Reviews for Kimetsu no Yaiba (6.11)
juggen
Matsushima Akira
Sotozaki Haruo
Art & Animation: The art isn`t that good tbh, but the animation department did a really good job on this one. Maybe a bit too much CG for my taste though. The characters look cool, bu...
Home
Twitter
- Unrated
21.09.2020 20:26 - direct link
(rs10655)
Art & Animation: The art isn't that good tbh, but the animation department did a really good job on this one. Maybe a bit too much CG for my taste though. The characters look cool, but there's not much detail.
Sound: Nothing special, didn't strike me as either good nor bad. The opening theme was nice.
Story: A real train wreck. There're humans, there're demons, and there're demon slayers. Those are the basics other than that they don't really explain anything in this show, they just state ridiculous facts. Why some humans are ridiculously strong? They got the correct breathing techniques. Right... Only swords made of a special ore can kill demons, a bit like silver but you also need to decapitate them. Also there's people (and cats, even ghosts) appearing from nowhere all the time. There's backstory on most demons they slay, like anybody cares, right? I'm not exactly sure what story this show wants to tell.
Character: The protagonist was fine, except for maybe the part where he forgot about his family being slaughtered fairly quickly. Besides him, there's quite a few cool looking characters, but they are all really cliché and shallow. All the Hashira (the strongest demon slayers) are basically one-trait robots and probably lacking a brain. Then we have the obnoxious friends: Zenitsu and Inosuke, literary always screaming. One is constantly afraid and screaming, the other only thinks about fighting and screaming, this gets exhausting fast. There's little logic in any action any character takes except for the protagonist. Also the manuscript is super basic, nothing interesting being said, mostly feels like forced dialogue.
Value: I would skip more than half of the episodes and just watch the good (fighting) parts, so I guess there's not much rewatch value really. I'd only recommend it to hardcore shounen fans.
Entertainment: I enjoyed the action episodes, everything else was pretty weak. The comedy parts in particular are ridiculously bad. The show seems to target an older audience with all the blood, torture and decapitations, but the comedy seems to target kids in preschool.
Summary: It became clear to me after watching this show that the only trait that the average watcher these days care about is cool animations. People praising episode 19 made me think I was in for a real big twist, but it was only a few good fight scenes, not even that impressive. Was very dissatisfied with this show overall, it felt like it atleast could've been so much better if they only kept the serious parts and didn't do any comedy.
Sound: Nothing special, didn't strike me as either good nor bad. The opening theme was nice.
Story: A real train wreck. There're humans, there're demons, and there're demon slayers. Those are the basics other than that they don't really explain anything in this show, they just state ridiculous facts. Why some humans are ridiculously strong? They got the correct breathing techniques. Right... Only swords made of a special ore can kill demons, a bit like silver but you also need to decapitate them. Also there's people (and cats, even ghosts) appearing from nowhere all the time. There's backstory on most demons they slay, like anybody cares, right? I'm not exactly sure what story this show wants to tell.
Character: The protagonist was fine, except for maybe the part where he forgot about his family being slaughtered fairly quickly. Besides him, there's quite a few cool looking characters, but they are all really cliché and shallow. All the Hashira (the strongest demon slayers) are basically one-trait robots and probably lacking a brain. Then we have the obnoxious friends: Zenitsu and Inosuke, literary always screaming. One is constantly afraid and screaming, the other only thinks about fighting and screaming, this gets exhausting fast. There's little logic in any action any character takes except for the protagonist. Also the manuscript is super basic, nothing interesting being said, mostly feels like forced dialogue.
Value: I would skip more than half of the episodes and just watch the good (fighting) parts, so I guess there's not much rewatch value really. I'd only recommend it to hardcore shounen fans.
Entertainment: I enjoyed the action episodes, everything else was pretty weak. The comedy parts in particular are ridiculously bad. The show seems to target an older audience with all the blood, torture and decapitations, but the comedy seems to target kids in preschool.
Summary: It became clear to me after watching this show that the only trait that the average watcher these days care about is cool animations. People praising episode 19 made me think I was in for a real big twist, but it was only a few good fight scenes, not even that impressive. Was very dissatisfied with this show overall, it felt like it atleast could've been so much better if they only kept the serious parts and didn't do any comedy.
