english:

Say something! You stuck-up pig! // Kyaaah!

japanese:

何とか言えっての‼ 地味な奴だな‼ // キャ――ッ

this one took me completely off guard because tengen 100% does not call kanao a pig or stuck-up in japanese. all he says is "[You're a] quiet one," albeit in a disrespectful tone. being quiet or reserved is, after all, one of the worst things you could be in tengen's eyes. something like "You meek little mouse!" would be closer to the original japanese and a more in-character insult for tengen, in my opinion. seriously, i've never ever, not once in all my years of studying japanese, thought of pig as a suitable translation of 奴. what the hell were they thinking...?

next is a panel of tanjirou yelling at tengen about aoi.

english:

People have different needs and abilities! You can't just use them as you like with no regard for them at all! Let Aoi go!!

japanese:

人には人の事情があるんだから無神経に色々つつき回さないでいただきたい‼ アオイさんを返せ‼

this panel comes after tengen has just said that aoi doesn't look like she'll be useful, but since she's basically a corps member he's still going to take her on a mission anyway. both the reader and tanjirou know aoi feels insecure about her position in the corps, and in classic tanjirou fashion, he indignantly yells at his superior for the transgression.

tanjirou doesn't quite say anything about different needs and abilities or using people as one pleases, though. more literally, his line is "People have their own circumstances, so I'd like to ask you not to callously poke at this and that!" basically he's telling tengen to think before he speaks. i guess the "you can't use people" part is a reference to tengen's plan to use aoi for his mission? having read the japanese version still makes it a confusing choice in my opinion, to say the least.

i'd also like to point out tanjirou's somewhat polite ～いただきたい and the 返せ‼ that comes right after. very funny juxtaposition to me, teehee.

the final panel for today features tengen and tanjirou & co.

english:

So...? // He's tall! // Where are we going?

japanese:

で？// でけえ // どこ行くんだオッさん

firstly, i think "He's huge!" instead of "He's tall!" would've been a better choice for zenitsu's 「でけえ」, but that's just me. the main thing about this panel that got me, though, was inosuke calling tengen オッさん. it's been omitted in the official english version, which i can understand. there's not many good english translations of it that would fit inosuke's character. i've seen it translated as mister, but inosuke wouldn't say that. i've also seen it as pops or bloke, but inosuke wouldn't say that either. if demon slayer were being translated now, they might have gone with unc, which honestly is probably the best option available. unfortunately inosuke is not a black u.s. american and does not live in the late 20th or early 21st centuries, so he still wouldn't say that.

they could've gone with old man and that would've been fine, but whatever. mostly i just wanted to show more people that inosuke calls tengen オッさん. it's so fucking funny to me. "where are we going, OLD MAN?" and the old man in question isn't even 25.