NOTE: Stopped watching after episode 14.
Series in one sentence:
Dangerous demons attack, people die, those responsible care for 2 seconds, then act like they're in a bad comedy flick.
Series in more sentences:
A young boy swallows a cursed talisman from an evil sorcerer, Sukuna, reawakening him inside of him and urging him to destroy all. Nevertheless, Yuji seems able to maintain control over his body, peaking the interest of a jujutsu teacher.
Yuji is tasked to eat all talismans until completion, with the unavoidable end result he has to be killed in order to finally rid the world of Sukuna, but one he accepts if he may join the jujutsu sorcerers and save people from the growing amount of demons and spirits plaguing the neighbourhood.
The fact I stopped around the halfway mark of the season and it took me months to want to come back to it was already a bad omen, and then I turned on episode 14, instantly reminding me why I left.
I couldn't even finish that one, the nail in the coffin for a series I wanted to give another chance, because it gave me a worrying glimpse of how things would (likely) be like further on in the series.
The general story is cool, but nothing transpired the way I expected or wanted it to. Death is shrugged off pretty much instantly. Characters who witnessed someone die act fun and cute with each other the very next scene, and no relationship gets the proper time needed to establish itself and make you as a viewer care about any supposed tragedy hitting them. Not a single character interested me.
Didn't like the overly quirky scenes, not one made me laugh, and the evil wizard the whole story revolves around hardly makes an appearance, while his scenes are the coolest.
Serious situations the show resolves with little to no grace; the way the Yuji is reintroduced to his fellow students who once believed he was dead is embarrassing. I don't want Jujutsu Kaisen to be a comedy, it doesn't do it well. It's the kind of stuff 12-year-olds with TikTok accounts would giggle at, which is good for them, but when you see those fight scenes with the ghastly imagery, it's obviously not meant for a young audience.
Then why. Why is the humor so lame and toddler level.
It was crazy how I'd be sitting there, bored out of my mind, but look down and see that whatever episode I was watching have a 4.9 out of 5 stars Crunchyroll rating. How.
But listen, I know there are people with patience for this kind of nonsense and it could very well be that it resonates better with young teenagers, but my sad ass has seen so much anime.. so damn much anime.. Jujutsu Kaisen is not remarkable or fun to me. And I don't want to wait for it to be. It already should've been.
I wondered what grade to give it, and though "Average+" would be the most fair, I don't recall ever giving such a grade to a series I couldn't finish, so it'd have to be an "Average".
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