Just like how Gyomei kept beating the shit out of the demon that attacked him and the children until sunrise. Who is the strongest demon Tanjiro can do that to? Tanjiro gets adrenaline just like Gyomei if that’s necessary.
Did he actually smash Rei, and she gave birth to a demon’s daughter, or did Muzan find a random family and kill the husband and then brainwash the family into thinking he’s the dad on some JoJo part 4 shit?
If the former is the case, is the girl half human half demon? Can she go into the sun? Does she not have demon powers? If not, then wouldn’t that mean that Muzan could just eat her and gain sunlight immunity? This would also imply that Demons can still procreate without needing such a function due to being immortal.
If the latter is the case, then wouldn’t that mean that Muzan can just brainwash each Hashira into divulging the location of the HQ and Ubuyashiki family? It would explain how he was able to trick them into not questioning why he only shows up at night, though.
After he morphs into that little boy and finds a different family, does this imply that he are them? Also, why would he choose to larp as a rich boy when larping as a rich man brings you infinitely way more time and opportunity to your self. In the scene where Akaza arrives at the window, imagine if literally anyone on the premises saw that.
I mean, just image how differently the Akaza fight would’ve gone if Giyuu had a red blade. Especially with DEAD CALM! Holy shit.
Individually btw. That’s what I’m asking. I know they can probably beat him together, but can either of them beat him on their own?
Not only is this Ai generated, but I don’t think we have to use much of the imagination to figure out what the connotations are of this.
We all know that Akaza hates Douma’s guts and Douma likes to troll him, but what I think a lot of people don’t mention is how well these two foil each other as villains.
Spoilers for the Infinity Castle arc ahead.
Many people point out how Akaza only exclusively eats men out of honor while Douma eats mostly women because they’re more nutritious, but I think a more encompassing observation about these two is that Akaza only listens to his emotions while Douma only listens to what he deems as logical. Doma is an atheist and believes that there is no life after death and sees humans as stupid for believing so, but in order to exploit his duty, he spews lies and empty promises to his followers until he gets the chance to eat them and figuratively makes them live on through him and ends their suffering. Furthermore, he has a very poor understanding of human emotions and connections as he was born emotionally agnostic, meaning he can feel little to no human emotion at all, and rather disguises his personality under multiple layers of persona (It’s sort of vague what he can and cant feel at times, but that’s besides the point). Doma doesn’t act out of pathos or passion. He acts out of self-preservation and interest in studying other people.
Meanwhile, Akaza notoriously acts out of nothing BUT emotions. While he is still taking orders from Muzan, I’m the two fights that we see him in, he tries recruiting the people he’s fighting into demons instead of just killing them because that way, he can continue to fight. He ENJOYS fighting people and he gets angry when people mock him for his warped sense of superiority and morality. After loading his memories, but not his unrectified feelings, he can only continue to fight people and try getting stronger so that he can feel better about something he forgot about. All Akaza acts on are his emotions. This is further portrayed when he fights the second half of the fight without his head and relying on Compass Needle, a technique that tracks fighting spirt, in order to continue. He’s an untamed animal that runs around like a headless chicken (and funnily enough, Douma ends his fight with JUST his head and can only contemplate to himself in his last moments).
Another thing I don’t see a lot of people talk about is how they were born into ENTIRELY different lifestyles. Akaza born into poverty and scorn because he didn’t have a mom and his dad was ill, and nobody seemed to help him at all, while Douma was born into wealth and worship for simply being born with a unique and beautiful appearance. In fact, the antithesis of thst could be applied to Akaza as well since he was labeled a demon child at birth for having fangs. This is also somewhat echoed in their designs and personas. Akaza’s design is that of a martial artist and branded criminal. It tells the audience that he lives for battle and for blood. Meanwhile, Douma is that of a religious leader. Someone who typically stays out of battle and instructs people peacefully. They’re polar opposites in terms of both how they were as humans and demons.
Finally, with how they went out, Akaza died by being mystified by Tanjiro’s words and actions and taking himself out as a form of repentance. In contrast, Douma got taken out by eating another demon slayer, taking too long and underestimating his enemies, and getting poisoned by the first one he ate. He then desperately tries to shield himself by literally hiding behind his Buddha (as opposed to how he figuratively hides behind them when recruiting). Akaza maintained his human faith even after losing his memories by upholding honor and died once he remembered it. Meanwhile, Douma had the greatest idea of who he was, but had zero human faith, and his undoing was when he was taught about human faith by Shinobu’s poison plan with her putting faith in Kanao. Both were missing what the other one needed.
This series has a lot of marvelous and immersive OSTs. If I had to pick one that made me feel this most engrossed in the game, it would probably be Call to Action.
It only comes up in episode 1 season 2 twice, and never again, but it’s very easy to get stuck in your head. I still sometimes think about it even Minecraft Storymode isn’t really on my mind.
It’s not loud or quiet. It’s not spastic or melodramatic. It’s not celebratory nor despairing. It’s like a gentle and mature beat of spirit making you mindful of the road that is yet to come. It doesn’t celebrate because it knows that you haven’t won yet, but it’s anything but discouraging. It’s the calm before your storm.
It makes me feel confident in my abilities to succeed while still feeling humble and reminding me that success won’t come unless I keep moving.
The demon Slayer in question has only the best stats of whichever slayer has the highest of the respective stat. They have all the abilities of all 5. Name an ability, amp, or technique from them and they have it. They are also fully healed between each fight. Upper 3 and above have to be beheaded only twice and can’t regenerate their head infinitely. Obviously, Tanjiro will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting here and I don’t expect this slayer to beat someone like Koku or Doma. But I think they could get decently far. Imo, they stop at Akaza or maybe Doma.
Edit: Nvm y’all right. They get pretty fucking far😭
I know I shouldn’t expect much at all from this series, but I’m tired of being made fun of for investing time in this. Please just fucking kill this guy. There’s no logical reason as to how he should survive this. This isn’t Kizaru this time. This is Imu. This is THE villain of the series. Please Oda. Just fucking kill off someone important for once. Gaban better not magically be fine at the end of this arc and fuck the shit out of Ripley, because I want this series to have consequences. The consequences felt so real back at Sabaody, but now, it feels like the light is gone. Commit to your shit. I say this all as a Gaban fan.
It looks grotesquely realistic and I don’t like it. It looks so ugly. It’s well drawn, I’ll give it that, but it’s disgusting to look at. The stubby snout and human-like mouth are so weird along with those bulging alien like eyes. It looks like something that doesn’t belong in this world. Some real uncanny valley shit.
But mainly, I hate this because I’ve seen it used it for slandering certain stances and portraying members of that stance as this thing and I find that rude.
You’re probably gonna comment this image to mock and comparing me to this image me as well. Well I don’t care. Go for it. Just know that I called it out before you did it, so I don’t look stupid as if I didn’t expect it to happen.