May 8, 2020
This is my first review on anything and I don’t wanna bore you by trying to sound like in intellectual with articulate quotes or word play so ill start by saying that this ”review” if you can call it that is essentially me building off of a thought dump of the overall problems with the show and a gist of what it could’ve done to make it the “masterpiece”, COMPARED TO OTHER SHOUNEN, that a lot of people call it:
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Thought Dump:
Show had potential to build upon the aspects, lore, and themes that would make it special and deferential but never does or does but not
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to an adequate enough degree that sticks and could’ve benefited from an arc or two to build upon them, the show also had a rather incredibly fast paced prologue that could also play into my prior notion but also including the characters as well, while this could also be said for the whole series as some characters come off as annoying and not to be taken seriously bc they are the butt of a lot of jokes with the whole gist of the joke being based around annoying character traits. Another gripe I have with the show Is it feels like everything falls into tanjiros hand and he never really has to put effort towards furthering his goals and the plot which is usually found in short shows
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What To Take From The Thought Dump:
I would be lying if I said the show didn’t have aspects that would make it different from other shounen but the way it handles them really makes them obsolete as the show progresses, this is why the show would’ve benefited from a longer run time or in the case of the source material, arcs or at least something of the sorts to build upon themes that the show strays away from or vaguely hints at or touches upon. For example: the show could’ve atleast tackled themes of humanity and blurred the lines between who’s truly the good guy and the bad guys like Hunter x Hunter did by putting you in the shoes of the “bad guys” just to find out that some of them aren’t so bad and that it wasn’t their choice to made the way they were. Demon slayer does this in a more subtle way as in the the humanity of the demons only shows in death which doesn’t change the fact that they are still pieces of shit when they were alive. The characters remain static and unchanging as they never really grow because of the earlier statement of the shows short nature.
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The potential of a show doesn’t and shouldn’t make the show and kimetsu no yaiba is no exception of a show with wasted potential to be great.
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Final Score:6/10
Because: it had things that pushed it above being an average shounen but never really did enough to push it into the boundaries of a “good” shounen.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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