Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

[Ryllharu]

Yuukaku-hen - 05

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This episode exemplifies everything I like about Kimetsu no Yaiba over a lot of other shonen series.

- It doesn't take itself too seriously, until it does. Crybaby nurse, crybaby wife, more muscle mice, Innosuke being aware of how useless Zenitsu is when he's awake...

- ...Offset by phenomenally well executed action. I kept rewinding parts of this episode again and again, just like the more-famously known episode 19. It wasn't Tanjiro's scenes with Daki as much as it was just everything in the snakepit. The fluidity on the wives' fairly simple movies is really good. ufotable movie quality good. Especially the crybaby wife. The expressions are cute and funny, but she's fairly strong and quite skilled with a kunai despite how useless she says she is. Or Daki skating through the dirt on her obi tentacles in order to decapitate the prone Tanjiro.

- We get some touching emotional development too, even for "throwaway characters" like the wives, many of the denizens of the Entertainment district.

- Daki is threatening. Tanjiro may have leveled up, but she is better than he is, has him at a complete disadvantage, and he's wearing himself out just to stay alive.

- The kunoichi all have some meat on them. There's subtle muscle definition on each of them, and they're not normal anime scrawny crane legs with big tits.