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Feb 18, 2022
- “You should enjoy the little detours. To the fullest. Because that’s where you’ll find the things more important than what you want”
This message falls apart when you consider that the "little detour" also known as the Chimera Ant Arc took up half the series and was generally miserable for everyone involved.
Togashi has a way of hammering in one theme, then pretending that the real theme was something else, without actually earning it.
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Plot: None.
This series is a training arc disguised as an actual story. I wish that was an exaggeration. So many episodes are dedicated to the convolutions of Nen, the stories power system,
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which for some godawful reason cannot be explained in less than five paragraphs. Especially when the whole system is ignored to give characters whatever random power the author wants. Again, not exaggerating.
Outside that, so many side plots just drop off halfway through the story and are never addressed again. The world-building feels like it was made up on the spot. The Chimera Ant arc, apparently the greatest arc of all time to some people, is so far removed from the rest of the story that I think I could cut it entirely and then publish it as a standalone series and only improve everything.
Art: Good. I don't put much store in art.
Characters: This series has great characters. To be more precise, those characters are Killua and Meruem. *Maybe* Hisoka. Outside those three, you might as well be watching interchangable cardboard cutouts. Nobody stays in the plot long enough to actually feel like they matter. Characters die left and right, so it's hard to get interested in the latest in a long line of wacky personalities, no matter what they do. It's even harder when you realise that nobody save the main duo actually stays around for two consecutive arcs.
Enjoyment: This series did not live up to my expectations, and I didn't have very high expectations in the first place.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Oct 3, 2021
Hey, I've got this great new series for you! It's a generic battle shonen, but instead has honed the genre to perfection, and cut away all the nonsense, honing it to a fine point with lightning fast pacing!
That show is not Edens Zero. That show is the thing I got sick of three series' ago. Edens Zero is the one that took over a hundred chapters to get out of the starter zone. Edens Zero is a shonen with all the stuff that actually got me to like shonen.
If you just want a nice fun adventure that is going to last forever, here's a good
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one that doesn't have the baggage of already being a thousand chapters long.
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Story: Some idiots go to space looking for a thing. There they fight a bunch of bad guys and a few good guys who didn't get out of their way fast enough. The worldbuilding is nice, there are a bunch of mysteries which seem like the sort that actually will have answers, and there's a good number of plot twists I never saw coming.
Art: Good. Character designs is a little too same-facey. That is the only thing I don't like about this series, and even then i got used to it eventually.
Characters; While it will take a while to get used to the... err.. familiar faces, pretty much everyone is fun to watch. The heroes are lovably stupid, the villains are some of the most punchable evil I can remember, and the blatant fairy tail redo's are different enough that I don't care about the reuse anymore.
Enjoyment: This is one of the very few series i consider a genuine, unambiguous 10/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Sep 11, 2021
Review contains vague spoilers.
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It's hard to enjoy things when you know what's coming, does anyone else have that problem? This series, at least the first few arcs, is seriously predictable. With a premise that guarantees the entire side cast will die off, it is hard to get attached to characters right from the get go.
Then in episode 2 we get introduced to March, a young girl who's only desire in life is to grow up and become an adult. Oh, and she is going to be fed to a giant bear because the world is a cruel place.
See what I mean? Broad strokes wise,
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this series is extremely predictable with regards to who dies, which can make it hard to get into.
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Ignoring that, it looks great, the plot has enough twists outside the realms of your-favourite-character-dies to keep you surprised, the characters are likeable enough, and the voice acting is excellent.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 10, 2021
DO NOT WATCH THIS SEASON. Chapter 190 if you watched season 4, Chapter 218 if you want to watch the first half of this season, which is fine.
I try not to be a source material purist, for the most part. But damn, the second half of this season pisses me off.
When adapting Manga to Anime, there are certain rules that must be followed. This season has decided, for reasons unknown, to swap the order of two arcs. Which is bad, since one deals directly with the fallout of the other, leaving viewers with a sense of confusion at the first and makes the latter easy
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to predict. You also lose a lot of the subtler details of the story. Them being my favourite arcs probably doesn't help.
In theory you could watch the episodes out of order, but it's not all out yet so maybe not.
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On a less "Do not watch this" note, the characters and visuals are still great. The story drags a bit in the first half, but that's just what happens when you adapt the less impressive parts of the manga.
If you enjoyed the first four seasons, and obviously you did or you wouldn't be here, you will enjoy this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jun 28, 2021
Story: 5 - A good story told badly. The main thing I have issues with.
Now, you may be a little confused about what that means. The Story of Jujutsu Kaisen is a complicated one, with many characters each following their own agendas, trying to achieve different things, and with schemes that take very long to pay off, both in chapter-count and in-universe time.
Because of that. it's extremely easy to get lost.
This problem is compounded by the authors rather poor naming convention. Practically everything this series has a name that utterly fails to describe it's purpose. A Cursed Object is different to a Cursed Tool.
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A Curse Spirit is different to a Curse User, which itself is different to a user of Cursed Spirit Manipulation, who unhelpfully is also a Curse User. In short, the word "Curse" is overused to the point of redundancy, and that's before getting into the stuff that doesn't have Curse in the name.
Furthermore, there are a lot of elements that could have been explained but simply... aren't. While a certain level of mystery is always nice, I would prefer to know the details of main characters abilities before they reveal their secret trump card that relies on specific applications of said details
That sort of thing is everywhere. Poor terminology and missing/late explanations pretty much killed my understanding of the story until the second time i read it, and this problem gets worse the longer the series goes.
Art: 7 - Watch the anime if you can, it's just better. A lot of good designs, but I find the actual art unsightly. Not bad by any means, but... i don't care for it. Gets hard to follow in places, especially when Mahito is around.
Characters: 10 - Contains over 70% more Aoi Todo than the next leading competitor! Good guys are entertainingly likeable, bad guys are entertainingly hatable. A few weak links, but other than a certain hammer wielding psychopath not living up to her place on the posters, no complaints here. That's a problem of advertising anyway, doesn't count against the story.
Enjoyment: 7 - I got confused and didn't understand what happened until my second readthrough. Worth looking at, but only if you plan on reading it several times to figure out what the hell is going on.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jun 20, 2021
Story: Not applicable
Art: Bad
Sound: Good
Character: Good
Enjoyment: 10
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One of those tragic cases where a potential great gets screwed over by a poor adaptation.
Record of Ragnarok is a series about action. There is no Story, no Moral, no Characters, no Point. Just action. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but it gets the point across. You want fights, this has fights. If you don't want to see historical figures beating the crap out of gods, then what are you doing here?
In order to appropriately carry the magnitude of the premise, this would need a massive budget and all the animators in the world. Alas, some mistake in the production accidentally led to this series being comprised mostly of still frames. Which means it falls awfully short compared to other fight-focused series it could be compared too.
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On a positive note, the actual art and sound design is good enough to carry the plot if you are willing to not look at the screen too closely.
The characters are all entertaining, even if we have limited time with most of them, and for the most the series does a good job at making them all fairly, even if there's a clear preference for spectacle over historical/mythical accuracy.
The fights are all suitably complex, with a good amount of forward and backward making most of them genuinely unpredictable
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Basically, go in expecting an anime and you will be let down. But go in expecting a motion-manga, and it will be worth your time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jun 18, 2021
You know what this is.
You know if you want to read it.
I didn't see the appeal, but people where rating it highly so I thought I would enjoy it.
I didn't like it.
Don't make the same mistakes as me. This is a niche series, and if you need to think about reading it, enough to actually read reviews about it, it's probably not your niche.
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Story: 1 - The story is incomprehensible, especially in the later arcs. There's definitely stuff going on, but I genuinely don't remember anything that happened beyond "Chainsaw action". The rules the world operate on are bizarrely inconsistent, and the pacing is so fast I could barely keep up. I don't know why Denji was fighting the main villain. That seems the sort of thing that needs to be more clear.
Art: 6 - The art is meh. Good paneling in some scenes, but the overall visuals could be a lot better. Probably will be when there's an anime.
Characters: 9 - Now, you will notice i gave "Characters' a higher rating than the rest of the series. That's only the ones who live more than five pages. This series has a very, very high body count, but anyone who actually manages to stick around is great. Power especially.
Enjoyment: 5 - I don't see why everyone likes this. I didn't.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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