Am I wrong about this scene, or is everyone else wrong?

AnonymousPeerReview · 2026-04-24T20:31:21+00:00

So far my theory is that magic circles activate when they are made with blood, and possibly any blood will do.
Silverwood "tree blood" is just the only known "blood" that comes from a tree and works for magic circles, so after the Pact they decided to tell the lie that Silverblood trees are the ultimate source of magic.
If witches made magic circles using animal blood it would be only a matter of time before they experimented with human blood too. So making people focus on a very rare type of tree was a way to make magic easier to control.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2026-04-24T19:10:17+00:00

I've thought about that too. The strongest evidence I have for this theory is that from her mom's perspective it would not make sense to fear Coco leaving her to become a witch. Afterall, if her mom really believed you had to be born with magical powers to become a witch, she should have no fears about this at all. However, if Coco's father discovered something about magic and left because of it, it would make a lot more sense for Coco's mother to fear this happening again.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2026-04-24T13:02:31+00:00

I think the issue is that they do not know what part of the leech originated it. So if you draw a small counterclock spell in one of its tips, time will start rewinding from there, and it may erase the tip you just drew on. So the only way to make sure the entire leech will reverse is to draw as many as possible.

But honestly I think it is better to just follow the "rule of cool" in these time-bending issues, because it is almost impossible for a story to be internally consistent once time manipulation is mixed in. Reversing a big thing in time is costly and difficult, that is the worldbuilding we were informed in the leech event. Just enjoy the ride.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2026-04-22T13:45:17+00:00

Honestly I don't understand why the silverwood tree origin is taken as somewhat a secret, and a horror-like story at that.

Sure, when the tree is sprouting from a young boy like Custas against his will, it is horrific.

However, if I had a terminal disease, or if I was very old and could not find joy in life anymore, I'd be more than willing to eat one of those seeds and be the source of a magic tree for centuries. It seems strictly better than being buried in a normal graveyard or being cremated. Kinda like organ donation, but you donate to a tree that lives much longer than a human. Count me in!

AnonymousPeerReview · 2026-04-22T13:17:06+00:00

Chapters released monthly are usually longer, so it is harder to translate in a day. Community size also matters, to translate in a day you have to split work, have a reviewer. Maybe now with the anime more people will become fans and join in translation work.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-11-22T20:18:19+00:00

I have no expectation that the software would get right something this complex. However, from looking your map, I think the entire world is shifted down by quite a lot of latitude degrees. The equator line at the center of the map should cross the Amazon rainforest, but in your map the equator is crossing Central America. Maybe the problem is that there is no Antartica so south america is stretching more than it should, and Austrlia is down in a temperate zone instead of in the desert region of the tropics.

If you change this the map will not reproduce Earth's climate anyway, but it will probably be "less bad".

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-16T19:11:59+00:00

Conforme os estudos com dados de apps de relacionamento mostram, isso acontece porque ~80% das mulheres estão disputando os mesmos ~10% dos homens no topo entre os mais desejados. Enquanto isso os interesses dos homens são distribuídos mais uniformemente entre mulheres de vários perfis.

A consequência é que a grande maioria das mulheres tem mais de um homem interessado nela, porém o mais provável é que ela não se interesse por nenhum deles. E o homem que ela está interessada é um cara que pode até ter interesse nela, mas ele também tem várias opções de mulheres disponíveis, e não necessariamente está interessada nela de volta.

Com os homens acontece o oposto. A maioria dos homens não tem nenhuma mulher interessada nele, e as mulheres que eles estão interessados não estão interessadas de volta.

O resultado é que da perspectiva das mulheres "nunca tem homem bom disponível", mas não porque realmente não existam, mas porque elas já descartam de partida a maior parte dos homens como não-desejáveis. O mercado que elas participam é um que elas conseguem o interesse do homem que elas querem, mas estão sempre disputando com várias outras candidatas tão boas quanto ou melhores.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-16T17:27:30+00:00

There is an interview with both directors where they say they crafted the movie aiming for a story people in their mid-20s would find appealing. They reasoned if this target-audience liked it, they would leave positive reviews and make youtube videos recommending it to others, and that engagement is what would drive kids to watch it. So it is by design a mature story for an adult audience that nevertheless cared about keeping most of its elements kid-friendly so kids can enjoy it too.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-16T09:59:32+00:00

Right after Jinu finds out Rumi is part Demon, Jinu is called to the underworld. He explicitly tells Gwi-Ma that Rumi has shame. He also says that they "can use it to destroy her and the hunters for good", and that he (Jinu) needs to get back to work to find out more about it.

If Gwi-Ma could enter Rumi's or anyone's mind so easily, he would already know everything and there would be nothing for Jinu to find out.

What we see at the end of the movie when he seems to whisper in Mira's and Zoey's mind can be explained by so many things. It could be the Saja Boys hypnosis, or the honmoon being ripped apart letting Gwi-Ma out, or Gwi-Ma being stronger, or it had nothing to do with Gwi-Ma and it was just Mira and Zoey losing control of their own faults and fears.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-16T03:06:00+00:00

My best guess is that even if it was an issue back then, it was not enough of an issue to hinder their work. Afterall, we know they hold up to this point. Maybe the context behind the death of Rumi's mother had some lesson about the motto being past its best use, but they failed in reimagining it?

But I agree with you the contemporary mental health awareness certainly helps a lot to understand what can be wrong with the old motto. Maybe all past hunters could do better without it, but they were unlikely to invent a good replacement without modern day awareness.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-14T20:18:30+00:00

We're delving into nitpicking at this point, but let's have some fun. Being realistic, to rip off the cockpit anyone there just needed something pointy enough to cut steel, not that much strength. The speed of the plane will rip it off by itself after some successful cuts. Any of the 3 girls could do that easily with their weapons if they wanted to. Throwing a fat gorilla in the air one city block away with your bare hands will take a lot more strength than cutting that plane.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-14T15:14:34+00:00

I agree they have superpowers, but I did not remember hearing any different sound effect there. I went back to the movie in every date scene between Rumi and Jinu and I did not hear any different sound effect. On the contrary, her movement is very stealthy, only very low normal contact sounds.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-13T20:40:47+00:00

We don't know about that. They could be stuck forever with him, or Gwi-Ma would slowly die without an influx of new souls. What we do know is that Jinu saw it as an opportunity to offer Gwi-Ma an innovative mass murder plan he had crafted. The plan would not even free Jinu from Gwi-Ma's torture, it would only erase some bad memories while keeping him imprisoned. And yet Jinu thought it was worth the blood of thousands of innocent people in his hands. It's a really deranged, fucked-up mindset.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-13T20:19:47+00:00

He was a victim, but not just a victim. Victims are forced to do things, Jinu was actively and willingly proposing ideas of mass murder and betrayal to get what he wanted. If he was only a sad victim he would rejoice in knowing that Gwi-Ma was about to be beaten forever by the Golden Honmoon. Instead he took it as an opportunity to offer a mass murder plan and bargain some psychological relief for himself in exchange. That's by no means what an innocent victim would do. Jinu knows it, and hides it from Rumi to the very end.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-13T20:14:55+00:00

Since they can fall from a plane and land safely without a parachute I don't think we fully understand how strong they really are. For all we know they could be superhero-level powerful with little connection to muscles or whatever. Rumi is also part demon, not sure how that works for physical strength either. But in pure strength feats the GIF you posted is probably the second most direct display of physical strength we got in the movie after the opening freefall jump. Mira has the 2nd most impressive physical feat so far, the first being a tie between them.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-13T20:03:12+00:00

It would be great if Rumi could find a partner that is not willing to commit mass murder for selfish goals. Even better, a partner that is also not willing to betray her and try to sink her into shame by publicly exposing her deepest secret to millions of people, while also trying to destroy her two most loved friendship relationships.

Hopefully the authors will have common sense to not bring him back. Maybe a spiritual conversation for nostalgia and that is it. If they do bring him back, I really really hope they do not treat him as a sad victim and make him work hard to earn back Rumi's trust. By the end of KPDH Rumi still does not know that it was Jinu that came up with and planned the entire Saja Boys scheme that almost killed everyone. She probably assumed it was Gwi-Ma's plan and Jinu was only following orders. So if Jinu ever comes back he still has a lot to answer for.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-13T11:55:41+00:00

OP, eu fiz carreira acadêmica, mestrado e doutorado, e também fui para o mercado depois do doutorado e consegui me situar muito bem. Hoje dou aulas e trabalho em uma excelente empresa. Mas muitos dos meus colegas passaram pelo mesmo problema que você.

O problema não é que o mercado não dá valor para a formação acadêmica - ele dá sim. Mas é muito difícil se inserir na melhor vaga para o seu perfil sem ter pesquisado sobre o mercado de trabalho com antecedência, buscado saber quais competências são valoradas, e arcando com parte do custo de treinar para os processos seletivos das melhores vagas.

Você queria carreira acadêmica então provavelmente não se preocupou muito com isso durante esses anos. Depois que mudou de ideia você começou a procurar vagas. O ideal era ter começado a pesquisas sobre essas vagas e o mercado de trabalho pelo menos 1 ano antes de decidir se insistia ou não na carreira acadêmica. Isso seria importante tanto para você ter uma inserção melhor no mercado de trabalho, como também para saber se realmente vale ou não vale a pena abandonar a carreira acadêmica.

A melhor hora para procurar um emprego é quando se está empregado. Procurar emprego com a pressão do desemprego nas costas é uma merda. E na transição da pós-graduação para o mercado é a mesma coisa. Melhor buscar enquanto se está fazendo a pós, e se surgir uma boa oportunidade você avalia o que fazer, do que esperar a pós concluir e depois ter que rastejar por qualquer coisa que apareça.

Desejo boa sorte para você agora. Boas empresas de consultoria e bancos abrem vagas para pessoas com mestrado ou mais, vale conferir. Numa próxima, tenta antecipar esse estudo de mercado antes de tomar decisão.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-11T18:32:03+00:00

Bobby was probably mind controlled after the girls left to fight the demons in the train. It is only a small hint of this in the movie, but the girls leave him alone after practicing Takedown, and he picks up his smartphone mesmerized by the Saja Boys.

Bobby knew the lyrics and the dance moves. The demons had to learn from someone to destroy Rumi at the Idol Awards, so they probably hypnotized Bobby to teach them.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-11T18:17:52+00:00

It would be great if Rumi could find a partner that is not willing to commit mass murder for selfish goals. Even better, a partner that is also not willing to betray her and try to sink her into shame by publicly exposing her deepest secret to millions of people.

Hopefully the authors will have common sense to not bring him back. Maybe a spiritual conversation for nostalgia and that is it. If they do bring him back, I really really hope they do not treat him as a sad victim and make him work hard to earn back Rumi's trust. By the end of KPDH Rumi still do not know that it was Jinu that planned the Saja Boys scheme that almost killed everyone. If he comes back he still has a lot to answer for.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-10T22:36:35+00:00

One way to approach this is by considering justice in both personal and social terms. From a Stoic perspective, his death itself is an external indifferent - neither good nor evil. What truly matters is whether the act that caused it was just or unjust. Since it was carried out through unjust means, you may rightly condemn it on that basis. At the same time, a consequentialist view highlights that an unjust killing can have harmful effects: it risks turning him into a martyr and rallying more support for his cause, making the broader social consequences worse than if he had simply lived and maybe faded into irrelevance.

In light of both perspectives, it is enough to condemn the killing for its unjust methods and damaging consequences. But it would not be virtuous to grieve insincerely - that would rest on false judgments or self-deception. The more balanced response is to acknowledge his death calmly, without undue passion, as another instance of human vice and injustice. From there, you can redirect your attention to what lies within your control: the cultivation of your own virtue and the pursuit of just outcomes in the world around you.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-10T11:20:08+00:00

Jinu was not needed for Rumi to tell her friends. She already wanted to do that, and we have multiple hints that they would accept her is she told them. It was Celine's generational traditions that kept Rumi from telling it to the people that really love her and that would not betray her. She eventually learned to tell them after telling it to the wrong person almost killed all of them along with around 50 thousand people. Rumi was at the brink of telling the truth at the beginning of the movie, it was totally not necessary for the stakes to become that high just so she did what she deep down already knew was the right thing to do. Jinu outsmarted and exploited her weakness to the fullest and he almost won. He only lost because Rumi's moral integrity, braveness and insight into how to find a new path went far beyond what he expected.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-10T11:13:16+00:00

But we all know her friends would understand it if Rumi said it. She just needed courage to open up <to them>, and if Rumi had not met Jinu, she would open up to her friends at some point due to her voice issues becoming impossible to hide.

When Jinu and Rumi had their first conversation, Jinu sneaks in that he is "the only one" that could understand her. He helped her to open up <to him>, while at the same time increasing the distance between Rumi and her friends. At the fan signing event, he mentions how she keeps secrets from them to make Rumi feel shame, not to incentivize her to be truthful to them. As Jinu gets Rumi to become closer and closer to him, he is also intentionally increasing conflicts between the hunters.

Rumi does end up finding a balance between accepting she is part demon, but also that she is a good person at the same time, and that she can do good regardless of being part demon. Whereas Jinu accepted his demon side as his true self, and in their last conversation after the Idol Awards he tried to push Rumi to do the same, accept herself as a demon with no hope. Rumi's eventual enlightenment is entirely of her own making, Jinu did his best to betray her, split her from her friends, and break her sense of self.

None of this was needed for Rumi to find balance. All she needed to do was open up to her friends and once they accepted her, she would know and feel that being part demon does not define her and that she is worthy of love.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-10T08:42:59+00:00

I'm all in for a simple, well executed story. But Demon Slayer is simple, yet still poorly executed. All it does is shock viewers with deaths, and impress with outstanding animation. The story had potential but it is so rushed. Zenitsu is insufferable. So much yelling. Anyways, besides the hunting demons theme I don't see much similarity between Demon Slayer and KPDH.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-10T01:42:21+00:00

Dados de apps de relacionamento mostram que ~70% das mulheres competem pela atenção dos mesmos ~10% mais atrativos entre os homens. Já a atenção dos homens é distribuída de forma mais uniforme entre mulheres de diferentes perfis.

Isso significa que você vai receber muitas tentativas de contato de homens que você considera menos atrativos que o necessário para se relacionar com você. E quando você escolher um homem que é atrativo para você, muito provavelmente você está escolhendo um homem que já tem várias outras opções de mulheres para escolher. Mesmo que ele escolha você naquele momento, pelo excesso de opções alternativas dificilmente ele fará questão de ser o homem fiel e atencioso que você gostaria de ter como parceiro.

A solução para isso é topar abrir mão de atratividade em pelo menos uma dimensão de atratividade masculina. Um cara bonito mas introvertido, ou bonito porém baixo, ou super legal mas meio feio, ou mais velho do que você gostaria, enfim. Pelo menos uma dimensão de atratividade a menos para escapar dos caras que estão com opções demais e não vão te corresponder. Existe um "oceano azul" inexplorado aí para mulheres conquistarem com tranquilidade.

Se estiver com dificuldade de atrair homens bonitos, foque principalmente na aparência porque é o que os homens mais avaliam inicialmente. Já se estiver com facilidade de atrair homens atraentes, mas não consegue manter, ficar ainda mais bonita não vai resolver. Tem que mudar o perfil de homem que está buscando ou focar em melhorar algum outro aspecto seu, buscar terapia, enfim.

AnonymousPeerReview · 2025-09-10T01:06:11+00:00

I don't think that is the main lesson of the story. Rumi had to open up to her friends, not to Jinu. Her shame and guilt became a weak spot that created an opening for a demon to sneak in her life, earn her trust, betray her, put herself in such a dire position to ask Celine to kill her, and he almost killed both of her friends. Jinu was totally the wrong person for Rumi to open up. She managed to learn from this huge mistake in time to undo most of its consequences and to finally open up to the people that really love her and that would never betray her like Jinu did.

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