Bleach, Hunter X Hunter, Soul Eater, Naruto, or basically
anything on Toonami are almost unanimously sewn into the fabric of every young boy’s adolescence
from ninjas, ghost people, metal guys, my childhood was set alit
by relatable main characters, cool action, and big milkers.
Thank you shounen, and thank you toonami.
But what’s cooler than watching these shows? Not watching the same fucking
show all over again. There comes a point in
every man’s life when he sees his grandpa sitting in a rocking chair and thinks…
“Damn this old fucker’s gotta go, I can’t do this no more.”
I can’t do it anymore Bleach, you’re too old.
I’m not gonna wipe you, I mean watch you for a third time.
I haven’t even seen Naruto once and I’m tired of it,
I just pretend I did when people ask. Listen the old stuff is DONE,
we can’t get that back. But we can get pretty damn close
by watching things like Jujutsu Kaisen.
Yuuji Itadori is a 15 year old student and natural born super-athlete.
He’s chilling after visiting his grandpa in the hospital
until he’s confronted by Megumi who reveals that Yuji’s friends are FUCKED
if they don’t retrieve a cursed object that they mistakenly mess around with.
One thing leads to another, and Yuji ends up having to eat
the cursed object to borrow its power and save everyone…
At the cost of the curse occasionally taking control of his body.
Which puts him in a pickle because now he can either be executed
by the society of curse hunters, or he can team up with them to consume the rest
of the cursed objects and THEN be executed. The show’s got everything I want,
it walks far enough from the old school classics to
maintain a feeling of freshness and originality while also clearly
borrowing from things like Bleach and Hunter x Hunter.
Come on, a 15 year old dude with colored hair that’s forced to gain the power of the
things he has to kill in order to save an experienced veterain in that
field is KINDA screaming bleach. (blEAAACH) see there it is.
But the things it brings to the table are pretty cool like the fights and magic system.
YOU- might have the power to be a shaman. Or you might not, some people end
up with the power to harness cursed energy.
With this energy, shamans are able to come up with unique techniques like being
able to see the weak point on anything or controlling minor curses.
But that variety doesn’t stop with the people, there’s also the curses that are just as unique;
there’s a volcano on this one’s head. You gotta imagine the sheer
SLOP some of these monsters are capable of bringing to the table;
the DOME this one could deliver is just…. Because of this diversity,
the fight scenes go crazy, there’s a lot of tactics and
problem solving that go into these FLUID magic battles.
Scenes like this are buttery smooth, it’s fun to watch even after reading the manga.
But it’s a high-profile shonen Jump series of course the fights look good,
is the show good beyond that? Yes.
The characters are all the shit, you of course have Yuji,
Megumi, Kekashi,
Panda, Yuji's split personality,
ect and they all remind me of that old school group of good guys,
you know what I’m talking about. The teens that go on potentially deadly missions
as a part of their training. I can’t really bring myself to find
anyone annoying. Although at the start,
I definitely had a problem with this character, I think we all know why.
I was like, “oh we have another bitchy tsundere femdom love interest for the main cha”-
wrong. Once you discover there’s
some depth to her character and
Yuuji's super social side brings out the good in her,
she really feels like one of the team. Yuuji is pretty cool his damn self.
One thing I like is that he started off older which almost trickles down
into the tone of the show. It’s extremely morbid or grotesque at times
and Yuuji will actually say curse words. He’s a really good guy with
a strong moral compass, but that doesn’t keep him from reality.
Sometimes people gotta die. Enough about the characters,
let’s get to the meat no dome required but heavily hinted at.
There’s all sorts of moral dilemmas, politics, and fucked up moments that cast
an exceedingly dark shadow over the atmosphere of the story.
While the humor definitely is there, it’s funny occasionally,
I’m really there for that edgy stuff. Which JJK has in abundance (hooray).
Afterall, Yuuji literally agrees to be KILLED after his
job is done which is interesting in itself. As he steadily collects
cursed objects in front of your eyes, you begin thinking to yourself,
“is he gonna run away when he finishes up, is this gonna be a sad ending,
is it kinda gay to suck down a dude’s fingers in one gulp like that if he’s dead?”,
I don’t know. And that’s what’s good about the story,
I should be wanting to know more. The anime isn’t that far at the moment,
but the story as a whole ramps it up a couple notches,
give it like 3 more episodes. Currently the anime really is not caught up
to where the story reaches the next level, it’s gonna take maybe like 3 more episodes.
So just trust that it’s wildly popular for a reason,
there’s some really good character development, plot points and jaw dropping action soon to come.
Is it gonna be as good as bleach? Probably not, it’s a little to early to say,
but I can say that it THOROUGHLY entertains me, and has been for longer than a year
I mean FUCK me, right??? It’s not like deserve
some recognition for calling out good shows a year in advance
or anything right??? FUCK-woah
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