#kny extra clips

[demonslayedher]

Today I went to the Zenshuuchuu-ten (Total Concentration Exhibition) for the Swordsmith Village and Hashira Training arcs today!

This is basically a chance for Ufotable to be like, "remember that cool thing we did?" and for we the fans to be like, "yup, sure do, that's why we're here."

It's not quite as extensive as other KnY events I've been to, and it doesn't particularly provide any new information, but it's fun to see some glimpses of the process from animation cells to finished clips. There's always a handful of fun displays to interact with, scrolls of character designs, and nice panels to display screenshots, especially centered around character arcs and impactful moments.

This time it was roughly as follows:

1. A room with large screen shots of Muzan the Upper Moons that appear in time with lines from the show and twangs of a biwa

2. A small room with a small swordsmithing game that they hurry everyone through. You need to strike the sword with just the right amount of force to get a ball into the middle of three slots, which I did, so I got handed a little piece of paper which is my certification as a master. I mentioned this to a friend afterword and her response was "of course you did."

3. A room in two parts dedicated to Muichiro's arc in SSV, with a hazy curtain you pass through sort of like Muichiro gaining his memories, and a model of his sword backlit in turquoise

4. A room dedicated to Mitsuri's arc in SSV, including a model of her sword which curves all the way across the room, and a little Mitsuri whom you could challenge to arm wrestling. She beat me pretty easily.

5. A Genya room of screenshots, and models of both his short little sword and his gun. Forgot to mention that their lines were playing overheard in each room!

6. A Gyokko and Hantengu room. A Gyokko only appeared over a model of the vase if you took a photo with flash, and there was a little Hantengu figure to look for, and if you found it, they'd give you a piece of origami paper on your way out of the gallery (pretty much everybody found it, but it was tiny).

8. The dedicated to Nezuko's mastery was not in-your-face triumph, but instead had a TV screen playing the Nezuko tribute music video version of her song, with the lyrics as scattered across the grey walls as the stream-of-consciousness lyrics.

9. Right after that, the staff ushers you in to the Hashira meeting, as though you were late.

Next to the meeting taking place, there is a model of Tanjiro's new old sword.

8. After that is a room dedicated to Giyuu's back story. I liked the design of the hanging screenshots in this one. Although the overall image is "water" because of the blue, the water design with light cast on the floor, and water droplet sounds mixed in with Giyuu's lines, the half-and-half effect was perhaps not intentional, but it was there. When you turn back to look through this room, the hanging screenshots--memories of Sabito and Tsutako--are all black.

9. The rest is a room dedicated to the different stages of Hashira training, with 3-D displays like riceballs, paper airplanes, pancakes with honeycomb and a ribbon, a board with ropes and sword cut marks (yikes), scuffed wooden swords, and a boulder you could push on. Along the tops of these displays were some eyeballs scoping everything out...

10. After that they put you in a theater room with three wide screens and headphones. At the last Zenshuuchuuten they did a reedit of the Akaza and Rengoku fight across three screens, so I figured this would have has plunging into the Infinity Fortress. After a preview review of Hashira Training highlights and Muzan's walk, yup, sure enough things got explosive and they plunged us in via the big screen, including some extra disorientation by zooming really closely in on some moving shots, or having multiple things happen at once across the screens.

11. Then they funnel you into a place with a TV playing the announcement for the Infinity Castle movies. No new content or news.

12. After that, these things tend to have a bright and happy Kimetsu Academy room! You could take photos, but there was a chalkboard with the voice actors have let their signatures and messages for the fans. I appreciated how they seemed to reflect their characters in their comments and handwriting, to some extent (certainly not Matsuoka (Inosuke) or none of it would be legible, but Hayami (Shinobu) has very legible, handwriting, and Hanae (Tanjiro) has comments like "I hope you'll feel like GUWAAA and GAAAAA!"). You could not take photos of the signatures, but you could take a photo of Mitsuri's art and figment of her imagination who says disparaging things to her (despite how she wants her art to make the world happy?? Oh, the irony):

13. The gallery concludes with a hall eyecatch illustrations, and a hall of Ufotable staff art paying homage to their favorite characters and scenes. Always treat seeing things in Ufotable style, but with individual craft and taste!

14. After that, you buy things. This is where they get ya.

Kind of thankfully, it's late enough in the exhibition's run that they've already run out of a lot of the smaller items I was intrigued by, so I behaved myself. I got the t-shirts I was planning on (I love the simplicity of them so so much, and really had to resist getting the paper airplane one too), a Daki ribbon item leftover from the last exhibition (though what I really wanted was Daki shoelaces), and an official pamphlet of the event. My friend got a couple Osaka-only badges,but since she got doubles of Zenitsuup the Umeda Sky Building, she gave one to me.

I really love that "nanikore" ("what the...?") design. It's so simple, and if you don’t know KnY, you might think they're just silly little circus dudes. But people who know will be like, "!!!" and their day will be a little brighter for having seen it.

Gonna do a quick self-reblog now with some extra photos!

[crisperia]

Aaaa I feel like I'm missing so many additional KnY clips, including the scene where Zen shows Nezu the fishbowl 😭 Where should I search them on YT if you don't mind me asking :")? I also wonder where do the Giyuu's past clip where Tsutako appears and Kimetsu Academy having sports competition come from?

Oh, yes! Sorry for the late reply, I had to find them all again! 😅 Those are extra clips released during the recent broadcasting of season 1 in Japan again. There are five and you can find them both on Twitter and Tumblr thanks to the wonderful @ultra-violet-heart :

KNY extras

1: Special Tomioka Giyuu (Giyuu's past)

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2: Special Asakusa Arc (Lady Tamayo's tea)

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3: Special Tsuzumi Mansion Arc (Inosuke and Zenitsu appear) (I could only find it on Tumblr)

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4: Special Mount Natagumo (Giyushino)

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5: Special final (Zennezu)

Sadly this was deleted with English subtitles but I found it without subtitles on YouTube. Basically they talk about happy moments at butterfly mansion, Tanjiro remembers the caterpillars gave him food for working hard, Zenitsu remembers that he showed the goldfish bowl to Nezuko and Aoi scolded him, Zenitsu says Aoi is scary, Tanjiro says she's not scary at all, she's very kind because she fixed Nezuko's box after Sanemi stabbed it. Finally, Inosuke says those are all lame and that his happy moments are the best because he rode a deer. Finally Tanjiro says they will go to Mugen train and asks people to watch it.

About the Kimetsu Academy sport clips, those are an older special edition of three episodes, some lovely person uploaded them all together in a video on Google drive here.

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Shirt cut meme featuring Rengoku |･ω･)ﾉ

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[shysheeperz]

It's been a week since kny ended, and tbh...I'm not really missing it? I enjoyed it but it wasn't one of my top favs and it ended with a relatively satisfying conclusion (ignoring the last chapter), so i don't really find myself yearning for more?? It's a strange feeling i can't really explained????

Anyways, a solid 8.75/10 from me (the anime is a different beast).

The only things i found mildy disappointing/had issues with:

-I wish nezuko could have played a bigger role in the final arc

-i said it once and i'll say it again: muzan's pool of techniques was pretty disappointing for being the daddy of all demons. Look at all those cool techniques some of the lower ranks could do...and all muzan got was poison tentacles and an occassional shock-ish wave. He should have had more tricks up his sleeve.

-the demon tanjy thing that only lasted ~two chaps felt kinda felt unnecessary, but i get that it was kinda there to bookend things.

-the last chapter felt so out of place and as a result it felt underwhelming. Not terrible, just underwhelming. It felt like one of those extra bonus chapters you get a year after the series finished.

Lastly, i remember back in the (ch.) 80/90s i mentioned how kny was totes coming to an end soon (in-storywise) and that the story wasn't structured to last more than 300 chapters, so i feel vindicated in that regard. The signs were there when they started clipping thru most of the pillar's backstories all at once.

Overall, i enjoyed the the series and thought it was handled pretty well.