This arc is mediocre.

Kaftzen said:
It was cool to see Tanjiro dealing with his guilty conscious I guess, but watching Inosuke and Zenitsu dreams were lame af, not to mention that the author only focused on Tanjiro's dream. It felt like the rest of the characters were wasted potential. I thought I would see some character background and development, but I got a comic relief garbage instead. Inosuke was nothing but a violent maniac, while Zenitsu only wanted to get some pussy, lame.

Sand_bag said:
Go and watch doraemon.

Certified_retard said:
Grass is green(15)

Scordolo said:
To me, Inosuke and Zenitsu's dreams basically looked like to come out of a fan fic. I agree they could've given some more background and insight to their character. But we can't do anything about it now.

20thCenturyVoid said:
The whole show was mid from the start

notaweebprobably said:
I agree on the part that this arc was mediocre and also that it would have been nice to see some character development but it wasn't just possible in the dreams. The dream was shown to them by a demon and was about what the characters wanted and not about what they needed. The dream was meant to be a happy dream that the characters didn't want to wake up from. For tanjiro, his happy dream was to reunite with his family and live his life happily with them. As for zenitsu and inosuke, they recieved their happy dreams as well. Zenitsu is a character which actually runs from his past rather than confront it. His happy dream was to forget about the world to live a life with nezuko. It is pretty apparent in the series that his only reason to travel with tanjiro was a slight sense of security and nezuko. As for inosuke maybe fighting a train-centepede with his friends was his dream. I have no idea whatever even resides in his head or what even is his character. I had although thought that their character could be better explained in the inner core of their dream after. I was a bit satisfied with tanjiro's but zenitsu and insosuke's core was translated as pure garbage and I have exactly same opinion as yours on that. But you could also argue that if that was the case then why didn't rengoku dream about his father getting his hope back. I have to say that the writing was pretty lazy.

ame-furi said:
It's not just Zenitsu and Inosuke that are wasted potential, the manga suffers from a lack of interesting development for many characters. There's too many of them and only a few got enough time to shine for longer than 3 pages of flashbacks.

Hot_Green_Tea said:
In other news, researcher have found that water is wet, WHAT A DISCOVERY!

Kaftzen said:
It was cool to see Tanjiro dealing with his guilty conscious I guess, but watching Inosuke and Zenitsu dreams were lame af, not to mention that the author only focused on Tanjiro's dream. It felt like the rest of the characters were wasted potential. I thought I would see some character background and development, but I got a comic relief garbage instead. Inosuke was nothing but a violent maniac, while Zenitsu only wanted to get some pussy, lame.

OmegaAlphaBoss said:
one part ruins a whole arc. gotcha.

Kaftzen said:
The most important part*

OmegaAlphaBoss said:
it is not the most important part.

Kaftzen said:
"Dreams doesn't matter in the arc that is all about dreams" lmao.

OmegaAlphaBoss said:
it's not all about dreams at all. you either haven't fully watched it, haven't read the manga, or are just a troll based on the fact that your profile seems to show that you basically don't like anything.

Kaftzen said:
That's weird. I would swear that we spend half of this arc inside the main character's dreams, but maybe I'm just crazy.

OmegaAlphaBoss said:
again, it's not all about dreams. the real meat of the arc is in the last half, not the dreams segment.

Kaftzen said:
"The Dream's arc where dreams don't matter at all" please stop.

Kaftzen said:

The dream part is the main problem the characters must face, and somehow you keep saying dreams are not the most important thing in this arc. I don't care if this part of the anime """helps""" to pave the way for the rest of the series, that's something the author could have done in the previous season.

OmegaAlphaBoss said:
yeah, you can tell you haven't finished it, because the dream part is not the real problem they must face. just finish it first my guy then come back.

Kaftzen said:
Just say you're a fanboy.

_spoon_ said:
true true. but so far its the best arc in demon slayer 😂

Adampk said:
I usually dont like to give out links. But I cant really explain as deep as whoever wrote this. It's a really well made article if u have time, u can check it out. It describes all the dreams and interpretation.

https://medium.com/@ramalex/a-psychoanalytic-character-analysis-of-kimetsu-no-yaiba-in-the-context-of-infinity-train-arc-876ee75ddc8b

Kaftzen said:
I've read the entire article, and I didn't really like it.

1.- I don't trust in people that call themselves psychoanalysts and quote Sigmund Freud.

2.- The author of the article praises this arc for being reiterative. The characters' dreams express their mindsets very well, but those mindsets have been shown already in the past. We all knew that Inosuke was a violent megalomaniac way before he got in the train; we knew that Zenitsu was a pathetic simp that nobody liked, since the very first time we saw him begging a girl to marry him, so what's the point?.

3.- It also overthinks some stuff. Why would you think that the tunnel of Inosuke's dream was a way to represent his difficulties socializing with others? He doesn't really care about it nor even has shown interest in it yet. It is stupid to try to symbolize something the character clearly hasn't expressed yet.

Kaftzen said:
It was cool to see Tanjiro dealing with his guilty conscious I guess, but watching Inosuke and Zenitsu dreams were lame af, not to mention that the author only focused on Tanjiro's dream. It felt like the rest of the characters were wasted potential. I thought I would see some character background and development, but I got a comic relief garbage instead. Inosuke was nothing but a violent maniac, while Zenitsu only wanted to get some pussy, lame.

Adampk said:

Nice, but I can't really do anything about ur liking


The author of the article never called himself psychoanalyst. Plus this movie directly deals subconscious and conscious mind, so quoting sigmund freud or mentioning psychoanalysis is not really a stretch


Agree, it don't tell anything new even in tanjiro case. Dreams were used for showing complexity of existing characterization for everyone. Mangaka not interested in introducing new plot threads and extending the stories may be cause of that.


Hard disagree, clearly tunnel was the representation of inosuke dream and pitch black and scissors were present in Zenitsu dream or the vast impure subconscious of tanjiro. Everything was shown in stories(Inosuke did warmed up with people compared the season 1, It has been expressed subtly) What is shown has to have a meaning. U cant say that over thinking. Not every symbolism needs a clusturfuck nonsensical plot like flcl. Symbolism can be done even in background like this without disorienting the plot.

I pretty much knew from the beginning nothing will satisfy u because u had made up mind to trash on it. So it doesn't matter. Well, atleast u read that's more than enough imo

The author of the article never called himself psychoanalyst. Plus this movie directly deals subconscious and conscious mind, so quoting sigmund freud or mentioning psychoanalysis is not really a stretch

Agree, it don't tell anything new even in tanjiro case. Dreams were used for showing complexity of existing characterization for everyone. Mangaka not interested in introducing new plot threads and extending the stories may be cause of that.

Hard disagree, clearly tunnel was the representation of inosuke dream and pitch black and scissors were present in Zenitsu dream or the vast impure subconscious of tanjiro. Everything was shown in stories(Inosuke did warmed up with people compared the season 1, It has been expressed subtly) What is shown has to have a meaning. U cant say that over thinking. Not every symbolism needs a clusturfuck nonsensical plot like flcl. Symbolism can be done even in background like this without disorienting the plot.

veahawks5414 said:
I totally agree it was kind of a bad arc outside of the akaza fight

animedude1287 said:
But the dreams weren’t meant to look at their past. The demon made dreams, so they wouldn’t wake up. Tanjiro wanted his family, Inosuke wanted a fight and be seen as a leader, and Zenitsu wanted a date with Nezuko.

It would have been interesting to see some of their past, but I feel it wasn’t needed for this part.

BIIIGPP6969 said:


True. The arc is now worse than I originally thought it was after they adapted it into a show. They should've just left it as a movie.

Kaftzen said:


Meh, I don't think the movie changes anything.

BIIIGPP6969 said:


Dude. The only reason I watch the show is because ufotable animates it and Kajiura Yuki composes the music. There's nothing else about the show that I actually like.