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Who was this made for exactly? If you have not watched the anime yet, this could be kind of confusing since you won't have the full context behind the story and characters and you may feel like the story wasn't too fulfilling, but if you watched the anime already this does not add anything to what you already know. This is just one giant waste of time. A 2 hour film consists of 90% recap with some commentary from the anime's characters giving personal recounts of their experiences. The last 20 minutes shows what happens in the end of the anime, but even then nothing ... much happens that you can't guess yourself. Nothing but a cash grab.

I came into watching JJK with a lot of hype and anticipation of the next great battle shounen. Just from the beautiful OP I was already at max hype levels, but then a couple of episodes later it all came crashing down. My biggest gripe about this show is that it shows so much without actually telling you anything. Like a large bag of chips that is 80% filled with air.

I've noticed a trend where a fight occurs, you get flashy lights, and heart-racing music for a couple of seconds then the fight stops and they stop to go to a flashback for the ... next 5 minutes, or one of the guys is just standing there monologing in his head about his opponent's next move. It happens in every fight that I come out of this show realizing there isn't any 1 memorable fight. Just go back to any fight, at some point there is a pause where the enemy lets his opponent just stand there while he/she gets to talk to themself, or after just getting hit 1 time triggers the flashback card.

Another issue I kept running into is how they introduce new characters. Who the hell is Ino? Why was he with Kento all of sudden? What about this white-haired chick Uraume? We saw them at that beach plenty of times but suddenly she appears like what? In the last few episodes, they suddenly introduce Nitta Akari out of nowhere, what happened to the other chauffeur guy? It's all over the place with how characters are handled.

Kento all of sudden appeared at the scene of a crime with Yuuji and left me wondering who is that? That is fine but next episode halfway I still didn't know who he was until guess what, yep, a fight that triggers a flashback to tell us who he is. How did Junpei get his development? Through a flashback. Megumi's development in ep 23? Through a flashback in a fight. Mai's and Maki's history? Triggered through a flashback in a fight.

I could go on also on the structure and overlapping of this shows' arcs. Within the first 6 episodes we hear about a joint class trip they will prepare for but suddenly Yuuji "dies" and we get a training arc and Junpei arc in between that leaving off the other 2 main characters in the dust and gone for a few episodes. Then we come back, and the trip was then ambushed by the villains (MHA s3 anyone? ). This is going on for too long, but overall mad disappointed in this show, it did not meet the hype.