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I'm sorry I won't be able to review everything, but I'm at the 7th episode now and I can't keep watching. I convinced myself to keep watching just to laugh it out, but the show is so inconsistent and poor that it drove me mad.

Kimetsu no Yaiba starts out with the carbon copy shonen "failproof" formula. Tragedy that fuels progress for the protagonist. This time, it's demons attacking and slaughtering most of his family. In his state of despair upon finding the corpses, our MC Tangerine is coldblooded enough to check whose body is still hot enough to be alive, potentially. he doesn't need ... a second to process everything. Screw that. He picks up his sister, who happens to be that. As he's on his way to the village, his sister jumps up, and much to Tangerine's surprise, the sister was converted to a demon. After their battle, the sister, Nezuko, hesitates to deliver the finishing blow. So Nezuko still has some consciousness. It fits in with the formula, perfect. Then a Demon Killer arrives at the scene to kill Nezuko. Tangerine stops him with a smart trick since he apparently knows that he can't beat the Demon Killer. Smart protagonists are cool, nice. Or so I'd say, but he actually isn't one.

You see, Tangerine has a few special abilities. One is to be smart only at certain situations. Other times, he's not so bright. Another ability of his is the ability to smell. He seems to have a great sense of smell, so great that he can smell out openings in an enemy's posture, and visualize it to a line connecting his blade to the enemy. His final ability is to breathe. Yes, breathe. He can breathe to improve his body's healing rate, his muscles strength, and his speed. Oh sorry, I might've disrespected the show here. He doesn't JUST breathe. He breathes deeply, so that... *checks notes*...the air reaches all the cells in his body. Yup. Deep breathing, people. It's a superpower.

Tangerine is also established to be "empathetic towards demons". How different! He is able to be empathetic towards them since his sister is also one, wow! Or so I'd say, but we are able to see that he has no problems slashing a Demon's both arms in combat even though he knows that a demon isn't killed until he slashes the neck. The demon then talks about how little girls are tasty, and Tangerine also has no problems slashing the demon's tongue then. Great empathy! Great job, Mr. Justice!

Another thing that amazes me is how quickly Tangerine acknowledges that he must slay demons to heal his sister. He must fight powerful demons of nightmares, the beings that he somehow has empathy for even though they killed his entire family, but then again the show said "fuck go back" to that empathy. Why doesn't he chicken out and just try to look for a way to heal his sister, and then realize that he must be a demon slayer to do so? That is the most normal response. But of course, Tangerine, Mr. Justice, xXxDemonSLayer3169xXx needs to time for such emotional garbage. So much so that when his master tells that he brainwashed Nezuko to hate demons and love humans, he shows no response. Okay, cool. Just brainwash my sister, yeah.

You sticked this far? Great! Because here's a shock, Tangerine actually has a fourth special power: the power to see the undead. He saw, talked to, and trained with his master's dead disciples. How cool! Great job, Tangerine! I wonder how the story will cover that up! Here's a guess though: Their will was so strong that they had to watch over the next disciple to make sure he didn't die to the demon boss of the training arc. I bet 50 Turkish Lira for that. It's a dying currency, but whatever.

And, that is all that I remember about to talk shit about in Kimetsu no Yaiba. However, the studio did a well job drawing and animating the show. While the soundtrack is sometimes out of place, the drawing is breathtaking. It's sometimes CGI-ish in the first few episodes, but following tht is awesome animation with an aesthetic that fits the show's time period and aesthetic perfectly, since waves are used a lot in Edo-Meiji Japanese culture.

Overall, the show is extremely poor. The characters are also bland and inconsistent, However you get used to that after trying to keep up with the story, which is also of similar nature. But of course, that is just my opinion. Please watch a few episodes yourself before arriving at a conclusion. Here are my Ratings of everything;
Story: 3/10
Art: 8/10
Sound: 6/10
Character: 2/10
Enjoyment: 6/10
Overall: 3/10