When I first checked out Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1, I was seriously impressed.
The interesting premise with the fun characters and the excellent action made for a super chill and interesting experience. The movie gave a fun story set before the first Season, but Season 2, well chronologically it is all over the place.
Season 2 starts off before the events of the movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0. It follows Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto who are both still students. They need to help out a weird situation. We learn that Master Tengen has to merge into a new human every 500 years. This is to stop him evolving into some weird ass entity. Anyway, Satoru and Suguru are tasked with protecting this human.
Easy right?
Well it turns out there are a couple of groups that want to kill this vessel. One of which is a bonkers religious group. They see Tengen as a god, and want him to evolve into his true form.
So you know, normal things. Now I won’t spoil much more story here, because this part of the Season is only 5 episodes long. That is because this chunk of the series is just 5 eps long, and then the next chunk jumps back to continue from Season 1.
It isn’t a silly idea given the clear separation of the story. But it does make this a weird short release as part of a ‘Season’. What I will say is the relationship between Satoru and Suguru is interesting to watch. They kind of like each other, then kind of don’t and really try to piss each other off.
As a short half of a Season, this is a fantastic couple of hours. The 5 episodes that cover the Hidden Inventory story is great, and then the one episode for premature Death is great. I highly recommend you watch the movie first to build up the context for what you are watching. But I would be lying if I said I wasn’t itching to move forward to the second half of the series to get back to Yuji Itadori’s story.
