Yousef Eddin

Overview

Jujutsu Kaisen is a story that follows a high schooler named Yuji Itadori. Yuji eats a mummified cursed finger and becomes cursed with the spirit of a super evil and unredeemable LeBron James of the Jujutsu world. In this world, you can use your negative feelings to gain powers (techniques) and strengthen your body. We watch as Yuji gets traumatized, almost dies like three times, actually dies like twice, makes friends… who die and traumatize him even more, and develops friendships with people who don't die and are actually cool.

Actual Review

This season was pure ecstasy. Every single frame of animation was carefully curated by a talented artist. The music was also perfectly designed for each scene. The fights are so cool, with actual battle IQ involved. Side characters like Megumi, Yuta, and Maki got their own dedicated episodes where they got to be absolute badasses.

We get to watch Maki, who has no cursed energy at all, take on a corrupt and sexist institution, literally massacring the leaders… and the majority of their subordinates who perpetuate their idea of strength through cursed energy. Each scene was gorgeously hand-drawn, with symbolism that really shows.

Megumi gets his time to shine, showing off his battle IQ against reincarnated sorcerers — literally sorcerers from the past. The fight against Reggie, a reincarnated sorcerer whose technique is to "redo contracts," was awesome. This means that if he holds onto a receipt, he can "redo" that contract and summon whatever is on that receipt. This doesn't sound very strong until you realize that his clothes are literally an amalgamation of receipts. He can redo contracts like a two-day stay at a five-star hotel, complete with massages and healing. The fight was awesome, with Megumi showing off his domain and his actual battle IQ with his summons.

Yuta's episode is the final episode of the entire anime. The Sendai Colony (the name of the final episode) is the second-best anime episode of all time based on ratings, and that's for a reason. Yuta is the coolest guy in the entire show. We got to watch him fight two guys at the same time. The three-way domain expansion was absolutely bonkers.

Ryu was such an awesome antagonist whose idea was kind of sad… He lived, from an outsider's perspective, a fulfilling life. But to him, something was missing — his "dessert" was missing from the meal of life. He reincarnates to find that dessert. This guy literally fights for the love of the game.

Overview

Master spy Loid Forger (aka Twilight) is still out here trying to prevent war by playing house, except now the fake family situation is somehow even messier. His "daughter" Anya Forger can read minds and is barely holding it together at school, and his "wife" Yor Forger is a deadly assassin who thinks this is all normal family bonding. Season 3 doubles down on the chaos: secret identities almost get exposed every five minutes, political tensions rise, and somehow Anya is still the most competent (and most unhinged) member of the group. Loid is trying to save the world, Yor is trying to not accidentally kill her husband, and Anya just wants snacks and world peace (in that order).

Actual Review

This is a solid season! The animation was nice, the music was okay, and the story was good. We got a lot of Loid's backstory, which was really depressing. He was very humanized this season, we actually got to see that he genuinely cares about his family, especially when Anya gets kidnapped by a terrorist organization.

The spies vs. state police arc is the final arc, and it's full of action. A spy from WISE (the same organization Loid is in) is about to blow the whistle on all spy activity in Ostania. This arc involves multiple WISE agents trying to take down this whistleblower before he can hand over the data to the secret police. Yor's brother, who works for the state police, is assigned to the case. On top of that, Loid is also assigned by WISE to make sure this guy gets taken out.

Loid almost gets caught, and then Yor's brother tracks him down into the sewer, where Loid beats the hell out of Yuri until he passes out. He wakes up and gets no-diffed like three more times before finally staying down.

Loid and his coworker (who is infatuated with him) then take down the spy. Loid gets shot, and after all that, we return to the normal tone of the show. Loid goes back to pretending to be a perfect husband after almost getting exposed by Yuri, and that's how the season ends.

Overview

Elf girl who lived for over a thousand years and is obsessed with magic gets bored, fights a demon king with a D&D party of heroes whose leader has a crush on her, but she's far too socially unaware to realize it till over 100 years after his death. Frieren's goal is to get to the far north to where the demon king's former castle is so she can meet Himmel again in heaven (which is located far north for some reason). Frieren now goes up north with her new party: Stark, the warrior, and Fern, the mage.

Actual Review

This season was kind of a transitional period between Season 1 and Season 3. Season 1 is an S-tier, 5/5 anime, while Season 2 is more like a 3/5. Stark, who is the party's warrior, is definitely the MVP of this season. We get a lot of character development for him — he finally asks Fern out, fights stronger opponents, and confronts parts of his past.

The animation was great. A lot of the glamour this season comes from the fight scenes.

In the last arc, we re-meet Methode, a mage from the final arc of Season 1 (the First-Class Mage Exam), along with Genau. The two of them go to a town that was attacked by powerful demons, where they meet up with Frieren and her party. Genau and Stark split off from the team to protect the bodies from the demons, while Methode, Frieren, and Fern go on the offensive.

Stark and Genau fight an evil snake demon that controls magic swords at their maximum potential, even changing the weight of the swords depending on the situation. After a long, gorgeously animated battle, Stark and Genau defeat the snake demon, though they nearly die.

Meanwhile, Methode fights a sword-wielding demon — not as threatening as the snake one, but still a highly skilled fighter — while Fern faces a mage who uses fog as his weapon, essentially disabling her ability to see. After a strong display of teamwork, Methode finds a way to remove the fog, allowing Fern to disappear and completely annihilate the fog mage.

We also get to see Methode's insane fighting style: close combat (as a mage) combined with what are basically magical nukes on the battlefield.

Overview

Bald man who can literally end the plot with one punch is still out here being wildly underpaid, underappreciated, and somehow stuck doing grocery runs like he's not the strongest being in existence. Season 3 cranks the chaos up to unreasonable levels: monsters are evolving, the Hero Association is panicking, and every S-Class hero is either fighting for their life or their ego (usually both).

Actual Review

This sucked. I couldn't even finish it. The animation was bad, the story was solid, the music sucked and it was extremely cheesy.