Bennet3214 said:Okay, this is going to be a hella long response, but please believe me, I'm genuinely onto something... (เฒฅโฃเฒฅ)
Yes, it is true that if it wasn't for UfoTable's touch, the work wouldn't have been even close to the popularity it right now has. But I don't think that means the quality of the story is bad.
Ryuumishou said:I understand your point, but just because story has things like "foreshadowing" or "plot twists" does not make it a good story, you should remember that as a writer, story writing is about how you make all those things fit to each other, and about making the reader\viewer feel emotions or feelings.
And I think it does. As a manga reader I can tell you, things do fit into each other, puzzle pieces do fall into the place.
[Minor Spoilers!] The Hinokami Kagura, Nezuko's blood lighting up Tanjiro's blade at the last moment in the fight with the Spider Demon Rui, in Episode 19, Muzan's PTSD... All of these are puzzle pieces are important and play a role through out the story (some you'll see in this season and some in the upcoming ones), and in tying it together at the end.
And I don't know about other people, but I personally, was genuinely emotionally invested in Rengoku's Death, and Daki and Gyutaro's backstory. And I think it might have been a similar experience for other people too.
[Minor Spoilers!] And towards the end of the story, you won't even need UfoTable to amplify things. As things already become really intense towards the climax. I really was on the edge of my seat, and couldn't stop turning the pages.
Ryuumishou said:The problem is the overall story and pacing, you can basically predict what the next arc will be about everytime
Yes, that is true. There IS a predictable pattern that the upcoming arcs start to follow as the story goes on: Go to a place -> Find a Hashira -> Defeat a demon -> The aftermath, and rinse and repeat. But there is a limit to how many times the author does that, and it thankfully stops right before it becomes actually annoying. But on the plus point, there is more to it than just that. There are story and character developments and foreshadowing sprinkled throughout the arcs and the fights, which come to play a major role in the story later on.
Ryuumishou said:we get to know the new hashira, and they either die or become irelevant forever.
That I think is not true. But we can't talk about it without dipping into the spoiler domain.
[Minor Spoilers!] But all I'll say while trying my best not to spoil anything, is this... Deaths in Demon Slayer, I think, are one of its strongest points. They are the legacy carried by the survivors, as one of their flaws to overcome. Rengoku's death devastated Tanjiro, and is one of the motives currently driving him to go on. We see bits of that in his fight against Daki, and see him see Rengoku in Uzui at a point. Hell, even Tanjiro's family comes to help him, time to time. And the hashiras are relevant too, until the end of the manga. Everyone of them have flaws to overcome, destinies to fulfil, even Tanjiro.
I know the story is kind of dull at this point, but, as people like to call it, the writer is in the middle of "cooking".
Though, I can understand your point of view, I think that there IS a plot structure to it, which, is obviously poor in comparison to the great shonen stories, but I still think it is coherent, engaging and somewhat enjoyable.
As a non-manga reader, I cannot say anything about the ending, I heard people tell me it is a bad one, but I want to judge for myself since people say the say thing about the ending of Monster, and I rated that one 10/10. I have no right to judge how will the story develop, the story I am judging is only the story that got adapted so far. But I am honestly the type of person that thinks that anime has to be good all the way through to actually do its job the best,