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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 5:43:27 PM No.280334928
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KnY is good and Im tired of pretending it isnt.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 5:46:14 PM No.280335004
>>280334928 (OP)
Season 4 was not good
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 5:47:47 PM No.280335046
>>280335004
Thats Ufotable's fault
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 5:48:19 PM No.280335064
>>280335004
animetroon need not to apply
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 5:48:19 PM No.280335065
>>280334928 (OP)
It's good, but not great. It doesn't deserve all the success it receives for its quality. I'm a little annoyed by how random it is, since there are better manga that aren't as successful.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 5:48:28 PM No.280335066
Mid.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 5:51:25 PM No.280335143
>>280335065
A tale as old as time Im afraid. The croc is a nice and humble author so Im happy they found success.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 5:51:40 PM No.280335153
>>280334928 (OP)
It was good. It had stakes. It had a hero that was empathetic to his enemies and still put them down. It didn't overstay its welcome.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 6:27:11 PM No.280336109
>>280334928 (OP)
It had heart
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 7:27:33 PM No.280337912
It had potential but the final arc was so damn rushed like most things in it. Like characters just constantly pull moves out of their ass. Even MC has this weird training arc where after it he just now knows all the moves.
Premise was pretty good and siblings as main characters tend to do well. Author probably knew all the right ingredients but it feels like they didn't enjoy making this manga.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 8:32:59 PM No.280340133
>>280337912
>Even MC has this weird training arc where after it he just now knows all the moves.
He always knows all the moves since his dad taught him since he was a kid to continue the family tradition. The problem is translate those dance moves into actual fighting moves.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 8:38:36 PM No.280340313
>>280334928 (OP)
No, it isn't. https://youtu.be/XX4v8cvrMqs?si=JzYzbxtvyDUUcEII
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:06:51 PM No.280341236
>>280335065
I disagree. I think it earned its success entirely and completely. It's mostly down to the pacing and tight knit themes. There's no such thing as deserving, KnY achieved what it has by having a clear vision and goal, and enough respect for its audience to pull it off effectively.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:11:13 PM No.280341378
>>280341236
It got success because it was released during COVID and had good animation.
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Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:12:04 PM No.280341413
>>280334928 (OP)
dead forgotten series
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:14:23 PM No.280341501
>>280340313
>muh misogyny
Into the trash it goes.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 9:15:57 PM No.280341556
>>280334928 (OP)
yes. it's good and entertaining. nothing more, nothing less.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:02:24 PM No.280343042
>>280341378
Was the manga so successful also just coincidence?
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:11:34 PM No.280343408
It's a good show to turn your brain off and just watch it.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:28:02 PM No.280343976
>>280340313
>tranny zoomer haircut
I aint watching that.
Anonymous
7/7/2025, 10:55:03 PM No.280344872
>>280335153
The best thing about it is that it ended.
The story was nothing and the fights sucked. Overuse of retroactive backstory to give emotional weight to every character felt dumb. Tanjiro was boring and had boring abilities.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:17:48 AM No.280347501
>>280337912
It left a lot to be desired with character interactions. I like the way the author handled emotional moments so it was disappointing having most interactions thrown into the fanbooks.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:20:53 AM No.280347602
at least he didn't get the Eren and Midoriya treatment. The Manga had a good ending.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:34:54 AM No.280348060
>>280335065
You don't get to decide what "deserves" popularity and what doesn't. Its such an arrogant and worthless line of logic
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:38:06 AM No.280348174
>>280334928 (OP)
Its basic but I appreciate it sticking to its guns and having the entire story revolve around eradicating "absolute evil" and succeeding (albeit at large personal cost).

In that sense, it is an inspiring work of art.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:38:26 AM No.280348187
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:42:29 AM No.280348315
>>280334928 (OP)
It's basic because it's for the young demographic. By doing what it aims to well enough, yes, it's good.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:52:32 AM No.280348622
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I'm more angry by how much I got gaslit by fans and women. Manga is usually my go-to format as I always feel like the adaptation is inherently inferior to the source material and the Demon Slayer manga was so trash. The art itself is very bad in many places and the rare few times it's not terrible, it's (barely) subpar at best. Koyoharu Gotouge cannot for the life of them convey fluid motion and use paneling to guide the reader's eyes which is VERY crucial when drawing an action manga. It's very telling that the author makes up for their inability to draw fights with all those excessive VFX/SFX overlapping the actual fight (like all these stupid crescent moons on picrel). Demon Slayer also uses coping essays to explain the action that the art fails to convey because the author can't communicate the action through their art. You'd have no idea what’s happening in half these panels without the dialogue narrating it like a fucking audiobook.
>"His stance isn’t right!"
>"I can't dodge because of my injury!"
>"He's so fast I can’t even think!"
>"My dick is hanging on by a thread!"
>"The way he uses the Breath of Cum... it's like art... yet so dangerous... truly a genius blade dancer... my brother...”
I'm under the impression that the author is insecure about their art. Compared to a lot of other mangaka, Koyoharu Gotouge is not a good artist. Even compared to Gege Akutami, Koyoharu Gotouge is a very bad artist because while Gege's art too is ugly, Gege has a solid understanding on paneling/composition flow. He actually understands that manga is at its core a sequential medium. I'm actually angered how this slop managed to sell 150M copies, but I guess that's the power of Ufotable and Unlimited Blade Works. This manga is unironically so trash, I seriously think I can do better than that.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:54:25 AM No.280348687
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I'm more angry by how much I got gaslit by fags (and especially women). Manga is usually my go-to format as I always feel like the adaptation is inherently inferior to the source material and the Demon Slayer manga was so trash. The art itself is very bad in many places and the rare few times it's not terrible, it's (barely) subpar at best. Koyoharu Gotouge cannot for the life of them convey fluid motion and use paneling to guide the reader's eyes which is VERY crucial when drawing an action manga. It's very telling that the author makes up for their inability to draw fights with all those excessive VFX/SFX overlapping the actual fight (like all these stupid crescent moons on picrel).

Demon Slayer also uses coping essays to explain the action that the art fails to convey because the author can't communicate the action through their art. You'd have no idea what’s happening in half these panels without the dialogue narrating it like a fucking audiobook.
>"His stance isn’t right!"
>"I can't dodge because of my injury!"
>"He's so fast I can’t even think!"
>"My dick is hanging on by a thread!"
>"The way he uses the Breath of Cum... it's like art... yet so dangerous... truly a genius blade dancer... my brother...”
I'm under the impression that the author is insecure about their art. Compared to a lot of other mangaka, Koyoharu Gotouge is not a good artist. Even compared to Gege Akutami, Koyoharu Gotouge is a very bad artist because while Gege's art too is ugly, Gege has a solid understanding on paneling/composition flow. He actually understands that manga is at its core a sequential medium. I'm actually angered how this slop managed to sell 150M copies, but I guess that's the power of Ufotable and Unlimited Budget Works. This manga is unironically so trash, I seriously think I can do better than that.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:54:27 AM No.280348688
the anime isn't thoughbeit
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 12:55:44 AM No.280348731
>>280348622
Totally agree. This is a very much emotion based manga. The action just doesn't have any flow.
It's nowhere near the greats like Toriyama or Gege.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:03:27 AM No.280348975
>>280348060
I never said I didn't decide that — just like no one else does either.
it's just a decently good manga. with some pretty good parts
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:22:42 AM No.280349531
>>280334928 (OP)
KnY made me appreciate basic, straight forward stories after the constant disappointment of manga trying to be subversive and full of twists and shitting the bed.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:30:00 AM No.280349716
>>280347602
I personally didn't like the ending one bit and I found the reincarnation bit incredibly lame. It was one of the most cowardly, fanservicey things I had the displeasure of experiencing. It felt like the author wanted the shock value of an "everyone dies" ending, but they were too soft-hearted to not give their darlings a happy ending as well and too cowardly after realizing how bad the backlash would have been from the fanbase if they actually committed and went full-on Tomino. I'd rather have an ending where a Deus ex Machina shows up and revives everyone in the final stretch than the story ever pretending like it lost something, because this series played it safe the whole way through anyway.

Not to mention that the author did so little to make the reincarnated characters different people. It's literally just all the dead people brought back to life. Same appearances, same siblings, same scars, etc. Japanese authors are always too busy 'lecturing' their readers and hammer in 'symbolism' than telling a story.
>>280348731
In a lot of ways, this manga reminds me of Saint Seiya in that area. A lot of the fights are also just vibes-based with splash art and two guys screaming, shooting energy blasts until one of them dies instead of any real choreography. Kurumada was never as talented as Toriyama to know how to make panels flow well and make a fight look good. He's also not as creative as Araki to make strategic battles. Koyoharu Gotouge is the same, they're neither as talented as Hori whose art single-handedly carries his manga or technically efficient like Gege who's art is comparatively as bad as Gotouge's, but he knows how to make fights flow well.

Coincidentally, both Saint Seiya and Demon Slayer were single-handedly carried by Toei and Ufotable. Saint Seiya by Shingo Araki's beautiful visuals and Seiji Yokoyama's god-tier OST and Demon Slayer by Yuichi Terao's signature compositing and Nozomu Abe's sakuga.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:34:24 AM No.280349828
>>280349716
Perhaps the author wanted to follow his own artistic vision, but the editors forced him to follow the typical generic formula to make it more palatable to the masses. So the author wanted to somehow incorporate both.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:35:45 AM No.280349864
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>>280334928 (OP)
>Omg Tanjiro swung his sword and the demon died and zenitsus sperging out and inosuke exists and they all have a faggy cry about some character no one gives a shit about or a demon thats killed thousands and flashing lights and loud noises, my dopamine receptors are firing off, that means its good, Im clapping, IM CLAPPING!!!
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:38:34 AM No.280349940
>>280348060
Anybody with an opinion can decide that you mong. Stop being salty
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:39:59 AM No.280349977
>>280349828
Tanjiro and Nezuko were originally side characters and proto Giyu was the main character. Editor thought the story of a boy with a sister that was changed into a demon was more interesting as the main characters.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:42:05 AM No.280350038
>>280335004
no, it was *bad*. complete garbage
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:43:52 AM No.280350100
>>280334928 (OP)
Nobody can make me hate Kimetsu.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:48:22 AM No.280350250
>>280335065
Id say it deserves its popularity. Not because it’s good but because it possess every quality that makes series popular nowadays. Simple story, characters, themes, artwork, fights, appeals to children and man childern who don’t like to think at all or lack taste. Linked up with a solid animation studio to essentially carry it since anime has a wider appeal than manga, and regardless people will watch anything with a high enough animation budget and call it “peak”. It also got luck due to COVID.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:52:17 AM No.280350377
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>>280335153
I disagree. I hear a lot of fans say this series has stakes because characters dies but the only somewhat important character who dies before the final arc that had any impact was Rengoku. Every other character had their deaths reserved for the finale and by that point, it was the safest time to kill them since the story's about to wrap up and everyone got their happy ending at the end of the day.

A lot of things in this series plays things out way too safe and the characters miraculously getting out of harsh situations are full of contrivances or coincidences in ways they did not earn and had no reason getting out of in the first place. Just have it so that they're not in that situation to begin with, or commit to killing them off in the first place. It's not a problem exclusive to Demon Slayer, but pretty much any shounen series. It's still annoying and breaks my suspension of disbelief.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:56:29 AM No.280350509
>>280334928 (OP)
I dont think Its the worst thing to come out of SJ, but I hate how its so clearly boosted by the animation and people refuse to acknowledge it. And whenever you complain about how boring it is fans always hit you with the “its a simple story argument.” Solo leveling fans have started using it too, its pisses me off.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 1:57:00 AM No.280350523
>>280350250
I understand, although I don't agree with some things. I just wish writers had more freedom in their work. because it turns out to be less a work of art and more a mathematical formula
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:03:37 AM No.280350712
>>280350509
It being boring is subjective. Its not so much people saying its boosted by its animation that is disagreed upon but people saying its only the animation that people care about which doesnt explain why so many people went on to buy the manga.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:05:35 AM No.280350770
>>280350523
I get you and I also wish people cared more about manga/anime as an art form, but at the end of the day it is a business. If series like Demon Slayer make money then regardless they’re going to make more series like it.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:07:07 AM No.280350820
>>280350377
Maybe not stakes but it would seem incredibly underwhelming for the final, all out war to not have massive casualties. Yea Nezuko beating the sun and Inosuke shifting his organs was contrived but eh, shounen gonna shounen.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:12:53 AM No.280351015
>>280350523
Editors are mainly there to help proof read and run ideas through an author and help piece together a coherent story. Some editors do steer original ideas into a direction that is so far off the original idea and you can tell its because they wanted to copy what worked before (JJK and the school setting and not team 7).
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:13:25 AM No.280351032
>>280350712
COVID. People were stuck in their homes and had nothing to do so a lot of people turned to reading manga. Demon Slayers sales specifically skyrocketed because after episode 16 or something articles started getting written about it because of its animation and direction. It was already the most popular anime at the time, so it makes sense people would turn to demon slayer specifically.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:16:08 AM No.280351109
>>280350712
How is it not boring? Aside from the flashing lights and loud noises in the anime designed to make dopamine fly, what does it really have?
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:26:36 AM No.280351405
>>280351109
In my opinion, the way it handles legacies and what it means to be human. Yorrichi is one of the best written strongest characters because he himself was a failure. He failed to kill Muzan, he failed to protect his family, he was kicked out of the corps he started, his brother abandoned humanity, but his breathing techniques carried on and branched off into the main defense against demons. He left a small family with the dance of the fire gods and that dance got passed down from generation to generation until it reached Tanjiro. Mind you, no body knew this man's name or that he even really existed or even his name. He became lost in history. The only people that really knew him was Muzan. Thats just one of the ways its core themes show up and I thought it was beautiful.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:29:26 AM No.280351487
>>280351032
It makes sense sure but again, thats thanks to the animation boosting it, not the animation being the only thing people cared about. Manga doesnt have animation.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 2:29:59 AM No.280351505
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:02:06 AM No.280352405
>>280351505
Where is the pic of her being choked out?
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:03:28 AM No.280352439
>>280334928 (OP)
I think the manga is better than the anime. To much padding and flashing lights
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:18:25 AM No.280352812
>>280334928 (OP)
it's good, but very generic. the final fantasy 7 of modern anime
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:27:23 AM No.280353050
>>280334928 (OP)
>>280335004
Honestly I'm a bit disappointed by the anime because post S1 they basically got access to a huge budget and have only used it to add more inbetweens and compositing effects. I guess it just shows that Utotable's not really a stylistic studio that has art directors or key animators that want to do more with colors and cinematography. I know this will be an unpopular opinion since smoother animation = good enough for most people but even JJK's team is more ambitious. Like they clearly dropped the ball with Sukuna's fight in S2 but that's a situation where I think if they had the time and budget it could've been an unbelievable segment, whereas with Demon Slayer they have all the budget to pull off crazy shit but are doing things by the book.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:29:18 AM No.280353090
>>280353050
Demon Slayer: But every fight is animated like naruto vs pain
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 3:38:50 AM No.280353314
>>280353050
Bothers me in the anime, that after the Tengen vs Gyutaro fight (which was great) they started copying and overusing the "sword slashes everywhere" effect when clashing. Made sense with Gyutaro's weapon and Tengen's speed but it doesnt hit the same same outside that context.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 4:58:38 AM No.280354991
>>280353314
Here's hoping the upper moon 1 fight doesnt fall into that trap.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:35:46 AM No.280355687
>>280334928 (OP)
I go back and forth. I think it's success is super overblown. It's the simplest of simple stories, however it ended when the big bad died. That's pretty good. It stuck to its premise from start to finish. It's ok, not great. Something that slop aspires to be.