EPISODE OF THE YEAR | Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 16 Animation Breakdown 

I refuse to believe that the next episode will look better than this masterpiece.

Ah the episode that is hated by the so called sakuga experts on insta and RU-vid, you once said that any form of creativity was never liked by many, and sadly it's true. This ep was peak..

This episode was crazy. I hope they dont screw up the rest of the season with their terrible schedule. I wouldn’t be mad if they took a break for a week or 2

It's crazy how ppl were comparing the Sukuna's arrow scene in the trailer & fanmade only for the ep to make it all redundent. Genuinely amazing.

This episode was so consistently mesmerising

I guess some people won't like it, and there's nothing wrong with that. But saying the animation is bad, lazy etc is straight up insanity

7:39 I love how the temperature on the temperature display thingy rises due to the heat emitted by Jogo's attacks

Coincidentally I had bought a new TV and OMFG I CAN'T PUT IT INTO WORDS HOW GOOD THIS WAS

2 well animated fights in one episode. You dont see that often. 10/10 episode

I finally know what this style is named!! Kagenashi is my absolute favorite style for animation, something about it makes it so dynamic!! Sometimes more details make stuff worse (cofcof GoHands cofcof), its sad to see a lot of people don’t like/understand the amazing potential of this style tho…

It pisses me off how much hate this ep is getting. It's like people are lying to themselves that this ep looks bad. Even a casual watcher can tell that this ep stood out from everything else we've ever seen in jjk

i fucking love how the art is evolving to look more like parts of the manga, it looks so good

10:06 I’m sorry WHAT

With how good this episode was I just couldn’t imagine how good it could of been if the animators had an adequate amount of time to work on it

This episode was insane. Innovation in animation is so fun to watch skilled key animators pursue. So many good shots it's hard to count. A day before this episode came out haters were saying this episode looks bad based on a few preview images. I couldn't believe how ignorant that part of the community still is about how animation works.

I like kagenashi/No shadow style of animation.i like this fluid hand to hand fast paced fighting.

I have never seen animation like this before. At first I wasn't sure if they had just rushed the episode but after breaking it down myself and watching this break down. I am very impressed how you can take away certain elements to enhance others with very little consequence, even though people including myself will still assume they rushed this episode. I am very happy to admit I was completely wrong and I 100% promote this type of creativity in animation :)

people have to realize that minimal drawing allow room for smoother action and layout. JJK season 2 goes crazy on perspective. Which show the massive scale and authenticity of the city. The forced perspective is crazy and the pacing of the fight is perfect. A few dead frames yes. But if they try to draw everything perfect on 1 with the work load they have. We will have everything jittery like the Maki vs Dagon scene.

In my eyes and heart, Itsuki is truly The Honored One

LET’S GO! SO GLAD YOU’RE SINGING THIS EPISODES PRAISE! God it’s like Naruto vs pain all over again with some of the awful takes coming from some people though.

The fight was like a freaking kizumonogatary type movie bro!! but that's an episode there's more coming.... HOLD it boys

The animation was amazing. It reminded me of Fate/strange fake: whispers of dawn, devil man crybaby and a little hint of mob psycho. All of which are considered peak animation.

Thank you for making this content! I’ve been watching for a few months now and you’ve really taught me a lot

I just wanna say your content is super good. You give very insightful thoughts on what's going on with Mappa's animation which I think a lot of other voices online are lacking in.

Its a miracle that we got things like ep 13, 15 & 16 in this mess of a production.

Wasn't expecting such a quick upload !!! , really enjoyed this episode, the movement the expression everyone was fluid , not to mention the great job done by the compositing team , good stuff here

ofcourse JJK rabbits know how to throw hands

Your videos are getting better and better. Thank you very much

As an animator my eyes were popping out of their sockets and my jaw was on the floor… the amount of times I’ve already rematched and studied this fight is unreal

Love this episode. Great video!

Absolutely crazy episode. Gives me some of my hope back... especially with the upcoming extremely important fights

People thinking animation is only about stillshots is driving me nuts

Best episode in terms of animation, people who don't know sht about animation hating on it because of the loose artstyle and calling it "bad animation" boils my blood

Cant believe people were hating on this episode. Half of them didnt even know the difference between animation and art style

If the animators need a one month break give it to them they deserve it.

Was waiting for you to cover this marvelous ep next weeks will be even better

This was really fun episode and you are very right, every frame had something to look at. It did feel like a different episode and also the voice work felt just so right.

I'm glad that as whole this episode was well loved by the fandom. Of course there were some people that were turned off by the change in artwork, but it wasn't overall hated like, for example, Naruto vs Pain back in the day. I think that shows that we have come a long way as a community and knowing what is good animation.

Lesson of the day: make animators do what the f*ck they want

This was a fever dream on 120 fps and I freaking loved every bit of it😂

Yeah, you are right when you said that animation comes in many forms because this ep initialy threw me way off, i thought oh noo.. we are witnessing the total collapse of animation buget in front of our eyes.. this is it.. but then i realised that this actually looks amazing and unique and i ended up loving it. Ehh you learn something new every day 🤷🏻‍♂️

This episode was so hype!

LESS GOOOO I WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO DROP THE EPISODE

7:40 noticed this while watching the episode aswell but it’s so cool how they show the temperature rising

I watched this episode as it came out, my jaw dropped at the first shot and was down the whole time, when it comes to action animation naruto is on the top of my list and even tho CSM was great it never came close but this one, this episode is one of the best I've ever seen and 8:46 this shot.... I might've creamed my pants, neither accepting nor denying.

Literally was just checking if you posted on community tab lol

Cool video thank you for the detailed observations. You said at one point that the next episode is going to be even better, where does that info come from ?

People claiming how the terrible schedule has finally caught up to them, and how the animators "probably" did the best they could...is the funniest shit ever.

this style of animation throughout the episode really reminded me of the Shimazaki fight in mob psycho season 2 and now I adore both for how creative they got, but gor damn if i were to put one above the other for now i would put this episode above the Shimazaki fight

This guy knows what he's talking about

Easy EOTY contender and best fight of the year for me till now Was hoping for Sato to do some fire effects like he did in aprocrypa but sou miyazaki cooked really hard instead, can't wait to see gege rxn to Birdy reference lmao

I really like how you break down the animation, i've definitely learned some new terms thanks to your videos. Have you ever considered doing movies? id love to see you break down spider verse or puss in boots, I enjoy your breakdowns the most but I know there are other channels that probably do that.

I actually love the lack of shading in the frame-by-frame shots. It reminds me of early Naruto and One Piece

Animation is so chaotically fluent and pop out better than how we expected it be and not cgi

This ep was nothing less but God-Tier beacause holy shit idk how they were able to achieve this level of sheer creativity and vibrancy to it but they did and i am so thankful for that.

Remember guys to thank itsuki and the jjk team for working through mappa overproduction and management in order to make this amazing ep. Thank you itsuki and to the jjk team

This episode gives me mob psycho vibe, it was great.

in my opinion i prefer this type of loose line work and characters without shadows

If MAPPA truly pulls through next episode then JJK will be best anime of the year by a long shot

this episode gone moon and way beyond ,its CRAZY..!

I've been waiting for this vid once the episode came out

I love the shadow bunnies getting in on the action (even though they get brutalize) it was funny and entertaining as hell. This whole episode was amazing. Felt like I was watching a movie. Thanks for the vid. I’m just starting to really appreciate animation and it’s pretty cool to listen to someone who has a passion for this stuff break it down a bit.

7:39 I like the fact that the temperature is low at first and then gets rapidly hotter and going from around 15 to 99

i love how many backgrounds are screenshots of google earth or a collage of photos with a cellshade filter and some color correction and you don't even notice it up untill ones pays attention.

Great video, can you also do an animation breakdown of frieren ep 5? It looked fucking amazing

I liked this episode. It's the like animators did whatever they wanted to because no one was there to stop them. And the one thing that stood out about this episode over all the rest, was how they conveyed space. Both fights are in a city that is usually heavily populated. So the environment was not only used well, it's easy to track where the fighters were and where they are going. Even Yuji vs Choso fight was hard to track at times, and they were in an enclosed space. Also, loved how the rabbits tried to kick Toji in the face 😅 Still want the animators to take a break. I don't mind waiting if this is what they will give us.

Whoa, the meteor forming wasn't by keiichiro watanabe? It's insane how the animators animated it like Kiro's

This episode was truly peak 11/10 ⭐ for me

bro where can i find this list of animators please can u share btw love ur breakdowns

I thought it was practically impossible to top the Choso fight but somehow these madlads did it.

Am i not the only one getting monogatari movie vibes from this ep The artstyle kinda gives me the same vibe lmao

0:36 Interesting hearing them talk about bringing the expressions closer to the original (I'd assume closer to the manga), coz there were 1 or 2 shots of Sukuna that felt like they were ripped straight from the manga (10:08 being one of them). Easily the best episode

I am a fan of loose drawings they have this strange liking to it how much i seen these type of animations cause it reminded me of hell verse ichigo vs ulqiourra, yes it also didn't have any shadows. Actually maybe it does it has this light air brush shadows

Wait what? The next episode will look better? Wtf? How? I’ve heard there wore some crazy rumours about next episode, but I couldn’t find anything online. What is going on?

do we know the staff list for the next episode?

I don't know if I'm asking for a lot, but what are the chances we get an episode directed by Miso from the Gojo vs Sukuna fight, as it is one of the only large scale fights in the manga similar to this one.

It seemed like a Sacrifice of detail for movement. Similar to Mob psycho . Idk i felt like it could’ve looked better imo

What an episode this was❤. I can't find words to describe this episode. Such a great effort by the JJK TEAM. Love them for animating one of my all time fav arcs

Congrats on 10k…

The animation in episode gave me Naruto/Naruto Shippuden vibes when they 'flipped the switch' on the animation, like Naruto v Sasuke or Madara v Shinobi Alliance. Im saying that as a compliment as i loved that art style.

Me and my girl, sat there mesmerized the whole episode. Not a word was said until they ending credits😮‍💨

I feel like they knew that if they made the episode very detailed they wouldn't have been able to animate this episode the way then wanted so they played into it, and made the episode somewhat abstract and unprocessed, playing into the absolute chaos that was gonna be in the episode. Like...why animate an episode of nothing but pure and utter chaos, with rigid and stereotypical details? They're not gonna have time to do it that way regardless so they went f*ck it and focused *everything* on the animation, minimizing on the detailings. And I *F•CKING LOVED IT!*

This episode is up there with the one piece zoro vs king episode. My two favorite episodes of the year so far.

I still don't know what is the meaning of the word story board means .. Is it related to something like creative animation directing where camera angles or movements make the animation unique? Nonetheless i loved this episode, nonconventional af sort of like the pain fight(Naruto)!!!

Bruh the 🐇 Kung Fu had me dying lmao!!!

Absolutely episode of the year. The animation exceeded my expectations. Only way it doesn’t is if next episode outhypes it which is a real possibility if you know… yeah

is there actual weight behind people saying the next episode will be on this level / surpass this or are they just chatting

I honestly prefer the shadowless drawings, they look more 3d for some reason , and the vibe that it gives fits much better

Please make a video about Record Ragnarok.

i love mahoraga and if it’s true next episode gets the same treatment then thank you jjk team

do a top 10 best looking jjk episodes

The style of the episode reminds me of the nine tails attack, where kurama was first summoned to the village and was destroying the building's. The sukuna fight in particular.

Also there was a single second after Megumi got crazed by Playful Cloud after Toji threw it at him like a javelin as he's jumping between buildings where it's just Megumi's eye and the cut and manga readers will definitely understand the added foreshadowing.

Where do you find the animators? 0:45

Peak episode

Where are the guys who were saying fan animation of sukuna with fire is better than mappa's animation. 😂

Nice job, team 🎉.

i think i found my favourite animator, if this doesnt win fight of the year at least im gonna riot

HOLY, that one frame at 7:10 of sukuna was DEMONIC, I love it!!!

When I go to twitter I feel like it’s the pain episode all over again lol