And I'm repeating myself, because I already said that in the review of the movie and the last season, but let me rattle it off again.
The first two episodes were once again godlike. Demon Slayer has mastered a humor that I incredibly like. Slice-of-life scenes, in which Tanjiro simply relaxes, are incredibly well done, especially because characters are very sympathetic, fleshed out and diverse.
As it should be otherwise, though, the series again only has in mind to deliver the most impressive fights. Beautiful animations that can't be topped, breathtaking music, that's what you can expect here. But over the last few seasons (and the film) this has almost become the weakness of the series.
For one thing, it leads to scenes that aren't good for anything except showing off the soundtrack and animations. Usually those are absolutely fantastic. but here they are so long and there are so many, than at some point it just gets dull, albeit beautiful.
Secondly, there's no room for anything here except combat, which is split into twenty chapters and shown in detail. The jokes and slice-of-life scenes I just praised so much are an absolute rarity and maybe that's why they struck me so positively, because I just got bored with the fighting at some point.
In addition, there is even less time spent on character development this season. Maybe it just seems that way to me, but at least the devils get much less love as characters; compared to Daki and Gyuutarou, which I learned to appreciate and admire as characters, here the devils are not much more than empty shells. One gets a little bit of a mention at the end about how he became a devil, and with a little imagination you can fill in the blanks yourself to explain his abilities etc as well, but that's far too little when the anime already spends so much time on him.
Bottom Line: Ugh. If the anime doesn't finally regress in a different direction, I unfortunately see black for it. Even if animations etc. make it still worth watching, I don't know anyone (from my friend group) except me, who gave the season a chance. And even I'm getting tired of it.
