Villain aesthetics! Analysis of the evil boss Muzan Kibutsuji in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

The extremely popular anime "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba" has been in the spotlight recently. On May 6, foreign media published an article titled "Why is the most evil boss more attractive? The villain aesthetics of Muzan Kibutsuji!" Let's learn more about this powerful boss.

"Demon Slayer" can be said to be an excellent work that focuses on depicting "what is a villain". From ancient times to the present, villains have always been an indispensable existence to set off heroes. There are many types of villains in "Demon Slayer". The protagonist Tanjiro has always believed that demons are pitiful, but there is only one demon as an exception, that is the big boss Muzan Kibutsuji. There is no compromise in the description of his evil, and "evil" is carried out to the extreme.

Muzan takes the center position from the beginning of the story.

Almost all stories need a villain. Muzan is the origin of all evil, the creator of all demons, and the ultimate goal of the protagonist. All the actions of the protagonist revolve around defeating Muzan, while the demons on the other side all act for Muzan. Muzan can definitely be said to be the central axis whose presence is even higher than that of the protagonists.

However, unlike the villains in other works who always like to whitewash themselves a little, Muzan not only has no mercy on his subordinate demons and abandons them after using them, but also occasionally shows his power to gather his subordinates to suppress and intimidate them. He is so evil that there is no way to whitewash himself.

More deviating from "human nature" than anyone else, and yet more "human" than anyone else.

In a sense, Muzan, who is completely uncompromising in his own interests, can be said to be the ultimate representative of the nature of human beings as animals.

Although there are many human beings with halos and confused minds who shout "I'm not afraid of death" every day, in fact everyone has a deep fear of death in their bones, and Muzan shows it nakedly without any concealment. In order to survive, live forever, every step of Muzan's actions revolves around this firm belief. At least when he has the ability to execute it, he will not give up on evil.