Audience reviews
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bunnymai
Temu Chainsaw Man, and terribly mid.
This wasn't an enjoyable watch, but it wasn't a slog either.
If you've watched and love Chainsaw Man, don't bother with this one. The main characters are basically similar in personality type to Chainsaw Man - the main 3 characters are basically a Denji, an Aki and a Power. The powers are also so similar, the main character has a demon in him and the supporting man uses animal spirits. The overarching story is to find pieces of the main baddie.
However, the characters in JJK are just so much more bland, plain, one-dimensional, and honestly just annoying. There isn't much compelling backstory, and you can't really find yourself rooting for the characters. Even the main character is really boring, and his reason to fight laughable. The villains (meant t…
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In my opinion, it's a bad anime that is overhyped. It consists of nothing but action, and I can't give an anime an 8/10 or 9/10 just because it has action.
To summarize:
There is a character named Itadori Yuuji who is a vessel (I won't go into side characters much). Generally, there are specific battles (I won't go into detail or give spoilers). I don't like the story because it lacks depth.
In general:
It doesn't convey a specific message.
The story is average.
Character development is zero.
The plot is very superficial; if you like Seinen, you won't like this. It’s just mindless action.
Animation:
I don't care much about animations and art styles, but I should mention that the drawings seem good and the animations are nice. However, there were parts in Season 2 that felt rushed (I won't…
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I didn’t like the anime at all. The storyline is bad, and I really don’t get why it’s so hyped. The only character that is actually good is Gojo, and he is wasted by the poor plot. Also, none of the characters in the anime feel original; they all seem like they’ve been taken from another anime.
The pacing feels rushed at times and painfully slow at others, making it hard to stay engaged. The emotional moments don’t land because the characters aren’t developed well enough to make you care. It’s like the show tries to copy deeper, more meaningful stories without understanding what made them work in the first place.
Overall, it feels like style over substance. Great animation can only carry a show so far if the writing isn’t solid, everything else falls apart. I wanted to like it, but it just…
Read at the sourceMADLetter
It's just a failure...
I really can't understand people who are trying to popularize this work by talking about world building, well-written characters and interesting plot twists. None of this has been found by me anywhere near! Absolutely faded characters in the context of their charisma and background, BUT GOJO!!!! HE'S SO COOL (sarcasm). At the same time, the structure of the world is literally a set of cliches from other sennen titles that didn't really think about it. There are... no plot twists here? Seriously, which twist was really impressive for you? The shocking plot twists that most of JJK's plot relies on are nothing more than shocking scenes to keep the audience on edge and nothing more. There is another parameter that is often noted by fans of this work - the godlike drawin…
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I never did get why the Hype Lemmings hurled themselves from the cliff over this mid garbage,
I watched all the episodes, then came back a couple months later, intending to review it. Frankly, I couldn't remember a damned thing about the characters or the plot. Other than they were the accumulation of over 40 years of every shonen trope, and cliche, ever puked out by the industry. Nothing innovative or interesting, just move along please. Nothing to see here.
The artwork wasn't annoying. The animation didn't strike me as exceptional in any way, but it had some moments. Nothing amazing going on with the VAs. There was nothing the director did other than to get this out the door on schedule. The sound track deserves no mention.
It was mental pablum for the masses, and they lapped it up l…
Read at the sourceFlint000
I dont see what the fuzz is about this show. Average at best, cookie cutter shounen. Suffers from the same issue Kimetsu no Yaiba has, too much effort invested into animation and low effort into character design, world building, etc.
The power system is barely explained upon and some of the powers come straight out of a toddlers mind. Nanami's "Ratio Technique" is idiotic. He can divide anything into "lengths" which are subdivided into a ratio of 7:3, at the separation point there will be a weak point. (?????) The length to be decided by Nanami has no limitations so essentialy he can place the weak point wherever, and at that point why have the hassle of having the ratio part added to it?
Your abilities get buffed if you reveal them to your enemy? Nah, hot garbage power system
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This anime is so bad it has prompted me to write my first review on a show ever. Jujutsu kaisen has zero substance. It has a lackluster plot that makes zero sense and lackluster characters that are super one dimensional and boring. It is essentially a carbon copy of Naruto, except worse. It is impossible to get invested in any of the characters because they all only have one personality trait and there is no nuance. This show makes many attempts at humor that are just not funny at all. Literally falls flat every single time. Every time something remotely interesting happens the show switches gears to the most boring, pointless plot line you’ve ever seen for the next 6 episodes it’s ridiculous. The entire show after episode one feels like filler. I guess if this was the first shounen you’ve…
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Literally the most overrated anime in the world...
The first season was barely tolerable. It was essentially a complete Naruto rip-off with the main character who holds a demon inside of him, which in turn grants him great power. The key difference here is: Naruto is a character of depth who goes through great personal struggle and growth and that demon functions as an artistic metaphor as well as a functional plot device. Jiujutsu, on the other hand, was written by a child with crayons and just steals the most obvious elements from Naruto without paying attention to why it actually works. Yay crayons!
Characters:
Gojo is clearly a Kakashi ripoff, it's baffling to me how 100% of people do not call this out. His character is one-dimensional, like all the characters in Jiujutsu. He's the…
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While I made it a habit to review most of the shows I watched sometime ago, this is a weekly show I kept up with and skipped reviewing until now... there's just not much substance. What is one to say about a shounen that hasn't already been said numerous times? Even the standout ones just reinvent the wheel at best. The "god tier" shounen tends to have incredible animation, and... yeah, that's it!
There are a few patterns that regularly make the rounds in these kinds of shows, and JK is not immune to it. JK is one of the better ones as of late in terms of solid visuals, animation, and fight choreography. Clearly, the storyboarding is solid—the pacing is quick... um, you know, as long as our characters aren't wasting time playing baseball or waiting in line for autographs from idols.
Th…
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Welcome to Jujutsu Kaisen, an anime filled with great animation, horrendous characters, and an average shounen plot.
Over the time the show aired, it gained massive attention and critical acclaim, rivaling even Demon Slayer in terms of commercial success. However, just like Demon Slayer, I see no reason to enjoy the show other than for its animation. In fact, many criticisms I have with the show are similar in line to criticisms that I had with Demon Slayer. Let’s start out with the thing that people have been talking about the most with the show.
(Spoiler warning of course)
“The animation in this series is incredible,” is what I would like to say. However, the animation isn’t always as amazing as most people make it out to be. It still is amazing at certain parts, especially when it ne…
Read at the sourceKash_020322
At first i thought it would be a really good new gen shounen anjme as everyone hyped it up to be !! But nahhhh ! It was the same old cliche we have been watching for years
STORY: the story is so cliche and the goal of main character doesn't even make sense! Like he didn't give shit about anything at the start and then his grandfather just said protet people and that's it , just like that it became his LIFE GOAL WTF?? I haven't seen something as half baked as this! His goal is to give people proper death yet he couldn't save so many of his companions and give them their proper death! Lol it just doesn't make sense ! Even if he save some of them people will always face undeserved and untimed death! Look at the amount if murders and accidents take olace in this modern era (JJK IS SET IN OUR…
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I have watched this anime when it came out and gave it no chance. With a bad score I left it behind and never looked back until recently.
2026 - and honestly I tried watching anything but every anime felt the same.
Maturing is realising not everything has to be perfect or has to be a specific score for me to watch it or give it a chance.
After watching JJK I started realising that I was to biased with it.
To keep it short, yes I do recommend JJK for everyone who loves shounen or wants something original to watch.
The strongest part of this anime is, that there a no coincidences, there are no main characters, there is no hopefully bad guy will become good guy. Villains have their human sides, the heros their shallow sides.
I guess one negative aspect I need to mention is, that with the…
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This show is as average as they come, personally, I was really disappointed with not only the show, but the hype it garnered for reasons I cannot fathom. If you want the most basic example of a shounen, this is it.
TL;DR: This show is borderline bad. There is NOTHING in here that's better than other shows, and there are plenty of things that are truly dreadful. I only completed this show believing in the hype and hoping it would improve eventually-- it never did.
Summary:
Cool guy Naru-- I mean Itadori with innate powers stronger than the universe itself beats everyone else by order of magnitude cause he's an orphan and gets bullied. Oh wait, wrong show (His grandfather did tell him to be useful though so good enough). With the help of the most legendary jujutsu master Kaka- I mean Goj…
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Jujutsu Kaisen has a “simple” premise, but that seeks to appropriate some clichés of the shounen universe in an innovative and illustrious way, almost as a tribute to the genre, but that ends up over-calculating its own initial proposal, transforming anime into a forced bull with references of the genre.
The anime doesn't even try to differentiate itself very much from a standard shounen, and it doesn't even need to. Much of the anime's approach is to get as deep as possible in these clichés. From the way the characters speak, even the narrative structure of the anime follows this logic very well. For those who like it, anime is also a full plate for references that refer us to some famous titles, such as Satoru Gojou, which in addition to appearance, is also always late like Naruto's Kak…
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INTRO
Jujutsu Kaisen belongs in the category that began with Demon Slayer: Anime series that are carried almost entirely by their movie-quality animation. Their plots and characters are nothing you haven’t seen before, but at least everything looks gorgeous. The Bleach fans of old in specific will rejoice, since it plays out in an almost identical way. It’s why I often jokingly call this show Bleblechu Bankaisen. By the way, Bleach will have a hard time making anyone care when its last arc gets finally adapted and it’s nowhere near the animation quality of this one. Oh, and the script is crap too.
CHARACTERS
The character chemistry will be the hardest thing for most to get into, since it feels phoney. Everyone meets and befriends each other in a matter of minutes, thus there is no gravi…
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Many of you probably won't even listen to my words after having seen the score that I gave to this anime. Many of you probably think: "What a f**king retard, the anime he's been talking about is a god damn masterpiece! How dare he?!" And many of you probably haven't even read further than these first three sentences. But in case you'll give me a chance to explain my score, let me give you a closer look into my thoughts, and let's see, why I didn't like JJK as much as other ppl did.
Story – 6/10
First things first: The story starts off right away with our main character, hanging around at school, giving us the first insights of him and his personality. Also, with the death of grandpa, his motives of doing good things in this world and becoming some kind of a “hero” (that’s technically the…
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After the ridiculous success of Demon Slayer, the shounen industry is finally taking notes on how to make a successful adaption. There's so many things that can be said about JJK, that I'm confused where to start from.
Let me start by giving JJK's staff the appreciation they deserve. Being a huge AoT fan, I'm honestly a little bit salty. I'm not undermining AoT, it's just that my eyes have been spoiled from seeing a sakuga on every damn episode of JJK. It's honestly just so good.
So yes, I'm gonna first highlight the sector which totally carries JJK, the animation. JJK is a feast for your eyes. The animation is just so magnificent, starting from the beautiful landscapes to the sakuga on even the smallest fights. The fights are so well choreographed, the camera angles, the key frames. I d…
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What is wrong with a generic shounen anime?
I firmly hold the idea that, nowadays, originality is something almost impossible, because every new anime you see will remind you of x anime you had seen before. No matter how hard you try not to compare, the floating idea is always there "oh, this is exactly the same premise as x anime". Nevertheless, does a show need to be only original to be great? No! Of course, if it has originality it is something to congratulate, but if it doesn't, there's a lot of ways to tell a story and pass over that. It can have a big potential and develop it very well, with a good soundtrack and an amazing animation. It can have a bunch of likeable characters that, even though they are typical shounen main cast, can be really good and memorable. It's like reading…
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The thing about trends that a lot of people take for granted is that the more overstuffed a particular set of ideas are, the more likely it is to see either flipped on its head (see Shrek for fairy tale musicals) or given more offbeat renditions (see Joker or Into the Spider-Verse for superhero blockbusters). Genres being overstuffed, if anything, should encourage more experimentation and refinement.
Over the years the Shonen genre has gone through a number of these phases. From past its formative years with Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, you’ve gotten shows using the mold for massive tapestries (One Piece), those attempting to rewrite the genre rulebook (see Fullmetal Alchemist), shows trying to test Shonen’s capacity for being applicable in distinct scenarios (see HxH), long-form parodi…
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Overall: 9/10
Now that JJK is over, I’m sure everyone who dropped it after 4 episodes or clowned it for being more trashy shonen are shaking and crying right now. While y’all did look foolish today, clown tryouts for the circus are next week. And if anyone STILL thinks JJK is an average shonen or sub-par anime, I would like to quote the great intellectual, Cardi B: “Hoes speaking capanese hit ‘em with karate chop.”
JJK is peak shonen that, in my mind, WILL become a masterpiece in the coming years (can’t wait for Shibuya adaptation holy shit man). You take the hypest arcs/features that took forever to develop from existing shonens, and you’ll find them in the first 24 episodes of JJK albeit on a smaller scale.
So what makes JJK so fucking good? Is it the mix of realistic and diverse cast…
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