This is the most disappointing and yet daring show I saw while airing.
A team full of talent forced by their overlords to make an impossible possible, bring their incredible vision to life in horrendous conditions. What we got has no right to be so good, even acknowledging many inconsistency and production issues, doesn't take away from the monumental result achieved against the odds. While this alone would make this show into a beautiful, historic marvel of endurance, unfortunately the stinky story has to ruin my romantic view of this anime.
Rushed conclusion to the first arc and structural problems brought to the series by it are enough to stain this gem by themself. It seemed obvious to me that Geto died in the zero movie, so the decision to make an arc dedicated to him and Gojo after killing him off is awful. I don't care about a dead soon to be antagonist!
Wasted amazing potential of the confrontation between Toji and Megumi showcase how even when we get some interesting exceptions in this series of fights with uninteresting/underdeveloped characters, mostly nothing is achived. This is very annoying when some of the biggest fights in this climactic arc are between someone we know and some new or uninteresting dude. For a fighting anime power system is extremely bad and convoluted, with new rules coming out every second episode. At this point I feel like we should just stop pretending there are rules as the author clearly doesn't even care to mask his intentions.
Speaking about characters it is important to mention that there are too many of them and most of them are undeveloped, unfortunately that includes many of the important characters that have no right to be so cruely disregarded. When author decides to kill someone off it either happens to a main character which was underdeveloped and had no arc or it happens to some random about which I don't care. To mitigate this problem Jujutsu turns towards an old technique of flashback/sudden development before the death of a character. One of the most insulting flashbacks lasts more than half the episode, probably becouse author realizes that killing said character has no sense or right to happen, but wants to add shock value and speeden the development of Itadori.
The progression of this review shows adequately how my enthusiasm for this season progressed. There is a ton to admire in here, which is why I leave a positive mark for this season, unfortunately to admire this I had to endure mistake after mistake, building up a feeling of unfortunate frustration that clashes with the respect for the creators of this flawed product.
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