This show will go down in history as the biggest attempts at mass gaslighting amongst anime fans, ever in history. So many influencers, so many fans, so many people tried claiming that this show was a masterpiece and people fucking believed them. All because of the animation from episode 19 going viral. Behind all of that, is genuinely one of the worst written manga/anime in history.
hourly kimetsu hate thread, op needs your attention bad everyone
>how can people like something I don't? they must be pretending!
>>282058967as someone who doesn’t like this show and thinks it’s boring… who cares what people like, it’s their opinion
>>282059361>>282059413They like it for stupid reasons and thus lower the bar of quality for everyone. Gatekeeping is good for this reason.
Just stop watching the latest trendy slop, it's literally that easy. There are thousands of others to check out. I do not understand this mindset where people only consume the newest thing and refuse to look back through the countless other things in that medium available. This goes beyond just anime/manga as well. Seems like a modern consoomer thing
>>282059537Tourists are already influencing anime production. This is the same reason why everything is becoming the same safe urban shonen slop.
>>282058967I don't really care what people likes, but it's hard to understate how annoying it is to see people buy into the illusion of depth just because the animation is pretty and the voice acting is on point.
>>282059592The posers who complain about demon slayer are the tourists lolThis is no different from any other big name shonen marketing juggernaut. Are you going to complain about Bleach? Dragonball Z? It’s the same thing, it’s really easy to tell if you just look at Japan itself and see the physical world awash in toys and ads and other detritus.
>>282058967What happened to all the Frieren hate threads? You contrarians really do just latch on to whatever people are currently talking about. Go enjoy something for once in your life.
>>282058967Surpassing Spirited Away tomorrow and becoming Japan's #2 movie.
>>282059847The series is shit and pointing that out isn't being a contrarian.
>>282058967>Behind all of that, is genuinely one of the worst written manga/anime in history.Lay down the Reddit, OP
>>282060034I genuinely don't know where you got Reddit from, unless you think writing with any degree of emotion is "reddit"
>>282060010Its average at worst.
>>2820599706/10spirited away got 9/10 btw
>>282060127It literally doesn't even have the most basic standards of writing. Nothing is explained, nothing is explorer, nothing is shown.>Tanjiro trains for six months with the ghosts of his master's dead students >Tanjiro never brings this up to him in that entire time
>>282060173See the thing is that only losers on the internet like you pretend that media is judged by trying to nitpick every aspect of it and prove how much smarter you are than it. You have some irrelevant complaint that no one cares about and you’ll always be laughed at when you assert that anyone should take your fake critique seriously.
>>282060173That's true for a lot of its contemporaries, too. The fact that I dont want to strangle the MC is a plus.
>>282060269>The breathing forms are all functionally the same with no drawbacks >Zenitzu's ability is completely retarded and gives him absolutely no trouble and no reason to overcome his flaws and change >Genya randomly becomes nice like Rengoku>Rengoku is completely retarded and has a shit death scene, we didn't know him long enough for his death to be meaningfulSure. Hand wave all these critiques.
>>282060145>IGN
>>282060269>It's a fake critique because I said so! I want to delude myself into thinking that this piece of shit series is great!
>>282059828Complaining about shit media is not being a tourist.
>>282060346Yes, I will completely ignore all of your irrelevant nitpicking. It doesn’t matter how many you list because the entire fact that you have a list just tells me you’re a disingenuous cunt who spends his time inventing things to be mad about because you don’t like anime in the first place. The only posts you make are shitposts lol
>>282060532>It's a fake critique because I said so! I want to delude myself into thinking that this piece of shit series is great!
>>282060346>The breathing forms are all functionally the same with no drawbacks Tanjiro had to switch to water breathing during ED due to its defensive capabilities being better suited for the situation over HK. >Zenitzu's ability is completely retarded and gives him absolutely no trouble and no reason to overcome his flaws and change What the sleeping to use thunder breathing? >Genya randomly becomes nice like RengokuAfter he fought alongside the guy he hated in a fight to the death and started opening up to him when Tanjiro had his back.>Rengoku is completely retarded and has a shit death scene, we didn't know him long enough for his death to be meaningfulSubjective. He had as much time as an average movie character.
>>282060557>it’s real critique because I said so!Sorry but I’m not going to play along with your delusions. You’re a tourist shitposter with no clue about these topics. Demon slayer is a totally average major shonen series with big budget adaptions as part of its immense popularity in Japan. If you try to ask some teenage boy in Japan if he gives a fuck about your nitpicking, he’s going to have no clue what that random shit is even supposed to mean. You make this shit up because you’re incapable of making actual critiques lol
>>282060627>Tanjiro had to switch to water breathing during ED due to its defensive capabilities being better suited for the situation over HK.This is completely disingenuous. He did not have to switch to water breathing because of its better defensive capbabilties. All he says is that his body isn't that good for water breathing. With no explanation. There's no functional difference between any of the forms, and if there is weaknesses, this is not shown or explored so they might as well not exist. >What the sleeping to use thunder breathing?Yes. This never holds him back at any point. He's awake with more steps. He still has rational thought and can talk to his teammates and has internal monologs. >After he fought alongside the guy he hated in a fight to the death and started opening up to him when Tanjiro had his back.That's not character development. He was never given a reason to change, nor did he go through the process of it. >Subjective. He had as much time as an average movie character.The audience is given no reason to care about Rengoku.
>>282060746>It's a fake critique because I said so! I want to delude myself into thinking that this piece of shit series is great!>None of your critiques matter because I say so!
>>282060802Correct, none of your critiques matter because I say so. It’s all stupid bullshit you pull out of your ass because you’re a terminally online contrarian who doesn’t even know the first thing about either anime and otaku subculture or writing and literary critique. You’re trying to pass off irony poisoned cinema sins style nitpicking as substantive when the actual result of trying that in literary studies circles is you find out who has a poker face and whose thoughts of “someone silence this tedious thing so we can get back to some real work” show openly. You can only do this shitposting here because you’re the one everyone laughs at in reality where you can’t use anonymity to play on the pretense that anyone agrees with a single thing you’ve ever said.
>>282060756He switched to deflect Gyutaro's blood sickles from Tengen because Hinokami is mainly an offensive based breathing style while water breathing is defensive. He even straight up monolouges this shit with the hand examples. >This never holds him back at any pointThe sleep gimmick was more of an emotional set back rather than a physical one. Could have been handled better.>He was never given a reason to changeOther than Tanjiro fully supporting his endeavors to become a Hashira when not even his own brother supported him. Yeah I'd start softening up to the guy too.>The audience is given no reason to care about RengokuThe man was the shining example of a pillar that stood his own against an upper moon for the sake of protecting hundreds with a heart of steel and that was enough to resonate with millions of people.
>>282061162>An entire autistic emotionally charged paragraph where they try to hand wave away all my critiques. I'll try this again. Refute anything I'm saying here.
>>282061178>He switched to deflect Gyutaro's blood sickles from Tengen because Hinokami is mainly an offensive based breathing style while water breathing is defensive. He even straight up monolouges this shit with the hand examples.This is never shown or explained. You're pulling headcanon out of your ass to defend the shitty writing of this show. It's insane. You people are deluded. >The sleep gimmick was more of an emotional set back rather than a physical one. Could have been handled better.It never holds him back, ever. There's never a scenario in which he can't overcome his fear and can't fall asleep, forcing him to deal with one of those limitations. 4>Other than Tanjiro fully supporting his endeavors to become a Hashira when not even his own brother supported him. Yeah I'd start softening up to the guy too.This is never shown, explained nor given as a reason for why Genya changed. He never goes through the process of changing, ever. He has no actual character growth that's shown. He's just a nice guy all of a sudden. >The man was the shining example of a pillar that stood his own against an upper moon for the sake of protecting hundreds with a heart of steel and that was enough to resonate with millions of people.Millions of people have the emotional intelligence of a goldfish. Not really a good argument. He has no character, he's a generic good guy like Tanjiro who also started off as an asshole and then changed for no reason like Genya did. We did not know what he lived through or what his motivations were >His mommy said soDoesn't count because that relationship was never fleshed out.
>>282061331Why would I have to refute some bullshit you’re nitpicking about? You’re complaining because they didn’t talk about the artsy-spiritualist ghost side story training montage thing? The response you get from everyone is going to be the same: they will laugh in your face or maybe politely escape the awkwardness of your stupidity with a “gee, I never thought of that…” because you’ve demonstrated in a single nitpick that you’re too disabled to understand how fiction works. It’s a level of deficiency that makes every opinion of yours fundamentally wrong. It’s why you think “Rengoku is completely retarded” is meaningful critique instead of a red flag announcing how totally worthless you are.
>>282061584Tanjiro never brought up the fact that he was training with Urokodaki's students for six entire months? Why?
>>282061471>doesn’t count becauseThis is why you never argue with this shitposter, just mock him. He’ll move the goalposts infinitely if you have a nitpicking fight with him.
>>282061652I explained why it doesn't count. Not my fault you're illiterate.
>>282061331>anons posts refutations>it doesn't count because I say so.Actual autism. If you can explain to me how judo and jujutsu, or any of the kenjutsu schools differ in practice when looking at a video, then I'll actually entertain to refute the rest of your "argument".
>>282058967>So many influencers, so many fans, so many peopleBut influencers are not people
>>282061644Because the artist didn’t want to depict that scene (or maybe that desire was there but an editor said no, there’s no accounting for that sort of thing). Stories are not supposed to be simulations that trick you into thinking they are real. There’s never an obligation to show the next logical event. Nitpicking is a totally irrelevant practice that stupid people engage in because they can’t access an actual understanding of media. The contrarianism comes from the fundamentalist urge to ruin everything for others if one can’t enjoy it as well.
>>282061895There's something called verisimilitude in stories and suspension of disbelief. Its literally designed to invest you and make you think that the setting is real as possible. Tanjiro had really no reason to bring up the ghosts for more than 6 months? There was never a single conversation where that could have been brought up? Tanjiro could have casually said >Yeah, I trained my techniques with so and so todayAnd yet that never happened?
>>282061471>Its never shown or explaines!>It is>Nu uhGreat arguments. Now I know why shounen characters beat readers over the head with explanations.
>>282062076How is it better for defense? How is this shown? And does it factor into how he uses water breathing in the future? If you can't explain this, then this doesn't count. Leave it to demon slayer fans to be unable to comprehend basic arguments.
>>282062198Literally in the very next scene it shows you how but at this point you are just being a faggot on purpose.
>>282062273Then show that scene?
>>282062049Those concepts are not universal standards of storytelling just like realism is only a style or genre rather than a superior form. Like all idiots you’ve latched onto these concepts popularized in slop content that uses brain dead nitpicking to generate vast content libraries to sell to idiots based on the premise of incorrectly interpreting media. Nitpicking how a piece of media isn’t realistic in some particular instance is normally the realm of a casual joke among peers but to build an entire analytical framework on it immediately establishes that one has become possessed by a contrarian disease that renders the sufferer totally blind to the actual meaning of media and how other people actually engage with it. That’s why the term irony poisoning gets thrown around, which I quite like because it describes the attitude of the terminal shitposter very well.
>>282062295Season 2 ED episode 8
>>28206236117:40 timestamp
>>282062320>Acting as if Demon Slayer isn't key jangling slop for retards >Acting as if basic storytelling concepts aren't universalAlso, acting as if Tanjiro had no reason to bring up the ghosts during his entire six months of training is the most retarded thing I've ever heard. You still haven't actually answered the question. Why did Tanjiro not bring up the ghosts during his entire six months of training? All he would have had to have asked is>I didn't know you were training people other than meAnd that would have been it. How come that never happened?
>>282062438>>282062361Show that picture. Unless you're bullshitting and it doesn't actually say that. Weird how you were so willing to show that before.
>>282062453Your questions are totally irrelevant. You just have shit for brains and nitpick meaningless things. The second you ask “why didn’t X happen?” You’ve revealed you’re irredeemably stupid and disingenuous. You don’t care about any of this and just do it to shitpost on a loop endlessly. You’re truly retarded in every sense of the word.
>>282062506>Show picturesYou're better off watching it unless you want a full ass picture bookhttps://aniwatchtv.to/watch/demon-slayer-entertainment-district-arc-17483?ep=86181
TOTALJEREMYDEATH
>>282062570All because someone said the series was average. Not great, not amazing, just average.
>>282062678Actually I’m one of the ones calling it a totally average series that can be directly compared to properties like Bleach and Dragonball Z. That’s why it’s so clearly shitposting to say it’s a shit series when the objective analysis borne out by its social impact is run of the mill, for a gigantic merchandised monster with more economic power than small states.
>>282062570No, the problem is that you're a complete retard who can't critique the stories that he watches. The show can't even answer the most basic aspects about its world building. The ghosts are also shown injuring Tanjiro, meaning that they have a tangible effect on the living world. So how come there isn't a ghost Hashira army fighting Muzan instead?
>>282062813I know that. The shitposter went into a tangent nitpicking details about it like anyone said otherwise.
>>282062957Wow you sure did make up a lot of headcanon to nitpick about, that’s really convincing as intelligent analysis. See the simple answer is your questions will never matter. It’s stupid nitpicking no one cares about rather than a genuine sentiment you’re representing. No one thinks less of the series for not explaining the ghost stuff because it’s just flavor for the training that sets up some of the emotional connections in the test encounter and establishes the ongoing thematic component of the generational struggle against Muzan built by stepping over the bodies of the fallen to continue the fight because they can only rest in peace when the mission is done. There’s no reason to bring up the ghosts again because their entire purpose in the story is fulfilled. You demanding the story jump through some hoop for you and throwing fits about your ignored expectations has no bearing on how people genuinely engage with media. Your entire attitude is fundamentally disingenuous, thus why you never do anything other than move goalposts when people foolishly respond to your nitpicking.
>>282063176None of what I said was nitpicking you retard. >Muh theeeemess and emotions If your story isn't logically built up, none of that is going to matter. You can't just write bullshit. Explain how literally anything I said was wrong and use actual information given in the series to refute it.
>>282063343Everything you said is wrong. Realism is just a tool and a story’s logic is self-defined. The themes and tone and artistic intent of the creator supply the logic, adhering to realistic logic is nothing more than one potential stylistic choice. That’s why your nitpicking about deviation from realist logic will never matter. None of the things you come up with for nitpicking have any bearing on the themes or messages of the work so there’s no point in discussing them. You’re a mentally deranged shitposter who complains about meaningless things and moves the goalposts nonstop when people correct your flawed nonsense because you’re too dumb to even make accurate nitpicks most of the time. You are the most recognizable shitposter because there is no one dumber than you are.
>>282058967>Tsuzumi Mansion arc>Rareblood boy draws out 3 nearby demons who are fighting over eating himI really like the lengths Gotouge went to follow their rule that demons aren't usually allowed to work together while still having enough opponents for the cast.
>>282063642Answer my questions then. Why did Tanjjro not bring up the ghosts for six months? What is the functional difference between the breathing styles and how is that shown in the series? How come the ghosts aren't trying to kill Muzan if they can directly impact the world?If you can't explain any of these; I'm going to assume you're trolling.
>>282064060I’m going to answer none of those because they’re all irrelevant bullshit that you ask because you’re a nitpicking shitposter.
>>282064113Okay then you're trolling. If you can't explain basic things about the setting, then the setting is horribly written.
>>282064221Nope, your entire definition of writing exists so you can troll with nitpicking over things no one cares about while moving the goalposts any time someone catches you out on the sloppy bullshit you produce because you’re too stupid and lazy to make factually accurate nitpicks of any series you make these threads for. You’re the very definition of a troll and a prolific shitposter who is easily recognizable because you’re the only one who does this routine of trotting out lists of nitpicks to declare something is badly written. Not once in the months I’ve watched you do this has anyone ever agreed with your nitpicks or your theory of storytelling.
>>282064342Then answer my questions. Why did Tanjjro not bring up the ghosts for six months?What is the functional difference between the breathing styles and how is that shown in the series?How come the ghosts aren't trying to kill Muzan if they can directly impact the world?If you can't explain any of these; I'm going to assume you're trolling.
>>282064060The ghosts feel like some kind of japanese folk lore parallel Im not getting. That or an element that wasn't meant to go anywhere. Same with the shared memories of ancestors thing.
>>282064520That's still bad writing. Nothing about it is explained.
>>282064543If it was explained, would it really have made that big of a difference?
>>282064500Oh I saw someone recently come up with a good response to cunts like you, might have even been one of your threads.What is the best written anime then, if this is an example of the abysmal worst that anime has to offer? At least put a little effort into giving a funny response.
>>282064617Yes. Because the ghosts can affect the world of the living. So why isn't there a ghost army fighting Muzan? Don't have ghosts do this if you're not prepared to deal with the logical consequences of it.
>>282060145>KnY (Mugen Castle)6/10>JJK (Shibuya)6/10>BNHA (S7)8/10>CSM9/10Maybe IGN isn't so bad after all.
>>282064760>facts and logic!Why yes, I will be reading your shitposts in Ben Shapiro’s voice from now on
>>282064843>CSM movie will mog all the shonen again next monthBASED
>>282058967>This show will go down in history as the biggest attempts at mass gaslighting amongst anime fans, ever in history. So many influencers, so many fans, so many people tried claiming that this show was a masterpiece and people fucking believed them. All because of the animation.>Behind all of that, is genuinely one of the worst written manga/anime in history.
>>282064760>So why isn't there a ghost army fighting Muzan? Because that would be really fucking shit
Demon Slayer is the perfect example of the double edged sword of having a core zoomer fanbase. The biggest pro you get is they'll spread it around like crazy which causes it to explode in popularity but then the biggest con is that once its done they'll move onto the next hot thing leaving no fanbase behind
>>282060145Correct. KnY is okay
>>282064941The characters aren't thinking about what would make a good story or not. Don't set things up like that then.
>>282060145The funny thing is that one of the people who animated JJK said the same thing and that the movie is not that good lmao
>>282065081And neither are you
>>282064961Absurd tourist take based on some batshit dogma about “zoomers.”This franchise is cataclysmically popular in Japan with its target audience of children and teenagers, as any number of series have been in the past. There is nothing unique about this situation and even as the fad dies down, Demon Slayer will be cited as an influence and inspiration by newcomers to the industry. It will persist in merchandizing long after the adaption is completed. This same cycle with manga of the same type has been going on since before zoomers even existed.
>>282065381>Demon Slayer will be cited as an influence and inspiration5 (and a half) years have passed since the manga ended and it inspired nothing
>>282065158>ZOMG AMAZING REBUTTAL HERES YOUR REDDIT GOLD!
>>282058967>THE KIMETSU FANS AREN'T REAL!!
>>282060145wow, the 1/3 parter has an incomplete story? shocker
>>282066365That stereotypical tourist obsession with reddit makes me wonder, has anyone done a search comparison with this loser’s nitpicking posts against reddit? A lot of these tourists cross post all across social media so some of his recycled complaints like that stuff about the ghosts might give him away elsewhere.
>>282062453>Why did Tanjiro not bring up the ghosts during his entire six months of training?Good question. Speaking of questions, what are the differences between:Sound BreathingWater Breathing 4th Form TurbulentBeast Breathing 5th Fang ?How does dancing teach one how to breathe?Why do they let Tanjiro's sister live if they're demon slayers & he's a demon??Why don't the characters have any flaws???
>>282066825His Reddit and Twitter have been doxxed already.
>jimbo the crazy psycho threadEvery day, at least three times.Kimetsu's success broken him so hard, the fact that it's going to head to 400 million+ too.
>>282067205First post I'm making in this thread and probably the only one. Nice to know I mindbroke fags, lmao.Also, you didn't dox anyone. My Twitter and Reddit are both up for the public. They're not even my main accounts, lol. Angry I'm not gay like you are, fag?
>>282067278He's now clinging to an IGN score like a life raft after his box office ship sunk.
>>282067356>I WRITE ARTHURIAN NOVELS FROM BUMFUCK AFRICAI love your side accounts
>>282067387>Africa out of nowhereYawn.>>282067361I don't care about IGN. Still, it's funny to see them not dickride Demon Slayer the way bugmen do. They're actually far more fair towards. Probably because they see it as a product and nothing else.
>>282067480>>Africa out of nowhere>GMT+0>that english>obsession with NBA>canonically blackWhat else?
>>282067278It’s not even this series, he’s done this for pretty much any series with the slightest bit of popularity historical or contemporary. He does this day after day however many times. There are certain give aways such as relying on fall back jargon like suspension of disbelief and talking about writing. The nitpicking is a widespread derangement but it’s a rather specific package that this one uses. >>282067387How has he been doxxed and it’s not the first reply to every thread he makes? Share that shit lol
>>282067500He goes the I don't care route.Just like he's (or his llm) unable to read a fucking chart but he doubles down in his retardation every time.
>>282067491>muh blackYou're boring and obsessed with Africans. Still upset that I won't fuck you, fag?
>>282067526Sharing is caring, even if he doesn’t care I want to laugh at him even harder every time he makes a thread. I would love nothing more than a giant conspiracist masterpiece collage with examples of his posts over time, posts elsewhere, schizo factoids, etc. Don’t those sorts of things just put a smile on your face?
>>282067500https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/281386878/#q281402416
>>282067648>>282067754>the faggot talks to himselfCute. And I also didn't make this thread, by the way. But it's good to know I still mindbroke fags.Still, it doesn't matter. Demon Slayer is still badly written and I'm glad the West (so far) didn't fall for Ufotable's tricks and called their "movie" out for what it is: TV episodes. Like I said, anime fans are the most gullible idiots. They're even more retarded than capeshitters.
>>282067767You lost
>>282067767>I'm glad the West (so far) didn't fall for Ufotable's tricksYeah, see you in a week withe the box office, what was it? 220 million ww tops?
>>282067767But you said it won.
>>282067803>withe>[IESLB]BOOM.Done.
>>282063901>Married couple argues over custody rights for their weird dog.
>>282067871Compared to the piece of shit that is Black Clover? Yeah, lol. Doesn't mean Demon Slayer isn't a piece of shit too, Black Clover is just a special brand of piece of shit.
>>282067278How is it him every single time?
>>282061644Why would he? If he did, what would it achieve other than getting whoever is listening to say "whoa, spooky"? That then is not interesting to the narrative, it could easily be off-screened, you might imagine it happened offscreen and nothing changes. It is fiction 101. If something is that irrelevant to the narrative, you might skip showing it to the reader.
>>282068538Then why have it in the story in the first place?
>>282068697Good of you to ask. All in all, it accomplishes several things, it's simply cool, there's a meaningful coincidence, and the reader looks and thinks 'this is spooky'. It introduces ambiguity for the watcher to ponder; "did that actually happen?" Makes you think. In a functional sense, it accomplishes being a training montage and showing how tanjirou grows stronger. More than that, is thematically. It introduces the theme of afterlife that will get explored later on. There are other themes such as passing on the torch, that becomes a theme as well as the spiritual themes, in this case by having the ghost teach him. It's really well-done. if I'm allowed to opine, kny peaked there.
It's in the boulder scene that kny shines. Tanjirou doesn't immediately slice the boulder. No, in fact, he has to train in order to do it. Training is an essential aspect of fighting manga since DB. Goku learned discipline and this would later separate Goku from the common Saiyan; he's no mere warmonger but a true martial artist.Tanjirou not immediately slicing the boulder establishes that this isn't your average isekai/shonen where typically the mc would be overpowered or get a cheat skill. If that were the case, the cheat skill would immediately destroy the boulder to establish that narrative. Demon Slayer proves that it is in fact a true martial arts series when the boulder fails to be sliced, letting the protagonist learn defeat.Added to that is his ghost mentors. There's an element of inherited will or passing the torch introduced. Tanjirou is carrying the will of the fallen ghosts. It's thanks to them that Tanjirou can destroy an even bigger boulder. This becomes a recurring motif in Demon Slayer. For example, the Sun Breath is passed down through a dance.There's of course a certain ambiguity and suspense as to the origin of the ghost mentors. Do they have real existence? This mixture of the mystical and mundane is an interesting aspect of the series. That too becomes a recurring motif.I need of course not mention Ufotable's marvelous work. It's animated by Ufotable and the fight being on the beginning and not the end of the series means animation is at its peak. This makes Tanjirou vs boulder one of, if not the, best fights in shonen.
>>282069035It makes no sense. Therefore it's a shitty scene and doesn't work.
>>282058967>is genuinely one of the worst written manga/anime in history.nah
>>282070000It's better than Jujutsu Kaisen for example
