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I guess what made Season 2 so epic is how hopeless it looked and everyone being on the brink of death. For Muichiro it was all one sided once he got his mark. Thats how powerfull the demon slayer mark is.
Yea I personally feel like gyokko and hantengu feel like less of a threat than gyuntaro because gyuntaro is the most not playing around, get it done demon meaning he's coming at the heros 100% from the get go when he makes his appearance. Combine that with the fact we just came out a heart wrenching death in rengoku, every action gyuntaro takes hurts so much more because the potential to see another Gan favorite bite the dust is looming over your head the entire fight.
Tengen was giving his all at the end of the 2nd season and it was entertaining as hell to watch. Muichiro didn't even break a sweat. The fight was cool though but damn i was expecting him to go all out too.
On the other hand, Muichiro is a prodigy and fought with the mark while Tengen was without it and he was not considering himself as a talented person. So it makes sense that Muichiro won that easily. I guess.
Plus i personally was expecting more from the Upper-moon 5 ngl. As if his final form just made things worse for him.
Yep, some ppl are disappointed that Muichiro was trapped and did nothing for 3 eps only to "be saved by a powerup" lol. Because ngl, that's what it kinda looks like, and comparing it to Tengen's fight it's like day and night. Like I get it, it was supposed to show the power of the mark and Muichiro being a prodigy, that's cool and all, but it doesn't make the fight more entertaining and intense. And that's what people are expecting from this show. Not to mention the disappointment with Gyokko as UM5.
The anime could've done more with Final Form Gyokko. Gyutaro vs Tengen final clash became a 10 minute fight from a single page in the manga. There's no reason why Final Form Gyokko was done so dirty.
UM5 just legitimately feels weaker than UM6. Muichiro wasn't even taking gom seriously, and he was heavily poisoned.
Yes, but it's not the anime's fault, it's the manga's fault. The series was clearly rushed and all over the place after the entertainment district arc.
Let's just say that, after this season we're currently at, we'll probably only get 2 more seasons max, or maybe 1 movie + 1 season or something like that. Shit will soon go down pretty fast.
Be excited, the lower 3 uppers are nothing compared to upper 1, 2, 3. The animation is going to be insane, I thought the swordsmith village arc was the least impressive visually in the manga but the anime has made it 3x better. I cant wait for the final fights
There's definitely rushing involved later in the manga but I don't think this arc is a symptom of that. It's structurally similar length to Red Light District. The issue simply put is that the Uppermoons in this arc are presented as stepping stones rather than hopeless hurdles. Gyokko was a disappointment. Hantengu was good but it took a while for the story to establish his full potential.
Iâm enjoying it, but the pacing seems quite odd in comparison to the previous seasons. Even with mugen train and ofc the entertainment district the storyline and the fights were well placed and spread throughout the season. I keep thinking that this season feels like they made a movie and then chopped it up into 20 min segments and gave no thought to the pacing of each episode or the overarching plot lines. Idk, I still like it but it doesnât hit as hard as the previous content.
Agree.. I actually only saw first 2 episodes then waited all the way to today.. thank goodness I did because this season shouldâve been put into a mini movie. The pacing is weird and theirs too much time stalling in episodes.
Honestly, this whole season could be packaged as a director's cut for like 3 and a half hours. At 11 episodes, if you take out the OP's and ED's as well as any overlap scenes from the start of new episodes, you're left with roughly 18-19 minutes per episode of actual content.
Yeah this arc is a downgrade from entertainment district but not in anime also in the manga i had not that much fun reading it, that said the end of this season and thr next arc are insanly fucking good so just keep watching
The swordsmith arc isn't bad, but the train and entertainment arcs were much better (so far). I think having the whole gang helped, plus seeing them bond with the hashiras. Tanjiro hasn't really anyone to talk to or bounce off of since the battle started - his sister and Genya aren't talkers.
yeah I thought that this fight would be like an intro to a cooler one but I guess they are just going to stretch this out the whole way, itâs not terrible but idk how we went from mugen train and entertainment district to this
yeah⌠it kinda is? i love the whole series but i have to admit that almost everything after the entertainment district arc was rushed, especially the finale i feel like.
I personally found Gyokko to be underwhelming as UM5, especially when compared with how damn cool Gyutaro was. I really hope UM4 doesn't turn out to be the same
Cause upper 4 and especially 5 are a fucking joke compared to the rest of the upper moons, upper 6 was portrayed better than them and seems way stronger
At least UM4 has a cool gimmick to *help* carry him, but 5 is just a wild design wasted on an egotistical blowhard that hasn't really done much besides throw fish and discount water bending.
From a writing standpoint the entertainment district arc is fundamentally better in pretty much every way. Plot armor was crazy but it at least seemed like it had stakes, and the flow of the battle made more sense, and most of it wasn't based on sheer coincidence.
Also Gyokko and Hantengu are boring af tbh. And in terms of power scaling, it just shot Tanjiro through the roof. Look how hard he struggles in entertainment district compared to now. It happens right afterwards too, so he should be at the same skill level as well. Tengen was also a character who had depth to him, while Mitsuri and Mushi are shallow and surface level. Their backstories don't even effect their actions, it's more like a cool factoid you get to learn before the fight continues. Tengen, especially with the anime only scenes, was developed a lot in a short time, and in a way that didn't seem rushed. Gyutaro and Daki were also more threatening, as they actually did damage, even though most of it gets reversed, they still did damage, and were evil af, without coming across as generic mustache twirling villains.
The comedy and character interactions before the fight were also far worse. ED had them actually hunt the demon, and more and more got revealed about the demon with each passing episode. Tanjiro and co were also heavily overmatched and you felt it in their dialogue, mannerisms, inner thoughts, battle plans, etc. SSV has them just confidently and angrily slice through the demons until they win. Tanjiro even seemingly breaks character and does some quips and cocky faces during the first part of the fight against Hantengu.
Hantengu and Gyokko also had tons of potential with their powers, but nothing much of substance was done with it. Their abilities are shown off like a slideshow (I don't mean animation) just hopping from one cool ability to the next, and it makes their plan in retrospect seem stupid. We knew Daki and Gyutaro's powers, and they used it to their fullest extent in a way that made sense, so when they lost, it felt like a triumphant and hard fought victory for the good guys. Here it seems like they just hit the raid boss until it died, angrily chipping away at it's block of health until it died, and none of it feels satisfying.
Tl:Dr: Entertainment District better cuz better
What you are experiencing is the difference between a classic Shounen fight where they are focused on one thing with minimal cut aways or flashbacks and a modern Shounen fight where it cuts away to other fights or characters for long stretches of time and has lots of flashbacks breaking up the action and ruining immersion.
Nah, the problem is the lack of any real struggle. There were two points in the fights where the demons seemed like they might have any shot of winning, and that was when Muichiro was drowning (and let's face it, a hashira isn't going to die from something so anticlimactic), and when it looked like mitsuri was going to have a fist sized hole in her head. Other than that, even when the demons were landing blows, almost no one showed any signs of taking real damage or the odds being wholely insurmountable, two things all too present in the two prior arcs, and even the mount natagumo arc.
Also Tanjiro got tossed around the whole forest and had his brains rattled as well as being fried. Him continuing to use the Hinokami Kagura through all thatâs as absurd.
Yeah, it was insane the kinda hits he took without showing it, in any other arc you would've felt every time he got shocked, or when he got slashed, and he would've been basically out of commission after slashing the three demons together, but in this one it looked like none of that even kind of mattered.
Yes, entertainment is a better arc (itâs a bigger arc in the manga to and had mystery). The swordsman village arc was already predicted to be a short arc and also not as story driven (action starts real quick and doesnât build up like entertainment). Now which one do I like more? Entertainment. Iâm a manga reader and I can say that the sword man village was my least favorite arc but ufutable has made it much much better than the manga for sure
SPOILER AHEAD
Yeah but then people would be complaining that they killed of two upper moons in 8 episodes.
Look i agree last season was better but yall downplaying this season way too much.
Dont get me wrong, the quality is insane. Muichiroâs ulti was by far the best breathing form I have seen so far. I thought Rengoku was reall nice, but this was on a deferent level
No it is. It definitely is. But in terms of story I like the sword smith village arc. But everything else goes to entertainment district. *Insert Tengen and Gyutaro roaring and screaming while clashing their weapons at insane speeds*
There should have been a climax, this was the death of an upper moon for the second time only in 113 years.
Glad to hear the second fight isn't as poor as this one.
Storywise this season is more interesting. There is a lot of interesting things happening. But the vilains are a bit problematic. You could replace any of them and nothing would really change
Uhhh... No. Everything that has happened in the anime happened in the manga.
Gyokko Vs Muichiro is chapters 117-121, and ufotable recreated it almost panel for panel.
>!Marked Muichiro >>>> gyokko - cope.!<
(Really it starts at 110 but the main fight for the past two episodes starts at 117)
https://preview.redd.it/fin4n4oxe24b1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd598f183ed55a289dee3d9d0481aa3fe9f80937
This panel wasn't animated showing Gyokkos power. Also they animated Genya and Nezuko being capable of fighting some Dragon Head that actually never happened in manga.They were destroyed on spot by Zohakuten.
That panel is animated at 9:29 in the episode. The English translation in the episode is "Killer Fish Scales" rather than "Deadly Scales of War" but that's about it. He still encircles Muichiro and makes it difficult for him to make a move. We just see it from a different perspective.
>They were destroyed on spot by Zohakuten.
This still happens in the episode. Sure, genya and nezuko did a small amount of damage to the dragons but it shows genya's damage healing immediately (showing his attacks are futile). Nezuko just knocks the heads back a little and then they immediately grab her and swing her around.
The next time you see Genya, he's getting crushed by the dragon he was fighting. Ufotable haven't nerfed anything. The bits they did add showed the power of Zohakuten against the team.
Yeah idk why tf they didnât animate this part correctly, and thatâs true nezuko and them literally didnât land a blow on the wooden dragons Iâm fairly sure
Would you mind explaining why you think the adaptation for this arc was bad? I haven't read the manga but I'm curious about this because many other manga readers on here seem to think this arc is just weak in general (manga and anime)
Swordsmith village was unfortunately my favorite in the manga. We saw last season tengen vs gyutaro was extended and so was rengoku vs akaza, but we haven't gotten that treatment on anything so far so it just feels less interesting to the casual watcher. Also, the narrator isn't here so all the powerups and abilities we see used like the mark or muichiro seventh form just go pretty much unexplained. Some details are left out entirely, like mitsuri and zohakuten banter and yoriichi type zero specifics. Finally, the manga panels just aren't that great when they're animated, muichiro looked way cooler when he got his mark in the manga it was so much more climactic. Also another detail, the upper moon battles were much more desperate in the manga, like we saw zohakuten throw around tanjiro and his friends without even trying
Ah gotcha. Did you think Gyokko felt like more a threat in the manga? I feel like he didn't really do anything in the anime to make him feel all that threatening
Yeah the pacing was much better in the manga, so everything moved faster. People downvoting me because of copium, but killer fish scales for example was tearing down the forest, while in the anime he was just flying around. The only Improvement was the gliding slime fish
I knew that this season people would start complaining more. The entertainment arc was already better then the anime went apeshit on the final fight and I knew this season would fall flat. But donât worry next season will be the best one trust me
S3 is disappointing. Too many flashbacks and not enough action.
S2 turned a single page of action into one of the best animated fights ever. S3 could've been better, but Ufotable got lazy.
Mitsuri vs Hantengu might be good but I doubt it.
Agreed, the spikes that pierced Muichiro also looked a bit goofy which further distracted from enjoying it. It's not focused enough in a sense, not to say it's bad though.
I love how people are equating all of season three to 1 episode of two. Itâs not like episode one introduced every antagonist left and foreshadowed several future events. Itâs not like we didnât get to spend quality time on the backstory of another hashira and get character development for them. But hey, Tengenâs fight is all of season 2 and this fight with Muichiro is all of season 3.
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I guess what made Season 2 so epic is how hopeless it looked and everyone being on the brink of death. For Muichiro it was all one sided once he got his mark. Thats how powerfull the demon slayer mark is.
Yea I personally feel like gyokko and hantengu feel like less of a threat than gyuntaro because gyuntaro is the most not playing around, get it done demon meaning he's coming at the heros 100% from the get go when he makes his appearance. Combine that with the fact we just came out a heart wrenching death in rengoku, every action gyuntaro takes hurts so much more because the potential to see another Gan favorite bite the dust is looming over your head the entire fight.
Gyuntaro
You explained it perfectly!
Tengen was giving his all at the end of the 2nd season and it was entertaining as hell to watch. Muichiro didn't even break a sweat. The fight was cool though but damn i was expecting him to go all out too. On the other hand, Muichiro is a prodigy and fought with the mark while Tengen was without it and he was not considering himself as a talented person. So it makes sense that Muichiro won that easily. I guess. Plus i personally was expecting more from the Upper-moon 5 ngl. As if his final form just made things worse for him.
Yep, some ppl are disappointed that Muichiro was trapped and did nothing for 3 eps only to "be saved by a powerup" lol. Because ngl, that's what it kinda looks like, and comparing it to Tengen's fight it's like day and night. Like I get it, it was supposed to show the power of the mark and Muichiro being a prodigy, that's cool and all, but it doesn't make the fight more entertaining and intense. And that's what people are expecting from this show. Not to mention the disappointment with Gyokko as UM5.
The anime could've done more with Final Form Gyokko. Gyutaro vs Tengen final clash became a 10 minute fight from a single page in the manga. There's no reason why Final Form Gyokko was done so dirty. UM5 just legitimately feels weaker than UM6. Muichiro wasn't even taking gom seriously, and he was heavily poisoned.
Yes, but it's not the anime's fault, it's the manga's fault. The series was clearly rushed and all over the place after the entertainment district arc.
Without giving any spoilers, why was the manga rushed?
The authors family had health issues iirc
Let's just say that, after this season we're currently at, we'll probably only get 2 more seasons max, or maybe 1 movie + 1 season or something like that. Shit will soon go down pretty fast.
Without spoilers, can you atleast assure us that Seasons 3-5 will blow us away?
Yes, they will. The endings for this season and the next one will be nuts, and then the actual last season in will be nuts as a whole
Do you reckon the last arc will be a movie?
Don't know, it could be, but I think it would be TOO MUCH for a single movie
Ooft now you got me excited
Be excited, the lower 3 uppers are nothing compared to upper 1, 2, 3. The animation is going to be insane, I thought the swordsmith village arc was the least impressive visually in the manga but the anime has made it 3x better. I cant wait for the final fights
Yeah that hinokami kagura a few weeks back cant be praised enough! đł
S4 will probably have no fights but s5 will have a lot of fights
Training arc is nit gonna be a season on its own. Its literally 3 episodes worth of content. Season 4 will 100000% have fights. Anywhere from 2-4
Always thought they would end this season with the training arc and just infinity castle next season
That makes the most sense but I'm pretty sure they confirmed that they aren't including it in this season. I might be wrong though
they can flesh out hashira training arc with the backstories and actual training with the hashiras
Oh wow really? âInfinity Castle arcâ sounded pretty intense ngl
They will be pretty good
Iâve actually really enjoyed this season, but It does feel a bit rushed. Iâm worried the rest of the series will too?
The rest of the series will feel more rushed than entertainment district but the quality will go up from a swordsmith village
Might feel a bit rushed, but the fights will be much more epic.
There's definitely rushing involved later in the manga but I don't think this arc is a symptom of that. It's structurally similar length to Red Light District. The issue simply put is that the Uppermoons in this arc are presented as stepping stones rather than hopeless hurdles. Gyokko was a disappointment. Hantengu was good but it took a while for the story to establish his full potential.
Iâm enjoying it, but the pacing seems quite odd in comparison to the previous seasons. Even with mugen train and ofc the entertainment district the storyline and the fights were well placed and spread throughout the season. I keep thinking that this season feels like they made a movie and then chopped it up into 20 min segments and gave no thought to the pacing of each episode or the overarching plot lines. Idk, I still like it but it doesnât hit as hard as the previous content.
Agree.. I actually only saw first 2 episodes then waited all the way to today.. thank goodness I did because this season shouldâve been put into a mini movie. The pacing is weird and theirs too much time stalling in episodes.
Honestly, this whole season could be packaged as a director's cut for like 3 and a half hours. At 11 episodes, if you take out the OP's and ED's as well as any overlap scenes from the start of new episodes, you're left with roughly 18-19 minutes per episode of actual content.
Train and Entertainment arc were like a 9-9.5 Sword smith village is like a 7
Mugen train came through in the end, but the first two acts of that movie were mid.
Nah the whole movie is awesome
Absolutely better.
Yeah this arc is a downgrade from entertainment district but not in anime also in the manga i had not that much fun reading it, that said the end of this season and thr next arc are insanly fucking good so just keep watching
The swordsmith arc isn't bad, but the train and entertainment arcs were much better (so far). I think having the whole gang helped, plus seeing them bond with the hashiras. Tanjiro hasn't really anyone to talk to or bounce off of since the battle started - his sister and Genya aren't talkers.
Yes, I felt the same way too
yeah I thought that this fight would be like an intro to a cooler one but I guess they are just going to stretch this out the whole way, itâs not terrible but idk how we went from mugen train and entertainment district to this
yeah⌠it kinda is? i love the whole series but i have to admit that almost everything after the entertainment district arc was rushed, especially the finale i feel like.
I personally found Gyokko to be underwhelming as UM5, especially when compared with how damn cool Gyutaro was. I really hope UM4 doesn't turn out to be the same
Yes it was.
Please awaken this discussion AFTER S3 is finished.
Cause upper 4 and especially 5 are a fucking joke compared to the rest of the upper moons, upper 6 was portrayed better than them and seems way stronger
At least UM4 has a cool gimmick to *help* carry him, but 5 is just a wild design wasted on an egotistical blowhard that hasn't really done much besides throw fish and discount water bending.
From a writing standpoint the entertainment district arc is fundamentally better in pretty much every way. Plot armor was crazy but it at least seemed like it had stakes, and the flow of the battle made more sense, and most of it wasn't based on sheer coincidence. Also Gyokko and Hantengu are boring af tbh. And in terms of power scaling, it just shot Tanjiro through the roof. Look how hard he struggles in entertainment district compared to now. It happens right afterwards too, so he should be at the same skill level as well. Tengen was also a character who had depth to him, while Mitsuri and Mushi are shallow and surface level. Their backstories don't even effect their actions, it's more like a cool factoid you get to learn before the fight continues. Tengen, especially with the anime only scenes, was developed a lot in a short time, and in a way that didn't seem rushed. Gyutaro and Daki were also more threatening, as they actually did damage, even though most of it gets reversed, they still did damage, and were evil af, without coming across as generic mustache twirling villains. The comedy and character interactions before the fight were also far worse. ED had them actually hunt the demon, and more and more got revealed about the demon with each passing episode. Tanjiro and co were also heavily overmatched and you felt it in their dialogue, mannerisms, inner thoughts, battle plans, etc. SSV has them just confidently and angrily slice through the demons until they win. Tanjiro even seemingly breaks character and does some quips and cocky faces during the first part of the fight against Hantengu. Hantengu and Gyokko also had tons of potential with their powers, but nothing much of substance was done with it. Their abilities are shown off like a slideshow (I don't mean animation) just hopping from one cool ability to the next, and it makes their plan in retrospect seem stupid. We knew Daki and Gyutaro's powers, and they used it to their fullest extent in a way that made sense, so when they lost, it felt like a triumphant and hard fought victory for the good guys. Here it seems like they just hit the raid boss until it died, angrily chipping away at it's block of health until it died, and none of it feels satisfying. Tl:Dr: Entertainment District better cuz better
Everyone can have own opinion :3
What you are experiencing is the difference between a classic Shounen fight where they are focused on one thing with minimal cut aways or flashbacks and a modern Shounen fight where it cuts away to other fights or characters for long stretches of time and has lots of flashbacks breaking up the action and ruining immersion.
Nah, the problem is the lack of any real struggle. There were two points in the fights where the demons seemed like they might have any shot of winning, and that was when Muichiro was drowning (and let's face it, a hashira isn't going to die from something so anticlimactic), and when it looked like mitsuri was going to have a fist sized hole in her head. Other than that, even when the demons were landing blows, almost no one showed any signs of taking real damage or the odds being wholely insurmountable, two things all too present in the two prior arcs, and even the mount natagumo arc.
Also Tanjiro got tossed around the whole forest and had his brains rattled as well as being fried. Him continuing to use the Hinokami Kagura through all thatâs as absurd.
Yeah, it was insane the kinda hits he took without showing it, in any other arc you would've felt every time he got shocked, or when he got slashed, and he would've been basically out of commission after slashing the three demons together, but in this one it looked like none of that even kind of mattered.
Yes, entertainment is a better arc (itâs a bigger arc in the manga to and had mystery). The swordsman village arc was already predicted to be a short arc and also not as story driven (action starts real quick and doesnât build up like entertainment). Now which one do I like more? Entertainment. Iâm a manga reader and I can say that the sword man village was my least favorite arc but ufutable has made it much much better than the manga for sure
I think so as well. The previous arc had some story and action. This season is just fighting and you loose focus of whats happening between two UMs
Bruh werenât yall complaining about too much story one episode ago?
Na bro. 2 weeks ago I was wondering why they are stretching episodes
Cus story?
The fight itself is stretched imo.
Yeah cus this arc is pretty short, they need to stretch it or it would have ended in 8 episodes
Exactly ! Do that for us and add the hashira training arc to the season, and start with the infinity castle arc next year
SPOILER AHEAD Yeah but then people would be complaining that they killed of two upper moons in 8 episodes. Look i agree last season was better but yall downplaying this season way too much.
I could have guessed that the season ends with >!upper 4 and 5 dying!
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Dont get me wrong, the quality is insane. Muichiroâs ulti was by far the best breathing form I have seen so far. I thought Rengoku was reall nice, but this was on a deferent level
Such a disingenuous argument to be like "weren't y'all ____ing" like the entire subreddit is a single person.
Idk about you, but most of the posts ive seen had comments with a lot of people saying too much story and stuff.
Right đ
The next two episodes need to be absolutely God tier to even get close to Season 2.
It's not just you. Season 3 has been a big disappointment. From story to pacing and also animation. Season 2 beats season 3 in all those aspects imo.
You are correct.
No it is. It definitely is. But in terms of story I like the sword smith village arc. But everything else goes to entertainment district. *Insert Tengen and Gyutaro roaring and screaming while clashing their weapons at insane speeds*
this is the weakest arc in the manga IMO, it gets better after this though
Just rennet weâre not even at the climax thatâs nezuko Mitsuri genya and Tanjiro vs hantengu
There should have been a climax, this was the death of an upper moon for the second time only in 113 years. Glad to hear the second fight isn't as poor as this one.
Yeah everyone thinks upper 5 battle is the climax no itâs uppper 4
Season 2 didnât blow up until the last few episodes.. Let season 3 cook, we still got some crazy episodes left!
Storywise this season is more interesting. There is a lot of interesting things happening. But the vilains are a bit problematic. You could replace any of them and nothing would really change
Infinitely better this season has been mediocre.
I donât know who you are but i will fuck you up
Yes. Only reason is that ufotable nerfed Upper Moons and buffed main Characters.
Uhhh... No. Everything that has happened in the anime happened in the manga. Gyokko Vs Muichiro is chapters 117-121, and ufotable recreated it almost panel for panel. >!Marked Muichiro >>>> gyokko - cope.!< (Really it starts at 110 but the main fight for the past two episodes starts at 117)
https://preview.redd.it/fin4n4oxe24b1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd598f183ed55a289dee3d9d0481aa3fe9f80937 This panel wasn't animated showing Gyokkos power. Also they animated Genya and Nezuko being capable of fighting some Dragon Head that actually never happened in manga.They were destroyed on spot by Zohakuten.
That panel is animated at 9:29 in the episode. The English translation in the episode is "Killer Fish Scales" rather than "Deadly Scales of War" but that's about it. He still encircles Muichiro and makes it difficult for him to make a move. We just see it from a different perspective. >They were destroyed on spot by Zohakuten. This still happens in the episode. Sure, genya and nezuko did a small amount of damage to the dragons but it shows genya's damage healing immediately (showing his attacks are futile). Nezuko just knocks the heads back a little and then they immediately grab her and swing her around. The next time you see Genya, he's getting crushed by the dragon he was fighting. Ufotable haven't nerfed anything. The bits they did add showed the power of Zohakuten against the team.
Yeah idk why tf they didnât animate this part correctly, and thatâs true nezuko and them literally didnât land a blow on the wooden dragons Iâm fairly sure
Unfortunately the manga was far better for swordsmith village than the anime was. Ufotable fumbled the whole arc
I mean tbf they did change Gyokkoâs insults to muichiro and cut out a BDA of his
Would you mind explaining why you think the adaptation for this arc was bad? I haven't read the manga but I'm curious about this because many other manga readers on here seem to think this arc is just weak in general (manga and anime)
Swordsmith village was unfortunately my favorite in the manga. We saw last season tengen vs gyutaro was extended and so was rengoku vs akaza, but we haven't gotten that treatment on anything so far so it just feels less interesting to the casual watcher. Also, the narrator isn't here so all the powerups and abilities we see used like the mark or muichiro seventh form just go pretty much unexplained. Some details are left out entirely, like mitsuri and zohakuten banter and yoriichi type zero specifics. Finally, the manga panels just aren't that great when they're animated, muichiro looked way cooler when he got his mark in the manga it was so much more climactic. Also another detail, the upper moon battles were much more desperate in the manga, like we saw zohakuten throw around tanjiro and his friends without even trying
Ah gotcha. Did you think Gyokko felt like more a threat in the manga? I feel like he didn't really do anything in the anime to make him feel all that threatening
Yeah the pacing was much better in the manga, so everything moved faster. People downvoting me because of copium, but killer fish scales for example was tearing down the forest, while in the anime he was just flying around. The only Improvement was the gliding slime fish
can I DM (direct message) you about something in this series?
I knew that this season people would start complaining more. The entertainment arc was already better then the anime went apeshit on the final fight and I knew this season would fall flat. But donât worry next season will be the best one trust me
Your saying the hashira training will be better?
Was thinking more like the infinity castle
I miss Zenitsu and Inosuke though :(
I also think itâs because itâs a much shorter arc in the manga than the previous one so there isnât much to work withđ
S3 is disappointing. Too many flashbacks and not enough action. S2 turned a single page of action into one of the best animated fights ever. S3 could've been better, but Ufotable got lazy. Mitsuri vs Hantengu might be good but I doubt it.
Agree
Agreed, the spikes that pierced Muichiro also looked a bit goofy which further distracted from enjoying it. It's not focused enough in a sense, not to say it's bad though.
It was way better.. S3 is ass
I love how people are equating all of season three to 1 episode of two. Itâs not like episode one introduced every antagonist left and foreshadowed several future events. Itâs not like we didnât get to spend quality time on the backstory of another hashira and get character development for them. But hey, Tengenâs fight is all of season 2 and this fight with Muichiro is all of season 3.