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EP. REVIEW: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc

I’m glad people are finally coming to the conclusion that this series is terrible. Modern shonen battle manga is a joke. There’s nothing thoughtful or sincere going on in these series anymore. This series always felt like the most rushed, barebones, poorly plotted、by the numbers, factory produced shonen story I’ve ever seen. The insane popularity of it continues to confound me, because it’s clearly just the anime’s production values that keep it from being just another forgettable modern battle shonen.

There was a lot I hated about this episode, but the breaking point for me was when everything came to a halt so Genya could have a full two-minute flashback to explain to us in extremely slow motion how the four emotions combined as if Tanjiro saying "i can't feel the other four" wasn't enough to make us infer what had happened. And if that wasn't bad enough, Genya had to narrate the whole thing??? Those dialogues 100% could've been cut, it looked so goofy old school shonen to have the play by play of that whole already unnecessary scene.

Another thing that bothers me is that we've now spent a solid 20+ minutes watching Tokito in the water jug doing nothing whilst Mitsuri hasn't been seen in like three whole episodes? It's already bad enough that the one female Pillar we've seen since season 1 gets relegated to fighting minions but she doesn't even get screentime. Instead of Tokito floating motionless in the jar and the 5th moon mocking him for the 20th time, they could've added a new scene of Mitsuri fighting and protecting the villagers or something, they could've had really cool action scenes with her whip katana last week to liven things up and have all the Tokito focus this week without making it so obvious that they're stalling to fill in the runtime

It's funny you bring up Dragonball, because for as many pacing problems as the original anime had, something that series was really good at was building up to its fights. Pretty much any Z-era climactic battle would take multiple episodes to play out, but they were always the big payoff for longer stories that worked their way up to that. Goku vs Frieza was protracted as hell, sure, but it was a lot easier to swallow because there had been so much tension built up. There was a whole adventure with the other characters avoiding or taking on Frieza's forces. There were smaller but still threatening enemies that Goku and the others had to overcome. It wasn't just 3 episodes of the crew arriving on Namek and then immediately fighting Frieza for another 10.

Excuse me for saying this, but this seems like classic boomer reasoning to me.

Or rather, a person accustomed to series with very slow rhythms, so now if a manga has less than fifty volumes and 500 chapters it sucks.

They are popular for the simple fact that modern audiences are now tired of manga in which practically nothing happens for a hundred chapters.

@guytizio
What's the opposite of "boomer reasoning" because that's how your post comes across.

Demon slayer being short might be why it's paced that way, except the pacing is not always like it is in this battle. A character drowning for three episodes is a lot like the criticism you're giving to DBZ. In fact, what happened to the mist hashira would not be out of place in DBZ or Naruto. Or the villain fight going on because of yet another power-up/transformation; an old shonen trope that DS is very fond of frankly..

That’s not what I was saying at all. Even shorter series had much better writing than this. Yu Yu Hakusho is several volumes shorter than DS and has much better character writing and narrative development because Togashi is a great writer and storyteller.

Rurouni Kenshin is only a few volumes longer and is worlds better than this series. It has nothing to do with length. These new Mangaka don’t know how to meaningfully write and develop characters and stories. It’s all just action, action, action, with no substance.

Action was never the point of a shonen battle manga. It was to use action and conflict to explore characters, ideas, concepts and themes. The new Mangaka saw what the previous generation did and I guess the only takeaway was “cool fights!”

I just think it’s kinda laughable that Demon Slayer keeps getting dinged harshly for these slower paced episodes, but the anime with the absolute worse pacing IN EXISTENCE, the One Piece anime, consistently keeps getting 4 and 5 star reviews with the occasional 3, no matter how dreadfully slow it gets. Lemme tell you, if this demon slayer episodes pacing bothers you… you would not survive the One Piece anime.

And yet you wouldn’t get that impression reading the reviews here. I’m aware a different person covers One Piece here… but cmon… there’s a disconnect here. No way does Demon Slayer get ragged on for its pacing on the very same site that keeps giving the One Piece anime 5-star reviews. Lol.

I’m glad people are finally coming to the conclusion that this series is terrible. Modern shonen battle manga is a joke. There’s nothing thoughtful or sincere going on in these series anymore. This series always felt like the most rushed, barebones, poorly plotted、by the numbers, factory produced shonen story I’ve ever seen. The insane popularity of it continues to confound me, because it’s clearly just the anime’s production values that keep it from being just another forgettable modern battle shonen.

I’m aware but it’s still laughable. DS gets dinged for pacing but OP doesn’t? That’s just off and probably why people have an issue with this. Makes it seem like DS has a bully. Most people are not gonna look at it as 2 different people. They’re gonna look at it as ANN loves OP but hates DS. That’s what it means when you have reviews under one umbrella.

I’m aware but it’s still laughable. DS gets dinged for pacing but OP doesn’t? That’s just off and probably why people have an issue with this. Makes it seem like DS has a bully. Most people are not gonna look at it as 2 different people. They’re gonna look at it as ANN loves OP but hates DS. That’s what it means when you have reviews under one umbrella.