Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 ends with a breathtaking spectacle among MAPPA's finest work

Also their upcoming Ghost in the Shell looks incredible: https://youtu.be/ahZn4dVCbvs?si=Ze4buTm1usJrIbFE

Science SARU is crazy good too. As is Studio Bones.

Ghost in the Shell coming up in July

Don't quote me but I believe it's much better due to a better production schedule not working on multiple huge projects at once as well as only being 12 episodes

They split the season in two parts, so much healthier schedules this time around

The ending of the manga is fine; it just isn't the ending that a lot of people built up in their heads.

I mean it’s a battle shonen… do they ever really land the endings? Honestly with how ridiculous the schedule is,  I’m surprised with how long the quality lasts with a lot shonen jump series. That being said I thought the ending was fine and sequel pretty decent. 

The ending was rough to read, but honesty should be fine to watch. The issue with the end of the manga was more due to it's pacing. It's basically a giant fight that takes forever because every other page theres a full page of text explaining what happened, how cool and impressive it was, and for the first half a bunch of people then spending 2 pages reacting to it. It being translated into an animated fight where they can just go wild with it and do all that much faster will make it much less intrusive. Not to mention based off where this current season, it's probably going to not be an entire arc like it is in an anime. For what it's worth, the culling game in general was pretty meh in the manga as well, with some good moments sprinkled in. The Anime did a good job in making some of the parts that are slogs feel a lot better paced.

To be fair, the anime genuinely improves on many things. One of the biggest problems with the manga was how much the final arc dragged out with chapter after chapter of mindless action, and how hard to understand some things were (in one case it almost felt like one whole chapter worth of storyboards was forgotten because things looked like they didn't follow at all). An adaptation has the chance to significantly improve pacing and choreography issues like those.

The whole ending was really badass, I have no idea what people want with endings like they’re never happy. Naruto war arc is probably my favorite arc in animanga ever yet people still find a way to try to shit on it lol

The ending >!is trash, imo, but the animation will benefit from not being an asspull fest with maybe 3 good sequences amongst what felt like too many last-sec matchups that all dragged over what, a 2 year+ serialization? It will be contained in a movie or season dump that will coverup a lot of the knife twist that the manga drops were.!< Now, *Chainsaw Man*? Love the ending, one of the best in a while and looking forward to watching it whenever it is animated.

I'm half way through season 1, does it pick up? I legit don't know why I care about anything right now. I'm having a hard time getting invested.

Yuh it's was peak but I wish they explained the plot more, or made it like Rezero S2 30 min Episodes when needed like last episode I think this will give them more time to pace the plot and dialogues

I imagine they will do the biggest fight leading to the end as a movie.

It's being listed as a whole new season so almost certainly 2027 at minimum

The studio only got a few months to work on it

I'm already in pain no need to hurt me more

Good writing is a helluva drug

The animation was mostly shit mate. That goes for all of season 4. That production was hell

This tops DS Entertainment District for me, Sendai Colony had way better choreography and usage of creative abilities and movesets. They're both good in their own regard, but JJK overtook DS for me personally after the S3 finale.

I just don't find any of the characters in DS particularly likeable and half of them are downright annoying.

It's actually the only fighting anime I enjoy. The overall plot is good enough, but the interpersonal storytelling is really good.  Gege and mappa both care about exploring the characters thoughts  and personalities through their power and fights. 

If they keep this up, this is going to be the best fighting anime, like, ever. It really doesn’t stop to take much of a break in the manga. It’s just non-stop action from here on out, which could be like 30 episodes and a movie. I think what I like about this as opposed to a more plot heavy show like Attack on Titan is that the universe has hard set rules that inform those fights. So for instance, a common trope in anime is characters explaining what their technique or power or whatever is, as a way for the audience to know what is going on. A fun little twist in JJK is that it’s explained that in this specific universe, explaining your technique to your opponent increases the strength of that technique. So it’s that kind of creative rule making and world building that I really like about the series. It’s like a clever trick to avoid breaking the 4th wall. I can tell a lot of thought went into the series and that makes it fun!

Like any action story, the story itself is never that big of a deal. What makes a good action story is the characters and how they convey their emotions via the action. Looking at some of these comments about how they talk about these action stories arcs being ‘thin’ makes me think they’ve never seen one in their life lol.

Perfect Preparation was breathtaking. I watched that probably 5 times back-to-back it looked so good.

>Shibuya incident is a gorgeously animated arc and is a fantastic piece of story telling The first half of this statement is right. Calling the Shibuya Incident a "fantastic piece of story telling" is a stretch and a half though. The entire arc is 95% fighting, with like 5% of characters acting shocked. It is honestly one of the most narratively thin story arcs I've ever come across.

No matter what u think about the characters writing wise, the majority of them are unique and interesting to follow