Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season

So this is what it’s like to watch a series crash and burn in real time… Jujutsu Kaisen is an interesting beast of a series. When it first hit the mainstream anime community in 2020, many immediately took to praising it as one of the best Battle Shonens to come out of modern Jump, in spite of the fact that, in many other people’s eyes, it had yet to do anything all that notable or special to set itself apart from the competition. A big part of this was, of course, manga readers hyping up what the series would eventually do later down the line, and the rest was anime-onlies who were either blinded by the sakuga or engaged with the idea of what the series *could be* rather than necessarily what it actually was at the time. Regardless of the reason behind the hype, it was undeniable to many people that the show had potential. Sure, it might not be anything too special now, many people said, but if it executes its ideas well and lives up to the expectations the Manga readers set, then it absolutely could become one of the best modern Shonens. And that’s where this season comes in. Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 is the series’s attempt to cash in all its hype, the moment where shit hits the fan and it truly becomes the series everyone says it could be. Or rather, to put it more accurately, Season 2 is when the show *tries* to do that, but ends up failing, falling down several flights of stairs, and ruining most of what made it entertaining in the first place. Breaking it down first, it’s almost necessary to talk about the season in terms of the two parts which it was broken up into: the 6 episode Hidden Inventory arc which constitutes the start, and the 17 episode Shibuya Incident arc which makes up the remainder of the season. The Hidden Inventory arc isn’t exactly anything too special, but it’s easily the best part of the season. This is some of the most tightly focused and plotted writing in the series, with its relatively short episode count being well-complemented by its small cast. As a flashback arc detailing Gojo’s Past, it succeeds well enough, adding a layer of nuance to the character which expands on what had been previously hinted at regarding him. It retains the first season’s sense of goofy charm while managing to be relatively more serious, and is generally rather well-directed and animated on top of that. This isn’t to say that it’s perfect, of course. The last stretch of the arc especially shows signs of rushing as just 5 episodes isn’t quite enough to fit the many emotional beats the arc tries to hit, leading to several parts of it falling rather flat when it comes to elements which don’t deal directly with Gojo’s character arc. Now you might be thinking at this point that this seems rather more positive and good than I was making it out to be at the start of this review. Well, that’s because the real problems with the season come in its second, much larger part, the Shibuya Incident. Shibuya starts out fine enough, mostly in how it picks up the momentum from the Hidden Inventory arc to fuel its first major fight and kick off the events of the arc. However, this is immediately lessened by the fact that that fight then proceeds to negate half of the emotional core of the Hidden Inventory arc in the first place, retroactively ruining a perfectly good arc for the sake of a cheap shock value reveal. This bit of less than stellar writing is then followed by the onset of the rest of the arc, which is practically a nonstop series of fight scenes. And here’s where a huge problem rears its head: most of them don’t really matter. Firstly, the show’s rather lean worldbuilding becomes a detriment here. The Jujutsu World as it exists is essentially a vague sketch made up of generic shonen worldbuilding tropes which the audience has no investment in. This was fine in the first season, where the stakes were generally character-based and the overall world took a backseat, but as Shibuya’s stakes are inherently grounded in the series’s setting, this starts to become a detriment to the audience’s investment. This would also likely be fine if the character writing within the arc was competent enough to carry the series like it did in the first season. However, here we come to another problem: the character writing in Shibuya takes an utter nosedive. This problem is rather multifaceted, so let’s break it down a bit. Firstly, the fights don’t really progress anything meaningful regarding the characters. Half of the fights in this season are against random one-note mooks whose only notable feature is their special ability. Consequently, there’s no personal stakes involved for any of the characters, and they have little-to-no development coming out of them. This arc’s episode count could be cut in half and pretty much nothing would change considering how inconsequential most of the fights are. This isn’t helped by the insane cast bloat, as the show constantly throws even more underdeveloped, one-note characters at the viewer and hopes that they might care about at least one of them. Secondly, the series’ fights lack any sort of flair or personality. A big part of the appeal of the show’s first season was how simply fun the cast was in terms of their interactions and how their lovably distinct personalities shined through in their fights. However, as this is the “serious” arc, characters are not allowed to show personality or any interesting unique characteristics while fighting. So instead we get an indistinct gray sludge of generic, forgettable fight after generic, forgettable fight which is lacking in both style and substance, carried only by the efforts of the animators. How does a writer keep the audience engaged in such an aggressively uninteresting slog, you ask? It’s quite simple, really: cheap shock value! You see that character the audience generally likes? Arbitrarily kill them off! Sure, their potential as a character hasn’t even begun to be tapped into and the audience barely knows them since you’ve spent so little time actually developing them, but if you make it sudden enough, you might be able to deceive the viewer into thinking it’s good writing! Oh, what’s that? The viewer isn’t quite emotional yet? Just shove a flashback in the middle of their death scene and spend half the episode on it! Shoving all the character’s actual depth into the very end of their screen time, literally right before they’re dead, is *totally* a legitimate substitute for writing an actually compelling character. And, just to make sure the audience gets the point, give the character *another* flashback at the start of the next episode, just beat the audience over the head with what they’re supposed to be feeling, that’ll totally make them think the show is actually emotionally meaningful and not just boring crap. Repeat some variant of this formula a couple times over, and you’ve got yourself the Shibuya Incident experience! Now, of course, some might say that even if the show isn’t well-written in the slightest, it’s still very well-animated, so you can just enjoy it as turn-your-brain-off fun. However, even that approach has its problems due to the series’s consistency issues. For every genuinely great-looking fight, there’s another that’s ruined by flat shading, messy storyboarding, and the show’s ludicrously boring color palette. And even if you can look beyond that, the show’s attempts to shove emotions down your throat consistently ruin any attempt you might make to turn your brain off. It’s rather hard to just take in the action sakuga when half the episode is taken up by a boring flashback. Overall, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 can best be summed up in one word: Edgy. The season discards all of the potential it once had in favor of an “I’m 14 and this is deep” experience where an incoherent combination of black & red color palettes, random horrific imagery, and arbitrarily killing off characters passes itself off as good storytelling. It’s the most disap…

Second season of Jujutsu Kaisen is truly astounding. It's incredible creative vision and ambition are only matched by disappointment coming from failures in achieving its enormous goals. To truly express my feelings about such a complicated piece of media I will have to go into spoiler teritory, but for now, until stated otherwise, I will avoid going in depth and assume you only watched the first season. So should you continue watching Jujutsu after its long introduction you had to go through that is the first season? It is hard to say as the continuation of this story is very... let's say uneven in its strenghts. To help you decide let me start with what I enjoyed the most which is the combination of courage and passion put into this anime by a team of some of the very best artists in the industry. Despite massive challenges (that I will disscus in a bit) this show includes one of the most stunning and creatively impressive tv animation highlights I've seen in a long time, with incredible directing too. The team of very strong and different animators make this season of Jujutsu a compilation of many different styles and approaches animation can take, the scale of which is rarely seen. Sometimes a whole episode will be keeping a quality worthy of being shown in cinema. Music was very fun with wide array of styles reaching some very jazzy places that I enjoyed greatly. Voice actors as always give their all in this series with many impressive performances throughout the show. Story wise author shows some of his best moments with the first arc and many creative ideas throughout the rest of the season, but unfortunately here is where I will start complaining, with all of the ambition in mind it is obvious to me that plot is the weakest part of this show. Lack of development for the many important characters is the most annoying problem. Even in the main trio only Itadori got sufficient level of development for me to care at least a little bit. Characters that are with us since a long time are still being neglected while new ones are being intruduced. Thanks to this problem author turns to a classic move of fleshing out a character right before his/her death, which I always hate to see, especially when they do it by having a long flashback. Antagonists are a very mixed bag. Sure Sukuna is great and I liked Mahito, but people like Toji or Geto are totally wasted which I will discuss in the spoiler section. Fights are mostly badly written. There are few very notable exceptions, but mostly we are putting an established character against some random while the narrator is boring me to death with expositon about said random dude and his power. Rearly do we put two known, major and developed characters against eachother and sometimes when we do it turnes out to be badly handeld (I will get to it later). This is very annoying when some of the biggest fights in this climactic arc are between someone we know and some new or uninteresting dude. Many of those fights feel like being here mostly for show with not much being achived. Power system is convoluted, and thanks to the aforementioned narrator we often are just informed of what everyone can do taking out any mystery about some of those uninteresting opponents. Conveluted system also gives the author an opportunity to often get his characters out of tough and interesting decisisons like with Gojo who ended up breaking a rule to his ability just because he is that good. I don't really get what this series is trying to tell me. With no strong theme and lackluster plot, story of Jujutsu is just not very appealing to me. Now let's talk about the production problems and tight timelines, resulting inconsistency in quality can either be very annoying or fascinating depending on you. Sure it is sad that those amazing artists didn't get to achive their vision thanks to corporate greed, with many frankly ugly moments in the series, but it is very impressive to see what they managed to achive after getting to know a little about what kind of problems they had to face. I would love to see a documentary about how we even managed to get what we did. Should you watch season two? I would say most likely, but if you have problems along the way take a similar approach as one would in museum. This show made history and history while important doesn't have to be always pretty. Now time to get into detail with my more important problems, first one is with Geto and the bad structure of this whole story. If you, like me after watching Jujutsu zero assumed that Geto is dead and surely the one in the first season must be an imposter than chances are that the first half of this season will be very frustrating and will fail in many of the goals it is trying to accomplish. In the whole prequel arc I didn't care at all about Geto, problem which would be easly fixed by placing said arc at the begging of the story. This would also make Jujutsu zero a much better story. Unfortunately while the first arc impressed me the most it wasn't free of flaws as the fall of Geto himself felt very rushed and didn't convince me at all. Toji also feels wasted, with his only contributions being a power up for Gojo and a push towards evil for a dead soon to be antagonist. Let's talk more about Toji and Megumi. Their fight was one of the biggest let downs of this season. We basically got nothing out of our protagonist who didn't even realize he was fighting his father. How do you screw this up?! This by all means shoud have been one of the best moments in this series. While we are talking about the big characters Kugisaki and Nanami turned out to have practically no arcs at all. Sure Nanami had his epic anime rage against some random, but I don't care. Nanami got basically abandoned by the author in favor of developing Itadori, which I despise as a decision. To be honest woman in this show have always been disappointing either being just a variation of your typical smirki personality or underdeveloped and forgettable like the blue haired Gojo fangirl. While we talk about Gojo I also have to say that I really don't get the hype about the most prideful and unchanging character in this series, but that is me just ranting at this point. I haven't even talked about the many abandoned plot points. That will either be forgotten or reintroduced in the distant future, making me wonder why set things up like politics in the Zenin clan in the first season or other things like that when we barly even touched the subject. I hope that if you enjoyed Jujutsu Kaisen you won't come to my home and murder me in sleep as I've seen some very devoted fans of this show. Enjoy your show, know that I enjoyed it as well and have a great time.

Before I begin this review, I have a confession to make. After Episode 18 had aired, I felt honored as my home country was mentioned in the anime while also slightly amused by the idea the author included it. Hearing 2 different VAs having a vacation in a different country other than the usually portrayed countries like the US, Italy, France, or anything else is weirdly soothing. And yes, this is where I admit that I am a Malaysian. Witness the honored one. It's been difficult to approach Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 with an objective mind, given how it was produced with extremely tight scheduling (only a week before the episode had to be aired!), and the studio's reluctance to pay its staff fairly. When MAPPA's working schedule is this bad, it's almost impossible to fathom how something like Jujutsu Kaisen could still look so good, despite the simplified look and some awkward drawings during action sequences. The staff had to give 120% of their potential to push out the episode for us, devoted fans of Jujutsu Kaisen, and to satisfy the company's greed for mainstream attention. At this point, it's hard to determine which approach is appropriate, as praising it would justify the decision MAPPA executives made and later encourage more situations like this for its staff, while criticizing it would discredit the effort of the staff, later proven by the cultural impact and media edits fans have posted for this season. The two arcs this season adapts, Gojo's Past Arc and the infamous Shibuya Incident Arc that had many leaks and spoilers from manga fans; were surprisingly handled pretty well for something that was rushed. Well, since the Shibuya Incident Arc took a delay after Episode 5 aired, and for as little time they made to create 18 episodes fully compassing it, it did not disappoint, to say the least. The magnitude of the fights JJK is known for has multiplied further. Not to mention, we see some of the best voice acting to compete for 2023. Honestly, it was difficult to choose who had the best voice performance between Enoki Junya and Shimazaki Nobunaga, since they put their heart and soul into their roles, not to forget about Gojo's VA though. Truly the perfect example of everyone using 120% of their potential. If there's any actual criticism I could give for this anime, it's the storytelling. While the set pieces are pulled off really well, it's at the cost of some brainless plot conveniences. While the action sequences and the payoffs are great, the story's logic is idiosyncratic, like the previous season. It takes plenty of time to elaborate the power system and techniques used by different people alike, but then allows some characters to ignore that logic and then proceed to explain it in the most general way possible as if it would accomplish anything. This kind of shenanigans can be a real pain in the head for people who are looking for actual grounded shows. The author follows the system until they say that something needs to happen regardless of the outcome. Well, it just means you're going to see some plot armor here and there. Other than that, feast your eyes on some of the most action-packed sequences we have gotten this year. There are still some legitimate criticisms with people claiming the animation looks like fan art (they're not wrong, sometimes the art does look rough and unpolished), but the cinematography and choreography do not miss. It's so fluid that the impact of each of their force is properly registered and does not feel awkward (well, excluding a few scenes that took shortcuts like Episode 17). Taking into consideration the intensity and stakes this series has introduced further, the payoff is immensely satisfying, even greater than JJK Season 1's action sequences. To summarize, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 is a product of great talent that has been stretched thin by tight deadlines. We might never see a sequel of Jujutsu Kaisen that reaches this level of quality ever again, due to staff leaving MAPPA and never to be associated with it ever again. To me, it seems like the swan song of MAPPA's glory, as it all finally crumbles down for the people to see what lies beneath their facade.

This review contains minor spoilers. Everyone told me to wait for the Shibuya Incident arc, that it is one of the best arcs in shounen and I have also seen people comparing it to the Chimera Ant arc from Hunter x Hunter 2011 (something I could almost consider an insult to Togashi's work). It is to no one's surprise that the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen retains many of the first season's flaws. It is still a work devoid of any substance and it contains many notable tone problems; when it tries to be dark it is ruined by the ridiculous monster design and the absolutely idiotic decisions that the characters make, when it tries to be funny it is instead totally cringe and ineffective. It just feels so cheap, bland and shallow; Gege tries to be deep and psychological in this second season with Gojo and Geto's relationship, Geto's metamorphosis and the Hidden Inventory arc but it fails tremendously and instead turns into a show of mediocrity, superficiality and edgyness which I will talk about later. Of course, I cannot do a negative review without talking about Walmart Kakashi akka "Satoru Gojo" who receives a nice power-up to defeat an enemy; this is pretty annoying, he was a character with a lot of future to participate actively on other arcs and this is what I expected before starting this season, but the guy was dispatched in less than three episodes because Gojo gets a powerup out of nowhere with Hollow Purple; so sad bro, you were a victim of the white-haired generic prettyboy, the Gojo fapping session starts here and expands all across the Shibuya Incident arc; where despite being on a precarious situation he manages to still be asslicked by the rest of the character cast every single fucking episode. This review will be somewhat long and painful to write. First circle of Hell: Animation It is obviously not bad, in fact it is amazing; this is due to the fact that MAPPA has every worker on extra hours and working like cattle constantly so the studio can get more revenue from this thing without any substance, of course the animation will be very pretty.., but I still have a complaint, am I the only person who feels that this animation has no soul or inspiration whatsoever? Yeah, yes, it looks objectively cool, but I feel nothing watching Gojo take off his blindfold and reveal his eyes, I feel nothing watching the fights, I feel nothing watching the domain expansions, I feel nothing but utter apathy; there is no sense of any kind of soul behind the pretty things I'm watching, something that was a similar complaint to the one I had in my review of Oshi no Ko. This feels like you're putting lipstick, long eyelashes and pretty makeup on a robot that's constantly fighting another robot, to the point that by the time I watched the fifth fight in a row with pretty animation I was getting bored out of my mind, there is nothing in these fights that interests me. The choreography of the fights is weak and mostly consists of who can throw the strongest firework at each other instead of truly interesting and unforced tactics (I'll talk about what happens in the Shibuya arc later). Still, this is in the first circle of hell as it is obviously the strongest thing about this anime and it's still objectively nice and good, there are fights (especially in the second half of the anime, towards the end and climax of Shibuya Incident) that are visually spectacular and it is obvious theres inmense amounts of effort put into them. Second circle of Hell: Worldbuilding Jujutsu Kaisen's world is completely empty; yes, the worldbuilding in this anime is tremendously lame; the powers that be of Jujutsu Kaisen are explained on very silly and superficial ways, it does not feel like an actual world and it is more like randomly-chosen scenarios in which the characters fight, explain or resolve their problems on immature ways. It just does not feel like theres a true world or deep scenario surrounding our characters, there is no explanation or substantial attention to detail in how the authoritarian orders work in the Jujutsu schools or how the government acts in Tokyo at that moment, in the Shibuya Incident arc I was constantly asking to myself "how would high ranks of the government respond to a terrorist attack of such a big scale?" "why arent there any militaristic or police forces moving in when the attack is so notoriously obvious?" Even if they cannot do anything against the curse users or the monsters they can still help people out and let the Jujutsu sorcerers fight without having to care for harming innocent people. The worldbuilding feels extremely vague, the power system on Jujutsu Kaisen is still pretty basic and the curses are bland and not-interesting. It does not feel like there is a world beyond what the characters can see or something that surrounds them, there is not much else to say. Jujutsu Kaisen's Japan feels extremely artificial and it isn't more than a green screen or a chroma where the entirety of the plot happens, there is no depth or substance. Third circle of Hell: Atmosphere and tone The dark atmosphere that Gege tries to settle many times is ruined by his obsession to try and make his characters look "cool" constantly. Jujutsu Kaisen at some point becomes a competition of "who throws the nicest-looking fireworks" throwing powers everywhere, doing idiotic stuff because it is cool.., etc, it is extremely cheesy and I couldn't help but roll my eyes and get stressed because of the tenth time in which Gege used his lame excuse of a character cast and basically screamed at my face "LOOK HOW COOL MY CHARACTER IS WOW, LOOK AT HIS POWERS, IMPRESSIVE YOU HAVE TO BE IMPRESSED WOW" until it just became tedious and boring. This show is also sold as a shounen with a dark atmosphere and tone, yet it fails in establishing one correctly due to what I said in the first place and the ridiculous monster design; yet it isn't the worst thing in this anime and in some points the atmosphere is quite decent, like the discussion between Fushiguro Toji and Geto Suguru in the weird japanese-like halls or the big haunted house in episode one.., up until this last one is ruined by Satoru Gojo, of course, as he has an innate talent to ruin every single scene or plot that is minimally interesting. Fourth circle of Hell: Characters In this case, the worst circle of hell and the worst thing in the entire anime. One of the things that annoyed me in the Hidden Inventory arc is Suguru Geto's idiotic character transformation; he is taking a shower alone, he starts to say pseudo-intellectual nonsense and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!! He suddenly becomes Jujutsu Kaisen's Adolf Hitler in basically 3 or 4 episodes; this is not character development yall, this is just a cheap and forced character metamorphosis so the plot can advance, you can't make me think that this guy goes from one pole to the other, completely radical only because one of his fellow workers died in a job where older people should be respected and because he failed a mission; have you not seen thousands of situations like this? Don't you think that people like you, in very emotionally-hard jobs like this, should have developed coping mechanisms to deal with work and emotional problems? Doctors, morgue workers, volunteer people in poor places, fireworkers, military, etc, workers on these lines of labour have ways to face problems on their work; Geto did not care at all, he suddenly decided to transform into Jujutsu Kaisen's third reich for an absolutely idiotic thing. Suguru Geto is a terrible villain, badly written and without motivations that inspire the viewer to be genuinely interested on him, he is your classic cliché BBEG who decides to become a fucking CULT LEADER and do a fucking massacre for dumb stuff that occured in the past. This guy decided to go thru wisest path and kill more than half of the population, become an authoritarian imbecile cult-leader and practice eugenics, it seems that he never thought …

I've never seen a show more devoid of substance that's as popular. It's honestly mind-boggling! And clearly, this feeling is not mine alone (read some of the reviews here). The most heinous sin here is the incoherent storytelling and world-building. In fact, I think almost everything else about the show is equally bad too. World-building Starting with the world-building, how do you even make sense of it? Each episode you have the "opportunity" to see a new mechanic or some random gibberish being said about this mechanism. It's so lazy to have the characetr using a new power explain how he does it every time there's a new power being introduced. And, none of it has to make sense or be consistent with the existing world building (the little there is). Characters I truly can't seem to care about any of the characeters. Yuji at the beginning of the show was traumetized by the kids being turned. At this point in the show, he's just so casual about it. I don't care about the people dying and neither do the characters. Every character is just so bland. I have no clue what anyone's motivation. Why are the villains bad again? They just are? Animation Honestly the only thing that might be keeping this show afloat is the animation. I painfully watch each episode just to see the cool animation and powers. I suppose that is indeed the apppeal. But then again, is that all it takes for a show to get a 8/9 on 10 on MAL??

A Shibuya Letdown: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Fails to Deliver Jujutsu Kaisen season 1 burst onto the scene with stunning animation, a captivating story, and characters you couldn't help but root for. Season 2, however, feels like a pale imitation, leaving me utterly disappointed. The animation, which was once a highlight, is now inconsistent. While some fight scenes remain impressive, others suffer from choppy movements and awkward stills. This inconsistency throws off the entire viewing experience, making the action feel jarring and underwhelming. Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 is a frustrating watch. It fails to live up to the high bar set by its predecessor, leaving me feeling cheated of a truly satisfying experience. The rushed pacing, inconsistent animation, and underdeveloped characters leave a sour taste in my mouth. This season is a missed opportunity, and as a fan of season 1, I can't help but feel deeply disappointed.

Disappointing season in terms of animation and character design, there's no way to compare it to the first season, if the third reaches that level I won't follow it. Most of the battle scenes were distorted, some episodes had a very slow pace, there were hours that looked like children's drawings. The only thing that made me continue to follow was the story that clarified some points, not all that were open. Unfortunately, the studio ended the work, I hope the mistake doesn't happen again and they still left the ending completely open, they could have added a few more chapters to really close the arc.

first season was great, but after this season crashed and burned, i'm not continuing the series. the animation in this season is amazing, especially in the first five episodes and a vast majority of the fights. it's a far cut above the first and you can tell the animators were passionate. there were times where i rewinded just to see how a specific part was animated again. ...and that's about all the praise i have for this season. the entire season is having an objective, saying "this is time sensitive, solve it as quickly as possible or everything will be destroyed" and then having every character go "mmmm ok, but i gotta get rid of this random guy first". i guess it makes sense in a way, but it felt more like the author was stalling then setting up a good roadblock. there's so many enemies introduced that die in the same episode that i have no reason to care about. so many of these fights don't add anything, if anything they just repeatedly subtract. i like to suspend my belief when watching shows like this, but there were many times that i just couldnt. there were multiple times where characters should've died and just. didn't, somehow. meanwhile there were others where it'd make sense for a character to dodge something or flee, but didn't because getting hurt and dying would definitely be better writing and not just frustrating to watch. this isn't even mentioning that the antagonist objective doesn't make sense- we're told why it doesn't in the beginning and then we're expected to sympathize with them for idiotic reasons?! the character writing is far worse- from confusing, to annoying, to boring, to the point where i starting saying "holy shit, just get off the screen, i don't care" and started skipping through (which i never usually do). nearly every character- especially during what should be an important moment- was handled so poorly. it felt like the author just wanted to create shock value over and over again. there comes a point where it gets less and less shocking, where you get bored and annoyed, apathetic to what's happening and instead starting to pick it apart. the end of the season left nothing that interested me. the first season set up so much potential, and this season destroyed it. if you have to watch it, watch the first five episodes then immediately end there. it's not worth it. it adds nothing beyond that point.

Another shounen anime: characters with no personality, good guys don't die, bad guys aren't killed by the good guys, each episode is one fight, nonsensical battles, explaining the character's story just before they die, 4th wall commentator on the random powers, stretching moments ad infinitum, a bazillion characters, the whole world is Japan, general inconsistency, etc. Some say the animation is good, and the scenarios and characters are indeed mostly* neatly drawn. But the cursed power being a simple flame shape that looks scratched by a kid is sad. Impact frames (randomly changing the colour of the frames with Paint) don't help every 10 second punch/explosion feel powerful, nor do the blurry lines feel like super-speed when speed in general is inconsistent. This is just another generic anime.

*** This review contains spoilers *** Review in English and Spanish – Below is the same review in Spanish Well, the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen is divided into two arcs: Hidden Inventory and the Shibuya arc. I read these two arcs in the manga years ago, and they are among my favorites in all of JJK. In general, they are some of my favorite arcs. When they announced this season, it was what I was looking forward to the most out of all the anime. I'm going to comment, analyze, share my opinions, and several other things that I'm not sure if I can mention about what I thought of this entire season or, better said, this masterpiece of a season Hidden inventory: I must say that there was a change of director from the first season to the second. The shift in direction by Gosso (it's the abbreviated form, named Goshozono, Shouta) is quite noticeable to me. Personally, I love the direction not only in this mini-arc but throughout the entire season; it literally feels like a different series, giving me vibes of Chainsaw Man. Perhaps it's just me thinking this, but well, idk. This director is one of my favorites. I should also mention that he had prior experience working on Jujutsu Kaisen (JJK), as he was the storyboard artist for episode 17 and directed some episodes in the first season, which were animated quite well. He was also involved in episode 8 of Chainsaw Man, episode 4 of Mob Psycho, the famous episode 21 of Ousama Ranking, practically being part of the best episodes, at least technically, of each series. But well, enough about Gosso; let's get back to the arc. Both the opening and ending song of this mini-arc are amazing. The ending, in particular, complements the arc well, slow yet melancholic, reflecting Gojo's past with his only friend who left due to his ideals. I love it; it gives me those vibes. The animation is insane, to be honest. I love how well the 2006 setting fits. It's simplistic, silly, and charming, especially in funny moments. Beyond that, the animation is top-notch. The fight in the second episode with a random masked character vs. Gojo has fantastic choreography that I adore. The soundtrack, which I love, is very solid Chapter three, aside from what I mentioned above about the direction that didn't make sense in this episode, in every good sense, what it did at the end with inserting the ending, the voice actors, BROTHER, the voice actors did an amazing job with the girl crying, reaching out to cut with the shot and cut with the music and all. It was incredible—the music, the shots of the aquarium, the shots of them strolling through an entire park with flowers. Those backgrounds, GOD, how I loved everything about this chapter. Everything about Gosso is not making sense, to be honest, I never doubted. The soundtrack is being completely outdone by that of the first season, at least in these early chapters and as far as I know, only 1 of the 3 composers from the previous season is part of this season. Incredible, the work of these three individuals. At the beginning of the chapter, Gojo resolves an entire plot that seemed like it was going to develop further but in the end, NO, BAM, he takes it, and we already rescued the maid. Well, what I mentioned above about the backgrounds, bodyguards arrive at Tensen's lair to deliver Riko, and my FATHER Touji appears—WHAT A FIGHT, MY GOD, WHAT INTENSITY, WHAT ANIMATION, GOSSO CINEMA. Those eyes Gojo has, I love them, and all the blood when he's almost dead. Definition of cinema Chapter 4 was also incredible, but not quite like the third one. The third is something, as I mentioned above in the text. At this point in the season, you realize it has a completely different style, another vibe that I love. I liked this episode in terms of the Gojo vs. Touji fight. The fight showcases the purple with a beautiful soundtrack as all of this unfolds. In the overall episode, Gojo seems quite lost in his gaze—well-directed in every aspect. I love how he's in the sky, as if he's so far above Touji... and since we're talking about Touji. I firmly believe that Touji also carried a very heavy psychological burden. He had been mistreated and rejected his entire life by his family, constantly treated as if he were worthless. Meeting Gojo made him feel miserable about himself because Satoru was a prodigy, born with luck, gifts, and a very powerful technique. Everyone loved Gojo; he didn't need to prove what he was capable of, unlike Touji, who constantly struggled for approval, both from himself and others. Gojo was what he would have wished for himself because he was constantly referenced as the strongest sorcerer. For Touji, eliminating Gojo mentally lifted the burden that had plagued him his entire life, proving to himself and others that he was capable of more. Touji's mistake strengthened Gojo, and the sadness Touji had to carry remained with him alone. What a character Touji is, one of my favorite characters in Jujutsu Kaisen, and he appears only briefly, but when he does, he stands out. He was rejected by the Zenin clan for not having cursed energy. Despite being recognized by the clan as a formidable fighter (and killer), they still expelled him out of fear and concerns for the clan's prestige, among other things. In the end, he became the strongest human without cursed energy and with immense courage. I love that later, after leaving the clan, he drops the Zenin surname and takes on his wife Fushiguro's name. He starts working as an assassin and earns the nickname 'the sorcerer killer,' a title he imposes. In addition to everything I mentioned, he was a brilliant person in every sense, not only in skill, strength, but also in intelligence. The plan he devised to kill Gojo, the time limit for the reward to exhaust him, the meticulous planning and strategy to defeat him and catch him off guard once the time was up, and then devising the entire plan to kill Rika seem brilliant to me. What I like the most is that he makes Gojo, possibly the most overpowered character in the entire anime, look like a child. If Touji hadn't explained the entire plan, Gojo wouldn't have even realized it, especially when he revealed the reward and all that. What a character. Excellent character development and brilliant writing for what he did to defeat Gojo. The way he killed Rika without a word, without anything, appearing from the shadows to do his job, THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE. Even hesitating to kill Geto so he wouldn't release the curse that scared him a bit because he didn't know what it would do. Impeccable character. Well, since we've deviated quite a bit, let me share my favorite characters from this season and in general: Touji, Gojo, Nanami, Itadori, Maki (although she's a bit for what happens later, but Maki has to be there), and I'd include Sukuna too; I like the presence he commands, but I feel like there's something missing for him. That would be them, basically. I'd love to continue with each of the following characters, but I feel like I've gone too off-topic, and let's continue where we were, besides, each of them will have their moment. Last chapter of the mini-arc: The episode begins, and it's been a year since the fight in episode 4. Gojo is now the strongest, and Geto is already questioning everything after so much time alone and so many curses arising from everything that happened. It seems like there's a plague, and he wonders what the point of all this is if everyone ultimately dies. Then a waifu appears and tells him two ways humans can't detect curses: one, if humanity controls cursed energy, and two, if they are like Touji. I understand... Well, the episode concludes with spectacular direction, reminiscent of the manga that was pure text with characters talking all the time. Gosso plays with the direction, engaging all the senses with applause, transitions in the rain, funny shots, and fluid animation. The episode has excellent direction, a great OST, and a nice contrast. Geto switches…

I don't watch nearly as much anime as I did in my formative teenage years, but whenever a new show pops up that people don't shut up about I try to make an effort to see what all the fuss is about. I did initially try to watch Jujutsu Kaisen as it was airing, got through season 1, thought it was pretty ok, and then didn't feel the need to go back when season 2 came out and thought that maybe the hype would die down. It didn't. So I said fine and made the effort to rewatch season 1 and then all of season 2 after it had already aired. Ignoring my thoughts on season 1 (its very average) season 2 throws you into a whole new arc that takes place in the past so it should be given a fresh chance. And upon giving it that fresh chance, I realized that season 2 is just as average as the first season but with higher highs and lower lows. It's as if the author was trying to recreate how it feels to experience Fate Zero but without all the parts that make Fate Zero good. You know, like the interesting characters. I can understand if you just don't care about a genuinely interesting story how you could just shut your brain off and enjoy the fights. I really do get it. But the show does not present it's in that way so I did not attempt to experience it that way. To boil it down to my main gripes, characters are killed for seemingly no reason most of the time, other than to attempt to illicit a reaction from the viewer (rather than the conclusion of that character's story). When these characters are killed there is always a post hoc "here's my backstory so please cry now" scene either right before they die (spoiling the moment entirely) or right after they die which lead to me just rolling my eyes. When this technique is typically used, it's to EMPHASIZE the emotions that the viewer is supposed to feel, not to create them from scratch. The characters are all paper thin, even the main character who got pushed aside for a flashback arc after one season with very little development. Do the fights look good? Yeah they absolutely do for the most part! But every single fight in season 2 is either over something that was JUST introduced, or completely undermined by another story factor, causing it to have zero impact. The show genuinely feels like it was made for people who have seen like 3 anime series in their life, and that's the only explanation I can come up with for it's bizarre popularity. It is by no means unwatchable, but for a show to be this highly regarded I expect far more than what I was given. But hey who knows, maybe when season 3 comes out it'll give me a whole new perspective.

First season was excellent and good vibed that I got really into this. The second season started out allright, but did I really just watch 15 episodes of continuous fight scenes, gore, incredibly minor character development and overall human misery? Well that's exactly what it was. If you watched the first season and want to see how the story plays out, go for it. But don't expect any fun nor comedy, there's none, there's like a couple very emotional scenes of heartbreak and loss, but otherwise it's just a bloodfest of side characters being killed and mangled in increasingly brutal ways (yes this includes all your favourites).

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 is undeniably one of the most hyped-up shounen anime in the past couple of years. Before this season aired, there were many posts comparing the "Shibuya Incident arc" of this season to classic shounen arcs like the "Chimera ant arc" from Hunter x Hunter. As usual, while it was airing, words like "masterpiece" and "peak fiction" were being thrown around in the community, as always. Now that the season is over, I can say that Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 was no masterpiece and isn’t peak fiction. It gets some things right and some things wrong, like how most shounen do, which I will list: What JJK s2 does right: 1. Animation As it’s from Studio MAPPA, high-quality animation is expected, and this season delivered on that aspect. There were some quality drops in fights around the middle of the season, but they never take you out of the immersion. Overall, I prefer this season’s animation style compared to the previous one, since the new simplified art style allows for much more expressive character movements. Also the compositing no longer looks like shit. 2. Hype fights Most of the fights are quite entertaining, as long as they aren’t hindered by something I'll get into later. The powers allow for some interesting battles, and the locations of the fights are used very well in this arc, with most characters utilizing the environment to their advantage. 3. Music The music in this season is outright incredible, with every music track being unique and fitting perfectly with the scene it’s paired with. There were many times while I was watching where my mind had to switch focus to how great the music was in the moment. 4. Voice Acting The voice actor who did Mahito is definitely overqualified for his job. His voice is full of emotion and captures the essence of his character perfectly. All the other voice actors did an above-average job at bringing energy and life into their characters. What JJK s2 does wrong: 1. Convoluted explanations and exposition dumps The explanations for a character's abilities and how they relate to cursed energy can be quite hard to follow, especially when that character is fighting on screen at the same time. This can hinder the enjoyment of a fight sequence since you need to concentrate all your brain power on reading the subtitles to understand someone’s power, and if you don’t, you’ll have to read it at least three times to wrap your head around most of it. What makes it even worse is that these exposition dumps are said by a narrator that sounds like some old lady they got off the street and not like the gigachad narrator in Hunter x Hunter who at least made exposition dumps cool to listen to. 2. Character Deaths There are a lot of character deaths in this season with only one of those deaths which I consider to be a properly well written send-off. Other than that, there are three types of deaths that can be seen in Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2. a) Deaths for Shock Factor This happens when someone dies just to make the audience go, “Oh shit, that guy just died,” and not because the character necessarily needed to die or should have died at that moment. These shock factor deaths tend to leave the viewer emotionally disconnected from the story. b) Character revives just to die once again This happens when a character you believe is dead appears again in the current timeline through some means and then dies again. Depending on how this is executed, it can take away the initial value of the character’s death and lessens the impact of the second death. c) Flashbacks before death This happens once to one character and plays out similarly to how they do it in Demon Slayer. They give a flashback to a character before they die as a cheap way to try and make the audience care. The flashback in Jujutsu Kaisen was clearly used before the death because that character did almost nothing the entire season. The flashback also didn’t even give us anything of substance that really mattered. It just showed the character as a child, paired with some sad music, which could probably do a good job at making an emotionally fragile person cry. 3. Underdeveloped cast members Jujutsu Kaisen is filled with numerous characters, and like most shounen series, there isn’t enough time allocated to flesh out most of them and give them substantial roles. This results in a majority of the cast from the first season not doing much in this season. Some characters even show up to the battlefield only to ultimately do nothing and return home. Even when some cast members do get the spotlight, since they didn’t have much screentime beforehand, it can be challenging to develop a sense of attachment or care for them. 4. Uninteresting villains The villains of this season are basic and aren’t particularly well-written, with most of them being defined solely by their power and nothing more. The only interesting villain was in the flashback arc at the beginning of the season, but he doesn’t matter anymore, as he had already been killed in the movie and replaced by some evil bad guy who lacks the motivations, personal connections, and charisma that the original villain had. Overall, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 suffers from the same problems as most other recent shounen series and only really stands out due to its production values alone. It is quite an entertaining watch for battle shounen fans, but for those seeking more like what Jujutsu Kaisen manga fans had been saying this arc had, it’s not here. Final Scorings Animation: 9/10 (Mostly great with some inconsistencies) Sound: 8/10 (Good VA work and cool music) Story: 4/10 (Generic underground shounen 1v1 fights) Character: 5/10 (Charismatic but basic in characterization) Value: 4/10 (Most hyped up shounen arc, although lacking in longevity) Enjoyment: 6/10 (Fun when not killed by exposition) Overall: 6/10

I guess my expectation was too high before starting this show due to the sheer amount of people sayiing that its THAT good. Some fights towards the end of the show were hype, but thats about it for the show. Fightscenes are great tho, new artstyle for fights seemed to be more funky. The comedy is ass, reminds me of demon slayer - they should've not included most of it. But hey atleast they didn't include it every episode; unlike Demon Slayer. Killed of characters without much depth into it. Show was pretty boring throughout the middle of the series. If you watch anime for the fights only, that this anime is for you. In the end of the day: enjoyed fightscenes, wish more depth to the killed of characters feels like just got introduced & killed of immediately, I barely cared for the killed of characters. Only came for Sukuna & only sukuna made me feel the show is fire.

Nah I'd Win Season 2 I haven't read the JJK manga and was just along for the ride as an anime-only spectator, so I wasn't really expecting this season to actually be interesting. The first season of JJK was basically average shounen with minimal digressions and improvements, it was fun to watch but nothing earth-shattering or noteworthy. Of course, I expected the second season to be roughly similar, especially after watching the mediocre movie. By the way, the movie should be watched after episode 5 ( following the past arc) as it takes place directly between episodes 5 and 6 as far as I remember. The second season starts with a backstory that is very simple but leaves a decent impact on the plot. Was this season good because you didn't expect what happened here? Or was it because you didn't expect what happened here that made it good? Also, this season includes the highly praised best arc of JJK the "Shibuya Incident Arc", I've heard of it before but didn't think anything of it. And I'm not saying the arc was a "masterpiece" in terms of writing style. The whole arc was a relatively interesting all-out battle between the Curses and the Jujuzists, which had a relatively unexpectedly dark tone. Of course, this shock factor, along with important character deaths, ensures that this season leaves a much deeper impression on viewers. We are not used at all to shounen being so dark. The characters in Jujutsu Kaisen are all relatively mediocre, it's the interplay between the characters and the progression of the plot that gives them a certain sparkle. On their own, almost every character is a simple stereotype. Likewise, their backgrounds or motivations are also relatively average. It was a rather surprising season and despite some low points, I was very entertained. The studio's effort is particularly commendable, they really got the best out of each episode. [Conclusion Stand Proud / 10] If you are the one who left everything behind, then you should stand proud because you are strong. This is indeed one of the Seasons of all time. Despite the lack of plot and variety, this season was eye candy and definitely worth watching. [Enjoyment 8] Nah I'd lose

If you could go two or three years back in time and ask me what I think about the future of shonen my answer would probably be pretty excited. Ufotable had their hands full working on demon slayer, MAPPA managed to get their hands on both Chainsaw man and Jigokuraku, completeing the "dark trio". There was fire force, JoJo, Dr Stone, Black Clover and many others. To put it bluntly, it was an exciting time. Sadly, most of these projects didn't exactly turn out all that well. Chainsaw man came out to a lukewarm reception in the west but massively underperformed in Japan and the less is said about Jigokuraku the better. I think we can safely say that the whole "dark trio" was a complete flop. JoJo was stuck adapting by far the most hated part in the entire series and the Netflix release managed to kill even the small amount of hype the season had. The Black Clover movie was OK I guess. Dr Stone and Fire force exist, although who still watches them is a mystery to me. Even demon slayer managed to finally shit the bed with the Swordsmith Village arc. All of this, combined with the fact that I am simply getting too old for this shit resulted in me getting really tired of shonen. With all of that in mind, you can probably imagine that my expectations for the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen were quite high. Afterall, this would surely be the show that would break me out of my apathy and reignite my love of the genre. There is absolutely no way MAPPA would disappoint me three times in a row, is there? Well, it's a bit complicated. The second season starts with the Gojo's Past/Hidden Inventory arc (no idea why they decided to rename it). Because all of the second season's hype was centered around Shibuya, I expected it to be the boring setup we had to go through before things really kicked off, yet I was pleasantly surprised by how good this arc was. Young Gojo is great as always, Geto was surprisingly well written, Dio steals the show as always and, most importantly, team 7 is nowhere to be seen. Even the artstyle change worked much better than I anticipated. Because of how good the first arc was, I have blissfully little to say about it. It's a solid piece of shonen and it was fun to watch. Now with the first arc out of the way, we can finally get to the real meat of the second season, the Shibuya Incident Arc. This was supposed to be the arc to outshine everything that came before and everything that will come after. The hype was immense. The arc started strong with two big introductory fights setting up the arc. After that is done, the pacing takes a big hit. It feels like they tried to stretch the material far too much, and so we ended up with some filler in the middle. There are still some good scenes, but they are besprinkled indeed with much boredom. Case in point, you have the absolutely stellar scene where Nanami beats up the blonde twink, yet the rest of the episode leaves much to be desired. The pacing only gets better once the disaster curses and more importantly Sukuna make their entrance. Sadly, before we are even done with the pacing, another much more serious problem emerges from the woodwork. The production. It's not exactly a secret that the production of this show was a complete clusterfuck. With staff quitting left and right, we had the rare opportunity to se a company completely implode in real time. Talking about the situation is obviously a bit difficult since most of the sources are in a language I can't speak, and they can't really be verified since NDA is a thing, so before I even get into it, I want to make it clear that you should take everything I am about to say with a huge dose of salt. I also want to make it clear that I don't blame the production staff for any of the problems. If my personal interest in corporate court cases has taught me anything, it is that assigning blame in the corporate sphere may be one of the most fruitless tasks ever conceived and even if that weren't the case, I highly doubt that these guys are high enough on the totem pole to make these decisions. So how did it all go wrong? After the success of the first season, Toho decided to greenlight the second season and gave MAPPA a full year for production. If that seems like a reasonable timeframe to you, that's because it is, but MAPPA decided to piss away half of the time by allocating the JJK staff to work on Chainsaw man (that show really turned out to be the gift that keeps on giving) instead of letting them take the head start. Half a year after schedule, the production could finally start, but after a while they run into another problem. MAPPA had poured a subsential amount of money into their new movie named Maboroshi and there was absolutely no way they were going to make the deadline. Because of that, they once again reassigned a sizable portion of the JJK staff to fix that mess. Sadly, I couldn't find a single source stating when exactly this reassignment happened, so I have absolutely no idea how much time was wasted on that shit but if I had to take a guess, I would say a lot. On a side note, the movie absolutely bombed. Because of this whole debacle, the staff are overworked and completely overwhelmed with impossible deadlines. This causes many of them, including some big names, to start publicly complaining about the whole situation. After all of this shit, combined with several delay requests being denied, many members of the staff threaten to walkout after episode seventeen. The walkout does happen, although at a much smaller scale than previously anticipated. And that's pretty much it. Now that I have explained the background, I can finally get to how all of this shit affected the show. To put it bluntly, the animation is incredibly inconsistent. It is painfully obvious that the animators were forced to choose which episodes to actually complete and which ones to leave half-baked. This results in a show that can look absolutely great in one episode and utterly atrocious in the next one. This leads to some characters getting absolutely shafted since they have their big moments in these episodes. I really want to stress just how much of a drop in quality there is. The first episode of the Dagon fight looks like it was animated in PowerPoint. The first episode of the Mahito fight is mostly spent on characters slowly walking and standing in place. Both the Dagon and especially the Mahito fight get much, much better, but the first episodes were simply unacceptable. On the other hand, there are episodes where you honestly can't tell that there was any production trouble at all, like the now famous Fraudkuna vs Jogoat. And then there is the already mentioned episode seventeen, which gives us the fight between Sukuna and Mahoraga. This fight serves as a perfect microcosm for the Shibuya arc as a whole. Its hype as fuck, with great action and many memorable scenes like the domain expansion or the Mahoraga chadwalk. It is also blatantly unfinished, with layers upon layers of effects failing to hide it, and at points completely incomprehensible. The direction was also a complete mess, with Mahoraga constantly switching size between scenes. There is also a completely misplaced scene with Yuji in the first half and the ending blasting fucking specialz over a guy having a meltdown has to be one of the most unintentionally funny scenes that I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of these. I still cannot believe that they aired it in this state. The worst part about this whole thing is that I can clearly see a great episode hidden underneath all of these problems. The domain expansion was still cool as shit with Mahoraga reaching with his arm towards Sukuna, but then I unpause it and Mahoraga moves at like five fps. I mean on some deep emotional monkey brain level, I still very much enjoyed the episode, but I try to make these reviews as objective as possible and when using any sort of objective metric the episode (as well as the entire arc) doesn't…

Movies/Shows/Anime which are great are able breakdown complex concepts into simple understandable pieces for the average person. This does the opposite. Takes something simple and makes it convoluted. The system is a mess and requires reading Wikis or breakdowns. Too many characters, too many abilities, too many rules, too many exceptions to those rules.... The question is do you even bother to learn the names of characters/abilities? Imo, there's only 2 ways to enjoy this. Do a PHD in cursed energy and make all the excuses you can for the half assed attempt by the author or pretend you're a baby who's capable of laughing at someone dangling a keychain in front of you. I'm just sad that such good animation was wasted.

This is simply ridiculous. Like, psychiatric level ridiculous. I will simply vent out here, listing all of the negatives. You can read the positives in many other posts. Nothing has any lasting impact, things arbitrarily pop into the story, and leave whenever convenient. A lot of the fights are there just for the sake of action, it’s overwhelming at 70% of every episode. Not enough time to unwind, not enough time to process what’s going on. Too much yap explaining techniques, backstories, and special circumstances. At some point you become numb to deaths, so you are eventually unable to emotionally react in the rare scenes that are powerful and weighty. Level cap has been completely blown away worse than in any other shonen to date, cities blown away in an instant. Zero consistency in power scaling. Environment is apparently made out of cardboard, everything is crumbling from a single fart. The writer decides the winner of the battle, and arbitrarily pulls them to the desired outcome retroactively. The animation is a literal mush, no idea what’s going on on the screen 30% of the time in action scenes. At times, it feels like an endless fever dream You do the math, at 70% of the episode, that’s 20% of an episode where you have ZERO idea what’s going on, falling in and out of the story, the rest being spent on emotion and brain numbing, never ending mindless battles. At some point you just want to know the outcome and skip the whole process. This has never been a problem to me, not even with One Punch Man manga, which should really say something. It’s still JJK, and I still enjoyed it to some degree. The vibe and environment is quite like nothing else. But the problems are just too heavy to overlook Let me know if I’m the only one who thinks this

Jujutsu no Kaisen is a twisted naruto like anime ... The randon Naruto like character (the one hyped with the power of a monster inside ... that sometimes lose control to help the mc), team up with the op kakashi (the Op teatcher, that is cool and considered a genius and overpowered), the random sasuke (quiet not so friendly friend ... that is kinda op and more or less try to keep up with the power of the mc, and have some kind of family problems ... and a family member that is op too) and the randon sakura (The support female character ... that is weak as fuck ... but sometimes help the team) ... Anime is kinda cringe ... not bleach cringe but cringe ... Kinda like how elfen lied is a masterpiece for kids ... you know , decapited, death and blood and cool poses sell pretty well for teenagers. The history is not good ... but is ok ... evil enemies (they are evil cause they are, their motive is meh) plot a huge plan to take down the socie., kinda like two countries, villages or nations fighting cause they can´t live togheter ... Well ... History wise 0/10 ... Not original ... harrypotter,naruto,bleach etc alike ... Animation 8/10 ... pretty good ... but not fate good nor evergarden good ... The same season of the akiba ark got 4 or 5 animes with better animation than jujutsu. than jujutsu ... and their studio dindnt treated their employees like slaves ... Soundtrack 6/10 ... is a pass ... i remember the intro theme ... can´t remember the outro and can´t remember the music inside the anime. The japanese dub is really great btw. Overall is a nice one to see ... fights are cool, some characters too. Anime is ok, but don´t live the hype.

When non stop action manages to become boring, it's an accomplishment in and of itself. It's predictable, and it's uninteresting. Recurring characters have become just annoying. The "protagonist" of the series doesn't even exist in this season. The "dread" feels forced, to the point that I don't even feel bad for what's happening. Who cares? It's not like they haven't been losing and dying for 20 episodes straight. It has lost all weight after the first couple of episodes of this season. That's not how you tell a story if you want people to care. Giant step down from the first season. Feels like a completely different author wrote it.