Unfortunately however, we’ve come to a point when we got a “weak season” of Demon Slayer.
Let me start by saying that Demon Slayer is like family for me. The story of siblinghood between Nezuko and Tanjiro is something that makes this series absolutely heartwarming and just wonderful in my eyes. Just as all the characters backstories and their development is splendid to watch. It’s not a secret that this series isn’t mastermind deep. Even though it uses cliched traits, it has amazing little details just as its historical aspects and essences which makes it a unique and pleasant experience to watch.
In conclusion, this series is an easy reach of an interesting and charming story, extraordinary fights and family like cast. While it has so many memorable life quotes and inspiring moments. Which also makes it simple to enjoy and for me personally more valuable that it would be a deep, but an empty anime.
So with that being said, Demon Slayer is a show that people will either love for its little details, or hates it for its greater mistakes, which is totally fine.
This season was surprisingly slow. It could have been the reason that the manga didn’t had enough source material to make it fast paced like the previous season Entertainment District had. However, I don’t feel that to be the case.
What Ufotable did last year was absolutely insane. You could have put every frame of season two into an art gallery and they would be the most impressive pieces, but what it made it incredible crazy was the overall direction of the show. So many things happened and events were pretty much unpredictable. Situations could have turned from terrifying to an upper edge then again even more helpless in a instant. It was a rollercoaster of hype and emotions.
While this season was not just slow, as for the reasons I’ve mentioned, but also motionless. So many times characters where standing or saying a dialogue before doing a single action. Which made it quite uninteresting, therefore it losed all its suspense.
In my opinion they could have done this season within 8 episodes instead of prolonging an already short source material to add more episodes that will serve nothing to the watcher just makes it less entertaining and gives it a more static sense.
“Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should”
The CGI wasn’t that bad overall, however.. I don’t think that we have to take this route and I’m talking about using CGI in general, but especially when we are talking about a studio like Ufotable. Which is other than blessed with incredibly talented people, they’re also has only a single project to focus on (other than Genshin Impact). And I strongly believe that they could have hand drawn everything significantly better than rendering it by computer. It takes more time I know, but I would have waited one more year instead of getting a “fine” level of CGI fish demon or wood dragon. Just take Akaza’s entrance as an example.
It’s fair to say that there was a distinguishable amount of inconsistency throughout this season which is simply unlike to the standard of Ufotable’s work we know them for. It seems to me that the directors underperformed this time, although they were absolutely spot on with the previous seasons. As for example Tanjiro’s rage against Daki was hands down one of the most wildest moments in anime, just as they were pretty much able to give this unique work a gorgeous and genuine adaptation. With this season, they just missed the mark. Or did they set the bar way to high last year(?)
Finally, but not least let me also mention and appreciate the stars of this season.
Kanroji, the awaited Love Hashira’s aesthetic really gave me the old Sailor Moon vibes, mostly due to the nature of her personality.
What I really liked about Muichiro, the Mist Hasihira is the resemblance between him and Tanjiro’s.
It was also cool to see Genya in action, which brought some unexpected moments with his character appearance.
Overall, Demon Slayer is a work of art. The aesthetic of the manga art style and the genuine sense and composure brought to life by its adaptation is truly remarkable.
However, this season was only 6.5 in my book, which is a whole 2.0 score lower than the previous seasons. (It’s also my personal score, which can be slightly differ than what the anime core value reflects). In spite of this fact we have to remember that this isn’t an Indian soap opera, but the most refined and the best action based Shounen of the current generation. So it should be treated as such.
Therefore, I believe in Kajiura Yuki, one of my favourite composer and each of the staff members of Ufotable studio that they can enhance and deliver greatness once again. On a par with the level of the first and last episode’s quality.
At least, I really hope that they will take their time and don’t rush it, because they have to.. They *MUST ANIMATE* the remaining arcs using 200% of their skills, summon it by force!
Maybe, with this season they just take a deep breath before infinity castle and sunrises.
I really do hope!
Thank you for reading!
