woensdag 16 februari 2022

Demon Slayer Entertainment District Arc

 Demon Slayer is back with it's second season, and this time we travel to the Entertainment District.



A region where power and lust run strife in the night life, this is a walhalla for the demonic, and the setting for this 11 episode series.

But the story first kicks off with a tale of woe and redemption, as Tanjiro travels to the house of Rengoku.  Here, he wants to convey the former Fire Hashiri's final words to his brother and his father, but he finds the latter hostile and uncaring.  And hiding his feelings in sake.  He does learn though that his father's dance is also called the Sun breathing technique, the first and strongest form there is of which all the others are descendant.

Upon his return, they get to know the Sound Hashiri, Tengen Uzui (dubbed "pretty boy" by Noshi), who recruits them for the Entertainment District.  Here the heroes have to pretend to be girls, in order to find out what happened to Tengen's informants, namely his three wives.  As Zenitsu gets on the Upper Six's demon trail, Daki, he gets captured in her demonic belt.



Tanjiro faces off against her while Inosuke frees Zenitsu and the wives, with the help of Tengen.  Tanjiro in the meantime pushes himself over his limits to confront Daki with the Sun Breathing technique, causing Nezuko to intervene.  As she faces off with the Upper Six, she goes in her full, Awakened, form, becoming a true powerhouse on the level of the Upper rank demons.  As Tengen finds out during his confrontation with Daki, the Upper Six is actually two siblings in one, her far stronger brother Gyutaro residing inside her.



While they fight, Tanjiro has to go through great lengths to get Nezuko to calm down again, as she seemingly can`t supress a taste for human blood in her berserk Awakened form.  But after calming her with their mother's lullaby, the heroes have to take on the Upper Six.  While they manage to slice of Daki's head, Inosuke is stabbed by her brother through the chest as he tries to run off with her head to prevent a regeneration.

In the meantime, Tnegen lies on the floor, seemingly defeated as he has a hand sliced off.  As all his friends are down, Tanjiro buys a one in a million chance thanks to using a rouse on Gyutaro.  His friends join the fray (Zenitsu's God Speed mode!!!!!!!) as they cheated death, beheading the demon siblings, but Gyutaro goes up in a huge blast of slashing blood.



Our heroes, and Tengen, survive though thanks to nezuko who can burn the poison out of their systems, as we get a very sad flashback on how and why the Upper Six demons became what they where... and you can`t help but feel very, very sad for them...

This truly was a good season, a thing noticeable by the seemingly high speed episodes passed by, not ever giving the impression it was a full 23 minutes.

Oh, and Daki?  I hope they bring out a prize figure of the Banpresto range of the series, I'm soooooo getting this hottie then!




1 opmerking:

  1. We’ve been spoiled with both this and AoT coming out weekly! I honestly didn’t think I was going to be that into Tengen, but he grew on me as the episodes went on...

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