Demon Slayer Season 3 Episode 6: Why is Genya obsessed with becoming Hashira? Explained

The latest episode of Demon Slayer sheds some light on Genya’s past, which explains why she is so desperate to become Hashira. While fighting Hantengu’s Emotion Demons, Genya has a flashback to her past that explains why her goal of becoming Hashira is so important to her.

zhenya’s sad past

Genya’s brother Pawan Hashira Sanemi Shinazugawa appears in flashbacks throughout the episode. Zhenya’s flashback tells of how he had an abusive father who frequently beat his children and wife. After their father’s death, the two brothers are close, and the responsibility of taking care of their family falls on Zhenya and Sanemi. One day when their mother doesn’t come home, Sanemi goes looking for her and tells Zhenya to look after her siblings. When Sanemi is absent, a demon suddenly attacks Zhenya’s family and kills the rest of her siblings. Sanemi appears in time to save Jenny and tells her to run away.

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Why does Zhenya want to be Hashira?

In the episode, Genya and Tanjiro are fighting demons together. When Tanjiro successfully takes out the demons alone, Genya becomes enraged and grabs him by the throat as she wants to kill the demons and be the first Hashira. Instead of running away at the behest of her older brother, Zhenya goes to seek a doctor’s help to help her siblings. When he returns home after sunrise, he is shocked by what he sees. The demon who attacked their home is their mother, and Genya learns that her brother killed her. Taking it all in, he blames his elder brother without realizing that Sanemi killed their mother to save Zhenya.