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Maybe in terms of like One Piece pacing, no lol. But it’s not like it was the end of an arc, there was still *so* much left to do in the story that I wanted them to get to

I’ve never liked how they place the backstories at the end of the fight. I think it’d be more interesting knowing that side of them ahead of the fight so you have a better sense of who they are and how they became the way they did as you watch them fight, or before-hand. And I get that it’s often supposed to be their humanity returning to them at their last moments, but I feel like it really sucks the air out of the climax for the main characters.

 

imo the Upper Moon 1 fight is pretty easily the best fight in the whole series. I still go back and re-read it sometimes. I’ve been seeing clips of the UM3 fight in this movie and they clearly add so much more than what’s in the manga (in a good way. So I can’t even really imagine what UM1 is gonna look like

 

Yeah I completely disagree, I think the way the backstories work is one of the best aspects of the series. I think it makes sense to view the demons as evil monsters that need to be slain, the same way the characters do, to heighten the excitement of the fights and the desire to see them defeated. Then revealing the circumstances that led them to that point and creating sympathy for some truly despicable characters in their final moments works perfectly imo.

 

definitely agree there are better way to intertwine the backstory reason for the fight, best example of this IMO is with the kakashi v obito fight

Demon slayer isnt the most ambitious when it comes to story telling, so I think they way it "humanizes" the demons with their backstory's as they're thinking about their life after they get their heads cut off is totally acceptable