After you post, I had to rewatch the scene to hear it, but they did deform her speech while she was char faced. Good catch, and agreed on the brilliant direction for that!
After you post, I had to rewatch the scene to hear it, but they did deform her speech while she was char faced. Good catch, and agreed on the brilliant direction for that!
Ep 8
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The entire episode was suspenseful. Old heart of mine can't take that.
Lots of cool moments from Zenitsu today. I thought he'd keep Daki's head off with his lightning strikes but that didn't happen. His sticking up for the little girl that I've long forgotten about was a proud moment - too bad he couldn't flatten her but instead is just managing to stand his ground. It's a more realistic approach I'll admit.
Love a good Daki tantrum.
Don't start talking to Rengoku now Usui. There's a difference between a good sign and a flag.
We also now know that Slayer Corps master wasn't always blind.
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If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Yeah, it's called "having three wives." All of whom are kinda badasses.Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
I kept hoping that Inosuke would realize his gnarly chipped swords can catch and snarl her flexible yet durable obi tentacles. Tanjiro generally couldn't cut them, but here you don't need to, you just have to keep them out of the way so that your partner can make the killing blow. Big differences from before with this team fight.Lots of cool moments from Zenitsu today. I thought he'd keep Daki's head off with his lightning strikes but that didn't happen.
Wow, what a great day for anime. First Attack on Titan, now this. Great episode.
I, too, expected that Zenitsu would continuously behead the sister, proceeding with the "joke" of her being upset about it. Guess not.
Only bad thing: the cliffhanger. With how the brother smirked, we knooooow that Tanjiro's beheading attempt won't succeed, come on.
Anyway, exciting.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
Amen. Wonderful fight episode with so much crisp animation and well defined matchup dynamics that I could get super hyped. It showed and told in equal measure, in the best way possible. It exceeded my lofty expectations from last week.
It's a thin line, but I think he'll pull through. After all, this is a lower ranked demon, and he's got some backup.
He will probably get injured enough to retire or be demoted from Hashira status so another spot opens up for one of the kids.
So Rengoku, the Buddha dood, and the genius Souji clone are all much stronger than Sound dood.
Peace.
I couldn't tell if he meant that he'd never be like Rengoku (putting the mission first etc) or be as strong as Rengoku. I thought it was more the former. Granted, he was thinking about reasons that he's not gifted so strength may well be why.
We never got a run-down of what Sound Breathing is all about actually. We just know he's a ninja who quit but wanted to fight for good anyway.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
If this guy is one of the weakest Hashira, I don't understand how so many Hashira before died to this demon. Is this some lame "golden generation"-type of thing? Eh.
My hope: Sound guy dies heroic death, then Zenitsu takes over his Hashira position as well as his 3 wives ;P
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
If a hashira falls, surely it is replaced from the next rank down, not from four ranks from the bottom.
Perhaps the hashira that fought this duo did so solo? Gabi seemed adept at hiding and resurfacing every so many decades so to not arouse suspicion. Teamwork makes the dreamwork in a demon hunt?
This was explicitly stated by the blind master dood. This set of 10 hashira (including the dead Rengoku) are the strongest ever.
Peace.
Just rewatched this episode.
If the Kunai were able to nullify Upper Six's regeneration, it might also nullify the poison in Uzui.
If so, getting hit by the kunai goes from being an okay idea to a great one.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
It also begs the question why not every hashira, better even every demon corps member, carries weapons with that ointment applied to.
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
Yeah, it hasn't really been explained why only Shinobu's branch uses wisteria toxins as their primary means of killing demons.
My guess is that wisteria toxin uses up a limited resource, the wisteria flower, which also doubles as a barrier for their HQ and other areas, so they can't just produce tons of it. Since other demon slayers can lop off demon heads just fine (Shinobu supposedly can't being a weak woman *eyeroll*), they simply don't need to use it, and the encounters with upper moons are so ridiculously rare that always applying it to your weapons is wasteful.
Even if you can bottle it and carry it with you, you'd have to somehow apply it on your blade when a random upper moon encounter happens, which can cause your death against such a high-level enemy.
I also think the only reasons Sound dood and his wives use the poison is one, because they are Shinobi and it is in theme, and two, they knew they were likely going against an upper moon.
Peace.
Because fire breathing would burn the poison away, while water breathing would wash it away.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Lots of bad excuses ... so probably exactly what the mangaka had in mind ;P
"She's the only non-loli girl in the show, your honor!" will be my defense in court
I kind of doubt wisteria is a limited resource. They surrounded an entire mountain with it for a training/examination area.
It literally grows all over Japan.
It wasn't an exam area, right? It was THE (only) exam area, where a fat demon has been killing all the (13) students of the former water Hashira who stuck him there.
If the toxin requires a significant amount of flowers to be extracted in order to produce usable amounts, those trees will be gone pretty fast and they will lose their protected areas at the same time. They also use the flower, not the leaves, which only bloom for a few months, so it's not like they can keep harvesting them throughout the year.
There is also the issue of the expertise required to process these flowers. If only Shinobu and her team have the knowledge, skills, and tools to do it, it will be difficult to make it standard issue for every demon slayer.
Peace.
...then you grow more.
If you were running an organization of vampire hunters, you'd damn sure have fields of garlic planted.
Not sharing that knowledge/training with other hunters would make them MASSIVE assholes.
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You need time and resources to educate others and create more tools. Maybe they are busy just producing the limited amount they have now to do that. The whole demon slayer organization isn't exactly an example of stellar management, what with letting promising disciples die in a test against a fat demon with a vendetta instead of purging said fat demon and letting disciples grow stronger with more experience.
Peace.
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