SPOILERS.... sort of???


I wanted to like this series so much, i truly did, but the flaws within this story is so sad and exigent.

The beginning of the story is written so well, and when first reading I was ready to embark on this adventure. I was ready to follow Tanjirou on this path to cure his sister. It wasn't until after the first Upper Moon death arc that I realized the flaws.

The biggest flaws I think Kimetsu no Yaiba has:
1) The spacing of the story
2) Actually showing a character's personality and giving them proper presentation in the story

After the arc with Uzui, I just felt extremely rushed. I thought there would be more time in between each of the Upper Moon's deaths, but instead, five Upper Moons died in one arc??? And with minimal casualties??
It just felt like the creator was tired, and just wanted an end quicker than what was originally intended.

I think that's also why the characters personalities and backstories all suffer. Genuinely did not care about a majority of the cast, and I think it's because I wasn't given enough time with them or wasn't shown the characters traits. Half of pillars..... who? I don't even know who they are.
Instead of just showing a character, we get really shitty flashbacks, which I think are supposed to invoke sympathy? I'm not really sure, but I found myself feeling nothing for these character because I didn't know them.

I also hate that the main characters also seemed to suffer from the rush. After the Entertainment District arc, you hardly see Zenitsu or Inosuke again before the end, but in the spider arc it makes the reader feel that these three would continue to be a recurring team. There's one part in the manga, that Tanjirou is in a coma for a month, and in that time Zenitsu was still doing bounties. Instead of showing what Zenitsu does or creating a mini arc of that, we get to read about Tanjiou..... who has been asleep for a month. I wanted to see these three grow and become stronger demon slayers, but what we got was just Tanjirou training or magically becoming stronger in the middle of a fight.

There's such a disconnect, at least for me, with a lot of the characters, more specifically, the pillars. I feel like I know who half of them are, and I really care about them, as much as a reader can, but the other half were introduced right before their death. I just....

The potential Kimetsu no Yaiba had, and the high expectations I had given it..... In all, I do think the story, although not really unique, was still entertaining. And yes, though it's technically not over, it does seem to be coming to an end soon, I do feel like this story would have thrived with another good fifty to hundred chapters.

In the end, this is just my opinion, I'm sure others found the writing choices perfectly fine. After seeing so much praise for this series, and even finding myself wanting to make excuses, I just couldn't sit silently anymore.

(Sorry if I didn't explain myself well and also for the countless typos and grammatical errors I'm sure this thing is riddled with.)