#this got longer than I meant it to be dndjsj sorry

[puppy-the-mask]

AGREED- i know i'm late af but i just found your blog and have been on a liking/reblogging spree- ANYWAYS

Thematically, there's a line in raising the stakes of a fight where if you cross it and make the situation too hopeless you just can't come back from it without it feeling like a hollow plot armor win. In as helpless of a situation as they made it out to be, when the district was on fire Tengen and Inosuke were assumed dead and Zenitsu was trapped under a burning building- they should not have been able to come back from that and win

So the resolution feels a bit off when they do. It still is written in a way that feels fulfilling and gets you hyped to see them win, but staring at it too long makes you wonder what was a characters skill and what was the plot needing these two out of the story

But lets give them the benefit of the doubt and say Tengen and Tanjiro cut off Gyutaro's head- Zenitsu should not have been able to decapitate Daki on his own when he already had been shown to not be able to normally- And He Now Had A Burning Building On Top Of His Entire Body. He shouldn't have been able to move and could likely barely breathe, let alone suddenly be fast enough to take off her head.

BUT EVEN IF WE GAVE HIM THAT- Inosuke should have died- full stop. The reasoning they gave for why he survived doesn't work because, even with the ability to shift his organs due to his flexibility- Gyutaro appeared out of nowhere from behind him and he didn't even realize he'd been caught until the sickle was through his chest- there's no possible way he could have known to shift his organs nor would he have just done so preemptively. And this is coming from an Inosuke fan, I love that funky little dude! But there's no way. Unless there's extra context the anime couldn't give, at the very least Inosuke should have gone down with the siblings

I would have loved to see Tanjiro have to run with Nezuko and find a way to get away from this overwhelming threat! It would have been an interesting twist and actually raise the stakes of the show entirely if even main characters aren't safe from the upper moons. I loved season 2 as it is already and can suspend my disbelief, I also acknowledge the fact that it's only because Gyutaro and Daki were defeated that we learned their backstory and got more of their story and context for why they are who they are, but my little Gyutaro fan heart feels cheated when I really stop to think about the fight

He shoulda won that battle....

TRULY!!! All the pieces were aligned for his victory 😔💔