ShinoMitsu

"I love her! She's bright and pretty."

- Shinobu about Mitsuri

ShinoMitsu is the femslash ship between Mitsuri Kanroji and Shinobu Kocho from the Demon Slayer fandom.

Canon
Mitsuri and Shinobu are both fellow Hashira; and the only women in it. Since Kanae's death, the two have greatly bonded, and developed an extremely close friendship, to the point where they've stated that they love each other.

When Mitsuri was first introduced in Volume 7, Shinobu kept a calm and somewhat angry attitude towards Sanemi, telling him to not go too far, causing Mitsuri to blush and say how cute she was. She made the same remark when Shinobu was willing to take Tanjiro to the Butterfly Estate.

In the KNY Light Novels, when Mitsuri was feeling down, and Shinobu was willing to help her feel better. It turned out that Mitsuri had felt bad about joining the Demon Slayer Corps due to her simply wanting to find a husband which lead to her not wanting to eat as much but with the help of Shinobu she eventually overcame this.

Following Shinobu's death, Mitsuri thought that she should fight better and stronger, due to the latter being younger.

Shinobu and Mitsuri, additionally, are shown to parallel each other- their personalities and how they dress, for example. A particularly notable one is that Shinobu wishes she wasn't so weak in order to protect those she loves, and Mitsuri wishes she wasn't so abnormally strong so people could see her feminine side and love her for who she is. Significant, as these points are very important to their characterizations. And they both comfort each other for these insecurities.

Fanon
ShinoMitsu is the most popular femslash ship inside the community, but GiyuShino and ObaMitsu are more popular with the fans. It stays nonetheless an extremely fan-favoured ship due to the lack of female characters in Demon Slayer and among the Pillars in particular. The fact that Shinobu and Mitsuri have stated that they love each other is another reason the ship likely sailed. When it comes to fan fiction, Modern Day AUs are very popular, accounting for about 1/5 of the total amount of works on AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

PIXIV
 * しのみつ tag on Pixiv

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