This review contains spoilers for the movie and previous season so here is a TLDR: Tanjiro is the most one-dimensional character I have ever seen.
Let's start with some positives. GOD DAMN the animation is really good. Shame that the animation budget isn't spent on other manga :/ The music is pretty decent. Uhh, the fights were pretty cool. Good cinematography.
That's about it.
Ok, ill put it simply. I like anime characters with a lot of depth. Characters that I can think about and think about their actions. If it has a lot of layers for me it is often a good character. But Tanjiro. Is so one-dimensional it literally kills me. I hate how he is literally just the purest thing in the existence of ever. What the fuck? The man literally watched his family die? Where is some sort of emotion? I am referring to the scene where the kids were going in their subconscious. Now at first, I was ok with this as the child first entered, then he got to the core. Once again just pure. No underlying tone of anger or sorrow. Literally, that would've been 10x better for Tanjiro still showing he is haunted, haunted by his past. When the main character in your story is literally one-dimensional the character it kinda makes it hard to get emotional.
All the characters in this series are just one note. Nezuko, I am cute.
Inosuke, Scream.
Zenitsu, I will do nothing all series. Unless I am sleeping
RenGoku, actually he was pretty cool.
Just most of the characters don't make me feel for them. Tanjiro literally recovered from his family being murdered and is just vibing with it. I just can't get that.
DON'T GET ME WRONG it's not a bad movie. But once again over hype. It is not the next coming of Christ. So my expectations were high and I was let down.
Overall, while Demon Slayer has amazing animation, pretty decent sound, a very interesting theme, the characters just let it down. With being so one-dimensional it hurts.
