User:AJ-PiGuy-Caesium-Tempo

AJI Pi Guy (called Pi or AJI for short) is a North American editor of many wikis. Kimetsu no Yaiba is the second anime/manga series he has watched/read that he is not ashamed to talk about (the first was Ingress: The Animation, which is niche as far as Pi is aware).

Experience with the Series
Pi began watching the Kimetsu no Yaiba anime on Netflix in April 2023 and watched up to the end of the Entertainment District Arc on that platform, and he was planning to get a Crunchyroll free trial once Season 3 ended so that he could watch that as well. However, a few weeks before the end date of that season was known, since he has a bad habit of reading wiki pages for media he has not yet consumed, he decided to borrow the entire manga from his local library network so that he could experience the whole story before discovering any more spoilers. He finished reading the series during the last week of June. As of July 2023, he is less convinced that the Crunchyroll free trial is worthwhile at this time.

He has not yet read Stories of Water and Flame or the light novel spinoffs even though they are all available in his local library network. This network does not offer Kimetsu Gakuen!, so he has not read that either.

Word Choices
Pi dislikes the use of the English word "demon" to refer to Oni in the series, preferring the original Japanese word instead, because the humans-turned-monsters of Kimetsu no Yaiba are not at all similar to the preternatural demons, particularly the fallen angels of Judeo-Christianity, for which the term was developed in western languages. For this reason, he has grown to prefer the terms Kizuki (which he would rather spell "Kidzuki"), Kekkijutsu, Kisatsutai, Onigari (which, in the process of writing this article, he discovered is transcribed incorrectly in at least two places on the wiki), and, of course, Kimetsu no Yaiba itself over their English translations.

When referring to characters, he personally prefers to be more accurate to the original Japanese by using Japanese name order (family name before given name) and appropriate representation of long vowels. He has also memorized the Japanese names of all fourteen Breathing Styles, and although he likes using Japanese for the styles and Hashira titles (and, for some reason, he gets a kick out of the rendaku resulting in "Bashira"), he is willing to use English terms for those as well.

Positive
Pi would say that Tsuyuri Kanao is best girl if pressed for a quick answer, but he is not entirely sure if she or Kochō Kanae should have the title.

He respects Himejima Gyōmei deeply for being so devout in the religion he (Himejima) knows and for perpetually maintaining a prayerful mindset. Himejima's beadroll being called a "rosary" does bother Pi because it is not the Blessed Mother's Rose, but since this is a translation choice it has no bearing on his opinion of Himejima.

Before reading the Hashira Training Arc and getting more than just a first impression of Himejima, Pi would have listed Tomioka Giyū as his favorite character if pressed for a quick answer. He can strongly relate to Tomioka's inability to summarize and get right to the point, as demonstrated in Chapter 44/Episode 21, as well as his failure to realize others' opinions of him as exposited in the chapter prior (earlier in the same episode), but Pi is not entirely sure of his full reasoning for liking Tomioka.

Negative
Pi has found Kochō Shinobu repulsive since her first appearance in battle. Her cruelty towards Oni perpetually masked by an insincere, loveless smile comes across as vile to him, and it is deeply unsettling for him.

He is perpetually bothered by the fact that Kanroji Mitsuri does not wear at least a bandeau, since the lack of one (or a similar item) is impractical and, well, immodest. If not for that, he probably would like her a lot more because he has a soft spot for girl characters being ridiculous.