Zenitsu Agatsuma is one of the characters who is often highlighted in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
What are Zenitsu’s powers? Check out the list of Zenitsu’s powers Kimetsu no Yaiba below! But watch out spoiler for those who only watched the anime version.
1. Lightning Breathing Technique
Artwork Zenitsu Agatsuma. (facebook.com/ufotable)The breathing flow that Zenitsu uses is Lightning Breathing.
What’s unique? There should be six Lightning Breathing techniques, but Zenitsu doesn’t master all of them.
One of the techniques he mastered was the first technique, Ichi no kata: Hekireki Issen, where the user moves quickly forward to slash the enemy.
For the first Lightning Breathing technique, Zenitsu has a variety of application techniques. Such as The Hekireki Issen: Rokuren, where Zenitsu uses The Hekireki Issen six times in a row, with slight increases in strength and movement speed. Then there is the variant Hachiren where he did eight The Hekireki Issen consecutive.
There are also Hekireki Issen: Shinsoku, where Zenitsu deployed the technique at a speed far greater than usual.
The second Lightning Breathing technique that Zenitsu has mastered is Shichi no kata: Honoikazuchi no Kami. Zenitsu first deployed him to fight Kaigaku.
Doesn’t Lightning Breath have six techniques? Then how come Zenitsu can use the seventh Lightning Breath technique?
Zenitsu explains in chapter 145 that it is a technique he created himself.
2. Super hearing
Zenitsu’s hearing. (Doc. Ufotable/Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)While Tanjiro has an incredible sense of smell, Zenitsu has incredible hearing. He can even distinguish people by their body sounds.
Even chapter 72 shows a unique application for Zenitsu’s hearing. Zenitsu can imitate any song he hears once, be it a rhythm played with shamisen or cat.
This super hearing also seems to help Zenitsu fight while he’s asleep. Because… well… when Zenitsu fights while sleeping, his eyes are closed.
3. Ability to fight while sleeping
Zenitsu fights while sleeping. (Doc. Ufotable/Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)The awake Zenitsu Agatsuma is a nervous and fearful figure. He could even be so scared that he passes out.
When Zenitsu is asleep, he can still miraculously fight. Zenitsu’s weaknesses, namely nervousness and fear, are not felt when he is in this state. Finally, Zenitsu can fight more effectively, and become a dangerous figure for the demons.
Even the narration in chapter 23 mentions Zenitsu as a man who becomes stronger when he sleeps.
What’s unique? When Zenitsu fought Kaigaku in chapter 144, he didn’t sleep. But he was still dangerous. In the end, he even defeated Kaigaku without needing to sleep at all.
Zenitsu also fought Muzan in the final battle without needing to sleep.
4. Strength, speed, reflexes, stamina, and endurance that surpasses that of ordinary humans (especially speed)
Zenitsu Agatsuma is injured. (Doc. Ufotable/Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)After the various training he underwent, Zenitsu also has overall strength, speed, reflexes, stamina, and endurance that surpasses that of an ordinary human.
When it comes to speed, especially, Zenitsu is indeed extraordinary. But besides that, we also see how he can continue fighting even though he is injured, showing that his body’s endurance is indeed great.
So that’s the list of Zenitsu Agatsuma’s powers. Kimetsu no Yaiba.
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First published February 4, 2022, republished July 19, 2024.
