A Friendly Reminder that Giyuu is Very Attractive in Canon! - an updated post
So I was the one who made the Attractive Giyuu post before, but looking back, it was a mess, and some of the wording was inaccurate, so I reposted it with proper credits to the original poster and better wording. Many thanks to @demonslayedher for helping me look and translate the text on the source material. (which helped me understand these information in a much better light) Anyways, on to the post!
1. It’s canon that Giyuu has Strong Eyeliner Game. In the first fanbook, it was said that Gotouge apparently draws him with “thick lashes”. The way his eyes are drawn, “the upward curve at the bottom outer edge” is done to make him look more “ikemen” and ikemen means “hot guy”
2. HE IS POPULAR! In the first fanbook and Kimegakuen special, Giyuu got 31 chocolates, the second highest out of the three other popular teachers such as Rengoku and Uzui. Even if Giyuu may not be well liked by some of his peers, it’s safe to say he might have many admirers among the students!
3. The fact that he is voiced by Takahiro Sakurai is no coincidence! He is a seiyuu that is very popular for voicing handsome characters (or those marketing to be more attractive, I’m looking at you Reigen)
Sakurai-san is certainly not limited to handsome characters, he has incredible voice range after all, but the voice he uses for Giyuu tends to be the one he does for “Ikemen” Characters. Some of the “handsome/cool” roles he played includes: Cloud strife, Makishima Shougo,Yamato Kurosawa and Albert Hawke, Griffith from Berserk, Su from Honkai, Merlin from FGO, just to name a few. (He also did a lot of BL roles but we will not get into that)
4. Light Novels, Uzui (indirectly) calls Giyuu handsome.
In this chapter, Uzui encounters a wild smiling!Giyuu, what he doesn’t know was that this is actually not the true Giyuu but rather, a ghost impersonating him. nonetheless Uzui’s POV off handedly mentioned how this cheerful Giyuu looked handsome.
Check out Moko-chan’s translations on Wordpress, for full context go check out the third Light Novel: Chapter 5 Kimetsu Academy Tales ～ Night Stroll
5. In the KNY Exhibit “The Legend of Zenitsu”, Zenitsu drew three people that he hated for being close to Nezuko, Brother-in-Law (Tanjiro), Pork Tonkatsu (Inosuke) and the Ugly Side Character TO-MI-O-KA (Giyuu).
You can check out mimizili’s twitter for the pictures, there is a description, and It’s hard to really make it out, but thanks to @demonslayedher what she was able to understand is that The uglier Zenitsu’s drawings were, the more of a “slender pretty type boy” they are in real life, and it’s safe to say Zenitsu’s drawing of Giyuu was the ugliest of the bunch…..
(as for the “slender pretty boy” its worth noting some of the specific words that are used such as “シュッとした/shuttoshita” which is a slang for someone with slender build and “美男” which means “beautiful man" all which heavily alludes to Giyuu in one way or another)
So yeah! Giyuu is canon beautiful, that’s it, that’s the post.
