CaraPrincess' views on Demon Slayer

*Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba*, a very popular anime/manga series, is cited by CaraPrincess as one of her major inspirations for Claire: Chronicles of the Carmine Blood, for both of its subject of matter revolving around a group of teens wielding weapons and set out on adventures trying to protect their town from monstrous beings and its similarities to *Undertale*'s Genocide route. But she also backlashes about the extremely violent content in the series when compared to a typical anime for children of her age (13-15 yrs), saying that it is "an M or R18-rated anime/manga that masquerades as teen manga, trying to turn teens into delinquents and murderers, and turning children to desperate individuals who ultimately then commit suicide due to PTSD", and "the most controversial anime that I has ever seen due to its violent content". She then said that her series is an "alternative" to *Demon Slayer* to its minimized gore and violence, and highlights on heroism and courage in the style closer to that of magical girl anime.

## Opposing views (cons)

### Potential PTSD rates increasements

CaraPrincess has read an article about children who watched *Demon Slayer*'s film adaption, *Mugen Train*, ended up as too scared to go to sleep and are reported to cry during the night. She is aware that these are possibly the typical signs of PTSD patients, and that if children are keep growing up with PTSD from the series, they might commit suicide due to fearing that they will be the next victim of slaughters by demons, so they choose it to get rid of the possibility of being killed by demons, even though demons don't exist in the real world. She also said that children watching either the anime, manga or the film adaption can have a high risk of PTSD, and this is an alarming situation.

### Possible juvenile delinquency and mass murder rates increasements

From her views on *Death Note*, an anime series that is notoriously known to inspire a real-life murder, and the case of Tsutomu Miyazaki, a fan of anime and manga who had commited several murders possibly due to his love for violent anime and manga, she believes that *Demon Slayer* can possibly cause many other similar incidents, due to its overtly graphical depiction of blood, especially at the scene where the entire Kamado family is murdered by demons, and the scene where the Brother Spider Demon is at his lair with the humans he killed. She also said that teens below the age of 16 mainly cannot tolerate the huge amount of blood in the series, and that if they are exposed to that long enough, they might develop a distorted sense of how the world works, and tempted by the series' content of killing demons, they might attempt or do mass murdering for real, mimicking the demon slaying actions of Tanjiro and his friends. To make matters worse, they might burn their victims' bodies to ash, mimicking the demons' death sequence, where they turned into ashes. According to CaraPrincess, burning their victims' bodies might also has a potential fire or wildfire risk, if they did the mass murdering in a forest, and if they did it in their school, there will be a very high chance that the school's property are destroyed after the murders (due to the preparators burning their victims' corpses), and that they are expelled from their school, turning them to potential "hobos" (for both of their deliberate school property destruction and mass murdering). She said that this is more problematic than the PTSD risk stated above.

### Inosuke Hashibira's speech

Throughout the series, Inosuke has several instances swearing. Although these swear words, if translated, are nothing more explicit than the word "damn", CaraPrincess said that the series might glamorize the use of profanity among teenagers, not just involving the world found in the series, but also with stronger words such as the "f, n and b-words". She also said that the series' sense of friendship, if only considering the friendship between Tanjiro and Inosuke, is appalling, and that it is not actual friendship, but a "defamed" version of it. CaraPrincess said that the series might be one of the causes behind the deteroriating standards of friendship between her classmates in secondary school.

## Positive views (pros)

### Similarities to *Undertale*'s Genocide Route

As stated above, CaraPrincess said that the series' content is very similar to *Undertale*'s Genocide Route, and she considers it to be an attempted "recreation" of the game's content, based loosely on the game's Genocide run. She also pointed out several similarities between the game's Genocide run and the series: Both revolving around the killing of monstrous beings to gain more power, both have a Chara-like character (Nezuko in *Demon Slayer*) that seems to be stronger everytime the Frisk (Tanjiro in *Demon Slayer*) kills more monsters, the battle between the Demon Slayers and the Demon Moons, can be compared to Undyne the Undying's battle, which is considered very tough (the best example is the battle against the Lower Moon Five, Rui, in the anime). Another similarity she found is the presence of a KARMA-like system, which is applied for the final battle against Muzan Kibutsuji, in which Tanjiro is turned into a demon during the battle briefly. She also explained the reason why she compares like that is because if considering Muzan to be Sans, and Tanjiro to be Frisk/Chara, Muzan turning Tanjiro into a demon could be a cost that Tanjiro have to pay for killing his demons, while that Tanjiro have to kill Muzan in order to complete his mission. She also gave out a theory that Koyoharu Gotouge, the creator of *Demon Slayer*, might be an *Undertale* fan, which could support the similarities between the series and *Undertale*.