2020 · animation · action
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train
Directed by Haruo Sotozaki1h 57m2020
Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!
Our read: Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (2020) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive animation · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme animation / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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