Kanao Tsuyuri

Animation: Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Training (Movie)

A flipped coin once decided everything for Kanao Tsuyuri, until the Hashira Training Arc gave her something she had never fully trusted before: her own voice. As the Hashira put the Demon Slayer Corps through grueling preparation for the looming war with Muzan Kibutsuji, Kanao stands out as Shinobu Kocho's tsuguko, sharpening a fighting style built on observation rather than instruction.

Kanao’s Growth During the Training

Years of suppressed emotion taught Kanao to let a coin make her choices, but that habit starts cracking further during this arc. She tells Shinobu directly that she wants to keep training under her, a small sentence that means everything coming from someone who once answered with silence. Her Flower Breathing technique, learned purely by watching her late sister Kanae, sharpens alongside her eyesight, which lets her read an opponent’s muscles and joints before an attack even lands. Underneath the calm exterior, something steadier and more decisive is taking shape.

Who Voices Kanao Tsuyuri in Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Training?

Brianna Knickerbocker provides Kanao’s English voice, a role she has carried across the Demon Slayer franchise alongside other notable parts like Rem in Re:Zero and Hu Tao in Genshin Impact. Reina Ueda voices her in Japanese, continuing as the character’s original performer throughout the series.