User Reviews

This episode was enjoyable for what it was. Tanjiro tries to stop muichiro tokito from beating up the kid. The kid says he's not giving tokito a key. Tanjiro and him get into confrontation and disagreement then muichiro tokito Takes down tanjiro and leaves with the puppet to train. The kids name is kotetsu and after checking up on him tanjiro tries to talk tokito out of taking the mechanical doll to train but tanjiro gets knocked out. He later wakes up to haganezuka and kotetsu talking before haganezuka takes off. Kotetsu reveals he gave it up to tokito and thanks Tanjiro for standing up for him. He tells tanjiro it's 300 years old and very import to him,it's strong and capable of 108 different moves but it's never been broken before. They leave to find tokito fighting the doll. A weird talking bird approaches them and tells them that tokito in a league above them. They argue and eventually tanjiro tells them that he thinks the doll looks familiar to someone in his dream. The kid tells him about inherited memories which is something that the people talk about in the town. It's a memory that passes down from ancestors. As they continue speaking tokito breaks the doll. Kotetsu runs away, after tanjiro calms him down they go back to the spot where the training was and runs into tokito on the way there. They find the doll slightly broken on the ground. They check to see if it still works and luckily it does. Kotetsu tells tanjiro that he should train with it to become stronger. They begin training. Around day 5 and tanjiro still can't hit the doll, kotetsu said until he defeated the doll no food. After a while of training tanjiro is finally able to read the doll's movement and land a hit in on it. After eating he starts training with it again he cuts it after tokito gives him part and it opens up to reveal a possibly 300 year old sword in its torso. This is where the episode ends. Overall decent episode, it's more of a build episode, showing you the characters and helping the basic plot move along.

We directly pick up from where we left in Episode 1- Someone's Dream.

Proceeding, we are introduced to Yoriichi Type Zero. We are now getting deeper into the Demon Slayer lore with Kotetsu mentioning a swordsman from Sengoku period and the inherited memories. I love how they maintain the mystery around this man and how important he is.

Ufotable perfectly captured movements of a centuries old Mechanical Doll that is on the verge of breaking down and still emphasising on its power that still gives a tough competition to Muichiro- a Hashira.

The episode picks up a comedic tone and knowing what's to come in the upcoming episodes, it was a good episode atmosphere wise.

I live for the dynamic that Kotetsu and Tanjiro have with each other :)