Jujutsu Kaisen

[Munsu]

Negative human emotions - regret, bitterness, shame - are the source of all curses that infest the world and hide in everyday life, leading to death in the worst cases. Yuji Itadori, a particularly strong young man, attempts to save a friend from a curse, only to wind up consuming the special grade "Finger of Double-Sided Lodging" curse. With this curse now sharing his body, he is mentored by the curse expert Satoru Gojo to transfer to the Tokyo Metropolitan College of Arts and Science, which specializes in curses. Only a curse can eliminate another curse, and Yuji's career as a cursed person who must exorcise curses has now begin.

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Read a few chapters of Jujutsu Kaisen, so don't have a good grasp on how it'll go, but could be fun and have some good action.

[MFauli]

episode 1:

maybe the anime i enjoyed most from the new season so far. Didnt like how quickly the hero doesnt care about his dead grandpa anymore, but that aside it was enjoyable. Even got a scene where a youkai groped the girl's boobs, nice, lol. Anyway. I'm always skeptical of these occult anime, because they tend to be very samey and generic. This one made a nice first impression, I'll be watching next episode.

[Munsu]

episode 1:

maybe the anime i enjoyed most from the new season so far. Didnt like how quickly the hero doesnt care about his dead grandpa anymore, but that aside it was enjoyable. Even got a scene where a youkai groped the girl's boobs, nice, lol. Anyway. I'm always skeptical of these occult anime, because they tend to be very samey and generic. This one made a nice first impression, I'll be watching next episode.

Seems more like a battle shounen series than anything.

[neflight86]

Ep2

Condensed shounen... I like it. It reminds of Enen no Shouboutai with the 'fast leveled' main character not starting at the bottom. I like it so far. Some really nice cuts of animation and the story so far is... unobtrusive, is the best way I can describe it. Not a focus, but serves its purpose without getting in the way or being bogged down by exposition. Recommended.

[David75]

At least we do not get tens of eps or more with MC trying to master the spirit within.
Here, he's strong enough to shut it down. At least for now.
We'll see how the animation compares to GOH and if they can control the power progression.

[MFauli]

Episode 3:

And dropped.

Sorry, but I just cant bear this bs main character. when he punched a hole through the wall, that's when I shut down the video player. :/ He's supposed to be a beginner. He's supposed to be a normal school boy who should be both scared and in awe of all the things he gets to see. He should be deathly scared of the impeding death sentence.

Instead he acts like the teacher, nothing fazes him, and he fighting like a pro.

I don't care about any pseudo explanations for all of that, it's just super badly presented and I hate it.

Why do so many anime fail to display proper human emotions?! This is most often evident when a close person dies. Irl you'd start crying, stop caring about your surrounding, and hide yourself for a long time. In anime, the death of a close person is more like a 5-minute boost for the hero's power with a "cool" angry-stare added. Ironically, One Piece is one of the very rare anime that got grieving over a dead person right.
But it's not just death. When a normal person sees monsters, ghosts, magicians for the first time, the reaction would be enormous! Yet in anime, it's like "oh, cool, magic! Oh fuck, monsters! Gotta find a way to fight them!" :/

Really tired of that shit

[DarthEnderX]

Sorry, but I just cant bear this bs main character. when he punched a hole through the wall, that's when I shut down the video player. :/ He's supposed to be a beginner.

Did you miss the part in the first episode where he threw a shotput, like, double the distance of the world record, while not even throwing it right?

He's been superhuman from the start. There's probably a reason for it. Probably related to his parents that his grandpa wanted to tell him about but didn't get the chance.

[Munsu]

Episode 3:

And dropped.

Sorry, but I just cant bear this bs main character. when he punched a hole through the wall, that's when I shut down the video player. :/ He's supposed to be a beginner. He's supposed to be a normal school boy who should be both scared and in awe of all the things he gets to see. He should be deathly scared of the impeding death sentence.

Currently catching up, and saw your post...but man it's like you didn't watch the first 2 episodes. This comment is completely nonsensical.

Not sure if the anime would improve for you after, but your take on this particular issue is way off.

[MFauli]

Currently catching up, and saw your post...but man it's like you didn't watch the first 2 episodes. This comment is completely nonsensical.

Not sure if the anime would improve for you after, but your take on this particular issue is way off.

My posting is based on watching the first 3 episodes.

[Munsu]

My posting is based on watching the first 3 episodes.

My comment as well, and your appreciation indicates that you ignored a lot of factors that happened prior to said scene in earlier episodes. In fact, the whole first episode setup was to show how he he possessed superhuman strength, speed, etc. all unaided. So that you took exception to him breaking a wall on episode 3, and this is after he's gained more power, just seems dubious. To say nothing on how you characterized the main character which again ignores everything that was portrayed prior to that scene.

I don't mind that you didn't like it, but just that it was THAT scene, and the (wrong) reasons you give for having a problem with that scene, is suspect. As I said, the show might not get better for you after, but I think it's a bad take to take exception to this in particular, especially since you were apparently loving the series up to that point.

Anyways, good luck tomorrow.

[MFauli]

My comment as well, and your appreciation indicates that you ignored a lot of factors that happened prior to said scene in earlier episodes. In fact, the whole first episode setup was to show how he he possessed superhuman strength, speed, etc. all unaided. So that you took exception to him breaking a wall on episode 3, and this is after he's gained more power, just seems dubious. To say nothing on how you characterized the main character which again ignores everything that was portrayed prior to that scene.

I don't mind that you didn't like it, but just that it was THAT scene, and the (wrong) reasons you give for having a problem with that scene, is suspect. As I said, the show might not get better for you after, but I think it's a bad take to take exception to this in particular, especially since you were apparently loving the series up to that point.

Anyways, good luck tomorrow.

I didn't like how he just started fighting in episode 1, either :/

[Munsu]

I didn't like how he just started fighting in episode 1, either :/

Well, you didn't comment on it and what happened in episode 3 was no different than what happened in episode 1. In fact it was a less impressive feat than what was featured in episode 1. So that you were already able to jump that supposed hurdle and still call it "maybe the anime i enjoyed most from the new season so far", but just because he broke a wall in a future episode you stop watching it seems silly. But oh well, to each his own.

[Munsu]

Alright, I'm up to date now... thought I'd do a roll call, who's watching this series currently or am I alone?

[shinta|hikari]

Present.

[DarthEnderX]

I am also doing that thing.

[neflight86]

*raises hand*

There just isn't a lot to talk about, but this current fight is okay- I just don't know enough about the characters to be very invested, so it (the fight) will thrive by the rule of cool alone.

[Munsu]

Yeah, we haven't spent enough time with him... but I love the character so far.

[DarthEnderX]

Overtime!

[shinta|hikari]

I wonder is he is going to die or get horribly injured by a soul hit...

[Munsu]

Episode 12:





Man, I loved this episode... freaking intense and violent. The head-butting sequence was awesome.