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Demon Slayer Complete Box Set: Volumes 1-23 with Premium by Koyoharu Gotouge
1 review
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
So I have a theory that anyone rating this specific boxed set is going to rate it very highly. If you have it, you probably already love it, and are thus going to ignore the flaws.
I adore Demon Slayer. If anyone came up to me sand said it was trash, I might physically fight them.
Wowzers does it ever have some issues.
I'm not talking about the problematic shit. (There is a bit. It has not affected my rating.)
I am talking very specifically about the author not believing that the audience can think for themselves.
Demon Slayer has one of the worst cases of telling-not-showing that I've ever seen in my life. As in fully spelling out exactly what is going on to the reader in a way that detracts from the imagery. This is most obvious in the Mugen Train arc, but occurs at points throughout the series. The audience does NOT need things spelled out for them all the time. If I hadn't watched the Mugen Train movie before reading the manga, I may well have dropped the whole manga right there specifically because of the author's lack of trust in the audience to figure things out for ourselves. Later on in the manga, the author relies pretty heavily on telling the rest of the story in text at the end of each chapter. Honestly, as good as the art is, I feel like this may have done better as a light novel.
Now.
All that said.
I still think the overall story arc is an excellent example of its type, and I encourage anyone who loves a heroic shonen story to at least try reading it. It has comforted me in difficult times, and it's made me laugh and cry and feel hopeful. The ending was exactly what I expected, and also exactly what I wanted. I adore it. I hope that the show continues to do the story justice.
I adore Demon Slayer. If anyone came up to me sand said it was trash, I might physically fight them.
Wowzers does it ever have some issues.
I'm not talking about the problematic shit. (There is a bit. It has not affected my rating.)
I am talking very specifically about the author not believing that the audience can think for themselves.
Demon Slayer has one of the worst cases of telling-not-showing that I've ever seen in my life. As in fully spelling out exactly what is going on to the reader in a way that detracts from the imagery. This is most obvious in the Mugen Train arc, but occurs at points throughout the series. The audience does NOT need things spelled out for them all the time. If I hadn't watched the Mugen Train movie before reading the manga, I may well have dropped the whole manga right there specifically because of the author's lack of trust in the audience to figure things out for ourselves. Later on in the manga, the author relies pretty heavily on telling the rest of the story in text at the end of each chapter. Honestly, as good as the art is, I feel like this may have done better as a light novel.
Now.
All that said.
I still think the overall story arc is an excellent example of its type, and I encourage anyone who loves a heroic shonen story to at least try reading it. It has comforted me in difficult times, and it's made me laugh and cry and feel hopeful. The ending was exactly what I expected, and also exactly what I wanted. I adore it. I hope that the show continues to do the story justice.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism