A MIXED BAG | Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 7 Animation Breakdown 

The chase scene in the forest looks so good, it's really sad how badly affected it was by the ghosting.

Genuinely hope whoever's in charge hears all the fan complaints about the ghosting and dimming and sends a raw version to streaming services. It's such a shame to see great animation almost ruined by interference.

I cannot forgive Toho MBS for absolutely buthering Toshiyuki Sato's amazing sequence.

That ghosting what more seizure inducing than anything else

I absolutely ADORED the way this fight was adapted, especially the anime original stuff they added in the cockpit toward the end of the fight. Damn near jumped from my seat. ❤❤

Can someone explain to me WHY streaming services can't get the unedited episodes for this season of JJK. Its a goddamn shame one of the most ambitious shows this year is getting nerfed by ghosting...

Such an amazing ep, I'd rather have a team shoot for the stars and reach the moon, than having a one-to-one manga panel adaptation (although in this case they reached far and above the moon). Apart from the ridiculous amount of dimming and ghosting (which gave me more eye strain than in its absence) the only "flaws" I noticed were in Mahito's drawing in quite a lot of places. However, the sheer amount of strong character drawing in the latter half was really surprising after watching the fight. It shows how dedicated the whole staff is, with the only thing holding them back being the awful schedule.

For me personally, this was the best episode of JJK. I love animators using different styles and it was utilized perfectly this episode. The Gainax/Trigger esque animation of Mechamaru final stand was amazing and was perfect for that scene. Still pissed about ghosting but hopefully and this amount doesn’t happen again and the sakuga community did make a decent amount of uproar about it

Yeah mahito chase scene without ghosting looked amazing But still the animation for this ep was top notch

I really hope they change the time slot for it so they can easy up on the ghosting but I have no clue how common it is for that to happen at TV studios in Japan. Still really hype to see the Blu Ray version once the season is out.

I was just wanna say thank you for making this anime breakdown videos and your other videos, it really helps me understand more about animation

I always wait for these videos, you really inform us very well with everything and everyone that worked!

I particularly loved the metallic compositing on Mechamaru! It wasn't overbearing and gave the drawings a lot of depth, even more so for when Mahito's domain was up and it was still. But yeah, ghosting is going to make some high octane scenes in Shibuya fall flat... Especially if you combine it with a dark background.

This was my favourite video of your channel. Thank you for the work!

I was so disappointed by the Mahito chase because it would look absolutely AMAZING if it weren't for the ghosting. Edit: I'm so glad you kept mentioning Gurren Lagaan so much (one of my favorite anime ever alongside JJK) because I outright said "Hold up, is this Gurren Lagaan now " multiple times during the fight.

I think the sukuna scene is gonna be dimmed and ghosted.

I felt like I was watching a gundam Anime with that fight absolutely loved the animation

The ghosting in this episode was just insanity 💀

The only downside I felt was the lowering of contrasts in a few scenes and the excessive ghosting , rest of the episode felt fluid , the mahito fight in the reddish tone was over the top color scheme , the domain expansion also felt fluid, not too much mind blowing stuff yet but a good episode 😁

I love the post-One Year War style of the cockpit. Although I haven’t seen Gurren Lagann, so I can’t speak on how similar it is for that show.

I cant wait for the diversity of art styles the show will bring forth also I like how everyone in the comments is an animation expert now

I love how you know every person and who did what. Please keep doing these I don't care for what show. I LOVE IT

To be fully honest, this episode was brilliant! I've already run into conversations with people stating how it wasn't very polished, and whenever I do, I willingly put on a mask and simply agree with their opinions because I'd rather they find out the truth themselves. It's much more fulfilling that way. Though as a Visual Arts (Comic) undergrad student and an aspiring animator, I was desperately restraining the urge to not lose my mind whenever an ambitious cut made it's way onto the screen. It's even better knowing that newer entries were allowed to steer the episode. Gives me hope. Having watched hundreds of hours worth of episodes, I was able to pick up on all the references, but it hit different seeing how well they were executed by a different group of people who look up to that style. Great video 👍😃✨. I can almost always tell now what you'll be making a video on 😅

Now Shibuya will start The ominous atmosphere was amazing,and they added a bit of narration 😭❤️

I Hope They release another raw version of those scenes cause the animation is just gorgeous

Thank you for doing so much research for us its really educating!

You gained a new sub from me bro😂🔥🔥🔥Love these breakdowns

The music when Miwa lays out her simple domain was also top tier.

I honestly saw the drawings looking unfinished as part of the fight because it was Mahito who had weird frames but it made sense for him due to him constantly changing his form

Ghosting is gonna be the real curse of jujutsu kaisen season 2

I read the manga but I didn't understand that much whats happening except for the key moments, I didn't even knew it was night time😂the anime did a better job handling it atleast for me.

Can't escape the jjk episode breakdowns lol. Can't complain tho i love these

You know that the Blu-Ray cut is gonna go crazy.

i just started reading shibuya incident in my free time and man its crazy can't believe its all going to get animated in a few months

Very good breakdown pf the episode animation 👌Thubs up from me bro 👍

6:19 I don't know why him pulling that Rope is so fascinating to me

I was too busy enjoying the rest of this episode to even think about the Ghosting, but yeah we’re in agreement on it being just overall bad for the animation.

Oddly enough I was really reminded of "Superjail" during this episode.

We need a part 2 for the other half of the episode.

I might actually buy the Blu-ray if it gets rid of the ghosting

Love the fuck ghosting at the end. Because honestly, same. I was able to follow for the most part but damn the ghosting was egregious this episode

I can see reactors saying ohh that's not what jujutsu kaisen looked like before.

Ghosting might be because of the airing schedule

Turn your brightness up a bit. Cuts to mechamrus brightness(miwa) Again W editing

While I personally didn't like the style of the episode I absolutely adore the creativity behind it. I'm not the biggest fand of Gurren Lagan's, as well as Studio Trigger's animation styles, which is probably why I didn't like many cuts in this episode but I love that they took such inspiration for a mecha-centric episode. I hope we will see more of such 'risky' or unconventional decisions throughout the rest of the season. After all, isn't that what art is about? Creating something unique not everyone will like, but many can appreciate.

One day you'll be big, I love to watch your videos, whenever i click on them im always shocked to remember you have only 8K subs.

Hopefully when the bluray version releases, there's no ghosting and dimming.

Strong in terms of the animation? Brother, what are you talking about? JJK never looked this bad. And I noticed a decline in the art and animation department from this episode all the way to the newest one, which is 10 at the time of me writing this. This is bad and I am concerned about the future of this season.

Not a fan of mecha fights but the domain expansion was so beautiful.

In my opinion MAPPA or whoever is distributing the episodes to broadcasters like crunchyroll should send the non ghosted/dimmed blu ray ver cause lets be honest no one outside japan gives af and just want to see the animators hard work in all its glory shame to both the fans and animators how much the dimming nerfs their work

Only problem is the damn ghosting

EP 7 felt like watching a different anime

I guess to enjoy the anime i have to wait for bluray

I wonder if the producers or the distributors can do something to reduce the ghosting... atleast the ott version should not have ghosting

the dimming for the broadcast was unbearable this episode

Debut kaisen is REAL K1ro as a ED/SB would be great if possible That Mitani's crowd scene was really fascinating to me it's like I'm watching a completely different show

I agree that dimming can reduce the effect, but can anyone explain how ghosting can reduce the strobe effect?

All of my thoughts, hopes, and concerned: The animation overall was very good. Some of the sequences seemed more average compared to what were used to with this show, and some of the animation was a bit less fluent and sort of choppy I guess. The faces went sort of off model like once or twice maybe? Some of the art felt a little weird here and there. Overall, the quality was very good. I think that this is because of three things. One, this is probably a low quality episode. Considering everything that came before this episode and will come after it this season, this is one of the least important things they would need to animate. Two, mechanistic was probably hard as heck to draw, and even mahito is only human shaped some of the time. Three, there’s just so much that they’re going to have to animate after this that no doubt took a lot of the “manpower” away from this episode. I am somewhat worried that the lackluster schedule for this season could result in a lot of lackluster/inconsistent/borderline silly looking art that could ruin the serious tone that this arc HAS to have. Lastly, of course, the ghosting is gonna be brutal. With that being said, there was a lot of bright flashing colors in this fight, so I’m hoping that this is as bad as the ghosting will get. Anything even close to this level of ghosting is going to basically ruin the first time viewing of all of the episode for EVERYONE, both manga readers and anime only’s alike. That’s the most important viewing obviously, because it’s everyone’s first time witnessing it, and hype is at its highest because you’re watching each episode as they come out, and it’s the next big episode you’ve been waiting a week for. Also, there’s gonna be some really difficult to animate stuff coming up and I am concerned that we could see some very un-jujutsu Kaisen like quality in the near future, which would hurt my soul. Overall, I’d say that there were some lackluster portions of this episode that would be unnoticed in most other shows, but stands out in comparison to the quality that we’ve had for all 29 episodes before this. I hope that this episodes (still above average) quality is the anomaly for this season. The Shibuya arc would be a TERRIBLE time to for MAPPA to drop the ball on this show. Also look forward to the blu ray release. F ghosting.

the blu ray version will not have ghosting

I need opm s3 already😭😭

It was the best ep man just wait for blue ray

im so glad they didnt make him cgi

outside of the ghosting and dimming, i wish they didnt choose to use soft shading for the comp on mechamaru's mech (minor nitpick)

Post 13 of asking PP to review Shigurui

Do you think the ghosting will any other episodes?

Hi, where did you find the storyboards for animation?

How that was a mixed bag❤❤

It goood

I know that they simplified the character designs for the ease of animation, but sometimes I cannot be helped but be bothered by it. The artwork in the hidden inventory is amazing, but in this episode some of Mahitos cuts looked off. Maybe it is just me. 🤷‍♀️

Why don't you talk about My hero academia's animation. I am really waiting for it.

I don't know why the fight looks similar to me to the naruto fights especially naruto vs pain

It was an amazing episode nevertheless.

nah what you really need to talk about is 1074

Hello I’m for Saudi Arabia and when I saw this Seen I was hurt 1:36

Is there a way to get acces to the non ghosted version ?

I really wished they won't make mechamaru cgi, didn't dissapointment

I didn't even care lol I had fun

Dimming and ghosting ruined the whole experience.

Ghosting paired with some janky scenes and drawings bring this ep down a bit, but it was still crazy fun.

Please can you breakdown one piece episode 1074 in your perspective

Can someone explain why they had to add ghosting?

I liked it when they referenced a gainax mecha anime(the entire episode)

the scenes which are good are butchered by Ghosting. and then people will say MAPPA is trash

Ghosting 😞

Can anyone be bothered and explain whats kanada?

wdym japanese laws? then every anime would have ghosting right?

After seeing this episode I want mappa to really animate one punch man 😅

Now i know what to call it. GHOSTING. i hate it so much. JC staff use it a lot and its one of the reasons why i hated opm s2

Mappa b like Unlimited Budget expension

Jujutsu kaisen literally carrying his channel 😭

You are absolutely right, the ghosting made the fight scene unwatchable, i can’t see the sakuga clearly and fluidly. But also want to mention one thing, the sudden change in style of animation at the last mahito vs mechamaru fight scene is kinda choppy and sus, my monkey brain just cannot comprehend on the first look.

I don’t understand why the ghosting is mentioned so much, it has almost no effect on the end product. The animation is truly a masterpiece.

We should be lucky that pokemons don’t exist because if i saw porygon irl i would be animal abuse

felt a bit slow at the start for some reason

Is it just me or anyone else thinks that the amount of work is insane but just doesn't feels as good as say Chainsawman. Maybe because of the complexity of the actions I was unable to follow or the style which looked kinda unpolished.

Huh, strong in terms of animation, wth are you even saying, it was horrible this episode the whole season

It was hard to understand and bad, hoping the fights to come are better

Same as everybody else in the comments, the ghosting... its a real shame ghosting is gonna ruin the enjoyment of this whole season's animation for me :(

Its not a mixed bag. The animation quality is top tier. Please stop complaining about the dimming and ghosting. It really isnt that noticeable and doesnt take away from the quality. I feel people are just nitpicking this to sound smart and contrarian. Just stop.

Yeah it was sakuga but a low tier sakuga if that makes sense, like not at the level of ep 5, and that's weird because the episodes full of fighting are given to a beginner directors and episodes full of drama and character acting are given to strong names like gosso and others