Mr Otaku

Title: Jujutsu Kaisen Length: 24 x 24 minute episodes Genre: Action, comedy, thriller, horror, shounen Year of release: 2021 Before this review veers into the negative, let’s get this out of the way quickly: Jujutsu Kaisen is cool. Really, really cool. It slides between battles with that special pizazz, and its staggeringly well animated. The music, too, often bring sin rock and hip-hop undertones to orchestral highs, and has that right amount of style to fire the adrenaline. Sure, it sacrifices depth one too many times, and it’s maybe a bit too hasty moving moving between its arcs, but who cares? It’s cool. Even the premise manages to be a good mix of funny and… really, really cool. Ya boy Yuji Itadori is something of a class clown with incredible natural fitness, and after his gramps dies, he gets motivated to try and save people – problem is that he doesn’t have any power to fight the supernatural curses of the series, so, with a curse moments from killing him, he eats a special gra...