Is an asspull that is retrospectively explained away still an asspull?

How many manga did you read?

>asspulls that weren't foreshadowed
All of them, by definition.

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why tf are you watching fairy tail to begin with

OH MY DANCING FATHER

Now this is a butthurt response

Well, yeah.

Most events in old mythologies are just asspulls, they existed more as a way of letting storytellers put on a performance and give people characters to think about. Word of mouth means you often get embellishments or new events in old stories, so how are they introduced? The storyteller just throws them in, of course.

In the 21st century there's an entire history of novels, fiction writing and genres. The standards are different so people expect better.

This is a bit disingenuous.

Clearly Tanjiro was set up to be something, but it's clear that this was just insurance to justify development further down the line. You can't justify any sudden turn-around with "he's special", because it wasn't explained how and what that actually means.
It's a deliberate device to make weekly writing seem more planned than it is, the hallmark of that being lots of plot threads that go nowhere once the story ends. Bad writers will spam set-up plots in their story and never resolve them, just so they can have Get Out Of Jail cards for asspulls (see Lost and JJ Abrams in general)

yet it's revealed the guy is not related to tanjiro at all and he just so happened to have a friend that created a dance that was passed down through several generations mimicking his sun breathing to the extent that it was identical to it
oh and sword colors are thrown out of the fucking window given it's revealed red sword = force or pressure being applied to the blade/hilt for some fucking reason

People back then had fewer stories, so their standards were lower.
Most people didn't spend most of their time consuming stories like some people do nowadays.

>oral tradition
>perfectly acceptable for thousands of years
>suddenly bad
no fucking shit, civilization progresses and generally becomes better at doing things