SuSupersonic_Pain
October 14, 2025
Not RecommendedFunny
Oh my God, bruh I'll list the positives because it'll be much faster: - I liked the Douma/Shinobu fight - They said 67 Otherwise, holy shit dude, this movie was so fucking boring. I guess to this movie's credit, damning with faint praise as it is, I didn't literally fall asleep during it unlike Mugen Train but I also was sitting upright in a chair for this one so idk how much you can credit that to the quality of the movie I'm going to try and avoid any major spoilers (if you care that much, I'll post an extended version of this review on my anime list's notes) but it'sfucking Demon Slayer, man, how do you think it went
As mentioned above, I liked Douma/Shinobu. Douma had the advantage of being the first villain of the movie so he had a charismatic presence and not much to follow up on, I liked his fighting style and Blood Demon Art, Shinobu's my favorite Hashira so I was invested in the fight, if for whatever reason the film abruptly stopped here, this movie would've gotten, like, an 8.
The problem is it goes for TWO FUCKING HOURS after the half hour they spend on that fight.
I said Hashira Training could've been a movie, if Infinity Castles 2 and 3 plan to be this long, this could've been a whole TV season and it reeks of money-grubbing (which, to be fair, is apparently working out very well for them) that it's not.
For comparison, Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp, the compilation film of three separate films (the longest of which doesn't even break 90 minutes) is 2 hours and 24 minutes, a little shorter than this one movie.
All 3 of the Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel movies are roughly half an hour shorter for a Ufotable trilogy, hell, even MUGEN TRAIN was half an hour shorter.
And the problem is this movie is three separate fights (only one of which involving the titular Akaza) and the latter two are mid af.
I think that's part of the problem with this movie, it feels blatantly like "TV content cut into movies for money".
At LEAST Mugen Train had the decency to be a self-contained arc, so it made sense why it was a movie (relatively speaking, especially since they just made it a TV arc anyway).
I haven't seen the Reze movie for Chainsaw Man but that is also ONE arc that they're adapting into a movie. I would imagine the rest of Part 1 would get adapted into Season 2 so again, that's fair.
This is just one third of the final arc split into a movie for no reason. It's 3 fights grafted together for 2.5 hours of sugary junk food.
To all the people who whined and bitched and moaned about Zenitsu being a shitty character, he's just another generic aura farmer now, and the opponent he gets is quite possibly the most generic, S1-tier villain we've ever gotten out of the Upper Moons.
I honestly didn't even remember this guy existed, I had to look him up on the Fandom wiki to see if we've ever even met the guy. I guess we did so... uh... fair play.
The Akaza fight is, of course, the one that gets the whole works. If you've seen Demon Slayer before, I'm sure you can guess how the fight goes. At this point, I was completely checked out of the movie. It sure looked Ufotable Pretty.
I've heard a lot of complaints about the pacing and it is godawful.
You get a flashback for Douma. You get a flashback for Shinobu's older sister. You get a flashback for Zenitsu's opponent. You get a flashback for Akaza that lasts, like, 20 minutes.
This movie does not give a fuck about your time.
I'm not going to remember a single thing that happens in this movie by the time part 2 comes out.
Not a single character interaction, not a single joke, not any of the Hype and Aura Moments, not the Ufotablecore LiSA song (I can't even remember the Aimer one, I think I've already automatically replaced both the Aimer and LiSA songs with songs from Fate in my head), nothing.
It even ends with Muzan going "yeah, so what? This shit doesn't matter"
I mean, he said it, not me.
