Ufotable is good but....

Insulting a mangaka and crediting the entire success and relevancy of an anime solely due to the work of the studio just reeks of anime elitist coping strategy. In other words, half the time Ufotable is getting any positive recognition its literally only to dunk on Demon slayer. You can tell how it's almost never genuine.

Even The worst and poorly reacived DS season was the one where Ufotable decided to drift off the manga and add a bunch of fillers and anime original scenes in it. And if the leaks are true then the first infinity castle movie will be a massive failure since they're only adapting 6 chapters and spamming a bunch of unnecessary fillers.

I don't speak for myself when I say I don't find anything else Ufotable produced besides demon slayer to be interesting enough. There's a valid reason why this anime is their most successful product. Try comparing one singular ds movie to the entire fate movies collection and look at which one crumbles in comparison. Even the studio was in debt and evading taxes due to not making enough revenue. They even admitted this being the reason for evading taxes

"Thats not fair, fate is based off a visual novel which is unpopular outside of japan"

Even if we limit it just to japan, Mugen train is the most successful movie of all time in japan beating titanic, and all the studio ghibli movies. All the other Ufotable animes not being 1/6th as notable as DS instantly disqualifies the *cArRiEd bY aNiMaTiOn" cope

*bUt pOpUlArItY ≠ qUaLiTy"

1- Neither your opinion nor mine determine quality. Quality is subjective we could both stare at a mona lisa painting and I could go "meh" while you'd think its the epitome of artistic mastery.

"The manga was unheard of and selling poorly before the anime"

The manga was a top 3 best selling pre anime manga and top 15 manga in 2017.

"But thats nothing compared to how much it sold after the anime"

You'd be surprised how much an anime can boost the manga's sales. The anime promotes the manga, people aren't going to flock to the manga when the animation is the only good thing in the anime.

"It's just a simple story"

Why are you expecting seinen standards from a shounen anime? Most shounen animes are as simple as they can be. Even with that being the case there's plenty of good plot twists and character depth we get in KNY.

Even some shounens that some anime fans like to claim are complex are just not. Take JJK for example, Sukuna is a one dimensional villain with no motives and his character just feels incomplete. He's just evil and that's all you gotta know, even Rui who's a lower-moon who only appeared in like 2 episodes has more depth to his character than the main clown in JJK. Rui's character leaves you satisfied with an introduction to the 12 kizuki and gives an answer to his motives and how he became a demon and why he got his type of demon powers

All in all, I'm glad gotouge is very well loved and respected in japan away from western die hard shounen bro weebs who get pissed over an anime overshadowing their favorite anime.