#but again it did give us rengoku and mitsuri and that insanely good sidestory they got as well as the high school au so most is forgiven

[lorillee]

ooo what's your beef with demon slayer? 👀

unfortunately its been way too long since i read it for me to be able to articulate most of my thoughts or why i feel the way i do and god forbid cite anything but my biggest gripes with it that i remember are 1) the main villain's backstory was stupid as hell and there was some other guy who i dont remember the name of whose backstory narratively made waaaaaaaaaaaaay way way way more sense for him to be the final villain and i really dont understand why the author like. gave what shouldve been the main antagonists backstory to erm some side character. like i dont know if they were trying to subvert the tropes or something but like Girl those are the tropes for a reason......... but whatever. gripe number 2) nezukos entire treatment like actually makes me so irritated she barely gets any character development or screentime and her relationship with tanjiro has an incredibly interesting premise but ultimately never really feels fleshed out in a way that compels me. and then they go through a whole drama to let her out of the box only to COMPLETELY SIDELINE HER FOR BASICALLY THE ENTIRE REST OF THE SERIES!?!?!?!?!?!? actively infuriating. there was a third major gripe i had i think but in the process of typing i forgot what it was. SAD! either way i think it was majorly overrated like it had potential and im not saying i didnt enjoy some of it but like people were touting it around like the greatest thing ever written when its like Well i wouldnt say that. really . like the vast majority of it i would describe as ok but it kind of falls into the assassination classroom category for me where its like thing you watched and enjoyed but after youre done you kind of forget you ever watched it. like the only thing that really stuck with me was mugen train and more specifically rengoku's relationship with his brother which i really really really loved. have watched that movie multiple times. but other than that i dont know like it didnt really change my life or made me go "DAMN im so glad i read this story" and my qualms with some of the writing choices are not doing it any favors. like i dont dislike it but i think its just severely overrated