Tamayo - Demon Slayer
Tamayo is a major secondary character in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. She is a demon, a skilled doctor, and a close ally of Tanjiro Kamado.
During the final confrontation between humanity and the demons, Tamayo and Yushiro team up with the Demon Slayer Corps to develop a medicine that would aid in the defeat of Muzan Kibutsuji.
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Appearance
Tamayo is a small young woman with long dark brown hair, parted in the centre and styled in a large low bun, held in place by a floral hairpin called a tama-kanzashi. She has large, gentle eyes that initially lack pupils, only a lavender mist that darkens to deep purple as it rises, along with red lips that contrast with her pale complexion. Tanjiro and Yushiro note that she has an attractive appearance.
Tamayo wore a medium-length dark purple hōmongi kimono decorated with pale purple wavy tree branches and red flowers, along with a cream-coloured taiko musubi obi to secure it around her waist. She also wore plain white socks and purple zōri sandals.
During the confrontation between the Demon Slayer Corps and Muzan, Tamayo's eyes have black, cat-like pupils, and Yushiro’s talisman is scattered in her kimono.
In her past, Tamayo wore her hair tied in a low ponytail.
Personality
Tamayo is a gentle, wise, and incredibly intelligent person. Having dedicated most of her life to research on demons and the transformation of humans into demons, she was one of the most competent individuals shown. Despite the generally antagonistic and hostile relationship between humans and demons, she shows great kindness towards humans. She has made it her mission to help the injured or sick using her vast medical knowledge, including Tanjiro Kamado.
Tamayo had a strong aversion to violence: instead of killing humans for their blood, she chose to buy blood from consenting donors to survive. She was adamant in teaching her assistant, Yushiro, against violence and would often reprimand him for his habit of striking others. She was one of the few demons who, after her transformation, was able to regain and maintain her human emotions.
However, despite her usual kind, caring, and compassionate nature, Tamayo displayed a more cruel and vicious personality when dealing with Muzan. This was seen when she joyfully boasted to him about having successfully created a medicine that transforms humans and injecting it into him. Later, after being consumed and reduced to mere cells inside his body, Tamayo again showed her cruel side while revealing the true effects of her medicine. Muzan implied that this vicious personality was Tamayo's original one from her early years as a demon, though her antagonistic relationship with him makes this doubtful. It is possible that Tamayo’s radical shift in attitude was only triggered when she was with Muzan due to the intense hatred she harboured towards him.
During her time as Muzan’s servant and before meeting Yoriichi Tsugikuni, Tamayo revealed a more docile personality, probably because she realised how impossible it was to defeat Muzan with her own power in order to avenge her family. However, this changed when she witnessed Yoriichi's strength and how close he was to killing Muzan, as Yoriichi noted that he saw a glimmer of hope in her previously impassive eyes as she realised he had almost killed her former master. This showed that, upon seeing Yoriichi’s power, Tamayo’s determination to avenge her family was reignited.
Tamayo despised her identity as a demon: when she was first encountered by Tanjiro and he deduced that it was her demon blood art helping her, she mentioned that she could still be considered human. Upon learning that Nezuko recognised her as human and hugged her after helping defeat Susamaru, Tamayo drew closer to her and tearfully thanked Nezuko. During her confrontation with Muzan to inject him with her drug, Tamayo stated that she had no intention of being a demon and simply wanted to survive her illness and be with her family, showing that Muzan had deceived her into undergoing a transformation without informing her of the consequences.
Abilities
Overall Abilities
As one of the oldest demons to ever exist, well before the Twelve Kizuki, and armed with unparalleled knowledge of demon science and physiology, Tamayo is an extremely powerful demon. She managed to enchant and distract a group of policemen, preventing them from seeing herself, Yushiro, and Tanjiro clearly. She then effortlessly put Susamaru to sleep, causing her to accidentally say Muzan's name, despite the extreme fear that almost all demons have towards him, thanks to her use of her Blood Demon Art. However, her greatest weapon is her vast knowledge of medicine and the inner workings of demons. She was able to reverse a demon's transformation, something that was once considered completely impossible, and played a central role in the eventual death of the Demon King, Muzan Kibutsuji, by developing a powerful medicine that drastically diminished his once unmatched physical abilities.
Medical and Pharmaceutical Skills: What Tamayo lacks in combat prowess, she more than compensates for with her highly refined skills in medicine and pharmacy. She possesses the ability to modify her own body to survive on only a small amount of human blood. She was also able to transform Yushiro, who was in a terminal phase, into a demon without Muzan's blood. Before the final battle, she also transformed Chachamaru into a demon. Later, she successfully freed the Asakusa demon from Muzan's influence and helped it regain consciousness by using Nezuko Kamado's blood. To further highlight her pharmaceutical skills, Tamayo was also able to assist the Insect Hashira, Shinobu Kocho, in saturating her body with lethal glycine poison without causing her any illness; a tactic that the Hashira later used effectively against the Upper Rank Two, Doma.
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Demon Blood Coagulant: Tamayo created this medicine to prevent the progression of a demon's Blood Demon Art. Yushiro used this medicine to heal Zenitsu Agatsuma after his battle with Kaigaku.
Anti-Kibutsuji Medicine: It was later revealed that, in collaboration with Yushiro and Shinobu, Tamayo succeeded in creating an extremely powerful four-step medicine that could severely weaken Muzan. Once administered, its effects would be strong enough to significantly harm him, despite his immense resistances and physical abilities. The first step of the medicine involved the same human conversion step as the one used in the medicine administered to Nezuko.
Combat Style
Blood Demon Art
Blood Enchantment (惑わく血ち, Wakuchi): Tamayo’s Blood Demon Art involves extracting her own blood and casting various support-type spells using the scent of said blood.
Techniques
- Illusory Blood Scent, Visual Dream: A hallucination that impairs the vision of those affected by creating beautiful floral patterns around them.
- Magical Scent of Daylight: A spell that acts like a truth serum, causing a reduction in brain function and forcing the recipient to confess their lies and keep no secrets.
Exclusive Game Techniques
- Magical Scent of Daylight, Resonance: An attack that causes harmful effects on the victim and leads them towards openings that allow access to other sources.
- Illusory Blood Scent, Visual Dream: Grapple: Yushiro strikes his opponent with multiple blows while Tamayo assists him using her Blood Demon Art, Blood Bewitchment: Scent of Illusory Blood, Visual Dream. This ends with Yushiro performing an uppercut palm strike.
Anecdote
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Tamayo's name contains the kanji for "pearl, gem, jewel" (珠, tama) and "world" (世, yo).
Tamayo ranked 18th in the first character popularity poll, with 138 votes.
Her Japanese voice actress, Maaya Sakamoto, is married to the Japanese voice actor of Obanai, Kenichi Suzumura.
Tamayo is at least 500 years old, as she was shown to have thrived during the same time as Yoriichi Tsugikuni and was transformed into a demon some time before that.
After meeting Yoriichi and escaping Muzan's influence, she survived by eating animal and human corpses (later switching to human blood). She refused to obey her demon instincts and never attacked humans, despite the pain she endured.
Tamayo loves cleanliness, so if something is messy or dirty, it bothers her and makes it hard for her to concentrate.
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