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Sep 14, 2023 12:45 PM
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CRAPPA back at again ruining anime like they did Chainsaw Man. ufotable would never.
@Fischer77 mappa is not to blamed lol it's Japanese tv laws
Ratings doesn't matter only enjoyment does.
Masterpiece or mid, generic or fresh,best or worst are all subjective
Eren is goat,and aot is still a masterpiece (eg.subjective opinion)


Sep 14, 2023 12:47 PM
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I said it before; I don’t think this is a tv problem more than MAPPA literally did this on purpose in streaming services and spread this ghosted pile of meh on us just to buy blu ray. Like what’s wrong with MAPPA? Other than making me get more hype, I literally get more worried. It wasn’t this bad in Gojo arc when they were sharing it on streaming services.

And before anyone defends them, they literally released AOT this year and it was dimmed like this.
@Confused_100 again mappa is not to blame, tv laws and Toho are, Toho animation got the distribution rights of jjk mappa work is to just animate, why they do after that is not handled by mappa.
Ratings doesn't matter only enjoyment does.
Masterpiece or mid, generic or fresh,best or worst are all subjective
Eren is goat,and aot is still a masterpiece (eg.subjective opinion)


Sep 14, 2023 12:49 PM

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I wasn't digging Itadori's Gum Gum Gatling.
Sep 14, 2023 12:52 PM
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Pre_Yum said:
As the story moves forward. We are finally looking at Shibuya and what all the people have been up to. Where Gojo seems to find himself facing the same good old curses from last season. Yuji is with Mei Mei and Ui Ui who will face his side of problems. Ui Ui made his first appearance.

Looking forward to the interaction between the characters whom we didn't get to meet that much in the previous season. Yuji is a nice kid. Praying for the deceased. Gojo looks menacing there at the end. Once again, Ghosting is gonna be the biggest problem that this show is gonna face. Sadly. All one can do is wait for the Blu-rays. Can't wait for the next episode.

what's ghosting here exactly?
Sep 14, 2023 12:55 PM

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Gojo out here looking like a damn menace!
Sep 14, 2023 1:09 PM

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2 years since I watched Itadori fighting
This gets me thrilled
 
Sep 14, 2023 1:15 PM
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scarletredjail said:
I am not sure but was this the first JJk episode with a narrator.

There was one last episode
Sep 14, 2023 1:25 PM

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the greatest arc of jjk started and Itadori is already put into the worst possible situation. That's not something new, it sucks though. On the otherside, it's Gojo vs the rest. Exciting battles.


“You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!”
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Sep 14, 2023 1:25 PM
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a bit info-dumpy BUT OMG I CANT BELIVE SHIBUYA STARTED
Sep 14, 2023 1:37 PM
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Don’t see why oversea streaming is given the ghosting and dimming versions for.
Sep 14, 2023 1:44 PM

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this is legit the worst episode in the show

Sep 14, 2023 1:53 PM
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People are noticing the dreadful animation choices, but the pacing, man. This is going to be painfully slow.
Sep 14, 2023 2:04 PM
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If only the framerate was consistent, I would have loved it. And I personally think the episodes ending abruptly also hurts. Satoru getting angry should have been the final scene of the episode with a fearful track in the background.
Sep 14, 2023 2:05 PM

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Animation wasn't up to par with usual JJK standards, felt like the flow was awkward. It looked clean though.

Sep 14, 2023 2:23 PM
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Pretty disappointing episode, not bad but disappointing. I knew that the grasshopper fight would happen this episode instead of next episode, I have no problem with that considering that means the next episode will be even better. But the animation for the grasshopper fight and most of the episode wasn't great. Also the vibe was very weird at times, they couldn't balance the comedy with the serious so the serious music was playing as there was supposed to be a funny scene.

The pacing was weird, the one scene when the grasshopper was shocked that yuji could tell he was a grasshopper was way too long, it felt like Toei pacing. Also the ghosting was horrendous. Anyway, the next episode is going to be peak.
Sep 14, 2023 2:33 PM
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People who dislike ghosting and dimming are spoiled idiots.
Sep 14, 2023 2:39 PM

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this episode felt a bit lackluster, but I still love anything JJK nonetheless. too much locust info lol

yuji was FUCKING grasshopper up
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Sep 14, 2023 2:48 PM
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made me lower this season from a 10/10 to a 9/10.
a mid fight was the highlight of this episode & I didn't like the Mei Mei incest groomer shit.
Sep 14, 2023 2:51 PM

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Gojo has entered the Shibuya veil, and the Jujutsu sorcerers all begin their sortie from wherever they are. Starting with the Mei Mei team with Yuji, Mei Mei and her brother Ui Ui, scouting the surrounding area for potential enemlies, like transfigured humans which would lead them to whoever's responsible for the veil over Shibuya, much less just Mahito's alone. And Yuji facing a grasshopper (or the proper term, locust) curse, it felt like just pure comedy, aside from the fight. But make no mistake, the locust curse is just as powerful, but what isn't the copious amount of ghosting in the action scenes, which yeah, it's a nitpick going forward, but hopefully it won't diminish the entire experience of the famed arc.

Back to Gojo, facing Mahito's minion, with Geto's knowhow about how Gojo's Domain Expansion works, it should've been a clear battle from the start once Geto makes his arrival.

That said, this is only the start. Expectations...are kinda muddled in the water for me...
Sep 14, 2023 3:09 PM
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what's all this ghosting nonsense?? I thought the animation was amazing as always
Sep 14, 2023 3:10 PM
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the grasshopper fight was very odd and hard to follow especially the breaking into the other corridors. No continuity at all. Everything besides the disappointing fight looked pretty good.
Sep 14, 2023 3:40 PM

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People who dislike ghosting and dimming are spoiled idiots.
@Infernalization People who think it's okay or logical for streaming platforms to subject their viewers to tv laws from abroad are idiots.
Sep 14, 2023 3:47 PM
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Yuji going bug exterminating. Taking on this giant locusts curse that keeps talking about who's clever and who's not. Some horrible effects to minimize the amount of animation needed as Yuji punched this thing. Way too much ghosting and blurring to hide all the punches and move the camera around to hide it even more. When they were jumping through the walls or something that didn't look good either. At the least Yuji dispatched this thing very quickly and it's already done. He was teamed up with Mei Mei and her weird as hell little brother, whatever they got going on is not it. Gojo getting a warm welcome now that he's inside the veil, both Jogo and Hanami going on the attack. Geto plan to keep Gojo busy long enough for him to deploy the prison realm. Lots of talking and explaining why Gojo will do certain things in this situation and won't do other things. Geto knows him very well so that he can practically predict Gojo moves. Backing him into a corner might not be a good idea but Jogo and Hanami have to keep him busy long enough.
Sep 14, 2023 3:50 PM
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Those poor folks just wanted to enjoy Halloween but now they’re being used to defeat Gojo lol, rip to those caught in the crossfire, but I have a feeling no one is going to survive and if so it’s gonna hurt to watch. Also the Grasshopper/Locust guy was goofy and fun, definitely an unexpected enemy to start the arc with on Yuji’s side, their fight was pretty cool tho and Locust man was just silly enough to keep it lighthearted lol, I have a feeling there won’t be much more of that tho.

And Mei Mei and her little assistant or bother, not sure which, had some funny bits throughout the episode, definitely looking forward to seeing them in action. And now the assault on Gojo has begun, it seems to be going his way now but I had a feeling that playing into the enemy’s hands was a bad idea, rip to those people once again tho and I’m looking forward to seeing how this fight escalates.
Sep 14, 2023 4:16 PM

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Yay more random ppl introduced, who tf are these white haired idiots? Gojo's cousins? This season is literally all over the place..why did they f this up?
Sep 14, 2023 4:16 PM

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this was really a great ep

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Sep 14, 2023 4:17 PM
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ghosting + boring yuji fight, we dont care about him. The people want Gojo
Sep 14, 2023 4:18 PM
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Holy fuck can someone give me a specific moment in this episode where "ghosting" noticeably fucked it up because I'm genuinely watching these episodes all the way through and am barely noticing shit. It was worse last week but idk my enjoyment this week was barely affected 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, it looks like they slightly changed the order of events in the anime but it should make things flow better. In the manga, we saw some of the Gojo fight first before switching to Yuji's fight then coming back to Gojo, but here they got Yuji's fight out of the way so the focus can stay on Gojo's fight. I like that choice.

I remember someone asking last week why they dragged all the innocent people into this and as I told them, this episode explained that. Of course, you can take all the prerequisite measures that you want, but when it's Gojo you're dealing with there still isn't any guarantee of success/victory. He looked like a menace at the end, and we know what happens when that man gets serious. A moment I've been dying to see animated will happen next week so I can't wait for that.
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I remember someone asking last week why they dragged all the innocent people into this
I think that was me, at least I know I asked that and I think it was you who answered. Yeah, now I see it, they´re using people as a shield against Gojo to keep his abilities restrained. Like Pseudo-Geto said, the curses can´t really go all out either because if Gojo senses that he can´t save those people, then their leverage goes out the window. And even without using his curse techniques or his domain, Gojo is still a menace to this beings. In any case, they don´t have to beat him, they just have to stall him. I don´t know why Geto needs 20 minutes or what for, maybe that´s the time he needs to active the Prison Realm to trap Gojo.
CAn´t wait for the fights and then come here and read all the complaints about the ghosting.
Sep 14, 2023 4:25 PM
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Even if people are right, all this talk about the ghosting is really getting exhausting. It´s gonna be this way until the series over, isn´t it? I don´t know if the episode I watched has been afected by this, but if it has, it´s total fine with me.
Now I know why those curses wanted the people there. It still awful, but at least there is a point to it. I know it´s in the curses nature to hurt and kill, but still, mindless, pointless killing will always bother me. Jogo didn´t waste anytime killing those people in the tracks. Can´t wait to see how they fair against Gojo. Even restricted, 3 against Gojo might not be as easy or leveled as they thought. And Gojo is pisses that he can´t go all out, so tought times ahead for those curses (I think).

Yuji putting his hands to work on that grasshopper. Can´t wait to see more of him. His face when Ui Ui was talking to Mei Mei is the representation of all our faces watching their interactions.
Sep 14, 2023 4:35 PM
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ionno why but this ep felt lethargic
Sep 14, 2023 4:45 PM
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What the fuck was that ora ora exchange?! That was baddddd. Also the directing during the fight was a mess.

Imo it was hands down the worst JJK episode in terms of direction and animation. I’m really disappointed and a bit worried for the rest of the season.
Sep 14, 2023 5:12 PM

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Felt like I was watching Baki or some shit with that locust info dump lmao, not a complaint just funny
man.
Sep 14, 2023 5:17 PM
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damn those poor civilians. RIP

Itadori ORA ORA ORA!!

Sep 14, 2023 5:50 PM

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The cool thing about Jujutsu is that people die. :3 🪦
Sep 14, 2023 5:59 PM

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This is the first episode of the season to really feel like classic Jujutsu Kaisen, we aren't quite in the big leagues yet but it'll get there.
The braid-bangs queen Mei-Mei is here so that's already some high points, and I love the grasshopper curse even if he's kinda gross lol
Also, did anyone else notice the guy wearing Trafalgar Law's hat from One Piece in an early scene of the crowd?
Sep 14, 2023 6:19 PM

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Very Good & Bad at same time....

Pretty far from S1.... with this awful animation fails...

Dunno if this is or not their fault, but cant believe this is related to MAPPA.
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Sep 14, 2023 6:26 PM

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Am I the only one who sees a weird circle slightly above the subtitles?
Damn Yuuji's reaction. We still remember Junpei.
I really appreciate the National Geographic part. Made much more sense why that curse is so powerful and why it exists in the first place.
15:31 Lol Ko-guy as in 蝗害 (kougai) - "locust plague"
I love how the curses are just fooling around in playground lmao
Did the big bubble at the end popping signify something? The veil is broken or something?
Epic!
@Embient I was just coming to post about the circles

there were two...both in the middle of the screen horizontally but vertically about 30% from the bottom and 30% from the top.

I though maybe my screen had a defect, but I ran a youtube screen test and didn't see them
Sep 14, 2023 6:28 PM
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Was the weakest episode of the season 2 so far. Sounds strange a good and reputed animator like kitakubo have a mediocre direction and the storyboard in this episode sound too displaced. But whatever this, i liked see Itadori reacting to Mei mei and Ui Ui... strange relationship...

even with the bad episode technically saying, it's impressive that the staff of the anime delivered to us 7 impressive episodes in sequence, Unfortunately, outliers will appear in two cours animes. What a bad production schedule do uh...


The last thing: The polish of the design and the colors of the Grasshopper curse stood out to me in this episode. Unfortunaly the ghosting in this episode ruined most of the scenes (even though many of the action sequences didn't have much ambition). In the previous episode I don't complained about that, because the fight itself was incredible in itself, the animation did it justice and it was almost imperceptible, but in this episode I couldn't stand it
Sep 14, 2023 6:45 PM

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gojo revealed his eyes at the end, that's the money shot right there. some itadori action, the ghosting and dimming again did kinda ruin it icl. i forgot about mei and ui ui's relationship lol. jogo was having fun burning up the civilians. the info dumping in jjk is almost always a snooze but i still think this was better than last week's episode.
Sep 14, 2023 6:55 PM
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The grasshopper curse has the same intellect of the England manager Gareth Southgate..

Ui ui is just dying to lick meimei's boots.
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Sep 14, 2023 6:57 PM
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Ahhhh Gojo was so hottttttt. I know this is going to be depressive and about suffering, but I can't help it.
Sep 14, 2023 7:00 PM
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GOOD EPISODE, NOT THE BEST BUT DECENT, THE NEXT WEEK IS TIME FOR PEAK FICTION
Sep 14, 2023 7:42 PM

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They know they can't corner Gojo until... Well, it's been a while since I saw Yuuji in action. Can't wait for more and others's fight as well.
Sep 14, 2023 8:16 PM
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That locust was packing
Sep 14, 2023 8:17 PM
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Aw hell yeah, we are getting a narrator! Because of course, we are going to need one for this arc. And further more, its really accurate to the voice I was imagining in my head while reading the manga. An old sounding woman with heavy voice. Almost nailed it I guess.

Okay let's talk about the actual episode now, and start by the elephant in the room. I think it might seems as a controversial opinion, but I don't mind the ghosting and dimming much. Sure, its unfortunate, it affects the animation quality and ruins the experience for many, but for me... well, I enjoyed the episode regardless. Dunno why. It was fun to watch it despite that for me.

Also, loved the color palate they've chosen for Gojo's fight, and the way they adapted certain manga explanation panels, and filled them with various ideas.

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Looking forward to the next week!
Sep 14, 2023 8:24 PM

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Average episode I guess, 5.6/10.
Sep 14, 2023 9:02 PM
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Animation felt really off for the Yuji vs Grosshoper fight.
Sep 14, 2023 9:22 PM
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This episode had a slightly different order than the original. I was looking forward to Gojo's flashy battle, but it mostly ended with Grasshopper's play. If the author had supervised this work like in Bleach, the tempo of this episode would have been better and the grasshopper extermination would have been cut short. MAPPA reproduces lines word for word in animation even in scenes that are not very important, so they don't know the technique of cutting or the meaning of eliminating waste. On the other hand, I think people who were looking forward to this scene were very happy to watch it. Well, if I were from more than 10 years ago, I would have been able to watch it without any complaints. However, in this day and age, when you see this bad tempo, it's hard to tell whether the original JJK has no sense or whether MAPPA, who created this episode, has no sense. I don't care if it's the quality of a work that airs every week like One Piece. They are like that because they don't have time. However, this work has been in production for over a year and was so hyped that I was disappointed. Well, I think everyone has a lot of complaints, but the next episode will be better than this episode, so let's watch it with high expectations.
Sep 14, 2023 9:51 PM
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Gojo has entered the room
Sep 14, 2023 10:26 PM

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Lmao the scene of Gojou walking over people's heads using his abilities was pretty funny especially with the added bouncy effect.

Seems Getou and his crew actually have created a pretty interesting trap using humans as the main source of collateral which forces Gojou into a situation alone were he can't use a lot of his resources. Also seems to tests his morality since the curses don't mind killing a few humans first, it's Gojou's decision whether to use his domain and potentially collateral some humans to gain the field advantage before the curses kill more themselves.

Damn the foreshadowing of Getou's endgame plan as well was scary, if Gojou doesn't be quick about the situation, in 20 minutes it's apparently game over and Getou seems hella confident in it.
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