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I recommend for the sake of the story, since you cannot not watch it, but it's a drag thorough the episodes, so be patient and enjoy the story development of characters and interactions between Hashira and regular Corps members (to an extent).

The focus is obviously on Tanjirou and Hashira interactions, but I enjoyed the fact that the members of their own organization took some part and had voiced acting, and relationship development with the main characters, that they are not some placeholders or background characters, but supporting characters, and they are not just the meat for the grinder.

We are yet to see how ... it will play out later in the movies, but the relationship they developed here and introduced other Hashira (to an extent) was great to see, and it probably required a whole season to be spent on that, there was no other way around, only if you are okey with other Hashira to be skipped without knowing who they actually are, like it was from the start of the show.

It would've been great the way I imagined the show, that each season includes 1-2 Hashira that Tanjirou is with, like previous seasons, so we get to meet and create emotional attachment to them, since a full season with them has enough time to have their backgrounds told, and show their potential on the battlefield. But not this time, this was a rushed through, but not skipped through, season, so we got to see every Hashira and some insight into their pasts... again, to an extent, because some were very short, some didn't had any past shown, and some had quite in depth past shown, telling us who are they, where they are coming from, and how they got here.

We get to see Gyoumei's and Giyuu's pasts as the highlight of the season. We learned what Genya and Sanemi have in common, and what different. Genya has become much closer to Tanjirou as well since the previous time they were together.
The rest of Hashira's are still unknown in past, they haven't been shown that well, just that they are, they exist, and that Tanjirou had a training with them. We only learn the way of their thinking, but not from where they are coming from, what it takes to get their respect, and how they got where they are.

Some training montage episodes are great, some are just a drag, but it compensates with comedy and humor if it's not some awesome training montage like the episode with the boulder pushing and standing under waterfall.
Last episode, while being cool, half of it is bunch of slow motion Muzan walking, but half of it was very thrilling experience on how they tricked Muzan with actually very impressive CGI explosion of a high quality that I haven't seen in Anime's, just in CGI animated movies like Final Fantasy or Resident Evil.

If I made a comedy about it, then it would be that every breath is animated in a slow motion from multiple angles in special effects, every step as well, but that's already done here, just to drag the episode longer and make it seem special, that's how the last episode was at the beginning, and end. The middle part was fine and action moved, but start and end was taking its time way too much with useless scenes that could've been cut in half. Of course we get to see by few minutes longer anime, but if it's with pointless scenes that have nothing but clearly wastes time, then I am fine with having a shorter episode. They did it like you would do when writing an essay, where you have to figure out how to add those extra words for the required word count.

Talking part is fine, at least some information is being conveyed, I am not against it that much, I am a very patient person, and I understand why they do it, but having scenes where someone just walks for minutes, having no conversation, or any useful information provided, it's a waste of resource and time.

Mod Edit: This review was originally written for the final 4 episodes which was previously a separate entry and was subsequently merged into Satsuriku no Tenshi.

I'll keep it short.
I was intrigued with the written genres, poster/cover, and somewhat by the trailer as well, but it ended up somewhat different than what I thought or imagined it to be. I wont write what I imagined, since I am unsure of how to write it.

It didn't disappointed me, it was just different, something new to me, almost everything was new to me, the story, the idea of it all...but characters were typical Japanese manufactured cliches, just annoyingly ... exaggerated, which is pretty cliche thing as well. Characters kind of annoyed me, mostly with exaggerated emotions, the cliche mad/psychopathic laughing that could've been done better, both visually and voice acting. Voice acting in those parts were weirdly unwanted, unprofessional or something, or just over the top, repetitive laughing pattern.

Main character - Rachel, is pretty much your annoying lolita, stupid questions, stupidly worrying and constantly repeating about their promise with Zack, it's way too much repeated imo. Zack's mentality had quite a shield to survive her annoying worrying about the promise and death, since he needed her to survive the building, otherwise he would've killer her before...sadly it somehow didn't ended up being annoying to Zack, since he somehow got accustomed to it(?), because he didn't showed that he was annoyed by her near the end, only at start and middle of the story when he constantly had to remind her that he will indeed kill her and that her questioning and worrying was bothering him to some extent.

Danny was annoying too, his cliche Japanese-Mad-Man-Antagonist self is nothing new, overly saturated with it, and the laughing was just as well annoying as the other woman character in the anime, whose laughing was annoying.

Priest and Zack were the only two I enjoyed and liked in the anime, everyone else was just annoying and cliche as hell. Anime it self was decent, since it was something new to me, the whole idea of it.