“Wait, what is he doing?” **OHHHH MYYYY GOOOOOOD**

This is a nice Gonpachiro build.

"Probably invest in all of them, because every anime character has 20 in every stat with 40 extra points to spend wherever they want." Dear god, why is that true? x'D

"The boar is definitely the next character I'll make from Demon Slayer. Oh wait, what about Nezuko? One of those two." This is Zenitsu erasure and I won't stand for it lmao.

I am surprised you didn’t include “Calligraphy Proficiency” to the Pros list this time around

But is there an ability that lets you cry when a demon tells you his tragic backstory?

Just at the end of the build i saw how tanjiro is *extremely* strong, like, he has *26 AC* low level enemies need at least a crit to even scratch him. He does a lotta damage, *magical damage* he's fast as f*ck, he's the best boy. This little cutie can kill an tarrasque easily

Zenetsu is a barbarian when he rages he is asleep

5:15 you must be the happiest man in the world, knowing that finally calligraphy is now In character for one of your builds

I honestly built a "demon slayer" inspired character using 12 levels of (kensei) monk, and 8 levels of (monster slayer) Ranger, choosing monstrosities and fiends as favourite enemies. Pretty cool, nonetheless!

Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known it till I received it

Tanjiro is such a good boy and I love him. Thank you for making this.

"you're rage fuels my youtube algaryrhmm" that got me i love this channel.

Need a strong sense of smell and high wisdom stat. I’m calling Loxodon for the race.

So as someone who knows most of the ins and outs of D&D, I can still say that I deeply appreciate that you take the time to mention bumping con raises your health, and other minor things that people often just don't realize. Keep on keeping on, love your content!

Going to recommend Kensei Monk 17/Ranger 2/Arcane Cleric 1, with all of the differences between Tulok's build and mine: * -1 CHA and -1 one other ability score because we lost an ASI. If you sacrifice another +1 ASI, you can take Athlete, you get some neat acrobatic benefits, plus you don't end up with any evil odd numbers from Observant. * You lose Favored by the Gods, your Sorcery points, any lvl 1 arcane spells like Shield, and all 2nd lvl spells. * Arcane Clerics can take two wizard cantrips and use them as Cleric spells (that is, with your Wisdom modifier). One of these can be Green-Flame Blade, which deals an extra 3d8 fire damage (and 3d8+3/4 to a second target of your choice) that you stack onto a weapon attack, which is just kind of better than Flame Blade's 3d6 that you don't get to use your regular weapon for. The drawback is that you can't use it with Extra Attack. * Arcane Clerics also get three cleric cantrips. Combined with the two wizard cantrips, that's the same number of cantrips, just with slightly more restriction. * You only get 6 spells per day and all of them are at lvl 1, but two of them are cast as 2nd lvl spells. Your Cleric level lets your prepare two from the Cleric list, plus you can cast Detect Magic and Magic Missile. Ranger 2 lets you learn two from the Ranger list. Hunter's Mark is great, take it. * Unlike the Revised Ranger, the PHB Ranger can choose Fiends as their favored enemies immediately. Get advantage to finding and learning about them (along with proficiency in Arcana from Arcane Cleric), and Tanjiro's experience living in forests gets some attention. You also get +2 to damage rolls with the Dueling fighting style. * 17th lvl Kensei Monks can reroll one attack roll if it misses. Per turn. Plus you get a higher martial arts die and one more ki point to play with if you're into that kind of thing.

I like the extra respect you gave to alternate races and classes for the build or similar builds. This is probably your best yet for extra work. Love it and appreciate it immensely.

I discovered your channel around the time that I discovered demon slayer so I’ve been hoping for this build for a while. Thanks for surprising me again.

Tulok: "If you want to bust out a ranged weapon (it's not super in-character)..." Me after reading the latest chapter: "YEET"

Hey Tulok! I've been using your John Constantine Build, and I have to say I love it! Your builds have really helped me develop better DnD characters

I was so happy that you replied when i suggested this a while back, im glad you liked the show! Thanks for your hard work!

Gave me the idea for Kensei Monk/Circle of Stars Druid, so I’m pretty hyped for that character, so thanks For that. Also, idk if anyone else has requested this or would be interesting in this, but I would maybe consider putting some kind of level-tracker in the overlay of the video? Something to keep track of the character’s overall level, as that’s something I find myself forgetting quite a bit while watching these. In any case, another great one, looking forward to Thursday!

Instead of the four levels of Sorcerer, why not just take one level of Arcana Cleric to grab Green-Flame Blade as a "cleric" cantrip? It makes more sense anyway since the Flame Sword spell creates a new sword while Green-Flame Blade is an enhancement to a melee weapon attack that doesn't even require Tanjiro's bonus action to cast, plus it scales based on character level instead of caster level. Also, mechanically there's no reason to keep a 'shortsword' over a 'rapier' once you can choose a kensei weapon. Shortswords can be used when dual-wielded, rapiers have a larger damage dice. Both do piercing damage. Tanjiro got a better sword, he gets a better hit pool. Alternatively, get a scimitar if you want a slashing weapon. It has the same stats as a shortsword otherwise.

As much as I dig the sorcerer levels, especially the divine soul, the KNY lore for sword techniques is not especially magical. They sort of emphasize that when Nezuko does her whole demon thing, so there is a valid argument that Tanjiro just goes full kensei, and the elemental aftereffects are just cosmetic results of sharpening the blade with ki.

Happy Mardi Gras, and thank for thowing us this build, mistah!

Take my all rage! Fuel this blessed channel with my NEERRRRRRDDDDDD RRRAAAAGGGGGEEEEEEE!!!!!!! But seriously, love the channel and the Lets Play channel as well. You do good work. Thanks for doing what you do.

I must say, you made a lot of decisions I didn't expect. Very intriguing build I'd love to try one day

Your subtle references about the show events are absolute genius (eg. "Try not to break it" at 6:26)

I love these videos so much. I don’t even really ever play 5e much, but I just really enjoy looking at how these builds work and think of how neat it is that you make things work with playing as one of your favorite characters from either video games or cartoons/anime. Very awesome indeed. Though, I’ve always wondered how I could play Krieg from Borderlands 2 in DnD. It seems simple at first, because of course Barbarian and Frenzied Berserker, but in order to really implement the feel of the character I find the need to introduce a decent few of homebrew feats or special abilities that would actually allow me to feel like I’m playing as Krieg the Psycho. If you ever did a video on him, I think that would be absolutely incredible because your knowledge is 100 times more than my own of how to do these things. Nevertheless, great video, incredible work.

ok, i just started this vid and i have watched and read ALL there is to the series and this is beautiful

I keep watching this video for inspiration on a demon slayer esk demon slayer guild I want in my homebrew world, tulok you are a god

Love you Tulok thanks for another badass video

was waiting for this! nice

5:15- it has finally happened!!!

I admire your dedication to character accuracy in your builds over combat effectiveness.

Fantastic anime build as always. You always surprise me.

I love this so much. I can't wait to get this character built

OH my goodness, I really like your video!

I love the intro so much!!!

Glad to see this, hope to see your version of Nezuko soon! (My Adventurers League Nezuko-esque character is a Tiefling (Zariel) Monk/Barbarian)

Love the build man, keep it up

Oh god... Bless your soul when that Shirou video finally comes out...

This is a great build, i love the anime/manga. Also would love to see a ken kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul) build in the future

Tulok has finally achieved his goal of making a character who actually uses calligraphy he must be so proud

Ah TANJIRO I was planning to ask for this character on the next video, I didn't know he was an your list already that is AWESOME

Ok Tulok this is my first comment i subbed a while back been waiting fo this to come up and my judgement as DM and PC is thank you well done I like your take on this very nicely done funny Jokes too that is all...

what's fun is that all the talk of multiclassing into druid somehow inspired my to work on a super old character. and now my arabian monk inspired by aladdin can fire bend thanks tulok!

Awesome build as per the usual! Keep it up

I shall fuel you with my rage in the youtube algorithm . . .I like dubbed and subb Bet you didn't see that coming

Damn, Demon Slayer looks kickass. I’ll have to give it a watch.

Something I've noticed is that a few of your videos since the Class Features UA have ignored the UA outside of the Unarmed Fighting style and spells, particularly when a build would benefit from the additional/alternate features in terms of theme and imagery. Like the monks bonus action unarmed strike after spending ki for All Might, which counts as a buff to that Elemental Ki sink. I feel like it'd be good for the builds to mention the UA, but set it apart from the vanilla class features by having the wording in black or dark grey as a shorthand for 'this is UA' Links to the UA used in the description might also benefit those having trouble finding it.

Nice to finally see a KZfaqr who doesn't flex on dun lovers :'3

I've never even seen this show and this was one of my favorite episodes. The intro killed me.

Automatically liking the best boy

I come back to this video every now and then simply for the calligraphy

Great build as always, I'm still holding out hope for a Sekiro build. It's a similar setting so I was reminded of that.

"I'm not going to make any dumb jokes in the intro". Hypocritical humor. That's fun. "Your sister in a box is not armor." Now that's a rare sentence. Caligraphy joke. I think this is my favorite one. Yes, druid Tanjiro would be weird but his mentor likes giving out animal-themed masks, so there's that.

With the new ruling from Tasha's, you can make Tanjiro a wood elf which is a win all around with foreign tree bumpkin, bonus movement, perception proficiency and longsword proficiency. You can use the longsword as a monk weapon. This way, you don't need to dedicate your subclass to getting a sword. Maybe go for four elements for water or long death for anime determination to survive. Also with Tasha's, you can use your Wild Shape as a druid to cast find familiar. Maybe dip into druid instead (circle of stars was my choice) for a Kasugai Crow?

Would've gone with Cleric, they use Wisdom and Breath of Fire came from a dance to the sun god.

*Tulok: Finally makes a character with Way of the Brush who does calligraphy* *Me:* WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? I WANNA DO THAT TOO!

Really like the way this went, though I'd end up taking 5 levels of Forge Cleric instead since it gives Elemental Weapon as a 3rd. Lose out on an ABI but lets you use your WIS casting stat and better spell selection.

Thank you for just nailing the intro song

I know you are probably already gonna do it before long, but I just wanna say... The Doctor from Doctor Who! Love ya

Yay did demon slayer! You either read comments or I was lucky lol. If you do read comments do goblin slayer or Hajime from common place to world strongest. Love the vids keep up the good work!

Top candidate: Archer from the fate series. Me it would have been Lancer.................. And he's already dead.

After you finish with the boar give our favorite lighting boy some love please

Every single goddamn video until Tulok builds Turok in a video

The miracle has happened!

Finally I catched up with the show, so I can watch the build

Im going to use this OMG ♡

I’m unfortunately not on Patreon but my god I’ve wanted to see Tulok do a Fate character (specifically Archer too) for so long! Please let him win out

Love the build! In 3.5 Sorcerer / Monks were ungodly, (or very godly depending). I loved them so much, need to check out how to stack them in 5.0.

Even though I may be 9 months late, I just finished the anime so far and I love this build. And, with tasha's now available, a potential replacement for divine soul sorcerer 4 is monster slayer ranger 4, since searing smite was added to their spell list and it gives much more options for the opening thread

11:19 For Zenitsu maybe you could try focusing on the sword play and lightning powers with most of the build and just substitute the sleep powers with a reflavored Barbarian Rage

Nice video!

Tanjiro is the most Paladin anime I’ve ever seen. His sense of smell is a huge divine sense, his plot armor is the Paladin auras, and he doesn’t have a flaming sword, he has a searing smite. I love Tulok’s builds, but this one might be a candidate for a rework...

If you want you can skip the sorcerer dip and instead go straight monk, if you take the gift of the chromatic dragon, you can infuse your weapon with an element, including fire, when you do so, you deal an extra d4 of the damage type, you can also use a reaction to gain resistance to the type of damage, best part is that is works with your monk festures including extra attack, you can even then invest the four levels in monk or even another class like ranger for more dps and a use of concentration on hunters mark or favoured foe, you could take gloom stalker for the initiative boost and the dps increase, plus dark vision is pretty handy

Guess you're adding Demon Cinnamon-Roll AND Beast Mode to the docket. Fun-fun... Nezuko is adorable, and I love Inosuke. He's so "bro!"

Since it was mentioned in this video I think it’d be really cool to see a build based on a character from Okami, my pick would either be Oki or Waka simply because I really like those two and I’ve been curious on how to make Oki in D&D since I’ve revisited the game

"Your rage fuels me". That made me laugh so hard.

man i just watched that show and it was rad i loved it so hyped.

I actually built Zenitsu a while back, using at least 17 levels in Scout rogue, with a few options bouncing around to gain Advantage without an ally. running away in combat is very in-character for a conscious Zenitsu, and Sneak attack dice make a whole lot of sense for that Single Big Hit that is "thunderclap & flash". Really just take your pick of an advantage-gaining option though, he never does that with anyone around to see.

Genuinely thought you were planning some sweet sweet blood hunter with how you were talking about turning into animals and flaming blades

You might be able to get a more usable flame-blade or water blade by grabbing Green-Flame blade and Booming Blade from the sorcerer spell list and then using Transmuted Spell meta-magic to convert it to whichever you want. You still need 3 levels of sorcerer to pull that off, but works better than the flame blade spell, and might actually be closer to the show, I have not seen all of season 2 yet. You can also grab Quicken Spell to pull one of them off as a bonus action.

Personally I would 6lvl vengeance paladin fits with back story gives him smites for breath's. But I'm a paladin main. But love the video look forward to more builds

Woah woah, you mean to tell me, to tell all of us, That you really let a character have Calligraphy? Tulok, that's outrageous! It's unfair!

I am really looking forward to Inosuke. Would he be a Barb Monk? Great work on Tanjiro though, he's one I had been wondering about.

This is gonna be interesting

Reserving my place in line for the eventual Inosuke build. Currently building him myself in 5e and so far I've come up with Half-Orc Barbarian 14 / Ranger 6. Though I'm tempted to take Variant Human for Dual Wielding as a bonus feat...

You can choose the longsword for the kensei weapon. It'll become a monk weapon for you, allowing you to use your dexterity for It. It also fits better than a shortsword, since the demon slayer's weapons look like average length Katanas

Woah finally a Kamaboko Gonpachiro build !!!

I love this video and the build. The only thing I don’t understand, and I read every other comment with no one else mentioning it, why you think the nichirin blade is a shortsword? I’ve been wracking my brain over this build and wondering if a katana would be better or not...katana being the longsword. My brain!

finally the calligraphy has an in character use!!!

"In touch with your animal side..." We've already done Maui and Beast Boy (you've also done San, but that got blocked, so I don't know if you're going to redo it or not), so it can't be them. Maybe seeing some Beast or Wolverine from the X-Men, or maybe Shantae (of you took a look into those games). But I'll just have to wait until Thursday.

Roy Mustang build please!

want to see you make one were you also add your own ideas for the powers as i would love to see your sense of balance

Calligraphy alert is the funniest thing I've heard all day

Love these videos! Speaking of anime, what about Spike Spiegel from 'Cowboy Bebop'?

When i built tanjiro i made him 11 paladin because he is a good boy And 9 levels of monk because he is fast and no armour i think you should have done it like this because in the phb it describes radient damages as holy flame and because it is called dance of the fire god it has god in the name =radient their gor divine smite would be a good option this is how i think u should build him but i supose the build that u make is more accurate u r the professional. Your videos are awesome. Thnx

Nani? Cool. Also I'm not asking we get Demon Micheal Jackson anytime but.... who knows (cough)