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EP. REVIEW: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

Huh. So Geto really did die in 0. Alright, but it is weird to devote a whole arc to fleshing him out and then immediately go, "jk, he's dead lol." To be fair, the Hidden Inventory arc was as much about developing Gojo as it was Geto, but what made it interesting was their relationship, and now we'll never see any more of that. It's an odd, risky writing choice. Let's see where it goes.

One interesting thing is how this twist completely recontextualizes most of Geto and Gojo's appearances so far. There's no longer any question as to whether or not Gojo was capable of killing his former friend. This also actually makes Geto's actions in the timeframe of the TV series make a LOT more sense. In 0, he assembled a group of rogue human sorcerers as his team. In the TV anime he's rejected human allies and built a team made up completely of cursed spirits (except for that death painting guy, but he's a special case.) Why would he side with curses if his the whole point of his non-sorcerer genocide plan was to eradicate curses? Well, now we know: he's been a curse himself this whole time. Now the change in his tactics feels like foreshadowing, so kudos to Akutami for that.

Geto was seriously a fantastic villain, though. Let's hope this swerve was worth it.

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The episode starts off with a faux-documentary series of interviews with all of the other Jujutsu Sorcerers, who all evaluate Gojo

The moment that happened I thought, "oh no, he's DOOMED."

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only to slaughter a full thousand cursed humans in the span of a mere 0.2 seconds

Okay, this is nitpicking, but I'm pretty sure what happened was that Gojo used his Infinite Domain for 0.2 seconds, then proceeded to kill the mutants while they were all stunned from the effect, which took a good deal longer (presumably about as long as it took to depict it onscreen.) The narrator mentioned that this was a considerable risk because one of the curse spirits could have shaken the effect off before Gojo was done, but that wouldn't have been an issue if Gojo's whole killing spree had taken only 0.2 seconds.

Anyway, how great was that whole sequence? The choice of using freestyle, disorderly jazz music for the whole thing was inspired.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

I would love to know how come "Geto" manages to make 0 efforts to hide his existence with public appearances

Until Shibuya, all his public appearances took place before the real Geto's death. The only time Fake Geto showed up in public where he might have been documented was when he killed everyone at that burger place, and for obvious reasons there are no witnesses to that. Given his level of power he would have been able to destroy any security cameras effortlessly.

And can Yuta also mimic all of Gojo's abilities in at least a limited way?

Must I believe that no member of the organization ever saw him nor his curses walking around in all those years while making 0 effort to conceal himself?
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Controversial opinion, but while the main meat and emotional beats of Shibuya arc hasn't started, based on what was adapted I find myself enjoying the arc and it's narrative in manga format more then in anime one (excluding first 2 episodes with Mechamaru, anime did it better for me). Execution of important moments, direction and animation feels surprisingly less consistent and sometimes even off compared to my expectation based on previous material adapted. The answer for a bit underwhelming execution may be recent news of mysterious NDA asking directors and animators on JJK to not talk about the production state of the overall show and earlier this morning numerous animators talked about the bad schedule, the terrible working enviroment, the low pay, and the threat of being silenced by the studio. I kinda felt that some "soul" was missing in the recent episodes and it kinda makes me scared for rest of the arc quality, would be shocking if most anticipated JJK arc ends up being underwhelming or messy in anime adaptation.

I'm starting to feel just a little underwhelmed by this storyline.