Let's talk of Kimetsu No Yaiba/Demon Slayer - #1

Kimetsu No Yaiba [NO I will not call it Demon Slayer as Kimetsu No Yaiba sounds more dope] is probably the one the biggest anime of 2019 and the winner of the 2019 anime poll on Twitter which was pure blasphemy and in no mean it is the best anime but it's pretty good and winning a poll should account for something. The anime has a slow start but gets 100 times better as the anime progresses.

The main character [MC] was a good guy and helping people because he was a good guy. The story is set in older Japan so of course there was a lot of culture in the movie. The MC goes home to find his family massacred and his sister turned into a demon woman which let us be real is a very classic shonen start and that's not a very engaging start and does not excite the reader that much and being an anime without much clout there is no reason for the person to continue watching. Near the end of the 1st episode, they meet a guy from the Demon Slayer Corps who sends the MC (Tanjiro) to an old guy with a mask on his face to train for the Demon Slayer Corps entrance exam and as we know all the old people in anime are freaking powerful and hence will make a dope mentor. That is episode 1 in a nutshell but as I said it is not something that is gonna make me come back every time except the beauty of animation which is just gorgeous 

 and as you probably could have guessed by now that I was not that impressed but that was the time someone needed to tell me to continue watching it.

Eventually, after 4-5 in I decided to leave it, but the longer I spent not watching it the more I thought about it and an awful lot in comparison to other animes and more often than not when I drop an anime I don't give them a second thought but this anime lingered in my mind unlike any other.

Kimetsu No Yaiba does something that the vast majority of anime does not do and I eventually came to my senses and started watching it again and that's because Kimetsu No Yaiba is absolutely gorgeous in its simplicity and according to me simplicity is the hardest thing to master and Kimetsu No Yaiba dominated that above all else. I know it has a pretty generic storyline with generic seeming anime settings and I for one don't consider generic bad as it is not a valid criticism and plus there is a lot I love about the show other than its art style and its simplicity. 

The main protagonist plays its role very well and is not an undergo per se like your average underdog story because the protagonist is not under an average guy like Deku from MHA or Naruto or Hasta from Black Clover. He does not have lofty dreams or any big ambitions but is a down to earth real genuine good guy. He is not kind to the extent to foolishness as we see in some characters, he is just an optimistic fellow who has compassion for the demons he is fighting and will be sad to kill them. Yes, he understands he has to work past that as they must be defeated as they are a threat to mankind. His compassion is something that most shonen protagonists don't have like Naruto or Deku or Hasta never killed anyone in their series, not that they won't or not it's just that they have never been that position. The fact that he needs to overcome his compassion for the greater good is something that must be done and he does not have any other choice and that makes you understand how powerful his compassion is, which is a very strong trait regarding the rest of the world and that is why it's sad that he has to live through the burden of taking a life.

The ideal of the series that the protagonist is overly compassionate and that's his driving character trait has been overused and is not fun anymore not just for me but for the majority of people. This is a character people can relate too, he doesn't go out of the way to help anyone even though it may cost him his life and is neither too weak nor too OP. This is probably the most relatable character ever who has compassion as his main trait and if I were to compare him, I would to a soldier to have to go through crazy training to take a life and its not easy for them just as it was not easy for Tanjiro tot to take the life a demon.

There really is a serene beauty in someone overcoming their hurdles, loving their sister even if she has turned into a demon and vowing to protect her, he will undergo the most brutal training regimen to become stronger and an actual demon slayer so that the tragedy that befell him does not befall on others.

In the setting of Kimetsu No Yaiba, it does not stress on anything usually, an anime is trying to focus on different points of the time period like corruption or government. The setting we see is due to the protagonist's perspective and his travels. We know that yes he lives is a village that has a demon problem which is not very frequent but does happen and his family was unfortunately at the receiving end of one attack. We see him train in the mountains under a badass old dude where we see him exert himself to the fullest due to the love he has for his sister (Nezuku) and the will to succeed. This pushed him to his limits and all him to succeed. This also where we understand what the Demon Slayers have to go to survive on the battlefield.

We see him become a different person during the training arc but he never loses his compassion and still has that drive to continue but now he is confident in his abilities and when he defeats his first demon, we see him cry tears of because he knew his training has borne fruit. 

The reason I decided to write this blog is that I think it's understated in how beautifully well-written simplicity is and the simplicity in Kimetsu No Yaiba is just above all else.

Thank you all for reading this blog and I hope you enjoyed it.

For the people wanting to watch the trailer of Kimetsu No Yaiba here, it is.

If you liked the trailer and liked my blog you can find this anime on Netflix or 4Anime.