Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season Episode 17 Discussion

When they skip the OP in an action anime, you know some shit is about to get crazy.

There's THE BOY, MAHORAGA!!

The rumors that this episode would be even better than last weeks ended up holding true, what a fucking episode. They added A LOT, I mean A FUCKING LOT of anime original moments throughout the fight. I'll never complain about that, I love seeing all the things the staff decides to add in. Sukuna vs. Mahoraga lived up to the hype, what an animation masterclass. Just spectacular visuals that had me pausing, rewinding, and slowing down the playback speed multiple times 💀💀💀Sukuna is such a dope character and Mahoraga is a cool ass Shikigami. The Nanami cliffhanger....not the cliffhanger I expected the episode to end on, but man :(

Hearing the news over the past few weeks of the atrocious production schedule makes me eternally appreciative of the staff that still, despite being done dirty in that regard, manage to deliver absolute peak like this. They deserve so much fucking better.


Bruh how does this ruin anything, you just looking for anything to complain about? 💀💀

Edit after reading more comments in this thread: Even though I want this series to get the best adaptation possible, at this point I kind of want JJK after this season to follow the fate of Seven Deadly Sins after its 2nd season and end up in the hands of Studio Deen with the most atrocious animation imaginable, because holy shit, this fandom doesn't deserve this adaptation. Some of these complaints are legit the most nitpicky bullshit I've ever seen 💀💀💀 the OP playing during Yuji's breakdown actually makes perfect sense, particularly to the target audience, ya know, ACTUAL Japanese people. For us non-fluent foreigners, if you actually take 2 minutes to look up the English lyrics and read it from Sukuna's POV, it'll make more sense. Also, complaining about the Nanami cliffhanger is just....lol. He showed up for 15 seconds, stop acting like that ruined the whole fucking episode. That's just an unserious nitpick, let's be real, because I've yet to see anyone provide a legitimate reason for why that was such a problem. And even if this episode was unfinished and didn't meet the standard that the staff would have liked, you can't sit here and unironically say with a straight face that this was poorly animated. THIS was bad animation?!?!?! Because even unfinished, it looked better than a majority of other anime at the moment. I guarantee to the untrained eye, to the casual viewer, NO ONE will be like "oh well actually 🤓☝ the compositing during the sequence from the 14:27-14:33 mark was poorly done, and for a split second at the 16:42 mark you could see a slight dip in the animation quality if you pause at just the perfect nanosecond." I'm convinced that MAL people are just committed to searching for literally anything negative to say.

@thebrentinator24 okay, but all i will say is that i agree with you as i dont see any reasons to hate this episode, for animation especially. I cant come up with any reason, how come someone sees it as a bad animation, when it was so beautiful to watch it. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! So i would like to know in this case when You consider someone liking anime if You said earlier that no one is like that here on MAL and no one can convince You with that otherwise. Does it mean that You know what im thinking and even if I dont see any reasons to hate it when action and animation was THIS good, You consider me hating it when I dont know something about it but I appreciate it and have respect for it? Thanks for the answer, if You got me right, and if im wrong about something here, please educate me about something that i should know about it. Interested to see your opinion on this and any explanations , if I also misunderstood anything, as I have short memory. thanks

@HEBI_TAN what's the BD version?

The sukuna vs mahoraga fight was epic, no words to describe.

@Hitachiandyou I'm mainly just making a blanket statement in general and it's not really anything to take seriously lol. I'll see specific people in different forums from time to time where it seems like they only ever have negative things to say, or I'll see "criticisms" that feel less like actual criticism about an episode/chapter, and more like forced nitpicking (not just in this thread but in general). I do see plenty of positive things that people say on MAL, don't get me wrong, but I just made a generalized statement about the negativity.