Gyokko is a major antagonist in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, a member of the Twelve Kizuki who holds the rank of Upper Rank Five and uses a pot-based Blood Demon Art to create and manipulate aquatic entities and warped “artworks” made from human bodies.
Name (current): Gyokko
Human name: Managi
Affiliation: Twelve Kizuki (Upper Rank Five) under Muzan Kibutsuji
Gender: Male
Height: Approximately 150–170 cm (while in pot)
Weight: Approximately 40–80 kg (while in pot)
Blood Demon Art: Pots
Number (rank): Upper Rank Five
First appearance (manga): Volume 12, Chapter 98 “Upper Ranks Gather”
Hobbies: Making pots, modifying living creatures
First appearance (anime arc): Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc
Voice actor (Japanese): Kosuke Toriumi
Self‑description: “Supreme artist”
First official popularity poll result: 52nd place (49 votes)
Gyokko is one of the elite demons directly serving Muzan Kibutsuji, ranked Upper Rank Five among the Twelve Kizuki.
He specializes in long‑range warfare, information gathering, and battlefield control via his Blood Demon Art centered on pots and water.
Visually, he is among the least human‑looking demons in the entire series.
He normally resides partially inside a large pot, with his torso emerging from it and his body fused to the vessel.
His design includes a muscular but armless pale upper body, a long black serpentine lower body, and a severely distorted face with mouths where his eyes should be and eyes on his forehead and where a mouth should be.
Multiple small arms sprout from his head and other parts of his body, cementing his status as a grotesque, fully monstrous figure rather than a humanoid one.
According to the official fanbook, his current form is the result of his own “body modification” experiments.
Among the Upper Ranks, who mostly retain human silhouettes, Gyokko stands out as one of the most alien, similar in extremity only to monsters like the Hand Demon or the Spider Family in earlier arcs.
Gyokko presents himself as a polite but condescending “supreme artist” obsessed with beauty as he defines it.
He looks down on humans as “lowly lifeforms” and treats their deaths as raw material for his “art.”
He has a verbal tic of adding “that too is good” to his lines, framing almost everything through his aesthetic lens, even when he is irritated.
He reacts with perverse delight wh
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