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What a crazy prequel. Knowing what I was walking into by reading the manga first, made this movie like 13x better. And everyone was so fucking hype on it, like please calm down it's good yes, but y'all are killing me
if there was some scenes from current timeline that you could link some characters from present to the past that was n't present during that battle it would be alot better
It's a excellent movie! The animation is top just like the OST! Without forgetting the seiyū and emotion that goes with it, especially between Yūta and Rika! What a treat! I can't wait for the second season!
didnt like that the movie focused on a new character, id say the amazingly animated hand to hand combat scenes were the highlight, other than that it was quite forgettable 6/10
Great adaptation, not only they made justice to the original source, but they improved it a lot by adding some original scenes (indeed I was wondering which scenes they could add to make up to 1h 45m with only 4 chapters), with the direction, soundtrack and animation to embellish the whole. They even managed to make some scene (more) cathartic than in the source. Glad I read Volume 0 and soon after watched the Movie. 9/10.
I went to watch Jujutsu Kaisen 0 in Hiroshima's theater. Splendid anime adaptation. This movie is very faithful to the original. I already know the ending because I read the manga a few months ago but still amazing. router login pikashow
liked the movie, but to me it was confuzzling. is this a filler like movie? ill play it safe and say it was since IDR if yuta was mentioned. yuta was a bit easier for most people to cheer on
I watch so much anime, that sometimes it gets hard to hold my attention with stories, tropes, scenes but freaking this movie, all the action, characters just kept me hooked literally the entire 1 hour 45 min. So hyped for season 2 and totally didn’t know this movie was aired !!
JoeRequiem said: Someone spoil for me how much screentime that Rika character gets. That's the determining factor on whether I watch it sub or dub cayse I cant stand that japanese voice actor's breathy voice in anything she's in.
I recommend you record your voice and then listen to it and then you'd see why hanzawa is famous and you are not
JoeRequiem said: Someone spoil for me how much screentime that Rika character gets. That's the determining factor on whether I watch it sub or dub cayse I cant stand that japanese voice actor's breathy voice in anything she's in.
I recommend you record your voice and then listen to it and then you'd see why hanzawa is famous and you are not
And a 3rd string NBA player is a better basketball player than me, don't mean they're not trash in the NBA.
Basically the same thoughts as I had with the manga, really love the Okkotsu & Rika stuff, but so much of the runtime isn't about that so I don't really love the movie as a whole. I still really like the movie as a whole though, it's solid shonen. Not much more than that, but it doesn't need to be. I am in the camp that prefers Yuta to Yuji as a main character, he's more relatable and I think his relationship with Rika provides a stronger emotional hook than anything Itadori has, but I still like Jujutsu Kaisen proper so it's not a problem.
Somewhat conflicted about the additions from the manga, adding in Ieiri, Nanami, Mei Mei, and that other guy whose name I can't remember and refuse to look up towards the diversions. On one hand, it's cool to have this prequel stuff be more connected with what the series would become because really, if you could have Nanami & Mei Mei on your side during Geto's attack, you would. But considering we know all these action sequences are just diversions, I didn't really find most of these compelling to watch, like they were just wasting time. Granted though, I think Mei Mei and Nanami's fight's were probably the sakuga highlights, so I think I lean towards liking it more than disliking it but yeah. And of course, Ieiri doesn't come off as anything more than a tease for Season 2, which is fine.
Also, in comparison to the series, I felt the OST was a bit weaker here and I'm not sure I'd say the sakuga was that noticeably stronger than the best points of the anime series. It's been awhile since I watched the anime, but visually it didn't blow me away like I expected.Maybe it's just a casualty of how excellent the series itself looks. It's a small quibble since the movie stills looks great, but this did not feel like a big leap forward animation-wise which I expect for a movie. 7/10.
Really fun movie. The animation was obviously great. The character designs were pretty cool too. Gojo without the eye mask looked weird though. Maki's design looked amazing.
So Geto is the main antagonist here and boy was he strong. I do agree with some of what he says. Obviously, due to superstition and orthodoxy, jujutsu sorcerers would be ostracised in some parts of the world.
I'm not sure but I presume he was killed by Gojo in the end. So how tf did he reappear later on in the future i.e. the main series? Did he somehow survive? Or was he resurrected by someone? Maybe by Jogo or Mahito? I guess we'll get to know about it all in S2.
Also, who was the foreigner rope guy? And why was he with Yuta in the end? Are they on friendly terms now or was Yuta trying to lure him out and capture him or smth?
Yuta saying he'll give his all to Rika was so wholesome. Also, Rika's awakening was so damn good. The ost, the VA's performance, the animation, all of them were top notch.
Nice prequel. 7/10 for me.
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"Everything I've witnessed... This whole system you have built has always rejected me. Now I'm ready to reject it. That's why I destroy. That's why I took this power for myself. Simple enough, yeah? I don't care if you don't understand... That's what makes us... Heroes and Villains."
Episode 1 : The biggest problem with S1 was the ugly art direction. It's vastly improved here with the Bebop art director. The fight being short also helped in me really liking it as I wasn't a fan of the pacing of S1 either. I'm already loving this very much.
Episode 2 : Mission with Inumaki this time and Yuta has learned few tricks of his own, the fx of the curse being imbued into the katana was cool. This part is also trying to set up Getou as well.
Episode 3 : The jump in Okkotsu's character progression feels strangely big. I guess this is something that could have been flesh out more I stead of all the additional action they decided to include in the movie, although majority of the first half of the movie was more or less the training so not much you could do here I guess. Now, all it's left is the final fight.
Episode 4 : Park's action boards are always very hard hitting, going to miss him on S2. Most of the stuff here were mainly action, nice to see a veteran from the 90s animating the final attacks of Yuta and Getou. The post-credit scene as was present in OP2.
Warning, huge wall of text. Open at your own risk.
I've seen quite a few people who think the concept of "Little kid's best friend and future wife dies in accident so he becomes incredibly op character tragedy" is cliche and pathetic.
However my opinion is that whoever thinks like that is incredibly narrow minded and far more pathetic than anything...
This backstory is definitely not a cliche in anime, I have watched quite a bit of anime and not once have I encountered a kid making promise to his girlfriend to marry her in the future and then she horribly dies in a car accident. The general act of making a promise but then someone dies is cliche, but that kid, how he met her, how they played and all, the promise and how she died isnt cliche at all.
And it is far more sad and pathetic when I see how people make fun of this kind of tragedy and think this kind of trauma is shallow and boring.
Like... seriously? If your kid has a best friend at the age of 6-7 and then his best friend's body get smashed and smeared on the road like paintbrush right in front of your kid. What the fuck do you think is gonna happen to your kid? He's just gonna brush it off and keep living his life like nothing happened?
Fuck no, that is gonna arguably cause irreparable trauma and PTSD to your kid.
Yuta got this HORRIBLE trauma and he didn't get it treated for many years afterwards. It didn't start with Yuta immediately becoming an op special grade curse user right after the accident, the curse developed from low grade to special grade over the years as his trauma went on untreated and his guilt and blame kept getting worse and worse along with his behaviour and mental state. I think years of such intense emotions which kept getting worse is plenty of time for such trauma to feed a curse to an op special grade level. After all, if you compare this to other characters, this is just very tame progress in compare to how op Gojou is in his age.
tl;dr (kind of not really)
Yuta backstory isn't cliche at all... you're just narrow minded if you think it is.
Yuta's curse became op OVER THE YEARS and not instantly after the accident, the curse was fed by a very intense trauma and extreme emotions he developed OVER THE YEARS.
The MC was not unfazed at all when the villain suggested mass massacre, im not sure if you're blind or don't know what "unfazed" means but EVERYONE including the MC were horrified to hear such mental idea from the villain.
Ah yes, because being lonely all his life and tainted with extremely intense trauma, and finally meeting people who will be his friends regarding of what he and his curse is... is definitely not a justifiable reason to get mad and protect with his soul the place and people who gave meaning to his life... Yuta was also already training in tokyo's jujutsu highschool for a while before all this happened and they CLEARLY SHOW how he is training a bit, they teach you how to imbue your curse into objects and make it flow throughout your body so you could move faster or enhance your physical actions. (which is shown in season 1)
Right before fighting Getou, by logic and reasoning Yuta was already more powerful than him, he showed understanding of how to control his powerful curse after so much training and probably discovered throughout the fight that he should sacrifice himself to the curse to unlock the curse's full potential. And it was revealed that he is a distant relative of Gojou which also explains how he managed to become so strong over such a short period of time with Gojou's guidance. Not to mention the most important detail, he is the descendent of one of the strongest jujutsu sorcerers in Japan.
And hey, guess what, even in real life when you are forced to do something with pure hatred, you are gonna do it with a lot more power than not being forced to do something you hate.
Yeah he did get mad when he saw his only friends ON THE BRINK OF DEATH (like seriously? you call getting a leg cut off, beaten to a pulp and losing shit ton of blood "hurt"? Just shows how narrow and simple minded you are.) and it gave him a lot motivation to eliminate the villain but it didn't make him "broken op" out of nowhere just because he saw his friends getting "hurt".
People who double down on such "cliche", sad and very horrible trauma as nothing and boring story telling; simply means how poor your story telling understanding is and how lacking you are in recognizing quality content.
It is just so easy to say how bad a story is when it is oversimplified, reduced and presented in such simple way that makes it look and sound as bad as you want it or think it is.
But if you try to connect simple points presented in the story and try to understand (in-depth) why something is happening, you will find a lot more reasoning and backstory that is hidden throughout the story. After all this is written by a Japanese man, and in Japanese culture they don't mention things that they think is obvious to the reader or listener.
Like understanding that the story timeline of this movie is months, not days. As well as understanding that Yuta (is a distant relative of Gojou and a descendent of one of the strongest jujutsu sorcerers that existed) has developed a low curse grade into special grade over the years which explains why he became so strong so fast over the months with the correct guidance of his experienced distant relative Gojou. (the writer just mentioned Michizane Sugawara for a few seconds and that was suppose to be more than enough to understand why Yuta became so strong and had infinitely more curse potential than Getou ever had at any given time)
And saying that there was comedic relief after every serious moment? Now you're just plainly lying not only to everyone but also to yourself. The comedic reliefs were rare and far few in between yet noticeable when they happen, them being obvious and noticeable doesn't mean they happen after every serious moment.
Man, how low do you need to get and rob this movie of everything you said just because you are not capable of understanding quality content?
Whatever, have a good day
It was great but it felt too rushed and the plot itself wasn't that interesting
Yuta is an amazing character though and I liked the fights + the animation was on point
This movie was awesome. It's one the rare instances where i like the movie better than the anime and that Yuta was a far better character than Yuji. I really want them to give Yuta his own anime series.
Already one of my favourite movies. The pacing is so masterful, when you have these characters stories being set up and gradually leading to this giant conflict where all parties get involved. Everything wrapping up neatly and it doesn’t feel rushed to me which is often the case with battle movies. Animation and sound superbly done as well, new MC felt natural too.
Alright, finally have time watching this movie. Yuta is actually a better protagonist than Yuji... But I don't mind... Hope Yuta fight again on season 2.
Rika is actually pretty in anime version... I do remember her manga art is actually not as cute as her anime appearance. It's cute though seeing she so jealous with Maki. Hehehe.
So many characters appear in this movie! But it's suck to see those two villains sides girl doesn't have chance to show their power in this movie... And I am curious to see if the jujutsu driver actually can fight too.
Suguru is dead? Is this the real Suguru? Then the 1st season Suguru is.. not him? Hope it's explain on the second season.
Yuta with the foreign dude at the end... Wonder why~~