JUJUTSU KAISEN 2ND SEASON

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ANIME ActionJujutsu Kaisen: Shimetsu Kaiyuu

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  vessalius5524

  58/100
  The lost child of anime

  Jujutsu Kaisen expands over a very novel concept, negative emotions or energy creates monsters that are a threat to humans. The basic significance of this concept comes from the fact that while its no more then the materialization of "energy" those curses are very much human in a poetic way(ultimately creating a paradox or explaining how humans are) which is mostly tackeled in the climaxes and to portray that several storylines are woven to make a tale which potentially could have been one of the best things this medium could have provided...
  Which brings me to a neat little fact.
  It fails...

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  And lets elaborate on that. Jujutsu Kaisen introduces a sheer number of story lines and dynamics through some good action, but ultimately due to the sheer number of those it loses a general sense of direction which not only makes the characterization one of the weakest aspects of this series, But also rushes the conclusions or the pay offs in general. Toji Fushiguro, Geto, Gojo, Jogo and several others including Itadori go through phases which while could have been "impactful" end up being something hollow in the end.
  And it makes one of the most jarring decisions in media... Killing of characters suddenly to move the plot forward for the protagonist.
  Something is always left to be desired or more specifically the general feeling of "there should be something more" always remains intact.

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  But a question arises why would that be?
  Considering the author does try to fit in a lot of stuff, ultimately the pacing issues arise. Jujutsu kaisen is fast when it comes to character moments while slow in general stuff which ultimately isnt important for the main plot.
  Ultimately these flaws or pacing/character issues are more apparent in the manga counter parts and even though the anime did overshadow that to some degree, you cant exactly do change or eliminate that aspect entirely.
  So whats the basic verdict in the end? Generally speaking, exploring one concept but carefully crafting it with characters has created several successful storylines and its no secret why. Having to many directions always ruins what "could have been" or a general impact or theme what ultimately compels one to write and thats the main prob with this season. In the end Jujutsu Kaisen is neither simple or complex ... Just hollow.
  Enjoyment is subjective and action is certainly an attraction but considering how weakly its built and again the sheer num of sequences or fights, its basically not something which can really create a sense of enthrallment(but again this factor is subjective). And the production really didnt help in that regard again.
  All in all watchable but literally got lost in its own storyline.
  Thanks for reading =)

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  Douzeries

  90/100
  The departure of that character is the best thing that has happened to this story

  __(contains spoilers)__

  Have you ever felt like a character is not blessed with a situation where they can make the most of their talents? You feel like the character is super interesting and has potential but they're never satisfyingly used by the narrative. Well, that's how I used to feel, not towards a character but towards a story as a whole: Jujutsu Kaisen.

  What I felt was indifference: I perfectly understood why people liked it and it should've been a story I loved myself yet I felt like it didn't take any risks and I couldn't fully feel involved with its stakes concurrently.
  In reality, it was simply due to my preferences and tastes but, after experiencing the Hidden Inventory & The Shibuya incident arc, I realized the root of all evil: Gojo. This little goofball plainly existing was one of my biggest hold back from wholly being immersed in JJK.

  His sealing is the best event that occured in the story and this is what I'm going to demonstrate in this review.

  

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  __Hidden's Inventory Arc: THE DESACRALIZATION OF GOJO__

  Gojo is 'perfect'. He was born with the six-eyes which gives him access to high levels of understanding capacity and analyzation. Both as a sorcerer and as a human being, he 'stands above others'. His mere birth caused the world to change and blah blah blah. Point is, all these factors made him a problem narratively wise. The first obvious one would be that he's broken: his ability quite litteraly being infinity, he could easily overpower any antagonist in the series (in S1, keep in mind) which can undermine the stakes for the viewers. Another thing, which was my personnal issue, is that it made him appear flat as a character. It was always hinted that his conflict resided in his loneliness, his infinite barrier being a metaphor for the distance between him and other characters. And his will for the sorcerer 'society' to change without him simply having to kill everyone (geto vibes) added depht to his motives but... If I'm being honest, these were treated as sub-sub-plots. His main characterization throughout season 1 was him being cool and confident. I could also add to the list that he 'stole the show' but that's a little bit too silly, even for me.

  The Hidden Inventory Arc made me realize that what could have been interpretated as 'flaws' was just something called 'build up'

  

  Toji is an impressive antagonist. Despite his little screentime, he managed to become memorable due to his characterization made only possible by his opponent: He is the first character to ever beat Satoru. And boy, what a beating. I never thought I'd see Gojo arboring such panicked facial expressions. I like how Toji's insane speed was symbolized by the fact that we ourselves as viewers weren't ablet to see him. Not only did it add to his characterization but it also put us at 'the same level' as Gojo. For the first time, we were not viewers meant to simply be amazed by Gojo's powers and confidence but we were his equals, sharing his fears and distress. His terrible loss taught us that he wasn't invulnerable. (Later on, he improves his technique which pretty much makes him invulnerable but keep in mind that I'm talking about how it affected our perception him as viewers).

  This fight also put in perspective the ideology of Gojo. We're reminded of his discourse with Geto in the first episode of the season. While Geto thought that it was the strong duty to protect the weak, Gojo was displeased with the idea of placing moral obligation on the concept of strenght. If you are strong, you are strong, if you are weak, you are weak. Only the weak would put restrictions and morals upon the strong to justify their own weakness and existence. Which makes sense because in a world ruled by the law of the strongest, the weaks have no right to live. Edgy, but that sums it up. That's the meaning behind that goofy braindestroyer quote "Are you Gojo Satoru because you're the strongest or are you the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru" that could also be phrased as "Did you earn the title of the strongest or were you simply born as such?" as well as "Does being the strongest define you or are you the one typifying it?"... Well, you get the gist of it. The point of this quote is to question the nature of the cause of Gojo's identity and strenght. Innate or acquired? Inevitable or preventable?

  How will a guy that made such bold statements about the strong and the weak react when he's put in a situation where he's outbested?

  

  GOJO AS BUDDHA AND TOJI AS SUN WUKONG

  This might be common knowledge at this point but Toji versus Gojo round 2 is a tribute to/inspired by the tale of Sun WuKong and Buddha. Sun WuKong is the chinese trickster god also known as Monkey King that inspired many characters such as Goku, Luffy, Mori-Jin etc. He represents human's unbreakable spirit against fatality. He became insanely powerful but his negative emotions such as his greed, anger and pride led him to challenge Buddha, the 'awakened'. Buddha made a bet with him. The Monkey King was to win and claim the Jade Emperor was he able to escape the palm of Buddha's hand. Sun Wukong jumped and flew to the end of the world. Seeing nothing but five pillars, the Monkey King thought he had finally reached the far reaches of the universe. He returned triumphantly to Buddha only to find out that the five pillars were Buddha's fingers and that he never even left his palm.

  We can see many correlations with Jujutsu Kaisen. Firstly, similarly to Sun WuKong, Toji is himself a man who fought fatality. From the day he was born his fate was sealed and his value as a human was already decided, yet he refused his predestination and became the strongest Zen'in despite not having any cursed energy. He's ridiculously strong but three things led him to fight the awakened Gojo. One, his anger. The anger he felt when kid Gojo noticed him despite of all the things he had to go through to become invisible to the eyes of sorceres. Two, his ego. As he said it himself, he would've normally just made a run for it upon seeing the awakened Gojo. His job was done and he would've gained nothing by continuing the fight yet his pride didn not allow him to retreat. Three, his greed. His greedy will for getting back on the sorcerer world by killing their greatest asset, proving his worth, got the better of him. His sacrificed his 'true self' because of his negative emotions.

  On the other hand, Gojo got rid of his negative emotions (/took complete control over it), becoming imprenetable and transcending his human nature, attaining a higher state of consciousness, making him almost omniscient, in peace with himself and the world surrounding him. As if he was at the center of the universe, unleashing the true power of his sixth eye, throughout heavens and earth, he alone became the honoured one. As he said himself, he no longer felt any sadness nor anger towards Riko's death, he was simply in a state where his omniscience made him perceive everything and nothing all at once. This is an obvious allegory to Buddha when he reached Nirvanna. It is a place of perfect peace and happiness, like heaven. It is a state of enlightenment, meaning a person's individual desires and suffering go away as well as any negative mental states. Gojo killing Toji wasn't an act of malice but simply the consequence of Toji's actions. Gojo simply followed the 'laws of the universe' rather than his mere will. Toji who tried to denied his determinism was nothing but a monkey in the hand of Gojo embodying determinism itself (in a positive light). And the pillars he mistook for his way to freedom were the pillars that'd encage him against this inevitable truth and his demise. This can get too theoretical so I'll leave it there but I think the scene was very much understandable anyways.

  

  GOJO'S AND GETO'S DUALITY

  While fighting Toji made Gojo realize his place in the universe, Geto's defeat against Toji and Rika's death caused him the greatest of existential crisis. 'Taking in a cursed spirit is like swallowing the liquid of a rag that has just absorbed vomit'. Geto sacrificed himself for 'regular' humans. He had to bear all sorts of disgusting things for their sake only to find himself surrounded by them being overjoyed over the death of a little girl. What was he fighting for? He reaches a non-turning point after having massacred an entire vilage, including his parents, because the villagers had plans to execute two little girls for attracting demons. In reality, these girls were just more sensible to seeing cursed spirit. Not only are 'regular' humans the technical cause of all cursed spirit but they also put the blame on the only humans capable of saving them. Geto started to hate humans or as he likes to call them 'monkeys' (he's not beating the allegations I'm afraid).

  On the other hand, Gojo starts to developp a similar ideology to pre-Rika's death Geto. When the two of them confront each other and Geto breaks up with Gojo, the 'supremacy' of Gojo is once again questioned. Gojo could figuratevely see everything but the depression of his closest friend. This made me wonder, what does Gojo truly sees? What he wants to see. He believe he found his place in the universe but that's only as the one and only center of it. He knows that in a world without cursed spirit, the basis itself of his authority would be shaken off. Without the weak to protect, Gojo would have no identity as he was basically born to defeat curses. The gojobeinggojobecausehe'sstrongandthegojobeingstrongbecausehe'sgojo really does come in play here. Gojo's strenght is only justifiable due to curses existing just as Geto's plan wouldn't seem that unreasonable if he was as powerful as Gojo.

  From a cool-factor merchant to a layered character (thats also a complex philosophical allegory for Buddha lmao), Gojo's 'departure' started from here. One could argue his awakening sacralizes him but to me, seeing him struggle and fail to understand his friend is more view-changing about Gojo than the awakening scene. We already saw him as some sort of superior existence in the story, knowing that he attained this power through an harsh defeat makes him more human to my eyes.

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  __The Shibuya Incident Arc: A WORLD WITHOUT GOJO__

  I'm going to keep this section short and concise. Similarly to All Might in MHA, Gojo was the best thing that could happen to society as his precence alone was enough to dissuade bad things from happening and he is powerful enough to wipe the vast majority of dangerous cursed spirits. The downside is that the sorcerer society relied too much on him. The moment he's gone, Japan turns into an actual nightmare. He prevented nasty things from happening but he also prevented the growth of the rest of the cast. As long as there was Gojo around, sorcerers would never be pushed passed their limits which is essential to improve on their cursed energy handling. Although I think Gojo 'stealing the show' being a problem is easily refutable there's still a good case to be made about him preventing Yuji from taking the spotlight. His sealing allowed Yuji to grow as a character, figuratively, because his motives changed and he got huge developments and litteraly, because it allowed him to be part of some of the most iconic scenes of the story (WHERE YOU GO I GOOOO).

  Additional notes: I love the art direction of season 2 to death. I have an obsession with drawings that 'simplify' things while keeping the accuracy of the thing itself. If you compare some of the shots image to image with season 1, you might think season 1 is superior but you can't compare a still image to an actual animation. What I'm saying is that season 1 looked good and had insane wallpaper use potential but animation is motion, it's not meant to be watched as a frame but as an overall clip. Due to Mappa's horrendous management, the latest episodes weren't as polished as the earlier ones but I honestly do not care about the downgrades, this is cinema.
  I particularly like Hidden's Inventory arc for turning JJK into Jujutsumonogatari. The art isn't just a tool to convey the story anymore. It's the story.

  

  I adore this scene because it puts so much emphasis on both characters. Despite having long bodies, Geto distorts his back (he's just like me) and keep himself low which serves as good characterization and Gojo is relatable af. As someone as tall Gojo I swear to you that I do not know what to do with my legs and my arms sometimes. You can feel he has to carry his own weight by the way he walks but he still keeps himself high which perfectly embodies him. Not only is it funny and nice from an art persepective but it's also realistical despite the exaggeration.
  The anime did a great job in Yuji vs Choso. They found the perfect way to make Choso's power understandble through visuals alone and they pulled an Ufotable by adding numerous actions scenes into the fight while still being coherent with the source material. The tone of the anime as a whole is a success.

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  You probably got it by now but Gojo is a sort of metaphor I used in order to talk about my appreciation for Jujutsu Kaisen, in S1 he had less depth but he had the potential to be great and this was basically my opinion of JJK. With Hidden's Inventory arc, the characterization of Gojo changed, making him much more intersting to me and this is also where I started to be fascinated by this story. I started to absolutely love JJK right when he got sealed the f#ck away (take it as you please lmao). Figuratively speaking, to me, Gojo being sealed is like the 'old' JJK being sealed away, the jjk with stakes that didn't work for me, the jjk that was a relatively safe story to let a new, fresh one appear. A tragedic story about grief, loss and despair mixed with the well known nekketsu shounen formula and a colorful cast that I love dearly.

  
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  walgreens18

  97/100
  The Season that had my jaw on the floor every week

  JJK SEASON 2 SPOILERS AHEAD, NO JJK MANGA SPOILERS

  Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 - The show that had my jaw on the ground every week.

  I want to start this off by saying I do not stand by the way Mappa treats their employees and I believe a serious change is in need. I eagerly await the Chainsaw Man movie, Hells Paradise season 2, and Mappa's other projects, but it wouldn’t feel right if there’s not a change in the way this company is run.

  After becoming one of the most popular Shounens of this generation in 2020, Jujutsu Kaisen is back for a season 2. Season 1 left JJK with high expectations, as I said before, it is one of the most popular Anime of this generation, season 1 is the 5th most popular anime on this site and the manga is also the 5th most popular on this site. On top of that, season 1 is the #43 highest-ranked anime and the manga is the #78 manga. So with all of these expectations, so how did it go?

  I am caught up with the JJK manga (chapter 244 as of this writing) so when I say that this show had my jaw on the floor pretty much every week, this show had to be really something. We start with the Hidden Inventory/Premature Death arc which follows Gojo and Geto in 2006 when they were still in high school and Geto wasn’t attempting genocide. This arc follows the start of Geto’s transition from someone who gave everything they could to protect normal people to someone who realized that those normal people are the problem. Gojo and Geto were assigned to protect the Star Plasma Vessel, Riko Amanai, a 14-year-old girl who is to become the vessel for Tengen, an ancient all-powerful Jujutsu sorcerer. Plenty of people want to kill Amanai for one reason or another, mostly for money from the people who want her dead. Right as they reach their destination, they are ambushed by Toji Fushiguro, the father of Megumi, who doesn’t even have a trace of cursed energy, which shouldn’t be possible. Geto runs off with Amanai while Gojo attempts to hold off Toji. The fight between Gojo and Toji is a good one, an inexperienced Gojo vs. someone who has zero cursed energy, meaning Gojo is unable to track him. I think the fight was animated well and Toji was made as intimidating as he should be, especially since he “killed” Gojo. Back to Geto and Amanai, they are right outside of “Tengen’s Territory” when Geto asks if Amanai really wants to do this, saying he and Gojo would protect her if not. In a change of fates, she confesses that she wants to spend more time with people, not be stuck as a vessel for the next 1000s of years before passing off to another vessel. As she says this, the outro music begins to pick up. “Lets go home” Geto says when BANG! A gunshot goes right through Amanai’s head and breaks her headband. This scene was evil, with the outro music picking up like the two were about to leave before Amanai was dramatically shot. You can see the shock in Geto’s face before he turns to the killer, Toji Fushiguro, and you can feel Geto’s anger when he says “Then die” after asking Toji what happened to Gojo and being told he was dead.

  After escaping Geto, Toji goes to claim his bounty with Amanai’s body. On his way out he sees a familiar tall, confidant, white-haired man that we all know and love. I know they messed up some of the angles from the manga but this scene was beautifully done. The lighting of the scene and tone that was created by Gojo’s voice actor is something we could only see in animation, and it was wonderful. Gojo then uses hollow purple on Toji for the first time in his life and it's as destructive as we last saw in season 1. Gojo is able to retrieve Amanai’s body and as he leaves a thunderous applause arises from a group that wanted Amanai dead. When he reaches the end of the room he runs into Geto and asks if he should kill them. This is the first time we see any fluctuation in Gojo’s character and morals, in season 1 he was just the relaxed overpowered teacher but here he is still a kid honing his power. Ghetto tells him that killing those people wouldn’t mean anything.

  We then jump to a year later where Gojo has become “The Strongest” something that was used in unison when talking about Gojo and Geto a year ago. But since Gojo was so powerful, he was sent on more missions by himself, meaning Geto did the same. Through this time we can see Geto has become sick of doing the same thing over and over “Exorcise. Absorb. Exorcise. Absorb.” “No one else understands what cursed spirits taste like. It’s like swallowing a dirty rag that’s been used to clean up shit and vomit.” He starts to question who he’s fighting for. You can tell he’s still affected by the scene of a crowd of people applauding the death of a 14-year-old girl from a year prior. He then runs into Yuki Tsumiko, who we know as Todo’s mentor from season 1. She tells Geto that she wants to rid the world of cursed spirits, which is a shocking statement to Geto who’s been stuck in a loop of fighting cursed spirits. Yuki tells Geto that there are two ways to eliminate cursed spirits from the world: 1. Eliminate cursed energy from mankind or 2. Make it possible for all of humanity to control their cursed energy. But both of these would be almost impossible. There is no known way to get rid of cursed energy with Toji Fushiguro dead and teaching every person to control their cursed energy would take forever. So the easiest answer is to kill everyone who doesn’t know how to control their cursed energy. Yuki says she’s not crazy enough to try that but on his next mission, Geto kills an entire town of people to protect two girls who don’t know how to use their cursed energy. This leads us to maybe the most famous scene from the season, at least from this arc. Gojo finds Geto in the streets of Japan and we see an angry, confused Gojo. So much pain is in Gojo’s voice and animated into his face, this is a wonderful scene that sets the table for the rest of the season.

  Before we get to the main event, we get a little detour and get to see the fate of the student who was giving information to Geto and his friends. We find out that Mechamaru has been giving away information about the schools and in return, Mahito would fix Mechamaru’s broken body. We also see a relationship form between Mechamaru and Miwa, so despite the fact that he betrayed our main characters and has put them in trouble more than once, we still desperately cheer for him as he tries to survive Mahito while Geto watches. Mechamaru knows what they are planning so as he fights Mahito he tries to send a warning to Gojo or any sorcerer of what is to come. These two episodes are really entertaining, the fight is well-animated and easy to follow and there is emotional value in it, watching Miwa talk to Mechamaru’s robot body while the real Mechamaru fights for his life.

  Then we reach the main event of the season that takes up the last 16 episodes of the season, the Shibuya incident. The first 7 episodes were really good, the story was intriguing and the animation was beautiful, but the Shibuya incident took everything to the next level. I read the manga at the beginning of 2022, so I knew what was coming (Kind of, I read the entire Shibuya incident in one night while tired and on vacation) yet every single week from the beginning of July to the end of December I spent waiting for Thursday and the new Jujutsu Kaisen episode, and every single week my expectations were shattered and my jaw was on the floor. It started with Gojo arriving in Shibuya and absolutely demolishing curses that we saw characters in season 1 struggle to survive against and some we haven’t seen in action yet in Hanami, Jogo, and Choso. This scene kinda reminds me of Optimus Prime in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (If you know, you know) because both are in a 1v3 and are absolutely schooling the trio before losing. Gojo decimates Hanami in just a few seconds, and it is beautiful to watch. Gojo is completely feral the entire fight and pushes the limits of the sorcery that we saw before, and Mappa pushes the limits of their animation. You can truly feel the power of Satoru Gojo. Gojo then gets trapped in the prison realm, but before he gets locked up he talks to the only person that could break through the invisible barrier around Gojo which is infinity, Geto. Gojo immediately realizes this isn’t the actual Geto, and it is revealed to us that Suguru Geto did in fact die on December 24th, 2017 after the events of Jujutsu Kasien 0, and the curse known as Kenjaku took over his body and his cursed technique. This is certainly an emotional scene, as Gojo gets locked up and it is made apparent that he won’t be able to break out by himself. Shibuya then turns into chaos, with the sorcerers trying to retrieve the prison realm with Gojo inside and save as many civilians as possible, while the curses try to escape with Gojo.

  The first season of Jujutsu Kaisen was mostly a success, but if you ask people what the biggest issue was, a good amount of people would say the pacing was not well done. In season 2, the pacing slows down a ton, the last 16 episodes take place within a few hours of each other, meaning we got to see a ton of fights with different characters and powers and flashy scenes. So much happens in this season it’s hard to go over it all, so here are some quick highlights. Nanami getting pissed at Haruta (The one lucky guy) and beating the shit out of him was so satisfying to watch, Yuji vs Choso was absolutely raw the whole fight felt dizzying and intense, the fight between Dagon and the combination of Maki, Nanami, and Naobito Ze’nin really put it into perspective where even powerful sorcerers stand against powerful curses. Dagon is able to handle the three of them easily until the reincarnated Toji Fushiguro enters and kills Dagon within a minute or two. Toji then runs off to fight Megumi, as the only thing he can think about is killing the most powerful being near him. Jogo, someone who has been clowned by fans for being clowned by Gojo twice then enters and “Kills” the remaining 3 sorcerers in the room, Maki, Nanami, and Naobito, in seconds, really putting into perspective how much more powerful these curses are compared to humans. This was an extremely shocking scene and really still just the start of what was to come later in the season.

  Jogo feeds Yuji ~10 fingers which means Sukuna arrives in Shibuya and shit goes down. First, Sukuna challenges Jogo to a fight, basically just for fun which leads to one of the more destructive fights in anime. An entire city gets wiped out in this fight, and Jogo still isn’t able to land a hit. The city ends up in flames before Sukuna drops a large piece of land on Jogo then burns him to a crisp using his own technique. Sometime after this fight Megumi summons Mahoraga, an extremely powerful cursed spirit which he cannot control so he knocks out Megumi himself and almost kills him before Sukuna saves him, realizing he has to keep Megumi and Haruta alive and defeat Mahoraga in order to keep Megumi alive. So Sukuna challenges Mahoraga and we get to see one of the most beautiful fights i’ve ever seen. Every detail was so well done but the animators have said that this fight was about 30% done. The restrictions and overworking done by MAPPA was at the forefront at this point as animators started talking about how they were exhausted on X and in other platforms, with some even saying they considered suicide. So not only was the animation worse than it could’ve been but there was a bad taste in my mouth whenever I watched a new episode knowing a group of people had to work their ass off in an amount of hours that shouldn’t be aloud just so the episode could be ready on Thursday. The season still continued despite this on and it just got better.

  Yuji finally gains control back and is greeted to a horrifying scene, a giant crater has been made in the middle of Shibuya by Sukuna and Yuji blames himself, because if he wasn’t there Sukuna wouldn’t have been able to do that. A lot of people had an issue with the opening [Specialz] playing as Yuji was having a mental breakdown, but if you look into what the song is about, it makes more sense. The song is the curses singing so you could say that the song playing now could be Sukuna mocking Yuji, and if that is the case I think that was a good decision by the studio. Yuji regains he resolve and decides he has to try to make up for what Sukuna did by saving as many people as possible, but that’s when he runs into the bastard that is Mahito. As Yuji runs into Nanami, Mahito has his hand on his back and since Nanami took a big hit from Jogo earlier Mahito is able to easily kill him. After a satisfying fight where Yuji has control for most of it, we cut to Kugisaki who is also fighting Mahito, or a duplicate Mahito, who then leads her to the actual Mahito and gets her mixed up and touched then killed by the actual Mahito. So within like 15 minutes since taking control back from Sukuna, Yuji had a breakdown because he blamed himself for killing thousands of people in Shibuya, lost one of his mentors, and one of his best friends. In each event we see a broken Yuji and each time his voice actor nails the pain that Yuji feels and makes us the viewers feel awful not just because we just lost some of the best characters in the show but because this 15-year-old kid lost two people who were very important to him and his transition into the Jujutsu world.

  In the next episode, we see a completely discouraged Yuji completely give up and just let Mahito have his way with him until he is saved by an old friend. Aoi Todo comes in at Yuji’s lowest point and not only gets him back on his feet but also gives us some of the best scenes from the season. Todo is able to use his technique to throw off Mahito, as he did to Hanami in season 1, and watching Mahito take the wrath that is these two brothers is so satisfying. The scene with Todo fighting with an imaginary Takada is one of the funniest and out of place things I've seen, and that’s why it’s so great.

  The season ends with a fight between Geto and Yuji with Urame joining Geto and the Kyoto students and Yuji Tsumiko joining Yuji. Geto is intimidating and his powers are beautifully animated in the last 2 episodes, including him releasing thousands of curses. The last episode is depressing, no normal person understands what’s going on and we see shots of the abandoned Shibuya as people try to explain what’s going on in a news broadcast. Geto, Principal Yaga, and Yuji all get sentenced to death while Gojo is named an enemy of the jujutsu society and any attempt to free him from the prison realm is punishable by death. The person assigned to execute Yuji is none other than Yuta Okkotsu, who we last saw in JJK 0. The last scene of the season is of Yuji unveiling a large group of curses that came from Geto earlier in the episode.

  Final thoughts

  This is one of the greatest seasons of anime that I've seen, the animation was beautiful the story was riveting every single week this just got better and better every Thursday I said next week wouldn’t be as good just for it to blow my mind once again, and it could’ve been so much better. I can’t imagine what this could’ve been like if Mappa gave their employees time to actually make this. We can only hope that something changes by the time season 3 comes and hopefully even before that for Mappa’s other projects.

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