Why do you like Jujutsu Kaisen?

[RepresentingWrath]

@TheMonotonePuppet I thought of asking you personally, but I felt like it would be better to gather more opinions. Personally, I dropped it after 31 chapters. I would've dropped it even earlier, but since it was hyped(relatively) so much here, I gave it way more chances.

To make it clear. I do not say it's bad. I do not say you should find it boring. I say, I find it boring, it is boring to me. I would appreciate if you won't get into comparisons, and say what you like about this work. Double appreciation if you share how many, approximate number is fine, shounens did you read or watch. Titles don't matter, only number matters.

 

[RepresentingPride]

I don't like it. But I didn't hate it either.

 

[MatchaChocolate69]

It's the mainstream shonen for this generation.
We have seen better before.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

It's the mainstream shonen for this generation.
We have seen better before.

I would appreciate if you won't get into comparisons,

 

[MatchaChocolate69]

I'm sorry, you're right, but if I have to point out the main flaw, it's precisely that it gives the impression of having been seen before.
It's not bad, the drawings and the fights are good.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Good art, awesome fights, compelling and insane characters, real character stakes, and just enjoying the martial art magic beatdown with the boys. The plot could use some work.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I'm sorry, you're right, but if I have to point out the main flaw, it's precisely that it gives the impression of having been seen before.
It's not bad, the drawings and the fights are good.

I understand, but this it not about dislike or flaws. It's about why you LIKE it. I can elaborate on why I don't like it, but that would defeat the purpose of my thread, and invite too much drama that I don't want this time.

 

[LuoirM]

never seen it but really enjoyed the meme narration, made my own version of it

 

[georgelee5786]

I like punching

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I like the anime. It's like an action porn shonen, but the pacing is admittedly fast if you are looking for something super deep. The animation is nice, and I find it pretty funny at times. I also like the art.

I have watched/read a lot of shonen, so I am not sure of the exact number. Maybe like 20?

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I watched the first season of the anime, but nothing beyond that. One thing for me was I just thought all the villains were either extremely boring or too goofy for me to take seriously.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

@TheMonotonePuppet I thought of asking you personally, but I felt like it would be better to gather more opinions. Personally, I dropped it after 31 chapters. I would've dropped it even earlier, but since it was hyped(relatively) so much here, I gave it way more chances.

To make it clear. I do not say it's bad. I do not say you should find it boring. I say, I find it boring, it is boring to me. I would appreciate if you won't get into comparisons, and say what you like about this work. Double appreciation if you share how many, approximate number is fine, shounens did you read or watch. Titles don't matter, only number matters.

It is everything I would love about shonen without the flaws of most shonen.

For example, female characters that, while they don’t have a major impact, they at least rely on their own strength as well as their teams, rather than being a sinking rock for season after season. They actually deal the blows and get their own fights. Mei mei and Kugisaki Nobara being prime examples.

Perversion, when introduced, is not shown as a good thing. Again, Mei Mei. She is shown to have an incestual, pedophilic relationship with her younger cousin, which parallels Nanami (the based man that he is) who stays and dies to help, desiring nothing more than a vacation in Malaysia, while Mei Mei has escaped the battle, is now in Malaysia with her brainwashed cousin who is willing to die for her. She is disgusting. And the anime does not sanction that. Which is really nice.

The martial arts, as @Paul_Tromba pointed out, are astonishingly amazing, and are consistently flawless.

An actually well-done War arc. Let me tell you this: no popular shonen anime has done that. None. There are consequences. They donthings up and then not fulfil them.

The villains grow and change and adapt. They are real in ways that other villains aren’t. They do roleplay, have their own interests that combat with others, backstab and predict backstabbing, play board games, recuperate from massive injuries in spas, etc.
Tell me a group of villains that does that? If you can point out an anime with such a flawless cast of villains that have their own dynamic similar to that, I will immediately begin reading.

And most important of all…
The MC’s life is Iike “plot armor? What is that? Can I eat it?”

 

[RepresentingPride]

I like the anime. It's like an action porn shonen, but the pacing is admittedly fast if you are looking for something super deep. The animation is nice, and I find it pretty funny at times. I also like the art.

I have watched/read a lot of shonen, so I am not sure of the exact number. Maybe like 20?

20 is a lot?
What did I do...

 

[Deleted member 84247]

20 is a lot?
What did I do...

It's more than 20, but only around that many are probably what you'd think of when you think of Shonen.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

It is everything I would love about shonen without the flaws of most shonen.

For example, female characters that, while they don’t have a major impact, they at least rely on their own strength as well as their teams, rather than being a sinking rock for season after season. They actually deal the blows and get their own fights. Mei mei and Kugisaki Nobara being prime examples.

Perversion, when introduced, is not shown as a good thing. Again, Mei Mei. She is shown to have an incestual, pedophilic relationship with her younger cousin, which parallels Nanami (the based man that he is) who stays and dies to help, desiring nothing more than a vacation in Malaysia, while Mei Mei has escaped the battle, is now in Malaysia with her brainwashed cousin who is willing to die for her. She is disgusting. And the anime does not sanction that. Which is really nice.

The martial arts, as @Paul_Tromba pointed out, are astonishingly amazing, and are consistently flawless.

An actually well-done War arc. Let me tell you this: no popular shonen anime has done that. None. There are consequences. They donthings up and then not fulfil them.

The villains grow and change and adapt. They are real in ways that other villains aren’t. They do roleplay, have their own interests that combat with others, backstab and predict backstabbing, play board games, recuperate from massive injuries in spas, etc.
Tell me a group of villains that does that? If you can point out an anime with such a flawless cast of villains that have their own dynamic similar to that, I will immediately begin reading.

And most important of all…
The MC’s life is Iike “plot armor? What is that? Can I eat it?”

I'm sorry, but I have to say that there are too many comparisons, or statements that are borderline comparison.

 

[RepresentingPride]

An actually well-done War arc. Let me tell you this: no popular shonen anime has done that. None. There are consequences. They donthings up and then not fulfil them.

I didn't try to search in my memories for lot of example, but isn't there lot of consequences in the war between humans and ghoul in the War arc of tokyo ghoul? Even the mc best friend die and he had to carry his body.

Also, you shouldn't talk about the mc of this story, he bland and there like 40 characters other than him who could have fit in better than him for the spot of mc in that universe.
Now that I think about it, one of the reason I didn't like it is because of the MC, it's like the mc of tokyo revenger, useless shit carried by the second cast.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I didn't try to search in my memories for lot of example, but isn't there lot of consequences in the war between humans and ghoul in the War arc of tokyo ghoul? Even the mc best friend die and he had to carry his body.

Ghoul is not a shounen, it is a seinen. One Piece is a shounen, and the consequences there are real.

 

[RepresentingPride]

Ghoul is not a shounen, it is a seinen.

Its not?

One Piece is a shounen, and the consequences there are real.

Right, I forgot the donuts.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Its not?

There's no way you can have THAT much gore, and still be rated like 12+ or something. Same for AOT.

 

[RepresentingPride]

There's no way you can have THAT much gore, and still be rated like 12+ or something. Same for AOT.

Bleach is still a shonen while the last season are rated 17+