@@OK-mv4ihwhat’s your favourite show? I love seeing people enjoy what they love, even if my favourite show is still jjba’s part 4. I don’t know why people feel the need to make condescending comments whilst showing no love for anything at all.
(Before I watch this video) Completely untrue. While I didn't finish this arc calling it mindless (that's too far), it definitely felt like it was just a series of things happening, especially right after Gojo got sealed. Not everyone jumps hot on the hype train and not everyone sits from the side tryna derail it outright. I've got my own valid issues with this series from S1 and this arc def didn't help
Not really. I've been hearing the hype for Vinland Saga for almost a decade now, even before it got an anime adaptation. I finally got around to watch it few months ago and it was just as good as it was hyped up to be, or even better. In the case of JJK, it's not nearly as good as people hype it up to be, and a lot of JJK fans delude themselves into believing Shibuya Incident was more than what it really was. I saw a lot of JJK fans trash on Demon Slayer for being carried by its animation and fights, as if JJK isn't the same. Give Shibuya Incident arc Seven Deadly Sins level animation and we would never hear about people hyping this arc up.
@@zxcvb3772 Couldn't agree more - I love the fights and animation, that's great.... But I'm struggling to care too much for the characters at a base level because the story/pacing feels like it's on a speedrun. I mean, character wise, before we even got a chance to settle with Megumi + Nobara, boom Yuji "dies" and we got much more focus on more interesting characters, Maki/Nanami (which were done well). By the time we get back to them, we're introduced to a whole other cast with the other school, including Mechamaru who episodes later is deemed so important as to be working w/ the villains OH WAIT he's dead now too. I'm not even gonna get into the villains rn The story is serviceable, I like the overall plot with sealing Gojo to allow a chance to bring back the most dangerous era but it's not the next coming of christ in how it's presented.
One thing I haven't seen anyone say is that Toji was able to gain full control due to his Heavenly Restriction making his body able to overpower the soul of the body he was incarnated into. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a deeper, more abstract meaning to it tho
It was actually explained if i remember right. Due to his heavenly restriction he had no cursed energy and the requirement to control the summoned individual was it to have a kind of cursed energy.
You get it man. Most people (especially anime onlys) really don't pay attention to JJK's themes or what Gege is trying to do with these characters. It's cool to hear you talk about sense of self and identity because it is truly the biggest theme in the entire series and that theme becomes increasingly apparent as the series continues. The consistency at which this theme is presented is honestly absurd, it's literally everywhere in the series for the entire run. I just love how Gege ties a character's sense of self to the stuff that happens to them.
I'm actually surprised to see how divisive JJK is. I honestly enjoyed season 1 quite a bit. But season 2 has so many layers, and it purposely beats the viewer into submission, which i felt like was pretty much the point. It was baptism by fire. And I guess i dont think that's everyone's cup of tea. This series has such complex world building and seems so deep that we only get the tip of the iceberg. To each their own, but I LOVED season 2, and it will go down as one of my all time favorite seasons.
That was a good analysis about the Anime. This is why I love JJK. You also could feel trough the animation the melancholy and dark atmosphere. Even the OP song "Special" pointed out in which direction the story was going. And our protagonist is forced to wake up to the reality and make a choice, as he said to Mahito that he is just "a cog in a machine“ and he is playing his role in this world which is „to kill curses" You made it clearer with this video🙏🏼💜 Keep up the good work 👏🏼
The shibuya incident will always be special to me because it was such an explicit exploration of world view and humanity that it provoked me to do it myself. Most of my journey was during the time between epusode 4 and 17 and the chapters and episodes that i experienced in that time will always sit with me.
I really like the whole self centered vs selfless thing going on throughout this, really reinforces how screwed up the world is compared to like Mha where doing the good thing is how you get the killed. The death of a friend and the buildup to an All or nothing attack to turn the tables at the last moment would’ve been victorious in a different show.
It is very clearly not mindless action, however I will say that some of the fights lack the emotional impact I think they should have. I don’t think it’s bad, it’s great, but at times I found myself asking why I should care about some of the fights, and I think thats the most important part about what makes any given fight in a shonen compelling
I completely agree with you, I left a comment somewhere on this video explaining the same thing. the show kind of wants us to care about characters while it is still developing its main cast. the fight scene with nanami vs the little miracles hand sword guy could have been a lot more than what it was. it could have been nanami getting revenge or showing us a side of nanami we haven't seen before. it is early in the arc so nothing too big should happen, but nothing was really set up in that scene that would greatly impact the rest of the characters or the shibuya incident arc
When u look even deeper to the religious/spiritual undertones i think it adds an even greater depth to the series. What each characters domain hand signs mean and how they play on the character and to even which characters fight who. It becomes a bunch of battles of ideals, hyper-metaphorically
There was a couple things you got wrong name wise and story wise, but most of that information is just more obvious when you read the manga. As a show analysis you did a great job dissecting the tension of the scene
Culling Games and Shinjuku Showdown better be W(Mappa gotta do sum) I ain’t gonna give spoilers but the Culling Games arc is quite good. And Shinjuku Showdown? It has the best fight in jjk history, not even exaggerating, if its THAT good in the manga, the anime is going to be CRAZY!
Girl I binge watched this entire arc until 3:00 am on a school night because I was just so invested in it in a way I haven't been for an anime since the first time I watched attack on titan. People who called it "mindless action" either didn't watch the show, or are js looking for a reason to hate on something popular 😭
I know shibuya wasn’t mindless action and I really enjoyed it but I have to admit when I was watching it it felt like a gauntlet of fights like a war arc and it was hard to follow the meaning in the fighting when it was 95% fighting
That is fair for sure. For me I enjoyed being able to be swept up in the flow of the action and then when I looked back on it there was still so much to explore with the characters and themes that I didn't pick up on my first watch!
Great video analysis! Highly enjoyed it:) I would argue though that in the case of Yuji and Sukuna, the ends do justify the means. Your premise is that one shouldn’t be sacrificed for something they might do in the future, but Yuji has already transformed into Sukuna multiple times and has already killed countless innocent lives.
The fact that my mother in her late 40's could appreciate the writing on display for this season and in retrospect the first season says a lot about Gege and how he/she writes even if said writing has certain caviats it is still thought out and nuanced.
We don’t actually fully know yet. He isn’t mentioned to Eve have had his own body. We just assume. If he was a cursed spirit he’d have to born of a fear or something and if he was I don’t know what it would be which is why I say he’s a sorcerer with a CT
@@jacobmougeot6494 how is anything he said a spoiler, everything but his name, Kenjaku, is revealed in the season of the anime this video is discussing. And his name means nothing lol
I think the first season was really laying down the groundwork and setting expectations a “shonen battle anime.” Season 2 really focuses on subverting those expectations and showing that it’s a unique thing and it’s absolutely not afraid to show it.
I just need to rewatch it. It felt like nonstop action to me cause waiting like 2 years for season 2, then week to week per episode... I just lost connection with a lot of the characters. But it's obviously done well. If I could've binged itd been better
I am on the side of "jjk kinda mid", I'm not overly wowed by spectacle or crazy animation. I personally found the shibuya incident arc to be great in concept in themes. but a bit messy in it's execution. My problems with the shibuya incident is that there is a lot happening, and not a lot of build up for a few of the pieces. there is such a large cast, and a lot of characters to go through, however a lot of them are underdeveloped to the point where I'm expected to care for their sake, but I just don't. My case for this is during the fight with that squid/fish curse with nanami and maki before toji appeared. a scene without build up or suspense, where a lot of it is just "mindless action" the only stakes are their lives, but none of them are driven by a character motive or intruige. it really is just 3 people fighting a curse until toji appears. There are some great fight scenes (sukuna vs jugo, mahito and yuji, megumi vs toji), however some of them lack either character intruigue or just overall purpose. I am not saying the themes are not good, and that the story doesn't show them. but there are moments where the concept of a "good fight scene" is just not present. jjk is known for it's fights and was promptly written for such. but to have the elements of a good fight scene lacking makes it a bit "mindless" to watch. a lot of what jujutsu kaisan does is in my words, could be done a lot better. if someone decided to read all this and disagrees with me I would actually appreciate if someone were to prove me wrong. I would like to expand my writing world view
One of the things I tought when watching the first arc of the season 2, was the feeling of pointless effort, to show how cruel could the world be and how fast things can change. I think that was the real target of the Shibuya Incident, not to make you love the characters, not to make you find it a real meaning (I'm not saying it hasn't a meaning), just to show you how sometimes, disasters just happens and people lose their lives trying to survive. Btw, I agree with you, the problem is that I think you missed the real target, or maybe I'm wrong and don't understand enough about writing to have a decent argument. So, if you have something to teach me, it would be really cool to learn from your experience
@@omardavidmendezmontiel3594 I think in a way you are right, in retrospect things do feel different. for example, I'm currently rewatching attack on titan with my brother, and despite me being obsessed with the show the first time, I did feel kind of not as interested the second time. you do make a very good point, and I believe, in the grand scheme of things, that was what the arc was trying to achieve, however it does for go on for quite a while (maybe it was the pacing or how it was set out?), but I really like your perspective and might try to adopt that viewpoint when looking at the show a bit more
@@omardavidmendezmontiel3594The problem isn't characters dying, the problem is that the story isn't even half way done and half the cast is dead. What's left to look forward to? The Yuji trauma show? At a certain point you can't get any more traumatized before you numb yourself to it (I'm talking about both Yuji and the viewer). This arc would make way more sense near the end of the story but we got 1 season of bonding and then everyone died. Every remotely interesting character died, Jogo, Nanami, Mechamaru, Geto, nobara, naobito, etc. Whats the message, then? That reality is cruel and people die pointlessly? We already know that! If you're not gonna contrast that message with anything else then why watch? At a certain point being a "realist" is just as naive as being blindly optimistic.
@@confusedbakugo1373 EXACTLY my thoughts on the matter. You hit the nail RIGHT on the head. And to all the people going "but it's more realistic, it's subverting expectations!" bruh, this is a show with a talking panda doll, a girl who rides around on a broomstick, and a man who fights by clapping. "More realistic" my ASS. I come to shonen for the friendship and character development, because without characters that we care about, all these gorgeously action setpieces are just eye candy, nothing more. They don't MEAN anything. The CHARACTERS make the action mean something, and most of JJK's characters are either cliche, woefully underdeveloped/underutilized, plain unlikable, or some combination thereof. The only exceptions I can think of to this is Satoru Gojo, who IS a very interest character and one I like a lot, and Yuta Okkotsu, who was pretty nicely fleshed out in the movie (which I enjoyed far more than the series itself). I really like the Second Years as characters, but the story woefully neglects them, and Nobara Kugisaki had a huge amount of potential as a character that it looks like will never be realized. -_-
Shibuya was written to act like a set up arc but gege killed or disabled most of the helping cast alongside making curses completely irrelevant to the story the moment yuji hit that black flash on mahito
I think your work would be benefit from citing works of literary criticism. If you want to argue that anime has literary value I think it should be in conversation with what came before.
6:20 it wasnt in that time, it took him 299 seconds to do it. The narrator states that. That's why he had to be as fast as possible before the cursed spirits awoke.
i think people filter the non action stuff out of their mind cause the rest is so badly written. so technically yea it s not only action, it s about 95% with the rest being the worst part about it
At first, watching the anime, seeing Nobara’s death felt truly nonsensical and as if Gege was using an excuse to not have to advance more of his women characters than he had to, but this view of it being an explosion really plays into how nonsensical it all becomes. It’s still really hard for me to accept that death, oddly enough, but it is a shonen anyways so.. i guess it should’ve been expected
Even though I think some character resolutions, fights, and animators should have been treated better, I keep coming back for the soundtrack, which I didn't know how it could surpass Season 1's. The only weak songs IMO were Elegant Time, Doom, and Our Fellow Sorceror's Corpses
negative reading comprehension. And its funny that ur saying this with a Megumi pfp when CG gave Megumi some of his best character moments. Its always the jjk pfps with the dumbest of takes. Want y'all tiktokers to leave the series.
@@Juryoku113 yeah megumi had cool ass moments but you can’t tell me that 90% of the culling games had any significance whatsoever. Random plot points that were introduced and basically never explored like the international government invasion, and almost every fight was entirely unimpactful to the plot. Reggie star has no significance and neither did any of the randoms or Yutas fight against ryu and the sky girl besides him getting a new ability. And hakari is THE WORST character in jjk. He’s literally just a walking asspull, but it’s ok because “his ct is luck”.
the plot is very complex, confusing, the power system is confusing and i couldn't get it, i watched both seasons and didnt understand much, after episode 17 the animation got very bad and disorienting
Should point out a few things. Megumi doesn’t know Gojo killed his dad and during he Shibuya arc didn’t know that Toji was his father and to this day does not. The false geto as far as we know isn’t a cursed spirit either. We have no idea where he came from. Remember cursed spirits are born of negative emotion. For it to be a cursed spirit it that powerful it would have to be a fear or collective strong emotion. For example mahito is humanities fear of well Humanity.
As a channel called AniEssays talking in depth about anime you could for sure USE A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR FUCKING TIME TO LAERN HOW TO PRONOUNCE THEIR FUCKING NAMES RIGHT
Finally somebody said it. Shibuya Incident is so overrated, people who love the arc, let's not kid ourselves here, are mostly enamored by the action. 95% of people would not like that arc as much as they do if that arc had One Piece punk hazard level animation, or early Black Clover level animation, or Seven Deadly Sins level animation. Hidden Inventory actually developed the characters and gave insights on some characters and their motivation. It could be better in some aspects, but still infinitely better than Shibuya Incident.
@@MarthaSoulbaneSame tbh Ironically if something warps a taste like that it must be beyond quality Kinda like how I compare stuff to AOT and had to cut out that habit to enjoy other shows lol
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Good video, but geto isn’t being controlled by a cursed spirit. He’s an ancient sorcerer
I would say don’t spoil but I think everyone has been spoiled at this point lol
What the fuck bro
@@Coble215what’s wrong?
It’s pretty obvious if you ask me
@@WorldSlash_ they revealed this in the anime anyways so it dont matter
@@WorldSlash_ It's not a spoiler, they say it outright.
Nah when sukuna said “you hold your heads quite high” that was hard
Generic ahh line. No wonder people making vids like this, fans are just so easy to please
@@OK-mv4ihwhat’s your favourite show?
I love seeing people enjoy what they love, even if my favourite show is still jjba’s part 4. I don’t know why people feel the need to make condescending comments whilst showing no love for anything at all.
@@OK-mv4ih well i'd say given the build up sukuna had, anything would've went hard if fraudkuna said it XD
Whoever calls it mindless action just feels the need to hate on something popular.
Or maybe someone just doesn’t like it😭it’s okay to dislike popular things, same way it’s okay to like them
@@kagevfxontiktok
Their criticisms are usually terrible takes
(Before I watch this video)
Completely untrue. While I didn't finish this arc calling it mindless (that's too far), it definitely felt like it was just a series of things happening, especially right after Gojo got sealed.
Not everyone jumps hot on the hype train and not everyone sits from the side tryna derail it outright. I've got my own valid issues with this series from S1 and this arc def didn't help
Not really. I've been hearing the hype for Vinland Saga for almost a decade now, even before it got an anime adaptation. I finally got around to watch it few months ago and it was just as good as it was hyped up to be, or even better.
In the case of JJK, it's not nearly as good as people hype it up to be, and a lot of JJK fans delude themselves into believing Shibuya Incident was more than what it really was. I saw a lot of JJK fans trash on Demon Slayer for being carried by its animation and fights, as if JJK isn't the same. Give Shibuya Incident arc Seven Deadly Sins level animation and we would never hear about people hyping this arc up.
@@zxcvb3772 Couldn't agree more - I love the fights and animation, that's great.... But I'm struggling to care too much for the characters at a base level because the story/pacing feels like it's on a speedrun.
I mean, character wise, before we even got a chance to settle with Megumi + Nobara, boom Yuji "dies" and we got much more focus on more interesting characters, Maki/Nanami (which were done well). By the time we get back to them, we're introduced to a whole other cast with the other school, including Mechamaru who episodes later is deemed so important as to be working w/ the villains OH WAIT he's dead now too.
I'm not even gonna get into the villains rn
The story is serviceable, I like the overall plot with sealing Gojo to allow a chance to bring back the most dangerous era but it's not the next coming of christ in how it's presented.
The Shibuya incident arc is truly remarkable. I'll never tire of revisiting it in the manga or watching it again in the anime.
100%, the definition of an all time great arc
Long story short, don't kill someone based on what might happen if they live.
So what does this one mean? Re-reading it but can’t get it to my skull
@@ByllionBucksfucking Itadori man and also probably other people two
@@ByllionBucks"Dont kill that guy just cuz they MIGHT turn bad"
One thing I haven't seen anyone say is that Toji was able to gain full control due to his Heavenly Restriction making his body able to overpower the soul of the body he was incarnated into. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a deeper, more abstract meaning to it tho
As Eren Jaegar would say; Toji was truly “Free”.
It was actually explained if i remember right. Due to his heavenly restriction he had no cursed energy and the requirement to control the summoned individual was it to have a kind of cursed energy.
You get it man. Most people (especially anime onlys) really don't pay attention to JJK's themes or what Gege is trying to do with these characters. It's cool to hear you talk about sense of self and identity because it is truly the biggest theme in the entire series and that theme becomes increasingly apparent as the series continues. The consistency at which this theme is presented is honestly absurd, it's literally everywhere in the series for the entire run. I just love how Gege ties a character's sense of self to the stuff that happens to them.
Yeah Gege's ability to develop characters through action is simply unmatched
nah s1 aint all that
@@implosive4778 good argument
@@FirmlyGrasp_IT lol and yours was? you just said without providing
@@implosive4778 I wasn't arguing anything. It seems you do not know what an argument is lil guy. Learn from this experience.
I'm actually surprised to see how divisive JJK is. I honestly enjoyed season 1 quite a bit. But season 2 has so many layers, and it purposely beats the viewer into submission, which i felt like was pretty much the point. It was baptism by fire. And I guess i dont think that's everyone's cup of tea. This series has such complex world building and seems so deep that we only get the tip of the iceberg. To each their own, but I LOVED season 2, and it will go down as one of my all time favorite seasons.
"Gigi"
WP
almost dropped my phone when i heard that pronunciation
im sorry AniEssays but WHOS "GIGI"😭😭
☠️☠️💀💀
That was a good analysis about the Anime. This is why I love JJK. You also could feel trough the animation the melancholy and dark atmosphere. Even the OP song "Special" pointed out in which direction the story was going. And our protagonist is forced to wake up to the reality and make a choice, as he said to Mahito that he is just "a cog in a machine“ and he is playing his role in this world which is „to kill curses"
You made it clearer with this video🙏🏼💜
Keep up the good work 👏🏼
Appreciate it 🙌
The shibuya incident will always be special to me because it was such an explicit exploration of world view and humanity that it provoked me to do it myself. Most of my journey was during the time between epusode 4 and 17 and the chapters and episodes that i experienced in that time will always sit with me.
I really like the whole self centered vs selfless thing going on throughout this, really reinforces how screwed up the world is compared to like Mha where doing the good thing is how you get the killed.
The death of a friend and the buildup to an All or nothing attack to turn the tables at the last moment would’ve been victorious in a different show.
0:36 "Gayto"
Are you gayto because you are kenjaku or are you kenjaku because you are gayto
0:34
Ah yes Gigi's great Shubiya arc
It is very clearly not mindless action, however I will say that some of the fights lack the emotional impact I think they should have. I don’t think it’s bad, it’s great, but at times I found myself asking why I should care about some of the fights, and I think thats the most important part about what makes any given fight in a shonen compelling
I saw the themes watching and understood them but even despite this I found some of them lacking.
I completely agree with you, I left a comment somewhere on this video explaining the same thing.
the show kind of wants us to care about characters while it is still developing its main cast. the fight scene with nanami vs the little miracles hand sword guy could have been a lot more than what it was. it could have been nanami getting revenge or showing us a side of nanami we haven't seen before. it is early in the arc so nothing too big should happen, but nothing was really set up in that scene that would greatly impact the rest of the characters or the shibuya incident arc
@@dudemgee yeah, the characters just aren’t developed enough for this arc to hit as hard as gege wanted it too imo
This is really apparent when he kills off Nobara and they need to develop her character as she’s dying so we feel bad.
@@Groku200that shit caught me so off guard. I couldn’t believe how long that dumb backstory went on for
When u look even deeper to the religious/spiritual undertones i think it adds an even greater depth to the series. What each characters domain hand signs mean and how they play on the character and to even which characters fight who. It becomes a bunch of battles of ideals, hyper-metaphorically
exactly this can also have many esoteric metaphors/embodiment of lessons and secrets
This was a truly amazing video. You summed a lot of the thoughts I had regarding identity in such a tidy way. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
the opening to the Shibuya Incident was one of my favorite's, i barely skipped through it
Season 2 was so good I can’t recommend anyone start with the first season. It’s crucial for the audience to bond with Geto and Gojo characters.
I recommended the movie first to my homie who doesn't really watch anime. He finished season 2 before i did 😅
Ah yes my favorite author, *GeeGee* 💀
There was a couple things you got wrong name wise and story wise, but most of that information is just more obvious when you read the manga. As a show analysis you did a great job dissecting the tension of the scene
i don't see any possible way for jjk to get better than s2. mahito was the PERFECT villain and he's gone now
I’ve heard the best arc is coming up.
At least he didn't overstay his welcome. I'm glad every scene with him was brilliant rather than Gege dragging him out with no ideas for fan service
Culling Games and Shinjuku Showdown better be W(Mappa gotta do sum) I ain’t gonna give spoilers but the Culling Games arc is quite good. And Shinjuku Showdown? It has the best fight in jjk history, not even exaggerating, if its THAT good in the manga, the anime is going to be CRAZY!
I’m so glad you described this show as an explosion, even kenjaku aka the brain man, referred to sukuna as a bomb for both humans and curses
I haven’t seen many jjk analyst like things and epsocally not good ones so good job
Girl I binge watched this entire arc until 3:00 am on a school night because I was just so invested in it in a way I haven't been for an anime since the first time I watched attack on titan. People who called it "mindless action" either didn't watch the show, or are js looking for a reason to hate on something popular 😭
I know shibuya wasn’t mindless action and I really enjoyed it but I have to admit when I was watching it it felt like a gauntlet of fights like a war arc and it was hard to follow the meaning in the fighting when it was 95% fighting
That is fair for sure. For me I enjoyed being able to be swept up in the flow of the action and then when I looked back on it there was still so much to explore with the characters and themes that I didn't pick up on my first watch!
When the staff at MAPPA are working to the bone, themes come across less clearly in fights than they would with more polish
Great video analysis! Highly enjoyed it:)
I would argue though that in the case of Yuji and Sukuna, the ends do justify the means. Your premise is that one shouldn’t be sacrificed for something they might do in the future, but Yuji has already transformed into Sukuna multiple times and has already killed countless innocent lives.
this was an excellent essay!!
The fact that my mother in her late 40's could appreciate the writing on display for this season and in retrospect the first season says a lot about Gege and how he/she writes even if said writing has certain caviats it is still thought out and nuanced.
Truly painful to rethink about this
I know it! It was painful to make this video!
You make a great point daffy
This was Yuji's canon event to make him a true protagonist
Kenjaku isn't a cursed spirit. He is a human with a really weird technique.
@@ruter3001lol Jujutsu Sorcerers are still human too
@@hellogoodbye1748 i replied to the wrong comment, sorry
We don’t actually fully know yet. He isn’t mentioned to Eve have had his own body. We just assume. If he was a cursed spirit he’d have to born of a fear or something and if he was I don’t know what it would be which is why I say he’s a sorcerer with a CT
Stop spoiling
@@jacobmougeot6494 how is anything he said a spoiler, everything but his name, Kenjaku, is revealed in the season of the anime this video is discussing. And his name means nothing lol
I think the first season was really laying down the groundwork and setting expectations a “shonen battle anime.” Season 2 really focuses on subverting those expectations and showing that it’s a unique thing and it’s absolutely not afraid to show it.
Subscribe worthy video. Great. Keep Going because analysis videos like this will be timeless.
Much appreciated 🙏🙏
i wish i could give a double like at 2:00 i’m new here and that statement right before that mark is what i shall stay for
I just need to rewatch it. It felt like nonstop action to me cause waiting like 2 years for season 2, then week to week per episode... I just lost connection with a lot of the characters. But it's obviously done well. If I could've binged itd been better
I binge it in like two days. It’s that good. Non stop progression 10/10 I’m going to binge season 3
I am on the side of "jjk kinda mid", I'm not overly wowed by spectacle or crazy animation. I personally found the shibuya incident arc to be great in concept in themes. but a bit messy in it's execution.
My problems with the shibuya incident is that there is a lot happening, and not a lot of build up for a few of the pieces.
there is such a large cast, and a lot of characters to go through, however a lot of them are underdeveloped to the point where I'm expected to care for their sake, but I just don't. My case for this is during the fight with that squid/fish curse with nanami and maki before toji appeared. a scene without build up or suspense, where a lot of it is just "mindless action" the only stakes are their lives, but none of them are driven by a character motive or intruige. it really is just 3 people fighting a curse until toji appears.
There are some great fight scenes (sukuna vs jugo, mahito and yuji, megumi vs toji), however some of them lack either character intruigue or just overall purpose.
I am not saying the themes are not good, and that the story doesn't show them. but there are moments where the concept of a "good fight scene" is just not present.
jjk is known for it's fights and was promptly written for such. but to have the elements of a good fight scene lacking makes it a bit "mindless" to watch.
a lot of what jujutsu kaisan does is in my words, could be done a lot better.
if someone decided to read all this and disagrees with me I would actually appreciate if someone were to prove me wrong. I would like to expand my writing world view
One of the things I tought when watching the first arc of the season 2, was the feeling of pointless effort, to show how cruel could the world be and how fast things can change. I think that was the real target of the Shibuya Incident, not to make you love the characters, not to make you find it a real meaning (I'm not saying it hasn't a meaning), just to show you how sometimes, disasters just happens and people lose their lives trying to survive. Btw, I agree with you, the problem is that I think you missed the real target, or maybe I'm wrong and don't understand enough about writing to have a decent argument. So, if you have something to teach me, it would be really cool to learn from your experience
@@omardavidmendezmontiel3594 I think in a way you are right, in retrospect things do feel different. for example, I'm currently rewatching attack on titan with my brother, and despite me being obsessed with the show the first time, I did feel kind of not as interested the second time. you do make a very good point, and I believe, in the grand scheme of things, that was what the arc was trying to achieve, however it does for go on for quite a while (maybe it was the pacing or how it was set out?), but I really like your perspective and might try to adopt that viewpoint when looking at the show a bit more
@@omardavidmendezmontiel3594The problem isn't characters dying, the problem is that the story isn't even half way done and half the cast is dead. What's left to look forward to? The Yuji trauma show? At a certain point you can't get any more traumatized before you numb yourself to it (I'm talking about both Yuji and the viewer). This arc would make way more sense near the end of the story but we got 1 season of bonding and then everyone died. Every remotely interesting character died, Jogo, Nanami, Mechamaru, Geto, nobara, naobito, etc. Whats the message, then? That reality is cruel and people die pointlessly? We already know that! If you're not gonna contrast that message with anything else then why watch? At a certain point being a "realist" is just as naive as being blindly optimistic.
@@confusedbakugo1373 well, that's a good point. Maybe this arc would've been better at the middle of the series, like season 3 or something
@@confusedbakugo1373 EXACTLY my thoughts on the matter. You hit the nail RIGHT on the head. And to all the people going "but it's more realistic, it's subverting expectations!" bruh, this is a show with a talking panda doll, a girl who rides around on a broomstick, and a man who fights by clapping. "More realistic" my ASS. I come to shonen for the friendship and character development, because without characters that we care about, all these gorgeously action setpieces are just eye candy, nothing more. They don't MEAN anything. The CHARACTERS make the action mean something, and most of JJK's characters are either cliche, woefully underdeveloped/underutilized, plain unlikable, or some combination thereof. The only exceptions I can think of to this is Satoru Gojo, who IS a very interest character and one I like a lot, and Yuta Okkotsu, who was pretty nicely fleshed out in the movie (which I enjoyed far more than the series itself). I really like the Second Years as characters, but the story woefully neglects them, and Nobara Kugisaki had a huge amount of potential as a character that it looks like will never be realized. -_-
bro keep posting these videos 🔥
I love that there are other people who recognize that JJK is about something more than just the fights. If you read the manga it get even deeper.
Whoever calls it mindless action are simply trying to be IGN stans
Its uncanny, i had to double take if i was watching a supereyepatchwolf video 😭
Shibuya was written to act like a set up arc but gege killed or disabled most of the helping cast alongside making curses completely irrelevant to the story the moment yuji hit that black flash on mahito
I think your work would be benefit from citing works of literary criticism. If you want to argue that anime has literary value I think it should be in conversation with what came before.
bro 720p youll get touched now
6:20 it wasnt in that time, it took him 299 seconds to do it. The narrator states that. That's why he had to be as fast as possible before the cursed spirits awoke.
Yo mean how it just ripped the end of the soul society arc
2:57 "descwibe"
i think people filter the non action stuff out of their mind cause the rest is so badly written. so technically yea it s not only action, it s about 95% with the rest being the worst part about it
is anyone gonna point out he said "gigi" at 2:15? 💀💀💀
At first, watching the anime, seeing Nobara’s death felt truly nonsensical and as if Gege was using an excuse to not have to advance more of his women characters than he had to, but this view of it being an explosion really plays into how nonsensical it all becomes. It’s still really hard for me to accept that death, oddly enough, but it is a shonen anyways so.. i guess it should’ve been expected
Even though I think some character resolutions, fights, and animators should have been treated better, I keep coming back for the soundtrack, which I didn't know how it could surpass Season 1's. The only weak songs IMO were Elegant Time, Doom, and Our Fellow Sorceror's Corpses
First time I’ve heard gege pronounced gigi
Gege is pronounced Gay-Gay
Bro parents hated him
It's a pen name@@kllwtt
unfortunately the next arc, the culling games, is in fact mindless action
negative reading comprehension. And its funny that ur saying this with a Megumi pfp when CG gave Megumi some of his best character moments. Its always the jjk pfps with the dumbest of takes. Want y'all tiktokers to leave the series.
@@Juryoku113 yeah megumi had cool ass moments but you can’t tell me that 90% of the culling games had any significance whatsoever. Random plot points that were introduced and basically never explored like the international government invasion, and almost every fight was entirely unimpactful to the plot. Reggie star has no significance and neither did any of the randoms or Yutas fight against ryu and the sky girl besides him getting a new ability. And hakari is THE WORST character in jjk. He’s literally just a walking asspull, but it’s ok because “his ct is luck”.
@@Juryoku113felt. I hate the single digit IQ of mainstream Shonen fans so much
@@Juryoku113 nah culling games was mid and the only development Megumi got was depression
i like this video at 1:30 lol
Shibeyya shibeyya shibyaaaa swella lalala it’s shi-boo-ya
Why is this title like anybody said it was Mindless action I don't think any Outlet had any problem with the antimatter arc
This was generally in response to IGN's review of the arc
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Geegee is crazy. Its gege (geygey)
really good video but you calling gege "gi gi" and "gi ji" hurts me so much
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the plot is very complex, confusing, the power system is confusing and i couldn't get it, i watched both seasons and didnt understand much, after episode 17 the animation got very bad and disorienting
I feel the exact same. So many hype it but I just don’t get it
gigi 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀
gret vid👍😱
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Should point out a few things. Megumi doesn’t know Gojo killed his dad and during he Shibuya arc didn’t know that Toji was his father and to this day does not. The false geto as far as we know isn’t a cursed spirit either. We have no idea where he came from. Remember cursed spirits are born of negative emotion. For it to be a cursed spirit it that powerful it would have to be a fear or collective strong emotion. For example mahito is humanities fear of well Humanity.
It’s only jjk’s prime
Geegee😭
If you can’t see the depth behind this anime you’re a Fortnite kid
As a channel called AniEssays talking in depth about anime you could for sure USE A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR FUCKING TIME TO LAERN HOW TO PRONOUNCE THEIR FUCKING NAMES RIGHT
fake geto isn't a cursed spirit
LMAO whyd u call the transfigured humans curses
“Gee-Gee”??
Great vid but I don't think I've ever heard a video essay butcher pronunciation this much.
great
shibouya arc is overrated trash except for gojo and sukuna i hated every ep
see how no one else agrees with this acoustic opinion
Ahh no likes to this comment. You are own your own with this take.
@@LazerMonarch He is right, shibuya isnt that deep lol
D1 rage baiting
GIGI LMAO
It's suKUna, not SUkuna, otherwise good video
Jkk is in the same category as berserk- doesn't beat it, no fictional story created by man has surpassed it, but it's definitely in the same tier
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when are those braces getting removed my boi 😭😭
Commie's point of view be like
"GAYto"
hidden inventory is better
Finally somebody said it. Shibuya Incident is so overrated, people who love the arc, let's not kid ourselves here, are mostly enamored by the action. 95% of people would not like that arc as much as they do if that arc had One Piece punk hazard level animation, or early Black Clover level animation, or Seven Deadly Sins level animation.
Hidden Inventory actually developed the characters and gave insights on some characters and their motivation. It could be better in some aspects, but still infinitely better than Shibuya Incident.
interms writing ofc but shibuya is better overall
Nah
I'd
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GIGI
To early to call it a classic lol? And its still mindless shit with b tier art
Im genuinely interested what is A or S tier for you then? Any suggestions on what to watch?
@@MarthaSoulbaneSame tbh
Ironically if something warps a taste like that it must be beyond quality
Kinda like how I compare stuff to AOT and had to cut out that habit to enjoy other shows lol
It is mindless action. This video is a cope. JJK is garbage.
Amazing counter argument, you must be a genius
Pov: Something gets popular
@@brenreyes3703 POV: You're a stan and someone dislikes your eminem
D1 rage baiting
cmon
good video, but gaytoe
gayto
(🤓☝🏾) head ahh
My guy you sound like an actual nerd voice 😂😂
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