Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

[Munsu]

It's not "different", it's basically the same in Fairy Tail etc.
The difference is that Kimetsu goes into much darker territory, so the contrast is huge.

So basically, the swing is so huge that it starts to feel out of place.
If I remember correctly, during the drum-demon arc, there was one such scene that felt completely out of place.
They literally saw someone dying a few minutes earlier and started being silly because of something.

In other shows, you'd see the MC getting beaten into a pulp and then all of a sudden help is coming, but that one dude who helps MC is also his rival and starts making fun of him because he is so weak and they start arguing infront of the enemy etc.
It's not even remotely as dramatic as when you have flesh eating demons lurking around that brutally rip you apart for fun.

The problem here, besides the annoying characters, it's like they have two different set of teams handling the content. One for the comedic portion, and one for the serious portion, both with their different styles of direction and animation, etc., and then they try to cut and paste it all up altogether.

It just doesn't mesh well for me. Even the scene transitions are different, to say nothing that the MC's VA just sucks balls in comedic scenarios.

Then we go through episode to multiple episode long repetitive dumb jokes. So yeah, this series can do without them.

Zenitsu being an annoying fuck doesn't help matters.

To put it another way, I'm not opposed to a series mixing seriousness and comedic potions together. I have a big problem on how this particular show is doing it. I find it bland and annoying more than "funny". It's barely amusing, and far in between at that.

[Buffalobiian]

Episode 25

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-The 3 little girls have names!

-Young Shinobu truly did seem angry at baseline when she isn't smugly smiling at you. She's become quite interesting now having adopted her sister's persona for the most part - including when she's actively baiting you.

[shinta|hikari]

Tanjiro blushing at Shinobu's proximity indicates non-siscon romance.

Did the Tsuguko girl go mute?

I just ignore everything related to sisig and anemone.

[Buffalobiian]

Did the Tsuguko girl go mute?

She just hasn't decided to speak yet.

[MFauli]

Unfortunately, I have no hope for TanjiroXShinobu. Shinobu seemed to care about the fire Hashira. Who I expect to be killed a la Jiraiya, after whuch Shinobu will become basically an untouchable widow.

[KrayZ33]

Shinobu seemed to care about the fire Hashira.

Huh??? When did anything like that happen.



The one thing I saw was that Kanao's special someone is/might be Tanjiro.
But who knows if Tanjiro will be interested.

The whole episode was extremely funny,
I just loved how Beast-boy ruined his swords and the second smith went from "calm" to "what the... FUCK DUUUUUUUDE!?!??!"

[MFauli]

Huh??? When did anything like that happen.

She seemed slightly worried when he left to fight one of the stronger demons.

Innosuke ruining his sword made me go 'wtf', too. I ... don't think doing that gave the sword MORE stability 🤦*♀️

[DarthEnderX]

The one thing I saw was that Kanao's special someone is/might be Tanjiro.
But who knows if Tanjiro will be interested.

He's a protagonist in this very by-the-numbers shonen series. He's going to be completely oblivious of it.

Innosuke ruining his sword made me go 'wtf', too. I ... don't think doing that gave the sword MORE stability

I don't think stability is the point. He wants it to have a vicious toothy edge.

I WAS surprised that it was something Inosuke himself did. The chips are so evenly spaced and perfectly shaped, that I assumed he just had the sword made that way. Not chipped them out himself with a rock...he's quite the little sculptor.

[MFauli]

The loss of stability just seemed especially dumb for someine who mostly relies on brute force.

[shinta|hikari]

But remember, these swords are as durable as the wielder's skill, so it's appearance or structure matters not.

[KrayZ33]

Now cheese won't stick to the blade when he cuts it!

....and he can use them as swordbreakers now.

If they wouldn't have shown a sword breaking on demon skin, I'd have argued it didn't matter since they aren't going to hit metal, wood or stone with it... but since they are actually hitting stuff that is hard as metal, he has to use his superior japanese cutting abilities to not ruin the blade.

[Ryllharu]

The one thing I saw was that Kanao's special someone is/might be Tanjiro.
But who knows if Tanjiro will be interested.

He's a protagonist in this very by-the-numbers shonen series. He's going to be completely oblivious of it.

That's a little unfair to Tanjiro.

Kanao is very interested in him. But she flipped the coin and it went the wrong way. For now. How is he supposed to notice something that went on almost entirely in her own head?

If Tanjiro could smell girls in love the same way he smells anger, this would be a very different series.

[DarthEnderX]

26

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Well, this has been a great series so far, but I guess its hiatus time.

Little annoyed that they're seemingly turning canon arcs into movies

[Munsu]

26

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Well, this has been a great series so far, but I guess its hiatus time.

Little annoyed that they're seemingly turning canon arcs into movies

I'll take it.

[NeoCybercoin]

Man, Tanjiro going full Harem Protagonist and raising flags with both girls.

But yeah sucks that we won't get anything for a long ass time.

[DarthEnderX]

I'll take it.

Over nothing? Sure.

But I'd rather they took their time telling the story instead of trying to smush an entire arc into one movie.

[MFauli]

Ugh, so does this mean we'll never get a proper continuation? Only movies (that are bound to be rushed/lack content)?

Best anime of the season, easily. Tanjiro x Kanao is best couple.

I wonder if the next fight will happen ON the train. Tanjiro should be able to smell the demon.

[KrayZ33]

It's a single arc put into a movie,
I really doubt that it'll lack content or be rushed.
A movie is about 1:30 - 2h long, that's 6-10 episodes worth of content.
And the movie will probably have more budget than 6-10 episodes worth.

You might want to reduce it by 1 episode due to the movie most likely telling the story up until now so that the movie "works on it's own".

On top of that, all of it is probably going to be on a train. There is only so much you can do on it before it becomes annoying.

[DarthEnderX]

Hmm, I'm trying to look up how many chapters is in this next arc, but the Demon Slayer wiki's arc list ends at the spider mountain thing we just finished.

I DID notice that the manga has about 3 times as many chapters as this first season covered. So I really don't know why they didn't just keep the series going.


Anyway, I was a little disappointed at the way they killed off all the lower 6 like that. It's almost like the author was like "Oh wait, Tanjiro almost killed one last time, and I don't want him to be a Hashira anytime soon. So I better make sure all the demons that were at his level are gone." Plus, now all the demons that would have the blood he needs are way more powerful. It's like his goal posts got moved way back just as he was reaching one.

[shinta|hikari]

You mean kinda like how I "predicted" weeks ago how the power level was gonna end up?