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6 May 2019: I like Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, but there's probably going to be a lot of shounen jive

Tanjirou
Hey, wait a minute.

I wasn't originally planning on watching Kimetsu no Yaiba, but it is a ufotable show, so I basically needed to at least give it a try out of general principle. Not that Kimetsu no Yaiba bears much resemblance to the sorts of shows ufotable animated before they started doing all Fate all the time. As it turns out, though, Kimetsu no Yaiba is pretty entertaining, despite containing a fair amount of shounen tropes that I generally dislike. I suppose you could regard my enthusiasm for the series despite my typical disdain for such conventions as an indication that Kimetsu no Yaiba has a lot going for it.

Nezuko
They really missed the boat by not using a harmonica for Nezuko's bit.

I do get the feeling Kimetsu no Yaiba is going to run for a really long time. Based on the sort of progress made in the first five episodes, this is going to take a while. Of course, the source manga is still ongoing, so even a two cours anime is probably going to have a non-ending ending. Still, the series is easily in my top three shows of the Spring 2019 anime season so far. Whether it will remain there will probably depend on how much the coming episodes balance scenes of Nezuko booting deadbeats in the head vice how much the show spotlights various irritable boys being angry.


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