This review will contain spoilers If you are easily triggered. Then please turn away from this review since I will not be holding anything back at all. Ive said my piece about the first season of Demon Slayer anime. It was rough around the edges but land and sea above the awful of a mess known as the manga depiction. No hard feelings to anyone who enjoyed this crap. I mean I was one of you as well for a very short period. Then I woke up and saw that Demon Slayer is not the least bit deserving of all the hype and fame its receiving. After simply reading blindingly ignoring my own feelings and letting the viewpoints of others affect my judgments and way of thinking. To make me throw my own feelings in a circle of a pile of confusion not trying to understand myself. I was finally able to come to terms with my actual views once I shut everything else out. I am not mad at the author and quite happy they are selling millions on their work. But I cant say the same about the community. I am disappointed even if I do get why Demon Slayer blew up as it did. We enjoy what we enjoy. Everyone is different theres nothing wrong with that. It helped the manga community get more readers and prestige. Thats a big plus no doubt. Its clear as day that the anime adaptation from Ufotable was a blessing and with it trending like mad everywhere. Curious newcomers countless other individuals in the anime community ate that shit up like it was cake. Its no doubt hard to differentiate the taste when youve not eaten or in this case read or watched something genuinely worth your attention. I am willing to bet any numbers of shounen such as Black Clover which is far better than Demon Slayer and deserving to go higher. If that shit got a proper adaptation putting a strong emphasis on the production value and even making sure the experience in the anime flows smoothly like running river. It would totally blow up and sell like hotcakes. That goes for shit like Fairy Tail as well. Black Clover for one possesses most of the same elements as Demon Slayer. But the execution is far clearer and much more concise and decisive. At least it was when I read it. I need to get back on that. I will throw this out there. Noelle is a greatly written character with flaws and everything nice. She is properly written tsundere as well. For me thats a big fat cherry on top. Asta feels real and is not void of emotions or a sense of danger and all thatlike Tanjiro for instance. The reason I think Demon Slayer doesnt deserve any of the fame its getting from a writing standpoint its a mess with no lick of direction genuineness in its established themes and character drama. The impact feels so lackluster. The deaths dont even affect my emotions a bit. Its a dull read and the pacing has no sense of balance. The cuts to events feel forced or halfassed. Its merely just damn random and is not running in a straight path without unnecessary hindrances. I would admit that Demon Slayer had the potential and elements to turn out as a decent shounen. If the author was not in a hurry or Weekly Shounen Jump didnt rush them to finish the story. I dont know if they were forced or not but it has already happened many times. So I dont want to open that can of worms but its obvious which shounen I might be referencing to here. Nothing about the story of Demon Slayer interested me whatsoever. Most of the characters just happened to be a means to an end. But It truly had a good cast of characters with distinct enough personalities. Shinobu was like such a best girl for me. Shes far more interesting than Kanao. Shinobu had this simple sense of complexity by putting on a facade behind her face when she is actually angry about lots of things. It was just one of the many charming effects on her absolutely stunning self. Its such a shame she got killed before her potential got fully utilized. While Kanao is adorable and charming unlike Shinobu. She is not as fleshed out and Kanoaos change was just jarring for me as a result. At least it seems like Tanjiro shippers got what they wanted. Thats good and gave me at least some sense of comfort. But they seriously did my girl Shinobu so damn nasty. And Inousuke was by far the only interesting dude out of the main trio. But just like more or less anyone else his growth was sloppy and not well executed. I wanna say that each of the Hashiras deserved more buildup than they got too. Sadly we only got something resembling a jittery backstory and many were interesting no doubt. Still you could see that the author was in a rush to get back to the action. I think my favorite has to be Iguros which was seriously messed up. The way they tore his mouth to match that nightmare was a bit awkward and just a bit too much? But I definitely wanted him to bath in happiness after going through that tragic and scarring event. Also that snake lady is damn nightmarefuel. In just that one panel she was much scarier than Muzan. I am not getting a wink of sleep tonight. I actually felt the chemistry between Iguro and Mitsuri. But once again their relationship was not as sufficiently fleshed out or builtup like it should. It was still by far my favorite ship from Demon Slayer. So unlike most characters. I felt their death but then that ending happened and my suffering was for nothing. So lets talk about the big bad of Demon Slayer. Muzans so insufferable as a villain and I cared little how the whole fight with him went. It was going places way too quickly. I didnt get enough time to absorb how much of a threat Muzan was since he was zigzagging around places chopping up demon slayers left and right. But it didnt carry any weight or impact. It was obviously forced down upon us to make us feel frightened of Muzan. But I was like okay all the time. I have said it before that death is a pretty severe doubleedged sword that can bite you in the back if one doesnt know how to use it well. This story throws that at us literally all the times like its a tool to make the vibe heavy and suffocating. To tell you the stakes are high. Anyone can drop dead but its pointless if you know its going to happen and when you barely have an emotional bond with the cast its not going to affect you as much. Plus once its used and the character dies. We dont get time to process what just happened before we simply start moving to other things. It doesnt help either Muzan feels just like a joke with many loose screws in his already small brain. I am like a natural disaster so you shouldnt care if someone died or something like that. I was seriously laughing out loud when those words came out of that freaks mouth. Thats just a taste so prepare to get your braincells eaten by Muzan stupidity. If you decide to read the story. To make Muzan truly scary the author shouldve given him common sense and some level of intelligence. Simply flaunting your powers around will only work for so long. For like the first time when you know nothing about said individual. This goes for many things. But in this case a villains appearance is not the only thing matters to command respect or admiration. Theres ideals personality of course flaws and more. Not to the point its all over the place. Those things just need to bounce off well with each other and not straight out devour each other. What the hell happened to my boi Azaka? He was the best and the most entertaining villain in Demon Slayer. Too bad the guys name I dont even remember killed him and I couldnt care less about him. Since he was just in that one arc and hardly felt wellestablished. Well see how the anime film does his introduction and all that. I already hear the angry mob consisting of the Demon Slayer fans out there. Azaka was the best among all the demons and had the biggest amount of potential. I wouldve liked to see him be replaced with Tanjiro as a main to be honest. Btw Muzans death scene was the most hilarious shit I have ever seen. There was a meme of how he turned into an actual baby. When we saw how Tanjiro just straight out denied to join the dark side and proceed to leave Muzan behind. That was kind of satisfying not gonna lie. As the fool resorted to begging him and probably crying inside. That was good entertainment. Weve waited a long time for Nezukos return to human. But that whole scene was so bland and like whatever. I didnt feel any emotions coming out from that panel. Can we talk about how Giyuu and Tanjiro basically became the best bros? Still it was never established with security or ingenuity in mind? It came from the leftfield just like most of the things in the story. Finally I want to just say that despite all the death scenes that came from literally nowhere. Simply reincarnating makes the situation much worse than it already is. Yes those who died are not really alive but calling it a coincidence as well is not the best thing. It makes the already shaky story filled to the brim with all kinds of issues just crumble to pieces. Lets not get started on how Tanjiro time and time again became stronger without any clues. That didnt feel wishywashy besides the obvious things like his hair and that mark on his head. The power system is really simple but effective and might be awkwardly written but it does the job. That said many of the characters execution and how they went from zerotohundred was cheap and ineffective. I realized I have been simply focused on the character aspect but the worldbuilding was not there either. We dont even know many if any of the locations name. It all just seems so damn insignificant. One more thing I want to bring up is the author Koyoharu uses tell and show at the same time most annoyingly so it makes reading through Demon Slayer boring and lame. Since were already seeing much of the things that are happening in the drawings therefore we dont need to go all bananas about the details. Just a light touch be more than enough. I dont like drawing most of the time either. The action is rough and I cant properly see whats happening. I mentioned already that emotions dont get conveyed properly through facial expressions or behavior most of the time. There are rare occasions when we get some good eyecandy with details in the background and character art. Its not in the slightest the best artwork I have seen. But the author can draw once they put their mind to it. So I wonder if the author truly enjoyed writing Demon Slayer? I didnt enjoy it as much as I thought initially. It was all over the place no sense of anything and that final chapter was terrible. It simply focused on a new batch of characters and went nowhere with that. I wouldve liked to see some silver of worldbuilding with details about how the world cametobe after the demons were killed. Maybe see the public reaction to the events and properly tie all the damn loose ends. Being how the characters went from this to that and so forth. I also think Nezoku lost something when she returned back to human. Did she seriously marry Zenitsu? Overall Demon Slayer is probably the worst shounen I have read in recent memories if not ever so far. I enjoyed bits and pieces of the beginning. It had the potential to become slightly more. If only the author wasnt set by being satisfied by mere cheap thrills that last barley a few moments.