Audience reviews
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jay_quelin
Flashy fights, amazing visuals, and great production quality from Ufotable. It also has the formula of a generic and mediocre shonen story. Kimetsu no Yaiba is probably the most overrated and cliché’ Shonen anime I’ve ever watched. On the outside, it’s a visual spectacle; underneath, it’s a mid story that recycles a lot of the common tropes you would see in other anime. It’s also served with cringe comic relief and a heaping side of fan service (I’m looking at you Entertainment District Art). This anime has every shonen trope you could ever imagine; a training arc, an exam arc, a meeting with the first Akatsuki member arc, Akatsuki members, sword techniques, cheap comic-relief, and excessive fan-service by the second-half of Season 2 (yes Season 2 is split into a movie and a TV series for…
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I can't believe such spectacular coloring and animation is wasted on such a terrible story. Demon Slayer looks absolutely stunning. The animators paid close attention to the colors and the lighting. I saw my roommate watching this and that was enough to convince me to give it a shot.
The problem is that the show doesn't deserve this. Sure... It has good start. The premise of the protagonist carrying his demonic, flesh eating sister around while trying to find a cure is great. But the rest is just terrible. The story just keeps picking up shallow and boring characters without ever reaching that moment where it all comes together. It's just a very long, monotone, continuously mediocre plot.
I really wanted to like Demon Slayer. But with all the tropes, the boring characters and the drawn o…
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese dark fantasy, adventure manga series by Koyoharu Gotōge with an anime adaptation by Ufotable, directed by Haruo Sotozaki and produced by Hikaru Kondo. Season 1 began airing on April 6th, 2019 with the final episode of the season airing on September 28th, 2019.
Here’s the basic plot:
Our protagonist is Tanjirou Kamado (Voiced by Natsuki Hanae). Following his father’s death, Tanjirou supports his family by selling charcoal. Despite their hardships, his family lives a content, happy life. That is, until demons attack and slaughter his family, save for his sister, Nezuko (Voiced by Akari Kitō). It’s not as simple as two siblings surviving a demon attack though, Nezuko has been turned into a demon, but she still retains some human thought and emoti…
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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!…
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Welp...I'm late to this party! Time to review the most overrated shonen garbage of the last 5 years! Demon Slayer is an anime that absolutely EVERYONE watched last year. Except for me of course, because I was watching bad hentai to make comedy reviews on the internet! I went in with pretty damn high expectations. As of January 2020, DS is rated one of the best anime of all time on MAL and the #1 anime of all time on Kitsu. I'm dead serious! The kids on Kitsu truly think that this is the GOAT. Galactic Heroes? Ping Pong? Lain? Ashita no Joe? No! Fuck that shit! Demon Slayer baby!
I went in expecting an action series SO epic that it blows your balls off and shoves them up your ass! I expected the love child of Hellsing Ultimate, Fist of the North Star, and Berserk with maybe some Shigurui a…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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 cour…
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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 kin…
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It's the heart that drives people. So grow yours to as strong as it can be. That's beautiful, sums up to me what the message of Kimetsu no Yaiba Demon Slayer really is. Follow your heart, listen to it, if your heart is strong you can do anything. The story of Tanjiro and Nezuko is a tragedy there is no doubt but it never feels hopeless. Even at his lowest Tanjiro never gives up, as cliche as that sounds it matters to hear. Some famous words of "Don't give up, don't ever give up". Tanjiro and his heart are the embodiment of that ideal. Striving to find a way to cure Nezuko, defeat Muzan, and never stopping along the way. Pushing forward even when your body breaks, even when your soul is crushed. Keeping your heart strong.
Kimetsu doesn't break the mold in any significant way but it handles…
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Demon Slayer had me shooked from the very first episode. Tanjirou went home to find out that his whole family had been slaugtered, and the sole survivor, his little sister Nezuko, had became a demon. What is worse is that Tomioka caught on that there was a new demon on the loose so he tried to kill her. But of course, we were given a VERY epic scene where Tanjirou used his smarts to defeat Tomioka. Ever since that first episode, I was hooked.
Demon Slayer is not the typical shounen/action anime. Yes, there's going to be a new demon that Tanjirou. or another demon slayer. would end up defeating. However, the artsy effects that they use to portray every single move never fails to impress me. The sounds of clashing swords and water make the whole experience even more entrancing.
But Demon…
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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…
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Finally we have it, the new anime about loud teenagers with cool swords fighting the ultimate evil. Another shonen jump work which I ultimately like, but have a hard time describing the experience as not frustrating. So let’s get to that.
The animation and presentation are definitely a plus, containing beautiful 3d backgrounds, that are seamlessly implemented (for the most part). The composition and usage of color are great, setting the mood really well, making for a good ominous spooky atmosphere, which in turn, really brings to life the more melancholic tragic aspects of the story. Those only come into play when we finally see the demons dying, sadly. The lament for these wretched creatures, lost to all love and humanity becoming really touching. More importantly the animation is fluid…
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Ahhh, Demon Slayer. If I were to describe you in very short terms, it would be "a show with decent to mediocre content overshadowed by its own technical achievement."
Firstly, the positives of this show.
Without a doubt, the main intrigue and appeal of this show upon first inspection is the art, and for good reason. Ufotable, the studio previously mentioned, is responsible for this shows adaptation into anime, and has overall done a fantastic job at keeping a consistent and unique artstyle incorporated throughout the show's airtime. Not only ranging from the shows beautifully rendered backgrounds, cool ass powers, and character designs, but the translation of each element into animation is executed to great measure. Sure, there are admittedly a handful of scenes in which some CGI is inco…
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Only cynical criticism can save us from the gooey sentimentality and naivete, but sometimes rarely a series too precious to deserve this treatment appears, offering nothing but genuine entertainment to a point where its own shortcomings start to seem very insignificant compared to its strongest merits. I may have a soft spot in my heart for this series, but all the things I found to be problematic within the work are still covered here in this review and explained why I think they can be forgiven, because even with all of its problems, this is -in its own way- one of the greatest series seen in the era of modern anime.
The story itself is nothing to write home about. Boy experiences a dramatic event which entirely rewrites his life, after which he starts walking this path that is the comb…
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Welcome to my review of Kimetsu no Yaiba!! Minor spoiler warning!!
The Kamado family lives happily in peace in their seclude cabin high up in the snowy mountains .After the main protagonist Tanjirous father passing away some time ago, he have taken over he's responsibility and providing for he's family .One day after selling some coal in the village nearby and coming home later than expected, he stubble through the door and are met by a gruesome and horrifying sight! He's family have been brutally slaughtered .Hes mother and siblings are laying dead in-front of hes feet,but in this tragedy life still existing and breathing, hes beloved sister Nezuko have survived the macabre attack.But as a cruel and terrible twist of fate she is now a demon herself and hunger for humans flesh to devou…
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Ah ufotable, the studio that keeps on giving. Before Kimetsu no Yaiba aired, news broke out that we’d get them animating the show. And to my delight, it’s a studio that earned its praise for its high caliber animation and consistently delivering quality content. Being their first 2-cour show (without a split cour break), Kimetsu no Yaiba is a special gift not just for the manga fans but anyone ready to experience a world of demons and dark fantasy.
With over 170 chapters and counting, manga artist Koyoharu Gotouge made this series as a dark fantasy-adventure about demons. With 26 episodes, there are some concerns about how much content we’d actually get adapted. For statistical references, each episode adapts about 3 chapters. Most of the episodes follows these chapters by the letter and…
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Once upon a time, the anime industry came up with the perfect formula to create highly acclaimed shounen one after the other; however, as time passed, this pattern became repetitive and, while a few next-gen shounen have been able to achieve their objective following this predetermined path, most of them have faltered along the way.
Kimetsu no Yaiba is not your typical shonen anime but at the same time it is. It does not have your archetypical main character that accomplishes all his goals through the power of friendship and/or by activating his hidden power -which is never revealed until the plot armour established is not life-saving enough-; instead, Tanjirou is a run-of-the-mill guy who does not become a one-of-a-kind swordsman overnight, but spends months training, shedding his blood,…
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Maybe it’s just because I’ve gone old and crotchety, but I’ve been really disappointed with ufotable lately. Maybe even that is too harsh. I’ve just felt so out of touch with them for the past three and a half to four years since they seem to have completely abandoned their old selves. Whether it be the astronomical success of the Fate/Grand Order mobile game, or the fair success of their own Tales of Symphonia OVA BD sales, ufotable has apparently honed in on game adaptations. All they’ve made for TV following their 2014 re-adaptation of Studio Deen’s Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, has been game adaptations. God Eater, Tales of Zestiria the Cross, and Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu, with their only projects outside of TV animation being limited to even more Fate. The ONA…
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