‘Sup, Anon, thanks for your patience, today is nerdy name day, so time to get into this Ask-kaza!

(I’m a woman, I’m safe, Akaza won’t hurt me for that stupid pun. I may be pushing my luck though.)

My initial thought is that the kanji are kind of random and cool-looking, just fit together like “ateji” (kanji chosen for sound rather than coherent meaning) to express a catchy name. 猗窩座 just plain has a nice complexity and balance to it, something I feel a lot of the Kimetsu no Yaiba demon names have. If we look into them individually we can get “exclamation of surprise/approval” and “hole” and “seat” so if you wanted to get really dumb with your interpretation you could picture someone expressing approval at such a fine hole in a chair (hmm, that’s unflattering). But kanji hide plenty of mystery and KnY has too much lore to let it go at that!

To dive into it a bit more, while I think 座 is used more as a phonetic placeholder, it can be used very flexibility, for a “seat” is way, way more than something like a chair. This is a pedastal, a platform upon which something of value is set, a role which needs a place to be settled. If you look back into the Chinese usage it can be used a placeholder for counting very large and prominent things like buildings and mountains or even used as a polite form of address for people with big titles. You still see this capacity for honoring the larger-than-life in the naming of astrological constellations, ending many of them with this character denotes the Chinese (and by extension, Japanese) idea that each constellion is where the stars sit, a platform which is fitting for them. This isn’t to say Akaza’s name is supposed to denote a constellation, just saying that the use of 座 gives it an air of importance.

If we keep working backwards, 窩 isn’t just a hole or a ditch, it’s a place in which to hide something. It can even be used to denote sheltering something. A Japanese theory I found suggests that this is in reference to how Akaza has no memories of being human, they’ve been hidden away as though they disappeared into a hole.

And if we come back to 猗, it can also mean docile among other things (like “luxuriant” which doesn’t seem to fit so I’m ignoring it), and according to one Japanese fandom theory I found, seems this is in reference to a dog made docile (snip-snip). We could look at this as Muzan having gelded him into a docile subordinate, but the Japanese theory I found goes on to tie in more of Hakuji’s name (I’ll be paraphrasing and adding a bit of my own emphasis to it).

The Haku 狛 is part of 狛犬, in reference to the stone statues of dogs who stand guard at shrines. (Fun fact, the -ji 治 is the same -ji in Tanjiro). It’s a very righteous sounding name, reflecting the ideals Hakuji’s father hoped for him. Tragically, Hakuji does not live up to this easily and turns into a mad dog (狂犬) when he loses his loved ones.

Having his memories snipped off, hidden away in some hollow part of himself, is what turns him into Muzan’s docile dog.

Tokyo Manji Road Trip Headcanons

What happens when you put thirteen boys on a six hour road trip? Chaos. I don’t know what you expected out of this, who thought this was a good idea-

Content: Toman x gn!reader, modern au, swearing, all characters are of age

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Masterlist

The gang is split into 3 cars:

• Car A: Mikey, Draken, Takemichi, Baji, Chifuyu, Mitsuya, Kazutora
• Car B: Hakkai, Mucho, Sanzu, Nahoya, Souta, Peh-yan, Pah-chin
• Car C: Emma, Hina, Yuzuha

Pick your poison~

Car A

• Aka the 5 founders + Chifuyu and Takemichi
• Draken’s the designated driver after much protest, its not that he can’t drive its just that he would’ve preferred to ride through the trip on his bike
• Also complained that he car gave mom vibes because it was a van
• Mikey’s of course riding shotgun, consuming all the snacks in the process

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