Review of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2
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 arepowerful 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 power scaling. Environment is apparently made out of cardboard, everything is crumbling from a single fart. The writer decides the winner of the battle, and arbitrarily pulls them to the desired outcome retroactively. The animation is a literal mush, no idea what’s going on on the screen 30% of the time in action scenes. At times, it feels like an endless fever dream
You do the math, at 70% of the episode, that’s 20% of an episode where you have ZERO idea what’s going on, falling in and out of the story, the rest being spent on emotion and brain numbing, never ending mindless battles. At some point you just want to know the outcome and skip the whole process. This has never been a problem to me, not even with One Punch Man manga, which should really say something.
It’s still JJK, and I still enjoyed it to some degree. The vibe and environment is quite like nothing else.
But the problems are just too heavy to overlook
Let me know if I’m the only one who thinks this