Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle
“Sometimes, people don’t become bad because they were born that way. Sometimes, life puts them through circumstances that slowly change who they are. Things that happened to them”.
I just watched this movie recently. For me, the highlight of this movie is about Akaza, the 3rd high rank demon. What happened to Akaza was sad.
Before becoming a demon, Akaza was once a boy who desperately wanted to give his sick father a better life. He became a pickpocket because he needed money for his father’s medicine and nutritious food. After the third/ fourth time he got caught because of his pickpocket act, his dad killed himself and asked him to start a new life.
It’s kind of sad, you know, the circumstances. Akaza didn’t think that his father was a burden but his father decided to kill himself to save his life. At that time, he lost hope to be alive already but then Keizo found him and Akaza was taken in by Keizo as a student. Akaza also took care of Keizo’s sick daughter.
After a few years, Akaza and Keizo’s daughter developed feelings and got married. When things become better for Akaza, Keizo and his daughter were poisoned by a rival dojo because of jealousy. In retaliation, Akaza murdered dozens of the dojo’s students before becoming a demon thanks to Muzan.
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He is a nice person but because of all the situations that he goes through, makes him hate humans and the reason why he chose to be a demon is because he lost hope already. There is nothing left for him there. People around him are very selfish, full of hatred, and only think of themselves.
Every human is born to know nothing, either bad or good. What they’re going through shapes them. Sometimes because of how their parents raise them up, their situation, things that happened to them or sometimes they are just ignorant.
Some of them can still be saved. Maybe they’ve just become numb to everything, lost their way, or failed to see what they’re capable of. Perhaps all they need is someone who believes in them and gives them a reason to believe in themselves again.
In Akaza’s case, he got saved 2 times. The first one when Keizo took him as his student, giving him a new purpose in life. The second one when Tanjiro without him realizing has helped Akaza to remember why he wants to be stronger in the first place.
What’s heartbreaking is that nobody truly knew his story or what he had been through. Although it is kind of sad because nobody knows his story but yea that’s the reality. Sometimes we never know the real story until the end.
But we have to remember that everything has a limit. Need to know when to stop helping and when to still support them.
Don’t try so hard to save someone that you end up losing yourself in the process.
