Review of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

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 enemies introduced that die in the same episode that i have no reason to care about. so many of these fights don't add anything, if anything they just repeatedly subtract.

i like to suspend my belief when watching shows like this, but there were many times that i just couldnt. there were multiple times where characters should've died and just. didn't, somehow. meanwhile there were others where it'd make sense for a character to dodge something or flee, but didn't because getting hurt and dying would definitely be better writing and not just frustrating to watch. this isn't even mentioning that the antagonist objective doesn't make sense- we're told why it doesn't in the beginning and then we're expected to sympathize with them for idiotic reasons?!

the character writing is far worse- from confusing, to annoying, to boring, to the point where i starting saying "holy shit, just get off the screen, i don't care" and started skipping through (which i never usually do). nearly every character- especially during what should be an important moment- was handled so poorly. it felt like the author just wanted to create shock value over and over again. there comes a point where it gets less and less shocking, where you get bored and annoyed, apathetic to what's happening and instead starting to pick it apart.

the end of the season left nothing that interested me. the first season set up so much potential, and this season destroyed it. if you have to watch it, watch the first five episodes then immediately end there. it's not worth it. it adds nothing beyond that point.