Kimetsu no Yaiba Episode 5 Discussion

xenovibe said:
Of course his sister is a special exception and doesn't have to eat human flesh to survive unlike every other demon we've seen so far, meaning that our goody two-shoes MC will never have to face any interesting dilemma involving his sister's life or innocent folks'. Gotta love how this plays it safe even for a weekly shounen jump work smh.



Ufotable back to their old tricks, it's like UBW all over again where they spend a few minutes on a flashback, in a last-ditch/crappy attempt at making us care about a certain character right before killing them off. This is just terrible writing and directing.

HereticHunter said:
I don't really know what to think of this series anymore, it has good visual effects and the music is there, but the art style is very flat, and the flashbacks were really odd. I'm not feeling this as much as I thought I would, kinda disappointing for a "very acclaimed manga".

bledsoe60 said:
Hang on you rated Code Geass the same as Index III? Actually, yes, can we talk about your tastes for a second.

xenovibe said:
Ufotable back to their old tricks, it's like UBW all over again where they spend a few minutes on a flashback, in a last-ditch/crappy attempt at making us care about a certain character right before killing them off. This is just terrible writing and directing.

ProofByColor said:
Was not expecting a flashback showing the demon, but I hope it's something the show will continue to do. All (or at least probably most) of the demons were human at some point and I'd like to have focus on that rather than just killing the demons and moving on.

The concept of swords changing colors is interesting. Depending on what it actually means in terms of fighting style/abilities or whatever it could be pretty cool.

paulibobo said:
I don't think a rushed dying flashback is ever going to succeed at getting me to like a characater, it sure as hell didn't here. Felt kind of gratuitous and cheap.

Of course only the participants with distinctive character designs survive. What a surprise.

I do like the Bakugo guy, he just doesn't care about any of the shit those girls are saying. Hope he shows up often, though with the way that the characters all kind of went their separate ways it might be difficult to have him reapear frequently, especially since it seems like coward guy and pig face are going to be the ones to join Tanjirou's squad, judging from the opening.

Fun episode, but hopefully next time they try to do an emotional scene it'll actually be earned and not gratuitous.

justasadguy said:
Is it only me or I saw only four people surviving the test, but that mysterious person with shoulder-length black hair which we saw from the back said he got 5 new sons?

Archer123 said:
bro it's only been 5 episodes let it grow and blossom you don't tear out a flower before it's fully grown. These 5 episodes have been the exposition which gave us the Lore of the world and established the main cast. From the next episode that's when things get good

Kamiyan3991 said:

How so? I'd just cut out that part with dying demon who went full emo.
That's not how you set up a drama moment. I couldn't care less honestly.


2 mins. of wonky flashback is actually enough for you to care about it?
Guess people these days have some weird concept of "good storytelling".
They didn't even introduce this character. At all.

2.5/5 for the episode.

Pknoctis said:
I thought the flashback for the demon was a nice touch. I didn't feel sorry for that demon per se, but it does give a somber reminder that these crazy demons were all innocent victims themselve

Farabeuf said:
And it has a good story too.

Kamiyan3991 said:

Huh? Pray tell, what's actually good about this story?
All I can see, it's just a generic shounen "I need to get stronger/protect my waifus".

Grimmgeta said:
Gonna assume the 5th was the character with the boar head.

Anyway, enjoyed this prologue a good bit. I've heard things start to pick up even more pretty soon.

Gotta say though, I don't like them doing 2 chapters an episode, that just doesn't really work for me, especially for Shounen Jump series. There's clearly enough chapters to do more an episode, so hopefully that's what will happen going forward.

eWEQRW123123 said:
I do not know why he would have remorse after slaughtering people for decades and having a deep hatred of demon slayers.

Crimsonguy said:
Only four of them made it, but the guy with the crow with a scarf said five made it. Its that a translation error or something else?

justasadguy said:
Is it only me or I saw only four people surviving the test, but that mysterious person with shoulder-length black hair which we saw from the back said he got 5 new sons?

Icewolf004 said:


I was wondering the same. It seems there is another one that survive!

youdontknowwho said:

It's not that he suddenly felt remorse, but regaining his human memory and the fear of dying made he seek some kind of comfort in his last moment.

Kamiyan3991 said:

Huh? Pray tell, what's actually good about this story?
All I can see, it's just a generic shounen "I need to get stronger/protect my waifus".

eWEQRW123123 said:


There was definitely remorse. The largest piece of evidence is when he asked, 'How did it come to this?', which implied he had regretted something. I just see it as very out of place when he had lost his humanity for decades.