Jujutsu Kaisen kicks off in a really slow, generic way, basically indistinguishable from any other shounen out there. Nothing stands out at first. Then the Shibuya Incident Arc hits and it’s amazing: stunning, gripping, genuinely impressive. But after that? The story turns into pure nothingness all the way to the end. The author shows zero respect for his own characters or the narrative foundations he built, tossing aside logic and doing whatever he wants simply because he can. He also seems hyper-aware of his fanbase, making decisions purely for shock value. It honestly feels like he’s messing with the readers on purpose, just because he feels like it.

From Promising to Painfully Directionless
Okay, hear me out. JJK had everything going for it in the beginning: cool premise, fun trio, hype fights, and that early promise of “oh this could actually be something special.” And then… the wheels fell off. Slowly at first. Then violently.

As much as I don’t want to drag Gege, the writing just does not hold up. The art? No comment—I’m not touching that war. But the storytelling? Oof it’s like watching someone build a house on unstable ground. Every time they add a new floor, everything below it starts cracking.

And the worst part is, you can feel the inconsistency creeping in. Every arc starts with potential and ends with confusion. Plot threads get introduced and then abandoned like they were never important. Themes that should be carrying emotional weight get tossed aside in favor of sudden shock-value twists. It’s like Gege keeps sprinting toward “big moments” without actually building the path that leads to them. There’s also this sense of panic in the writing as if he’s constantly trying to top the last thing he did, even when the foundation clearly isn’t strong enough to support all that escalation. Instead of developing characters, he drops new lore bombs. Instead of resolving setups, he throws in more rules. Instead of creating emotional payoff, he relies on spectacle to distract the reader from the lack of narrative coherence.

It’s exhausting, honestly. You start noticing that the story moves not because it wants to, but because it has to—like the author is dragging the plot forward by force, hoping no one will notice how messy it’s gotten. And by the time you do notice, it's already too late. The damage is done, and the cracks are showing everywhere.

The Trio That Got Forgotten by Their Own Story
The biggest crime is how the trio—Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara—basically become background noise in their own story. They should be the emotional core. Instead, they’re treated like NPCs wandering around the plot while the author gets distracted by every side character that pops up. It’s insane how a manga that started with such a tight cast ended up feeling like a rotating gacha of random backstories we didn’t ask for.

And honestly, this is where you feel Gege's disrespect for the foundation he built. Characters don’t grow, they just… teleport emotionally. Motivation changes on a whim. And the trio you were supposed to care about? They become props for whatever shock-factor he wants to pull that week.

It’s a complete mess, mainly because the author is overly obsessed with glorifying and giving endless spotlight to his main antagonist. As a result, every other character gets sidelined with barely any development, and the author himself seems to lose track of the rules and logic he originally established about Cursed Energy and Cursed Techniques.

Writing That Trips Over Itself Every Chapter
The pacing? It’s like Gege slammed the gas and the brakes at the same time. Moments that need buildup get skipped. Arcs that need breathing room get suffocated. And the arcs that absolutely need direction? They get tossed into the void like “good luck figuring this out.”

And on top of that, the manga starts falling into the most basic shounen traps. It becomes a typical cookie-cutter shounen where all the tropes are present, but none of them are done well. The character designs might look cool, but there’s no real emotional attachment because the story doesn’t give you time to connect with anyone. Characters die so quickly and abruptly that the moments feel empty instead of impactful.

The battles end up being flashy but hollow—full of sudden power-ups and convenient abilities that appear out of nowhere. The storytelling becomes chaotic and directionless, jumping from one idea to another without proper setup. The power scaling is all over the place too; characters keep getting stronger for no clear reason, with zero buildup or explanation. Things just… happen, and not in a good way.

The Culling Game: Where Everything Officially Implodes
By the time we reach the Culling Game, the story has already trapped itself. Every promising route is cut off, every character arc is paused or abandoned, and every theme that once mattered gets tossed aside.

This arc feels like the final confirmation that the author has no long-term plan. It’s a maze of contradictions, unnecessary characters, rule-breaking, and shock-value moments stitched together with no emotional or narrative coherence.

At this point, the manga isn’t building toward a finale, it’s limping toward one. The ending is practically doomed before it even arrives.

Convoluted for No Good Reason
The thing with Jujutsu Kaisen is that it tries way too hard to be complex for no real benefit. The author keeps piling on extra rules and explanations just to push the plot forward, but most of them end up feeling inconsistent, confusing, or stretched way beyond logic. And honestly, the main appeal ends up being the action—people want to see chaotic, brutal fights where characters tear each other apart in the coolest way possible. That’s where all the forced edginess comes from. But it’s surface-level, because the motivations and reasoning behind everything are weak and one-note. Sure, a few characters and scenes land, but most of them feel empty and exist solely to justify another fight happening.

A Final Verdict: Wasted Potential on a Massive Scale
JJK came in swinging like it wanted to be the next big shounen pillar… but somewhere along the way it shot itself in both feet, both knees, and maybe the shoulder too. And now it’s crawling toward the finale with nothing left to say.

If someone asks me about Jujutsu Kaisen now?
__Great premise. Great start.
Horrible execution.
Zero storytelling stamina.
A modern tragedy in real time.__