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Anime Journal - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Episode 5

  This is a continuing journal of the great anime series  Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba . Produced by  Ufotable  and released in late 2019. I'm re-watching each episode, providing a synopsis, and adding my own observations. You can read the first episode coverage  here.   Episode 5 "My Own Steel" Tanjiro has slain the morphing demon that killed so many of Urokodaki's students. As the demon slowly crumbles away, it remembers its childhood and fear of the dark. Tanjiro smells sadness in the air and hold the demons fingers and prays for a better reincarnation for this sad creature. Meanwhile the spirits of the slain students fade away while looking at Tanjiro. They are going back to the mountain they came from.  But Tanjiro still has to survive and continues to fight demons asking them if they know how a demon can turn back into a human. It's useless though as they are unreasoning brutes.  Tanjiro survives along with four other students. At the wist...

Anime Journal - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Episode 4

This is a continuing journal of the great anime series  Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba . Produced by  Ufotable  and released in late 2019. I'm re-watching each episode, providing a synopsis, and adding my own observations. You can read the first episode coverage  here.   Episode 4 "Final Selection" Tanjiro has been training to become a Demon Slayer for two years now. He has passed the test of slicing the boulder in half with the help of Subito and Makomo, strange youngers who help him train. His teacher, Urokodaki, tells him that he didn't think he could cut the boulder in half, but he is very proud Tanjiro. He cooks a feast for him that night and warns him that the strength of a demon is determined by how many humans he has eaten. Urokodaki gives him a fox mask that has a protection spell added. Tanjiro sets out to Mt. Fujikasae where wisteria blooms all year round. He is the last to arrive. There are about two dozen young men and women who will be tested as we...