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There's something to be said about watching a series you've grown up with end. It's a cathartic moment that almost feels like closing a chapter of your life. I have kept up with this series for nearly a decade and it contains some of my favorite moments in the medium. The emotions, the messages, I have found myself thinking about the sheer heart this story has when it comes to looking at it as a whole. While it's not without flaws, particularly the latter half's pacing, throughout its entirety there are times it has me feeling something seldom like many other media.

The ending specifically, I've ... seen some talk over, and I have to say it brings the story full circle in a way that feels realistic, but also inspiring. It brings home the theme that you, yes you, the reader can be a hero in anything you do.

Let me preface this review by saying I like Demon Slayer, it has some really standout hype moments for a shonen. It’s what I look for when I’m craving eye candy or something to really just get me hyped for the spectacle around a fight. Unfortunately what there wasn’t a lot of in this season was spectacle. Nearly the entire season lacked spectacle until the final amazing episode and that isn’t really enough to take away from the monotony of what came before it.

When I heard there would be anime original content in this season I kind of grimaced because I knew it would ... mean that much of the season would feel like it did, a bit redundant. A lot of the shenanigans we see throughout this season can be reduced to what you’d see in an after episode skit or something for other shonen, or more relaxed slice of live esque training episodes. Unfortunately this season’s runtime is almost exclusively these aside from a couple exceptions.

Demon Slayer’s main appeal is spectacle, is these grand finales, swelling music, and a crescendo of action and choreography. These episodes tend to drag on, especially consecutively. It’s why for most of this season, it was background noise for me.

The final episode was a needed change of pace but it’s a bit too little too late to really carry the weight of the entire season. It garners hype for the concluding entries but doesn’t really do much when looking at this season as a monolith, retrospectively.

I like Demon Slayer, I really do, but this season didn’t excite me like the first few.

I’ve been watching this show for a minute, like nearly a decade at this point and while season 5 served as a disconnect, season’s 6’s return to form in storytelling, pacing, and general enjoyment was a welcome surprise. Season 7 follows that trend to an extent, with getting into the action as soon as possible. While I would have liked to see more of a certain character from the beginning, I can appreciate the spectacle. I did really enjoy the focus on characters that needed it, specifically Aoyama, Monoma, and Shinso. The fact that a plan really revolves around students seldom seen as much ... as our main cast giving the opportunity to flesh them out is welcome. Altogether this is shaping to be one of the better season's of the show with it being on par with some of the earlier entries. I wouldn’t say the first 6 episodes are as great as season 3 or season 6, but around the season 1-2 territory.

It's no secret to my friends that I have liked this show and have been a fan for a while. This is a show that I've pretty much grown with out of high school and into college, so trust me when I say that this season is a true a return to form.

After two seasons of inconsistency and arcs that may have felt tedious at best we have reached a season that I think not only meets some earlier entries but can exceed them. This is a return to the emotions, the themes, and the moments of the early MHA that I watched during ... my last few years in high school. What I think MHA had been missing for a while was introspection, the intricate and deeper moments that made up a lot of the earlier seasons. Whether it was All Might's final stand and realizing that he was passing on his will to his successor or Deku and Bakugo's fight embroiled in the complicated childhood trauma shared between them. While we saw flashes of that in the fourth and fifth season, I really don't think that other than Endeavor's moment in the fourth season we get that deep, even relatable introspection for a character. But we do here, not only is both halves of the season filled with reflection and introspection from multiple characters, but there are character moments that have been building up for seasons now that finally hit their stride and it's amazing to see. There's actual internal conflict for Deku that results in possibly one of my favorite episodes of the season yet.

There's so much I can talk about, but I do not want to spoil the plot or any other intracies. Instead I want to let anyone who reads this, MHA is back, it's back and it's finally as good as it was before.