Hantengu (Upper Rank Four) from Demon Slayer is a Jew depiction. Hantengu is characterized by living a lie, often viewing himself as the innocent victim despite having been a sadistic killer. Also, bald head, big nose, weird thing on his head.
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Dude, and I'm saying this as someone antisemitic enough to put clams in a slingshot, this is one of the most retarded reaches I've heard all month. This is just the right-of-center version of "Darth Vader says trans rights!" ultra cringe headcanon interpretation of characters.
Its a YA cartoon story. Its not secretly le heckin basederino secret depictions of the JQ.
Sometimes the demon vampire thing is just a demon vampire thing.
It's not a reach. It's Japanese folk lore. OP just reached the correct conclusion via un-sound means.
You can see in his raiment, weapons, and abilities that Hantengu has many correlations to the tengu youkai despite Kimetsu no Yaiba explicitly featuring oni.
Hantengu (spelled 半天狗 in Japanese) translates to "half tengu", indicating that the correlations to tengu in Hantengu's design and character are not accidental, they were deliberate.
Tengu have gone through many iterations through the centuries of Japanese folk lore, but the most modern and up-to-date iteration includes several important details, such as: bald head, big nose, box shaped hat on the forehead, greedy, lying, harbinger of war, kidnappers, carries a torah scroll. The torah scroll in particular indicates that the modern iteration of the tengu is likely referring to jews.
You don't even need to be antisemetic, you just need to know Japanese folk lore to know this claim isn't a reach, it's not a "ultra cringe headcanon interpretation", and it's not a "secretly le heckin basederino secret depiction". That being said, you are partially right in that the author likely wasn't being deliberately antisemetic in their writing, it's just a natural result of the Japanese folk lore that went into designing the character.
I'm sorry that's a new one, could you explain that?
Sorry, it's the sort of stupid thing that makes sense in your head when you're two thirds asleep after work.
I was thinking, kind of how you can tell hindus to fuck off by putting beef on or in things, and how you can tell muslims to fuck off by putting pork on or in things, you can tell jews to fuck off by tossing shellfish into or onto things (since shellfish is always unholy), and somehow my brain leapt from "throw bacon at muslims" to "throw clams at jews" to "but wait, clams are hard, you can accelerate that projectile...", and, uh, here we are.
The Jews fear the Samurai.