Jujutsu Kaisen 0

omega-mid -captivating key animation: Great movement of characters. Despite the fight scenes using extremely fast cuts, the viewer is still able to understand the action on screen without being disoriented. -little direction, essentially: "power-hungry ethno-fascists need to try having friends," also "I need to protect my friends and loved-ones (but only for the sake of protecting them because they are my friends despite only knowing said 'friends' for a few days)." This movie is not only extremely cliched, but the director and writers failed to at least subvert the viewer's expectations or add any originality to such a generic story. -poor pacing: The first 30-ish minutes revealslittle to nothing about the characters and only establishes setting which should have been done alongside character exposition and development; this film could have easily been under 90 minutes long. The primary message this movie wanted to share with its audience is the experience to let go of a loved one after they pass on. However, this is barely addressed throughout the film, once to establish why the main character is cursed by his childhood wife(?) and is then resolved at the climax. -poor use of characters: There is too much emphasis placed on background characters who do not support the main story line besides solely existing for the sake of moving the plot (e.g. big city battle). Even supporting characters like Inumaki and Panda who fail to provide much to the development of the story besides moving the plot or being cute for the sake of being cute. -poor use of medium One of the main pitfalls of JJK is its use of the extremely cliched shonen anime trope: telling instead of showing. Several times throughout the film, the entire plot and all action on screen will completely stop to explain some random mechanic of the a character's abilities, like it's a power-point. Spoon-feeding the audience in this manner is a great example of lazy and unimaginative writing. -decent art The backgrounds and environments are pretty to look at but again, there is little to no use of mise en scene; not a clever or thoughtful way to tell a narrative. -poor audio mixing and sound design Extremely corny soundtrack trying to force a feeling -- especially during the final fight scene I felt like I was watching an AMV from 2008. Sound editing was annoying at best, there were several moments when sfx foley were so poorly mixed that it literally hurt. Loud=emotional. Bassdrops=emotional. Overall, 3/10, this film does not tell a thoughtful story, and prefers to tell the audience what is going on rather than showing it by using cliched and uncreative motifs to force emotions onto the viewer. The only redeeming quality JJK has as a franchise is its eye-catching key animation (nevermind MAPPA being notorious for not compensating their employees fairly). At best, this movie and series is ultimately just eye-candy.

So basically i don't even know what's going on. I'm just gonna jump into the points because i suck at writing. Story (2) Tbh, the story sucked. The plot is just going backward and forward, as the flashback is too much and keep repeating. Also at 30 min from the beginning, the story is so plain, too fast, and confusing that i can't even enjoy it as a proper "movie". I feel that they are really sacrificing all the story plot just for the animation and graphic. Art (9) Yeah, just as the tv series the animation is good. Also to remind this is a movie, so the artis just keep going on and on. Sound (6) The bgm is good, and the song is really good especially the one at the beginning. Really fit with the fight scene. But what went wrong, it just at some (many) point the sound just went up loud like from a normal volume then instantly went up by 300%. It's just too damn loud like there a huge concert behind the fighting scene Character (5) Seriously, the mc suck. I don't know if he was exactly like that in the manga, but it just feel like a "tryhard fitting mc". He is seriously like a dumb face idiot person who just luckily have the most op power in the movie. Even he train his strength as the minute passes, that dumb face is still there which is somewhat "why". The rest character is good, and also the antagonist are also good. Overall (4) Honestly, it feels more like OVA rather than a movie. I seriously can't think about the story they bring here, it just awful. Like i only feel the enjoyment when the "final" fight begin. The early minute is nothing like a movie at all. No explanatory or nothing. Many anime movie that I watched are more significantly better than this.

(Contains Spoilers) my 2nd review Just watched it on the release day Story - Even though it is a simple story about Yuta when he was a first year student , they did an outstanding job making it very entertaining, and end the story with a good conclusion. Art - As expected from MAPPA, amazing animation throughout the whole course of the movie. The fight scenes are VERY GOOD, especially the fight between Yuta and Geto. Sound - The music is OUTSTANDING it fits every scene in the movie.Character - Love the characters. The story of when Maki and the other second year students were first year students, the reaction on when they met Yuta for the 1st time, and especially the character development. There were also appearances of the students from Kyoto. Enjoyment - It was very enjoyable. Every second of the movie was worth my time. Overall - After watching the movie, I think it is better if they made Yuta as the main character instead of Yuji, but it's still good either way.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is basically a setup for an epic but inconsequential final fight, with competent but unremarkable and simple story. This story however undermines the plot of the main series and leaves stupid, unnecessary questions that lay unanswered. Plotline is as generic as it gets: a protagonist which wants to save his loved one from a curse and antagonists which believes that might makes right and weaklings should worship him as a god. The only strength of this story is Yuuta's development. Our protagonist starts out as a shy, scared and bullied boy which gains confidence and friends throughout the runtime. Nothing original, but executionis good enough to make it somewhat compelling. Maybe it's me, but i found relationship between Yuuta and Rika very weird. I know that falling in love with someone at a young age is a popular trope in Japan, but it still weirded me out enough to never take this relationship seriously. Protagonists strength is also a problem, he basically can one shot the main antagonist of both the movie and the main series undermining Getou's threat as a villain. Yuuta's absence is also unexplained in the anime. I had to google if there was a reason at all and it is there, mappa just doesn't care to put it in their work. Talking about unexplained, fate of Getou after the movie is also totally cut out from the anime. With how he ended up in this movie you would expect something referencing his past in the anime but nope. Another thing about this movie is that it is a terrible idea for a prequel. Yuuta much like Itadori is new to the Jujutsu high school and so movie has to often stop and explain how things work to its protagonist. It would be fine if it wasn't the second time we have to hear those explanations. Not only pacing of this movie suffers from constant explaining but there is also no tension as we know who survives and don't feel anything when characters get into tough spot. We know they are gonna be ok so who cares if it looks like they are about to die. Let's talk about the finally which suffers from the same issue. The scale of what is happening is enormous. Basically if villains win its the end of the world, what does it mean? It means that they won't win. We know that Tokyo, Kyoto and jujutsu high school survive this movie so antagonists have to fail from the start. It is a fundamental failure in concept which should have stakes at a much smaller scale. to be compelling. It is also funny how unresolved the final fight in the cities is. Movie doesn't even bother to show a resolution to a duel between two of the strongest humans out there. Final fight between Yuuta and Getou is also unsatisfying as our protagonist is op and far stronger then the antagonist. I should also say that this movie has a lot of cringe humor which made me feel like a weirdo for watching it in a cinema. Technically zero is much better then plot wise. Mappa put all of their hearts into making a spectacle and they succeeded. Their high quality of animation features a lot of movement and crazy fight scenes with camera panning around to showcase crazy choreography (which sometimes feels like it defies gravity). Outside the fights some of the more simple scenes looked nice as well, with simple walking in the corridor feeling good. Sound effects were always on point whether it was a fight scene or sounds of footsteps. I had some mixed feelings about the soundtrack. While the quality and variety was very good I felt like it sometimes was inappropriately intense for what was going on. I also have to say that iconic voice of Shinji from Evangelion worked really well for the protagonist and i enjoyed the performance of the voice actors as a whole. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a mixed bag of amazing animation, mediocre personal story and overall bad plotline.