And he’s cute, because he looks just like a giant panda. And Panda is not an actual bear, but an “abrupt mutated cursed corpse” (just go with me on this). This anime focuses on the action and fantasy of the story, but there are some exceptional comedic moments too. Maki Zen’in (a favorite among my daughter’s fearsome crew) is a badass fighter. Published Although Comedy is not the main focus of Jujutsu Kaisen there are still some hilarious jokes by all the characters With the new Jujutsu Kaisen 0 in theaters, some may be re-binging the Jujutsu Kaisen anime series. Toge Inumaki, whose “cursed speech” means his words can turn into destructive magic, speaks only in innocuous rice-ball ingredients (seriously - in conversation, he’ll say “Pollock roe” and nothing else). Three prominent characters in the series get major screen time as Yuta’s classmates. The students are “cursed” or have curse-fighting abilities or weapons Yuta’s curse is the spirit of his dead girlfriend, which manifests in a really cool monster form that doesn’t take kindly to people mistreating him. The story centers on a new student to Gojo’s school for gifted youngsters: Yuta, in the series a mysterious and powerful figure here, a raw recruit just learning of his power. While you can’t swing a dead curse without hitting a genre trope, the film is its own jam - not surprising, but freaky and funny at times, and beautifully rendered. There’s even a Professor X-Magneto dynamic between good mentor Gojo and his old friend-turned-anti-human-crusader Geto. If the series setup has a bit of an “X-Men” resonance, the movie is akin to “ X-Men: First Class.” The story precedes the introduction of the finger-chomping kid from the show instead, we see other familiar figures in their earlier student days. The creatures are creatively designed and occasionally just bizarre enough to be funny (one’s sort of a sweet version of H.R. My experience is proof you don’t have to know the show well to enjoy the movie hers is proof followers will get plenty of the bloody, weirdo fan service they crave. It’s fun, with a wacky sense of humor and way-out-there imagination, and quite violent. But the franchise, as my astute daughter informed me it would be, is also crazy, weird and cool. So we’ve got some awfully familiar hallmarks of this category of the shōnen (action-heavy manga aimed at boys) genre: Kid at a school for monster-fighters struggling with his growing power, alliances with classmates, important mentor figure - check, check, check. She briefed me on the finger-eatin’ bad insanity of the franchise, in which a kid who has swallowed a monster’s finger develops a “Venom”-like symbiotic relationship - though far more poisonous - with that creature (called a “curse” in the show’s parlance) while at an academy for curse-hunters. To prep for watching “ Jujutsu Kaisen 0,” the theatrical prequel to the massively successful “ Jujutsu Kaisen” anime TV series and manga, this reviewer consulted an expert: his fangirl daughter.
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