The following is a review of the Season 2 rendition of what was also the first Demon Slayer movie, The Mujen Train Arc. I find it funny, in our last review involving Demon Slayer, I complained of the fact that we spent what seemed like six episodes taking on a single demon which was one of the weaker of the 12 high ranking demons, and yet this entire season is all about a single demon except for the first episode which is a precursor to the previously mentioned demon; and I did not mind this time around. Maybe it was because I had it in my mind that I was actually watching a movie, and therefore it's okay that it was only involving a single demon. This show provides a lot of insight into what kind of people our three main heroes are. Tortured souls who want to help the world, but also crazy loons who probably shouldn't be provided a weapon. Overall, I would give it a 4 out of 5-star rating just like the first season. I may even consider giving it a 4.5 star because I didn't end up disliking part of it like with the first season. I would definitely consider watching it again if I were given the choice.
*** SPOILERS BELOW ***
- Episode 1 - Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku
- We start the season off with a slight jump from where we left off, but not much, I don't think. We left off getting onto a train, here we are already on the train, but with different characters, and they are enjoying odon. We do get a little backstory into a train that had a murder occur on it, and rumors about it being kept in a secret spot.
- I love that we can accept a mass murderer slasher guy existing and being scared of it, but we will not accept that a demon could exist and be said slasher.
- So, apparently, just as the blood can smell sweet from certain folks, the blood of some folks can be just as revolting to demons. Wow, he grew back his hands almost instantly!
- Flame breathing - first form - unknowing fire.
- The fire demon slayer guy gives vibes comparable to Almight from My Hero Academia.
- OH! It's not a time jump at all! We got a preview before the end of the last season! This episode ended with our main characters getting onto the train.
- Episode 2 - Deep Sleep
- The fire demon slayer guy really has an appetite! We learn that, like there are 4 elements in the Avatar, there are 5 types of elemental breathing techniques in this show: fire, water, air, rock, and thunder.
- There was not one but two demons on the train, but that felt almost too easy for it being a plot of an entire movie... Also, the flame guy agreed to mentor all of our mains in using swords. I WAS RIGHT! Everyone on the train was put to sleep. ... There's an army of demon children waiting to awaken? Or are they just regular children being influenced by a demon? No, they have to be demons because they were told to be careful so that the demon slayers would not notice the stench of the demon when being tied up.
- We get a glimpse into each of their dreams; Tanjiro dreams of his family. The demon kids are tying themselves to the demon slayers, not tying them up. Why? Are they trying to enter their dreams? To kill them in their dreams?
- Episode 3 - Should Have Been
- The yellow kimono man dreams of drowning, but then it changes to dating Nezuko instead? Oh, maybe they are literally drowning because boar head guy is drowning too, and his dream makes Nezuko his bunny companion, and the other two are a raccoon and a mouse taking care of whatever he tells them to do. Fire mentor man dreams of telling his father all he has accomplished, but it seems like he knows something is off. Can you really just quit being a Hashira? I thought once a demon hunter, always a demon hunter. So the demon kids can rip into the spiritual core of a being and kill them by entering into their dreams and ripping through the corner of that dream. The girl failed at killing the fire mentor man, but he doesn't seem awake either, just super protective. I wonder if it's because of using total breathing around the clock? I wonder if the spell affects demons or if Nezuko is secretly awake in her box... where is her box? THERE SHE IS. I have a funny way of saying things a little too early. Not Nezuko hurting herself by headbutting her brother. But she is helping wake him up, so that's good. Tanjiro's soul is a beautiful and peaceful blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
- Tanjiro sees a figure in the woods in his dream, his father, maybe? An older version of him? Who knows. But the comment is made that what he must cut is within his reach, and we as the viewers know it's the edge of the dream, but Tanjiro thinks it's his OWN FRICKEN HEAD THAT NEEDS TO BE CUT OFF?!?
- Episode 4 - Insult
- Tanjiro has little baby sun blobs in his core. I feel like they could be his siblings. It seems that cutting off his own head worked, though, so that's good, I suppose.
- Boar Head Man found the demon kid in his dream, so she failed. And the yellow kimono boy has pitch black in his core because he is crazy?
- Why is Tanjiro starting to rush toward the demon on his own? Shouldn't he have tried harder to wake the others first? So while fighting this demon, he is apparently being put back to sleep over and over, and every single time he cuts his own head off to reawaken and take out the demon. So the demon gives him a nightmare instead to throw him off. But Tanjiro still prevails. The demon then turns into some weird big blob monster. Except the blog monster is not the demon either, the demon is the train. The train needs to be completely destroyed. Boar head man woke up! Yay! Now Tanjiro won't be alone!
- Episode 5 - Move Forward!
- The tentacles are taking over the train, gross. Beast breathing, fifth form, crazy sword slash. I don't think Demon Train Man was expecting another demon to be on the train. Is it weird that he couldn't sense her? The sleeping yellow kimono man came to Neziko's aid. Fire mentor man fully woke up and lit the whole train on fire. Boar head goes back and forth between being chill and working with the group, and being a butt face and being rude, and I really don't like it. I get why he was tough to begin with, but I really thought he was coming around to the teamwork thing by now and was going to be chill with them the rest of the series. Maybe it's just the dream that made him act this way.
- They are struggling to stay awake; every time they wake up, they look into one of the Demon's eyes, which puts them right back to sleep. Good defense mechanism though tbh. Also, Tanjiro just almost got tricked into cutting his own head off in real life because he thought he was asleep again, but he wasn't.
- Beast breathing; 4th form - slice and dice.
- Tanjiro used his father's technique again and severed the head of the demon off by severing the entire front end of the train off.
- Episode 6 - Akaza
- The demon is going through an existential crisis.
- The fire mentor guy taught Tanjiro how to heal himself using total concentration. Another high-ranking demon comes to try and take out Tanjiro, fire mentor man slices his arm in half in the protection of Tanjiro, but the demon makes it whole again without a second to delay. The rest of this is just a fight ...
- Episode 7 - Set Your Heart Ablaze!
- Fire mentor guy puts up a good fight, even gets Tanjiro's scar as a wound himself, but unfortunately, he dies. Having the fight music stop while they are fighting is kind of weird and gross, not going to lie.
- We get a flashback to Fire Mentor Man's mom telling him to only ever use his strength to protect those who are weaker, and then we come back to him mustering up as much of his remaining strength as he can to try and cut off the demon's head. He unfortunately failed. Debatably because Tanjiro and the Boar Head kid tried to help, and the demon said I'm out. And Tanjiro then sends his sword flying toward the demon as he is running away into the woods, he manages to pierce him very well, but now he is down a sword again.
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