Jun 11, 2021
*very minor spoilers*
What I've written here is more like a warning than an actual review.
The story starts off fairly mundane, The main character (Tanjiro) is leaving home from his daily routine of selling rocks or something. He does this literally everyday but for some reason when his family says goodbye to him they have to act like he's going out to war... like he's going to be gone for a fucking decade. The reason for this is so the writer won't have to properly establish the relationship between Tanjiro and his family. So instead of giving proper screentime to his family, they present them as
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the most loving family of all time, because they have to die like 7 minutes later so they have to seem like the a super loving family for the short time that they have.
The show sells itself on being insanely well animated and for the whole series we have to stay in some CGI PS2 looking ass world, and not even a pretty PS2 game like Kingdom Hearts or something, I mean like some straight up GTA San Andreas level looking world. So while the characters look great, the backdrops themselves look like- well... San Andreas.
A very major problem is the literal constant narration, it's almost as if the narrator was solely meant for blind people who can't see, all he ever does is just explain what's happening on screen, like... the animation is good enough to the point where I don't need some SpongeBob voiced kid (no offense to SpongeBob the masterpiece btw) to explain what's literally happening on the screen. unfortunately this problem persists throughout the entire series, you're basically having your hand held throughout the entire series when you don't even need it. It feels like having your hand held while trying to navigate your very own living room.
Oh man the characters...
It's pretty rare that I would ever want to describe a character as a "mary sue", but when I do I really mean it. Tanjiro, our pure hearted boy of pure kindness, is practically a God at everything he needs to be. he's literally capable of defeating a villian who has devoured countless warriors much stronger and more capable than him, despite the fact he hasn't even fought anyone besides his teacher, who let all of his previous students die to how crap he was, and a sentient rock. And if you ever want to say "But anime characters are overpowered all the time DUUUDE!", there's a difference between a character being a prodigy and a character being an overpowered, poorly written mary sue.
I could never talk about this character without mentioning the insanely overpowered sense of smell he has, it's basically just a plot device for Tanjiro to always know what to do...because he can just smell the answer. No I'm not kidding... I really wish I was though There's a scene where he has to pick an ore for his sword, and despite him literally stating that he has no knowledge about ore whatsoever, all he does is sniff once... and the answer becomes clear, and then he grabs one... like what the fu-. I MAY be okay with this if it turned out he had a history of like... mining rocks or something, but no because he has a magical Mary Sue plot device nose.
Or even in fights it's like "I smell an arrow flying at the back of my head." You got to admit that's like... pretty fucking over the top lol.
pretty much the entire cast of characters are either A, there for comedic relief, or B, An emo. I'm not expecting every character to be very good anyway honestly, I'm like this when it comes to any media I consume regardless if it's anime or not. but when every character is literally as dry as a Popeyes biscuit, I think that I may actually be justified in me not liking this entire cast. The villains all pretty much boil down to a good guy at the end of the day, which in concept I'm not against, but literally every villian is either a good guy deep down, or just some blood lusted maniac, and it makes me feel like this series genuinely doesn't even have any actual thought behind it.
(by the way nezuko does not even qualify as an actual character fight me)
When it comes to the soundtrack it honestly really hurts me how actually unbelievably forgettable it was, it literally sounds like the most generic anime sounding music of all time, I feel like I hear the exact same music in like 97.24% of every other anime that exists. I don't know why they decided to take a series that takes place in ole' timey Taisho era japan, and then just put the most generic sounding modern J-Pop soundtrack with it. And the worst part is that it's not even like- actually good J-Pop. Can't you at least get like Utada Hikaru or something?
As far as Demon Slayer goes I think that a 3/10 is pretty generous all things considered.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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