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Summer Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2025, Week 26] (ani.social)

submitted 4 days ago by wjs018@ani.social to c/anime@ani.social

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Summer season is rapidly approaching! It's time to start looking ahead to the next season and thinking about what is worth watching vs. what isn't. This is also the official thread where I will watch for shows that you mention and will enable threads for those shows to be made by our resident bot, @rikka@ani.social.

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[–] Endmaker@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Past Seasons

I completed Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 last week, and I'm glad that it's as good as season 1.

As with similar shows, JJK's story got darker / more brutal in later seasons; I actually like it better this way. The twists are also really something.

I still have complaints about the show though:

the second half of the season - especially episodes 13 to 15 - involves more exposition, which is really just poor scriptwriting / directing / whatever you call it. "Show, don't tell".
there's no more Juju Stroll. These small segments at the end of each episode in season 1 are so cute and funny. I understand that they don't fit the darker and more serious mood of season 2, but I miss them.
it became too predictable. I know that the writer is capable of introducing plot twists; I wish that they would do so more liberally. Otherwise,

JJK season 2 spoiler

whenever a character has a long flashback, it became way too obvious that they are about to die. Or if a character doesn't get killed immediately - despite becoming severely weakened / disarmed - after a drawn-out fight, I knew that they are going to survive.

It still deserves a 9 / 10 like before though, so it is entering my Peak Shounen list.