Anime 40748 Jujutsu Kaisen Reviews Filter Check 3

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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This seems to be another of those run-of-the-mill power shonens. It has basically the same story as Chainsaw Man up till at least chap. 91 of that series manga, and i think Chainsaw Man will give us a much better experience. I don't expect the plot give us anything special tbh.
What's great about this is definitely the animation and OST. I think this series is helped greatly by its good fight scene animation and if it continues to play into this heavy power shonen tendencies, i think it will continue to be as popular as it has. For this season at least.

Though you should not ... expect anything special from this series tbh. Standard MC gets power from some mcguffin. He uses that power to fight for good, sometimes the power gets out of control. That's pretty much what these 6 episodes have shown me.

The characters aren't anything special either. Now i know 6 eps aren't that many episodes to showcase how deep a character is but i honestly don't think they'll get any better. The MC is as generic as they come. The female main gets the same treatment male japanese mangaka seem to give all their female characters and the other guy seems to be a mash up of emo characters.

Overall, if you watch this for the fights? You'll have a good time. If you're looking for something deeper? Nope

“Let’s make a dumb joke, show a stupid face or shout a lot at every possible moment regardless of tone considerations” The Anime.

“Let’s copy all of shounen cliche and add literally nothing to them” The Anime.

“Let’s have zero interesting characters and a meaningless plot” The Anime.

GUYS, WHAT IF WE HAD A HILARIOUS CHARACTER THAT ONLY SAYS NAMES OF FISH, AND A TALKING PANDA, THAT TOTALLY MAKES ME WANT TO TAKE THIS ANIME SERIOUSLY. Yeah, this anime really is a joke.

But, but muh animation....

Good animation, yes but if that’s all that matters, then you might as well just watch 3D renders on YouTube. This is easily ... one of the worst anime I’ve ever seen in my life. To think all of this time and effort was wasted on this, precious resources that could have been utilized to give AoT’s fourth season just that little bit more polish. Sad!

Im already on episode 6 and I am already bored with this anime to the point where I had almost fallen asleep or went of my phone. The plot doesnt catch my attention at all as well as with the characters being generic anime characters.

Yuuji is typical super strong, overly nice high schooler who got himself into a world he has never seen before after the passing of his grandfather who he made a promise with him to "try to help others, save as many people as you can even if it is the only people closed to you" and he to pursue this goal ... along the way.

Fushiguro is basic as it come he's the quiet cool edgy character who is the opposite of the Yuuji who he doesn't get along but deep inside thinks of him as a friend.

Nobara is the weaker one out of the three of them. She's came to the city to give herself a better life in the city and find herchildhood friend. Overall the
only thing I really liked was the opening.

Welcome to Jujutsu Kaisen, an anime filled with great animation, horrendous characters, and an average shounen plot.

Over the time the show aired, it gained massive attention and critical acclaim, rivaling even Demon Slayer in terms of commercial success. However, just like Demon Slayer, I see no reason to enjoy the show other than for its animation. In fact, many criticisms I have with the show are similar in line to criticisms that I had with Demon Slayer. Let’s start out with the thing that people have been talking about the most with the show.

(Spoiler warning of course)

“The animation in this series is incredible,” is what ... I would like to say. However, the animation isn’t always as amazing as most people make it out to be. It still is amazing at certain parts, especially when it needs to be, but a lot of the time the animation is just above average. For many scenes which involve a lot of talking, the animation becomes very run-of-the-mill. These scenes have very little animation, usually only the characters moving very slightly. Of course, it’s unrealistic to expect all of the scenes to look that good, however, these scenes take up a majority of the show. People focus too much on small chunks of the show and completely ignore the bad elements.

I must say though, when the animation hits, it REALLY hits. In almost every episode, there’s at least 1 scene of sakuga. The action scenes, regardless of the characters participating in them, the plot importance, or any other reason, look amazing. The number of different cursed techniques characters use in the show allows for the action to elevate to even greater levels. There’s tons of variety in the fight scenes. My personal favorite is the action scene in the final episode. The way the animation matches up with the music makes the scene that much more engaging. Seriously, that scene was like a flash of brilliance in an otherwise mediocre show.

To touch on the openings (even though it doesn’t affect my score at all), the animation is some of the best I’ve seen. Even better than the show's high points, the animation is on another level.

Now time for the thing keeping the series from being good, the characters. Almost all of the characters in the show, including the main trio, are insufferable.

Yuji Itadori is just like a standard shounen protagonist in many ways. TvTropes defines the average shounen protagonist as “big hearted, energetic kid heroes, with a natural gift that blows others out of the water.” This definition fits Itadori down to a tee. Now the problem with his character is not the fact that he fits within this trope, it’s the fact that he leans heavily into the negative aspects of the trope.

He seemed like a promising character at the beginning of the series. Although simple, his motivation with his grandfather and his whole “proper death” thing seemed like an interesting idea. The problem is, they did nothing to his character after the first 5 episodes. He becomes a completely stagnant character. He doesn’t have any meaningful interactions with other characters, we don’t get to explore his psych at all, and most importantly he doesn’t change. This is sort of a problem with most characters in the series, but we’ll get to that later. Basically after the first fourth of the anime he’s dedicated to 3 things: showing off how cool his powers are, making just plain awful or tone breaking jokes, or furthering the plot.

Megumi and Nobara I have less to say about, since they’re also basically trope characters. Megumi is ‘Serious Guy’ and Nobara is “Mean Girl.’ They have some flashbacks in the earlier episodes that give their characters some background information, but, just like with Itadori, they serve no narrative purpose after the first 6 episodes.

Gojo is also listed as a main character on this site, although I don’t see him as one. He’s easily the most interesting of the four, however that still does not make him a good character. His cheerful and laid back attitude despite the circumstances he’s in is interesting, but sometimes can be tone breaking.

As for the side characters, they’re a little better. None of the other Jujutsu Tech students are anything special. They consist of another “Mean Girl” trope, a talking Panda, and a person who can only speak through onigiri flavors. They also get some small characterization but nothing ever comes from this. None of them serve any importance to the plot.

One major problem I have with the characters is their quirkiness. Most characters seem to be very exaggerated with their personalities, making them seem unrealistic. Lots of characters are completely one dimensionally, and their entire character hinges on a single quirk that they have. The worst example of this has to be Toudou. His entire character is centered around the fact that he likes women who are tall and have a big ass. He is quite possibly one of my least favorite characters in anime ever. All he does is ask people what type of women they like and fights them if they don’t agree with him. In a comedy anime, his character could have been at least bearable. But in Jujutsu Kaisen, a show with lots of blood and death constantly happening, his character seems to be so out of place in the show. Every time he appears on screen I get whiplash from how at odds he is with the rest of the show.

As for characters such as Nanami, Mahito, and Junpei, I actually like them! They’re the best characters in the show, and make the Vs Mahito Arc the best arc in the series by far. All of their motivations are great, they get lots of characterization for how little time they are on screen, and each one of them has an impact on the plot for the arc they’re in.

The most asinine thing though is that they completely get shafted from the narrative after that arc. Junpei ends up dying, and there is not a single mention of him after the fact. When Itadori’s talking about what a proper death means right after Junpei dies he’s not even mentioned. Nanami completely disappears, never to be mentioned again, even after the slight connection he and Itadori made. Mahito is the only one to actually be mentioned or show up later in the series, but even then he says like two lines, and could have been swapped in for another character for when he appears.

Basically, the character writing in this series is awful. Like...REALLY awful.

One gripe I have with the show that is completely subjective is the comedy. Of course, humor is subjective, so I can’t really go into why I don’t like the comedy of the series. To me, the humor in the show is very standard shounen humor. Anime slapstick never works with me.

The soundtrack is a mixed bag. The action music is good at most points, however the OST during the slice of life sections is horrendous.

Jujutsu Kaisen falls into many holes that standard shounen shows fall into. Overall this show is massively overrated. Points of it are enjoyable enough, however those sections make up very little of the show. I hate giving out number scores but if I had to give this show a score it would be a 4/10. The animation is the only thing holding this show up.

Story - 4
Art - 8
Sound - 6
Character - 2
Enjoyment - 3
Overall - 4

You know, I was very excited when this anime was about to come out. I saw so many posts on Instagram and stuff, so I was like "YAYYY, can't wait."

Now that I've watched it... I really, really, can't give it a high score no matter how much I want to. I know MAPPA did a great job with the animation and everyone worked hard on it, and I appreciate them. However...

The reason I gave it a low score is because of the plot and the characters. Like someone mentioned before, I would also rather have a mediocre art with a good plot than amazing art ... with a mediocre storyline. After all, if the plot nearly makes me want to quit watching it all the time... what's the point?

There is something wrong with Jujutsu Kaisen. It's not the animation or the soundtrack. It's the overall experience with it. Like many others have said, yes, the plot is overused, the characters are nothing special nor are their interactions with one another. Even with 24 episodes, I feel like it's all just random scenes and fighting. I know... it's a shounen and shounen has a lot of fighting most of the time. However, every other shounen out there establishes the plot pretty well before or after 24 episodes. For me, the only good part so far has been Junpei's story, and even that felt rushed. One of the worst things about JK, for me, is that they do not explain the techniques, their functions, how they came to be, etc. well at all. They seem to just spit out ten thousand techniques and make the techniques work in their favor so they could win somehow.

I don't know. I can't call it "horrible" because that would be calling all the other shounen anime out there "horrible" since, for me, 95% of JK is borrowed from other shounen. I get it: it's hard to be 100% original. And no one is expecting that. However, the same flow, the plot and characters mixed together is very boring to see for the ten thousandth time without a spark in the story. I feel like Gojo, who looks like Kakashi and acts Dazai, is one of the biggest reason why people are obsessed with this show. I don't know why he's overhyped. I mean he's cool and all, but I'm pretty sure it's because he acts exactly like Dazai and has a pretty face. That is all.

I haven't read the manga. Maybe it gets better. Maybe it's super slow with development because they have much, much, much, more to cover. Idk. All I reviewed is season 1 and season 1 only. And that is my honest opinion.

Jujutsu Kaisen was, basically, the seasonal hyped shonen, in other words, top animation with a poor story unfortunately. Let's analyze the issues that this anime had and then it's positive aspects:

ISSUES

1) Characters: Like in many fighting shonen a new "good" character appears, he/she meets with the main group, they became friends for the sake of it (because the script demands it) and, finally, most of them become irrelevant thanks to the power scale. The problems don't end here, their characterization is, also terrible. Most of them are plane characters with a lame motivations or they just follow the motivations of other people. For example, Sukuna ... saved Itadaki because he considered him interesting, like the first big asspull of Boku no Hero Academia, Itadaki with his one episode motivation after his grandfather's death (he didn't care or remembered list after that episode). I understand the anime, or at least this is what I think, tried to be a style over substance; nevertheless, putting plane characters and introduce new of them for fill the cast makes this anime a mindless spectacle. It's not impossible to be a style over substance having, at least, a decent characterization for your cast. We have Gurren Lagann, Jojo's and the manga of Akira. In those cases, you remember the show not only for the action choreographies but, also, for the charisma of several characters (like Kamina, Joseph Joestar and Tetsuo), this, also, helps with the inmersion to the anime in much less time.

In order to avoid potential characterization, the anime set missions for the main cast. With this, the characters didn't have to be worried about anything else. I remember the show Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Here we got, also, different missions for the main cast every episode with the huge difference that the characters here had a character development with each passed mission thanks to the analysis post-missions. Here, they complete a mission and pass by. This was unfortunate because the anime had the potential to make a character development, but it was really conformist in this aspect.

There are, also, contradictions or cognitive dissonance with some characters. For example, Nobara spoke, in many moments of the show, stuff like women can be strong too and can achieve the missions on their own, just to be saved for the male characters when she got in real trouble. Another character constantly criticized the woman taste of the other characters just to reveal, later, that he was saved by one. The few moments where the anime tried to had substance and characterization, it made things worse, like the allegories of the human hearts and the proper deaths. Now I understand why the writer limited itself with the characterization.

Itadaki is treated as a potential martir because he wants to save people exchanging his own life, practically. We hope this doesn't end being a meme like the case of Code Geass.

2) Deaths: Anybody can die permanently in this show, however, this is not the case for our protagonist. Is not only the strong plot armor for him, also, it makes extremely predictable the possible outcome of the show. Like the case of Boku no Hero Academia, where since the 1st episode the anime told us clearly that the protagonist, in one way or another, will end defeating all the villains, here we have, indirectly, the same.

3) Power System: By far the worst and contradictory aspect of the show. They introduced a enemies power scale and, later, the protagonists defeated the stronger enemy of that scale without so much problems. And this is not the worst, there's no training or justification to increase the power of the cast, like wtf. We had fighting shonen like Dragon Ball, Naruto, HxH, among others where they included entire arcs to show the training of the main cast and their progress. I'm not saying that all of these arcs were, at the end, good or memorable, but, at least, the writers showed that they had a little care about the growing of the power and experience of their characters, at least there was an attempt unlike this anime. Sure, many people could say that the power depends on the cursed spirits the character poses, however, this directly would contradict the sorcerer grades introduced. How can I difference a sorcerer from another knowing that they don't have a proper training or a inexistent one? Natural talent I guess.

4) Fights: Despite being one of the strongest aspect of the show, it's still having his problems. The characters explain their powers and abilities in the middle of the fights. Is not only the fact that this is anticlimatic, also, the writer can introduce the ability or power that the character needs to defeat the turn's antagonist, fucking convenient. Also we have the classical last minute saves, overpowered good guys who helps our protagonists when they feel doing it (when the script needs it) and unfinished fights to keep alive the main cast.

5) Pacing: Like the case of several anime in the last years (not only fighting shonen), the anime presented a lot of concepts and information the first episode. After that, the pacing got slower until the anime arrived to the second half where the pacing was completely dreadful.

POSITIVE ASPECTS

- The animation is amazing and very fluent, the soundtrack is very enjoyable (the ending in particular is an absolute banger) and the fights looks spectacular if you ignore the substantial part of it.

CONCLUSION

Like I mentioned at the beginning of this review, Jujutsu Kaisen is not different than most of the generic fighting shonen that came out the last years. I don't find any merit of it beside the soundtrack, animation and part of it's action. For this reason, I have no choice but to give it a score of 4/10. It could have been definitely better; nevertheless, the fighting shonen writers have been really conformists with their stories during the last years.

I will keep this review as short as possible.

JJK looked promising. Its art and style caught my eyes.
The reason I began watching was because of Satoru (he is everywhere on Instagram).

I watched 24 episodes and I still don't know, wtf is going on.
Heck, I still know nothing about our main character Itadori.

I want to start of with the good things about this anime:
- the Art is very nice and I love the animation
... - openings are great
- I like how Itadori isn't a loud character
- Hanami was an enjoyable villain, which had an interesting goal

Things I disliked:
- characters are shallow
- fights between students don't make sense with the intention to kill each other (muscle guy and tsundere girl against other main characters)
- things aren't explained enough
- to many similarities between characters of Naruto
- Interesting aspects aren't mentioned enough (what happend to Itadoris parents? Why does Sukuna respect Megumi)?
- Itadoris main reason to fight is to have a memorable death
(could have been good but the execution is poor)

Main problem with JJK
Regardless of not explaining enough, JJK fails at Storytelling.
It isn't even bad, it is worse than anything I have seen until now.

Examples:
- why were Satorus eyes shown that early? It could have been more impactful, if it were introduced later. We know him now as that really strong guy and it isn't interesting anymore
- why not mention or show Itadoris past in some episodes or scenes to somehow get an idea, who he is, so that we can route for him!
- why not show more about that occupoccu guy, who is several mentioned with an accident that accured some time ago?
- Junpeis arc was the most interesting arc in season 1 but it felt to short and anticlimatic
And most importantly
- If a character comes back from the death, why not making it amazing
I get that JJK wants to be different, but it was the worst scene I have watched since Cerseis death on GOT.


JJK is a shitshow

Story: there is no story: 3
Art: Great: 9
Sound: Ok: 8
Character: Who?: 4
Enjoyment: Non: 3
Overall: 4

And I am really nice with giving JJK a 4

ENG/ESP Review on Jujutsu Kaisen

ENGLISH:

It was quite a task to approach Jujutsu Kaisen, as it is currently a colossus within the anime & manga scene, even selling 80 million copies as of 2023, and I have a strange quirk of avoiding famous stuff as soon as they get released and enjoying them by myself when the hypetrain dies out; however, Jujutsu Kaisen was this gigantic flame which apparently would never cease and die out. EVERYONE talked about this new shounen anime like it was the second coming of Jesus and how the fights were an absolute eye-orgasm, everyone constantly simped Satoru Gojoh as if he ... was the coolest dude to ever exist and I thought to myself: "There must be a reason to all the hype" and decided to ignore my annoying contrarian trait. It wasn't a good decision.

If there is something that hurts more than watching a bad anime is disappointment; I expected much more for Jujutsu Kaisen, the first episode had a decent premise (even if ignoring the dumb odds of Sukuna being compatible with Itadori's body and how the literal ancient king of curses was yeeted inside the body of a random teenage meathead) and a dark atmosphere, the thing about curses and their somber design made for quite a lot of space for animators and concept designers to go absolutely bonkers on Jujutsu Kaisen. Yet, as I've watched the anime, I've been unable to see anything this anime does good; it is not offensively bad, more-like absurdly mediocre and terribly boring.

The worst thing about Jujutsu Kaisen must be the spine-chilling and incredibly cringe humour, which always gets in the way of dramatic or emotional scenes with possibly the worst comedic timing I've ever seen on any piece of media ever. There is this scene of a mother grieving the loss of her child and, with literally no transition and just a rough cut, it shows Nobara and Panda being absolute idiots and going full apeshit on the magic academy (aka the edgier Hogwarts). I can't get how they thought this would be a good decision in the making of this show, it could've shown more development for Megumi as he has to deal with such a tough situation yet they decided to do this. The humour consists of "haha he did a dumb face lol laugh" or "XD he did a dumb voice LOL" which gets old incredibly fast and becomes unfiltered cringe. Did you enjoy a tense moment of action or a dramatic, emotional moment? DUMB FACE LULZ!!!! DUMB VOICE!!! XD. The only time I laughed loudly on this anime was on a specific character's death, because whenever he appeared on the screen me and my friend would play In The End from Linkin Park at full-volume.

I have seen a lot of people amping up and hyping the fights in Jujutsu Kaisen, saying they are some of the coolest fights on all of shounen animes and I couldn't help but also feel disappointed by them. Battles in anime can not only be physical but also moral or ideological, everytime I watched a fight go on in Jujutsu Kaisen I felt like it was just a wall of bricks with beautiful makeup; yes, they do look good, but they also have absolutely no substance and I didn't feel any tension nor emotion in these conflicts; they feel absolutely tasteless and bland, even the "big" ones didnt make me feel anything. I was watching these fights just go-on, completely in silence, as I waited for the next character to asspull something and win the fight; the combats in this anime are just not interesting at all.

Jujutsu Kaisen has some of the most two-dimensional and blandest characters I've ever seen, the contender for dumbest, worst and most annoying character is probably Satoru Gojoh, which is constantly praised in the internet for being "hahaha the funny teacher who is also absurdly broken!!! LOVE gojo!!" yet I found him to be a constant annoyance in every scene he appeared in, absurdly immature and incredibly broken; his attempts at humour made me cringe and it's idiotic how he risked their students' life in favour of "LULZ XD i'm le funny teacher haha!!! i'm so quirky and forgetful XD". You have Fushiguro Megumi who is essentially Walmart Sasuke, Kugisaki Nobara which is your stereotypical tomboyish girl and Yuuji Itadori, which is, quite possibly, the blandest protagonist I've ever seen on an anime as of date. Itadori's philosophy is contrived and has such a dumb influence (le grandps who appears in episode 1 and instantly dies, sadness!!!!) and the secondary characters in Jujutsu Kaisen are just incredibly bland and signify nothing for me; every one of them could die and I just could not care less, their exaggerated HAHA quirky personality is just dumb. The villains in Jujutsu Kaisen are also just completely cliché and not interesting at all, they are your classic BBEG with dumb as fuck and ooh so evil plans, I did not care for them at all either.

The soundtrack was solid and fits most scenarios; the more electronic and intense tracks fitting in the hectic fights and other songs being more effective in other situations; however, it isnt nearly good-enough to carry this whole mess. Jujutsu Kaisen is just a complete disappointment; if the viewer is looking for insightful philosophies, interesting fights & powers and a good plot, this will bring absolutely nothing of that. It is a run of the mill shonen and it does nothing of interest; I found the somber atmosphere to be almost clickbait, as the cringe humour completely dissipates any tension the darker ambience could have brought, effectively killing the main point of interest I had for Jujutsu Kaisen, if you want interesting and meaningful fights with substance watch Hunter x Hunter 2011, if you want a darker atmosphere within a shonen anime watch Chainsaw Man, there is just not much worth in Jujutsu Kaisen, as it does a lot of stuff worse than other shounen animes.

ESPAÑOL:

Para mí fue toda una tarea acercarme a Jujutsu Kaisen, ya que actualmente es un coloso dentro de la escena del anime y el manga, llegando a vender 80 millones de copias a partir de 2023, y yo tengo la extraña manía de evitar las cosas famosas tan pronto como salen a la venta y disfrutar de ellas por mí mismo cuando el hypetrain se apaga; sin embargo, Jujutsu Kaisen era esta gigantesca llama que aparentemente nunca cesaría y se apagaría. Todo el mundo hablaba de este nuevo anime shounen como si fuera la segunda venida de Jesús y cómo las peleas eran un absoluto orgasmo ocular, todo el mundo constantemente simpea a Satoru Gojoh como si fuera el tipo más cool que jamás haya existido y pensé para mí mismo: "Tiene que haber una razón para tanto hype" y decidí ignorar mi rasgo de ir contra las tendencias. No fue una buena decisión.

Si hay algo que duele más que ver un mal anime es la decepción; esperaba mucho más de Jujutsu Kaisen, el primer episodio tenía una premisa decente (incluso ignorando las tontas probabilidades de que Sukuna fuera compatible con el cuerpo de Itadori y de que el antiguo rey de las maldiciones quedara encerrado en el cuerpo de un adolescente idiota cualquiera) y una atmósfera oscura, el tema de las maldiciones y su sombrío diseño dejaban mucho espacio para que los animadores y diseñadores conceptuales se volvieran absolutamente locos con los diseños en Jujutsu Kaisen. Sin embargo, a medida que he ido viendo el anime, he sido incapaz de ver nada que este anime haga bien; no es ofensivamente malo, más bien absurdamente mediocre y terriblemente aburrido.

Lo peor de Jujutsu Kaisen debe de ser el humor vergonzoso e increíblemente cringe, que siempre se interpone en el camino de las escenas dramáticas o emotivas, posiblemente con el peor timing cómico que he visto. Está aquella escena en la que una madre llora la pérdida de su hijo y, literalmente sin transición y en un corte brusco, se ve a Nobara y Panda haciendo idioteces y volviéndose locos en la academia de magia (aka Hogwarts edgy). No puedo entender cómo pensaron que esto sería una buena decisión en la realización de esta serie, podría haber mostrado más desarrollo para Megumi, ya que tiene que lidiar con esta situación tan difícil, sin embargo, decidieron hacer esto. El humor consiste en "jaja hizo una cara tonta lol risa" o "XD hizo una voz tonta LOL" que envejece increíblemente rápido y se convierte en cringe sin filtro. ¿Disfrutaste de un momento tenso de acción o de un momento dramático y emotivo? ¡¡¡¡CARA TONTA LULZ!!!! ¡¡¡VOZ TONTA!!! XD. La única vez que me reí a carcajadas en este anime fue con la muerte de un personaje en específico, ya que cada vez que aparecía en pantalla mi amigo y yo poníamos In The End de Linkin Park a todo volumen.

He visto a mucha gente alabar y hypear las peleas en Jujutsu Kaisen, diciendo que son algunas de las peleas más geniales de todos los animes shounen y no pude evitar sentirme decepcionado por ellas. Las batallas en el anime no solo pueden ser físicas sino también morales o ideológicas, cada vez que veía una pelea en Jujutsu Kaisen sentía como si fuera solo una pared de ladrillos con un bonito maquillaje; si, se ven bien, pero tampoco tienen ni una pizca de sustancia y no sentí ninguna tensión ni emoción en estos conflictos; se sienten absolutamente insípidos y sosos, incluso los "grandes" combates no me hicieron sentir nada. Yo veía estas peleas, completamente en silencio, mientras esperaba a que el siguiente personaje se saque algo del culo y ganara la lucha; los combates en este anime simplemente no son interesantes en lo absoluto.

Jujutsu Kaisen tiene algunos de los personajes más bidimensionales e insípidos que he visto, el contendiente para el personaje más tonto, peor y molesto es probablemente Satoru Gojoh, que es constantemente alabado en internet por ser "jajaja el profesor divertido que también está absurdamente roto!!!! amo a gojo!!!", sin embargo, me pareció una molestia constante en cada escena en la que aparecía, absurdamente inmaduro e increíblemente roto; sus intentos de humor me daban vergüenza ajena y es una idiotez cómo arriesgaba la vida de sus alumnos en favor de "LULZ XD soy el profesor gracioso jaja!!! soy tan estrafalario y olvidadizo XD". Tenemos a Fushiguro Megumi, que es básicamente Sasuke de Walmart, Kugisaki Nobara, que es el estereotipo de chica tomboy, y Yuuji Itadori, que es, posiblemente, el protagonista más soso que he visto en un anime hasta la fecha. La filosofía de Itadori se siente artificial, mezclada y tiene una influencia tan tonta (el abuelo que aparece en el episodio 1 y muere al instante, ¡¡¡tristeza!!!!) y los personajes secundarios de Jujutsu Kaisen son increíblemente sosos y no significan nada para mí; cada uno de ellos podría morir y no me importaría nada, su exagerada personalidad estrafalaria quirky es simplemente tonta. Los villanos de Jujutsu Kaisen también son completamente clichés y nada interesantes, son los clásicos villanos súper malos malosos con planes tontos y malvados, tampoco me importaron en absoluto.

La banda sonora es sólida y encaja en la mayoría de los escenarios; los temas más electrónicos e intensos encajaban en las peleas agitadas y otras canciones eran más efectivas en otras situaciones; sin embargo, no es lo suficientemente buena como para cargar con todo este desastre. Jujutsu Kaisen es una completa decepción; si buscas filosofías profundas, combates y poderes interesantes y un buen argumento, esto no te aportará absolutamente nada. Es un shonen corriente y no hace nada interesante; si quieres peleas interesantes y significativas con sustancia, mira Hunter x Hunter 2011; si quieres una atmósfera más oscura dentro de un anime shonen, mira Chainsaw Man; Jujutsu Kaisen no vale mucho la pena, ya que no aporta nada nuevo y hace muchas cosas peor que otros shonen ya existentes.

Anime is dead, isn't it?
for some reason i didn't want to accept that but anime is truly dead

This anime is just style, it starts with a cliffhanger, (oh no the MC is in danger!), then continues with MC having a dark side or a monster side that can suddenly take over, then we have Kakashi, the Overpowered Sensei who needs the weak MC and he is the relaxed guy in the show, then we have cringe attempts at comedy, someone says something dumb, MC shows a poker face, then we have demons or evil spirit or some boring villains like that, then we have visually ... pleasing fight scenes, then we have power of friendship and flashbacks
this is generic and boring as fuck, this anime is suspiciously similar to demon slayer in terms of story telling structures

Whenever I think about the Main Character I can’t help but think what exactly is his motivation? What? to “help others” because his dying grandpa said so? such a lazy piece of shit of a motivation this is, we are not shown why he respects his grandfather’s wish at all

“I want to help people”, WHY? You can’t just give the protagonist an IRON WILL to help humanity out of thin air, remember he is just an average student

The story develops in such a pathetic way, he eats a finger and immediately his body moves fast and changes color and he yells I’m gonna rape every children around and then he gains his consciousness back randomly and asks what happened like an idiot, the story never delves into the character’s mental state, there is no meaningful situation, no moral dilemma, it’s just a bad zombie trying to kill us and we have to take a rotten finger from him so we can eat it! Nothing else to be said tbh

What about the Villian? Is he any good? no, empty shell who is just evil, he is strong but what’s the use? There is always the Get Out Of The Jail “secret power” free card which comes to the rescue of the main character, it’s so repetitive at this point and MORALLY reprehensible that writers are still using this kind of tricks, this doesn’t make me as angry, as it makes me sad

Now, Jujutsu Kaisen is definitely set to be the next big Shonen, in the same vein as Kimetsu no Yaiba (the two share a lot of similarities too). But does it actually hold up to its hype?

It depends.

The show isn't bad per se. Sure, it's generic, and has the same kind of gritty tones countless of shows have because people seem to love it nowadays. But if you want a fast paced show, with an interesting enough premise and great fights you'll certainly love it.

But if, like me, you mainly enjoy shows for the characters, let me tell you right now : ... it isn't for you.
I've rarely seen characters so flat and generic. They're introduced left and right, given two minutes of introspection for us to understand their motivation, and that's it. How are we supposed to grow attached to them?

The main trio, who we are supposed to root for, has 0 meaningful interactions in 11 episodes. The main girl is taken out of all the interesting action, which isn't surprising but is certainly disappointing. The main character is cliched but surprisingly okay, if we take away from the fact he doesn't have any depth and somehow takes inspiration from the death of his grandparent we've known and said goodbye to in 10 seconds. The 'emo character' is the same one we've seen in countless of shows, except there's literally 0 effort to make him somewhat stand out by giving him something interesting for us to be invested in. We know nothing about him, and his personality (spoiler:he doesn't have one) doesn't make up for it. There are other characters, all with interesting designs, and they could be interesting and developed later, but seeing how the main characters are developed, I don't have much hope. The relationships follow the same veins as the characters: are we supposed to believe the characters care about each other just because the show tells us they do? Aren't we supposed to... see it for ourselves?

Finally, maybe it's just me, but the humor is trying way too hard and isn't funny at all, which spoils my enjoyment a lot.

All in all, it's a good enough shonen, but it really depends on what you're looking for.

I dont see what the fuzz is about this show. Average at best, cookie cutter shounen. Suffers from the same issue Kimetsu no Yaiba has, too much effort invested into animation and low effort into character design, world building, etc.

The power system is barely explained upon and some of the powers come straight out of a toddlers mind. Nanami's "Ratio Technique" is idiotic. He can divide anything into "lengths" which are subdivided into a ratio of 7:3, at the separation point there will be a weak point. (?????) The length to be decided by Nanami has no limitations so essentialy he can place the weak ... point wherever, and at that point why have the hassle of having the ratio part added to it?

Your abilities get buffed if you reveal them to your enemy? Nah, hot garbage power system

Maybe I'm just a boomer, I don't know, but boy was this anime overhyped. I really do not get why people like this anime so much. Its all flash and no substance. I really feel like the majority of the hype this show gets is just from fanboys/fangirls who like the pretty characters, Gojo to be specific.

The story is bad, but at times not even there. I feel like theres so many times where it's just events happening with no reason to the plot, and just random fight sequences just to have random fight sequences. There is next to nothing to get attached to with ... the story. A boy eats a curse object and goes to school to learn to fight other curses. Okay, great. Already been done in Blue Exorcist, and it was much better there. The characters are a little better but not much. The best one, like most people say, is Gojo, but he is definitely not as good as people say he is. I only say he's the best mostly cause he's the funniest. Sukuna has his moments too but nothing else about the characters stands out at all really.

I'd say overall the best part about this entire show is the 1st opening song and the 1st ending song; Primarily the ending song. That is probably the best ending song out of any anime I've seen, and also has some amazing visuals with it. The first opening song is good as well and has some cool visuals too.

That's about all the real praise I can give this show however. I was really excited going into this but man was I disappointed.

At first i thought it would be a really good new gen shounen anjme as everyone hyped it up to be !! But nahhhh ! It was the same old cliche we have been watching for years

STORY: the story is so cliche and the goal of main character doesn't even make sense! Like he didn't give shit about anything at the start and then his grandfather just said protet people and that's it , just like that it became his LIFE GOAL WTF?? I haven't seen something as half baked as this! His goal is to give people proper death yet he couldn't save ... so many of his companions and give them their proper death! Lol it just doesn't make sense ! Even if he save some of them people will always face undeserved and untimed death! Look at the amount if murders and accidents take olace in this modern era (JJK IS SET IN OUR MODERN ERA) ! So many people die bcoz of these accidents and murders and natural disasters so nobody can save all of them from dying from nature's actions so THE MC'S GOAL DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

ART:
it was descent not to much out of the world or anything!! Thanks to mappa it looked good

SOUND:
The OST's are pretty bad and not rememberable at all ! There's only one ost that i am sure most of the fans remember and that was gojo theme!all other osts are lame

CHARACTERS:
Oh my god the characters are so cliche and annoying! All the females have the same type of 'wannabe strong girl' attitude ,i .e, they all have the same vibe to them and it gets pretty annoying and boring! The characters like todo doesn't make sense with their annoying personality ! We have a regular op teacher! And the villains are HOT TRASH!! SERIOUSLY THEIR IDEOLOGY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! Whenever you have time just looka t mahito's dialogues and you will understand that whatever he speaks just DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!! The backstories are pretty boring and doesn't have any kind of impact that makes you want to live characters even more

ENJOYMENT:
You will only enjoy it bcoz the animation is good and the fights are well animated ! That's it nothing else

OVERALL:
One of the most overhyped and overrated shows i have ever seen in my life ! Doesn't deserve any of its praise ! Highly disappointed

While I made it a habit to review most of the shows I watched sometime ago, this is a weekly show I kept up with and skipped reviewing until now... there's just not much substance. What is one to say about a shounen that hasn't already been said numerous times? Even the standout ones just reinvent the wheel at best. The "god tier" shounen tends to have incredible animation, and... yeah, that's it!

There are a few patterns that regularly make the rounds in these kinds of shows, and JK is not immune to it. JK is one of the better ones as of late ... in terms of solid visuals, animation, and fight choreography. Clearly, the storyboarding is solid—the pacing is quick... um, you know, as long as our characters aren't wasting time playing baseball or waiting in line for autographs from idols.

The silliness listed above is played up for laughs, and the serious-looking muscle man character is a softy who really simps out on women the whole show and gets into fights with other people over having different taste in women. It's not funny, and it's lame. I wish more shounen authors could figure out how difficult effective comedy can be and how much it detracts from an otherwise passable yarn. There's a good reason why people seek out comedy when they want comedy instead of a shounen. Comedy in shounens should probably be relegated mostly to quirks that don't act as filler or slow the plot down. Most shounen authors need to ditch the comedy. They're terrible at it.

The filler problem so common in shounen shows, especially long ones, and most of them are long, is probably exacerbated by the popularity of the slice of life genre. They are rarely ever especially great art (keep in mind I'm not disparaging the whole genre—I think a few are very good, but the popularization of this style has led to some of the laziest trash shows out there)—they are essentially filler turned into a show. Yeah, why don't you eat the fat and throw away the steak or the banana peel and throw away the banana? I believe it's basically encouraged to pad a show with filler—it used to be that studios just didn't have time to meet deadlines otherwise, but isn't it becoming a bit of a style choice?

Having a show be accessible is fine, but an author is only capable of so much, and the tendency of authors to cover all bases with drama, slice of life, comedy, action, romance, etc., leads to a disgusting stew that no one would want to eat unless they've been conditioned to do so.

Those are some general problems with the genre, and JK partly suffers from much of what I've outlined. These authors rarely find the specific niche they're good at and commit to it, while casting aside what they aren't so great at communicating—presumably because popular series in the genre tend to have these elements, so the mangaka copies these tendencies slavishly.

Like, does this show want to be a dark horror shounen or a goofy one? It flips between them. We can observe that the straight attempts at humor are terrible, so the latter is something we can assume is not the forte of the author—he's not able to pull it off like the author for Jojo or Hunter X Hunter or anything like that. I've seen some shows that balance these conflicting elements well, but this is not one of them.

On the other hand, the show starts on a more serious note. The first episode begins with some very simple theming that's fine enough to establish our main character—who is a big dumb. Yes, that may not be proper grammar, but it is the best way to capture the essence of the character. He's just a block head who fights for his friends—the usual. Some themes are good to ground the show with a little bit of something to say. That's fine. Thematically, the most interesting segment was probably between the patchwork demon and the wannabe school shooter. I wouldn't say their discussions were all that novel, but it actually works into establishing themes and creating a perspective for the antagonists, and it's a step above most of the other blather between our braindead characters.

The early segments are very dark and moody, with well-drawn disgusting creatures devouring people, dimly lit hallways, and what appears to be a gruesome demise for our main character. Soon, we learn more about demons and curses and all of the fun shounen elements of the show. The innate domains show a lot of potential, many of the abilities and styles for various characters are interesting, but others are just goofy. Among the main characters, you have a talking panda, a character who uses cursed phrases and all of what he says is humor because the only "safewords," are food items, etc. There's that same crossover of goofiness that destroys the mood.

In an early episode the three mains are sent on a mission to a correctional facility, and this segment is so dark, it's almost reminiscent of Silent Hill. They get trapped in the innate domain of a demon, and the skin of the whole area becomes metallic, rusty, corroded, grimy, etc. It's a really heavy point of the series that is never topped. The characters are completely outclassed and struggling to survive. I've never seen so much tension in a shounen almost, and the atmosphere is very solid here. I would say this is an example of something the author is actually good at doing outside of the purely technical components of the work, so he should really look to this as a strength when trying to form a more coherent conceptual framework.

There are many other fights that have tension, and some darker moody segments afterwards, but few and far between. The fights become slugfests similar to other shounen—perhaps with a bit more thought put into strategizing, and a decent repertoire of creative attacks.

The peak of the series was at a very early point, then the author couldn't decide between one style or another, and went beyond his talent in trying to balance too many disparate styles. What we're left with is a show without a notable story—not that it needs one per se, but outside of mood pieces and character interactions, we're left with not much to look forward to other than fight after fight. The characters aren't the worst I've ever seen in shounen, but they're largely rather flat and simple characters.

Sure, the fights are great, but there's not a huge incentive to watch 24 episodes of a show when you can just watch the fight scenes. The fight scenes are supposed to be supplemented by the characters, the themes, and the story, but the show is too shallow for these to act as an enhancement.

That's basically a long-drawn out way of saying most shounen have formulaic tendencies, most authors in this genre lack artistic maturity and cannot figure out what to include and exclude to make an actual good work and not just some trash that appears in Shounen Jump, and they really need to study writing more or team up with a writer or something—all of which equally applies to this technically proficient yet hollow series.

This is one of the very few animes that I've forced myself into completing, hoping for it's story to improve at some point or to find any unique unforgettable character, with no success.

Story
Other than acting as an introduction to the characters and settings, the whole season does not contribute anything relevant. This is worsened by an excessive usage of flashbacks that prevent the story from having an appropriate pacing.

Art
Without doubt, the animation is the best aspect of the series. The textures, shading and smoothness of the movements are top level and leave evidence of what anime is Mappa's current favourite.

Sound
The soundtrack is a masterpiece ... on its own, however it is unfitting for certain scenes, hence distracting.

Characters
No worth-remembering characters are included in the series. All of them have flat, completely forgettable personalities that oscillate drastically between the seriousness of many seinen characters and the dumbness and recklessness of a stereotypical shounen character. The dynamics between them are odd and only forced by circumstances. The protagonist's personality, which constantly feels like a direct Kurosaki Ichigo rip-off, makes any gore scene feel utterly disgusting, even to fans of such genre.
The only remarkable character is Satoru Gojo, not because of his personality, which feels like Kakashi's rip-off, but because of how beautifully he was animated.

Let's start with the good:
- Art is okay.
- Animation was pretty good! The ep 2 fight Gojo vs Sukuna was nicely animated.

Okay, now let's talk about the actual story.

What is Yuji's motivation? At the beginning, he swallows Sukuna's finger in order to save himself. This feels a bit like the start of Bleach (not a good sign). After that, what does he do? He decides to go on a quest to defeat Sukuna. Except this is not his own decision, but a decision forced upon him by Gojo - either he goes on the quest, or he will be executed. This is problematic.

To put it ... simply, the MC has no agency. What is the MC's motivation? His grandfather told him to "help other people"? That is such a lame excuse of a motivation that he got called out on it in the anime. He then tried to justify his decision with "I'm the only one who can suppress Sukuna". But again, that rings hollow to me.

A real person does not completely change his life goals after just meeting a guy. That's the difference between Naruto and Bleach. Naruto always wanted to be a hokage ever since he was a little kid. That's a believable motivation. By contrast, what is Ichigo's motivation? "I want to protect my friends"?

Jujutsu Kaisen reminds me of Bleach in that respect. The MC does not have a believable motivation. It's just: this thing happened, now I'm going to devote my life to beating this bad guy that I've never heard of before up to this point. That's not how real people work.

Let's talk about Yuji. At the start of this anime, his grandpa is on his death bed and wants to tell Yuji something important about his parents. Yuji is like "nope, don't want to hear it". Then his grandpa dies and Yuji starts crying. Literally WTF. If you love your grandpa so much then maybe pay attention to what he's telling you when he's on his death bed.

There is a lot of "tell, don't show" in this anime. We are supposed to believe that Yuji had a strong bond with his grandpa, and yet we don't see any evidence of this, other than Yuji crying and visiting his grandpa's grave.

This is one instance where flashbacks actually would have helped. What was their relationship like when Yuji's grandpa was alive? What did they do together? What kind of stuff did they talk about? What did his grandpa do for him? And so on and so forth. None of this is explored, which makes the relationship feel hollow. We are TOLD that their bond was very strong, but this was never SHOWN in the anime.

Let's compare Jujutsu Kaisen with Chainsaw Man. The MC from Chainsaw Man, Denji, had a convincing motivation based on his entire life experiences. Denji grew up in poverty and was forced to sell an eye, a kidney, and a testicle in order to pay his debts. In the very first chapter, he enthusiastically swallows a cigarette for money.

These little details serve to flesh out a character and make them believable. If we are to believe that Yuji wants to "help people", it would help if the anime showed him doing things like helping the old lady cross the street. Even little things like that help to flesh out a character. In Jujutsu Kaisen there is none of that. Again, we are TOLD that he wants to "help people", but we are not SHOWN this. The only purpose of this motivation seems to be to be used as a "power up" during fight scenes.

The characters in jujutsu kaisen do not have distinct personalities. What do I mean by that?

In Chainsaw Man, consider 3 of the main characters: Denji, Aki, and Power. Power has a fundamentally different personality to Denji and Aki. This was shown the very first time she was introduced, where she tried to murder Denji in order to save her cat. She literally does not give two shits about humans. She is a pathological liar. She's practically a psychopath. Aki is the very opposite. Those are very distinct characters and personalities. Given any situation, you can easily predict that Power would act in a selfish self-serving way, whilst Aki would act in a way that would be consistent with his hatred for all devils.

Now we look at the characters in Jujutsu Kaisen. How is Yuki differentiated from Fushiguro or Kugisaki? What even are the personality traits that define these 3 characters? Sure, we can see that Kugisaki speaks in a rude way, but, come up with a situation and try to imagine how the characters might act in that situation. I find it very hard to predict any differences in the ways that the characters would act.

The first mission in Chainsaw Man revealed the character of Power, and how different she is from Denji. In contrast, what did the first two missions in Jujutsu Kaisen reveal about the characters of Yuji, Fushiguro, or Kugisaki? Really, I can't think of anything.

First mission in Jujutsu Kaisen. Kugisaki was confronted by a hostage situation. It doesn't seem like she had an answer to it. Yuji saved the day by coming through the wall, but that mission did not reveal any fundamental differences between the two characters.

Second mission in Jujutsu Kaisen. A super powerful curse comes out. Fushiguro and Kugisaki are useless. Again, Yuji saves the day by telling them to get out and then unleashes Sukuna.

Let's talk about Sukuna. The way he's used in the show is very similar to how Ichigo uses his Hollow or Naruto uses his Kyuubi. In the second mission, when faced with an overwhelming enemy, his team mates are useless and Yuji has to unleash Sukuna to save the day. This is just like the many situations in Naruto where Naruto's team mates are useless and Naruto has to unleash Kyuubi in order to save the day. It's essentially a get-out-of-jail free card. Why bother coming up with clever, creative solutions when you can just rely on your secret hidden power?

Man, there are so many problems with the story but I feel like I've written enough already. The animation was good, I'll give it that.

Im sorry I just find this show to be very boring.

I finished S1 and felt like the story so far was super forgettable, not to mention lacking in depth. None of the characters truly feel like deep individuals, and hence making their fights feel shallow and unreasonable. I feel like JJK is basically the power fantasies of a bunch of middle schoolers, imagining themselves as these ultra-cool, ultra-funny, and ultra-powerful beings. They are all cocky and arrogant because they are not yet adults and do not find the need to refine themselves into much deeper beings. They are aimless because all that they know is ... going to school, these people have no passion nor anything interesting about them as unique individuals, as neither do most middle schoolers.

Watching this anime makes me get the feeling that people like this show purely because they enjoy that childhood fantasy. It is a distant feeling where we would imagine ourselves as these ultra-awesome heroes that are vanquishing evil and saving the world. I think people connect with this show as they too yearn to relive these moments of their life, back when college or high school wasn't dragging them down, and their imagination was able to do all the heavy lifting.

Now, through the power of MAPPA sweat and blood, people are able to relive these moments while allowing the show do the heavy lifting, while letting these hollow characters take place as their imaginary set pieces of their perfect world.

I feel like the perfect connecting point of this “theory” I guess you could call it, would be the fact that, there aren't any sexual themes in the show so far. While the show does discuss “oh man, which girls are hottest” I do feel like that sort of falls more into the middle schooler territory, where they call somebody hot or attractive but they themselves don't fully comprehend what exactly does that mean.

I feel like while others yearn for their child like imaginative world view, I myself do not have this issue and more appreciate depth of character and interest of the individual. There is nothing wrong with liking JJK, I just myself find these shallow traits to be boring, no matter how beautiful.

grug

I was expecting so much more than just a cliche anime. The character design is so interesting and the animation is truly amazing but that's all. The plot is a mix of Noragami and Naruto. That's not necessarily a bad thing but the bad thing is that it has nothing to add after that (having a panda in the series is not considered adding something special). Also, it annoys me when anime make a character overpower(a villain or a hero). If the hero is overpowered he never gets defeated but if a villain is overpowered he gets defeated easily af. That's what Jujutsu Kaisen did. ... Other than the pretty character design I am not able to connect with those characters.
i do not understand the hype and I don't get why it has a higher score than the masterpiece AOT

Jujutsu Kaisen feels like something that was written by an AI. The model understands what components make up shounen manga and anime, but isn't capapble of putting everything together so that it feels organic, allowing people to understand the story progression as well as the characters and their relationships.

It's very hard for me enjoy an anime when I cannot even understand what drives the main character. He is introduced as a typical hot-headed delinquent, but then he proceeds to accept a duty that will set him on a path of certain death without any resistance. Apparently because his dying grandather told him something vague about ... protecting people. At this point, the MC became a completely irrelatable enigma to me whose fate I couldn't give one **** about.

In the same fashion, the anime introduces more characters who befriend the MC, leading to the problem of JJK's character interactions. They feel incredibly articial. I can't quite put it into words, but it feels like character chemistry cannot even be described with good or bad, but is simply absent entirely. There is no natural progression from being acquaintances to becoming friends. It's just a bunch of weird, quirky dialogue put together that the author has probably seen in other shounen.

Then you have Gojo, who feels like he had his character synopsis written by a 12 year old girl. "HE'S SUPER DUPER POWERFUL AND NO ONE CAN TOUCH HIM BECAUSE THE SPACE BETWEEN HIM IS INFINITY ALSO HE IS REALLY HANDSOME WHEN HE TAKES OFF HIS BLINDFOLD WHICH HE WEARS BECAUSE HE IS TOO POWERFUL". Pure cringe. I have nothing else to say.

The plot itself isn't worth talking about, I feel. It's not very original, but it doesn't really matter. For shounen, what matters most is the "journey", in other words the development of characters and the hardships they face. Since I couldn't care about any of the characters, I didn't care about what was happening either. It was animated nicely though, so that made up for some of the lack of enjoyment I had otherwise.