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It pains me to say it, but this manga got popular off of Mappa's flashy art style, hot male characters and fan service. None of which even is in this manga.

You can tell this is the first big project from this author. It's so painfully obvious.

This manga starts slow, painfully similar to any other shonen. It's nothing special. Then shibuya is incredible, beautiful and so so interesting, and then it's a nothing burger till the end. Its author shows no respect for any character or structure he has put in place before, disregards all logic and mostly does whatever the heck he wants just ... because he wants to. He also seems to be so painfully aware of his fanbase, because every and all decisions seem to be done just to shock it. It's almost like he was toying with the reader, just for the sake of it.

He owes all his success to mappa's brilliant season two, because if there's a big reason why JJK is this popular, it's because of the fan service, not because of whatever he thought he was cooking. The fan service even overshadows the characters he himself created, mainly Gojo Satoru (and his relationship to another side character, Geto Suguru)*, being probably the only good thing to come out of this mess. It seems like he hated how strong he made him, and every single fight he is in, shows him having trouble he shouldn't be in. Logically speaking.

*Tho I have to say, even the hidden inventory arc has a lot of issues structure wise, it's not perfect by any means, but it truly does make you long for how good it could've been.

As another review said, this manga makes you feel just a tad smarter because reading all the theories online as the chapters were actively coming out, not one of them was worse then whatever the fuck direction JJK ended up going. Every second spent reading the chapters after Shibuya was painful for me and all the people around me who were also reading them.

There's much more to say but I will limit myself to a general overview of this manga. The absolutely incredible, massive and devastating wasted potential of this series is truly what upsets me the most, for this reason, I can't help it but go with the lowest score possible.