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Kimetsu no Yaiba is pretty much just the modern Saint Seiya, but with better marketing, 4K visuals, and way more shilling from Sony. What Torishima says about Kimetsu, he once said the same thing about Saint Seiya.
>Torishima: "Around the same time, Saint Seiya was a very popular anime. This was interesting because the Saint Seiya manga was rather average but the anime by comparison was a lot better. So I wanted to know why the Saint Seiya anime was doing so well and we did some research on that."
>Torishima: "We found that there were two key figures. The first was Kouzou Morishita, who was the director, and the second was Takao Koyama, who wrote the script. So I visited these two guys and asked them if they'd help me reboot Dragon Ball and they both agreed."
God tier soundtrack by Seiji Yokoyama for Saint Seiya, then there's Kimetsu with Go Shiina.
Amazing voice acting that gave weight to boring cardboard archetypes.
And though, Saint Seiya had shit animation at times, it knew when to go hard, and the dramatic direction papered over the emptiness of the manga just like Kimetsu.
The anime by Ufotable was a miracle and if it got picked by another run of the mill studio like Pierrot, it would vanish into obscurity among many underselling Jump manga.