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EP. REVIEW: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

The drama, the action, the pathos, and the drop-dead gorgeous animation all work in concert like perfectly polished cogs in a well-oiled shonen machine, and the result is nothing short of superb. This is easily one of the single best episodes of an anime I've seen so far this year, right up there with Mob Psycho 100 II's climactic episode 5.

Was the episode enjoyable and well executed? Yes.

Was it all of this?

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The drama, the action, the pathos, and the drop-dead gorgeous animation all work in concert like perfectly polished cogs in a well-oiled shonen machine, and the result is nothing short of superb. This is easily one of the single best episodes of an anime I've seen so far this year, right up there with Mob Psycho 100 II's climactic episode 5.

Not really.

Vikkio92 wrote:

Was the episode enjoyable and well executed? Yes. Was it all of this? Quote: The drama, the action, the pathos, and the drop-dead gorgeous animation all work in concert like perfectly polished cogs in a well-oiled shonen machine, and the result is nothing short of superb. This is easily one of the single best episodes of an anime I've seen so far this year, right up there with Mob Psycho 100 II's climactic episode 5. Not really.

I'll have to disagree.

That’s cause the training is to raise his physical stats to the minimum required to be a Demon Hunter.

You start getting clever once actually start fighting living creatures.

We didn't need an extra flashback telling that it's made of "magic steel."

Well, as of episode 4, it appears that the strategy when fighting actual demons, including really powerful ones, is... to be stronger and faster than them.

So in about fifteen minutes that span just two episodes, Demon Slayer managed to introduce a monster-of-the-week that I was overjoyed to see killed off, only to have me wiping away tears for him by the time he was gone.

Aaaaand...she's asleep again.

So Haganezuka's mask is a clown mask? I've seen that mask in probably every anime that has a festival showing a mask vendor's stall, and I've always wondered what it was supposed to signify among the kitsune and tengu masks. The subs called it a clown mask, but I'm still wondering if there's more to it than just the Japanese version of Bozo.

Keep in mind the demon he defeated was one that was captured by real demon hunters and had gotten fat off of killing trainees. "Really powerful" isn't the way I'd describe it.

I'm also a little confused about why Tanjiro now needs another magic demon-killing sword when he already had one. I guess the color-changing one must be better, but they didn't explain why.

So we're moving the goalposts again...

I guess we're not getting a real explanation for why Nezuko slept for two entire years (besides "writer didn't know what to do with her during the training arc")

kotomikun wrote:

I'm also a little confused about why Tanjiro now needs another magic demon-killing sword when he already had one. I guess the color-changing one must be better, but they didn't explain why.

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The scene were the kid was threatening the twin to get a sword was just weird, he was so adamant about wanting a sword right now... while having a sword on his hips. An explanation would have been very appreciated.

I guess we're not getting a real explanation for why Nezuko slept for two entire years (besides "writer didn't know what to do with her during the training arc") but at least she's back in the conscious world now, presumably only sleeping during the day? I'm also a little confused about why Tanjiro now needs another magic demon-killing sword when he already had one. I guess the color-changing one must be better, but they didn't explain why.

The scene were the kid was threatening the twin to get a sword was just weird, he was so adamant about wanting a sword right now... while having a sword on his hips. An explanation would have been very appreciated.

So if they can use there master sword, what's the point of the whole personalization (chose the ore) and color part? It's also weird to have the jerk kid bully the twin to get a sword when he's apparently totally cool with just returning it. He absolutely cannot wait to get a sword, to the point where he's willing to threaten the people who represent the organization that his master belong to, but never though about just keeping the one he already has? By having the explanation before hand (could have cut out the part where they enumerated all the 10 ranks name, not like that provided useful information) but instead given an explanation then and there the scene would have made a lot more sense.