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[Spoilers] Jujutsu Kaisen - Episode 1 Discussion
Discussion thread for Jujutsu Kaisen episode 1. Aired Saturday, 03-Oct-2020 01:25:00 JST.
You can find/watch Jujutsu Kaisen at the following sites:
- Official Site
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What did you think of the episode? - Favorite scene/moment?
- Enjoying the series so far?
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What do you expect or want to happen next?
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holy shit the op is soooo good, as a manga reader it simply hits different
ah i see you're a watcher of trash taste as well
- Favorite moment was when Yuji ate the finger (Nothing really big happened in this episode yet)
- The animation in the beginning scene was awesome
- I can't wait to see more episodes 😌
I bet all manga readers are freaking out thinking about how good the next fight scenes are going to be!! MAPPA really did amazing with this episode, lets just hope we don't get another GOH situation :(
First impressions since I haven't ready any of the manga:
- Character designs are visually pleasing.
- Main character Itadori looks cool and shows signs of emotional intelligence. Edgelord black haired cool guy is standardly cool. Potential faves incoming.
- World and style shows signs of influence taken from early Bleach and Yu Yu Hakusho, with an updated and improved modern take. Could shape up to be better than these two.
I guess it's interesting the way they fight curses with stronger curses. I liked character designs and the opening. So I hope it will get better
it was fine
First half was pretty awful. Took way too long to figure out which character was MC.
Second half and the ending were pretty damn awesome though. Really excited about this series now.
I mean technically there's 4 main characters according to it's anilist page too so. But yeah the beginning made it pretty obvious who was the MAIN main character when he was on the phone lmao
Even if it's not hard to work out, until the personality/identity of the MC is properly understood by the audience how can we be emotionally invested in anything that happens? If you saw "some guy" in the first episode and he just happened to have MC written on his forehead, would you at all care if he was killed 5 minutes into the episode? Of course not. That's what I was referring to. The longer you wait to establish the MC, the longer the audience won't know what the story revolves around and will be bored.
This is, ime, by FAR the best indicator of an anime's quality. Whenever I notice I've zoned out due to boredom in E01, it's always because the focal centre hasn't been established.
When they give equal screen time to MC as to some supporting characters not even relevant to the main story, I die a little inside.
Though, slice of life seems to be popular these days, so my view may not be that common.
I think they showed both Yuuji & Megumi's perspectives in the first half of the episode to show that they'd eventually meet and face the same challenge together though. Megumi isn't a supporting character either; they're on equal grounds because there's more than one main character in this series.
The first half gave us background on two of the main characters.
It explained who Yuuji's friends were, and the family issues Yuuji faced that built up to the goal he decided on in the second half of the episode: which was to save his friends so they wouldn't die a tragic death. He wanted them to live and have a more peaceful death like his grandpa had in the hospital. He didn't just have a goal just cause; they showed how he got his goal unlike most shows where the main character automatically has a goal in mind.
They established Megumi's background too, and let us know that he already has a past with curses and knows how to handle them. That way, he doesn't just look like the "smart character" who just knows what he's doing just cause.This is what made the second half of the episode better, because we got the chance to learn about the characters a bit more and let them develop a goal in the first half, so that we could follow them later on in the story and cheer them on in the second half.
Like you said, you can't just slap "MC" on a character and expect to follow them (and I totally agree with that), which is why you were able to find more interest in the second half of the episode, because by that point, there was more development in the characters and the situations around them. That first half was needed to make the second half more interesting instead of rushing to just say that the goal was to kill the curse. Learning about Yuuji's friends made us worry about them more when they were in trouble, and learning about the fact that Yuuji's a physically fit character made us believe his actions more while he was fighting in the second half.
What you're saying is right, it's just that the execution could've been better. You can't start a story with "these two characters were making small talk and—oh, here's MC walking past!.. And now he's got a phone call from another important character!".
The main issue I think is that the episode lacked an exposition. Just threw us into "prerequisite info" to get it out of the way. When backstory is needed, you must plan for how you're gonna make it flow and feel relevant, without the viewer getting lost/bored. This is why isekais are so popular. You learn everything together with the MC, you come into a world together rather than you coming into "theirs". Even if the isekai is extremely complex, it's fine as long as you're learning it with the MC. In this anime, who the hell am I as the viewer? Am I the MC? Is the MC actually the audience trying to make sense of this world? Cause that's how it can feel if you don't establish a focal centre and meaningful connections. That's what breaks an anime.
Also, when they try to cram in a backstory, it shows a lack of creativity; a desperation to make things make sense. This causes the anime to feel like it has no "self-awareness". Like it's trying to trick you cause it thinks you're a dumb kid. It makes big unnatural jumps because it needs to get from A to B in the story, and just assumes you won't notice. Making an isekai is kind of cheating as it avoids the need to eg: introduce grandpa.. or even explain anything at all as the MC doesn't know either. If the story requires getting to known a world that's already familiar to MC, it takes a lot more creativity to make it work. But if you're that ambitious with your story, you should be prepared for that.
Seems like MAPPA is treating this a lot more carefully than The God of High School
Yeah it was fun, excited to see it progress
But I wonder how people felt about the almost sexualized way that demon was handling MC's friend, kinda creepy like I liked it cause that was the point but yeah
I'm wondering how people feel about tht artistic decision
I watched first episode, but I don't understand what you are talking about. Did I watch it so badly or the show is just too complicated for me?
So so hyped for this, with it being 24 episodes I think it will become a modern classic. All in all a very strong start in terms of what the studio can control. I would like to see where the narrative goes from here, but if they can animate the fight scenes well and keep up the OST I will be pretty happy.
I really enjoyed the first episode, can't wait to see more :3
