The refinement of Demon Slayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3h_S-xRnz4 - 11:04

     The refinement of Demon Slayer offers an example of refinement for the shounen genre of anime

and/or manga and the formula that this genre tends to follow.  For the most part, the video I use in this

reflection focuses on how Demon Slayer refines this formula.  Refinement doesn't mean that it makes

something better, but that it makes something different.  How Demon Slayer does this is seen with its

protagonist, which makes sense since what makes anime and/or manga shounen is its protagonist,

specifically if they are at a certain age (early adolescence: 12 - 18).

     Anyway, the protagonist of Demon Slayer is someone who likes to help people because of who he

is.  He doesn't need to be the best at something in order to do this until he has to train to become a

demon slayer.  Even then though, he doesn't aim to be the best demon slayer, which is what would be

expected of a typical shounen protagonist, but one that is able to slay demons and still be true to

himself, meaning doing so without changing his personality.

     How the training arc is handled in Demon Slayer is another example of how it refines the shounen

formula.  Usually, a training arc in a typical shounen series takes more than one episode, but in the case

of Demon Slayer, this training arc is one episode.  This can either be a good or bad thing depending on

what you like with training arcs, which is seen in the video when this is explained.

     The video also explains how the other examples of refining the shounen formula seen in the series

Demon Slayer are different from what is usually seen in shounen.  If you are looking for something

different in a shounen than what it usually offers, then you will most likely like shounen like Demon

Slayer (at least with what it does so far in its first season).



   


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