“No matter how many people you may lose, you have no choice but to go on living- No matter how devastating the blows, maybe.” – Tanjiro

The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba the Movie: Mugen train brings Japan the top 4 highest-grossing films in the Global Box Office. It was created by Koyoharu Gotogue as a Manga and released in 2016. The setting of the anime is during Taisho-era in Japan (1912-1926).

What is the beginning of the story?

Tanjiro’s family was killed by a demon and the only survivor is   Nezuko, she turned into a demon that leads tanjiro to join the Demon Slayer Corps and find a cure for his younger sister.  Tanjiro was able to smell emotions and everything in His surroundings. His goal in gathering the blood of the 12 demons led Him to Kibutsuji Muzan, The leader of the demons that can make a human turn into a demon and vice versa. Too stunned to fight he was left alone and that night, Tanjiro survives the assassination of Muzan’s demons. The Demon Slayer Corps then, have a tail on Muzan. The accident led to the acceptance of the Hashira’s (highest position in Demon Slayer Corps) to Nezuko a half-human half-demon to travel with Tanjiro.

The story is not a typical shonen type anime. Other animes like assassination classroom, Dragon Ball and Fullmetal Alchemist have foreshadowed events that can easily be predicted by the viewer. The manga Demon Slayer shows stages of the improvement of characters with endless possibilities. It excites the viewer and readers to continue patronizing the anime.

Readers are also tired with the protagonist only scene fighting with unruly demons. The anime added stories why the demons wanted power. What amazes me is that the demons root of anger is all humanities fault. I remember my teacher’s advice to me before, to be kind to everyone. We don’t know what they have been. The anime successfully show the actions of individual and their emotions affects the people around us. We can instantly kill dreams that are being forged in their hearts or shatter confidence that starts to build up. I understand how my classmates lost interest in their academe. It’s not their fault to transform into something they hate but the people around them that planted hate and anger deep down their souls.

Tanjiros love to his family never fails. I imagined what would happened if Nezuko dies also. The pain will kill him remembering that he slept safely down the mountain while his family is eaten by the demon. He will continue to fight or will end his self also. Losing a member of the family may the end for everyone but his brave soul continue to step forward even with broken ribs and arms to find the cure to his younger sister.

I discover in this anime that a pure kindness can exist in the shallow darkness. No matter what race that person came from, demons or human he show sympathy and make the demons inner desire come true. I remember the scene in the mountains of spider. The mother of the demon spider shows no resistance upon cutting her head she embraced the destiny  to be killed by Tanjiro. Tanjiro then use the water breathing, Fifth Form and change his grip of the nichhirin blade and beheading the demon mercifully. The fifth form is the Blessed Rain after the Drought. The demon feels the warmth and feels nothing as the water from the fifth form touches her face.

I once read an article about demons that the earth is now filled with them. The main point of that article is that criminals are the demons in the society where we lived. They are the toxic root of humanities existence. But, like in the anime Demon Slayer, they don’t wield guns and knifes if someone doesn’t push them to do so. No child criminals would stole breads if their bellies are not starving to death. It is easy for us to condemn a what so called demon in our society because we don’t even have a chance to experienced things that happened to them. Being thankful is the best we can do because we don’t need to kill someone to LIVE.

That would be all thank you for reading. Please comment down below whose Demon Slayer character you can compare your life our attitude with. Take time to watch the anime and Im sure you will surely like it!

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