Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles 2 - Skills
The techniques that fill out every fighter's moveset in The Hinokami Chronicles 2: the numbered forms of the Demon Slayer Corps' Breathing styles and the Blood Demon Arts wielded by the Twelve Kizuki. Each style is a complete combat system with its own forms, movement, and finishers, and every playa...
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| Name | Type | Description | Weapon Type | Cost | Prerequisite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Breathing | Breathing Style | The foundational style of the Demon Slayer Corps and the first taught to Tanjiro, built on flowing, adaptable motions that redirect an enemy's force. | Nichirin Blade | Starting style for Tanjiro; broadest form list of any style | Training under Sakonji Urokodaki |
| Hinokami Kagura (Sun Breathing) | Breathing Style | The original Breathing style, passed down in the Kamado family as a ceremonial dance and revealed to be Sun Breathing, the art from which every other style was derived. | Nichirin Blade | Awakened mid-campaign for Tanjiro | Recall the Kagura performance and the hanafuda earrings passed down by Tanjuro Kamado |
| Thunder Breathing | Breathing Style | A speed-focused style that compresses movement into single explosive dashes, with its first form, Thunderclap and Flash, as its defining technique. | Nichirin Blade | Single-technique specialization for Zenitsu | Training under the former Thunder Hashira Jigoro Kuwajima |
| Beast Breathing | Breathing Style | A self-taught style created by Inosuke Hashibira in the mountains with no instruction and no reference, built from the movements of animals and named after fangs. | Dual Serrated Nichirin Blades | No formal training required | Inosuke Hashibira only |
| Flower Breathing | Breathing Style | A graceful style passed to Kanao Tsuyuri by her sister Kanae Kocho, built on precise, economical slashes that resemble blooming flowers and falling petals. | Nichirin Blade | Kanao's signature style | Training under Kanae and Shinobu Kocho at the Butterfly Estate |
| Insect Breathing | Breathing Style | A style Shinobu Kocho built for a body too slight to cut through a demon's neck, replacing strength with speed, reach, and poison. | Stinger-Style Nichirin Blade | Shinobu's signature style | Requires a wisteria-poisoned stinger blade |
| Flame Breathing | Breathing Style | A rigorously disciplined style associated with the Rengoku family, using broad, powerful cuts that burn through an enemy's guard. | Nichirin Blade | Kyojuro Rengoku's signature style | Taught within the Rengoku line |
| Sound Breathing | Breathing Style | Tengen Uzui's personal style, developed from his shinobi training and built around the timing of explosions and the rhythm of a battle. | Twin Explosive Cleavers | Tengen Uzui's signature style | Former shinobi training plus the Sound Hashira's cleavers |
| Mist Breathing | Breathing Style | A style of concealment that wraps a swordsman's movement in haze so dense that enemies lose track of their position, making each attack appear from nowhere. | Nichirin Blade | Muichiro Tokito's signature style | Mist Hashira training |
| Love Breathing | Breathing Style | A unique style Mitsuri Kanroji invented by adapting Flame Breathing to a blade as thin and pliant as a whip. | Flexible Whip-Style Nichirin Blade | Mitsuri Kanroji's signature style | A personal blade forged to be thin and whip-like |
| Wind Breathing | Breathing Style | A ferocious, sweeping style whose cuts are described as gales tearing through a forest. | Nichirin Blade | Sanemi Shinazugawa's signature style | Wind Hashira training |
| Serpent Breathing | Breathing Style | Obanai Iguro's style, designed around a blade forged with a wavy, serpentine edge so that its attacks never travel in a straight line. | Twisted Nichirin Blade | Obanai Iguro's signature style | Serpent Hashira training and a custom irregular blade |
| Stone Breathing | Breathing Style | Gyomei Himejima's style, built for weapons no ordinary swordsman could control: a spiked flail on a chain paired with a chained axe that swings across enormous distances. | Chained Flail and Axe | Gyomei Himejima's signature style | Stone Hashira training; blind sensory mastery |
| Total Concentration Breathing | Special Skill | The discipline every Breathing style is built on: expanding the lungs and accelerating the bloodstream until the body operates far beyond human limits. | All Breath Users | Core mechanic for all Slayer fighters | Basic Corps training |
| Demon Slayer Mark | Special Skill | A crest that appears on a slayer's skin during extreme exertion, granting a dramatic surge in strength, speed, and perception at the cost of shortening the wielder's life. | All Breath Users | Awakened under extreme duress | Unlocked through story progression |
| Blood Demon Art: Exploding Blood | Blood Demon Art | Nezuko Kamado's Blood Demon Art, which ignites her own blood into crimson flames that scorch and destroy demon flesh while leaving humans unharmed. | Demonic Ability | Nezuko Kamado's own art | Demon transformation |
| Destructive Death | Blood Demon Art | Akaza's Blood Demon Art, structured like a martial art rather than a supernatural power. | Demonic Ability | Akaza's own art | Upper Rank Three demon |
| Blood Demon Art: Emotion Clone Division | Blood Demon Art | Hantengu's art splits his body into clones born from different emotions, each with its own elemental technique, from wind and fire to sonic blasts and spear thrusts, while his true body hides inside the smallest form. | Demonic Ability | Hantengu's own art | Upper Rank Four demon |
| Blood Demon Arts of Pot, Flesh, and Thread | Blood Demon Art | The summoning and manipulation arts used by the Twelve Kizuki's specialists. | Demonic Ability | Various owner demons | Twelve Kizuki demons |
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