Katanagatari: How to ruin an anime 

i'm fine with dialogue heavy shows, i just didn't think the dialogue was interesting enough to carry, lame fights being at the climax of each episode only furthered how underwhelming the show felt.

Bruh, first time visor here(randomly found this vid,was looking for something else) but dude it's not intended to be another "One Punch Man" or "Kimetsu no Yaiba" it's supposed to be savoured like an old Japanese tale told bit by bit(once every month) by the narrator, capturing certain esstetic and has a specific target audience (which you obviously aren't part of). You're viewing it from a realist (pure plus/cons) perspective. Don't do such reviews my dude.

@@ZangetsugaT1 i didn't think it was going to be another one punch man, hence why i only spent 1:30 minutes talking about fights, and the rest on the pacing and dialogue making the show underwhelming and boring to watch. not exactly sure what i'm supposed to "savour" about the show when i spent 90% of the time staring at the subtitles as some of the most stereotypical dialogue i've ever read flew across the screen. it's fine if you enjoy the dialogue, pacing and characters but don't pretend like i'm reviewing it wrong or expecting some sort of battle shounen. don't do such commends my dude.

@@belevs this anime style is so beautiful, I wish there was more anime that has this style.

@@belevs P.S is emonzaemon the mandalorian of katanagatari meaning he doesn't take off his mask because of orders.

edit button broke: as i watch further i definitely do agree with some of the gripes you’ve raised. some are very much stylistic choice (nisioisin loves his wordy monologues and his very tell-don’t-show style of storytelling) but others like togame’s character definitely bothered me. i think shichi is interesting but i don’t really know if the anime did the main two justice i also will watch dororo after this, thanks for the recommendation and this video

maybe, hopefully i can still enjoy the rest of the monogatari series because there are some really beautiful looking shows. thanks for the sub even though you disagree with my video, that's a pretty rare occurrence

@@belevs nah their all sort of like this, it’s the first time i watched a show and thought i was reading a book. But ya prob know that by now.

@@joelnarvaeznavarro3671 well call me an amoeba because this show was awful all around, tatami galaxy does the ridiculously dialogue heavy trope and makes it work much better

Wasn't one of the main points of this anime that the characters aren't supposed to have relevance? The story is fiction, but it's a loose interpretation of history and the attempts people have made to influence history through power, in this case the Deviant Blades with Shichika being the culmination of generations of effort. The audience is made to follow the pursuit of various factions to gather the weapons by those who think the change in the balance of power will ensure their rule. It's been a long time since I've seen the anime so the details are long since lost to me, but I'm pretty sure the backstory of the Deviant blades concluded with the original smith predicting that the shogunate would be doomed to fall to foreign powers regardless of the creation of the weapons, so he gave up on the project of "completing" Shichika as the final weapon. This is why Togame's quest and her relationship with Shichika is doomed from the very start. She believes that Shichika can be wielded to destroy the government that wronged her, but regardless of whether or not that were true, the greater story of the country would continue. In her attempts to win the favor of the shogun by collecting the deviant blades, she dooms herself by giving Shichika the order that the weapons are not to be destroyed, this limiter prevents Shichika from being able to protect her from Emonzaemon. After her death it is revealed that Shichika was the completed deviant blade from the very beginning as he boss rush slaughters the entirety of the new deviant blade holders. This also highlights the fact that ALL of the Maniwa ninjas that used the deviant blades were also irrelevant characters to history as Shichika's only hesitance to destroy them were due to Togame's orders not to destroy the blades or allow himself to come to harm. The fascinating thing about this story is that, for all intents and purposes, it certainly looks like Shichika really could have changed the course of any war as he is essentially an unstoppable killing machine. But even at the end of his rampage he still doesn't have any real ambition to call his own, his actions ultimately weakened the shogunate and left the country more vulnerable setting up their downfall to the American forces. He was a blade directed in vengeance by a woman who never saw him as a human. The conclusion of the story is left open ended with Shichika now following the princess instead, but it should be pretty clear by the story as a whole that the pursuit of weapons for power cannot build a better future, it just destroys. In the end, Katanagatari was exactly what it says on the cover, it was the story of a blade, the perfect one, but there really isn't much story to tell about a weapon other than that it kills people. It's a tale that puts the audience in a bit of a weird position, hanging onto the stories of the other characters can make the anime feel like a tragedy or a comedy of errors depending on which perspective you choose to take. And following Shichika as the protagonist feels stilted and strange because of his stunted humanity due to being treated and raised as a weapon. Some people glom onto the show purely for it's very stylistic presentation (probably the same people that like Demon Slayer), and others simply because they DIDN'T get it and just concluded it must be pretty deep if they couldn't understand it (probably the same people that praise "The Boy and the Heron"). But Japan isn't a stranger to writing this story before, as Squaresoft (now Square Enix) was churning out Seiken Densetsu (literally Legend of the Sacred Sword) games since the 90s, games fundamentally about evil people wielding weapons of great power in pursuit of some absurd apotheosis before being stabbed repeatedly by a Hero wielding titular sacred sword. In much the same way, the nuance is in how weapons are used, and the reason the stories were initially told about the weapon rather than the hero that wielded it would be that the cycle of human stupidity necessitates new heroes to save the world time and time again (this is actually pretty much what is said in the opener to Seiken Densetsu 2, or Secret of Mana for the SNES).

thank fuck some people agree, i genuinely can't see the redeeming value this show has, you and i have taste, mr. one tit wonder

@@belevs Fr man it was so weird seeing everyone praise this show sm I thought I was insane

i think people dislike it because of how aggressively negative i was, hard to agree with points when someone's shitting on one of your favourite shows. negative reviews don't bother me much anyways thanks for the support bro

i used zoro.to because the quality was the best there but you can just use ww4.gogoanimes.org/