Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) poster
2020 · animation · action · fantasy · supernatural

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

Directed by Haruo Sotozaki1h 57m2020
ElsewhereIMDb8.299kMetacritic72
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • surreal
  • redemptive
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, extreme animation / action, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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 -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal animation · action · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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