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Considering Genya can't use breathing techniques, and didn't seem to have GUN during the Final Selection, I think he may have already had demon powers by then.
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C-Euro posted:My wife claims that this show is about family dynamics, but I maintain that it's about how much trauma you'd actually have to go through in order to be an anime teen badass. Worked extremely well for Batman after all.
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May 15, 2023 22:23
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I do admit 6 episodes in I can't tell if this season's pacing is significantly slow or just feels slower than the previous seasons.
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Annointed posted:I do admit 6 episodes in I can't tell if this season's pacing is significantly slow or just feels slower than the previous seasons. They're actually covering more chapters per episode than usual. Personally, rather than any pacing or narrative structure deficiencies I think it's simply that these two mofos fail to live up to the bar set by the previous Upper Six fights.
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I know it's 100 percent not intentional but it's very funny that the only guy with a gun seems to be kept alive through thoughts and prayers (he was reciting Buddhist prayers the first couple of times he got grievously injured right)
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These upper moons are the sucky ones. The remaining upper moons are the cool ones
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Wasn't the whole point of the concept of "Upper Moons" that there are no sucky ones? 
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They're sucky in that they're boring and have about as much development/character as a monster of the week demon from the first season, I'm sure they're very strong. Akaza's punchman psychosis and the personal relationship he developed with Rengoku through fighting him, and Daki getting several episodes showing her as a (terrible) person and hyping her up made the two of them way more cool than these two have been.
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They're not sufficiently fearsome, either. Gyutaro felt like a genuine powerhouse much the way Akaza had been, with the added complication of also needing to take out Daki to force the group to split attentions, and and unlike with Azaka the clock was against the protagonists since the venomous blood would eventually render them too weak to keep fighting. The goal and stakes in the fight were thus clear and the audience could focus on the struggle and flashy moves. By contrast these two are minionmancers with no backstory, annoying personalities, and the ability to keep cheating death in lieu of actually having the strength to go toe-to-toe with a Hashira-level opponent. It's just not as cool to watch.
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RareAcumen posted:Worked extremely well for Batman after all. It's why Rengoku couldn't close the deal against Akaza - he "only" had to deal with his mother dying young and his dad becoming a deadbeat. Maybe if his brother had died too he could have pulled it off. 
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I think it's more indicative of Tanjiro's growth that he's running laps around Hantengu. He's gotten much better at Sun Breathing, and is currently benefitting from Nezuko's rear end-pull sword power-up. The experience of fighting two Upper Moons already is clearly paying off. Nezuko herself seems to be at least Daki-level by now. Also, nobody can defend themselves against Genya's GUN. While Hantengu might be carried a bit by his sheer resilience and only engaging targets with his emotion demons, a 1v4(5?) fight against him would probably topple any Hashira. Genya seems to be implying that Tanjiro might be Hashira level, but wasn't promoted since the last fight was a team effort. His sense of smell which allowed him to be the first person to out Muzan in centuries(?) is also what's allowing him to engage Hantengu. It's possible none of the other Hashira would have been able to find him, but I'm not 100% on their abilities. Gyokko's fight so far is going more predictably, showing the usual dominance that an Upper Moon has over a solo Hashira.
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Since Tanjiro pretty much abandoned water breathing, guess we have to wait till Giyu’s penultimate fight to see how a real water breathing master is suppose to fight
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Hell, next episode we might see the Mist Hashira do some water breathing in its truest form 
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dipwood posted:I think it's more indicative of Tanjiro's growth that he's running laps around Hantengu. He's gotten much better at Sun Breathing, and is currently benefitting from Nezuko's rear end-pull sword power-up. The experience of fighting two Upper Moons already is clearly paying off. Nezuko herself seems to be at least Daki-level by now. Also, nobody can defend themselves against Genya's GUN. Tanjiro has nearly died several times during the fight, only being saved cause Genya and Nezuko are borderline immortal and have stopped him from taking fatal blows. Fighting Hantengu is nearly impossible if you don't have some way of locating his real body, the Emotion Demons near instantly recover, so fighting four strong Demons at the same time when you can't do anything to kill them makes victory near impossible. Even if you do figure out the Mouse Size Hantengu trick somehow, actually finding him should be super hard cause the Emotions will work even harder to defend him.
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May 17, 2023 07:00
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Kimetsu No Yaiba: fundamentally rejecting the standard shonen trope of taking turns fighting the big bad and using the ultimate power up: teamwork
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Yawgmoft posted:Kimetsu No Yaiba: fundamentally rejecting the standard shonen trope of taking turns fighting the big bad and using the ultimate power up: teamwork You know I didn't really realize this before, but yeah. Everyone is pretty much always desperately trying to just win, it's great.
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Just jump em.
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Gazaar posted:You know I didn't really realize this before, but yeah. Everyone is pretty much always desperately trying to just win, it's great. I mean, Uzui literally yells "WE'RE GOING FOR THE WIN" right before he and Gyutaro consume 5% of Japan's GDP in animation, so
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Jujutsu Kaisen is similar in that characters have no sense of fair play and will gang up on any opponent if they can.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Tanjiro has nearly died several times during the fight, only being saved cause Genya and Nezuko are borderline immortal and have stopped him from taking fatal blows. Fighting Hantengu is nearly impossible if you don't have some way of locating his real body, the Emotion Demons near instantly recover, so fighting four strong Demons at the same time when you can't do anything to kill them makes victory near impossible. Even if you do figure out the Mouse Size Hantengu trick somehow, actually finding him should be super hard cause the Emotions will work even harder to defend him. + Hantengu is fuckin' sturdy as poo poo, Genya could shoot body parts off the Emotions with no issue but his bullets did jack poo poo to the fucker.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Tanjiro has nearly died several times during the fight, only being saved cause Genya and Nezuko are borderline immortal and have stopped him from taking fatal blows. Fighting Hantengu is nearly impossible if you don't have some way of locating his real body, the Emotion Demons near instantly recover, so fighting four strong Demons at the same time when you can't do anything to kill them makes victory near impossible. Even if you do figure out the Mouse Size Hantengu trick somehow, actually finding him should be super hard cause the Emotions will work even harder to defend him. I'm so used to Tanjiro nearly dying several times during a fight that I don't even factor that in anymore.
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I'm just waiting to see if Mitsuri also has a Tomboy Thrust in her technique arsenal Yawgmoft posted:Kimetsu No Yaiba: fundamentally rejecting the standard shonen trope of taking turns fighting the big bad and using the ultimate power up: teamwork Gazaar posted:You know I didn't really realize this before, but yeah. Everyone is pretty much always desperately trying to just win, it's great. I remember this happening a lot in Fullmetal Alchemist. People fighting two or even four on one. We should look into these shounen anime adapted off of manga made by women. Maybe there's a pattern here
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GateOfD posted:the shriek Akane gave out when Aqua pulled her from the ledge that she was gonna jump was so well delivered, since she had no idea if she was being attacked by one of her haters. Yeah totally man
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Oh no he's hot
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Shyrka posted:Oh no he's hot I watched the One Piece episode before this and wasn't expecting to have the same sentiment across two different anime in one day.
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Shyrka posted:Oh no he's hot
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OP and ED feel like false advertising, so far 7 episodes in The love Hashira has barely been in it and the mist hashira been spending 2 episodes stuck in a water jar.
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Mist breathing so far looks like a lovely style
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That's because he barely got to do any breathing at all.
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Tanjiro got out of the Demon Magical Pool using water style.
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Funnily enough I think both of these fights going forward from here is what I remember the most clearly from the manga about this arc, so I'm looking forward to the rest.
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i like that the jar demon just wanted the swordsmith to stop working on the sword lol. also, i guess just about everybody wearing a mask or boarhead is actually pretty and hot under it
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Is it really a suprise? Like 99% of characters in Kimetsu no Yaiba are pretty and hot
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dipwood posted:I watched the One Piece episode before this and wasn't expecting to have the same sentiment across two different anime in one day. I said that exact line during One Piece at the reveal.
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i was pretty meh on the emotion demon in general (other than staff and spear guy) until now, but hatred's design is loving cool as poo poo vase guy continues to be dumb and bad though
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Lt. Lizard posted:Is it really a suprise? Like 99% of characters in Kimetsu no Yaiba are pretty and hot I like that in Ojiisan Isekai that the main character, a normal looking guy, gets mistaken by people in the fantasy world as an ugly monster because everyone is just that good looking.
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Tabletops posted:i was pretty meh on the emotion demon in general (other than staff and spear guy) until now, but hatred's design is loving cool as poo poo I keep thinking Sorrow is wearing a tracksuit. It's not just me, right?
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Bloody Pom posted:I keep thinking Sorrow is wearing a tracksuit. It's not just me, right? Yeah I kept thinking that too.
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Annointed posted:OP and ED feel like false advertising, so far 7 episodes in The love Hashira has barely been in it and the mist hashira been spending 2 episodes stuck in a water jar. Fighting time dilation is happening. Got to get every manga frame in there, with all the dialogue in said frame, even if it's only meant to be a split-second.
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