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Apr 5, 2026
An already legendary shounen returns for a third season, bringing as much fighting as a British high street at 2 am, with characters just as fun. JJK S3 has multiple scenes which really hit the mark in choreography and animation. Similarly the animation is clearly rushed in others, and the writer has shown an all-time high in terrible exposition which markedly affects my overall rating of this season.
When it's at its best, Jujutsu Kaisen: Shimetsu Kaiyuu - Zenpen is one of the best action shounen you've ever seen. The animation is fluid and weighty, with genuine story impact behind it. Characters have substantial depth and
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wield interesting powers, in unique ways, reminiscent of the Jojo series. The overarching story is lacking, but it serves as effective setup for these cool old-era sorcerers to come out of the woodwork.
When it's at its worst, Jujutsu Kaisen: Shimetsu Kaiyuu - Zenpen is a dire slog of horrible exposition and the production of an abused animation studio. Anything cool about this series is automatically interjected with a narrator explaining something that could've been shown, and that's if the characters themselves literally don't say it. The whole premise of the season has to be explained over and over again, with some scenes being so full of mindless boring drivel that should never have left the cutting room floor. The abused animators are on full display here, with a really long fight that comes to mind where you're essentially watching blurry scribbles crash into each other for minutes at a time.
Episodes 4 and 12 are some of the most beautifully choreographed fight scenes I've ever witnessed, with slick animation and exciting power usage.
Episode 3 might be one of worst episodes of anime ever to be created, it is a perfect example of how not to write a story.
I'm torn over this season...
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Nov 15, 2025
Another regression story for us losers who wish we could regress to mine bitcoin on our Windows XP laptop, completely ignorant to the fact our parents would kill us for tripling their electricity bill. In reality, this is a power-fantasy manga with a different lick of paint like it's predecessors, however the fruit of this series is the downright masterful combat scenes.
If you like action comics this is a MUST READ - the swordplay, hand-to-hand, and wrestling on display in these fights is downright thrilling. Overall great series for action and power-fantasy. The world is somewhat interesting but don't expect Picasso, this is more Pacquiao.
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general the artwork is brilliant, characters are distinct and visually interesting. The combat scenes are reminiscent of Northern Blade -making it easily top 3 for Asian comics I've read in the past decade. World-building is relatively interesting, marred by it being a generic fantasy coup story like most of its predecessors. However the pacing is balls to the walls fast, any gripe you'd have over the something not being fleshed out is smashed to smithereens by another spectacular combat sequence.
Characters are fun, enjoyable, and the MC acts appropriately albeit bullish. The MC's leverage of his regression makes for good progression; His gathering of allies is also rather believable. I think I would have a problem with the MC if he doesn't face a comeuppance for being so bullish and hardy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Aug 22, 2025
A certified must read for anyone who likes action comics, the characters are realistic, plot devices are interesting, and the combat is actually insane. At a complete 202 chapters, the story is tight with zero fat and the pacing is ridiculous - even the worst plot points are justified satisfyingly. This is easily the best murim comic I've seen and it's in contention with Top Tier Providence for being the best Chinese-fantasy type comic ever made.
I've never seen a better example of a over-powerful MC in a series before - once you realise the true scope of the world the power scaling becomes very obvious.
Rarely
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ever are characters this three dimensional in media, let alone manhwa. Gone are the atypical Korean characters that are evil for evil's sake, or the guy who switches side like nobody's business. These characters develop and change with every chapter, you can really see the intentions behind all of their actions.
While the entire manhwa is a complete package, the combat is down-right impressive. The artist manages to sell the combat as if it's animated itself, with intricate depictions of dodging and hand-to-hand combat that any martial art fan will love. I've never seen a better depiction of sword fighting put to paper and I've read hundreds of action comics.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Feb 9, 2025
Look, let's not pretend this show is a deep metaphorical masterpiece akin to Shakespeare - this is premium A-Grade trash, I know because I'm an expert in trash. Solo Leveling isn't Mcdonalds saver menu, it's the hipster-run burger joint in your town that's three times the price and taste.
Don't bother watching this show if you detest power fantasy isekais, wuxia, gates, and towers; however, if you consume as much asian slop as I do, you'll already know that Solo Leveling is one of the founding forefathers of modern Manhwa trash. This season continues to do the writer and artist justice with ridiculously smooth animation, great
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sound design, and exciting set pieces. Characters are decent; the setting is as expected; and the overarching story has some genuinely interesting caveats.
This won't be everyone's cup of tea but for many this will be a 10/10 show of the year, so why not see if you enjoy watching the premium fast food of anime? It's not like your brain could get obese...
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Aug 3, 2024
Actually a really good read, great characters, artwork is decent, premise is well-done, and overall story is pretty fantastic.
Just as you get tired of a murim plot point it concludes the arc, gives a good cliffhanger, then throws the MC back to the modern world - rinse and repeat. While the MC is pretty generic for the most part - the supporting cast are all really interesting and their dialogue makes for lots of hilarious situations. Thankfully the MC frequently has challenges in combat, and his insane strength gains make a decent amount of sense (with him regularly hopping inside a murim-based hyperbolic time chamber).
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The "game-ification" also doesn't get too in the way, as it often does in this genre. Foreshadowing is impressive, and the storypoints are frequently dynamic enabling some interesting conclusions. MC's master genuinely made me tear up multiple times, and there is lots of fun plot-twists along the way. A 9/10 murim story with a 7/10 modern-hunter story, but the juxtaposition makes for great synergy enabling you to thirst for double the plot progression - this balancing act is done excellently.
Overall does everything you should expect from this genre well, along with a slew of fun cast members. An added bonus I literally laughed out loud multiple times throughout the story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jul 16, 2024
I'm an elitist pig anime watcher, and while I act like I know something (and literally know nothing), there is one true aspect I'm an expert in - overpowered MC trash. Is this show generic? Yes. Is it stupid? Yes. Is it genuinely pretty good? In my opinion, 100%.
A big fan of the manga, the backstory of the main characters turn out to be great. Rick's party Orihalcon Fist is fun on screen, the waifus are cute, and the production is surprisingly good. While the world building and magic system is rehashed and generic, the self-aware humour keeps it a little fresh and the lovable
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"40-something" year old MC makes me feel young and hopeful. The following arc is great - Broughston's past in the manga honestly made me tear up.
If you're a fan of overpowered MC trash I'd definitely recommend "Shinmai Ossan Boukensha". If you don't yet have this aquired taste then maybe this show isn't for you and you'll think this review is batsh*t insane.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 14, 2023
With pristine animation, beautiful characters, and a compelling story - One of the greatest fantasy adventure mangas ever, Sousou no Frieren, has been perfectly immortalized in animation.
Each episode Freiren retraces the steps of her favourite 10-year adventure to try and grasp an understanding of humanity that her near-immortal race so frequently struggles with. Interacting with her own past culminates in bittersweet memories juxtaposed by the wholesome modern-day cast being nothing other than fun on screen. Characters are great, with realistic emotions and interactions, and the interesting world is fleshed out masterfully as the group goes along their adventure to the north.
The animation and art is
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overall amazing, however Stark's first fight scene made me desire a few more extra frames, and the sound design lacks some vigour. That being said I'm certain that the latter half of the series will make up in abundance as the troupe finds themselves further and further in dangerous territory.
While I can see it not being of everyone's taste - for me this is one of the best fantasy adventure series of all time, and currently shaping up to my favourite anime of this season (and one of my GOATs). If you enjoy slice of life adventure series you'd be a fool to not atleast give this series a try!
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Jul 27, 2023
More JJK is always welcomed: the first season is an amazing definition of shounen done right, and has some of the best fight scenes of all of anime; the film is essentially more of the same and its a welcome addition to ther story, albeit it falls into the shounen traps more often; this season feels slightly different.
Although it starts with a history lesson on Gojo's background, his time at school is far from comfortable. This season is REALLY happy to subvert your expectations with gory and down-right disturbing plot points. The final part of episode 3 and epsiode 4 are chilling, especially as Gojo's
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real character comes to light.
While the early pacing (episode 1-4) is definitely odd, as soon as the gang is back on the screen intensity is turned to 11... My god this is one of the best shounen arcs I've ever witnessed. The characters are great, the fights are beautifully crafted, the storyline is compelling, and the show really knows how to keep the tension as thick as butter.
With exciting fight scenes every episode and down right chilling storypoints, this season is a MUST WATCH for any shounen fan.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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May 23, 2023
Carried by extremely nice artwork, this isekai/game-like fantasy series is generic to a T. Characters are sadly very mono-tone albeit enjoyable, world building is lackluster but relatively fun, combat scenes are... surprisingly great. Overall good - an easy recommendation for fans of this genre.
The fun of this series exists in how the simple characters interact with the decent world. How the MC abuses his game mechanics gets a minmaxer like myself hyped up, assisted by the beautifully drawn panels. The fights are pretty great, smart decision making from the characters makes for oddly sensible conclusions to otherwise "impossible" fights.
Shame to say, not a single character
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in this series stands out as being particularly deep, however it can be said that the ones with annoying traits dont stick around too much (unlike most isekai series). The end of the Father's character arc, and the MC finding his first party-member comes across as realistic. Never did character interactions break my immersion or feel insulting to my brain.
The first 48 chapters are super formulaic. Find dungeon, make absurd amount of money due to MC's prior game knowledge, risk lives, somehow win. There is little to no danger in this series even though it would like you to think there is, and the MC seems to be either a genius or severely lacking risk aversion (Personally I think a sheltered nobleman's son should be more fearsome, but alas).
In general, just a decent amount of fun.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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May 21, 2023
Textbook generic Manhwa with an overpowered MC who acts disparagingly to everyone he meets like a child. The start is pretty fun, however large swathes of the fights are completely unreadable due to terrible artwork - this eventually gets better after the original artist gets fired. The middle of the series becomes a fightfest, which could be cool if the fighting wasn't so boring. The later half of the series where the artist starts to learn from their mistakes is pretty enjoyable and the main story reaches some very satisfying conclusions.
The dialogue is frequently atrocious - the writer seems to love make the characters call
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special items or moves "that" so frequently that its annoying. The MC is obnoxious and completely uninteresting, nearing the end of the story he had his single scene of decent characterisation where he reflects on the stress of becoming the "guardian". Self-aware side-characters make up for the lacking MC and mediocre dialogue. His Yandere love triangle is also pretty cute.
World-building is rather decent, the story behind the tower and their floors, the whole idea of "achievements", and the multiple dimensions all make for an interesting read - however all are rather under-utilized, having fantasy characters along the lines of the Fate series would have been very welcome in this story.
Extremely average series, lots of the presented ideas could have resulted in a much better series with more thoughtful artists at the helm.
Only read if you're in love with this kind of generic manhwa OP MC series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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