This is great news, I liked the general idea just wish they get a better animation budget/team, it was lacking in a lot of scenes. Still excited overall.
Unsurprising to see. Jigokuraku is a solid anime based on a solid, if not amazing, manga. If you’re interested in a supernatural shonen battle anime, this one is one of the better ones. It’s better than Jujutsu Kaisen (not that the bar for that is very high since JJK is not very good), is reasonably well paced, has a self-contained story, and ends after a reasonable amount of time. The one thing I don’t care for in regards to the anime is pacing. The anime is fairly slow, with each chapter being one episode thereabouts. You could easily fit two full chapters into a given episode, though. Maybe cut out some parts of the manga from the anime, and then have the full series done with over the course of around 4 cours. It seems like every anime today tries to be a shot for shot adaptation of the source material. Which I know the fans generally like, but not everything necessarily translates that cleanly between mediums and the adaptation suffers because of it.
I read the entire manga in one go. Couldn’t put it down. I find it quite odd that whatever PG this anime is they can show beheadings, dismemberment, suggest rape but can’t show female nipples.
What dont you like about JJK? I thought it was fine.
I think it has bad pacing, poor character development, uninteresting fights, a relatively weak story, and they spend too much time explaining the various convoluted powers between opponents in fights.
(I’m not the guy you’re replying)
The tones in JJK get too serious for what it’s actually trying to be, which is a high-budget action-comedy shonen. It’s one thing to have a story filled with death, tragedy and dark tones, and it’s another to have one with goofy characters kicking ass in a lighthearted environment. JJK falls flat with its implementation of mixing them, unlike so many others that do it better (e.g. FMA, Re:Zero, One Piece etc).
@rwhitisissle @AWanderingSorcerer jjk bad? Major L
It is genuinely bad, though. The pacing is trash. The characters are uninteresting. The plot is paper thin. They introduce new antagonists seemingly at random. The fights are artificially slow because they spend too much time explaining what everyone’s convoluted abilities do. It has genuinely very little going for it.
I’m glad it’s getting a second season. I couldn’t hold it anymore and read the manga after the 10th episode. Finished it in a couple of days. I’m excited for the upcoming fights and interactions between characters.
Is there something happening where a lot of this seasons shows were supposed to be 24 or 26 episode season but they were forced to be cut in half? I feel there’s a good amount of shows ending now in spring to have the “season 2” in Fall. Regardless I’m happy for new episodes.
Enjoyable first season excited for the next one!
Looks god can’t wait for it
