-If I heard the word flamboyant at least 9 times in one day. -If I saw a very fleshy train -If there are oversized webs and very human-like spiders in my local forest -If I see Michael Jackson roaming around even though he should be dead
people: *”what do you guys do for a living?”* slayer corps: *”we hunt down demons”* people: *”lol demons arent real”* slayer corps: *”have you seen one?”* people: *”no”* slayer corps: *”you're f***ing welcome”*
@@mahistv I mean by then it really didn't matter if the public found out the demons were real they just needed them to not get involved to keep them all safe and make sure Muzan didn't get away.
4:10 I actually was really thinking about how they’re going to keep that a secret. The others could be explained as a psycho murderer but this was an entire town! People lived and… most? Survived. I really hope they address how they deal with the survivors later in the show/ franchise
This is why I like compulsion in vampire diaries it take away memories it can be used on humans and vampire it so good the show had it flaws but it was good overall and better then every who saw that was crazy cause in that show like demon slayer entire towns were burned and mass murder
@@piercejones4355 Yeah, that actually is pretty convenient. The train derailing would be a hell of a lawsuit for someone, but that can be explained. From what we’ve seen timeline wise, humans aren’t able to access weapons that can level a town in a night because they don’t exist. Grenades maybe but something like that would take a lot of them. It’s really an issue, probably not the most important one, but still an issue. Like, where are those people going to live? That place was a home for a, pretty much all of them except for those passing by
@@nash6568 people talk about boruto storyline so much that they forgot about other animes with similar problems cause this was the first time hearing about demon slayer human problems in a while
Most of the slayers join the corps due to someone close to them being killed by demon and there are hundreds of slayers so that would at least douple the amount of missing people
To be fair it's not set in our modern world with cameras and accurate records keeping, it's set in the Taisho era Japan, early twentieth century, when Japan had just started to modernize and the state was fairly new, they didn't have modern technology, accurate record keeping and census ( especially for people in the countryside), and information don't have means to travel very fast, heck tangiro and inosuke didn't even know what a train was
@@dDoodle788 Meiji government established the uniformed registered system of koseki (戸籍, family registries) in 1872, which is called Jinshin koseki (壬申戸籍). So one of the first countries to have a national census. Wrong on point 1. The first telegraph line between Tokyo and Yokohama in 1869. Five years later, the telegraph network stretched from Nagasaki to Hokkaidō, while an undersea line further connected Nagasaki to Shanghai. In 1871, a modern postal service replaced the former courier system, and post offices were established around the country, selling stamps and postcards at set prices. In 1877, Japan joined the Universal Postal Union, linking its postal service to the world. It imported its first telephones the same year. A rail service started between Tokyo and Yokohama in 1872. This initial route relied greatly on British assistance, as the European power supplied financing, train cars, and even the chief civil engineer Edmund Morel. In 1874, a new line linked Kobe to Osaka, which was connected in turn to Kyoto in 1877. By the turn of the century, the network had spread across the whole of Japan. Nihon was already modern by 1877 with postal service, telegraph, and railroads.
This is what happens when authors forget to turn auto-trope on their brains. For how much I love Jujutsu Kaisen, there's no reason these young adults need to be in a Jujutsu Highschool when the place works more as an HQ/workplace rather than a place you sit down and take exams.
@@mahistv Absolute recommend though. I watched the first couple episodes like "meh.." and then it just becomes a high 9/10 shonen with deep phylosophies and epic fights.
They’re still *presumably* teaching the students how to improve their techniques and exorcise curses. I say presumably bc i doubt Gojo actually teaches lol. I agree w what you said though. The school may as well just be HQ-the campus is massive yet they barely have students so might as well utilize that extra space right? Yuji and Yuuta are exceptions and there are probably others who were introduced to jujutsu society late, but pretty much all of the students already had their techniques down bc they grew up knowing about curses and exorcising them. I mean even Nobara was already exorcising curses before she attended the school.
@@casper_z1259 I wouldn't say it has deep philosophical elements,but it's pretty solid. It has some sick power concepts and executes all of the common Shounen tropes amazingly. (Bonus: The female characters don't feel like actual fanservice material. They aren't sexualised and actually do sick shit.)
@@sh.uumiii The space is utilized. We've seen that in the exchange event they had. And instead of actually being something that's meant to act like an actual school, it's more of an HQ,just like you said. And yes,Gojo does "teach" as we've seen. His teaching style is a bit different from most.
This is just my own observation from this, I mean I'm not even caught up on the anime or have read the manga, but I think the public not believing in demons is supposed to be a reference to how around that period of time, late 1800s to early 1900s, in real world Japan the publics interest veered away from superstition and yokai, resulting in more and more people not believing in such things as the country began to modernize and industrialize. You can even see this in the generational gap between the bento seller girl and her grandma. Ignoring the fact that the grandma was preyed upon by demons, as far as we know twice, she would've been raised in that real world time when superstition, spirits, yokai, etc. were more widely believed, as opposed to her granddaughter who would have been born and raised around the time when this public belief started to wane.
This works as a reference, BUT, doesn't work in practice! In the world of Demon Slayer, there is no "yokai" or ghost stories besides demons. There are actual people who hunts demons, phisycal proofs of their activety and they have existed for centuries. Is not in our world where Yokai are just legends, myths and missunderstood animals. It is a nice bit of context as to why the author would do that but it didn't worked of that was the intent
Seriously one thing you might forget is that The Demons could just go to another country to get out of the demon slayers detection. For example, Muzan could just set his base on Taiwan or the Philippines.
@@mahistv I'd imagine that if they knew that there are other demons in other countries. It's highly likely that the Demon slayer corps will likely build branches in America, Asia and Europe and Africa and the Middle East. But there will be conflicting ideologies.
I wondered about this also. All the demon that were created I guess they all stayed in Japan . They could have furthered the story by having the upper 6 all in different countries
@@HurricaneSavage yeah but sadly most will have conflicting ideologies like for example the Filipino demon slayer will likely try to use the breathing techniques to free themselves from the American Occupation during the 1920s.
The writer wanted to have The Demon Slayer Corp to be like a secret organization, but the problem with that Trope always comes back. There is so much evidence about them just basically everywhere and you have active survivors who would talk about it, even though most of them would probably been seen as crazy but anytime this is employed in fiction it falls apart because of one simple reason, PEOPLE 👏ARE👏INSANE👏! You would have people actively going out and looking for Demons because they can. You have people in the real world who spend there lives and huge amounts of money looking for mythical creatures, and in this universe they would find something as evidence. I guess you could say people wouldn't believe it if they didn't find and bring back an actual Demon, but that is possible for a normal person to do. Sanemi used to tie up Demons to trees and wait for the sun to come up so they'd die since he didn't have a Nichirin Blade, and this was BEFORE he learned to use any Breathing Style. If he could do it others could too. It's not just a problem with Demon Slayer it's a problem with any piece of fiction that uses this Trope, unless it's like M.I.B or Harry Potter were they have the ability to mind wipe people on a mass scale. But that just raises another question, why hide it from people? Wouldn't you want people to know so they know what to do in case they ever find themselves in a situation like this? It's why I liked when a series like MHA or Mob Psycho just said F##K it and made it so that yeah this exists and people know about it, they just don't care because at that point it's just common knowledge. This series is pretty good in all things considered but this just bugs me personally.
I agree, some common tropes are good when used properly, this one is a bit of a stretch. Thant's why I sometimes just turn off my brain and accept it (doesn't last longer than a few minutes though)
@@mahistv ya that's what you do when you consume a piece of fiction you accept that this isn't real life so when they break our rules of reality it's fine, it's when the break their own rules then the problems start
wow that was a really nice essay but if you tied it up then everybody would wait till morning to see it. "oh so it just happens to dissapear at daybreak. give me a break." "it was right here."
@@Timelordbeast14 That situation sounds absolutely hilarious and I'd love to see it but I meant someone could physically restrain a Demon and keep it somewhere long enough for people to see It, you don't have to keep it on a tree, I mean heck you could just tie it to the part of the tree that's not facing the sun and they wouldn't try to escape or risk getting annihilated
I think the author just really wanted it to set in our real world instead of an alternative timeline, so the solution for that is that all of it happened secretely, but that solution just creates more problems eventually.
i don´t think demons in general leave much bodies around. yes that one guy from the beginning of the anime warns tanjirou about dangers lurking in the night, but i got the feeling tanjirou didn´t take him much serious. except for events like in the entertainment district i can somewhat believe that the few survivors either don´t talk much about the demons they met, or don´t get believed much. everytime we see someone talk about demons those who don´t know don´t believe them, like the girl from the food stalland her granny you mentioned
But that's still illogical. They have been a crisis for centuries, Muzan has been making more and more demons. Also, is not hard to show who's a demon, and you can easily prove they exist, at least to high level autorities. With how many people die to them, at least some concern should exist. A whole train and a whole town was bashed to the ground and yet we receive no explanation on how that's covered up
@@realhumanbean7915 depends how common it is for people to get killed/eaten by animals or go missing in the wild..... usually demons are not in big, populated areas. rather in small villages
I disagree. The stalemate has persisted for hundreds of years. I can’t imagine these incidents occurring for all that time, especially big ones like the Entertainment district or Infinity Train, and no one putting pieces together.
@@mahistv well just as you said there is a different from not knowing and avoiding it Basically the goverment is just ignoring it to not start a world wide panic and with more demon slayers muzan would really become the smooth dancers he was Also if anything they would get in the way Also muzan makes him money by selling gyokkos pots
@@arcticflames6932 If they knew and were trying to avoid panic, then they should be working WITH the demon slaying corps, making their job easier and covering up for them. We should stop trying to write the story for Gotogue and just accept the author didn't thought well enough about that aspect
Don't forget the clergy! Remember the stone hashira was a young blind monk in butt-frick-nowhere and he still lighted up antidemonic incense? If there is one group that should 1000% know demons are about, it's the buddhist clergy! Hell, maybe back in the yore day, some of the warrior monks fought demons but the disbandment of the sohei as a whole may have stopped that.
@@giacomoromano8842 Shinto Gods are inspiration from Hindu gods ... if you know anything about Shinto ... you can see the similarity i can show example
The explanation my friend gave was that the government at the time wouldn’t accept any autonomous organizations and would force the Corps to be disbanded or under their control. In any way, a lot of the demon slayers and other corps members would have been arrested if the government found out.
@@mahistv I love how this is such a glaring issue to people who don't know history, but the solution is just very simply "The government was very authoritarian back then and had strict weapon control laws".
Like most people here think I’m pretty sure it’s just that as time went on people starting thinking demons and the demon slayers were myths and legends. The old man in episode 1 believed in there existence, tanjiro didn’t (at that point). Tanjiros Grandma even told him tales about demons. The boy from the swamp demon fight was also starting to realize that demons might be real after seeing Tanjiro’s speed and jump height. We don’t hear him say it fully but he was thinking in his mind “are you a demon slayer?” (I think). The grandma and her granddaughter that sold bento are also another example. The younger one didn’t believe in them but the older one did. Also I’m pretty sure the Kakushi also work to do coverups as well. So yeah people just stopped believing in demons and slayers at this point in time
That will align with how the society has changed during that time. But Slayers are not exactly hiding with their swords, when they are banned, so a word would get around
@@mahistv I agreed with what said above- but mind is an amazing thing when 'common sense' is concerned and history shows that the government of Japan- especially the shogunate succeed to 'making' their people VERY susceptible to propaganda. This is why Tokugawa Shogunate last for so long. You can watch 'Shogo' a Japanese youtuber bringing up issues of Bushido and the likes, and how old belief they practiced is all about 'restraining' their people but 'looks' good at the same time. In the case of this war. In Taisho period and previous, Japan is making leaps and bound for the industrial revolution and old belief in youkai/superstitions is seen as hindrance to this development. Even a rural boy like Tanjirou shows he is educated to not believe in the likes of demons like older generation in episode 1. Also as much as I agree with you on how stupid Muzan can be, I acknowledge the guy has enough brains to not make his extermination a national project. It's very likely at the beginning his war with the corps is pretty 'open' but as the corps is losing miserably before Yoriichi, I imagine the government at the time are too busy beating each other up to care helping Ubuyashiki clan. Muzan also shows he is not going to mess with the government either, simply because he still need to find his flower and doesn't want more nuisance in his life goal. Also... in Sengoku and Heian era, humans died like bugs in Japan apparently so the lost isn't all that concerning to them. So by Taisho period, aside from not wanting to spread panic over cannibalistic demons- and have more important things in government's agenda. It already become a 'common sense' to let Ubuyashiki and his corps deal with Kibutsuji and demons. I can't imagine the government would bother until the disaster in the entertainment district happened. Even then, I imagine they would just rage at Demon Slayer Corps for not dealing with it in quieter manner and destroy the district. However... they would not bother to make Muzan their business. The district is just a 'prettier' slump in the end. Also, don't tell me the Ubuyashiki with their crazy wealth wouldn't take responsibility to 'rebuild' the whole thing anyway. So yeah... the war is a 'private' thing the government doesn't want to deal with... and there's already a 'set' common sense that reject supernaturals in place. Just ask Gyomei and Giyuu- it doesn't end well for them... the poor guys.
@@Acid8UCloud *Yeah pretty much. There are many S.C.P.'s who would go toe-to-toe with Muzan, even though he has so much overpowered abilities and traits. But we have S.C.P.'s like 096, 173, 682, 001, 343, 3000, and others.*
I'd always thought that people did know about demons since honestly, they don't really do much to cover up their tracks if at all. Like, there is the kakushi but they kind of do more relief and cleanup than coverups. I thought it was just that the demon slayer organization isn't recognized by the government (which could be explained with Muzan threatening the people in charge) so they have to move discreetly because of the sword ban, not that the whole organization or the existence of demons was a secret. Especially since Tanjiro's not shy about just straight up telling people about demons a lot of the time? As for why it's not widely known, it's probably because the technology to quickly spread information wasn't there yet. Also since most people wouldn't want to talk about their traumatic encounter where they almost got eaten.
I see your point, but we clearly see newspapers writing about it. and 100 years ago wasn't that far back in terms of information spread. I mean, yes, you won't get it instantly but over a span of weeks gossip and shit will go around
I agree. I think it's shown many times throughout the series that some or many people DO know about demons-the old man on Tanjirou's mountain, the lady at the train station, the lady in charge of Daki's house, plus Kakushi as a stand by population and Wisteria Houses. However, this is Japan. You don't go around talking about these things or acting crazy, especially if the government says no. The government doesn't recognize demons as existing or a threat, either because of the panic it will cause or simple disbelief. So you don't think about it, and if you do see something and live, who's going to believe you? You are also dealing with class systems. Prostitutes, kids, farmers, and random civilians can EASILY be written off or ignored, if they are even able put together what happened to them or what caused such destruction properly. Japan to this day is very much a place of open, silenced secrets even if you can prove something distasteful So that overarchea everything. Then there are MANY other factors If you see a demon, it's going to be in a traumatic incident, so you might later believe you were seeing things or traumatized into seeing a monster If a demon looks human enough, it's just a brutal murder in your eyes, nothing supernatural. Just some evil guy in the dark with tattoos and such A demon could have an Art to hide itself/temporarily blind you/wipe memories, etc, like Tamayo's or even Enmu's ability. And just like the triple demon Tanjirou fought early on, and Muzan in the city, they are often sneaky or simply fast enough to not be seen at all by bystanders. If there are, say, ten normal civilians on a road who come across a demon, right on the border of a town, what's the likelihood they live to say anything at all? Low. Very low. It's just a tragic mystery Not to mention this all happens at night, and most populations weren't as dense as Tokyo then. Your neighbors might only be a few of you or far between, or both Who's going to believe a rumor of 100 or so country hicks who saw a demon? If even that many even saw, believed, and reported it? Plus, death was a much more widespread and expected problem. That is just true for most of time anyway In a modern era or advanced city, such reports and stories are just legend. It only takes a generation or two to forget anyway
@@dflaming1371 The whole Entertainment District was blown to pieces by the UM6 duo fighting the Demon Slayers yet a lot of people survived and even watched the chaos happen. Also, SPOILERS BELOW: The final battle against Muzan took place in a damn city.
1920's, back then radio, telegraph telephone, man, the first primitive Prototypes of tv were already happening, it was around 10 years or so before that H. G. Wells radio program that sent several states of the US into panic Frenzy hours by the prospect of aliens, pretty sure that even if Japan was a little more backwards than the western countries, they already had the capacity to to broadcast radio news and wireless telegraph at least, with that you have information coming and going through the country in matter of hours.
I believe it's a mix between old folk legends and the time in which all of this takes place. The Japanese have long held a strong belief in the existence of Oni and Yokai. And undoubtedly, there are many inhabitants of (small) villages who swear that they have seen a Demon. In my opinion, you can compare this situation to that of modern folk stories such as Aliens or Bigfoot - there are many sources who claim to have seen one, but just not enough that the broad population believes them.
I understand that, but in Demon Slayer, we have victims of demons, even newspaper articles of people getting very brutally murdered by a crackhead nobody can catch and so on. Individually, these facts are nothing, but when you put them together, something is hella fishy
@@mahistv not really, misterious disappearances and people getting brutally murdered by a killer nobody can catch, happen all the time in our modern world even with modern technology far superior to that of the Taisho era. Most of the battles between demons and slayers happen in very isolated places, like ruri's ,mountain, where people go missing without trace and die all the time in our world even without demons, an abandoned mansion, which is a place rarely visited, therefore very few witnesses, or the countryside where central state authoritiy's control is weak and traveling to and from a village is difficult and time consuming, add to that that demon's corpses disgregate with sunlight, and you have a whole bunch of missing evidence. Also if you look at most of the demons victims, nearly all of them are people who often get dismissed in the real world, children, poor,elderly, young women, prostitutes... And so on.
@@mahistv the closest to a public scandal they got is the train and the entrainment district; but in those two cases ,the train derailed violently, so any and every death will be cucked up to that(since they are about a century before the invention of decent forensic), the second one is a bit more conspicuous, not because of the string of disappearances, it's prostitutes we are taking about, the police doesn't care about that even today, and there are several explanation for why they would die or disappear( human trafficking, drugs trafficking,a killer that enjoys killing prostitutes...you name it); the most conspicuous things are all the buildings that got destroyed... but even for that a lot of different explanations come to mind that don't involve evil demon's attack (badly constructed/old building for instance)
nope only demon slayer corps the thing is the demon slayer corps doesn't know his face because muzan keep changing his identity, tanjiro can find muzan because of his smell. and muzan always hiding after he get defeated by the sun breathing dude who keep appearing on his memories.
@@mahistv that’s what the kakusi is for. after a fight against demons they dispose the bodies, clean up any blood and clean up the rubble. as far as the witness or victims of demons, i have no clue why they don’t do anything. my guess is they either live traumatized or join the corps.
@@kapplq8271 spot on, that’s actually one of the main reasons why people joined the corps. Also I don’t think many people want to relive the moment they almost died
(6:02) You are probably right. Muzan has great government connections. I would place a lot of the blame on the Daimyo. I know Demon Slayer takes place in the Tashio period; however, this period may be the reason why most people do not believe in demons. During the Edo period(1603-1876), Daimyo fought bloody wars against each other. Both demons and slayers would be valuable assets. Both sides probably made deals with lords to help their sides. Demons would be kill the Daimyo's enemies in exchange for human flesh, riches, and help keeping their existence a secret. If someone saw a demon kill or eat a human, the Daimyo could easily cover up the act. The Daimyo could say that the demon is a warrior from another land or is part Kami. Alternatively, they can bribe the peasant or kill them. This would cover up most of centuries long war between Muzan and the slayers. Eventually, the Muzan got lucky. He made friends with the Choshu and Satsuma clans. They gladly covered up any demon related incidents and killed many of the Demon Slayer Corp's allies.
These are my two guesses 1, the creator might’ve done this so the story can be a bit more interesting 2, what are demons doing other than eating humans/going undercover Not including the twelve kizuki, Muzan and Hashiras , the ‘war’ between humans and demons seems like no side is winning. Now we add Hashiras who can kill almost any demon. Demons seem to go undercover and have ‘human lives’ to prevent from getting killed. Like what Daki did/does. That’s why I think not everyone knows about demons.
I think humans a losing, cause until main character bullshit showed up, they couldn't do much, even Sanemi said that the demons are more rampant than ever before, and DS quality is going down.
@@HieuLe-fi2ri if I had to guess it’s because muzan doesn’t let them work together, there is also hashira who can activate the mark so they can defeat uppermoons, but yeah uppermoon 3,2, and 1 shouldn’t have a problem doing that, I guess why they don’t is basically worrying about Yorrichi. Uppermoon 3 and 2 probably heard rumors about him from uppermoon 1 and Muzan. Even with Muzan hunting down people who use some type of breathing like Yorrichi’s they might want to hide just in case.
I think the reason author made it that way was to avoid a complex plox, involving the government etc, etc. He just wanted to keep it a simple shounen anime so, didn't give much thought to the government being aware part.
I think the main reasoning is low tier demons usually try and lay low to not attract demon slayers because most low tier demons get bodied by them and can thus maybe be attributed to general people going missing kidnappers, getting lost, wild animals, etc. Then at least some of the moons set up bases in which they can pretty freely kill people EX Drum demon, Rui, Daki, Doma, where they are either considered a regular thing or somewhat of local ghost stories. When a moon goes all out like in the mugen train or in the entertainment district I can imagine they would be attributed to natural disasters and people who claim to have seen demons are probably considered crazy. However yes the government should 100% know the Demon slayers exist
The train victims is what confuses me. They said there were a lot of them, but we haven't seen much investigation. They were like - train is fine, we've inspected it, sure, lets run it again and hope for the best! I understand that they wont suspect supernatural activity, but still. For all they know a crackhead can hide in some ridiculous place, waiting for the maintenance to finish.
Considering Japan was a highly spiritual nation during that period, and the lack of a general knowledge historically everywhere among common folk, most people would probably think demons to be evil spirits. And considering ghosts are also a thing (Tanjiro's boulder training), there are probably other mystical beings around too. The government may have parts of it denying any spiritual involvement, but there are sure to be others that think the Demon Slayers are just a group of exorcists and priests. With firearms also being on the rise, there would be no need for superstrength soldiers in the army either.
1. Muzan doesn't want anyone to know he or any of his underlings are around until he find a way to conquer his weakness to the sun. 2. The Demon Slayer Corps don't want to tell the populace because it would start a panic and make it easier for demons to move around because everyone will be start claiming normal people are demons. 3. Demon Slayer takes place around the Taisho period, where Japan was trying to show that they're a strong nation. They would never let the world know they're infested with demons. 3b. If other nations found out about demons, they might invade Japan to kill Muzan or ally with Muzan to gain his power.
1. That is just stupid. He should have a trusted R&D department in his infinity castle, but he is too cowardly to set it up. 2, 3 and 3b. 100% agree! I even explained that in my "5 Things that make Perfect Sens about DS" video
I mean it doesn't make sense tbh like the trio and tengen legit had a whole war and literally evacuated the district and yet nobody knows of this It's probably plot tbh
To be honest, I think most people think about demons the same as we think of real stories about yokai. I mean… seriously… no one is gonna believe that tengu kidnapped an entire family. And should someone suggest such a thing, they’re called crazy and isolated from society, or at least told to get therapy. Even when tanjiro was told about demons in episode one, he reacted the same way children react to bedtime stories.
If we are talking isolated incidents, then yes. But this was happening for centuries and there are literal family members who tell these tales. Hard to ignore that when you hear similar stories from a lot of different sources.
@@mahistv If it has been happening for centuries, then it is normal. Most people for cecnturies lived with this as normal, so there's nothing strange about that. Not to mention that there is not a lot of demons roaming. Muzan himself doesn't allow their numbers to grow since it would mean the risk of rebelion. There's probably at most a few dozens demons at a time, and there's a limit to the number of people they can eat as shown witht the former lower 6.
Who fights the demons elsewhere? Vatican exorcists, Spanish inquisitors, English witch hunters, African shaman, Indian monks, a special US Calvary unit? Give me the expanded universe D:< .
Considering all demons are infertile, there are only nine of them who can actually turn humans into others of their kind and none of those goes around siring new ones willy nilly, it's entirely plausible they're a Japan only problem.
Heres what I think. By that point in Japan more people were thinking along the lines of this "Oh hey Gods, Yokai and spirits are all myth or folk lore" etc. Now lets put this into a modern perspective. Would you believe a random man on the streets dressed up as a vampire hunter or something saying "don't worry everyone i am here to kill vampires" you'd think they're crazy. Especially if a group of people did that. But what if they weren't crazy would you still believe them when Vampires are supposedly fake? Most likely not. Not lets go back to 1920s japan. Information doesn't spread as well as it does now. Demons are rare and scarce, and as you said Muzan probably has the Emperor afraid of him so he doesn't do anything rash, now the Emperor could just outright ban Demon Slayers and have them arrested. But how the fuck are you going to arrest a man who is killing demons who can easily level a building when they're on the weaker side. Now these are just my thoughts, but given the context of the story they fit a lot better.
My two counter arguments against your points: 1. Taisho period of Japan was notoriously unstable (hence the shortest era of Japan, 14 years lol). The wealth divide was huge. There were mass protests and riots from peasants and workers. Lives weren’t safe and the rich only got richer. This Only people living in cities, and specifically people with wealth, were really accounted for. Farmers and workers who lived in the country side and boonies were not accounted for by the government of the time. And if any people in poverty went missing or died, the news of them going missing would travel very slowly as well as no body in positions of power at the time really cared or had the resources to investigate what was happening. 2. Corruption was also rampant. I’m pretty sure Muzan’s finances were able to keep many demons off the books. Demons were also very well hidden in plain sight. Entertainment district showed that many people simply did not report what they witnessed to authorities because of what I mentioned in point 1 and also because people were afraid they will get killed mysteriously if they poked their nose in those situations. There are so many unresolved missing person cases and mysterious deaths back then. And many times, those cases were simply closed out because, well, people died and authorities simply moved on because they couldn’t solve it. Surprisingly, I’d say that Demon Slayers were doing a good job eradicating low threat demons and very responsive to the investigation of abnormal events like several missing persons. But then again, this is a fictional world, it’s okay to suspend our disbelief and enjoy the show.
I do agree mostly, except for the fact that those 14 years are a fart in a hurricane compared to Muzan reign over the centuries. We can't assume that a 1000 years of demons running wild had no affect on the common folk, let alone the higher ups
From a basic person perspective, thinking that there are beings living among the common folk that can alter gravity and reality, create alternate dimensions, dive into solid areas, redirect the common flow of things, it just all seem surreal and you would often hear it from crazy people or from old folklore/myths. It's the "see it to believe it" kind of thing. They are just hoping whatever is being told in these stories is not real for their own good.
I can see that, however when it happens all around you and you read about dozens of people brutally killed on a train and nobody can catch them... that will make you think
my speculation is ubuyashiki have some connection to the govt/emperor and also keep the demon existence secret, i mean they have farsight and rich AF, i meanthe member of DS need to lay low as best as possible not to draw attenttion from public but i never heard of them get arrested(maybe some of them) and never get punished for bringing katana(im assuming it happens during meiji era), and now way you can hide the truth of red district destruction from public if the govt/emperor doesnt help them to do it.
Only thing I can think of is Gyomei’s backstory (Spoilers!) He beats up a demon that tried to kill his orphan kids and in the morning the stupid mf dissapears so they think that he did it. Now this is a bit far fetched, but I think since demons straight up just poof once they die with zero evidence, most demon killings are ruled accidental deaths. And all the demons that make people go missing just eat the person who went to go investigate. I do believe there are some rumors about demons but since nobody has definitive proof (Not even the slayer corps themselves) people just think of them of a rumor and maybe even a “Explanation” for a disease of some sort. Like when you see a transforming demon you would probably think they got rabies or something until they actually become more demonic the more people they eat. But until then they just act feral lol Kinda far fetched but it’s the best thing I can think of, great video tho!
That is a good theory, however, we know for a fact slayers catch and contain demons - for final selection. So They do have experience in capturing them too, thus they can present the evidence to authorities at least.
One thing to add onto Gyomei's backstory When the police came to the house where Gyomei took care of the children, the police asked the youngest girl that Gyomei protected what happened She said that he killed all of them (she was talking ab the demon btw), the sun had risen so the demon died, due to the police not seeing the demon they thought it was Gyomei because he was the only other person there and then Gyomei was arrested
If demon slayer wants demons to be secret they would need to have two things one a organization powerful enough to keep demon secret or two have some way of wiping people's memories and also they would need to have a reason for keeping the demons secret.
Muzan would be hunted better yes but being a known boogeyman means you don’t have to secretly experiment and kill people, which only happens when they stop caring about who sees and kill and take what they want. It’d easily be a tense state of war which would play a heavy toll on their psyche. Muzan could teleport anywhere with that Infiniti room stuff and I’m sure he’d master infecting people in such a way they quietly transform and become sleeper agents thus adding more panic till they all just collapse and submit.
the existence of demons in demon slayer is very mixed between different populations of people as seen during the mugen train arc the idea of a demon just sounded dumb but than in volume 16 of demon slayer a certain point in it a certain character says the fear of demons ran deep where he used to be im not gonna go into it because of spoilers but it seems that some populations were completely unaware of demons and others even knew about demons weakness to wisteria hense them lighting wisteria scented candles at night
>Demon Slayers capture demon like they’ve been shown to be able to do >take demon under escort and show government >say “Funding and recruitment program, please and thank you” >demons demolished
@@mahistv I think most of them would find it simply safer to side with the guys who definitely WON’T eat them and their families if the inclination crosses them.
@@mahistv Given that this is pre-industrial Japan and the horrendous things that the Japanese did across Asia in its imperial years, that's more likely.
I get wanting a secret organization in your story It's cool but you got to have something like The Mist from Percy Jackson or Those memory erasers from Men in Black
I thought the general public kind of/sort of knew about Demons but just kind of shrugged the knowledge off or were too polite to correct people about it. Kind of like wearing your shirt inside-out and backwards in public but no one tells you your shirt looks funny.
Now that I think about it nobody questions how ghost are real in demon slayer like nobody questions it? Tanjiro meet sabito and makamo to people who were dead before he even met them akaza was able to talk to his dead wife and his master Zenitsu was able to talk to his dead master but maybe that was just a dream douma was able to talk to the dead shinobu, sanemi went to the afterlife and came back and finally muichiro , gyomei and even rui went to the afterlife so that just exist in demon slayer and nobody questions this?
Special in rural areas and small towns, I’m from one in latinoamérica and my grandmas legit still believe in brujos wich are like wizards shapeshifters into certain birds and cats, different from the mainstream European version of wizards, and although most of younger people don’t believe in them, they still a well know secret, like elder people say that you don’t have to trust certain animals following you at night cuz they may be Brujos
*If Muzan moved to America Muzan: Finally, without the Demon Slayer Corps, I am free to eat as many people I want! IRS: Excuse me, those are my tax dollars you are eating! Also you have been running a pottery business while paying zero in taxes. FTC: Excuse me, I heard you have engaged in multiple instances of identity theft OSHA: Excuse me, I just inspected your Infinite Castle and not only does it not have a permit but I have found multiple workplace safety violations. CDC: Excuse me, I heard you not only you are infected with a contagious disease but also entered this country without sufficient quarantine procedures and worse is you have been deliberately spreading it FDA: Excuse me, I heard that you have been practicing medicine without license EPA: Excuse me, I heard that you have been poaching an endangered flora. FBI: Excuse me, I heard you have been prostituting a minor. Muzan: Shit its the Feds! RUN!
My question is tho, if the headless demon died by a torso cut, and demons die from the neck bone by enmu’s words, so does it actually require a cut in the spinal cord instead of decapitation since a demon never survived a cut there except maybe the swamp demon
remember at the end of the gyutaro fight? when his body self destructs and lets off a nuke of blood slashes? and daki when he opened the third eye slashing up the whole block. by the end of the u6 fight they flattened the entire red light district, its all on fire and cut up and a blood nuke went off in the centre. HOW DO THEY IGNORE THIS
I actually have theory about the guy from the forest where Tanjiro lived, actually i think that he saw or witnessed a demon. U see, his wife died, but we never get to know why she have, and since he's talking about demons and how the demons CAN get into his house, it's most likely that a demon killed his wife.
I'm working on my own story, and I swear it is such a huge puzzle trying to find out how to make these cool organizations and interesting antagonists work. There are always ways for people to try to solve problems more effectively than these shows (as cool as they are, and as much as I like them). Of course, there are exceptions I guess--like if the antagonists just recently popped up/became more powerful, or there is some reason why things need to be kept secret, I don't know...so that's what I'm working with right now.
That's awesome! I got a video on villains, maybe that will help. In my opinion, as long as the organization and it's actions make sense WITHIN the story, we are good, no need for some very deep and intricate background unless of course you want it
In our own world, there are people who've said they wouldn't believe in God even if they saw him. The same goes for demons. People don't want to believe in demons because it upsets their worldview. The people in demon slayer are willingly ignorant because they refuse to believe that supernatural things are possible, just like in real life.
I woiuld have belived that if DS was set in todays world. But 100 years ago and in Japan? People would have 100% believed because they already had Onii and Yokai bullshit for centuries
Hard to keep that a secret, Imagine reading a newspaper that has a few pages dedicated to brutal murders, then there are samurai wannabe running around when its basically modern days and the scary stories grandmas tell around the country have suspiciously many similarities
In Season 1 there was a short explanation that the government knows about Demon Slayers and doesn't interfere wit them, but also doesn't provide support. Officially Demons don't exist.
@@mahistv It's a pretty standard approach to this type of anime. You have a point though and it's better handled in Chanisaw Man, where there are both freelancer Devil Hunters and a government agency for Devil Hunters.
I mean, people in the Demon Slayer have to be stupid asf if they don’t realize that a bunch if mfs are wearing the same Uniforms and having similar Swords, HELL THEY HAVE EVEN SEEN DEMONS! Yet the Public doesn’t know about them????
I think the author forgot how recent the Taisho era was. A few year before to nealy a decade after the Great War. The one with photos, film, radio, air planes, etc. My home town won the Stanley Cup BEFORE this era started.
Muzan came around in an era where people truly believed in monsters. It would not have been that hard for the head of the Ubuyashiki family to present it to the Emperor or Shogun and work out a solution. In World War Z: the Roman Empire and Ancient China trained their military on how to deal with Zombie threats.
i think they do know. but tanjiros family didnt know probably cus they lived far away and the government probably wants to keep it a secret to not cause panic too
I agree with your point, but you have to understand - in the entertainment district arc, there were many survivors. Put it this way - many people do not want to express their emotions or traumatic experiences so easily or so, without being teared down or not being able to speak elaborately so that no one can understand. Let's say, depressed people in our modern days. Most of the depressed population doesn't even get a therapist or help, and they just put on a facade with a smile. This can be seen with shinobu, her sister died and she hides it all and her hatred with demons with a smile. Her original face was her true behaviour. Not that bright, but still better to open up. Just imagine inhumane entities destroying a town, and some organization not recognized by the government fighting it but barely won. Nope, not tattle taling about that. Ain't no way I'm gonna tell this to the gov without some superhumans getting revenge for getting the entire Japanese military mobilised up against the demons. And to say the least - costs for fighting demons necessarily didn't matter because Japan was a prosperous nation, a very rich and resourceful nation, up until ww2. They duked it out against the Mongols, the Russians, the Americans, hell they handled the European imperials. So fighting demons might just be as costly as ww2.
Japan is not a rich nation. They never had much resources and the ones they had, were shit comparatively. It's through technology and innovation (also stealing other countries' tech) that they became prosperous. As for military might, until WW2 Russia, America and European countries were leagues above and Japan had to make very "unfair" pact to make sure it doesn't go down. Example, when a Russian Royalty member came to Japan in 1800s (I nay be a bit off, haven't read those history books since high school), he unintentionally arrived on a ship that would single handedly wipe their entire navy and made all the officials scared shitless. That was one of the reasons Japan went on a huge industrial boom - they realize how far behind they were in comparison to the "old world"
I believe it's because Demons are really that good at killing and not leaving anyone run away from them as they have a speed that makes them invisible to the human eye, super senses that let's them hunt anyone they want once they try to scape, a strength that let's them burst through flesh as if it was a sponge and a regeneration that let's them fight and kill during the whole night without caring about injuries Sanemi and Tanjiro where able to defend against some but Sanemi isn't a normal human and Tanjiro was okay in terms of strength if he was able to hold his own ground against a Nezuko who could grow in size like that, other people normally get killed on sight even if they go in groups of 30 or are armed soldiers, like Michikatsus group or the siblings of Sanemi
Would it make sense if demons became public knowlege in medieval times and if the Demon Slayer Corps was a publicly known organization by like the sengoku period at most and got at least some goverment suport?
Just imagine if everyone knew they could become immortal and have amazing powers at the cost of eating people, and the FIRST guy who ever was a demon instantly became evil so no I think demons should stay below radar and wiped out and everyone stay human
we live in the literal Age of Information and still, most people have no idea about what happened or is happening in their own countries, cut the author some slack, how fast would someone call you a conspiracy theorist if you pointed out that no police showed up to the fire that covered the entire entertainment district last week
I see your point and it makes total sense. But that shit was happening for a 1000 years, plus people got less entertainment those days, so gossiping around was straight fire I bet
Thing is there really aren't that many demons, and most reach their limit on how many humans can eat quickly. It's not like vampires where they need a constant source forever, once they are at their limit they won't need to feed anymore
I don't know about that. It's hard to gage the amount of demons... Lets say Tanjiro gets a mission every few months, that's 4-6 missions a year. How many slayer are there? 100? 200? That'll make it 1000ish demons slain a year... Of course, math here is guesstimation at best, but the number of demons can't be that small in this setting.
@@mahistv Well I guess my thing is, if only Muzan can create them, technically, the others need permission, or struggle to do so, how many really is he out there creating? He doesn't do it for no reason, unless he's feels threatened, which isn't normal. He does it for those he feels are worthy and stand a chance at challenging for one of the 12 moons(before he killed the 6). Tashio era Japan has between 55-60 million people, a few thousand demons, isn't going to register w/most people b/c most demons aren't going to be killing 100's or 1000's of people, let alone yearly, not even the most voracious. Again most hit their limit quickly, demons don't need to eat to survive. Even if there were 3000 demons each averaging 120 people a year(overly exaggerated #'s on both sides) that's 250,000 deaths, seems like a large #, but it's only .006, of the population. To put that in perspective, 460,000 children are reported missing every year in the US, which has a population of 332mil people, that's .001 of the population, and it's not a top major issue in the US.
The slayers should have recruited the ones who have seen demons by like...training and stuff??? Like look at aoi she made tanjirou heal and become stronger!
It's like a zombie outbreak spreading out and people are all in denial like: Dis nothing but collective disphoria, harmless, let's keep our lifes going. Just add the fact that this outbreak has been out for centuries
Dude, after witnessing this shit first hand (I was working in medical-ish field for the first years of covid) I no longer think that all those apocalypse movies are dumb... people in them are)
@@mahistv I'm Just laughing at how realistic some of us wish our fiction should be. I'm with u though n I enjoy ur content my friend. Pls keep creating.
How would you know that demons exist?
If i heard "UMAI!"
if i heard ONIIIIIIIII-CHANNNNNNN
You’ve summed up the government very well with the “who the f*ck is gonna pay taxes”
-If I heard the word flamboyant at least 9 times in one day.
-If I saw a very fleshy train
-If there are oversized webs and very human-like spiders in my local forest
-If I see Michael Jackson roaming around even though he should be dead
@@Insertprofilenamehere well in the demon slayer period micheal Jackson wasn't even born
people: *”what do you guys do for a living?”*
slayer corps: *”we hunt down demons”*
people: *”lol demons arent real”*
slayer corps: *”have you seen one?”*
people: *”no”*
slayer corps: *”you're f***ing welcome”*
That's the most believable conversation they can have!
😂😂😂
Tengen: “You’ve never heard of them? Damn I’m better than I thought.”
Protag energy kicking in
Take my like
Fun fact in the manga when they fought Muzan. They literally fought in a city. 'A CITY.'
Yep, it's just a part of plot they overlook
@@mahistv yes But Imean they fought him there in the end of the manga.
@@mahistv I mean by then it really didn't matter if the public found out the demons were real they just needed them to not get involved to keep them all safe and make sure Muzan didn't get away.
FACTS does not notice people with swords smashing up a city
final arc bruh
Cop : sees a pool of blood filled with abnormally mutilated corpses
Also cop : must be another one of those jack the ripper kinda boys.
Johnson, that guy must be popular, he has so many wanna-bes. Kids these days...
Jack the ripper is a demon!
4:10
I actually was really thinking about how they’re going to keep that a secret. The others could be explained as a psycho murderer but this was an entire town! People lived and… most? Survived. I really hope they address how they deal with the survivors later in the show/ franchise
You can't hide that and silence so many people. because MONEY, so much money and effort is gone, somebody will have to take the blame!
@@mahistv Yes indeed!
This is why I like compulsion in vampire diaries it take away memories it can be used on humans and vampire it so good the show had it flaws but it was good overall and better then every who saw that was crazy cause in that show like demon slayer entire towns were burned and mass murder
@@piercejones4355 Yeah, that actually is pretty convenient. The train derailing would be a hell of a lawsuit for someone, but that can be explained. From what we’ve seen timeline wise, humans aren’t able to access weapons that can level a town in a night because they don’t exist. Grenades maybe but something like that would take a lot of them. It’s really an issue, probably not the most important one, but still an issue. Like, where are those people going to live? That place was a home for a, pretty much all of them except for those passing by
@@nash6568 people talk about boruto storyline so much that they forgot about other animes with similar problems cause this was the first time hearing about demon slayer human problems in a while
Thousands of people go missing without a trace and the government does nothing.
Commander Shepherd: First time?
Damn, you brought in the big guns)
Most of the slayers join the corps due to someone close to them being killed by demon and there are hundreds of slayers so that would at least douple the amount of missing people
There got to be more slayers than that out there. But I see your point
Slayers don't go missing
@@BrazilianImperialist yes they do bro
To be fair it's not set in our modern world with cameras and accurate records keeping, it's set in the Taisho era Japan, early twentieth century, when Japan had just started to modernize and the state was fairly new, they didn't have modern technology, accurate record keeping and census ( especially for people in the countryside), and information don't have means to travel very fast, heck tangiro and inosuke didn't even know what a train was
@@dDoodle788 Meiji government established the uniformed registered system of koseki (戸籍, family registries) in 1872, which is called Jinshin koseki (壬申戸籍). So one of the first countries to have a national census. Wrong on point 1. The first telegraph line between Tokyo and Yokohama in 1869. Five years later, the telegraph network stretched from Nagasaki to Hokkaidō, while an undersea line further connected Nagasaki to Shanghai. In 1871, a modern postal service replaced the former courier system, and post offices were established around the country, selling stamps and postcards at set prices. In 1877, Japan joined the Universal Postal Union, linking its postal service to the world. It imported its first telephones the same year.
A rail service started between Tokyo and Yokohama in 1872. This initial route relied greatly on British assistance, as the European power supplied financing, train cars, and even the chief civil engineer Edmund Morel. In 1874, a new line linked Kobe to Osaka, which was connected in turn to Kyoto in 1877. By the turn of the century, the network had spread across the whole of Japan.
Nihon was already modern by 1877 with postal service, telegraph, and railroads.
This is what happens when authors forget to turn auto-trope on their brains. For how much I love Jujutsu Kaisen, there's no reason these young adults need to be in a Jujutsu Highschool when the place works more as an HQ/workplace rather than a place you sit down and take exams.
I've been putting of Jujutsu Kaisen, so I can't say much, other than the environment should make logical sense.
@@mahistv Absolute recommend though. I watched the first couple episodes like "meh.." and then it just becomes a high 9/10 shonen with deep phylosophies and epic fights.
They’re still *presumably* teaching the students how to improve their techniques and exorcise curses. I say presumably bc i doubt Gojo actually teaches lol.
I agree w what you said though. The school may as well just be HQ-the campus is massive yet they barely have students so might as well utilize that extra space right? Yuji and Yuuta are exceptions and there are probably others who were introduced to jujutsu society late, but pretty much all of the students already had their techniques down bc they grew up knowing about curses and exorcising them. I mean even Nobara was already exorcising curses before she attended the school.
@@casper_z1259 I wouldn't say it has deep philosophical elements,but it's pretty solid. It has some sick power concepts and executes all of the common Shounen tropes amazingly.
(Bonus: The female characters don't feel like actual fanservice material. They aren't sexualised and actually do sick shit.)
@@sh.uumiii The space is utilized. We've seen that in the exchange event they had. And instead of actually being something that's meant to act like an actual school, it's more of an HQ,just like you said.
And yes,Gojo does "teach" as we've seen.
His teaching style is a bit different from most.
This is just my own observation from this, I mean I'm not even caught up on the anime or have read the manga, but I think the public not believing in demons is supposed to be a reference to how around that period of time, late 1800s to early 1900s, in real world Japan the publics interest veered away from superstition and yokai, resulting in more and more people not believing in such things as the country began to modernize and industrialize. You can even see this in the generational gap between the bento seller girl and her grandma. Ignoring the fact that the grandma was preyed upon by demons, as far as we know twice, she would've been raised in that real world time when superstition, spirits, yokai, etc. were more widely believed, as opposed to her granddaughter who would have been born and raised around the time when this public belief started to wane.
Hmmm, that does make a lot of sense! I like that!
But still
This is probably the most sound explanation! Thank you so much!
This works as a reference, BUT, doesn't work in practice! In the world of Demon Slayer, there is no "yokai" or ghost stories besides demons. There are actual people who hunts demons, phisycal proofs of their activety and they have existed for centuries. Is not in our world where Yokai are just legends, myths and missunderstood animals. It is a nice bit of context as to why the author would do that but it didn't worked of that was the intent
But unlike those superstitions...the demons actually exist in the verse
Seriously one thing you might forget is that The Demons could just go to another country to get out of the demon slayers detection. For example, Muzan could just set his base on Taiwan or the Philippines.
Imagine them having their own Muzan, but competent.
@@mahistv I'd imagine that if they knew that there are other demons in other countries. It's highly likely that the Demon slayer corps will likely build branches in America, Asia and Europe and Africa and the Middle East. But there will be conflicting ideologies.
Yhea muzan was Turned via medicine so there are likely demons and demon slayers in other country's as well
I wondered about this also. All the demon that were created I guess they all stayed in Japan . They could have furthered the story by having the upper 6 all in different countries
@@HurricaneSavage yeah but sadly most will have conflicting ideologies like for example the Filipino demon slayer will likely try to use the breathing techniques to free themselves from the American Occupation during the 1920s.
The writer wanted to have The Demon Slayer Corp to be like a secret organization, but the problem with that Trope always comes back. There is so much evidence about them just basically everywhere and you have active survivors who would talk about it, even though most of them would probably been seen as crazy but anytime this is employed in fiction it falls apart because of one simple reason, PEOPLE 👏ARE👏INSANE👏! You would have people actively going out and looking for Demons because they can. You have people in the real world who spend there lives and huge amounts of money looking for mythical creatures, and in this universe they would find something as evidence. I guess you could say people wouldn't believe it if they didn't find and bring back an actual Demon, but that is possible for a normal person to do. Sanemi used to tie up Demons to trees and wait for the sun to come up so they'd die since he didn't have a Nichirin Blade, and this was BEFORE he learned to use any Breathing Style. If he could do it others could too. It's not just a problem with Demon Slayer it's a problem with any piece of fiction that uses this Trope, unless it's like M.I.B or Harry Potter were they have the ability to mind wipe people on a mass scale. But that just raises another question, why hide it from people? Wouldn't you want people to know so they know what to do in case they ever find themselves in a situation like this? It's why I liked when a series like MHA or Mob Psycho just said F##K it and made it so that yeah this exists and people know about it, they just don't care because at that point it's just common knowledge. This series is pretty good in all things considered but this just bugs me personally.
I agree, some common tropes are good when used properly, this one is a bit of a stretch. Thant's why I sometimes just turn off my brain and accept it (doesn't last longer than a few minutes though)
@@mahistv ya that's what you do when you consume a piece of fiction you accept that this isn't real life so when they break our rules of reality it's fine, it's when the break their own rules then the problems start
wow that was a really nice essay but if you tied it up then everybody would wait till morning to see it. "oh so it just happens to dissapear at daybreak. give me a break."
"it was right here."
@@Timelordbeast14 That situation sounds absolutely hilarious and I'd love to see it but I meant someone could physically restrain a Demon and keep it somewhere long enough for people to see It, you don't have to keep it on a tree, I mean heck you could just tie it to the part of the tree that's not facing the sun and they wouldn't try to escape or risk getting annihilated
I get what you mean. But sanemi had marechi blood that was so rare it made demons drunk just by smelling his blood
" Muzan has already grabbed the emperor by the balls." That had me crying of laughter 🤣😂🤣😂
I'm glad you appreciate my weird humor)
I think the author just really wanted it to set in our real world instead of an alternative timeline, so the solution for that is that all of it happened secretely, but that solution just creates more problems eventually.
It is very hard to pull off...
i don´t think demons in general leave much bodies around. yes that one guy from the beginning of the anime warns tanjirou about dangers lurking in the night, but i got the feeling tanjirou didn´t take him much serious. except for events like in the entertainment district i can somewhat believe that the few survivors either don´t talk much about the demons they met, or don´t get believed much. everytime we see someone talk about demons those who don´t know don´t believe them, like the girl from the food stalland her granny you mentioned
Hmm, Akaza wanna-be left bodies for sure, I can't recall who else might have...
But that's still illogical. They have been a crisis for centuries, Muzan has been making more and more demons. Also, is not hard to show who's a demon, and you can easily prove they exist, at least to high level autorities. With how many people die to them, at least some concern should exist. A whole train and a whole town was bashed to the ground and yet we receive no explanation on how that's covered up
Wouldn’t the complete disappearance of people be even worse than leaving a body though?
@@realhumanbean7915 depends how common it is for people to get killed/eaten by animals or go missing in the wild..... usually demons are not in big, populated areas. rather in small villages
I disagree. The stalemate has persisted for hundreds of years. I can’t imagine these incidents occurring for all that time, especially big ones like the Entertainment district or Infinity Train, and no one putting pieces together.
the police don't know about demons and demon slayers' existence, zenitsu talks a bit about it in the begin of the movie
That's the point, you'd think they'll question where all of these messed up corpses come from.
@@mahistv Jack the Ripper, but japanese moment
@@mahistv well just as you said there is a different from not knowing and avoiding it
Basically the goverment is just ignoring it to not start a world wide panic and with more demon slayers muzan would really become the smooth dancers he was
Also if anything they would get in the way
Also muzan makes him money by selling gyokkos pots
@@arcticflames6932 If they knew and were trying to avoid panic, then they should be working WITH the demon slaying corps, making their job easier and covering up for them. We should stop trying to write the story for Gotogue and just accept the author didn't thought well enough about that aspect
@@vcamv2354 if they work with demon slayer micheal jackson gonna do the moon walk and never return :)
Don't forget the clergy! Remember the stone hashira was a young blind monk in butt-frick-nowhere and he still lighted up antidemonic incense? If there is one group that should 1000% know demons are about, it's the buddhist clergy! Hell, maybe back in the yore day, some of the warrior monks fought demons but the disbandment of the sohei as a whole may have stopped that.
Good point, I haven't even considered the religion
JAY SANTANA DHARMA JAY BUDDHA JAY VISHNU JAY TRIVDE
@@shinchanindia6306 i fear Hindu gods have little power in the Shinto-Buddhism theology of Japan...
@@giacomoromano8842 Shinto Gods are inspiration from Hindu gods ... if you know anything about Shinto ... you can see the similarity i can show example
The explanation my friend gave was that the government at the time wouldn’t accept any autonomous organizations and would force the Corps to be disbanded or under their control. In any way, a lot of the demon slayers and other corps members would have been arrested if the government found out.
Also, the government recognizing DS Corps would be akin to admitting they have a problem they can't deal with and is a very bad look internationally.
@@mahistv I love how this is such a glaring issue to people who don't know history, but the solution is just very simply "The government was very authoritarian back then and had strict weapon control laws".
Like most people here think I’m pretty sure it’s just that as time went on people starting thinking demons and the demon slayers were myths and legends. The old man in episode 1 believed in there existence, tanjiro didn’t (at that point). Tanjiros Grandma even told him tales about demons. The boy from the swamp demon fight was also starting to realize that demons might be real after seeing Tanjiro’s speed and jump height. We don’t hear him say it fully but he was thinking in his mind “are you a demon slayer?” (I think). The grandma and her granddaughter that sold bento are also another example. The younger one didn’t believe in them but the older one did. Also I’m pretty sure the Kakushi also work to do coverups as well. So yeah people just stopped believing in demons and slayers at this point in time
That will align with how the society has changed during that time. But Slayers are not exactly hiding with their swords, when they are banned, so a word would get around
@@mahistv I agreed with what said above- but mind is an amazing thing when 'common sense' is concerned and history shows that the government of Japan- especially the shogunate succeed to 'making' their people VERY susceptible to propaganda. This is why Tokugawa Shogunate last for so long. You can watch 'Shogo' a Japanese youtuber bringing up issues of Bushido and the likes, and how old belief they practiced is all about 'restraining' their people but 'looks' good at the same time.
In the case of this war.
In Taisho period and previous, Japan is making leaps and bound for the industrial revolution and old belief in youkai/superstitions is seen as hindrance to this development. Even a rural boy like Tanjirou shows he is educated to not believe in the likes of demons like older generation in episode 1.
Also as much as I agree with you on how stupid Muzan can be, I acknowledge the guy has enough brains to not make his extermination a national project.
It's very likely at the beginning his war with the corps is pretty 'open' but as the corps is losing miserably before Yoriichi, I imagine the government at the time are too busy beating each other up to care helping Ubuyashiki clan. Muzan also shows he is not going to mess with the government either, simply because he still need to find his flower and doesn't want more nuisance in his life goal. Also... in Sengoku and Heian era, humans died like bugs in Japan apparently so the lost isn't all that concerning to them.
So by Taisho period, aside from not wanting to spread panic over cannibalistic demons- and have more important things in government's agenda. It already become a 'common sense' to let Ubuyashiki and his corps deal with Kibutsuji and demons.
I can't imagine the government would bother until the disaster in the entertainment district happened. Even then, I imagine they would just rage at Demon Slayer Corps for not dealing with it in quieter manner and destroy the district. However... they would not bother to make Muzan their business. The district is just a 'prettier' slump in the end. Also, don't tell me the Ubuyashiki with their crazy wealth wouldn't take responsibility to 'rebuild' the whole thing anyway.
So yeah... the war is a 'private' thing the government doesn't want to deal with...
and there's already a 'set' common sense that reject supernaturals in place.
Just ask Gyomei and Giyuu- it doesn't end well for them... the poor guys.
Muzan is a SCP and the demon Corp works with the SCP Foundation
That's an interesting way of looking at it, so is he a Keter or an Apollyon?
@@mahistv Muzan would definitely be Keter
@@Acid8UCloud
*Yeah pretty much. There are many S.C.P.'s who would go toe-to-toe with Muzan, even though he has so much overpowered abilities and traits. But we have S.C.P.'s like 096, 173, 682, 001, 343, 3000, and others.*
@@SCP--fj2jr 106 solo muzan too
@@SCP--fj2jr scp 999
I'd always thought that people did know about demons since honestly, they don't really do much to cover up their tracks if at all. Like, there is the kakushi but they kind of do more relief and cleanup than coverups. I thought it was just that the demon slayer organization isn't recognized by the government (which could be explained with Muzan threatening the people in charge) so they have to move discreetly because of the sword ban, not that the whole organization or the existence of demons was a secret. Especially since Tanjiro's not shy about just straight up telling people about demons a lot of the time? As for why it's not widely known, it's probably because the technology to quickly spread information wasn't there yet. Also since most people wouldn't want to talk about their traumatic encounter where they almost got eaten.
I see your point, but we clearly see newspapers writing about it. and 100 years ago wasn't that far back in terms of information spread. I mean, yes, you won't get it instantly but over a span of weeks gossip and shit will go around
I agree. I think it's shown many times throughout the series that some or many people DO know about demons-the old man on Tanjirou's mountain, the lady at the train station, the lady in charge of Daki's house, plus Kakushi as a stand by population and Wisteria Houses. However, this is Japan. You don't go around talking about these things or acting crazy, especially if the government says no. The government doesn't recognize demons as existing or a threat, either because of the panic it will cause or simple disbelief. So you don't think about it, and if you do see something and live, who's going to believe you?
You are also dealing with class systems. Prostitutes, kids, farmers, and random civilians can EASILY be written off or ignored, if they are even able put together what happened to them or what caused such destruction properly. Japan to this day is very much a place of open, silenced secrets even if you can prove something distasteful
So that overarchea everything. Then there are MANY other factors
If you see a demon, it's going to be in a traumatic incident, so you might later believe you were seeing things or traumatized into seeing a monster
If a demon looks human enough, it's just a brutal murder in your eyes, nothing supernatural. Just some evil guy in the dark with tattoos and such
A demon could have an Art to hide itself/temporarily blind you/wipe memories, etc, like Tamayo's or even Enmu's ability.
And just like the triple demon Tanjirou fought early on, and Muzan in the city, they are often sneaky or simply fast enough to not be seen at all by bystanders.
If there are, say, ten normal civilians on a road who come across a demon, right on the border of a town, what's the likelihood they live to say anything at all? Low. Very low. It's just a tragic mystery
Not to mention this all happens at night, and most populations weren't as dense as Tokyo then. Your neighbors might only be a few of you or far between, or both
Who's going to believe a rumor of 100 or so country hicks who saw a demon? If even that many even saw, believed, and reported it?
Plus, death was a much more widespread and expected problem. That is just true for most of time anyway
In a modern era or advanced city, such reports and stories are just legend. It only takes a generation or two to forget anyway
@@dflaming1371 The whole Entertainment District was blown to pieces by the UM6 duo fighting the Demon Slayers yet a lot of people survived and even watched the chaos happen. Also, SPOILERS BELOW:
The final battle against Muzan took place in a damn city.
@@totmgsrockxd9900 I swear it didn't
It took in place in a caste which was DROPPED, FUCKING DROPPED on a damn city
1920's, back then radio, telegraph telephone, man, the first primitive Prototypes of tv were already happening, it was around 10 years or so before that H. G. Wells radio program that sent several states of the US into panic Frenzy hours by the prospect of aliens, pretty sure that even if Japan was a little more backwards than the western countries, they already had the capacity to to broadcast radio news and wireless telegraph at least, with that you have information coming and going through the country in matter of hours.
I believe it's a mix between old folk legends and the time in which all of this takes place.
The Japanese have long held a strong belief in the existence of Oni and Yokai. And undoubtedly, there are many inhabitants of (small) villages who swear that they have seen a Demon.
In my opinion, you can compare this situation to that of modern folk stories such as Aliens or Bigfoot - there are many sources who claim to have seen one, but just not enough that the broad population believes them.
I understand that, but in Demon Slayer, we have victims of demons, even newspaper articles of people getting very brutally murdered by a crackhead nobody can catch and so on. Individually, these facts are nothing, but when you put them together, something is hella fishy
@@mahistv not really, misterious disappearances and people getting brutally murdered by a killer nobody can catch, happen all the time in our modern world even with modern technology far superior to that of the Taisho era.
Most of the battles between demons and slayers happen in very isolated places, like ruri's ,mountain, where people go missing without trace and die all the time in our world even without demons, an abandoned mansion, which is a place rarely visited, therefore very few witnesses, or the countryside where central state authoritiy's control is weak and traveling to and from a village is difficult and time consuming, add to that that demon's corpses disgregate with sunlight, and you have a whole bunch of missing evidence.
Also if you look at most of the demons victims, nearly all of them are people who often get dismissed in the real world, children, poor,elderly, young women, prostitutes... And so on.
@@mahistv the closest to a public scandal they got is the train and the entrainment district; but in those two cases ,the train derailed violently, so any and every death will be cucked up to that(since they are about a century before the invention of decent forensic), the second one is a bit more conspicuous, not because of the string of disappearances, it's prostitutes we are taking about, the police doesn't care about that even today, and there are several explanation for why they would die or disappear( human trafficking, drugs trafficking,a killer that enjoys killing prostitutes...you name it); the most conspicuous things are all the buildings that got destroyed... but even for that a lot of different explanations come to mind that don't involve evil demon's attack (badly constructed/old building for instance)
People aren't aware of Muzan Jackson's existence!?
nope only demon slayer corps
the thing is the demon slayer corps doesn't know his face because muzan keep changing his identity, tanjiro can find muzan because of his smell.
and muzan always hiding after he get defeated by the sun breathing dude who keep appearing on his memories.
Yep, nobody is questioning disembodied corpses found all over the country and other sus shit that is going on
@@mahistv that’s what the kakusi is for. after a fight against demons they dispose the bodies, clean up any blood and clean up the rubble. as far as the witness or victims of demons, i have no clue why they don’t do anything. my guess is they either live traumatized or join the corps.
@@kapplq8271 spot on, that’s actually one of the main reasons why people joined the corps. Also I don’t think many people want to relive the moment they almost died
@@kapplq8271 what about a witness that would report what they've seen though? especally if its a group of people?
(6:02) You are probably right. Muzan has great government connections. I would place a lot of the blame on the Daimyo. I know Demon Slayer takes place in the Tashio period; however, this period may be the reason why most people do not believe in demons. During the Edo period(1603-1876), Daimyo fought bloody wars against each other. Both demons and slayers would be valuable assets. Both sides probably made deals with lords to help their sides. Demons would be kill the Daimyo's enemies in exchange for human flesh, riches, and help keeping their existence a secret. If someone saw a demon kill or eat a human, the Daimyo could easily cover up the act. The Daimyo could say that the demon is a warrior from another land or is part Kami. Alternatively, they can bribe the peasant or kill them. This would cover up most of centuries long war between Muzan and the slayers. Eventually, the Muzan got lucky. He made friends with the Choshu and Satsuma clans. They gladly covered up any demon related incidents and killed many of the Demon Slayer Corp's allies.
Damn, I'd watch that show)
These are my two guesses
1, the creator might’ve done this so the story can be a bit more interesting
2, what are demons doing other than eating humans/going undercover
Not including the twelve kizuki, Muzan and Hashiras , the ‘war’ between humans and demons seems like no side is winning.
Now we add Hashiras who can kill almost any demon. Demons seem to go undercover and have ‘human lives’ to prevent from getting killed. Like what Daki did/does.
That’s why I think not everyone knows about demons.
I think humans a losing, cause until main character bullshit showed up, they couldn't do much, even Sanemi said that the demons are more rampant than ever before, and DS quality is going down.
@@mahistv true
Why do they need to “hide” each one of them is stronger than a hashira, if they go together, they could take on an entire demon slayer corp
@@HieuLe-fi2ri if I had to guess it’s because muzan doesn’t let them work together, there is also hashira who can activate the mark so they can defeat uppermoons, but yeah uppermoon 3,2, and 1 shouldn’t have a problem doing that, I guess why they don’t is basically worrying about Yorrichi. Uppermoon 3 and 2 probably heard rumors about him from uppermoon 1 and Muzan. Even with Muzan hunting down people who use some type of breathing like Yorrichi’s they might want to hide just in case.
@@I_like_Donuts_ the hashira doesnt even know marks exist, only after tanjiro did they know about that
I think the reason author made it that way was to avoid a complex plox, involving the government etc, etc. He just wanted to keep it a simple shounen anime so, didn't give much thought to the government being aware part.
Hands down, the fairestest assessment of the situation!
@@mahistv Thanks man, I am honoured ☺️
yep if the government was involved it would be more political and the action will be cut short.
The whole manga is an extremely simple story. They have one more arc after this and it’s over😊
@@noirekuroraigami2270which is why the story is bad
I also love that people overlook the fact that the organization is not recognized by the governament.
Yeah, that too
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@@samserlimbu2315 dude... Ain't no way I'm that good yet)
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one of the things i love about chainsaw man is that the existence of devils are so well known that the police have a offical devil hunting branch
I can't wait to watch the shit out of that!
@@mahistv same actually shaking in my seat rn waiting for the new CM trailer this friday
6:00 bro this "what if" murdered me
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I think the main reasoning is low tier demons usually try and lay low to not attract demon slayers because most low tier demons get bodied by them and can thus maybe be attributed to general people going missing kidnappers, getting lost, wild animals, etc. Then at least some of the moons set up bases in which they can pretty freely kill people EX Drum demon, Rui, Daki, Doma, where they are either considered a regular thing or somewhat of local ghost stories. When a moon goes all out like in the mugen train or in the entertainment district I can imagine they would be attributed to natural disasters and people who claim to have seen demons are probably considered crazy. However yes the government should 100% know the Demon slayers exist
The train victims is what confuses me. They said there were a lot of them, but we haven't seen much investigation. They were like - train is fine, we've inspected it, sure, lets run it again and hope for the best! I understand that they wont suspect supernatural activity, but still. For all they know a crackhead can hide in some ridiculous place, waiting for the maintenance to finish.
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Considering Japan was a highly spiritual nation during that period, and the lack of a general knowledge historically everywhere among common folk, most people would probably think demons to be evil spirits. And considering ghosts are also a thing (Tanjiro's boulder training), there are probably other mystical beings around too. The government may have parts of it denying any spiritual involvement, but there are sure to be others that think the Demon Slayers are just a group of exorcists and priests. With firearms also being on the rise, there would be no need for superstrength soldiers in the army either.
The ghost are weird in this show, I don't quite get how it works...
What if muzan was real and came back to life
I have a list of thing to say to him...
Prepare to eat some nichirn bullets
Welp, it’s time to start learning breathing techniques to battle Muzan Jackson and his backup dancers
1. Muzan doesn't want anyone to know he or any of his underlings are around until he find a way to conquer his weakness to the sun.
2. The Demon Slayer Corps don't want to tell the populace because it would start a panic and make it easier for demons to move around because everyone will be start claiming normal people are demons.
3. Demon Slayer takes place around the Taisho period, where Japan was trying to show that they're a strong nation. They would never let the world know they're infested with demons.
3b. If other nations found out about demons, they might invade Japan to kill Muzan or ally with Muzan to gain his power.
1. That is just stupid. He should have a trusted R&D department in his infinity castle, but he is too cowardly to set it up.
2, 3 and 3b. 100% agree! I even explained that in my "5 Things that make Perfect Sens about DS" video
I mean it doesn't make sense tbh like the trio and tengen legit had a whole war and literally evacuated the district and yet nobody knows of this
It's probably plot tbh
NOTHING TO SEE HERE! Move along) That's what I think every time this stuff happens
To be honest, I think most people think about demons the same as we think of real stories about yokai. I mean… seriously… no one is gonna believe that tengu kidnapped an entire family. And should someone suggest such a thing, they’re called crazy and isolated from society, or at least told to get therapy. Even when tanjiro was told about demons in episode one, he reacted the same way children react to bedtime stories.
If we are talking isolated incidents, then yes. But this was happening for centuries and there are literal family members who tell these tales. Hard to ignore that when you hear similar stories from a lot of different sources.
@@mahistv If it has been happening for centuries, then it is normal. Most people for cecnturies lived with this as normal, so there's nothing strange about that.
Not to mention that there is not a lot of demons roaming. Muzan himself doesn't allow their numbers to grow since it would mean the risk of rebelion. There's probably at most a few dozens demons at a time, and there's a limit to the number of people they can eat as shown witht the former lower 6.
Who fights the demons elsewhere? Vatican exorcists, Spanish inquisitors, English witch hunters, African shaman, Indian monks, a special US Calvary unit? Give me the expanded universe D:< .
America would be all over this war-machine)
Considering all demons are infertile, there are only nine of them who can actually turn humans into others of their kind and none of those goes around siring new ones willy nilly, it's entirely plausible they're a Japan only problem.
Demons literally leveled Yoshiwara, like how does that not spark some interest.
Gas pipe explosion or some shit) yes yes, 1910s I know!
Heres what I think. By that point in Japan more people were thinking along the lines of this "Oh hey Gods, Yokai and spirits are all myth or folk lore" etc. Now lets put this into a modern perspective. Would you believe a random man on the streets dressed up as a vampire hunter or something saying "don't worry everyone i am here to kill vampires" you'd think they're crazy. Especially if a group of people did that. But what if they weren't crazy would you still believe them when Vampires are supposedly fake? Most likely not. Not lets go back to 1920s japan. Information doesn't spread as well as it does now. Demons are rare and scarce, and as you said Muzan probably has the Emperor afraid of him so he doesn't do anything rash, now the Emperor could just outright ban Demon Slayers and have them arrested. But how the fuck are you going to arrest a man who is killing demons who can easily level a building when they're on the weaker side. Now these are just my thoughts, but given the context of the story they fit a lot better.
I see your point, that may very much be the case!
My two counter arguments against your points:
1. Taisho period of Japan was notoriously unstable (hence the shortest era of Japan, 14 years lol). The wealth divide was huge. There were mass protests and riots from peasants and workers. Lives weren’t safe and the rich only got richer. This Only people living in cities, and specifically people with wealth, were really accounted for. Farmers and workers who lived in the country side and boonies were not accounted for by the government of the time. And if any people in poverty went missing or died, the news of them going missing would travel very slowly as well as no body in positions of power at the time really cared or had the resources to investigate what was happening.
2. Corruption was also rampant. I’m pretty sure Muzan’s finances were able to keep many demons off the books. Demons were also very well hidden in plain sight. Entertainment district showed that many people simply did not report what they witnessed to authorities because of what I mentioned in point 1 and also because people were afraid they will get killed mysteriously if they poked their nose in those situations.
There are so many unresolved missing person cases and mysterious deaths back then. And many times, those cases were simply closed out because, well, people died and authorities simply moved on because they couldn’t solve it.
Surprisingly, I’d say that Demon Slayers were doing a good job eradicating low threat demons and very responsive to the investigation of abnormal events like several missing persons.
But then again, this is a fictional world, it’s okay to suspend our disbelief and enjoy the show.
I do agree mostly, except for the fact that those 14 years are a fart in a hurricane compared to Muzan reign over the centuries. We can't assume that a 1000 years of demons running wild had no affect on the common folk, let alone the higher ups
From a basic person perspective, thinking that there are beings living among the common folk that can alter gravity and reality, create alternate dimensions, dive into solid areas, redirect the common flow of things, it just all seem surreal and you would often hear it from crazy people or from old folklore/myths.
It's the "see it to believe it" kind of thing. They are just hoping whatever is being told in these stories is not real for their own good.
I can see that, however when it happens all around you and you read about dozens of people brutally killed on a train and nobody can catch them... that will make you think
my speculation is ubuyashiki have some connection to the govt/emperor and also keep the demon existence secret, i mean they have farsight and rich AF, i meanthe member of DS need to lay low as best as possible not to draw attenttion from public but i never heard of them get arrested(maybe some of them) and never get punished for bringing katana(im assuming it happens during meiji era), and now way you can hide the truth of red district destruction from public if the govt/emperor doesnt help them to do it.
I wish that was the explanation...
Only thing I can think of is Gyomei’s backstory
(Spoilers!)
He beats up a demon that tried to kill his orphan kids and in the morning the stupid mf dissapears so they think that he did it. Now this is a bit far fetched, but I think since demons straight up just poof once they die with zero evidence, most demon killings are ruled accidental deaths. And all the demons that make people go missing just eat the person who went to go investigate.
I do believe there are some rumors about demons but since nobody has definitive proof (Not even the slayer corps themselves) people just think of them of a rumor and maybe even a “Explanation” for a disease of some sort.
Like when you see a transforming demon you would probably think they got rabies or something until they actually become more demonic the more people they eat. But until then they just act feral lol
Kinda far fetched but it’s the best thing I can think of, great video tho!
That is a good theory, however, we know for a fact slayers catch and contain demons - for final selection. So They do have experience in capturing them too, thus they can present the evidence to authorities at least.
One thing to add onto Gyomei's backstory
When the police came to the house where Gyomei took care of the children, the police asked the youngest girl that Gyomei protected what happened
She said that he killed all of them (she was talking ab the demon btw), the sun had risen so the demon died, due to the police not seeing the demon they thought it was Gyomei because he was the only other person there and then Gyomei was arrested
If demon slayer wants demons to be secret they would need to have two things one a organization powerful enough to keep demon secret or two have some way of wiping people's memories and also they would need to have a reason for keeping the demons secret.
They need to ask Men in Black for an advice)
They would need to pull an scp foundation
A version of Demon Slayer in which Muzan is basically Palpatine would make a lot more sense.
Anything would make more sense, honestly...
Muzan would be hunted better yes but being a known boogeyman means you don’t have to secretly experiment and kill people, which only happens when they stop caring about who sees and kill and take what they want.
It’d easily be a tense state of war which would play a heavy toll on their psyche. Muzan could teleport anywhere with that Infiniti room stuff and I’m sure he’d master infecting people in such a way they quietly transform and become sleeper agents thus adding more panic till they all just collapse and submit.
Muzan can do so much with his Infinity Castle that I'm going to make a video on that soon!
the existence of demons in demon slayer is very mixed between different populations of people as seen during the mugen train arc the idea of a demon just sounded dumb but than in volume 16 of demon slayer a certain point in it a certain character says the fear of demons ran deep where he used to be im not gonna go into it because of spoilers but it seems that some populations were completely unaware of demons and others even knew about demons weakness to wisteria hense them lighting wisteria scented candles at night
Interesting, didn't know about that
>Demon Slayers capture demon like they’ve been shown to be able to do
>take demon under escort and show government
>say “Funding and recruitment program, please and thank you”
>demons demolished
The only thing is that the government might have turned on them and recruited demons as soldiers)
@@mahistv I think most of them would find it simply safer to side with the guys who definitely WON’T eat them and their families if the inclination crosses them.
@@mahistv Given that this is pre-industrial Japan and the horrendous things that the Japanese did across Asia in its imperial years, that's more likely.
I get wanting a secret organization in your story It's cool but you got to have something like The Mist from Percy Jackson or Those memory erasers from Men in Black
something like that. You can't put glasses on a Superman and call him Clark Kent without people suspecting something...
I thought the general public kind of/sort of knew about Demons but just kind of shrugged the knowledge off or were too polite to correct people about it.
Kind of like wearing your shirt inside-out and backwards in public but no one tells you your shirt looks funny.
I really want to see how they deal with people from the train...
Now that I think about it nobody questions how ghost are real in demon slayer like nobody questions it? Tanjiro meet sabito and makamo to people who were dead before he even met them akaza was able to talk to his dead wife and his master
Zenitsu was able to talk to his dead master but maybe that was just a dream douma was able to talk to the dead shinobu, sanemi went to the afterlife and came back and finally muichiro , gyomei and even rui went to the afterlife so that just exist in demon slayer and nobody questions this?
Hmm, I need too look into that, that sounds interesting
@@mahistv alright
Special in rural areas and small towns, I’m from one in latinoamérica and my grandmas legit still believe in brujos wich are like wizards shapeshifters into certain birds and cats, different from the mainstream European version of wizards, and although most of younger people don’t believe in them, they still a well know secret, like elder people say that you don’t have to trust certain animals following you at night cuz they may be Brujos
Yeah, for sure they will have legends and stories of demons!
Spoiler: koyoharu gotouge is the last living demon and was Muzan’s business partner and wrote about true events
Now I think if all of this was done on purpose to confuse us...
@@mahistv nice theory
Just came from your muzan could have won video god this makes me so satisfied someone finally said something
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I think most people are aware to some level but decide to ignore it or dismiss it as fake due to fear.
I wonder how the people from the train will live their lives)
@@mahistv yeah, they got the poor end of the stick. Perhaps one becomes one of those people that helps the slayers
@@markhunter3533 They can recruit a damn squad of people from there)
“The monsters in the dark are scarier than the ones in the light. Remember, we die in the dark, so you can live in the light.” Scp dude on tiktok
Damn, that dude is spitting facts
*If Muzan moved to America
Muzan: Finally, without the Demon Slayer Corps, I am free to eat as many people I want!
IRS: Excuse me, those are my tax dollars you are eating! Also you have been running a pottery business while paying zero in taxes.
FTC: Excuse me, I heard you have engaged in multiple instances of identity theft
OSHA: Excuse me, I just inspected your Infinite Castle and not only does it not have a permit but I have found multiple workplace safety violations.
CDC: Excuse me, I heard you not only you are infected with a contagious disease but also entered this country without sufficient quarantine procedures and worse is you have been deliberately spreading it
FDA: Excuse me, I heard that you have been practicing medicine without license
EPA: Excuse me, I heard that you have been poaching an endangered flora.
FBI: Excuse me, I heard you have been prostituting a minor.
Muzan: Shit its the Feds! RUN!
*Easy fix*
Muzan: Alright bois, who is interested in some immortal super soldiers?
My question is tho, if the headless demon died by a torso cut, and demons die from the neck bone by enmu’s words, so does it actually require a cut in the spinal cord instead of decapitation since a demon never survived a cut there except maybe the swamp demon
Interesting, need to look into it a bit more
That seems plausible
i had no idea taisho era was so recent lol, but then again they have trains and cars
Time and technology is weird...
I think if Demon Slayer was public knowledge. A lot of these plot holes would've been dealt with.
To an extent, yes
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I would imagine Muzan threatening the emperor and blackmail him to not say demons exist and spread false information to the public
I'd expect him to do that at some point
remember at the end of the gyutaro fight? when his body self destructs and lets off a nuke of blood slashes? and daki when he opened the third eye slashing up the whole block.
by the end of the u6 fight they flattened the entire red light district, its all on fire and cut up and a blood nuke went off in the centre. HOW DO THEY IGNORE THIS
No damn clue...
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I actually have theory about the guy from the forest where Tanjiro lived, actually i think that he saw or witnessed a demon. U see, his wife died, but we never get to know why she have, and since he's talking about demons and how the demons CAN get into his house, it's most likely that a demon killed his wife.
I agree, that dude has way more going on than meets the eye!
Fun fact: literally everyone in the entertainment district died when gyutaru exploded
Hmm, I'm pretty sure Tengen's wives evacuated the city
Muzan moon walked into the mayors office
That's quite likely!
I'm working on my own story, and I swear it is such a huge puzzle trying to find out how to make these cool organizations and interesting antagonists work. There are always ways for people to try to solve problems more effectively than these shows (as cool as they are, and as much as I like them). Of course, there are exceptions I guess--like if the antagonists just recently popped up/became more powerful, or there is some reason why things need to be kept secret, I don't know...so that's what I'm working with right now.
That's awesome! I got a video on villains, maybe that will help. In my opinion, as long as the organization and it's actions make sense WITHIN the story, we are good, no need for some very deep and intricate background unless of course you want it
In our own world, there are people who've said they wouldn't believe in God even if they saw him. The same goes for demons. People don't want to believe in demons because it upsets their worldview. The people in demon slayer are willingly ignorant because they refuse to believe that supernatural things are possible, just like in real life.
I woiuld have belived that if DS was set in todays world. But 100 years ago and in Japan? People would have 100% believed because they already had Onii and Yokai bullshit for centuries
I pretty sure the demon slayer corps is secret from the outside world
Hard to keep that a secret, Imagine reading a newspaper that has a few pages dedicated to brutal murders, then there are samurai wannabe running around when its basically modern days and the scary stories grandmas tell around the country have suspiciously many similarities
In Season 1 there was a short explanation that the government knows about Demon Slayers and doesn't interfere wit them, but also doesn't provide support. Officially Demons don't exist.
That "explanation" is like a band-aid on a gushing wound...
@@mahistv It's a pretty standard approach to this type of anime. You have a point though and it's better handled in Chanisaw Man, where there are both freelancer Devil Hunters and a government agency for Devil Hunters.
I always assumed it was a mix of demons efficiency and demon slayers somehow trying to hide it
With muzans potential influence.
I'm sure they all have played a part in that
I mean, people in the Demon Slayer have to be stupid asf if they don’t realize that a bunch if mfs are wearing the same Uniforms and having similar Swords, HELL THEY HAVE EVEN SEEN DEMONS! Yet the Public doesn’t know about them????
No way, there will be rumors and urban stories!
I think the author forgot how recent the Taisho era was. A few year before to nealy a decade after the Great War. The one with photos, film, radio, air planes, etc. My home town won the Stanley Cup BEFORE this era started.
It's funny that hundred years ago sounds so far back, but it really isn't
@@mahistv It feels closer because documents, photos and even video was present.
Reading it first time I always thought everyone know about demon there are even fuji incenses that Gyomei use before Kaigaku put it down
Yeah, there are too many people who have general knowledge of demons
0:30 Dattebayo!
Dattebayo!
When did all that rengoku stuff happen
Mugen Train, I assume
Muzan came around in an era where people truly believed in monsters. It would not have been that hard for the head of the Ubuyashiki family to present it to the Emperor or Shogun and work out a solution. In World War Z: the Roman Empire and Ancient China trained their military on how to deal with Zombie threats.
i think they do know. but tanjiros family didnt know probably cus they lived far away and the government probably wants to keep it a secret to not cause panic too
Everybody has to know, especially people in remote areas
@@mahistv well maybe the corp members who uses the masks are hella good at covering stuff up. like demon slayer lawyers lmao
Buffy the vampire slayer had the similar issue. Kids got eaten by vampires .saw friends getting eaten but yet everyone acts like vampires dont exist
This is very strange... all these "secret agencies" and such, seem to have a common flaw
I agree with your point, but you have to understand - in the entertainment district arc, there were many survivors. Put it this way - many people do not want to express their emotions or traumatic experiences so easily or so, without being teared down or not being able to speak elaborately so that no one can understand.
Let's say, depressed people in our modern days. Most of the depressed population doesn't even get a therapist or help, and they just put on a facade with a smile. This can be seen with shinobu, her sister died and she hides it all and her hatred with demons with a smile. Her original face was her true behaviour. Not that bright, but still better to open up. Just imagine inhumane entities destroying a town, and some organization not recognized by the government fighting it but barely won.
Nope, not tattle taling about that. Ain't no way I'm gonna tell this to the gov without some superhumans getting revenge for getting the entire Japanese military mobilised up against the demons. And to say the least - costs for fighting demons necessarily didn't matter because Japan was a prosperous nation, a very rich and resourceful nation, up until ww2. They duked it out against the Mongols, the Russians, the Americans, hell they handled the European imperials. So fighting demons might just be as costly as ww2.
Japan is not a rich nation. They never had much resources and the ones they had, were shit comparatively. It's through technology and innovation (also stealing other countries' tech) that they became prosperous.
As for military might, until WW2 Russia, America and European countries were leagues above and Japan had to make very "unfair" pact to make sure it doesn't go down. Example, when a Russian Royalty member came to Japan in 1800s (I nay be a bit off, haven't read those history books since high school), he unintentionally arrived on a ship that would single handedly wipe their entire navy and made all the officials scared shitless. That was one of the reasons Japan went on a huge industrial boom - they realize how far behind they were in comparison to the "old world"
@@mahistv did not Japan started their industrial revolution before even Europe?
I believe it's because Demons are really that good at killing and not leaving anyone run away from them as they have a speed that makes them invisible to the human eye, super senses that let's them hunt anyone they want once they try to scape, a strength that let's them burst through flesh as if it was a sponge and a regeneration that let's them fight and kill during the whole night without caring about injuries
Sanemi and Tanjiro where able to defend against some but Sanemi isn't a normal human and Tanjiro was okay in terms of strength if he was able to hold his own ground against a Nezuko who could grow in size like that, other people normally get killed on sight even if they go in groups of 30 or are armed soldiers, like Michikatsus group or the siblings of Sanemi
Fair point, but some demons leave corpses behind, and all the people disappearing without a trace or reason... Somebody would look into it
@@mahistv yes but unless they encounter the Corps they would end up pretty much dead if a Demon gets to smell them
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but warning : Math incoming
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! WHY MATH!
Hey, at least I gave you a warning!
Would it make sense if demons became public knowlege in medieval times and if the Demon Slayer Corps was a publicly known organization by like the sengoku period at most and got at least some goverment suport?
Just imagine if everyone knew they could become immortal and have amazing powers at the cost of eating people, and the FIRST guy who ever was a demon instantly became evil so no I think demons should stay below radar and wiped out and everyone stay human
Fair point, but it's hard to remain good and powerful/immortal when you have to eat people
@@mahistv exactly
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we live in the literal Age of Information and still, most people have no idea about what happened or is happening in their own countries, cut the author some slack, how fast would someone call you a conspiracy theorist if you pointed out that no police showed up to the fire that covered the entire entertainment district last week
I see your point and it makes total sense. But that shit was happening for a 1000 years, plus people got less entertainment those days, so gossiping around was straight fire I bet
You used a clip from Medaka Box, instant like.
Thank you! I'm using clips from a whole bunch of shows)
Thing is there really aren't that many demons, and most reach their limit on how many humans can eat quickly.
It's not like vampires where they need a constant source forever, once they are at their limit they won't need to feed anymore
I don't know about that. It's hard to gage the amount of demons... Lets say Tanjiro gets a mission every few months, that's 4-6 missions a year. How many slayer are there? 100? 200? That'll make it 1000ish demons slain a year...
Of course, math here is guesstimation at best, but the number of demons can't be that small in this setting.
@@mahistv Well I guess my thing is, if only Muzan can create them, technically, the others need permission, or struggle to do so, how many really is he out there creating? He doesn't do it for no reason, unless he's feels threatened, which isn't normal. He does it for those he feels are worthy and stand a chance at challenging for one of the 12 moons(before he killed the 6).
Tashio era Japan has between 55-60 million people, a few thousand demons, isn't going to register w/most people b/c most demons aren't going to be killing 100's or 1000's of people, let alone yearly, not even the most voracious. Again most hit their limit quickly, demons don't need to eat to survive.
Even if there were 3000 demons each averaging 120 people a year(overly exaggerated #'s on both sides) that's 250,000 deaths, seems like a large #, but it's only .006, of the population.
To put that in perspective, 460,000 children are reported missing every year in the US, which has a population of 332mil people, that's .001 of the population, and it's not a top major issue in the US.
The slayers should have recruited the ones who have seen demons by like...training and stuff??? Like look at aoi she made tanjirou heal and become stronger!
My point exactly! Made an entire video about that!
It's like a zombie outbreak spreading out and people are all in denial like: Dis nothing but collective disphoria, harmless, let's keep our lifes going.
Just add the fact that this outbreak has been out for centuries
Dude, after witnessing this shit first hand (I was working in medical-ish field for the first years of covid) I no longer think that all those apocalypse movies are dumb... people in them are)
I heard that it's because if everyone knew muzan would prob move to another country
I bet they don't have Nichirin swords there, so why not?
I mean these demons have been around for hundreds of years to be fair, so this wouldn't be a new kind of spike really.
Agreed
Ahh, future mahis must be upset with how poorly demon slayers get trained after the Hashira Training arc.
Can't wait to see a fanfic about ww2 Japanese commit war crimes on demon with Nichirin rifle
I wouldn't be surprised there is one
6:20 he just sells Gyokko's pots
Ok, he a merchant)
"1000 ppl go missing every year," 1:50😂😂
Not sure what you mean
@@mahistv I'm Just laughing at how realistic some of us wish our fiction should be. I'm with u though n I enjoy ur content my friend. Pls keep creating.
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Thank you! I appreciate the support!
*"math incoming"*
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