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Mar 3, 2022
Mixed Feelings
Well... that was something. After finishing Season 2 of Demid Slayer I didn't feel like waiting for Season 3 so I decided to just grind the rest of the manga. Look, I already thought the contents in Season 1, Mugen Train and Season 2 were fast paced, but holy shit the rest of this show is as fast as a freight train. The Swordsmith Village Arc felt like it was only 3 chapters long because of how fast that shit happened. It felt like the author just got sick and tired of the show after the Entertainment District and said fuck this and tried to get it over with. I'm still processing what I just read cause that shit flew by me.

Story: 5/10

If you've seen my review on Season 2, that pretty much sums up my opinion on the story from Seasons 1-2. So for now I'll talk about Post Season 2 to the final chapter's of the story. As I said before, the story becomes extremely fast paced and the Upper Moons and the Hashiras die like every other chapter. There's really only 2 main arcs left, being the Swordsmith Village and the Finale (idk the official term for it). Swordsmith Village was pretty much made just to show off 2 more Hashiras and to kill off some Upper Moons so that the Finale would seem realistic for the Demon Slayers to win. That bitch is only gonna be like 5-6 episodes long when its animated. And the finale ended as soon as it started, they presented the Upper Moons to be these unbeatable characters, but they dropped like flies in these arcs. It was just so so so so damn fast paced that I couldn't even process what I was seeing and then all of sudden it was over. Tanjiro started to get some bullshit power ups as every shonen mc does and Muzan didn't really do anything. It was just a huge jumble of meat head action. Now lets address the elephant in the room, what in the god damn fuck was that last chapter. Like actually what the fuck was that. The ending was literally fine and then we were hit with some high school alternate universe shit? I'm actually so confused on what that was. Anyways, in short it was so fast paced that you can barely even understand what's happening and a lot of the Hashira and Upper Moons never lived up to their potential cause they die.

Art: 7/10

Obviously these arcs will be a lot more enjoyable with Ufotable's animation but the art style isn't bad. I wish the mangaka didn't always do that dumb shit where they intentionally made the art really janky and put a goofy face for comedic effect, it was misplaced a few times and took me out of the emersion of more serious scenes.

Character: 6/10

The Hashira's and the Upper Moons carry the show in the character department. Inosuke, Zenitsu and Tanjiro feel like 2 dimensional side characters compared to the Hashiras. I kept forgetting they were actually in the show until they popped in the action. They ended up not doing much with Giyu, he went from depressed e-boy to slightly less depressed e-boy. Once again the problem with the fast pacing applies to every category, a bunch of underdeveloped cool characters that got no screen time. Had potential but I guess it iz what it iz.

Enjoyment: 6/10

Uh... It was alright? Very cliched typical shonen shit that I've seen hundreds of times so I wasn't exactly at the edge of my seat. Once again the fast pacing just keeps taking this show down to lower and lower levels. It had really good potential, it just fell pretty damn flat. Tanjiro is a typical mc I wasn't frothing at the mouth for, the hashira were cool but underdeveloped and lazily inserted and taken out. Just a bunch of wasted potential. Muzan wasn't really doing much which having a good antagonist is where the main source of my enjoyment for shows come from. Like I said before, I do think it'll be better with ufotable doing its work but please for the love of god purge that last chapter.

Overall: 6/10

Said everything I need to. This show exists and now it will disappear into irrelevancy after I'm done typing this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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