Kimetsu no Yaiba is probably the most popular anime today, with each aired season increasing in popularity, which in part has been earned by its endearing characters. By this point, audiences already easily recognize the adorable Nezuko as a cute demon and her older brother and Kimetsu no Yaiba protagonist Tanjiro as a skilled hunter who will do anything to protect the ones he loves. But can you imagine if the roles were reversed and the hunter was Nezuko and Tanjiro the demon? Well, a user in networks, made this come true and in this article we share the details with you.
Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado from Kimetsu no Yaiba switch roles in a fan-made video
Through Instagram, a fan page called @demonslayer.center, shared an incredible video where we can see the Kamado brothers from Kimetsu no Yaiba with reversed roles. That is, here Tanjiro is not a demon hunter, but a demon; and, on the other hand, Nezuko is not a demon, but in this case she is the hunter. It is really amazing the work this user did and how this helps us to visualize what would happen if the roles were reversed, would the story keep the same essence? How would be the behaviors of both Nezuko and Tanjiro if they were in the place of the other?
Of course, fans of Kimetsu no Yaiba, expressed themselves to this clip in the comments, showing their enthusiasm by saying things like “How cute” “They both look so cute” “It would also be really cool if it were like this” “How cute! I wish when the anime is finished, one like this would come out” “Oh, how cute! It looks so cute.” There was even one person who questioned, “Why not put the two of them as hunters?”, which would be quite an interesting scenario to visualize within the story.
It’s very curious how fans start making this kind of material, which gets the audience thinking what would happen if the story had taken another path. It even gives content to generate some spin-off or stories that extend this universe, telling the plot from other perspectives and situations different from the one known in the main story, but which are still quite interesting. Would you like to read a spin-off where the roles of the Kamado brothers in Kimetsu no Yaiba were exchanged?
Kimetsu no Yaiba is currently airing its fourth season, which covers the “Training of the Pillars” arc and will feature only eight episodes. As in previous seasons, the director in charge of this adaptation is Haruo Sotozaki and the animation studio responsible for bringing us this great story. It is, of course, Ufotable, who has done an excellent job animating Kimetsu no Yaiba, which has brought it enormous success, as well as a large number of fans who faithfully follow the anime season after season.
If for some strange reason you still don’t know the story of Kimetsu no Yaiba, here we follow a boy named Tanjiro Kamado, someone quite noble who lives with his family in the mountains and tries to support his mother to subsist along with all his siblings, after the death of his father. To do so, Tanjiro constantly travels to the village to sell coal. However, his life takes a radical change when he returns home after one of these trips, he discovers that a powerful demon named Muzan Kibutsuji, took the life of his family.
The only survivor of this tragedy is his younger sister, Nezuko Kamado, whom Tanjiro tries to take to the nearest town to ask for help. However, halfway there, Nezuko wakes up and transforms into a demon, so she tries to attack her brother, but this is avoided because she still keeps some of her human side and this helps her to restrain herself from attacking Tanjiro. From here and thanks to meeting a mysterious boy who is part of the demon hunters, Tanjiro will become a hunter with the goal of making his sister become human again.
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