Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season

The year is 2006, and the halls of Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School echo with the endless bickering and intense debate between two inseparable best friends. Exuding unshakeable confidence, Satoru Gojou and Suguru Getou believe there is no challenge too great for young and powerful Special Grade sorcerers such as themselves. They are tasked with safely delivering a sensible girl named Riko Amanai to the entity whose existence is the very essence of the jujutsu world. However, the mission plunges them into an exhausting swirl of moral conflict that threatens to destroy the already feeble amity between sorcerers and ordinary humans.

Twelve years later, students and sorcerers are the frontline defense against the rising number of high-level curses born from humans' negative emotions. As the entities grow in power, their self-awareness and ambition increase too. The curses unite for the common goal of eradicating humans and creating a world of only cursed energy users, led by a dangerous, ancient cursed spirit. To dispose of their greatest obstacle—the strongest sorcerer, Gojou—they orchestrate an attack at Shibuya Station on Halloween. Dividing into teams, the sorcerers enter the fight prepared to risk everything to protect the innocent and their own kind.

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Gojou, Satoru Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Itadori, Yuuji Main

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Fushiguro, Megumi Main

Uchida, Yuuma Japanese

Kugisaki, Nobara Main

Seto, Asami Japanese

Getou, Suguru Main

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Nanami, Kento Supporting

Tsuda, Kenjirou Japanese

Ryoumen, Sukuna Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Zenin, Maki Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Inumaki, Toge Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Okkotsu, Yuuta Supporting

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Seshimo, Keisuke Producer

Kimura, Makoto Producer

Murai, Yuriha Producer

Yamazaki, Hiroaki Producer

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Nov 20, 2024

MrSlamboni

Recommended

The only reason to watch Jujutsu Kaisen season 1 is to get to season 2 eventually. The second season completely blows the first one out of the water. Season 1 felt like a very average shounen. Season 2 was jampacked with action, fighting and story. While season 1 felt like it was progressing at a snail's pace, season 2 went nuts. The first arc was a prequel with a great story, action and villain. The second arc goes back to the current timeline and is very bloody and action packed. Every episode had something fun happening. It's just like the saying, "There are years where ... nothing happens and there are days where years happen."

First of all, this is the best animation I have seen yet. PERIOD. That alone makes this deserving of a 10. It's like watching more than a dozen fights with the quality level of Naruto vs Sasuke. A complaint is when the fights are shitting lasers out the wazoo, it's hard to keep track of what is going on. The prettiest fights in this show are the ones where the power is limited and you can see what is going on. If you want your eyes to tear up, watch the Yuji vs Choso episode. It is the best animation I have seen.

Sadly, some flaws leak over from the first season. A lot of the side characters are very uninteresting and they remain uninteresting in this season. In fact, the Kyoto students except Todo are all still annoying and irrelevant.

The power system is still very convoluted just like in the first season and you don't understand what the hell is happening. Sometimes I do understand it, such as Achilles and the turtle and Choso's blood undergoing osmosis in a hypotonic solution. However, there is no enjoyment gained from understanding that. I still have no fucking clue what the basis is for Gojo's powers, it feels like a bunch of semi-relevant but completely separate powers. Then they start throwing terms like Reverse Cursed Technique without explaining them and it gets even more confusing. All of these complications..... for no benefit to the viewer.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Oct 18, 2024

Leevidavinci

Mixed Feelings

Funny

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).

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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Jul 25, 2024

_Serpico

Not Recommended

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The single best example of wasted potential. Obviously nothing is perfect, everything has flaws, but this is an oddity because all of it's issues are tied to it's creator intentionally sabotaging it.

He made a world that took off, the setting, the characters, the fights, the power system were all well received. Instead of making the most of the opportunity to explore his own fiction, tell a story,entertain the masses while raking in the money, he has openly admited he is doing everything humanly possible to ruin it, of course he doesn't use that terminology but has publicly said that he kills characters not because it ... advances the story, not because it develops other characters, not because it serves any purpose, he kills characters solely because they are popular.

There has only been one singular death that has been well handled because it served as a plot point to advance the story, but all the other crap that happens in season 2 and that will happen going forward is objective poor writing.

Make no mistake, there are plenty of anime that have main/recurring characters dying in unceremonious ways but they handle it properly becuase their deaths may not be a drawn out, dramatic 10 episode arcs, but they serve a purpose, even if that purpose is simply to showcase that nobody is safe or how great the threat is they face. JJK however does none of this, the events in season 2 do not tell us anything that has not already been shoved down our collective throat since day 1 and serves no discernable purpose whatsoever. Here is Gege's "logic":
"millions of people enjoy my creation and want to see more of it, instead of paying any attention to them, I will systematically destroy my own lore and arbitrarily kill my best characters in flat, unceremonious ways so that people on social media whose only interaction with my creation comes in the form of memes and reels will brand me as "edgy""

If you want to watch a show, written by a man deliberately and continually using objectively poor writing to waste most of the cast while intentionally missing every possible opportunity for good story telling, decent character development, taking advantage of literally limitless powers, then maybe this is worth a watch.
However, if you want cohesive or even coherent story telling that does not actively waste it's own fiction, this is not for you.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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