This review contains spoilers up to chapter 250 I will also only be reviewing the events after perfect prep TLDR: with the boring plot the lack of character interaction fumbles in the final arc asspulls plot armour and more Ive become increasingly jaded with the series I used to love to the point of dropping it. Jujutsu kaisen is a disappointment This series will forever live rent free in my head because of just how badly it fell off. I was in love with the start of the series I thought jjk 0 was a brilliant self contained story and felt that its continuation worked well. Yuji and his philosophy of trying to find the right death was a plot point new and unique to me. I loved the characters the fights the story and the world. The Shibuya incident was brilliant although it did have a few flaws. I really loved this manga Then the culling games began The filler games and sukuna showdown have been some of the most boring arcs Ive ever read in a shounen. Gone were the exciting twists high intensity fights and intriguing character arcs being replaced by fights that serve no purpose a half baked moral story about the strength at the top characters with little to no depth plot points that went nowhere a severe lack of character interaction and development obvious twists and asspulls that would make the loathsome dung eater drool. For the rest of this review Ill pace it like gege does and review things fightbyfight The filler games start higuruma fights yuji In the beginning the culling games arc was already proving to be a bit worrying. One of the biggest problems in jjk is the insane amounts of yapping and oh boy did the introduction and explanation of the culling games bore me. I cant remember what the rules were and tbh I dont care. This section started out with still main character yuji and potential man Megumi looking for some sorcerer to free gojo. They split up and yuji fights depressed phoenix wright higuruma. Unlike other characters introduced in the culling games higuruma does have a kinda interesting backstory and a kinda cool personality. The fight was interesting enough and I dont have many complaints yet Potential man vs Receipt guy I cant remember what happened in this fight but I do remember it contained a lot of yapping and not much character development an issue that will become much more prevalent later on. The fight wasnt memorable at all nor was the opponent. There was some foreshadowing though yutas 1v1v1v1 220https://i.ur.com/H1DjGOQ.jpeg Ill preface this section by saying it was one of my favourite fights but to save space Im only gonna talk about what I didnt really like. Yuta who has been hyped up for a while now fights a cockroach a naked lady and a guy who likes desert. While the fight was cool nothing really interesting happened. There was no real character development the plot barely moved forward aside from yuta getting some points and before we know it were whisked away to the next fight Gambling man vs The king of crop This is in my opinion one of the best written fights in JJK choreographywise. It has good action interesting techniques and entertaining characters. Youve got a guy whos entire strategy revolves around being lucky hakari and this electricity guy who wants to fight sukuna and refuses to use his one time cursed technique against anyone other than him Kashimo. However once again these characters dont develop. Hakari remains the same guy he was he doesnt gain the slightest bit of development. The plot once again doesnt move forward either the fight yet again being there for no reason other than the sake of being there Female toji and plot devices vs Misogynist This was another pretty forgettable fight however unlike before there is the slightest bit of character development thanks to the most contrived and obvious plot devices I have ever seen 220https://i.ur.com/UXjbuX8.png I honestly believe gege gave up at this point because these two show up out of fucking nowhere help maki get a power up to defeat the curse version of her misogynistic relative refuse to elaborate and are never seen again. What the fuck Plotjaku vs Wasted character This was one of the most forgettable fights in the series except for this bit 220https://i.ur.com/EAfPuxq.jpeg Remember how Yuki was hyped up as one of the 4 special grades? How wed finally gotten to see her in action? Did you like her character? Well that sucks cause shes fucking dead. This is one of the key moments where the series definitely fucked up. Yuki had too much potential to be killed off like that. Hey maybe shell do some lasting damage to kenjaku with a literal fucking black hole. Oh nvm turns out Yujis mum had a gravity technique for some reason also kenjaku has tengen now. Gege is never beating the misogynist allegations Kenjaku fucks off to America 220https://i.ur.com/zxoJgb7.jpeg Since gege forgot about this plotline I wont write anything about it either Sukuna makes everything way worse cause hes an asshole After spending way too many chapters on fights with no substance the plot finally begins to move again. Yuji who has finally returned to main character status and potential man meet up with a girl called Hana and the sorcerer inhabiting her angel. Turns out angel has a very convenient technique that can free gojo from the cube. They then go to Megumis sister and try to free her from this boring fucking arc but it turns out shes been possessed by a sukuna fangirl called yorozu. In the following chaos sukuna uses Chekhovs gun and takes control over yuji rips off his pinky and force feeds it to potential man turns out force feeding a poisonous cursed object doesnt count as harming someone and takes over his body. All hope seems to be lost but then angel comes to the rescue with an attack that will almost certainly kill sukuna and rescue Megumi so long as Hana doesnt do something astoundingly stupid 220https://i.ur.com/Zk59QYm.jpeg Man I shouldnt even have to explain how fucking awful this writing is. Nobody is that fucking stupid. this is just dumb. Since when did sukuna have the plot armour cursed technique Then sukuna fights yuji and maki for a bit idk this was so ass Meguna vs yorozu I skipped through this cause it was boring but apparently yorozu made sukuna something cool and wanted to teach him about love Im sure that wont become an annoying attempt at a moral story He returns Later on Hana and angel manage to open the prison cube releasing gojo. Gojo then scares the shit out of kenjaku one taps uraume and makes a deal with sukuna to fight a month later for some fucking reason Gege didnt care about what happened during that month so neither will I The inhuman fumble in the demon infested Shinjuku 220https://i.ur.com/PICOE98.jpeg This fight is without a doubt one of the most divisive parts of jjk. The fight itself was pretty entertaining watching fraudkuna get carried by the ten shadows technique he stole and gojo being gojo. Theres also a lot of yapping from people watching the fight which really gets very annoying. Then chapter 235 rolls around and to everybodys surprise Gojo ends up nuking himself and sukuna with purple. Gojo is left in a significantly better state that fraudkuna with the fraud being close to death and low on cursed energy making it safe to say gojo won right? The 236 incident 220https://i.ur.com/Hfp60vs.jpeg Really? This is how it happens? Off fucking screen? Thats the end of the fight? THE CLIMACTIC TWIST OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED FIGHT IN THE SERIES FUCKING HAPPENED OFFSCREEN? This is an insult to the reader. The reader invested themselves in the fight and in return they get a complete asspull of a conclusion. Fuck. I will never get over this chapter. Everything about it fucking sucks. From the panel saying gojo won immediately cutting to him in the afterlife gojo saying he wouldnt have won against base sukuna despite the fact sukuna was clearly relying on the ten shadows gojo randomly starting to praise sukuna for some fucking reason even though he knows damn well yuji has to fight that monster next. Sukuna yapping for ages about how he suddenly gained the convenient ability to murder gojo BARELY ANY REACTION FROM ANY OF THE CAST REGARDING GOJO BEING FUCKING CUT IN HALF. But hey Kashimo is here and is finally ready to display the cursed technique everyones being hyping up and theorising about. Surely this will make up for that major dissapointment and well get a fight that will last at least a few chapters The king of curses vs The king of crop 220https://i.ur.com/0REjrDJ.jpeg I am genuinely offended at how this fight went down. The months of theorising about this bums ability and hyping it up just to get a lackluster fight where plotkuna gains his ugly ass original form and Kashimo looks like a pea shooter from PVZ. And to add insult to injury KASHIMO ALSO FUCKING DIES OFFSCREEN. And even worse what little character the man had is immediately assassinated in a boring yap session with plotkuna about the strength at the top or whatever. But hey looks like higuruma and some random guy with spiky hair are here to kick ass im sure things will improve in the next chapter surely it wont cut to some other characters at this key point the fuck the translators fight 220https://preview.redd.it/ax2vt403dzub1.jpg?width=393format=pjpgauto=webps=10e7fdf9e1aea685b4c86345fb06964217de53b8 Now weve cut to kenjaku whos been doing god knows what. He yaps a couple of side characters to death then has a battle with the real strongest character that involves many jokes that are lost in translation. I loved this fight. It was different and fresh shame many things get lost between the language barrier. I just wish we could have gotten fights at the same level of quality as this one. Anyway kenjaku beats the funny man and begins to move on to prepare for what should be the awesome final showdown between him and yuta that has been foreshadowed since Shibuya 220https://i.ur.com/H2A57KD.jpeg Oh nvm hes dead. Is gege rushing to get the series over with? Thats how kenjaku goes out? In some fuck off forest after a comedy routine? I wouldve rathered yknow a cool battle maybe? back to Shinjuku Meanwhile in Shinjuku new potential man higuruma and demoted protagonist yuji manage to get sukuna into higurumas domain. Sukuna pleads guilty to the fraud allegations which means he gets his cursed technique taken away which will surely be a quite a curve ball that will place him at a level the leftovers can beat. Just kidding turns out higurumas domain prioritised the cursed technique in the cursed object sukuna had for no fucking reason. What plot armour even is this. This just sucks. Sukuna can still use strong cleave whenever he likes. But at least higuruma got the executioners sword which will be able to one tap sukuna. Nvm higuruma just got killed off for dramatic effect and yuji barely acknowledged it. Well now yuji has the sword and is poised to stab sukuna in the back and it doesnt look like he can miss He missed. How. Sukunas real technique has to be plot armour or something man. Anyway heres yuta coming to reveal his Noble Phantasm domain expansion: Unlimited Blade Works. Its the training cave from bleach with swords that have cursed techniques in them makes sense given his ability is to copy things I guess. Cool. But Im still just so bored I dropped the series at that point Im disappointed. The final arc has been so boring. It came around kinda suddenly after all the running around in circles that occured with the culling games and suddenly the final arc jumpscares us. It doesnt feel like theres really been as much build up as there should have been given its the climax of the story. Sure they were working towards releasing gojo and everything but its still nothing especially when compared to the build up of something like the final arc of chainsaw man part 1. It doesnt feel like a climax it still feels like were only halfway through the story even though we arent. The round robin fight with sukuna had potential to be cool but it lost all meaning when sukuna just wriggles out of every situation. Its just turning into tragedy porn where sukuna kills off side characters every other chapter. Its a cycle of person shows up person puts sukuna on the ropes for a couple of pages sukuna beats character rinse and repeat. This isnt a final arc its a meat grinder. This boring meat grinder cycle means that every few chapters the fight ends up back at square one. Theres no point in getting invested when I know sukuna will get out of whatever pinch hes in. Hell now sukuna is trying to copy mahito by being the opposite of yuji and trying to break him. Problem with that it was already done. By mahito. Its like gege is doing the bear minimum possible to keep the series afloat while getting it finished as quickly as possible. Its just getting ridiculous. It feels like gege hates the good guys nearly everything they do amounts to nothing the bad guys always get the last laugh. At the beginning of the manga this was surprising and entertaining. But when the good guys are never allowed to get a single lasting meaningful hit in against the villains for over 200+ chapters it becomes repetitive boring and predictable. Im convinced gege is rushing to get the series over with cause nearly every interesting character is dead or benched every plotline except Sukuna has been dropped and Yuji has gone from fodder to top tier mastering RCT in a month. I just cant bear to watch the manga I loved be butchered any longer. Conclusion Just like gege I cant be assed to write a proper conclusion but between the poor writing bad pacing lack of character development and interactions sukunas plot armour and more Ive become increasingly jaded with the series to the point of fully dropping it. Im gonna go read kagurabachi