I just watched Kimetsu no Yaiba: Infinity Castle, and I honestly can’t even begin to describe how it feels. The visuals are breathtaking, every scene feels like a work of art. The way the animation flows, the lighting, the detail, it’s on another level. The emotional weight, the character moments, and the intensity of the fights hit so hard. You’re completely immersed. The whole experience made me remember why Anime is so goddamn good. Like FUCK! This is Anime

Slenjiro

>>280797183
Man, they have been using that mannequin since Naruto The Last. Do they realize it looks ugly as sin?

reminder that KnY is the quintessential japanese folklore, if you have KnY you hate Japan and Anime culture

>>280796970 (OP)
I don't care about Adobe After Effects Slayer
>>280797771
Adobe After Effects Slayer is about as much "folklore" to Japanese mythology as Monty Python and the Holy Grail is
In other words, nothing

>>280797401
Have anymore lore on this cursed mannequin?

>>280796970 (OP)
Giyu and I always wanted to come home to our wives bathing with each other, bros.

>>280796970 (OP)
what fights does it cover fully and at what point does it end?

>>280797946
This. Demon Slayer is just a bog standard shounen battle manga wrapped in Taisho era aesthetics but never actually uses the time period the story is set. Most of the story takes place in a forest or running in corridors
Characters are modeled on shounen tropes, not traditional Japanese mythological archetypes
Also the demons in Demon Slayer aren't Oni like in Japanese folklore the slightest bit, they're just vampires Japanese paint

>>280797965
Apparently, it's called Nana-Chan. Has been around for a while

>>280798150
There are many filler fights with the Demon Slayers NPCs and Hashira but the main fights are

>Shinobu Vs UM2 with a bit of Kanao
>Zenitzu Vs MU4
>Tanjiro/Giyu Vs UM3

Ends in the middle of chapter 157

>>280797183
The puttees are such a classic aesthetic.

>>280796970 (OP)
based bro! glad you enjoyed

>>280799186
stop talking to yourself samefag

>>280796970 (OP)
Does Giyuu finally show something that can be considered a personality? He's ao fucking boring. Can't imagine a movie centered around him. He is disliked by others.

>>280799231
Rude

My ugly and gay best friend that none of the other Hashira likes.

>>280799326
Shut up Shinobu. You're dead.

>>280799326
Shinobu go back to poisoning yourself

So what's the likelyhood we only get Douma next movie and Kokushibo in the third one?

Actuals
https://x.com/mantanweb/status/1947486010948059395?s=46

>>280800756
Zero, if they were cutting it anywhere but the obvious places (after akaza and after koku) they would have rearranged some fights

They'll probably push the big epilogue to a tv special with lesser animation but I think that will be all

Would be funnier if this was a brothel

Mine and Kanao-chan's husbandos.

Damn, Infinity Castle made all this money BEFORE it got an IMAX release.
I am not the biggest fan of the manga, but anyone pretending it has not achieved a legendary status in terms of popularity is kidding themselves.
>>280796970 (OP)
You are overselling it, people who watched the camrips say it pales in comparison to the Fate trilogy.

This brat must live for all of us, so that I could continue to spank her for saying that I'm the Hashira that nobody likes.

>>280803560
? The fate trilogy is shit if you actually read the source
They butchered it and the staff working at ufo clearly has bias for one of the girls

>>280799186
>>280796970 (OP)
lol.
truly a franchise for mouthbreathers and 12 year olds.

>the Black Clover faggot just accidentally made my point for me while trying to flex
Lol thanks.
>>280803560
>Infinity Castle made all this money BEFORE it got an IMAX release.
Wrong. It launched with IMAX, 4DX, MX4D, Dolby Cinema: the full premium format war chest on Day 1. Multiple Yahoo Japan and Toho cinema scheduling reports confirm this. In fact, a huge chunk of the opening day headlines came from how many premium screen showings it monopolized. So unless you're living in an alternate dimension, you just flat-out faceplanted into misinformation.
>anyone pretending it has not achieved a legendary status in terms of popularity is kidding themselves.
In Japan, it's a phenomenon. To the rest of the world, it's just another bog standard shounen battle manga and thry're a dime a dozen. Anyway, no one is denying that Demon Slayer is huge in Japan. I certainly never did. BUT, here's the nuance that you underage fans can’t grasp: being extremely popular =/= being in an unprecedented phenomenon state forever.

Mugen Train was lightning in a bottle:
>A post-anime boom continuation
>Peak pandemic vacuum
>No competition
>Cultural moment status
>Normie and non-anime crossover appeal
>Slow-burn legs for over a year
Infinity Castle is:
>A hardcore fan drop
>Part 1 out of 3 of a trilogy
>Frontloaded like a K-pop album drop
>Oversaturated with premium formats to secure headlines
>Running headfirst into summer competition within two weeks

Second, this entire spectacle ONLY makes Mugen Train look god-tier in hindsight. In fact, Mugen Train is FAR more impressive than Infinity Castle if we talk value, legs, and legacy.

Mugen Train:
>No IMAX saturation gimmicks
>No national holiday launch
>No bundled merch or 18 screenings per day
>Just raw demand, and held screens for months
>Went from fan hit to mainstream phenomenon to a generational legend
And most importantly: ¥40.4B at a time when the yen was ~108 to 1 USD = $370M+ domestic alone. Compare that to Infinity Castle: even if it hits ¥30B, at today's rate (¥158-160/USD) that's only ~$190M.

Same local success in yen, drastically less impact in global metrics. And general public are already saying stuff like this movie is "too long," "three parts," etc. Even Japanese box office analysts are saying it won't repeat Mugen Train’s trajectory.

This isn't some massive L for Demon Slayer, it's still big in Japan. But it's no longer historic. It's just successful and that spotlights just how rare and untouchable Mugen Train really was.

TL;DR: Infinity Castle needs every screen, every boost, every holiday, just to maybe match half of Mugen Train's raw flex.

Third, legs are WAY more important than opening. Any cinephile and any amateur box office analyst would you tell that. Opening weekend is just hype. It tells you how big your fanbase is, how well your marketing worked, and how many people were waiting for your movie. But that's not box office dominance, that's just the launch. If your movie drops 60%+ in Week 2, all that hype just burned out.

Legs is the cultural penetration. Legs (i.e., how well a movie holds week after week) reflect:
>General audience appeal
>Word of mouth
>Rewatchability
>Low competition survival
Mugen Train was a once-in-a-generation outlier because it had both:
>A monstrous opening
>And unreal legs (weeks and weeks of minimal drop-off during a pandemic with no competition)
Most movies don't get both. And Infinity Castle is fan-heavy, frontloaded, and will struggle to hold once Week 3 hits, especially with Jurassic World and other blockbusters waiting to cannibalize screens.

Hell, Jurassic World: Rebirth is crushing the long game. ~$648M in 18 days is fantastic. And it's racking for $700M+ this weekend and possibly $800M+ too. THAT'S legs. Why? Because normalfags, not just die-hard dino fans, are showing up week after week. That's how a movie goes from "hit" to "monster." Even Japanese fans are concerned Jurassic World will cut Infinity Castle's box office short. The fanboys screaming "WE WON!" on Day 1 are just underage children (like the vast majority of Demon Slayer fans) who think races end at the starting line.

i like kimetsu no yaiba

>>280805466
We know that, samefag. Still not gonna make Mugen Train numbers, not even close.

Chensobros...where's our freaky mannequin

Masterpiece no yaiba the greatest of all time

>>280805612
based

>>280805694
>he's replying to himself in his dead thread
Pathetic. But cute.

>>280798227
You know what else was shounen set in the Taisho period? Kenshin. Does anyone seriously think KnY in any way whatsoever seriously competes with KENSHIN? Fuck off. Although it’s not a movie and just an OVA series, compare the artistry and talent of Trust & Betrayal to this flashing lights CGI slowmo shitfest and seriously with a straight face tell me it’s not vastly superior in terms of visual impact, story-telling, emotion, etc. I can’t believe zoomers are this fucking hopeless that I even have to educate them about shounen legends like Kenshin as they go ga-ga over this trash.

>>280805745
Didnt read
Kinometsu mogs all
Fact

>>280798443
>UM4
>one-shotted
I don’t understand Muzan’s selection criterion. Does he put ones he likes in the UM, and that’s all there is to it?

>>280805612
Undisputed truth

>>280804700
Are you the Shinobufag from past threads? How did you like the movie

>>280805745
I doubt Tetsuya Chiba author of Ashita no Jo read Kenshin, and he's far from being a "zoomer".

Just watched the movie. The Demon Slayer movies really are just regular Demon Slayer episodes but with the CGI and effects turned up to 11.
The animation isn't any better outside of having 10x more slow motion shots, and 10x more CGI explosions. You'd expect better from them for the finale, but I guess more of the same is what we're getting, and thats okay if you're already happy with what the anime has been giving us.
Though don't be tricked by people calling it a cinematic masterpiece. That's just the usual cinema bias that you get because of watching something on a larger screen with surround sound (The reason why people called Dandadan and Bleach "movie quality" when the early screenings happened), it looks the same as it always did besides the massive panning shots of large CGI areas, and the explosion/effects violating your eyes the entire time.

>>280805933
The kny anime is already a cinematic masterpiece
I watched mugen and im going to see this at least twice

>>280805930
Tetsuya Chiba is not the author box Ashita no Joe, he's just an artist. And him reading KnY doesn't mean shit, it just means that Japan, like any other country, is full of normalfags with shit taste who hate exiting their comfort zones. Japan is the same country that dismissed Shogun that's one of the best portrayals of feudal Japan and the best jidaigeki we had in decades simply because it wasn't made in Japan. The same countrt where Hiroyuki Sanada the modern day Toshiro Mifune had to leave Japan and was more valued in the West because Takuya Kimura dominated the Japanese film industry.

Plus, Tetsuya Chiba is just a mangaka. Him reading KnY means nothing, just like it doesn't mean anything with Togashi. He's not an auteur like Miyazaki who dismisses your favorite bog standard shounen battle manga.

>>280805970
We're aware you're going to see it again anon, you've made it obvious by samefagging this entire thead. Didn't need you to confirm if for us.

>>280805773
Kaigaku had absolutely zero thought put into him. Zenitsu just needed an opponent that was "personal" to him for the final battle. Same with how Inosuke was hastily tied to Doma last minute.

>>280805979
Why are you pretending to be pretentious when you dickride different flavor of normalfag slop like one piss, dragon shit, my cuck academia?

>>280805979
Japan has simply don't give a shit about outside world, a trend that started to effect since 2013

>>280805993
Kinometsu big dick lives rent free in ur mind and ur moms pussy kek

Aniplex getting two historic anime movies and the biggest film in kokhou both back to back
Sony breaking records

>>280806088
haha rack em

If Tanjiro met UM1, would he smell the family relation to himself?

>>280806088
KEK

>>280806137
Theres no family relation
He only has the earrings

>>280806111
Somehow this is bad because big bad Aniplex and TOHO manipulating the screens, not because hollywood movies are flopping and getting their screen reduced, god forbid a country prioritize their domestic market interest.

>>280806230
Its not even them prioritizing. They are the only movies who make money so it makes sense
China does even worse as they dont have contracts like the us and simply cut it to death if it doesn’t perform

>>280806215
I thought the Sun Breathing shit was genetic? Can anyone just pick it up? I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works, hence the earrings, hence the mark, hence the spirit fire dance, hence his sister being Demon Jesus, etc.

>>280806302
No its taught by yoriichi
Yoriichi simply holds the ultimate form and can do anything other breath.
Tanjiro learned it from his father. Along with taking the earnings
The demon mark isnt genetic. All slayers get it at some point. Tanjiro was the first to unlock it in the recent batch of slayers

>>280806326
Okay. And Nezoku is Demon Jesus because…?

>>280806355
Eaten the flower or her body gotten used to the sun (superior genetics)

>>280805537
2 more months!

>>280806302
>Can anyone just pick it up?
people whose blades turn black are sun users
that's why they said those with black blades die young
because they were never able to fight at there full potential because no one other than Tanjirou knows it

>>280805933
>The animation isn't any better outside of having 10x more slow motion shots,
>the same as it always did besides the massive panning shots of large CGI area
Dude, the anime wishes it had something on the level of Akaza vs Gayuu

>>280805363
>And most importantly: ¥40.4B at a time when the yen was ~108 to 1 USD = $370M+ domestic alone. Compare that to Infinity Castle: even if it hits ¥30B, at today's rate (¥158-160/USD) that's only ~$190M.
No, that's the least important part, in fact.
>oh the yen is weaker so even if there's similar demand it made less
From the person who said it was borderline dead and people were fatigued.
Can't wait until it breaks its own record, again.

The Big 3? There's only BIG ME!

>>280807022
>10 million/volume all but confirmed
>highest quality shonen adaptation in existence will never be topped
Kimetsu won so hard it's not even funny and it sends jeremy in a shitposting frenzy.

This wall of text shit will continue for like what a year till a new one comes out?

>>280807037
>Kimetsu won so hard
I start to believe god exists and he's doing all this to troll Jeremy

>>280807054
I mean, his cope has already moved to
>well, the yen is weaker so it'll make less money
which is admitting he was wrong.

>>280807091
Part 2 is likely going to do less which means he'll have a field day with that
Unless the powers that be truly hate him and love croc so much, we might see a miracle
Though I doubt that

>>280807127
Part 2 will probably be the one performing the least in general, it happens.
Koku is great, but Tanjiro and tomioka are bigger draws, Akaza is getting a shitton of love now from animeonlies.

>>280806971
I dont know man, I definitely liked it, it was one of the best fights of KNY, but Tengen vs Gyutaro was in the same range of animation quality and choreography (besides the use of more CG in the case of Akaza vs Giyuu).
It didnt wow me compared to what we've seen in the previous seasons + Mugen Train. It felt like more of the same.

>>280807153
>Tengen vs Gyutaro was in the same range of animation quality
Not even close, and I mean it.
Especially Gyuutaro and Tengen quickly turns into the super slashing, Akaza's part just goes on and on, the mark into four into seven kata part is the best thing ufo has done, in general.

>>280807153
IF is way better though. Better choreography aside from Zenitsu, we get to see the breath as a sword play and not magic. Shinobi's is a clear example
Giyu vs Akaza has stunning animation

>>280807139
Can't wait for Jeremy shitposts

>>280806302
Not quite genetic because the kamados have an affinity for it because they've done the hinokami kagura for generations and lived on the land Jesus Christ's wife and son are buried at.

>>280805745
>You know what else was shounen set in the Taisho period? Kenshin.
Kenshin is set in the Meiji era. It's in the title.

>>280806302
They already mentioned other people with BotS and people with black sword (suitable for BotS)

>>280807153
The fight is leaked and its way better than rld
Rld final fight is mostly slashing spam

>>280807385
RLD finale is basically zenitsu level AKA the least good fight of the bunch.

My brother was so upset and disgusted by Shinobu's death that he stood up, did a 360, and almost walked out of the room, but then he sat back down. He used to hate Akaza the most but now he hates Doma the most and claims Akaza is one of the best Demons in the anime.
And when he saw Kaigaku was the new Upper Moon Six he said "so there are five other Upper Moons?" which makes me really hope Ufotable creates an anime only Upper Moon 5, because it was always weird that spot was vacant for some reasons, but Nakime gets UM4 spot

>>280807410
That's because he's a special needs shitter and Koku asked Muzan to give him an UM rank.

>>280807178
>Not even close, and I mean it.
Now it feels like you're exaggerating for the hell of it.
It genuinely felt like regular Ufo stuff.
After nearly a decade of the Heaven's Feel Movies + the entirety of KNY, their style of Ultra4K HDR OLED 7.1 IMAX unicorn puke visuals are getting kinda samey to my eyes.

>>280806326
>>280807264
NTA, was there even a reason to not make Tanjiro's family related to him? Feels like it's a subverted expectations thing that just ended up lame compared to doing the usual thing. I hate that. He looks like him already. Why even have him be related to some other guy that fanboyed over him? So unnecessary.

>>280807438
Naw, Muzan wouldn't promote someone who he didn't think actually deserved it. He slaughtered 4//6 of the lower moons because he was on his period.

>>280807467
Because that was the point.
Making it a blood feud would unironically diminish the message, Yoriichi met a nice family, taught them the dance and it got passed down through generations, because that's what's important.

>>280796970 (OP)
Bait used to mean something

>>280807467
this
>>280807491
it is also the total opposite of Muzan and Upper Moon 1

>>280807467
The way Wani drew their eyes was different from the beginning.

>>280807467
Kimetsu is about LEGACY, not blood.
And the ironic blood death was koku, who got murdered thanks to his sole living descendant, who he killed so that's it.
Meanwhile yoriichi's legacy lives on through the kamados.

>>280807491
But what do you think about the fan theory that Tanjiro is a reincarnation of Yorichi? His unconscious mind we see in Mugen Train and it's pretty zen and peaceful, almost Godlike with the little orange sprite beings.

>>280807467
Yorrichi does not look like tanjiro
Its koku that looks like him

>>280807566
That would be his dad, the guy who was 24/7 in the see through world and was EXTREMELY talented.

>>280807566
Tanjiro is a shitter compared to most hashira
And the top tier hashira struggled against koku
Yoriichi almost one shot demon koku as an old man
Hes not reincarnation of him at all

>>280807586
We dont know how powerful tanjuro is
Killing a bear is different than um
All hashira would one shot the bear too

>>280807616
The pillars all had formal sword training and breathing styles.
Tanjuuro was a charcoal man who somehow had access to the see through world, and took on a bear despite being almost dead.

>>280807586
Huh? Then why wasn't his dad a badass demon slayer?

>>280807635
You'd need to know demons exist and that an organization that hunts them does too.
He was also too busy plapping his wife.

>>280807566
>Tanjiro is a reincarnation of Yorichi
That's pretty dumb. He was waiting for everything to be over. He finally reincarnated with his wife and child in the epilogue
If you didn't see him in epilogue, it means you didn't read the real ending

>>280807679
What made him sick? How can he be talented? Tengen proved that if you're strong enough you can breathe away cancer and shit.

>>280807717
I still think he had mark aids.

>>280807717
either mark aid or he got Japanese flu

>>280807714
>the epilogue
>everyone gets reincarnated into very similar looking faces/bodies and gets the fairy tail slice of life modern anime ending they always wanted, and also Tanjiro's great-great-grand-son gets to bang his third cousin, Nezuko's great-great-grand daughter

>>280807842
>meanwhile tanjiro's lookalike is a second son who wants to take it SUPER EASY AND LAZE AROUND while he's gay with rengoku's brother's descendants
Tanjirou REALLY wanted out, feels like.

>>280807842
>everyone gets reincarnated
Tengen is in hell

>>280806302
Anyone can learn any Breath Styles. The problem is that each person only compatible with one Style and the key part of their training is to find the Style that suit them the most.

>>280807467
A central theme of KnY is legacy, what you left behind once you die and immortality throught deeds rather than flesh. Muzan seek immortality but only for himself and once he die, no one remember about him, he left nothing on Earth. Meanwhile Yoriichi saved countless people during his time, each of those people would go on and give birth to the next generation. Yoriichi might die but his legacy live on through the people he helped and the art he created.

Why didnt gotouge make it clear that tanjiro died at 25?

>>280807959
Decided to avoid hard confirming if they all would die.
But wani DID confirm his bloodline was horny as shit.

>>280807001
>No, that's the least important part
LMAO. You stupid underage child. The ENTIRE WORLD measures global box office dominance in USD. That's not an opinion, it's how the international industry functions. Studios don't market "¥40B worldwide!" They don't give a shit how many toy capsule coins you made in Tokyo, they care about global impact. The USD is the scoreboard, period. Saying "conversion doesn't matter" is like saying "points don't matter in a basketball game." Delusional.
>From the person who said it was borderline dead and people were fatigued.
Yes and what is happening?
>A giant, explosive opening fueled by holiday marketing, premium format saturation, and bundling.
>Core fans showing up hard on opening weekend.
>But signs already appearing (even in Japan) that legs will not match Mugen Train.
>Fanbase concentrated in frontloaded events.
>General audience already showing less crossover appeal.
That is fatigue. Not collapse. Not flop. Just diminishing returns after peak saturation, exactly like Weathering With You after Your Name. The franchise still draws. But it's no longer an untouchable, cross-demo juggernaut.
>Can't wait until it breaks its own record, again.
The record it's breaking is Day 1 admissions, rofl. It used holiday placement and format inflation to spike short-term numbers. Again: opening day isn't everything. If it doesn't sustain, and the general public drops off after Week 2, you're left with the exact thing I predicted:
>Huge frontload.
>Burned momentum.
>Strong domestic, but not leggy enough to match 2020¿
>Lower global due to exchange rate and no China.
You can scream "m-muh record!!" all you want, so did The Flash.

>>280807959
It's better to left it ambiguous. Tanjirou might passed peacefully surrounded by love one or he might face the tragedy of WW2

>>280807959
The point of the timeskip and setting everything 100 years ago is that nobody got out alive. You, the reader, are also going to die.

>>280807959
So people could theorize that Tanjiro survives past 26 because of the regeneration of his body with Muzan's blood, and so Tanjiro gets an added 20 years of fertility period to pump Kanao full of babies.

>>280807917
Fine, but why is Sun Breathing incredibly special and unique among the Breaths? Tanjiro just randomly showed up compatible because of luck or something? Earrings are totally irrelevant? Fire dancing is just a funny coincidence?

>>280807054
>>280807091
>he samefags again
Lol. You're pathetic. Also, you're not actually arguing anything anymore. You're just mad the yen won't carry your bragging rights across borders anymore like in 2020. I gave realistic projections, they're still holding up very well. Especially when the Japanese say Jurassic World will be trouble for Demon Slayer. It's one of the few Western franchises that performs well in Japan. It CAN and it WILL make Demon Slayer bleed. You just gave fantasy football numbers, and you're already rewriting history to cope.

Day 1 isn't everything. ¥ doesn't translate to clout if the currency’s in freefall. Infinity Castle is successful, but it's not 2020. And deep down, you know I'm right.

>>280807054
Yes, and the year after that. The focus of his life until he dies.

>>280808020
>why is Sun Breathing incredibly special and unique among the Breaths
Because sword jesus used it. You can replace it with anything and that will be regarded as special if it's used by sword jesus. People for the longest time believe red blade is exclusive to BotS when in reality it isn't.

>>280808054
See:
>>280808040
You're not as slick as you think you are with your samefaggotry. You're pathetic (but cute).

Quit spamming the catalog Jeremy.

>>280808020
>why is Sun Breathing incredibly special and unique among the Breaths?
Partly due to red herring. Yoriichi was the original Sun Breathing master and he was so legendary that everyone though his style must be something special. The fact that he didn't teach anyone and no one else learn it after he died only turn it into legendary status. Yoriichi however advised against this mindset as he believed that everyone has their own strong point and one should just pursuit what they are good at rather than chasing him.
>Tanjiro just randomly showed up compatible because of luck or something?
Because Tanjirou learned it since he was young like every first sons in his family. It's tradition that the oldest male took up the dance.
>Earrings are totally irrelevant?
It's the gift that Yoriichi left behind as a token of friendship between him and Tanjirou's ancestor.

>>280808040
>Day 1 isn't everything.
And day 5 performed better than day one's conan movie.
> ¥ doesn't translate to clout if the currency’s in freefall.
Who cares.
>You're just mad the yen won't carry your bragging rights across borders anymore like in 2020.
Litreally you are the only one who cares about this.
By the way, current projections are at least 20 billion by obon and over 30 billion before it ends.
Which is WAY above your
>200 million worldwide tops bro!
Which is the hill you've chosen to die on, when it's on route to do like 300 million ww (now imagine if the yen wasn't on freefall, you'd seethe to death, because the movie wouldn't magically be less successful)
Also nice of you to acknowledge how hard it was for MT to get that box office because covid was shit for theaters.

>>280808072
But it carried Tanjiro didn't it? Everyone says he's weak, if he didn't have sun he'd be even weaker.

>>280796970 (OP)
You know, watching this now I don't really understand how Akaza started getting flashbacks. It just seems so random: What actually triggered them? Did he suffer brain damage from the fight or something?
I mean the man was a fucking killing machine with infinite stamina. He could have just kept spamming attacks until they both died, basically (then again I guess all demons are like that.)
It's just so weird to think that this is the second time they met him and it's already the final fight.

>>280808136
It was the only style that fit him.
It's not like sun is the absolute strongest, it's just the fundamental one and the strongest character in the whole story used it, but he was basically sent by the gods to eradicate muzan.

>>280807981
Kimetsu mogs

>>280808115
Other people besides the Kamados knew the breath of the sun forms at one point, but Koku and Muzan aggressively hunted and killed them until they believed they'd exterminated all knowledge of it.

>>280808136
Because he was using Water Style, a Style that doesn't fit him and he can't utilize it full power.

>>280806013
To be completely honest I felt kind of bad for Kaigaku. The poor guy didn't really have a choice, and I would be annoyed as fuck if perpetual failson and simp Zenitsu was my partner too.
Like I dunno, isn't wanting to survive at all cost showing that bootstraps mentality
I mean he had to fight Upper Moon One, it's not like anyone would've done better in that situation (other than to scream like a little girl while dying horribly.)

>>280808154
Tanjiro was giving him flashbacks, because his speech is the exact same his master gave him.
And Akaza was projecting.

>>280808020
It was made by the guy who was basically put on Earth to kill Muzan.

>>280808178
>(other than to scream like a little girl while dying horribly.)
... you are supposed to take that instead of turning into a brainwashed man eating demon, yes.
Kaigaku failed the most basic corps test.

>>280808154
Tanjiro contradicting Akaza's survival of the fittest spiel and saying the law of nature is for the strong to nurture the weak cut through his self-delusions, since Hakuji loved helping his father and Koiyuki and had heard something similar from his teacher

>>280808178
>The poor guy didn't really have a choice
Yes he did. The choice was to try fighting him, even if he died trying. He would've actually had a legacy in that case, as Zenitsu would be motivated to avenge him, and Gramps would be still be alive to guide him through that. But because he became a demon, he gets nothing. This message is repeatedly emphasized in the story; how is this hard to get?

>>280808200
Yeah but how did Kaigaku even pass the test when he (seemingly) couldn't use the breathing thing at all? He killed at least a few demons, right?

>>280808164
But I doubt they know the full version. Like the Kamado keep the most complete version.
>>280808154
The closer the demons to its death, the less grip Muzan has on them which allow Akaza to regain his memory and more importantly, his sense of honor. He accept that Tanjirou won that fight by delivery the killing blow and as a martial artist, cheating death to win is dishonor.

>>280808218
He could use every form except for the first one.

>>280806051
>one piss, dragon shit, my cuck academia?
They're all slop, but they all have something distinctive and a redeeming quality unlike Demon Slayer.
>One Piece
Has an intricate worldbuilding right down to an autistic detail. Oda's ability to foreshadow events sometimes two decades in advance is probably the series greatest aspect. Demon Slayer has no worldbuilding and the author is terrible at foreshadowing (like Tamayo/Shinobu's asspull poison).
>Dragon Ball
Is drawn by a talented artist with a fantastic sense of composition and paneling. The fight choreography alone puts it above every other battle shounen slop. Demon Slayer's manga art sucks donkey balls and looks like it was drawn by a 10-year-old child. The fights are even more atrocious and reads like a PowerPoint presentation because the talentless hack can't communicate the action through the art.
>MHA
The god-tier art and porn are the only redeeming qualities. The author is a hack, but he's maxed out his drawing skills and he can actually draw attractive female characters. The Demon Slayer hack can't draw attractive females to save his life life. They all look like Naruto OCs you'd find on DeviantArt. It also has zero good porn, all of it is gay porn with Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke or the autistic Water Hashira. In this respect, MHA beats Demon Slayer for having better spank material.

>>280808212
It's mostly that Zenitsu fucking sucks, despite seemingly being destined for the greatest compatibility with Thunder Breathing.

>>280808178
Yeah I always thought the Kaigaku bit was a little twisted, a child selling out his family so he doesn't get torn to shreds is pretty understandable and if his survival at all costs personality sprang from that you can't really blame him even if it's very ugly. I think you could still have the same plot but just have a tinge of melancholy about it instead of just pure yeah fuck that guy

>>280808156
>>280808171
I like Sound. I want to use Sound. My favorite pillar uses it. He has three wives.

>>280808136
He's weak compared to Tanjuro or Yoriichi, but he's still pretty talented in general.

>>280808251
He was only in the situation because he was caught stealing from the orphanage. Dude was a prick through and through.

>>280808231
He was an orphaned loser and coward who was roped into the whole thing. But he still tried his best because he finally found a family, a teacher who was devoted to him, and a senpai he looked up to. Zenitsu was never destined for anything, he never even unlocked the mark. He mastered the shit out of the first form, as Gramps instructed him to, and created a new one, not even for himself, but to fight along with Kaigaku. Zenitsu is a great character, and normalfags are literally filtered by him. Kimetsu is a simple story with simple characters, but /a/ genuinely has issues comprehending it.

>>280808251
>I think you could still have the same plot but just have a tinge of melancholy about it instead of just pure yeah fuck that guy
It's more that we don't really know much about him I guess

>>280808231
Everything I've read says the movie did my boy Zenitsu dirty with his big attack. Barely animated, no fanfare compared to all the other fights. That pisses me off.

>>280808298
It had fanfare and all that, but it was less good than the other two fights, simple as.
And Shinobu and Akaza/Tomioka deserved it more.

>>280808308
>Shinobu
No
>Tomioka
Fuck no

>>280796970 (OP)
If nothing else, I really liked how the movie communicated how implacable the demons felt. I mean they just keep growing back their limbs, fighting Akaza is a nightmare. You chop off his arms and he just gets it back a second later.
Then he throws you headfirst through like three pillars and have a building, and you lose your kidney and most of your lung.
Like he doesn't even need martial arts at that point, he just needs to keep hitting you until you keel over from attrition.

>>280808388
>last stand
>his one fight
Yes?

>>280808298
>>280808388
Just be glad it doesn't end up like SakaDays anime

i think KNY can make 200 Millions dollar internationally (exclude japan)
even tho many still think its only make 100-150M.

>>280808231
The fable structure is that Zenitsu only has the first form and Kaigaku has every other form while being more virtuous in almost every way - he's hard working, ambitious, and tough. But he doesn't want to help and be loved by other people, and Zenitsu does, and if you don't have the first step right all the rest are for nothing.

>>280807566
WRONG
Tanjiro is the reincarnation of Yoriichi’s unborn child.

>>280808401
This is Zenitsu's one big moment. He deserved a good scene. He doesn't do anything after this. He's also more popular than the other two combined. It's completely fucked. They fucked up.

>>280808492
>more popular than the other two combined.
PLease don't use a couple manga polls as proof of anything, anon.
He already got more than enough in the anime seasons.

>>280808286
Zenitsu isn't even a genuine coward at the end of the day. He protected Nezuko against Inosuke despite not even knowing what was inside that box; all he knew was that it was extremely precious to Tanjirou. Meanwhile, Kaigaku had zero qualms about becoming a demon, consequences be damned, just so he could still live. Wani really is an underrated writer.

>>280808298
its 1.5 chapter in the manga. who cares. i am glad that zenitsu fight didnt become the headliner that everyone talk. as its supposed to be.

>>280808503
>He already got more than enough in the anime seasons.
All while he was asleep. The meaning of this fight is the climax of everything for him, and yes he's a main character and a popular character. The other two are side characters. It's a huge fucking mistake. Too late to do anything obviously but I will never not br angry about this.

>>280808561
>i am glad that zenitsu fight didnt become the headliner that everyone talk. as its supposed to be.
Oh right let's try to have the emotionless boring plank of wood try to carry the emotional highlights of the movie instead. Wait.

>>280808580
The pillars are co-equal characters to the sidekicks and nezuko by the end of infinite fortress.

>>280808580
fck off then. you dont even see it yet,. pre hating is dumb and useless

>>280808594
No, Hakuji was, as intended.

>>280808580
I think it looks good
I watched that on a regular screen and IMAX
Just be grateful that it looks better than 99% of shit in the market, anon. There are character fags who got/will get it worse than you trust me

>>280808594
did you even read any reaction or not??its still emotional movie and all. even hyperbole like left crying, become the headline. dont think that about zenitsu fight in the beginning.

>>280808594
This is Akaza's movie

>>280796970 (OP)
Hey bros, how was the OST? Any new songs? Do they reuse the remix from the sea of clouds and haze scene again, or would that be for next movie? The sea of clouds and haze part was my favorite remix of the corps theme but the fight it was used in was disappointing. Sword village was disappointing in general I guess.

This is the best scene btw

>>280808298
Yeah funnily enough it wasn't even the best looking Zenitsu "finishing move" in the anime.
I think its fair to say, nobody coming out of this movie will be talking about Zenitsu's fight, lets put it that way.

>>280808760
Why was his backstory straight out of a Uziga Waita guro story? Seriously, read Boxer by Uziga Waita. It's the same story.

>>280808781
What do you mean straight out of? There are just some vague similarities. You can do this kind of thing with almost any story.

>>280808760
congrats to the /a/ TL for that scene, "welcome home, my husband" hits better than every other shitty TL of it I've seen

also "let's begin the feast" is so much better than "let's get this party started" I got whiplash

>>280796970 (OP)
buy an add

>>280808810
You read it too? What do you think? I hope the girl survived even with her titty stabbed through and her pussy smashed open. They just said she was unresponsive, not dead. She deserves to make it out of there alive.

>>280808827
>welcome home, my husband
Hearing her saying "anata" on screen is something else. Hit really hard. Great scene.

>>280808695
The Marked Giyu theme was sweet.

>>280796970 (OP)
I'm so glad this one was directed the way it was, the end result was beautiful.

>>280808695
I like the piano ones

>>280808665
>Just be grateful that it looks better than 99% of shit in the market, anon
Its fucking Ufotable, anon, this is a given and not even worth mentioning.
Saying that at least it looks better than random isekai sloppa (which is most anime coming out currently) isn't as comforting as you think it is.
Talking crap about a scene in a Ufo project just means that its wasn't as good as other Ufo scenes, which is a totally fair criticism. They can do better.

>>280808913
It looks better than what Harlot got in her own arc. He already has his moment in RLD and more. He got it better than a handful of characters in the series. Bet he might get it better than Kanao kek

>>280808760
if your favorite mangaka couldn't draw the same emotion between the first panel and the last panel, they don't draw as well as Gotouge

Is Urokodaki mentioned? I like his voice actor a lot. I feel he's an early character that got left behind by the advancing story but I still want to consider him important.

>>280809022
He has a scene. No shit his voice is in the trailer, anon

I just loved the voiceacting direction when Shinobu shows she's wearing her sister's haori. Flashback Kanae attacking Douma was also beautifully done.

>>280808086
Nice try, I don't make Demon Slayer threads because I'm not interested in talking about Demon Slayer enough to make shitty threads. You're the one who's obsessed with making people care about your dead, irrelevant manga.
Exhibition A:
>>280805018
Exhibition B:
>>280805615
Exhibition C:
>>280806026
Exhibition D:
>>280807060
Exhibition E:
>>280807270

>>280809062
This one fixed everything I don't like in tv series ngl

>>280809079
>I'm not interested in talking about Demon Slayer enough to make shitty threads.
sure

>>280809079
Demon Slayer is your only interest and you're going to act on that every day for the rest of your life.

2 MONTHS AHHHHH. NO IM NOT WATCHING SHITTY CAMRIPS.

>>280809261
Then enjoy the wait and stop whining.

>>280809079
You should spend all this energy on your favorite manga. What you're doing right now is unhealthy, anon.

>>280809269
NEVER

>>280798370
It's actually a landmark in Nagoya Station iirc. It's a rite of passage to look up her skirt

>>280809162
I said exactly what I said, I'm not interested in *making threads* to talk about your shitty, irrelevant manga. I'm only talking about Demon Slayer here, because I HATE Aniplex/Sony. It being badly written is another extra jab.

>>280808492
>He doesn't do anything after this
He attacks Muzan a twice near the end of his fight, with little effect but he does both of his ultimate attacks again still, and delivers a speech to motivate Tanjiro, another chance for the animators to flex or keep it 1:1 with the manga again.

>>280809079
Yet you hate it so much you go into its threads and seethe for your entire day
literally nobody else does this.

>>280809640
>I'm only talking about Demon Slayer here, because I HATE Aniplex/Sony
You could at least TRY with your lies, just a bit.
You realize there's a whole archive of you chilling out at kimetsu, right?

>>280809640
You hate aniplex/sony. Yet only try to cope about kny flopping
when its literally going to bring billions to them.
Sony gets a record breaking quarter after quarter and you can't cope. Kimetsu and sony will forever MOG

>>280808298
Kaigaku really should have had more screen time and had a larger presence in the earlier seasons. Then we might give a damn about his betrayal and fight with Zenitsu. If Kaigaku was at final selection and we got to see him at different points as this kind of gigachad bully character who picks on the other Demon Slayers, then it would be better. Instead all of that is unloaded on us in like 3 minutes of backstory with Zenitsu before he kills him.

Zenitsu versus Gaygoku was the C-tier fight of this movie. All the movies should have a small fight scene between bigger fight scenes. The second movie can have Mitsuri and Obanai versus Nakime (and it can end with them "dying" from Muzan's perspective, but it's just Yushiro's trick). And the third movie could have an anime only fight scene with the retired hashira versus some other demon or UM5. Otherwise the third movie will only have two fight scenes.... Muzan versus everyone and everyone versus DKT.

returned here just to post this gif i made real quick

>>280808231
The fan animation for zenitsu is unironically much better than what ufotable put out

I only hope it won't be the same for koku as the fan animation for it is also great

Please tell me this scene was given justice.

>>280809918
Crippled Tengen fight would be neat

>>280809975
it was great

>>280809975
the whole thing was so good, couldn't take my eyes off the screen and even then my friend said my entire body was moving toward the screen

>>280809918
second movie will end on himejima and sanemi

>>280809945
Akaza's fight is immaculate, because it's the main attraction.
Same with koku.
And Shinobu's was great too so Douma's part will go great

never liked cgi but watching the akaza final scene is such unbelievable kino with how the background looks

>>280809918
Mitsuri and obanai is literally like a chapter on its own. I really hope they don't stretch it
Koku fight + flashbacks alone is 1 hour and a half probably

>>280810144
It was just a few pages wasn't it
Just establishing that they're there so Yushiro can show up later

Hayamin malding was so good. They really outdid the voice direction in this movie.

>>280810310
Ishida>>>>>* as far as the movie goes.
Dude can act for days.

>>280810310
>>280810426
Did they forgive Giyuu for punting a pregnant lady or whatever it is he did

>>280810310
I hope someone makes a youtube video comparing the japanese VA and the dub that people can link to shame people everytime someone says that dubs are good now

>>280810474
They can't really replace him at this point.
And they shouldn't have replaced him in mononoke because he's the character.

>>280810474
He was at this public gathering of voice actors that came out the day before the movie talking about how hard it hit to do the part where Giyuu appreciates how far Tanjiro has come from begging for his sister's life, so he's good enough to do some publicity

So much Kaigaku fan art now

>>280810474
Sakurai is just too big to fall nowadays, plus do you think this is the face of regret?

I really hope digital won't take a year plus like we did for mugen

>>280809684
I'm not seething, I'm scrutinizing. You just can't tell the difference between criticism and coping, because you're too emotionally entangled with the franchise.

Also: you say I'm obsessed while you're writing essays about me. That's not projection, that's full-on worship. You're like my biggest fangirl.
>>280809694
And? You can't criticize something you’re informed about? That's like saying a sports analyst can't break down a team's performance because they watched all the games, rofl.

I've been more right about this film's trajectory than 90% of the screeching fandom. Being familiar with the IP doesn't make my takes invalid, it makes them informed.
>>280809712
Sony's financials aren't your personal W. Demon Slayer making Aniplex/Sony money doesn't mean this movie is untouchable. And I never ever claimed it would flop financially, lmao.

What I said (correctly) was:
>It wouldn’t replicate Mugen Train’s miracle.
>It's frontloaded to hell and back
>The yen collapse kills the international prestige
>The long tail will struggle in a hyper-competitive summer
All of which are playing out exactly as I projected. And no, $200M on a $10–20M production is not a loss, but it’s not unprecedented or culture-defining either. Demon Slayer's no longer a once-in-a-generation boom. It's just another big franchise doing what big franchises do: open big, fade faster. You're just mad I'm not worshipping it like you wants everyone else to.

>>280810048
What do you mean? It ends with the start of the fight? If so, that's a yikes. The second movie is just Doma versus non-Hashira and Nakime getting eye-fucked by Yushiro? The first movie ended with Kokushibo seething about Akaza, so his fight has to come next too. No way third movie is Muzan, Kokushibo, and DKT.

>>280810613
The Mashle/Stark guy sounds like vical equivalent of his son

>>280810652
Nah you're coping at kimetsu mogging everything
Kinometsu won

>>280810674
I'm saying it will end at the end of the koku fight, like screen goes black after Himejima tells sanemi to stand up. Third movie starts with Muzan busting out of the cocoon in blanco mode.

>>280810652
>Being familiar with the IP doesn't make my takes invalid, it makes them informed.
No Jimbo, you are obsessed with it there's a difference. "Informed" people don't spam fanart for months or goad people into killing threads.
>kills the international prestige
Literally only you care about this, after realizing it's doing crazy in Japan
>$200M on a $10–20M
It's going to do 300m+ by the way, biggest international numbers for an anime movie in quite a while too.

>>280810819
Its funny how he went from mugen train was just once ina life time and carried by covid. To being kneecapped by covid and how its a legendary run.
Also even in his cope kimetsu is going to make more money than almost all anime movies.

Reminder only 6 movies in Japan's history broke the 20 billion yen in their original run. And 8 if you count reruns (one piss had to rerun with bonus spam just like they spammed it from day 1 to break the wall).

>>280810912
And current predictions for IF is 10 billion by Friday at the latest because it had a Tuesday on the level of a Conan opening day and 20 billion in less than a month.
Kimetsu is just scary, no wonder everything runs away from it.

>>280810751
Shinobu sounds like she would be Mamiko Noto's daughter

graphics for head on perfomances: so IC still way ahead of MT.

Seeing the "carried by covid" narrative get destroyed in real-time is such a cathartic feeling.

>>280810819
>No Jimbo, you are obsessed with it there's a difference. "Informed" people don't spam fanart for months or goad people into killing threads.
Nice projection, loser. You just described yourself in a sentence meant to roast someone else. Who's the one digging up Reddit profiles? Screenshotting comments like an unmedicated ex-girlfriend? Spamming every admissions update like it's a Super Bowl score? If this were a relationship, you'd be the stalker that can't stop texting "WHO IS SHE?" every time box office trends shift 2%. You're pathetic.
>Literally only you care about this, after realizing it's doing crazy in Japan
Nope. EVERYONE with a brain who analyzes international box office cares about international prestige. You know who else cares?
>Studios (because global prestige boosts licensing, sequels, brand power)
>Distributors (because they use that momentum to bargain in foreign markets)
>Investors (because they measure ROI in USD, not otaku tears)
>Media analysts (because rankings matter more in dollars than in yen)
Saying "only you care about this" is like saying "only you care about profit margins on a business call." It's retarded.
>It's going to do 300m+ by the way, biggest international numbers for an anime movie in quite a while too.
This is where the delusion peaks like Tanjiro's forehead vein. FACTS: ¥20B domestic = ~$125M USD. Even with aggressive overseas, you'd be lucky to scrape $75M–90M internationally. That still puts $200M-$220M as a realistic ceiling, not your fanfiction $300M cope. Want to beat Mugen Train’s $504M? You'd need:
>China (which Infinity Castle isn't even releasing in, dead on arrival)
>Western breakout (not happening, DS fatigue is real outside Asia, JJK, DanDaDan and Solo Leveling are the new hot topic anime)
>Long legs internationally (good luck with summer competition + September dump + month 155-minute runtime)
The only thing this movie is "breaking" is its replay value and maybe your blood pressure.

>>280810996
MT already reach below 1B yen in 4th day, aka first monday. while IC still not even today, tuesday (the worst day of the weeks).
the rest of weekdays forecast, IC still doing better so the gap will keep growing.

>>280811188
such a cope
kimetsu still making bank and you're still a poor virgin living in welfare
who's winning? chadmetsu

>>280811188
>Who's the one digging up Reddit profiles?
Not me, I just need to look in the archive for 2019 you insane schizo.
>FACTS: ¥20B domestic = ~$125M USD. Even with aggressive overseas, you'd be lucky to scrape $75M–90M internationally
And I keep telling you it's already projected to do at least 30 billion, which, according to your own estimations, sets it at like 300 million, yes.
Also kimetsu's international prestige is mogging basically every other anime movie, internationally, yes.
It's going to do 100+ million international btw.

>>280810912
>Its funny how he went from mugen train was just once ina life time and carried by covid. To being kneecapped by covid
Nah, faggot. That's called nuance, something your smooth Discord brain can't parse. Here’s what was actually said (and repeatedly, because your memory's worse than your media literacy):
>Mugen Train was a once-in-a-generation hit.
True.
>It was amplified by COVID circumstances.
Also true.
>It benefited from no competition and captive audiences.
True again.
>It survived under limited capacity and made that run anyway.
Yep and the fact that it thrived despite restrictions is part of what made its legs so mythical.

That's not contradiction, that's what a real analyst does. Layers context on top of context to give a full picture. Not just "WOO NUMBERS GO UP YEAHHH!!"
>kimetsu is going to make more money than almost all anime movies.
In yen, maybe. In USD adjusted for exchange rate and inflation? Not even top five. The yen is weaker than your argument. A ¥20B+ run today is a ¥13–14B run in 2020 money. You can't scream “HISTORIC!” when the currency itself is tanking 35%. That's like bragging your house is worth $1 million pesos. Even Japanese analysts on Yahoo Japan have pointed this out multiple times. You're not in uncharted waters, you're just ignoring the tide.

>>280811296
just ignore him, man. he didnt came to argue. he is a liar and a pathetic and evil man.
imagine years seething and even rant to other fanbase like reddit and subreddit JJK and others and wsj thread and still have no following.
0 people. just him. alone. shitposting. no allies being recruit. 0 fan of KNY agree with him

>>280811504
He's mentally ill. I no longer argue with him though i still like to make him seethe so i throw away lines without reading his text to make him meltdown. I didn't read a single word, just saw an essay and replied kek

>>280810912
>Reminder only 6 movies in Japan's history broke the 20 billion yen in their original run.
Cool stat. Also irrelevant to the discussion at hand. You know what else broke ¥20B?
>Frozen
>The Last Samurai
>Transformers 3
Breaking ¥20B doesn't mean it's a cultural moment. It just means it sold a lot of tickets, that's all. If Infinity Castle does that? Good. It'll be a major hit in Japan, but it still won’t:
>Match Mugen Train's phenomenon status
>Reach that $500M worldwide
>Or achieve the same long-tail legacy internationally
You're screaming about rankings when I'm discussing impact. That's like saying Fast & Furious is the greatest franchise ever because it prints a lot of money. It's a dumb, shallow take and that's why it fits you perfectly, because you're a retarded underage child.

>>280811625
>That's like saying Fast & Furious is the greatest franchise ever because it prints a lot of money
But that's the only argument you are interested in?
It's just money money box office money.
This movie has already achieved status in Japan, because it has the best day/weekend/week ever there and it's set to do some amazing numbers.
That your whole argument would fall apart if the yen was stronger is nothing short of hilarious.

>>280811546
he is retarded through and through. he move the goal post so far that it come full circle. Just complete idiot with 0 credibility and accountancy
i dont know why anon still respond to him. just let them pass through. throwing rocks mean he think its attentions and hard coping.

>>280811786
I find it funny seeing him digging himself into deeper and deeper pitholes.
Now I can laugh at him when it hits 30 billion in Japan.

>>280811840
But he just copy pastes, there’s nothing new brought up to the table, besides sounds like a fucking bot.

>>280811940
There's absolutely no doubt he's a bot or parses every answer through one.

>>280805745
I thought it was set during the restorations after Tokugawa

>>280811981
He does, note the way he talks and how puts little quips at each sentence like he's writing a marvel movie. Clear signs of AI usage

>>280811840
30B in japan is guaranteed right now.
also status is not determined by him. who cares if he think, retard think this movie is doomed form the start. the JAPAN and the WORLD decided with their time and money. he just used words.
Sony CEO before premier confident this movie will bigger than MT, everyone laugh at him, even KNY fan like me. But now, i can see why. he didnt say that IC will do better than MT in japan but that International number will way better than MT.

>>280812111
he got all the money and media hype, right now.

Next movie
>Start 00:00 to 30:00
Douma vs Kanao and Inosuke
>Middle 30:00 to 45:00
Nakime fight
>Middle - end 45:00 till 2:20
Koku fight
>5+ mins of random original scenes
>5 mins of muzan destroying the fortress and getting out

>>280811483
>And I keep telling you it's already projected to do at least 30 billion
Keyword: PROJECTED. Not confirmed. Not guaranteed. Not "already did." And guess what? ¥30B = ~$188M USD. I already said ¥15-20B realistic, ¥30B optimistic. I'm still in range. I'm not coping, I'm describing probability curves. You're out here screaming like you discovered gravity. Also, if your new flex is "it'll make less than Mugen Train, but still a lot!" Then you just admitted I was right all along.
>Also kimetsu's international prestige is mogging basically every other anime movie
Wrong. Demon Slayer's international presence is very Japan-dependent. It doesn't dominate in Western box offices the way:
>Pokemon movies did in the Pokemania
>Dragon Ball Super: Broly did in the US
>Or even how Studio Ghibli does across Europe and America
It does fine, but "$100M international guaranteed" is cope-tier fantasy when the last two theatrical releases struggled to make a dent outside Asia. Unless China suddenly lets it in (they won't), it's going to hit a wall.

As for the schizo quartet...
>>280811504
>>280811546
>>280811786
>>280811840
You're replying to yourself like you're on stage at your own intervention. I'm not talking to one guy anymore, I'm watching one guy roleplay being his own support group and this is just pathetic.
>J-Just ignore him, man... (replied to yourself)
>H-He has no allies... (clearly desperate for some of your own)
>H-He'a mentally ill... (textbook projection)
>I-I didn’t read it, I just reply to make him mad, LOL. (you don't write 7 sockpuppet monologues if you're unbothered BTW)
You're spiraling so hard I could hook your ego up to a windmill and power half of Tokyo.

>>280812315
>already said ¥15-20B realistic, ¥30B optimistic
Nope, you capped it off at 200 million WW, as an optimistic BO, don't backtrack now!

>>280812315
Kimetsu the GREATEST OF ALL TIME mogs

>>280812315
>the last two theatrical releases struggled to make a dent outside Asia.
You keep comparing recap movies to actual movies... Haven't you learned anything from it's japanese run?

>>280805745
>>280811982
Kenshin takes place in the Meiji Period, an exact year is given unlike KnY also, it is in 1878, so at least a good 34 years before KnY could start.

>>280812287
>>5 mins of muzan destroying the fortress and getting out
man there is a ton of shit to do before that point, not happening in the middle movie. At most they tease muzan blanco

>>280812355
dont worry., the number will keep growing like always.
flop
recap movie
MHA movie international
conan
OP-Red
10B
20B
30B optimistic----> you are here.
40B max. i swear
Mugen Train
No.1 of all time.

>>280812534
>turn USD to yen
>get massively unadjusted for inflation numbers
Imagine.

>>280812396
he will never learned. he is bot ai. wait no, even ai can do better eventually.

>>280812574
conversion rates are not inflation

>>280812355
That's not a backtrack, that's a prediction range. I've been saying since day one:
>¥15-20B domestic yen (~$125M USD given the ¥160 exchange rate)
>+ $60-75M internationally (if Korea, SEA, Taiwan, and maybe US show up)
>= $180-200M worldwide total
That's a ballpark, not a hard ceiling. Every credible analyst does this. It's called not being a delusional toddler screaming "LOCKED IN." I'm dealing in probability, not prophecy. If the film legs out and reaches $225M? Still within stretch range. If it stalls at $170M? Still plausible given the frontload and exchange rate. If it hits $600M? Then it's a literal divine miracle and all logic dies. So no, I'm not moving goalposts. I set the field, marked the wind, measured the throw, and the ball is still flying exactly where I aimed.
>>280812396
LMAO. This is pure desperation. I never said the recap movies = this one. I referenced recent Demon Slayer theatrical releases (like Swordsmith Village) to show a clear trend:
>The Western box office enthusiasm is cooling
>Overseas appeal isn't scaling past anime fans.
>Japan still hard-carries
That's called pattern recognition. That's why analysts bring up past performance to set expectations. It's not about "equal value", it's about trajectory. You saw me mention recap box office and thought that meant "he's saying Infinity Castle is the same movie!" You're just having reading comprehension issues caused by emotional swelling.

>>280812618
Are you going to stop posting forever if it breaks 180M-200M total? or are you going to move the goalpost just like you did about the manga sales?

>>280812584
oricon and all japanese news report in yen. its had same headline. RECORD breaking. single, opening day, opening weekend. (that not possible if they always us ussd)

>>280812618
Sorry, I just think you are a bad analyst, because you are way too biased to do your job, that's why those goalposts keep moving whenever new data drops.

>>280812715
Japanese outlets and japanese companies measure success in YEN. they literally never used USD
why would they?

8.4B in 5 days

20B in 9 days more.
tick tock
tick tock
tick tock

>>280812770
because jimbo did it. and he said, that the record breaking is invalid because he said so.

https://x.com/kimetsu_off/status/1947484241388048843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1947505507003936865%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=

>>280812856
>country song allowed to use its currency to establish its own records
>who cares it mogged the previous movie in tickets?

>>280812715
You can do what you want with conversion rates rhetorically. I'm only saying don't use the word inflation.

>>280812902
OBSCENE numbers

wait, did you know that Kimetsu no Yaiba manga start to chart again???
by next movie come out, they will announced 250M. and thats same numbers as Naruto.

My boundless king will shake the INFINITY castle when he wakes up.

Kanao is such a non character
Still better than Ochako though

>>280812287
Nakime fight (before Yushiro comes in) is like 10 pages in the manga, if that. It's also pretty unsatisfactory until the fake out deaths and the Yushiro part. They just bounce around the moving blocks and fail to get close to her and say she's annoying. That's not 15 minutes worthy honestly. That's a 3 minute scene. Nakime isn't taken over by Yushiro until Muzan breaks out and starts fighting Tanjiro and the other demon slayers, and he gets tricked before Iguro and Mitsuri come in to attack him.
If the Part 2 is as long as Part 1, then I predict either...
>45 minute Doma fight and 100 minute Kokushibo fight, plus some scenes of Tanjiro/Giyu/Zenitsu/Kiryia between it all
OR
>30 minute Doma fight, 90 minute Kokushibo fight, 20 minute anime only retired hashira fight, and then extra scenes

>>280813104
Gave mc kids at 16>>>>>>>>mc still a virgin

>>280813139
>20 minute anime only retired hashira fight, and then extra scenes
KEK not happening

>>280813104
For a female mangaka the female characters are pretty much non-existent. Anyway, I'm hoping when Inosuke saves Kanao he refers to her as "Monjiro's girlfriend" or something.

>>280813175
Other alternative I guess is to add a bunch of anime only scenes for Nakime, before the third movie when she's defeated. Maybe they put Iguro's backstory there too, instead of in the middle of the Muzan fight.

>>280813104
and sakura
and mikasa
and chichi

‘DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA - INFINITY CASTLE’ has broken multiple Japanese box office records

▪ Biggest opening weekend in Japanese box office history - ¥5.52B (~$37.42M USD)

▪ Highest single-day box office rev ever in Japan - ¥2.03B (~$13.76M USD) on Sunday

▪ Highest four-day total in Japanese cinema history - ¥7.31B (~$49.55M USD) w/ 5.16M+ million tickets sold

▪ Strongest IMAX opening weekend in Japan - over $3M from IMAX over three days, $3.5M over four days

>>280812534
You really tried to pull the dumb Shazam meme against me, but it doesn't work because it's not a timeline, it's just a fanboy fever dream strung together like a conspiracy corkboard. I never said it would flop. I never said it's fail to break 10B. I consistently said:
>¥1520B domestic is realistic
>$180–200M global unless overseas goes nuclear
>Strong opening =/= legendary legs
>Mugen Train's success was a cultural anomaly in a vacuum.
You're inventing imaginary statements just to "win" a debate against a version of me that only exists in your head. That's desperation with a side of projection.
>>280812770
Because, retard, global box office analysis uses USD. That's how you stack international franchises up next to each other. Japanese companies can wave a flag around ¥20B all day, but it doesn't mean jack on the international leaderboard if the exchange rate is so rotten it converts to $125M. This isn’t hard. I'm not invalidating Japan's success by converting to USD, I'm contextualizing it. If ¥40.4B in 2020 was $370M, and ¥40.4B in 2025 is $255M, then yes, same amount of butts in seats, but smaller global footprint. That's just basic math. Not cope, not bias,njust uncomfortable arithmetic your underage brain refuses to digest.
>>280812823
Not feeling threatened the slightest bit by your hopium, rofl. Day 1-3 was the inflated, engineered climax. After that? It has to hold, and nothing so far has guaranteed that:
>Weekday admissions already show signs of non-fanbase fatigue
>Theater chains have length-related scheduling issues
>Kamen Rider, Fantastic Four, and Jurassic World are coming for those premium formats
>General audience buzz is lower than Mugen Train. Cinephile circles are louder with complaints this time
So if you want to pretend it's a straight line from 8B to 20B in a week and then 40B by credits roll, do what you want to do (I don't care lol). But that's not a forecast, that's delusion with a countdown.

>>280813252
Why aren't you replying to my post? >>280812702

>>280813236
>sakura
Actually beat an Akatsuki member and landed the final blow on Kaguya. She's a shitty character, but miles ahead of the blank slates that are Demon Slayer's female characters and a FAR more realistic portrayal of women. Kanao got beat around and lost an eye, Shinobu jobbed like the background character she is, and Mitsuri is a gag character who's also a punching bag.

>>280813252
>Cinephile circles are louder with complaints this time
Kokuhou is doing great and it's not getting its seats taken , they couldn't care less about capeshit, literally.

Watched Superman yesterday and it was okay
Sad that such a wholesome movie is being used as ammo by some deranged shitposter here

>>280813104
Nobara is better than Kanao

So much complaining about taking seats when there are more posts like this

>>280813435
Also true, because Nobara as shitty as she is herself, also landed the final blow on Sukuna. There's a reason why Gege wrote her out of Shibuya, because she's the only character who can trivialize him.

She also has better porn, give or take. Gege is pretty bad at drawing females, but he struck gold by making Nobara a mesugaki.

>>280813502
I mean, it's right, even a recap for kogetsu makes more money than the average MHA movie because no one wants to see retarded, noncanon shit written by some literal who.

>>280813188
Disagree
Other than Kanao all female main characters get a moment

>>280812757
Funny. Because so far, I have:
>Predicted the frontloaded pattern.
>Called the saturation strategy.
>Outlined exchange rate effects.
>Explained the lack of Covid-driven legs.
>Warned about the theatrical bottlenecks.
I'm getting closer to actual professional analyst takes than you could Google on your best day. Meanwhile you're posting rage screeds, Shazam meme timelines like a 13-year-old trying to win a YouTube comment war in 2009. You don't think I'm a bad analyst, you're just mad I'm a better one than you.

>>280813502
he is a liar. again and again. did people still believe his recycle argument?? he likely posting WB japanese

>>280813647
>main female characters
Nezuko is the main female character, and the author severely neglected her (Inosuke and Zenitsu too, they're also main characters) in favor of the Hashira aka side characters. Kanao, Shinobu and Mitsuri aren't no "main female characters", they're side characters.

>>280813435
nobara have 70% less screentime than other male leads.
and have 0 1 on1 fight. she is trash character with 0 significant unlike megumi and yuji or even yuta. its just author throw a bone w.o set up in the end. BULLSHIT

>>280813660
>>Predicted the frontloaded pattern.
Amazing Tuesday btw
>>Called the saturation strategy.
... But you didn't? You were boasting about how it could get 4 shows a day
>>Outlined exchange rate effects.
Which is called "the yen is shit now" everyone knows that.
>>Explained the lack of Covid-driven legs.
Hopefully the lack starts materializing soon
>>Warned about the theatrical bottlenecks.
It's literally raping the competition you said would matter into the ground. Superman? Worthless. F4? Don't even mention it.
But the worst part of your post? You are convinced it's all one person.

>>280796970 (OP)
Is this what orgasm in sex feels like?

>>280813647
Kanao is a direct thematic foil for Upper Moon 2, who is basically the misogyny demon.

>>280813502
You're reaching so hard that you're about to dislocate a shoulder, lmfao. What the tweet says:
>What's great about the Demon Slayer movies is that they didn't do things like 'an original movie Hashira,' or 'a demon so powerful it had to be sealed away,' or 'the lost, forbidden breathing technique' stuff. You hear that, My Hero Academia? What the hell is Dark Might, seriously."
Which has fuck all to do with the discussion at hand. It's an opinion tweet praising narrative restraint. Not ticket sales, not release windows, not runtime logistics, not international legs. Narrative restraint. The tweet isn't about seat counts, isn't about saturation, and sure as fuck isn't a "gotcha" against my well-supported analysis of the movie's performance. My argument is about box office legs, market trends, and fan-driven frontload, not whether Infinity Castle is canon (it is, obviously). This is the fanboy equivalent of losing a chess game and pointing to a different board saying, "See?! I’m winning over here!!" You fucking idiot.
>>280813689
Nice cope. The moment you can't argue numbers anymore, you start painting me as some imaginary PR agent pushing Warner Bros propaganda? You're collapsing like a flan in the sun.

Well Kanao is stronger than Nobara and Sakura so she's a better character than both.

>>280813188
>>280813647
I think there's a misconception about what Wani was going for with the female characters. Look at Mitsuri for example. It's obvious that in the flashbacks, or portrayed in the present day how she behaves (you can see this with her choice of words for specifically), and how she reacts to appearances of Tanjiro and Tengen. It's small things like that, whereas with Shinobu, she's portrayed as entirely bust, and her emotions are at best, your opinions on it can't say otherwise because I think the storytelling speaks more about hogmas brotel that any previous characters. Look back at chapter 1 vs the final chapter. The difference is MASSIVE by comparison. It's not even attributed fully to character development, this is how Wani writes her characters. Like a pea in a bucket of coffee. You don't drink it because it tastes bad. Same ideology here. Shinobu is like the pea, Mitsuri is like the coffee, and the universe of Demon Slayer is the bucket.

>>280813280
>he's still ignoring my post
kek

>>280814026
>Kanao
Building level
>Sakura
Moon level
>Nobara
City block level

Sakura >>> Nobara >>>>>> SHITnao

>>280813791
the forecast also said that the rest of weekdays IC will do better than MT. and still not yet dip below 1B. not tomorrow.
so the gap will keep growing.

he learn 1 new thing and keep repeating it. like he doesnt know shit. Japanese film in japan is always have good legs. if conan or OPR had 6X multiplier, IC will easily match that and exceed them.

>>280813502
I'm not a manga purist, so I think original anime content is welcome as long as the writers are good enough. I would’ve loved for Douma to get his own cult arc before the Infinity Castle, maybe one where the heroes fail to kill him in that same arc, ending the conflict in the trilogy movie.
The problem is I don’t think the Ufotable team is that good at writing, so I’d rather the "filler" be minimal in this case.
The padding with Sanemi, Snek, and Mui was okay, but I think if Ufo tried more than that, they’d be biting off more than they can chew.

>>280814149
Sakura is city block.
Nobara never destroyed anything really, that's not how her powers work.

>>280814149
If you ever bring that power scaler shit in here again

>>280813729
>in favor of the Hashira aka side characters.
Elite group of good guys is a safe bet for franchising and merchandise, this has been proven since all the way back with the Gold Saints from Saint Seiya and their modern counterpart with the Gotei 13 from Bleach, their colorful designs are easy to make popular, and when they hit with audiences then the merchandise pool increase several fold as they are a group.

Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke and Nezuko had plenty of focus already, all very popular in their own right, the Pillars were the next step to expand the audience response.

>>280814533
I wish Naruto had a good group of Elite Jonin that were all popular

>>280814502
Sometimes they can be funny, for example the power scaling community right now are universally shitting on MHA (as anyone should)

There is a deleted scene in the movie where it shows Rengoku and all the other slayers that Akaza killed in the afterlife and they forgive him and welcome him to Heaven with Koyuki and he lives in Heaven happily ever after (this is real, but it was deleted and only I saw it)

>>280810606
post more please!

>>280814657
Deku still solos the entire DS verse btw
BoS Deku is above all of these jobbers, the strongest DS characters are big building level at best lmao

>>280814722

>>280814754
Building level btw
BoS Deku solos all these jobbers
Including the crying blind bara, samurai Madara, scarface and Michael Jackson blindfolded

>>280814876

>>280814948
Still building level
Still solos DS verse
CHADku got this in the bag
Then he'll clap the imouto's cheeks

>>280814722
Muzan and Yoriichi clear Deku. Next

>>280815074

Is there any character as spat on by Ufotable as Tanjiro?
[Manga]
> Fight starts, both Giyu and Tanjiro attack Akaza in small intervals and in rapid succession, Giyu gets btfo to the stratosphere 1 page after.
[Movie]
> Giyu starts fighting Akaza by himself while Tanjiro who was very close by is nowhere to be seen, the time it takes for him to make new interventions is also increased a lot.
[Manga]
> After Giyu gets sent away Tanjiro fights an angry Akaza by himself, dealing with named BDA techniques and even landing counters in between.
[Movie]
> Gives nowhere as much love and additional content to Tanjiro's 1v1 against Akaza even though he endured it for way more pages than Giyu.

It is like they always try their best to make him seem as weak and carried by others/asspulls powerups as possible.

>>280814657
100% of social media mutant power scalers deserve to be buried alive.

>>280815101
no need. chachamaru clear deku

>>280814043
>Shinobu is like the pea, Mitsuri is like the coffee, and the universe of Demon Slayer is the bucket.
What?

>>280815101
>Muzan
Building level
>Yoriichi
Also building level

CHADku got this in the bag
Then he'll clap the imouto and the autistic girl's cheeks

>>280815238

>>280815238
Why are versus battles about how much environmental damage one character can do? I am starting to question the color of your skin, anon.

>>280814720

Kanao's feats are sleeping with me and becoming my wife. That puts her above Sakura and Nobubu or whatever they're called

The reason Deku stomps Tanjiro is because when Tanjiro uses the see-through world and sees Deku's tiny pecker his sides explode.

>>280797183
New junji ito monster

Never ever

>>280815397

>>280815397
>Sacrifice your family or die
>Become a demon or die
>Fight the demon slayers for me or die
Kaigaku had a hard life

>>280815440

>>280815406
Kanao wears black panties, not white panties

>kimetsu thread
>hero fag obsessed with convincing everyone deku isn't a massive cuck
why do you care so much what we think

It’s pretty clear, IMO, that Muzan selected UMs based not on their ability but on how much he liked them, personally. The rankings within the UMs may be based on their combat ability, but there’s no way shitters like Daki, Gyutaro, Gyokko and Hantengu should be on the same level as the top 3, making it feel like there are only actually 3 Upper Moons. I’m not sure what Muzan liked about Gyutaro and Daki, maybe he was tickled by the idea of eternally cucking Gyutaro or something? Or it could be that he’s just a fan of super-tragic fates like theirs? It’s certainly not their combat ability that he valued, clearly.

Reminder that Giyuu is the most RELATABLE pillar, and he represents all of us. He's likeable, understandable, and down to earth.

>>280815472

>>280815514
The UM's scale out of fucking control. UM1 is essentially stronger than Muzan. Doma is insane and had to get baited with a kamikaze to lose. And Akaza literally had to kill himself before he reach immortality ala Muzan

>>280815514
I don't see a problem. You're not gonna find six strongest demons that all are slightly stronger than another. Top 3 are outliers sure, but 6-4 are still night and day difference from lower moons.

>>280815543

Anime onlies are gonna freak

>>280815556
Let's not forget 4 who is unbeatable if you can't find him.

>>280815592

>>280815577
They are absolutely not, all of them more-or-less fit into the LM paradigm, at least on the upper end of that scale. UM1-3 are the only ones who are clearly in a different category.

>>280815621

>>280815614
He was solo’d.

>>280810654
>>280814043
I'm about to be honest with you all. I never wanted to breed with anyone more than I want to with Mitsuri. Yes, I'm serious. That perfect, slim body. Those completely and utterly gargantuan breasts bordering on being downright obese. A literal hippopotamus. The pantyshot potential of a literal goddess. It honestly fucking hurts knowing that I'll never mate with her, pass my genies through her, and have her birth a set of perfect offspring to which we can spend the rest of our happy lives taking excellent care of them. I'd do fucking ANYTHING for the chance to get Mitsuri pregnant. A N Y T H I N G. And the fact that I can't is quite honestly too much to fucking bear. Why would Croc, Wani, Gotouge, Miyazaki, and ufotable create something so astoundingly perfect? To fucking tantalize us? Fucking laugh in our faces?! Give us a good slap in the dick and call it a day? Honestly guys, and I'm dead serious here, I just fucking can't anymore.

The desire to mate, the need for breed, any way you put it, none of it has ever been felt this intense before in my entire life of watching anime and consuming fictional universes. I would do so many things to just her thighs alone, and that's only the start. I would give her a sloppy helicopter just because I can. I would pump her tight butt like it was nobody's business. I would even go as far as to drink her pee if she ever needs to go when there's no toilet around. God, Jesus, all the gods listening and Buddha, all I ask for is a chance to burst inside of her, beyond the limitation. And I'm talking Raging Boner Burst here. We would assimilate so well together that she would feel the very core of my being pulsating inside and out. There are no words that exist to describe my immense love for this specimen of perfection, Mitsuri Kanroji.

>>280815656
-by 6 people

>>280815652

>>280796970 (OP)
I finished watching this series recently and liked it so much that I read the manga to continue it. I think it's an unironic 9.5/10 series, with a few small critiques here or there. I think my biggest issue is the way stakes are handled for the most part. If I were to rewrite parts of the story, it would probably be something like:

Mugen Train: Rengoku dies like usual.

Red Light: Daki/Gyutaro fight goes the same but this time, Uzui and Inosuke both die. Uzui from his wounds, and Inosuke from being stabbed by Gyutaro. Daki/Gyutaro die like usual.

Village: Muichiro dies to Gyokko, and then Gyokko escapes and leaves Hantengu to fend off the rest. The only death vs Hantengu is Nezuko, where she is burned up by the sun. Hantengu dies like usual.

Fortress: Rengoku's father joins with Tanjiro and Giyuu to fight Akaza. Giyuu and Akaza die. Shinobu and Marked Zenitsu encounter Kaigaku, who would be more buffed up in this version to reflect the strength of an upper moon proper. Zenitsu is incapable of defeating him alone. All three of them die, Zenitsu and Kaigaku trade killing blows. Urokadaki shows up and finds Gyokko. After a near death 1v1 battle, Tanjiro and Rengoku's father show up, and the three of them take out Marked Gyokko. Kanao, Mitsuri, and Obanai fight Douma. Douma kills Kanao and Mitsuri, and Obanai lands the finishing blow on Douma. The fight with Koku is virtually the same as normal, except without Muichiro since Gyokko killed him in the previous arc. Obanai joins in, now enraged, and helps fight Koku. Koku and Genya die.

After: Tanjiro, Rengoku's Father, Urokadaki, Obanai, Himejima, and Sanemi battle Muzan. Rengoku's Father and Urokadaki perish, and Muzan laughs, but then is burnt by the sun light. Tanjiro becomes a demon like normal, and he kills Obanai. Himejima restrains Tanjiro while Sanemi lands a killing blow. Tanjiro is dead. Himejime dies shortly after from exhaustion and malfunction. Sanemi is the sole survivor.

>>280815692

>>280810654
>>280815669
God, the things I to want in her to inside cum myself

>>280815722
Thats all I got for now

>Viz calls them Kizuki
>PriS calls them lunar moons
>ECHO calls them shinigami (for some reason)
>KimetsuRays calls them evil moons
>original translations call them waning and waxing moons
What the fuck is going on behind the scenes in translation? Why can't everyone just agree on one translation? It's almost comical

>>280815556
UM1 is not even close to Muzan. Even after being hyper nerfed Muzan is still the strongest demon

>>280807467
They already looks extremely similar, to the point where nearly everyone first watching/reading confuse them for each other. I think the originally script had yoriichi as Tanjiro's dad but it was changed last minute. People who didn't think they were related missed basic clues implying that they were related, and thus were not surprised to find out that they ended up not being related. Either that, or the writing is at fault for not getting enough people to think that they were related, which it was clearly intending to do. By admitting that you didn't think that Yoriichi was Tanjiro's dad, you are admitting one of two things. Either A) You are not observant enough and missed the writer's attempts at trying to make it seem like they were related (this implies low IQ), or B) you are indirectly faulting the writing and pointing out a flaw with the series because it failed to trick enough people into thinking that they were related despite that being the intention. In either case, either the one who didn't get tricked is at fault, or the one doing the writing of the series is at fault. There are no other ways to look at it.

Do you think 1-3 together could defeat Muzan (if we remove the curse of Muzan ect)?

Kny fan art renaissance

I just know i will convulse alongside my sister when we go see it in IMAX

>>280815864
Demons can't kill demons and muzan can eat demons.
He also has the most busted regen in the series, he tanks red blades.

>>280804700
I don't think Shinobu is the weakest pillar, but she's not the fastest either. Compare to Sanemi who can blitz wrong Koku, and Shinobu couldn't even avoid Douma who is slower. Then in my opinion there is Giyuu whose speed is undetermined, but his power against an upper moon is far greater than Shinobu or Kanao's. Even if Shinobu is marked, she'd barely match default Giyuu without the mark, and that's the bare minimum.

Not as like the Giyuu would have survived Akaza even when marked, or if Akaza had the mark, he wouldn't have survived Rengoku having the mark as long as Giyuu having the mark. And maybe if Rengoku had access through the see too world, then Giyuu marked fighting Akaza marked (full powered) would have been underpowered by comparison unless Rengoku was an upper moon, in which case Upper moon marked could have had a more fair fight against Giyuu (marked, see through world) unless he reduced his battle spirit to bypass his compass, in which case Giyuu (marked) could defeat Rengoku (upper moon, see through world) if Akaza was also teaming up on him (without battle spirit). So something along the lines of:

Rengoku (Upper moon, no battle spirit) > Giyuu (Marked, see through world) > Akaza (no battle spirit) > Giyuu (Compass) > Rengoku (Marked) > Giyuu (Marked) > Giyuu > Rengoku > Shinobu (Marked) > Shinobu

This doesn't take the account considered for other pillars though. I honestly think Obanai (Marked, Upper Moon) could take Himejima and Giyuu (Both See the world) without poison if Giyuu wasn't present, or something along the lines of Rengoku (Battle spirit) fighting Giyuu (Moon breathing, marked) instead. But it's hard to gauge.

>>280815772
At least is not as bad as that fan tl where Genya called “Nemi” to Sanemi.

>>280815753
CUTE!!! Thanks for sharing anon

I am still baffled that a Manga from Shonen Jump got this sort of inhuman treatment. Did they pick UFO just because or what?

>>280815972
someone in Ufo saw it's potential and basically demanded they do it. It was a gamble because he was predicting it would take off and it did

>>280796970 (OP)
There are 10 things every episode/movie needs to be considered great. On an out of 10 scale, add or subtract each point to determine what number out of 10 the episode is. Here are the requirements:

1. Good pacing
2. Animation is above average
3. Voice actors do a good job
4. Music is memorable
5. Nozomu Abe is involved
6. Zero asspulls/high stakes
7. Art direction, colors, composition, and compositing are above average
8. At least one panty shot is present
9. Episode bleeds well into the next episode, and the previous episode bleeds well into this one (or movie has a proper beginning, middle, and end(
10. No flashbacks in the middle of the fight

So for example, the greatest episode so far is Never Give up, Season 2 episode 10, and it hits a whopping 8 out of 10 of these required things which makes it an 8/10 episode, which is honestly impressive in its own right since most anime fail to hit even half of these points on their best episodes. How would you rate the latest movie using this metric?

>>280815930
If the Hashira had real lethal fights against each other Shinobu would have some of the most wins under her belt. Hit and run + poison would defeat most Hashira. Not to mention surgical stabs in vital areas. Shinobu is only weak against strong demons.

Choose wisely

>>280816036
No pantyshots and obviously this gets flashbacks.
So 8/10, but the animation and voice acting are super fucking good throughout, those should get bonus points.

>>280815864
Akaza and Douma would just start fighting each other after 20 seconds

>>280815406
>>280815473
>>280815669
>panties

>>280816036
Ep 10 also had asspulls. So it's 7/10

Kill harlots. Behead harlots. Roundhouse kick a harlot into the concrete. Slam dunk a harlot baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy harlots. Defecate in a harlots food. Launch harlots into the sun. Stir fry harlots in a wok. Toss harlots into active volcanoes. Urinate into a harlots gas tank. Judo throw harlots into a wood chipper. Twist harlots heads off. Report harlots to the IRS. Karate chop harlots in half. Curb stomp pregnant harlots. Trap harlots in quicksand. Crush harlots in the trash compactor. Liquify harlots in a vat of acid. Eat harlots. Dissect harlots. Exterminate harlots in the gas chamber. Stomp harlot skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate harlots in the oven. Lobotomize harlots. Mandatory abortions for harlots. Grind harlot fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown harlots in fried wisteria grease. Vaporize harlots with a ray gun. Kick old harlots down the stairs. Feed harlots to alligators. Slice harlots with a katana.

>>280815972
>well-written emotional beats and instantly memorable characters and designs
>quick pace that gets to exciting moments early instead of spending ages on filler
>power system that sparks the imagination and allows the animators to flex without breaking the storytelling
Hindsight is definitely 20/20 but in retrospect it really does have all the ingredients for an amazing adaptation. How amazing depended on the skill of the studio and thankfully someone in the single most skilled studio saw the vision

>>280816150
Why did Zohakuten smile when Mitsuri was fine??

>>280816071
Befriend Kanao
Marry Aoi
Roommate with Mitsuri
Hug Makomo
Fuck Nezuko
Fight Susamaru
Kill Shinobu
Bully Daki
Ignore Spider Mom

>>280816071
Why is my wife not in that image?

Would you?

>>280816124
Nezuko: white, plain
Makomo: light blue, plain
Kanao: black, satin
Tamayo: white, boyshorts
Susamaru: yellow, boyshorts, smells weird
Spider mother: white, thong, spiders crawling in it
Spider daughter: red, thong
Ozaki: brown, defecated upon death
Ubuyashiki sisters: light purple, cute designs, shared among each other
Mitsuri: pink, hipster form, heart shaped hole in back
Shinobu: purple stripes on white
Aoi: white, orthopedic, stray pube in it, two sizes too small
Sumi/Kiyo/Naho: white, blue polka dots
Kanae: black, lace
Nakime: black, g-string, worn backwards
Muzan (Female): none
Mukago: red, bloomers
Daki: red, bikini type

>>280816150
Based Harlot hater

>>280816209
Because she's your wife

The Strongest

He literally blew her skirt and panties off

>>280816236
Interesting list... I think I'm gonna need to see some proof

>>280816071
Hug Nezuko
Roommate with Kanao
Marry Mitsuri
Kill Daki
Fuck Shinobu
Befriend Makomo
Fight Aoi
Bully Spider Mom
Ignore Susamaru

These are the only correct options btw

>>280808298
Ufo does not adapt things to satisfy fans of the source material. It's HF3's 9LBW and final Kirei battle all over again.

Wani could have given more Nezuko and Giyuu more interactions…not after battle but during the early arcs

>>280813791
>Amazing Tuesday
Okay? Tuesday being decent doesn't undo the fact that the film blew its load early with:
>A national holiday opening
>Premium IMAX/4DX saturation,
>Event screenings
>And a literal marathon rollout.
If it isn't pulling monster weekday numbers, that's actually a red flag. It needs to hold like a monster just to approach Mugen Train, which had absurd weekday consistency with far less screen inflation. I never said weekdays would flop, I said it would flatten early and struggle with legs. Still pending, and still the key metric. Your dumbass is pretending the race ended after Lap 2.
>But you didn't? You were boasting about how it could get 4 shows a day
Nope. You just misquoted me, hard. I said theatrical bottlenecks would hit later and I literally cited Yahoo Japan saying the long runtime was already causing screen congestion. My point was:
>Theaters gave it saturation now, but it can’t hold that forever in a crowded summer window
And guess what? That's true. Kamen Rider, Fantastic Four and Jurassic World will be cutting into its formats by Week 3, especially IMAX and 4DX. It's math. Your memory is as cooked as your logic.
>Which is called "the yen is shit now" everyone knows that.
Then why were you screaming about record-breaking grosses in USD two days ago? I explained the exchange rate's impact on perception and global standing, not just raw yen totals. The fact that you're now admitting the yen is crap just proves I already won that angle. You're retrofitting my arguments as "obvious" after denying them earlier.
>Hopefully the lack starts materializing soon
This is hilarious. You're now hoping my forecast comes true because your narrative depends on disproving it, but legs aren't decided by Tuesday or Wednesday. They're proven by Week 3+ performance after the noise fades. The fact you're reduced to sarcastic hoping tells me exactly how much you're sweating.

Sex with demons

>>280815930
Shut the hell up, you samefag.
https://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/I%20don%27t%20think%20Shinobu%20weakest%20/

La Creatura

>>280816236
>shared among each other
Bruh. I know many of you never touched a woman, let alone dated one, but that shit is nasty as hell. Completely inconceivable.

>>280816351
You can see a single frame of nezuko's panties in the second episode of season 1

>>280816450
Sharing underwear is actually a sign of love and intimacy. Some best friends and even siblings do it (if they're the same gender) though this is mostly a thing with females.

>>280808298
>>280808492
>>280808665
>>280808913
>>280809667
>>280809945
>>280816420
I don't understand this complain Thunder 7th was perfect literally 10/10 moment what more do you want?

>>280816420
You WILL imagine the excruciating intricacies of an enraged, boner-hating Daki being forced by a post-retired, single-armed, rock solid boner-having Tengen Uzui to perform raw tinnitus-inducing, earth-shattering, face squatting until inevitable fatal suffocation with obligatory complementary dehydrated urine-boarding straight from the demon's source, complete with nonchalant commentary spoken by the Upper Moon within her, praising her effortless techniques as she makes the human breathe their last and their now lifeless corpse being doused to the brim with her monster energy nectar that she's being straining herself to hold within the confines of her otherworldly bladder for the better half of a century (in Japanese time) during her lust-provoking, daily rough cock-bouncing time in the Red Light District (also known as the Entertainment District) in which many human men had participated in a series of sexual acts with her, putting pressure on her ungodly bladder to which she expressed immense anxiety every waking moment of the frequent, waist-grabbing, ass-pounding, vaginal prone-boning sexual intercourse that the floodgates between her century-old thighs would violently burst open in a bout of relentless urine firing out on all cylinders, catastrophically soaking the male she would be having cock-throbbing, breast-bouncing, plap-making sex with, inducing a frenzied state of hyper-realistic embarrassment, the likes of an event that would result in an uncontrollable urge to murder the temporary partner in a most swift manner in order to carefully ensure that her masquerading-beauty legacy isn't tarnished by a pee-soaked customer who is utterly overcome by a compelling force that makes him return home that night and tell everyone about what happened, to which the word will spread across Japan over the course of several long decades, ruining Daki for good without an honest care in the world, which sparks prostitutes everywhere to start wetting themselves.

>>280816530
>though this is mostly a thing with females.
Women don't do this, are you thinking real life is porn again?

I liked the Zenitsu part of the movie

My husband Hairo!

>>280816561
Is this an edit?

>>280816548
If that's a 10/10, shinobu is an 11 and akaza a 14.

>>280813791
>It's literally raping the competition
It outperformed a soft-launch Superman in Japan, a country that's never cared about Western superheroes after taking all the premium formats and attempting to momentarily halt the competition, rofl. I said that from the beginning. Also, F4 hasn't released yet, it drops in 3 days. So does Kamen Rider, while Jurassic World drops August 8. So what are you even arguing against? A preemptive fantasy?

Second, Kokuhou is picking up cinephile steam and grabbing more late-night blocks because Japanese cinephiles are trying to counter Demon Slayer. They're resentful of TV anime dominating the Japanese box office with an iron fist. You're acting like Superman getting kneecapped in Japan was some shocking twist, when it's exactly what I said Aniplex/Sony was planning for by flooding screens. There is no competition yet. That's not proof of dominance, it's proof of stacked odds.
>But the worst part of your post? You are convinced it's all one person.
You're on 4chan. One guy with five tabs open can LARP as a fan army, and your samefaggotry is so easy to spot. Your're not as slick as you think you are. Hell, all of these replies up until now are just you talking to yourself and maybe, two other faggots from your Discord. But this is all a distraction anyway. I didn't make my arguments based on who responded, I made them based on logic, economics, release windows, and comparative behavior. Te crowd noise doesn't change the scoreboard.

For me, it's Ume

Reminder

>>280814026
>>280814149
Powerscaling across different series is dumb because they almost always operate under different rulesets

> at the start of the story it was stated that not everyone can turn into a demon, hell it is a rare occurence if someone survives the procedure
> somehow every single shitter is demon later on

Make it make sense. Palette swap Zenitsu shouldnt be a demon just bc Zenitsu needs someone to fight.

>>280816071
Sex with all of them

>>280816782
Zenitsu and kaigaku are top tier though they aren't weak

>>280807550
Koku isn't afraid of Yoriichi. Think of it this way, the common consent between demons is that the town manifests people's deepest fears, regrets, psychological reels, anomalies, and so on. It's what make it's the is animation a for going through taking. But it's actually the other way around. The UM's manifests your subconscious desires, the metaconscious even. So for example, if someone who was afraid the afraid, they would meet things in Upper Moons that represent it, something akin to like, "a bobble head with a fleshlight for a mouth", but in actuality, the represent a line in which "this girl is malnourished!"

Here's my theory personally:

Look at Tanjiro for example. He dreamed of his father dancing, but when he dance fire dance god, her body sunk into regret, and this wasn't done intentionally. It was done intentionally. In the Swordsmith arc in where a girl Mitsuri suffered from a form of demented, her earrings were ugly, and it was thought she thought had the she coming towards people, and her consultations brought disrespect because she couldn't perceive the way people thought she thought in the moment, or in desperate signatures. So when she brought the upper moon to her house, her mother told her that she was going to date an officer of the law, and this kickstarted her brain kicked her ass her "I will forget how to feel pain" and she high resolution dropped Hantengu

Her father forget her place at the supermarket and she was denying evidence to support the blame for her actions.

They're similar to demons because the town that the store takes a place, inside Koku desire to be consumed instead of fought against, because her deepest desires isn't about Yoriichi, but seeking asylum, and so the demons she manifests having taps on the glass sideways through red walls the angels speak your name aloof a dominant force protruding from the clouds is fucked in the head code of ammunition stock cows eating a bunch of cows eating Koku's flute is symbo

>>280813348
Japanese cinephiles don't flock to capeshit and that's not the damn point, you stupid child. I'm not claiming Superman will eat Infinity Castle’s lunch, what I'm pointing out and what you keep sidestepping like a clown dodging responsibility is there's a VERY real pushback from cinephiles in Japan against the monopolization of theater space by TV anime films (like Demon Slayer and Conan) just like Western cinephiles push back on superhero saturation. And this is 100% backed up by Japanese industry sentiment. You can find quotes from:
>Theater operators on Yahoo Japan
>Articles discussing limited screen diversity
>Cinephile Twitter accounts lamenting "no options but anime"
>Film festival curators complaining about lack of indie/local room
TV-anime-based franchise films are increasingly being viewed as low-risk money printers dominating multiplex space at the expense of variety, and that absolutely irritates cinephile circles. The Kokuhou push I mentioned is EXACTLY their way of fighting back: supporting an art film despite having less media power.

You're just too deep in your waifu shrine to admit that "box office domination" =/= universal love.

>>280816451
This is fake. The official artbook shows her having pink panties, not white

>>280816420
>>280816561
I think Daki is the sexiest for a few reasons. Basically, when Daki bounces, the ripples from the air that she makes when her body makes contact with her opponents go towards the nape of her neck because she doesn't have breasts on her back to block it, so the hair sorta acts like a filter for the air ripples meeting the nape of her neck. Demon girls usually can hide their nape from their vagina by using their hair in conjunction with the air ripples without creating the shockwaves from the bouncing that would normally create the clapping sound. So when Daki receives a sloppy helicopter, she lets out the nape gas like she had a mouth on her back instead of breasts. The more you know.

>>280816774
The mice should be along with Sunbro

>>280816774
>Powerscaling across different series is dumb because they almost always operate under different rulesets
Depends. It's easy to scale the three girls across series if you aren't brainrotted db versus match tier.

>>280816561
https://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/You%20WILL%20imagine%20the%20excruciating%20intricacies/

Like I said before, I rule your samefag thread with an IRON FIST. I'm the one actually discussing here, while you're just talking to yourself. You're pathetic (but cute).

Cute and canon!

>>280817032
That's MY wife you slime!

>>280817072
Your wife is flat

I like Makomo personally

>>280817105
IMAGINE if she was a trap

>>280796970 (OP)
I haven't seen it yet, but how does Abe's cut compare to his previous ones?

>>280806084
Half-true. But you're just only scratching the surface of a way bigger, deeper, and more depressing cultural reality. Japan has long suffered from cultural insularity or "Galapagos syndrom", a reference to how Japan evolved in its own ecosystem, isolated from global standards, creating products, habits, and systems that only function domestically.

That includes:
>Media
>Technology
>Business practices
>Pop culture consumption
>Global feedback reception
>And this also extends hard into film, manga, TV, and how they engage with Western reception
This didn't start in 2013. If anything, 2013 was the tail-end of the last time Japan pretended to care. They had a brief flirtation with "Cool Japan", a marketing push to export their culture abroad and guess what? It failed miserably because Japan wasn't ready to change, adapt, or collaborate. They wanted the world to consume Japan, but on Japan's terms, without any mutual cultural respect or exchange. That's why they:
>Dismiss foreign interpretations of their own culture (see Shogun)
>Snub talented Japanese creators who go overseas to thrive (see Hiroyuki Sanada)
>Ignore globally beloved Japanese auteurs until the West tells them they're good (see: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi)
>Double-down on domestic-safe, inoffensive content like Demon Slayer, idol dramas, and bland TV pap
It's not that they just don't care about the West. It's that they're SO inward-looking that anything made outside their system is instantly suspect, devalued, or treated as foreign noise.

This results in:
>Japan becomes less relevant in global cinema while Korea takes over
>Western creators make better Japanese period pieces than Japan does
>Their best talent leaves, creates elsewhere, and gets appreciated abroad (Sanada, Kurosawa, Suda51, etc.)
>Domestic audiences get spoon-fed easy emotional bait like Demon Slayer and eat it up because the cultural bar for "meaningful" has dropped to the fucking floor

>>280817140
Lewd...

>>280817232
>5000 pages for less than 1 minute cat
>Only person allowed to do all physical for the last time despite everyone switching to digital

>>280817354
Kimetsu is an (extremely profitable) passion work.

>>280816351
There's a glimpse of Mitsuri's panties in this panel, but that's about it. You can't even tell what color they're supposed to be

>>280817232
he drew 5000 pages for akaza 1 min animation

>>280817354
>>280817482
How many pages was his previous record? Is that more than his Fate stuff too?

>>280817259
Why are you ignoring my post?
Are you going to stop posting forever if it breaks 180M-200M total? or are you going to move the goalpost just like you did about the manga sales?

I was rewatching seaon 1 again last night to get ready for the movie (I'll be seeing it on Friday). Is it just me or does this spider girl look like she shit herself? There's a dark smudge right on her butt. I mean, if she died (got poisoned by Shinobu) then it makes sense of the body does that it, muscles loosen up and whatnot, but it's weird that there's that brown spot there to begin with. Not that I'm complaining, that's kinda hot, but still weird for them to include that sort of detail. Realistically, it's probably just dirt from when she was sitting or something

>>280817532
I'll stop posting when this poorly written bog standard battle shounen stops milking what little content remains on a very short series and fucks off. MHA is about to fuck off after the final season, JJK will likely fuck off too because Bones and Mappa aren't shameless Jews like Ufotable are.

>>280817655
Oh so you'll cope and move the goalpost
kek

>>280817259
>They wanted the world to consume Japan, but on Japan's terms
this.
they don't want cross-cultural exchange, they just want exported nationalism which is why shougun gets dismissed even if it's masterfully accurate and those talented japanese filmmakers get ignored until the west praises them
films like departures and drive my car only get more attention from nips after winning oscars
the west unironically loves japanese culture more than japan does but only the parts japan no longer values

>>280816774
I have a few issues with how the power scaling was handled. First of, there are other manga and animes that do a better job at declaring rules for the protagonist characters. Like example, the upper demon kizuki are stronger than the hashiras, but the tengen hashira could fend off the upper six with only one arm, despite his weakness. And then Zenitsu, who can without one versus one an upper moon 6 replacement, and with a single strike even though actual hashiras had to deal with 10+ minutes worth of fighting just to end the upper moon. The balance and power scaling is all off. Not to mention, Tanjiro's dad from the flashback was shown to nearly kill Muzan without any effort, even in his prime, with little, or not effort, if withstanding, despite Muzan being stronger than the an upper moon 1-6 which hashiras (suggested to be the strongest demon slayers) can't even match.

It's getting tiring. They even have numbers on their eyeballs showcasing their rank as upper moons, but Gyuutaro from upper moon 6 puts up more of a fight then upper moons 5 and 4, so is he stronger? They don't get upgraded, it's not intellectual, it shouldn't be aloud. But even with Zenuko, who pink shitted flame allfather is APPARENTLY upper moon level when she's fighting Daki in the red light district, yet Tanjiro (who is not a hashira at the time) is able to control her until she shrinks back to her normal self. The power scaling is terribly inconsistent. I think I would have been better if the hashiras also have numbers on them to show who is stronger than who so that it's easier to gauge the power scaling, because as it stands right now, it's inconsistent. By the end of the series, Tanjiro is supposedly at pillar level.

What did other people think of the power scaling in this series?

One thing I really appreciate about this series is how well it fits into not only a three act structure, but each act also has its own three acts that fit well into the overarching narrative

>>280816576
he is making the shit he reads on tumblr or wherever his headcanon, leave him be anon.

>>280817814
it's kino

>>280817703
Sorry. I'm gonna ignore your copy and paste post

>>280817814
You can do this with any series though. Naruto's 3 acts are Act 1. First series (pre-shippuden), Act 2. Akatsuki stuff (ends with pain arc) and Act 3. War arc. The three act structure runs deep into almost every series that exists, even long running shonens. It'll appear even if you're not even paying attention to it.

>>280817814
This is unironically the biggest thing that gives Kimetsu its appeal but few recognize it consciously

>>280817836
Of course it's a copy and paste post, because except for me who talks about box office, this whole thread is just run by one single faggot, lmao.

https://desuarchive.org/a/search/text/%20I%20have%20a%20few%20issues%20with%20how%20the%20power%20scaling%20was%20handled/

>>280816548
Expectations were set too high once the anime greatly enhanced Godspeed into some otherworldly move that makes it seem Zenitsu is fucking flying from a single dash, by making the 7th Form be a complete 1:1 adaptation from the manga without any enhancements will make some question why was Godspeed so different then.

Menwhile the very same movie goes on to greatly enhance Shinobu's and Giyu's fight with visuals and expanded parts that weren't in the manga, so in retrospect it further seems Zenitsu was picked to remain faithful to a T to manga on purpose.

>>280818054
I mean it was also really, really straight forward in the manga that Zenitsu caught him by surprise. It couldn't really be extended because then he'd get countered

>>280818012
>he's now scrounging the archive for posts to spam
How sad is your life totally not obsessed with kimetsu every waking hour, jeremy.

>>280816548
because of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNvaiooJDRA

>>280818083
It absolutely could be enhanced in several ways, much greater sense of speed and distance for example, Zenitsu could have fallen far deeper and the attack could have been animated like an absolute blitz.

Its Godspeed, which looked much tamer in the manga, can become the lightning beam in the anime then the Flaming Thunder God could be much more.

>>280817697
I remember reading through several comments from Japanese people and what they thought about Shogun, and one of them outright said that the show makes them feel uncomfortable because the dialogue is VERY classical in contrast to many Japanese historical TV drama made by Japan in recent years that have modern-style dialogue. If there's one thing Japan HATES, it's being outdone by foreigners at their game. Japan is still a very insecure country.

Which is why they dismissed Shogun, Hiroyuki Sanada while exalting their badly produced TV drama and Demon Slayer.

>>280818205
Shut the hell up, samefag. You're so easy to read, lmao.

>>280818242
So imagine being MHA that can't even manage to be exalted in japan.

I honestly have no idea how they're going to animate this

>>280818298
The new hero trailer lost to fucking black clover lmao
just ignore the retard

>>280818284
Too big

>>280818215
That quite literally misses the point of the iai, which is the issue.
It's just an extremely fast iai he only draws to cut his neck.

>>280818298
>>280818322
You're a samefag who has to pathetically talk to himself and bump your thread in hopes that your irrelevant, dead manga gets discussion and you still failed, rofl.

Shut the hell up.

So guys, what have you accomplished since the manga threads all these years later? Any of you also learn japanese and visit the country?

>>280818302
>That guy that rejected Mitsuri
Lol, I totally missed him the hundred times I saw this image.

>>280818302
>Muzan summons the dead Upper Moon copies from his blood
PLEASE UFO I NEED YOU TO DO THIS

>>280818385
Started selling at a bunch of conventions. Was suppose to go to Japan this year but income took a massive hit.

>>280818385
I went! I am planning to go again this fall, I hope the movie is in threaters in September

>>280818351
But enough about MHA

>>280818385
I still have a job, moved out, not dead. Still know nip.
Pretty well all in all.

>>280818385
I hope Korea anon is doing well. I ended up getting an actual good job and started investing. Still learning Japanese but the goal is to find a qt to marry there

>>280818465
In japan? I doubt they move it, but at point it'd be better to watch it in high quality in the west, imax and all that, the movie is made for that.

>>280818527
I'm seeing it here with family first before I go over since I'll be gone for a few months

>>280818242
shogun's dialogue and use of kobun is so real that japanese viewers felt intimidated by how real it was
the script dares to actually sound like the time period it's set in with archaic and class-bound dialogue. meanwhile, most japanese period drama just throw actors in kimono and let them speak like they’re on a morning talk show
this should also tell you that if westerners didn't fuck with demon slayer as much as the nips do the whole "lost in translation, too japanese" is just a cope when the west loves shogun more than the nips

I lost count
>zenitsu's brother was №6 and is kill
>Akaza is №3 and kill
>6 eyes dude is №1
>smug faggot is №3 and about to die
>hydra from last season was №4 or 5 and kill
So who am I missing? Muzan killed most of the lower 6. Did the survivor get a promotion? I'm confused

>>280818740
there was a big rumor around the manga threads that there was one more upper moon but Muzan just didn't have time to make one

>>280818788
Shit I forgot about the replacements
>zenitsu's brother replaces daki
>№5 is mia
>fucking banjo kazooie is an upper moon now
lmao

>>280818740
People thought uzui's brother would be UM5 and him and rengoku dad would fight him off.

>>280818740
You're missing the best moon

>>280819076
>banjo kazooie
The rest WISH they were on nakime's level.

>>280819094
Sorry, wrong image.

>>280805930
It’s not widely known, but ever since its very early chapters, KnY has been praised and recommended by a number of big names in the manga/anime world — including Nasu Kinoko, Togashi, Takayuki Yamaguchi(Shigurui author), Osamu Akimoto, and Akihito Tsukushi.

>>280819152
Gyokko hard counters Gyutaro and Daki if you think about it. And also has a real chance of beating Hantengu in a blood battle. He's just too busy with his shitty pots.

>>280819128
>same power as the demoted drummer (lowest lower moon dude) from the spooky house but with more range
>except she can't fight at all
I bet muzan felt really stupid when he realized killed the lower moons for no reason

>>280819152
Ye your other post was the hydra I remember him. This dumbass was 150% a nepo baby or a diversity hire. Random demons on the street felt more powerful and threatening than his chamber pot

>>280819283
>but with more range
Well, it's the difference between one house and an infinite fortress she can manipulate at will and teleport people into and out of.
Nakime is VERY broken, she doesn't even need to worry about fighting because you won't ever get to her.

>>280819283
He makes fat money for Muzan.

Are you guys reading any other shonen at the moment or have you given up. In the end JJK was disappointing and i haven't read any shonen since. Kimetsu really was the peak

>>280819462
KGB
I like fish

>>280819333
What stopped the drummer from twisting the house like a rubic cube until the idiot slayers get tired of running so he can kill them easily? Nakime would have to wait until they die of exhaustion without other demons inside

>>280819462
Went straight back to slice of lifes and comfy manga after Kimetsu.

>>280819283
He was too strong. That's why he lost.

>>280816071
Marry Shinobu. Ignore the rest.

>>280819483
Sure, but that has a 100% effective rate of killing them.
Nakime can also dump people somewhere else, she has some radar demons or something to set her gates.

>>280819244
Don't care. They're all mangaka who read what's trending or what piques their interests, they're not auteurs like Miyazaki (who dismissed Demon Slayer) is . They're all just narrative engineer operating under a machine, not visionaries with a creator's voice uniquely born out of their obsessions, traumas, philosophies, and style.
>Togashi
More talented than the other shounen slop writer, but still tied to genre scaffolding, because Togashi is still just another mangaka who works for Jump who are demanding Dragon Ball-types of manga.
>Akimoto
A gag mangaka.
>Chiba
Just an artist. He's not Ikki Kajiwara.
>Nasu
A lore-heavy writer with cult following, but very much within otaku ecosystems and Type-Moon absolutely feels like it was written by an otaku with the campy dialogue.

Like I said before, Japan, like any other country, is full of normalfags with shit taste who hate exiting their comfort zones. Demon Slayer thrives not because it's bold or revolutionary, but because it's familiar, safe, and emotionally pre-chewed. Which is why normalfag Japanese exalted it.

>>280819592
Nakime can also spy on you masturbating with her eyeball familiars.

>>280819670
Did you just make up a name that wasn't there jeremy? Are you ok? Did your copypastas fuck up?

>>280819592
I guess. Probe shadows are a welcome bonus. How does she end up losing tho? Sounds like she isn't that OP unless regular Zenitsu charges her through the expanding castle beheading her

I love how expressive they made Kaigaku. Such a cool design too why did he have so little screentime Waniiiii

>>280819746
He exists purely to give zenitsu something to do.

Nakime should have been Upper Moon 0 unironically. She's in a completely different category of utility for Muzan. Would leave a place open for a different demon.

>>280819802
She's very weak

>>280819746
I realized he and the schizo gun demon from Rengoku gaiden look oddly similar.

>>280819871
she's not a combatant, she's max utility and impossible to kill unless muzan goes fullretard
(he did)

>>280819871
I'm not saying she's stronger than Koku. That she should be placed outside the regular 1-6 ranking due to her unique abilities and the fact that Muzan doesn't use her as an offensive pawn.

>>280819746
Koku is so lucky...

Who could have stopped demon tanjiro?

This is still my favorite piece of animation from this series. I haven't seen the movie yet though, so that could change. I just really love how fluid and water-like the fire effects are. Really mixes both of Tanjiro's skillsets

>>280820052
No one, that was the point, sun immunity, muzan tier regen, and absolute hax everything else.
If he had come into his senses as an evil demon it was game over.

>>280819725
Shut your ass up, samefag, rofl. You're trying to clutch industry names for validation for your bog standard battle shounen when actual industry giants like Miyazaki (bigger than Togashi, Akimoto, Chiba, Nasu and pretty much everyone who name-dropped Demon Slayer) would rather throw that slop in the trash than call it "great art."

Like I said, Japan rejected Shogun, the best jidaigeki in decades, because it wasn't "theirs." Hiroyuki Sanada, the finest Japanese actor of his generation, had to leave his own country to get serious roles because idol politics (Takuya Kimura) ran the industry. And Japanese filmmakers like Hirokazu Kore-eda has to make more films abroad to get the support he needs because anime has such a stranglehold on the Japanese film industry.

These obliterate the whole idea that Japanese reception = artistic validation.

>>280820052
Well Demon Tanjiro is immortal and cannot be killed. Not even Yoriichi could stop him.

>>280820111
Jeremy, the other dude (yes, there are more people here) mentioned these names
>Nasu Kinoko, Togashi, Takayuki Yamaguchi(Shigurui author), Osamu Akimoto, and Akihito Tsukushi.
And you
>Togashi, Akimoto, Chiba, Nasu
See the difference? Please stop copypasting.

>>280820111
Get over it dude

>>280820173
You think you're slick with your samefaggotry, but you're not slick. And I'm already well familiar wth you name-dropping all these mangaka in order to seek validation for your poorly written manga made for 10-year-olds. I just have to use the Desuarchive and I can easily track back you comments from weeks to years.

In other words, you're a faggot.

>>280820173
Why are you referring to yourself in third person?

KINOmetsu MASTERPIECE

>>280796970 (OP)
I hate KNY for making me unable to enjoy shonen anymore. Nothing since it ended has given me the same feeling.

>>280820304
Imagine seething from two devices like we don't know you're the same guy who posts the essays and same seething shit over and over.
give it a break lil bro
Hasn't kimetsu cum filled your stomach yet

>>280820298
>>280820304
Oh jeremy, you still can't answer why you fucked up not one but TWO names that are missing and then added another.
Are you actually writing your posts? Because everything points to
>nope

Giyu? Handsome and Straight

>>280820298
>>280820304
>>280820404
Give it a rest, Jeremy.

>>280819670
>Don't know about Yamaguchi

Thanks for confirming your entire take on anime/manga is just bottom-of-the-barrel surface knowledge.

>>280820226
Not until Japan gets another nuke so they can finally get develop some good taste for once. That country has extraordinarily shitty taste, which is why Takuya Kimura ruled the Japanese film industry for nearly two decades and commercial shounen slop like Demon Slayer and Detective Conan rules the Japanese film industry with an iron fist.

>>280820511
>doesn't include one piece the ultimate sloppa
kek

>>280820511
>Please nuke this country because they like something I dont like!
Yikes

>>280820511
>the japanese should die because kimetsu is more popular than [my favorite series]
And that's jeremy in a nutshell.

>>280820511
It's really weird how your seething has gone on for literal years

>>280820511
You're so mentally ill a comic book for kids overtook your mind to this extent.
take a break, I mean it. for your own good

>>280820511
Why the hell do you care so much about what Japs like?
It’s not your culture, not your country, not your problem.

>>280820487
He's no Miyazaki, so I don't care about some pulpy samurai wank manga for the same reason I don't care about Vagabond that's just battle shounen in disguise (Eiji Yoshikawa's novel is leagues ahead btw).
>>280820559
Yes, One Piece is included too. Every commercial shounen slop dominating the Japanese box office calls for Japan getting another nuke. This way, we might get another Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu again and shounen slop can stop stinking up Japanese cinema. Capeshit in America, capeshit in Japan, it's all just capeshit in the end.

I miss when shitposters were actually fun

>>280820827
Remember when season 2 came out and Uzui mind broke him

>>280820827
Panties anon was more annoying than Jeremy

>>280820892
>>280820922

>>280820892
>CHADZUI so much of a chad he set him off for days.
The best pillar

>>280820981
I remember them all and that list is perfectly accurate.
but you could slap the doushino pics on jeremy.

>>280820922
Don't forget Wiki anon. Dude would skim the wiki for complaints and would detail entire threads until someone proved him wrong

I think the last time it happened he was calling Kanao's final Vermilion Eye an asspull for only blinding one eye against Doma. Which is just such a random complain.
>"Durrr she only lost HALF her vision, asspull!"
and then someone found the page where it happened and Wani had the foresight to have her close one eye and keep the other one, the one she lost, open to maintain the technique

I think he stopped posting after that

>>280821043
jesus christ that was the weirdest meltdown on this board to date

>>280821133
Weirder than his current meltdown six years later?

>>280821133
The funniest thing about this is I was in those threads and dont remember the doushino spam.

>>280820492
>>280820492
ENTER

>>280820827
This thread was peak Kimetsu autism

>>280821311
I commend his posting juts because of how devoted he was to the cause.

>>280813510
>Also true, because Nobara as shitty as she is herself, also landed the final blow on Sukuna. There's a reason why Gege wrote her out of Shibuya, because she's the only character who can trivialize him.
Wtf? How does she trivialize him?

>>280816159
Ufotable made a mistake not picking up Kagurabachi too then. Hope Cygames does it justice.

>>280796970 (OP)
The movie made me realize why so many people ship these two. Douma is like the NTR chad who fucks your sister, cheats on her, and when you try to teach him a lesson, he ends up fucking you

>>280817814
Swordsmith and Hashira training sucked thougheverbeit