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Jan 16, 4:27 PM
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More than half of the episode is just exposition-dumping. Trying to explain the culling games by shoving text in our faces. Would have been better to read the manga for this ep. Who thiught this was a good idea? Beginning of the end for jjk, it's all downhill from here in spite of people trying to hype it up. Even solo leveling is better than this
Jan 16, 4:43 PM
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ColCasey said:
More than half of the episode is just exposition-dumping. Trying to explain the culling games by shoving text in our faces. Would have been better to read the manga for this ep. Who thiught this was a good idea? Beginning of the end for jjk, it's all downhill from here in spite of people trying to hype it up. Even solo leveling is better than this

"..shoving text in our faces." more like shoving them into our butthole without any lubricant.

They should have just made a 23 min black screen episode saying "You wanna know what the Yapping Game is all about? Well, go read the fucking manga.".
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Jan 16, 4:46 PM
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ColCasey said:
More than half of the episode is just exposition-dumping. Trying to explain the culling games by shoving text in our faces. Would have been better to read the manga for this ep. Who thiught this was a good idea? Beginning of the end for jjk, it's all downhill from here in spite of people trying to hype it up. Even solo leveling is better than this

If the characters would say the rules then most people wouldn't understand, even in the manga where you can just stop and read what you want it's hard to understand. Hakari's domain expansion explaining might be the same btw
Jan 16, 5:01 PM
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murilo6969 said:
ColCasey said:
More than half of the episode is just exposition-dumping. Trying to explain the culling games by shoving text in our faces. Would have been better to read the manga for this ep. Who thiught this was a good idea? Beginning of the end for jjk, it's all downhill from here in spite of people trying to hype it up. Even solo leveling is better than this

If the characters would say the rules then most people wouldn't understand, even in the manga where you can just stop and read what you want it's hard to understand. Hakari's domain expansion explaining might be the same btw

I would prefer a "show, don't tell" situation here, but that's seldom seen in battle shounen if ever. Anything would have been better than what they did in this episode. This ain't monogatari, no way I'm pausing to read something in an anime that is literally all about action
Jan 16, 5:02 PM
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Ripperdoc said:
ColCasey said:
More than half of the episode is just exposition-dumping. Trying to explain the culling games by shoving text in our faces. Would have been better to read the manga for this ep. Who thiught this was a good idea? Beginning of the end for jjk, it's all downhill from here in spite of people trying to hype it up. Even solo leveling is better than this

"..shoving text in our faces." more like shoving them into our butthole without any lubricant.

They should have just made a 23 min black screen episode saying "You wanna know what the Yapping Game is all about? Well, go read the fucking manga.".

😂 Couldn't have said it better
Jan 16, 5:07 PM
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ColCasey said:
murilo6969 said:

If the characters would say the rules then most people wouldn't understand, even in the manga where you can just stop and read what you want it's hard to understand. Hakari's domain expansion explaining might be the same btw

I would prefer a "show, don't tell" situation here, but that's seldom seen in battle shounen if ever. Anything would have been better than what they did in this episode. This ain't monogatari, no way I'm pausing to read something in an anime that is literally all about action

if you want a anime about action watch dragon ball then cause jjk never was "just about action". But, you are not that wrong about being too complicated in some parts
Jan 16, 5:08 PM
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I already said that an "absolute cinema" style is a wrong way to approach this complicated system, but at least TOHO realized the mistake and create a walkthrough video, no subtitle yet


There's also a dedicated subpage on official website that'll update weekly filled with charts and timeline, again, no translation yet
https://jujutsukaisen.jp/shimetsukaiyu/
Jan 16, 5:10 PM
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murilo6969 said:
ColCasey said:

I would prefer a "show, don't tell" situation here, but that's seldom seen in battle shounen if ever. Anything would have been better than what they did in this episode. This ain't monogatari, no way I'm pausing to read something in an anime that is literally all about action

if you want a anime about action watch dragon ball then cause jjk never was "just about action". But, you are not that wrong about being too complicated in some parts

That's the thing, I prefer non-battle shounen anime with actual story and good characters. This isn't it though. It isn't a bad show but this episode was just abysmal
Jan 16, 5:12 PM
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That episode 3 of S3's rating showed this slop without hype and aura merchant is nothing but a mediocre story and generic mainstream battle Shonen recycled again, lol

No wonder that one-eyed cat bum fumbled the end of JJK, he knew he's not HIM when it comes to write a proper story without heavily relying on one aspect only

Fujimoto would never. Look at his CV and you'll find he's not a one-hit wonder like that one-eyed cat bum and almost every generic battle Shonen mangaka out there

All these hype just to end up to that last 5 horrendous chapters later, lol. This JJK story is already set in stone to be doomed, just like GoT S8, but you people glaze that bum and his slop too much that you take copium so you won't get hurt once everybody realized how shitty JJK actually is without hype and aura moments, pathetic, lol
Jan 16, 5:15 PM
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ColCasey said:
murilo6969 said:

if you want a anime about action watch dragon ball then cause jjk never was "just about action". But, you are not that wrong about being too complicated in some parts

That's the thing, I prefer non-battle shounen anime with actual story and good characters. This isn't it though. It isn't a bad show but this episode was just abysmal

I think you should watch a video on youtube about the curling game and about hakari's domain expansion (even though it's a bit early) so you can understand what I'm talking about
Jan 16, 5:19 PM
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murilo6969 said:
ColCasey said:

That's the thing, I prefer non-battle shounen anime with actual story and good characters. This isn't it though. It isn't a bad show but this episode was just abysmal

I think you should watch a video on youtube about the curling game and about hakari's domain expansion (even though it's a bit early) so you can understand what I'm talking about

Can't be that complicated, it's a show for teenagers after all. Will watch and understand as I go, prefer it that way instead of being spoon fead
Jan 16, 5:59 PM
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ColCasey said:
More than half of the episode is just exposition-dumping. Trying to explain the culling games by shoving text in our faces. Would have been better to read the manga for this ep. Who thiught this was a good idea? Beginning of the end for jjk, it's all downhill from here in spite of people trying to hype it up. Even solo leveling is better than this

what are you people yapping about? how else did you wanted them to explain all the rules and goals of culling game?
would it have been better if they just showed the manga chapter on the screen?
and fyi manga is not that diffrent from this as well both chapters where they explain culling is just lot of talking atleast the anime had very awesome animation
Jan 16, 6:16 PM
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I agree, but I think it’s hilarious that you have a Monogatari pfp and are talking about too much yapping and text on screen
Jan 16, 7:22 PM
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murilo6969 said:
ColCasey said:

That's the thing, I prefer non-battle shounen anime with actual story and good characters. This isn't it though. It isn't a bad show but this episode was just abysmal

I think you should watch a video on youtube about the curling game and about hakari's domain expansion (even though it's a bit early) so you can understand what I'm talking about

You mean we should spoil the story to ourselves because MAPPA can't hire a proper director? Lol...
Jan 16, 7:25 PM
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ktg said:
murilo6969 said:

I think you should watch a video on youtube about the curling game and about hakari's domain expansion (even though it's a bit early) so you can understand what I'm talking about

You mean we should spoil the story to ourselves because MAPPA can't hire a proper director? Lol...

no, i just meant that the hakari's domain expansion much more difficult to explain then the rules of the game
Jan 16, 7:32 PM
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ktg said:
murilo6969 said:

I think you should watch a video on youtube about the curling game and about hakari's domain expansion (even though it's a bit early) so you can understand what I'm talking about

You mean we should spoil the story to ourselves because MAPPA can't hire a proper director? Lol...

no, i just meant that the hakari's domain expansion much more difficult to explain then the rules of the game
@murilo6969 But that doesn't make this explanation better.
This is a visual medium, use the fkn visuals to simplify the explanations. What is the point of being an anime if they don't plan to animate anything?!
Jan 16, 7:35 PM
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ktg said:
@murilo6969 But that doesn't make this explanation better.
This is a visual medium, use the fkn visuals to simplify the explanations. What is the point of being an anime if they don't plan to animate anything?!

you can't even understand that I'm saying I agree with you and want the things to be explained in a way most viewers wouldn't understand the rules the way they are
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@murilo6969 But that doesn't make this explanation better.
This is a visual medium, use the fkn visuals to simplify the explanations. What is the point of being an anime if they don't plan to animate anything?!

you can't even understand that I'm saying I agree with you and want the things to be explained in a way most viewers wouldn't understand the rules the way they are
@murilo6969 Because it's irrelevant what you were saying. You wanted to "counter" people's concern by pointing to another set of rules from the upcoming episodes, seasons and that's irrelevant.

As for understanding the rules, if you have visual presentation what certain rules mean, then it's much easier to understand them.
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Jan 16, 10:15 PM
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What’s even the point of this post?
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Jan 17, 12:37 AM
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I have seen 8500 episodes of anime and this was without a doubt the worst episode I have ever watched.
Jan 17, 2:20 AM
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ChristianGivens said:
I agree, but I think it’s hilarious that you have a Monogatari pfp and are talking about too much yapping and text on screen

The difference is that it's natural and fits in monogatari, and well done. Here it's just lazy and badly done
Jan 17, 2:37 AM

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Still better than most recent seasons of Demon Slayer episodes

Jan 17, 2:40 AM
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Still better than most recent seasons of Demon Slayer episodes

I'll take your word for it, haven't watched ds since entertainment district and not planning to
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ColCasey said:
murilo6969 said:

If the characters would say the rules then most people wouldn't understand, even in the manga where you can just stop and read what you want it's hard to understand. Hakari's domain expansion explaining might be the same btw

I would prefer a "show, don't tell" situation here, but that's seldom seen in battle shounen if ever. Anything would have been better than what they did in this episode. This ain't monogatari, no way I'm pausing to read something in an anime that is literally all about action

JJK is literally THE most "tell" shounen I've ever seen, there is constant exposition even during fights and a literal in-universe mechanic for abilities getting stronger after you explain them. I don't why y'all thought it would suddenly become all action
Jan 17, 3:32 PM
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"Fans" are really a pain in the ass.

When not every detail is explained: "I don't understand anything! How does this work? It's to complicated without any informations!"

When every detail is explained: "It's so boooooring! All the listening and reading... It's mid! It's average! It's - aso... "

As long as they can complain about everything, they are happy. So lamentable.
Jan 17, 4:33 PM
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"Fans" are really a pain in the ass.

When not every detail is explained: "I don't understand anything! How does this work? It's to complicated without any informations!"

When every detail is explained: "It's so boooooring! All the listening and reading... It's mid! It's average! It's - aso... "

As long as they can complain about everything, they are happy. So lamentable.

Who said anything about reading is boring? I criticized the way they chose to present it. Has nothing to do with boring or fun, just a strange way to go about it
Jan 17, 6:05 PM

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the presentation really was ass.
Jan 17, 8:21 PM

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Jjk watchers when required to read smth:
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Jokes aside, yeah, there were much better ways to go about this both in the anime and in the manga. I personally liked this episode because of helped me understand the culling games better, the drawings were rly strong and colours were nice too (I feel like those r stupid reasons for liking the ep but eh). JJK hasn’t rly been known for its stellar dialogues, so I alr expected stuff like this to happen, and I can still enjoy rly generic stories and explanations, which is probably why I’m not too bothered by any of this.
Jan 18, 10:00 PM
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the culling games are easy to understand we just gotta make the text smaller and pause a lot but yea
Jan 19, 1:51 PM
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Why people are so afraid of reading. If you are complaining so much that means you just dont like the anime, why sitting through something you don't enjoy... that's wild to me.
Jan 19, 4:42 PM

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Holy fuck this episode broke y'all 😂 I can't wait to see how people respond to the explanation of Hakari's Domain Expansion 💀
People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime.

Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait.

Take me back to the days before MAL became infested with Twitter's favorite buzzwords.


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I don't mine the text just wish it was more spread out and not all cramped in there.

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