Audience reviews
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BanjoUnchained
Movies/Shows/Anime which are great are able breakdown complex concepts into simple understandable pieces for the average person.
This does the opposite. Takes something simple and makes it convoluted.
The system is a mess and requires reading Wikis or breakdowns. Too many characters, too many abilities, too many rules, too many exceptions to those rules....
The question is do you even bother to learn the names of characters/abilities?
Imo, there's only 2 ways to enjoy this. Do a PHD in cursed energy and make all the excuses you can for the half assed attempt by the author or pretend you're a baby who's capable of laughing at someone dangling a keychain in front of you.
I'm just sad that such good animation was wasted.
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Another shounen anime: characters with no personality, good guys don't die, bad guys aren't killed by the good guys, each episode is one fight, nonsensical battles, explaining the character's story just before they die, 4th wall commentator on the random powers, stretching moments ad infinitum, a bazillion characters, the whole world is Japan, general inconsistency, etc.
Some say the animation is good, and the scenarios and characters are indeed mostly* neatly drawn. But the cursed power being a simple flame shape that looks scratched by a kid is sad. Impact frames (randomly changing the colour of the frames with Paint) don't help every 10 second punch/explosion feel powerful, nor do the blurry lines feel like super-speed when speed in general is inconsistent.
This is just another generi…
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First season was excellent and good vibed that I got really into this. The second season started out allright, but did I really just watch 15 episodes of continuous fight scenes, gore, incredibly minor character development and overall human misery? Well that's exactly what it was. If you watched the first season and want to see how the story plays out, go for it. But don't expect any fun nor comedy, there's none, there's like a couple very emotional scenes of heartbreak and loss, but otherwise it's just a bloodfest of side characters being killed and mangled in increasingly brutal ways (yes this includes all your favourites).
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When non stop action manages to become boring, it's an accomplishment in and of itself. It's predictable, and it's uninteresting.
Recurring characters have become just annoying. The "protagonist" of the series doesn't even exist in this season.
The "dread" feels forced, to the point that I don't even feel bad for what's happening. Who cares? It's not like they haven't been losing and dying for 20 episodes straight. It has lost all weight after the first couple of episodes of this season. That's not how you tell a story if you want people to care.
Giant step down from the first season. Feels like a completely different author wrote it.
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This is simply ridiculous. Like, psychiatric level ridiculous.
I will simply vent out here, listing all of the negatives. You can read the positives in many other posts.
Nothing has any lasting impact, things arbitrarily pop into the story, and leave whenever convenient. A lot of the fights are there just for the sake of action, it’s overwhelming at 70% of every episode. Not enough time to unwind, not enough time to process what’s going on. Too much yap explaining techniques, backstories, and special circumstances. At some point you become numb to deaths, so you are eventually unable to emotionally react in the rare scenes that are powerful and weighty. Level cap has been completely blown away worse than in any other shonen to date, cities blown away in an instant. Zero consistency in pow…
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I don't watch nearly as much anime as I did in my formative teenage years, but whenever a new show pops up that people don't shut up about I try to make an effort to see what all the fuss is about. I did initially try to watch Jujutsu Kaisen as it was airing, got through season 1, thought it was pretty ok, and then didn't feel the need to go back when season 2 came out and thought that maybe the hype would die down.
It didn't.
So I said fine and made the effort to rewatch season 1 and then all of season 2 after it had already aired. Ignoring my thoughts on season 1 (its very average) season 2 throws you into a whole new arc that takes place in the past so it should be given a fresh chance. And upon giving it that fresh chance, I realized that season 2 is just as average as the first sea…
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A Shibuya Letdown: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Fails to Deliver
Jujutsu Kaisen season 1 burst onto the scene with stunning animation, a captivating story, and characters you couldn't help but root for. Season 2, however, feels like a pale imitation, leaving me utterly disappointed.
The animation, which was once a highlight, is now inconsistent. While some fight scenes remain impressive, others suffer from choppy movements and awkward stills. This inconsistency throws off the entire viewing experience, making the action feel jarring and underwhelming.
Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 is a frustrating watch. It fails to live up to the high bar set by its predecessor, leaving me feeling cheated of a truly satisfying experience. The rushed pacing, inconsistent animation, and underdeveloped characters lea…
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first season was great, but after this season crashed and burned, i'm not continuing the series.
the animation in this season is amazing, especially in the first five episodes and a vast majority of the fights. it's a far cut above the first and you can tell the animators were passionate. there were times where i rewinded just to see how a specific part was animated again.
...and that's about all the praise i have for this season.
the entire season is having an objective, saying "this is time sensitive, solve it as quickly as possible or everything will be destroyed" and then having every character go "mmmm ok, but i gotta get rid of this random guy first". i guess it makes sense in a way, but it felt more like the author was stalling then setting up a good roadblock. there's so many en…
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Nah I'd Win Season 2
I haven't read the JJK manga and was just along for the ride as an anime-only spectator, so I wasn't really expecting this season to actually be interesting. The first season of JJK was basically average shounen with minimal digressions and improvements, it was fun to watch but nothing earth-shattering or noteworthy. Of course, I expected the second season to be roughly similar, especially after watching the mediocre movie. By the way, the movie should be watched after episode 5 ( following the past arc) as it takes place directly between episodes 5 and 6 as far as I remember.
The second season starts with a backstory that is very simple but leaves a decent impact on the plot. Was this season good because you didn't expect what happened here? Or was it because you d…
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This review contains minor spoilers.
Everyone told me to wait for the Shibuya Incident arc, that it is one of the best arcs in shounen and I have also seen people comparing it to the Chimera Ant arc from Hunter x Hunter 2011 (something I could almost consider an insult to Togashi's work). It is to no one's surprise that the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen retains many of the first season's flaws. It is still a work devoid of any substance and it contains many notable tone problems; when it tries to be dark it is ruined by the ridiculous monster design and the absolutely idiotic decisions that the characters make, when it tries to be funny it is instead totally cringe and ineffective. It just feels so cheap, bland and shallow; Gege tries to be deep and psychological in this second season w…
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Disappointing season in terms of animation and character design, there's no way to compare it to the first season, if the third reaches that level I won't follow it. Most of the battle scenes were distorted, some episodes had a very slow pace, there were hours that looked like children's drawings. The only thing that made me continue to follow was the story that clarified some points, not all that were open. Unfortunately, the studio ended the work, I hope the mistake doesn't happen again and they still left the ending completely open, they could have added a few more chapters to really close the arc.
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Jujutsu no Kaisen is a twisted naruto like anime ...
The randon Naruto like character (the one hyped with the power of a monster inside ... that sometimes lose control to help the mc), team up with the op kakashi (the Op teatcher, that is cool and considered a genius and overpowered), the random sasuke (quiet not so friendly friend ... that is kinda op and more or less try to keep up with the power of the mc, and have some kind of family problems ... and a family member that is op too) and the randon sakura (The support female character ... that is weak as fuck ... but sometimes help the team) ...
Anime is kinda cringe ... not bleach cringe but cringe ... Kinda like how elfen lied is a masterpiece for kids ... you know , decapited, death and blood and cool poses sell pretty well for te…
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I've never seen a show more devoid of substance that's as popular. It's honestly mind-boggling! And clearly, this feeling is not mine alone (read some of the reviews here). The most heinous sin here is the incoherent storytelling and world-building. In fact, I think almost everything else about the show is equally bad too.
World-building
Starting with the world-building, how do you even make sense of it? Each episode you have the "opportunity" to see a new mechanic or some random gibberish being said about this mechanism. It's so lazy to have the characetr using a new power explain how he does it every time there's a new power being introduced. And, none of it has to make sense or be consistent with the existing world building (the little there is).
Characters
I truly can't seem to care…
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I guess my expectation was too high before starting this show due to the sheer amount of people sayiing that its THAT good. Some fights towards the end of the show were hype, but thats about it for the show.
Fightscenes are great tho, new artstyle for fights seemed to be more funky.
The comedy is ass, reminds me of demon slayer - they should've not included most of it. But hey atleast they didn't include it every episode; unlike Demon Slayer.
Killed of characters without much depth into it. Show was pretty boring throughout the middle of the series. If you watch anime for the fights only, that this anime is for you.
In the end of the day: enjoyed fightscenes, wish more depth to the killed of characters feels like just got introduced & killed of immediately, I barely cared for the kil…
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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 is undeniably one of the most hyped-up shounen anime in the past couple of years. Before this season aired, there were many posts comparing the "Shibuya Incident arc" of this season to classic shounen arcs like the "Chimera ant arc" from Hunter x Hunter. As usual, while it was airing, words like "masterpiece" and "peak fiction" were being thrown around in the community, as always. Now that the season is over, I can say that Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 was no masterpiece and isn’t peak fiction. It gets some things right and some things wrong, like how most shounen do, which I will list:
What JJK s2 does right:
1. Animation
As it’s from Studio MAPPA, high-quality animation is expected, and this season delivered on that aspect. There were some quality drops in fights ar…
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*** This review contains spoilers ***
Review in English and Spanish – Below is the same review in Spanish
Well, the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen is divided into two arcs: Hidden Inventory and the Shibuya arc. I read these two arcs in the manga years ago, and they are among my favorites in all of JJK. In general, they are some of my favorite arcs. When they announced this season, it was what I was looking forward to the most out of all the anime. I'm going to comment, analyze, share my opinions, and several other things that I'm not sure if I can mention about what I thought of this entire season or, better said, this masterpiece of a season
Hidden inventory: I must say that there was a change of director from the first season to the second. The shift in direction by Gosso (it's the a…
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So this is what it’s like to watch a series crash and burn in real time…
Jujutsu Kaisen is an interesting beast of a series. When it first hit the mainstream anime community in 2020, many immediately took to praising it as one of the best Battle Shonens to come out of modern Jump, in spite of the fact that, in many other people’s eyes, it had yet to do anything all that notable or special to set itself apart from the competition. A big part of this was, of course, manga readers hyping up what the series would eventually do later down the line, and the rest was anime-onlies who were either blinded by the sakuga or engaged with the idea of what the series *could be* rather than necessarily what it actually was at the time.
Regardless of the reason behind the hype, it was undeniable to many…
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If you could go two or three years back in time and ask me what I think about the future of shonen my answer would probably be pretty excited. Ufotable had their hands full working on demon slayer, MAPPA managed to get their hands on both Chainsaw man and Jigokuraku, completeing the "dark trio". There was fire force, JoJo, Dr Stone, Black Clover and many others. To put it bluntly, it was an exciting time. Sadly, most of these projects didn't exactly turn out all that well. Chainsaw man came out to a lukewarm reception in the west but massively underperformed in Japan and the less is said about Jigokuraku the better. I think we can safely say that the whole "dark trio" was a complete flop. JoJo was stuck adapting by far the most hated part in the entire series and the Netflix release manage…
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Second season of Jujutsu Kaisen is truly astounding. It's incredible creative vision and ambition are only matched by disappointment coming from failures in achieving its enormous goals. To truly express my feelings about such a complicated piece of media I will have to go into spoiler teritory, but for now, until stated otherwise, I will avoid going in depth and assume you only watched the first season.
So should you continue watching Jujutsu after its long introduction you had to go through that is the first season? It is hard to say as the continuation of this story is very... let's say uneven in its strenghts. To help you decide let me start with what I enjoyed the most which is the combination of courage and passion put into this anime by a team of some of the very best artists in th…
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Before I begin this review, I have a confession to make. After Episode 18 had aired, I felt honored as my home country was mentioned in the anime while also slightly amused by the idea the author included it. Hearing 2 different VAs having a vacation in a different country other than the usually portrayed countries like the US, Italy, France, or anything else is weirdly soothing. And yes, this is where I admit that I am a Malaysian. Witness the honored one.
It's been difficult to approach Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 with an objective mind, given how it was produced with extremely tight scheduling (only a week before the episode had to be aired!), and the studio's reluctance to pay its staff fairly. When MAPPA's working schedule is this bad, it's almost impossible to fathom how something like…
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