How did Demon Slayer end up being the only good battle shounen in the last decade?
>>273314560It didn't. AssClass is infinitely better.
>>273314560If whatever slop you like isn't on this list then it don't matter. KnY isn't here, so it don't matter.>>273314649Easily the best Jump manga of the 2010s.
>>273314560It's competition were jujuflopsen and my gay academia.
>>273314560Short, sweet, and to the point. Ends just the way a Hero's journey should. Also this >>273315010
>>273314649This. AssClass is the only battle shounen in the last decade that's worthy of any mention (besides CSM). Not because it's necessarily good (though, it is), but because it's one of the ONLY titles that's somewhat above average (actually watchable by adults, just like HxH) because the author isn't inspired by shit shounen like Naruto and Bleach unlike Demon Slop, making it the best battle shounen of the last 10 years and the most influential one by far.
>>273314560-Skipped needlessly long training arcs and setups to get to the boss immediately so no overly long war arc that would take half a decade to conclude-Kill half the cast but allow them to have a meaningful death or death is the final culmination of their characters, many of the characters have a connection to their enemies that kill them or they have killed-joke characters finally lock in and become useful-Insert the last minute twist that makes sense (Tanjirou becomes the demon king out of Muzan's desperation), so no super demon lord or alien that is actually manipulating things-themes that have been set up for ages finally have their pay day (Muzan is just a big whiny baby that got lucky with his powers after killing his doctor and is not super smart and is very impulsive and his final form isn't Michael Jackson, but a big baby)-Use of old classic cliches to save the cast/hero at the very utter edge of catastrophe (power of friendship saves Tanjirou's mind from Muzan)-Main character achieves all that he set-out to do but at a cost (will die soon), though he doesn't die in a very stupid meaningless way that needlessly makes other characters miserable-The ships teased throughout the series have a resolution so Tanjirou actually grows up and have a family for a little bit and the other remaining characters get together with other people. This is the future that the main characters are able to get with their sacrifice, basically their reward for all that they went through-The concrete death of the main enemies (demons basically die without Muzan) and the death of the characters due to the flash forward showing their reincarnation prevents the publishers from creating a sequel like Boruto or Bleach babies. Only thing they could probably do is a spin-off in another country or something (Dracula is actually a demon like Muzan or something)Overall, a solid conclusion to its story.
>>273314560It's time to admit women are better at writing than men.
>>273315436Every piece of fiction written by a woman would not exist without the male Greeks. We have build this society. We have given you the minds of Euclid and Newton. Your PC was built by men. 90% of what's influential, popular, recognized and loved is STILL made by men. Most cinema classics, literature masterpieces, and high quality media has ALWAYS been produced by men.You are nothing without us.
>>273315429Couldn't have worded it better. The only major flaw was there should've been an arc between Swordsmith village and IF. Also, reincarnation was a stupid ending nobody liked. Just having descendants would've been good enough.
>>273315429>-Kill half the cast but allow them to have a meaningful death or death is the final culmination of their characters, many of the characters have a connection to their enemies that kill them or they have killedShows where no characters die are boring and uninteresting. How am I supposed to become invested in the supposed "stakes" if I just know from the get go that all my favorite characters are going to be safe the whole way through? More shows need to kill off characters, and in greater numbers. JJK and Demon Slayer are only halfway there. JJK kills off some characters, but uses fakeout deaths for others, and Demon Slayer only commits to killing a large number of characters in the final arc when the story is already wrapping up at that point, it's not risky to do so, but that just makes it boring. More characters should die throughout the story, as early as the first arc. If the majority of the cast are still alive by the end of the series, then it's a bad series. You can call this a brainlet take but I'm right and you know it. Don't ever recommend a shonen series to me if there are no stakes. It's just a waste of time.
>>273314560Didn't overstay its welcome. I remember when a thread was made here about it entering it's final arc and everyone was crying fake news and what not lol.
>>273314560it didn'tasspulls fights and reinacartion ending are fucking awful. the cast is also bland as fuck
>>273314927
>>273314560>>273315361>>273314649How about Souboutei, Haikyuu!! and Pandora Hearts(technically finished in the last decade)
>>273314560Easily the worst nu-shonen of the decade. Bland, generic, zero originality and creativity. These are the worst since a manga can commit.
kimetsufags will look at this and say >10/10 design!!
>jujutsutrannies already seething in this threadKek
>>273316175Disgusting. A woman with body and hair like that is more suited to be an animal's wife.
>>273316175Only good for her tits, ugly bitch.
>>273314560If it wasn't for Sakugatable you would not even know Demon Slayer exists.>>273314649>>273315361AssClass is a toothless GTO. Feels like a manga for little kids. Zero stakes.
>>273315429>Skipped needlessly long training arcsThis reeks of an impatience that misunderstands the purpose of training arcs. Training arcs are a staple because they serve as the justification for a character's growth. Without them, power-ups feel arbitrary or, worse, cheap. Demon Slayer’s shortcut here isn’t a strength; it’s a narrative crutch. Nezuko's sudden power-ups, for example, lack grounding. Why does she suddenly resist sunlight? Magic? Love? A blend of both? Rushing to the “boss fight” might satisfy people with the attention span of a TikTok clip, but without proper setup, it undermines the stakes. Not everything needs to be instant gratification.>Kill half the cast"Meaningful deaths" are only impactful if the characters themselves are meaningfully developed. Demon Slayer’s reliance on backstory-laden flashbacks as characters die (sometimes minutes after their introduction) dilutes the impact. It’s difficult to mourn characters you barely know. Did anyone seriously care when some of the lesser Hashira fell? It felt manipulative rather than earned.>joke characters finally lock in and become usefulIt’s hardly unique to Demon Slayer, nearly every shonen does this. Zoro has his moments of humor, but no one doubts his competence; Krillin goes from a punchline to pivotal moments in DBZ. Even Mineta has his moments. Also, Zenitsu gets an awful fight in Infinity Castle that ends in a literal second because the author had no idea what to do with his character and Inosuke gets a dogshit backstory revealed out of nowhere to give him some artificial stakes, because the story barely involves him. They're disrespected by the author.>Insert the last minute twist that makes senseThe Demon King Tanjiro twist was also bad because it got resolved easily with another dose of Tamayo's drugs Kanao happened to be carrying around in just 2 chapters. No one liked that twist and no one asked for it.I'll continue on in the next post.
Cinema
>>273315429based akaza, doma and cocku are also great villians too. Way more interesting and not one dimensional like sukuna
>>273316897He should have dated Nezuko.
>>273315429>>273316738>themes that have been set up for agesYes, Muzan being a "whiny baby" is consistent, but consistent doesn’t equal compelling. His characterization lacks nuance, boiling down to "evil for the sake of evil." A truly great villain challenges the hero ideologically like Toguro from YYH or Pain from Naruto. Even Frieza challenges Goku, as Goku started being less merciful to enemies after Namek. Muzan is, at best, a functional villain, not an extraordinary one. And Tanjiro is never challenged.>Use of old classic cliches to save the cast/hero at the very utter edge of catastropheThe "power of friendship saves the hero" trope is hardly innovative, and Demon Slayer doesn’t elevate it. Tanjiro overcoming Muzan’s influence is emotionally satisfying on a surface level, but it leans too heavily on sentimentality rather than any internal struggle or ingenuity on Tanjiro's part.>Main character achieves all that he set-out to do but at a costThis is a safe, by-the-numbers conclusion. Tanjiro "paying the cost" by dying soon is mitigated by the fact that the story cheats its own consequences. Yes, he sacrifices, but he also gets the happy ending. He gets a family and his friends who died reincarnates and lives happily ever after. The narrative wants to have its cake and eat it too, offering bittersweetness without fully committing to the bitter.>The ships teased throughout the series have a resolutionShipping resolutions are a nice touch but hardly a hallmark of greatness. If anything, they feel tacked on in Demon Slayer, more like an afterthought than a core part of the story. Did Tanjiro and Kanao’s relationship ever really develop meaningfully? Not really. It’s a resolution without buildup.>The concrete death of the main enemiesPreventing sequels isn’t a sign of a series’ greatness; it’s just a production choice. And honestly, if a spin-off were to evee happen, Demon Slayer has already opened that door with its reincarnation twist.
>>273317518you seem nitpicky. Like your forcing yourself to hate it
>>273314560Infinity Fortress
>>273315010lol
>>273317548Critiquing something doesn’t mean I hate it (though I don't like it either) and nitpicking isn’t inherently bad, it’s about paying attention to details. Details are what separate the truly great from the merely good. If a story is solid, it should hold up to scrutiny. I don't think Demon Slayer is good or bad, but calling it the "best battle shonen in the last decades" invites examination. If it falters under that lens, the issue isn’t with the critique but the claim itself.
>>273316175She has a 10/10 personality
>>273315436based shoujo is peak
>>273318005She has the personality of a door just like the rest of the cast.
>>273318274Shoujo was also created by men btw. As the other poster said, women wouldn't be where they are without men laying the groundwork.
Go back to discord you falseflagging faggot
>>273315436I’ve recognized this years ago, sadly.
>>273318647You recognized nothing, because you only read badly written series made by men. The quantity of well-written series made by men still vastly eclipsed works by women. Also, Demon Slayer's author is not a woman. He's a genderfluid mtf tranny.
>>273314560>good battle shounen in the last decade?That would be Chainsaw Man. Kiddie shit like KnY is already abandoned by 90% of its /a/ kiddie fanbase in favor of DDD, the new KnY. Just like KnY replaced MHA before that.
Why did he end up as an incel?
>>273316175Please understand, the author of Kimetsu no Yaiba doesn't have experience with women, he based his female character designs based on what he thought would be popular, and what he wished he could look like one day.
>>273314560it was solid and ended when it should
Jeremy meltie thread
>>273318817Because shit writing. Same reason why the emasculated main character let the most hated character in the franchise fuck his sister.>in before coping with muh pixiv, muh popularity pollsThe fujos who loved said character do not like him either, they like a fantasy version of him that only exists in their heads (a submissive feminine homosex receiving shota-coded character).
>>273314560Semi-related, but why was Demon Slayer such an ASTRONOMICAL success in Japan? Even JJK didn’t reach it’s level in Japan.
>>273314560Im insanely hyped for infinity castle
>>273316022Not great, but surprisingly solid top 3.
>>273318910>why was Demon Slayer such an ASTRONOMICAL success in Japan?Luck + astroturfing.
>>273318910Japan loves Japanese things
>>273316022That's another list, and it includes titles outside of Jump like FMA and Clamp. The one posted earlier is about Jump manga.
>>273316048/threadOnly mentally ill retards, grifters, and NPCs trying to save face still defend KnY.
>>273318795Didn’t the chainsaw man anime flop?
>>273318869Wonder what set him off this time?
>>273318910Good animation in fighting scenes, E19 astroturfed it. Timing and luck too, Mugen Train came out at the apex of the lockdown where the film industry shut down so it gained impossible traction almost entirely because Covid locked everybody inside and induced mass hysteria so everybody needed something to hype each other over. Perfect storm of circumstances despite being just another generic shounen at the end of the dayAlso, Japan likes DS because it pushes family values on a dying nation completely devoid of them and its ever-declining birth rate which triggered something primal in them, I guess. The setting also reminds them of a time when Japan was an economic superpower and not some impoverished shithole like it is today
>>273319058>mentally ill retard and/or NPCThis is the kind of question that no real human being can ask.>Didn't The Master flop? How can it be a good movie then
>>273319127It's because I epically owned him here>>273315010
>>273318817Shinobu died before she could fix him.
>>273314560Better question. Why does it's success cause a catastrophic amount of seethe? Over hyped sure, but there has been far worse things that got put on a pedestal.
>>273319294>Competitionlolno, pre-anime MHA sold 300k in a month while pre-anime JJK sold 30k in Vol 1 and was already breaking into 100k by Vol 3. Meanwhile DS took 3 years, an anime and an epidemic for Vol 1 to pass 300k because people were forced people to stay at home so they marathoned the anime then bought the manga. If it weren't for Ufotable, the manga would have ended, no one would even know and you wouldn't even put it next to these two series.
>>273319377>but there has been far worse things that got put on a pedestal.Oh really? Which ones, Pedro?
>>273319416I'm only gonna name MHA because I'm scared of the other anime.
>>273319377Hype backlash. It got stupidly popular and broke a bunch of records despite just being another generic shounen at the end of the day. If the anime wasn't as oversaturated as it is, it'd just be another generic shounen among many. Well, it's still just another generic shounen at the end of the day, but it's always going to be annoying to see a work not being nearly as good as everyone says it is.Also, a lot of people seem embittered that it got an amazing adaptation and other more deserving manga didn't. In a more fair world, every manga would get the best anime they deserved.
>>273319416Most Marvel flicks
>>273314560Why isn't she doing manga anymore?
>>273319615Didn't think my post would become a butchered copypasta.
>>273319911It's still a good point regardless and I think it explains the backlash.
>>273319539>>273319649Typical KNY coward.
What parts of Infinity Castle are you most excited for? Kokushibo is an obvious choice but Mui and Genya getting fillet on the big screen is gonna be a sight to behold.
>>2733193774chanazis cannot handle the fact that the greatest manga of our generation was made by a nonbinary person
>>273319979???
>>273320095>the greatest manga of our generationBut enough about Houseki no Kuni.
>>273319954So many great manga have had such awful adaptations it's honestly tragic. Even a lack luster adaptation can sully a work. It's no wonder "just read the manga" is such a common saying. I remember when KnY anime was airing and people were saying it was actually better than the manga (which was unheard of) which got me interested in check it out. Ended up reading the manga as it was wrapping up and the anime for sure elevates it in a way an anime really should. I wish that were the case for every manga but sadly it isn't.
post kanao
>>273320287>which was unheard ofMaybe if you are new here. Stuff like K-on is considered better than the manga. Also Utena.
Such a cool design only to get mostly offscreened
>>273320339I should have clarified mostly unheard of. They are very few and far between nonetheless.
>>273314927Popularity and quality are not the same thing but i do agree that KnY is nothing to write home about. It´s more competent than stuff like SnK and most modern isekai though so i can see how younger people that know no better may see it as comparatively solid.
>>273314560Why didn't Muzan just kill them all? Why did he wait so long?
>>273320311
>>273320059>What parts of Infinity Castle are you most excited for?I'm excited for the part where Hollywood eats its lunch money. That way, this shitty trend of canon movies can slowly die and we can go back to seasonals. And knowing Hollywood, they will do everything in their to never allow a weeb movie to ever dominate the box office again. They're still angry over Covid, 2020 was easily the worst year ever in cinema.>2025Jurassic World Rebirth, Zootopia 2, Captain America: Brave New World, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Superman, Snow White live action, Lilo and Stitch live action, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning, Michael Jackson biopic>2026Avengers: Doomsday, Toy Story 5, Shrek 5, Super Mario Bros sequel, The Batman Part II, Dune: Messiah, Fast X Part 2, Star Wars: New Jedi Order and The Mandalorian>2027Avengers: Secret Wars, Frozen 3, Star Wars: New Jedi Order, Godzilla x King Kong
>>273320724they cute
>>273320859>western slopLight work, no reaction
>>273314560It's good
>>273316218He is just like me fr
>>273320392pffft, you're such a kidder Steve
Deranged Tanjiro
>>273321311Those "slops" like Avatar, Jurasaic World and Fast & Furious ALWAYS dominates the box office. Lilo and Stitch has also been getting a resurgence and is very popular with kids right now. China and Japan LOVES Stitch so much so he is all over the parks, both had a new cartoon show for there and Japan had two more DTV movies never released in America. Analysts are predicting the live action will dominate the box office in Summer next year.Universal Pictures said they're 100% confident the Michael Jackson biopic will be a multi-billion dollar smash hit, and it has a budget of 155 dollars making it the most expensive biopic ever btw. They're confident his name alone will sell and it will. He has statues and museums all over China dedicated just for him. He's been seeing a resurgence lately too.All these upcoming movies only makes this series stand lesser and lesser out.
>>273320287>Even a lack luster adaptation can sully a work.What happened to CSM con only be described as a cosmic tragedy
>>273320579You must understand ,anon.Not shitting yourself in the ending/final arc is a real challenge for every single shonen mangaka apparently.
>>273318905which character? Zenitsu?
>>273322179>Analysts are predicting>Universal Pictures said
>>273318817he was just gay
It's simply good
>>273315436t. femoid
>>273322334Imagine living under a rock and thinking a movie about a man who had the power to shut down stores just so he could go and shop, fund so many hostpitals, sell out stadiums, have people with no modern world communication know who he is, be crowned a king in a country, make countries stop warring for 24 hours when he passed away, make an entire music company want him dead because they wanted his publishing, whose music still tops the charts decades after he died, won't sell lol. They said this movie will be the biggest movie Universal ever had and will receive Barbie tier marketing. It'll be a worldwide social event. Bohemian Rhapsody made almost 1 billion, if any biopic can make billions it's Michael fucking Jackson.Also, don't underestimate Stitch. He's VERY popular across Asia, Tokyo and Hong Kong Disneyland has a Stitch ride and their shops are full of Stitch merch. That blue little furball even has several manga just for him.
>>273314649AssClass was brilliant, and did the impossible for a WSJ hit of sticking the landing and not overstaying its welcome. I'm quite enjoying Kagurabachi right now, but seeing as its the only recent success story the mag has had in years you can just tell they're going to put the mangaka through their paces and drag it out to the point it's complete dogshit.>>273314560>Demon Slayer>Only good battle shounen in the last decade?Holy shit, please read more battle shonen
>>273322976>Holy shit, please read more battle shonenMention 472 that are good
deep
>>273323310How do you even react to this?
>>273323310i still dont get how THIS is one of the best selling manga of all time
>>273314560Good mythic writinge.g. juxtaposing characters to make a point, like gyutaro and daki showing how tanjiro and nezuko were made good rather than born good, and how you can still count yourself fortunate even after suffering as much of a catastrophe as tanjiro did. I can't think of other shonen battle manga where that kind of stuff isn't 99.9% headcanon, but in Demon Slayer you can't even seriously argue it wasn't intentionalIt's not about the sperg powerscaler shit so it makes them bitterly angry
>>273314649Literally the animation. It started to sell units after the anime aired. It's not that deep.
>>273323512That quote is the reason
>>273323310He was in the right.
>>273314560by not being written by a m*n
>>273323310moid writing
>>273323884Don't you need to be on youtube watching a video about how ochako and nobara are sakura done right
>>273323953Yeah, instead it's written by an emasculated man who wishes he was a woman. A mtf tranny, and that's more than enough reason for why this manga is trash and why I will never pick it up.
>>273323310>goody two shoes protagonist (still not an absolute moralfag tho) answers back in pure and unadulterated hatred about how much this fucker deserve to die>not even reasoning or a talk no jutsu, tangerine was going full slaughtering this fuckerKino
>>273323990They aren't, Nobara is subhuman trash - which is funny because there used to be a time where you Kimetsuspics allied yourselves with JJKikes, and pretended the JJK author is a woman too. Sakura is an unintentionally realistic female character that woman couldn't write themselves (or more likely, wouldn't). Ochunko is a watered down version of Sakura, she fought too much & didn't properly cuck Dekuck until the last chapter.>>273323998Based
I need sex with the kimetsu writer woman.
>>273324197>troon loving Pablito
>>273314560How Jump let this cash cow end is beyond me.No wonder there were baseless rumours about family issues etc that people still believe.
>>273324197based af
>>273324419>anime starts in the middle of the final arc>everyone online hopes it actually ends during the final fight instead of jump stretching it to oblivion>shueisha still gets a ton of money from everything anime related since it's the most watched anime in japan and keeps insane tv share season after seasonThe manga is secondary to the money it makes.
>>273315429>-Insert the last minute twist that makes sense (Tanjirou becomes the demon king out of Muzan's desperation), so no super demon lord or alien that is actually manipulating thingsYou don't know how glad I am that there were no super secret forces behind Muzan.Muzan is introduced in the first 10% of the story as the big bad, and stays that the entire series. Every good guy recognizes him as the final villain that needs to be defeated to end the story.And once he is finally defeated in body and then spirit...the story ends.It sounds so simple, but honestly it's a breath of fresh air.
>>273324743JJK is by far the worst example of that trope>it's sukuna>no it's geto>actually it's kenjaku>he actually planned yuji's birth because gege can't stop sucking kubo's cock>dies in a completely irrelevant way, yuji never learns this
>>273322171>>273324069He's a goody two shoes but not a crybaby faggot.
The bait per thread in Kimetsu threads on /a/ ever since a certain someone started pissing and shitting everywhere with DoShino posting towards the ending makes it impossible to discuss here (outside of when the anime decides to shart on the remainder of the industry again and the same dumbasses start coping about how the animation is "actually bad")But the thing is: the series and its fans have already won. There's no other victory remaining for it to claim. It strongly conveyed the thematic messages that the author intended to, it delivered a widely beloved final act which satisfied its reader base, and its anime adaptation is as close to a 10/10 as you can getSo the sustained rage towards it by posters such as https://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/avengers%202027/ is so impotent it's hilarious. And that hilarity is ultimately the value of these bait threads. Instead of normal discussions, they showcase an extended humiliation ritual, conducted by its own subjects. It's the perfect spice to contrast with a series as good-natured and inherently likable as KnYThank you for your service
>>273314560Women are smarter than men. She clearly had a plan from the start what she wanted to do with the manga instead of making up arcs on the spot weekly.
>>273325125I'm not taking the words of some hack behind a porn game and whose autistic writing made Gandalf himself cringeIn other words, you're a faggot
>>273325125It's like he never learned from Oricon 2019. This has to be some fucked up humiliation fetish. I can't think of any other reason.
>>273325352He's really mindbroken mha got beaten in every relevant metric.5 years and counting.
Also, let me paraphrase I will never take the words of a hack shilling another hackEspecially when said hack unironically wrote this with a straight face. Nasu owes McKellen an apology
>>273315257Why is Tanjiro's girl the only one not drawn all the time with someone like Raikage or Chad?
>>273325417She's too autistic for NTR.Also she took care of his comatose body for months, that requires dedication (and seeing him naked a lot).
>>273325142That's more of a problem with Jump than anything else. They have high reader count standards, weekly releases, and editors that will strong arm writers into dumb shit. Also as a mangaka it's rare to have any of your works be a breakout hit, and once you obtain that popularity you are incentivized to keep it going even to its own detriment. Really I think Demon Slayer was able to be that simple, straight forward, and fast paced because it wasn't that popular for most of its manga run. It flew under Jump's radar and had no reason to be dragged out.FMA is another shonen manga made by a woman that people point to for good pacing. It was clearly all thought out start to finish before the first chapter released. It didn't run in Jump and it was better off for it.
>>273325125Have you seen the 2018 interview of Yamaguchi from Shigurui praising it? I remember reading it and a line where he said it seems like a Shonen Champion manga rather than a WSJ manga, but I can't find it anymore and the only Yamaguchi interview I could find now where he mentions it is just a short recommendation.
>>273325417>set in early 1900s JapanDemon Slayer has no niggers.
>>273323512Good animation in fight scenes.>b-but the manga-Good animation in fight scenes.>bu-but the story-Good animation in fight scenes.>th-the char-GOOD. ANIMATION. IN. FIGHT. SCENES.Normalfags/NPCs do not care about anything else. That's all there is to it. It's why all the new shitty shounen has no worldbuilding where the world feels like an actual living breathing world that moves even without the MC or try to build an actual coherent storyline.We're back to DBZ times where stories and all that shit are for nerds, "stories" in shounen are like the stories in porn, in porn it's just a way to start the fucking, in nu shounen it's just a way to get to the ooga booga fighting bit. Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen and the rest of the Naruto copycats are all the same interchangeable slop. The age of spicfaggotry is upon us again. Coincidentally, this made FMA the last good battle shounen in shounen history and HxH (the undisputed king of battle shounen) shine more and more.
>>273323310The had no answer for this.
>>273325582db had a story though. It was simple as hell, but still a story. The tension in something like the namek arc is miles above much of the more recent stuff. Also, the characters had charisma to go along with it
>>273314560>mc is kind but not a beta>mc doesnt drop the sidekick>mc is special BUT everyone is special too>powerlevels are a delicacy here, for example, tanjiro only managed ot kill the midget dude because he had TWO immortals tanks in front of him and a pillar.>the gold saints/pillars are useful here and are not powercreeped>the super saiyan can be learned by literally anybody with enough training>etc.
>>273325125Infinity castle is going to look fantastic. This kind of adaption happening to a manga I fully enjoyed feels like winning the jackpot. And the best part is no amount of cope and seethe will change that. Fans are set.
>>273325721The worst of the worst for shonen stories has to be tournament arcs. KnY at least manages to avoid that. It's so compressed that it forces every single bit of character development and backstory into its fights, and the fights happen just because fuck demons. Muzan wants Nezuko, that's the story.
>>273316175No one says that.
>>273325482I haven't actually. Shigurui should go somewhere on my never to be realistically completed backlog too now that you mention it
>>273325582>GOOD. ANIMATION. IN. FIGHT. SCENES.KnY doesn't even have good animation in the fight scenes. It's just a flavor of the time graphics technology. It's a sign of ultimate midwitry when retards say how something that only exists because of financial resources poured into it is impressive. "People" who say KnY has good animation had their "minds" blown by Avatar (the 3D movie, not the cartoon... although they probably liked the cartoon too).
>>273326215Shigurui is easily my favorite manga of all time. Demon Slayer was the first shonen I'd enjoyed in like 15 years when I picked it up and I was amazed to read Yamaguchi recommend it from before it got an anime. Then I read Apocalypse Zero and I realized I shouldn't have been surprised.
>>273322976>AssClass was brilliantNah, safe af work.
>>273326517Oh no no no
>>273314560Nezucute
Tengen is my favorite Hashira. Damn shame he was retired as a character before the finale.
>>273314649Nagisa didn't get the girl at the end.
>>273326610Oh great, it's one of those high IQ Hunterchads posters who thinks he's above anyone
>>273325125ACTUALTRVTHNVKE
>>273326683Nagisa was the girl of the series
>>273325125good post AND a good image. rare on /a/ nowadays.and agreeing with nasu here, KnY was probably the last time i earnestly waited for WSJ release days and read the newest chapter as fast as humanly possible. (for a battle shonen, at least)
>>273314649Assclass storytime was really good
>>273326610GO TO THE BATHROOM. YOU ARE SHITTING YOURSELF.
Most of KnY fanbase migrated to DDD (they "grew up" from 9 year olds to 14 year olds)
my man called FMA a battle shounen
how the fuck did the demons lose
>>273327143Not her, but FMA has better fights than KnY.
>>273327075
>>273327151Author has no critical thinking, he's an ISFJ (defender of the status quo).
>>273326715Harlot
>>273318005She has two 10/10 personalities
>>273326215Shigurui gets storytimed regularly on here. Just jump in next time it gets dumped, it's not a very long read.
>>273320095Lol this post tells me you are a) a tranny, b) don't know good writing. You're absolutely delusion if you think it is a "manga of a generation", but the "a" point already told me you're delusional
>>273322179Lol. Just lol. You're taking modern Hollywood slop at the studio's word. Hilarious. Hollywood hasn't been good for ages. There hasn't been any good movies for literal decades. There's been "passable" and "decent". Modern mainstream cinema and mainstream media in general is absolute shit, a big steamy pile of it.
>>273322842Lol. You just don't get it, do you, Scott? You don't.
>>273323953The author is a man. A man who is mentally ill and thinks he is a woman, but a man nonetheless
>>273325142>women are smarter than men>which is why there's more inventions made by women than by menWeak b8. 1/8, made me reply
>>273325142Also, the author is a dude, so, sucks to be you.
>>273326610You don't know good series either if you think HxH is good
>>273318708Unless you have proof Wani's a male, genderfluid/nonbinary/x gender just makes me even more sure she(?)'s a woman. There are at least twenty women who go by that label for every man who does. I haven't read the manga, but just going by the designs I would guess the artist is a genuine uterus haver.
>>273314560Arthur vs Dragon fight is better than anything in Kimetsu.
>>273320059Muzan's "get a job" speech
>>273315257Based. Wan Piss should be dropped from the "big 3" and replaced with KnY.
>>273320311Perfection.
>>273328166The "KnY was written by a woman" is a Westoid headcanon with no actual backing. Wikipedia, a site that can be edited by anyone and everyone doesn't refer to the biologically male tranny as a woman and the "sources" KnY fans love to use is not accepted there as a reliable source. Nothing about the designs screams that the author has a uterus and the way the female "characters" are written just screams the opposite. They're literally just>i have tits>i am plot deviceThat bitch Sakura is "woman moments" the character and despite no one really liking her, she's also the most realistic fenale character. I can easily picture a woman writing her.
>>273330361Damn, no wonder why nu-shounen sucksThey're inspired by a shit manga
>>273328927>Arthur vs DragonLiterally who?
>>273330361>>273331083>please care about bleachAlso post the original artwork and not the photoshopped one you coward
>>273331272Wrong Bleachfag this is the original artwork lmao, you can even tell by the art style some fag awkwardly tried to fit Ichigo and the Black Clover kid inGotta photoshop in order to stay relevant now?
>>273327151Muzan gave the slayers all the time in the world for some reason instad of gassing them 1 by 1 asap.
>>273331239Where's Pasta and Eren?
>>273314649>It didn't. AssClass is infinitely better.Just realised that this is what I was thinking I was watching when I started Highschool DxD lol
>>273331083The only one who seemed to actually take something from Bleach was Black Clover. Then again, it's not like the other two losers said anything really. Like Demon Slayer influenced by JJBA. It's just proof that the author is actually inhuman, how can someone read JJBA and then produce something like Demon Slayer? The most boring fight in JoJo is a thousand times more exciting than the best fight in Demon Slayer. Even in animated form, the slideshows from Stone Ocean's last part? Better. Yo Yo Ma and Dragon's Dream? Both mog Muzan fight.
>>273330990Don't know, never read it, never heard about it, never seen it, but he's probably right.
>>273323310How do you respond without sounding mad?
>>273327435NotedI guess if we're on the topic of other series Houseki no Kuni is another series that's got a mix of empathy, Buddhism, and suffering evocative of KnY IMO. Though if KnY is centered on empathy HnK is definitely centered on suffering. There's a giant quality dip in the middle but it's my favorite of the last 10 years Made in Abyss peaking too early with Bondrewd also helps its case. Hell maybe my favorite of all timeIt's weird I gravitate toward these heavily Buddhist works even though I practice Abrahamic religion but I guess that's the beauty of honest art. Universal values shine through regardless of whether their direct inspirations are relatable
>>273314560Because it's your personal favorite and you want to believe you have superior taste to everyone on here.I like KnY but I hate pretentious faggots like you
