Premiss
I never thought I would write a review about anything, the hate on Demon Slayer pushed me to say what I thought as an average Anime fan. So this should be a good read to let you have an idea on what the anime can offer, mostly from the point of view of a non-hater nor fan that enjoyed watching it. You can consider this a review and an aswer to all the hate, both is good.
I want to have a different approach on this review, and I'll try to be keep this as easy to read as possible, without 1000+ words paragraphs. I will try to give reasons to love the anime, and reasons to hate it, nothing is perfect, but you should be in power to decide whether you can like it or not.
Review
You can hate the anime for a lot of reasons, the story is pretty much obvious since the first episode, Tanjrou (main character) is nothing special and very plain, you will like him not because he is something special, just because he is there and there's nothing you can hate for. You can feel the disparity between the visuals and the actual content, a lot of the budget is clearly flushed down into visuals and sounds to take an average story and make it epic. I bet you could read a book (a book, not a manga) about Demon Slayer and it would have less than half of the impact it has.
Well, now let me destroy everything I said about what you can hate about the anime with some sweet logic that a lot of people seem to have forgotten.
Be honest with yourself:
Do you care if an anime would be good even with only the story to read? No... You are watching an anime, visuals are part of the content and are a part of the anime itself, you can't remove the visuals just because ThYRe The oNLy gOOD Thing, they may be depending on your taste, but still they are very good and should be considered! So the whole argument falls, so damn fast I don't know why people still talk about it.
Do you care about the main character being normal? Honestly, why? Why do you even think that? It really sounds like trying to pinpoint to something worthless. Yes, the main character is normal, then what? Tell me 10 anime you like and tell me why the main character is different and not normal in what he does. You can dislike it but it's not a reason for the anime to be less enjoyable.
Do you care if the story is obvious? Does it make the anime bad? No... Not at all. You can have the most painfully obvious stuff in front of your eyes but if the way they deliver it is good, you will love it! And let me say, they did it, they made it epic. If I have to add anything to this dumb point, if you can make something like Demon Slayer out of something this obvious or boring, it's nothing but something to brag about! Honestly incredible, you never feel like it is heavy, you get curious, you stay hooked and at the end of the day, you're there full of joy when you realize you didn't see much about the story behind; yet, it is incredible. I have to say it, it is again something GREAT not bad, you leave the anime with the urge to watch the rest of it that has to come out, you want to know more because in this season you felt so good and saw so little that the potential is incredible!
Conclusion
A great shounen, you should watch it.
