Jujutsu Kaisen: Shimetsu Kaiyuu - Zenpen

I WANT SOMEONE TO LOVE ME AS MUCH AS MAPPA LOVES JJK
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO NOT FORGET WHO GOT YOU TO THE TOP

MAPPA's star child Jujutsu Kaisen brought the studio to where it is now and now we are quite literally witnessing; might I say more than perfect adaptation of a well enough source material. The Culling Arc was one of my least fave part of JJK in manga but with 3 episodes in i might actually enjoy this way more than I enjoyed any other seasons, it is so insanely well done. If they are quite literally glazing characters that ... no sane person likes (NAOYA IM TALKING ABOUT YOU) and animate the not so important fight sequences with this much passion, i fear I am going to pass out with upcoming fights.

Every character looks really good, the visuals are giving that dark eerie vibes and the VOICE ACTING? MWAH MWAH MWAH ~
JJK is a character heavy story and when you actually put effort in making the characters come to life, this is what happens!!!
i don't believe they would fuck anything up furthermore albeit my very early review but I cannot wait to witness what's about to come
- IT IS GOING TO BE EPIC !!!

everytime JJK airs, the anime community feels more lively and i sure am overdosing myself with all these amazing edits these fans make!!

ANYWAYS AMAZING SEASON, MAPPA YOU'RE DOING AWESOME AND PLEASE LET YOUR EMPLOYEES REST A LITTLE.

JJK is still JJK but I feel like something is slightly off this season.

Animation and sound track are peak as always and we already got a few interesting character moments in these first few episodes but I don't know if it's the directing or the pace but I feel like the scenes don't flow into one another as well as they did previous seasons.
I really like the more experimental directing of the first 2 episodes, even if they still had, in my opinion, some weird transitions, but the cinematography and artsy approach worked well to set the scene in the aftermath of S2. On ... the other hand, ep. 3 and 4 felt somewhat jumbled, like we got cool animation and cool moments but they felt more like a youtube compilation of cool scenes rather than a flowing narrative, especially ep 4, which is a shame because I love Maki to the death and I was looking forward to see that part in the anime.

I understand that following season 2 is though since that was JJK at its finest but I still can't shake the feeling that something is not clicking the same way this time around.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a very, very good show, and it's clear to see all the love and care MAPPA put in their work, and with only 4 episodes out this could easily become an initial fumble rather than an prolonged issue, but I felt it should still be pointed out.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see, but the culling games was my least favorite part of the manga because I found it too confusing to follow and I actually dropped it mid arc because of that and so far, besides the stellar animation, the anime has done little to make it easier to follow along.

Anime onlys don't worry, you will probably still love it, just for me and for now, S3 has not reached the same heights S2 has.

I'll probably update this review once we have the full season.

Culling Game is straight up abysmal dogshit and I’m tired of pretending it’s some misunderstood masterpiece. This arc feels like Gege forgot he was writing a story and just started throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks. The fights look cool, yeah, but cool doesn’t mean good. The pacing is miserable. It’s not slow, it’s not fast, it’s just constantly annoying. The show rushes past things that should matter and then stops dead to explain rules nobody wants to hear. Also goshozono's abysmal direction is really star of this shit show, mf uses abrupt cut offs from important scenes in coming off as ... very deep and meaningful directing but instead it just breaks the flow. Genuinely one of the most exhausting arcs I’ve watched. Cool ideas wasted by awful execution. Absolute mess.