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So I have to ask -- are the constant admonishments to the protagonist that he has to be more of a stoic, vengeful, and repressed manly man supposed to be damaging and stupid, or are they totally sincere? Normally I'd watch and find out but if it's the latter I don't actually want to watch this.
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Zerilan posted:Spoilers I guess, but Tanjiro very much never becomes that sort of character at all. He remains a very emotionally expressive character that is friendly to just about everyone and spends his downtime thinking of ways to help other people out. Spoilers are fine, pretty much inevitable with what I was asking. In any case, thank you!
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Apr 21, 2019 21:09
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I dunno, I thought it was kind of funny that it went straight for "and then I spent two years getting my rear end kicked" without dressing it up at all.
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Apr 27, 2019 01:53
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yeah that introduction was perfect, i'm totally on board with wherever they're going with this
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May 19, 2019 17:53
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Expect My Mom posted:Like he's literally an evil demon lord so maybe trying to puzzle out his rationale for demonizing people is dumb... I don't believe this for a second. Even the most warped and inhuman demons we've met so far still have vestiges of humanity and human motivations, it's just buried under their hunger for human flesh and the lengths they'll go to rationalize that hunger to themselves. I am absolutely certain there's more to Muzan than just arbitrary evil. My current best guess is that he's envious of humanity, just based on who his victims and creations have been (I'm including Tanjiro's family in this, because that's the simplest reading of what the show has presented) but I'm sure it'll be easier to get a sense of it once he gets a bit more screen time.
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May 21, 2019 16:10
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:The last demon we saw said that he ate young girls because if they got older, they smelled bad. Exactly what he said his reasons were is less the point than how desperately defensive he got about it to someone he was planning to kill anyways. It's an excuse for eating them; why would a demon think it needs to be excused? Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 14:16 on May 22, 2019 |
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May 22, 2019 14:14
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May 26, 2019 18:06
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I still think he's gotta be motivated by the desire to tear down humanity (and maybe families in particular, considering recent events) to constantly prove to himself that they don't have anything he can't.
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Jul 21, 2019 00:44
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Qwertycoatl posted:Nezuko spending her whole life in the box is probably my biggest complaint about this series Nezuko is a weird aspect of the show in general. Like, they introduce and then as quickly as possible they come up with bizarre excuses for her to be a total non-character and to avoid ever having to actually write for her except every once in a while as comic relief. It reminds me of Casca in Berserk a little, although it's better in some ways (not prompted by sexual trauma) and worse in others (Casca was at least an interesting and well-written character at one point until she was written out for decades, Nezuko's been reduced to an odd offstage presence basically from the first five minutes of the show.)
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Aug 5, 2019 19:48
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Manatee Cannon posted:she's more of an extension of tanjirou this sums up the problem rather elegantly
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Aug 5, 2019 23:55
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Manatee Cannon posted:none of the demons are forgiven when they die I don't know about that. Whether they are actually forgiven is complicated because it's like, forgiven by whom? The victims? Tanjirou? God? Themselves? But I think it makes it pretty clear that they aren't beyond forgiveness, in the abstract. Also, Tanjirou's attitude of being prepared to forgive murderers and cannibals while also 100% committed to stopping them, by force, from causing further harm -- and the show inhabiting his perspective and reinforcing it with flashbacks that he couldn't have known about -- is a good thing and a much better moral example than like 90% of media.
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Aug 24, 2019 22:12
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Fabricated posted:Someone said it and I think it's accurate that the series is mostly people telling Tanjirou to stop being such a good boy and empathising with demons or they'll end up killing him, then him continuing to be a good boy anyway I was the one they were replying to, and I'm really glad they were right.
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Aug 27, 2019 19:09
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Rigged Death Trap posted:There are definite narrative reasons why the pillars are who they are. Stone! Mist! Water! Wind! Flame! Sound! Love! Bugs!? Snakes!?! By our powers combined, we are Captain OH GOD WHAT IS THAT GET IT AWAY
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Sep 1, 2019 21:13
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Off-model Inosuke was the highlight of this episode.
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Zenitsu is pathetic, and is treated as pathetic by everyone around him. The narrative doesn't ignore or condone his behavior. Mineta is sexually harassing someone every time he's on screen but it's contextually treated like it's a hilarious joke. He sucks on a level Zenitsu doesn't even approach.
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