this is my first review ever so i hope i do it right


spoilers ahead








demon slayer: kimetsu no yaiba is one of the most horrid shounen i have ever read. from the anime i was really excited to start picking up the manga, thinking i would enjoy it as much as i did the anime. however as i am writing this review, you can probably see that it had the opposite effect.

the manga is very solid up until the swordsman village arc, although i definitely feel like the red light district arc was where it was at its prime. however the last arc of the manga, the final battle arc, has never made me so upset to read a manga.

lets start with what i thought was a great aspect of the series, its characters.
many characters in this series are very good. they all have different designs, abilities, stuff like that makes you think that they really did well with this. however, this series has no idea how to actually expand on these characters well, as their backstories are all presented during conflict. the flashback usage is one of the most annoying things known to man, and demon slayer does it at least 30 times.

then there is the fact that after the writer develops these characters, he kills them off, one by one. the characters feel important, well written, all of that is thrown out the fucking window because they just die after they were shown in the spotlight. mitsuri kanroji gets hit one on the side of the face and DIES? the canonically strongest character in terms of prue muscle is hit once on the SIDE OF THE FACE AND DIES. its horrendous.


kamado tanjiro is one of the worst protagonists ive ever seen. who cares if the demon you murdered was once human? who cares if they liked to stare at the sunset? that doesn't mean you can ignore the fact that they murdered and devoured human beings. the amount of times we see them being pittied is so annoying and overused, it's like stale bread.

nezuko kamado is a plot device. wowie, a cute anime girl who likes head pats, why does it matter when her personality is that of a cardboard box? why does she all of a sudden have amnesia and cant remember her time as a demon?? its all just loose ends that aren't explained. nezuko transforms and makes her blood explode once and then is discarded for the last two arcs of the series.

speaking of loose ends, let's see what else they don't explain.

tanjiro can see ghosts.

the sword system. why do they say his blade is black as if it matters?

Spells. they exist and thats all.


i feel like my hatred for this series is stemming from that final muzan fight. breaths being thrown around like garbage, characters after being developed just get injured because the author doesnt know what to do with them, muzan himself, it's all just nonsense. this manga is the worst piece of shounen ive ever layed my eyes upon.

TLDR: 3/10 don't read it, stay an anime only fan.


at least the characters are cool