I loved the first season of Jujutsu Kaisen. It had everything: interesting complex characters, an interesting world, great fight scenes, clever writing... It had the potential to truly be one of the all-time Shounen greats. Instead, what we got in the second part of season 2 completely undermines everything the first season carefully set up.

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It started off pretty well - with a look into the very interesting past of Gojou and Getou, their friendship, and what caused it to all crumble in the end. And the Mechamaru story was also very interesting. Unfortunately, straight after that, we get to the problematic part - the Shibuya Incident Arc, or as I'd like to call it the show-killing disaster. The biggest threat yet is upon our heroes, the curses prepared their biggest attack yet, with a very sly plan of also trapping Gojou so that he can't influence the events. This idea sounds interesting in theory, since Gojou is too OP removing him from the picture should make things way more dangerous. However, it also makes Gojou look pretty weak. He can just be imprisoned that easily? Really? And then he doesn't show up at all again in the season? What a waste.

But okay, sure - let's go with it for now you might say. But what happens here as a consequence ruins the show completely for me. So many characters that had interesting stories and potential for way more are simply killed without a thought. And since so many characters are separated, the story feels very fragmented - and not in a good way. You don't get a good feeling of what everyone's up to while others are fighting, it feels like some characters are just standing there doing nothing while something big is happening elsewhere. Sukuna is also released here, and he spends way too much power on a curse that should be nowhere near his power level while destroying a huge chunk of the city. Some might say that's impressive, but it makes everything feel a bit too grand for only the show's second season. This whole arc feels like it should have been somewhere towards the end, and yet here we are mourning many great characters and witnessing power levels unseen before... while the most powerful character is trapped in a cube... Also, there is a huge fight between Itadori and Mahito that lasts way too long and becomes so boring with Mahito having seemingly infinite tricks up his sleeve. It drags for so long that it makes Mahito less interesting as a character. He can seemingly do anything, but his motivation and character are very weak. Finally, when it's finished we get to the fake Getou character again. We're told that he's some legendary evil sorcerer. Bleh. Never mentioned before, and this should mean something? At least set him up cleverly, mention him at least somewhere before. [EDIT: I've been informed he has been mentioned in season 1. Still, a bit more build up would have been great. Not sure if that part was as forgetable for everyone else as it was for me?] In the last two episodes, so many bullshit explanations are given, and so much information is presented in such a short time that I became overwhelmed and very bored. None of this matters, it was just a bunch of uninteresting deus ex machinas. I can't even pretend to say I understand much of anything that happened here, but I can for sure say that it was a bit much. Way too much for the show's second season. We didn't get enough time to appreciate the little things, which is something the first season did so well. I'm extremely disappointed, and never before was I this disappointed with a show's continuation. I'm not sure if they can save it from here, I've lost faith in this story, and I say this with great pain in my heart.