Is Zenitsu Hashira Level? The Thunder God Hashira Explained! (Demon Slayer)

what up space fam golson here from anime opera and i'm back at it again with a new demon slayer video the topic of this video will be zenith whether or not he has already proven himself to be hoshura level aka as strong as a hashira through his exploits we're going to be covering his battle against an upper moon his face off against muzon and much more so make sure to stay tuned for this one if you do enjoy seeing these demonstrator videos on the channel and want to keep them coming you know what to do

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is in the description and now without further ado let's jump into it spoilers and all so we won't go over every zion to fight in detail because there is not much to say for the earlier ones he pretty much faints enters his unconscious avatar-like state and wrecks the earlier opponents like the tongue demon and the spider brother demon it is no worthy to mention that demons like the spider brother demon do underestimate zenitsu because he only knows one technique this could have been a big issue for zainto after all who would expect a guy who

can't even master the other five thunder breathing forms to ever be able to become a hashira however his sensei encouraged him he said and i quote you managed to learn one and that's something it's more than i expected from you and god i love how zaritsu was such an underdog his sensei didn't even expect him to master one but i digress thunder gramps continues and i quote the thing is if you can only do one thing then do it superbly polish it to the utmost of the utmost end quote he wanted zaitsu to be rid

of all his impurities so he put him through tough training and told him to become a blade that's stronger than anyone i absolutely love how his sensei aka gramps went from thinking he couldn't even master one form to believing he could be the best and let's see if his prediction comes true the point here is someone isn't automatically better just because they know all the forms of a breath style after all murata could know all the water forms but he'd still lose in a fight against anitsu saitsu shows what happens if you go deep rather

than broad with your training he's the embodiment of the bruce lee quote i fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once but i fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times and in that sense zeitu is worthy of being feared perhaps more so than anyone else despite the poison in his system his practice paid off and allowed him to finish the spider brother demon he finished him off using thunder breathing first form six-fold which allowed him to use the first form six times in one uninterrupted combo attack in that

way this one attack since it's magnified six times is almost like using six forms except other thunder style users probably couldn't move as fast and link up their attacks as quickly as zenitsu could this is the story's way of telling us that zaitsu already compensated for his lack of forms by honing this one and zeitsu just continues to be more and more impressive as the story goes on zenetsu was really cool in the earlier fights but his opponents weren't that strong comparatively speaking his first pretty strong opponent is daki the weaker part of upper moon

6. he's not strong enough yet to beat her on his own so he double teams her with inosuke throughout most of the fight at first they needed tandra's help to get her head but later they do it without him and this time sanitsu is the star rather than inosuke near the end of the fight zaitsu suddenly pops out of the rubble doki thinks that i quote i know what you've got i've seen all your techniques i know how fast they are end quote but then saitsu pulls out yet another improvement while still using the first

form he uses thunderbreeding first form thunderclap and flash godspeed whenever you have the word god used in anime it's hype and a big deal think about god level threats from one punch man and zenitsu's attack does not disappoint as the name suggests he significantly increased his speed daki who thought she knew what to expect can't help but think zainsu is so fast as she's quickly being dragged along with the attack zanitsu almost succeeds in cutting her himself with this attack but her sash-like neck is just too flexible and bendy if her neck didn't have that

attribute it would have already been over there is a catch at this point that zaitsu can only use godspeed once and then his legs are shot so he gets one go at it but that really just makes the attack all the more hype luckily inosuke appears and helps zenitsu finish donkey off before his legs become unusable and the thunderbreather becomes helpless so at this point together they succeeded in beating a part of an upper moon which even if it's the weaker part is still pretty cool the next big fight for zany 2 comes a whole

50 chapters later which is like a quarter of the entire story but oh man is this fight ever worth the wait it is zanitsu's best fight he's never been stronger at least up to this point and he's definitely never been cooler in this fight he takes on his old thunder breathing senpai who has now become upper moon 6 kaigaku since their sensei planned for zanitsu and kaigaku to share the thunder hashira role kaigaku got furious since he thought he was so much better than zenitsu and gave in to the dark side when the opportunity presented

itself it's just the perfect setup for a battle by himself zaitsu is fighting a demon-enhanced thunder breather who also happens to be an upper moon and who also happens to be his former senpai whose descent into the dark side caused their sensei to take his own life thus revenge is on the line as well because zainzu loved his sensei like he was his biological grandpa even calling him gramps as mentioned another notable part about this fight is that zenitsu doesn't show any signs of fear and he's conscious throughout the fight it really shows how far

he's come from the crying always passing out zaditu of the past the trash talk between the two is great as well kaigaku says zenitsu is still a shabby little weak runt he asks him if he can use anything besides the first form he tries to reestablish dynamic that they had when kagaku was stronger than him but zeitsu is not having it he insults him back saying and i quote you seem thrilled to have reached the very bottom of the upper ranks through merely filling in blank positions end quote in other words he's saying kaigaku isn't

really strong enough to be an upper moon but got thrown in there to fill up the position and there is some truth to that probably but that aside he is an official upper moon and zanitsu is about to take him on by himself before this only muichiro the missed hashira took out an upper moon by himself upper moon 5 to be specific and muichiro is not only a hashira but tangen singled him out as one of the most talented ones along with gyome and rengoku kagaku seems amused at the fact that zenitsu can talk back

now showing he's grown as a character and is not the same crybaby and pushover he was when they trained together zainsu asks why would someone poised to acquire thunder breathing become a demon he's furious screaming his grandpa killed himself because kagaku became a demon he passed on alone by himself with no second person to make the process quicker and less painful we get a flashback of when's any to receive the letter and it was as expected during the hashida training arc when he all of a sudden gets serious and stops acting like his old self

to tanjuro's and our surprise zanitsu is crying and furious about the fact that their sensei purposely made himself suffer so much agony because the wielders of thunder breathing had produced a demon at this point the revenge aspect of this fight is set up pretty perfectly kaigaku reveals that he became a demon because he felt that no matter how hard he worked their sensei didn't see his value he wouldn't make him his thunder hashira successor he was even more upset when their sensei suggested that kaigaku be a joint successor with xanitzu you gotta hate this dude

who turned to the dark side and completely abandoned his sensei who cared about him so much just because he didn't want to be a joint thunder hashira seizu calls pretty much himself and kaigaku trash and he feels sorry that his sensei who he endearingly called gramps had such pathetic successors he points out the fact that he could only learn the first form while kaigaku could learn the rest but not the first one which is the foundation and arguably the most important again just as when his sensei did it kagaku is furious at being lumped together

with zenitsu thinking he's so superior the fight starts and obviously i'm rooting for my boy zenitsu but i gotta point out that the demon enhanced thunderbreathing looks very cool it produces actual black lightning something that i thought was really cool since i saw it in naruto so many years ago the coolness of black lightning aside though now you might think well they were sort of tied according to their sensei and perhaps kaigaku was even a bit in the lead back in the day so with his demon enhancements kaigaku should wreck zenitsu but that's what makes

this fight so great and inspirational despite giving in to the dark sides we could improve his speed power and versatility he still doesn't dominate the fight keep in mind also demon slayers don't actually produce their elements in reality but demon enhanced breath style users like higaku can actually do it through their blood demon art so again saints was actually fighting literal black lightning that electrifies and burns as we'll get into still when kaigaku goes to attack 72 dodges and even calls kaigaku too slow it's so awesome seeing these arrogant zenit2 moments because they contrast his

usual character so much and keep in mind thunderbreathers are already super fast and kaigaku gained further speed through becoming a demon and yet our boy is still calling him too slow after he actually calls him slow it's revealed that not only was he fast enough to dodge kagaku's attack he even delivered a cut to the upper moon without the demon noticing i love these moments where a move is so fast it takes a while to take effect we then get a flashback of kokushibo telling kaigaku that it doesn't matter what he does what's important is

that he lives on so that there's the possibility that he could win someday nothing is shameful according to him including becoming a demon he asks if kaigaku wants to become a demon for greater strength and kagaku agrees he takes a great deal of muslin's blood and important detail since that's what's required to turn someone who can use breathing techniques into a demon and as we know more muzon blood usually equals stronger demon kagaku thinks that compared to the fear kokushibu instilled in him zaitsu is nothing but the mangaka does interestingly enough choose to illustrate zaritsu

in a cool way with whited out eyes this usually happens with yorichi and tanjiro when a demon is intimidated by them so the fact that zenitsu has become a character that similarly intimidates demons like the other two is very notable despite clearly being intimidated by zenitsu kaigaku tries to calm himself by saying saints was worthless always sobbing without any dignity or perseverance again he's enraged at the thought that to quote him the rotten old man said zainson kagaku would be successors together he is so averse to thinking of zainto as being his equal so the

fact that non-demon zenytu seems to be beating and taunting him so far must really irritate him kagaku is far from finished though and he launches another attack which is composed of five successive attacks in one breath and in the blink of an eye this actually does cut zaitsu's cheeks and zenitsu can tell that kaigaku has already eaten so many people to gain this much power the attacks continue higaku is using every other thunder breathing form except the first one and combining it with his black lightning blood demon art zainsoo notices that kaigaku sword doesn't need

to connect kagaku can launch waveform attacks in the form of black lightning that can hurt his target i hate kaigaku but again i have to admit it's very cool to be able to actually summon your element like this in battle after a while kaigaku asks zenitsu and i quote how's the sharpness of my blade infused with blood demon art an attack that slashes and burns the flesh end quote he continues to land attacks on zenitsu our boy is all cut up we're further told that any slashing attacks that kaigaku's victims take will continue to rend

ak tear apart their flesh his power burns into the eyes and body he says he became a demon and surpassed thunder breathing he thinks he's one now as a very injured zaitsu is seemingly free falling to his end kaigaku insists that he's special he's different from zenitsu he's not like zenitsu at all saints who recalls back in the day when his gramps told him to learn from kagaku's example again reminding us of how kaigaku actually used to be ahead of and stronger than zenitsu even before he turned into an upper moon saints recalls how he

used to look up to kaigaku and how kaigaku was special to him in gramps he has to come to terms with finishing off a dude who he once thought of as a brother and he finally does apologizing to his gramps and saying that his and kagaku's paths diverged because of this section here i feel like zaitsu could have actually finished the battle off sooner if he was as ruthless as kaigaku but he probably needed some time to build up enough conviction to finally finish off his old senpai keep in mind before tundra and the others

zanitsu pretty much just had his gramps and kaigaku and now that his gramps is gone kaigaku is the last tie to that simpler time when his gramps and senpai were the only special people in his life but as i mentioned zaitsu makes up his mind here and prepares his final attack his face is tearing apart from kagaku's attacks that continue to tear apart the body like poison or even worse than poison long after the initial attack was received zainsu apologizes to kaigaku and then unleashes the seventh form of thunder breathing thunder breathing honoy kazuchi nokami

aka thunder breathing flaming thunder god this is by far the coolest thunder breathing form we've seen yet and cooler still zanitsu created it yes the dude who couldn't even learn the five other forms turned out to be skilled enough to create a brand new one as with his godspeed move it contains the word god in it again to connote how powerful it is and it even takes the form of a lightning dragon often considered the strongest mythical beast in the animal kingdom i went into how breath styles that take the forms of dragons in the

demon slayer story like sun breathing water breathing flame breathing and thunder breathing are especially strong in my 16 breath styles ranked from weak as the strongest video and that's why i think it's all the more significant here that zenith's attack looks like a lightning dragon in demon slayer the original and strongest breath aka the breath of the sun has a move called dragon sun halo head dance that similarly takes the form of a dragon so combine the fact that a dragon is associated with the strongest breath style with the fact that dragons are considered to

be the strongest creatures so strong they don't even exist and yeah you can see that the mangaka is pointing to this being a very powerful move it's not a stretch to say this must be the strongest thunder breathing form ever created and it came from our very own crybaby underdog zenitsu the move cuts off kaigaku's demon head and as further praise for the technique kagaku thinks to himself that he didn't even see it because it was so fast take that in it was so fast that a thunder breathing upper moon couldn't even see it and

it was powerful enough to take his head in one go as well as he's about to pass on kaigaku is furious thinking the old man taught zenitsu something that he never taught him he thought their sensei was playing favorites after all however zaisu says no he wasn't that kind of person saints reveals that this was in fact his own form he created it so he could fight as an equal with kaigaku ironically despite how much kaigaku hated the implication that he and zeitsu were equal in power because he thought he was so much superior saints

was the one who actually shows his superiority in this fight not just that he proved that he was superior without needing to get a demon upgrade now although i always like hyping up zenitsu it must be noted that zaintsu passed out after beating kaigaku he's falling to his death and kaigaku is glad to see it he thinks eliza ainson didn't beat him at least it will be a tie but yushiro comes and saves zanitsu while also rubbing it in kaigaku's upper moon face he tells kaigaku someone who never gives to others will someday become unable

to receive anything from them only wanting is in the end the same as having nothing after his words he lets kaigaku know it's a pity to die alone and then peaces out with zenitsu who did win and was saved because he was nice to others gave to others and thus had friends unlike kaigaku zaitsu has a brief moment as he's passed out where he sees his gramps on the other side of a river the one probably separating the living from the dead he apologizes to his grams for everything saying he wanted to become a hashira

when his gramps was still alive but his gramps isn't angry at all at zenitsu he just cries tears of joy and says he's proud of him i mean i'm almost tearing up reading this section but let's just take a second to realize that making a former hashira proud is not an easy task and it's a great moment for zainsu's character where he pretty much lived up or even surpassed the sensei's high expectations of him as he's treating zanitsu you sure goes on to say that kagaku slashes on zaitsu's face will open up all the way

to zainto's eyes if not treated he has to use an agent that stops the advance of blood demon art developed by tamayo to save zanitsu he goes on to say to zainto that kaigaku still hadn't mastered his techniques and abilities which is lucky if the fight had been one year later kaigaku probably would have killed him immediately whether this is true or not zhang's performance against an upper moon was very impressive here but if you look at the fact that zeitsu could have died if he wasn't saved by yushiro and you look at yushiro's words

about kaigaku being able to crush him one year later then it makes zaitsu look somewhat less strong however i will note that as mentioned it does seem like zains was holding back his finishing move until he made peace with ending kagaku's demon life which if that's the case means he probably could have finished him off sooner before taking on so much more damage damage that only grew worse as each wound continued to spread over the whole body during the course of the battle furthermore yoshida said probably not certainly suggesting he's not even positive and in

our boy's defense he's been progressing super fast and chances are he'd be much stronger in a year as well kaigaku wouldn't be the only one growing in power so yeah zaitsu was already impressive becoming the second person to solo an upper moon and arguably he could have finished him off even sooner if he wasn't struggling with the whole facing his senpai slash brother thing now the conditions for becoming a hashida are as follows according to the kyoto rengoku side story part 1 one is to be at least a kino aka the highest of the ten

ranks in the core and exterminate over 50 demons or to defeat one of the 12 demon moons meaning it could even be a lower moon since zenitsu soloed an upper moon here he should definitely qualify for a promotion to hashira at this point in the story and that's even if there weren't a shortage in the number of hashira they already had but since there is a huge shortage at the end of the story if the team failed to defeat muzon and the slayer core had to go on existing zaitsu would most definitely be promoted in

name as well because he more than met the criteria thus at this point it's not debatable we can already refer to zaitsu as a hashira in spirit and qualification and i love the fact that he got to see his grandpa spirit after he succeeded in reaching this level since he always wanted his gramps to see him become a hashida now even if he did nothing else in the story he already proved himself to be hostile level however he does go on to do even more in fact our boy even faces muzon albeit along with a

bunch of other demon slayers yes he gets taken out by muzon for a while and multiple times but as usual our thunderboy gets back up eventually in fact muzon can hardly believe how many times he keeps getting back up it's amazing that the dude who started out as a crybaby scared enough of weak demons to feign on the spot has become a guy who will consciously keep getting up again and again to face the strongest demon he uses godspeed against muzon and even seventh form flaming thunder god and the attack noticeably hurts muzon however zenitu

suggests that the cut was too shallow and only a bright red blade can do enough damage so yeah zenitsu is not as much of a star in this fight as tanjira which makes sense since tangero is the protagonist but like everyone else he plays his invaluable role and even after he thinks his legs are shot and he won't be able to move he channels his gramps's memory his eyes go all white and we see him again launch another thunderclap and flash he continues to be hard on himself though ironically calling himself too slow and usually

he would have been out of commission ages ago but he keeps going showing how much stronger he's become he unleashes god speed thunderclap and flash again dragging muzon along with his strong fast move that cuts through the ground itself then tanjiro continues where zainzu left off and thanks to zainto's help succeeds in pinning muzon to the wall this pinning becomes the definitive moment that leads to muzon's defeat so it's cool that zeitsu is largely to thank for tundra being able to pull it off muzon remains pinned as the sun comes out he then turns into

a giant demon baby and despite his attempt to escape the sun ends up finishing him off notably the hashira play a big role in making sure big giant baby muzon doesn't escape muzon is defeated a bunch of hashtag pass on and you think the threat is over but then it's revealed that muzon turned tundra into the next more powerful demon king after multiple uses of godspeed and other attacks including flaming thunder god along with taking repeated damage from muzon himself zainsu is still alive to help deal with this demon king tundra threat admittedly he's not

in fighting shape but he's up and even goes to hug tanjuro trying to get him to remember who he is and to not attack nezuko he's sent flying back by one of tundra's attacks however he's still not done and continues to scream for nezuko and he continues to beg tundra to stop this madness thanks to kano who delivers the medicine they succeed in turning tundra back into a human and after the demon fighting is finally over zanitsu is okay promising nezuko that he'll make tundra pay his whole life for what he did to him and

to his wife nezuko it's impressive to see that zenitsu can walk after some rest and even has enough energy to get jealous when sun emi pats nezuko on the head unlike tundra who loses the use of one eye and arm zenitsu could potentially from what we've seen go on to be stronger than ever he hasn't been nerfed at all from what we can tell and if there was a need he would definitely go on to become a hashida and not just any hashira but the thunder god hashida i say this because the word god has

only been associated so much with zenith's thunder attacks and with no other thunder breather and you can argue that he surpassed the rest too by creating the strongest thunder breathing form yet that takes the form of a dragon and is fast enough that even a demon-enhanced talented thunder breather can't see it let alone react in time to avoid it now it should be said in the extended ending while tundra was forcing them to visit all the graves of the fallen for three days zainsu started crying about his painful legs and nezuko carried him on her

shoulders but i believe this would have eventually passed just as it did after he uses godspeed against daki so yeah zaitsu is arguably the strongest of our trio after tundra got nerfed but more importantly for him he gets to fulfill his dream of marrying nezuko which i'm sure means way more to him than any amount of power ever could and they even have kids together i gotta say it's a perfect ending for our boy zanitsu and i also have to say iguro is probably my favorite hashira akaza is my favorite demon but zaritsu is my

favorite main character we won't count yorichi since he's long gone by the beginning of the series but zaitsu is just amazing and his journey from crybaby to thunder god hero facing down the demon king is inspirational beyond words and that is it for zenitsu who in fact not only deserved to be a hashira but is arguably the strongest thunder hashira in history and used his own created form to solo an upper moon who claimed he surpassed thunder breathing itself keep in mind zainsu didn't even awaken his demon slayer mark probably because the mangaka didn't want

us to worry about zainson not living past 25 years old like the other marked ones but if he did awaken his demonstrator mark obtained the bright red blade and got all the other power-ups he may well have surpassed every surviving character after the defeat of muzon and remember tundra has been nerfed so it wasn't necessary but if it had been zaintu really might have been capable of becoming the strongest as his gramps told him to and if we look at it in the sense that his gramps was telling him to become the strongest user of

thunder breathing then he did in fact succeed and yes to some i may be over hyping zanitsu but i'd rather overhype him than underhype him especially considering the fact that he started out as a crybaby and the biggest underdog in the series to the point where sensei didn't even expect him to pull off one form at first even munata learned more water breathing forms than that if you did enjoy this video and want to keep them coming channel the thunder god hoshida within and smash that like button with no mercy remember smashing that like button

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