MUGEN BONUS GAMES BREAK THE BOARDS SERIES
It feels unfair to say, but it seems as though the series will remain chasing the soul-stirring heights of its landmark 19th episode, where Nezuko and Tanjiro awaken each other's true powers to stop a powerful demon, to which the film’s narrative recalls in places. Some of the fights still feel wanting, however-not especially for a lack of visual dynamism but for any real emotional involvement. Rengoku and his luscious mane of hair are especially nice to look at, even though it feels like something of a shame that the character doesn’t have much going on beyond that striking appearance. The character drawings themselves are lush, and consistently lovingly detailed, and drawn with bold and chunky but elegant outer lines. Its mix of traditionally drawn 2D characters with fluid 3D environments, and digital compositing makes the action scenes flow like water. For new viewers looking to drop in on the fandom, this may be a little disorientating, but the story isn’t particularly difficult to pick up there are some bad demons on a train, and they need to die.Īs with the series, the action and Ufotable’s animation production are still the selling points here, with a frequently astounding level of detail.
It begins quietly but drops viewers in the thick of it, picking up more or less immediately where the first season of the show left off. Once aboard they rendezvous with Rengoku, an elite warrior known as the Flame Hashira, a man with “gaudy hair” and a persistently boisterous attitude, and team up with him to find and kill the invisible menace.Īn arc of the manga adapted as a feature film instead of a series of episodes, the appeal of Mugen Train is more or less the same as the series with little in the way of added complications or twists on the tried-and-true formula in the lead-up to Season 2 release later this year. Mugen Train fits a small arc of the manga into its two-hour running time: Tanjiro and his comrades Inosuke (a wild boy who wears a boar head) and Zenitsu (a coward), along with Nezuko, embark on a mission to slay the demon Enmu, gifted with an extra dose of powerful blood from the ultimate big bad Muzan Kibutsuji at the very end of Season 1, hiding on the eponymous coal-powered locomotive. The series is an adaptation of the 2016 manga written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotōge, who finished their work on the series in 2019. Set in early 1900s Japan, Tanjiro Kamado joins the mysterious Demon Slayer Corps after his family is slaughtered and his sister Nezuko is turned into a demon herself. (When ambushed for comment, Hayao Miyazaki said, “that's got nothing to do with me… I’m just an old man picking up trash.”) It would be surprising, to say the least, if North American anime fans didn't react in kind upon its theatrical release this weekend, or its VOD drop on June 22.Īs for the story, Demon Slayer is about, in short, a young man who slays man-eating demons.
as the highest-grossing film at the Japanese box office within just six weeks, even earning it a submission to the Oscars.
MUGEN BONUS GAMES BREAK THE BOARDS MOVIE
What also sets this particular movie apart is the multi-record-breaking hype that has preceded the film’s highly anticipated release in the US, having surpassed Spirited Away, Titanic, Frozen, and Your Name. Instead of the usual practice of animated series tie-in movies telling an original story designed to be unobtrusive to the main plot, Mugen Train picks up the story of Demon Slayer directly after the end of the first season, moving its violent, emotional spectacle to the big screen. To get something out of the way: The (lavishly titled) Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train is, essentially, more Demon Slayer.
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