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Why didn't the "demon slayers" just cast themselves out of the dullest shounens in the history of anime? Seriously each episode following the boy slayer and his pals from Demon Slayer Corp as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the colorful art-style, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of high-quality animation, all to make demons undemonic, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when ufotable vetoed the idea of Zenitsu being anything but a minor supporting character in the series; they made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for the manga. The Kimetsu no Yaiba series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the manga was good though

"No!" The writing is dreadful; the manga was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Ufotables series is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that they have no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Kimetsu no Yaiba by the same Hajime Isayama. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading watching Kimetsu no Yaiba at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to watch Attack on titan ." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you watch “Kimetsu no Yaiba”, you are, in fact, trained to read Attack on titan.

Why didn't the "demon slayers" just cast themselves out of the dullest shounens in the history of anime? Seriously each episode following the boy slayer and his pals from Demon Slayer Corp as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the colorful art-style, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of high-quality animation, all to make demons undemonic, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when ufotable vetoed the idea of Zenitsu being anything but a minor supporting character in the series; they made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for the manga. The Kimetsu no Yaiba series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the manga was good though

"No!" The writing is dreadful; the manga was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Ufotables series is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that they have no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Kimetsu no Yaiba by the same Hajime Isayama. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading watching Kimetsu no Yaiba at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to watch Attack on titan ." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you watch “Kimetsu no Yaiba”, you are, in fact, trained to read Attack on titan.