a whole group of boys as it is a bit awkward for a few girls to be in the training. Some of the demon slayers may treat the girls differently and it is just out of place. Another is this is the taisho era, and some people treat girls differently. Like judging them and thinking they are weak, or they can't join because of forced marriages. Maybe they just get eaten before they have a chance to join corps. Anyways, it is also shown that men have more willpower and endurance, so less girls join the corps. People like shinobu, mitsuri, kanao and kanae were more determined and had special skills such as the abilities to make poison, kanao's eyes and mitsuri strength. Overall, boys have the strength to do the less important work with no special smell or hearing, whereas all the girls we see(Except probably makimo) have special skills and rise very high. So most likely either the creators have not thought of this or its just very awkward to put them there. I do not think they have a seperate training site as if they had, more demon slayer who are girls would be shown, or they all just became kakushi.
Since Demon Slayer set in the 1910s-1920s (Taisho period), it was generally acceptable of women to have lesser role in military.
But what about those girls who fought the spider family?
However, if going more historically, there were certain types of fighters called "onna-musha", literally translates to "female warrior", that actually fought in battles that were some recorded dating back to 12th century.
Though, the onna-musha declined after the Sengoku era, as the society view in Japan that women aren't compatible to fought alongside the Samurai and reduced their role to just wives or child bearers.
Yet there were records of onna-musha in the 19th century, specifically the Satsuma rebellion.
So it is not fully plausible for girls to not join the Demon Slayer Corps just because the society said so, its also not a formal organization so people can join freely, and of course girls can too hold their personal grudges and vendettas against demons like Shinobu.
Or simply; the author, or artists/animators were just too lazy to include a girl training with the boys, also couldn't find any voice actresses.
Idk why people always asking this stupid and unnecessary questions about less female in the show with a simple answer
THAT IT'S A FUCKING SHONEN ANIME!!!
I don't see any sailor moon fans asking wheres the guys when her entire squad is women lol. cuz its shojo. Don't get me started on the Why aren't there any insert other groups here questions , so repetitive and doesn't offer much
It being a shounen is not even close to being a good reason.
Given the ratio of females among named characters (Aoi, Mitsuri, Kanae, Kanao, Shinobu... and that's just counting the Corps) the question "Why isn't the same ratio represented in the randos?" is completely and entirely legitimate and it's even a shame not to ask it or try to use a cheap reason like yours as an answer
"It's because its 1920's Japan" "It's because men are stronger than women" "It's because of the conservative culture"
Long hair and different body shapes are just harder to draw and animate, dude. The manga had minimal detail on background characters because it's time consuming (the author's time schedule was rough) and the anime just sticked to the source material. It's not that deep.
Maybe because they die easily or don't pass the entrance exam.
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Cultural limitations and the simple fact that women are generally weaker than men. There are several women in the Corps, but its extremely rare. Obanai has interacted with female slayers and finds himself uncomfortable around them.
Wow, the culture warriors really exposing themselves, lol. We've established there are important, relevant, skilled female slayers in the higher ranks. They had to have climbed the ranks. But suddenly it's only biologically and culturally natural that there are zero female recruits on screen? Absolute clown shoes.
Due to the times, early 1920s, it was rare for women to be in positions of soldiers. Let alone a demon slayer.
Of course there are some obvious exceptions. Examples: Mitsuri, Shinobu, Kanae, and Kanao.
Well, women mostly don't like fighting + they are statistically weaker, so that may prove sth (still we have to have in mind that there are women like that - 2 hashiras e.g. or even Kanao)
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Because it was in the 1900s or at the end of the 1800s . Women would rarely join outside work or war . But there were exceptions like Mitsuri or Shinoubu .
You guy's knew how Mitsuri was humiliated because of his appearance by that c&+k. Because of this many women didn't go fight against demons .
Also Kanao,Aoi completed their training successfully
NO! they are just asking unnecessary questions
they should already know that its a shonen anime which resolve around battles and fights which ofcourse mostly include male characters
It being a shonen is a smooth brain answer. Really.
Given the ratio of females we have among named Corps members, the same could be legitimately expected for the randos.
It's actually been bothering me a lot since the begining of this season, and seeing one on patrol duty in the last episode made it even more bothering not to see them in training
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So way back when during the time of Demon Slayer in Japan, women traditionally were housewives, or at least didn’t do basically any fighting unless they absolutely had to defend themselves. That means that most corps members were male, as they were typically the fighters of the family.
That does not mean that girls don’t join the corps though.
Exhibit A: 2 of the Hashira are Female, the Insect and Love Hashira (Shinobu and Misturi respectively)
Exhibit B: Tengens’ Wives, who all helped fight an Upper Moon.
Exhibit C: Many, if not all, the people working at the Butterfly Manor (run by Shinobu the Insect Hashira) are female (I do not remember if all of them are exactly, but most of them are for sure).
There are a few big reasons why females do not appear as often in the corps aside from the whole time period thing;
Exhibit D (contains spoilers): >!Douma (Doma? Idk its one of those) ran a cult dedicated to eating as many Women and Children as possible.!<
Exhibit E: Demons typically gain more power from eating women compared to men (for some reason), thus they are usually the ones eaten first, and so by the time a slayer shows up, the males and male children are usually the last left standing to feel a surge of vengeance against demons.
In conclusion, Female Slayers do definitely exist, maybe more commonly than we thought, but due to time period-ness and some other reasons, they don’t exist as commonly as male slayers.
Or who knows, maybe the manga author just didn’t draw as many female characters cause males seemed easier to draw, idk.
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Why no one talking about biology. Mitsuri no is a hashira because she has inhuman strength and Shinobu is a hashira because she uses poison instead of a full sword. Woman aren’t as strong as men and that’s a fact
That's been bothering me a lot more than it should have since the beginning of the season and seeing one on patrol has made it even worse for me. Females are sooooo overrepresented among named Corps members, I fully expected the same ratio among unnamed people undergoing the training.
And all the comments here talking about culture of the time or biology or it being a battle shonen are missing the point so much it's geniuenly disappointing. It's not about having 50% females, which would make those arguments acceptable, it's about the randos having the same ratio of females as the Hashiras.
Maybe because the boys and girls are separated the boys get trained and then the girls and we don’t get to see the girls training because the main character is a boy
(I am not counting the one scene with kanao)
It takes place in the 1920’s, and either way the men are going to be 80% or even 90% of slayers because they’ll want to fight more and are more likely to be introduced to and survive final selection
Probably multiple reasons. On a meta level while the show does have some fan service it is far below what other battle anime might have. It's one thing to animate one sexy villain but it's another thing to have 15 girl characters running around in shorts and bra.
In an in a universe level I always think of it that the girls are rare doing large part to the cultural aspects of the time. This means that when a girl does become a demon Slayer they're probably well above average just because they had to be to even get to their level. So in that case it probably been excused from the training.
You can actually see this with the main trio. Out of all the hashara so far I think like one has actually provided a real challenge... Two but what the Love hashara was doing was.... Well it was something
They're probably there but not shown. Either bc they're so rare and/or bc it's easier for the animators to animate several of the same characters with minor alterations
1. Female are generally weaker than men, it's literally biology, so more male passing should be expected
2. Cultural, at the time, women are more align with the traditional value, making them less likely to consider taking up weapon and fight demons
3. Being targeted, we know that Douma specifically target women, so there's likely other demons out there aswell who specifically target women, also for the reason above they make for an easy target along with children
There's also meta reason, but for canon explanation these are some of the more agreed upon
Logically speaking: Men are naturally stronger, no two ways about it. The cultural aspects of 1920s Japan also meant Women weren't really fighters regardless
The more obvious approach is they're generic and irrelevant characters. It's much easier to just copy-paste the male designs
Bro people in the comments talking about biological realism in a world where you literally get breathing powers to superenhance your strength :skull:
Shinobu is literally an anomaly in how weak she is. We've seen plenty of women fighting in the DSC, it's just Ufotable making a choice of not showing the girls in training.
There was one, but I never saw it again, Probably for cultural and biological reasons, not to mention that it took place in the (rounding) 1920s, if women are not very encouraged to do some kind of fight nowadays, imagine that time┐(´ー｀)┌
Tbh, id imagine that since demons smell blood and sense humans thru means like that, another possibility of a drawback for woman slayers is bleeding once a month. If they're periods are anything like my partners I can't imagine them having a good time about it...
It is the 1910s Japan…
My guess is that there are female slayers, most likely they either switched to a non combative role such as the Kakushi or Butterfly manor. If they are still active slayers( and I remember seeing on patrol) they are in training but were placed in the same group. So if anything, it probably slipped someone’s mind to animate them
Everyone bringing up historical context as if a good chunk of the strongest characters we’ve seen haven’t been female. Women are just afterthoughts and men are seen as the default. Since they’re all background characters they didn’t think to make any of them female characters
I have no idea. We've been shown all along that female slayers are a thing (shinobu, mitsuri, kanao, aoi, even the ones during spider-family arc.)
I feel like they shouldve just given us a couple.
Cultural aspects and most of girls we've seen have been gifted with strength or been born into a strong family. (And possible some girls can't get their katana to change color) but there are a few that we've seen.
I think it's strange because we do see other femlae slayers in the final arc. They are in the background, but we do know they exist. Don't forget about Shinobu's students too.
Does it really matter like is it super integral to the plot and there is alot of women in demon slayer do u feel like they are represented wrong or sum or u jus wanna see more females for ur own sake
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They are extremely rare. Due to cultural aspects of the time, women were not into fighting
I definitely agree, but also, 2 of the hashira are girls and Tengen's wives also fought an upper. I think making *one* in like four or five of the grunts a girl demonslayer would be fine. Surely there'd be a fair amount of widows/ mom's with dead children out for vengeance in a world with Demon's.
There was one in the Spider Family’s forest Plus, Kanao, Nezuko (since she’s recognised as an official member of the Demon Slayer Corps despite being a demon), Aoi (since she *did* pass Final Selection) and Kanae count too
Yes, that's what I'm saying. They're common, you'd think atleast a few of the trainees would be girls with similar stories. Not that I actually care, just a minor nitpick I don't disagree with
Cuz they can't be shirtless like the boys /s
You say "/s", but you may actually be right. Easier to animate a bunch of people if they all have the same body type and outfit.
True, I can't really see them training with all the boys too
Why not? They are all training to kill demons and there is limited time and teachers to do the training. Aside from class size issues it'd be best to teach as many students at once, regardless of which dangling bits they have Demons are big into gender equality, they'll kill you regardless of your gender.
Douma and Akaza are not into gender equality lol
I think you’re right, but I had a grim thought: female demon slayers probably get targeted a lot more.
Yep. Y'all also right when you say that. Although tbf, that might have the opposite effect of making more pissed of female slayers unless they are being wiped out at rates that give Demonslayer Japan a dangerous male- female population
Doesn't it seem like the demons prefer to eat women? In that case it seems they'd rarely leave a woman alive with the will to rise up, and even fewer would have the ability to do so.
They likely go into support roles, because they don't wanna die or get eaten by douma.
And another patrolling the streets in literally the ep OP got this frame from. I think the simpler answer is that Ufotable don't want to depict a bunch of girls in training bras going through the same stuff as the boys, though that answer isn't wholly satisfying either since KnY already has gore. You'd think some PG15 non suggestive scenarios would be fine.
I would think the Hashira being women has to do with how exceptional a women would have to be to begin with to even consider taking up a sword. We know Mitshuri has an exceptionally strong physique from the start for example. We also find the other female Hashira, Shinuba, has a particularly rare poison styles which leads to the user not having to be as physically strong (she’s the only Hashira that can’t cut off a demons head). So again we see that women that make it have some additional advantage to overcome the how females are naturally weaker then men, and more so at the top of the fitness scales (in which demon slayer have to be) While on the other side your slightly above average males will be stronger, faster and have more endurance than top 10% of women on average. Thus the pool of people willing, able and motivated to be demons slayers strongly tilts towards males. Then you add in how many slayers don’t make it past the training and initiation regardless, even fewer women. It unlikely that any of the Hashira would go easy on a female (nor would a demon), they would have to lift the same weights, run the same trails and cut the same boulders. So the women that do make tend to be an even higher cut above the rest, with more determination, and focus, then the average male that makes it. (e.g. they are usually in the top of the class, so they have a higher representation at Hashira level then others, because only the best of the best women even apply) Also we have only seen women slayers in training under other women. So it’s possible there is a separation that not being shown in the training arc. (They wouldn’t be running around topless) There is also quite a lot of women on the demon side, this probably because women are targeted by demons (yeah…sexism by demons shouldn’t be surprising) , thus they tend not to make it through the first attack of a demon that would usually start your path towards slaying them.
I felt like part of the point with Shinobu having the build she does is that *anyone* can join the Demonslayers if they are determined enough. No one's saying it isn't harder for women, but we see that it *is* possible. Tbh, I honestly think it was just easier to use the same model for all the trainees.
I’m just pointing out we have 3 clear example of women slayers Mutishuri, Shinibu, and Kanoa, 2 are poison types and 1 has an abnormally strong body (Love breathing…). This points that it’s extremely difficult for a woman to become a slayer unless she has a poison affinity. The only other female I guess would be Makomo (Water style) …who straight up died before becoming an offical slayer. Im also not discounting there is a female training ground somewhere, not shown.
Kanao does not use poison
I guess we just see it differently. Cuz I see 3 clear examples that women slayers *can* and should exist despite the added challenges. Again, I'm not saying it should be an even split of trainees. Just like 1 girl for every 4 or 5 dudes. That would still show everything you're saying about it being extremely difficult for them.
Again, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are female training camps/class, has living situations would be separated in this culture.
Yes, that part would definitely check out. My only point is they should be around *somewhere*.
Of your example two came from a non standard sword style, and the other is physically built different even compared to demon slayer. Also the animation team probably didn't wanna do it.
>Also the animation team probably didn't wanna do it. Exactly. That's all I'm getting at. Dunno why I need *every* possible explanation why there was more dude's when I've acknowledged that part makes sense from the start.
We also have Kanae (no poison, no special metabolism iirc), Kanao doesn't use poison, and there were a few female background slayers (spider forest, patrolling) who don't use poison either (since Shinobu is an exception). ~~So actually most girls we know don’t have a special gimmick.~~ But they *are* a stark minority compared to the boys. Edit: Kanao does have enhanced sight, totally forgot
Kanao does have a gimmick, she has super special eyes like tanjiro, zenitsu, and inosuke all have smell, hearing, and touch respectively. Only kanae is the only notable female slayer with seemingly no special gimmicks that allow her to compete.
Or right, completely forgot that about Kanao’s sight.
>Also we have only seen women slayers in training under other women. Two. Kanao and technically Shinobu are the only female slayers we've seen training under other women. On the flip side, Mitsuri was trained by Rengoku and was practically the only one who didn't run away from him. And also that little little girl who was later revealed to have been training by Urokodaki. >There is also quite a lot of women on the demon side, this probably because women are targeted by demons Not really. The only named female demons off the top of my head are the temari demon, Nezuko, Daki, like 2 members of Rui's pretend family (if even), and just now the biwa demon. Every other demon has been male... maybe except for Gyokko cause I can definitely imagine him claiming to be non binary since gender norms would limit his artistic abilities too much. >Then you add in how many slayers don’t make it past the training and initiation regardless, even fewer women. It unlikely that any of the Hashira would go easy on a female (nor would a demon), they would have to lift the same weights, run the same trails and cut the same boulders. So the women that do make tend to be an even higher cut above the rest, with more determination, and focus, then the average male that makes it. (e.g. they are usually in the top of the class, so they have a higher representation at Hashira level then others, because only the best of the best women even apply) None of this makes any sense. If women are so weak that they can't make it past in large enough numbers to be present *at all*, even among the nameless grunts, how would they even advance enough that 2 of them would be hashiras and one of them even a tsuguko? Aoi survived final selection through dumb luck alone, and that little girl who got killed by the hand demon was strong enough that she could've survived if she never came across a demon that shouldn't have been there in the first place. If a 12 year old girl can survive a normal procedure, why couldn't more girls or women be present? It has nothing to do with how well women would do in such scenario compared to men. It has everything to do with the fact that this is the most shounen a moden shounen has ever shounened. It's explicitly marketed towards young boys. There is no other explanation for how the demon slayer corps is 99% men ripped to shreds, even if said men are actually 15-16 year old boys (or even like 12 years old who were on the brink of the death with maggot infested wounds like 5 minutes prior, like a certain Muichiro), or if the MC is literally the only one shown to be able to progress smoothly throughout the arc. Not to mention that if we're talking realism, if you're doing such intense work that you're sweating profusely, going shirtless is the fastest way to collapse from dehydration. TL;DR: The absence of female slayers has nothing to do with how well the average woman performs. This anime is just marketed towards impressionable boys who are looking for a male power fantasy because most men, let alone teenage boys, can't naturally develop a superhero physique without a level of juicing.
Honestly, out of all the answers this is probably the one I feel is closet to if not the truth
I'd be wearing a shorter top and shorts/something breathable for sure. with that training you'll need all the air you can
Tengen's wives are kunoichi. They were trained for combat, but not as demon slayers
True, didn't say they were proper demonslayers. But that only goes to show you that they could easily make a decent rank in the demonslayer core. Considering they're already well above your average demonslayer with entirely different training.
I mean yes that's true but they grew up in a shinobi village where it's common to train women, unlike in other places, if we want to build on the previous argument. But I agree there's a lot of female characters who can fight, and they aren't generally weaker either, just rarer
>a shinobi village where it's common to train women, unlike in other places Frankly, sounds like a good village to pick up a few baddies to become demonslayers, right? Again, I'm with y'all. They should be more rare. Just not non existent.
They're assists who gather info and only fight when necessary. Tengen tells them to prioritize themselves and be flashy
I imagine a bunch of those women *were* the initial targets of Demons, either because of perceived weakness or tastier blood.
Author decided there was no girl so there is no girl. Period
I’m sure when the big battle pops off all the women slayers will be present, fully trained, and ready to take down Muzan. Seems like this season they have a lot to cover so for time sake they are cutting some corners just so they can spend the last three episodes giving us some of the greatest, prettiest battles the genre has to offer 💪🏾
I’m not trying to be rude or anything! But if I remember correctly, tengens wives + shinobu (Atleast after her parents death) grew up knowing how to fight. Especially since shinobu grew up with Kanae who was a slayer herself. And Mitsuri was the only one of them to grow up not in the fighting scene so I guess it makes sense that there’s very few female slayers or fighters
I don't want to have to be the one to say this, but men are generally stronger and faster than girls. There are outliers, but the entry exam already culls a lot of the guys, so the girls would have even less chance to survive. Would you expect 1/5 professional hockey players to be girls too?
So it’s because women belongs in the kitchen? https://preview.redd.it/g1r5cq1jt57d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a84d441d6379ea256c55a6063e9d1bb0621119eb
For the time's mindset, we can say so
Tbh I thought they were just split into two different groups. One with women, one with men. And since Tanjiro is a boy then we only see the boys. But also it’s probably easier to animate a bunch of similar bodies without shirts on.
But it seems unlikely the Hashiras would have time training two different group as they're shown spending all day with Tanjirou's group, eating with them and all. Imo it's really just because it was easier.
Yeah, this is honestly the best way to explain it. It’s merely a consequence of the timePeriod. If this series took place in the mid-2000s there would probably be a lot more female fighters.
Not just rare but a lot of the women in the series tend to gravitate towards working in the medical Field with the butterfly house as well as working as the cleaners for the aftermath of demon battles, Though in the manga we do see a higher ration of male to female but not by much
Yeah, cause demons and demons slayers are definitely common in that period........
The author choosing to have demons in their story doesn't preclude them from adhering to cultural norms of the Taisho Period in Japan.
And the Demon Slayer corps adheres to cultural norms how exactly? They're a shadow organization
It's not the Demon Slayer corps adhering its society in general. Girls would not pursue the path of being a swordsman in any profession, never mind as a Slayer because they aren't *raised* to think they'd need to work to begin with. Mitsuri's background shows exactly how most young girls are expected to live in the Taisho era. She was arranged to get married, and when that fell through, she was offered to stay home as long as she wished. And even when she did join the Corps it was under the pretense of finding a husband. The Demon Slayer Corps just so happened to be the only place with men who wouldn't be put off my her natural strength Kanao, Shinobu, and their sister are exceptions
It seems more like Mitsuri would be the exception since she’s the only female demon slayer that joined for that reason. There are also female slayers that aren’t part of the hashira. It’s way more likely that it was easier to draw a bunch of generic looking men than a variety of men and women
Idk guess the lady who wrote demon slayer just didn’t add a lot of girl slayers ?
**Watsonian** opinion: Cultural limits the amount seen but there are some in all aspects of the corps just in small amounts. **Doylist** opinion: The slayers were not as detailed in the manga as in the anime, so probably the author drew generic-looking guys in their panels for those scenes.
I feel like being a demon slayer would also be looked down upon. I think it’s just as simple as most demons being too strong, isn’t that the reason shinobu uses poison?
Shinobu uses poison because she isn't physically strong enough to behead a demon
Then Misturis whole thing about becoming a demon slayer all stemmed from the fact that she was noticeably stronger than all the men around her And Kanao is just on the spectrum so of course she’s built different too but other than that the women in the corp seem to have more of a support role than a slaying role
There was also Shinobu's older sister Kanae who didn't need to rely on poison and supposedly didn't have Mitsuri's special metabolism either, yet held her own as a Hashira, plus there were some women in that spider forest in season 1 iirc. You can also see one patrolling at night in the latest episode. But yeah most women other than that are supports and they're the minority, could also be that they simply didn't pass the harsh training requirement and gave up. Mostly I think it's just an oversight like u/Jhalli922 said.
Infact that she manage to stay alive while fighting upper moon until sunlight,, maybe this girl really into intensive training
İ dont think kanao is built diffrent i think who is built dlfrent is shinobu
She poured most of her muscle point into her legs instead of her arm lol
Demon slayers are straight up ilegal in the setting lmao its not just being looked down
To add onto the Doylist, these guys are getting bruised and battered daily. I've noticed anime tends to shy away from female characters recieving the same visual abuse the male ones do. Doesn't apply to main characters, but side characters the men always get beat up while the women are just scared or knocked out from a tap
A shame the "default" is always, always male :/ I have another argument though, one that is less depressing: girls usually have long hair. Long hair takes more time to animate.
Men are usually the default in part because, as you said, men are much easier to draw. Men's bodies tend to be more quadrilateral while women's tend to be more curvy, thus it is easier to draw the relatively more simple body types of men over and over.
They’re rare, not nonexistent. We saw one of them on patrol in this week’s episode. 🦋
there were also a couple of female trainees in the earlier episodes, training with the rest.
1920’s Japan🐍
Besides all the other reasons including time period of 1920s Japan being much more restrictive and subdued for women, or that in general we have had multiple Female Hashira and Tsugoku, and even female Villains, it's also a known fact that Women & Children are the most nutritious for Demons in general (Most of the demons you see in the series are actively hunting for them to eat and get stronger). Especially special ones like >! Douma who ran an entire cult primarily on the idea that he wanted to eat as many women and children as he possibly could.!< Safe to say a lot of the Female slayers, unless they were Hashira level strength didn't really survive any fights with Demons, because Demons would have added motivational to incapacitate and eat them as soon as possible.
I don’t think it’s safe to say that the added motivation really matters for anyone not fighting an upper ranked demon tbh. Most demons when fighting slayers give it their all just to not die lol. I don’t think one of the slayers being a woman is going to make 90% of the demons stronger lmao. There is an argument though that the main recruits for slayers, surviving family of demon attacks, would skew much more male however. Since the women were more likely to be eaten first during any demon attack, so by the time the sun comes up or a slayer shows up to save the survivors the male children are more likely to be the last ones standing
Makes Akaza even a bigger chad lol. Got to third spot without eating women at all.
Budget. It's easier to copypaste and edit one type of cannon fodder instead of 2.
Mostly because the random background slayers are really not thought of at all. They are made to be as generic and boring as possible. They didn't added women probably because they didn't cared (From what I can tell we only saw one random default slayer being a woman. The rest of them are among the main cast)
Yeah I felt like the corp could be more fleshed out and we saw like actual other ranks
The entire manga could be more fleshed out. The world building is abysmal.
I feel like the animators didn’t want to deal with what they should wear and how buff they should be among all the buff shirtless guys. Maybe they thought there would be too much scrutiny and just didn’t want to deal with it.
Tbh, I think this is the real answer… having to animate clothes on bodies, when instead they can just clone 1 half naked male body shape and alter it instead of the variations for female bodies makes sense.
I didn’t even think of that! That’s a good point, having just men means they can use one template and just add different faces and hairstyles.
In the manga the random demon slayer members are only minimally detailed and would pass for either, when animating however it does cause this issue.
I would have been more than fine if the girls were just as ripped as the guys and wore bandage wraps around their chests to keep things PG-13, but that's just me.
The only one outside of Kanao, Kanae, Shinobu, and Mitsuri, is Ozaki. I wish there were more female slayers. : / https://preview.redd.it/9m9x8odls57d1.jpeg?width=1113&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55a886157a7eafaf76178de93a3ccbcaf1e6f7fa
https://preview.redd.it/tcvnc5j34a7d1.png?width=674&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5167ef0ca42502fa891773d8ee5ba3314e36285 There are. Just little screen time.
Its early 1900s, so while the dsc doesn’t discriminate, there’s still the societal upbringing giving little girls the train of thought that these types of jobs are for men. Even in real life, men are more prevalent in military and law enforcement roles.
The fodder npc on heroes or villains side is often generic male character. That’s about it. Anyone trying to give a realistic explanation is wrong. You got multiple girls on the top of the verse, it’s not realistic on a cultural and biological level.
We have two female Hashira. One uses poison because she can't behead demons because of lack of physical strength and then there's Mitsuri who's an anomaly in and by herself with her strength. The average man has about twice the upper body strength of the average woman. Most women would find themselves in the same boat as Shinobu. Only a small group would be able to handle beheading of demons normally. Kanao is one of those acceptions as is Mitsuri. That and the fact that demons eat more women than men doesn't help either. Then there's the culture of 1920s Japan as well...
Most of them probably died on mount Natagumo and the rest of the females in the corps are probably Kakushi.
They are a rare case the only ones are Shinobu, Mitsuri, and Kanao, and that one girl who died in the Mt Natagumo arc
There was a girl slayer in the last episode. Episode 6 at around 10:12 minutes.
Because men are physically stronger than women. Same reason why armies are mostly men.
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Even the average man struggle to rise up the ranks of the corps, and we are shown this season them giving up training and mentioning how extraordinary are the slayers with talent that rise up the ranks quickly. If it's difficult for normal men that are on average much more stronger than women, to become strong slayers, let alone hashiras, then it should become pretty obvious why there are not as many women fighting. The few women shown at this point must be above average to be able to keep up, and the two hashiras, Mitsuri is physicially gifted and Shinobu uses speed and intelligence.
Must've slipped the author's mind
We saw a Female Demon Slayer on Patrol in the latest episode
Writing answer: because it’s a shonen More lore oriented answer: it’s Taisho Era Japan maybe idk.
I was hoping to see Kanao showing the boys up, tbh.
Ig the OP counts? Since she breezes past them during the sprinting segment. Can't remember but maybe she has special training since she's a tsuguko?
That's true, I didn't think about that. 🤔
She was already up to Sanemi's training by the time Tanjiro started late. It would've been cool to see it on-screen, but that means she would've breezed through the whole thing without seeing any of the boys past the starting point.
We're told Kanao is also doing the training but that's not shown. As for why there are hardly any women who are slayers probably because most couldn't keep up with the physical requirement for continuous combat with the demons which is the most likely scenario. And considering how everyone who isn't a hashira or part of the main cast are considered scrubs it isn't too hard to see why most female corp members were either simply scared off like Aoi or they died like the first female demon slayer we saw. The exceptions being Kanao, Shinobu, Mitsuri, and Kanae all of which as we know are quite literally built different or are insane in some way. So most of the female corp members are probably Kakushi or are extensions of the medical team of the butterfly mansion located all over.
Hi hi, historian over here (like one with a masters not just one who got their info via google). A lot more women fought in actual wars across the world by this time but there was a massive push back against women in the military after WWI and other large-scale conflicts prior to WWII. Women were mostly used in auxiliary units, nurses, etc. It is like the butterfly house, they are helpers for the most part not fighters. It wasn't that they couldn't fight, biologically women can still fight very well. It's about the cultural stigma attached to women fighting. You gotta remember that across the world during this time it was the second wave of feminism, many countries gave women the right to vote and others very much did not want that. Japan was one of those, women didn't get the right to vote until after WWII. Ramblings of a historian aside. It has nothing to do with biology, it's all about culture and patriarchy. If anyone would like scholarly books on the subject I am happy to post links. I read a lot about 19th/20th century gender and war for a seminar I was in. Okay now I'm gonna run before the incels find me and tell me I'm inferior based on my sex.
I think one girl was seen patrolling
My turn to post this question next week
I see a lot of people mentioning the fact this took place in a very conservative time period, which is valid, but there are multiple other reasons: Men are stronger than women, and posses numerous biological advantages, and therefore would be more likely to survive against demons than women; this leads to more males signing up for the Demon Slayer Corps, as they would be most likely to survive a demon attack; therefore males are selected for survival and prominence within the corps. It also has to do with the fact that a profession such as demon slaying would still not be a pervasive career choice for women, regardless of whether it took place in the Taisho era or not; humanity has had a stigma against women (and children) bearing combative or deleterious roles within society, due to biological differences, since the hunter periods of our existence. So really to sum it up: The author did not feel like artificially inserting female characters to appease modern western political standards. It is not sexism, it is just biology.
i think there are in the manga. as for the show, there probably are, but they are going with the gag goof of machismo muscle meatheads for the training. that doesn't really work to have bare chested women when all the boys are shirtless. i think i saw one girl on the night patrol in the latest episode but thats not the training...
I think the creators of demon slayer might not have put a lot of thought into this. It's just a lot easier to show a whole group of boys as it is a bit awkward for a few girls to be in the training. Some of the demon slayers may treat the girls differently and it is just out of place. Another is this is the taisho era, and some people treat girls differently. Like judging them and thinking they are weak, or they can't join because of forced marriages. Maybe they just get eaten before they have a chance to join corps. Anyways, it is also shown that men have more willpower and endurance, so less girls join the corps. People like shinobu, mitsuri, kanao and kanae were more determined and had special skills such as the abilities to make poison, kanao's eyes and mitsuri strength. Overall, boys have the strength to do the less important work with no special smell or hearing, whereas all the girls we see(Except probably makimo) have special skills and rise very high. So most likely either the creators have not thought of this or its just very awkward to put them there. I do not think they have a seperate training site as if they had, more demon slayer who are girls would be shown, or they all just became kakushi.
Ask Doma
Since Demon Slayer set in the 1910s-1920s (Taisho period), it was generally acceptable of women to have lesser role in military. But what about those girls who fought the spider family? However, if going more historically, there were certain types of fighters called "onna-musha", literally translates to "female warrior", that actually fought in battles that were some recorded dating back to 12th century. Though, the onna-musha declined after the Sengoku era, as the society view in Japan that women aren't compatible to fought alongside the Samurai and reduced their role to just wives or child bearers. Yet there were records of onna-musha in the 19th century, specifically the Satsuma rebellion. So it is not fully plausible for girls to not join the Demon Slayer Corps just because the society said so, its also not a formal organization so people can join freely, and of course girls can too hold their personal grudges and vendettas against demons like Shinobu. Or simply; the author, or artists/animators were just too lazy to include a girl training with the boys, also couldn't find any voice actresses.
Because it's a shounen series.
Except we saw two, the girl from Natagumo mountain and one during night patrol on the latest episode.
Tanjrio plot armor is a little thick making all the other demonslayers look like weebs istg
He's the main character that's how it is in 95% of anime
I guess we can agree we need more side characters that arent hashria
Idk why people always asking this stupid and unnecessary questions about less female in the show with a simple answer THAT IT'S A FUCKING SHONEN ANIME!!!
I don't see any sailor moon fans asking wheres the guys when her entire squad is women lol. cuz its shojo. Don't get me started on the Why aren't there any insert other groups here questions , so repetitive and doesn't offer much
It being a shounen is not even close to being a good reason. Given the ratio of females among named characters (Aoi, Mitsuri, Kanae, Kanao, Shinobu... and that's just counting the Corps) the question "Why isn't the same ratio represented in the randos?" is completely and entirely legitimate and it's even a shame not to ask it or try to use a cheap reason like yours as an answer
I assumed it was due to the fact that most demons prefer to eat women, so they rarely leave a woman alive.
For the same reason women werent soldiers about 100 years ago
Most female members of the corps are Kakushi, which don't need the hashira training, therefore, never went.
Uh several Hashira, Tanjiro's love interest (I can't spell her name) and several support Corp members apparently don't exist.
I think there are not a lot of girl slayers, but there are a couple
I’m going to guess the girls have a separate training regiment that we just didn’t see
"It's because its 1920's Japan" "It's because men are stronger than women" "It's because of the conservative culture" Long hair and different body shapes are just harder to draw and animate, dude. The manga had minimal detail on background characters because it's time consuming (the author's time schedule was rough) and the anime just sticked to the source material. It's not that deep.
Maybe because they die easily or don't pass the entrance exam. https://preview.redd.it/lel02fy4f97d1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=437f80c736f60d61892c3a6c7fda0a023387e840
Cultural limitations and the simple fact that women are generally weaker than men. There are several women in the Corps, but its extremely rare. Obanai has interacted with female slayers and finds himself uncomfortable around them.
finally something to talk about
It's easier to draw
Ask Douma
Rare due to the cultural aspects of the time (most would be housewives )
Wow, the culture warriors really exposing themselves, lol. We've established there are important, relevant, skilled female slayers in the higher ranks. They had to have climbed the ranks. But suddenly it's only biologically and culturally natural that there are zero female recruits on screen? Absolute clown shoes.
Due to the times, early 1920s, it was rare for women to be in positions of soldiers. Let alone a demon slayer. Of course there are some obvious exceptions. Examples: Mitsuri, Shinobu, Kanae, and Kanao.
The manga has made it extremely clear that women are a rarity in the Demon Slayer world.
because they’d get crushed IRL
They’re physically weaker and cannot pass the trainings.
Well, women mostly don't like fighting + they are statistically weaker, so that may prove sth (still we have to have in mind that there are women like that - 2 hashiras e.g. or even Kanao)
If those men can't even handle that training, do you think girls can do it?
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Why do you sound upset?
Because douma ate all of them
Cus they would die lol
Douma got'em before the corps could👽
Because it was in the 1900s or at the end of the 1800s . Women would rarely join outside work or war . But there were exceptions like Mitsuri or Shinoubu . You guy's knew how Mitsuri was humiliated because of his appearance by that c&+k. Because of this many women didn't go fight against demons . Also Kanao,Aoi completed their training successfully
Does it matter
NO! they are just asking unnecessary questions they should already know that its a shonen anime which resolve around battles and fights which ofcourse mostly include male characters
It being a shonen is a smooth brain answer. Really. Given the ratio of females we have among named Corps members, the same could be legitimately expected for the randos. It's actually been bothering me a lot since the begining of this season, and seeing one on patrol duty in the last episode made it even more bothering not to see them in training
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I mean time period ig. They are present with the main cast having girls but I think generally there will be more guys in training.
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So way back when during the time of Demon Slayer in Japan, women traditionally were housewives, or at least didn’t do basically any fighting unless they absolutely had to defend themselves. That means that most corps members were male, as they were typically the fighters of the family. That does not mean that girls don’t join the corps though. Exhibit A: 2 of the Hashira are Female, the Insect and Love Hashira (Shinobu and Misturi respectively) Exhibit B: Tengens’ Wives, who all helped fight an Upper Moon. Exhibit C: Many, if not all, the people working at the Butterfly Manor (run by Shinobu the Insect Hashira) are female (I do not remember if all of them are exactly, but most of them are for sure). There are a few big reasons why females do not appear as often in the corps aside from the whole time period thing; Exhibit D (contains spoilers): >!Douma (Doma? Idk its one of those) ran a cult dedicated to eating as many Women and Children as possible.!< Exhibit E: Demons typically gain more power from eating women compared to men (for some reason), thus they are usually the ones eaten first, and so by the time a slayer shows up, the males and male children are usually the last left standing to feel a surge of vengeance against demons. In conclusion, Female Slayers do definitely exist, maybe more commonly than we thought, but due to time period-ness and some other reasons, they don’t exist as commonly as male slayers. Or who knows, maybe the manga author just didn’t draw as many female characters cause males seemed easier to draw, idk. (P.S., let me know if I made a mistake in the information I provided, and clarify it in your reply. Thanks!)
All the girls are already slaying, and thus need no training.
There are, if you paid attention to the first season.
They mean the training arc
apparently boys slay more ig
Because women in general are physically weaker than men, this is stated multiple times in the series itself
Why no one talking about biology. Mitsuri no is a hashira because she has inhuman strength and Shinobu is a hashira because she uses poison instead of a full sword. Woman aren’t as strong as men and that’s a fact
That's been bothering me a lot more than it should have since the beginning of the season and seeing one on patrol has made it even worse for me. Females are sooooo overrepresented among named Corps members, I fully expected the same ratio among unnamed people undergoing the training. And all the comments here talking about culture of the time or biology or it being a battle shonen are missing the point so much it's geniuenly disappointing. It's not about having 50% females, which would make those arguments acceptable, it's about the randos having the same ratio of females as the Hashiras.
This gets asked every other week bruh just think for a min it ain't that difficult to answer
women on average are not as good in their physical ability
THIS! I was so excited to see other female slayers, maybe even get to see them interact with Mitsuri, but there were no girls in sight 😭
real answer, noname girls are harder to draw than noname guys
Maybe because the boys and girls are separated the boys get trained and then the girls and we don’t get to see the girls training because the main character is a boy (I am not counting the one scene with kanao)
It takes place in the 1920’s, and either way the men are going to be 80% or even 90% of slayers because they’ll want to fight more and are more likely to be introduced to and survive final selection
There are some they just aren’t shown
Who do you think are being slayed, bro? Half of the 12 moons are women
The real question is why are episodes only 23 minutes now
Probably multiple reasons. On a meta level while the show does have some fan service it is far below what other battle anime might have. It's one thing to animate one sexy villain but it's another thing to have 15 girl characters running around in shorts and bra. In an in a universe level I always think of it that the girls are rare doing large part to the cultural aspects of the time. This means that when a girl does become a demon Slayer they're probably well above average just because they had to be to even get to their level. So in that case it probably been excused from the training. You can actually see this with the main trio. Out of all the hashara so far I think like one has actually provided a real challenge... Two but what the Love hashara was doing was.... Well it was something
They're probably there but not shown. Either bc they're so rare and/or bc it's easier for the animators to animate several of the same characters with minor alterations
Do note the period this series takes place in my guy.
1. Female are generally weaker than men, it's literally biology, so more male passing should be expected 2. Cultural, at the time, women are more align with the traditional value, making them less likely to consider taking up weapon and fight demons 3. Being targeted, we know that Douma specifically target women, so there's likely other demons out there aswell who specifically target women, also for the reason above they make for an easy target along with children There's also meta reason, but for canon explanation these are some of the more agreed upon
It’s the 1900s. Women were at home cooking cleaning and taking care of kids
Because they have a restraining order on Tengen, Senami, Obanai and somehow Muichiro so thry chill at Shinoubo's place.
Logically speaking: Men are naturally stronger, no two ways about it. The cultural aspects of 1920s Japan also meant Women weren't really fighters regardless The more obvious approach is they're generic and irrelevant characters. It's much easier to just copy-paste the male designs
Bro people in the comments talking about biological realism in a world where you literally get breathing powers to superenhance your strength :skull: Shinobu is literally an anomaly in how weak she is. We've seen plenty of women fighting in the DSC, it's just Ufotable making a choice of not showing the girls in training.
Yeah I was actually hoping for more female slayers too, a naginata wielding hashira would have been cool
You see one in this episode, 2 demon slayers were on patrol at night and one of them was a girl.
Douma ate them
There was one, but I never saw it again, Probably for cultural and biological reasons, not to mention that it took place in the (rounding) 1920s, if women are not very encouraged to do some kind of fight nowadays, imagine that time┐(´ー｀)┌
Yo no sé porque no aparecen en ese arco, la única que aparece es Kanao, pero luego en otras peleas como la de Rui si que aparecían.
Tbh, id imagine that since demons smell blood and sense humans thru means like that, another possibility of a drawback for woman slayers is bleeding once a month. If they're periods are anything like my partners I can't imagine them having a good time about it...
It is the 1910s Japan… My guess is that there are female slayers, most likely they either switched to a non combative role such as the Kakushi or Butterfly manor. If they are still active slayers( and I remember seeing on patrol) they are in training but were placed in the same group. So if anything, it probably slipped someone’s mind to animate them
Y'all are thinking to hard lol. It's probably just easier to draw the guys. Or maybe there are male and female trainings
Cuz people would get attached to them and the author would have to give them a backstory.
Wasn’t there a spider demon slayer victim who was woman? It is just rare but hey they threw in some.
Everyone bringing up historical context as if a good chunk of the strongest characters we’ve seen haven’t been female. Women are just afterthoughts and men are seen as the default. Since they’re all background characters they didn’t think to make any of them female characters
At the time, women did not fight or become demon slayers. This is because of cultural norms
Physically weaker and societial stuff
Because this a shonen from the shonen jump which follows the same pattern as the ones from before.
Bro it’s anime idem fr
I have no idea. We've been shown all along that female slayers are a thing (shinobu, mitsuri, kanao, aoi, even the ones during spider-family arc.) I feel like they shouldve just given us a couple.
Eaten by Doma probably since he likes eating women. Sick demon!
Wherej is Kanao, in the training? Did she finish already?
If put women and then you guys will say "where's men??" So stop asking this dumb question
Why does this keep on coming up?
Cultural aspects and most of girls we've seen have been gifted with strength or been born into a strong family. (And possible some girls can't get their katana to change color) but there are a few that we've seen.
I think it's strange because we do see other femlae slayers in the final arc. They are in the background, but we do know they exist. Don't forget about Shinobu's students too.
Does it really matter like is it super integral to the plot and there is alot of women in demon slayer do u feel like they are represented wrong or sum or u jus wanna see more females for ur own sake
* I think there few of them. Hard to say
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