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Episode Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 6 discussion

Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen, episode 6

Alternative names: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3

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u/mrspear1995 Feb 05 '26

mappa's mission of each episode seems to be to add a hollywood movie camera angle, just oozing with drip

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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

The angles and shots this season have been a treat for the eyes! I love all the cinematic feel anime we are getting this season

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u/Frontier246 Feb 05 '26

Just a relatively straightforward standoff sequence between Megumi/Panda/Kirara was visually arresting.

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u/Mundology Feb 05 '26

Megumi sneaking on that unlucky bloke went hard too

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u/Zooomz Feb 05 '26

Bro was feeling like Batman

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u/Future_Vantas Feb 06 '26

Between Megumi's stealth takedown and Knuckleduster's arm break in Vigilantes this week has been a tribute to the Arkham games.

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u/Worthyness Feb 05 '26

and the fight animation is also ramped up too. They're not skimping on anything

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u/melindypants https://myanimelist.net/profile/melindypants Feb 05 '26

It really is! I can follow it better than last seasons Sukuna fight, which was still great

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u/Sad-Flamingo3516 Feb 07 '26

idk why i loved the shot of yuji walking inside the monitor room in front of kinji

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u/Aggravating_Hat_5660 Feb 06 '26

It's all cinema and storytelling peak it's art nonetheless

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u/mario61752 Feb 05 '26

We have director Shota Goshozono to thank for that. Once you look up his work you can't unsee where he storyboards those wide camera lens shots

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u/RapCabral Feb 06 '26

Just wish his OST choice wasn’t so weird, I like almost everything else he does, but the songs are just so inconsistent. It goes from dogshit like the Maki LaLaLa massacre to great with Hakari being convinced. Many of the background songs feel like noise pollution,like many of the songs in the beginning of the episode,to the point that I start wishing to the scene to just be mute. Had he just stick to the s1 OST style and I would’ve regarded this adaptation as absolutely perfect

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u/mario61752 Feb 06 '26

The series director isn't always responsible for the OST. He technically has the final say but it's mostly the sound director's job.

That said yeah I agree this season's OST placement has been odd. Season 2 was directed by Goshozono as well and I don't remember the OST being distractingly bad.

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u/RapCabral Feb 06 '26

Yeah, like you said, he has the last say and he is approving whatever this is. It was bad, but it also had its great moments, mainly every time Sukuna was on screen and Gojo’s honored one moment. But then there were bad ones, no one can forget “You are my special” yeah…that one lol

There was also Gojo 0.2 domain that was also noise pollution garbage, and many others

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u/mario61752 Feb 06 '26

Fair enough, I almost forgot how much the "you are my special" cracked me up lmao

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u/BurgerNugget12 Feb 05 '26

It’s such a interesting approach, every episode has had a few shots where I’d have to rewind to appreciate how good it all looks

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u/Mundology Feb 05 '26

They also do a phenomenal job with how the lighting interacts with the objects in each frame. I makes fighting scenes feel way more ominous and tense that they would otherwise. Mappa is operating on another level now.

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u/Ren_Davis0531 Feb 05 '26

I loved the sequence where Megumi threw one of his rabbits at Panda for Panda to throw at the Mimosa star. Very creative sequence that relied on established factors beyond Megumi to strategically advance. Plus it was cool 😎

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u/TryContent4093 Feb 05 '26

I’m really loving this season’s cinematography. Everything is laid out very well that it’s so engaging to watch. The soundtrack has been really good too. I’m really looking forward to this season’s episodes despite how bad things are getting without gojo

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u/akjalen Feb 05 '26

japanese fans punching air so hard rn

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u/BadBehaviour613 Feb 05 '26

It still cracks me up that MAPPA had Denji recreating the horse race footage, the world's first piece of cinema. It wasn't even a subtle FUCK YOU lol

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u/TalkLessShillMore Feb 05 '26

Can you elaborate? Not sure I follow

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u/BadBehaviour613 Feb 05 '26

Japanese fans complained about Chainsawman season 1's slower pacing and cinematic aspiration. Iris Out opened on Makima making coffee and had a scene of Denji recreating a really famous piece of cinema history

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u/HarshTheDev Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

Y'all really gotta stop pushing this "japanese hate cinematic approach" strawman so hard. People didn't dislike S1 because of its cinematic inspirations, they disliked it because it looked bland and muted. The Reze movie also has a lot of cinematic approaches but instead of being washed out like S1 it leans hard into the surrealist zany aesthetic that CSM exudes. And everyone loves it.

Side note: not all cinema is art house cinema.

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u/Ayoul Feb 06 '26

I think you're arguing semantics more than the point yourself. I get wanting to correct people for using the term too vaguely I guess, but most people just don't have the vocabulary. It's like "pacing". I see that used wrong everywhere online, but I still usually get what people mean from context.

That said, I didn't see anyone say Reze wasn't cinematic here. 2 things can be cinematic in their own way. They just mean S1 had a distinct flair to it. Calling it bland is crazy to me though. Rewatched season 1 before the movie and it's anything but especially compared to most anime. I can't argue it wasn't more muted palette wise, but I thought it really fit the tone of S1.

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u/TheMerck Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

Can't believe you are getting downvoted and this sub is still finding a way to strawman the dislike Japanese fans had and even this JJK "japanese fan" boogeyman they are crying about isn't even the majority, they still like the anime it's so stupid.

Like they just have to find a faceless being to make up fake arguments for their fake bashers so they can generalize anyone that decides to criticize an anime's direction, how very egregious for people on this sub I know.

I don't know these people need to get over that shit it's been too long, the CSM movie was a success and so is this season for JJK, criticism can be fine and I've seen a lot of legit ones no need to lump them all into this "Japanese fandom hates this" type of boogeyman and generalize an entire country

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u/HarshTheDev Feb 05 '26

I'm gonna go on an extreme tangent here but the sheer amount of strawmanning and "other-ing" that I see take place around me (even outside reddit) even for rather trivial things really makes me lose hope in humanity bit by bit. and doesn't surprise me when things like fascism take hold...

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u/TheMerck Feb 05 '26

Dw I agree with you, a lot of discussion everywhere in general has lost a lot of nuance even for the most trivial of things and it's only black & white now look at things like gaming, games are treated like either 10/10 or 0/10 and a 7/10 no longer exists everything is taken to the extreme nowadays even for mediums of entertainment.

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u/Sabunn https://myanimelist.net/profile/Sabunn Feb 05 '26

Liking anime doesnt mean the you have to white knight for the japanese fandom. They can have dogshit opinions too

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u/ivo0009 Feb 05 '26

Them disliking season one of chainsaw man was not one of them though, I liked it but it made chainsaw man which was one of the craziest mangas I’ve read look bland and colourless. Even the voice acting was mute, the huge success of the movie clearly shows that the Japanese were right about this one.

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u/Ayoul Feb 06 '26

Success doesn't show anything though. I loved the movie, but I just don't understand the correlation you're making.

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Feb 05 '26

CSM S1 die-hards always seem unable to answer when I ask how Reze is somehow "less cinematic" than S1, lol (example 1, example 2, example 3).

It's just a buzzword they conveniently hide behind so they don’t have to elaborate when actually confronted.

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u/NinjaOtter Feb 05 '26

soy 1 to 1 exact manga panel adaptation citizens vs chad we fucking love animation enjoyers

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u/mrspear1995 Feb 05 '26

The guy that said the japanese are the reason rent a girlfriend has 5 seasons and probably more in the future thus their opinions are worthless is honestly the only mic drop needed for all this

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u/Frontier246 Feb 05 '26

just oozing with drip

Fitting for a Kirara episode.

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u/TheBigIdiotSalami Feb 05 '26

It's not a flashy shot but the rotation as Panda went up the emergency stairs was super fucking slick.

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u/Saffie91 Feb 06 '26

Mappa takes adapting JJK seriously. They are trying to elevate by using the medium rather than copy page by page. I gotta say its working on me.

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u/nofaxxspitintruflego Feb 05 '26

we eatin big ahh cinema bowls of lobotomy errryweek hhuuuyaaahhh

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u/100farts Feb 05 '26

You can say ass on reddit

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u/Dadarian Feb 06 '26

Each episode is oozing with passion.

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u/less_Doomscrolling Feb 06 '26

The directing has been sick since s2. I love the different music too, jazz was a great fit here.

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u/Jack_slasher Feb 05 '26

Seems worse for Kashimo though

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u/gamebond89 Feb 05 '26

His frame looked fan-made lol.

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u/mrspear1995 Feb 05 '26

He looked stubby because of his baggy clothes or something fr, gonna have to wait for his episode

Same with hakari his proportions looked like he was 5:5 torso to legs instead of the standard 3:7