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| It feels like forever but finally it’s Himejima's turn, and tbh, the only interesting part of this training arc, which is already kind of derailed with the inclusion of excessive original content. And I mean yeah, we could guess the extent of how tough his trainings were, when someone like Inosuke, who was nowhere to be seen this whole time actually acknowledges the man himself lol. I actually feel bad for those NPC’s who have to go through this, just for the sake of us getting convinced that there are OTHER people as well for whom this training arc is going on except this main bunch lol. Anyway, training would be completed by the next episode, it’s almost either way, with Himejima’s backstory in it too. That’s something to look forward to, but yeah, with this we’re getting near to the point when things would finally go south as well… Muzan in that formal attire is more than ready I mean. |
| Finally Gyomei's time to shine. Gyomei instructs the trainees on the importance of the legs and hips, emphasizing that a stable base leads to precise attacks and robust defense. He assigns them three tasks: standing under a waterfall to endure its pressure, carrying three large logs, and moving a giant boulder over a distance of one cho. Gyomei considers these tasks straightforward and manageable. When Zenitsu faints upon hearing his tasks, Gyomei orders Tanjiro to toss him into the cold river. Genya has quickly warmed up to Tanjiro. At first, I thought he was a jerk, but now he seems really nice. Also btw, this episode shows how much that these demon slayers are bad at training—except for Tanjiro. I mean this dude easily followed Gyomei's orders to throw Zenitsu into the river and then revived Inosuke after he almost drowned. It was also nice to confirm that Gyomei is the strongest Hashira, which was obvious but good to know. Tanjiro has finished the Hashira training! Also pretty sure next ep is the last, considering its 30-ish minutes long, we'll see tho. Last two episodes (7 & 8) are extended length episodes. https://twitter.com/kimetsu_off/status/1802351854036381937?t=Zdvuf5gTXbeO1o5UVxQmkQ&s=19 |
IzanaSolosJun 16, 2024 7:54 AM
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| So this is Himejima's training ground and the more I watch this season, the more amusing I find the training session to be. However, I'm not surprised as everything looks way more harder than it looks. Zenitsu's tears were priceless even though this arc is ment to be taken seriously. Very interesting to see Nakime. She was teased in the trailers/opening but finally to get to see her face. It looks like Tanjirou is making quite a progress in his training so I hope all goes well. |
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| Another week of training arc Training here with Gyomei on the icy waterfall NAMU ABIDA BUTSU, NAMU ABIDA BUTSU  |
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| Swoljiro is nojoke!!! |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
| It's finally the Stone Hashira Gyomei Himejima's turn to get the spotlight, as the strongest of the Demon Slayer Corps. Zenitsu is such a joke of a goofball, and while Tanjiro is just getting started, Inosuke...sure looks like he's holding that well for the strong waterfall training, until he's not. Murata is able to withhold that far, as well as Tanjiro who did it with difficulty, but none can withstand the tour de force that is Himejima. A grueling training for the trio once again who become the aforementioned comedy gag group again, as Upper Four Nakime has her investigation near-complete under Muzan's direction to scout out Nezuko and Ubuyashiki. Some members bail out of the training phase to become support groups, and this is actually for the better since they can support from the backgrounds. As for those who remain, Tanjiro cooks up rather nice food for them, reminding him of family, and that they're doing this together for the greater good. Genya feeling bad that Tanjiro has to interfere with his brotherly affair, he gives Tanjiro advice on the boulder training...to anger and pent up as the repetitive motion. The thing is, Tanjiro can't exactly picture like Genya does, and by reminding himself of Rengoku and his family, and repeating the process, he manages to do it with ease. The trainings are all about over, it's time to face Muzan and (at least) Upper Four Nakime next. |
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| See the 3 of them together after so long was nice. So everyone high-up knew that things would get ugly, if Genya approached his brother. Manjiro cooking to everyone. |
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| Maintaining one's core is indeed important. Three tasks sure but difficult ones. Nice to see Inosuke and Zenitsu again though. Waterfall training sure looked harsh. But The boulder trial took the cake in difficulty though. If Tanjiro never joined the corps then he probaly would had made an excellent food seller. Pretty amusing seeing him be the mom for his fellows though. Just as physical ability are important in learning new techniques so are the mental reasons for wanting to learn them as well. What a way to end the training with. |
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| Himejima is a great character. His training is great too. Tanjiro once again finished his training without many problem like others |
| I need somebody who can love me at my worst No, I'm not perfect, but I hope you see my worth 'Cause it's only you, nobody new, I put you first And for you, girl, I swear I'll do the worst If you stay forever, let me hold your hand I can fill those places in your heart no else can Let me show you love, oh, I don't pretend, yeah I'll be right here, baby, you know I'll sink or swim |
| Amazing strong training, and move the rock seems impossible!!! kekeke |
| More training... let's fucking gooooo. Tanjiro finally almost completed his training. He's at the last stage of his training with Mr. Himejima. |
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| This episode did feel a bit heavier than usual, and not only for the rock. An entire episode for this training was maybe a bit too much, but I understand that ufo wants to exploit Kimetsu as much as they can. I wonder at which point this season will end with the extended lenght episodes left. This is going in a huge cliffhanger either way. |
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Tanjiro should have done some punch it would totally work |
| Yeah more training I guess. The next two episodes will be longer, I'm hyped. |
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| The training is hard as expected but Tanjiro managed to learn it. Nakime's locating the demon slayers so the final clash is close. Not much time left. |
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| So... the guy we've never even seen doing the training just randomly shows up in the last quarter to cut move the Gordian knot stone... because apparently he can, because he's been doing the same thing too. And out of all of them, he remains fully clothed. ... Yeah, that didn't feel arbitrary at all. Elsewhere, Zenitsu rather needs a therapist, Inosuke is still a savage, Gonpachiro is officially the team mom, going for the heart in the midst of peak silly should be a foul, and geez I hope there's a doctor around somewhere because I sure as hell was expecting all kinds of injuries during all the closeups. And after all this - another episode about Himejima, and a "double" at that? Sigh. |
| Looks like we're heading to the final stages of the training and Muzan is about to make his move. It's great the last episodes are going to be extended. Wish this season would be a little longer though so Tanjiro could spend more time with the Hashiras. |
| Honestly pretty good all things considered. Animation popped off for random moments like Zenitsu using his lightning speed to jump on that rock lmaooo Also cool to see Tanjiro continuing to improve, he figured out how to get his Demon Slayer's Mark to appear! Cool stuff! Bad guys moving in. Also really liked the character interactions with Tanjiro, Zenitsu, and Inosuke lol. |
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| Easily the worst/ most boring episode in the whole Demon Slayer series. This is even worse than episode 4. Literally nothing happened, and nothing is showcased about the Hashira himself too. A 100% filler episode with ZERO substance. You can easily skip this episode and miss LITERALLY NOTHING. This episode is basically just S1 ep 3 training montage but stretch it 3 times longer. Also the training itself seems less intense than BEFORE Tanjiro joined Demon Slayer Corp. Demon Slayer has devolved into something you can watch in 2x speed and you still can gather all information and miss nothing. In fact it's more enjoyable watching these episodes in 2x speed. |
Ventus_SJun 16, 2024 1:23 PM
| Zenitsu drowning in the waterfall had me rolling 😂 |
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| Finally my favorite Hashira got the screen time and it was great. Himejima is the goat of this generation and anime onlies are not ready to see him in action. So the leaks about the next two episodes being longer came out to be true. I don't know why but this makes me more hyped for the upcoming content. Like a lot of this stuff is anime only so even manga readers have something new to look forward to. |
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.  |
| Onto the next Hashira, Himejima Gyomei. His reaction for Zenitsu being unconscious seems forced. Dude ain’t funny or cute, but can’t be called weird either. Somewhere in the middle. So he is the strongest Hashira? I guess among the current generation. Zenitsu being over dramatic over a rock, as usual. Inosuke passed out too 🤣🤣🤣. Manjiro this time 🤣🤣🤣. All those dudes calling Tanjiro as Ofkuro 🤣🤣🤣. Tanjiro took Genya’s advice and used his strongest emotions to help with pushing the boulder. So, Muzan has no idea that the Head of the Ubuyashiki died and one of his children took over. He doesn’t even know how any of the Ubuyashiki looks like. Probably they have never met face to face other than somewhere around Muzan’s human life. |
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| Noticed that in the post episode skit Tanjiro's forehead mark is the demon slayer mark rather than his regular one. |
| The first part of the episode was super funny, I'm glad to see the main three guys get back together after all this time, Genya finally became friendly with Tanjiro, he is the big brother Genya needs right now. |
Reply to Ventus_S
Easily the worst/ most boring episode in the whole Demon Slayer series.
This is even worse than episode 4. Literally nothing happened, and nothing is showcased about the Hashira himself too.
A 100% filler episode with ZERO substance. You can easily skip this episode and miss LITERALLY NOTHING.
This episode is basically just S1 ep 3 training montage but stretch it 3 times longer.
Also the training itself seems less intense than BEFORE Tanjiro joined Demon Slayer Corp.
Demon Slayer has devolved into something you can watch in 2x speed and you still can gather all information and miss nothing.
In fact it's more enjoyable watching these episodes in 2x speed.
This is even worse than episode 4. Literally nothing happened, and nothing is showcased about the Hashira himself too.
A 100% filler episode with ZERO substance. You can easily skip this episode and miss LITERALLY NOTHING.
This episode is basically just S1 ep 3 training montage but stretch it 3 times longer.
Also the training itself seems less intense than BEFORE Tanjiro joined Demon Slayer Corp.
Demon Slayer has devolved into something you can watch in 2x speed and you still can gather all information and miss nothing.
In fact it's more enjoyable watching these episodes in 2x speed.
| @Ventus_S ok guys his a troll account or an idiot lol cuz he already finished the show before it even done but I love idiot troll cuz they're can't understand anything his brain is already rotten from stupidity lol, I bet he can't even read the subtitle of the show a dumb trolllllll. |
Reply to Altezein
A 100% filler episode with ZERO substance
This is entirely false. The episode adapted ch 134 and half of 135 with a slow pace. It's not filler at all
You seem to have a false notion of what filler is.
If it's in the manga, it's not filler, even if not much happened. Sorry if you didn't like it I guess.
| @Altezein yeah he just a troll account don't mind him cuz he already finished the show cuz an idiot can't even decided the number of the Ep. |
| pretty funny episode, glad to see tanjiro mastering the repetitive motion |
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| I liked this episode. I just found out that this season only has 2 more episodes, which makes me wonder what will happen in these upcoming weeks. What has all of this been building towards? Hopefully towards something amazing. (7.5/10) |
| Wow, what a great episode! The animation quality wasn't outstanding, but the scene direction was incredible. It was also a very beautiful episode in terms of character depth. |
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| Himejima’s training looks to be the most grueling by far, yeah the tasks are simple but they’re incredibly difficult tasks, tho there were quite a bit of funny moments with Zenitsu and Inosuke so just because it’s difficult doesn’t mean there’s no fun to be had, Zenitsu really latched onto that rock like SpongeBob in the pizza episode lol. We also got to see Genya again who gave Tanjiro some advice on how to move the boulder which looked impossible, I mean if Tanjiro was struggling I feel really bad for all these other poor schmucks lol. But eventually Tanjiro finally managed it, it’s little bits at a time but he did it, now I could complain that it seemed kinda random when he was able to do it, but I don’t know if they could make pushing a rock more interesting if it was drawn out more so I’m okay with how fast he got it lol. We also got to see more of the demons’ POV, and I was thinking this eyes demon was in the real world but she’s actually doing all this from the twisty and turvy demon base with Muzan giving her commands, this has me wondering if we’re building up to an intense end to this overall more relaxed arc. And speaking of relaxed, loved the short bit where Tanjiro was cooking for everyone, that was pretty wholesome, people have been complaining about this season but man I just love seeing the Demon Slayer characters in a more chill setting, I like this series for more than just how amazing it looks after all. And wow, are we actually getting longer episodes for the final two? And people were wondering how they were gonna stretch this arc for the remaining episodes and then we get this news lol, hell yeah man, I’m excited. |
| Not bad for a training episode, I remember the Himejima stuff from this arc being the only part I really liked so the next episode should be good I'm surprised they're going for two extended episodes to end the season seeing as how much it seems like they're struggling to find ways to stretch all these episodes to even hit 20 minutes lol |
| "Repeated motion" seems to be an interesting concept that's separate from breathing techniques, but I'm still not quite understanding how this works. Do you just call back to your traumatic/inspirational experience over and over, and push it one foot at a time? I don't really understand why the Stone hashira himself couldn't explain this to Tanjiro and the corps swordsmen (and by extension, us the viewers). Is it really training if he just leaves everyone in the dark? Is the "repeated motion" concept something people can figure out on their own eventually? Why does Genya know about this anyway? And why did the writers make Genya the one to explain this? |
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