Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Geiko-hen Episode 3 Discussion

i can't believe manga readers are complaining about the added content. aren't you glad there's more demon slayer? i for one am happy about them. this is the arc where i felt that the manga was rushing to get to the final arc. the bonus content helps in building character relationships and development which i found lacking in the later chapters. in this episode alone we got to see sanemi and iguro's friendship, more giyuu and tanjiro and tengen's feelings after retirement. i wanted to see these kind of moments in the manga.

too much screentime for the training of characters that dont even have a name an that will most likelly die the second an Upper Moon shows up

You can feel how directionless this particular season feels with the lack of real content to adapt to make it worthy of a 'season' by how stretched everything felt. The manga portion of this ain't that good but these episodes are such a drag to watch with the way its paced. This series doesn't really showcase the worst use of filler necessarily but it's still not that pleasant to watch.

I have a question. Didn’t tanjiro kill upper moon 6 in the entertainment district arc as well? Why did Uzui make it sound like he survived an upper move for the first time?

There's such a large gap between normal slayers and hashira, and the gap can't be narrowed by training. I just want to see someone with a normal background becomes hashira.

What a snoozer of an episode lol, entirely skippable. And how come every single demon slayer that’s not a hashira is a 16 year old boy?

I don't remember this in the manga so this was definitely a filler episode, but as far as filler episodes go it isn't bad, the animation is high quality as always so it gets a pass.

This arc wasn't that great in the manga either, they are just working with a crappy arc and they are trying to make it exciting I guess, it does feel like they are dragging the arc with filler stuff, let's see how things will turn out, so far I'm not impressed but that's ok, I didn't expect much from this arc anyway but I still respect the consistency of this anime, the animation is great as always.

The Hashira training arc is about 8/9 chapters long in the manga, so I was actually surprised to see that the first 2 episodes of this season's anime covered over half of its content, wondering where it would lead with the remaining episodes. The answer is fillers. It's leading to fillers. Most of the Hashira training is done in a single page, with some having less than a page of exchanges. It appears however that the anime decided it was necessary to extend these exchanges to be episode-long so we're about to be treated to a lot of beach episodes and a very thankful MC having a very very touching moment with every single secondary character we managed to herd.

Tanjiro is looking more Buff than i've seen him before.
Must be visiting all training grounds.

@animejas it's hard to make a training arc exciting that's for sure.

@SenseiSempai-san I cannot deny that, but with arcs like these on paper, it's just better as a part of a longer season somehow than as its own, since the issues are more exposed with this being its own season, especially when there's not even 10 chapters in reality for this arc and its labelled a season. Anime's in a forced position to buy time and it clearly shows. At least it's not Demon Slayer characters just doing completely random things like play football or other completely nonsensical things like you would get with old school filler at times but it's not the best either.