Many fans wonder what the point of the Shibuya Incident Arc was.
The arc breaks the conventional tropes of battle shounen, setting Jujutsu Kaisen apart from other anime from the genre.
It’s just cool action — not everything needs to have a thought-provoking message.
The Shibuya Incident Arc of Jujutsu Kaisen left many viewers speechless. There were plenty of reasons for that: from insane animation to the sheer epicness of its scale to, of course, the number of deaths that shocked the fans. After all, killing off so many characters in a battle shounen isn’t exactly common.
There is one question about the arc that people started asking after it was over, however. The question is: what was the point of it? It feels like an arc suited to be a final one in a series which isn’t even close to finishing. As such, people are wondering why the arc even exists.
Shibuya Incident Arc breaks away from the tropes
It’s really hard to explain what the “point of the arc” is when that concept isn’t real in the first place. The arc serves a certain narrative purpose, of course — and some plot points raised in it we might not see in a while.
In a sense, the Shibuya Incident Arc is a big showdown — which doesn’t necessarily need to be at the very end of the series. If it were the end, Jujutsu Kaisen would be much more tropey than it actually is. Besides, the fights themselves are very interesting — a lot of the outcomes are unpredictable, which sets Jujutsu Kaisen apart from other battle shounen anime.
Jujutsu Kaisen is an incredibly fun action series
Not everything has to be incredibly deep or convey a complicated message. Jujutsu Kaisen is an interesting and well-written series, but a lot of it is just fights and more fights. That’s good in its own way: sometimes, you just want to sit down and enjoy the spectacle — and Jujutsu Kaisen very much works on that front.
The anime, arguably, is even better than the manga. MAPPA’s treatment of animators’ controversies aside, the adaptation is simply incredible. Season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen is one of the best adaptations we’ve got recently — it’s easy to enjoy, even though at points, it seems way too cruel to its own characters.
Anime doesn’t have to be deep
Battle shounen series usually aren’t the most thought-provoking series out there. That can especially be seen with newer series that became popular after the popularity of Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba) — many anime just focus on flashy fights above everything else.
This isn’t even bad, of course. You can still have cool character writing — both Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen prove it — and primarily focus on the action. In fact, this actually works better than inserting thought-provoking messages into anime: both series got a huge audience and popularized anime across the world, and that’s a good thing.
Why did we need so many characters to die?
Summary:
Many fans wonder what the point of the Shibuya Incident Arc was.
The arc breaks the conventional tropes of battle shounen, setting Jujutsu Kaisen apart from other anime from the genre.
It’s just cool action — not everything needs to have a thought-provoking message.
The Shibuya Incident Arc of Jujutsu Kaisen left many viewers speechless. There were plenty of reasons for that: from insane animation to the sheer epicness of its scale to, of course, the number of deaths that shocked the fans. After all, killing off so many characters in a battle shounen isn’t exactly common.
There is one question about the arc that people started asking after it was over, however. The question is: what was the point of it? It feels like an arc suited to be a final one in a series which isn’t even close to finishing. As such, people are wondering why the arc even exists.
Shibuya Incident Arc breaks away from the tropes
It’s really hard to explain what the “point of the arc” is when that concept isn’t real in the first place. The arc serves a certain narrative purpose, of course — and some plot points raised in it we might not see in a while.
In a sense, the Shibuya Incident Arc is a big showdown — which doesn’t necessarily need to be at the very end of the series. If it were the end, Jujutsu Kaisen would be much more tropey than it actually is. Besides, the fights themselves are very interesting — a lot of the outcomes are unpredictable, which sets Jujutsu Kaisen apart from other battle shounen anime.
Jujutsu Kaisen is an incredibly fun action series
Not everything has to be incredibly deep or convey a complicated message. Jujutsu Kaisen is an interesting and well-written series, but a lot of it is just fights and more fights. That’s good in its own way: sometimes, you just want to sit down and enjoy the spectacle — and Jujutsu Kaisen very much works on that front.
The anime, arguably, is even better than the manga. MAPPA’s treatment of animators’ controversies aside, the adaptation is simply incredible. Season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen is one of the best adaptations we’ve got recently — it’s easy to enjoy, even though at points, it seems way too cruel to its own characters.
Anime doesn’t have to be deep
Battle shounen series usually aren’t the most thought-provoking series out there. That can especially be seen with newer series that became popular after the popularity of Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba) — many anime just focus on flashy fights above everything else.
This isn’t even bad, of course. You can still have cool character writing — both Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen prove it — and primarily focus on the action. In fact, this actually works better than inserting thought-provoking messages into anime: both series got a huge audience and popularized anime across the world, and that’s a good thing.
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