Popular adventure anime Demon Slayer has an ever-growing fan base as the show goes into its second season. Fans have been showing off their love for the new series with a variety of stunning cosplays of characters from the first season, including main characters like Nezuko Kamado, demon slayers, and demons themselves. The show features a variety of creepy and crawling demons, all with a little more than meets the eye.
Cosplayer ashlyblakecosplays, shared six unique and well-crafted photos that show off an incredible recreation of the intimidating spider mother demon on Reddit. The images show off the delicate balance of beauty and horror of the threatening character, all underneath the full moon. The pictures focus around the spider mother in her web, which also holds the bodies of those she has captured in the Demon Slayer show.
The spider demon mother has an interesting and devastating storyline in the Demon Slayer show. Her character is often abused by her "spider family" as she is pressured to protect the family and take care of them even though she is technically the youngest. Her main job is to sit upon a rock and capture demon slayers in a web. She then controls them as if they were puppets to kill other demon slayers that come into her vicinity. Her character is presented as cold and murderous, but she is personified in the moments before her imminent death as she remembers her previous life.
In the tragic moments of her death, she realizes that she would rather die than deal with the continuous abuse of her spider family and becomes disgusted with herself, recalling some memories of her human form. The character is only in one episode but plays a larger role in the issues the show tries to deal with. Main Demon Slayer character Tanjiro has a unique kindness and is sympathetic to demons despite the fact that they murder and eat people. After his sister Nezuko shows constraint upon being turned into a demon, Tanjiro recognizes the human side of these demons and those stories add a layer of depth to the show.
Demon Slayer has quickly become a modern classic in the anime world and is certainly a show to keep an eye on. The recent film Demon Slayer: Mugen Train slayed at the box office and just barely tied fans over as they wait for the second season of the show, which will hopefully come out later this year.
Watch Demon Slayer: Mugen Train on Funimation.
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