Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season Episode 17 Discussion

lmao anime fans are so easy to impress, just make everything looks fast and they go "Woooow episode of the year!!!1!", this was obviously not bad at all, plenty of impressive sequences but also just sooo unfinished, there's so many stiff sequences, still shots and stuff that seemed to be literally storyboard, but again, put in fast speed and it looks good and this was a good episode but the finished product it's not on par with the last episode and i totally agree with the ones talking about the OP awkwardly playing in that scene, i did start laughing and i'm pretty sure it wasnt the intention

@SSSTenshi Not that suprising unfortunately considering JJK is a battle shounen. All it takes is a couple of well-animated sequences and people will call any episode a masterpiece. Even the animated sequences in this episode were unfinished (confirmed by the animators themselves) since the production committee wanted to push the episode to air on its regular timeslot at any cost.

It's the same thing for other shounen like One Piece where episodes have a well-animated 2-minute sequence in a 20-minute episode where nothing happens outside of that and the fans praise it to no end.

lmao anime fans are so easy to impress, just make everything looks fast and they go "Woooow episode of the year!!!1!", this was obviously not bad at all, plenty of impressive sequences but also just sooo unfinished, there's so many stiff sequences, still shots and stuff that seemed to be literally storyboard, but again, put in fast speed and it looks good and this was a good episode but the finished product it's not on par with the last episode and i totally agree with the ones talking about the OP awkwardly playing in that scene, i did start laughing and i'm pretty sure it wasnt the intention

Why does people like this awkwardly cheap looking animation type? Kinda reminds me of the Pain vs Kyubi battle in Naruto Shippuden, where they try to achieve a feeling of massive speed & destruction, but it just feels cheap like a fan art animation, imagine this battle scene if they actually took time to animate the details! Instead of this paint 2.0 drawn bullcrap.

It's cool that everyone loved the episode, but I can't help but feel disappointed more people aren't upset with the fact that it could've been SO MUCH BETTER had MAPPA given their staff more time.

They did what they could but not even the greatest in the industry can completely cover up the fact that the episode had direction but was unpolished in many areas. This one felt like the animators' last stand.

THESE ANIMATORS DESERVE THE WORLD RN. MAPPA OWES THEM.

I didn’t think they could top last week but holy they did. Mahoraga vs Sukuna delivered.

The animation, music, fight… all of it was simply incredible. Especially with the current situation for the animators.

RESPECT JJK TEAM 🫡

I never post on this website... But I had to come here to say how much they botched this episode. The animation was very ambitious but clearly unfinished, and after looking up possible reasons why, I saw that numerous animators from MAPPA took to twitter to distance themselves from what they turned out for this one. They're working on an insanely crunched schedule, and it makes complete sense to me now that so many shots were blurry, impossible to decipher, or just clearly unfinished. With extra time to review, these shots would likely have been entirely re-worked for legibility rather than just rushed to production.

On top of that, the intro theme (which I have thought from the beginning of the season is a huge downgrade from the previous themes) playing during the scene of Yuji's despair at what Sukuna had done in his body, instead of allowing for the undoubtedly amazing scoring the composers would have done here, (or even silence) was a fucking JOKE. So disappointing the company is taking such little care with the product that they're still chasing these insane deadlines and forcing artists to sign off on a lesser-than final product.