>>281959823
>being the inciting event so the strengths of the manga would be introduced to everyone
The anime and manga are two completely different products. Demon Slayer is as wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle. The story is nothing out of the ordinary, it's just another generic demon hunting story that's a dime among dozen. Even a child child could come up with a premise as simple as that, because it's literally "Kill the Demon King" and that's what the characters do. It's a series with an empty world, paper-thin characters, no plot twists, zero intrigue. It has nothing that makes it stand out compared to the Big 3, DB, Death Note, YYH/HxH, JoJo or Kenshin. Even compared to other manga of its time like JJK, MHA and CSM, Demon Slayer is an utterly unremarkable manga with no special or interesting qualities.

The only reason why people put it next to any of those works is because of how much it sold and not its artistic merits, all in large part thanks to Ufotable's god-tier presentation. There's a reason why the trash manga underperformed for 3 full years until Ufotable saved its ass. The manga is littered with bad art, horrible paneling and amateurish composition that makes the manga hard to follow and that's without going into details about the poor writing and how things conveniently happen in a specific moment in a specific time so the author can get the desired outcome. It would be nothing without Yuichi Terao's signature compositing and Nozomu Abe's sakuga mesmerizing normalfags who just got into anime during COVID lockdowns. Anytime people complain about the show, it's the author's bad writing and boring characters.

So when people say, "I like Demon Slayer", they don't mean they like Demon Slayer by Koyoharu Gotouge who really had not much to do with its success. They mean they like Demon Slayer by Ufotable, who turned an otherwise unremarkable manga into a completely different product.
>highest per-volume sales in history btw
Goes to Dragon Ball.

>>281693531
Animation is the *only* reason people give a fuck about this series. If this slop was picked up by Pierrot, it would have ended by S1 and just been another forgotten mid-tier shounen like Hitman Reborn

By the way, I'll post the Torishima interview here. Courtesy for the Demon Slayer faggot for trying to shit up my thread before. A good interview, and not just three faggots from Discord talking to themselves and shilling their badly written, poorly drawn manga.
>Question 1: Question for all three of you: what is your greatest artistic influence, whether in manga or elsewhere?

>Toyotaro: As you can probably guess, Dragon Ball had a huge influence on me as a child. But if we take Dragon Ball out of the equation, it would be all the manga I read when I was a kid like Kenshin, Vagabond, Slam Dunk, and all the manga from that era.
>However, if a mangaka only reads manga, that’s not enough. The manga world is really very narrow. I’ve also always been passionate about cinema and other forms of media. I was a huge Star Wars fan as a kid, and I watched a lot of Hollywood films, like the Back to the Future trilogy.

>Torishima: Before joining Shueisha, I had never read manga, so I had no influence coming from manga. I was very passionate about novels, and I always loved French literature. I read all of Stendhal. I even once took a three-month break at university to read and study Proust, especially In Search of Lost Time. So I think I have a very strong compatibility with France. I also love cinema, so let me give you my TOP 3: 1.) The Godfather (1972) by Francis Ford Coppola. 2.) Roman Holiday (1953) and my ideal woman is precisely Audrey Hepburn with short hair like in that movie. 3.) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). I think it's a fantastic work that actually does a good job of predicting what awaits us with AI.

>>281248254
See Torishima's words and cry more.
BTW, Dragon Ball is now more worthy than Gundam. Literally carrying Japan on its back. Lol.

>>149669689
Torishima would REJECT it