Is there a model for the Demon Slayer Corps in Demon Slayer? Did the demons actually exist?

Is there a model for the Demon Slayer Corps in Demon Slayer? Did the demons actually exist? ANIME

The Demon Slayer Corps appears in the popular anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Is there any basis for the Demon Slayer Corps? Some people may wonder.

And so, are the demons that are the enemies of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba actually real?

So, this time we’ve put together the following information about the Demon Slayer Corps that appears in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

  • Is the Demon Slayer Corps from Demon Slayer based on any real-life characters?
  • Do the demons in Demon Slayer actually exist?

We will be delivering this article titled “Is there a model for the Demon Slayer Corps in Demon Slayer? Did the demons actually exist?”

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Is the Demon Slayer Corps from Demon Slayer based on any real-life characters?

Demon Slayer is a fictional story, but is there a real organization that served as the model for the Demon Slayer Corps?

To put it simply, we don’t know because the author, Koyoharu Gotouge, has not made any public statement.

However, there is a real organization that can be associated with the Demon Slayer Corps’ characteristics.

It was a real organization called Byakkotai that existed in Japan during the final days of the Edo period.

It is an organization that often appears in Japanese movies and historical dramas, so some people may have heard of it.

What is the Byakkotai?

The Byakkotai was one of the units organized by the Aizu Domain (present-day Fukushima Prefecture) during the Aizu War that broke out in 1864.

By the way, the Aizu War was part of the Boshin War, Japan’s largest civil war, in which the new government forces fought against the former Shogunate forces.

The Aizu clan was on the side of the former shogunate.

The Byakkotai was made up of boys between the ages of 13 and 17 and is said to have numbered around 300.

Although they continued to fight for the Tokugawa and for their families, they were no match for the new government forces due to the overwhelming difference in military strength, and continued to be defeated.

As the battle situation worsened, the soldiers began to regret their actions and were driven to the point where they chose to die like Aizu samurai rather than live in shame, and ultimately committed suicide on Mt. Iimori.

What do the Demon Slayer Corps and the Byakkotai have in common?

The commonalities between the Demon Slayer Corps and the Byakkotai are as follows:

  • Many of the soldiers are teenagers
  • The organization has several hundred members
  • They risked their lives to fight for their families

Also, there are overlaps with the end of the Byakkotai, where the Demon Slayer Corps members became human shields to protect the pillars from Muzan’s attacks in the final battle, and with the Byakkotai members who committed suicide.

Therefore, although it has not been publicly stated that the model for the Demon Slayer Corps is probably the Byakkotai.

Is the Demon Slayer Corps’ uniform also modelled on the Byakkotai?

Regarding the Demon Slayer Corps’ uniform, is the Byakkotai also the real organization that served as the model for its design?

To conclude, we don’t know this either because the author, Koyoharu Gotouge, has not made this publicly clear.

However, the Byakkotai, which I mentioned earlier as the model for the Demon Slayer Corps, are often depicted with a stand-up collar on the upper half of their body and hakama on the lower half.

This combination seems very similar to the Demon Slayer Corps uniforms.

However, the Byakkotai was not special; it seems that the uniforms of all feudal domains during that period were of this style.

So the truth is only known by Koyoharu Gotouge.

Do the demons in Demon Slayer actually exist?

The word “demon” is used frequently in Japan, but do demons really exist?

Upon investigation, it is said that there were indeed beings called demons in Japan.

However, it’s not clear what demons are.

What are demons?

The Japanese word “oni” originally comes from “onu (hidden)” and meant something invisible, something not of this world.

It was used in an evil sense, and seems to have referred to vengeful or cursed spirits.

From there, it came to mean “something beyond human power” or “a creature that brings disaster to people.”

From the mid-Heian period through the Middle Ages, the image of oni as terrifying man-eating monsters became established and they began to appear in books.

What is the true identity of the demon?

In Japan, demons are said to be divided into two types.

One is a product of human imagination, played out in legends and performing arts.

The other group are real people throughout history who were excluded or rejected from normal political and economic systems.

In other words, people who were not normal were called demons.

Furthermore, there are legends of demons all over Japan, and there are places where demon relics such as demon heads and mummies remain.

It is not known whether there were any strange demons in folklore, but it seems that people called demons certainly existed.

summary

Thank you for reading “Is there a model for the Demon Slayer Corps in Demon Slayer? Did the demons actually exist?” to the end.

This time, I’ve summarized the Demon Slayer Corps from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Although the model for the Demon Slayer Corps in Demon Slayer has not been publicly stated, there are likely many similarities between them and the Byakkotai.

The model for the Demon Slayer Corps has not been publicly stated, but if you consider the possibility that there was a model, your view of Demon Slayer may change once again.

I was also very interested in demons, and in their legends many of them had human origins.

There is a romantic element to the parts that science cannot explain, and if there were some real-life elements to it, it would make Demon Slayer even more enjoyable.

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