Kie Kamado

Kie was a light-skinned woman with gentle dark purple eyes that lightened toward the lower iris, and a small beauty mark beneath her lower lip on the left side. Her black hair was gathered into a loose, messy bun with a few strands hanging over her face. Her daughter Nezuko closely resembles her in facial features and hair color.

Her outfit was a checkered kimono in cream and purple, layered beneath a long-sleeved white kappogi, with a white tenugui wound around her head to cover most of her hair.

As a mother of six, Kie was consistently warm, caring, and kind. Raising her children alone after her husband's death, she did everything she could to be affectionate and fill the absence he left behind, while still being protective and teaching them independence.

Her encouraging spirit shows even within Nezuko's subconscious, where her image urges her daughter to wake and help Tanjiro and reminds her to give it her all.

Kie married Tanjuro and had six children, and after his death she kept the whole family safe and fed through every hardship. The night Tanjiro left to sell charcoal, Muzan entered the home and injected Kie with his blood, hoping to create a demon able to endure sunlight. She did not survive, and only Nezuko lived, turned into a demon.

Visions of Kie recur across the series: she begs Nezuko to wake during the fight with Rui, appears in Tanjiro's dream within Enmu's Blood Demon Art, and surfaces through a lullaby that calms Nezuko's berserk rage in Yoshiwara. Notably, her famously hard skull was inherited by Tanjiro, and she was one of the few who knew where the Blue Spider Lilies grew.