Where do you think they will end each movie?

They are really trying to milk this more than with attack on titan. Well If I was in their shoes I would do the same even when knowing it would be annoying for the watches.

They are really trying to milk this more than with attack on titan. Well If I was in their shoes I would do the same even when knowing it would be annoying for the watches.

@Shugo-Shana Adapting the canon material with a quality over quantity approach that is gonna take them more time and effort than regular seasons would is apparently milking now.

Then what are all those non-canon movies that shows like MHA, Dragon Ball and Naruto have?

@Shugo-Shana Adapting the canon material with a quality over quantity approach that is gonna take them more time and effort than regular seasons would is apparently milking now.

Then what are all those non-canon movies that shows like MHA, Dragon Ball and Naruto have?

@Karnox001 They ARE milking it. They made it 3 movies in hopes of repeating "Mugen Train" success. And making 3 movies instead of 1 season smells like giving preferences to quantity. They also ruined the pacing of the story: for example, they made the last episode of the Village arc that long and made sure to include the death of Hantengu in it in order to put it into a "movie" and milk more money. This is insane. I thought such a level of milking is possible only in video games, not in cinema. In parallel universe we had 3 2-cour seasons that fully adapt Demon Slayer: unwawering resolve+mugen train -> entertainment district+swordsmith village -> hashira training+final battle. It would've been perfect.

Edit: imagine shibuya arc done in 3 movies: first - ep 6-11, second - 12-17 and third - 18-23. It would've been a catastrophe. And ufotable/aniplex/whoever is responsible for this will most likely make a season out of these movies, like they did with Mugen Train for more profit.

@Shugo-Shana why? this doesn't seem smart at all, attack on titan ended in obscurity with no one caring for it anymore, the longer it goes the less people will care.

If they think this is "milking" it then they are failing at it, 1 year of wait is way to many new things to keep people away and forget about this one.

@Karnox001 They ARE milking it. They made it 3 movies in hopes of repeating "Mugen Train" success. And making 3 movies instead of 1 season smells like giving preferences to quantity. They also ruined the pacing of the story: for example, they made the last episode of the Village arc that long and made sure to include the death of Hantengu in it in order to put it into a "movie" and milk more money. This is insane. I thought such a level of milking is possible only in video games, not in cinema. In parallel universe we had 3 2-cour seasons that fully adapt Demon Slayer: unwawering resolve+mugen train -> entertainment district+swordsmith village -> hashira training+final battle. It would've been perfect.

Edit: imagine shibuya arc done in 3 movies: first - ep 6-11, second - 12-17 and third - 18-23. It would've been a catastrophe. And ufotable/aniplex/whoever is responsible for this will most likely make a season out of these movies, like they did with Mugen Train for more profit.

@Ki11grave Those world premieres where they merged last ep + first ep are basically glorified early screenings, which are super common (the normal ones), but I do agree that this particular move could be seen as milking. Now this stuff is usually on Aniplex's hands, the studio just doesn't go asking the producers to make these big premiers, after all the studio earns so little in comparision to the main producer, but for a show as absurdly popular as Kimetsu no Yaiba, I think that milking is very mild, especially compared to the other shows I mentioned. Aniplex could do so much more to milk it.

About the pacing, I disagree, I don't think it was ruined or anything, they just had a longer episode with the usual pacing and the experience was great to me.

The "making 3 movies instead of 1 season smells like giving preferences to quantity." statement is just not true. There's 66 chapters left to adapt, and that would be around 2 cours usually. Now the final arc has so much action and so many big panels that the pacing is much quicker, so 3 movies fit just fine. They might cut some stuff, but very on point imo. You are gonna have to explain to me how this could be seen quantity over quality when they are basically gonna spend 12-18 months of production for roughly 6 eps worth of content. That's literally quality over quantity. It will take longer to finish the manga yes, but the experience will be better because of the quality and the movie pacing/structure.

And "In parallel universe we had 3 2-cour seasons that fully adapt Demon Slayer" is exactly what I'm talking about. That is quantity over quality. Adapting a lot at once to finish it quickly instead of taking your time and elevate it as much as possible. There's a reason why we see less and less 2 cour animes these days, and it's because the quality is more difficult to mantain that way, and people want the best possible quality, so 1 cour seasons and movies are the best option for that. And like I said, the three act structure of a movie gives a more exciting experience than weekly episodes, at least for me.


>"Edit: imagine shibuya arc done in 3 movies: first - ep 6-11, second - 12-17 and third - 18-23. It would've been a catastrophe. And ufotable/aniplex/whoever is responsible for this will most likely make a season out of these movies, like they did with Mugen Train for more profit."

We don't know that, and the source material is completely different. For the final arc of KnY I think 3 movies will definitely work, and it won't have the production issues of JJK S2.

Mugen Train was handicapped by the pandemic and still went on to become the highest grossing anime movie ever. These movies should easily surpass that if we're being honest. And with regards to them doing 3 movies instead of 1, this arc was 47 chapters in the manga, there's no way they could only make one movie out of this even if they wanted to.

@thebrentinator24 I said .

@Karnox001 I don't understand how you can think that the pacing is good when we spend ~8 minutes on Muzan walking in Bollywood style in both episodes total. About Swordsmith village, they had a deal with TV channels that that season must be 11 episodes long (like Entertainment District arc) and they needed to make the last episode long so that they can put it into a "movie". That's why they've been dragging fights with 5th and 4th upper moons. If in Entertainment District arc the fight has been going for a little bit more than 6 episodes, in Swordsmith Village arc it's been going for 8.5 episodes. And in manga both fights last for nearly the same amount of chapters. That's why the pacing in the third season is horrendous and we got an episode like "Awful Villian" where Tanjiro and Hantengu just look at each other for half an episode.

And the shows you mentioned: two of them are weekly, not seasonal, so of course the pacing is bad. And MHA for first 2 seasons had a bad pacing comparing to the manga, but it still felt natural and future seasons didn't have this problem.

I respect Ufotable for not crunching their workers to death. If they made the final battle in a 2-cour season with the movie level, we would got it in 4 years. That's something that big suits probably would not have allowed. Like, Bones is forced to release a MHA season every one and a half year. However, we will get the last movie in around 4 years too, so, if we lived in a perfect world, there's no difference for us. But if you want for a studio to not rush things and adapt everything in one cour, then it could've been like this: season 1 - everything before the mount, season 2 - mount+train, season 3 - ED, season 4 - SV (normal this time), season 5 - hashira training+before kokushibo, season 6 - the rest.

But if you ask me, i'd rather wait as much as needed for a 2-cour season than get a 1 cour season earlier, because some stories are not made for 1-cour seasons. Can you imagine JJK S2 being about Kyoto and Death Painting. What kind of season is that? Or one of MHA seasons being only about a training with class B. This would've been ridiculous. Or do you remember Kizumonogatari, how badly these...things felt as singular movies? The similar situation is going to be here. There's a rumor that Ufotable is going to adapt Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint and I'm scared, because this franchise definately has to be always 2-cour.

P.S. and it's definitely a me thing, but I prefer pacing over animation. I'd rather have a feeling that everything is right than look at beautiful drawings. But that's just me.

@Ki11grave
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I was reffering to good pacing in ep 11 of S3. I agree ep 7 had bad pacing, but overall pacing of S3 is mainly because of the manga and the way that arc is written/structured. Last ep being longer is to make a better climax by having it all together. They don't need to do longer eps to do early screenings. S1 did early screening for eps 1-5 and it didn't matter that they were normal lenght.
Disagree with the rest of it.

"And the shows you mentioned: two of them are weekly, not seasonal, so of course the pacing is bad. And MHA for first 2 seasons had a bad pacing comparing to the manga, but it still felt natural and future seasons didn't have this problem."

I was talking about the milking/filler/non-cannon movies, not the pacing.


"2-cour season with the movie level" This is a contradiction. It can't happen in an industry like this.


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Kinda agree overall, structure is very important, but this is KnY, and it is bound to be a 1:1 adaptation like most shonen jump adaptations, for better and for worse.
I have not seen Monogatari yet, so I won't speak.
It won't take 4 years because they have more stuff in the works.
I don't like that structure tbh, I prefer the one we have. S1 could be done as 2 consecutive cours because it wasn't as complex, but for the rest 1 cour is better imo.


"There's a rumor that Ufotable is going to adapt Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint"

Literally impossible. 3 KnY movies, 2 mahoyo movies (probably), 1 Touken Ranbu movie, Genshin and Tsukihime (not announced but inevitable). It won't happen, and if it does, it will air in 2040.


"but I prefer pacing over animation" I like both, and I don't think a trilogy will sacrifice the pacing.

@Karnox001 The last episode of SV arc was 50 minutes long and it adapted 3 chapters. That's the average amount of chapters per episode in the industry. We didn't need 2.5 episodes for it. And while I agree that scenes like everyone saying goodbye to Tanjiro were good additions, scenes like Nezuko's 'death' were disastrous. I don't remember how many minutes it took to show Tanjiro's heavy breathing, but definately more than should be allowed.

I was thinking about why couldn't they have ended SV ep 10 on beheading (like in ED) and came to a conclusion that they wanted to make Nezuko's 'death' and her resurrection a single experience. This way I understand this. However, you said that SV is structured differently, i don't agree with this. It's basically the same arc as ED. The fighting in SV is only 1 chapter longer, yet such a big difference in anime.

There’s no actual confirmation this trilogy will even adapt sunrise countdown so idk really

@Shugo-Shana Adapting the canon material with a quality over quantity approach that is gonna take them more time and effort than regular seasons would is apparently milking now.

Then what are all those non-canon movies that shows like MHA, Dragon Ball and Naruto have?

Jesus man calm down you have no place to call me delusional. Sunrise countdown is considered an arc.

You said a few pages as if the hashira training arc isn’t also incredibly short. Just because it’s short does not mean anything