Surprisingly great.

I would say the first couple chapters of the manga start off kinda messy, and incoherent and has the generic structure of most shounen. Mini arc, downtime, mini arc, then some more downtime. By far the weakest point of the series is the beginning.

I guess the best part of Jujutsu Kaisen is that though concept wise, very uncreative, the way it goes about these concepts makes it much more enjoyable than most shounen. I like how the villains are handled instead of the old *shounen protagonist defeats bad guy, here's an even stronger bad guy they have to defeat!*. I love how all the characters are interesting in their own right instead of trying to give them sad complexing backstories in attempt to make them deep. I love Itadori as a protagonist. The whole *evil entity possessing the main character* concept isn't new. Usually most mangas/animes that use this trope will use it as a power up for the MC and the only negatives to this possesion is that maybe the entity hurts some of the MCs friends or whatever and the MC feels bad about it for a short period time. Jujutsu Kaisen goes full force with this trope making it a complete basis on the entire story, other character's morality and Itadori's depth. The amount of damage this evil entity does VERY extreme, not just oops I got my best friend hurt "boo hoo". I also love how Gege (the mangaka) was able to do the "special like no other" main character trope that wasn't just the main character being stronger than everybody else or *shivers* "the underdog". Thank god this isn't just another power fanatasy shounen.

Also, action shounen manga with ZERO fanservice, humor that doesn't rely on unfunny boob jokes and terrible female characters??? Wow I've set the bar real low here. I love Megumi and Nobara and I know damn well they're not even completely fleshed out yet based on what's going to happen in the next arc. I like how the characters feel like that they have a lot of plot armor. Main characters get severly injured, main characters die. I can actually worry about them for once. I'm not sure why this is rated so low compared to stuff like Chainsaw man (which I think is a much weaker manga), probably because most people haven't reviewed past the craziness of the shibuya incident arc and it's not as popular. If this seems generic based on the first couple chapters, but please continue reading. It's one hell of a ride.

The art is is very skillful. I like how Gege is able to simplify anatomy. People may look at it and think it's bad drawing but it's extremely hard to do more geometrical drawings while making the anatomy look accurate. Gege is also really good a drawing hands. They'll be panels of them just showing off. The fight scenes are always great, dynamic poses and easy to follow whilst feeling urgent through the sketchiness and roughness of the artsyle. The backgrounds are very good and doesn't have characters walking about in white voids causing the reader to have no sense of having a setting or feeling grounded. The character design is great, the mangaka doesn't need to do the "5 DIFFERENT HAIRCOLORS THIS, CRAZY CLOTHES THAT" to make the character designs feel unique.

Props to this manga for doing the copy paste shounen story but actually doing it right.


Art: 9

Characters: 8.5

Story: 7.5 - 8

Enjoyment: 8.5

Overall: 8.5/10