SUKUNA IS UNSTOPPABLE...Jujutsu Kaisen 2x16 "Thunderclap" | Reaction/Review 

Y’all chill😭 we are still extremely new to anime and had no idea this was a different style. We never want to take away from the animators that spend countless hours creating these incredible shows we all love. Now we know that this is just a different art style, and just like all art, some people like some forms better than others. Regardless this was a phenomenal episode🫶🏽

The animation isn’t a downgrade lol , it’s a specific art style used to show more fluidity when it comes to the action sequences, this is some of the best animation of the year.

The body count in Shibuya has been unreal like what the hell is there left to do after this arc

Jogo just existing to show us how strong Gojo and Sukuna are 💀

Jack, this is not the training arc. We already at Shibuya arc.

The animation is a style. It’s a shadow-less style animation. It takes away shadowing and detailing to add to fluidity and movement. It might not be your cup of tea, but it’s a style and that doesn’t mean the animation was lacking or they used “less budget” on this. An incredible amount of EXTREMELY TALENTED Japanese animators worked on this, the best of the best.

This episode felt like an actual movie. The fluidity and lighting was absolutely stellar.

100% some of the best animation of the season. Compare this episode to last episode and it’s WORLDS better!

this animation style is called kagenashi. it’s supposed to make fight scenes look more fluid:)

Toji's mind had been twisted. His basic urges told him simply to go after the strongest. But when he regained control for a moment and thought about his son, he was filled with joy to know that Gojo kept his promise. Megumi wasn't a Zenin. He hadn't been sold off. And thus, to both protect his son if he lost control again and relief that his last wish before his death had been fulfilled, Toji took his own life. What a phenomenal character. Now, onto the main event. Sukuna vs JoGOAT. A lot of people were surprised at how Jogo speed blitzed Maki, Nanami and Noabito. But he's powerful. Had he gone up against a 2 or 3 finger Sukuna, he would've wiped the floor with him. He's about as strong as 8 or 9 fingers of Sukuna's power. But unfortunately, he fought Sukuna at 15 fingers. Nearly double the amount of power in fingers than the estimate "Geto" told him he was capable of. But even then, even Sukuna admits that some of Jogo's attacks would've still done damage if they had hit. Had it been against a 10 or 11 finger Sukuna, he would've struggled but he might've actually been able to land a hit. It wasn't that Jogo was weak, he just had the misfortune of facing the strongest sorcerer and the king of curses at nearly full power. Stand proud, Jogo. You're strong. Being complimented by the King Of Curses doesn't come easy. Now, Hanami, Dagon and Jogo have all moved on. Until they one day are born again. They have entrusted everything to Mahito.

you'll notice the animation changes this way whenever there are huge battles covering massive distances. Naruto had a few of these too. It's not really feasible to have perfect drawings move fluidly like that.

Choosing this art style was such a good call imo. The animation gave this ep so much personality and really set it apart from others in JJK . Gotta give the animators props for staying creative and making each ep a new experience especially for manga readers.

I think you guys are misunderstanding the animation because this was literally one of their best works. Their just using a different art style, which is necessary to keep the extremely fluid motion of the fight scene.

the animation was amazing. Didn't looked rushed at all even though it probably was.

Brosquito's, I totally get what you're saying with the "lower budget thing". I would've thought so too, but on a previous job my company contracted some animators and I learned a lot about animation styles. Don't feel discouraged by the comments, just learn about the animation styles (CGI use, hand-drawn, shadows, all that stuff), you'll start figuring out how to engage on that side of things differently. I do wish Mappa would give their series' an extra year between seasons so their teams would have more time to work on things, and their animators could be in a happier state of mind by having real time off to see their families. The industry is so demanding with all these mangaka's having health issues and stuff, it needs to have some kind of unionization or standards for health.

Toji recognized his sword which was passed down to megumi. You notice he realizes once he sees the sword which Toji also used against Geto's curses in episode 3 if you remember. Thats how he figured it out.

Everyone: The animators cooked. The best episode animation wise. Gek boys: it's the worst we have seen from them in the entire series. Well nothing against the boys and i can understand they feel this way bcoz they aren't accustomed to this style of doing things as it's different from the staple jjk animation. But just for every anime only watchers trust me the animators really give this series more than what you can imagine. I don't remember seeing such a great adaptation ever. Just for context They added almost thrice the content in the megumi toji fight and many more details in the sukuna and made both toji and sukuna more majestic. And dont get me started on the direction of these scenes.

I think this is the Best fight of Jjk yet, the animation and the impact frame of sukuna demonic face are insane 🔥

The animation was great on par with direction, ost and camera work. This episode is objectively the best in terms of production. It was only character designs that were minimalistic to provide this level of animation. Also this ep had the most cinema-like feeling out of whole jjk and had one of the best directors in the industry.

Cannon's socks with holes try to make another appearance but are denied.

How can you think that this giant feets belongs to Todo? And they are unnaturally white! Haruta wasn't scared of Nanami and you think that he would shit himself because of Todo!?

This season has different director than season 1 and movie, so that's why this season u can see different approach and style

You guys confusing animation with art style, which is frustrating. Even more frustrating is y’all saying “they just spent less money on the episode” because it dismisses the work being done by the animators as if it were as simple as just throwing money at an episode to make it look good. It’s also not true. Most anime episodes have roughly the same budget but what separates good looking and bad looking episodes are the time and the talent of the animators working on the episode. It’s fine if y’all didn’t like the art style but what you guys said is just flat out wrong.

I won‘t comment on the animation since that has been mentioned a billion times already. I wanna just say how much I liked the philosophical deep talk Sukuna had with Jogo for a moment there. Makes me love Sukuna even more, I was prepared for him to be a heartless cruel (but hot) motherfucker and now we get to more insight on his mentality and stuff. Also I love that for Jogo, all he wanted was to be recognized and seen and the King of all curses gave him that. Also the way Megumi managed to keep up with Toji’s speed was amazing I can’t wait to see his full potential and the way Toji managed to kill himself for his son’s sake was also beautiful. Fuck this whole episode was amazing and beautiful.

That Toji/Megumi fight was AWESOME!!! The ost and the animation and just everything was perfect!!

Panda has always been like that though wym 😭you saw how goofy he was in the movie, and he's still the same age as maki, toge and yuta btw. He is usually matured around his peers but it's Kusakabe so he was acting more naive, while trusting Kusakabe completely. Let's just say his relationship with Kusakabe goes way back, and you can say Kusakabe helped raising him a little too (extra infos).

them trashing the animation breaks my heart since the team that made this episode are the best in the business and had at least twice as much time than other teams on other episodes, since they started earlier. The sheer fluidity and motion is 20x more difficult and impressive thna creating some high detailed art thats just a powerpoint like half of ep 14 for example.

The fact that so many people are talking about power levels without mentioning Jack's pushups is insane

The animation looks like that because the animator that works on Mob Psycho worked on this episode and if you watch Mob psycho you know the visuals in that anime are crazy 🔥

Lol this is easily the best animated episode in the whole show and there saying it’s downgraded lol

Jack, those reps you did was awesome man. hell yeah.

every comment they made about the animation or art style definitely hurt my brain but good vid lol

The animation was the lowest quality? What the hell are you guys talking about.. This is an animation style change and resembles mob psycho, It could be to save money and time yes But it definitely wasn’t low quality..

Also while I’m not the biggest fan of the animation this episode, the panda scenes were definitely intentional, it was just to show some lighthearted goofiness (how he normally is) which is what that whole section with him and kusakabe (his partner) was doing, cuz his partner was also complaining about not wanting to do anything even tho the situation is very clearly not a joking one. It’s an anime thing basically.

Best episode in all of JJK so far. My jaw was dropping from beginning to end. Supposedly next episode will be even better.

Your logo is so sick! Great job on the design!

The animation quality is unbelievable, that's probably one of the best if not the best animation in a fight I have personally seen, so good. This quality is usually found in movies, hard to believe they managed that in a series. The best episode in the show so far in my opinion, loved the Sukuna fight and I loved the way they wrapped up the Toji storyline (guessing it's wrapped up).

The Yuta slander is egregious. He took down a special grade sorcerer with 6 months of experience. He’s been away training this whole time. Just wait

I love these videos bc I feel like I’m watching with them and it makes it so exciting

It is a different art style and sometimes experiencing a new art style can be jarring and you can misinterpret it. The same concept applies to painted art. Imagine all you’ve seen is Michaelangelo and someone rolls up and is like “yo check out this Picasso.” You’re gonna be like dude, what? I hate this. But then later, the more you see it and understand it, you appreciate it in a different way. 💜

With how they animated all of Jogos moves, I really want Jogo as a final boss in an action RPG now. Imagine him rising into the sky, debris being sucked into the huge meteor he's forming as he stares you down, holding a god damn meteor with one hand while the entire city is flooding with lava.

Toji dominating those rabbits gave me goosebumps & that music! 🔥

idk why people are so mad at y’all criticising the animation, You’re new to anime and most people notice detail and consistency over fluidity for example, so I definitely understand. The series director is giving a lot of creative freedom to the staff of each episode, which a lot of series don’t dare to do. So that’s why it seems so “inconsistent”-ish However this was for sure the most well animated episode of this season, and I heard next episode will be even better😭🙏

The animation was probably the best it has been i the whole series, its just a different artstyle, its ok if yall don't like it but animation wise the ep was 15/10.

i know people are saying it a lot but yall saying the animation was downgraded is insane its a change in art style to be less detailed which makes it easier to create insane fights like this as it also allows different directors to come in and add more personal flair.

THIS EPISODE WAS CRAAAZZZYYYY love your reactions !! 😁😁

this episode is so sad for me bc its the last time megumi sees his dad and he doesn't even know it :(((

The animation quality was meant to look like that it was jus a art style change from what it looks like.Probably cuz there’s a lot of hand to hand and they focused more on the fluidity for the fights

I think it’s interesting that Mahito’s name in Japanese actually means ‘true human’

jack doing 10 clapping pushups is the most underrated thing in this video, case closed.

The music on this episode was also just 🔥

The raw animation was incredible this episode. It's just that it wasn't polished enough so that's why it looked rough in some scenes

This episode was FIRE! Literally 🔥 First of all, damn Toji is really HIM! Such as badass and it kinda sucks to see him go, but at least he stopped himself from harming Megumi any further. Though I wish he would have talked to him some more. Then boom Shigemo comes out of nowhere and slashes our boy. I knew the bastard was still alive. Kusakabe has got to be the most realistic and relatable character. It was cool to see him interact with Geto’s “Family” who I definitely wanna see more of as well. That battle between Sukuna and Jogo was nothing short of nuts! Not sure if this was the actual “Incident” but I think melting and blowing up the city would constitute as one. Kinda had me feel for Jogo at the end though, but it was his misfortune to go against such monsters. Though him being recognized as strong was cool and hearing how Mahito can get stronger was interesting. Sukuna just crashes anything he wants even if it’s a meeting in the afterlife 😆 He’s really at the top of the food chain and I really want to know more about his abilities and what he said to Jogo. Apparently he seems to know the bowl cut person, who’s finally been named. Don’t know what the hell that curse was at the end, but Shigemo can get bodied for all I care. I hope our Jujutsu High people are alright and I need the next episode to get here already!

Usually high-budget episodes have specific director/animators assigned to them that have a more unique style. Which is why the animation style often changes from episode-to-episode. This is really high quality animation, coming from someone who pays a lot of attention to animation and is learning it. Episode 2x15 and 2x14 are lower budget episodes and 2x13 is high budget, that episode is probably the some of the best animation I've seen.

Reminds me when people were complaining about Naruto vs Pain animation. But I absolutely love that type of animation in super fast paced fights

This felt like mob psycho ep animation and i loved it

This is by far the greatest episode of animation up until this point. I get that people don't understand the different style, but hearing them say that it's a less-budget downgrade really hurts me.

This is PEAK animation. Everybody can sees that 🙌🏻

SUKUNA sooooo sick. cant wait next episode!!!

Shootout to all animators of Mappa this year, they have chainsaw man, hell paradise, JJK even Aot in their production but still deliver us their best effort to animate all of these. Mappa better gives them the rest they needed & decent amount of payment after all these masterpieces.

Toji immediately back in off when he stabbed megumi and realized that this boy was his son in that moment was so sad, and then asking megumi for his name - I truly think that he would have still killed himself even if megumi said “megumi zenin” instead of “megumi fushigoro” because Toji would realized Megumi was sold off by HIMSELF - obvi Toji can’t blame Megumi for that he was a child, I do think Toji would have killed himself either way but he was happy when he died because he realized gojo kept his promise - also I love how Tojis eyes went back to white - I also don’t get how Megumi didn’t recognize him - Toji looks the exact same as when Megumi was a kid, I mean Toji was an adult then and now he’s his dad 😭

the animation was just drawn in a simpler way in order to make the fighting movements more fluid, it’s an animation style

this animation sacrifices detail to show fluidity and have enough fps, if you animate such fast paced combat with lots of detail it would take months, and an episode has very strict production limit of 1 week

It does break my heart a little that the animators must’ve destroyed themselves pouring work into the episode and the guys were ragging on it a bit

Sukuna full on just roasted Jogo before roasting Jogo

The action and the destruction does not slow down during the next couple of episodes 😂

I get yall are new to anime and dont understand different art styles. But please, never comment on budget and animation again when the animators are nearly killing themselves to produce episodes with thousands of frames. Yall dont understand how disrespectful that is

Dude they got across just how crazy strong Jogo is soooooooo much better then in the manga and by extent how crazy strong Sukuna is. Jogo actually jumped up in terms of villians in this series after this for me.

That big guy in the end, finally it shows himself

Them saying the animation was its lowest quality shows how inexperienced they are with animation. It’s a different style. No quality was lost if anything we gained in the fluidity

Maybe because you're not familiar with this kind of art style animation. But for me this one of the best episode from JJK team, this and choso fight. Cannot wait to see next episodes tho

He summoned the GOAT...😅

7:46 Carter laughing and then realizing everyone is fucked up 😂😂

They want their character designs to remain intact when, in fact, they are fighting at very high speeds. Of course, they will appear somewhat distorted. This is not a downgrade or anything; it's an art style that the animators have arrived at to convey speed and power. This is pain vs. Naruto all over again, bruhh.

The reason the anime is off is because Mappa took too many projects. A lot of animators have been complaining about the impossible work load. Corners are being cut because they get made weekly and are sometimes even finished very close to the airing time

Sukuna was having an absolute blast. That man was having just as much fun as when Palpatine fought Maul and Savage

Mappa has favorites when it comes to animating certain characters lol. Toji , Levi and even baby goji 😂

Well, I'm with you guys on this one. You shouldn't have to apologize if your first impression was that the quality felt worse. I've been watching anime for about 15 years, I've watched a good hundred shows, among which are shows like Naruto Shippuuden which kept switching artstyle left and right, sometimes literally on a weekly basis. So I know this kind of "sacrifice art for animation" style, and while it's appropriate to appreciate the effort that went into those episodes, and as a standalone episode, it surely contained a lot of animation feats, saying that it felt off compared to the rest of the show shouldn't get you cancelled in the comments lol. There were so many off-model shots, character outlines changing and overall artstyle that felt distracting even with great animation happening. I disliked it with Naruto and I dislike it here. I think consistency is better, and you can be consistent AND have great animation, after all we don't need to look too far for an example, which were the first Gojo episodes of this season.

12:27 guys remember the yuta y'all saw in the movie had just 1 year of training, and don't get fooled by the anime, toji isn't even remotely near gojo or sukuna

Qué acabamos de presenciar!??? SHOCK

This is why I love sukuna. He is very evil but he respects power and the hierarchy that comes with it. He has his own ideals n lives according to his own pleasure.

This episode was unbelievable. Top tier animation. Probably my favourite so far from the Shibuya arc but knowing what's coming I fully believe the upcoming episodes are going to top even this one. Cannot wait 🙌❤️‍🔥

The entire anime community: Some of the best animation ever made! Gek: eh looks rushed

Yall are so annoying. Why should they have to apologize if they thought the animation looked bad? Everyones allowed to have an opinion and make criticisms. Thats what makes art, art. In their opinion it looked worse and its as simple that. Do you want to them to lie and say it looks good if they genuinely dont believe so? Plus theyre not necessarily wrong, the motion itself was good but the character designs were definitely lacking and hardly defined. Obviously I dont blame the animators cuz theyre short on time so I get it, but lets not act like its not there.

In the manga it's a little more clear that Megumi suspects him of being his dad due to what the old drunk zen'in said in the domain. so he has a suspicion

he threw that staff up in the air and massacred megumis rabbits before it came down. insane

Don't worry, even I, a Japanese, felt uncomfortable with the animation.🤣 Of course the animators are wonderful. It doesn't change the fact that we all love this animation in common.💗 I am looking forward to the next video! (I used the translate function, so sorry if my English is bad)

"Downgrade the animation" "They were just spending less money" I hate when mfs act like they know what their talking about and are just straight up wrong. Its a different style of animation and it was better then anything we have gotten so far.💀

I’ve heard so many ppl complain about how this episode looks, even though this is easily the best JJK episode to date so far and the best animation we’ve ever seen from JJK as well. It’s kinda a bumber where even when an episode as good as this will still get criticized no matter what🤷‍♂️

I wasnt sure about the animation but, after seeing it a 2nd and 3rd time i absolutely love it

Ngl I usually love your guys' takes but the animation wasn't a downgrade. It was made moreso so the fights look as smooth and fluid as they are. If you watched Mob Psycho for example, it utilizes it throughout that entire series. If it was detailed like last season, then the fights wouldn't be as wide scaled while also looking as smooth as it does.

10:56 That's Uraume they were first shown in Season 1 episode 21 and they were shown again at the beginning of Episode 10 of this season. Gege hasn't confirmed Uraume's gender but they're presumed to be a female by most of the community.

I'm loving this season cliffhangers, like fr

Toji not telling Megumi that he is his father reminds me of Bardock and Goku(Kakarot)

The animators went extra hard on this episode, this massively exceeded how it was in the Manga. Peak episode🔥🏹

Psycologist Sukuna is just something else

Those pushups came out of nowhere, shout out to Jack lol

I didn't expect that Sukuna's fire arrow is better than the trailer

the animation was definitely not downgraded, this is very easily the best animated episode of JJK 😂 Hakugo squad is unbelievably talented

Idk about downgrade... But it was something like simplifying the design so the fight could come out more fluid But at the same time.. apparently Mappa has some shit going on with this season jjk release where the freelance animators/ directors are complaining about the bad management, time frame, resources provided, etc. Some crazy shit about having to sign nda to not publicly complain. Nd also apologizing for episodes this season being poor quality bcus they didnt get enough time. Saying to praise the individual artists for producing under this bad environment as opposed to giving Mappa the credit