Anime 38000 Kimetsu No Yaiba Reviews Filter Check 3

Oh boy, the seasonal battle shounen that everyone raves about, what does it do right? Well to be completely honest, nothing, the only thing it got going for it is the production quality from ufotable.

Story: 2 (contains spoilers up to ep 19)

There's really nothing special here, the series starts out with Tanjirou's family got devouvered by demons and his sister Nezuko got turned into one. In order to save his sister and turn her human again he set out to find Muzan Kibutsuji the original demon who surely has some way of turning Nezuko human again. In order to get to him he needs to ... be strong and fight a lot of demons thus he becomes a demon slayer. After this set up he just fights demons every episode and honestly it gets tiring fast. They decide to fix this repetitiveness by introducing two other main characters who are extremely obnoxious and later by introducing a spider demon who's several times more powerful than Tanjirou and the demons we've seen prior. However the way they handle this demon is done in the worst way possible, first to showcase how powerful he is when Tanjirou goes to cut his spider thread it is the sword that is cut instead and after getting destroyed by the demon, he has a flashback and pulls out a breathing technique called dance of the fire god from his ass, he then oblitirates his opponent with his sword whose blade is now half the length of the hilt. After this I completely gave up on the series, Fairy Tail has better writing than this.

Art / Animation: 8

The reason this series got popular in the first place, I have to admit it's beautiful and the fight scenes are fantastic, I do have a minor issue whenever I see CG Tanjirou walking around but it's otherwise fantastic.

Sound: 6

There's really nothing to complain about but there's not much to praise either. The music is solid and gets the job done but it's also unmemorable. The've assambled an absolutely fantastic voice cast but their roles don't alow for them to shine, the only exeptional voice performance is from Saori Hayami as Shinobu.

Characters: 0

The absolute worst part of the show, pretty much all the characters are as flat as a piece of cardboard with a single character trait, for many of them this character trait is also extremely obnoxious. Tanjirou is your standard shounen protagonist, overly righteous with a strong sense of comradery, honestly a really boring character that we've all seen a hundred times before so that he still ends up being one of the best characters in the show is speaking volumes about the rest of the cast. Nezuko is cute and that's it, apart from protecting Tanjirou a handful of times she hasn't done anything apart from looking cute she's also one of the better characters in the show. Inosuke is stupid, loud and obnoxious and tries to solve everything by beating stuff up, that's it there's nothing else to his character. Zenitsu is one of the worst characters I've seen in any medium, he's the biggest coward ever and his constant screaming makes you want to tear your hair off. Giyuu seems like a passable character on par with Tanjirou but I haven't found a reason to actually like him. Shinobu would be the most intersting character so far but she appears too robotic in her mission ''demon bad, gotta kill demon''. If she actually listened to Giyuu but still come to the same conclusion I wouldn't have a problem. Also she's a woman so of course she has to be too weak to sever the head of a demon, her sword and poison is cool and all but come on, find a better reason, it's pretty clear that strength is not the key component in severing the head of a demon in this universe. The rest of the pilars hasn't had much screentime but they've made an awful first impression, they've all been shows to have a single exaggerated character trait and nothing else.

Enjoyment: 0

Boring plot with obnoxious characters that drive you insane leads to an absolutely abysmal level of enjoyment on par with staring into a wall while listening to a screaming baby for 10 hours.

Overall: 1

To me this is the perfect example of style over substance and goes to show that as long as something has flashy fight scenes it's very likely to be loved by the anime community. If you're not already a big battle shounen fan who's able to watch a series for the action sakuga alone stay far away from this series.

[Spoiler Warning]

I'm sorry I won't be able to review everything, but I'm at the 7th episode now and I can't keep watching. I convinced myself to keep watching just to laugh it out, but the show is so inconsistent and poor that it drove me mad.

Kimetsu no Yaiba starts out with the carbon copy shonen "failproof" formula. Tragedy that fuels progress for the protagonist. This time, it's demons attacking and slaughtering most of his family. In his state of despair upon finding the corpses, our MC Tangerine is coldblooded enough to check whose body is still hot enough to be alive, potentially. he doesn't need ... a second to process everything. Screw that. He picks up his sister, who happens to be that. As he's on his way to the village, his sister jumps up, and much to Tangerine's surprise, the sister was converted to a demon. After their battle, the sister, Nezuko, hesitates to deliver the finishing blow. So Nezuko still has some consciousness. It fits in with the formula, perfect. Then a Demon Killer arrives at the scene to kill Nezuko. Tangerine stops him with a smart trick since he apparently knows that he can't beat the Demon Killer. Smart protagonists are cool, nice. Or so I'd say, but he actually isn't one.

You see, Tangerine has a few special abilities. One is to be smart only at certain situations. Other times, he's not so bright. Another ability of his is the ability to smell. He seems to have a great sense of smell, so great that he can smell out openings in an enemy's posture, and visualize it to a line connecting his blade to the enemy. His final ability is to breathe. Yes, breathe. He can breathe to improve his body's healing rate, his muscles strength, and his speed. Oh sorry, I might've disrespected the show here. He doesn't JUST breathe. He breathes deeply, so that... *checks notes*...the air reaches all the cells in his body. Yup. Deep breathing, people. It's a superpower.

Tangerine is also established to be "empathetic towards demons". How different! He is able to be empathetic towards them since his sister is also one, wow! Or so I'd say, but we are able to see that he has no problems slashing a Demon's both arms in combat even though he knows that a demon isn't killed until he slashes the neck. The demon then talks about how little girls are tasty, and Tangerine also has no problems slashing the demon's tongue then. Great empathy! Great job, Mr. Justice!

Another thing that amazes me is how quickly Tangerine acknowledges that he must slay demons to heal his sister. He must fight powerful demons of nightmares, the beings that he somehow has empathy for even though they killed his entire family, but then again the show said "fuck go back" to that empathy. Why doesn't he chicken out and just try to look for a way to heal his sister, and then realize that he must be a demon slayer to do so? That is the most normal response. But of course, Tangerine, Mr. Justice, xXxDemonSLayer3169xXx needs to time for such emotional garbage. So much so that when his master tells that he brainwashed Nezuko to hate demons and love humans, he shows no response. Okay, cool. Just brainwash my sister, yeah.

You sticked this far? Great! Because here's a shock, Tangerine actually has a fourth special power: the power to see the undead. He saw, talked to, and trained with his master's dead disciples. How cool! Great job, Tangerine! I wonder how the story will cover that up! Here's a guess though: Their will was so strong that they had to watch over the next disciple to make sure he didn't die to the demon boss of the training arc. I bet 50 Turkish Lira for that. It's a dying currency, but whatever.

And, that is all that I remember about to talk shit about in Kimetsu no Yaiba. However, the studio did a well job drawing and animating the show. While the soundtrack is sometimes out of place, the drawing is breathtaking. It's sometimes CGI-ish in the first few episodes, but following tht is awesome animation with an aesthetic that fits the show's time period and aesthetic perfectly, since waves are used a lot in Edo-Meiji Japanese culture.

Overall, the show is extremely poor. The characters are also bland and inconsistent, However you get used to that after trying to keep up with the story, which is also of similar nature. But of course, that is just my opinion. Please watch a few episodes yourself before arriving at a conclusion. Here are my Ratings of everything;
Story: 3/10
Art: 8/10
Sound: 6/10
Character: 2/10
Enjoyment: 6/10
Overall: 3/10

I don't usually write any reviews for anime, cause it doesn't really matter to me that much to share what I saw, but this time I am making an exception.

Demon Slayer starts off semi-generic as a story, but is executed well, and that's sort of what I care about. I don't look for the most original things, just any story that is executed well and enjoyable to watch. And at first it's doing a pretty good job. You usually need time to get used to the setting and see if the story itself will start picking up speed as it goes. But around episode ... 10, the whole show gets ruined. To me, it is absolutely ruined, after watching the next episodes and i'll explain why.

Up until that episode, there was just a bit of humour that wasn't great, but whatever, put some to be a bit lighter even though it wasn't required. Then one of the first side characters is introduced - Yushirou, who is the type I quite despise - the type that always has to butt in because he "loves" a certain character and needs to assert his annoying behavior over others, because they wanted to show affection towards that character as well. And it's not once, so that we get it - it is every.DAMN.TIME. It just kills the story, kills the pacing and while you have an awesome combat, you have to deal with that crap. But whatever, side character, he'll be gone soon.

But then.........two "main" characters appear that pretty much made sure I won't continue watching the show. Because I know they won't change. You have the absolute pantsy Zenitsu and the absolute block-head Inosuke.
Zenitsu is terrible. He kills the shows. I am not joking. He literally killed the show for me, because all he does is cry, weep, comment in fear on everything that happens and just doesn't shut up. I don't understand how the writer could have written such a poor character - he's not funny. He's just not. He's like Usopp and Sanji combined, but just their most annoying parts. And he goes on, and on, and on - and I know it won't change, because it's shonen. And shonen characters do not change much. This character kills the setting and the mood completely.

And the other one, Inosuke, is the same caliber of annoyance - only he just keeps screaming how he'll beat the shit out of everyone every. DAMN.TIME. With regards of this character archtype, I feel that maybe Bakugo from MHA is the best example, because at least he has some aura to him and intelligence. Bakugo keeps quiet and doesn't want to deal with the crap of others. But this guy keeps butting in and again kills the setting, which in this show is pretty damn important!!

So yeah, I had to do this, because I am tired of shows being destroyed by poor written characters and no story can save them, if I have to listen to 10 minutes of a guy screaming and weeping everytime. As far as the main character, he's alright, he might change over the show in some interesting ways, but not those two. Anyone giving this show more than a 7...I don't understand how they can stand for those characters. I know I sound harsh, but I feel like one has to be speak up in cases where you feel how something with a lot of potential can be ruined by something that could have easily been avoided or developed better. As far as the story goes, it really has a lot of potential to grow in areas I can't imagine and that's what makes it really strong.

The anime was pretty lit before the yellow kid and the pigman got introduced.



Their character design is horrible, the constant whining of the yellow kid and the irrational behavior of the pigman is hurting me. One or two times, fine. But they just kept doing the same thing every single episodes. The story also dragged on at the same place for a few episode of useless scenes.


Soft spoilers below
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The fact that the yellow dude did almost ABSOLUTELY nothing makes me feel like he shouldn't be in the show, instead, character that looks like they have more potential, for example, the girl at ... the spider web, having more meaningful lines than the yellow kid is not being introduced as a part of the show.

I wish they don't drag on this for any longer and get them to start doing legit stuffs rather than fooling around with the crybaby

In life sometimes you get bored of the hobbies you used to have as a child. Anime is one of them in my case. After being disappointed season after season with countless fast food adaptations. I decided to put a stop at my once favorite hobby.

Of course after a short 2 year hiatus you cant possibly ignore that even in that time frame at least something decent had to come out. Generally speaking most popular anime could be considered decent if only viewed on a surface level, but you're in for a surprise.

Naturally after having thoughts of going back to watching anime. I decided ... to check what was fairly popular these last months. Spotting Demon Slayer want difficult at all, since it had such an bulked up mean score here in MAL making it into the top 20 ranked anime in this page, So of course I was interested.

Overwhelmed in excitement and interest I went onto crunchyroll, paid a monthly subscription, and without any doubts I dived right into this series. (6PM)

After 12 hours of binge watching anime like in my old days, having completed Demon Slayer, with tired eyes, weak calves (after only having snacks for half a day) I turned off my pc, got off my chair and opened up the windows, After letting the air get in my living room I went ahead and prepared myself a meal.

After 2 hours of reflecting on what i just watched, I could only find myself with nothing but sheer disappointment and deep regret. Feeling the same way just like 2 years ago. Reminiscing on why I even went on hiatus in the first place.

Such a generic and mediocre title. with nothing new to offer is seriously being tossed around with amazing titles like Berserk and HxH? Is this the standard for an 8 and 9 nowadays? Generic writing and mediocre plot points? The soundtrack is mediocre at best, the animation is subpar, characters are so generic and forgettable.

OVERALL A FORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE FROM START TO END.

Never thought that I would ever write review of any anime or manga...
But I am surprised how low can be people's taste.

I was happy when I see 9 score, I thought I got chance to watch masterpiece and thats was total disappointment, bullshit.

Maybe I would give 8 or 9 score to Demon Slayer when I discovered anime for the first time, when I didnt see any bloodshed before and it was absolutely new world for me... I dont believe that any Veteran anime lovers will give that anime more than 6 or 7 points.

hmm... mal asks me to write longer review, so
Story is most ... likely good, buy story telling is total bullshit, you always know what happens, for example evil says "heh I am so strong his katana wont manage to cut me" and you know that that evil will die by that strike in next second, also too much talking, too unnatural expression, I want to vomit when I watch it, so why I still watch? because 9 score got me, I was like "hey maybe in next episode something amazing will happen, otherwise how that anime could get 9 score? it must amazing". thats how I watched maybe 8 episdes, but I am not going to watch Demon slayer anymore, I mean I finished all animes which I ever started, even when I disliked them I always finished. and yet I cant bring myself to finish watching Demon Slayer, total waste of time, and its shame how it is on 18th place. total shame

Kimetsu no Yaiba, or Demon Slayer, an overhyped, overrated and over almost everything show that fans can't stop praising and talking about this hell of a mess.


Yes, after a year or more from dropping it initially, I have completed it and rest assured, it's not as good as people say it is.


This is my super deconstructive take on the show.


From the studio that brought you, urgh, Fate comes another stupidly popular mainstream series that is Demon Slayer. Where do I start, I can't comprehend to you how much it irritates me or saddens me when a friend or anyone comes up to me and ... say 'dude you should check out Demon Slayer it's really good', just for me spoil their fun by saying 'it's not that good'. Without fail, almost everyone that I have encountered replies 'What? No way. It's great!'. I am truly annoyed by how big this series has become, how this low-tier Shounen series has managed to climb it's way to the top due to shameless fan-service or fan-baiting if I would call it. I'll admit, I didn't hate all of it. But to compare it to what people say it is and to actually watch it firsthand, you can eat my shit. This show is nowhere close as good or as 'legendary' as a ton of people are saying it to be.

I'll start with the good side of the show. Yes, I'll admit, the visuals are very good. With the show's distinctive thick outlines of characters to the colorful template of the character's clothing. This show is really unique in terms of style and visuals, everyone who sees's a character or anyone from the show would know immediately that this is Demon Slayer. And... That's about it, that's all that is that caught my attention or in some ways interest me.

Now, this is where the fun begins, the downfalls. For a start, this show's story is painful mediocre and lame. It's a very simple concept of our protagonist suffering from what the antagonist did in the beginning and it's just him finding his way back to bring vengeance on to this antagonist. I don't mind a simple structure of a story, but what you need to do to make that simple structure interesting is to add in the details and to make all those small matters an enjoyable experience. What Demon Slayer presented was pretty repetitive with our main character fighting and then getting summoned to another mission and repeat. I do compliment them with the addition to more main characters to our Tanjirou and Nezuko pair because, to be frank, our main boy Tanjirou isn't really an enjoyable character to listen to. But what the studio did when filling in those gaps in between plots are kinda poorly done. At times, the pacing is off, and off I mean very off. Those times are when the characters talk too much and fight scenes don't really feel as fast-paced or as action-packed as it should. At moments the time just seems to pass so slowly and other moments are sonic fast.

The second installment of the downfall, the characters. Tanjirou is one of the most Naruto kind of character since Naruto. His over-optimistic behavior paired up with his never-ending feeling of 'not giving up' is truly annoying. But what I want to focus on him is how the show tries so hard to push his plot-armor. Specifically, episodes 18, 19 and 20. These few episodes just blew my mind on how is he still alive, I know everyone's protagonist needs to have some level of plot-armor but, what the show did wasn't even hiding it. There are so many moments where I went 'he's gonna die' and miraculously, he lives! Who would have seen that coming... Not just once, I counted at least 5 times where Tanjirou was sure to die and he didn't, this really pisses me off. I can just imagine the writers/author was going through when making the scene, 'Oh so our dude is fighting one of the broken bad guys, so the bad guys used this fucking lightsabers-ass web-shooting thing, oh so he just avoids it no biggy. Oh, he's sword is broken? No worries he still can do more DAMAGE WITH A BROKEN SWORD AND PERHAPS WIN.' Sure. Now that I knew the background before the fight scene in episode 19 (before I didn't) it just removes all the enjoyment I had when seeing that fight scene alone.

Another fucking issue is the villain, like, we got this Michael Jackson wanna-be asshole that is just turning people into demons. We later got to know that he's a boss man that handles big important business, then this comes to my head. Why was he in the woods near Tanjirou's house? Like we have seen him hiding in the city in Tokyo, what brings him to a village? Plus, what are his main goals? This is another big issue of the show, characters or antagonists having no purpose or driving factor. So take Muzan, he's the boss, turning people into demons. So what does he want to do, take out the Hashira? So what is he gonna do after that, take over Japan? Ok then what. See where I'm coming at? Like they have no driving factor or a strong purpose to what their goals or objectives are. So Tanjirou wants to cure his sister, the ONLY demon that has ever been friendly to a slayer out of the WHOLE years of the Demon Slayer Corps. But why? I don't see an issue, she's clearly having a pretty good time being a demon, I don't see the issue, this is a win-win in my eyes. Speaking of villains, gosh they suck. They're the usual badly bad guys in almost any lame-ass Shounen series. Like in episode 20, the reason for that Rui spider motherfucker's purpose was to make a family? Are you serious? Like, was he that pathetic and trying so hard to be pitiful that we the audience are supposed to swallow that shit? This brings me to my third installment.

The overuse of trying to be pitiful. This can be seen almost everywhere throughout the show, we have main characters and side characters and villains all having a tragic past likey involving their parents or family getting killed so on and so on. If the author or writers are so tryhards on this then fine, I pity them for doing such a poor job or trying to make the depths of the characters. Every time, without fail, our main dude Tanjirou when fighting an intense match will suddenly talk about his parents or how he wants to bring Nezuko back to normal. Not just him but the majority of the characters have a tragic backstory or a past and they talk boring shit about how they want to avenge or overcome that challenge. Boring stuff I'll say. Speaking of pity, I really pity the person who comes up with the script or maybe it's the person making the subtitles. In episode 7 where Tanjirou was in that demonic swamp puddle involving that 3 demons, he said 'The air was thinner on top of Mt.Sagiri!'. You idiot, you're not a fish you can't breathe underwater, there is no air under the water you moron. There are other moments of stupid scriptwriting but this is one of them.

Lastly, and there's actually more but I'll cut it short, I want to talk about the laziness of the author. Does it kill them (preferred pronoun) to do some research when making the world and character? So for a start, the character Inosuke, seeing him with two swords wants to make me kill myself. While yes there are records of people using two swords, not at once you fucking dingus. Come on with have experienced this a few times now, a popular one being Deadpool. It's not very functional when using two double-handled swords, both swords make it very impractical due to one sword blocking the other or the strength distribution not being even. Another this is the occasional technological gap, there are times when what seems like the dawn of man when the whole surrounds are just trees and suddenly a bustling city like Tokyo. There are cars and trains available so why do we only see them so occasionally. Plus, gosh there are guns in this era, all of you aren't savages using swords all the time. Speaking of swords, the only interesting one was the sword-rapier that Shinobu used, the rests are just your typical samurai sword action. This plays a small part in the story but it affected my enjoyment.

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Character-3/10: Everyone has either no family or families been killed or they'd peed their pants in their early days or just something tragic happening at a young age. So Zenitsu's a simp, but I do like the part when he used his simp-ness to his advantage in the training involving girls. Plus, he's really noisy, slightly too noisy I feel, over-exaggerated to just give the borderline audience some 'unique character personality'. Inosuke, also sometimes too extra, like I feel they are too scripted in being 'them', being loud and over the top. It gets tiring fast. Fuck Tanjirou, he's too entitled thinking he's the only one that lost his family thinking he is the only one that can stop Muzan. Even Nezuko I'll admit she's way to fan-bait like she's just cute for the audience to say 'oh my gosh she so kawaii' and stuff like that. I don't really care cause I feel all these are just cheap shots to gain a fanbase, what's worse is that it has succeeded.

Art-8/10: I will say despite the animation looking smooth and pleasing, I do see times of underproduction due to the long talk time or the irritating flashbacks or the reuse of scenes. Plus, I realized that after the studio started using those 'funny faces' with the dotted eyes and silly expression, they used it way too many times. Another cheap move to attract viewers.

Writing- 3/10: Oh is it boring, I will admit the problems do become numb after the first half of the show and the rest is just bad but at a consistent level. I will admit the Fire Force has a more interesting concept that this but they didn't do a better job than Demon Slayer of course. Definitely a good example of a top-notch Shounen is, of course, Hunter X Hunter. I feel what Demon Slayer is doing with the writing is lazy but they just get most of the pull factor from the audience is the art and the visuals.

Sound-5/10: Holy shit is the sounds overused, every time a demon appears that 'aaaaaaaaaaaaa' sound of a woman singing comes up and every intense scene has that same repetitive fight song. Additionally, I heard the intro gets a lot of praise and I really don't see the appeal, sure it's fine but it's so anime-ish that it's blain and boring. Just a catchy chorus with FAST SING is what you need to get a ton of likes apparently....


Overall, I expected shit and I got shit, I pressed X to doubt to all those people that said Demon Slayer is good. If it weren't so overhyped, definitely my scores will be slightly less biased but seeing and experiencing the situation of the 'Demon Slayer Hype' is really annoying.

Strong to a Decent 3

I never really write reviews, but I feel like I had to for this one.

Story: 1/10

Genuinely one of the most boring, horribly written, cringe-worthy shounen stories ever written. This show is on-par with shows like Fairy Tail, writing-wise. The show is extremely simple and predictable, not once was I shocked, sad, happy, angry. I did not feel a single thing watching this show, other than boredom. How many times are we going to have to see your typical young boy suffers tragedy and becomes an epic super fighter story before we get sick of it?

Characters: 1/10

Shallow, undeveloped, stereotypical shounen characters that do not get an ... ounce of development throughout the entire show. As a friend expertly said, the main trio is just Deku from My Hero Academia split into three, Tanjiro, the kindness, Zenitsu, the cowardice with occasional bravery, and Inosuke, the part that caused Deku to continuously break his arms over and over. This would be fine if any of them actually had any development (getting stronger isn't character development by the way), but they were the same throughout the whole story, not a single ordeal changed any of them. Shounen fans made fun of moe fans for liking cute anime girls during cute things, yet went berserk over Nezuko, a bottom tier anime character with no personality, who barely passes as cute, who essentially, is just a cute anime girl doing cute things. Overall, horrible characters with horrible writing, nothing out of the ordinary for shounen to be honest.

Animation & Art: 10/10

Ufotable is well-known for amazing animation and art, Kimetsu no Yaiba is no exception to this rule, no matter how bad the actual content of the anime may be. Top of the line visuals and fight scenes, amazing CG, clean art, and amazingly done backgrounds/settings. Episode 19 broke the internet, and for damn good reason, it was a genuinely beautiful fight scene. Every good thing about this anime comes right from ufotable, as the actual show accomplishes nothing, which is something to note.

Sound: 7/10

The character voice acting was average. Zenitsu, Inosuke, and about half the characters had cripplingly annoying and bad voice acting, while the rest were pretty average/decent. The sound effects of the swords and the fighting were top tier, and beautifully done. Not much to be said here.

Enjoyment: 2/10

The enjoyment of watching this show is equivalent to the enjoyment one would get chugging a litre of soy sauce. The only enjoyable thing about this show is the animation, and even then, it barely counteracts the atrocious story and writing. Frankly, this show was completely unnecessary, and probably drained some of the funds off of the new Heaven's Feel movie, so I enjoyed it even less, because it is probably lowering the quality of an actually good franchise.

Overall: 4/10

I wish I could give it a lower score, but anything lower than this would be an insult to ufotable's amazing work. I would never recommend this show to anyone, I will always laugh when I see the absurdly high score this show has, and I will consistently avoid Kimetsu fans on the internet, because they are the new My Hero Academia fans.

TL;DR: I would rather be reincarnated as Umaru-chan's Onii-chan than ever watch this anime again.

Strap yourself in for a rollercoaster of clichés, repetitive fights, and enough yelling to shatter glass. Demon Slayer is a show that throws every shounen trope in the blender, hits puree, and hopes you'll call it a smoothie.

Tanjiro, our protagonist, is about as original as a white t-shirt. Whining about his dead family and spouting generic lines about never giving up gets old faster than expired milk. Nezuko, his demon sister, is basically a silent prop with a kawaii box strapped to her back. The supporting cast is a mixed bag of annoying archetypes: the loud boar-head dude, the sleepy drool-fest, and the brooding emo ... with a tragic backstory. Don't expect any character development beyond power-ups and bigger swords.

The plot? Paper thin. Demon slayers fight demons. Tanjiro cries about his family. Repeat. Rinse. Lather. The fights, while visually flashy, are all variations of the same dance: Tanjiro dodges, Nezuko gets captured, Tanjiro unleashes some flashy CGI move, demon explodes in a shower of purple goo. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.

The animation, admittedly, is pretty slick. But even the most stunning visuals can't distract from the repetitive story, predictable plot twists, and characters so flat they could be used as pizza boxes. The soundtrack is forgettable, except for the opening theme that gets stuck in your head like a bad earworm.

Demon Slayer is like a cheap buffet: it looks appealing at first, but after a few bites, you're left feeling greasy and unsatisfied. If you're looking for a shounen anime with genuine innovation, complex characters, and a story that doesn't rehash the same tired tropes, steer clear of this one. You'll thank me later.

Bonus

The humor is forced and cringeworthy, like watching your grandpa try to do TikTok dances.
The pacing is all over the place, with long, boring stretches punctuated by rushed fight scenes.
The ending is predictable and unsatisfying, leaving you wondering if you wasted your time watching the whole thing.

Overall: Demon Slayer is a flashy, soulless slog through tired tropes and predictable plotlines. The characters are one-dimensional caricatures, the animation is mediocre at best, and the music will make you want to rip your ears off. Unless you enjoy melodrama, repetitive battles, and enough crying to fill a slayer's sake gourd, steer clear of this demon-infested disaster.

Anime is as much a visual genre as it is one centered around storytelling. But when one of those two things are prioritized over the other rather than treated as two halves to a whole, the work in question suffers. At around episode 14--as the artwork was becoming commonplace--I decided to stop binging the anime and analyze why it had become so boring and silly to me.

Demon Slayer (DS) rehashes a story that we're all accustomed to. There is the status quo which gets interrupted by a tragedy (the catalyst), and then The Hero is thrown into a series of events to become "stronger" with ... the help of supernatural aid. The Monomyth (commonly known as The Hero's Journey) has been around for millenia; it's the focal point of thousands of stories. And yet, despite DS's lavish praise from fans, it does nothing new with the Monomyth. The series just follows the formula to a T. And if DS takes no risks with its storytelling, then it becomes easy to predict. Yes, Tanjiro gets into harrowing fights, but he's never in any real danger. He has plot armor. And timeskip level ups. Hence, if the series remains adherent to the typical Monomyth, then Tanjiro never will be in any actual trouble. He'll always win because of deus ex machina and finally save Nezuko, return home, "save the day," etc.

On that note, the whole inclusion of Nezuko is a waste. I know that sounds harsh, but hear me out: she's only there to serve as an emotional incentive for Tanjiro, but since their relationship is never established beyond some headpatting and smiling and tears, we never get a real sense of why Tanjiro is fighting for her. Wasn't their family being killed enough of an incentive already to go out and behead some evil creatures? "But, blood is thicker than water!" you say. Sure, but this is a story, not real life. The viewership knows nothing of Tanjiro's relationship with Nezuko beyond an impossibly blissful flashback in episode 1, and now that she's become half-demon, she's changed, so who's to say that her actions in this altered form reflect her old self? What even is her old self? An unreal feminine ideal? It's unknown. Sure, she's the last living woman of her family and just *might* succumb to her demony side (golly!), but what else is there to her character besides "You attacked family so I angry and kick your head in" or "I'm tired and go to sleep, hold hand please"? Yes, she fawns over people as though they're her own family members to prove to us that she's such a loving person, but even that's fake because of Sensei's magic spell. It's weak characterization. She does fight, but only when it's convenient to the plot so that Tanjiro's plot armor looks more believable. In the end, she's there to make us feel some "deeper" connection to Tanjiro's plight. "Poor Nezuko, I hope she returns to being a human again and living happily ever after! Btw, she's a pretty girl, so now I want that even more." How cliche. And that's how the series tries to hook you: by appealing to your emotions at every turn possible. Emotions are blinding--so blinding that you're willing to ignore a weak story if you "feel" something for different characters. Shonen like One Piece and Naruto usually know how to time their emotional appeals, at least. Even shorter series like Bebop know how to do this well. DS doesn't know when to let up with trying to tug at your heartstrings, and thusly it ends up coming across as forced rather than natural.

It's not even an issue that Nezuko is a silent protagonist, because in the video game Transistor, this same idea is executed, but executed well. By the end of the story, you have a clear idea of who Red (the silent female) is and who she used to be. Nezuko's range of expression is limited not only because she doesn't talk, but because she's not allowed to develop beyond her few responses to things. Someone online asked why doesn't she just write things down to communicate, which was met by someone saying that was "fallacious criticism." Ha! Tanjiro can write, but his sister can't? Demons can talk and communicate, don't give me that bull.

The other characters aren't much better. Tanjiro is your usual happy-go-lucky shonen idiot (with a weird, unexplained sniffing power like Gon Freecs) forced to "grow up" because of circumstances, and the others are caricatures of tropes we've already seen hundreds of times in anime (the cowardly retard, the strong retard, the stoic retard, the girl-looking man retard, the mature older sister type, the bad Japanese humor, etc). They all act in bizarre ways as though they don't really know how human interaction works (they don't). This is fine for people who never get tired of seeing wacky Japanese archetypes being awkward, but if you're looking for a creative spin on those types, then keep on looking.

Also, why does an anime predicated on the theme of family show such a shallow portrayal of it? There were so many opportunities for some great character development that was squandered by the pacing and appearances of silly demons coming at the hero. And, come to think of it, why aren't there more demon fighters in the world if people are getting devoured or "turned" so frequently? Then there's the whole deal with them copying Tokyo Ghoul's ideas, which were copied from Parasyte, which copied it from elsewhere, etc, etc. I'm not saying that that type of story can't be retold, but when you take inspiration from sources that are already diluted, you're going to end up with a weak product.

There are far, far better stories out there to read or watch that deal with DS's same themes but do it in a much better way (Parasyte, Berserk, Castlevania, HxH). DS stopped impressing me once the shininess of its visuals wore off and I quickly became disenchanted with what I was watching: a story that I'd already experienced before, albeit worse, with animation used to overcompensate for its insipid storytelling. Unlike some other shonen where the mangaka understands how verisimilitude works, DS fakes depth with its characters rather than working toward something meaningful and believable. Studios nowadays realize that shallow appeals to emotion and sugoi animation = profit, that's why great stories are few and far between now: standards have dropped to such a low that stuff like DS is managing to amaze people. It's an amalgamation of every bad shonen in recent times (Attack on Titan, Seven Deadly Sins, Fairy Tail, Tokyo Ghoul, Pandora Hearts, Hero Academia, etc) fused with the feudal Japan aesthetic and pointless inclusions of gore for that good ol' pseudo-seinen shock value. Anime of DS's kind try to hijack your emotional intelligence and win your allegiance; it's textbook manipulation.

Sure, it feels nice to be psychologically attached to something, but if you go turning off your ability to criticize or analyze something you like or dislike, then you've stopped thinking clearly about said thing and have let it sway your emotions and decision-making capabilities. I say this only because I see so many fans lose it and curse out anyone who says something even remotely negative about their beloved Demon Slayer. Well, now I can see why they like this anime so much. But, as someone I know once said, "fandoms are a wildfire."

That's all I've got to say. I'm out.

Ugly CGI, bland villains, bland one-dimensional characters, bland story/plot, braindead fights that are decided by Le Strong anime attack, and horrendously loud unfunny anime funnies with characters screeching at each other. So the story sucks, the characters suck, the action sucks, the visuals suck and the humor sucks. I really don't know how this blew up. It is the definition of painfully mid to the fullest extent. The only fight that had some sort of smart outplay and tension was the very first encounter in the forest. The stakes were high, and the matter was urgent, plus Tanjirou thinking fast on how to use the ... Axt right was pretty cool. Anything beyond that point is wasted potential. I have to admit one thing that really stands out here is the character designs, they are incredible. Seriously, even a rock has twice the amount of character design you'll find anywhere else. It is one of the very few anime where it is hard to spot the main character with all these unique looking designs. So yeah, overall the ultimate Normie anime, maybe thats why its so popular 🤔

In my opinion, Kimetsu no Yaiba is one the most shallow but over-hyped animes I have ever watched. Every time I watched an episode, I was always expecting some improvement to unfold on the next one (it's ufotable's bro). Sadly, it never happened and I ended up wasting my time finishing the whole episodes for this season with a big disappointment.

As others have mentioned, the animation and sound for Kimetsu no Yaiba are arguably one of the best out there. However, art and sound alone are weak components to make an anime worth watching. Some animes with poor animation such as Kemono Friends and Kemurikusa, ... which happen to be from the same studio Yaoyorozu, are far more enjoyable to me than this piece of half baked anime. In fact, I consider Kemono Friends as a master piece.

Finishing the whole season of Kimetsu no Yaiba makes me wonder where does all the hype for Kimetsu no Yaiba come from? Or is it just me?

Ugh. I am gonna say it now. This show is an overrated piece of garbage that had the potential to be not.

The story starts with Kamado family bonding then fast forward, they are killed by a demon and while they are killed the MC, Tanjiro was away. When he got back, he was shocked. Nezuko, the only survivor of the attack, was on the verge on dying then she became a demon. Giyu arrives at the scene to kill the demon, which is Nezuko, so he and Tanjiro fought a bit but in the end, because this garbage is so unoriginal, Giyu spares Nezuko for ... no logical reason. After that, Tanjiro then made a resolve. REVENGE!!(Ugh. Cringe level over 9000). Then *drum roll* DEMON SLAYER!!! Wow! What a terrible premise but the fans said "iT gEtS bEtTeR fRoM hErE" so I pushed through.

First, we enter a generic training arc that only has animation (the blinded A LOT of people) as its redeeming factor. There is a part here that show how poor the storytelling of the show is. We see Tanjiro training with Sabito and Makomo. Shing shing sword fight then at the end, Tanjiro and Sabito had a clichè final sword slash. Tanjiro appeared to cut the mask of Sabito but then few shots later the stone the he cannot cut at the earlier part of the arc was cut in half. It was revealed then that Sabito and Makomo are actually dead. So my question is all this time was the rock moving and having a sword fight with Tanjiro? Such a poorly written and told fight.

Then it was revealed that Nezuko was sleeping all the time and apparently sleeping makes up for hunger. Ugh. Fucking wasted potential development. Instead of giving Nezuko internal struggles of suppressing hunger and developing her from there, we get this lazy ass writing that Sakonji used an off screen hypnosis so that Nezuko won't eat humans. Clap, clap, clap.

Development: Am I a joke to you?

We could have been shown clips of Nezuko eating animals to supress her hunger and at some point make a conflict between her and Tanjiro but no the author is lazy af. This could've made her an interesting and compelling character but now she is just a cardboard of an character that is mostly used for cringe ass fanservice. nEzUkO kAwAiI.

Then after the training arc, we go to the final selection. There we had the first villain, the green-giant-slime guy. Typical. Tanjiro was struggling at first then at the end he wins despite not being strong enough and what is worse is that the ones with Tanjiro also undergo almost the same or exactly the same amount of training as him. Nonsensical power scaling. But there is a larger problem here. While training, Tanjiro is shown to only use normal sword attacks but during the fight suddenly he can use Water Breathing attacks that are NOT shown during the training. Sure he was also practicing his actual breathing but how does it become a Water Breathing attack was never shown. So in other words, the techniques he use (from Breathing 1-10) are like asspulls. This show uses the training arc in the worst way possible.

After that we had a few missions of Tanjiro and Nezuko fighting demons. After all those fights, the show tries to make you feel sad for the demons but the execution (at least to me) is so bad , especially with the drums demon. I jUsT wAnT sOmEoNe tO hEaR mE!!!, that instead of making me sad, it makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Their flashbacks are to edgy for me. Like please, give your villains variety. Have a demon that is just a villain till the end. Don't make them all people with sad past. It gets tiring fast.

Episode 19 is trash. Its writing is Fairy Tail writing. "Hinokami Kagura" is one of the biggest asspulls of the year. Water user becoming able to use Fire (without training) in the verge of being killed is one of the worst moments of 2019. After Tanjiro "beheading" Rui, the author tries to make his failure weigh lighter so he made a Diabolus Ex Machina for Rui. He actually beheaded himself before Tanjiro can cut him so that it won't look like Fairy Tail. Wow so forced. Author-san if you think you got out of the shithole, NO! It just shows how poorly written this show is. Nezuko using Demon Arts despite sleeping 80% of the time and also without training is also an offender.

I almost forgot the two horrendous main characters, Inosuke and Zenitsu. Two characters with little to no development and are just there for "comedic" relief but they are pure annoyances. Inosuke was just too bland for me to care so....meh but Zenitsu......He is easily one of the worst characters in 2019. His character is to be annoying. Shouting here, fainting there. Funny? HELL NO!! His power is pure Deus Ex Machina and is not ashamed to hide it.

We have better revenge stories out there like Vinland Saga, which is now my gold standard for revenge stories. The author knows what he wants to do. He makes Thorfinn look pathetic because he wants to get his message across to the viewers. Revenge is stupid and a waste of time. By Episode 22 of VS, this message was sent across perfectly. That scream from Thorfinn realizing he wasted years of his life for revenge was well done. Back to Kimestu no Yaiba, revenge here is taken in such a shallow way. Revenge is just an excuse for Tanjiro's fight with demons to have "weight" but it has little to none, at least to me.

Like every 10/10 anime has flaws, a 1/10 anime also has positives. Kimetsu no Yaiba is no exception. The last episode (Muzan killing the lower moons) was actually pretty solid. That's it. Omegalul. Bye. Peace. Signing Out.

Anything not mentioned, is either a clichè moment that didn't really piss me off or a forgettable moment.

Wait. What the fuck is the purpose of making Muzan look gay?

This review will contain mild spoilers.

Kimetsu no Yaiba is an anime released in 2019, made after a manga from Shounen Jump. It's a standard battle shounen that was helped a lot by the fact that the studio responsible for the animation is ufotable (Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay night unlimited blade works, Tales of Zestiria etc).

The problem is that the animation quality is the only really good aspect of the anime. When you have a higher score on MAL than true masterpieces like Monster, Gurren Lagann, The Monogatari series, The Tatami Galaxy, Ping Pong The Animation or even Fate/Zero from the same studio it's clearly that something ... is wrong.

The story is as basic and plain as they come, nothing really original, nothing really interesting, the arcs are repetitive, just like in My hero academia. The main characters are annoying, and they have a massive armor plot, almost at the same level of things like Fairy Tail. The main character Tanjiro at one point is given the help of his father's ghost and he learns a new technique on the spot, a completely unannounced thing, no foreshadowing at all, it just happened just for Tanjro to survive. And that is not the only ghosts that helped Tanjiro, earlier in the series, 2 ghosts of former apprentices of his master appeared and helped Tanjiro to get more powerful. Maybe it's a Star Wars reference and Tanjiro is Luke Skywalker, who knows.

Basically when the author created the world in his work, I don't think he thought too far, like how to properly apply the rules of the world he created which is a shame because he breaks the very rules he created so he can get his characters new power-ups and save their lives.

The design of the characters is also pretty basic, the worst being that of The Pillars who seem like they are directly recycled from certain characters from Bleach or Naruto.

As for the comedy, although I think comedy is subjective in general, I can't help but find the so called comedy, cringeworthy in this anime. Zenitsu in particular I think was written as a stress relief character, but in the end all he brought to the table was pure cringe. Inosuke at least is better in that aspect.

The handling of the drama is also poorly made. Basically drama in this anime translates to Tanjiro and co. almost getting killed, plot armor generated powers coming in, so the demons can finally get killed.

The animation is great, one of the best this year, I don't really have any complaints here and the soundtrack is good but pretty forgettable

This anime has become quite popular just because anime as an entertainment medium is becoming quite mainstream and Kimetsu no Yaiba acts like a gateway to anime for many new viewers, just how many of us have started with anime like Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Naruto, Bleach or My Hero Academia. The difference between all these shows is that some are well written, some are not. Kimetsu no yaibase falls in category two unfortunately.

Also the argument that some give that it gets better in the manga, as the first season covers only the beginning of the story is a completely illogical and irrelevant because I only judge the anime here not the manga here and I don't judge based on future events in the manga, I judge on what happened in season one of the anime. The bottom line is that season one, which is just the beginning of the story, is nowhere near as great as some people make it seem.

My final rating is 5/10, which according to MAL ratings it means average or mediocre, and that's what I really think it was. Great animation and a nice soundtrack does not save this anime from the fact that all the other aspects are modest at best.

I'm completely disappointed with this anime, at the beginning, it looks like a decent shonen with a protagonist who accounts with good motivation, but as the episodes passed, many problems start to appear, first, the art direction has issues, yeah, yeah, the character design and the animation on the action scenes are great, but at the moment they tried to create some certain scenes, their building was lame, many parts of the anime hardly had any kind of appropriate anticipation (like the moment when we find the dead body of Tanjiro’s mother) and they only showed it... just like that, giving the "factor shock" sensation ... that is always awful, and don't make me start with all the cliffhangers on this show.

The cast is mediocre, although some characters have a backstory, many others hardly show any personality trait, Nezuko is the cute little sister who just does cute things and sometimes, fights, Zenitsu is the bipolar coward who waits till the moment of a dire need to do anything useful, and Inosuke is a mad murderer who just wants to fight; the enemies showed a backstory, but this only appears till they died, resulting in wasted potential

The narrative suffers the problems of the average shonen, power-ups like the seal that allows seeing the arrows, or the moment when the protagonist results being capable to change the water style power to a fire style power, these things that came out of nowhere are the reason of why the anime plot-armors feels lame.

And that's it, a big disappointment to me.

Demon Slayer is the most overhyped piece of garbage to have ever been created , it does absolutely new , it is just recycling the generic shonen garbage formula.

The only reason and I MEAN THE ONLY REASON why people dickride this series so much is because of the animation and if i'm being completely honest it isn't even all that great.

Safe to say that this series has the most toxic fanbase , they have the mental capacity of a fucking peanut , giving undeserved hype to trash episodes

The story is predictable and corny , it follows a boy who wants to turn his sister ... back into a human even though she is a demon she still retains her human personality thanks to the power of plot and if things couldn't get any worse a DEMON SLAYER let her go and told her brother to go to a man that will train him to become a demon slayer , like this whole story is so forced and contrived , Nothing makes sense

Tanjiro isn't even a swordsman , he's just a guy who carries a sword , whenever he's in a fight there is no strategy or skill required to win , he just spams his random ass breathing powers

The side characters also are just bland and one-dimensional , there is nothing complex about them , they're just there to fill up space

The fact that a series that does absolutely nothing or unique receives so much hype really shows the decay of the anime community , the toxic demographic of this series constantly look for ways to suck it off by comparing it to trash series like MHA , Black Clover , Boruto etc just makes no sense . That's like comparing a pile of shit to a pile of shit with a cherry on top

Out of the top 50 anime on MAL, 2 animes just defies all logic to me because I think they don't belong anywhere near there, one of those anime is Demon Slayer.

For the short justification for my rating: sleeper, only a few episodes are enjoyable and characters that are so uninteresting and unlikable.

Story: 3
One of the biggest points affecting my overall score is the story. Demon Slayer does not bring anything special to the table regarding the story, if anything the story starts with an extremely generic start and it continues extremely below average storytelling.


Art: 9

... Sound: 9


Characters :3
Demon slayer offers one of the worst set of characters. The main trio, being one of the most uninteresting trio, including Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke. Out of the three, none of them would be in my top 100. The only respectable character raising this category is Muzan who actually has an interesting background and good character depth.


Enjoyment: 5
Despite bashing hard on it, I did not absolutely hate it at the time of watching, it was OK.

Overall: 4

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TL;DR Review
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Show starts off quite strong, 10 solid episodes. Then falls flat when it take a sharp turn and introduces an incredibly poorly written character that subsequently ruins the entire tone the show has set up until then.

Furthermore, after this point it becomes quite apparent that it's just another flashy shounen using the same generic formula of 2-3 episodes of being assigned and completing a task, followed by a rest episode and then rinse and repeat.

All the while running into having awful power spiking issues at each new encounter due the purposefully obscured abilities of the characters used to force tiresome 'Deus Ex ... Machina' plot devices.

Much wasted potential, and extremely overrated.
However, beautiful animation, and sound design as expected of a Ufotable production.

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Detailed Review
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Kimetsu no Yaiba has an extremely strong opening half. 10 solid episodes that had my hopes high that I'd found another potential masterpiece of a story.

I was certain this anime was going to be a beautifully dark-themed mash-up of 'The Witcher' books/games but set in a historical era of Japan with a sort of wandering narrative like 'Mushi-Shi'.

The beautiful imagery of early Taishō era Japan, the Witcher-School like Demon Slayer Corps that takes on only the strongest Young boys turning them into monster killers, and the quickly introduced theme that not all Demons are monsters; Quickly sets the stage for an epic yet tragic tale.

I expected a story showing the difficult and grim path our MC Tenjiro must follow to to take revenge on the demon that butchered his family and turned his sister into a monster. It was certainly going down that route, until episode 11 when things suddenly took a sharp turn.

Well actually there are bits that did leave a bit of a foul taste in my mouth before this and immediately made it impossible to achieve >9. That being why does Tenjiro have this incredibly powerful sense of smell? Apparently we're expected to just accept this as the way things are. Also why does the Demon Slayer in episode 1 not simply ignore Tenjiro and fulfill his task of slaying her? This is illogical from his point of view.

That aside back to Episode 11!

Episode 11 introduces Zenitsu a frustratingly annoying character that uses a very poorly written version of the 'idiot savant' trope with a heaping spoonful of the 'overbearing flirt' trope. Think Brock from Pokemon. His scenes consist of him being frightened and screaming or acting like a fool and drooling over Demon-Sis. It's an extremely distasteful and poor attempt to forcefully inject humour, and honestly a completely unnecessary one as the show had a good balance of humorous moments prior to his introduction.

Many fans say his character improves with time, but from what I could find out it doesn't and it's usually those who read the manga first who say this, as in the manga he isn't able to be as obnoxious because he can only violate you so much in that form whereas in the anime he can violate your eyes and ears! Delightful.

This character is so abrasive and grating to watch he alone nearly turned me off from continuing.

And... I made it to episode 15. This is the point where I realized this is actually just another mediocre but flashy shounen.

My bet is the show is going to continue giving these demon slaying tasks that'll take 2-3 episodes each, and the group is going to move around and complete these with an occasional rest episode in between. The season will end with some sort of cliffhanger regarding vital information to his goal and will pick up next season to continue the pattern. Whether that turns out to be true or not isn't really of consequence because that isn't my main issue.

The formula is nothing unique, new, or exciting.

However, besides it being an overused formula.
The main problem I have is these "newbie" Demon Slayers seem to crush every demon they come across with relative ease, using self-produced 'Deus Ex Machina' plot devices related to their 'special techniques' that are much closer to just straight up magic than it is to actual human abilities; Which I wouldn't have a problem with if they were explained adequately and they had actual limitations.

Then as soon as you believe there is a limitation to their powers they simply take two separate techniques and combine them to make an even more powerful move! or better yet just give themselves an internal monologue pep talk up until they they can beat their foe!

Which is incredibly disappointing, because I didn't think it would end up like that seeing as at the beginning of the anime Tanjiro showed his excellent mind for strategy and battle analysis when facing Giyu; using his wits to attempt to defeat him knowing he stood no chance in actual combat.

If instead of just doing a 2 year training montage and instantly powering up the MC to master level swordsman in all but rank (which already pushed the limits of my suspension of disbelief). If they had him learn the basics for 2 years but only learn the special techniques over his journey gathering information; such as giving him some sort of ability to absorb the demons blood techniques and use them himself to a lesser effect. Say his black Nichirin blade for instance could have this power. It'd provide for a more gradual curve in which he gained strength and it'd be a lot more interesting to watch, especially if battles were made to rely on formulating plausible tactics to defeat the enemy rather than just bursting them down with whatever technique fits the scenario. Also limiting secondary characters techniques to 1 or 2 at most while being much less powerful and more tactically useful rather than again just more burst options.

This would solve both the issue of the inexplicable power spiking at each new foe encounter despite being the lowest ranked demon slayers, and would ground the series closer to reality because his powers and limitations would be known by the viewer and when he used a technique to defeat something it would feel less like a 'Deus Ex Machina' element and more like just the MC simply fighting tactically with his available tools.

As for Zenitsu, either ditch his poorly written 'idiot savant' trope or the whole character. He is irredeemable in his current state, his personality isn't amusing or relatable. If instead they gave him a character arc that focused on his lack of self-confidence and overcoming it; It'd make sense, and be relatable. And his constant shouting and hyper exaggerated fear isn't amusing either it just detracts from the feel of what should be tense scenes.

I'm so frustrated writing this review, because this anime had such great potential to be a truly incredible story but it fell flat after setting up an otherwise quite interesting world.

I started out really wanting to enjoy this show, but like many here, couldn't make it past episode 9-10ish before I just couldn't take it any more. The art is great, the fights more or less spectacular, but tragically, the characters and story are less exciting than the bowl of left-over white rice that's been in your fridge for the past 4 days. For me that's a no-go.

Truth is, there is just nothing at stake in this show. Nothing. For some people that's obviously fine given the popularity of this show, but if you care about depth and are not a big fan of the ... morally black and white cookie-cutter story line where the good guy always wins, save yourself the time and watch something else. Again, all of this could have been palatable with some decent character development, but at least until episode 10, nothing of the sort was anywhere to be found.

For me, the specific trigger to stop watching was the proper introduction of the blond haired guy (I've banished his name from memory) and the accompanying migraine headaches of listening to his non-stop shouting. Someone needs to tell the writers that screaming and loudness does NOT equal funny.

*very minor spoilers*

What I've written here is more like a warning than an actual review.


The story starts off fairly mundane, The main character (Tanjiro) is leaving home from his daily routine of selling rocks or something. He does this literally everyday but for some reason when his family says goodbye to him they have to act like he's going out to war... like he's going to be gone for a fucking decade. The reason for this is so the writer won't have to properly establish the relationship between Tanjiro and his family. So instead of giving proper screentime to his family, they present them as ... the most loving family of all time, because they have to die like 7 minutes later so they have to seem like the a super loving family for the short time that they have.

The show sells itself on being insanely well animated and for the whole series we have to stay in some CGI PS2 looking ass world, and not even a pretty PS2 game like Kingdom Hearts or something, I mean like some straight up GTA San Andreas level looking world. So while the characters look great, the backdrops themselves look like- well... San Andreas.

A very major problem is the literal constant narration, it's almost as if the narrator was solely meant for blind people who can't see, all he ever does is just explain what's happening on screen, like... the animation is good enough to the point where I don't need some SpongeBob voiced kid (no offense to SpongeBob the masterpiece btw) to explain what's literally happening on the screen. unfortunately this problem persists throughout the entire series, you're basically having your hand held throughout the entire series when you don't even need it. It feels like having your hand held while trying to navigate your very own living room.

Oh man the characters...
It's pretty rare that I would ever want to describe a character as a "mary sue", but when I do I really mean it. Tanjiro, our pure hearted boy of pure kindness, is practically a God at everything he needs to be. he's literally capable of defeating a villian who has devoured countless warriors much stronger and more capable than him, despite the fact he hasn't even fought anyone besides his teacher, who let all of his previous students die to how crap he was, and a sentient rock. And if you ever want to say "But anime characters are overpowered all the time DUUUDE!", there's a difference between a character being a prodigy and a character being an overpowered, poorly written mary sue.

I could never talk about this character without mentioning the insanely overpowered sense of smell he has, it's basically just a plot device for Tanjiro to always know what to do...because he can just smell the answer. No I'm not kidding... I really wish I was though There's a scene where he has to pick an ore for his sword, and despite him literally stating that he has no knowledge about ore whatsoever, all he does is sniff once... and the answer becomes clear, and then he grabs one... like what the fu-. I MAY be okay with this if it turned out he had a history of like... mining rocks or something, but no because he has a magical Mary Sue plot device nose.
Or even in fights it's like "I smell an arrow flying at the back of my head." You got to admit that's like... pretty fucking over the top lol.


pretty much the entire cast of characters are either A, there for comedic relief, or B, An emo. I'm not expecting every character to be very good anyway honestly, I'm like this when it comes to any media I consume regardless if it's anime or not. but when every character is literally as dry as a Popeyes biscuit, I think that I may actually be justified in me not liking this entire cast. The villains all pretty much boil down to a good guy at the end of the day, which in concept I'm not against, but literally every villian is either a good guy deep down, or just some blood lusted maniac, and it makes me feel like this series genuinely doesn't even have any actual thought behind it.
(by the way nezuko does not even qualify as an actual character fight me)


When it comes to the soundtrack it honestly really hurts me how actually unbelievably forgettable it was, it literally sounds like the most generic anime sounding music of all time, I feel like I hear the exact same music in like 97.24% of every other anime that exists. I don't know why they decided to take a series that takes place in ole' timey Taisho era japan, and then just put the most generic sounding modern J-Pop soundtrack with it. And the worst part is that it's not even like- actually good J-Pop. Can't you at least get like Utada Hikaru or something?



As far as Demon Slayer goes I think that a 3/10 is pretty generous all things considered.