Review of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
Have you ever heard of demon slayer? Yes, that anime which everyone loves and calls a masterpiece, one that will be written down in the history as one of the best shonen's to have ever existed. Its for sure that its gonna happen but is demon slayer really worth it? Simple Answer, fuck no. This has been a complete down hill after it's first season which unfortunately also wasn't very pleasing to me. But. This is worse. All of the problems from last season continue, we get even more asspulls but the best episode now being one from this season, demon slayer is nothing but rottenfood that just sickens you.
For one, it has the same generic, overused and absolutely garbage formula that not only makes a predictable story but one that has very little to enjoy about, no, no. I take that back! It has nothing to enjoy about! Its very frustrating watching a show that has no surprises for you and even the comedy makes you feel like drinking vomit!
The comedy is basically:
Character one: Chasing!
Character 2: Screaming!
Character 3: Screaming!
Wow, the author somehow thought that's comedy, Yes! Screaming and running characters chased by more character doing the same thing is funny! Absolutely! That's hilarious! Who won't laugh? I mean, that's the funniest thing ever!
The garbage, random and cringe dialogue make it worse. The repetitive cycle of this type of similar comedy (yes, they call that comedy) and it absolutely not improving is why this has to be the most unfunny thing I have ever seen in a (not dark, imagine thinking demon slayer is dark hahaha) shonen ever do. It's not hard to make good comedy, you have chainsaw man and jujutsu kaisen as an example. Despite both of them being shonen, they nail the comedy aspect! One might do it by bringing in perverted jokes or characters with funny goals instead of the "very" original and serious goal that Tanjiro has of saving her demon sister.
Jokes are absolutely not perverted, none of them crack a funny or sex related joke. (this is something an interesting shonen does hehe) Not even once! The plot is set up to be either be fighting or unfunny and uninteresting characters who are doing random bullshit or on quests on hunting some fucking goddamn demon! One reason why the comedy also fails is that how the author made the characters.
The characters and demons are supposed to be the same boring thing you have probably seen in every fucking old shonen. There is no good character development or there's none! Every fucking character, be it the main character, Inosuke, Zenitsu, Nezuko or even the Hashira's are super annoying. The character writing is also fucking hilariously bad.
For Tanjiro, its because he is too kind (it makes him feel like every shonen protagonist) and keeps spitting random and unfunny stuff.
Zenitsu is such a weakling and boring character, every time he is on screen he makes you vomit. He is a simp with nothing but this one trait of being a simp, his time on screen is either him fighting or him being a simp. Fucking whaaat??
Inosuke keeps shouting for no good reason. His character is very aggressive, making him an annoying retard.
Nezuko does nothing aside from some fighting and she is not cute.
Every hashira's is also very unfunny and keep speaking random bullshit.
The art and animation may be the best part about demon slayer, for one the animation is done by ufotable a studio so top tier that every other shonen looks garbage in comparison, but I am not a fan of the animation style, its very flashy and the scenes aside from fighting aren't very pleasing to me. The character designs are also awful and I don't like them.
The sound is like every shonen at least decent, the second seasons opening and ending theme wasn't bad but didn't feel as good as last seasons. The voice acting is amazing but its being put into a terrible show with ass dialogue where the voice actors need to shout or talk weirdly because that's how demon slayer's dialogues supposedly are.
The fights apparently the best part about it are terrible, for episodes its like as:
Demon Too strong.
Heroes Can't win.
Random Power Up.
Monster Kill.
This cycle is repeated to the point where its the formula of demon slayer. And this is one of the many reasons why demon slayer is one of the most boring anime to ever exist.
I wish ufotable gave this kind of treatment to some good seinen manga such as Gantz hehe. (Joking, Joking, Gantz can never be adapted lol)
To sum up the issues with Demon Slayer-
-Them not to use much flashy colors
-The comedy felt very forced to me, they could have cracked perverted jokes similar to csm
-could have tried having more original plot twists unlike the same ones we have seen in other shonen
-character writing needed more originality
-dialogues felt cringe and out of place
-very formulaic
I understand that this might be a good anime for beginners but this is absolutely NOT a good show if you are looking for something more than bad jokes, great animated fights or a predictable story. Demon Slayer is unfortunately a terrible show which gets much undeserved love. If you are a beginner and want some actually good shows to watch, then try
-Made In Abyss (s tier adventure)
-Violet Evergarden (great drama)
-Barakamon (God Tier sol)
-Monster (peak mystery)
-Odd Taxi (well written, solid mystery)
-Samurai Champloo (fun, memorable)
-Cowboy Bebop (fun, memorable)
-Vinland Saga (good character, few issues related to character writing but most is fixed next season)
-Mushishi (the god of sol)
-Jujutsu Kaisen (a much better shonen than demon slayer)
-Death Note (good mystery)
-Kaguya sama (very funny)
-Fate Series (great)
-The Promised Neverland (obviously not season 2)
-Bakuman (fun, inspiring)
-Berserk (old version baka)
-Hunter x Hunter (good shonen)
-Houseki no Kuni (good characters, many issues in s1 but good)
-Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (nicely tied plot)
-re:zero (mind fuck)