Demon Slayer MLP: Sanemi X Kanae - “Monster Lines”
10Originally posted on my Instagram as a reel that was made in honor of Valentine’s/Hearts & Hooves Day, featuring both of my MLP interpretations of Kanae Kocho and Sanemi Shinazugawa. Like I said on Instagram, since Sanemi and Kanae seem to be a popular ship in the Demon Slayer fandom (besides the most obvious ones like Kanrobanai, Rengokuzui, Tanjiro X Kanao, Nezuko X Zenitsu, etc), I decided to approach this ship for Valentines/Hearts & Hooves Day to kind of get back into the swing of drawing the Demon Slayer MLP characters, which was fun doing despite rushing it on my own terms.
The story behind the video is a simple one. It’s based on a bit of what happens in the canon story, but also inputs a bit of how I interpret the situation the way I thought it would play out. In the video, Sanemi questions Kanae about why she ever took him in when no one else did during his time in the Corp, long before he even became a Hashira. He only saw himself as a bloodthirsty monster, denoting that he was nothing short of terrifying and merciless to everyone else around him, even his younger brother; while not entirely inaccurate, he didn’t like hearing them all the same, sometimes letting them get the best of him. Kanae, who’s been nothing short of patient with him, wished for him to see that he wasn’t a monster like he thought he was, and decided to prove that to him personally.
The story itself is basically an AU where the characters find a portal where they turn into MLP characters and a bunch of other stuff that I haven’t fleshed out yet, but yes, Kanae is alive in the AU.
Audio is from Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, just in case people want to know where it came from!