Saw it in the theater today, and damn, Ufotable cooked. Animation quality was amazing in the previous seasons, but this film is on a whole other level.
>>282182720I'm going in a few hours.
>>282182720Going on the afternoon here in hueland. So many teens are mad for the fact the age rating was bumped all the way to 18+ while all previous theatrical releases were 16+. The rating board must have raised a stink on scenes like Akaza's mangled body and Doma playing with corpses.
>>282182720I'm wondering why the international release is keeping the movie title condensed with "Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle" while Japan went all out with "Kimetsu no Yaiba: Infinity Castle - Part 1: Akaza's Return". The second movie will be called what internationally? Infinity Castle II?
>>282182890I guess it's done just to keep it short enough. Official movie name here is "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle" while in the movie they are adding "Part 1: Akaza's Return"
No offense but why is this franchise so popular? I tried watching it but quit after a few episodes. It seems to be a standard story and lots of battles. Am I missing something?
>>282182948It's like a normal battle shonen but for human beings instead of 80 IQ power scalers.
>>282182948Sometimes being standard is what catches the masses, and the animation helps.
>>282182987Why is it so popular in Japan, even among older people?
If these theatrical releases keep being rated for older audiences outside Japan, then they should just make Sanemi swear like a sailor just like in the /a/ scans.
>>282183011Because it is very in touch with traditional Japanese values of the early 20th century, Tanjiro is what they want for a grandson.
>>282182948Some times all you need it's a simple story that will appeal to the vast majority of people.
>>282182720Seeing it tonight in IMAX. Its finally his time!
>>282183192What is thumbs up giyu from?
>>282182948It has a very strong beginning and siblings usually work as main characters very well since there's no "ship" shit constantly. Sadly it turns to worse quite soon and made it unwatchable. pic relatedI read it to the end and it was among the worst endings in manga that I have read. Also the whole thing feels very rushed like the mangaka hated it or something
>>282182948Redditors and youtube essayists seem to be convinced that media needs to be "deep" in order to be popular, but the most popular things are consistently, just simply, good.
>>282183324Only plebs hate this best written character.Why do you think he was so popular?
>>282182948>Am I missing something?the story isnt targeted at you.
>>282183324> it was among the worst endings in manga that I have read Read more than two titles. The last chapter was the perfect conclusion to the manga. The entire manga is built around the Buddhist ideology of "do bad things - go to hell, do good things - receive good things in the next life".
>>282182720japan yes.
>>282182720Why did they fuck over Zenitsu so bad? He's the most popular character.
>>282182948I liked the cute drawings.
>>282183320No clue. Looks like fan art.
it was shit
I miss her bros
>>282183606What do you mean?
>>282183606They adapted his fight 1:1, he wasn't "screwed over" by expanding the Kaigaku fight for the sake of it, changing that fight in any way would completely change the theme of it.
>>282183678Some people aren't happy that Zenitsu's fight is a 1:1 adaptation while Giyu got his dick sucked with an expanded and better showing against Akaza.Previous Zenitsu scenes in the anime were a little enhanced compared to the manga, specially how Godspeed looks in the anime, so some people got used to preferential treatment to a point where a 1:1 adaptation looks "lacking"
>>282183366>>282183606Repeating this lie won't make it true.
>>282182948It's pretty, very very pretty.
>>282183606I can't imagine Zenitsu's fight not looking like a million bucks Ufotable love himBut I guess I'll find out tomorrow
>>282183724Denying reality won't make it a lie.
>>282183678>>282183680>>282183720Most boring direction and worst fucking animation in the whole movie. No budget, no effort but every other fight got all the fucking tax evasion money poured into it. Zenitsu doesn't get any other big moment, this was all. They fucked him.
>>282183720Probably because you can't extend Zenitsu's fight too much, since he is using IAI techniques. But they have added additional scenes to it, in manga he just regroups and finishes Kaigaku, while in the film - he charges for 20-30 seconds with an amazing animation sequence.
>>282183786It looks good, but as said in >>282183720It goes exactly as it went in the manga, there's no wow factor in which ufotable tries to make it even better like how went all out with Godspeed before.
>>282183796>Zenitsu doesn't get any other big moment, this was all.Not quite, he still has a little moment by the last stretch against Muzan.
>>282183720>>282183796Well I'd rather Shinobu and Giyu get the budget than Zenitsu this time around. Fucker had it good all this time. Also Kaigaku doesnt deserve the honor, the little shitbag.
>>282183825>ufotable tries to make it even better like how went all out with Godspeed before.Man, Goodspeed wasn't really a long scene, his last attack against Kaigaku is animated much better as I said here >>282183820
>>282183011It's got a solid moral and emotional core and an adult theme of death that elevates the "people fight"
>>282182948Demon Slayer is the MCU of shounen. It’s pretty to look at, makes a ton of money, and has just enough emotion to tug at your heartstrings. But it's easily as expendable as it is accessible. It's a one-and-done series you enjoy at the moment but once everything has been said and it's out of the equation, you don't think much about it and move on with your life.
>>282183820>>282183863You have an unique point of view regarding what makes the 7th Form enhanced in the movie while Godspeed isn't quite like it. To me is the exact opposite.Godspeed is infinitely more enhanced in fhe anime, it doesn't even look like the same attack from the manga, it looks much stronger. The 7th Form does get the enhanced charging sequence but the technique has no enhanced speed momentum or damage scale on the level Godspeed had in the anime.
>>282183915It's still leagues better than Attack on Titan,MHA and Chainsawman.At least it's consistently entertaining while having a bit of depth.
>>282183935AOT has a lot more depth though and the premise is way more interesting, it's not even close
>>282183935>having a bit of depth.It really doesn't. It's not that deep, it's just another shounen. And whether it's better than Shingeki, CSM or BNHA is another thing, but at least when a story is trash, I feel something even if it's just anger. I felt nothing from Demon Slayer.
Why'd it take so long to see Kaigaku's face?I'm almost done rewatching the series, and it's always hidden until this movie, iirc.What's the deal with that? It's just a normal face?
>>282183720zenitsu fans aren't people so based decision
Why isn't it released simultaneously worldwide?Two month delay between Japanese release and Western release is hard to understand.
>>282184113He was a lot more hidden in general in the manga, like the bit with him being one of Himejima's orphan kids was something you'd only catch by paying close attention when his magatama was shown in a panel.
>>282182948It's the most generic shonenslop imaginable with 0 redeeming qualities. It's popular with old ladies in japan. Nobody else cares about it.
Series ended 5 years ago and dedicated fags still seething about its success.
>>282184432If I had to make a comparison, Demon Slayer is pretty much comfort food like lasagna or spaghetti given how it blew up during the pandemic where normalfags and obaasans were locked indoors for a whole year and got traumatized so they watched anime on Netflix to seek refuge and this one just happened to be the one they locked onto by how generic and inoffensive it isPretty much the Harry Potter of anime
>>282182948Tourists.
>>282182720Already saw it pirated, is it worth the movie trip and ticket?
>>282184802You said you've already pirated it, how can you not know if it is worth a trip or not?
>>282184883I mean, i want to know how the effects and all look on a big screen
when are we getting a good quality rip?
I've almost forgotten this arcGonna be great to see it tomorrow and be reminded of how good this series can be
Tomorrow for me, pretty hyped.
Just watched it in cinema. Too many flashbacks. Absurdly.But movie is good.
>>282185798Just wait for next movie, kokushibo has like three alone for himself.
>>282185826Damn.
>>282185869Next movie had>inosuke>sanemi>Koku being pathetic #1-3Fir flashbacks.
>>282185946>next movie>kokuHuh? that soon? The three parts includes Muzan's death too?
>>282186116Yeah, with 2.5-3 hour movies they should be able to cover all manga in 3 parts
>>282186116If these movies keep being long ass 2 hours and 35 minutes each, then yes, it can actually cover everything all the way to end by the 3rd movie.Akaza's movie alone covered about 17 chapters.
>>282186602I predict that they'll end the last movie at praying before the blue spider lilies on the graves of the Kamados and save the extra stuff like the will sequence and future epilogue for a TV special.search for me in the archives in 2030 with the keyword: Disenfranchised Cyclohexylamine
>>282185643The original one from July looked good enough for me, but now that the movie is being released internationally there will be plenty of new CamRips popping out so look out for those.
Every review I read of this movie so far is that it's beautiful to look at, but shallow to experience with a simple boss rush structure and no real arcs. MC is sidelined, the imouto is absent, side characters take over and cliffhangers unresolved. They also complain that it's marketed as a movie, but is really TV season padding made as a trilogy for money.Oh and flashbacks killing the pacing. Too many flashbacks. They did say Akaza was the best part, though.
>>282183915the difference is that KNY ended, unlike the MCU
>>282182720how far into the castle does the movie get?does zenitsu get his big fight done with?
>>282183011It's not post modernist or modernist at all, the morality of the story is played straight, which is important for capturing an older audience (if you want them). Never does Tanjiro have to make a morally grey decision and he's treated as the ideal, virtuous protagonist like classic stories. The setting being Taisho Japan also helps.
>>282182720I'm still not going to watch this slop.
>>282185751>>282184113Kaigaku is a girl, what changes?
>>282187302It covers three fightsZenitsu vs Kaigaku Shinobu vs DomaTanjiro & Giyu vs AkazaAll to the end, well to Shinobu's end that is.
>>282187302End of chapter 157
>>282187392People feel more simpathetic to her plightSorry, I meant sympathetic.
>>282187541Actually about halfway through 157
I want to watch this, does this show have side character clutter? I’ve been allergic to character overload due to Bleach.
>>282187608It's one of the few shonen that uses every side character for something.
>>282187648Is this good or bad
>>282187648And also neglects the MC and the heroine
>>282187573they also ship her with zenitus, and there's a ship war between those and the yaoi shippers
>>282187713It gives them plenty of focus.
>>282182948I never really heard of it until it suddenly showed up all over the place during Covid, so I was always under the impression it was a right time right place thing since everyone locked inside had to find something to watch
>>282182948the animation isnt impresive for someone who went to vhs clubs to watch vampire hunter d akira hokuto no ken onisama e midnight goku bublegum crisis cobra. even without the animation the plot of those animes are way more interesting and tried to show how techonlogy was going to be a important element to control in future societies and doenst surrender to nihilism. here in demon slayer i just watch generic stuff like flashback of the enemy after he was killed, so i dont give a fuck, battle with lights and a lot of movement to impress tik tok modern anime audiences, and a generic revenge plot. it isnt bad if you like it, its just 12 temples executed way better with an interesting edo. but i cant say the same with lobotomy kaisen
>>282188099That narrative falls down when the momentum kept going much after COVID, and just 2 months ago Shueisha updated the series' lifetime manga sales to 220 million, meaning it sold more 70 million copies after 2020 with the numbers then being 150 million.This movie has already grossed 300 million dollars with Japan and some of Asia theaters only, making it the 4th best box office in Japan currently, with the 1st place being Mugen Train still.
>>282188094>MCGets sidelined for the side characters>ImoutoSleeps throughout the arcThey're not given focus, they're being disrespected in favor of characters who aren't even main characters
>>282182948Finish it, some parts are kino and most are low Tier shonen
>>282188221it's very likely to beat superman and The Fantastic Four at the box office
>>282188245Wrong in all accounts.
>>282188245found the naruto fan, what were you expecting? For Tanjiro to unlock god mode and beat everyone?
>>282188300Tough job on Superman, but in terms of profit is absolutely destroys them, this movie likely didn't cost much more then Mugen Train at 43 million dollars, this one be around 60 to 80 million.
>>282188363They actually said the cost of the trilogy is cheap as fuck, like this movie has a budget of 20 million USD on the panphlet.
>>282182720Even though it’s only been released in Asia so far, this movie is already closing in on Mugen Train’s total worldwide box office.Once it opens in the West starting tomorrow, it will likely set an unprecedented record for an anime film, one that won’t be broken for more than a decade.
It's made 100+ million on asia alone outside of japan so far.It's 20 million away from breaking mt's record overseas and it hasn't released in the big markets yet.
>>282188363Since the CGI for Infinity Castle required the addition of a new state-of-the-art CPU, the production costs are probably several million dollars higher than Mugen Train.That said, it’s still just an anime film, so the budget is limited. The highest production cost in Japanese anime history to date is said to be Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, at around 40 million dollars.
I'm glad I managed to make a proper discussion with anons and hear their proper criticisms regarding the movie and the series in general while some them admitted some of the positives and enjoyment of the series in general.I'm always going to point out hiw I like Tanjiro as a protagonist and he's definitely superior to the likes of losers like Eren, Deku, and Denji.
>>282188584Honestly, the criticisms are as expected, the IF arc was flashback heavy and in a movie format they just keep coming one after another compared to a tv series.But the quality is fantastic.
>>282187706It's good but it's not the only way. There's appeal in a simulationist spokon kind of thing where you're supposed to imagine side characters having their own stories offscreen and not everyone is introduced into the story for a specific role.
>>282188584kids admire Tanjiro more than they admire their fathers
>>282188363probably a third of those numbers for both MT and this.
>>282188484To think it'd be at 400+ million usd if the yen didn't go to shit.It's legitimately a bigger movie at this point.
>>282188431>>282188484> Loses to Akaza in the main story.>On the global box office stage, his movie is already on the verge of losing to Akaza’s movie.>Even in Japan’s domestic box office, at this pace he’s about to lose to Akaza’s movie too.Why is he always destined to keep losing?
>>282188329Nah>>282188344Demon Slayer is inspired by NarutoAnd at least Naruto remembers that Naruto is Naruto's story
>>282188632so basically the others characters have stories and we ahve to iamgine them? It'd be dumb to imagine zenitsu vs kaigaku or pillars vs koku, but I'd rather just see it
>>282188698The works that KnY is strongly influenced by are Bleach, Berserk, JoJo, and HxH, while the influence from Naruto is limited.About the only part that felt Naruto-like was Demon King Tanjiro resembling the Nine-Tails.
>>282188698and it's also inspired by bleach, demon slayer remembers that it's about demon slaying, it's not called Tanjiro after all
An anon in another thread pointed out that Kimetsu's breathing is basically similar to Jojo's Hamon but I disagree that's it's a straight copy.The Breathing Styles just enables the Demon Slayers to reach peak human performance but it's still an uphill battle since the Demons are still OP without fighting dirty and taking advantage of the demons' arrogance.Also, Hamon users could easily beat Muzan and the Demons because they can apply sunlight to anything unlike the Slayer who need Nichirin Blade to fight or they are fucked.
>>282188791practice your english and reread the posts
>>282182720fr fr
>>282188820Eh they're both a fantasy of peak human performance. You can't cut a rock with a sword, that's magic.
>>282188804CopeNaruto is the blueprint and not Hiatus x Hiatus or Cuckserk>Gotoge revealed the top three manga that inspired Demon Slayer.>“There are too many [manga] to count, but if I had to choose the top three, they’d be Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Naruto and Bleach.”>Koyoharu Gotoge: “I don't think I could be as the master authors of Bleach and Naruto, Tite Kubo and Masashi Kishimoto, respectively, in my entire life."
>>282188851>Bleach and Naruto, Tite Kubo and Masashi Kishimoto
>>282188099It's a testament to the power of two things:Flashy animation and good directionThe manga fucking sucks. It's ugly and stupid and terribly paced and the fights are visual soup with no sense of geography or choreography.To say that UFOtable does a lot of heavy lifting would be such an incredible understatement that there should a new stronger word for it.
>>282188950The manga is pretty solid, some fights are spectacular, but I think it has its faults. Overall it's a solid 8/10 with some great scenes.
I guess I'll be seeing it Monday. It's funny how the only time I drag my ass to a movie theater is to watch weeb shit every couple of years.
>>282188851KnY contains countless essences of HxH. The part being adapted in the current movie is, quite literally, the Chimera Ant arc rebuilt in Gotouge’s style.As for Naruto, the only real essence it has is Demon King Tanjiro’s final technique, which resembled a Tailed Beast Bomb.I wouldn’t say Gotouge loves HxH the most, but along with JoJo, Bleach, Berserk, and Shigurui, it’s clearly one of the top works that influenced her, and from the looks of it, Naruto doesn’t even make her top ten.
>>282189016>Shinobu weighs 37 kilograms.Imagine eqsily lifting her up during love-making.
>>282188851I think Gotouge is just saying Naruto for the sake of it lol. I really don't see any Naruto resemblance. It's more closer to Bleach with Hollow of the week format.
>>282188851Hello Narutard.Long time no see.
>>282189009I don't want to be mean, but if you think the Demon Slayer manga is better than a 5/10 you need to read some better manga.
>>282188851AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>282189164Then suggest better manga to reccomend, Anon.
>>282188698Naruto forgot the story was about Naruto and hard focused on Sasuke.
gotouge more like gotouGAY
$316M, so far. Not too shabby for weeb flick. But still beer money to what Hollywood makes on average.>>282188300>Superman$619M, and it's actually still running on theaters. A milestone no anime movie will ever reach.>Fantastic FourGot mogged by Superman, but still made $515M, more than the highest selling Japanese movie and that movie was ass.>>282188484>It's 20 million away from breaking mt's record overseasSorry chief, you need $190M to beat it and from the looks of it, Japan is tapped out. Wanna know how much it earned today? ¥100M. Japan did a lot of carrying with the holiday boosts. And Asia alone can't carry it to $500M without China. LATAM? Will do numbers, but Mexico is what really matters and unless you're Dragon Ball, you won't make $10M. Europe? Only France matters for anime and right now, I hear The Conjuring debuted as #1 today. It's right now at $243.6M. How does it feel that some horror flick in less than a week almost beat a weeb flick in 2 months? America? See you on Sunday. NFL is gonna brutal. They mogged The Conjuring and they'll mog Demon Slayer too.
>>282189281>But still beer money to what Hollywood makes on average.300 million in profit? Hollywood kills for those margins, jeremy.>Sorry chief, you need $190M to beat it OVERSEAS, retard.>Japan is tapped out.Still outpacing the movie that made 40 billion there by a whole two weeks (after its own christmas boost btw).
>>282189281Hi Jeremy. I'm glad I made an early thread and made a proper discussion with anons with your skitzo ass ruining it.
>>282188851Gotouge actually said that Berserk was one of her favorite works outside of Jump. The only reason Naruto was mentioned was because it was a big name within Jump, and she was just being considerate toward Shueisha.
>>282189217>Togashi shilled KNY>Gotoge gave him the cold shoulder and name dropped KishimotoI expected no less from the mastermind behind Naruto>>282189112Cope>>282189077>hiatuscuck copeKek
>>282189338>cuckserk copeEven more buckbroken than Hiatuscucks
>>282182720He's so close I can smell it. next year is Kimetsu's 10th anniversary
>>282189281Just a few weeks ago, you were loudly claiming this movie would be a huge flop and end up below Mugen Train in worldwide box office. Please explain the current situation, where with only an Asian release it’s already closing in on Mugen Train’s global total.
>The fights are also just a drag. The artificial stakes keeps breaking my immersion and why I can't get into Demon Slayer. We know Nezuko isn't gonna die since she's one of the main characters. And then she gets saved by a new ability from out of nowhere. This story plays everything too safe. No one except Rengoku dies until the final arc. A story with proper stakes would have killed many important characters along the way, not wait until the end of the story where it's the safest time to start killing your darlings.I agree with most of that anon's criticisms but this one is weird. Berserk only had the Band of Hawk dying until the Eclipse but the story still has proper stakes and tension.
>>282189473the entire reason the entertainment district arc is so much better than every other arc is that things genuinely look hopeless before a turnaround that is (for once) well established prior
>>282189473Unironic GoT brainrot. People just HAVE to die.
>>282189517There's also how it also explores Japan's seedier aspects of society in the form of prostitution.If the author didn't rush it,I'd feel like it would explore more. Maybe elaborate on Doma's cult or maybe imply that Muzan has foreign connections.
>>282189473Wasnt this the same anon that said Nezuko should have died during swordsmith?
>>282189585No, that wouldn’t work.Just think about what would happen if, after the Swordsmith Village arc, they did an “Akaza Revenge” arc, then a “Doma Cult” arc, then a “Kokushibo and the Fate of the Earrings” arc in order, and only after all that wrapped it up with the Muzan arc as the final arc. It would drag on endlessly and become unbearably boring.
>>282189680Yeah but that would be a very pointless death since it's always been hinted that Nezuko is a special kind of demon that Muzan neglected to find out.
Nezuko bros...
>>282188245Okay but does it have the equivalent of FKT arc in Bleach?
>>282189700>>282189585The fast pace of the manga is one of the few good things going for it. It would have been nice if Muzan dropped a few lines about how he spent time outside of the country but mostly kept a low profile in Japan because that was the only known location of the blue spider lily, or something like that, but nothing more.
Didn't watch the 2 previous seasons but I read the Manga. Will be watching it 90 minutes from now on the big screen. Thank god it's subbed.
>>282189317>300 million in profit? Hollywood kills for those margins, jeremy.Not really, it's literally beer money for Hollywood. Thunderbolts made $382M and it was considered a flop in Disney's eyes. The Conjuring made $243M in just 6 days, and it's still growing. It's closing in on what Infinity Castle made in 2 months on record time. $300M is nothing to what Hollywood earns on average.>OVERSEAS, retard.I'm aware. Still won't beat it overall.>Still outpacing the movie that made 40 billion there by a whole two weeksUSD >>> Yen
>>282189735Hey she was there to gasp for air while being sick.>>282189772Prepare for cawing. Make sure to pee as well, it runs for 2h30m.
>>282189735You think that's bad?>Kaigaku is hype in advertisments as being part of the Upper Ranks.>Gets killed by Zenitsu so fast and gets KWABed (Kek what a bitch.)
>>282189790>Thunderbolts made $382M and it was considered a flopYou do understand the difference between money and revenue or not?The thunderbolts lost money.Superman barely made 50 million.Demon slayer has made 300 million IN PROFIT at this point, and that's all they care PROFIT MARGINS.
>>282189700Yeah I agree. I like how short the manga is.The story not speeding up immediately after Nezuko conquers the sun would be strange, too.
>>282189790>thunderbolts budget 180 million, double that for marketingSo uhhhh like 20-25 million profit if you're optimistic.
>>282189830Anon, stop arguing with the local shitzo. He'll always deny how Kimetsu beat his precious My Hero Academia like a butthurt bitch.
Is anyone struggling to get past the beginning episodes of Naruto because of how childish it is?
>>282189790>>282189865>It is one of the lowest grossing MCU films, with Variety reporting that it needed to earn an "unachievable" $425 million worldwide to break-evenLmao. So a 240 million marketing budget for a literal who marvelslop spinoff. Hollywood is out of its fucking mind.
>>282189905It was complete axebait aside from Kakashi carrying
>>282189830Hollywood don't give a fuck about profit margins alone, they care about scale + franchise sustainability. Disney and Warner would never greenlight a blockbuster that caps at $300M, because they need billion-dollar hits to feed their machine. Anime films succeed because they're cheap to make, but that also proves their global ceiling is low.So again, $300M is beer money to Hollywood on average.
>>282189935I think what ruined it for me is that I have zero nostalgia for Naruto.
>>282189935*the second chapter of Naruto is one of the most dangerously pointless delays in a first volume of a non-axed manga you'll ever see
>>282189473My biggest gripe is shoving all the character interactions (mainly the Hashira) into the fanbooks or Taisho secrets.
>>282189830>Thunderbolts lost moneyIt made 100 million dollars in profit>Superman barely made 50 millionSuperman made in the neighborhood of 200 million in profit>That's all they care PROFIT MARGINSExcept no, in all three cases the direct profit is just gravy. The goal is to build and maintain franchises with positive brand recognition.
>Sanemi's fight is in the next oneShame, he's the best of them all.
>>282189866Stop talking to yourself, fag. I care very little of your ex-girlfriend MHA-chan (nice porn though), lol. Your two and a half hour flashback flick is still about to get beat by The Conjuring in lesser time (that movie was mid btw). NFL will still hurt its earnings in America by Sunday and this is actually bad btw. Anime movies rely on Friday-Sunday more than anyone else. Happened to The Conjuring (mid but a mainstream hit).Btw, you gonma watch football by Sunday? The Chiefs are up against the Eagles. You should give the NFL a shot, I'm not even kidding, you'd drown in pussy. Guaranteed.
>>282190142KWAB.
>>282190140You mean GODjima's fight?
>>282190059It's kinda crazy that Mitsuri didn't have a bigger reaction to Rengoku's death, considering they trained together.It also makes the fact that she walks around with her chest completely exposed quite funny to me.
>google AI says mugen train budget was $15 million, and mugen castle is likely much higher at $390 millionHeh heh. Realistically the budget was probably around $20-30 million, pretty insane.
>>282190142>NFLTake that shit to /sp/
>>282189861In reality, this manga isn’t short at all. At 23 volumes, it’s actually longer than Yu Yu Hakusho, and for a popular series it’s about an average length.Thanks to Wan Piss, everyone’s sense of scale has been warped, but not too long ago even Dragon Ball’s 42 volumes were considered an unbelievably long epic.
Gimme some KnY reaction pics
>>282189281>Japan is tapped outThe sales pace in Japan is still ahead of Mugen Train. And outside of Japan, in the rest of Asia, it has already surpassed Mugen Train.
>Doma's backstory and Shinobu story is eh>Zenitsu's revenge story is pretty decent>Akasa's backstory was actually goodI think I'm in for a good time.gonna be a decent movie I wager
What does he do?
>>282190562As far as the movie goes Akaza>>>>>Shinobu>>Zenitsu.Shinobu got a ton of kove and Hayami was good as the seething womanlet.
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>>282190499The smuggest.
>>282190672
Was the action hard to follow on the IMAX screen?
>>282190344I liked the part in Swordsmith Village where she casually says to Tanjiro see you again if we're both still alive, which means she does have full consciousness that death is the job despite being pretty much a comedy character.
>>282190732It's not a Gyuyaro vs. Tengen fight. Kaigaku's is pretty slow despite being lightning. Douma was just fucking around. Akaza is still Akaza.
You guys watching sub or dub? About to buy tickets
>>282190822I actively try not to be a sub snob but I can't tolerate the DS dub at all. There's so many unfitting shitter voices that are doing ludicrously bad cartoon affections on top of the scripts and timing always being terrible.
>>282182720Its literally 2 hours of flashbacks and maybe 30 minutes of fighting sprinkled in
By the way, how was he able to host a screening just a few weeks before the Western release?I can’t believe Crunchyroll allowed that just because he’s a star player in the PL.
>>282190822Sub, but I am interested in seeing it again in dub just for Channing Tatum
>>282184432>It's the most generic shonenslop imaginable with 0 redeeming qualities. You described Jujutsu Kaisen>Nobody else cares about it.That's why is totally not making shitload of monay overseas, right?
>>282190852Everything about Amerifat dubs feels so amateur even when they spend money. Like that Dandadan music episode with the metal band, the dub version has really strange sound mixing that sounds terrible even though they brought in moderately famous musicians. Everything feels like it was done by lazy high school students.
>>282190822Sub. The DS sub is atrocious.
>>282190902They held screenings before ThursdayAnd it's no secret thay he's a hoodweeb, if you follow his Instagram, it's full of anime like Naruto and JJK
>>282182720They covered so much. Next movie is kokushibo and douma next is sunrise countdown?
>>282190394Nerd
>>282191172Most likely.
>>282191172Douma fighting in both movies seems coolI thought not getting his own movie would suck, but surviving this long might make him look even better
>>282191013>That's why is totally not making shitload of monay overseasWith Japan doing a lot of carrying btw
>>282191247His fight was atrocious so I'm glad they cut him and focused on UM3 and UM1 instead
>>282191254>100 million overseas before hitting usa and europeNo, it's doing amazingly well and by the end of its run will be a clean 50:50 split between japan and overseas (this is good).
>>2821912913/4 of the total gross from Japan btw
>>282189473The key point is that they killed Rengoku off quickly in the Mugen Train arc, which was still early in the story. That firmly established the image that “this series, like JoJo or HxH, kills off major characters easily,” and it succeeded in giving every battle a sense of tension.In fact, during the RLD arc, readers were still traumatized from Mugen Train and feared that Uzui or Inosuke might die. If there was any sag in tension, it was only in the Swordsmith Village arc.The Infinity Castle arc, on the other hand, was filled with tension: Shinobu was killed off early, Giyu nearly died, and Muichiro and Genya were brutally killed. Every fight carried a palpable sense of danger.The idea that “nobody dies until the very end, so there’s no tension” is only the perspective of someone who already knows the outcome from the start.
>>282182948The key to a big moneymaking franchise is to have a setting where the good guys all have relatively the same powers with their own personal style. See Jedis, Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, Dragonball, etc.
>>282191291My prediction is that this movie will probably earn more overseas than in Japan.One reason is that the series’ popularity outside Japan has grown significantly compared to the time of Mugen Train. In fact, even now, its box office revenue in Asia outside Japan has already surpassed Mugen Train.Another reason is that the value of the yen has dropped sharply compared to five years ago.
>>282191371People always claim KnY has a high body count and while it does it doesn’t do it in a way that’s axtually interesting or matters. The only character death that really mattered was Rengoku, every other character that died did so during the final arc and most of them during the final battle itself. Who cares about Kanroji or Iguro dying (especially Iguro since he got all his development mid Muzan fight) dying when literally 3 chapters later the manga ended. Lots of manga kill off their cast at the end.
>>282191371>Shinobu was killed off earlyDid anyone here not think Shinobu was dead, when first reading the manga?The fact that Douma absorbs her, something we've never seen a demon do up to now, really made me believe Kanao was going to cut her out of his body, Little Red Riding Hood style.I just didn't feel the tension when Shinobu first died because it was only when Douma died and the fight was fully over that I even realized>Wait, where's Shinobu?>She's... dead?! Really dead??I know I can be a bit slow but I can't be the only one who didn't catch that she was *dead* dead when she first died...right?I kinda just wish Douma violently cannibalized her corpse like a starved maniacWould have been easy to understand and insanely horrifyingand hot
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>>282191695In the final battle, the majority of characters dying is something JoJo does as well.If someone were to die every single time, it would just become a pattern of “ok, again,” and people would stop feeling anything about character deaths.Your point might hold if KnY were structured like One Piece or Naruto with dozens of arcs, but in reality there are only four arcs total from Mugen Train. Mugen Train had Rengoku’s death, RLD had Tengen becoming a permanently disabled veteran, Swordsmith Village had everyone survive, and Infinity Castle was a bloodbath. That’s a smart way of dividing up the pattern.
>>282191719It's shocking but when the idea of her, a self professed weakling, straight up 1v1s UM2 without waiting for back up, sinks in. You can accept her own death as her being too impulsive.
>>282191695>Lots of manga kill off their cast at the end.Name 5 mangas that did it.why do you ignore the Upper moon 1 deaths? Or shinobu? Fucking assuring the death of Upper moon 2 was important.
>>282191908>Akame ga Kill>Devilman>Gantz>Stone Ocean>Bokurano>Elfen LiedWho cares about Shinobu. She doesn't do anything until her first real fight and big finale, she's a plot device
>>282191719I didnt believe Genya died at first.
>>282191908Dragon Ball kills off every main character except Goku and Vegeta in its final arc. However, that’s the complete opposite of creating tension.In shonen manga besides KnY, the only series that truly kills off a large number of characters in the final battle is probably JoJo.
What makes people think part 2 won't just be one hour of Douma after how they handled Pillar Training?
>>282192080Mamoru Miyano is expensive
>>282192061>Dragon BallMuted by the fact that Dragon Balls exist and somehow they can still cheat out the 1 time resurrection limit.
>>282192055>genocide endingsRetard.
>>282183324Nah the ending was good. But the "final FINAL fight" should have gone a lot longer, but that is my only gripe.
>>282191875>Mugen Train had Rengoku’s death, RLD had Tengen becoming a permanently disabled veteran, Swordsmith Village had everyone survive, and Infinity Castle was a bloodbath. That’s a smart way of dividing up the pattern.An incredible flow to things. You can really see how planned out things were.As disappointed as I was with the lack of tension in SSV first time round, it all comes crashing back in the castle and made it all worth it.
>>282192105Every single VA in these is expensive.
>>282192055>Can’t even list proper names, so all you bring up are seinen and monor works.>The only shonen you mentioned is basically a “sekai-kei” with a bad ending.>Shinobu’s a character I hate, so I’m not counting her.
>>282192061Akame ga Kill is one of the few shonen that actually does it right where KNY fails. It actually commits to killing off the characters as the story goes. AOT started out that way too, but it became apparent over time that our group of heroes were always going to be fine, and the illusion was shatteredYou could never count on the main cast having plot armor. When Mein squared off against Esdeath in the Tatsumi rescue mission there was a real chance she'd have bought it right there (and in the anime she actually did)In KNY, every major character death is reserved for the finale because it's the safest time to kill off your characters and you won't get so much backlash
>>282192105Ufo (tax evasion) table we are talking about.
>>282192184You didn't say shonen, you asked manga and I gave you the answerAnd there's a difference between killing off a side character you rarely see and killing off a major character you know
>>282190822I am open to dubs and like some of them. KnY is not one of them.
>>282192144They're not expensive, a lot of these VAs are in indie mobile gamesYou could prolly afford them too if you have the money
>>282191908Off the top of my head for series that waited until the end to trim away its supporting castTTGL killed off the fodder dudesKatanagatari did away the whole ninja clan and a couple of the main charactersBleach, JJK and FMA killed off several named side characters
>>282191695>Lots of manga kill off their cast at the endConsidering most newer shounen cop out with even that (MHA) it was a pretty big deal. Imagine having a major final fight with zero casualties.
>>282192347>JJKLierally none except for gojo and fucking kashimo.
>>282192370Fair I just threw that inEnding was so forgettable I just assumed all the people who threw themselves at Sukuna had died
>>282192415All retconned.
Reincarnation. Cop out epilouge or no?
>>282192474Arguably is one but the cycle of reincarnation being referenced a lot previously saves it.
>>282192474Nah. It's been an aspect of the story since the hand demon and is consistently brought up throughout the rest of the story.I don't like it, but then again I don't like any of the supernatural elements (inherited memories, ghost kids, etc) that aren't related to Muzan's blood. So whatever.
>>282192474It is a cop-out especially with bullshit like Iguro and Mitsuri. The nips fucking love reincarnation, to see it as genuine closure. Tons of series use it as a crutch without complaint, and I hate it. It's only one facet of why nips suck at endings in general.
the fights and animation were top tier, but those flashbacks ruined the entire flow of the movie. i get it that they are meant to build the surroundings and the tension, but that kind of stuff only works in a seasonal type anime, in a movie setting it's disastrous and kills the momentum of the action
>>282192661>Akaza refuses to fucking die>*cue 30 minute flashback*It didn't really need to be that long desu.
>>282192232Aren’t you under the mistaken impression that killing off characters left and right is what makes a series “ballsy”?Even in relatively harsh worlds like HxH and SnK, very few main characters actually die,maybe two at most.KnY and JoJoall pile up deaths in the final arc, and for good reason, it gives credibility to the idea that such sacrifices are necessary to defeat an overwhelmingly strong final boss. Plus, if main characters kept dying one after another along the way, it would just become repetitive and boring.You act like KnY is uniquely guilty of “not killing off characters until the final arc,” but you’re ignoring the fact that even other so-called hardcore manga follow the same pattern.And the fact that the best example you could come up with was something as obscure as Akame ga Kill, a minor Gangan title, only shows how off-base your whole argument really is.
>>282190822dub, but not in engl*sh
>>282192347Did any named characters besides Hughes actually die in FMA?Honestly, Hughes never seemed like that important of a character to me, so I’ve always wondered why his death scene is treated as such a big deal.It would’ve been far more shocking if Armstrong had died instead.
>>282192661Nothing will top the placement of Iguro's flashback.I couldn't believe that was happening while reading itI get that he hadn't had one yet but christ, it's the final battle, dude!
>>282192834Ninja gramps, Greed, Hohenheim, Buccaneer on the good guy sideBad guy side doesn't really count I guess but they did all go down together in the final arc, even Kimbley
>>282192474Since the characters’ lives in the present world were made so cruel, giving fanservice in the epilogue by showing their reincarnated selves feels like it’s been a trend for the past ten years or so.
>>282192962Mikasa and Armin got a happy ending in the present though, it was Eren who got fucked over.
>>282192474Notthe point of it and the point of setting the whole thing a hundred years ago was that no matter what, the characters you cared about were dead whether they lived through the final battle or were marked or whatever and that world is gone. Honestly perplexing to me that power scaler teenage boys were too stupid to get it.
>>282192722Never said high death count = good. I said KNY's timing makes its deaths safe than risky. Not the same as every story should mow down characters constantly>HxHGon, Killua, Kurapika, and Leorio all basically have thick armor. Deaths mostly hit secondary characters>AOTEren, Mikasa, and Armin survive crazy odds, but plenty of major characters like Erwin, Sasha and Bertholdt get axed mid-storyKNY is not in the same league, because aside from Rengoku, most of its character deaths are saved for the finale>KnY and JoJoall pile up deaths in the final arcDoesn't excuse the safe middle stretch. If you only do it there, the audience eventually catches on and think "They'd all be fine until the big bad." JJBA at least plays it differently every part sometimes you lose multiple allies along the way (Golden Wind), sometimes barely anyone (Diamond is Unbreakable). KNY is formulaic by comparison>And the fact that the best example you could come up with was something as obscure as Akame ga Kill, a minor Gangan title, only shows how off-base your whole argument really is.That's irrelevant because Akame still committed to killing its cast that change the story trajectory. That makes it a legit counterexample whether or not you personally rate it or if its popularity is comparable
>>282182720Watching it with my sister tonight. We've been counting the days l. I am so ready bros
>>282182720Is Demon Slayer actually good, or do you only watch it because "Ooh pretty colors"?
Plenty of parents who got forced by their kids to take them to watch a R rated movie in the screening I went to were wondering why the movie was so long. 2 hours and 35 minutes really is out of norm for theatrical animated movies, anime even more so.
>>282194537They did 17 chapters and have 48 to go so better get used to it
>>282194537I think an hour and 45 minutes is the perfect movie length, with some wiggle room up to 2 hours max. Anything longer than that is directly insulting the viewers' time and points toward inept direction/production. That works for original stories designed for the medium, but adaptations are harder. They managed to pull it off really well for Mugen Train, but these final arcs are just too long to be forced into movies. It's the same with HF.
>>282194834There's also the fact that they're eventually going to chop these movies up and sell them to Netflix and others as episodes and probably have recurring income for decades of streaming-syndication, so there is an extra enticement to fully adapt the manga and keep the manga's pacing (which provides convenient moments to cut episodes on the serialization cliffhangers).
>>282182948Personally, I think you have to be into the time period to like it. Its the last time Japan was truly great, which I imagine why its so popular in Japan. Fundamentally, the series isnt anything special but the Taisho era has been demonized by the government and American occupation for decades and this show is very pro Japan at a time when Japanese need to be more nationalistic.
oh its a movie?I thought it was gonna be an episodic arc
>>282182720>Movie butchered my favorite scene by making it a cheap PPTI'll never forget UFO.
>>282183672I wish she would play with my balls :(
>>282194718Next movie will for sure go to 180 (about 22.5 chapters) and leave 25 chapters for the final movie. They'll probably cut the future epilogue like LotR cut the scouring of the shire, so 24 chapters.
Just finished watching it was fun seeing animeonlies reacting to akaza refusing to die.Also tanjirou giving up stealth and proclaiming he was going to cut off his head, the entire room went "oh come onnn"People reacted to pretty much every zenitsu moment.People giggling with inosukeWhen Akaza killed himself a woman went "ooooh he killed himself!".People around me kept checking their phones all time. Outside that it's fun to go the movies. Lots of normalfags doing cosplayAlso the place was completely full not a single empty seat left
>>282195670Pretty sure he was saying this as he was slaughtering the entire dojo.
>>282195707>Also tanjirou giving up stealth and proclaiming he was going to cut off his head, the entire room went "oh come onnn"hah, that sounds great. I remember laughing hard at Giyu's reaction during serialization but then of course it immediately makes sense and is the same thing his dad did
>>282195752That's a different moment, anon, they extended it to show how Akaza killed the convoy that was after him for killing the dojo guys, right after being blooded by Muzan. Akaza holding the corpse of his beloved is just a fucking still with a fade effect. My fault for expecting better from shonenslop. Fuck everyone who says the anime is the finale experience, the potatoes have SOVL.
The Akaza flashback is an insane pace killer. It hurts the movie even though it's a good story.
>>282196017It works perfectly for me; you need a breather from that many flashy fights. But yeah, it works better in the manga, you need a slower pace to set that story in animation.
I'm surprised by how full my screening was. I watched subbed too which is probably less popular among casuals.You guys watching chainsawman next month too? I'm curious to see if it will be packed too. I think l csm isn't as popular among normalfags
>>282196119More than pacing the fact that it's in its own chapters fixes it. You know implicitly that not even a moment is passing in the "real" timeline. Movies just don't work that way and I don't really see a way around it.
>>282195734I saw this collage with Kanao in it too before.
>>282196227It might be the opposite and Demon Slayer makes theaters think there's more demand for all anime than there really is and they have too many showings relative to how many viewers CSM can pull in 2025.
>>282196227They showed Chainsaw Man Reze Arc's trailer in the screening I went to, both are being distributed by Sony internationally (Aniplex belongs to Sony, and several of CSM ed theme songs were under Sony Music).CSM might not be as packed yes, CSM is more for a specific fandom.
>>282196265She has the best one actually.
My theater ran out of the cups and buckets by this afternoon. My auditorium is fully booked too.
>>282183988That's unfortunate, Demon Slayer is about family and if that doesn't resonate with you that may be from a poor upbringing.
>>282196366it's not about familyit's about DEATHthink about it and you'll know it to be trueand honestly that probably butthurts a lot more surly teenage boys than a theme of family would
Already predicting the random guy going "you guys get stronger by eating people right? Quick, eat me I don't mind, hurry!" and then being told to fuck off scene will get a lot of laughs in theaters. Probably the funniest gag in the entire series.
>>282196366I get along well with my family and this series isn't deep like the fans make it out to beIt's actually very shallow and surface level, especially the brother-sister bond
I just came back from it, most well behaved audience I’ve ever seen for a movie in my life. Not a single person said a word the entire movie. What a great viewing experience not having to share a theater with screaming children and autistics. Maybe it’s because I live in a smaller midwestern town but people actually treated the movie with the respect it deserves.
>>282196494It's quite consistent with the sibling tragedy. Its not surface level
>>282196667Just because there's tragedy doesn't make it not surface levelI'm actually stunned by how in your face this series is and how little subtlety there is
>>282196697You aren't familiar with its themes and you think it lacks subtlety.
>>282190344Sucking on Mitsuri's titsuris
>>282182948You're missing your inner child. Must suck.
>>282196748I'm well familiar with the themes because the characters scream out loud what they think and feelIt's really not that deep. Author isn't even trying to be subtle about what they wanna tell you. Which probably also explains why it's popular
>>282196813The accessibility of it is one of its successes, yet the central themes flew over your head.
>>282196591It's an anime movie at the end of the day, even if extremely popular it won't attract loud hype beasts that would to a MCU movie or some popular action film; most of the audience will be quiet nerds.
>>282196850Not really, the central themes are so in your face becauze the author constantly tells you the theme with narration, flashbacks and lengthy speeches instead of trusting subtextThat's also why it's accessible and popular among all ages
>>282196896Those central themes are?
>>282196851Wasn't one piece red or something famous for having videos of french audiences chimping out
>>282188851It's always going to be Bleach. Kubo is known as the father of shonen for a reason.
>>282196937Family, perseverance, compassion breaking the cycle of hatred, legacy, dutyTypical stuff you'd find in nearly every shounenThey're not hard to get. Story literally spells them out for you in narration, flashbacks, and villain death speechesThat's what I mean by surface-level, they're universal, but delivered with 0 subtlety
Just finished watching it, here's my thoughts>The sound design is underrated compared to the animation. Not to say the animation was bad by any means, but the almost comically loud parts were the ones that revved my lizard brain the most>Zenitsu was my favorite fight, because it felt like you could discern individual moves better than in the other ones, even if it was the shortest>The pacing was indeed an issue, but not to the extent that it ruined the movie for me. I feel like it will age better when it's chopped up into episodes, and if you see it in the theater, you'll have a better time if you think of it like "alright, time to binge a season in one sitting" instead of "alright, time to watch a movie.">I liked the gentler version of Akaza's theme song that played during his flashback>Kokushibo tease at the end has me hyped for the next movie, his brief soundtrack was great as well. I've got faith that UM2 and UM1, plus UM1's flashbacks, will have a proper adaptation, and I think it might feel more movielike with the pacing since it's only two fights.>There were audible reactions in my theater to Douma getting eyepoked, you're too slow, scum, the bear getting heemed, Tanjiro announcing his attack, and the biggest one was to Akaza getting beheaded, which got straight up applause and cheering. There were also reactions to some of the humor bits early on, and to Akaza grabbing his head after getting beheaded, and in general continuing to fight.
Akaza: The Movie
>>282191719I'm pretty sure Douma broke her spine before absorbing her, I wasn't expecting her to return
>>282183915>MCU of shounen> pretty to look at>emotion to tug at your heartstringsSo nothing like the MCU
If you saw the theatrical trailer you saw all of Mitsuri's scenes.
>>282196494I think, except for the chapter 17, Tanjiro and nezuko relationship is undercooked, but I still like him as a character
>>282197021Oh you missed a few of them. Not sure how with them being so obvious.
>Akaza flashback>Koyuki's dad says she loves Akaza and asks if he wants to marry her>she goes red>women in audience go "awwww"
>>282197049Now it's obvious she's dead the movie. they did a great job with animating her neck snaps while in Douma's embrace
>>282197021You copy pasted those from Naruto, I think the biggest theme is the ability to transcend despite our own mortality, and it's contrasted by having immortal demons as enemies. I think it's presented the best during the Koku fight, as we see an immortal demon Slayer VS his successors
>>282197110How did they feel when it cuts to Doma going "omfg Lord Akaza is dead....lul what's for dinner?"
>>282182720It didn't feel like a movie at all. It's 8 anime episodes and most of them are budget-saving flashbacks.
>>282197110>Hey random criminal child with confirmed murders, want to be taught how to kill better?>Can you also take care of my sick daughter? I'll leave her to you, completely alone.>Hey wanna marry my daughter?The guy was very chill.
>>282197054Actually that's a pretty good comparisonMCU are visually stunning just like KNY, emotional beats hit hard thanks to the acting and soundtrack just like KNY and both are pretty shallow at the end of the dayIf you've Endgame, Ironman's sacrifice is pretty much Rengoku dying
>>282197143He already established hierarchy, although Akaza struggles with this whenever it's impressed upon him he doesn't forget it. Plus he only reacts to threats, and his sick daughter wasn't exactly threatening.
>>282197143he hadn't murdered anyone, stripes was for robbin'
>>282197143He was. "Yeah my wife killed herself this morning. En Garde!"
>>282197143He doesn't kill anyone until after they poison the well.
>>282197154I hope they don't try to continue Kimetsu, it works great as a self contained story, and made Oda throw a huge tantrum towards TOEI
>>282197143Akaza was just a punk, not really a bad dude until he mass murdered an entire dojo and who knows how much more
>>282197194Quick rundown on oda throwing a fit?
The Akaza flashbacks should have been more evenly spaced out through the movies, opening with his dad's death and joining his master and only having his family's death and demonification at the end.
>>282197233Nah you can't make him gradually more sympathetic during the fight, the beheading has to feel completely triumphant
>>282197233This >>282197252 and like what was mentioned above, it works out in the manga since it's allowed room of its own, but on a continuous movie, it will feel like it's blocking the flow. Having the action pause to give a snippet of it throughout the fight will be pretty bad as well.
>>282197132You just described Naruto's themes in a different outfitOrochimaru did it, Madara did it, even Kaguya did itMortality vs immortality, passing the torch, successors outdoing predecessors is shounen 101. This series really is not as unique or deep as you make it out to be, it's actually very blatant and in your face
I want to go to my local showing but my shitty city is full of monkeys and mystery meats hollering at the screen at every single movie, would rather wait for the Blu-ray.
>>282197288The most egregious and horribly placed flashback was Iguro's , but without it his death would've had zero impact
>>282197297Ehh, I think Orochimaru ended up helping with his edo tensei and got away with everything, overall Naruto theme is to have the best genes
>>282197323I'm going to the cinema at the fancy district
>>282197329That worked nicely in the manga because it led off a volume. It really will be a problem if they start a final movie at chapter 181 and it's right smack in the middle
>>282197194Kimetsu no Yaiba: Last BreathingTanjiro is called out of retirement with the surviving pillars and his pals to defeat Upper Moon Zero, using special support gear derived from the training dummy to allow him to use a sword again. This is the last mission he goes on before his premature death by natural causes, mimicking his father killing the bear, his son watches him use the sun dance to completion to win. the movie also teases a spinoff of an international demon slayer corps. Gotta milk that horse.
>>282197372I'd be ashamed but I'd watch it.
>>282197364I'm already in a "posh" area, but those things have public transportation. I'd have to travel 200km to get to a countryside town with a cinema. Oh well.Hopefully it's worth the wait, I liked the manga ending, it felt like early JoJo.
>>282197406Sanemi-Sama on top. He knows he will steal the show next movie
>>282197406Needs sweaty scared Tamayo
>>282197043Well yeah, it is subtitled as such in Japan even once it got near release. The west kept the condensed revealed title till the end.
Some people were upset when Shinobu got the fatal injury. Never got the appeal of the character. Sanao however ended up undercooked and the little she gets to do at the very end was really good, shame she didn't get more
Needed moar crows.
>>282197346Orochimaru getting off with a slap on the wrist is funny as hell and pretty metalBut point is that this series isn't deep or unique like fans make it out to be. The things it wants to tell was already told a lot of times beforeMortality vs immortality > OrochimaruPassing the torch > Will of FireSuccessors outdoing predecessors > that's the whole point of NarutoThe author doesn't have a unique voice to say anything that wasn't said before
At least we got a Inosuke flashback.
I hope they actually made Shinobu look fast. The manga didn't do her justice.
I think this movie hammered down the "yeah I'm definitely not going to heaven" thing harder than ever before.
>>282197406Imouto literally sweating this one out.
>>282197406I love when a strong woman gets angry.
>>282197813If the manga wasn't as in your face then this movie will be less subtleIt's a kids show after all
>>282197225I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that KnY's first season airing a few months before Toei drastically improved the anime's art and animation for Wano was not a coincidence.
I’m still baffled on how they decided to make an original episode for Rengoku instead of adapting the actual canon content wani made with that oneshot.
Seeing Akaza's death entirely through gyu and tanjiro's pov is funny as fuck because they just keep watching and going "what the fuck is he even doing"
>>282197813Explain
>>282197526It was fucking retarded, just like sasuke yeah sorry, orochimaru should have died like muzan crawling and begging for his life
What did you like better: -Akaza the Movie-, -Gramps Liked Me Better- the movie or -Douma is a Total Dick- the movie?
>>282197957It was. And I know it wasn't supposed to be funny but Re-Animator Akaza just kinda hanging out until he beats the shit out of himself was hilarious.
I saw it in Japan a few weeks ago. I like the tiny little postcard that you get as a bonus
>>282198015Nice. I used to get Chirashi and other merch in the states at films all the time until fucking c19 hit.
>>282197955Might have been something really cynical like they didn't want to mess up his brand image for merchandise with a teenager version
>>282198003That and when he whigs out and throws a backfist at a not even there sensei while babbling.
>>282197809They did make her forms look way more impressive than in the manga, ufotable were always Shinobu fags and also Shionobu x Giyu shipping fags also, they wouldn't miss the chance of making Shinobu and Giyu look good in this movie.
>>282198015Toho Cinemas also had these displays
>>282197965Yeah, but Orochimaru getting away with everything and becoming immortal is still funny as shitWill probably outlive the heroes too
>>282197962Akaza has an actual redemption by killing himself and rejecting muzan but says like 3 or 4 times that he's going to hell and the ghost of his loved one's welcome him back but they all say it's a shame he can't go to heavenHe didn't even get a choice because muzan just goes and forces him to become a demon.Previous villains deaths were like that too but they didn't repeat multiple times in a row like he did
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>>282198141Ah, it never crossed my mind he wasn't going to hell so i wasn't familiar with any argument. I always thought Daki was going to hell too, just the lesser hell where the demons that turn back into humans in their last dream moments go
>>282198141Yeah and when she finally holds him in his arms again they are both surrounded by flames. Like Angela ascending the burning staircase in SH2.
>>282198188*her arms
>>282198141You are applying the western definition of Heaven and Hell for Akaza's fate, you should take in consideration the fact this series is Japanese and one that follows the Buddhist lens on a lot of things related to karma.Akaza isn't going to hell just for the things he did as a demon, he is going down because he killed 67 people in cold blood, there's no righteous killing in karma, you took a human life, you are stained period.
>>282182948>Am I missing something?Not really, if you don't like it watch something else like jjk.
>>282198269https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpUsFlyG-0
>>282198269I believe the distinction between heaven and hell actually is if you killed as a human. It's why Daki had the chance to avoid punishment, and most the shitter tier demons near the start including Rui had good (enough) endings.
>>282198269I think even the sins committed while being demons and thus under mind control counts as bad karma which makes it a lot more fucked up and unfair
>>282182948I don't mean to insult you but if you can't follow along with the beginning of Demon Slayer you can't follow along with anything. Or anime just doesn't interest you. Every episode felt different.
Can this movie win first place in the US?
>>282189402he better cut the infinity fortress in halfand douma better obliterate his arena with the ice statue
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>>282198691The run will most likely be extended since it is after summer pre-halloween. Who knows what the weekend numbers will do.
>>282183011Japanese nationalism Japanese traditionalismJapanese family valuesJapanese never give up spirit
>>282198691Whats playing in the US? The new conjuring? Kny probably will win
>>282198141>>282198269In that belief system, hell is temporary though, right? So unless I’m mistaken, at least he doesn’t have to stay there forever, just for a while, I think in proportion to how many he’s killed
>>282198858When is that Tron ver.2025 or whatever the fuck it is coming out?
>>282198880Yes, hell has levels/layers and is temporary in tyat belief system, a condemned person will spend time in it to be cleansed and reincarnate someday.
>>282193568How many other manga had the big bad throw all his henchmen and all of the good guys together to fight all at once, rather than one henchmen per arc one at a time?
>>282198899October
Did anyone get any other /a/ or /m/ trailers? I got Jujut..100 Meters and The Girl who Leapt through Time. And some horrorwood shit about a haunted pizza joint or some shit.
>>282198880Both heaven and hell are temporary in Buddhism, yes. The goal in said belief is to escape the cycle of reincarnation by becoming enlightened, to become a Buddah and reside in a higher heaven for eternity.In the gag hell post-endgame chapter several demons are seen in hell, but only Muzan has his hell layer confirmed, it's the Avicy, the lowest layer, meaning he has so much karma he has no chance of reincarnation for untold millions upon millions of years of being tortured/cleansed. Although the chapter ends with it all being a dream by Go-to so maybe it shouldn't be taken literally.
>>282199169I got Chainsawman Reze Arc's trailer in the screening I went to.
>>282199174It was cool that Gyutaro was in human form even though it was really difficult to notice it in his final panel of walking into the flames. While the ones that never changed were still demons.
>>282199188Oh I forgot that is gonna play soon.
>>282197406>Nezuko: "It's over..."
>>282199169I got a Reze arc trailer. Based on the mangas, I was a lot more hyped for this movie than I am for the Reze arc movie, but I gotta admit, their marketing is way better than the ads for this movie were
>>282197406sanemi crying, gyomei not cryingthese are all closely based on specific manga panels if anyone is too animeonly to know
>>282197194Demon Slayer vs TMNTThe turtles learn breath styles
>>282197406Shinobu........
>>282197077Not the credits sequence
>>282182720Movie was good, but damn was the Akaza backstory long.
>>282199169Only Chainsaw man trailer and some woke shit with Leonardo DiCaprio and his mulatto daughter saying her friend's pronouns were they/them.
>>282198666She is so unbelievably cute i will cry when I see this.
Watched it earlier with my cousins in leaf land. It could’ve been another season but I’m glad ufo loves Akaza that they gave him another movie.
>douma's edgy speech about God not existing and there's nothing after death>teenagers in the audience snickering going "yeah that's right">the same movie and the entire story proves him wrong because literally everyone has visions of loved one's spirits
>>282198666Thank you satan. After seeing Koyuki, Akaza giving up on life after her death is 100% understandable.
An autismo directly in front of me spazzed out and flicked Douma off everytime he hurt Shinobu and went full spaz mode in his seat seething when he killed her. Shit was funny as fuck.
>>282198666>meets one guy>do you want to inherit everything I have and fuck my daughter?What was his problem?
>>282200520Sounds like you wasted a great opportunity for public confrontation.
>>282182720Absolute cinematography! Shit was fucking beautiful. I swear i was struck on my seat, covered in sweat by the end of it. Also, probably the longest Anime movie I've ever seen? Will watch it again in IMAX
>>282200543The rival dojo scared everyone away from his dojo. This was his only chance.
People are complaining about Akaza's flashback but won't half of the next movie be kokushibo's story with flashbacks inside flashbacks?
Nobody has brought this up at all, the greatest thing about this movie3 S tier shotas
