Kimetsu no Yaiba is your typical “demons Vs demon hunters” story. The concept isn’t original, the plot is simple, the characters are distinct and fleshed out well, the abilities are cool, there’s no major power creep so far and I like how the author humanised some of the demons.

I’m going to briefly give my thoughts on different aspects to the series.

• Character designs: I like the character designs for the most part. They’re distinct and creative, especially the demons.

• Comedy: I actually like the comedy a lot. It’s the only weekly shounen I read that’s managed to get a laugh out of me every once in a while. The interactions between Tanjirou/Inosuke/Zenitsu are great.

That being said, what Kimetsu no Yaiba is lacking:

• World building- The world is never really expanded upon, so I don’t care for it. It’s just demon hunters fighting demons in Feudal Japan. I think it would have been interesting if there were other locations, organisations and the lower demons weren’t killed off so quickly. The scope of the world feels very small

• Character development- I can’t say that any of the main cast has undergone any growth outside of strength, which is a shame because the series seems to be gearing to its end soon.

• Villains: Will I think they aren’t poorly written, they’re somewhat forgettable aside from Muzan. I kinda wish Muzan had a better motivation than just immortality too seeing as he’s the big bad villain of the series.

Art: I’m not too fond on the art style. The black comedic eyes is used way too frequently that it’s hard to take scenes seriously when the story doesn’t.

Edit: The rest will entire spoiler territory:

I am disappointed with how KnY went downhill once the attack on the Demons base started.

I don’t think UM1, UM2, UM3 needed a entire arc devoted to themselves, but it did need to be expanded on e.g. learning about Zenitsu’s mentor having another disciple (UM2) should have been mentioned before the fight if he was going to be Zenitsu’s big bad guy. We get a flashback when he appears and are supposed to care when he dies after two chapters.

Some characters that were wasted:

Kanao- why is it the first time we see her fighting for real during the final arc...? Could we not have gotten an arc with her going on a journey with the gang to build up their bond and her relationship with Tanjiro?

Nezuko- She should have learnt how to speak earlier and actually develop as a character rather than ‘cute demon girl gagged up in box Tanjirou needs to protect!’

Muzan- The final fight is probably the worst fight I’ve read in shounen solely because of him. How did we go from the amazing battle against UM1 to a boss battle where the demon waves his arms around for 10 chapters?!

When Muzan first showed up I was expecting Michael Jackson to have some more depth to him, to have a ulterior motivation than the generic ”immortality” typical demon stories go for but I was wrong. The Tamayo poison was laughable, she had 4 “all according to keikaku” moments where her asspull poison messes up Muzan lol

As for the last chapter. The epilogue wasn’t bad, but I would have preferred a ending that gave closure to our main cast as well.

Overall: Kimetsu has is a solid shounen that’s always been “meh” 6/10.