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EP. REVIEW: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

Granny also uses her transformative powers to turn her grandson into Toji of all people, which…well, Takuma has no idea who Toji is, so it doesn't affect anything on a narrative level, but it's cool to see Toji, I guess?

Either I missed something, or the show doesn't really give a reason why Mechamaru didn't just send his ghost thing ahead of time to warn them about Shibuya? He said he made it to activate when this particular thing happened, but why not give them the heads up?

I don't really try to think about the details of the cursed energy stuff. Maybe I'm not giving it enough credit, but it mostly sounds like vague atmospheric mumbo jumbo, with a lot of shallow analogies to common mathematical structures. I mostly checked out when Gojo started spamming words about his survival/new attack, and just kind of summarized it in my head as 'Oh he survived with uhh some kind of reverse cursed heal thing; and has a fwd attack; and a reverse attack he couldnt do before; and a super secret attack where he mashes them together. And he likes imaginary numbers. OK'

Between the reviews for this, Bleach, the latest Demon Slayer season, heck, certain episodes of MHA during the first arc of the last season, I can see why some people are getting upset. It seems like ANN critics have either started being harsher on these big Shonen action titles, or it’s all a coincidence. If all it takes to pull you out of a show is a fight with side villains, you’re in the wrong genre.

With how many characters have already been esablished and more or less developed, I really don't get why they keep throwing new NPC villains I couldn't care any less about and dedicate multiple episodes to them. It's making this arc feel bloated, at least for now

In your opinion, a plan that requires the capture of the strongest sorcerer in the world doesn't involve at least ten characters, some of whom are very interested in his disappearance?

Guy Tizio wrote:

In your opinion, a plan that requires the capture of the strongest sorcerer in the world doesn't involve at least ten characters, some of whom are very interested in his disappearance?

But then you should make them more interesting, I guess. Like that locust thing... was really pointless (the ghosting made it worse admittedly). And the guy in the last episode wasn't much better unfortunately. It's still pretty early in the arc and I'm enjoying it (albeit less than the previous one for now), I'm just not as engaged as I was with season one that introduced characters in a similar fashion.

Yeah, there’s no winning because if you stop to give all these villains backstory or development you’ll have people say the pacing is too slow or that the author is wasting his time on these no-names.