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Overhyped and Bad

This is what the people on twitter and other social media platform are hyping up? The so called dark trio of the modern shonen? Give me a break. The story is good, the characters are serviceable, the premise is just a survival-slash-tournament-arc-slash-insert-plot-twist-for-the-modern-consumer. Don't get me wrong, the story IS good. I would've liked it more if I had just read it BUT this adaptation is borderline trash. Even worse than the newest mha adaptation, which is regretful because that series' story is even more trash.

So this adaptation hurts more because its actually good but without the great animation you expect from ... people singing praises about mappa. That studio dropped the ball on this one, VERY HARD. weak execution. I can't even imagine the reaction of people who really liked the manga and was very excited to see it be adapted into anime by "m4pPa $Tud10 d4 g0At" no less.

Very very disappointing show. I'm gonna go ahead and read the manga so as to not make my consuming experience get ruined by that abhorrent adaptation. I wasn't expecting a chainsaw man level of adaptation, let alone a jujutsu kaisen one, but for this show to not even be on the same level as the dororo adaptation just fucking sucks. Its a mindless entertainment ruined by the show's selling point: the action. This is the seven deadly sins of mappa studios. REALLY BAD.

Its jujutsu kaisen before it was jujutsu kaisen.

I'd like to preface this review by stating that I've read the manga back when Jujutsu kaisen anime wasn't even airing. I've seen a few people, and a youtuber recommend the series and so I gave it a try. Obviously I, as anyone who have read and tried to get into the manga, started with the titular Jujutsu kaisen 0, formerly known as "Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical school" and with just about 3 chapters, it gave you a full and solid experience you would get in a 15 to 20 chapters of an arc.

Gege Akutami, the author, ... knows exactly how to write characters that doesn't bullshit you nor beat you around the bush. True, the series even in its infancy have some overwhelmingly transparent tropes and clichés but its how Gege gets straight to the point that you can forgive the cheesiness of it all. Here are your characters, here's the conflict, here's the antagonist, and here's the fights. You know well before the movie started that the main protagonist is going to win whatever battle he's gonna face, as is when I read the manga.

And so, if its (the manga) full of tropes and clichés then why is it a 10/10 for me? I'm glad you asked random citizen. Here's why.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the manga is not stellar by any means. It gets the job done and is a perfect prologue that draws your interest to the world. The groundwork of what we'll come to know as jujutsu kaisen. But that's just it, its just a groundwork. Nothing concrete. (at least not yet when the jujutsu kaisen just got serialized) What differentiates the manga from the movie is that the characters that was introduced at the start of the manga have been fleshed out and established in the current and on going arcs today. Characters who you think didn't matter have been given more than just what they had in the prologue manga, and the production took notice of that and put some sprinkles and hints of that in this movie. They're luring us into caring about these characters with the bait they obviously put in almost every scene that wasn't in the source material. They went above and beyond not only in the animation department but also, in the story department. When I read the manga, I thought most of these characters are shallow and just a caricature of what looks good and what sells, but this movie gave these seemingly shallow characters their well deserved depth with every flashback, every extra interaction, and additional dialogue, and every character animation. To match that, this movie also nailed every music and score they brought out in every scene. The soundtrack nailed the vibes of this movie especially with the ending, which felt melancholic solely because of King Gnu's 'sakayume'.

Its obviously not as emotionally impactful as the mugen train movie but this movie certainly has its merits. And its because of those merits that I can definitely say that this movie is a 10 not just from a production perspective, but also from the technical perspective, and story perspective. It did what had to do and then fucked off quietly into the night afterwards.