Jujutsu Kaizen season two is off to a fantastic start and continues to prove why this is one of the most popular series of the current ZeitGeist. So much so that even if you are unfamiliar with this series there is a high chance you will be familiar with its most popular Character Satoru Gojo. With his laid-back attitude and constant use of sunglasses it is easy to see why he is so dam popular. But I am getting side tracked, for the uninitiated Jujutsu Kaizen follows the adventures of the students at a school for Jujutsu Sorcerers also known as Cursed technique Users and Shaman. They go out into the world and hunt Curses, which are misshapen and malformed monsters that are truly terrifying.

With one season and a movie already under their belt the team behind Jujutsu Kaizen had a lot of hype to live up for their second season and the initial episode does not disappoint.

Where Season One and the Movie are set during the late 2010’s this series is set during the mid-2000’s. This creates an unusual scenario where fan favourite Gojo has gone from fun teacher to laid back but arrogant student and on top of that the major antagonist from the film and secondary antagonist from Season One Geto is at this point Gojo’s classmate and best friend.

The dynamic of these two is going to be a major draw for this season, in their previous meetings we can see that there was a level of fondness between them, fondness that has sadly turned to tragedy, especially since they are now enemies, so it is nice to see how they interact before Geto’s fall from grace. One specific highlight is how Gojo uses analogy based on the difference between Skull Greymon and Metal Greymon from the Digimon franchise to help explain what will happen if they fail the mission they have been assigned, it really made me lol. Also watching these friends play a friendly game of basketball was a nice touch.

The other new characters are intriguing too, including Gojo and Geto’s teammate Shoko Ieiri, any woman with the patience to put up with Gojo and Geto has my definite respect. And I did appreciate seeing a younger Mei Mei, who definitely still has her trademark don’t give a fuck attitude.

Putting all that aside, the animation looks stunning. Personally, I found season one to have ok animation, whereas in the movie every scene was a real treat for the eyes. Season two is more in line with the movie and in those brief bouts of combat that we have been teased with everything is kicked up a notch.

This is definitely looking like one of this summer’s hottest series and if you are new to anime this is definitely worth checking out.

The current season has just begun over on Crunchyroll.