The Jujutsu Kaisen Retrospective:

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

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[@jakecaswell7364]

How do you know it's not gonna continue?

[@zaviyargul]

Looks cool ,I’ll get it 👍

[@Lucasesworld]

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[@ologames1185]

I feel so bad for the animators of season 2. They pour their blood sweat and tears into something with incredible pressure and an impossible deadline, and when it comes out with admittedly faulty animation fans start bashing them and not the directors or whoever is responsible for the work conditions at MAPPA.

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

I agree. People should not send their ire to the animators. It is the higher ups fault

[@tootitangtitangtiggaliggy]

@@ThisIsChris-Anime just like in JJK

[@esercapar2004]

“A series that i hold near and dear to my heart “ You’re not alone brother 😭

[@Seinsmelled]

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure solos jjk

[@ziogaming070]

​@@Seinsmelledits his opinion but ye Jojo is best anime🔥

[@TheRealMakotoYuki419]

@@ziogaming070fr

[@infinitum4826]

@Seinsmelled nobody gives af

[@lamedrawings]

Turns out, the true potential man was Gege all along...

[@AjaySharma-zu3jw]

Never said better

[@Cyberlele02]

I hate how this manga treats its characters, yuki, nobara, megumi, kenjaku, hakari Gege really needs to step up his character writing skills and he has to plan more of the storylines instead of just improvising

[@kevintanza6968]

I think he could benefit from having a strict editor. Someone who truly keeps him on check so he can be more disciplined with the writing.

[@xxjoebamaxx7782]

@@kevintanza6968 instead of one asking him to draw the boobs bigger

[@onyx666.]

Well it’s over so it’s never getting better. This is what we have forever.

[@xxjoebamaxx7782]

@@onyx666. he's gonna make more mangas eventually

[@LoaferShark]

@@onyx666. Anime will redo a lot of the writing for the better

[@Grenji_Ehnimation]

I hope that the anime does more justice to jjk than gege did himself😭

[@wadahecc]

best that mappa can do is extend some fight scenes

[@Grenji_Ehnimation]

@@wadahecc 😭😭😭

[@Grenji_Ehnimation]

@@wadahecc 😭😭😭

[@justinpatton6996]

Which is on brand for Gege.

[@RedLeafRBLX-1]

@@wadaheccespecially fights like Kashimo vs Sukuna.

[@ADRIENNightcore]

“This truly was our Jujutsu Kaisen.”

[@thatdarnseel7052]

I can't Lie. I Agree with your Season 2 Take. Can't Watch it without thinking about how poorly the employees were treated edit: Love the Ending Song. It is perfect for a Retrospective. Chrono Trigger is Peak

[@lewiscampbell502]

The last arc is a good bit better if you read it all together rather than the weekly/ delayed chapters that we got, felt a lot more climatic

[@lochjago13]

exactly what ive been saying

[@maxdavis7722]

Nah, completely disagree, it’s just as bad.

[@user_23132]

nah, it's just a mess. After shibuya it's clear that gege just wanted to end jjk. Culling games is a fine arc, but from gojo vs sukana it's just a rushed mess. I feel like if gege "just" made 1 or 2 more arcs we could've way better. More character development, more stakes better conclusion etc.

[@lewiscampbell502]

@@user_23132 I do think there is a definite drop in quality after shibuya. I just mean that the whole Sukuna gauntlet is better than people give it credit for generally.

[@user_23132]

@@lewiscampbell502 no, but you can see the cracks form. It's the same with Game of Thrones and the red wedding. Even though the show was pretty good after the red wedding you could also see that D&D just didn't try as hard/ didn't have the same passion. I feel like after shibuya gege just wanted it to end but knew he couldn't rush it

[@joshuaqwertyx]

At first it felt like a normal paced anime when the exchange school arc started but then it was just went so fast paced with shibuya incident, culling games, gojo vs sukana then finally everyone vs sukana

[@TomAvital]

After Gojo lost, it just felt like Sukuna is unbeatable. Gojo was hyped for so long. Gege just wrote himself into a corner, like with Madara.

[@Cyrius203]

At least we got a decent manga after the fight with Madara

[@Zero-no5vf]

Finally, someone that mentions the soundtrack, even if the animation were stellar the soundtrack were outwrite muted in the fight scenes, is not like they are bad but they just dint work very well with the scene.

[@LoneWolf-el5oy]

The soundtrack takes me out of the fights alot, I was pushed to watch this series, with the promise of top tier soundtrack, and it didn't deliver one bit especially in the flights, opening and closing scenes are good, but that's about it.

[@bocaangus]

​@LoneWolf-el5oy I don't see where yall coming from, tbh the osts match perfectly, but it's up to personal opinion sooo

[@jhiancarlosclemente6168]

I think biggest of jjk is world building, the world of jjk had so much potential to be explored, curses just felt like your average regular monsters aside from sukuna, kenjaku and the disaster curses, they should have definitely explored more about the history of curses

[@tri33208]

Jujutsu kaisen truly was the "potential man" all along

[@KarlsonCetoute]

yes sir finally your perspective I've waited for this

[@Lothadric]

Your JJK videos are always really entertaining to watch, thanks for making them 😊

[@browhatfrthatscrazybrobruh6991]

No offense but every point given about shibuya is kinda completely wrong. like wdym you don’t like raga throwing a train at sukuna? You want it to be canon? Take 2 minutes out of the anime fight and 5 minutes of sukuna opening his domain and that’s your full fight, lowk just sounds like he’s making his points up as he goes

[@kobehaizel5478]

@@browhatfrthatscrazybrobruh6991 thank you, it’s not his first time chatting but this one is just empty criticism

[@ALotOfCancer]

Your teenager tiktok brain makes this yapping impossible to interpret.

[@selimtrev720]

⁠​⁠@@ALotOfCancer This is what I could interpret: So he basically means is that the point the video creator made of Mahoraga never throwing a train at Sukuna because it never happened in the manga does not really make sense. This makes it sounds like the video creator wants a 1:1 adaptation of the manga to the anime. The problem is that the manga version of the fight was really short, and only amounted to about 2 minutes worth of fighting. The anime, especially the Blu-ray version, really gave the fight a lot of love. This is probably why the video creator’s point didn’t make sense, and thus led the commenter to believe that he was just making stuff up.

[@sixacez]

Very true, he's just criticising all over the place.. maybe he should go watch Pokémon instead

[@browhatfrthatscrazybrobruh6991]

@@ALotOfCancer can bro read?

[@JMD_XIV]

I do agree with a lot of the points here accept the Gojo conclusion. I do actually think it was pretty good the way Gojo said "hasn't everyone had enough of Satarou Gojo?" because I think this is one of the first times we get to see more of Gojo's true feeling with how he is viewed in society. We don't get to see a lot of how he feels about being the strongest other than that he accepted his status back in hidden inventory. But everything that has happened since, him opening up to Yuji about wanting to trust the world to move on without him I think is a great way to conclude him. More a rant on this part about the finale chapter: I think that them going back to the old school goofiness was a good idea since we haven't gotten any of that ever since Shibuya. I do think Gojo and the aftermath of the fight should have been more relevant in the final chapters. But all in all, I don't think it's terrible. But "wasted Potencia" is definitely the best way to put it.

[@mariasafron7789]

i mean he is not wrong... sometimes i even wondered why yuji was the main character when gege didnt even show us half of all the development he gave to gojo. Like it was almost annoying.

[@sammydray5919]

Honestly that would have held more weight if Gege had properly expanded on the other characters to eclipse Gojo. Like even Yuji felt like a side character outside of the final fight and his Mahito fight in Shibuya. The rest of the cast just isn't given enough prominence to have people just move on from Gojo when he WAS the biggest draw to the series both within the JJK universe and to the audience.

[@RandomName2.0]

​@@sammydray5919 I have to agree on that. Gojo is made one of the center focuses of the story and is shown to be a large infleunce on the world just because he exists. It makes it feel like that's just gege voicing his thoughts through gojo in hopes it would be taken better if he specifically said it. Sure, it seems in character for him but not deserved to be said without proper justification. If the series had time to expand on the characters and show them reaching the level gojo predicted the new gen of sorcerers would, then sure. But it feels like the last nail in the coffin of gege trying to get rid of him. If anything, he was a major contribution to why they beat sukuna due to getting him exhausted and damaged enough to trigger heian form early into the next phase. So the idea was there, the execution was just really off

[@Celtic_Spartan]

I'm given to believe the reason jujutsu kaisen lost its consistency and started falling off is because gege got his editor fired.

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

It is a possibility, but I doubt we'll get a solid answer on that

[@NoName......]

He did? Why?

[@Cyhemeheyward-cm9ys]

Moral of the story: we want more...

[@Bubudude]

How dare you make a smooth transition into an ad

[@mariobrothersfan2792]

14:08 let’s be honest, the answer to that question is insane time crunch manga authors are under. Plus the various health issues he went through.

[@candyogato9638]

yea, i think if gege had his time and didn't begun hating the proccess and also not being too much people pleasing (aka trying to get everyone's expectatives reached, telling the story ppl want instead of the one he wants) it wouldn't be perfect cuz perfection does not exist, but atleast good, i didn't really hate jjk, it gave us lots of cool things, and i mean a lot of ideas that can be explored hypothetically

[@LostStudios73]

Perfectly translated my feeling into a coherent video😭🙏

[@viscovolt]

nah im saying!!

[@trifectaofchris]

A pretty perfect encapsulation of how I feel about the series. So much potential, but handled quite sloppily. In some ways it reminds me of Soul Eater; phenomenal and fascinating world building and unique characters, that never get satisfying conclusions or the full exploration that they deserve.

[@theamazingskippyman2824]

For as much as I love jjk despite its flaws, I think soul eater’s cast is far more developed than jjk’s cast. Especially where everyone is at the end

[@trifectaofchris]

@ agreed, GeGe at the end really said “fuck it, this is a story about Sukuna, Yuji, & Yuta, fuck the rest of them.”

[@candyogato9638]

say uh i know it might be a stupid shit i'm about ot say but uhh, what do ppl mean by the jjk worldbuilding? i'm curious on your thoughts

[@trifectaofchris]

@@candyogato9638 not a stupid question at all! For JJK specifically, when I think of world building I think of the entire society and history around jujutsu sorcerer’s and curses. The historical relevance of the big sorcerer families and Kenjaku’s effect on the timeline also count towards the world building. One of my biggest pet peeves was that we never got to see any meaningful flashbacks of the Haien era, where Jujutsu sorcery was supposedly in its golden age. It would have been nice to see Sukuna as a young sorcerer or maybe some reference as to why the Zenin clan are so blood thirsty and cruel. Also would have been nice to get more context on curses/ gotten to see more plot relevant curses with motivations.

[@candyogato9638]

@ i see, i agree with the ideas o.o and also what or how binding vows worked or what consequences they bring, like do they just word it to themselves mentally, or to anyone, are they forced to agree or disagree, or what society thinks of jujutsu sorcery, hence why jujutsu schools are so empty or who founded it, or perhaps what other clans are there, like itadori clan, inumaki clan,

[@MichaelCaddell-ok2hr]

I can see where are you coming from about Gojo? When he said isn’t everyone tired of gojo but also I feel like he said that because he basically carried the sorcerer most of his life and I think he ready for a new era that’s just me though

[@ultimatexsamurai3026]

In conclusion Gege hates Gojo

[@candyogato9638]

i mean when you make a near unbeatable force to be reckoned with, in execution you're in a corner

[@boredguylmao]

It lowkey sucks how it now ends. Like I wished to see more of Itadori.

[@chrisg5219]

Words cannot express how angry it made me to not get any answers to any of the questions left hanging. I just cant read akutami qgain after this.

[@Cedxfy]

This truly was… our special

[@Nnickerson1]

Honestly i think in retrospect that hidden inventory set a bad president for the show because i think the point of the ending was seeing it through yujis eyes and seeing what he sees abd what he thinks happens also Ps i have faith that mappa will save the potential that JJK has and make it generation defining anime

[@brockfg]

i would like to see everything after shibuya rewritten 😂

[@LoaferShark]

culling games was fire what are you on?

[@brockfg]

@ shit was mid fam 🤦‍♂️ its filler compared to everything before it. we seen 100 trillion tournaments and battle royales in manga already

[@LoaferShark]

@@brockfg There's a reason we so many battle royals in manga, it's really fudging cool. Hakari vs Kashimo was peak, That yuta fight was peak, higurama introduction was peak, Megumi vs that receipt guy was really fun to read too and Maki's awakening went HARD

[@candyogato9638]

@@brockfg hear me out, ppl beg for filler in jjk for certain reasons xdd on god i think jjk so far is the only series (both anime and manga) without a single filler scene

[@joshuafrimpong244]

Beginning and middle were great. The ending was meh. 7/10, bumped up to 8 as this is the first I followed from the start. Great concepts that need to be taken advantage of if you want to write a shonen manga

[@Lopixxx]

4/10

[@candyogato9638]

did the epilogue (aka new epilogue, aka uraume backstory, nobara talking with her mom) make it better for ya? or atleast eased up the small wound (except the other wounds that have no way to be fixed unless if they want it)

[@axolotlkinyuwu2305]

This truly was. Our jujutsu kaisen

[@lochjago13]

what a questionable take on the fights being longer and "straying from the source material" its not straying far at all, just because they extended the fights and made them look insanely visually appealing doesnt make it "bad" or "mediocre" no one wants to see the original sukuna vs mahoraga fight, it was extremely boring and ended in 2 chapters

[@konosuair1971]

Why did it change from yes to no 😂

[@warmblanket3394]

Probably thumbnail tests to see which one does better

[@olusanyaoluwadamilola-ew6ov]

I have to disagree with you saying s1 ost is better than than s2 ost. In my opinion, a lot of the songs fit where they were placed like limitless cursed techique, if I am with you, Hidden Inventory, Vague reason among many others.

[@FrantzJean-Francois]

Rip jjk 😭😭😭

[@Lord_Vanns]

JJK is just dog shit writing. I wish it was better, but it's not, and it is what it is. Gege is on my no read list unless his new story is fully wrapped up, and people can vouch for the series having a good ending.

[@jd7337]

Jjk writing is not dog shit, its just average/to slightly above average

[@Lord_Vanns]

@jd7337 JJK does not focus on developing characters.. sets up plot points that go nowhere.. the MC of the series is not compelling.. only focuses on fights.. the fights are mainly one-sided.. riddled with plot holes.. and the gojo clan is a plot hole because we've never seen them, so they don't exist. The ending was dog shit and overall left the readers unsatisfied. In conclusion, Dog Shit series.

[@Mahiii778]

​@@jd7337media makes anything popular nowadays that's it Shibuya war was so random some maniacs fighting thats it

[@LoaferShark]

@@Mahiii778 This might be the worse take i have ever seen

[@LoaferShark]

@@Lord_Vanns One sided fights can be AMAZING if done right, and that's what JJK did. Jogo vs Sukuna was fantastic along with sukuna vs Mahoraga (the goat). And I'm sorry what? Not seeing a character's dead ancestors who weren't important to the plot is a plot hole? And there are fantastic equal fights like Yuki vs Kenjaku or Choso vs Yuji. And Geto might just have one of my favorite character developments in an anime EVER. Alright I've countered all your points exceeeept... Oh only focused on fights eh? Now I do wish jjk had a little bit more downtime to let the characters rest and contemplate, the excessive fights reflect the world Yuji lives in. This world is cruel and unjust and so many of the characters develop while fighting. Also writing goes hard asf "TURN UP THE VOLUME THIS IS A FUNERAL FOR THE LIVING!!!"

[@LKYHGaming]

As an anime only fan, I’m glad to see someone else who thinks the Shibuya arc is not that great of a season. It’s hard to put my thoughts into why I don’t love it in a super detailed way but to put it simply, I just don’t think it needed to have such an intense and depressing storyline so fast after season 1 had just ended in a mostly positive note and we were just getting to know these wonderful characters. The reason why I consider S1 of JJK to be so phenomenal is largely due to the Goodwill event. So many scenes of showing how badass these characters were and showing off how skilled they were in their own way. They showed off their immense potential to the world of JJK and it made me think that they were gonna be large part of it but that didn’t exactly happen. Instead they show up and they’re just gone until they’ve useful to the plot again. Honestly though, one of the biggest problems with JJK was its lack of development for its large cast of characters. Even if they did get their time to shine, you’re just never too emotionally attached to them to the point where it elevates your experience on the show, like sure, it felt incredibly sad to see Nanami and Kugisaki die so brutally but I never felt devastated by it. I easily could’ve felt way more if they were developed more further. At most, they were only characters that you thought were interesting and nothing more. All and all, I’m still excited for the culling games arc and the rest of JJK to be animated but at the same time I hope that it can improve on the manga bcuz while it does have its flaws that make me love the show less, it is still one of the coolest things I’ve ever got the chance to watch and throughly enjoy.

[@Idontknow5621]

I believe shibuya was bad because the fights had no purpose or meaning to it. The only one I’d consider as meaningful is the one against gojo, as that whole thing tied to the hidden inventory quite well. Any other fight was there just because it could be there, even the Mahoraga fight was pointless as the audience didn’t know why sukuna was helping Megumi. I believe a development of goal would be much better than a foreshadowing for that fight.

[@LoaferShark]

@@Idontknow5621 He did have a goal...

[@isidorodaviddoro1920]

​@@Idontknow5621Unfortunately JJk still has a ton of glazers so many won't accept that shibuya arc has many issues

[@Idontknow5621]

@@isidorodaviddoro1920Never understood the hype behind it. It is the average free for all fighting shonen arc that I have seen too many times. If I had to compare, it is pretty similar to the Arrancar arc but without the emotional background for some of the fights.

[@AmongusLover2017]

the script for this video feels like it was written in a day.

[@RZenith]

As it should be

[@wu_SER1]

I really hope the anime changes everything from culling games onward

[@KrheanosIsland]

The 100K sub goal 😢

[@anotherrightbrained2225]

21:35 to me personally, he might say something like that, its just feel like something is "missing", but yeah people may defend me like "uhm actually gojo know how strong he is and always be confident about it" , this is just my personal thought, nothing else

[@thaearthquake]

6:00 great questions! Surely Gege will answer them 😄

[@RaiginAnimator]

8:33 What do you mean by scaling? You mean the characters shouldn’t be this strong or?? Because honestly especially for the Jogo part the building bit showed Jogos desperations picking up the biggest thing he could find and ramming it into SUKUNA that conveyed the atmosphere perfectly Jogo doing everything he could but SUKUNA smiling and laughing all the way through

[@Yuss701]

About the music of season two There was a moment in the anime like after kenjaku used idle transfiguration i rlly liked the music of that particular moment

[@Mahiii778]

Finally manga ended every character was just a punching bag nothing else

[@MaddieM_11]

I like your take on this Chris. Very interesting

[@Cynisterical]

This thumbnail is the craziest spoiler😭

[@cameron6329]

i think s2 of the anime was way better than the manga and the extra added stuff to the anime that wasnt in the manga is why i rate it higher then the manga

[@JKSmith-qs2ii]

I am an anime only fan and I thought the first season was fine, above average but not quite good. I heard that season 2 (Shibuya) was the peak of Jujutsu Kaisen and I liked the first 5 episodes of season 2 (Hidden Inventory), I actually thought Shibuya itself ranged from mediocre to slightly above average. If that was considered the peak I think the show just isn't for me. My favourite characters were Megumi and Maki, I'm not sure what that says about me.

[@frealish6622]

Seeing the ending of jjk then now seeing a new chapter of hxh. Its just insane how better hxh is at character writing its just massive leagues above it

[@kevintanza6968]

Gege is not a good writer.

[@KratosEditsz]

btw gege confirmed he had everything planned as the first panel of chapter 1 is the exact same as the chapter 271 final panel "oh but he made it up at the end" No, because the thing that held the finger is exactly pointing towards the north and the chapter was called "Ryomen Sukuna" symbolising Sukuna going north was always predetermined

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

That's not proof. Bro could've just looked back at the first panel and said "yeah this'll work" or knew what he wanted the final panel to be but not the rest of the ending.

[@zaviyargul]

@@ThisIsChris-Anime **

[@RACH90810]

​@@ThisIsChris-AnimeI think Gege only emphasis that Yuji and Sukuna were the same person but different path. The staff of MAPPA even show that Yuji and Sukuna soul become one after Jogo forcefeed Yuji with 15 finger. He tried to show that pathway of soul is Yuji's flashback by inserting same Yuji's dialog but Sukuna said it but people think other way. In chapter two, Even Yuji said kinda two faced.

[@merikijiya13]

That’s not how that works at all 😂

[@RACH90810]

@@merikijiya13 Chinese and Japanese readers praise Gege's writings. They knew what we didnt know.

[@Figerlin]

Csm has better writing than jujutsu kaisen let's be honest

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

I mean, yeah. Fujimoto is a much more seasoned writer lol

[@dayvrieltong8709]

Maybe there is going to be a sequel series to answer these questions and give some closure *heaves another breath of copium from copium gas tank*

[@michaelkay7999]

Top unanswered questions: 1) What’s the deal with Yuji’s parents? Kenny was his mom?! 2) what about Kenny’s relationship with the US military? Weren’t they rounding up cursed users during the culling game in some half baked scheme to utilize their cursed energy? Whatever happened to that? 3) what was Kenny’s relationship with Sakuna? Were they in on the Culling game plan together? Were they allies? Or was Sakuna playing along for kicks. Did they ever interact 1000 years ago? Do they have any shared history? Or were they meeting for the first time during the culling games? 4) what is the new status quo? Who’s in change of Jujutsu society? How did the culling games affect the world? Is there a viable long term solution to cursed spirits? What are Yuji’s goals moving forward?

[@candyogato9638]

1- yes, he took the white splash so yuji can land a black flash 2- well just like my dad, gone. 3- possible allies, i dunno 4- yea, you'll see that in jujutsu kaisen shippuden 69 (trust)

[@aidengeorgieff-seiter5118]

I feel like geges thought was "the show will make this more clear"

[@suhaschittavajhula8427]

You forgot about the hollow purple and its theme from season 1

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

This is what I mean!! So many amazing songs from season 1, that were used for specific moments!

[@thaearthquake]

I was defending JJK so hard throughout the culling games. “Have faith & let Gege cook!” I said smh. 236 was the last straw for me. Gojo vs Sukuna was like the peak of the 2nd half of the series. JJK had so much potential, probably why I gave Gege more credit than I should’ve. 6/10 We needed more Kenjaku history and info on him being Yuji’s mom ffs We needed more heian era We needed more US military & world govts responses to cursed energy We needed less offscreens(World cutting slice, Hakari vs Uraume) We needed more character interactions in general instead of speedrunning to the last boss Damn you Gege when I catch you 😖

[@nelisezpasce]

Oh, that Yuki character was inspired by Aoko, right? I think it would be awesome if you got into the Nasuverse and covered it with the care it deserves. Too many "fans" spread misinfo because they're clearly not that informed. Again, whatever you do, as long as you're doing your best, do it! Otherwise don't bother...

[@sammydray5919]

Honestly thats just as insult to Aoko ngl consider how Yuki was handled

[@thekendrick1]

it was truly our disney kaisen

[@SB-3368]

what about JoJotsu Kaisen

[@zaviyargul]

You mean Lobotomy Kaisen

[@LeTMEOuTOfheREmIcHEaL]

I guess I'm pretty brainrotted for not seeing any problems with jjk, lol. (Beside the lack of some character development/arcs and the random bringing back of characters like Nobara and Higuruma. And also the questions left unanswered and the plot points left behind.)

[@Pwerdna]

Stopped watching when he said that season 1 had better music than season 2. That is such a bad take

[@sammydray5919]

Its true though? Season 2 by itself doesn't have that many memorable tracks compared to season 1. Season's openings are far more memorable than the actual ost within the season lmao

[@LoaferShark]

@@sammydray5919 That one gojo piano ost:

[@candyogato9638]

@@sammydray5919 so you don like mahoraga's fight theme and mahito's, or the season 2 intro music?, or the hidden inv arc outro music? or intro- or even that part where gojo sees ''geto'' again after a long time

[@sammydray5919]

@candyogato9638 Meh they are fine as osts. The scenes they are linked to push them above their pay grade but as their own osts they are just.... Fine.

[@horaciosi]

It's funny, when the anime came out, people lauded it as the next big thing. This "deconstructive shonen" (it's not) that it's not your average shonen trash like My Hero Academia. It's subversive, it's complex, it doesn't hold back! It's not like that normie garbage Hero Academia BS! It has dark twists, gut-punching drama, memorable characters and better female empowerment! But now? It became a shell of its former self, strangled by either studio mandates or creator apathy. From a promising and innovative shonen, to a soulless disaster filled with dropped plot points, anti-climactic resolutions, wasted characters and nonexistent worldbuilding. The heart and soul that made JJK so captivating is long gone. And the funny thing is, My Hero Academia got the last laugh: Better usage of characters, the female cast got more moments to shine, plot points got proper resolution, intricate worldbuilding and a satisfying finale. At the end of the day, Deku wasn't the only underdog who rose to the occasion. It was My Hero Academia and JJK was Bakugo. The promising new star who ended up becoming a punching bag and a laughingstock. How the mighty have fallen.

[@candyogato9638]

welp, that's shonen jump for you, fucking gege a lot it's what happens

[@Goldbonds]

The anime is going to have a better ending for sure

[@Thrillr]

21:38 brooooo brooooo other than Yuji awakening, from Gojo death til the end shxt felt weird!!! 22:58 Agreed 😢

[@Noobie752]

W

[@kwebvin9939]

We have cases where the ending of the Anime was better than the Manga Like Saiki K

[@Facepalm-Guy]

Kashimo VS. Hakari will always be the best fight. Shame they both got sidelined in the final fight. Wafflehouse and Femboi Lover didn't get the fight they deserved.

[@meeperguy6669]

The change of the thumbnail 😭

[@Walmart-worker486]

Ngl I kinda liked the ending I mean it wasn’t the best and I agree some things could have been done better but overall for the anime it definitely gets a 7/10 for me

[@gardenofremebrance]

This video quickly just fell into illiteracy

[@TheRockerX]

How so?

[@takeid123]

> posts this statement about illiteracy > will never expand on this point Like always 😒

[@gardenofremebrance]

@@TheRockerX For example, Megumi and Tsumiki. Megumi even though always being a calculating character and being able to stay calm and think ahead, isn't inffalible. When the entire reason for him to constantly be risking his life finally shows up, obviously he'll jump in joy without truly thinking of it, with the fact that supposedly Yorozu acted perfectly like her, that thought would never dawn on him. You must understand that Megumi is basically in a depression, his mother is dead, his father is dead (not that he cared rlly), his father figure is basically imprisoned and the only positive (in his eyes) to of finally happened is the comeback of Tsumiki. He is going to make that irrational decision and jump to the possibility of it being her instantly. On top of that, Megumi himself actually thought of that, albeit late. Also, reincarnated sorcerers is a relatively new thing. He wouldn't know what makes a sorcerer a reincarnated type, he just thinks that his sister is back. There's also the whole complaint about the stuff like the Sukuna vs Mahoraga fight or the Shibuya incident in general but its more like, theres been mass destruction shown in the manga, but in all honesty, not a lot of the destruction is shown how it happens, the fight does that. It shows Sukuna's contempt for life as long as he gets what he wants (which is to learn more of Mahoraga and to have fun). It wasn't "ignoring the rules of jjk" it was quite literally Sukuna letting loose for the sake of it, it didn't ignore anything, if anything it was just sudden. It showed Sukuna's lack of care for human life. Jogo using his lava hands as a means to possibly hit sukuna shows how he is running out of attack options and purely resorts into utter desperation and throwing shit at the wall to see which one sticks. Even if it looks cool and flashy, theres still reason behind it.

[@gardenofremebrance]

@@takeid123 not with that attitude

[@kobehaizel5478]

@@takeid123 he shut you up

[@sadburrito6551]

I’m really disappointed in the ending. I feel like I don’t even have major criticism for as much stuff as other people but jjk was my personal favourite for so long and the ending really took that away. I hope he either fixes the ending somehow or doesn’t return to it.

[@TheRealMakotoYuki419]

The mobile Gacha game looks better then cursed clash 💀

[@Drejj.502]

It feels illegal to be this early🔥🔥

[@UnitedOtakus-u9p]

Where can I reach out to you so we can talk about business?

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

I have an email

[@mrcaos999]

I think JJK pays the same prize as Demon Slayer for its fast pacing. (DS is even worse on my POV). While we get a lot of action we get no time to bound with the characters before they are killed of. Hence people should look at Kingdom a manga that has a lot of battle and fighting. Yet we still get time with characters before they are ultimately killed off.

[@isidorodaviddoro1920]

At least the demon Slayer characters are better than the jjk ones that only appear to fight or do something small

[@FrancBushaj]

I don’t even care anymore. 😭 I’ve seen way too many of these type of videos that my brain has literally been LOBOTOMISED by Gege’s bad writing.

[@kennykhoo2668]

You talk about the whole jjk s1 and s2 is nice and also to be honest I don’t like s2 too much because they killed nobara and nanami

[@Zenoforce]

I also agree with sukunas ending👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@saibotshawdow5090]

14:45 as a all time megumi defender my excuse is love blinds all.

[@tripleskeet634]

I blame the fans (mostly gojo stans) bc all he got from them was bitching and complaints and he started to hate his fans so he wanted it done asap so he rushed. He even said that he gave us this ending bc he hated us. Conclusion, it’s all bc of a small group of assholes that the story and ending was ruined for us all. It’s really sad and it just sucks

[@ThisIsChris-Anime]

When did he say that?

[@sammydray5919]

Either give a source or shut up with your cope speculations

[@YaBoyFleet.]

maybe the anime adaptation will improve on the ending (coping)

[@onyx666.]

Gege ruined JJK. This was the worst manga I’ve ever read. The art was atrocious

[@LoaferShark]

bait used to be believable

[@onyx666.]

@ the ending of JJK is the worst ending in all of fiction because the writer got lazy. Stay mad pussy.

[@tepigpirate1881]

in the fourth section of the vid, you miss spelled 'perfect.'

[@devondeluna1841]

I may be the only lost here… I know it’s your opinion but season 2 was leaps and bounds better than season 1.

[@Gooberguy325]

Gojo is coming back next chapter y’all I have my sources

[@tyroneford-ru7iw]

Today I bought from barnes and noble the chapters where Maki get busy, and the data book about the series up till 2018! But the. Series ended like shit as i said 2 years ago.

[@sixacez]

Cmon can we all move on about Gojo, he died a warriors death period

[@danglyboi474]

A lot of what your saying is, "It feels" instead of, "It is." Also, that is Yorozu at the end.

[@kevintanza6968]

"That is Yorozu at the end." Never confirmed. Thank Gege for not having the balls to be clear. Well, it doesn't feel like a rushed, unpractical story. It is a rushed, unpractical story.

[@danglyboi474]

​@@kevintanza6968 Maybe use context clues? Yorozu is at the same proportion of height to Uraume as that woman in the panel. Yorozu has the same black hair. Yorozu was from the same time period and Uraume and that woman are wearing clothing from the Heian Era. Yorozu puts her hair into a ponytail, just like that woman. Yorozu was another path for Sukuna, just like that woman is. Yorozu represented a less honest loyalty to Sukuna than Uraume, which would EXPLAIN that separate paths thing. Gege doesn't need to confirm shit. You just need to have the fucking eyeBALLS to see the obvious comparisons. Gege has the balls to put his fans' eyes to the test but clearly YOURS are too blind to see the obvious. It doesn't feel like a rused, unpractical story, nor is it one. You can claim it is all you like but ignoring the fact that the story goes by a PROPER ENDING TO MOST REGULAR STORIES, then maybe you should go back to English class to actually understand how the ending worked. Now don't reply if you're not gonna give an answer that isn't just you claiming shit without proper evidence. Shut up. No one wants your half baked opinion that clearly shows how much attention you paid in the manga.

[@a.dackee9737]

I’ll be honest, gojo asking if the world had enough of Gojo Satoru is actually in character for him. His entire goal was to foster a generation of stronger sorcerers and we’ve been told multiple times that trying to compare yourself to others stunts your growth. Everyone compared themselves to Gojo which stunted their growth and so in death he knew that now they would have no choice but to surpass him But you are right the Sukuna raid felt anticlimactic, like Sukuna was such a walking calamity that even though the fight was ending I didn’t feel like Sukuna himself was actually on the verge of defeat

[@CarloPrivat]

I gotta say, I started with the Manga in the Culling Games. And I just didnt understood jack shit lmao

[@RaiginAnimator]

8:54 that just sounds gross Like what? The directors should have just gone around the insane amount of work we all know the animators had 2 do If you said I understand why but I just don’t like it I would have got it but the way you put it was just gross

[@PopGoesMyBall]

Basing most of your fame off of jjk only to say "it was generic, whatever series" is crazy work

[@ALotOfCancer]

Jobless comment

[@KiwiHavok777]

Good

[@deltaace6426]

9:14 Buddy, they were already sending death threats 😕

[@jade_nothingelse9278]

it fell off ngl

[@maykthegoat]

i think jjk will have a sequel after the anime is done

[@0kuyasu_nijimuraa]

Hopefully the anime adaptation is a lot better than the manga

[@micozzzzie]

I just don’t see how the curses thinking they’re the true humans is creative or interesting at all. Mahito was the best villain in the series cuz he was just a curse who lived to kill and was unashamed about it.