Phrogging is definitely among his hobbies. And on that note, someone please make that the plot of a oneshot.
Imagine hearing muffled sobbing through the walls in the middle of the night. Your things just randomly go missing and you're not sure if those really were red eyes in your peripheral vision when you exited the bathroom at 2 am or if you're just sleepy.
Since the design material collection books finally arrived, I was able to scan some of the pages and visualize the demon's heights. Some of them are officially stated while for others, I had to approximate based on comparison. Explanation for each of those is stated below.
First of are Muzan (179 cm), Kokushibo (190 cm), Doma (187 cm) and Akaza (173 cm). Their heights are all officially stated in the Demon Corps Records.
Next are Hantengu (166 cm), Gyokko (between 150 and 170 cm in his vase), Daki (~ 178 cm) and Gyutaro (~ 190 cm). The later two don't have an official height mentioned but the size of the head is a good measure to compare the characters in the official designs. Daki is of course taller because of her shoes, while in the anime, Gyutaro is hunched over a lot. But from the image of the design material from the Entertainment District Arc which I've used, you can see what his height is standing straight, or at least as straight as physically possible for him.
I'd like to add that while Gyokko's height is known, if you go based off the official art, he can be taller than 170 cm, depending on how straight he positions himself and how far he comes out of his vase.
Hantengu's clones
Looking at the clones next, you can see Zohakuten (~ 165 cm) and first-split Sekido and Karaku (~ 190 cm). Zohakuten's height is more or less official since we are shown the direct comparison with Tanjiro. The other two were again compared with the head sizes and proportions.
Second-split Sekido and Karaku as well as Aizetsu and Urogi are generally the same size (~ 190 cm) since their proportions don't really change. However, Urogi's anatomy generally affects his height, but not too much as when he's standing on his legs, his hips would be around the same height as the others'.
The smallest of the clones is the main body / fear clone (~ 19 cm). The tallest being Urami (~ 260 cm) who is seen directly next to Tanjiro in the design material.
Gyokko's height when morphed
Morphed / true-form Gyokko (~ 215 cm) is directly compared to Muichiro whose height is known (160 cm), making a visualization of his size easy.
(An approximation of his tail length may follow.)
Ranking
From tallest to smallest, Muzan and the upper moons as well as their other forms can be ranked as followed:
Urami - 260 cm
Morphed Gyokko - 215 cm
Kokushibo ︱ Sekido, Karaku, Aizetsu and Urogi ︱ Gyutaro - 190 cm
For the purpose of visualizing his height, I put the art from the official character sheets in front of a wallpaper with height markings in centimeters. The illustration of Tanjiro was on the same page to visualize the height difference. As we know that Tanjiro is 165 cm tall, I scaled the image to match his height to the correct marking.
For the purpose of visualizing his height, I put the art from the official character sheets in front of a wallpaper with height markings in centimeters. The illustration of Tanjiro was on the same page to visualize the height difference. As we know that Tanjiro is 165 cm tall, I scaled the image to match his height to the correct marking.
So far, I've seen a few people on Tumblr and other platforms talk about how Zohakuten appears to them like a child. And I think in the minds of many they might even imagine him being younger than some of the main characters like Tanjiro.
Usually in anime, characters look younger or older than they actually are, be it due to the author's intention or because of the art style. Especially with Demon Slayer, the characters usually look younger than they are because of the art style that makes most characters appear to be about the same height due to their proportions. So since we can't really rely on the appearance of the characters, because we see them through the lense of the art style, I thought I'd try to see if we can find out what age Zohakuten is really supposed to look like.
Luckily, we get a direct comparison in the manga and anime from one of the characters.
In her fight with Zohakuten, Mitsuri compares him to look to be about the same age as her brother.
In neither the manga or the anime do we ever get told the age of her younger brother. We know that she has several siblings and from the manga and fan book we know that her brother was born right after her.
So from that, we can roughly estimate how much older than her brother Mitsuri is.
In one of the flashbacks we can see a toddler Mitsuri trying to help out her pregnant mother. We're also given her exact age at that time.
In the anime, we get to see her pregnant mother from a different angle.
Judging from these images, and comparing them to pictures of other pregnant women, we can assume that she's about 25 to 30 weeks pregnant at that point.
So from that we can calculate that Mitsuri's brother is about one and a half years younger than her.
Knowing Mitsuri's age to be about 19 when she was fighting Zohakuten, we now know that her younger brother was about 17 to 18 years old at that time. We don't know how long it's been since she last saw him, since she's a busy hashira. But due to her close relationship to her siblings, I think it can be assumed she tries to visit as often as possible, so it's not like she was picturing her brother at 14 years old for example.
On the other hand, her mental image of her brother might be distorted to some degree, since he's still her little brother and I think we all see our younger siblings as much younger than they're actually are.
Nonetheless, I think it can safely be said, that Zohakuten does not appear like anything younger than 15 to the characters in Demon Slayer. I actually think he's supposed to look somewhere between 15 and 18, since he's about the same height as Tanjiro, who was about 16 at the time they fought. I know I've stated before, that most characters look about the same height as the main characters, but that Zohakuten and Tanjiro are about the same height is seen in the official concept art. Which also tells us Zohakuten is about 165 cm or 5'5''.
Personally, I'd say he's physically about 16 years old. So yes, physically he is a child/teenager. Mentally, he's a 200+ year old demon's hatred personified.
I'm in a crisis because my laptop decided to die and now I'm trying to revive it and save all my art files because if this doesn't work, all of my work is gone.
I'm in a crisis because my laptop decided to die and now I'm trying to revive it and save all my art files because if this doesn't work, all of my work is gone.
I don't know why, but for some reason, every time I have art block, drawing Gyokko is the thing that gets me out of it. I haven't drawn him like this in a while, but basically it is how I imagine how he'll look like at some point in my fanfiction. The chapter is not written yet, but if he ever were to disguise himself as a human, it would probably look something like this...
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