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But I didn't even know that Junji Ito had already ventured into slice of life, thank God he made sure it was not his thing and stopped.

It's a kind of boring story with a duller drawing. It's all pretty forgettable. You know, it's not all bad like the offensive bad, but it's almost there. It just needed a little push to get to the worst ratings.

Also the jokes didn't resonate with me, seems like a parody of something else. Prett much a experimental project that im glad i didn't go well because Junji Ito is more body horror than slice-of-life.

I didn't think he was going for the deep and filosofical themes but who would have guessed?

Truly amazing how he portrays the question of how you can see different aspects, of how there are multiple versions of yourself in people's minds, At first glance he uses the editing to manipulate the reader into thinking he is some kind of psycho exploding the hospital, but later we find out his mom was an abusive person, this turn out of events shows exactly that and there is beauty in trying to see only the good side only the beautiful side despite that person being awful.

Speaking of ... editing, the ending is another shot at the confusing and foggy remembrances of the protagonists, not drawing the exact line between what is real and what it isn't, just like his movies.

Excalibur hits so fucking hard, that is unfotable animation right there.

This part is just so much better than the first one, holy fuck that's what it needed, not that bullshit dialogue of 3 kings, I'm glad that Rider dies so easily like he should have died long ago, he is just an unbearable character weak and try to give speeches to people more powerful and intelligent than him.

Kiritsugu development is just gold, not the zombie part but the whole killing people to save more, the airplane episode genuinely surprises everyone who watches, at least from my experience truly breaking expectations.

I didn't like all of ... it, especially the Matou with the killing of Tomika's wife, which did not make any sense and truly felt like a "let me kill this woman for the shock value" but it doesn't shock is just a horrendous spectacle as Gilgamesh says. Another thing that I disliked was Saber just fading away after destroying the holy grail, like?? all this time together and she just vanishes.

I wasn't ready for Gilgamesh's ship, seriously what the fuck was that, no one warned the studio that it was going to look weird?

Anyway, fate zero in my head started out better, when I went to see it again I saw that it wasn't quite like that, it's only in the second part that Kiritsugu goes in depth and in that beginning we do not get much of his backstory, worse than that, the special powers of others spirits don't even appear and Saber's fight is not completed against the sorcerer.

Despite being literally the first part of the story, I really wish the plot had ... progressed faster, both to improve pacing and overall entertainment.

Well man I dont know about this one, It just fell to me like a souless body horror the apologizing trick became boring and repetitive, i wold have liked a way to counter this power so the story could have more room to go for, but is just spiral down to the basic bad ending.

There was other bad thing that i was able to capture, like why the fuck the drawing look so dull as chapters go by, seriously on the last chapter it just looks so simple that is disturbing and not in a good way.

Overall, the story gets pretty boring because it's ... very predictable, the parameters don't change, the powers are the same and you know from the beginning that the devil will win and that nothing the good guys do will work.

Anyone who watches this anime is either someone who likes fights or a teenager who came for the ecchi. The strong point of the anime is 100% the fights and the audio. When Benimaru explodes, the infernal, holy shit, the bass is solid. For all the fights, the audio is very well done, conveying the impact of each blow. The choreography is also very well done. The main character fighting really looks like a dance and I love the frame of him coming from the sky creating wings of fire.

As expected, the other areas leave something to be desired. The dialogues are not good and ... do not excite, the fights are interrupted by constant chatter and flashbacks. What kills these dialogues is that they seem like a children's cartoon, the villains openly explain how their powers work instead of the protagonist having to figure it out. The anime always thinks that the people watching are retarded, you know?

Another annoying thing is the fan service, which doesn't even make sense, and the way this guy wrote the women in the series is really bad. First, there's the engineer girl Lisa, who is the classic woman who needs to be saved, and there was this weird scene that seems like an allusion to rape with the commander of company 3. They always have to sexualize the whole thing, the guy who wrote this clearly has some problems. I also found the sexualization of the nun weird, even because of the story behind it, which really gives the impression that she's a minor, but unfortunately, if you watch anime, that's common.

It's also interesting that the anime changes its opening and ending in the middle. The first opening is visually better, and the first ending is prettier and has better music. The second opening is ridiculously simple, but it has much better music, and the second ending is easily forgettable.

The story itself, the mystery didn't really grab me, I think it's precisely because the author doesn't know how to properly tell the story, for example in the part about Benimaru he wants to show his strength and how he's becoming a leader, but at the time the author creates a situation where no one is doing anything until he tells them to, but since when does a firefighter need to be ordered to put out fires and since he's a special firefighter why doesn't he automatically start killing the infernals, like??? Even worse at the end when out of nowhere Company 8 goes underground alone TO THE ENEMY's LAIR and doesn't ask for help from Benimaru who openly tells them to call him when they need it, I thought it was quite forced. Again, get on board if you want to see beautiful animation and well-choreographed fights.

Overrated. Reading everything and looking back I see that many of the jujutsu fights weren't very exciting, there are fights like the one between the master of Todo and Kenjaku that simply has the worst possible explanation for her losing and this theme is the point, this manga explains itself too much. In Hakari's fight which don't get me wrong is a good fight, the pages and more pages of text in the end deliver an explanation for a confusing power, the fight is actually pretty cool but the guy gives me lines and lines of text breaking the rhythm and having to explain the ... person's power all the time. Same thing for the comedian guy, especially if you read chapter by chapter or if you take a break, forget about it, you won't remember all the thousand rules of barriers and domains and binding vows they can make. Speaking in a realistic way, i had the desire to not even read anymore and just see the images because it became a meme how Sukuna always took power from his ass and came out in this IMMENSE and drawn-out final fight, the highlight of this fight for me is Yuta catching Gojo's body using Kenjaku's technique I didn't see it coming and when it happened I thought it was brilliant.

This duality that they try to bring out of the story between Yuji and Mahito, I think it's completely forced on both characters, it has nothing to do with anything other than the author trying to shove this story down people's throats and it doesn't turn out well. All the drama she tries to make about Yuji and his grandfather I thought was pretty rubbish, it also didn't get me emotional or anything.

For me, the anime wins a lot of points in some fights but mainly in the concepts it brings, in worldbuilding, in the curiosity of seeing the next big power, the next domain expansion. What an incredible concept of the work! Now every time I see someone creating another reality or closing someone on a different space, I automatically remember the concept of domains.

Truly a masterpiece, I watched so much media trying to portray madness in many different ways, and for some reason, I never really liked how they show the person who is going mad perspective, from the outside world perspective. But when I watched perfect blue that changed, finally a movie that finds this perfect balance between what is real and what is not, this anime shows only the necessary to make you feel confused and at the same time having a sense that some of the stuff is actually happening.

Commenting on some of the scenes, in my opinion, the "rape" scene is just the embodiment ... of making you feel so bad but at the same time thinking what is the protagonist doing because she is not suffering the real deal but she acts in a way that makes us thing that she is feeling like the real deal is happening to her, so you fell really bad because you can't know what is happening in her mind if she felt it was real then I guess it was you know? The movie constantly makes you feel this way about things that could or could not have happened.

I think the editing of the anime together with the direction has to be praised, scenes such as the elevator are just iconic when you compare the radio coming down and then on the other scene the body comes down, how the anime hides and then reveals the murders that happened, how he makes you question if is the real Mima that is doing that or the other one or both, I think the whole way they gradually show this descend to madness is just so well timed that it deserves the title of a masterpiece.

Going straight to the point this manga doesn't deserve half of the praise it gets and i'm not even being dramatic.

When you read across this humongous convoluted boring work you will notice not only patterns like the constant group being reunited. The group being dissolved to be reunited again, you will also get over and over the, oh is this character dead or alive? The wildest thing happens in the manga too, the mystery is who friend is and when they discover who friend is guess what the mystery becomes who friend is again. They are always alive and is honestly just sad how cowardly ... the author is to make such a dangerous story and then proceed to not let anyone die taking out all the weight from seemingly death scenes from several moments of the manga. But let's not attain ourselves just to that question, let's talk about the characters in general and oh boy horrendous dog shit at the least, everybody is so sentimental about kenji, the guy said the most obvious thing ooh don't die please, and all the sudden he becomes the messiah, the incomprehensible genius, the hero, like????

The other characters I'm sorry to say but a wall would have more personality besides Otcho I guess. You may wanna disagree but even when I talk to someone that liked the manga when I bring up Koizumi and Mitsuyo Takasu everybody just agrees that their characters arc leads to nothing. Clearly the author put them in the manga and at the end he din't know what to do with them so he just kinda of made them orbit the main characters and gave them an unfinished job, honestly this guy's work is just sad to see, making a comparison if he can't make an individual end for the characters he created how he is going to end the history?

Guess what he doesn't and I knew he wouldn't be able to do it, just looking at how many chapters were remaining to end the manga you can feel that is either going to an abrupt end or a rushed end or a poorly written end, you will be presented with each and every one of this possibilities, not only he doesn't end the manga properly, after some time he released a short series that gives a sort of ending to the story and at the end of 20-century boys he rushes towards the end and I glad he did because i couldn't take any more off his filler characters and conversation. If you ask me about the rhythm of the manga, is he rushing or dragging, well he does both.

Conclusion: ONE OF THE MOST OVERRATED MANGAS OF ALL TIME. To leave here with a positive note I liked the beginning of the manga, the reveal of what donkey saw at the school, i like the visual of friend mask and I kinda liked Otcho.

It's quite shocking how the quality of the first part of the first season differs from the second part. Some scenes have really bad animation out of nowhere, and it's unclear what happened there.

I gave the first season a solid 7. I think this season also deserves a 7, but not as much as the first. Some explanations about the characters become repetitive and take away from the excitement of the fight. Additionally, the fights don't have the same magic as the first part, except for the Kaolan and the last Fang fight.

The Kaolan fight is emotionally charged due to his opponent's history, and the ... Fang fight is quite funny. At first glance, I thought the fight was okay, but the grappling part was strange. However, after watching a channel called Scenec Fights, they review this fight scene, I could see the layers involved in the fight. Ohkubo repeats the same movement, and then Fang reads and counterattacks. The grappling part was quite realistic to the parameters of real MMA fights, which was really cool.