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InDemon Slayer, humans use concentrated breathing forms to match the powerful elevated demons they face in combat. These breathing styles are based on different elements and have multiple forms that act as the demon slayers' special moves.
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At the beginning of these breathing styles was sun breathing, which has since evolved to take on different elements as new users develop their own unique styles. From sun breathing, the main elemental breathing styles were created, with a few smaller and unique ones being further created from the main elemental forms.Mist Breathing is not one of the main elemental breathing forms but was derived from wind breathing.
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What Is Mist Breathing
Mist breathing focuses on quick attacks that attempt to overwhelm an enemy’s senses, making them easier targets as they lose track of the Demon Slayer. As its name suggests, this style mimics mist, seeminglycreating a haze over the battleground that the user is able to blend into and hide their exact location from the enemy.
Muchiro, The Mist Hashira,is the only known user of this breathing form. Muchiro wears large loose-fitting clothes into battle to further obscure his body and the moves he’s making, adding to the difficulty of following his movements from the mist breathing techniques. Muchiro is very young and small compared to the other Hashira, and when you pair his size with the mist breathing, he becomes an extremely difficult target to hit.
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Mist Breathing Forms
There aresix known Mist Breathing forms, with Muchiro creating a seventh form unique to himself. Each of these forms focuses on moving fast and attacking with swift strikes to try and catch your enemy off guard.
Breathing Technique
Explanation
First Form: Low Clouds, Distant Haze
The user lunges forward with a fast and powerful thrust
Second Form: Eight-Layered Mist
The user unleashes eight swift slashes at an incredible speed
Third Form: Scattering Mist Splash
The user slashes in a circular motion in front of them, creating a barrier to block incoming projectiles.
Fourth Form: Shifting Flow Slash
The user dashes towards their enemy, unsheathing their sword to slash at the enemy incredibly fast.
Fifth Form: Sea Of Clouds And Haze
The user unleashes a flurry of attacks over a wide range, obscuring their position and the areas they are attacking.
Sixth Form: Lunar Dispersing Mist
The user backflips into the air, attacking with many slashes from above.
Seventh Form: Obscuring Clouds
A unique form created by Muchiro, he will appear to be moving slowly to his opponent, disappearing into a mist that covers a wide area, reappearing to be moving seemingly in the blink of an eye to catch his opponent off guard.
