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| Goddamn, I want Ufo to fully adapt this more than ever now. |
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Freakboy69 said: It was a Deus Ex Machina alright, an amazingly animated, epic one nonetheless. We may have known his father was indeed a Demon Slayer earlier in the series, as hinted by Muzan, but in no way was the dance ever mentioned or foreshadowed. We see his father performing the Kagura Dance literally a minute before showing us that Tanjiro actually knows it and remembered it. You don't even understand the concept of Deus Ex or those retarded words used just to reject something because is not done how you exactly want it to happen or be explained ten episodes before. Why would the dance need to be prior explained? He never trained it as a fighting move, he just know the movements and adapted it as a breathing technique, he even says that if he stops moving he won't be able to move due to the change of technique so unexpected for his body. It would've sucked and every bit of surprise would've been ruined for the audience knowing that he somehow knew that dance. It was an excellent moment to use it, an excellent moment to remember it, because like it's said in the SAME episode and in the PREVIOUS episode, you tend to see your whole life memories when you're going to die, and just like Zenitsu did, find something that you've learned to escape from death if possible. Everything was made for that moment. Some "Deus Ex Machina" would be that they didn't showed ANYTHING about the power but he just randomly made that power because Nezuko screamed or some stupid shit. |
| This episode gets a 10/10. Hands down. I don't know how many times I've rewatched the last 5 min. |
ARK-13Aug 12, 2019 11:03 PM
| @nutsie While you have a point, you have to take into account how different both worlds are at the time with that amount of episodes. Naruto: A anime about a kid in a village where older ninja can teach him anything he needs to know at a moments notice if the plot wills for it. (Iruka/Kakashi/3rd hokage if we're going by the 20 and something episodes mark) Kimetsu: A anime where a boy is literally fighting for his life day in and out and has to adapt to situations in order to survive against constant demon missions and barely gets a breather to rest, let alone train/build anything up for a move. With the pacing of Kimetsu, if the author tried to explain every single thing, we wouldn't even be at the spider demon arc in this season probably. |
Byleth-KunAug 12, 2019 8:43 AM
@nutsie The thing is does those thing matter, does learning about ranking of the demon hunter matter to the character. Tanjirou doesn't want to be the best demon hunter or the leader of the demon hunter, he want to save his sister. So for him, the ranking and organization stuff doesn't matter. It matter to Naruto since his motive is to be Hokage and he need to climb the latter. Also what fundamental things do you want it to explain that it isn't already explain? Water is an element of change as stated in the Drum demon fight so the 10 moves for adapting to the situation. I like compare this to Wuxia genre since it the most similar here, in those story, martial art have 2 part, the inner strength and the technique, the inner strength part is the foundation of the martial art and therefore more important while the technique is the colorful and enhance part. The same principle applied here, the Breathing part is the foudation while the moves is the enhance part, so we just need to see MC learn about the foundation while can interpret that when one master the foundation, one can master the enhance part. When Tanjirou recall his family dance, he actually enhance the technique part with the new foundation from his father teaching. |
Ten said: Well, it looks cool and all but the fighting techniques still make no sense, feels just like power of friendship pulled out of nowhere at the last second and I don't see how making it about sibling bond is any better. I guess, it's touching and impressive visually but overall nothing special. I guess you are right in your argumentation, but I think they adapted the most stuff they could out of the manga. I don't if that counts for you because it's all based on opinions. Ufotable really put a lot of effort into this piece of anime. |
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| I like how people barely even talked about this anime until this episode, now it's the most discussed anime in the entire anime community They've finally realized the greatness of this anime I love it! |
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| i was too excited to watch this ep after seeing the ratings . but when i watch the ep. i realized that it's so overrated Yeah the animation is masterpiece but the plot is trash . |
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| Ok, this is beyond perfection. |
This episode is insane, I've never felt this awestruck in a very long time. The last 5 minutes is FIRE. (literally and figuratively) |
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| I was really teetering on giving this anime a 10, but this episode really helped cement my decision. Haven't seen a true 10/10 anime in a while, but this series does everything right, as an adaption and simply an anime. |
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| best animation ever, fantastic episode. |
| Episodes like this is why i watch anime. When done right nothing else can come close to emulating this feeling. The music, visuals, action just comes so well together and it triggers my emotions. I know its easy to come up with reasons to bring this show down if we really looked for them but i think its actually very well done and exciting to watch. |
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| I have been re-watching this for 30x now and it still feels like I need to re-watch it more. SEND.HELP... |
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kazumamon said: Ten said: Well, it looks cool and all but the fighting techniques still make no sense, feels just like power of friendship pulled out of nowhere at the last second and I don't see how making it about sibling bond is any better. I guess, it's touching and impressive visually but overall nothing special. I guess you are right in your argumentation, but I think they adapted the most stuff they could out of the manga. I don't if that counts for you because it's all based on opinions. Ufotable really put a lot of effort into this piece of anime. And it looks amazing, I get that. But probably some of the excitement was lost on me ever since new characters were introduced and the tone shifted to unnecessary comedy. The problem is with the source material, apparently. It's great if it isn't such a problem for most of the viewers but it seems I can't take this anime as seriously anymore or care about what's going on as much. That's why it all just blends into "typical shounen trope" with outstanding visuals at this point. |
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| Just amazing..just amazing..I dont come here that often but I had to after seeing this episode. |
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| I couldn't content my emotions during all the episode, I was practically the most of the 'badass scenes 'screaming out loud and suddenly was getting heart touching feelings about Tanjiro's family. The last week I was so impatient and I almost went for the continuation in the manga but I desisted for keep the emotion of this chapter that I assumed exciting and it was, it didn't dissapoint me. And I'am grateful with myself about that decision now. The soundtrack was beautiful and certain epic with the voice of this amazing voice actors's, the aniimation greatest as always but even better. It was the best that I've seen since the year start, I can't wait for more, I'am loving this show and this animation studios too. |
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zousayu said: I totally agree with you, most of the time can't get what this people is looking for in an anime to be good. I guess they really need a rest and let the others be happy. So many ppl complaining on Tanjiro gaining Hinokami because "its cliche"...what did you guys want? Giyuu coming in in the last minute to save the day? that's just last week's Inosuke vs Dad Spider all again: plausible but not as fun or emotional. This battle's theme was the true bonds of family so Tanjiro HAD to save Nezuko by himself, and its interesting because in the end it was his bond with his family=his memories of his dad that saved his ass and let him beat Rui. It may be a classic plot but it was done so beautifully. To be able to make a classic shounen plot so emotion-building and breathtakingly beautiful, that alone deserves praise. Cheers to the author and ufotable. |
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| Amazing episode... |
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| This anime is a masterpiece. Score 8.62 is too low, what the hell happens with the people on this page. |
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| I was wondering why ufotable kept using so much CG during earlier fights, because they're known for making stuff look awesome and so damn fluid. So far, not too many fight scenes in this show gave me any kind of wow. But this, THIS, was what they were saving their talent for. Because holy SHIT, that was one of the most beautifully animated fights I have ever seen. The slow motion, the fluid af movements and spins, the colours and vibrancy, everything was so utterly perfect. And that insert song. I don't know whose idea it was to stop putting insert songs into shows, but this is the definitive proof that, when done right, it will give you straight up chills. Well done ufotable, consider me speechless |
| WTF WAS THIS EP I'M FKN CRYING I WANNA FKN SHOUT MY HAIRS ARE STANDING MY MIND'S BLANK IM SO RESTLESS WTF THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL FCK THAT BGM AND SFX WAS FKN AMAZING EVERYTHING WAS AMAZING BROO OMYGOD |
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| This was amazing Holy shit, kimetsu is the only contender for taking MP100 S2 title for AOTY atm But those powerups man, I wish some background was made before It, but oh well nothing is perfect |
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elementex said: skull90 said: This anime is a masterpiece. Score 8.62 is too low, what the hell happens with the people on this page. This episode was amazing but it's not all as good as this, that drum demon arc was super boring. Yeah I hate that arc too. So boring. |
Freakboy69 said: nutsie said: To be fair, the show does not explain jack shit. Not even the breathing techniques have any fundamentals. The characters just yell the technique and that's it. Lol, my point exactly. This guy is just assuming stuff that was literally never mentioned in previous episodes and they pulled it all in a single episode in under 5 minutes. They explained the breathing techniques in episode 3 in detail. What more do you want them to say? In ep 5. They also forshadowing that Tanjiro was a child of fire/brightness and expected that he would draw a crimson blade. |
| Um...like, i get it, this ep (or at very least those last 10 min or so) 10/10 (9.5/10 if i´m picky about some things) don´t get me wrong, i rewatched some times, but this whole because of that final part suddenly the show is 10/10, it´s like, please take a deep breath. I like UFO, i like them a lot ever since the KnK days and they are my favorite studio, but this cries like this is the best anime ever made... |
| RamaTheStrandedOtaku Nier and MGS fan. |
| This episode reminds me a lot of MHA S3 EP4. Fantastic direction, huge emotionnal impact, great animation, very meaningful for main character(s) development, but with a victory that kinda feels like it came out of nowhere. This, however, doesn't prevent it from being a fantastic episode completly deserving of all the praises it gets, and personnaly one of the best animated and most beautiful episode of anime I ever watched. Kimetsu's fan, you're hella lucky. |
| Pretty amazing episode - the animation and music was perfectly in sync and even more incredible than usual. Nezuko getting her blood demon art and Tanjiro's second dance did happen really quickly, though. |
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| holy shit. that ending was sooo good! and the animation was absolutely brilliant! |
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BeYourself said: this episode sure was good and the last 5 minutes was a total bomb, best episode of the entire series so far. but, this episode alone still couldnt make the anime become aoty. the best candidates to be aoty for me so far only AOT S3p2 and MOB2This was amazing Holy shit, kimetsu is the only contender for taking MP100 S2 title for AOTY atm But those powerups man, I wish some background was made before It, but oh well nothing is perfect |
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| THAT WAS AMAZING! Absolutely brilliant episode. From the animation to the music to the colors and themes. All of it 10/10 for this episode. Now that's shounen done right right there! Also his new fire breathing form is lit af. He just lvl'd up right there and took out the one of the twelve moons, his sister got a lvl up too =0 |
ThatsNotGamingAug 13, 2019 2:36 AM
| Great episode! This anime is on the whole different level when dumb and dumber are out of the picture. I almost dropped Kimetsu but for just this episode Im glad I didn't. I don't know how Im going to rate this anime. Serious scenes are like 9/10 but those comedic ones are utter trash. |
| Holy crap, the last time i was screaming this loud because of one episode was probably SnK S3 P2 then this happens... |
| This is definitely the best episode through out the entire anime series i watch since day 1. This anime really show the power and bond between family members. |
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