Kimetsu no Yaiba Episode 8 Discussion

WolfDFireBreidi said:
A very surprising episode. There are many things to say about this episode:
Tamayo and Yushiro. I did not think I could see other demons living peacefully with humans. That woman is incredibly amazing. He modified his body so as not to devour humans and it took 200 years to turn Yushiro into a demon. Yushiro is like a kind of hybrid, a new generation demon, so to speak. Practically both are like vampires. I was very happy to see that the answer that Tanjiro seeks to cure Nezuko is not as far as he thought. In this way, Tanjiro does not need to hold back against Muzan Kibutsuji, that damn bastard!
This story is full of surprises!

Oh! And I almost forgot it! ... I'm very curious to know if the guy who knew Muzan Kibutsuji in the past was Tanjiro's father, the one with the ear studs like he has.

PS: "Nezuko was one of the beauties of the town!" ... Hahaha, I laughed too much in that part. Nobody should mess with Tanjiro's little sister 😂.

nightcrawlercyp said:
Well I wonder if the two good demons will survive the next ep. I bet at least one will die. Also I am guessing monk dyde dies and tamari girl flees. An ancestor of Tajiro almost ceraintly but not his father. Muzan has at least 500 years and I am pretty sure this happened when he has not been a demon for too long. So at least a great grand father.

Jfs_ said:
Demon can't kill each other, The only way to kill a demon is to cut their neck with nichirin blade. So it is safe to assume that both tamayo and yushiro would not gonna die.

nightcrawlercyp said:
How do you know this? We know that at least Muzan can kill demons without.tye blade. Also I doubt the regenerative powers of the two are on par with those of man eating demons.

Jfs_ said:
Yes muzan can kill demons without nichirin blade, But I doubt a normal demons can kill each other without nichirin blade.

They should refrain from comedy as it isn't their strong suit! But great episode nonetheless.

ttcchen said:
im seriously loving this new guy. that stalker-like diary lmao

the police part pissed me off. i hope Danjirou actually backed off and showed them what a demon is actually capable of. they all deserve to die those motherfucking idiots

ExaltedChampion said:


From the police point of view, there a screaming boy with a sword pinch down a man, a woman is bleeding. For the common folk, demon is just legend, story to scare kid anyway.

ttcchen said:
as a police you need to assess the situation first. They didn't even bother to hear Danjirou out. They saw that he's holding down a psychotic man who's struggling and looking like he's ready to bite off everyone's heads, and yet they thought that it's a smart idea to pull the boy away from the man when they have no idea what they are dealing with?? No! You deal with the man first, not the boy! And don't even think about raising ur hands on the boy without understanding the situation first. That's not proper police procedures man. They're being rash and making faults left and right that could end their careers.

elementex said:



This is early 20th century Japan, and some middle of nowhere town at that. What would they know about proper police procedures?

vissegard said:


You realize the fact, that Kimetsu no Yaiba isn't supposed to be a comedy, like FMA:B? I mean, there is no "Comedy" tag here.

SSL443 said:
The humorous parts of this episode were trying waaaay too hard to counterbalance the dark stuff with the demon buy murdering the disposable fluff characters. It's like they're afraid adopt a darker tone for the story, so instead they're trying to offset it with the opposite extreme.

It doesn't work.

That aside, I want to like this show, but everything about the plot and characters feels generic and cliched. Nothing about the execution is new or exciting. By far the best aspect of the show is the animation, but even that isn't anything special by Ufotable standards.

I'm still waiting for the story to tell me why I'm supposed to care about this MC. It rushed through his introduction in the first episode, it rushed through his development during his training, and now he's just some guy that we happen to be following along with. There is little sense of teleology with this story; it could stop at any moment and it wouldn't feel unfinished.

Shingster said:
. That lecture from the udon cart owner sure was amusing as was Tanjirou's defence of Nezuko after those blunt words.

ExaltedChampion said:
I think you look at the MC from the wrong angle. The writing style of the story more suttle than it appeal. The story doesn't just bombard you with the main characters quirk and personality from the start, it let the action of the character speak for it more then. It doesn't just flat out telling you what this MC personality is, it let his action, his interaction with other speak for him. His development doesn't just come from the training arc but scatter throughout the story, which in my opinion make it feel more natural.

aegd said:


This may be something lost in translation. He called Nezuko a "shikome" which can mean both "a plain looking woman" or "a female demon". I get the feeling that this was supposed to be a play on that word, and Tanjirou got the wrong idea.

I don't watch the subtitled version so I can imagine whoever did the subs, didn't get the joke. For anyone learning Japanese the kanji is 醜女 and can be read either as しこめ (shikome) or しょうじょ (shoujo) the meaning of demon is only in the applied for the しこめ (shikome) reading of the word.

This is one of those cases where it really gets lost in translation.