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title: 'Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: A Fat Review'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=rjybWKq0JSc'
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date: 2026-06-14
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# Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: A Fat Review

> Source: [Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: A Fat Review](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rjybWKq0JSc)

## Summary

This video is a comprehensive review of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3, covering episodes 1 through 12. The reviewer provides detailed analysis of key fights, character moments, and anime-original additions, praising the animation, music, and direction while critiquing minor pacing issues.

### Key Points

- **Yuji's Trauma and Confession** [00:00] — The season opens by highlighting Yuji's trauma from Shibuya, culminating in his confession to Higuruma, a standout moment.
- **Season 3 Music and Atmosphere** [00:50] — JJK excels in music and atmosphere, with season 3 pushing these elements to a new level, especially in the opening sequence.
- **Anime-Original Scenes** [01:10] — Many scenes, like the entire episode 1 opening, are 100% anime original, adding new content but sometimes causing continuity issues.
- **Yuji vs. Tokyo Curse Spirits** [03:40] — The anime expands a brief manga fight into a memorable sequence with godly color schemes and lighting.
- **UT vs. Yuji Fight Accuracy** [05:44] — The theater fight between UT and Yuji is accurately depicted as one-sided, with UT holding back to land a clean hit.
- **Episode 3: Visual Masterpiece** [10:41] — Episode 3 is one of the best-looking episodes, with inventive use of Tenkin's barrier and holographic projections to explain lore.
- **Episode 4: Maki's Massacre** [19:47] — Episode 4 features Maki's awakening and massacre of the Zenin clan, with stunning selective color and choreography.
- **Episode 5: Hakari Introduction** [32:24] — Episode 5 introduces Kinji Hakari with excellent character acting and direction, though some scenes may be rotoscoped.
- **Episode 6: Megumi vs. Kurara** [43:54] — Episode 6 focuses on Megumi's strategic fight against Kurara, with great sound design and tension-building music.
- **Episode 7: Culling Games Begin** [55:04] — Episode 7 sets up the Culling Games with stunning background art and a sense of scale, as Yuji and Megumi enter the colony.
- **Episode 8: Higuruma's Backstory** [64:33] — Episode 8 delves into Higuruma's backstory as a lawyer, with rotoscoped character acting and a single key animator.
- **Episode 9: Yuji vs. Higuruma** [75:44] — Episode 9 features the best hand-to-hand fight in JJK, with perfect blend of writing, animation, and music.
- **Episode 10: Megumi vs. Reggie** [88:47] — Episode 10 showcases Megumi's strategic fight against Reggie, with Takaba providing comedic relief and time-saving techniques.
- **Episode 11: Sendai Colony Introduction** [100:33] — Episode 11 introduces the Sendai Colony deadlock, with stunning visuals and music setting up the upcoming fight.
- **Episode 12: Sendai Colony Fight** [111:58] — Episode 12 adapts the Sendai Colony fight, with massive upscales for all characters and a perfect balance of one-to-one and creative freedom.

### Conclusion

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 is a visual and narrative masterpiece, with Mappa elevating the source material through inventive animation, music, and direction. The season sets a new standard for anime adaptations.

## Transcript

I love how the first scene of JJK season
3 was dedicated to immediately reminding
you how deeply traumatized Yuji became
following the events of the Shabuya
incident. Especially since the
culmination of Yugji's guilt led to one
of the best moments in season 3 and
possibly Yugji's best moment in the
entire series, his confession to
Higuruma. Now, it's hard to tell because
of how strangely this episode is
structured, but Yuji just stops to aura
farm on a ghost freak looking cursed
spirit in the middle of a genuine fight
for his life here. And yes, I said
cursed spirit. So, all of you noodle
brain GGK fans who were yelling at me
months and months ago that this is
actually Ra can suck it, bro. Because
last I checked, Ra has not got a hand
sticking out of her [ __ ] Eugi runs
and dives straight out of this
skyscraper window. And then this
absolutely like leg shaking ear
orgasming chill ambiance ASMR type music
kicks in to immediately immerse you in
the post Shabuya setting. Now I think
JJK has always excelled at music
aesthetic and atmosphere in general, but
season 3 pushes all of those things to a
completely different level. Something
else this season excels at though is
anime only extensions. Actually
extensions isn't even the right word. A
lot of the moments, such as this entire
episode 1 opening sequence, is simply a
new scene. It's 100% anime original.
Anyway, after stealing some random
family's protein bars, Yugji gets
manhandled by Ghost Freak and dragged
all the way into the sky before some
unseen present starts moving like Sukuna
and severs its arm. We see that my
glorious king UTU is the off-screen
presence that handled Ghost Freak. And
now he has Yuji pinned down in a
theater. And like I said, this entire
opening sequence is anime original,
which is cool cuz new content, but the
continuity doesn't really make any
sense. It's basically one of those,
>> you're probably wondering how I ended up
in this situation.
>> And the openings, except you never
actually find out how you ended up in
the situation. I mean, Yugji and Uta
start their chase right next to each
other, but somehow UT ends up in a
skyscraper halfway across the city. But
whatever it it's one of the very, very
few critiques I have of the season, so
who even cares? Eyeso. Eyeso genuinely,
bro. I hit Io Isizo in my dreams. Even
more so since watching that insane final
episode. Anyway, now he is in it. In the
manga, he's cool. He's all right. Bit
weird. Definitely opinionated, but I
forgot that Ma are Loki Goonas for men
because they made this man a completely
different creature. Imagine your anime
debut being some [ __ ] about my cousin
got hella boobies. Okay, I might be
paraphrasing slightly, but that's the
gist of it, right? They've even got a
whole anime only scene where Mary's mom
ties Na's laces which low-key got me
thinking Mara might just straight up
hate women. Now despite being the
richest dudes around with the exception
of Satar Gojo of course the Zenin
brothers decide to hold their circle
jerk meeting in a janitor's closet of
all places but it is hella
claustrophobic and does make the whole
thing really tense which is pretty dope
to be honest. Now this old dude who's
lowkey built like a Mr. Whippy Ice Cream
pulls up to tell Nia that he's the new
Zening clan head.
>> Psych. Yeah, that's definitely got a
sting, bro. Like, imagine being
remembered as the [ __ ] that got his
[ __ ] stolen by potential man of all
people. Obviously, now has to unleash
his inner Toji and go murder some
teenagers, specifically Yugji, so that
he can learn Mega Meow and then handle
him. When you really deep it, though,
now you Loki would have died if UT
didn't pull up to save him. Like, bro
lost to just Choso. Without UT to save
him from the Yugji Choso combo, it's 10
billion% now over, bro. Anyway, we
finally end up back on the bridge where
season 2 ended. Now, in the manga, Yugji
versus the Tokyo Curse Spirits is dope.
It's only like three pages, and the
second I move on, I forget it even
happens, but it is dope all the same. In
the anime, though, yeah, this Goshono
guy took these three pages and dashed
that [ __ ] out the window because this
was a whole different thing entirely.
Honestly, I still think it's one of my
favorite sequences in the season. It's
definitely one of the most memorable for
sure. The color scheme and lighting is
actually just godly. Like, the water is
purple, sort of similar to cursed spirit
blood, and there's this cold, almost
dreamlike aesthetic. Anyway, Yugji falls
down in a ridiculously dynamic shot
before being grabbed by what looks like
the foreskin curse spirit and dashed
around the city in another
breathtakingly well animated sequence.
Yuji then lurs the hordes of freakazoids
into a tunnel, but it's a trap because
they get obliterated by piercing cinema.
While Choso yaps away about war gods and
such, Nia then hits us with an
annoyingly cool entrance. Bro, listen,
it's cool, okay? He is a cool character.
Mappa gave him that BBL. All right, I'm
not a misogynist. I promise. Big up
women and all that, but I'm not going to
sit here and blatantly lie. Now Zenin is
cool as [ __ ] I mean, they got bro out
here looking like he's playing Beat
Saber on Choozo's face. Imagine having
the audacity to turn your back on your
opponent and flick your hair mid beat
down. Now's aura only goes downhill from
here, though, because what happens next
really puts into perspective how dulu
this dude is. Bro thinks he can stand
with Toji and Gojo, but UT's aura alone
is enough to put skid marks on his
underwear and have him begging for his
life. And speaking of UT, holy Aura,
Utah's pink cursed energy overflowing
the city still makes my butthole clench,
bro. Imagine having Aura so intense that
people be mistaking you for literal god
because that's basically what Yugji did.
Who knows why he was arching his back
like that, though. I'm not even going to
question it. Now, Choso switched up on
his whole war god thing real quick
because he tells Yugji to run or he'll
die, which is exactly what Yugji does.
Runs then dies. Or more accurately,
Yugji runs. UT immediately catches up to
him, but then Goshono's internet cut out
or something because we end up right
back in the theater scene from the
opening. And dude, the logic ain't
logicing. How did they go from being
next to each other to in two different
skyscrapers hundreds of meters away from
each other and then also, how did they
start running away from Choso and Noya,
but then end up in a theater right next
to where they started? It doesn't make
any sense, bro. But whatever, it is what
it is. I'm going to drop a truth bomb on
you guys now though that a lot of you
are not going to want to hear, but the
fight between UT and Yuji in the theater
is actually a really accurate depiction
of how this fight should go down. I know
it looks stiff and slow and there's no
insane sucka cuts or moons exploding,
but this fight was never really like
that because it isn't actually a fight.
At this point, UT is leagues above
Yugji. If he wanted Yugji properly dead,
his head would be rolling on the floor
before he could even try to dodge.
Sendai Colony is now proof of that. But
UT needs to land a clean hit to the
heart so he can do his healing thing and
revive Yuji. Which is why I really like
how this scene makes it look as if UT is
having to match Yuji's pace. He's being
delicate, you know, and it does look
like it. I know you're going to call me
a delusional agenda pushing Glazer, but
that's something a delusional agenda
pusher would say. So, [ __ ] you. I was
very upset that they removed the car
scene, though. I'm not going to lie.
Anyway, the visual representation of the
difference between their cursed energy
was mental. And I know it was always
going to be mental, but seeing it
actually, you know, on the screen was
crazy. I mean, UT's aura is so hefty
they had to whip out the 3D model to
show it. Bro, also w too cameo. I was
not ready for that. Playtime is over for
UT now, though. Bosch knee to the
stomach. UT then reveals that he was
secretly trained in the UK, so he slices
Yugji's stomach wide open. Yuji fights
back and snaps UT's katana, but it meant
nothing because UT simply dips out and
leaves the rest to RA. Rough. The second
Yuji felt Ra's aura and knew he was
dropping fat logs in his pants. Bro, he
already knew it was raps. Like, I mean,
Ra had him in a bear hug so tight he
low-key forgot he was the main
character, so all he could do was watch
as UT slowly pushed the blade through
his heart.
Now, for some reason, Mappa decided
seeing Sukuna's reaction to being
murdered would be way more interesting
from the back of his head than seeing
his face. I mean, look at this man's
genuinely shocked expression turn to
delight in the manga when he discovers a
sorcerer as exciting as UT Aotu. But
nah, apparently we didn't need that.
Anyway, time for peak fiction.
Misogynist versus the HIV devil. Yeah,
so Nia was definitely not doing all that
in the three pages of manga that this
fight got. But no, Mappa said, "Screw
the source material, bro. We're going to
make him hit Choso with a damn Jojo's
move." And you know what? I love it.
Now, I wasn't the biggest fan of how
loose some of the fights in season 2
got. But for me, this was oh, this was
beautiful. Now, I'm no animation pro. I
can't even try and explain why I feel
this way. But even though Nia was
low-key turning into a crayon smudge on
my screen, I just thought it looked
dope. Like, the drawings felt strong
even when things got loose. I I don't
know. It's really hard to explain. The
lighting, the music, the lighting, the
smooth ass animation aura, the lighting,
the dope blue projection sorcery effect,
Choo's blood, the lighting, and I guess
the lighting too. Whatever. Choso then
releases his fluids all over the tunnel
and so Nia dashes away. Well, he tries
dashing away. It's kind of embarrassing
though because how is he narrowly
outrunning a wave of blood way slower
than piercing blood which is literally
just Mark 1. Everything then gets
incredibly wibbly wobbly. Like I'm
surprised my furniture didn't start
floating or some [ __ ] during this scene
because it dead ass looked like some
freaky exorcism [ __ ] I mean, now Beto
was over here casually sideswiping a
whole ass flood from Dargon while his
bum ass son is just going high diff with
a bucket of red paint. Generational
fraud, bro. I'm telling you. And let's
not even talk about how Choso magically
teleports to where Noa is and absolutely
fries him with a supernova. Now is
honestly so lucky pulled up at this
exact moment to save his ass. Bro pulled
up like this a regular day at the office
and had Choso [ __ ] his pants from
his aura alone. I'm pretty sure Uta
didn't even hit him here, bro. Choso
just looked at him and collapsed
spontaneously. Shall I heal you now? Oh,
I know that felt good having your girl's
number one hater on his knees like that.
Bro lost so much aura you'd think he'd
been hit by chapter 7 bankruptcy. If if
you know, you know. Now, obviously Yugji
isn't dead because he's the main
character. Yugji and UT then have a
little yap session around a campfire
that I can't really be bothered to
explain, but the TLDDR is that UT calls
Gojo bitchless. Megumi admits that he's,
you know, put on a few pounds since last
we saw him. And then we see, oh, it's
Ryu, Uro, Reggie, and Higuruma. Let's
go. The goats of the whole season. Oh,
and and that zappy dude is there as
well, I guess. I suppose I should also
mention how Yuji had a flashback to his
mom being Kenjaku, which meant Kjaku was
a woman taking back shots from his dad.
Whatever. I'm sure you guys understand
that. Charzo then logged back into the
game and told them all to get their
asses to Jujutsu High, where we see post
cookage Mari. And damn, she looks cool
as hell. Also, Yuki, respectfully, um,
please sit on my face. Honestly, when I
got to this point, I'd forgotten that
nobody except Yugji actually has a clue
who Choo is. [screaming]
And it's even funnier when you watch
this scene and realize nobody gives a
[ __ ] Seriously though, like, why have
we not cleaned up the mess that Toji
made here 12 years ago, bro? How have we
still got brains and blood on the floor?
I mean, I get Tenken's got [ __ ] to do,
but if you're not going to hire a
jiu-jitsu janitor, then get off your
lazy ass and just do it yourself, bro.
It will take 5 minutes. Look at her
standing there like she done something
cool. We know what you are. Anyway, uh
that's episode 2, I guess.
JJK season 3, episode 3 is one of the
most inventive, exciting, and visually
impressive episodes that Mappa have ever
created. I honestly do not think it
would be crazy to say this is the best
looking episode of Jiujitsu Kaisen to
date. Sure, there's no fights or insane
action, which to some might make it
boring or lackluster. And it's
definitely a big information dump that
would have even manga readers a bit
confused, which doesn't really say much
because comprehension isn't exactly this
fandom specialty, but you get what I
mean. Despite being given two full
chapters of pure dialogue and slightly
mind-boggling exposition to work with
though, Muppa and season 3 director
Shotoshono managed to not only create an
incredibly engaging episode of anime,
but they also managed to make several
huge improvements from the manga.
Actually, that's just a blatant
understatement. This is leagues better.
Overall, my favorite thing about this
episode is just how unbelievably
stunning it is, which is something I'll
properly break down in just a moment.
But if I personally had to choose one
specific moment that really made my jaw
drop, even as a manga reader, it was
this right here. This image is just way
cooler than some of you realize. Because
in the entirety of JJK's history,
whether it be anime, manga, or even
bonus material, we have never ever seen
what a sick size user looks like beside
Saturu Gojo. This image does not exist
in the manga. Ten simply explains
everything with words. So, imagine my
surprise when they start talking about
that time a six eyes user and a star
plasma vessel appeared on the day of the
merger and then we actually saw it in a
visual. Sure, it's just the back of a
guy's head in an incredibly lowquality
and staticky shot, which reveals pretty
much nothing, but there is just
something really exciting about finally
seeing a six eyes user that isn't Satur
Gojo. Plus, I thought people would find
it pretty interesting that he doesn't
have white hair, because believe it or
not, not all Gojo clan members have to
have the same color hair. I'll get into
the episode properly now, okay? But I
just wanted to fanboy over that moment
for a second because it really did take
me by surprise. I hoped Smapper would
make use of Tenkin space and create
visual representations of what was being
described, but I did not think they'd
actually create a visual for a moment
like that. And slight tangent real
quick, but word on the street is if you
like this video and subscribe to the
channel, Ayuki Sukumo will come into
your life and fix all your problems.
Anyway, this episode adapts exactly two
chapters of the manga, chapter 145 and
146. In the manga, the gang walk into
Tenin's big white barrier and they talk.
That's it. They literally just stand
there and yap, which is fine for manga.
To be honest, I feel like Mappa probably
could have gotten away with a pretty
one-to-one adaptation of this
conversation. Sure, it wouldn't exactly
break the internet, but it would just be
considered a necessary setup for the
absolute peak fiction to come. But this
is Mappa and Goshono we're talking
about. This is pretty much a passion
project for the staff at this point,
meaning mediocrity simply was not an
option. The lack of fights and intense
action meant they could be way more
in-depth with the details and really
focus on the art. In fact, there was
practically no major character movement
at all, at least not compared to your
average episode. So, they could really
go all out with how it looked. Every
single character looks the absolute best
they ever have in literally every single
frame they are in, especially because of
the red line art, which really makes
them pop out of the plain background.
And oh my god, Yuki, please just punch
me right in the face, dude. You know
what? [ __ ] it. Choso can have in on it
too. Both. I want both of them. I love
you to Mari, but Yuki and Choso are such
a goated power couple and they look so
amazing together in this episode that
it's making me so excited to see. You
know what? The whole thing is just super
cinematic, but also super tense at
times, too. For example, once they enter
the barrier, the entrance starts very
slowly moving away from us. At first, it
was such a slow panning movement that I
wondered if it was actually happening
until Yugji turned around and noticed
that the entrance was fading slowly out
of view. Tenin then gets right to the
point with their explanation of the
culling game and Kjaku's plan to use it
as a means of collecting the cursed
energy required to force the collective
evolution of humanity by merging them
all with Ten, who he intends to acquire
via cursed spirit manipulation. Now,
reading all of these nitty-gritty and
slightly plot convenient details of
Kjaku's evil plan for the first time can
just feel like you've been hit with an
unlimited void. That [ __ ] would
overwhelm anyone. But Mara made it way
more viewer friendly by actually
utilizing Tenin's barrier and creating
this really cool holographic projector
effect so that both the characters and
the audience have a visual road map of
how all the key events in JJK link
together and what they all mean for the
future. It's honestly such an inventive
way of making the explanation easier to
digest and also making the episode
engaging because holy [ __ ] the whole
thing was just so beautiful to look at.
My favorite part was when the entire
place turned black and red, leaving them
in this digital simulation looking place
that Tenin manipulates to create visuals
of what we actually see in the manga.
Tenkin summoning text cards to represent
certain events or people and then slowly
linking all of them together throughout
the episode until you are left with this
massive chronological mind map was also
an awesome addition. Tenkin then just
starts from the very beginning with an
explanation of why they look the way
that they look. And this was shown by
Tenkin spawning a load of images of
themsel to demonstrate how what people
see is just their body. Tenken's soul
has actually become the very world
itself following the events of Hidden
Inventory 12 years ago thanks to Toji
Fushiguru killing Rico Omanite which I
really didn't need to see again by the
way. It was depressing enough the first
time. You didn't need to do that to me
mapper. It's just rude. Ten then goes on
to explain how fate ties themsself the
star plasma vessel and the six eyes all
together in an amazing visual. They
continue on to explain that because Toji
escaped cursed energy, Toji and Toji
alone was able to finally break the
chains of fate that tied these three
things together. And of course, we got
another visual just showing the goat
himself because Gagege loves any
opportunity to make Toji relevant in the
story. This image of Toji and the image
of Ghetto, which follows immediately
after, are actually just direct onetoone
adaptations of the manga panels, though.
The only difference is that in the
manga, they weren't shown as physical
holographic images. Pretty much every
other visual we see besides the bird's
eye view of Japan and the two cursed
tools is an anime only edition though.
So Tenken's shadow clones, the older six
eyes user, the actual six eyes, the text
cards, and the big panels that state
each coloring game rule are completely
anime only additions visible to both the
audience and the characters, which again
I think is just such an inventive and
aesthetically pleasing way of using
Tenkin's barrier. And it's in this next
bit that Tangen changes their desktop
wallpaper to the red and black theme and
explains how Fate ties themsself, the
star plasma vessel, and Six Eyes all
together with that visual. It's great.
Yeah, I'm not going to explain every
single detail because I would just end
up repeating myself about how incredible
the art looks and how cool the whole
holographic projection thing is, but I
do want to touch on the part where the
gang recap their goals for the season.
Long story very short, there are
basically just three main goals that the
group has. One, to enter the game and
collect as many points as possible to
add a rule allowing Megumi sister to
safely exit the game. Two, figure out a
way to end the game if possible. And
three, free Satar Gojo by having the Han
era sorcerer called Angel use her
extinguishment technique to open the
back of the slightly plotconvenient
prison realm and then have Gojo fix
everything for them. If a player fails
to enter the colony within 19 days of it
starting, they have their technique
forcibly removed, which Shoko says would
mean death. And speaking of Shoko, holy
[ __ ] And also, holy [ __ ] Shoko. I know
you've had a really rough time of it,
but Jesus Christ, it cannot possibly be
that bad, bro. Somebody put this woman
in rehab. [ __ ] Anyway, as of now, Uta
is going to enter a colony all on his
own. If you know, you know. Yugji and
Megumi are going to recruit suspended
thirdyear Kinji Hakari. And finally,
Mari is going to collect cursed tools
from the Zening clan, which we're going
to see next week. Now, if we follow the
manga, then the next episode should just
be mostly Panda and Yaga stuff with the
second half being about Mari. But based
on the preview, it seems like we're
going to be pushing the panda stuff back
and focusing solely on Mari, which is so
exciting because holy, we are in for
such a treat if it's just a whole
episode about Maki. If you know, you
know. Genuinely, it might be a top three
episode of the season or or maybe just
of the anime. I'm not going to lie, it
has some insane potential. The episode
then ends with a brief introduction of
Fumiko Takaba, a failing comedian who
awakens a cursed technique and becomes a
culling game player. And all I have to
say about this is that damn, I I did not
realize how sad and depressing his life
actually was until I saw this moment
animated. It's pretty hard to read his
manga chapters without finding them kind
of goofy, but this one really does hit
hard. I'm not going to lie. I can't wait
to see his stuff later on. And yes, this
was just 23 minutes of straight yappage.
But this episode walked so that the rest
of the season could run. Trust me, from
next week onwards, we're going to just
be getting back to backto back peak
fiction, especially episodes four and
five. Oh my god. But yeah, the lack of
action and movement in this episode
really allowed the staff to focus on the
art and visuals, which is why it's
easily one of, if not the most beautiful
looking episodes of the whole season so
far. Actually, no, it's just one of the
best looking episodes of the show. Let's
be honest.
>> [music]
[screaming]
>> What?
>> Two seconds later.
>> That episode was objectively
mid.
Four out of 10 ass. All right, look.
When I loaded up social media after
watching today's JJK episode, 70% of the
responses I saw made me question if
having eyes is like low-key overrated.
Sure, most of it is either meaningless
rage bait, burrito accounts seeking
attention, or One Piece accounts being
genuinely livid that Tolli isn't the
only animation studio that exists. But
this week, it somehow got to a point
where some of the actual JJK fans
sounded even dumber than the rage bait
accounts. because for some reason that
is far beyond my ability to comprehend.
This episode didn't meet their
expectations. Apparently, it was just
never going to be enough for some people
unless they could see Vincent Chanzard,
Alan Bao, and God on that already loaded
staff list. I mean, honestly, the only
explanation is that I just watched a
completely different version of the
episode to these people because for me,
this was a top five JGK episode.
Actually, screw recency bias. It's one
of my favorite episodes in anime, and it
was certainly my favorite animated
episode in the entire series. Yes,
animation wise, I'd even put it above
Sukuno vers Maharaga. Not the Blu-ray,
though, cuz that's a whole different
ball game, and that's also just my
preference. I'm going to actually review
and analyze the episode now, instead of
ranting about how ungrateful this
depressing poo stain of a fandom can be
sometimes. Right, to stop myself from
obsessively repeating this throughout
the video, I'm just going to say it now.
From beginning to end, this episode is
absolutely incredible. There are so many
different styles of art and animation in
this episode, yet nothing really feels
out of place. And I think it flowed
incredibly well from beginning to end. I
mean, the episode literally begins with
a shot of Marquy walking towards the
Zeninclan HQ, and it ends with the exact
same shot, but it's her walking back out
of it. I feel like this detail and a
load of other things make the episode
feel more complete because even though
it has an extended runtime of 28
minutes, fitting in around four and a
half chapters worth of manga into a
single episode could have easily made it
feel rushed or disjointed, especially
because there's such a sudden shift from
the slow and emotional pace to the pure
hype moments and aura. The other thing I
wanted to quickly address early on is
that even though I agree they did
sometimes miss the mark, I respect the
Mupper staff immensely for having the
balls to get truly creative when
adapting the source material instead of
playing it safe and trying to make it a
onetoone. So with Megumi's permission or
the head of the Zenin clan, Mari pulls
up to basically just raid the Zenin
storehouse of cursed tools. Somehow
after being embarrassed by Choso and
Uta, NA still has the balls to belittle
Marquy. And we even get this really dope
shot where we actually pan from the
present NA to the flashback of him
bullying child Maki as if they were
happening at the same time kind of. I
feel like this is a good example of
Mappa's inventiveness actually
succeeding. It It's minor but very
effective. The conversation where
Janichi tells Noya that Oi is, you know,
luring Marquy in to kill her is just
pretty standard. And I would say the
same for Mari walking past her mother in
the tunnel, but damn. Damn, bro. Her
voice actress had absolutely no reason
to go that insanely hard. Anyway, Mari
versus her dad round one. First of all,
this shot reminded me of Moria from Lord
of the Rings. Just wanted to throw that
out there. Secondly, I much prefer the
anime's adaptation of this fight to the
mangas. The complete darkness with the
only light being caused by the glow of
Oi's cursed energy and the spark of
their blades actually clashing is dope.
But I also love that there is no music
at all. The scene is very fast, but
still incredibly tense. I mean, I know
what's going to happen. I've read the
manga and I still felt the tension. Oi
just cooks Marquy Loiff before dragging
both her and the severely injured Mai
into the Zenin dungeon where they keep a
load of cur spirits. Now, it's in this
scene that we first get a taste for this
episode's use of selective color, making
practically everything black and white
with the exception of the red blood.
It's such a simple but very, very
effective technique that they absolutely
nail later on in the episode. Now, in
the manga, Mai actually does kiss Mary,
which I assume is because it's necessary
for her to do that for what she's about
to do. At least I hope. I I don't know,
bro. Interpret it how you like. It's a
bit weird either way. Their souls then
resonate and they end up on a beach.
Just like in the manga, they both wake
up here without any shoes on because
Gagegeay has a very suspicious habit of
taking characters shoes off for
literally no reason. In all seriousness
though, this scene was adapted every bit
as good as I had hoped. It didn't feel
too rushed. The voice actors nailed the
dialogue and the music low-key had me
tearing up. Oh my days, it was peak. And
dear god, Marina Inu's execution of the
destroy everything line gave me actual
chills. Even just the like subtle switch
from Mary, you know, emotionally chasing
after Mai and begging for her to wake up
to the stoic and borderline emotionless
looking monster that she becomes is is
so well done. The character acting and
animation in these moments has been so
so good in season 3 so far and I really
do hope it keeps up because there are so
many more dialogue focused emotional
moments to come. Also, for any anime
onlyies that are confused about what
happened in this scene, allow me to
explain. Normal humans in JJK have a
small amount of cursed energy. However,
Toji had absolutely zero, which is what
made him so stupidly strong and able to
actually perceive curses with his eyes.
Just like Toji, Mari has literally zero
cursed energy for herself. But because
Jiujutsu actually considers identical
twins to be the same entity, her
heavenly restriction has been massively
held back because Mai still has cursed
energy and Mai also lacked the will to
get stronger. Mai's existence has
literally held back's full potential,
which is tragic but true. So when Mai
dies, she takes all of that cursed
energy with her, leading Mari to awaken
her full strength by giving her life in
a binding vow to massively increase her
output. Ma uses her construction
technique to create the weapon in
Marquy's hand, which we're going to
learn more about later, so I won't get
into that now. She basically becomes the
blade in a way, though, that's pretty
much the gist of it. Yeah. Now, for the
controversial part, Marquy versus Oi,
round two. To an anime only, this scene
would be absolute peak. Mary's newfound
aura is dope. The way Oi immediately
switches up and craps himself is dope.
And the way he gets genuinely nodify is
dope. But to a manga reader, I do
understand the complaints to an extent.
I think absolutely everything about this
scene is literal perfection and a great
adaptation of the source material. But
the silhouette of Toji should have
lasted literally 1 second longer because
to a casual viewer, they're genuinely
going to struggle to see who that was
meant to be. Trust me, I watched this
episode with three anime only casuals
and they didn't even notice it
happening. Maybe that's just because
they're blithering idiots, but who
knows? I'm sure they're not the only
ones. So yeah, when compared to the
manga panel, I mean, look at this thing.
It's so cool. When compared to this, it
does seem slightly underwhelming, but
realistically, it's not that big of a
deal. However, I do think they nailed
the Toji moment that happens later on
when Kid Na sees him as well, a kid. The
way it goes from the bright and
cartoon-like shot of Kid Nawa to the
dark and unsettling shot of Toji makes
for a pretty dope contrast. Now then,
this is where the fun begins. The rest
of the episode is really very simple.
Mari locks in, channels her inner Toji,
and literally annihilates her entire
family. The anime absolutely clears the
already goated manga adaptation of this
event, though, because in the manga, the
fights are entertaining, but much
shorter and on a much smaller scale,
which does mean that I feel it slightly
fumbles when it comes to driving home
the point that she just wiped out one of
the three most powerful and dangerous
jiu-jitsu clans alive with minimal
difficulty at that while being heavily
injured. To be fair, Gagegeay was sick
when he was working on this fight in the
manga, so it does make sense. But oh my
days, the anime doesn't just fix the
issue, but it low-key borders on
overkill. You're telling me this Janichi
guy is doing all that as a grade one
sorcerer, cuz he is definitely not doing
all that in the manga. He gets like one
page. Look at this dude pull a deu on
the whole estate and then compare him to
Nanom. I'm sorry, but these Zenin grade
ones are not like the rest because oh my
days, this is some next level stuff. So
yeah, when it comes to making the Zen
clan look like they deserve the title of
a top three clan, Mappa absolutely
smashed it. In fact, the only thing they
portrayed better than this was how
insanely far above the rest of the
jiu-jitsu world Marquy has actually
risen. You know, because she like kills
them all. Anyway, before the strong
dudes arrive, Mari needs to warm up by
slaughtering all of the Zenin NPCs,
which is my favorite scene of the entire
season so far and one of my favorite
scenes in all of JJK. Not only does it
have some incredible choreography as
well as that same beautiful selective
coloring, but is also a direct reference
to Kill Bill, apparently. I wouldn't
know. I've never seen it. Not only is
she built like a brick [ __ ] house, but
her completely stoic, nonchalant
demeanor makes Marky's motions look so
effortless, and it's just so cool. I
especially like this cut of her standing
dead still, just casually swatting away
the NPCs because it felt like a homage
to, you know, Toji doing this to Megumi
in season 2. Oh, when she hit the knee
slide, I screamed. And when she started
ice skating on their blood before one
inch punching this random dude, I was
having a straight up aneurysm from just
too much peak. Like I said, her fight
against the hay was so dope and way more
impactful than the manga, with even
Rant's eye technique being made to seem
way more busted than it was in the
source material. And look, I'm a sucker
for the Utaka Nakamura style orange and
red heat effect to show a really
hard-hitting move. So, this entire
brightly colored sequence when Ranta and
Janichi do their duo attack was just so
cool to me. Like, it's it's so dope.
Also, yes, this is definitely a Full
Metal Alchemist reference. As expected
though, Mari cleans these pulls up with
very little difficulty. And it's at this
point that the episode reaches its
pinnacle. Now, Zenin versus awakened
Mari. Wow. If you can't tell already, Na
was massively holding back against Choso
cuz this dude is an absolute menace when
he actually reaches full speed. Like I
said before, I'm a sucker for Utaka
Nakamura's animation style. Grass is
green, I know. And in the manga, Gage
even drew this fight as a homage to the
iconic Utapon Cube animation style that
Utaka Nakamura has. So, when I saw names
like Kohi Hiro on the staff list, I was
certain this fight was in good hands.
And oh my days, it did not disappoint.
Mari basically just acts as a punching
bag for the entire thing while she
gradually adjusts to Nia's 24 fps
rhythm. The depiction of Nia's insane
speed with his blue projections, the
insane destruction caused to the
environment and the impacts of every
blow is executed to perfection in this
sequence. I don't even have that much to
say about it to be honest beyond
absolute cinema. The cherry on top and
my favorite part of this fight though
was the way Mary's first and final punch
on Na was done. The scene actually
freezes and we get a few different 360°
shots of her throwing the punch right as
Noi is running into it. And oh my days,
the art and compositing here is just
next level. I'm also a very big fan of
the freeze frame shots of Maki actually
landing the punch. I can definitely see
why it wouldn't be everyone's cup of
tea. But like I said in the beginning, I
enjoy seeing ballsy creativity and this
moment really worked for me. Especially
the shot of Na's skull turning to dust.
Oh. The episode rounds off with Marquy
cutting down her own mother in an
unexpectedly wellexecuted scene in which
Marquy is exceptionally calm. And oh my
days, bro. Like Nia's comment to Mary's
mom in episode 1 of season 3 about how
women who don't walk three steps behind
men should be stabbed in the back and
left to die aged absolutely horrifically
because Mary's mom finds the strength to
literally stab Noya in the back and
leave him to die. This bum then arrives
to cry over Mai's body. And we're told
that over the next few days, Marky
hunted down the rest of the clan that
weren't present that day. And then the
episode ends exactly how it begins. God
knows how they were even allowed to get
away with assembling the Avengers of
animation and even releasing a 28minute
cut for this episode, but I guess JJK
just gets special treatment. Overall, it
was truly peak and is comfortably in my
top five favorite JJK episodes at the
moment. If it genuinely wasn't your cup
of tea, then that's fine. But at least
give the animators credit where due.
They definitely poured all of their
heart and soul into making this and it
paid off because it it just looked like
absolute cinema.
>> I'll never forget it. He's super tall,
bro. And like it's super intimidating
when he has so many bodyguards around.
>> Who the [ __ ] is that guy?
[screaming]
>> No. Last week was Maky's time to shine.
She was up in there being a complete
goat for 28 minutes straight and it was
peak cinema. But for episode 5 this
week, we had a little cool down. Things
are a bit slower and you know a little
bit less massacre. Just like with the
Tenken episode though, it is still
gossoo cinema. The environments, the
character acting, the unnecessarily
incredible and dynamic direction of
simple moments, the color palettes, and
I I think you get the point. It's
incredible. Oh, and I I nearly forgot to
mention this episode is low-key making
JJK history right now because it finally
shows us the goat Kusa Kabi. Okay, I'm
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. All right, it
finally shows us the restless gambler
himself in the flesh, Kenji Hkari, a
suspended thirdyear who was teased by
Gojo all the way back in season 1 as
being a sorcerer in the same league as
Uta Akotu, who will one day grow to be
on par with Gojo himself. I don't know
what Gojo was smoking that made him say
that, but whatever. That's not
important. I mean, you can tell Goshono
knows how much hype there is around this
dude simply by the fact that he was
teasing that face reveal for the whole
episode. I'm talking straight up edging.
Like, Eugi, just move your elbow, bro. I
want to see his face. Why Why are we
doing all that? Just let me see him. Oh,
okay. Definitely not the most badass
angle, but but Cook, I guess. Yeah.
Anyway, I'll get into my full review
now. But wow. After seeing how great
this episode looked, I I've just come to
accept the fact that I I don't think
there's going to be a single episode
that I won't like or thinks looks worse
than the others. JJK season 3 is just
apparently what you get when your staff
have an actual healthy schedule. I mean,
who would have thought, right? So, the
first 5 minutes of the episode is
dedicated to this one single chapter of
Yaga/Panda/Gakuganji/
Timu Kakashi stuff that I think was
adapted almost perfectly. Visually, it
looks amazing. And, you know, it's
pretty much a straight one:1 adaptation
of the manga. You see, back in the day,
Yaga was thrown in sorcerer jail because
he managed to create Panda using his
puppet technique. Normally, Yaga has to
control his puppets himself, but he
actually discovered a way to give
puppets sentience and their own
independent, self-preserving cursed
energy supply, which may sound like a
beautiful and wholesome thing, but as
Yaga says, it's actually a curse. I
mean, in the flashback, Yaga just
outright denies that he can create these
things deliberately and says Panda is an
accident, which Loki saved his ass from
either being executed or labeled as a
special grade because those damn Tory
make jiu-jitsu great again higher-ups
were worried he would be able to create
an army of pandas. God knows why anyone
would be scared of an army of bums when
people like Uta and Gojo walk the earth.
But yeah, he was set free because of
this lie. As of the end of the Shabuya
incident, those same stinky jiu-jitsu
Tories pinned Ghetto and Gojo's fuckups
on Yaga and sentenced him to death.
Which is why we see Gakuganji and this
fake ass Kakashi pull up to jump him.
Now low key, I do wish we actually saw
this fight on screen because seeing more
interactions and infighting between
multiple experienced grade one sorcerers
would have been completely dope. But
this is how the manga is, so I'm not
going to blame the anime for it. One
thing I was very upset about, though, is
that in the manga, Gakuganji is like
really roughed up. But in the anime, his
shiny bald head did not get a scratch on
it. Like, can we put some respect to my
goat Yaga's name, please? I I know bro
put up a hell of a fight. Now, the
context to Yaga's secret was executed
really well in the anime, and I love the
visual that they did for Panda's three
souls moving around. Long story short,
the absolute goat Kusakab, aka the
strongest sorcerer available, actually
has a sister who lost her son, Takaroo,
and became, well, I mean, look at her.
She clearly became prettying depressed
over it. And so is Kusakab for good
reason. I mean, it's her kid. So,
Kusakab turned to Yaga for help. Yaga
copied the information of her son's soul
and placed it in a cursed corpse similar
to Panda and basically let him live out
the rest of his life happily in a forest
that's protected by Tangen. Yeah. Yeah.
It's all very sad and and you know, it's
like literally never brought up again in
the whole story, but still, I like it.
Anyway, much to Gakuganji's surprise,
when Yaga's on death store, he actually
spills the secret behind creating things
like Panda and says the knowledge is a
curse. Now, at this point, Gakuganji's
entire thing is about being, you know, a
mega right-winged jiu-jitsu Tory who
just follows orders and sucks off his
bosses to no end. I mean, hell, he
killed his colleague in cold blood
because that's what he was told to do.
The man has no agency. But Yaga
revealing this cursed knowledge right at
his death seemed to lead Gakuganji to
realize what he was actually doing,
which comes back around in a very nice
way later on in the story. Panda then
pulls up and mourns the death of his
father. Because remember guys, even
pandas cry.
>> Who gives a [ __ ]
>> To be honest, my only complaint about
this whole scene is that I think I would
have preferred to have some kind of sad
music over this scene rather than like,
you know, dead silence. But other than
that, it is adapted to perfection as an
exact one to one and it is Loki Peak.
Anyway, on a slightly happier note,
Yugji and Megumi pull up to Herkari's
illegal fight club that he runs as a
broki bookie that he runs as a bookie. I
mean, dude, just look at this scene of
Yugji moving under the camera with the
barrier moving up past the screen. Go
direction actually just needs to be
properly studied because even in these
tiny insignificant moments, they be
doing the most to make it engaging and
basically just as difficult for them as
possible. And other than the fact that
they made my goat Loki look like a can
of [ __ ] Fanta, this entire part of
the episode really does put into
perspective how great season 3 looks
compared to both one and two. At least
in my opinion. Even just the road they
are walking down is like some really
Chainsaw Man season 1 level stuff. The
character acting, the constant change in
color palette, and even the mix of 2D
and 3D environments make this, you know,
conversation, which should just be
boring, pretty engaging and interesting
to watch. At least if you have the eye
for that kind of stuff, it is. I don't
know. My my anime only friends when they
watch this, you know, they're kind of
brain dead, so they couldn't tell the
difference between this kind of stuff
and One Punch Man season 3, but
whatever. Long story short, Yugji will
enter the fight club and well, fight.
Meanwhile, Mega will do recon inside the
spectators shadows. Oh my god, that
looks so dope. Hell yeah, man. Screw the
Shikagami. This use of the 10 shadows is
so much cooler. I need more. Now, Hikari
is basically just sus of everybody and
doesn't want any contact with Jiu-Jitsu
High for fear of being spied on, which
kind of works in their favor since
Megumi and Yuji are first years that
Hkari has never seen before. Unlike
Panda, who was a second year and happens
to be Yuji's first opponent. Yeah, this
moment here where Yuji like smiles after
seeing Panda as his opponent. Loki just
reminds me of that one scene from Thor
Ragnarok.
>> Yes,
he's a friend from work. They put on an
incredible fake fight that had
absolutely and no reason to be as
unbelievably well animated as it was.
Especially since the manga is like two
panels and then Hikari just sits there
and watches it from the monitor room and
oh my god, bro, he is like fully clamped
onto that [ __ ] Godamn. Even Gojo's blue
could not pull his hand off that. Oh my
days, Akari, you absolute menace. Bro
dropped out of school to grab ass, eat
shitty snacks, drink booze, and rig
illegal death matches. How can you not
immediately love this guy? Also, wow,
Hikari looks like absolutely incredible
in the anime. Zoro's Japanese voice
actor, too, by the way. Like, is that
not crazy? I think that's crazy. Now,
obviously, Hikari is immediately
impressed with Yuji since he knows Panda
is a beast compared to your average Joe.
And he also likes how Yugji is
deliberately putting on an interesting
fight for the spectators. So, he calls
him up to his office later on to give
him a job offer in basically just
scripted matches in exchange for big
monies. And it lowkey makes me wish that
we actually got an alternate timeline
where Yuji does that because it kind of
sounds dope. Yuji just keeps on winning
and winning and what is he doing, bro?
That stuff is not in the manga. Bro just
beat up a pedestrian dressed as the
[ __ ] Lorax and now he's out here
emoting on their asses. But Bro was even
like lightly knocking on the fourth wall
there when he came up to the camera.
Anyway, later on, Megumi and Panda have
a little catchup session outside to
discuss strategy. They basically just
want to take control of the roof around
the monitor room once Yuji is escorted
inside, which means they're going to
have to find a way around Kurara's
technique, which seems to work in a
similar way to Gojo's in that no matter
how hard he tries, Panda cannot actually
get any closer to the room. Megumi also
then says Kurara was a guy, right? To
which Panda responds, "Yes, a guy."
Listen, yeah, I don't want to get too
political on here cuz I know I'm not
going to change anybody's mind by saying
anything. Kurara's exact gender identity
is just not confirmed in any way. And I
do think it's supposed to be somewhat
open to interpretation, but she is
strongly suggested to be trans. I think
at least that's my interpretation is
that she's probably just a trans woman.
>> Um, actually, um, Kurara is a dude, so I
think you meant to say he.
>> Shut up, brother. Why are you like 12 or
something? Get off your mom's phone and
go play Frisbee in the park. I don't
know. I mean, first of all, Panda is
like he's he's a panda.
>> He's a panda. You're a panda.
>> He doesn't have a concept of human
gender identity, you know, cuz he's a
he's a panda. I mean, hell, in this very
episode, we see that a big part of Panda
is that he is not a human and his mind
doesn't work the way humans do. So,
judging Kurara's entire gender identity
of something a literal panda says is
silly bro.
My interpretation, you know, is that
Kurara identifies as a woman, so I'm
going to treat her as such. But what do
I know? Like, you have absolutely no
obligation to agree with my take. This
is just what I think. I'm not trying to
convince anyone of anything. Everyone is
free to think what they like. Just
please don't go and start demanding that
everyone else share your exact
interpretation because that's just
unproductive and only causes conflict.
Especially since I do believe it is left
kind of, you know, open to
interpretation because Ggeay wants it
that way. But yeah, do your worst
comments. I'm fully prepared. Like do do
your worst. Go ahead. Anyway, Kurara
shows Yugji into Hikari's monitor room
for their meeting and then leads them to
it. H I wonder what that suspicious
looking grux symbol means. Huh? Anyway,
the entire Hikari and Yugji conversation
then plays out all at once in one shot
from this side on angle, which is very
different to the manga, but I really
like it. The manga shows this
conversation happening in real time,
where we cut back and forth between this
and the events of the next episode,
which are happening outside of the
monitor room as they speak. I actually
really like that they condensed it into
one scene, and even that they kept it as
one static angle, because that combined
with the dim lighting emitted from the
TVs makes the scene so much more tense.
The manga has a lot of different angles
that I do wish we could have seen, like
Kakari drinking and then firmly placing
his glass down in response to Yuji's
panicked face, but I think I like the
suspenseful interpretation just as much,
if not more. Especially since it allowed
the animators to really go overboard
with the character acting, which made it
all feel supernatural. I mean, sure,
Yuji being called out on not knowing
Saturu Gojo was much less comedic than
the manga made it seem, but I think it
was worth it for the tension. Even just
the way Hikari like nonchalantly threw
the glass at Yuji, who was already
backing up because he knew he messed up
felt so natural. And oh my god, I love
the way Hikari does the doors as well.
It was great. Again, it does seem a lot
more like dramatic and in-your-face in
the manga, but I think I prefer this
tense version to be honest. And and god,
bro, Hikari looks so good, dude. I felt
like Gage always kind of drew Hikari as
this slightly, you know, stubby dude,
but wow, he just looks incredible in the
anime. Like look at the character and
clothing animation when he swings for
Yuji in this scene. It's so effortless
and natural. In fact, the character
animation being this good in these
scenes, as well as certain ambiguous
hints from staff members online has led
a lot of people to believe that these
scenes are rotoscoped, which I think
could definitely be true. Uh, and I
don't see the problem with that in the
slightest. Whatever looks best in it,
like whatever works. There's no
confirmation of this though, not yet
anyway. So, you know, take everything
with a pinch of salt. The episode then
comes to a halt right as Yuji is backing
up from Herkari, meaning that next time
we're going to be seeing what was going
on outside that door. I cannot wait.
Again, this episode was gosso cinema,
and it was amazing seeing Hakkari in the
flesh after so long.
In this week's episode of Jiujitsu
Kaizen, Panda launches a bunny rabbit,
Megumi flexes his abs, Kurara commits
several animal safety violations, and
Hakari gets jump scared by a child. Oh,
and we see this guy, too. Yay. I'm
guessing this is probably going to be
another controversial episode of JJK,
but I wouldn't know because I've chosen
to make this video before checking the
negativity riddled cesspool that is the
internet. I say this because like the
Ten episode, episode 6 of JJK requires
basic reading ability and an IQ above
room temperature to actually understand.
Actually, to be fair, that that's a bit
harsh cuz I didn't even really
understand Kurara's technique at first
either. But then again, I've never
claimed to have an IQ above room
temperature, so suck it, I guess.
Director Goshono and his incredibly
talented team yet again took on some
creative liberties when adapting this
episode, which obviously are mostly for
the best. I'll start breaking it down in
a moment, but first, I just want to
glaze the music and sound design in this
episode specifically because holy hell,
as if Yuji's cog speech to Hakari wasn't
already amazing in the manga, the anime
just pushed it up to a completely
different level for me. Even the tension
between Megumi and Kurara was like
massively elevated to a totally new
level simply because of a few simple but
very impactful sound design and music
choices, which I feel like is a
recurring theme throughout the season so
far that the music and sound design game
has really stepped up. Anyway, sorry.
I'm going to stop yapping about that
now. Let's just get right into it. Oh my
god, bro. The silent pan across to
Megumi just a farming inside of a dude's
shadow to start off an episode is
actually crazy. The way his face lights
up from the dude's lighter. Oh my god,
it's so peak. But dude, that guy is just
an NPC. Like, why why is Megumi looking
at him like he's just mowed down an
orphanage or something? I don't know,
man. This jiu-jitsu clearly gets
serious. Now, Megumi honestly thinks
he's Sunjin Wu. And you know what? I'm
not even going to hate on it because
when was the last time you saw Sunjin Wu
dive into a dude's shadow like that? Oh,
it's so cool. Honestly, this just makes
me want to call Megumi a fraud even more
because I need him to be using this side
of his technique in the rest of the
series. Please. While he's busy aura
farming though, Pandanda's out here
pretending to be well, a panda.
>> He's a panda. You're a panda.
>> Once the fod were dealt with, Megumi and
Panda make it onto the set of today's
episode, a rooftop car park with Akari's
monitor room placed in the corner.
Kurara passes underneath them and they
make eye contact, which means now they
obviously have to fight. However,
Megumi's divine dog totality gets flung
right back at him once Kurara marks it
with her cursed technique because that's
kind of how that works. I'll explain it
more in a second, maybe. But can we
please just take a minute to appreciate
how unbelievably cool Totality looks?
Bro, that's not even a dog anymore. He's
just standing upright like a whole ass
dude looking like that one Ben alien.
It's so cool. Before the fight properly
gets started, Megumi tries reasoning
with Kurara and telling her the
situation. But obviously, she ain't
buying it because the concept of Satur
Gojo being sealed is just straight up
incomprehensible. Like seriously, there
was no doubt on Kurara's face. The
possibility of that being true didn't
even cross her mind because Gojo is
really just that guy. So look, right,
this is obviously just a simple
conversation between Megumi and Kurara.
The animators could have just had it be
a normal face-to-face confrontation and
no one would bat an eye, but director
Goshono and his team are just not having
it. They still chose to do the absolute
most possible to make this dialogueheavy
episode into a proper treat. There was
no need for this dramatic slow-mo pan or
for this completely amazing but totally
unnecessary dynamic perspective of
Kurara literally just standing still.
But they chose to do it anyway, which is
why JJK is so goated and why the
adaptation gets so much praise. Now, I
think this fight is really dope because
it's not actually a fight. Like, no
hands are really thrown. As it normally
is for Megumi's best moments, it's a
game of strategy and intelligence, which
because it's Gay writing, it often means
a lot of dialogue and overly complex
explanations that I think Mapper
actually did a pretty good job of
adapting. I think the team genuinely
handled this specific fight as well as
they possibly could have by basically
making the dialogue and explanationheavy
moments much easier to understand with
simple diagrams and then keeping the
viewers engaged in between these moments
by dialing up the animation to 11. The
entire first half of this episode feels
like it goes through this constant cycle
of explanation and then wellan animated
action and then more explanation and
then more well-animated action. Like
sure, they didn't need to be making
these stupidly dynamic almost
utaponesesque scenes for a fight like
this one, but doing so is a really great
way of keeping your attention because of
how dialogueheavy the rest of it can
get. Okay, maybe I haven't really
explained this in the best possible way,
but I can summarize by saying the
episode was structured and storyboarded
really well. so that we didn't get
bored. That's basically the gist of it.
We might have been confused with the
information, sure, but not bored. At
least I definitely wasn't. Anyway,
Megumi tests out his hypothesis by using
his rabbits and seeing what they can
reach. He then comes to the conclusion
that Kurara marks cursed energy with a
star from a specific constellation. And
then later on in the episode, he works
out that in order to reach a location
marked with a star, you need to first go
past all of the other stars in the
correct order. That's the bare bones
basics of it. But don't ask me more than
that because it just breaks my brain
every time I put too much thought into
it. I don't know. Like, go watch the
episode. I'm not here to break down how
the technique works. I want to glaze the
animation. Now, from the moment this
fight began in the anime, the OST just
started absolutely cooking. Like, so far
in season 3, the music has definitely
been very bold. It's very brave choices,
but I'm really appreciating it so far.
It is working. And god, I love the
tension built by that synthetic voom
sound when Megumi tests Kurara's
reaction to saying her technique
resembles the southern cross. That this
was definitely a highlight for me. That
that little was just oh, it was it added
such a nice little element that I didn't
think that scene even really needed.
Directly after this scene, we also get a
really wholesome anime only visual of
Megumi's sister, Sumaki, showing Megumi
the Southern Cross when they were kids.
And honestly, watching that one little
it's it's genuinely like a second long,
but watching that one little scene made
me like feel really strange because it
it looks so far removed from JJK. I hope
they do more stuff like this because
even Gage himself has acknowledged the
slight lack of substance from Sumaki and
Megumi's relationship. Also, I'm sorry,
but what the is Panda doing, bro? Like,
you you guys ask why I hate on Panda,
but what did he actually contribute to
this fight besides being a test dummy
for Megumi? I mean, later on in the
episode, once Kurara's technique is
exposed, he still decides to try and
throw a car that Kurara draws to him.
Why? Because he's a [ __ ] idiot, bro.
That's why. The scene of Panda actually
throwing the car, though. Wow. I love
that. I really love that scene. The
camera movement in this episode and the
way it tracks Megumi vaulting the
handrail. Oh, it just looks so clean.
Even just these simple visuals of Megum
are beautiful. Anyway, Panda takes a
trip into the sky and then wait coin
coin. Look, Kura is doing a If you know,
you know, man. If you know, you know.
But look, that's coin. That's coin. I
must sound like a crazy person to you
guys. Read Kagurabachi, man. It's peak
and and damn, like I know Kurara is
cool, but what the hell are these mappa
dudes thinking giving her aura like
that? She's moving like Gojo with blue.
I mean, that was beyond a speed blitz.
That was just straight up ultra
transmission or or something. I don't
know, man. I've never watched Dragon
Ball in it. Kurara then does some
Magneto type shenanigans on the car to
try and straight up murder Megumi. But
the divine dog that has been lying in
weight behind the wall is then launched
towards Megumi with Kurara standing
directly in the way exactly as he
planned. Megumi dies out of the car,
subdued Kurara, who canceled her
technique, and then the car [ __ ]
explodes for hype moments and aura
reasons. Enough of all that though.
Let's talk about the main event. Let's
talk about Kinji Hikari and Yugjiadori.
Bosch. Car blows up. Kurara finally
agrees to help. And Yuji gets his [ __ ]
absolutely rocked by this wife
beaterawwearing behemoth of a man. I
always thought Gagegeay draws Akari in a
way that makes him look kind of small
and stubby, but god damn, the anime
makes this dude look like an absolute
monster. Something else I really like
compared to the manga, as Hakkari just
wales on Yuji here, is that Hakkari's
face is way more expressive than in the
manga. He seems way more well, I mean,
way more passionate, I guess. And the
music and the lighting in this scene are
just oh, they're so peak. Like, they
create such a tense and emotional
atmosphere. especially the music later
on when we see Yugji get back up to give
his cog speech. Just before Yuji gives
his speech though, Hikari actually has
his own little bit of very cool and
underrated dialogue. He basically says
Yugji is boring because being a cog that
exercises curses simply because that's
what he's been told to do isn't
passionate at all and that principal
Yaga was meant to weed out people like
him from the school. It's in the manga,
too. But I love this little throwaway
comment from Hkari because he's right.
Yaga did test Yuji way back in the
beginning of the series to see if he had
passion or if he was just becoming a
sorcerer because that's what he was told
to do. What takes Hikari probably by
surprise though is that even with his
sharp cursed energy and insane striking
power, he cannot get this cog that is
Yujiadori to stay down. Oh, and yeah,
Hikari's got a cursed energy trait that
makes his cursed energy feel sharp. I
Loki thought his cursed energy would
also be a different color, but it seems
to just be blue. That might change later
on in Jackpot, but who knows? Hkari
absolutely decimates Yugji with a strong
punch and then turns around to talk to
Kiraara. But he clearly hasn't watched
the show because if it's just pain, then
Yujiadori will never quit. Ray Yuji
pulls up behind Akari and straight up
jump scares that man. I've never seen
Hkari back away from anyone like that
before. So, props to Yuji for being the
first and the last person to do it. Yuji
then delivers his incredible cog speech
about how he's a cog, but he's a cog
with a purpose, and he will not stray
from that purpose until the day he dies.
He must exercise curses no matter what.
I don't know if any of you guys are
reading JJK modulo, but uh wow, this
this hits like 10 times harder now.
Damn. His voice actor smashed it, and I
love how dead pan Yuji's expression and
voice are here. Like, there's no actual
emotion behind it. He's just stating a
fact. Kurara then chimes in to help
Hikari realize that Yujiadori is
actually a cog with passion. He is a cog
with the fever. And for that reason,
he's worth hearing out. The episode ends
with Kugane pulling up to declare to
Yuji Tadori specifically, who is already
a player due to Sukuna that another
player has added a rule allowing for
player information to be shared, and
I've just said player way too much. This
rule was added by none other than the
mythical Ado era farmer himself, Ahajime
Kashimo. The only downside of this
episode is that for whatever reason,
Gosso decided to remove Kashimo's
introduction panel where he's staring
through some poor dude's donuted torso.
Yeah, I really like that moment, but
whatever. Instead, we just kind of see
him in this weird crouching position
under a bridge staring at the no-name
droid that he seemingly just blasted.
For anime onlyies, I'm not going to
speak about this guy too much. Like,
you're just going to have to wait and
see. But for you manga readers, here's a
cool little detail that you might have
missed. You can actually see strands of
gas or steam coming from the lake that
he's sitting in due to the, you know,
effect that his cursed energy trait has
on the water, which is also probably
what makes his stuff flare up as well.
It's just another example of how much
attention to detail Gosso and his team
are putting into this series, man. But
yeah, banger episode and the final prep
episode before we finally jump into the
actual culling games. And trust me, if
you thought it was good now, oh my god,
you have not seen anything yet.
This week on Jujutsu Kaizen, Hikari
breaks the fourth wall, Yuji hurts his
hand, Megumi has a generational fumble,
and Kjaku stalks children in their
dreams. Actually, that that last one is
like a bit mad out of context. I mean,
even in context, it's a bit creepy and
be real. Long story short, to explain
Kaku's creepiness, non-scorers, such as
Yugji's season 1 occult friends, get one
chance to leave the colony and get
themselves to safety. Kjaku gave special
thanks to this one person in particular
for being his son's friend, which has
always made people wonder, does Kinjaku
actually like care for Yugji as a child?
Does he have like real maternal
instincts? Like why has he gone out of
his way to just thank this person for
being Yugji's friend? I don't know. It's
weird. It's interesting. As for how he
invaded her dreams and leaded her out of
the barrier in this weird world between
worlds type of place, like God knows,
bro. Like just don't think too hard
about it. All right. Just just accept
it, bro. Oh. Oh, wait, though. What?
What's that in the background? Wait,
that looks sick. I I I hope we come back
to that for whatever reason, you know,
later on cuz that that looks cool.
Anyway, Isizo Isizo then blesses our
ears again and we cut back to Hikari and
the gang who are having a little yap
session again. 99% of this is just a
onetoone with the manga as Hkari shows
disbelief that Gojo was sealed. Hand
tells everybody about Yaga's death. And
then Hikari explains his desire to well,
long story short again, he just wants to
expand his sorcerer fight club to all of
Japan. The 1% of this that isn't
faithful to the manga is um the
hilarious moment where Hikari just hears
Megumi say that he's the head of the Zen
clan and can help him achieve his Fight
Club goal and then basically just
straight up break the fourth wall into
little pieces in this little fang girl
freakout moment. I was I was dying when
he turned on his heels and made that
cutesy face that he pulled in the manga.
It's so funny. That bro is really doing
tricks on it after beating up his friend
right in front of him because he wants
the fight club that badly. Bro has no
shame. I lowkey respect it. Okay, then.
Like, so, do these guys walk down the
stairs in the manga? No. Did Mappa
choose to include this sequence because
they like flexing their artistic talent
to every possible turn? Yes. And
speaking of artistic talents, oh my
days, the art in this episode is unreal.
The aesthetic, the atmosphere, the
insane sense of scale that Mapper
achieved when showing the colonies and
how desolate the streets are is, well,
it's insane. And obviously the
incredible OST only just helps elevate
that feeling. Seriously, man, it looks
so goddamn good. Like they're in broad
daylight right now, but the tension is
still incredibly high because of these
very wide shots of the empty and
desolate road that Fushiguru and Itidori
are walking down. You see the huge scale
of the city and the barriers. Yet, until
they actually enter the colony itself,
the place seems like a ghost town,
almost as if Yuji and Megumi are the
only people left in the world. So, yeah,
I think the art and composition is
definitely the highlight of this episode
for me. You know, the whole thing had
such a unique atmosphere and I really
liked it. In fact, it was actually so
good that my anime only friends who
forever just complain about anytime
Jiu-Jitsu Kaisen gets slightly
dialogueheavy. Any yap sesh without a
fight, they're complaining. Yeah,
they're those kind of people. But they
actually enjoyed this episode, which
means yeah, it was it was that good, you
know. Anyway, enough glazing for now.
I'll continue to yap about the quality
and other specific moments shortly. But
first of all, a very brief TLDDR of the
current situation because the culling
game rules and objectives can be a bit
complicated thanks to Gagege having just
major overexplaining syndrome. To enjoy
the culling games, you really don't need
to memorize all of the rules. You get
points for killing people. You can spend
100 points to add a rule within reason.
If you refuse to participate or your
points don't change for 19 days, you
just spontaneously collapse and die of
death. Very simple. This player called
Kashimo spent 100 points to add a rule
revealing player information to all
players, which is good for us because as
Megumi geniusly points out, they can now
track down players with over 100 points
that haven't yet created rules, beat
them up, and then force them to make
rules for us. There are a few rules that
they need to make, but the most
important one right now is allowing
players to transfer points between each
other because that way they don't have
to kill anybody and Megumi can at least
then transfer Sumaki a couple points to
reset her 19-day countdown to death.
Simple, right? Like it's simple. Load up
the game, select battle royale, drop the
battle bus, hunt down the top ranked
players, victory royale. Easy. The
calling game is literally as simple as
Apex Legends or Fortnite, bro. Like, at
least for now, it is. We can worry about
the complex stuff much much later on. So
yeah, the player that Megumi and Yuji
actually choose to hunt down is called
Higoruma sorry Higuruma Hiomi. He has
100 points and he has not yet created a
rule. So he is the perfect candidate.
Yugji and Megumi will track him down and
Hkari decides that he will go and face
Kashimo since that guy seems to be way
too strong for Yuji or Megumi to
currently deal with. Yeah, that is Loki
Hkari aura. Not going to lie. The scene
of them actually entering the barrier is
really damn cool though. Especially the
part where Megumi knocks on the barrier
and it makes like this really nice
metallic echoey sound which I feel like
reinforces you know just how solid and
and impenetrable these barriers actually
are. I feel like sometimes they look a
bit you know kind of just there but this
really reinforces how how strong these
things are. They are a barrier. The
transition from Yugji walking into the
barrier to him falling straight down was
really well done. But damn, like imagine
you were just a f sorcerer that had no
way of surviving like a fall from this
height. Everyone knows when you play
these video games, bro, how embarrassing
it is to die of full damage. You're
telling me sorcerers have to deal with
that off rip. Before he hits the ground
though, Bosch jet hair lady slams him
through a building in an awesomely
animated shot which leads to a sick
sequence where Yuji regains his balance
and runs to the edge of the scaffolding.
And damn, I have been watching Yuji
getting slammed by this woman in
ninjistic ninja's calling game MMV for
literal years at this point. It It's so
weird to finally see this, you know, be
animated properly. And the anime really
didn't hold back. like she looks strong.
Oh no, never mind. Nope, she got taken
out by a rock. Good job, Eugi. Jet
lady's man then pulls up whose real name
is Hubba, but we're going to call him
helicopter man because that's exactly
what he is. I mean, this dude really
just pulled the short straw here. You've
got techniques in the verse like the 10
shadows, ratio, idol transfiguration,
auspicious beast summon, but nah, this
dude was born with an MHA background
character's quirk. That's just unlucky.
Still though, it does seem pretty
deadly, especially when it comes racing
towards Yugji as a life-sized blender. I
mean, how the hell is Yugji going to
survive? Oh. Oh, okay. No. Like, what
the [ __ ] That was That was sick. It
makes no sense at all. Like, how is Yuji
fitting through that? I don't get it.
But it's still sick. It's dope. It looks
really cool. I mean, screw physics, bro.
Like, this is anime. We don't really do
that here. Just don't even question it,
you know? Now, I really like this shot
of Yuji being thrown out the back of the
building. Uh, because I have a weird
soft spot for like distorted close-up
POVs like this. And also, this is the
scene where I properly realize just how
beautiful the background art really is.
Like, just look at the sky and look at
the cold purple bluish vibe they got
going on. It's really nice to look at.
To finally end the fight, Yugji figures
that hitting helicopter man on the head
with strong punch should definitely do
the trick, which it did. Like low key,
the manga almost kind of had you
wondering if Yuji just straight up
killed these guys because they are out
cold. And all he got was some bloody
knuckles. And I do really like the way
that he tried to like, you know, shake
off the pain. It looks really natural,
which I guess I should just expect at
this point because the character acting
has been amazing so far. Now to fill in
some gaps very quickly though. Ren
Amayi. He's a dude who knows Itidori
from back in the day and he is an
awakened player that was working with
the vehicle head people. It's honestly
kind of messed up. They were just
blatantly spawn camping people and
attacking them as they fell on Amaya's
signal. Now, Megumi actually landed safe
and sound in the company of a very
annoying but undeniably attractive
scorpion tail-haired lady who claims to
know where Higuruma is, but will only
take Megumi there if he becomes her
knight and shining armor. Yeah, this
girl has clearly not read the source
material because Megumi is not moved one
millimeter by her seductive tactics. She
tries getting all flirty with Megumi, to
which Megumi's internal response is, "I
ain't like Yugji, [ __ ] I'll [ __ ] kill
you to get these points and he means
it." The episode then ends on a
cliffhanger where Amay tells Yugji that
Higuruma is in Ikabukuro and Remy tells
Megumi that Higuruma is in Shinjuku. As
the split pathway imagery was alluding
to for the entire episode until this
moment, one of them is obviously lying
and leading either Megumi or Yugji into
a trap. Looking at these two though, I
think anybody who thinks with their
first head and not their second head can
figure out who the yapper is. Anyway, W
episode as expected. I just I loved the
like sense of scale that was going on
when we saw the barriers. And I also
just love the crazy atmosphere that was
built up in this episode. It was really
damn good. Now, unfortunately, the anime
is on break next week, but once it
returns, it is going to be straight
banger after banger for the rest of the
season. I mean, and I know it kind of
already is, but even more so than usual.
So, yeah. As always, make sure to like,
sub, thanks for watching, and I will see
you in a bit. Okay, I lied. Video is not
over cuz I realized as I finished
recording that I have something very
important to talk about. Hikari's dub.
There was a lot of doubt online about
Yuri being given the role of Akari
because obviously, you know, we know him
for voicing like Sasuke and Ben from
Alien Force, which a lot of people heard
those voices and were like, "Nah,
there's no way that fits Akari." I think
it sounds dope. He really captures like
the nonchalant vibe, the way he's
talking to Yugji. I think it does fit
him. I think I look at him and I go,
"Yeah, I believe he has that voice." He
sounds like a teenage delinquent. That's
what he sounds like. A young teenage
delinquent. I know people are going to
want him to sound like Zoro or Keachi or
something, but like I don't know. I I I
liked it. I thought it did fit and I'm
really looking forward to his stuff. So
yeah, don't judge a book by its cover,
man. I really like it. It's nowhere near
as out of place as people said it would
be. It's dope. Sorry, I wanted to yap
about that real quick cuz I think voice
actors deserve way more respect than
they get. And I honestly think he killed
it. So Yuri, you're never going to see
this video, but in case you do, you
[ __ ] killed it, mate. All right, I
like it.
Oh my god, the bruh. Look at Yuji hook
kick this man. I know it happens like
halfway through the episode, but I'm too
impatient to reach that part in my
review. I need to talk about it right
now. Look at how good this looks. What
the hell, man? Nah, bro. The rotoscoped
character acting in JK season 3 is
actually ridiculous. It's added so much
like source to this already sourced up
anime. Sure, some crazy stuff happens in
this episode, but this one little
flashback scene of Yuji aura farming on
some high school bullies, it's just
living rentree in my head. Like, I
actually just can't stop watching it.
[clears throat] But anyway, I'll
actually get into my review of the
episode now before my retention starts
declining steeper than Higuruma's knows.
Today was a big day for Jiujutsu Kaizen.
And to be honest, the more I think about
it, the more the idea of an anime only
who has never heard of the amazing
lawyer/genius that is Heromi Higuruma.
It's kind of hilarious to think about
because like you must have been so
confused when the opening shot of the
episode was a grown ass man in a bathtub
fully clothed on a theater stage with a
note on a projector reading in Japan
99.9% of criminal trials end in a guilty
verdict. Like that's so weird. That's
such a weird way to open an episode. It
must have had so many of you confused,
bro. But to be fair, as funny as this
seems at first, we soon learn that the
context is really depressing. Not the
like, "Oh my god, that's so sad. I'm
going to cry kind of depressing. More so
the oh oh my days man humanity is so
screwed. How did it ever come to this?
What is even the point anymore? It's
that kind of depressing. His backstory
starts with Hearuma being a normal 9 to5
lawyer in Japan which had my anime only
friends, you know, asking me if we were
still watching JJK because yeah, this
all feels way more grounded in reality
than what we normally get from this
show. Which I guess is kind of the
point, right? It's a commentary on the
exhausting injustice of, ironically, the
Japanese judicial system. But to be
honest, the message does kind of apply
to a lot of countries, not just Japan.
Now, I personally I I love I love this
backstory because it begins with the
case of this MPC who is found in
possession of the murder weapon used in
a recent killing. Basically, all of the
evidence is like stacked against him,
which would usually mean the case is
relatively open and shut. Any normal
defense lawyer would do what they could
to get paid. But none of them would
actually care enough about upholding
justice to even consider the possibility
that he was innocent because it seemed
so, you know, implausible. Except
Higuruma is no ordinary lawyer. Money
does not drive him. He believes in
justice and works himself to the bone,
as I'm sure you can see from the way he
looks, to ensure that all his clients
get what they deserve, which is why he
keeps looking into his client's story
despite his assistant telling him that
it's a waste of time. Now, when we hear
the NPC's full account from Higaruma,
suddenly him being innocent becomes a
lot more believable. And what I I really
love about this is that we never
actually find out if that one guy was
innocent or not because that isn't the
point. The point is that Higuruma cared
enough to look into the possibility that
he was innocent because that's what it
takes to achieve real justice. The next
case that we see in the flashback kind
of dives deeper into this idea because
long story short, it exposes how the
Japanese judicial system is basically
pay to win. Despite all of the work to
try and achieve true fair justice for
the defendant, the outcome was decided
from the very beginning and that made
Higuruma mad as [ __ ] Around the same
time as all of this going down though,
you know, Kjaku conveniently started the
culling games in Shabuya and caused
people all across Japan to awaken cursed
techniques. One of those people of
course being Heromi Higaruma. So once
his defendant had his initial, you know,
ruling overturned and had been given a
life [ __ ] sentence, Heromi Higaruma
lost it. And oh my god, what a sequence.
Look at this art, bro. This the kind of
face that I'd see from my parents in the
rear view mirror if I turn the roof
light on in the car. You know, you get
me? Yeah. You You get me? You get me?
And then we just hear him start banging
a gavvel on the desk, which was such a
dope way to build like anticipation and
tension for the reveal of his judgment
shikami, which is somehow even creepier
in the anime than in the manga.
Especially later on when we see how it
kind of like emerges from the tub that
Higuruma is in. Like its face pops out
of the water. Oh, that's so cool. But
anyway, yeah, Higuruma locks in.
Everyone come back. We're having a
retrial. And then we cut to the
announcement of Higuruma as an awakened
culling game player for the halfway mark
in the episode. Holy peak. Things then
basically pick up where we left off last
episode with Ren Amay telling Yuji that
Higuruma is in Ikabukuro and that stupid
bit that Remy chick telling Megumi that
Higuruma is in Shinjjuku. And by the
way, the point of this little flashback
scene where you know the show suddenly
becomes windbreaker is to show how Amay
kind of like looks up to Yugji in a way
because Yugji refuses to just be a
bystander. Yuguji literally goes out of
his way to help people, which is very
relevant to what we saw from Higuruma
earlier in the episode. Some food for
thought. Anyway, time to glaze the
production of this episode. Yeah, don't
worry. I haven't forgotten because oh my
god, this was this was actually mad. All
right, again, I love the rotoscope
character acting in season 3. The way
Yuji is just like effortlessly dodging
their attacks and the way he throws
those kicks, it looks so dope. I love
it. It really does look like a real
person is doing them, which I guess is
kind of the point of rotoscoping. But
yeah, it really does make a huge
difference. The most impressive thing
about this episode by far though that a
lot of you may not actually know is that
the entire thing was animated by one
person kind of Koki Fujimoto. He acted
as the sole key animator for this
masterclass of an episode which means he
did the vast I mean I say vast majority
pretty much all of the animating work
for every single sequence. To kind of
put that in perspective, the last
episode and most other episodes have
around 20 primary key animators working
on it. This episode had one. Yeah, sure,
there were still like around 30 second
key animators to help finish up the
work, but most of the workload fell to
just him, which is insane. And if you
have a key eye for this kind of stuff,
then you might actually be able to tell
by just watching it because the scenes
with lots of movement are animated
beautifully. But there are also just way
more still shots and slow pans that are
there to kind of reduce the workload and
effectively cut corners so that the
higher priority scenes can get more
attention. That's why one minute you
have, you know, a very long-lasting
still shot of a building and then the
next you have this unbelievable like
firsterson POV shot of the uh the
defendant looking at his handcuffs
looking at the floor and we have even
more 2D environments as we're moving
forward for no reason other than like
you know the artist flexing their
artistry and maybe in like other anime
like your average anime it would be more
noticeable but JJK season 3's background
art and composition is just so [ __ ]
good that even when I look at you know a
city or a building for more than 10
seconds, it still feels engaging. It's
just nice to look at. Oh, and the music
in this episode incredible. Like the
music in Higuruma's backstory, it kind
of reminded me slightly of uh By the
Pool from Chainsaw Man, you know? But
yeah, just the whole thing, the
background art, phenomenal. You know,
the way we cut from the kind of
desaturated, very normal, grounded in
reality look of Higuruma's life to then
the sort of like purple bluish, very
very cold kind of aesthetic that we have
in the barrier in present time in the
culling games kind of separates the
first part of the episode from the
second, right? Like it's two completely
different worlds that I feel like we're
we're living in, which can kind of maybe
represent the way that, you know, Ten
said Kenjaku has moved Japan across to
the other side. We've gone from reality
into this this [ __ ] up jiu-jitsu world
that Kjaku has created. Or maybe I'm
just looking into that and they like the
color blue. I don't know. But then yeah,
we also have these like amazing shots
of, you know, the defendant walking down
the hallway with that 2D environment
that we saw in the Hikari introduction
episode for no real reason other than it
looking dope. Again, the first person
POV, the amazing art of Higuruma's eye.
Even just that scene later on in the
episode of Higuruma dramatically walking
towards Yugji down the stairs is like
it's just done so well that it makes up
for the you know still shots throughout
the episode. Anyway, the rest of the
episode is basically a mix of Megumi and
Yugji arriving at their destinations and
finding out that they have either been
tricked or that they have found their
target. As expected, Megumi was the one
who got tricked, but thank God he did
because Megumi versus Jojo's side
character 42 is actually a generational
fight that is going to be hard to hate
on no matter how strong your anti agenda
is. That fight is going to have to wait
for the moment though because first
Yugji is confronting Higuruma who has,
you know, been found lying in a bathtub
fully clothed in a theater that he has
made his base of operations for the
culling game. And oh my god, bro, like
Higuruma's voice actor was just cracking
me up in this scene. Listen to his laugh
after he tells this dad joke. Jokes
aside though, the lighting and
composition on this entire sequence is
amazing. The way he's just like sat
there playing with the water with wide
eyes makes him look it makes him look
deranged. Like he's he's a grownass man
in a suit sat in a bathtub in a theater
playing with water like he's four years
old, bro. It's just it's crazy. He's out
of his mind. And it's, you know, the
whole scene is so desaturated. And it
all just further reinforces how
depressing and lost this character is.
It's amazing. His reasoning for
rejecting Yuji's proposal of using his
points to create a rule to stop killing
also interested me a lot when I read it
in the manga because, you know, he's
obviously unaware of Kjaku's true goal.
But even when Yuji says that the game
will eventually lead to everybody's
death, his logic for like calling
[ __ ] on that is completely sound.
It's actually so sound that even Yugji
questions himself. You see, the calling
game is built to literally make sure
that the game isn't forcefully ended
even by Kjaku. So it starts begging the
question, you know, what has Kjaku got
planned to actually beat the rules of
his own game? Higuruma's interest in the
calling game and jiu-jitsu as a whole
being, you know, a way to force an
unbiased justice upon Japan is really
interesting. And to be honest, I can
definitely see where he's coming from
with the concept of it. But the Colin
Games itself is obviously just too
brutal to actually work. Still, his
interest in a system that delivers
forceful, unbiased justice automatically
is kind of valid, especially, you know,
given what he's seen from the judicial
system of humans. I'm getting sick of
saying judicial. Like, it's just a
difficult word to say in a script. Where
I think Higurumi's character really
shines, though, is when he's clashing
with Yujiadori, the judgment versus the
judged. It creates for an incredibly
interesting dynamic that unfortunately
we're not going to see until next
episode. So, the anime only are going to
have to, you know, wait for the payoff
of this episode. But trust me, it's so
going to be worth it. And then when
Higuruma gets out of the tub in response
to Yugji's threat, like the theater
lights just change to to neon, red, and
blue, which I guess can only be
explained by saying it was divine
intervention because of how much aura
there currently is in this theater.
Seriously though, the last time we got
the red and blue neon lights in a fight
was Yuji versus Choso. So, I am
expecting some serious peak next
episode. Hearuma walks ominously towards
Yugji and then the OST just starts
cooking. of I can't play it cuz you know
copyright but just just imagine that I
am yeah drums guitar absolute s wait is
that [ __ ] domain expansion off rip
bro what we even doing here yeah bro no
no no wonder this dude tore through half
the players in this colony already man
is clearly a beast god the domain also
just looks so dope like especially with
him banging that hammer again bro it's
it's so cool and and speaking of him
looking dope listen when it comes to
this character you know what the JGK
fandom is like right I just know the
gojo figure incident side of the fandom
is gooning so hard to this bro. Hell,
some of you are probably gooning to him
while watching this video. Freaky ass
[ __ ] But yeah, to be continued.
Hey, this is editor Alons here just
interrupting real quick. So, this next
episode review basically features my
face cam instead of the normal, you
know, suka shaking image. Don't worry,
it's literally just for this episode.
The compilation will go back to normal
after we're done with this one. I was
just messing around, you know, to see
whether it would make things easier for
me, but it didn't, so I dropped it. And
uh, yeah, that's why you will now see my
face. Gay Akatami, the writer of
Jiu-Jitsu Kaizen, basically just put two
men in a room with a bathtub, gave it to
Mappa, and said, "Make peak fiction."
And there's actually an old Jiujitsu
Kaizen saying that explains exactly how
they were able to create such an amazing
episode. It's a phrase of great power
and wisdom. Go cinema, bro. Yeah, that
intro line took me like 20 minutes to
come up with. By the way, I I didn't
even know how to start this video. Like,
I've been sat here staring at a blank
page for 20 minutes trying to think of
something witty or even just find the
words to describe what the actual f what
in the actual world I've just watched.
So, you know what? I'm just going to say
this. I think Yuji versus Higuruma is
the best fight in Jiu-Jitsu Kaisen's
anime so far. Yeah, I said that. I'm not
lying. And I won't Okay, never mind. It
really doesn't hit the same when I say
it. Oh, the recency bias is crazy, bro.
Relax. It's not that serious. I don't
care, bro. Eat a brick. Sure, Sukuna
versus Maharaga is peak in terms of
animation and hype, but this latest
episode of season 3 just scratched an
itch that the rest of the fights in the
anime really just couldn't reach for me.
Oh, and this is my face, by the way.
Yeah, I kind of felt bad about shoveling
Ryu's gifts down your throat for 10
minutes every week, so I'm doing this in
those moments now. You're welcome.
Anyway, episode 9 of season 3 was as
incredible as it was because it had the
perfect blend of the only three
ingredients that you ever really need to
create actual peak fiction. Peak
writing, peak animation, and peak music.
Yes, I said music, even though it played
a variant of the La song that everyone
hated. And what? It was beautiful. [ __ ]
had me looking like that one Kroo. Now,
I'm not saying fights like Sukuna versus
Maharaga and Chos versus Yuji don't have
these three things, but it's all about
balance. Let's start with just like the
animation for example, right?
Immediately as soon as the episode
begins, it's on site. Domain expansion.
Now, domains normally look awesome when
they're expanded. Sure, they definitely
don't cut corners, but in this case, we
got like an entire 5-second shot of
simply just the gravel floor unwinding.
Why? Why? It looks so good. And then
there's the art direction throughout
this episode as well, which is like, you
know, we do the first part, which is the
whole pachinko parlor trial incident.
The domain looks great. You've got this
nice warm lighting, spotlights on each
character, and you kind of just have fun
with the moment, right? But then you cut
straight back into that action sequence
that follows and it's neon red with a
blue spotlight that follows Yugji
around. Very similar to how Yugji versus
Choso did it in the bathroom, right?
It's like the kind of neon red and blue
contrast. And then later on when you
know the episode takes a slightly dark
and very depressing turn which I'll talk
about in a moment. It goes back to this
kind of melancholy like colder blue or
greenish kind of vibe which is so sick
the way that we literally change the
lighting and the the colors throughout
the episode depending on the tone. Now
in the domain basically what happens is
Yugji just figures out how it works.
It's not a typical domain with a short
hit. But then what's dope is in the
manga we get this one panel of Yuji
talking to Tangen where Ten explains,
you know, what domains used to be like.
This could have easily just been a
silhouette saying it in like a single
line, but no, it's Mappa, so he had to
go overboard. All right. Yuji literally
transitions from where he's standing and
peels back into Tenin's domain into the
flashback, right? And then the animation
when Tenin like does this visual of a
barrier expanding is just so good for no
reason at all. And again, a very
important thing about this episode, I
won't get into the writing too much cuz
I've already have a a massive like deep
dive analysis video um on my channel of
this fight. So, if you want like deep
deep writing, then check that out. But
what I love about this fight and that
the anime absolutely nailed is the way
that we set up the second half by
basically making the first half kind of
unserious, you know? Oh, Yugji, you've
been accused of going to a pachinko
parlor, which is basically a casino when
you're underage. That's illegal. And
Yugi's like, ah no, what should I do?
and he's there shivering like a fence
zombie who can't get his fix for like 3
minutes, right? It's all kind of goofy.
It's fun. I was laughing. My mate was
laughing. It was a great time. He then
comes up with his, you know, very very
dumb idea where he goes, "Ah, I went in
there to take a [ __ ] Didn't really pan
out." He got his um cursed energy
confiscated. Well, technically, no.
Normally, it confiscates your technique,
but then, you know, Yugji doesn't have a
technique, so it kind of disabled his
cursed energy instead. Obviously, at
that point, Higarum would normally
squash any enemy, but Yugji is built
different even without cursed energy.
So, he's the perfect matchup here. But
yeah, that whole kind of thing happens
and it's like very light-hearted and
unserious and it's kind of meant to
lower the viewers's guard so that later
on, you know, when we get the moment, if
you know, you know, it just hits like
like like what? One minute you're
laughing. It's like, "Oh, that's that's
good." And then Eugi goes, "Yeah, I did
that." And you're like, "Huh? What?
Huh?" And then everything just gets like
more depressing from there. That's
something that the lighting actually
does a really good job of portraying is
the way the episode is split. You do the
goofy bit and then the red action bit
and then you go back to the bluer, you
know, colder colors for, you know, the
very sad, depressing stuff. And the
music also matches as well. The way the
domain turns off when Yuji gets accused.
Oh my god, it just zip gone. And then
Higuruma on smoke, bro. He's using that
gavvel like Thor's hammer, throwing it
back and forth, using the force to pull
it back to him. Crazy things that never
happen in the manga, bro. This fight was
massively extended. And again, I'm I'm
just going to say it. I think animation
and choreography wise, like hand-to-hand
fighting, this is the best we've got in
JK. And it looks so good with that neon
tint. But the the hand-to-h hand
animation is ridiculous. It's so good.
It's made by this entire 1 minute 30-ish
cut, I think, is done by a guy called
Nyion or Neon 41 who um animated that
one fight everyone sees, you know, every
other month on the internet from Super
Cube because it's just that that good.
Yeah, he cooked with this sequence, man.
Oh my god, the choreography is insane,
bro. Higaruma was doing things like,
"Oh, Yuji blocks my hammer." Smashes it
into his face. And then he's using it
like a like a gum gum gatalin, bro. He's
going like voom voom voom with the
hammer. I'm never doing that again. But
yeah, he's like doing things that Gay
like didn't even dream of when writing
the manga. And it's just it's amazing.
He literally uses it to pull V onto the
stage. Oh, it's so sick and just it's so
dynamic. The way that like the fluid
motion and the sucker moments are still
like you can still follow them. You can
still understand everything that's
happening. It's incredibly fast, but not
so fast that you, you know, you get lost
in it. It's so good. It's ridiculous. I
will say I think the Choso and Yuji
fight was a bit more dynamic in terms of
how they use their environment and like
the POV shots and stuff, but in terms of
like the actual hand-to-h hand and just
the the quality of the overall animation
is a different level to any. So,
honestly, like honestly, it's like
probably one of the best handtohand
scenes I've seen in animation to be
honest. And again, just like the
lighting is great. We finally end up
after that ridiculous sequence after
Yugji slides under Higuruma's feet and
kind of runs away for a bit, eventually
gets him back onto the stage and then
thinks of the retrial moment. So, as
soon as he says retrial, bam, again,
we're straight back in the domain, which
I really like cuz it kind of backs the
point that it's more of a rule than like
a suggestion. You know, if you demand a
retrial, you get a retrial whether
hearuma wants to give you one or not.
But then this is when the episode shifts
and I was watching it with my anime
anime only friend who was like, you
know, we were having a good time. It was
like, "Wow, that's funny." And then it
was like, "Wo, that action's cool." And
then Judgment says, "You've been accused
of mass murder in Shabuya on October
31st." And then very simple, very
onetoone panel of Eugi. Just just one
frame. Yeah, I did that. I'm not lying
and I won't deny it. And he's got this
very matterof fact voice. It's not
overly emotional. It's kind of dead.
There's no music. It's completely
silent, which just really makes you feel
it. And obviously the evidence shows
that actually it wasn't Yugji. But
because he confessed, judgment
immediately immediately handed out
confiscation and death penalty. Hearuma
had his executioner's blade pretty much
instantly and was throwing hands with
Yuji, but he in his mind he was confused
cuz he's like, "You've said you're
guilty, but the evidence says it's
Sukuna, like it wasn't you." And this is
amazing because not only is the like the
visuals and the music in this following
sequence ridiculous with that like I
don't even know what to call it like
beautiful kind of 360 looking shot of
like Kigaruma literally flying down upon
Yuji with the spotlight behind him like
he's an angel coming in to strike the
chairs flying around him that kind of
green mist the music just like very soft
very emotional a bit of the la music in
there as well you know but it it looks
incredible it really matches the tone
but what I love about it is just the
fact that Yugji is completely defying
everything Higuruma stands for at the
moment. You know, after being a lawyer
for so long, he eventually reached the
point where he snapped and decided all
people are ugly and just the worst,
right? Yugji really does whatever he can
to help people cuz that's what his, you
know, grandpa told him. He is a cog to
exercise curses and to help people to
save them. So, this is Yugji just being
himself. And even just that is making
Higuruma question everything that has
led him to this point. And he's now
having this moment of like, "Oh [ __ ] I
killed those people." And he's
realizing, "Was I was I in the wrong?"
Because Yugji is disproving everything
he currently believes. Obviously, there
is a lot more to analyze from like I
mean so much more to the point where I
managed to bring Gojo into it and the
future of JJK, but go watch the video
for the full breakdown. But yeah, wow.
the parallel between them cuz like Yugji
after Shabuya so far in season 3 we
haven't brought up what happened a lot
and we know he feels guilty about it but
it's kind of been gatekeep from us
because we've been saving it for this
moment where Yuji just gets his like you
know judgment judges him you killed
those people in Shabuya and he finally
has to come to terms with that against
the lawyer player in the culling games
which is so so dope and I feel like
Higuruma and Yuji in their own right
stand apart but also they have a great
dynamic and it it's just beautiful all
around so yeah incredible scene the
music just cooks. Hearuma's flying in
like an angel. Eugi's shirtless. I I I
can't remember why. I think he throws
his shirt at Hearuma for distraction or
something. I don't know, man. And then
at the last second, Hearuma gets rid of
the executioner's blade. And then Yuji
realizes and decides to punch him in the
gut anyway, which is a bit of a dick
move, but whatever. We all end up happy.
Well, not happy. It's actually very
depressing. Hearuma realized he killed
innocent people and then wants to turn
himself in and just realize he's given
up his life forever. But whatever, it's
about redemption for him. It's great
though cuz in the end he realizes, you
know what, Yugji, I can't I can't
actually fight you. I can't with good
conscience kill you. You've turned me
back into what I used to be before, you
know, the uh the corruption of the
justice system destroyed me. So, he's
kind of helped Higuruma find who he who
he was before being influenced by that,
which is really nice. And yeah, so they
get the transfer rule. Yuji then gets
given a point, so he doesn't have to
worry about the 19 days anymore. And
Higuruma exits. And again, what is it
with these like fights that are so peak?
You know, all the best hand-to-h hand
fights with the neon red and blue
lighting end with an exit sign. Is that
a little call back to Choso vers Yuguji?
I don't know. How has it happened twice?
It's weird. Anyway, I don't even know,
man. The voice acting was incredible
considering it was pretty much just
three characters plus some flashback
stuff. The art direction, and lighting
was insane. It genuinely had what is
probably my favorite animated
hand-to-hand fight scene in JK or just
fight. I think it's just one of like at
least a top three cut in the whole in
the whole show for me. The music and the
way that we just go from, you know, that
first part is very light-hearted and
it's kind of unserious and then it goes
to the red and the upbeat music and the
action scene and it's the animation is
ridiculous and it's fast but it's easy
to follow and you can figure out what's
going on. Bro, in the manga it's like
two or three pages of, you know, it's
cool, but it's pretty basic action
stuff, right? But no, we've got Higaruma
using his hammer like Thor's hammer
bringing it back, right? He's like
swinging that thing round. He's firing
at Yuguji like non-stop to the point
where you can't even follow it with your
eyes. He's polevolting using the end of
it and extending it outwards. There's
that like amazing um shot of Higaruma
kind of jumping up and through the bath
water which looks like blood because of
the lighting. It's so good. It genuinely
is just like it's such an amazing
sequence and I can't sit here and
describe every single frame because I
feel like this video would end up being
an hour long. But yeah, it's the way he
used the gavvel for me that I really
liked. Also just the how the environment
kind of crumbles and moves. Um, it does
a really good job of showing how strong
they are, showing the impact. I think
that's something Gay maybe failed at
when writing this is he kind of failed
to show how insanely combat capable
Higuruma is simply because of his
natural genius, right? He puts his mind
to something, he achieves it, bro. He
wasn't fighting nobody. He was no like
he was no daredevil. All right? He
wasn't lawyer by day, Daredevil by
night. No, but he awakened his
technique. He was like, "Huh? All right.
Domain expansion. Boom." And then he's
just able to use his technique so
dynamically and freely. and the just his
uh combat ability and ability to figure
out what was going on with Yuji and why
he was so strong is like it really shows
his genius. And I think being able to
convey that mid fight is really
difficult thing to do. But Gosso Cinema,
they smashed it. I loved it. It was
dope. Amazing episode. Probably a top
three episode for me as a whole. I I'm
split between this and the Marquee
episode for this season. I don't know.
But yeah, um it was amazing. I Oh. Oh my
god, dude. Can you imagine Sendai
Colony? What the [ __ ]
No matter whether you're an anime only
or a manga reader, I feel like you've
all heard of the JJK character known as
potential man. He also goes by the names
of fraud or bum or sometimes Megumi.
Now, I'm going to put my hands up and
say yes, normally I am very much on that
Megumi hate bandwagon. However, when
season 3 started airing, I also put my
hands up and said I'm going to have to
admit that yeah, Megumi absolutely cooks
in the Culling Games. Gagegeay was oh I
don't know what he was smoking when he
wrote Megumi's colony fight and godamn
did storyboarder Shoto Goshono yes Gosso
Cinema again this episode it's peak and
also episode director Ichawa absolutely
just elevated Gagegeay's vision for
Megumi and wow they they made this
episode unnecessarily beautiful but also
Megumi isn't even really the highlight I
was expecting to talk about that guy for
ages when this episode came out but nah
there's someone else there's someone
else who just stole the whole show
Takaba. Oh my god. I'm going to get on
to that later. Actually, you know what?
I'm going to I'm going to save it
because I I feel like what I have to say
about Takaba needs everybody's utmost
attention, including my own. So, we'll
let that sit. Anyway, this episode now,
I'm going to just say this. I feel like
it was a lower priority episode compared
to the others. I don't think anything
ridiculous happened, but obviously
because it's JJK, the standard is
already way higher than normal. So, the
moments that look really good still look
really good. and the overall, you know,
general direction and art um throughout
the episode is just it's so beautiful.
So, the episode begins with Reggie and
Megumi picking up their conversation
from episode 8. I'm not going to kind of
rehash what they talk about because, you
know, watch the show, guys. You should
know this by now. But a detail I really
like in this conversation is that Megumi
tells Reggie that a rule allowing the
transfer of points will soon be added.
Which basically means that Megumi has
absolute unyielding faith that Yuji will
add that rule. And sure enough, shortly
later, the rule is added. And Megumi
goes, "Huh, okay, cool. Yugji did it. As
expected, I can lock in and just kill
these guys now if I need to. No need to
hold back." Which is great cuz it just
shows how much Megumi has like
unyielding faith in Yugji. Anyway, when
Reggie realizes he's not going to get
Megumi onto his team, which is done
through a sequence of basically just
still shots at the beginning of the
episode, I feel like there was a lot of
time saving, which is why I say it is
possibly a lower priority episode. But
then Chisuhari, who is this NPC, burger
bot sorcerer, comes running at Megumi,
but he is not on that guy's level, bro.
Megumi dips into the shadows over the
shoulder and dashes that man off the
balcony. I'm talking he launches that
dude, bro. Like in the manga, he kind
of, you know, pushes him over the
railing. But nah, in the anime, Gosso
was like, "Nah, we're going to have him
throw him to the next city, bro." Like,
cool, I guess. I don't know how he
survived that, but cool. And then Hazan
Noki's eyeball drops and explodes in
this weird kind of like Demon Slayer
style 3D explosion, which at first I was
like, that kind of looks weird. But it
grew on me. I'm not going to lie. I like
it. And I especially like that slow-mo
shot of the explosion like creeping
around the door frame. And then of
course, Megum and Remy have their little
talk. And oh my god, they made Remy look
so disgusting graveling on the floor.
She's preaching to the choir here, man,
cuz this is Megum. He don't care. He
just called her scum and trash and said
she should, you know, piss off, which I
kind of respect. But then that Chisaruh
Hari guy came in and I watched what they
did with this fight between Hari and
Megumi and I just thought, "Yeah, Gosso
has to be rage baiting us, bro." Like,
what are we doing here? This has to be
engagement bait cuz in the manga, all
right, this is not close. Megumi just
destroys that guy, you know, two or
three panels, kicks him in the face,
nonchalantly, doesn't even break a
sweat, max elephant out the building,
and then whams a sword right into his
head. But no, no. In the anime, what
what we're having is this again what I
think is probably rotoscoped amazing
shot of like Megumi kind of walking out
to face Hari. He sizes him up with the
sword, backs up into the room behind
him, and then just looks like he gets a
bit lazy, bro. Like, why are we making
Megumi look like a fraud here? What are
we doing? This is what I'm saying. It
has to be rage bait, bro. Well, what do
you mean? The guy who's supposedly
really good in hand-to-h hand and
weapons combat just got the sword
immediately kicked out of his hand and
then booted into a wall only to then
fall back on using his shikami to save
his ass and kick Harry out of the
building. Listen, it all looks dope.
Okay, it looks great and I appreciate
fight extensions. I'm not complaining in
that respect, but bro, this does nothing
for the Megumi agenda, bro. All right,
this guy gets slandered enough. Why are
we having this random NPC put hands on
him? Oh, it's just not a good look. It's
not a good look. Gosh, why? Something I
do really appreciate though from the
animator team is that they did not
censor this episode one bit. Bro, Megumi
still walks up to Hari on the ground and
just it's like a onetoone because I know
you guys love your onetoone moments.
Sword slices straight through his head
like a watermelon. Beautiful. Reggie and
Haninoi then do their little Mary
Poppins thing down to the ground. The
rule gets added. You know, Megumi is now
like cool. I don't need to hold back. I
can just fight these guys or run away.
And then Haninoi spits a tooth in this
really cool shot to be honest. spits a
tooth at Megumi that gets intercepted by
the [ __ ] goat. The absolute Oh, he's
so good. Killed it in this episode and
just it's I just Okay, right. I had to
cut out a big section there because I
started yapping. I was really worried
that they were going to fumble the
execution of Takabet because obviously
comedy is a delicate thing, but no. They
basically killed two birds with one
stone. They made him unironically
genuinely hilarious. But they also
utilized this character as a time-saving
technique to lower the workload of
making the episode because when he
dropped his zero damage bar, they let
that moment play out in complete silence
for 40 flipping sec. I counted it was 40
seconds, bro. He just stands there and
wastes a whole minute of the episode
bleeding from his head smiling with
Megum. Like I love the way he just
shifts awkwardly in the background and
even Reggie and Haninoi start like
shifting awkwardly because it's it's
uncomfortable, you know? He's just said
this ridiculously unfunny thing and and
just standing there like a dumbass. It's
it's done so well, bro. I can't. And
then of course the Wi-Fi bar. Oh my god,
the Wi-Fi line was executed to
perfection. He sounds so funny. In the
manga, the joke is, you know, if you
read TCB, it's actually none of your
businesset like like bisnet, like
business. But in the Japanese, it
translates directly to Wi-Fi, which is
why the joke might not land and it might
just sound funny to you. I don't know
why I'm explaining this. No one [ __ ]
cares. And just like in the manga, they
had to censor that shot of his ball
falling out of his costume. But if you
actually watch very carefully in the
anime as he turns around after that
shot, you can see his literally like
shift in his underwear. It's so funny.
And when he goes to drop kick Hazan
Noki, there's these dumbass cartoon
sound effects and they do it from like
four different angles. It's so cliche
and stupid. I love it. I feel like I'm
watching Tom and Jerry, bro. It's great.
Actually, just the whole episode has
this really unserious, goofy, colorful,
and vibrant, very cartoonish feel to it,
which is something that I feel like
couldn't be portrayed as well in the
manga because obviously in the manga,
you know, it's black and white. You
don't have this kind of contrast. You
don't have voice acting, you don't have
music. But the anime episode really
elevated what Gagege wrote by really
drawing on the contrast of you have this
dark and gloomy edgy teen like Megumi
and the rest of the things going on
around him. Whether it be the scenery,
whether it be Reggie, whether it be
Takoba are just all colorful and vibrant
and flamboyant and goofy. I love it cuz
realistically Takaba and Reggie are just
both goofy as [ __ ] bro. Reggie's out
here with his hobbit feet. He's built
like a truck. He's wearing a dress of
receipts. Man, the way he just pulls out
that rinky dinky little scion blue moped
later on is so dumb. It's like watching
Dwayne the Rock Johnson, you know, get
on a on a e- scooter. It's It's just It
doesn't make sense, bro. It does.
Nothing about this episode makes any
sense other than Megum. He's like the
most realistic part of the episode, but
it's dope. It's such a good contrast,
and I feel like they really go all in
and bring it to life in this episode.
I'm actually really struggling to put
into words how I'm finding this. I don't
know. The the Tupper thing is just
hilarious. Like the way he does his own
adlibs and the sound effects that he
makes, like just the little noises. I
don't know what Takaba's voice actor was
smoking, bro. They gave him some crazy
drugs, locked him in the recording
booth, and just said, "Do your thing." I
don't know. He was cooking. It was sick.
And then, as if that isn't cool enough,
we go back to the um, you know, Megumi
and Reggie stuff where instead of just
having the conversation about Reggie's
curse technique on the street then and
there like they do in the manga, there's
this massive anime only uh chase scene
where Reggie's like running down the
scaffolding, dodging New A's lightning.
And again, I just want to say it's
rotoscoped even though it might not be
because it looks that damn good. And
then you had Reggie using his technique,
which is great cuz I do feel like in the
manga, he didn't really use it to full
effect. And it's nice just to have this
anime only sequence, you know,
storyboarded by the goat himself where
we get to see Reggie's technique used in
a much more versatile way, where he was
like summoning giant plushies to cushion
his fall. He was doing this weird thing
where he was putting like rock climbing
things on the wall to help him run on
the wall or something. And then later on
he just drops a whole ass piano on
Megumi in an alleyway. It's just dope.
But the action sequence of them running
around the city is just generally sick.
Like Mega looks dope as well. Him
summoning Max Elephant out of the
building was really really cool.
Actually, I really like that moment
specifically because it kind of
emphasizes the use of the shadows cuz
that part of the building was in shadow.
But then, you know, eventually after all
of this peak fiction, they end up in the
gymnasium where Megum dodges these uh
these lorries that Reggie sends flying
at him. or sorry, I should call them
trucks cuz most my viewers are American.
He summons these trucks and Megumi like
dives under them and again the camera
looks like it's handheld, bro. Like the
cameraman lowkey is on acid or something
like he's just wobbling all about the
place which is really sick cuz okay
cool. It was a well animated shot but
having the the camera like violently
move really kind of brought that moment
to life for me. I thought it looked
really sick. And after saving some more
time by doing these uh slightly
egregious slow-mo shots. Yes, I think my
only real complaint of the episode is
that the slow-mo was a little bit
overdone in places. I mean, if you're
going to have Takaba and those kind of
moments be long and drawn out for the
sake of saving time, don't don't also
overload it with slow-mo. But that's a
minor inconvenience. All right, it's not
a real complaint. After all that gets
packed up, though, it's time for the
pinnacle of the episode. And somehow in
the space of only three episodes, we're
getting two with domain expansion
cliffhers because Megumi starts talking
about how his domain is incomplete,
can't be contained by a barrier. And as
soon as he starts talking about
barriers, Reggie suddenly looks shook.
Now, this is a moment that I think the
anime did a really good job of
portraying that Reggie is in genuine
disbelief that Megumi was about to
unleash a domain expansion because
despite Reggie being very strong, it
kind of emphasizes, you know, how much
higher of a level of sorcery you have to
be to have something like a domain
expansion. And you can see that
expressed very clearly on Reggie's face,
which was dope. So, um, yeah, the music
then kicks in. We're building the
tension again. It kind of reminds me of
when It kind of reminds me of when he
says, "Oh, it's the Southern Cross to
Kurara." And that kind of voom music
starts playing again to build tension.
And then we get this great zoom out shot
of Megumi actually expanding the domain.
Uh and then it's it just it's the best
it's ever looked. Like it looks good in
season 1. It looks okay in season 2 in
Dargon's domain. But here you've just
got like this weird neon blue lightning
effect with the core of the domain
hanging above him. Like it looks so
sick. Whereas before you kind of just
see the shadow spill out, right? But
this is a different level. It's
beautiful. I love it. So um yeah, that
is the episode. But again, I think my
only complaint is like the time-saving
moments being used in the Takoba section
for comedic effect is completely fine.
If anything, it's peaked. It just made
it funnier. And at the beginning of the
episode, I don't care about seeing shots
of the scenery because all of the art is
so beautiful that I'll happily just, you
know, sit there and watch it while
[100:00] listening to them yap. I think the only
[100:01] thing they could have maybe fixed up a
[100:03] bit was the slightly egregious slow-mo
[100:05] at times, but it's honestly not a big
[100:07] deal at all. Yeah, Takaba was the
[100:08] highlight. Um, Megumi Loki going midiff
[100:11] and getting hands put on him by an NPC
[100:13] like Hari is just funny. I honestly do
[100:15] think that is just engagement bait from
[100:17] Goshono. I don't have a problem with it
[100:19] cuz it it doesn't matter at the end of
[100:20] the day. I just find it hilarious cuz
[100:22] Megumi gets slandered enough. Bro, he
[100:24] already has enough bad things going for
[100:25] him. We're going to have people out here
[100:27] saying he was getting packed up by Hari.
[100:29] H I just I I Let's not even go there.
[100:33] I'm doing this episode 11 review a
[100:36] little differently because this episode
[100:38] is very, very special. And if you're a
[100:41] longtime viewer of my channel, you will
[100:43] know why. This time, I'm starting with a
[100:46] very quick breakdown of that thing which
[100:48] happens at the end of this episode
[100:51] before diving fully into Megumi versus
[100:53] Reggie. So like the video, subscribe to
[100:56] the channel, and let me tell you about
[100:58] the long- awaited masterpiece that is
[101:00] Sendai Colony and the four sorcerers
[101:03] that started it all. These four players
[101:05] were such monsters that after wiping out
[101:08] the rest of the colony, they ended up
[101:10] stalemating in a situation that would
[101:12] famously become known as the four-way
[101:15] deadlock. However, on November 12th,
[101:17] 11:28 a.m., a new player entered the
[101:20] colony all alone, [music] and the
[101:22] deadlock was broken.
[101:27] Yeah, you've uh you've probably seen
[101:29] that edit on uh Tik Tok or Instagram or
[101:31] something, right? I I can't believe it
[101:33] became a thing. Um but yes, this episode
[101:35] finally marks the beginning of UT versus
[101:38] Sai Colony, which is often considered
[101:40] one of the best fights in all of
[101:43] Jiu-Jitsu Kaizen. Like, period. This is
[101:45] probably going to be the most intense uh
[101:47] jiu-jitsu kaisen battle we've ever seen.
[101:49] The introduction is all we really get in
[101:51] this episode. All of Sendai will be next
[101:53] episode in a 27minut special confirmed,
[101:56] but the actual introduction of the
[101:57] players itself is oh my god, it's it's
[102:00] so it's so beautiful. Like the the OST
[102:03] is like it's so different to anything
[102:05] else I've heard in JJK. It's got this
[102:07] really kind of like eerie and and sort
[102:09] of almost horror kind of vibe to it,
[102:11] right? And we also just finally get a
[102:13] full look at Kurushi, the cockroach
[102:16] cursed spirit, who I I really like this
[102:18] visual um of him just kind of like stood
[102:20] looking kind of small against the wall.
[102:22] And then we have obviously Duv.
[102:24] [laughter] I mean, I don't know what to
[102:25] say about this guy. If you know, you
[102:27] know. He's obviously very scary, but
[102:29] he's dead. So, there's that. But then
[102:32] the goats. The goats. Ryu and Uro. And
[102:34] yes, I know the Goonas are going to come
[102:36] out in full force for this one. And why
[102:38] the hell did Mappa decide to animate her
[102:40] feet like that? I don't know. Am I
[102:42] complaining? Definitely not because god
[102:45] damn. Okay. Right. No, I need to I
[102:47] actually need to contain myself. Um, Ryu
[102:49] looks absolutely dope. Like, oh my days.
[102:52] And just the kind of sort of warm pink
[102:55] reddish lighting signifying Drew's
[102:58] domain. And then the way that lighting
[102:59] just switches back to the normal sky
[103:02] when Duv dies is really, really cool.
[103:04] Um, it's actually pretty onetoone with
[103:06] the manga, which I know a lot of people
[103:08] like when things get onetoone. I quite
[103:10] enjoyed Ya's introduction of slicing
[103:12] down droo. Obviously, that was never
[103:13] going to be anything crazy. Uh, it is
[103:15] literally just one panel in the manga.
[103:18] Now, what the narrator says in the manga
[103:19] is Utooku regain special grade blah blah
[103:22] blah. Second only to Saturu Gojo in
[103:25] unusual abilities, but the anime decided
[103:28] or at least the subtitles say rivaling
[103:31] Saturu Gojo in unusual abilities. I
[103:33] don't know if we needed any more UT
[103:35] glaze, bro. And I know the manga is more
[103:36] cannon than the anime, but like that's
[103:38] such a like going from second to
[103:39] rivaling is insane. But yep, the
[103:41] introduction is peak. Can't wait for
[103:42] next week. Anyway, let's get into it
[103:44] before I get flamed by my comments
[103:46] anymore than I probably already am cuz
[103:48] yes, I love you, sir. So, immediately we
[103:50] go straight back in. Megumi's expanded
[103:52] domain. We're keeping up with the kind
[103:54] of, you know, neon, very vibrant blue
[103:56] lights on this black kind of, or not
[103:59] black, but dark contrast background.
[104:00] Weirdly enough, pink hollow wicker
[104:02] basket. Um, which I I did think was a
[104:04] strange choice for Holo Wicker Basket at
[104:07] first, but then I saw what they did with
[104:08] the episode and basically the whole
[104:10] thing is like a red versus blue or like
[104:12] a pinkish kind of red for Reggie and
[104:14] this kind of range of blues for Megumi
[104:17] that are just constantly clashing to the
[104:18] point where when they're both in their
[104:20] like weight battle in the middle of the
[104:22] episode, it literally looks like a holo
[104:23] purple is about to be formed in the
[104:25] floor, which is dope. There was this
[104:27] Sakuga cut right at the beginning with a
[104:29] blatant Naruto reference like Megumi
[104:32] literally walking on well it's not water
[104:34] but it's shadows walking on shadows.
[104:37] He's summoning like shadow clones
[104:38] literally shadow clones and they're
[104:40] doing the Naruto run in this incredibly
[104:42] like fast-paced action sequence where
[104:44] the clones jump Reggie. Bro, they they
[104:46] tie that man up by his ankles and use
[104:47] him as a punching bag. Like the
[104:49] disrespect is insane. And then
[104:51] everything gets very very fluid. kind of
[104:53] like the second episode um of season 3
[104:55] with the Nia stuff, right? I know a lot
[104:57] of people won't like it. I am a big fan
[104:59] of this style of animation. It is a bit
[105:00] hard to track at times, sure, but I
[105:02] generally just really enjoyed how it
[105:04] looked and it also matches the kind of
[105:06] feel of Megumi's clones being made out
[105:08] of this like fluid sort of uh liquidy
[105:11] kind of shadow substance, right? So, I
[105:13] really enjoyed that. And then the
[105:14] episode kind of comes to a grounding
[105:16] halt when Reggie drops the cars in the
[105:18] shadow. And we have again the whole area
[105:20] is just surrounded in this very dark
[105:22] blue shadow. And then you have the
[105:24] center where Megum is trying to bear the
[105:26] weight of the cars with this kind of
[105:28] very vibrant bright blue or neon kind of
[105:31] color, right? Cyan, I should say. We get
[105:33] the explanation that Megum has to bear
[105:36] the weight of whatever falls into his
[105:37] shadow. And because the cars were
[105:39] dropped in there, he now has to bear
[105:40] that weight. And that is obviously going
[105:43] to cause a problem. But Megumi is
[105:45] accounted for something like this and he
[105:46] decides well he basically decides Reggie
[105:49] has something that he needs to address.
[105:53] I am the first person ever to make that
[105:55] joke. Yeah. He drops a whole ass
[105:57] elephant which is actually to scale.
[105:59] Like it it's stated to be because of the
[106:01] domain amp that his technique gets. It's
[106:03] as heavy as a fully grown um elephant.
[106:05] So Reggie is just holding an elephant
[106:07] and only took like a fractured leg or
[106:09] fractured heel which is a bit mad. I'm
[106:11] not going to lie, that's kind of crazy.
[106:12] And they're just literally for a big
[106:14] portion of the episode stood there with
[106:16] this like insane kind of music and the
[106:18] lighting just really like bringing up
[106:20] the tension constantly in this sequence
[106:22] where they are literally just having a
[106:24] spiritual pressure battle. Except
[106:26] instead of spiritual pressure, it's real
[106:28] pressure. Like it's just weight. They're
[106:30] both being dragged down into the shadow.
[106:32] Well, Megumi is being dragged down.
[106:33] Reggie's being pushed down. And whoever
[106:35] gives up first is going to lose. Uh
[106:37] because Reggie figures that if he
[106:39] actually falls into the shadow, he might
[106:41] not be able to breathe. He might not be
[106:42] able to get out should Megumi die. He
[106:44] might just keep falling forever. And
[106:46] sure enough, when he goes for his trump
[106:47] card, that is exactly what happens. And
[106:50] the way we just cut to dead silence,
[106:52] this murky atmosphere and and void. It's
[106:55] just it's terrifying. They were standing
[106:56] on this endless ocean where if they stop
[106:59] reinforcing their footing and fall in,
[107:01] it is a void. It's nothingness. He can't
[107:03] breathe. He can't see. He has no sense
[107:05] of direction. He's just falling. H But
[107:07] then obviously he's saved by the car.
[107:08] And I I really like this uh shot of the
[107:11] headlights kind of becoming more visible
[107:13] almost like there's a creature under the
[107:14] water or under the shadow. And then oh
[107:17] Reggie's celebration that he managed to
[107:19] pull a fast one on Megumi. Like the
[107:21] character acting and just the the kind
[107:23] of intensity in Reggie's voice acting is
[107:26] really incredible to be honest. It's
[107:27] it's very entertaining to see. And then
[107:29] he decides to drop that fat ass house on
[107:32] Megumi, thinking he's going to end the
[107:34] fight. We then go full slow-mo all the
[107:36] way down. Again, everything that
[107:38] Reggie's summoning has this kind of pink
[107:40] or um reddish kind of vibe to it,
[107:42] whereas Megumi staying solidly in that
[107:44] blue. But Megumi obviously, as this
[107:47] fight is meant to show, has had a handle
[107:49] on this fight since the very beginning.
[107:51] Reggie was never going to win. Me had
[107:54] been two steps ahead the whole time. So
[107:56] he releases his domain. He grabs Reggie.
[107:59] The house breaks through to the floor
[108:00] below where a swimming pool is waiting
[108:02] because they're in a gymnasium. All
[108:04] planned by Megum like he's Eizen or
[108:06] something. And that forces Reggie to
[108:08] relinquish his techniques which removes
[108:10] the stuff from Megumi shadow that was
[108:12] weighing him down so that they can both
[108:13] resurface and get some air. Now this
[108:15] kind of standoff moment is probably I
[108:18] mean just this whole sequence in general
[108:20] is probably one of if not my favorite
[108:22] moments in the entire series. I don't
[108:25] know that's a bit crazy. season.
[108:26] Definitely the season so far. They
[108:28] slowly walk towards each other from
[108:30] other ends of the pool. The music very
[108:32] gradually just kind of creeps in
[108:34] creating this tension and it goes slow,
[108:36] slow, slow, slow, and then fast jab,
[108:39] immediate block. And then we go in for
[108:41] this insane kind of fisheye lens dynamic
[108:44] camera work kind of action scene that
[108:46] lasts like not even 5 seconds, I don't
[108:48] think, until Divine Dog comes out of
[108:50] Megumi Shadow and bam, tears straight
[108:52] through Reggie. Now, in the manga, this
[108:54] is like a decent amount of hand-to-h
[108:56] hand fighting, right? I thought it would
[108:57] get extended a bit, but I much prefer
[108:59] this approach of having between five and
[109:02] six, seven, no, I'm not saying that. A
[109:05] solid like fiveish seconds of the most
[109:07] insane hand-to-hand fighting animation I
[109:10] have seen in anime. I I could not
[109:13] believe. Again, again, I'm going to I
[109:14] have a special segment at the end of
[109:16] this video that will kind of get into it
[109:17] a bit more. I'm not saying it is
[109:18] rotoscoped. I'm saying it's so damn good
[109:21] and convincing. It it looks rotoscoped.
[109:23] Obviously, they are using references of
[109:25] real people doing this to animate it.
[109:27] Um, and it could be rotoscoped because
[109:29] they do use that a lot in this season.
[109:31] Even when you guys say they don't, the
[109:32] animators do then go and confirm that
[109:34] they have been. I'm not saying it is. It
[109:36] just looks so damn good that it could
[109:37] be. Like, it's such an impactful scene
[109:39] going from that slow to then immediate
[109:41] punch, block, spin, kick to the side.
[109:43] Megumi dodges against the wall, fish
[109:45] islands shot, and then Megumi goes right
[109:47] hook to the face. Reggie stumbling,
[109:50] running back in, but it's too late.
[109:51] Divine Dog nabs him. All like done and
[109:54] dusted. It would take you as long to
[109:56] read the manga fight as it would to
[109:57] watch this. It might even take you
[109:58] longer knowing JJK fans and their
[110:00] inability to read. So, uh yeah, just
[110:03] straight up PE fiction. Like, I don't
[110:06] know. It's it's my favorite hand-to-hand
[110:07] fight. It's short, so obviously there
[110:09] are fights that are more enjoyable
[110:11] because they last longer, but in terms
[110:12] of the content we actually get, this is
[110:14] the the best I think a JJK fight. Has a
[110:17] look. I thought Miguel Gojo was good
[110:19] with the IT man references from
[110:21] Jiu-Jitsu Kaisen Zero, but this is a
[110:22] different level, man. Not even just the
[110:24] actual hand to hand. It's the fast cuts
[110:26] to the different camera perspectives.
[110:28] Even that fisheye lens shot is like it
[110:30] made me think of Kagurabachi's paneling,
[110:32] you know. If you know, you know. If you
[110:34] know, you know. But this this right
[110:35] there, I looked at that and went, "Huh,
[110:37] maybe they will be able to adapt
[110:38] Kagurabachi into a decent anime."
[110:40] Because being able to do that in
[110:42] animation is is ridiculous. Like, it was
[110:44] so well directed. Amazing episode. And
[110:47] then to just go into the Takaba Hazan
[110:49] Noki stuff, which again we go back to
[110:51] the cartoonish vibrant vibe. Hazan
[110:53] Noki's voice actor was hilarious. Takoba
[110:55] is funny as always. You get a bar saying
[110:57] that his technique opposes even Saturu
[110:59] Gojo, but that he can't use it like that
[111:01] cuz he's a complete plum. And then you
[111:03] end things off with this very slow and
[111:06] emotional moment of Megumi walking
[111:08] towards a panicking Remy who obviously
[111:10] thinks Megumi is going to kill her for
[111:12] points. But then his sister gets into
[111:14] his head and is like, "No, no, you don't
[111:15] want to do that." And so we just see the
[111:17] whole exchange happen from the point of
[111:19] view of their shadows to the point where
[111:20] Megumi just walks away leaving Remy
[111:22] there. And then finally the angel who
[111:24] descends down upon Megumi. I hate this
[111:27] character. Don't ask why for an anime
[111:28] only. I just [ __ ] I mean it's not
[111:30] Angel I hate it's it's the vessel but
[111:32] I'm not going to get into that now. I
[111:33] can't deny this shot again one to one.
[111:36] Beautiful. I loved it. It was And then
[111:38] you just transition into the Sendai
[111:40] segment and end the episode. Oh my god,
[111:42] it was dope. Just 10 like in every in
[111:44] every category. Music, lighting, colors,
[111:47] animation, direction. I'm glazing. You
[111:50] get the point. And if that was good,
[111:51] God, I don't think any of us are ready
[111:53] for what we've got in store for us next
[111:55] week. That preview looks insane.
[111:58] JJK 3X12 aka Sendai Colony has not only
[112:02] become the highest rated episode of the
[112:04] show, but a top 10 highest IMDb rated
[112:07] episode in TV history, at least as of
[112:10] right now. You see, for me, UT versus
[112:13] Sai Colony was already perfect shownen
[112:15] manga, but now now I think it's perfect
[112:18] shownen anime, too. I'm actually itching
[112:20] to get on with this deep dive, but first
[112:21] I want to quickly remind you that as
[112:23] promised, I've put mine and Orion's
[112:25] reaction to the episode at the end of
[112:27] this video. So, make sure to check that
[112:28] out later. And also, this video is safe
[112:31] for anime only. No manga spoilers here.
[112:33] Nice. With that out the way, I'm just
[112:34] going to dive straight into it. Right
[112:37] then, so Colony is a cool fight, sure,
[112:40] but it's ultimately a clash of
[112:41] ideologies. The entire event is the
[112:44] personification of Jiu-Jitsu Kaizen's
[112:46] most prevalent themes. themes of
[112:47] strength, isolation, and how you should
[112:49] choose to live your life. Uta, a
[112:51] character driven by the value of his
[112:53] relationships who has no desire to fight
[112:55] for selfish gain, directly opposes to
[112:57] Kako's Han era mentality, where the
[113:00] value of relationships is forfeited in
[113:02] favor of said selfish gain. She has the
[113:05] mentality of a pure monster where you
[113:07] just throw everything away to reach your
[113:09] own ideals. However, Ryu Shigori is kind
[113:12] of a middle ground between UT and Uro.
[113:14] Back in his age, he made a name for
[113:16] himself before settling down to live a
[113:18] complete and happy life with his loving
[113:20] wife. And yet, he still felt
[113:21] unsatisfied. In fact, his desire for
[113:24] someone to finally give him the fight
[113:25] that no one in his lifetime ever could
[113:28] was so strong that it reached you to
[113:30] Akotu on an emotional level. And in the
[113:32] words of the narrator, though he'd
[113:34] probably never find meaning in fighting,
[113:37] Ishigori's gaze melted you to Akotu's
[113:39] heart. The line just this once from
[113:41] Okotu gave me actual chills when I read
[113:44] it in the manga. But seeing him say it
[113:46] in that like onetoone adaptation with
[113:48] the music and the pink color of his
[113:50] laser and just all of it. Oh, absolute
[113:52] cinema. But what does that line actually
[113:54] mean? Why why is it so peak? Why does it
[113:56] hit that hard? Well, it's because UT
[113:58] actually had no intention of beam
[114:00] clashing Ryu in that moment. He was
[114:02] going to fire a much less charged up
[114:04] blast before Ryu could release his to
[114:06] catch him off guard, which probably
[114:08] would have worked. But Ryu's longing
[114:10] stare is the only reason that Akotu
[114:12] changed his mind and committed to fully
[114:14] charging his beam, even though he knew
[114:16] he would probably lose the actual
[114:18] struggle. The more and more Uta pounded
[114:20] him after that point, though, the more
[114:22] and more the dessert got eaten, which
[114:24] was such a dope visual for the anime to
[114:27] add here, cuz it literally shows Ryu's
[114:29] unsatisfaction being satisfied. Is
[114:31] unsatisfaction I don't think
[114:33] unsatisfaction is a word.
[114:34] Dissatisfaction. It made Ryu happy.
[114:36] That's that's the point. And speaking of
[114:37] the anime's adaptation, I didn't realize
[114:40] until watching this that Isizo was
[114:42] pretty much written for Sendai Colony
[114:44] and it was the perfect song to play here
[114:46] when the beginning of it just crept in
[114:48] leading up to their clash and then the
[114:50] beat dropped for the beam struggle. Oh,
[114:52] absolute chills. I mean, think about it.
[114:53] Yeah. Love me, love me. Kill me, kill
[114:55] me. Hate me, hate me. These lyrics
[114:57] literally represent the three main
[114:59] players in Sendai Colony. Love me for
[115:01] UT. Kill me for Ryu. Hate me for Uro.
[115:04] You could probably make arguments for
[115:05] switching some of them around a bit, but
[115:07] it ultimately comes down to your
[115:08] interpretation. Either way, it's peak.
[115:10] Like I said before, the Sendai fight is
[115:13] a deadlock of ideologies with all of
[115:15] them having an element of truth to them,
[115:17] but only one of them being the
[115:18] ultimately right path to take. A few
[115:21] manga, well, manga readers have
[115:23] criticized this because apparently Uta
[115:25] remains unaffected by Uro's influence
[115:28] and the sorcerer ideologies explored
[115:30] throughout this fight, which really
[115:31] isn't the case, but I can't elaborate on
[115:33] that because spoilers. Actually, it's
[115:35] not just spoilers. I simply don't have
[115:37] time to go into a massive deep dive
[115:39] analysis of the story, especially since
[115:41] I already have a 30-minute video on it.
[115:43] So, check that out if you want a much
[115:45] much deeper breakdown of this fight.
[115:46] Narratively wise, this video is pretty
[115:48] much just scratched the surface. But
[115:50] even then, I think it clears up that
[115:51] saying Sendai has no writing or themes
[115:53] at all is just wrong. Although, I will
[115:55] concede that a lot of the deeper themes
[115:57] in Sendai and JJK as a whole, to be
[115:59] fair, aren't always going to be written
[116:01] in a way that suits everyone's taste.
[116:03] It's quite a niche writing style, bit
[116:05] similar to Bleach, to be honest. Gay
[116:07] really does not like to hold your hand
[116:08] through the deeper stuff, which is why
[116:10] JJK often gets called out for having no
[116:12] story or writing. Sure, that's a bit,
[116:14] you know, over the top, but I understand
[116:16] the principle. The writing and themes
[116:18] are there. It's just not as visible to a
[116:20] casual viewer who takes things at face
[116:22] value. That's valid, though. I'm not
[116:24] trying to say there's anything wrong
[116:25] with that. If JJK isn't your kind of
[116:27] story because you don't want to be a
[116:28] nerd like me who just obsessively pours
[116:31] over the source material, then I really
[116:32] I can't blame you, you know. But that
[116:34] doesn't mean the writing doesn't exist
[116:36] at all. Anyway, this is meant to be a
[116:38] review of how the anime adapted the
[116:40] manga and not a fat over analysis of the
[116:42] writing. So, I'm going to quit my
[116:43] yapping on that for now. Long story
[116:45] short, themes and such, you know. Right,
[116:47] with that cleared up, I can now finally
[116:48] start frantically rambling about
[116:50] everything Muppa did to make this a
[116:52] truly 10 out of 10 adaptation. Normally,
[116:54] I feel like I can pinpoint the best
[116:56] parts of an episode on a specific member
[116:58] of the staff. Oh, Neon 41 sequence was
[117:01] awesome. Fujioto's character acting
[117:03] looked incredible. Gosso Cinema, etc.,
[117:05] etc. The Sendai though, I I just can't
[117:07] do that because unlike every other
[117:09] episode, this one had a properly like
[117:12] this was truly our Sendai colony type
[117:14] staff list where there was like seven
[117:16] episode directors, a bunch of animation
[117:18] directors, and two goated storyboarders.
[117:20] One of which was Gosso himself, and the
[117:22] other was Miso, the man behind Joo
[117:24] versus Sukuna. Such a messy staff list
[117:26] had people a bit worried about the state
[117:28] of this episode's production. And where
[117:30] I do agree that similar to Sukuna versus
[117:32] Maharaga, there were some moments that
[117:35] seem unfinished, overall this team of
[117:37] goats raised the bar yet again when it
[117:39] came to elevating the seven and a bit
[117:42] chapters of the manga that were actually
[117:43] adapted. Let's start at the beginning
[117:45] with UT versus Kurarushi as an example.
[117:47] Okay, even just their initial
[117:49] hand-to-hand fight and chase scene was
[117:51] genuinely insane, despite it being a lot
[117:53] more accurate to the manga than all the
[117:55] stuff that came after. The absence of
[117:57] music while UT just put the moves on
[117:59] Kurushi in these crazy dynamic quick
[118:01] cuts really lets you process every
[118:03] second of what's going on while keeping
[118:05] it very fast-paced. Eventually, UT runs
[118:08] from the huge wave of cockroaches and
[118:09] that's when we get his insane parkour
[118:12] oneshot scene. Now, I love the way the
[118:14] camera follows him all the way around
[118:16] the 3D buildings. It creates a a really
[118:19] great sense of speed and momentum akin
[118:21] to the ODM gear sequences you'd see in
[118:24] Attack on Titan. Yeah, sure. Utapon and
[118:26] Sakuga style high-speed movement looks
[118:28] dope when done correctly, like in the
[118:30] Mari episode. But I've always had a bit
[118:32] of a soft spot for when animation can
[118:34] achieve such a sense of speed without
[118:36] sacrificing the integrity of the
[118:37] drawings. I think both this episode and
[118:40] a lot of Attack on Titan are very good
[118:41] examples of this. Me personally, I also
[118:44] don't think it's an issue to achieve
[118:45] such things by employing tools such as
[118:47] 3D CG and rotoscoping. No, no, I'm not
[118:50] saying anything in this episode has been
[118:52] rotoscoped. All right, chill. I'm only
[118:54] saying that this season as a whole has
[118:56] been confirmed to contain a lot of
[118:57] rotoscoping and 3D models, which some
[119:00] people just look down on for whatever
[119:01] weird reason. I mean, if it works and it
[119:04] looks good, then by all means, like,
[119:05] keep doing what you're doing, you know?
[119:07] The manga version of UT versus Kurushi
[119:09] also has so many amazing combat panels,
[119:12] which often get overlooked in this
[119:14] fight. Partially because Tik Tok just
[119:16] loves to make up stuff about UT being
[119:17] trash without RA, and there's a whole
[119:19] army of JJ Kappas out there. The anime
[119:22] seems to have finally put that silly LA
[119:24] joke to rest, though, because it took
[119:25] those moments, such as Ut's cursed
[119:27] energy slash and him lighting up a
[119:29] cockroach tornado with cursed energy,
[119:31] and somehow made them look even more
[119:33] impressive, not to mention visually
[119:35] stunning. Even Kurarushi himself got a
[119:38] crazy anime upscale. Ro was already
[119:40] terrifying in the manga. Like, I totally
[119:42] get why Uro didn't want to go near all
[119:44] that. But his cockroach swarm was still
[119:46] relatively contained compared to the
[119:48] totally overwhelming tidal wave that
[119:50] they show in the anime. I mean, bro was
[119:51] moving like Jo, spreading his wave of
[119:53] cockroaches across two whole apartment
[119:55] blocks before creating giant insect-l
[119:58] like arms in the sky. And instead of
[119:59] just the one tornado, the anime gave him
[120:02] two much bigger, scarier tornadoes. Now,
[120:04] all of this is obviously great for
[120:06] Kurushi's PR. I mean, I did not think
[120:08] I'd see as much Kurushi love on the
[120:10] timeline as I am now, but it's even
[120:12] better for UT, who was casually swatting
[120:14] away the swarm with his pink cursed
[120:16] energy. And oh, oh, bro, the cursed
[120:18] energy pulse thing he did in the field.
[120:20] Ah, peak. I also really love the
[120:22] addition of the blind swordsman kind of
[120:24] thing and the onetoone bit on the kiss
[120:26] was very cool. Really didn't need to
[120:28] pause for that long, but it was executed
[120:30] very well. Now, before the episode came
[120:31] out, a lot of the leakers were kind of
[120:32] yapping about how UT got his ass kicked
[120:34] more than in the manga. But honestly,
[120:36] what that really meant was just that
[120:38] everybody in Sai Colony got a massive
[120:40] upscale, and it was much needed.
[120:41] Sorcerers like Uro for example kind of
[120:44] get put on that top tier hey on error
[120:46] sorcerer level through narrative
[120:47] standpoints only and not so much visual
[120:49] evidence after seeing all of their
[120:51] upscales like like agenda be damned I
[120:53] don't care if you has to get his ass be
[120:55] a little bit more to see all of these
[120:56] sorcerers actually live up to their
[120:58] reputations of being proper top tiers
[121:00] right it's it's a great kind of addition
[121:02] just to make them all that much stronger
[121:03] I like it speaking of Uro though her
[121:05] pull-up was so dope I I love UT's
[121:08] genuinely confused expression and little
[121:10] twitch is Sky manipulation seems to grab
[121:13] him and 2D UT got to be a top five
[121:15] funniest frame this season. Almost got
[121:17] me as good as crackhead Megumi. In terms
[121:19] of sound design, sky manipulation and
[121:21] granite blast are top tier in this
[121:22] episode. And just in JK as a whole, I
[121:24] feel like the sound effects have never
[121:26] been better than they are here. The
[121:27] little sound her technique made when
[121:30] blasting UT into Nania is so satisfying.
[121:32] Her entire first encounter and
[121:34] conversation with UT happens altogether
[121:36] in the same location in the manga, but
[121:38] here UT's getting pelted all over the
[121:40] shop. And wait, is that a One Piece
[121:42] reference? The real kicker is how their
[121:44] heartto-heart about the way in which you
[121:46] choose to live your life was changed
[121:48] from outside, you know, just in the
[121:50] middle of the city to in a museum that
[121:52] actually depicts all sorts of things
[121:53] related to these characters such as the
[121:56] Hyon era that Uro comes from and a
[121:58] Fujiwara general behind Uta.
[122:00] Understandably, Uro reacts with like
[122:02] pure frustration when Uta, someone who
[122:05] reminds her of the Fujiwara clan, who
[122:07] denied her an identity in the first
[122:08] place, starts lecturing her about how
[122:11] she's chosen to live. Her frustration is
[122:13] also just way more visceral in the
[122:15] anime. She had UT by the throat and
[122:18] launched him across the whole town. And
[122:20] oh my god, that weird mystical music has
[122:23] my legs shaking up every time it plays.
[122:26] I can't play it because of copyright,
[122:27] but you know what I mean, right? It goes
[122:28] like,
[122:30] "Yeah, you get me, brother." Right? You
[122:32] know what I mean? Anyway, Ryu Shagori
[122:34] decides to interrupt their fight and
[122:35] shoot Uta down with a fat granite
[122:37] blasto. In fact, the blast was so fat
[122:40] you decided Ryu actually needed to be
[122:42] taken out first so that the poor
[122:43] civilians weren't at risk of being, you
[122:45] know, accidentally evaporated. And then
[122:47] we get the most insane and slightly
[122:49] controversial movement scene of the
[122:51] whole episode. The music turns up. UT
[122:53] starts running. And far off in the
[122:55] background, you see a massive blurry
[122:56] array of granite blasts being launched
[122:58] from a rooftop, which I thought was
[123:00] actually much cooler than just showing
[123:02] Ryu firing them. But I say this is
[123:03] controversial because opinions are kind
[123:05] of split on this sequence. I immediately
[123:07] fell in love with this because I have a
[123:08] weird soft spot for the whole CG
[123:10] aesthetic, although I totally understand
[123:12] why this might not be everyone's cup of
[123:14] tea. Regardless of how the background
[123:15] and debris looks, though, there's no
[123:17] denying the movement is unreal. Now, Rio
[123:20] and Uta's confrontation on the roof is
[123:22] probably the only part of the episode I
[123:24] genuinely think they could have done
[123:25] better, and it's a part that I suspect
[123:27] wasn't actually finished, but overall,
[123:30] it's not something I care about because
[123:32] the rest of the episode makes up for it
[123:34] like 10 times over. See, I I love this
[123:36] page of Uta and Ryu going hand to hand
[123:38] on the rooftop, and I was really looking
[123:40] forward to seeing Mappa's take on it.
[123:42] But instead, they kind of just flashed
[123:43] the panels on screen for a picos second
[123:45] each and got on with their day. Which is
[123:47] fine because the anime only fights and
[123:49] hand-to-h hand stuff that goes down
[123:50] later on, like I said, make up for it 10
[123:52] times over. Still though, that doesn't
[123:54] change the fact I didn't think this
[123:55] moment was anything worth writing home
[123:57] about. I also noticed that a lot of
[123:59] dialogue was cut, such as Ryu thinking
[124:01] about how UT's cursed energy makes it
[124:03] feel like he's punching a water tank,
[124:05] and the bit where Ryu glazes UT's
[124:07] reserves and says his output isn't
[124:09] really anything ridiculous. However, I
[124:11] think this was mostly a very smart
[124:13] choice from Mapper because the lines
[124:15] they removed just weren't necessary to
[124:17] spend time saying out loud when you can
[124:19] show them instead. That's why I don't
[124:21] think Sendai Colony felt rushed. It
[124:23] matched the pace of the manga pretty
[124:24] much onetoone and managed to fit in two
[124:27] crazy long anime only fight scenes. I
[124:29] mean, we already know that Uta's huge
[124:31] cursed energy makes him a tank. We don't
[124:32] need to drag out the episode by
[124:34] explaining it again when we could be
[124:36] extending the actual fights. And
[124:38] speaking of anime only extensions, holy
[124:40] moly, Ryu versus UT was crazy. So crazy
[124:44] that I actually can't talk about
[124:45] everything because it would take
[124:47] forever. So here were the highlights. In
[124:49] the manga, Uta just blocks a granite
[124:51] blast with his hand. He still does this
[124:53] later on when they adapt the panel of
[124:55] him punching into Ryu's granite blast,
[124:57] but the original was changed ever so
[124:59] slightly to where he has a normal pipe
[125:02] that he imbued with cursed energy to
[125:04] make a cursed tool, and he used that to
[125:06] block granite blast. His hand still got
[125:07] burned initially, which led to him
[125:09] sucunating his way up this dome thing
[125:11] and then healing it with RCT. But the
[125:13] scene is fundamentally different to the
[125:15] manga for the better. I think it's a
[125:17] great call back to not only how UT broke
[125:20] his sword in JK Zero, but also how Yuji
[125:22] messed this move up when he tried to use
[125:24] it against UT in episode 1 of season 3.
[125:27] Kurushi, Uro, and Ryu all got insane
[125:29] anime only upscales and extensions to
[125:31] their cursed techniques. So, it's only
[125:33] fair that UT did as well. But since he's
[125:36] in base and can't use techniques yet, I
[125:38] didn't think they'd actually find a way
[125:40] to make him do anything special besides
[125:42] strong punch. And I'm so glad I was
[125:44] wrong because having him grab a random
[125:46] pipe and immediately turn it into a
[125:48] well-refined and strong cursed tool. I
[125:50] mean, it was so strong it was able to
[125:52] deflect Ryu's granite blast, which was
[125:54] literally a peak scene by the way. That
[125:56] was so cool. But but yeah, I I love the
[125:57] fact that he was able to do that, right?
[125:59] He just picked it up, imbued it with
[126:01] cursed energy, exactly how, you know,
[126:03] Yuji should have done that to the knife
[126:04] and bam. Great use of UT's genius for
[126:07] jiu-jitsu. And speaking of UT deflecting
[126:10] Ryu's granite blasts, another highlight
[126:12] of this fight is the anime only tunnel
[126:14] scene where Ryu's technique finally
[126:16] becomes a lot easier to understand. You
[126:18] see, being able to shoot cursed energy
[126:20] isn't actually a cursed technique. We've
[126:21] seen the likes of Uta, Gojo, and Nanomi
[126:24] do this already. Ryu's technique doesn't
[126:26] let him fire cursed energy. It lets him
[126:29] fire and manipulate cursed energy. He
[126:31] can change the concentration like when
[126:33] he makes those precise little white
[126:35] lasers. He can spin it around like he
[126:37] does later on. And he can fire multiple
[126:39] homing lasers like he did with the
[126:40] bridge. This is exactly why he can still
[126:43] fire a massive granite blast beam after
[126:45] Domain expansion. His technique does
[126:48] burn out, but his technique isn't what
[126:50] lets him shoot cursed energy. And I feel
[126:52] like the anime subtitles made that a lot
[126:54] clearer by saying a basic attack, one as
[126:56] simple as, you know, shooting a big beam
[126:58] of granite blast is easy enough to do
[127:00] without the cursed technique. Firing the
[127:02] big laser is very doable. He just can't
[127:04] control the concentration or manipulate
[127:06] it after domain. Also, Ryu combing his
[127:09] hair even after UT threw a whole ass
[127:11] train at him is so cool. Like, I don't
[127:12] know why they decided to make him even
[127:14] cooler than he already was. Moving on
[127:16] though, Bosch UT slammed by a [ __ ]
[127:18] gorgeous thin icebreaker, which was the
[127:20] last straw before Uta decided to summon
[127:23] Ra and finally lock in. Now, this frame
[127:25] right here, along with so many others,
[127:27] shows exactly why this episode worked so
[127:29] well. The one:one moments are biblically
[127:32] onetoone, but then the stuff in between
[127:34] is ridiculously inventive and out of the
[127:36] box, resulting in an episode that has
[127:38] the perfect balance of strict onetoone
[127:41] and creative freedom. Genuinely, it's
[127:43] perfect. I mean, if it wasn't for leaks
[127:45] and people making up their mind about
[127:46] this episode being rushed before even
[127:49] actually watching it, I doubt I would be
[127:51] seeing that criticism anywhere near as
[127:53] much as I am. Sure, it was seven
[127:54] chapters in 27 minutes, but they
[127:57] objectively did it. Like, the evidence
[127:59] is in front of us. Anywh who, I think
[128:01] it's about time I yap about my favorite
[128:02] section of the episode, the car park
[128:04] free-for-all fight, the three-way domain
[128:06] clash, and the final beam struggle. So
[128:09] once Buta is done playing around, he
[128:11] summons back RA and activates his
[128:13] 5-minute timer, which means RA becomes
[128:15] fully manifested. He can access his
[128:17] cursed techniques and he can access RA's
[128:20] storage of cursed energy. Now sure,
[128:22] Mappa extending a fight is definitely
[128:24] nothing new, but a fight extension is
[128:26] not what happened here. They just
[128:28] straight up added an entirely new fight
[128:30] scene between all three parties at once.
[128:32] And you know what? I'm so glad they did
[128:33] because I think it might be my favorite
[128:35] sequence in JJK. It's definitely up
[128:37] there. First of all, insane upscale.
[128:39] She's been moving like gear five Luffy
[128:41] and I love it. But Mappa workers have to
[128:43] genuinely be a different breed because I
[128:45] can't even fathom how they animated this
[128:47] sequence. The coolest thing about this
[128:49] though is that in the manga, once UT
[128:50] gets the gauntlet, he doesn't interact
[128:52] with Ryu at all, but in this fight,
[128:54] everyone gets a shot at everyone. Okay,
[128:57] yes, the hand-to-hand stuff is
[128:58] incredible, but this is JJK, you know?
[129:01] That's nothing new. The real kicker is
[129:02] the crazy inventive ways that Mappa made
[129:05] Uro and Ryu use their techniques,
[129:07] especially Uro. Here are the highlights
[129:09] for me. Ryu using granite blast to fire
[129:11] quick, less powerful lasers, is very
[129:13] cool, but the ring of spinning cursed
[129:15] energy that he traps UT in, sort of like
[129:17] a makeshift sumo ring is cool as hell.
[129:20] Also, having UT fight Ryu with the
[129:22] gauntlet makes so much more sense than
[129:25] what he does in the manga, because
[129:26] everyone who read this fight wonders
[129:28] what the hell the point of the gauntlet
[129:30] even was. Like what does it even do?
[129:32] Here though, we see UT tank a granite
[129:34] blast with the gauntlet. I mean, he'd
[129:36] spent the whole fight until this point
[129:38] having his hands constantly charred when
[129:40] he blocks the blast. So, you know, using
[129:42] the gauntlet to save himself the need to
[129:44] use reverse curse technique makes so
[129:46] much more sense for why he would choose
[129:48] this weapon in the first place. I feel
[129:50] like this is a perfect and very subtle
[129:52] example of how well Mappa fine-tune and
[129:54] elevate the source material. Uro though,
[129:57] oh boy. At one point, Uta and Ra
[129:59] surround her, and she literally swipes
[130:01] the sky in a circle to make Ra's punch
[130:03] hit Uta. And later, she manages to pull
[130:05] the exact same move in such a way that
[130:07] Ra ends up punching herself. My favorite
[130:09] bit of extra source that they gave her,
[130:11] though, is when Ra sent Uro crashing
[130:13] towards a building, but she just
[130:15] nonchalantly bends the sky away to
[130:17] create a sort of slide that just flings
[130:19] her back on course. Eventually, they end
[130:21] up standing on a roof, and the sky
[130:23] starts to turn gray. A suspenseful music
[130:26] similar to Sukuna's domain theme creeps
[130:28] in and Ryu Ishigori starts beating his
[130:30] chest like Gear 5 Luffy. What I didn't
[130:33] notice about this moment at first though
[130:35] was how Ryu is actually creating shock
[130:37] waves while doing this that made the
[130:39] building below him crumble away, leaving
[130:41] them space for their domain barriers to
[130:43] manifest, which is a really cool detail.
[130:46] The actual execution of the iconic
[130:47] three-way panel is is peak. I don't even
[130:50] know what you want me to say about it.
[130:51] every category. Music, voice acting,
[130:53] visuals. Like, I don't I don't know what
[130:55] to say. It was just perfect. There
[130:57] really isn't anything more I can add to
[130:59] that. It's not until both the returned
[131:01] Kurarushi and Uro were put to sleep
[131:03] after this moment, though, that we got
[131:05] what might be my favorite moment in the
[131:07] anime. And for the record, my previous
[131:09] favorite moment was UT's love beam in JK
[131:12] Zero. Now, I've already overexlained the
[131:14] awesomely wholesome interaction between
[131:16] UT and Ryu enough in this video, so I
[131:18] won't dwell on it, but oh, it's peak. I
[131:20] mean, you'll see it in the reaction
[131:21] segment in a second, but Orion and I
[131:23] immediately clocked the start of Isizo
[131:26] creeping in. And holy [ __ ] I've never
[131:27] had chills like that watching this show
[131:29] before. The way the beat drops on one of
[131:31] the most visually striking pieces of art
[131:33] in the series. Like, the way Ryu's voice
[131:36] actor absolutely bellowed the final
[131:38] granite blast as UT ran towards him. Oh
[131:41] my god, I've I've lost count of how many
[131:43] times I've rewatched that moment. The
[131:44] final portion of the fight was actually
[131:46] a lot easier to follow than in the manga
[131:48] as well. And I think that's mainly
[131:50] thanks to seeing a physical timer. Ra
[131:52] went back to partial manifestation, got
[131:54] clapped by Ryu, but then he turned to
[131:56] see that UT still had more to give him
[131:58] even after all of that. And at this
[132:00] point, we're down to no techniques, no
[132:02] granite blast, no shikami. They just
[132:04] revert to type. Pure hands. Throw in
[132:06] some visuals of dessert being eaten and
[132:08] a direct one-to-one panel before the
[132:11] music reaches its climax. And then UT
[132:13] ends the fight with his genius granite
[132:15] blast redirection and you have yourself
[132:17] what is the best fight in JJK undeniably
[132:19] like so far. I just I love this shot of
[132:21] UT smiling as Ryu collapses on the floor
[132:24] because it really puts into perspective
[132:25] how unreal what UT did here actually is.
[132:28] In a single day he wiped out the entire
[132:30] game's most dangerous colony. He walked
[132:32] away with 190 points that he just stole
[132:35] from a literal hyon era sorcerer and the
[132:38] highest output sorcerer in history.
[132:40] Absolute madness. Like what? See, you
[132:42] guys get it all wrong. You think I glaze
[132:44] Send Sendai because I'm a Uta Glazer,
[132:46] but that's not right at all. In fact,
[132:48] it's the other way round. I read Sai
[132:50] Colony and that's what made me a Uta
[132:52] Glazer. Yeah, for the record, this video
[132:54] was delayed so long because I got
[132:55] cripplingly ill over the weekend, but
[132:58] also because I was actually just
[132:59] speechless. Like, I have written and
[133:01] deleted this nearly 5k word script three
[133:04] times before I was happy with it. But
[133:05] I'll cut the app short here and just
[133:07] play the segment of me and Orion
[133:08] reacting to the episode. So, uh, like
[133:10] the video, subscribe to the channel.
[133:12] Thanks for watching so far, and, uh,
[133:14] yeah, fat headphone warning because we
[133:16] scream a lot. Enjoy. Oh my god.
[133:19] >> Oh my [ __ ] is that? Hello.
[133:22] >> Oh my god. The upscale is doing manga.
[133:27] >> Kurushi.
[133:29] Okay.
[133:29] >> He's moving like he's moving like Jo,
[133:31] bro.
[133:33] >> I like that they're buffing Kurro Roshi
[133:34] because he's a special grade. Like he
[133:36] can talk. He He should be like logistic
[133:38] like logically.
[133:39] >> Wait. Wait. He's going to do it.
[133:41] >> YES. WHAT'S THE ONE?
[133:44] >> Oh my god.
[133:45] >> Okay.
[133:46] >> All right. All right. We get it. All
[133:47] right. Chill. Chill. And chill. We
[133:49] [laughter] get it.
[133:51] >> The music. It's the music.
[133:57] >> Oh.
[133:59] >> YO,
[134:01] >> DUDE. We were saying in Shiba like what
[134:02] the [ __ ] is Ryu going to look like?
[134:04] >> Oh my god, bro. It's so one to one in
[134:06] the onetoone moments as well. God, these
[134:09] shots are insane.
[134:12] >> OH.
[134:12] >> OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. IT'S FROM the
[134:15] distance. That's so sick.
[134:19] >> Oh my, bro. Bro, people were [ __ ]
[134:22] doom posting over this, by the way.
[134:24] >> Yeah, but I mean they they would do that
[134:25] anyway. Oh my god, he's cool. That [ __ ]
[134:28] fell on his head.
[134:31] >> Oh my god, bro. Oh, I can't wait to do I
[134:35] actually have to do a whole breakdown
[134:36] for this episode. Like bar for bar.
[134:37] >> That's what I mean. Like he turned into
[134:40] like a crisp tool kind of like
[134:41] >> he did. That's cool. Oh, and he's Oh my
[134:44] god. They got inventive.
[134:46] >> This is you. This is completely new
[134:48] dialogue.
[134:50] But he's like making even [ __ ]
[134:52] stronger.
[134:52] >> Oh my god. Oh. Oh my god. N.
[134:58] >> Oh, that's a cool effect.
[135:01] >> Okay. Oh, she's like falling down cuz
[135:03] she can't maintain her [ __ ]
[135:04] technique. That's such a cool detail.
[135:06] >> Oh my god.
[135:08] >> Wait, wait, wait. This is switched
[135:09] completely.
[135:10] >> Oh yeah.
[135:11] >> Oh no. I'm pissed about the way the
[135:12] leakers were talking about this episode.
[135:13] I'm real pissed about it cuz
[135:15] >> dude
[135:19] is in sync. She's two of them.
[135:21] >> Yeah, but you know what though? If
[135:22] they're going to make Kurushi and Rio
[135:23] look like that, they had to give us
[135:24] something.
[135:25] >> Okay, recard skill.
[135:26] >> Oh my god. Oh my god. Do you see how she
[135:28] like Do you see how she dashed that? Oh,
[135:31] that's so cool.
[135:32] >> And punch him. Mury. Mury. Oh, he sounds
[135:34] so cool.
[135:36] >> I forgot he even uses that.
[135:40] No. Like, oh my god, that's so cool. I
[135:44] have I actually have so much to say, but
[135:45] I haven't taken a single note. Nothing.
[135:47] [laughter]
[135:48] I've written nothing.
[135:50] >> Oh, shut up. Shut up.
[135:55] >> OH MY GOD,
[135:58] it's so pink. [screaming]
[136:00] Oh my god, it's nearly over.
[136:03] Oh, so peak. It's so peak.
[136:09] I can [laughter] hear it. I can hear it.
[136:11] That's what I knew. I forgot that was
[136:13] coming.
[136:15] [screaming]
[136:18] >> No, it's the best episode they've ever
[136:20] made, bro. I'm sorry. [laughter]
[136:22] Oh my god, bro. The choice of Iso here
[136:24] is so good.
[136:28] Oh, the way he says it is so cool. Yeah,
[136:30] the icebreaker and it's done.
[136:33] >> Oh, it didn't work. It didn't work. He
[136:35] didn't get it in time.
[136:36] >> Ra's gone back.
[136:39] His VA is so good.
[136:40] >> His VA is so good, dude. This song is so
[136:43] perfect.
[136:45] >> He's eating all the dessert cuz of the
[136:46] fight. Oh my god, this is so peak. Okay,
[136:48] classic like Hajimo.
[136:49] >> Yeah. Yeah.
[136:51] OH,
[136:53] >> BRO. GENUINELY, like watching this
[136:54] episode with you right here is like
[136:55] making me so happy we're doing a [ __ ]
[136:56] collab.
[136:57] >> I know, bro. Imagine if I sat in silence
[136:59] by myself and watch this.
[137:03] >> It's so big.
[137:04] >> No, it's actually so good. I can't even
[137:06] fathom what the final arc of this series
[137:09] is going to look like animated.
[137:11] >> Me neither,
[137:13] dude. I love their dynamic, man.
[137:15] >> It's like they're just so good. Oh, it's
[137:18] We're gonna see we're gonna see big big
[137:21] boss man and then we're gonna see
[137:23] >> Oh my god. Oh my god.
[137:26] >> Oh, hello Charles. Oh gosh.
[137:29] >> That was that was No. Yo yo yo yo yo YO
[137:32] YO. He's placing the prison realm.
[137:35] >> Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god, bro.
[137:42] Oh my god. I can't