Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

I gave this five episodes but it just didn't grab me. I mean, it looks fine, but the story and characters are bog standard shonen stuff. Maybe it gets better, I dunno, but I really can't be bothered to find out when there's so much else out there.

Heard a lot of hype so I checked it out. Appreciated the general lore, the look of it (snowy forests etc), the gore, the training montages and whatnot. But my GOD everyone won’t stop doing these annoying, lengthy mental monologues in the middle of what are supposed to be action scenes (*action freezes* “His strike… it nearly hit me!”) . Hate that shit. Thank god anime-style western shows like Avatar, Korra, Castlevania, Blood of Zeus etc left this terrible trope behind in Japan.

Fun shonen series with not much deeper going on so far (season 1). It's at its best when it comes to the fights, which are beautiful animated, while the fast pacing early on gets us to that material as quickly as we can. It's at its worse when it tries to be funny, as the comedy consists almost universally of people yelling at the top of their lungs and gets tiring quickly. Interested to see where this goes from here.

Excellent animation. The writing is bad.

the animation and the fights scenes were what kept me entertained, W anime

Peak

Love it so much

The animation is top notch most of the time, and that carries the anime. It's something I watch occasionally when I want to not think at all, and that makes it so I get characters mixed up and stuff, but... the animation is top notch, and they're carrying the plot through to some sort of finale, so good for it.

Only seen s1

S1: audiovisual 80 overall feeling 77 avg 78 dobrze się ogląda, fajne postaci, dobre sceny walki, czasami przeciągnięte S2: audiovisual 81 overall feeling 79 avg 80, powoli stwierdzam, że shonen nie dla mnie i może wyrosłem już S3: audiovisual 83 overall feeling 79 avg 81 bardziej ciekawi bohaterowie, cięższy klimat, dobry rozwój, ogólnie wszystko na plus S4: audiovisual 77 ov feel 70 imo najgorszy, bo bardziej poznawanie dla mnie postaci pobocznych i training arc, a nie jakieś fajne walki