Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime Review)

So, guys, I'm back with anime review. I know I'm becoming really inconsistent with these anime reviews and I'm not really doing them as a series and more just kinda doing them at random, but I do want to get back to doing a series of these again. Anyway, this time, I'm covering the series I finished just today, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. This is another super popular series that began in 2019 and it's an adaptation of the Shonen Jump manga by Koyoharu Gotouge and I finally finished the first season just today. This is a series I've wanted to watch for a long while because I'd heard nothing but great things about it. But, for the longest time, whenever I tried to get it on either DVD or Blu-Ray, it either wasn't here or was too expensive with only being collector's editions. But, more often than not, it just wouldn't be here. But, eventually, I was able to find it on Netflix and the entire first season was there. So, on Tuesday, I got started on it and I just finished it this morning. And, in the end, yeah, I really, really enjoyed it. I will admit, when it started, I wasn't that big of a fan. I liked it fine but the first couple of episodes weren't exactly doing it for me, even though I thought they were fine. But after those first few episodes, it picked up considerably and once it did, I was immediately hooked. I've really enjoyed what I've seen so far and I see why people love it so much. I don't think I loved it the same way everyone else did, but still, I really enjoyed this first season. So, let's just get into this. Also, as per usual, this will have all the spoilers so don't read this if you're interested to see this and don't wanna know anything. So the basic plot is that the main protagonist is a kid named Tanjiro who, after his family gets killed by a demon aside from his sister who's turning into a demon, now wants to do everything he can to turn her back to normal. The only way he can think to do that is to become a Demon Slayer, a group of people who specialise in hunting demons using special swords and sword techniques. So Tanjiro travels to a man who teaches him a water style of sword fighting and now he's filling out a whole bunch of missions for the Demon Slayer Corp while still trying to find a way to turn his sister, named Nezuko, back to normal. So, that's the basic plot, but believe me when I say a lot happens in this show. So, like I what I was saying a second ago, the first few episode, mainly the parts where Tanjiro was travelling to the man's house and the training there, while not bad, didn't interest me all that much. But as soon as Tanjiro went to the selection exam and got his own sword and began fulfilling missions for the Demon Slayer Corp, that's when I really to get intrigued. I really liked the characters more afterwards and I thought they were becoming more interesting. Tanjiro himself was also sticking out to me more and I grew to really like him. He actually started to remind me Deku from My Hero Academia. Just with the way he acted and the mannerisms and all sorts of things like that, yeah, he just started remind me of him after a while. But he does still feel like his own character and I really enjoyed him. The series is also really, really hilarious. This is probably one of the funniest anime's I've seen in a long time. And I didn't expect it to have as much comedy in it as much as it does. I'd say easily the funniest character is a guy named Zenitsu. This guy who's a member of the Corp like Tanjiro and is the same age but is also a huge coward and is obsessed with girls so he's always screaming and chasing after them. Just watch this.

And yeah, that whole stuff with him is so hilarious. I also like Inosuke, this crazy moron who's always wearing a boar head and has two swords. The three of them then kinda form into a team and I really liked the three of them together. But, even before the three of them meet up, the missions Tanjiro goes on are fun, although, yeah, being an anime, there's some incredibly brutal stuff. Honestly, some of the most brutal stuff I think I may have ever seen in a Shonen Jump series. A lot of the time, Tanjiro and the others are having to fight demons and a lot of the fights can be insanely bloody and insanely violent. No, it's nothing that extreme when compared to R rated anime like Berserk or Attack On Titan, but it's actually pretty close, I'm not gonna lie. And the action scenes are just amazing. I haven't mentioned this yet, but this is easily one of the best looking anime's I've ever seen. This was made by Studio Ufotable and they really knocked this out of the park because the style for this show is incredible. Whenever Tanjiro or any of the other characters use their sword techniques, it looks unbelievable. I don't know what technique they used to for those scenes but it looks phenomenal. Tanjiro uses a a technique called Water Breathing and so water sorta appears from his sword when he's attacking and the look of it is like nothing I've ever seen before. It's a style I've never heard of before either and I really loved it. And a lot of the fights are insanely creative as well. Tanjiro is really clever in a fight and a lot of the time, he has to adapt in a fight to know how to beat his opponents. And the demons themselves as well are really cool and creative, but they're also really interesting and complex too. They do all these horrible things like murdering innocents but some are also really tragic and you do feel sorry for some of them. Or at least you kinda before they sorta slip into a murderous state again and so it kinda creates this thought that you don't really know how to feel about them. And, really, like I was saying I really like the missions that Tanjiro goes on, especially one in particular where he goes to a town in Tokyo and discovers a woman there who's also a demon but can also control herself and is good. I really like Tanjiro talking to her and it's also there where we meet Muzan Kibutsuji, the main villain of the whole series but then Tanjiro finds out he has a family and can't find it in him to kill him then and there but then he's able to turn another person into a demon as a distraction. So, yeah, I'm curious to know what's happening there. Whether or not he's legitimately trying to have a normal family or if it's just some cover up is questionable but then he gathers members of his demon group together and he brutally murders a whole bunch of them. So, yeah, it's more than likely that he is just horrible guy, but we don't entirely know yet. And I really loved the part where Tanjiro first meets Zenitsu and Inosuke in that house and they have to save a family while fighting a demon who can make the house move in crazy ways. I really enjoyed that part. And then towards the end of season 1, we get to see Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke get trained by a woman from the Corp and so they're able to get stronger. Speaking of, we even get to meet the Corp itself with its Hashira members, as in the strongest members. And, yeah, some are likeable and some are hateable so there's a variety of different characters there too. And I really liked the training part of Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke getting stronger and their personalities really shine through here like Tanjiro's kindness and determination, Zenitsu's cowardliness but also his resolve to become stronger and Inosuke's craziness and stupidity, it was just a lot of fun to watch. But then the very end of it has the three of them, along with Nezuko getting on a train to face off another demon which leads to the recent Demon Slayer movie, Mugen Train. And it's interesting that the continuation of the series after this point is a movie. I haven't read the manga yet but I'm interested to know if the whole movie is from the manga. I'm pretty sure they've also made Season 2 and are making Season 3 at the moment. So, I'm interested to watch all of that and keep going with the series. And I'm especially interested to see how many seasons there actually will be because the manga is actually finished already. And I find it interesting that the manga has already been completed because it's not long at all. It's only 23 volumes long and finished around September a few months ago. So, yeah, if it keeps this level of quality for the rest of the series, I'm really excited to see more. And the dub for this series is great too like Zach Aguilar, Aleks Le and Bryce Papenbrook as Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke. They're all really likeable, charming and hilarious in their own right. So, yeah, I'm really excited to see more when more dubbed episodes come out and when the anime does end and I finish watching all the dubbed episodes, I might make a part 2 to this. So, yeah, I definitely recommend checking this series out. I feel like it's another great anime to binge watch. And so, everyone, those are my thoughts on Demon Slayer. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.