Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Hashira Training

My daughter and I recently watched Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Train (2024) in theaters. The storyline follows brother and sister demon slayers Tanjiro and Nezuko, who encounter a demon that helps unveil new powers for Nezuko. A super demon, envious of Nezuko's abilities, hunts them down to steal these powers. We also get introduced to the Hashira Demon Slayers core, witness their powers, and they're sure to play a role in current events.

Directed by Haruo Sotozaki (Demon Slayer series), the animation and action scenes are absolutely elite. The first-person perspective in the run scenes felt three-dimensional, and many action scenes are captivating and impressive. The depiction of melting skin, display of powers, and cut scenes are brilliantly done. The demons and gore add to the overall experience, and the character interactions are magical, blending some nice comedy into the circumstances. While I'm still uncertain about loving the villain, I'm eager to see where the story goes. I do wish these movies weren't open-ended and essentially previews for upcoming series.

In conclusion, Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Train is a fun kick-off to the upcoming Demon Slayer series, featuring elite animation and character evolution. I would score this a 7/10 and recommend waiting for the entire series to be released.

Just Got out of a Screening of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - To the Hashira Training

I don't know Anything About this, but it's been a Slow Weekend in the Cinema and I'm Eagerly Awaiting Dune 2 to be Released and after i watched that Absolute Joke that is Madame Web and the Snoozefest Anyone But You. I needed another Sit-down.

I liked it and Even though it's Episodic, from what I can Tell, the Characters and Lore are Really Good, here's what I liked -

• The Concept of This Demon Corps Hunting Down and Eliminating Demons.

• The Battles And Different Shots, Angles and Lighting were Great To Watch at Times.

• The Different Characters and Their Training Speciality.

1.🍃 Mist - Movement Training.

2. 💓 Love - Flexibility Training.

3. ⛎ Serpent - Sword Skill.

4. 🌾 Wind - Looked Like the Trainees were just Getting Whooped.

5. 🌜 Stone - Muscle Training.

My Favourite Part of the Entire Watch was this -

• One of the Plotlines of this Certain Powerful Character Who is Now Actively Looking for this Girl who has Somehow Conquered the Devastating Effects of the Sun.

Overall, I Enjoyed it.

The "movie" began with kind of a recap from the beginning and then showed the title of the movie, unlike the previous movie which basically started with the opening song of that episode. So even though then it proceeded with the last episode of the last season, it fooled me into thinking this time they have made a minimum effort to edit it as a movie properly. But no, taking almost an hour to finish up showing everything we've already seen, it started with the title and credits for the next season. Why can't they put in even that much effort?

The visuals and the story and characters that I'm already invested in made it a nice watch but it clearly not targeted to be played in theaters did affect my experience. At least the previous movie had a lot of great visual set pieces to present. Here it's more or less an emotional season finale and a lot of setting up for the next season for which there's not much to gain as a movie. It is so not meant to be a movie. But I can't help really like it because of how much I'm invested in it. The emotions do work big time even if they push it to your face a bit too much. Watching it with a houseful crowd is certainly a good experience even if it can't be really called a movie.

I felt like it strayed from the main plot quite a few times, it also felt like I had spent an eternity watching the movie, I would have preferred it to have been a season/arc than a movie.

I'm not that much of an anime fan, but I watch it for my sister.

I had hopes that it would be a really good movie compared to the other one (which are wonderful) But the only thing I saw was filler and more filler and then it went back to the main plot and it deviated again, it came back and the movie was over, Personally, I felt it was a waste of time and money.

But hey, it's my opinion about this movie, if you have another opinion that's fine, but this is my opinion.

Now it's probably my fault, but I should have remembered after watching "Swordsmith Village" last March that this isn't a film at all, but the tail episode of a series (I hadn't seen) used to introduce the first episode of a new season (which I won't watch either) and so it didn't really make much sense. The ongoing training of "Tanjiro" as he seeks to become Hashira is mixed in with the continuing search for "Nezuko" and "Ubuyashiki" by the increasingly frustrated "Muzan". As with any serialisation, each episode is just a conduit to the next, so this film delivers very little by way of plot development. A tiny bit of closure is soon subsumed into an whole new set of challenges that will beset them as the next slew of episodes follow. Sadly, that means there's precious little story for us to get our teeth into and so we are really just left with some stylish and accomplished animation that we have all seen many, many, times before. As with last time, they didn't even bother to sew the episodes together properly, we get a credit roller amidst the thing. There are loads of interesting characters here but this film relies way too heavily on your having followed the strand elsewhere. As a stand alone piece of cinema, it's watchable, but pretty meaningless.