This was a disappointment. I really enjoyed the first battle with butterfly girl, and I liked the Zenitsu fight well enough - but boy was the Tanjiro fight a fucking drag... I wished the director followed Tomioka's advice "I don't talk to demons, I don't like to talk, so don't talk to me" and found some way to shrink the whole background bullshit. The Akaza sobstory was already bad in the manga, but it became even worse by being shown in full length and with maximum budget invested in it... This is an adult who eats people to live and likes to kill for the sake of fighting; he killed 67 people just to avenge his wife and he wasn't even a demon. Why does he need to be excused? Doesn't any of the 67 guys he killed have a sobstory of their own? I'm not empathizing with this guy, I don't care how miserable his life was.Also Tanjiro: as if re-discovering a long forgotten breathing technique because you remember your dad's new years even drunken dance wasn't enough, now you develop ultra instinct because you remember that one time he killed a bear? In the middle of a life-or-death situation? Really? Again in the manga this was somehow tolerable in that we got over it quickly, but fucking hell these flashbacks felt long as hell in the cinema... I'm not paying 10+ euros to see the next ones, sorry.
I have a theory that Akaza’s backstory is partial fabrication of his subconscious. It’s simply too absurd. What does a super successful sword dojo with 70 members wants with a martial arts dojo with a single student and old man and his sick daughter? And to kill them by poising the well? How did Akaza’s know it was poison or who did it and how? Wait, in the first place how does Keizo run an empty dojo with one non-paying student and a sick daughter? The more you think about it the more ridiculous it seems. Muzan only recruits evil people for top demons, did he make this his ONE exception? Or were those 67 students in the SAME dojo and it was AKAZA who poisoned the well the night before leaving for his trip? Was there a violent confrontation earlier that triggered it? Was Koyuki a central figure in his downfall and the real reason why she had to wait in purgatory for so long to accompany him to hell? It’s Shounen Jump slop so this will never be addressed and obviously most fans don’t care they just consume the simple emotions and move on. But it’s interesting as a piece of media analysis because the manga constantly degraded further into Shounen territory as it went on.
>>282475320When I was still reading the manga, Akaza's backstory was proper. Not bad, quite good, but nothing close to what some people have been saying. It was cool to see it on screen and see it given so much attention and budget, although I'm not surprised that many people felt simply tired when they saw yet another long backstory after roughly 2h of the movie. And it was the longest backstory in Movie 1.>>282476514Holy fuck, it's the first time I see someone else mentioning it. That's what I fought several years ago when I saw his sobstory in the manga for the first time. That it was partially true and partially imaginary as a result of his trauma.
>>282476514>>282476714No, it was not like that. Apparently it was what happened, whether it sounded realistic or not. Akaza's story was supposed to show Buddhist katharsis and redemption or some shit. Pic unrelated.
>>282476514He was told it was poisoned by others. Keizo said he keeps the dojo running by taking on odd jobs. The rival dojo killed them because none of them could beat Hakuji in combat. It was pure pettiness over their rival dojo having the superior student.
>>282476824In one fun fact at the end of a volume it was written that Akaza got told by a woman living nearby about how she had seen the other dojo's lads poisoning the well.
>>282475320Honestly Demon slayer's strength are the setting aka the worldbuilding and the characters' styles and aesthetics, not the plot or backstories which are extremely cheesy (bar some which are good). Fights are especially bad when they drag too long, short ones which follow shounen customs and are "borrowed" from other manga or are straight up classic structures fare well because of the stellar animation and overall cool power system. However the main moon fights have been boring to me so far. Ironically the best ones are the ones where the demons win because they are overall short and finish before some bullshit drags them out. The "i hit the neck but its too hard" thing is boring after a while. With Akaza it could've been an epic moment like Pitou in HxH but since it dragged so long already, i hoped it would be over already.>>282476514Interesting interpretation but it's a very basic shounen overall, no need to explain shit. I was massively let down by how easily Muzan became the demon overlord, i do not know if there is a further explanation but it was so random and not impactful at all.Still amazing visuals carry hard and the anime and movie experience is definitely good, great even in some parts
>>282475320Post hand and passport, THREE. INCH. JOSHUA
>>282477236Whats with that three inch thing? Is it about Jeremy?
Posting a fan manga based on the concept of the entire Kamado family except Tanjiro turning into demons and immediately getting into a fight with Muzan. It’s amazing how much better of a shounen it is than the actual manga. https://youtu.be/UgGccn7B398?si=5edcubSMqdqhhXMD
