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Apr 7, 2025 8:29 AM
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Jinta taking on the role of a ronin is quite fitting for his character. His skills seems to be needed around their world against demons.

So yeah, I'd imagine right now, this follows a 'monster of the week' format until a bigger plot unfolds. Jinta just seems like the guy to help the helpless.
Apr 7, 2025 8:32 AM
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oh well, the old man, Juuzou, is actually Jinta's father. The story of Juuzou's runaway son is actually Jinta.

The year from this episode is Kaei 3, which is equivalent to 1850. About 20 years after the Tenpo era, in the first episode. This is also 3 years prior to the famous Perry's Black Ship incident in 1853, which led to the reopening of the country to the western world and ended its long-standing policy of isolation.
AkeZZZApr 7, 2025 8:37 AM
真姫ちゃん! 何が好き? トマト よりも あ・な・た♡
Apr 7, 2025 8:39 AM
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Jinya has become a ronin who exterminates demons here and there, but the strings of fate bring him another job back at his home, where he’s employed by his father to protect a girl he’s taken in as a daughter. Sadly, the lack of time Jinya's father, Juuzou spends with Natsu has left her doubting herself, eventually leading to the creation of a demon born from strong negative emotions.

However, it seems the demon wasn’t entirely created by her feelings alone but was also influenced by his mother’s deep sorrow.

Jinya’s mother was a demon? That explains why his sister is one too, and this being his house makes things even more interesting.


It was another good episode, but I feel bad for his mother’s fate and how he had to end things with her like that.
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Apr 7, 2025 8:41 AM
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Bruh no proper op and ed
Apr 7, 2025 8:41 AM
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ANOTHER EP, ANOTHER GREAT ONE

his mother??? hummmm



E2 (8/10)
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Apr 7, 2025 8:47 AM
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best op and ed music in spring 2025
Apr 7, 2025 8:47 AM
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Jinya has become a ronin who exterminates demons here and there, but the strings of fate bring him another job back at his home, where he’s employed by his father to protect a girl he’s taken in as a daughter. Sadly, the lack of time Jinya's father, Juuzou spends with Natsu has left her doubting herself, eventually leading to the creation of a demon born from strong negative emotions.

However, it seems the demon wasn’t entirely created by her feelings alone but was also influenced by his mother’s deep sorrow.

Jinya’s mother was a demon? That explains why his sister is one too, and this being his house makes things even more interesting.


It was another good episode, but I feel bad for his mother’s fate and how he had to end things with her like that.
@XArceusX no, his mother had been rped by a demon and that's why Suzune was half-demon. She died giving birth to her
Apr 7, 2025 9:15 AM
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XArceusX said:
Jinya's mother was a demon? That explains why his sister is one and this is his house, interesting.

if she was demon then why jinya was born human?
Apr 7, 2025 9:29 AM
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Ah plot twist.
Pretty nice way to give more backstory and tied up story loose end.

Jinya is unburned by his past, his Path can now truly begin.
Apr 7, 2025 9:32 AM
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XArceusX said:
Jinya's mother was a demon? That explains why his sister is one and this is his house, interesting.

if she was demon then why jinya was born human?
@King_Abhi he was born before his sister and the man that hired him is his father. His sister was born after and the result of his mother being r****d by a demon.
Apr 7, 2025 9:44 AM
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Holy the OP song was FIRE man,just kept repeating the beginning instrumental part alone.Too bad the visuals were just ep 1 scenes,hopefully it'll change since the ED(also banger) was just credits rolling.

Dude this eps got more deep than initially shown.More lore drop about how demons came to be and how it ties up with the family.Honestly glad this show can pull a wholesome emotional outcome and not just edgy tragic demon incidents throughout.

Then it got more crazy to reveal it was Jinyas family all along and that was his mother?Entire scene was just so well done,and then seeing how proud the dad was with his son was beautiful.Glad Jinya could still put on a smile now.

Edit:Found out they posted an actual OP visuals on yt alr,so many great OPs this season.
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Bruh no proper op and ed
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lol there is an actual OP made for the show idk why it wasnt in the episode though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-qts35mIkM
Apr 7, 2025 10:12 AM

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I noticed that the visuals for the op is different in yt and in the 2nd episode. It seems like they're trying to avoid giving spoilers
Apr 7, 2025 10:27 AM
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Promising. Seemed boring and useless until the plot twist was revealed, giving purpose to the entire episode.
Apr 7, 2025 10:34 AM
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AkeZZZ said:
oh well, the old man, Juuzou, is actually Jinta's father. The story of Juuzou's runaway son is actually Jinta.

The year from this episode is Kaei 3, which is equivalent to 1850. About 20 years after the Tenpo era, in the first episode. This is also 3 years prior to the famous Perry's Black Ship incident in 1853, which led to the reopening of the country to the western world and ended its long-standing policy of isolation.

Ohh so i was right about it. I literally got confused about the whole thing lol. Then how is that little girl related to him?? sister or cousin?? pretty confused
Apr 7, 2025 10:36 AM

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Okay, that's a change of tone and pace compared to the last one. Not a bad episode
Apr 7, 2025 10:47 AM

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lol there is an actual OP made for the show idk why it wasnt in the episode though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-qts35mIkM
@Oxxe damn that looks good
Zenji holding an ero ukiyo-e art at 0:30 is such a good detail lmao
Apr 7, 2025 10:50 AM
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Great episode, you can easily tell that the studio is trying very hard on this and it's really showing. Great direction, amazing art style and character designs, the fight sequences were nothing crazy but still pretty good. The OST direction was also amazing, the story was flowing very nice. The story is very good too, literally nothing I can nitpick, I did spot a few animation flaws in the last few minutes but they were super minor.

Great episode I think this will be the best one this season
Apr 7, 2025 11:01 AM

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AkeZZZ said:
oh well, the old man, Juuzou, is actually Jinta's father. The story of Juuzou's runaway son is actually Jinta.

The year from this episode is Kaei 3, which is equivalent to 1850. About 20 years after the Tenpo era, in the first episode. This is also 3 years prior to the famous Perry's Black Ship incident in 1853, which led to the reopening of the country to the western world and ended its long-standing policy of isolation.

Ohh so i was right about it. I literally got confused about the whole thing lol. Then how is that little girl related to him?? sister or cousin?? pretty confused
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About Natsu? Her parents were Juuzou's relatives. When both of them died, Juuzou adopted her.
So, I think you can say that she is a kinda distant relative to Jinta.
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Apr 7, 2025 11:40 AM
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I didn't realise until the end he was his father
Apr 7, 2025 11:59 AM
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Apr 7, 2025 12:20 PM

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The episode is good but confuses two things and that is the too abrupt transition from the end of the first episode, to this episode and the recap in the opening, the original opening itself is excellent.
Apr 7, 2025 12:35 PM
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So Juuzou is actually Jinta's father, and his wife got killed by a demon, that demon took her daughter who is Suzune? so the demon came from Natsu and the wife of Juuzou mixed in together? so the second demon that Jinta killed is actually the wife? do I get that correctly?

It was a bit confusing and I had to watch it several times to try to form an answer, now reading all the comments, I wonder if I got it right? lol

Anyway, one of my favorite series this season and I can't wait to watch more episodes
Apr 7, 2025 12:46 PM
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I think this episode is very closely related to the first episode since it's about the origin of Jinya, IMO a better option is to have episode 1 cover this case and expand its run time to 90 minutes, and this option also allow theatrical release since 90 minutes would be an ideal length for a movie.
Apr 7, 2025 12:49 PM

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So Juuzou is actually Jinta's father, and his wife got killed by a demon, that demon took her daughter who is Suzune? so the demon came from Natsu and the wife of Juuzou mixed in together? so the second demon that Jinta killed is actually the wife? do I get that correctly?

It was a bit confusing and I had to watch it several times to try to form an answer, now reading all the comments, I wonder if I got it right? lol

Anyway, one of my favorite series this season and I can't wait to watch more episodes
@Kai200X random demon rped Jyuuzou's wife. Wife conceived and gave birth to Suzune. Wife died during the childbirth. So technically Suzune, a demon, killed his wife, and that's why Jyuuzou was abusing Suzune. I actually don't remember Natsu being a relative of Jyuuzou written down in the books, but I might have missed that tiny detail while reading
Apr 7, 2025 12:50 PM
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AkeZZZ said:
@Apratim
About Natsu? Her parents were Juuzou's relatives. When both of them died, Juuzou adopted her.
So, I think you can say that she is a kinda distant relative to Jinta.

I see. So ya now that his family connections are over, his real journey will start I guess
Apr 7, 2025 12:53 PM

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Jinya has become a ronin who exterminates demons here and there, but the strings of fate bring him another job back at his home, where he’s employed by his father to protect a girl he’s taken in as a daughter. Sadly, the lack of time Jinya's father, Juuzou spends with Natsu has left her doubting herself, eventually leading to the creation of a demon born from strong negative emotions.

However, it seems the demon wasn’t entirely created by her feelings alone but was also influenced by his mother’s deep sorrow.

Jinya’s mother was a demon? That explains why his sister is one too, and this being his house makes things even more interesting.


It was another good episode, but I feel bad for his mother’s fate and how he had to end things with her like that.
@XArceusX you didn't, it wasn't stated in the anime, only the book
Apr 7, 2025 1:32 PM
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Why didn't they use the actual op in this episode instead they played one with episode 1 clips for some reason
Apr 7, 2025 1:33 PM

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Not as crazy an episode story-wise as the first, but still really good and importantly narratively. Got to learn a lot more about demons, how to kill them, all the ways they can be born, and showing us Jinya’s rather complicated family history. Did not see that twist coming at the end with his mom.

It was dark in the first episode, so I didn’t really get a good look at the dad, but these last couple decades must’ve really made him mellow out because he was so cruel in episode 1 and seems to be a picture perfect dad to Natsu now.. not for no reason though. When we finally got to the end and found out that a demon raped his wife leading to Suzune’s birth and how she died in child birth.. I get it. It definitely would be hard to look at Suzune, but if he’d considered she herself was innocent and just the result of a horrific circumstance.. maybe she wouldn’t have been so fucked up mentally.

Anyway, nice full circle moment with Jinya going back to where it all started, showing his dad how much he’s grown and finally putting his mother to rest. Now he can truly move on and start his journey. Just from these first two eps, I can tell a big theme in this series is gonna be people being victims of awful circumstances. Unfortunate what happened to Jinya and Suzune, but at least Natsu will have a loving home.
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great episode i like that they both knew who they were but acted like they didn't I did realize it was father at first but once the story about the son running away with a she devil I put it together
Apr 7, 2025 2:59 PM
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Have to admit they did a good job of burying the lede for the episode's twist. First they ended last episode with an apparent timeskip to a modern day setting, the jump back leaving a lowkey dissonance that distracts from the ongoing mystery, but they also never showed his father's face in the first episode, it was always covered in shadow. The closest was only a short scene where you can see the back of his head and the hairstyle he sports., it must've been at least 30 years that passed since Jinta ran away with the solid gray he'd gone to.
Apr 7, 2025 3:34 PM
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Really cool way to end the subplot of the family
Apr 7, 2025 3:58 PM

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I got confused at first thinking it wasn’t the main character, but yeah, it is him — his name was just changed from Jinta to Jinya by that old guy in the last episode lol.
But I’m still not sure I fully understood…
Apr 7, 2025 4:18 PM

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uck it , i've loved those first 2 eps so luch i want to put it in my fav alreayd
Apr 7, 2025 4:44 PM
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Unfortunate that the OP is just episode 1 scenes and the ED is still just a credits crawl, but man they are both really good, but apparently there are actual visuals for the OP from what I’m seeing in this thread, they just didn’t use it this time, understandable I guess, I’ll be looking forward to seeing it when it comes.

And damn what an episode this was, not quite as crazy as the first one (that was expected) but it was still great. I’m ngl I was initially confused when the twist came, being that the demon this time was Jinya’s mom, or at least created by her from what I understand, and the man that hired Jinya was his dad. I was confused because I thought this episode was after the full time skip at the end of episode 1, but dumb me didn’t realize the date they showed at the start was just 20 years after the events of the previous one, everything makes sense now lol.

But damn that reveal really tied it all together nicely, I thought it was a bit convenient that the demon was simply created by Natsu’s feelings (depressed people have it rough in this world lol), but making this personal for Jinya made me appreciate it a lot more. I’m also glad to have gotten more info on what happened to Jinya’s family, so the reason the dad was being so cruel to Suzune was because she was the result of his wife being raped and killed… it doesn’t make the opening scene of the show more pleasant but it does put a better perspective on it, and it’s also good to see the dad is doing well now with Natsu, I’m happy that such a terrible situation could result in something good.
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Apr 7, 2025 5:17 PM

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That was a great episode to spice up a classic monster-of-the-week style narrative with some well-presented and mostly subtle backstory. If this were a lazier show, they'd hamfist this exposition with a couple of awkward trauma-dumped monologues from the protagonist to the girl or father. Instead, the plot respects the characters, their emotions, their grasp on the social and practical situation, and the characters' actions follow through to make a well-contained story.

Great start to this series.

No idea why half the comments are obsessively focused on the OP and ED, as if the meat of the episode didn't give us enough to discuss and talk about.
Apr 7, 2025 5:58 PM

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Holy FUCK this looked like SHIT compared to the first episode, as if that wasn't already rough as is. Not even surprise considering every scene in the PV was ripped from episode one, so yeah, it looking like actual SHIT is no surprise to me.

Literally no sauce to be found anywhere anymore, and almost everything that move more than an inch this episode was some garbage CG... jesus LOL. So, at least the story is carrying right? FUCK no. Aside from the snoozefest monster-of-the-week thing it’s doing, the “twist” where gramps is actually the MC’s dad, the runaway kid was just MC being emo, mom got raped by a demon and died, half-sis got beat up for existing, and then MC kills a trauma demon to feel better is like...

Peak Walmart Demon Slayer (just as if not more shit than this series) energy, I’m crying.
Apr 7, 2025 7:10 PM
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Low standard review
I combusted. Its good, not bad. Enjoyable animation. Its just overall a pretty good anime
Apr 7, 2025 7:12 PM
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At least this (and hopefully future) episode was better than the first.
Apr 7, 2025 7:17 PM
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Excellent episode!

Jinya = Jinta++;
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Apr 7, 2025 7:19 PM
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Jinya's mother was a demon? That explains why his sister is one and this is his house, interesting.

if she was demon then why jinya was born human?
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Apr 7, 2025 7:30 PM
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I got confused at first thinking it wasn’t the main character, but yeah, it is him — his name was just changed from Jinta to Jinya by that old guy in the last episode lol.
But I’m still not sure I fully understood…
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Apr 7, 2025 8:36 PM

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From the very last scene of the first episode, I thought the stage would be changed to the present day, but it wasn't. What an odd direction. and the episode itself is so much weaker than the previous.
Apr 7, 2025 8:53 PM
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That OP. They're not going to let us forget, are they?
Apr 7, 2025 9:36 PM
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Holy FUCK this looked like SHIT compared to the first episode, as if that wasn't already rough as is. Not even surprise considering every scene in the PV was ripped from episode one, so yeah, it looking like actual SHIT is no surprise to me.

Literally no sauce to be found anywhere anymore, and almost everything that move more than an inch this episode was some garbage CG... jesus LOL. So, at least the story is carrying right? FUCK no. Aside from the snoozefest monster-of-the-week thing it’s doing, the “twist” where gramps is actually the MC’s dad, the runaway kid was just MC being emo, mom got raped by a demon and died, half-sis got beat up for existing, and then MC kills a trauma demon to feel better is like...

Peak Walmart Demon Slayer (just as if not more shit than this series) energy, I’m crying.

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Apr 7, 2025 10:24 PM

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well that was an interesting full circle moment, giving some backstory to the very start of ep1 ...
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Apr 7, 2025 11:28 PM

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Jinya's mother was a demon? That explains why his sister is one and this is his house, interesting.

if she was demon then why jinya was born human?
@King_Abhi What I understood is that this demon was his mother feelings. She was r**ed by a demon and this was when she got pregnant from suzume. About her death its unknown I think. His father hated the daughter because she was a fruit of a rap* probably, but the mother still got feelings for her
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Apr 8, 2025 12:17 AM

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Such a bitter sweet episode - the father was so horrible in episode 1 so it's weird seeing him be kind towards his new daughter and even be a fair employer. So around 20 years has passed after the events from last episode. The father must've been shocked to see his son looking so young for a man who should be around 40 years old already!
Apr 8, 2025 1:09 AM

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Ah, that was a cool episode, did not expect we would get connections like that in just the second episode.
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damn they created an amv for the 1st episode
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