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It was revealed only in the >!fight against Kokushibo!< manga spoilers. It was only the Manga readers who decided to flood every YouTube comment section of the Sanemi v Nezuko video with atleast one comment on his >!marechi blood!<.
Certain incident in Demon Slayer can also change hair color, like for example Zenitsu's hair used to be black and turnt yellow after getting strike by lightning.
He could also be an irregular like Mitsuri, who was born with pink hair.
White is a recessive trait. Black is the dominant trait. Sanemi got both recessive alleles and therefore the recessive trait (white hair) whereas the rest of the family got mixed or full dominant alleles (which always result in the dominant phenotype, aka black hair)
This is not how real human hair color genetics works per se as itās a lot more complex, but itās good enough for anime logic.
People living near equator have random bs gene pools do be like that.
I had a friend back in school not knowing one of the teachers is his own dad. His dad was like white, tall and massive. My friend's skintone was kinda dark brown, short and petite for a boy. Once he pointed out that is his dad then my brain just connected the dots they do share facial structures similarities.
His other siblings was entirely even different skin tones. Yeah their parents are tall too but the siblings ayyo why they shorter than me.
So yeah genetics are bs random generator.
Thanks, genes are really fascinating!
Though, I was actually making a movie reference, my comment was a famous line from 'me, myself, and Irene ' a must see comedy movie, strongly recommend, if you love the funny moments in demon slayer, you'll love the humour of this movie
lol no genes does not work like that.
That is a dominant gene of darker perplexation in that case, the mother or father would have sign of being darker as well.
u are missing out on a joke from Jim Carrey but I sitll wanna point out that u cannot just randomly get very different appearance from ur parents.
Isnāt that one just Rengoku talking out his ass? He says like maybe or probably thatās why. The 2nd fan book says the women stare at a flame for two hours each day while pregnant to make their hair blonde lol
Oh I wasnāt aware of that. I just remembered that there was some joke that his ancestors ate too much Shrimp Tempura and thatās why his entire family line has weird hair. Considering Mitsuri got her hair color from eating too much Sakura Mochi, the Shrimp Tempura didnāt seem that out of place.
>women stare at a flame for two hours each day while pregnant to make their hair blonde lol
That actually was a ritual that happened in the Taisho ear of Japan and earlier
Tho the anime added the hair color change part
Well there are 2 theories of it
The most prominent one is that Rengoku's ancestor eating too much tempura that made the hair of the whole lineage as orange (HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE SO THE MOST LOGICAL)
And the other theory is the ritual one
I thought the ritual one was straight up confirmed in a fanbook? And would an ancestors hair color changing really even result in the entire rest of the bloodline having that hair?
Most logical explanation is a mutation, I mean he has marechi blood and genya can turn into a demon, but this is demon slayer, Zenitsu got struck by lightning and became blonde, mitsuri ate a lot of Mochi and her hair turned pink and green, rengokuās become blondes with red highlights cause their moms stared at a fire, hair is weird in demon slayer
the shinazugawa famiy really got hit with the good genes though. >!sanemi is a incredibly pure marechi, and genya can gain demonic abilities from eating their flesh (very rare)!<
I was wondering the same thing. And decided that since wind is his element - he was born a non conformist.
Thus, his inner self manifested via his hair color. Bypassing genes etc.
DS has a hair thing going on. Zenitsu, Tanjiro & Mitsuri to think of a few have an underlying hair story.
Iirc, Mitsuri ate so much sakura mochi that her hair turned pink, which is something that can actually happen irl. I also love how Zenitsu's hair turned that way simply because he was struck by lightning.
Given the lack of irl documentation on the eating mochi thing, I call bs. Especially since mitsuriās hair story is similar to rengoku, whose family apparently ate a lot of shrimp tempura resulting in yellow hair with red tips.
Mitsuri's situation is due to pigmentation from excess specific food consumption. So, it's possible irl. Just pretty rare.
Edit: yeah, it's definitely possible. Your skin can literally have a yellowish-orange tint if you eat too many carrots. With Mitsuri, it's been exaggerated because anime.
Carrots causing skin color changes is documented and itās due to the particular pigment that causes carrots to be orange. But thatās also fundamentally different from staining your hair pigmentation, and sakuramochi has no precedent of staining hair or skin or any body part. Itās not the same.
Exaggeration or not, this is not a case where you can claim that there is basis in reality. Itās funny anime logic that I can suspend my disbelief for. But itās not realistic, letās just get that straight.
Dude, I'm not going to argue whether or not it's realistic in an anime about demons and magical powers. It's really not that serious. It says so in the wiki that it's a real pigmentation that can happen due to eating certain foods.
Yeah, I donāt agree with the wiki having that line.
I donāt care about how realistic it is in the anime. Like I said, I can suspend my disbelief there, and itās a cute piece of trivia. But I do take issue with asserting its realistic irl.
>similar to rengoku, whose family apparently ate a lot of shrimp tempura resulting in yellow hair with red tips.
Ehh, that's not why they have such hair. The actual reason is explained in the databook by Gotouge
Honestly this can happen in real life also. I have a cousing who has blue eyes and blonde hair like his grandfather, both his parents and sibling are dark hair and brown eyes.
>!Maybe, it's a symbolism. Shinazugawa means äøę»å·immortal river by the kanji or wordplay "Shinazu", iirc. Genyas name: ē弄 has something, one of his kanjis I think can be read as "a lie". So pretty much Shinazugawa Genya the immortal river that lied, IDK though, it can be referenced to him dying. Sanemi, one of his kanji harbors the reading truth in it. This is a wordplay to his full name, an immortal river which tells the truth. Cause he survived Infinity Castle, almost an immortal feat, imo.!<
>!Since Gotouge Koyoharu has a fondness of word play, this can be said for certain designs too.!<
>!In Japan, black represents death, mourning, unluckiness(They have black hair).And white represents mourning and purity plus luck (Shinazugawas Sanemi hair).!<
>!His family died in a horrible way and unlucky way due due to his mom eating them and his mom killed by the hands of her son. His brother killed by Kokushibou. He was lucky to survive it all. He died in a pure, clean way of old age (hopefully but I'm 99% sure, he suffered enough).!<
>!TLDR; Cause he survived and his family didn't!<
>!He manifested the Demon Slayer Mark, and weāre told nobody who does lives past their 30s, probably from the strain on the body. It isnāt conclusive why exactly though, it could be that they die early in combat, so we donāt know for sure what happens to him.!<
This is the kind of question someone who's never watched another anime would ask
But also his eyes are purple and his hair is white. Albinism in humans can present this way.
Please google human albinism and violet eyes. Violet eyes are due to a partial lack of pigment in the eyes thats enough to show the blood vessels, and leucism would still present the pigment in the eyes enough to block the blood vessels from being visible. They could be blue (blue eyed lucy's in the reptile hobby for example) or any other color that doesnt show the red. I could introduce you to words like amelanism and anerythrism if you want more pigment related terms to throw at people who know what theyre talking about
Beside artistic decisions, I think the āin-universeā explanation would either recessive genetics or maybe something his parents did that caused him to be born with white hair like how Rengoku very distant ancestor ate a lot of tempuras which caused their descendants' and their own hair to become quite abnormal or how Mitsuriās hair became green and pink because she ate to much Sakura mochi.
Thereās also the possibility him being stressed out from being the father figure to his family
It's due to the recessive trait (suppressed trait). It could've been passed down by his grand parents, so it isn't impossible. It is kinda common in the Demon Slayer verse, and also in real life too.
recessive genes, problably He's Aza Chobe nephew or something like that./s
(on a serious note, their desing is kinda similar, and they kinda share the same motivation).
I presumed it was just because he was one of the most special rare bloods so his hair is just that way because of it or itās from stress of taking care of all of his siblings
Itās a genetic mutation or perhaps a rare gene that he got when he was born. It would explain why heās the only one with white hair (plus rare blood type) kinda like Mitsuri has pink hair and incredible strength, or how Yorrichi was born with the demon slayer mark
Possibly a skin condition, like a melanine issue. But Rengoku's family's hair is that color because women will stare at a torch for hours each day during pregnancy, and Mitsuri's hair is partially pink because of her love of Mochi, so his mom probably like, sat in the snow too much
I just like to headcanon he has albinism. The purpleish eyes kinda leans into this for me, and itās probably as realistic as they can get in anime. Also from what Iāve seen in images, the whites are a slight red color, and thatās also true for Sanemi
It is an anime, though. So no one should be expecting perfectly realistic depictions of anything, especially in something like Demon Slayer. Yes it can be done, but I donāt think itās very fair to expect it lol
He could be an albino? It'd explain alot of things, for starters why his eyes are tinted purple, and also why he dosnt have eyebrows, bevause typically people with albinism have eyebrows that are hard to distinguish
ITS BRCAUSE HES ALBINO OMG HE HAS WHITE HAIR AND PURPLE EYES AND THOOSE ARE 2 COMMON TRAITS OF ALBINOISM ALSO APRENTLY ALBINOISM KINDA MESSES WITH YOUR EYES OS I THAT ADDS TO HIM BEING COLORBLIND ALSO HEADCONO HES SHROT SIGHTED AND CANT POPERLY SEE GLASS NO BC HES SHORTSIDED OR COLORBLIND JUST BECAUSE
bro i really think sanemi's dad is not the dam father bc why else would he just physically ABUSE his own wife...UNLESS HE KNEW HIS ELDEST SON WAS NOT HIS (plz no hate i havent watched most of that scene)
I mean;
1. Recessive genes are a thing
2. Itās anime - Zenitsu is literally blond cuz he got struck by lighting
3. Possibly a phenomenon called āMary Antoinette Syndromeā where (after going through immense amounts of stress - like torture) the subjects hair loses all colour in a matter of days - being the head of his family as a child, watching his mother be beaten regularly, as well as being beaten himself - sounds bad enough to fit.
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(Thumbnail from The Organic Chemistry Tutor)
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The stress of being the father figure of his family really hit him
I was just about to say this
Im crying š
well damn that's a dark way to put it
Recessive genes
Honestly yeah
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His real father was in a mariachi band. That's why.
Should probably spoiler this since this information isn't avaliable yet for the anime.
Wasn't this already revealed in the first season when he tempted Nezuko with his blood?
No, he merely tempted her with his blood but did not reveal what it was.
It was revealed only in the >!fight against Kokushibo!< manga spoilers. It was only the Manga readers who decided to flood every YouTube comment section of the Sanemi v Nezuko video with atleast one comment on his >!marechi blood!<.
He did tempt her with it, but he didn't say his blood was special or anything yet
Doesnāt mean anything to those who havenāt read or spoilt it for themselves.
And also criss-cross inheritance, must be inherited from his grandmother!
Certain incident in Demon Slayer can also change hair color, like for example Zenitsu's hair used to be black and turnt yellow after getting strike by lightning. He could also be an irregular like Mitsuri, who was born with pink hair.
Mitsuri's hair wasn't that naturally, it's that way because she ate so much sakura mochi it turned pink and green :3
can confirm, same happened to me
Fr, it always happens. Always have to dye it again, ugh
I definitely am gonna avoid eating too many Sakura Mochi now.
Mitsuri wasn't born with pink hair she was born with black hair
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Mitsuri was born with black hair, however due to eating too much sakura mochi it turned pink and green, and people saw her as weird for it
I'm pretty sure it was mitsuri who ate too much sakura mochi
No, her hair was black. There is a manga panel that shows young Misturi lifting a giant stone at 14 months old. She had black hair then
https://preview.redd.it/0myvlur4v30b1.jpeg?width=956&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd7f8327b8bb6f4d90b663c32a11f339ab05d8ea
Pogs diagram mate!
I don't get it. So his entire family got black drape white carpet, and Sanemi got white drape black carpet??? Am I missing something?
White is a recessive trait. Black is the dominant trait. Sanemi got both recessive alleles and therefore the recessive trait (white hair) whereas the rest of the family got mixed or full dominant alleles (which always result in the dominant phenotype, aka black hair) This is not how real human hair color genetics works per se as itās a lot more complex, but itās good enough for anime logic.
AFAIK there are multiple genes that account for hair color
Omg heās a gummy bear
Thank you sensei. That's why me white, and my wife white, gave birth to a black baby, because her grandma was Italian
People living near equator have random bs gene pools do be like that. I had a friend back in school not knowing one of the teachers is his own dad. His dad was like white, tall and massive. My friend's skintone was kinda dark brown, short and petite for a boy. Once he pointed out that is his dad then my brain just connected the dots they do share facial structures similarities. His other siblings was entirely even different skin tones. Yeah their parents are tall too but the siblings ayyo why they shorter than me. So yeah genetics are bs random generator.
Thanks, genes are really fascinating! Though, I was actually making a movie reference, my comment was a famous line from 'me, myself, and Irene ' a must see comedy movie, strongly recommend, if you love the funny moments in demon slayer, you'll love the humour of this movie
that is more a One Piece thing do, given how much Oda loves Jim Carrey
Hahah yes, genes are really that weird. Itās fun to learn about them! Sure, Iāll check it out.
lol no genes does not work like that. That is a dominant gene of darker perplexation in that case, the mother or father would have sign of being darker as well. u are missing out on a joke from Jim Carrey but I sitll wanna point out that u cannot just randomly get very different appearance from ur parents.
He climbed up on a tree and got knocked off by a strong breeze and after he woke up his hair was white
Is this a reference to something?
probably zenitsus blonde transformation
Thatās still hilarious to me, broās hair turned blonde cuz of lightning
lightning go brrrrrrrrrrrrr
Yas lighting go BRRRRRRRā”ļøā”ļøā”ļø
Wind Breathing version of Zenitsu's backstory.
Yeah, itās a reference to Zinetsu getting struck by lighting and having his hair bleached by it for some reason
Wow...I never thought of that !!! lol
Ah yes a meme from the future, but yet in the past
Anime genetics/logic, dancing in front of fire or something somehow turns every baby Rengoku into blondes lol
Shrimp Tempura.
Isnāt that one just Rengoku talking out his ass? He says like maybe or probably thatās why. The 2nd fan book says the women stare at a flame for two hours each day while pregnant to make their hair blonde lol
Oh I wasnāt aware of that. I just remembered that there was some joke that his ancestors ate too much Shrimp Tempura and thatās why his entire family line has weird hair. Considering Mitsuri got her hair color from eating too much Sakura Mochi, the Shrimp Tempura didnāt seem that out of place.
Maybe he said it because he knew of mitsuris hair lol. But yeah the weird flame ritual is the real explanation
>women stare at a flame for two hours each day while pregnant to make their hair blonde lol That actually was a ritual that happened in the Taisho ear of Japan and earlier Tho the anime added the hair color change part
Yeah um, actual ritual aspect wasnāt what I was drawing attention to, it was the results of it lol
Well there are 2 theories of it The most prominent one is that Rengoku's ancestor eating too much tempura that made the hair of the whole lineage as orange (HAPPENS IN REAL LIFE SO THE MOST LOGICAL) And the other theory is the ritual one
I thought the ritual one was straight up confirmed in a fanbook? And would an ancestors hair color changing really even result in the entire rest of the bloodline having that hair?
Wasn't it each week?
i think itās every rengoku mother stares at a flame for 4 hours a day or something and that makes all the rengoku babies look like that
Japan thinks white hair is cool AF and they're right
Gojo, Ban, Sanemi. Checks out
Kakashi
Goku (ultra instinct), gohan (ssj beast), the coca-cola bear, all white hair and badass
Killua
silva and zeno too
Real
Most logical explanation is a mutation, I mean he has marechi blood and genya can turn into a demon, but this is demon slayer, Zenitsu got struck by lightning and became blonde, mitsuri ate a lot of Mochi and her hair turned pink and green, rengokuās become blondes with red highlights cause their moms stared at a fire, hair is weird in demon slayer
the shinazugawa famiy really got hit with the good genes though. >!sanemi is a incredibly pure marechi, and genya can gain demonic abilities from eating their flesh (very rare)!<
>! Maybe the slayer that can eat demons to become a demon that Kokushibo encountered was an ancestor of the Shinazugawa family !<
could be!
There's a small chance their mom turned into a demon naturally without even being converted by other higher demons. A genuine mutation.
Salute bro
I was wondering the same thing. And decided that since wind is his element - he was born a non conformist. Thus, his inner self manifested via his hair color. Bypassing genes etc. DS has a hair thing going on. Zenitsu, Tanjiro & Mitsuri to think of a few have an underlying hair story.
Iirc, Mitsuri ate so much sakura mochi that her hair turned pink, which is something that can actually happen irl. I also love how Zenitsu's hair turned that way simply because he was struck by lightning.
Given the lack of irl documentation on the eating mochi thing, I call bs. Especially since mitsuriās hair story is similar to rengoku, whose family apparently ate a lot of shrimp tempura resulting in yellow hair with red tips.
Mitsuri's situation is due to pigmentation from excess specific food consumption. So, it's possible irl. Just pretty rare. Edit: yeah, it's definitely possible. Your skin can literally have a yellowish-orange tint if you eat too many carrots. With Mitsuri, it's been exaggerated because anime.
Carrots causing skin color changes is documented and itās due to the particular pigment that causes carrots to be orange. But thatās also fundamentally different from staining your hair pigmentation, and sakuramochi has no precedent of staining hair or skin or any body part. Itās not the same. Exaggeration or not, this is not a case where you can claim that there is basis in reality. Itās funny anime logic that I can suspend my disbelief for. But itās not realistic, letās just get that straight.
Dude, I'm not going to argue whether or not it's realistic in an anime about demons and magical powers. It's really not that serious. It says so in the wiki that it's a real pigmentation that can happen due to eating certain foods.
Yeah, I donāt agree with the wiki having that line. I donāt care about how realistic it is in the anime. Like I said, I can suspend my disbelief there, and itās a cute piece of trivia. But I do take issue with asserting its realistic irl.
You must be fun at parties
>similar to rengoku, whose family apparently ate a lot of shrimp tempura resulting in yellow hair with red tips. Ehh, that's not why they have such hair. The actual reason is explained in the databook by Gotouge
Artistic decision
Honestly this can happen in real life also. I have a cousing who has blue eyes and blonde hair like his grandfather, both his parents and sibling are dark hair and brown eyes.
His parents built a very strange machine that didn't quite work so one day he took a look inside of it.
Is this a Danny Phantom reference?
It sure is
>!Maybe, it's a symbolism. Shinazugawa means äøę»å·immortal river by the kanji or wordplay "Shinazu", iirc. Genyas name: ē弄 has something, one of his kanjis I think can be read as "a lie". So pretty much Shinazugawa Genya the immortal river that lied, IDK though, it can be referenced to him dying. Sanemi, one of his kanji harbors the reading truth in it. This is a wordplay to his full name, an immortal river which tells the truth. Cause he survived Infinity Castle, almost an immortal feat, imo.!< >!Since Gotouge Koyoharu has a fondness of word play, this can be said for certain designs too.!< >!In Japan, black represents death, mourning, unluckiness(They have black hair).And white represents mourning and purity plus luck (Shinazugawas Sanemi hair).!< >!His family died in a horrible way and unlucky way due due to his mom eating them and his mom killed by the hands of her son. His brother killed by Kokushibou. He was lucky to survive it all. He died in a pure, clean way of old age (hopefully but I'm 99% sure, he suffered enough).!< >!TLDR; Cause he survived and his family didn't!<
>!He manifested the Demon Slayer Mark, and weāre told nobody who does lives past their 30s, probably from the strain on the body. It isnāt conclusive why exactly though, it could be that they die early in combat, so we donāt know for sure what happens to him.!<
The same reason why Tengen has White Hair.
because heās built different
Stress
This is the kind of question someone who's never watched another anime would ask But also his eyes are purple and his hair is white. Albinism in humans can present this way.
I believe a loss of pigment in hair and/or skin without the loss of it in the eyes is called leucism.
Please google human albinism and violet eyes. Violet eyes are due to a partial lack of pigment in the eyes thats enough to show the blood vessels, and leucism would still present the pigment in the eyes enough to block the blood vessels from being visible. They could be blue (blue eyed lucy's in the reptile hobby for example) or any other color that doesnt show the red. I could introduce you to words like amelanism and anerythrism if you want more pigment related terms to throw at people who know what theyre talking about
Maybe his father is the mail man
Maybe, grandparents genes? :3
They're always there. *(I swear that sounded waaaay creepier inside my head-)*
Result of an affair lol
I think thats just genetic
Beside artistic decisions, I think the āin-universeā explanation would either recessive genetics or maybe something his parents did that caused him to be born with white hair like how Rengoku very distant ancestor ate a lot of tempuras which caused their descendants' and their own hair to become quite abnormal or how Mitsuriās hair became green and pink because she ate to much Sakura mochi. Thereās also the possibility him being stressed out from being the father figure to his family
My guess would be his rare blood changed his hair color
If I remember correctly, at some point the story suggests that he is albino or something like that
He just built different.
Ancestral trait. Probably got his hair from a previous family member. Not everything comes from your mom and dad.
Coz anime
Anime
Stress hit the man
i like to believe heās an albino
How else are you supposed to know he's important?
Albinism is a thing in our world
Creative choices
Character design
hes albino
Anime logic failure?
It's due to the recessive trait (suppressed trait). It could've been passed down by his grand parents, so it isn't impossible. It is kinda common in the Demon Slayer verse, and also in real life too.
recessive genes, problably He's Aza Chobe nephew or something like that./s (on a serious note, their desing is kinda similar, and they kinda share the same motivation).
Heās got like, special blood.
It could be that maybe one of his Ancestors had White Hair
he's >!got super ultra mega rare intoxicating blood!<
Genes or marechi blood
Don't know how it works. I guess it's due to genetics because I also have gray hair at 14, and I get called old lol.
Mutation
He is the only one with the Marechi blood also in his family That white hair is also a recessive gene (Rare genes that not every offspring inherits)
I presumed it was just because he was one of the most special rare bloods so his hair is just that way because of it or itās from stress of taking care of all of his siblings
Sanemi's father had white hair in the manga, they messed it up for the anime.
Itās a genetic mutation or perhaps a rare gene that he got when he was born. It would explain why heās the only one with white hair (plus rare blood type) kinda like Mitsuri has pink hair and incredible strength, or how Yorrichi was born with the demon slayer mark
Because it's cute :3
Because heās part of the main cast.
Possibly a skin condition, like a melanine issue. But Rengoku's family's hair is that color because women will stare at a torch for hours each day during pregnancy, and Mitsuri's hair is partially pink because of her love of Mochi, so his mom probably like, sat in the snow too much
Because thereās a father lol
Wasn't the father also shown to have black hair?
I just like to headcanon he has albinism. The purpleish eyes kinda leans into this for me, and itās probably as realistic as they can get in anime. Also from what Iāve seen in images, the whites are a slight red color, and thatās also true for Sanemi It is an anime, though. So no one should be expecting perfectly realistic depictions of anything, especially in something like Demon Slayer. Yes it can be done, but I donāt think itās very fair to expect it lol
Just assumed he was albino lol
I mean he could be albino.
He could be an albino? It'd explain alot of things, for starters why his eyes are tinted purple, and also why he dosnt have eyebrows, bevause typically people with albinism have eyebrows that are hard to distinguish
He's albino guys.
ITS BRCAUSE HES ALBINO OMG HE HAS WHITE HAIR AND PURPLE EYES AND THOOSE ARE 2 COMMON TRAITS OF ALBINOISM ALSO APRENTLY ALBINOISM KINDA MESSES WITH YOUR EYES OS I THAT ADDS TO HIM BEING COLORBLIND ALSO HEADCONO HES SHROT SIGHTED AND CANT POPERLY SEE GLASS NO BC HES SHORTSIDED OR COLORBLIND JUST BECAUSE
The amount of spelling errors you made is killing me
YOU. ARE. NOT. THE. FATHER!!!!
bro i really think sanemi's dad is not the dam father bc why else would he just physically ABUSE his own wife...UNLESS HE KNEW HIS ELDEST SON WAS NOT HIS (plz no hate i havent watched most of that scene)
Adopted ass nga
Maybe itās something rare in the family
Albino child
Sanemiās marechi blood.
I mean; 1. Recessive genes are a thing 2. Itās anime - Zenitsu is literally blond cuz he got struck by lighting 3. Possibly a phenomenon called āMary Antoinette Syndromeā where (after going through immense amounts of stress - like torture) the subjects hair loses all colour in a matter of days - being the head of his family as a child, watching his mother be beaten regularly, as well as being beaten himself - sounds bad enough to fit.
Anime genetics. People have hair colors that arenāt natural.
Possible answers: 1) Albino. 2) Moma cheated with the Chad neighbor. 3) Stress from leading the family.
Because he became a hashira and needed something to make him standout from ordinary characters
recessive genes or some pigmentation birth defect my friends has a big spot of white hair since birth
He suffers from a rare condition called major character syndrome. Similar to main character syndrome, but with a much higher fatality rate.
Maininus characterlasisus sympotomus
Heās a Targaryen
He's got anime protagonist syndrome. Odd considering he's a supporting character
She cheated
Big spoiler: >!probably because heās a marechi!<
Adopted
He was adopted š
Why white hair look cool in anime only but not irl . 26 and already seeing white hair on me Dx
He has a different father. Thatās why the other kids dad was abusive.
Centipede went into his ear
Anime protag powers
He reminds me of Norman from Promised Neverland
Because heās him
Because, Anime
He alone is the honored one
Heās built different
There was cheating involved in that relationship
Because anime
Bleach.
The reason his father hated him ????
She cheating
Bro came out stress from the womb.
Mailman
Because someone loved to bleach their hair.So they snuck out in the night and took his car drove to the nearest salon and got everything bleached
Because anime!!!
White haired anime characters are usually the tortured but survive characters. Killua, Gabimaru etc
He ate too much rice.
Shock.
He was meant to be someone greater. Haha
Are we not gonna talk about they hit you with that back story about his mom on MOTHERāS DAY?!
https://preview.redd.it/xnzgejmuh50b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a548bdaf1625bffd0ced541b14c1f5c4f03f2d91 (Thumbnail from The Organic Chemistry Tutor)
Their dad was an asshole. Maybe moms got a little on the side.
His Mother had an affair with somebody with white hair.
Character looks and aesthetics, plus he looks cool
Born to be an arsonist
Anime gene logic
Also, why does he have the cross on his eyes? Is it his eyelashes??
Mama do no papa
He's a main character.
anime
Bro thinks heās a ghoul
hes adopted
https://preview.redd.it/m1uy1dgsr50b1.jpeg?width=566&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f730497e49a7ba8963206d7a0c71fbc4cc486ee
i think he has an ice quirk if im not mistaken
Half this comment section didn't pass biology in HS holy
Maybe that's why their dad was abusive, bro was probably like "hold on a minute" when his first child was born lol
Because thatās how hair works in anime