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Literally the most overrated anime in the world...

The first season was barely tolerable. It was essentially a complete Naruto rip-off with the main character who holds a demon inside of him, which in turn grants him great power. The key difference here is: Naruto is a character of depth who goes through great personal struggle and growth and that demon functions as an artistic metaphor as well as a functional plot device. Jiujutsu, on the other hand, was written by a child with crayons and just steals the most obvious elements from Naruto without paying attention to why it actually works. Yay crayons!

Characters:

Gojo is clearly ... a Kakashi ripoff, it's baffling to me how 100% of people do not call this out. His character is one-dimensional, like all the characters in Jiujutsu. He's the OP rebel... he wins all fights and says whatever he wants--he faces no struggles, ever.

The series includes a Sasuke ripoff named Fushiguro. He is very strong and oh so cold. What an original foil to place against the series' Naruto ripoff: Itadori.

Itadori is Naruto except worse in every way.

Sakura in this series is manifested by the brash and very tsundere girl known as Kugisaki. She is relatively useless and purposeless, just like Sakura.

Special mention! Inumaki, the character who uses "cursed words" (not curse words), which is a clear ripoff of the bug user Shino. They both have their mouths covered by their outfits, hardly speak, and appear only occasionally to do their very narrowly illustrated power.


The plot:

Is incomprehensible. There is no plot. They just kind of hang out, fight sometimes, see poorly drawn monsters sometimes, and the episode ends.


Animation:

Season 1 animation was sad, average. Season 2 animation is fantastic and essentially, I imagine, the writer was like "I can has Chainsaw Man animation, mappa?" And they were like... "I guess..." Still frames, backgrounds, character depictions are often gorgeous works of art. This is literally the only redeeming quality of this horrific horrific series.

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Perhaps one of the worst shows I have ever watched. I will break this down systematically:

Dialogue: The conversations in this series are consistently meandering, like traveling down a long, winding road with no end, littered with horrible attempts at wit and organic human interaction. It's unfortunate that this series chose a preponderance of dialogue throughout, as it thoroughly ruins the show and makes it borderline unwatchable.

Animation: This is essentially a wannabe Mappa style animation. It is clear the animators and art directors were basing every detail on aspiring towards the pinnacle that is Mappa, who has brought such great shows as Chainsaw Man, Hell's Paradise, ... Vinland Saga, etc.

Fighting: Terribly choreographed, terribly shot. The action is almost never tense, and 100% never clever nor surprising like, say, Attack on Titan, where movements of martial arts actually move you emotionally. This is almost like pro forma boiler plate fan service of a fight sprinkled here and there. It's thoroughly unsatisfying when there's no fighting and so paltry and unappealing when there is due to a true lack of cinematic competence.

Narrative: Solving mysteries that are generic and bland leaves viewers bored. I was especially bored during the first several episodes where the talking head (literally) spent 90% of the episodes explaining everything. We all learned in grade school that narrative is formed upon the basis of "show don't tell" but this show simply "tells and rarely shows" which makes it an unbearable grind.

Characters: Characters are shallow, poorly defined, everyone is generically full of angst and misanthropic, except for the protagonist who is lackadaisical and carefree perhaps based on some spurious notion this makes him more relatable and attractive.

Summary: This show is not recommended at all for the reasons stated above.