Prepare yourself for an electrifying ride into the animated universe! From the heart-wrenching beginnings of Tanjiro and Nezuko in Demon Slayer to the thrilling adventures of One Piece, we've got you covered. My co-host Tiffany and I, take you on an engrossing journey through the world of anime, discussing our gaming experiences with Overwatch and Pokemon Unite, and geeking out over the new Ahsoka series.
We promise you a deep dive into the unique elements that make Demon Slayer one of the most captivating anime series today. Let us discuss Tanjiro's dedicated journey to becoming a demon slayer and his sister Nezuko's transformation, among other fascinating story arcs and character development. Get ready to laugh, cry, and gasp as we talk about our favorite characters, their incredible growth throughout the series, and some heart-stopping plot twists that left us awestruck.
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Prepare yourself for an electrifying ride into the animated universe! From the heart-wrenching beginnings of Tanjiro and Nezuko in Demon Slayer to the thrilling adventures of One Piece, we've got you covered. My co-host Tiffany and I, take you on an engrossing journey through the world of anime, discussing our gaming experiences with Overwatch and Pokemon Unite, and geeking out over the new Ahsoka series.
We promise you a deep dive into the unique elements that make Demon Slayer one of the most captivating anime series today. Let us discuss Tanjiro's dedicated journey to becoming a demon slayer and his sister Nezuko's transformation, among other fascinating story arcs and character development. Get ready to laugh, cry, and gasp as we talk about our favorite characters, their incredible growth throughout the series, and some heart-stopping plot twists that left us awestruck.
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Welcome to episode 63 of Project Geekology. I am one of your hosts and joining me again is Tiffany.
Speaker 2:Hello, hello.
Speaker 1:Hey, tiffany, thank you for joining me again, and this week we're going to be talking about Demon Slayer.
Speaker 2:Yay, our favorite, super excited.
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely One of my favorites right now. I've been telling you all that I've been wanting to bring in more anime and here we go, and within the past handful of episodes you're getting two anime podcast episodes. But before that we're going to talk a little bit about what we've been up to. I've been watching a bunch of anime. I've been watching some Demon Slayer preparing for this A lot of one piece and I've also been watching Ahsoka. I've been really enjoying Ahsoka. I know some people are kind of eh on it, but I really enjoy it because I watch all the animated series Rebels and Clone Wars. So I kind of grew up with this character a little bit. What about you? Do you enjoy Ahsoka? How do you feel?
Speaker 2:Yes, papa, and I. Papa, the one that I live with. He's my grandfather. He's a big Star Wars fan so he's been very much looking forward to this after she debuted live action in Mandalorian, so he's been very excited catching up with these week to week. He was also very excited since we met Ashley Eckstein, the voice actors for Ahsoka in the animated series, so he's been very excited to be catching up every week with her.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Yeah, I've been really enjoying that and the live action iteration of these Rebels characters. I want to make an Ahsoka episode. This show is definitely a part of something bigger. I know that a lot of people are talking about it essentially being the Disney TV show version of the book Air to the Empire.
Speaker 1:And that's where, like Thrawn and some of these characters come out of. Well, mostly, I think mostly Thrawn, because some of these other characters weren't created until after the fact. But it's really cool to see the influence of that book and so I've been enjoying that and I always like find time to get a little bit of overwatch in. I know Tiffany's always on overwatch. She loves her overwatch.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I actually got back into? Pokemon Unite. I don't know if you played that at all, but I actually recently just got back into it and I've been playing like every day.
Speaker 1:It's been a while since I played Pokemon Unite, so I know that when I recorded the Monster Hunter episode with my friend Ivan, I was playing via VPN the Monster Hunter now, which is like the Pokemon Go version of Monster Hunter, but so I've been playing that. That's really the mobile game that I've been playing the most, but it's been a while since I played Pokemon Unite. I want to have I'm pretty sure they've added tons of them.
Speaker 2:Oh my God. Yes, I just got back into it last week and I was like overwatch. I just went back to the old character I was playing. I'm like I'm not touching these new characters. It's been fun though.
Speaker 1:I know it's insane where Pokemon is. I think back in the earlier days and then like what they look like now and some of them were just like completely insane looking. I'm like oh my gosh, like what is going on. They ran out of all the real life animals.
Speaker 2:Inspiration.
Speaker 1:I guess. So now they're just like making just all of these.
Speaker 2:I mean, they have a garbage Pokemon. Right, there's like a garbage Pokemon.
Speaker 1:They have the one, that, and then there's like Pokemon that you don't know what they look like, like Mimikyu.
Speaker 2:Yes, I like Mimikyu though he's cute, mimikyu, he just wants to be Pikachu. He just wants to be Pikachu, that's all he wants to be loved by Pikachu. I was like that is so sad, I know.
Speaker 1:And then like, even like the OG, like Cubone we don't know what Cubone looks like, so that's really like a lot that I've been up to a lot of just watching, watching Ahsoka, getting my gaming in. I mean, I've been working on my web development course. That's been something I've been working on for a while. What about you, tippi? I know that you've been watching Ahsoka. You've been playing Pokemon United.
Speaker 2:The live action one piece, yes.
Speaker 1:The live action one piece.
Speaker 2:So good, it was so good.
Speaker 1:It was. I was actually so blown away how well that was made and I think it did. It covered pretty much the entire span of the East Blue saga. So I'm interested to see how they're going to go about this next time, because there's a lot of interesting characters that they have to come out with. You know, captain Smoker.
Speaker 2:I'm excited to see how they're going to do Chopper too.
Speaker 1:Chopper. Yes, Did you see that Jamie Lee Curtis wants to be Korea?
Speaker 2:That would be so good. I would love, I would fully support that I could see it.
Speaker 1:Like I could see her being that character. She'd have that snap that came out the personality yeah. I was so excited. I'm glad that I had the basis of, like I had watched the anime so I knew kind of what to expect. But they had their own realization of it. But also it was backed by Oda. So I think, that that's helped it out a lot. I feel like the Cowboy Bebop live action would have been a lot more successful if the creator was backed by it, I agree.
Speaker 1:Because I feel like the parts were there, it's just something was missing. Yeah, besides from live action, one piece, anything else going on?
Speaker 2:Catching up on Jujutsu Kaisen. That's been crazy If you haven't caught up already.
Speaker 1:I need to. I really need to.
Speaker 2:It's been crazy. And also things going on in the manga right now are like insane too. It's like equal on both sides. I'm not. Oh my God. What is this other one I'm watching? I think I was telling you about it last time. It's the jobless reincarnation. It's like Michiko Tensei, I think it's called in Japanese. It's so good.
Speaker 1:I know what you're talking about. You've seen it.
Speaker 2:It's on the second season now, so definitely it's a good watch. Like you have a good amount to go in.
Speaker 1:So the last time and I've talked about this a couple of times on the podcast since but my friend Ivan, he recommended a movie to me that I watched. It's called, was it?
Speaker 2:It's an anime movie. Yeah, it's an anime movie.
Speaker 1:It was a silent voice.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that is so sad. That movie is like so sad.
Speaker 1:I know that you being like a big anime fan, I was like I have to like bring up that. I saw that and I said it on here. Like that movie like made me cry. I know you have no heart if you don't cry it just oh my gosh, like just so much that was happening and there was a lot of relatability that was going on in there, the end scene, with all the X's when they fall off.
Speaker 2:Like all the people, I'm like this guy, like, oh my God, like it's so sad I know.
Speaker 1:It was like a bittersweet ending kind of. I had to bring that up. That movie like blew me away kind of in the same way that well different, but it made an impact on me, kind of like the way that you were named it.
Speaker 2:Oh, your name is amazing.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, it blew me away so much that, like we made an episode about it, like a couple of years ago, I want to make an episode on that one. The silent voice.
Speaker 2:Oh, you have to. That one is so good.
Speaker 1:I think we've been talking enough. I think that I think it's time for us to get into the topic of this episode, which is Demon Slayer. So I know that you've watched the anime, but have you read the manga?
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, it's completed already. I finished it, I think, last year at some point, and it completely blew me away. It's one of my favorite series of all time, oh my goodness, so it must not be like super long then. No, I think they only have a few like chapters left to go. They're already like more than halfway through.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness the NEMMMM.
Speaker 2:They're probably going to do like I would hope they would do it in movies. I don't think they would like draw it out any longer than it needs to be, but it's probably at least halfway done, oh my goodness, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a lot that happened in this last season. So in the first season of Demon Slayer, I really felt that the first half was so much different than the rest of the series. Like there was this it kind of felt a little bit like horror in a way, whereas like the rest of the series it can be dark but it lightens up a lot more. But you know, the first season, this is where we get our main characters. You get Tandro and Nezuko. And Tandro, his family gets killed by demons but his sister gets transformed.
Speaker 1:Nezuko, and that like beginning is pretty tragic and so like kind of it's hard to watch because this character's whole family is gone and his sister is pretty much gone, until there's like some recognition. She like kind of recognizes him, which gets her to stop trying to eat him, and I was okay, this is cool. And then he has this whole resolve to like help turn her back. And so I thought that that resolve was about to change at the end of season three. You know, we're like we're gonna probably kind of jump back and forth. We'll talk about season three a little bit more in depth. But you know, nezuko looks like she's gonna die, and yeah it's. I'm like, oh my gosh, like wildest, because they've dragged it out so much like the whole scene.
Speaker 2:That scene was amazing.
Speaker 1:That scene was amazing and I'm like and so like. While he has all this stuff going in his mind, there's a lot of stuff going in my mind. I'm like, oh my gosh. I was like there's no way that this is going to happen.
Speaker 2:What is he going to do now?
Speaker 1:Like, is he going to be a demon seir Like? The whole reason why he became a demon seir was because you know he wanted to find a way to help turn his sister back, and so, yeah, we get to Tandro. He learns how to become a swordsman in that first season and I really like that first coat that he has you know, oh, the blue, yeah, that one's cool. And his teacher.
Speaker 2:I don't know how to pronounce it correctly. It's like Urodaki, something like that. He's like the first teacher of the water breathing style.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, the entirety of the first season. After he learns this, that's what he's using.
Speaker 1:He's using his the water breathing style. I really liked the part where he eventually goes to become a demon slayer. They go through that like trial and you get to the forest and there's like the spiders, and that was. That was pretty much like your first real taste of how the setup of the show is Like. There's something that's going on in the beginning and then there's like the big bad that has to get cut down, which a lot of the times it's a handful of like really really strong demons. That first season, like it really blew me away. And then we get to the like train arc you know the and so that first season you get the two hashira that you meet which are like these high level Demon slayers. The hashira that you meet is shinobu and well, you meet all of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and the in the first arc, though they only deal with, like you and shinobu, those are like the first two.
Speaker 1:Those are, those are the first two that are on the mission in that first arc, that second arc where you get to the Mugen or mute, is it?
Speaker 2:moving. I think it's moving. Oh my, I keep always flip-flop.
Speaker 1:It's okay, mugen but I feel like that's where you get one of the best hashira.
Speaker 2:Run, goku run.
Speaker 1:Goku. He's just really, really cool. There's something about him that reminds me of Like even it's like personality. I don't know if he do. You know what is it? Is it Rico?
Speaker 2:I have no idea. I'd be lying to you if I knew but he reminds me a little bit of. It's like, yes, it's like he's so proud and like joyful, and like you just want to be around him, like, and he's just like big brother energy, you know.
Speaker 1:When you get to kind of understand his background and how he wants to like make his father proud and how he never got to really like see that. But Tanjiro got to see what his like father really thought about. Ragu's father really thought about him and I feel like that arc was probably. It's it's hard, it's like up there, that arc is because of Run Goku and the demon at the bottom.
Speaker 2:I think that movie broke like box office records or something. As far as like anime movies go. It was like the number one anime movie like beat spirited away or something like that.
Speaker 1:I mean, come on, yeah, it was so good and I even I've gone to like the my hero movies I mean, which I enjoyed a lot, but that one just was it's so cinematic. Yes, but there was just so much like emotion and impact behind it. I love that anime is really building up characters now. They're giving these characters qualities that I guess make it easier to not exactly identify with them, but when something happens to them you feel the emotion behind it and it's not just the main character anymore.
Speaker 2:It's like we have multiple characters that we can like kind of see ourselves in, if you don't see yourself with the main character. You have other and demons. There is really good about that. There's so many characters that they introduce like season to season that you're like, wow, if one character didn't get you to keep watching it, then next season another character might, so there's always someone new too.
Speaker 1:So what were your thoughts about, like this first season and it's arcs as opposed to the rest of the series, like, do you agree that it feel at least the beginning feels a lot?
Speaker 2:different. So prior to Watching it I had never heard of demon slayer. I went into it as like a new fan. I had kept hearing like all the hype behind it and I think I started it at like episode three or four Because everyone on social media was going crazy about it, saying the animation style was so good, the music was good, the voice acting, everything was good. So I started watching it and I think it was actually like around what you were saying earlier, the fight with the spider family.
Speaker 2:It was like that whole scene where you know Tanjiro's fighting with Nezuko and like they're combining their powers and like they end up Beheading the little spider demon. That whole scene was like absolutely breathtaking to me. I can't even remember what episode it was, but it was towards the end and it like sold the season for me. I was like this is gonna be one of the best anime I've probably ever seen. And that's when I picked up the manga and I do agree, though like the first season was really slow, because I think it's kind of showing he's not like every other shonen character where they're like born with great powers or anything like that he never even knew demons really existed until that night where the demons like murdered his family. You know, like they always knew about them, but I don't think he really knew the extent of like what was to come.
Speaker 1:So right, like the real danger behind it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I would agree, because you have a character that's kind of like Midoriya and my hero, where he starts off with no powers but then he gets this amazing power right away. Even though he doesn't know how to use it. He has this amazing power and now he's kind of out in front of like all these people, whereas Tanjiro he's really kind of like building his way up. Sure, people know him, but mostly because he's the guy with the demon sister that you know.
Speaker 2:And also to like my hero, like at least in the beginning, like and I love my hero too, but like in the beginning there's not really like a real threat, like right in the beginning. Right, it's more just like that happened to be his dream. So, you know, I just kind of coincided with what he wanted. Tanjiro never wanted to be a demon slayer, he just happened to, you know, make that choice along the way so he could help protect his sister and honor his family.
Speaker 2:And I think that a lot of people can kind of relate to that because there's a deep like, almost like sympathy that you feel for him, like you want to see him. Like almost like honor his family, like he's like always thinking about his mom and his siblings and even his dad. Like that spider fight he's thinking of, like the breathing style that the dad showed the dance. It's like so beautiful the way they do it. And especially like someone that has had family members past, like I do definitely like see a lot of myself in Tanjiro words like you always are thinking about those family members and like how they help you do more in the Current world. You know if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I totally agree. He makes that choice because he's like I want to do what I can to help Nezuko, to help turn her back. Being a demon slayer was just not his dream. Yeah, he was honestly cool with what he was.
Speaker 2:I know they were just like little coal miners, like whatever he was doing. I was like he's so cute, just helping his family, like they were cute.
Speaker 1:I do believe that the further you get into the series you find out that he's almost kind of destined to be able to do a lot of this stuff and this most recent season really does a lot for Tanjiro, because in these first couple seasons this man is just getting carried, and so we have these other characters we talked about. We've talked a little bit about Nezuko and Tanjiro. I mean, there's a lot to talk about them.
Speaker 1:Their brother and sister. They have that dynamic he becomes a demon slayer because he wants to save his sister. But then we also have Zenitsu and Inosuke which they kind of form a little bit of a team, and they're absolutely just hilarious characters in those case. Just like that very you know he's ready for a fight, like he's ready for brute force.
Speaker 2:There's no thoughts behind his eyes, it's just like it runs into the fucking seriously.
Speaker 1:Zenitsu doesn't want anything to do with it, unless he's sleeping. One of the moments that made me laugh the most and it was in the second season, one of the funniest things that like Inosuke said to Zenitsu. After he's seen Zenitsu like sleeping and doing all this crazy stuff, he's like why aren't you asleep all the time. It's so true You're not lying, but that was really cool, like where you meet them, that house.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the with the drum Demon with a drum.
Speaker 1:That, like when he hits a drum, it shifted the house, like when he would hit the drum after. That was like insane and I think that was like your first, like Strong demon and they had it like kind of and that's what.
Speaker 2:That's something that's like really cool about the series too. It's like you're like, wow, how are they gonna top the next demon, you know, and then the next demon has like an even crazier ability. It's like, oh, you thought that was it. And it's like psych, like I also have this, and they're like what it's like.
Speaker 1:Oh, my god, seriously, and I mean that's always like the one thing, especially about shonen.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm is that you're gonna have your main characters. They're gonna have this main villain that they have to overcome. How are they gonna beat them? They always find a way to beat them. But some anime have some steak, you know, behind it and that's what you get. With like Rengoku and the Mugen train arc, he gets killed by the demon in in the course of that arc. It goes from you not really knowing much about this character to like absolutely just like man. This guy's awesome.
Speaker 2:So when he dies, like yeah, he could have like taught them so much too. It's like, yeah, he could he could have been the mentor and that's probably why they're like.
Speaker 2:And I think it's really sweet too because like at least in like each of the seasons, like after he's passed away, like they always see him at some point in the season, like when they're in the second season, the entertainment arc, they kind of see like Usui as the Rengoku of the season. They're like he's with us, he's with us and I I can't remember what season it is, but they're be heading one of like the main demons and I remember Tundra has like Rengoku's like the sword piece now and you actually kind of see like as if Rengoku's like helping them behead the demon.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I can't remember exactly which demon it was for, but I remember it's the hilt he has, like the sword hilt or something.
Speaker 1:I thought that was amazing. He has like that much respect for him.
Speaker 2:He's like yeah, I.
Speaker 1:Want this to be a part of that's my boy Right and honestly it makes sense. So for a lot of like the earlier season, like I would say the first season, and maybe halfway through the second season, tendra was using water breathing. Then he remembers this like really old, like style that it's a sun breathing. Sun, breathing that, but it was like, wasn't it like a dance, that his dad yeah, but it was.
Speaker 2:That was the thing. It's like he was so young he didn't even realize like that was like a breathing technique.
Speaker 1:He just thought it was like some dance or something you know. I love the actual, so it's called sun breathing. But I love the actual Japanese.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's like, isn't it like Hinokami Kagura?
Speaker 1:or something, something like that. It sounds amazing when he says it. And like when he says it when he attacks, I'm like that just sounds amazing.
Speaker 2:It's like every time, it's like oh my god.
Speaker 1:But it's so cool, but it makes sense that he has Rengoku's health.
Speaker 2:Even though Rengoku use flame breathing.
Speaker 1:There's similarities, like some breathing looks like a fire based attack, but it's like an old, ancient breathing technique that a lot of people just don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and even I remember like that one scene where he goes to talk to Rengoku's dad Like, oh, if you know anything about like this technique, like you know, please let me know. And like even the dad is like I don't know anything about this, you know, like this is like ancient. I have no idea what this even is.
Speaker 1:So the first season ends off really strong, that entertainment arc, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's one of the best arcs in my opinion.
Speaker 1:I loved that arc and you get Tengen, which is another Hashira, and at first you're thinking that he's, he's kind of a butt head. He's a little bit of a douche, you know, and you're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Like they're gonna have to deal with him.
Speaker 1:It's like not this guy like he, this guy who's full of himself three wives oh. Zenitsu's reaction to that. Mm-hmm, I was like you have three wives and they're all beautiful and that was him the whole time. Like he's just like, yeah, how Like cuz. He's like obsessed with Nezuko. But the further you get to the season you're like you know what this guy's like awesome.
Speaker 2:I remember that one scene where he's like I can see it, I can see the notes, like the symphony, and he's like just slicing away. And he's like, oh my god, this guy's like reading my movements and I think he only has one arm. At that point too, he's just like slicing away with the side, like it's like crazy.
Speaker 1:When I started liking him. I was like I'm gonna hate this season If they kill him. Like her and Goku, I was like, are they gonna kill this man? They're gonna make him. It's like it's gonna be the good old. He starts off rude and then he ends up becoming a beloved character, just for y'all to take.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I was a butt head, guys. I know.
Speaker 1:Yet he went from like being like that to kind of actually believing in them and yeah, like I said, just like the first season and the second season, tanger O gets very heavily carried by Tengen.
Speaker 2:Even Zenitsu and Inosuke were like, yeah, inosuke, about one scene where they're trying to slice like doggies head off and he does that breathing technique where he's just like, ahhhh, like scissoring the.
Speaker 1:do you remember that? He's just like, I'm like this? Yeah, I was like this is disturbing.
Speaker 2:Hey, ahhhh, it's like what the heck? That was like the best scene. Beast breathing yeah, it's like self taught. He always says it before him. He's like self taught Beast breathing yeah, sorry to get this.
Speaker 1:What were your thoughts when he took off his boar head and like he's like gorgeous.
Speaker 2:It's like this. It makes sense. I could see them. They always do that in anime, where it's like they have a mask on. It's like a kakashi. Why does kakashi have his whole face covered? You already know he's gonna be hot. Like they always do that. He's like shy With a gojo, with the. Yeah, it's always like the covered up face. I thought that they like so beautiful. I never remember that one scene in the entertainment district where they're dressed up as like women and they're all ugly except for Inosuke and they're like whoever did her makeup did such a bad job. Like she's so naturally beautiful and they just leave her without the makeup because that's all beautiful Inosuke. That was hilarious. I loved that scene. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:That. I thought that that was hilarious. When they all dressed up as women too, they were in those.
Speaker 2:They're trying to like infiltrate because they keep hearing. Oh my god, I can't think of that because it's not gay shots, it's like the performers right, they're trying to like infiltrate the houses because they like go to people's houses and perform. I think it's like Oiron or something like I can't remember the name.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, yes, and they believe that one of them was a demon. Yeah, which they weren't wrong. Yes, I mean I be, but there's a lot of growth in the second season. Tanjiro he starts to use the sun breathing. But he his body is not used to it yet and it raises his temperature, and so I think he kind of goes between Water breathing and sun breathing to like kind of cool him off and yeah like he was just like super injured he yeah, this like fingers broken.
Speaker 1:Remember that like one point is like two fingers broken and in Nezuko she's always kind of fought, but she got stronger. She had her own like blood, demon art and it's like this, really crazy, like fire, that she used it in the first season, but now it's like next level. She's got like this horn, popping out this pattern on her skin, and by the end of that season you have this amazing, amazing city that they're in there's.
Speaker 1:It's a booming it's yet like it's entertainment district. Right by the end of that season the thing looks like it got new mm-hmm like it was leveled seriously. It looked like ground zero for.
Speaker 2:I also think that that's cool, though, that they kind of consider those details too, because I feel like in other anime, just be like yeah, like nothing happened to the city, you know, it's like no, they actually take into consideration like every little detail.
Speaker 1:It's like insane that city was leveled Mm-hmm by the end of it. You said that this was one of your favorite arcs. What about it? Did you like that made it your favorite.
Speaker 2:I think it's like the perfect combination of like you have laughs, you have sad moments, you have moments of just like pure hype. It's like everything in one season, just like all in what. It was only like eight or a few episodes, I think it was like ten episodes or something like that. It was like all over before you knew it and you're like wait, I want more. Like what happened? It's crazy. And then we have to wait for this current arc that we're on now. That just finished, but I just remember the whole fight. So it was just like back to back to back, just pure hype. But in between it's like you have these moments where you're like oh my god, I hope they're okay. Or like you're laughing, it was just perfect.
Speaker 1:I agree, I I think one of my favorite things is obviously the character growth mm-hmm. I feel like the identity of the show was truly Established in this season. Not saying that the first season didn't, but you know how it is the first season of any show. It has to establish the character base. You're getting more character development than anything. I think so so Usually like in a second or third season, if done properly, that's where you're gonna see the true identity of the show and that's where I feel like from Mugen train and on, that's where, like, I feel like the artwork just really Just things got so vibrant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it's the same Animation studio that does like the fate series. So, like you can just imagine, it's like those fight scenes are like insane.
Speaker 1:So that I didn't know. But it makes sense because, thinking back on the fate series, there's a lot of similarities with art style and fighting, and.
Speaker 2:Well, they do like, if this makes sense, like I know they do a lot of like 3d animation, but like it's so seamless you wouldn't even know like that's how they're able to do like most of those fight scenes. It's like crazy.
Speaker 1:So I've been wanting to read, like more manga. I, I want to pick this one up.
Speaker 2:Demon Slayer is a good one to go with because it's not that long. It's like very.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, if you say that we're about halfway through the anime, yeah, we're almost done.
Speaker 2:I mean, they just killed what the? I think it was like the third and fifth upper moon, so they only have like the upper three now and then Muzon. You know those are the only ones now or less. So it's like more than halfway over.
Speaker 1:What are your thoughts on Muzon's looks? Oh, the Michael Jackson who was the first.
Speaker 2:Everybody said that they did him dirty by putting him in that outfit. I'm like oh, come on, she must have known. Like I know the author is obviously Japanese, but it's like who doesn't know what Michael Jackson looks like Like? What are you doing?
Speaker 1:Like they literally put him in like a fedora. The smooth criminal. Yeah, it was like it was white. I was like that's from. I was like that's smooth criminal.
Speaker 2:It's like surgery.
Speaker 1:They made him look like him too. I said y'all are wrong for me.
Speaker 2:This guy looked like Michael Jackson. I'm supposed to be afraid of him Like what.
Speaker 1:I know. Yeah, seriously, like he's not, like he looks like a right up person. I mean he's got a whole family.
Speaker 2:I noticed too, and, like the newer seasons too, they stopped putting him in that outfit, like they, I think, in the newer album they had him in like a normal long sleeve shirt. I'm like, hmm, where'd the hat go?
Speaker 1:Let's be real. Everybody's trying to like hey, what's this Michael Jackson guy? They're like oh no, it's an abort, we've got to change.
Speaker 2:Even his voice too. They got like a voice actor that sounds like almost like his soka. So it's like it, just sounds like it. It's like oh God.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. So that that moves on was like going to start breaking out the song you know, start dancing. Oh my God, it wasn't at first season, obviously, where Tanjiro meets him gonna crowd.
Speaker 2:And he's like I'm coming after him. He has like a whole daughter and wife and everything. It's like what the hell, like what are you doing?
Speaker 1:But there's gonna be a bunch of like minor stuff that we miss. But a fight that I did like was the one with the soccer balls.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, I actually liked the other demon too that had like the aero power where, like it would like wrap around you and you had to like go in the direction, otherwise your limb would get like twisted in that direction. That was crazy too.
Speaker 1:You remember that one?
Speaker 2:Yes, the soccer ball fight with Mexico and the demon. It's like sorry, they're just playing like soccer, essentially.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I remember about that fight is the soccer balls, Just like doot doot Like a tennis match with demons, I know, and as opposed to just like kicking it back. So we talked about the second season. You get Tengen there's a lot of character growth and you get upper ring demons getting killed in the first season, now in the second season. But this was like a combo, it was a brother and sister.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:Which was also like a cool twist too, because you think at first they're just fighting the sister, and then, when they behead her that's when the brother comes on it's like, oh my God, here we go. So now they're fighting like two demons at the same time, and they had to behead them at the same time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was crazy. I like that thread thing that Tanjo does. He's like I see the thread and then it's like straight for the neck that it's always so cool. And so season three. How'd you feel about season three?
Speaker 2:I okay. So now that I've caught up on the manga, I've finished the whole series. I was looking forward to season three. But it makes me really sad because one of my favorite hushiers is Morichiro Tokito. He's the younger boy with the blue hair. He's one of my favorites and I knew they were gonna have to do the backstory. I knew it was coming and I still cried. Like his backstory just kills me every time, like I don't know what it is about him. Like it just makes me so sad, like because he almost has like a very similar story to Tanjo, where, like his whole family was killed in front of him, including his own twin brother. And he's actually one of the stronger hushiers and he's the youngest hushier. He's only like I think he's Nesuko's age, if not younger than Nesuko.
Speaker 1:he's like 14 or something. He's super young and yeah, that backstory was sad.
Speaker 2:I cried.
Speaker 1:Especially because, like he was between him and his twin brother, His twin brother was literally how he is and like before his family got killed, or like I mean it was his mother that I guess she got attacked by a demon and she got turned and then the mother ended up killing the brother. It's Wait, am I the?
Speaker 2:one. Who's the brother? Yeah, no, she kills all his siblings, and then it's him and the twin brother, and the twin brother they end up getting attacked by another demon, and they're just like living their lives in the woods, you know, living peacefully, just content.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was sad because, yeah, he was like the hopeful one, but his brother was kind of like antagonistic one, like you know?
Speaker 2:Well, he was always like stronger than him and Grow up bro. Yeah, it's like so sad. Obviously, oh my god, what is her name? Mitsuri's is also like sad too, but it's like I don't know. There's like something about Tokito's story that I like resonate with. It, Like just makes me so sad. Having to like watch it animated too. I was like, oh god, I knew it was coming too.
Speaker 1:I love the story behind, like how Mitsuri got her hair color Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Like eating, although little, sakura mochi things.
Speaker 1:She's eating so many of them and she's just like she had this insatiable hunger.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's like the strongest in the village. She has like the biggest appetite. Like she. I think she could like lift also a lot, even though she was like just a child, like something like that. I think they did like arm wrestling or something and she could be like everyone oh yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1:It was like something like that, and so her family was kind of trying to Like.
Speaker 2:You can't behave like that. Yeah, you can't be like that.
Speaker 1:If you want to be married like, you need to behave like a woman, like with like Right and then you had like that whole scene where like the guy's like yeah, I'm not gonna marry you, it's like damn. But when it happened I was like was she too good for you? Anyway, I know, I was like she could whoop you. Mm-hmm, she probably could, honestly.
Speaker 1:I liked so for the most part of the series, like everybody's swords have just been, like you know, regular swords, but like Mitsuri's is like really, it's a ribbon. So the thing that I really liked about that season, and like Mitsuri, was that she had her sword like that ribbon sword, the fact that it was able to flow and flex and bend, but yet it was still as strong as any other sword.
Speaker 2:And the way she like sheets it back into, like that one, I think that like uncrediting, where they're like do it again, like put it back in, and it's like kind of flows back into a towel, it's like so ridiculous the demon and this one was like insane. Crazy.
Speaker 1:You had two demons, though the one that was in the pot and then the one that had the different aspects.
Speaker 2:If you like, cut off his head like another one would come out and, and, then they could all combine into one powerful demon. Towards the end they combine into that big one that has, like, all the drums on him.
Speaker 1:Was it me, or did the drums remind you of kind of like Enoru? Enoru had like that same thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's based off like some kind of like Japanese god. I just don't know the name of it.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, like I remember saying that demon, I'm like.
Speaker 2:Like that looks familiar.
Speaker 1:Like I was like, not Enoru, just like speaking into the demons Like I really liked the swordsmith arc.
Speaker 2:You got to see where all the swordsmiths were and we got to see more of like Tanjiro's like sword maker, because they've always shown him but like we haven't actually like seen what he's capable of. And then remember, when he gets his mask, like tore it off and he's still like fixing the sword.
Speaker 1:He's like just so focused they get that old sword that was inside of that like mech.
Speaker 2:It's like a training robot.
Speaker 1:Right, that was the name of the kid, that it was his family's name. He wanted to keep it going and Tanjiro broke it, but that's where they found the sword in there, and then, yeah, he was just honing it. There's just so much going on, he's just super eccentric. This the swordsmith, like none of the other swordsmiths are like that, but he's just like. So I'm like, oh my gosh, this guy is crazy.
Speaker 1:So you get to the point where that one demon, all the aspects of them, it's like like sorrow and anger and pain and all that stuff and but it's still like the little tiny guy that like was the main demon, like how crazy was that. Like I don't, like he had like such a strong neck.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the thing too, I guess, like the older they are, it's like it's just more hard to like get to kill them. You know, because even with like Daki and her brother oh my God, I can't think of his name right now Like even with them, they had trouble, like just in one go trying to slice the neck off, you know right, and he thought that the same thing was going to apply, but in the end it didn't.
Speaker 1:But oh, another person that we didn't talk about is Genya.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, genya, genya, the one with the gun right yeah he's amazing. He's actually one of my favorite characters.
Speaker 1:Yes, so Genya? Yeah, so I'm guessing he has demon powers.
Speaker 2:Well, he has like this I don't even know what you would call it. It's like this ability where he can consume like demon flesh and for like short periods of time he can like gain the strength of demons. And he can also gain like the ability where he can like regenerate. But you know, it just depends on, like you know, what demon he's consuming. In the case of this last season, he consumed like an upper moons blood, so he was as strong as he could possibly be, and on top of that, he's also a demon slayer. So it's like you combine the two and like he's pretty up there when it comes to straying.
Speaker 1:Right, he had like a whole, like whole, blown into him. You can see like through him on the other side. So I thought his character was really cool. I thought the incorporation of the gun. I was like, oh man, this is cool.
Speaker 2:He has, like he has a sword and a gun. It's like I come seeing all the memes, like American breathing, like the gun.
Speaker 1:It's like it kind of reminds me of Cal Kestis and Jedi survivor where, like there's a form of of lightsaber, that he has a lightsaber and a blaster.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's a literally like this. It's exactly like that.
Speaker 1:The memes, for that was funny too Like especially with the ones where they make Cal Kestis like a redneck with it. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's no, but it's true. It's like where do they have the technology to have these guns? Like all the other people have swords. Like what?
Speaker 1:the heck Right. Yes, like this man has it, and it's not like a musket style gun either, like he's just like shooting.
Speaker 2:Yes, he has to use the sword to like hold it and shoot it.
Speaker 1:Yes, I thought it was cool.
Speaker 2:He's just like Look at my God.
Speaker 1:I really did enjoy the season and, like the end of it really had that shock factor too, because we're thinking that.
Speaker 1:Nezuko was gonna die because this fight with this demon is it's taken too long. You know, the sun is starting to come out, and so Tendryo had a choice between keeping Nezuko covered because the sun had come out, or protecting these swordsmiths that were being attacked by that demon, because he had, like, an outer shell that was being burned away, but he was still being protected, but he could still kill these swordsmiths, and so he's just like, very like, torn, and then Nezuko kicks him off and like it's in that moment where they prolong that moment, but you're like, oh my gosh, like are they like she's dead.
Speaker 1:She's dead like I was like nothing killing Nezuko. And yeah, like in that whole moment I'm like, oh my gosh, like what's going on? Is she gonna die here? If she dies, then what's Tendryo gonna do, like, is he gonna just stop becoming a demon player or is he gonna just keep it going in the name of Nezuko? And yeah, this is where we find out that Nezuko is the first demon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's the only demon that can actually tolerate being in the sun in that same moment. I guess, like she just kind of like leveled up, but she has the ability to talk to.
Speaker 1:Right right, she like regained her ability to talk, and it's very limited right now, but she was still like being able to kind of communicate and I'm like, oh well, so next season's gonna be a lot different. I'm assuming that when we catch up to them, nezuko is probably gonna be talking a little bit more, and then now they're in the crosshairs of Muzan because now he's like yeah, I want that power and I think his ability to like absorb yeah, he wants.
Speaker 2:He's been looking for a demon specifically with that ability, because that's the only thing stopping him from continuing being like immortal, essentially. And the next seasons. I don't even know if we're gonna see them right away, because the next seasons is gonna be like Inosuke and Zenitsu, because you know how they were in this season and we're gonna be catching up with what they were doing, because they both went on their own like separate missions, right, yeah?
Speaker 1:that was definitely noticeable in this past season was they're not there. And yeah, tendro had to level up in this one and he realized that he said this whole time, you know, everybody has been caring me. I haven't been able to like do much, but now he's going full sun breathing and he was mixing that sun breathing with Nezuko's power and there's a lot of crazy fighting going on and just like the animation, the visuals, the colors, I was just I was really blown away even like the different breathing styles too, because, like Mitsuri has, like her, love breathing and then like Tokyo.
Speaker 2:So has like the mist breathing. It was like really cool. The mist breathing was so cool. I loved how they did that, because it's like how would you even think to like animate that? You know it's like it's mist, like it's like crazy. Even the love breathing too. It was so cute, like how she's just like jumping around like with her little ribbon like a little gymnast fighting those like rock dragon things yeah, that was oh my gosh yeah this but, yeah, the mist breathing.
Speaker 1:I thought that was cool and remember how he gets trapped in that like water the vase yes. I'm glad that he was able to like a knot tie, like I was like yeah, seriously. I was like oh, my gosh like another one dead.
Speaker 2:Like here we go.
Speaker 1:I was like so in that first season you get Rengoku who like completely dies. Second season you get Tengen who almost dies, but it's like severely injured, and then in this one you kind of like everybody kind of goes out like or like they're harmed, but not bad.
Speaker 1:I would say the most harmed one was, uh, tokyo, and that's pretty much like how these three seasons play out. I mean, there's a lot of details here and there that we kind of miss out on. So is there anything in any of these seasons that missed out from the manga that you would construe as like huge? Because you know, obviously there's going to be stuff that's cut out from the manga for the sake of time and to expand other scenes, but sometimes books and anime, they'll cut out stuff that was in the manga that some people would be like, oh, I wish that scene was in there no, I, if anything.
Speaker 2:I think it's actually like quite the opposite. Like I think they take like some manga panels and they're like we're gonna make this like even better than it was in the manga, if that makes sense. Like like the scene that we were talking about earlier with the drum demon in like the first season. If you look at like that manga panel, I remember like that was like the first thing, because I reread it right after I saw the episode. So I'm like looking at this, it's literally just like two panels and it just looks like tundra is like falling around and you're like what is even happening in there? And then you kind of get from his like narrative, like oh, the room is spinning, you know, and then you see how it is in the anime. It becomes like a whole fight scene where he's like rolling around and like the house is like changing and he's like you know, kind of fighting with the floor. It's like insane. And then you go to the manga. It's like a too little image page, you know.
Speaker 1:So, if anything, they kind of make the manga even better, if that makes sense so, pretty much, they took a scene and they were able to elaborate it in a way that, like, made it maybe better. That's good to know. Yeah, because I've had, like you know, too many times where not so much like anime wise. Well, I would have a hard time knowing anime wise if, like, they missed something in the manga because, like, there's a lot of manga I haven't read but, like, as far as you know, books and stuff like harry potter, this- oh yeah and stuff, so, but it's good to know that the anime has stayed pretty much faithful with the manga, and that's the thing that I love about anime.
Speaker 1:Is that a? Lot of anime has done a really good job at pretty much being faithful to the manga.
Speaker 2:I even feel like a lot of the times now too, like they try to be accurate, even with, like the panels, like I always see like jujutsu kaisen or like chainsaw man, where it's like you see the manga and you see the anime and it's like verbatim the exact same, like setup of the panels and everything, and like people actually get upset if it's like not accurate. Like that, I'm like what do you mean? Like sometimes they're making it look even better than it was in the manga.
Speaker 1:You know, sometimes the anime will tune up the artwork of a manga because sometimes, like, the art of a manga and the art of the anime is very similar, but there's some differences yeah like the, the art between, especially like the earlier. I looked at some of the, the earlier manga for one piece and the artwork and the manga is definitely is very close, so very similar to what became in the anime, but like it's still different, like yeah, that series has been going on now for like over a decade.
Speaker 2:You know, obviously the art style is going to change too, so they have to kind of like figure out like how it's going to look now for like modern times, because obviously it looks a lot more different now than it does when we probably started watching it, you know so demon slayer if y'all haven't watched demon slayer, it's definitely worth it.
Speaker 1:It's really cool if you've heard about the hype but you're not too sure because it might be overhyped. It might be overhyped no, the the hype is well placed. I think that's I mean I enjoyed. I think it's got a really cool story and it's got a really good like sibling bond going on in there and friendship too. If you have one last thing that you wanted to let the listeners know, what would it be?
Speaker 2:about demon slayer yes. I think at least give it a chance, like if you haven't already, like you have to give it a chance. It's one of those ones that it's going to be one of the big anime of our generation. Like I definitely I know it's kind of like cliche to say, but like I definitely do think it's like almost like Naruto level, like if not better, like perfecting those mistakes of, like the past shonen, you know yes, it's strong.
Speaker 1:The artwork is great, the story is strong. My last thing would be if you've been looking for like a really good shonen and you haven't stumbled into this, this is the shonen for you if you love shonen. If you're a huge fan of shonen, even like you know people who aren't like a huge fan of shonen could find yeah, a highlight of this. But like this is definitely like a shonen fan wonderland, you know even people who don't like shonen, like I have.
Speaker 2:My sister doesn't even watch anime. This was actually her first anime because she ended up loving the art style so much like the art style is actually what like sucked her in. She thought it was really beautiful, ends up watching it with me now and that's like the only anime she'll watch, aside from, like, maybe, jujutsu Kazun, and that's it yeah, yeah, now you gotta bring her her words yeah, I'm trying, I'm trying you gotta make her into an anime mega fan.
Speaker 1:You gotta bring her out to the, to the conventions.
Speaker 1:Just shield her from the furry yeah, exactly, oh, yeah, yeah thank you for joining us for episode 63 of project geekology now with demon slayer. It's still coming out with episodes, so expect an update in the future. I'm probably gonna do an update on it when the series ends or depending on how long it runs for, but I'll definitely give it another handful seasons and then we'll update you from pretty much the point of the next season that comes out, all the way up until the end if it is the ends. But nevertheless, thank you for joining us and listening to us talk about demon slayer. We know that there is a lot that we probably missed. There's so many intricacies in demon slayer it's. There's so much to talk about. There's all the different Hashira that we really only talked about the ones that were featured in the anime. But there's gonna be tons more that come out in future seasons. We'll talk about them and so stay tuned.
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