Review of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

I tried. When the first season came out and people went nuts over Jujutsu Kaisen I was patiently waiting to binge the whole season to check it out. I do it every time when the new big shonen thing comes out. Sadly, most o the time it just doesn't work for me with the post 2016 modern shonen. All the new hyped things just lack something. "Wait till they adapt the next manga arc, it's going to be peak". Well, here we are. I just watched it. 23 episodes. Shouldn't I feel something? Constant non-stop action and fights, animations is so beautiful, so cinematic at themoments (was all these animators suffering worth it?). You get 18 episodes arc of superb action, characters death, destruction, serous main character moment what would lead to some growth in any other story... Wait, what is just happened? I finished the season. I remembered just a couple of things. Didn't feel a thing... First time ever when I'm watching anime and I want the action to stop and to actually see the characters progress, get to know them more. I want to see characters have time to react to what just happened, them to have some moments in between, to build them up before they're going to get killed, so I COULD FEEL SOMETHING! But it doesn't happen in Jujutsu Kaisen. You just move on. There was cool animation, a lot of powers (you forget how and why they work), action. But it just doesn't work if the story is not happening. Otherwise, you can just watch these clips without context on YouTube and never dip into the anime itself.

All these new shonen stories copy A LOT from old manga what people already love. Maybe if they tried to copy not just an aesthetic and powers, but the way story progress and groundbreaking writing choices, then I wouldn't recommend you to just watch Hunter X Hunter instead of the new things.

7/10 just for animation itself, but not the story