Demon Slayer always looked like the most basic bitch of basic bitch shonen and this is why I have never once and never will consume it.
Anything that gets such a fuckhuge following and widespread media attention like that is bound to be utterly generic garbage by today's standards.
Except for Dragon Ball. And maybe One Piece. I dunno, I don't care about One Piece either but I'm willing to cut it some slack.
Demon Slayer had some heart at the beginning which separated it, as well as the massive animation budget Ufotable gave it. It being basic bitch helped skyrocket it to popularity, though I think the animation did that. Its also spoiled people because series without the budget begin to get shit-talked unnecessarily. Like a fucking half-second shot of a ladle going into water eclipses other shows entire episode animation budget. You can't make the comparison.
Demon Slayer manga started to fall apart during the Sword Smith Village arc and then became a trainwreck after that (I think the creator was sick or something and wanted to end it as fast as possible). I was hoping the anime would improve it but given recent impressions I'm guessing it didn't. Haven't watched the anime since the end of the first season.
Yeah, the mangaka got sick and she wanted to finish it off quick, I think she got spooked. Its why basically everything is fast-forwarded, like we get hints of what Muzan was looking for and then he's given an origin and fast-forwarded in one 30 second sequence that's really fucking awful. So everything is just crammed at the end. I mean, the Harishira training arc is going to have to be stretched out, because its literally just that and then the end fight. You kind of feel like its going to start winding
up at the Swordsmith village with cutting through the upper moons and getting a blade, but it just crashes into itself like a train and then ends.
Which is basically the problem with anime, is that it becomes very inflexible when the manga/light novel has problems. This is both good and bad, as sticking to the source material is pretty much almost always abandoned in the West, but presents its own problems when there's trouble in the source material. I wish it did pick up a little flexibility from the West, but since inflexibility is basically a genre standard and where a lot of its strength lies, so its very hard to adapt. Flaws, however minor, are almost never corrected, even its to the detriment of the production and acknowledged by nearly everyone. This is also exacerbated by anime's unorthodox production structure and long production times (though they're better now since in the past it might be half a decade before a second season got greenlit).
Though when diverging from source material, anime has a tendency to go off the rails fucking
hard. So wishing for something that's 'anime only' is basically a monkey's paw since the East doesn't really know what the fuck to do when they have to improvise (see
Akame Ga Kill for how bad it can go). Though, ironically, generally anime only series (no manga or light novel source material) can end up fucking brilliant (
Psycho Pass and
ID: Invaded are two that come right to mind, but fuck later seasons of Psycho Pass, as season 1 is a perfect story and needs no sequel).
So its probably for the better that
Demon Slayer doesn't do its own thing because that wouldn't end well. God knows in the fucking West it would be milked until it was ran into the fucking ground. But honestly its probably going to go one more season and then end with a movie, because the last part isn't so much an arc.
