JJK first season is pretty mid aside from the large fight sequences, but in hindsight it is basically a 23-episode prologue for the real deal that is Hidden Inventory and Shibuya Incident. There are so many characters that need to get introduced before things start to get interesting.
Manga is cool but it bums me out how big the gap is between English volume releases and the Japanese chapter releases. It's gonna take forever for the English translation to reach the Gojo / Sukuna fight.
My main problem is that the first season is so different in tone and quality when compared to what comes next that it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And I cant recommend to others. 'Cause they watch the first season and say "seriously?". I almost ditched the anime due to boredom, but pushed through.
It certainly gets better, I'm up to date with the manga (japanese), but I still think characters are too one dimensional. JJK has fights and "killing important characters" as devices to keep things interesting, but right bow on the manga, even these 2 devices arent being enough to keep interest. The story is being too lazily written.
Gege wants to finish the manga this year, so this is the last arch, and there's still so much to cover.
Shibuya is the best arc because they got rid of the safety net character. Akutami doesn't even like Gojo but he's part of the success. lol.
The manga right now is pretty bad. The Sukuna cycle is actually embarrassing.
Getting rid of the safety net character was awesome. Absolutely necessary to make stakes higher and develop characters.
And yeah, this last arch is just embarassing. Its the equivalent to Game of Thrones last season, imo.
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