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EP. REVIEW: Jujutsu Kaisen

meiam wrote:

Completely agree, what a waste of time, literally made me stop watching the last few episodes. Just glad its back on track, hopefully they won't introduce anymore "filler" character, what a weird arc.

Okay your misusing the word filler dude. Filler is at its core not important and easily ignorable.

Junpei irrelevant of your feelings towards him is not a “filler character”. He is the link that sets up Yuji & Mahito’s arch-enemy relationship towards each other & forwards Yuji’s own development.

Scion Drake wrote:

meiam wrote: Completely agree, what a waste of time, literally made me stop watching the last few episodes. Just glad its back on track, hopefully they won't introduce anymore "filler" character, what a weird arc. Okay your misusing the word filler dude. Filler is at its core not important and easily ignorable. Junpei irrelevant of your feelings towards him is not a “filler character”. He is the link that sets up Yuji & Mahito’s arch-enemy relationship towards each other & forwards Yuji’s own development.

Scene; right after the horror in the movie theatre Ijichi and Yuji go straight to the sewer, there they split up and and, while Ijichi fight off Mahito, Yuji fight off some monster and run across some kid. Yuji and the kid bond and over the next few minutes while Yuji protect him from the monsters. Just as he's about to leave safely, Mahito shows up, transform the kid and Yuji has to kill him. Mahito leave all "Mwhahaha". End scene.

There, 10 minutes top and you get all you needed without wasting 30 mins+ on a character whose just sacrificed.

Still doesn't make it filler, and in the new scenario you've created the complaint would be about Yuji getting so emotional about a kid he knew for less than 5 minutes. Oh, and about the series introducing and immediately killing off a character just to elicit a response from the MC.

HAL14 wrote:

Still doesn't make it filler, and in the new scenario you've created the complaint would be about Yuji getting so emotional about a kid he knew for less than 5 minutes. Oh, and about the series introducing and immediately killing off a character just to elicit a response from the MC.

Both of these are pretty much what the show did (replace 5 min by, what, 25 min?), except instead of doing it in half an episode it took 4.

meiam wrote:

HAL14 wrote: Still doesn't make it filler, and in the new scenario you've created the complaint would be about Yuji getting so emotional about a kid he knew for less than 5 minutes. Oh, and about the series introducing and immediately killing off a character just to elicit a response from the MC. Both of these are pretty much what the show did (replace 5 min by, what, 25 min?), except instead of doing it in half an episode it took 4.

True, but by spacing it out it feels like a less terrible case of 'stuffing in the fridge'. Four episodes may not be a lot on their own but four out of twelve is. I imagine a lot of people were genuinely surprised he died, especially since he appears in the OP.

I honestly don't understand the fixation on the upcoming Tournament that a number of people seem to have. That there even is a Tournament arc is so far my only disappointment with this series.

And more Gojou than I can stand. Damn, I could watch that boy dance on a loop for hours.

I honestly don't understand the fixation on the upcoming Tournament that a number of people seem to have. That there even is a Tournament arc is so far my only disappointment with this series.

I LOVE his too-cool-for-school dance in the ED. The way he swaggers in and just owns the place.

Gina Szanboti wrote:

I honestly don't understand the fixation on the upcoming Tournament that a number of people seem to have. That there even is a Tournament arc is so far my only disappointment with this series.

I understand frustration with tournament arcs. I think creators justify them because a tournament is a quick and simple way to introduce the audience to a diverse cast of characters in a confined setting. Many shonen stories include tournament arcs in the beginning because the audience can become attached to a character that they hope to see again later in the story.

Pretty much the reason why for arcs like this early on. Introduces a lot of characters and concepts that will be important later on.

And this show is no different, as the Festival it will introduce some characters and concepts that will be greatly important in succeeding arcs.

That there even is a Tournament arc is so far my only disappointment with this series.

I'm not saying I'll hate it. I'm pretty sure I won't. It could even turn out to be so awesomely extra I'll eat my words, and yay, if that's the case. But I'm really kind of sick to death of tournaments...