Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

[DarthEnderX]

Is this the final season?

If this season is only this arc, then no.

The honcho woman just mentioned that those who have already awakened "don't have a choice", and to me that sounds like they've in for something bad.

It's gonna be a "drastically shortened lifespan". That's what ever extreme anime powerups' cost is.


Unless...it turns you into a demon eventually. And that's how Upper 1 ended up a demon.

[Buffalobiian]

So is the consensus that the mark (totally forgot about it) comes during/surviving a do-or-die situation? Funny it spreads like a disease of swordsmanship.

Funny that, because while it seems more like a boost from morale, they cut out exactly what the mark does to the swordsman. The honcho woman just mentioned that those who have already awakened "don't have a choice", and to me that sounds like they've in for something bad.

[Buffalobiian]

It's gonna be a "drastically shortened lifespan". That's what ever extreme anime powerups' cost is.


Unless...it turns you into a demon eventually. And that's how Upper 1 ended up a demon.

Well yeah, those are usually the two options. The demon part is interesting because it implies that you have to become a demon in order to beat one. The "burning up your lifespan because sun breathing" fits the lore.

[DarthEnderX]

3

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Hmm, did Upper 4 survive somehow? Or did Muzan appoint a new one?

[Buffalobiian]

3

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Hmm, did Upper 4 survive somehow? Or did Muzan appoint a new one?

I assumed a new one.

Also, all the new training have nothing to do with breathing techniques. They covered flexibility, swordsmanship, strength etc, but none of it is about enhancing your breathing. The skill tree so far has entirely been about breathing techniques. The grunts, despite having survived the selection, all display zero breathing combat techniques.

[MFauli]

I find the training somewhat frustrating, because ... none of them would survive for 1 second against any upper or lower demon :/ What good does intense physically training for a couple weeks? To raise them to a level where they actually can make a difference, different training methods are necessary.

Feels like they're all beimg brought to the slaughter bank.

[DarthEnderX]

I find the training somewhat frustrating, because ... none of them would survive for 1 second against any upper or lower demon :/ What good does intense physically training for a couple weeks? To raise them to a level where they actually can make a difference, different training methods are necessary.

You know this is only phase 1, right? They're supposed to train under every Hashira.

Honestly, I don't think they are even the focus here but just tools to make the Hashira stronger. You know, the old "Teaching also gives you learning," idea.

It's an excuse to make all the Hashira hang out with Tanjiro and unlock their Marks.

[shinta|hikari]

Honestly, I don't think they are even the focus here but just tools to make the Hashira stronger. You know, the old "Teaching also gives you learning," idea. Maybe it also fuels their motivation to train even harder, like with the 2 hashiras that wanna duke it out now.

[neflight86]

Did we get any reasoning as to why the two hashiras want to 'spar'? Is it just another self training thing?

[shinta|hikari]

Just to train themselves by pushing themselves to the edge.

[Buffalobiian]

Hashira Arc E4

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-So did paper airplanes come first, or did airplanes come first? If the former, were they called paper airplanes before airplanes were a thing?

-Kanroji :3. It's nice to have a positive Hashira. I do miss her energy.

[DarthEnderX]

-So did paper airplanes come first, or did airplanes come first?

Paper planes.

If the former, were they called paper airplanes before airplanes were a thing?

Paper darts.

[MFauli]

Hashira Arc E4

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-So did paper airplanes come first, or did airplanes come first? If the former, were they called paper airplanes before airplanes were a thingy.

EXACTLY what I thought, lol.

Also water hashira is way stronger than I thought before this episode.

The insult crow was cute, too. I'll cry if she's killled.

[Buffalobiian]

You mean Mist? Water is Giyu.

If so, yeah. Sound Hashira mentioned Mist and Stone were in different leagues.

[DarthEnderX]

05

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Burned through a bunch in that episode.

[MFauli]

This felt like an episode that 'had to be done', but didn't need to be seen. Oh well. Until next week.

[Buffalobiian]

This arc is a lot more boring than I expected it to be.

And those grunts who made it up to the Stone Hashira are presumably able to land a blow on Snake and keep up with Wind etc, which feels strange given how lacking in spirit they seem to all be.

[shinta|hikari]

Is that how the training works? All this time I thought only Tanjiro is doing it in sequence, and the others are just assigned to whatever hashira they needed the most or has the capacity to take on more trainees.

[MFauli]

Is that how the training works? All this time I thought only Tanjiro is doing it in sequence, and the others are just assigned to whatever hashira they needed the most or has the capacity to take on more trainees.

I thought the same, but Buff's posting makes sense, too.

[Buffalobiian]

I assumed it was linear because if you can't do physicality then you're not going to make it through the others etc.

That said, it was never specified.