JJK ep 4 was great but just not what I wanted

At least for the kill bill scene. i was expecting more choreography and being able to actually see whats going on like how madara first showed up. it was more so a lot of single slash "moments". still cool but i guess just a stylistic preference.

Maki also looked like Toji in most of that scene. literally. it looks like they drew a man with boobs. wide back, broad shoulders, big arms etc. but then when shes not fighting she looks like Maki again. A more traditionally womanly body, thinner waist, wider hips, less broad shoulders and arms. was this intentional? or am i just overthinking it?

dont get me wrong tho, the arthouse style of this season is sick af. the saucy way she slid up to that one guy and one inch punched him 😙🤌loved everything else too just would have preferred more fluid choreography rather than flash frames of dead guys

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gamebond892026-01-23 18:23

I am just not a fan of abrupt and jarring cuts between the fight scenes. I get it that it's style of gosso but cutting the flow of fight scene every second just breaks any momentum and looks like a badly made hollywood action scene...

TrainingNobody15662026-01-23 18:26

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steven48692026-01-23 18:31

Lol, people can have different opinions and not everyone has to like the episode.

MarqoTheDragon2026-01-23 19:26

idk wat that means

ClearConundrum2026-01-23 18:28

I didn't like the animation. The abstract art and transitions did not play well with my perception of the fights. I couldn't ground myself on any plane or anchor the scenes to a physical area. It was all...way over the top in the sky doing who knows what.

On the other hand, my very neurodivergent girlfriend really liked the episode for precisely the reasons I disliked it.

As far as Maki goes, I really had trouble seeing Maki in this version of Maki. Honestly wasn't recognizable.

steven48692026-01-23 18:30

It required at least two episodes, a lot of moments from the manga were shrugged upon especially Maki's mom moments and the ending was quite rushed in my opinion. The art style was distinct but the choice of soundtrack was definitely something and not in a good way, I expected somewhat of a grim soundtrack but they went with upbeat, overall it was a fine episode like 7-8/10 but there are better episodes than this in JJK.

MarqoTheDragon2026-01-23 19:29

i thought something similar about the soundtrack at first but then i saw someone say it sort of switches the perspective of a sad horrific massacre into more about Maki's liberation and self actualization

fuzzynavel342026-01-23 18:38

I thought it was fucking fantastic and an awesome homage to Kill Bill

Idli_Is_Boring2026-01-23 19:03

The main issue I felt was the voice acting. Mai just did a Monotonous monologue and just died. Ogi's voice acting was completely flat. Hell, you couldn't even hear the fear in Ogi's voice when she comes out of that curse room. That was supposed to induce fear and it didn't do anything.

This episode lacked the raw emotion.

MarqoTheDragon2026-01-23 19:38

this i heavily disagree with. Mai was talking like that cuz she was literally dying. it took every last bit of energy she had to even do what she did not to mention she never wanted to be part of that world anyway and had mentally given up way earlier.

Ogi was shook when he saw Toji in Maki and his sort of battle cry was one of desperation and almost to shout his fear away.

The way they portrayed Maki and Mai's last moments then the way Maki cried out so desperately for Mai was super emotional. She was "flat" after that because she was in a moment of hyper focus where nothing mattered except "destroying it all" and a sort of dissociation with her newfound power

idk man i haf a WAY diff interpretation

2ndMin2026-01-23 19:05

You could tell it's a similar situation to the Mahoraga fight in season 2, where a lot of frames got cut because of scheduling. It ends up a bit choppy and hard to follow as a result. That said, there's still definitely enough there to be seriously impressed by so it gets a pass. The blu ray version will be insane

MarqoTheDragon2026-01-23 19:39

like i said i enjoyed it but the choppy jump cuts were kinda jarring. i wanted more stuff like big Roga vs Sukuna with continuous shots of being able to see whats going on

ActualRound76992026-01-23 19:14

I loved every minute of it and thought it was perfect the way it was.

Ultramarinus2026-01-23 19:39

I watched it, then read the corresponding manga chapters. Also need to mention that I actually did see Kill Bill in cinema back in the day.

Kill Bill reference as a 'whole, several minutes long scene' was unnecessary and ended up as detracting from what was being conveyed. It dragged on too much. It lost its quality towards its end while doing that. Don't drag it on if you have to lose the quality. Finished almost like a caricature at its supposed climax. The song playing was again completely detached from what just happened the minute before. Moreover they decided to keep the song going into the next fight where it kept diluting its weight.

There is great effort poured in but it comes as more "look what we can do". It felt to me as if I was watching a piano player playing a piece as fast as they can while losing the essence of it.

All in all while I liked the episode, it had its ups and downs. Kill Bill was the downs part of it, when the music kicked in, colors shifted and art style gradually began to devolve into simplistic shapes. A shame since all that extra work does end up hindering what was mostly great work like the earlier parts against their father or the hei fight.

KarstenWache2026-01-24 14:59

it's mappa, they are famous for being bad, s1 and 2 were unwatchable, of course s3 will be as trash

MarqoTheDragon2026-01-24 19:07

must suck to be born blind

TheGamingEntity2026-01-24 15:32

If I was directing it I would make changes but in a completely different route, i'd go full devilman x elfen lied where she's just goring them with blood gushing everywhere (even more than in the anime), she wouldn't just use swords, she'd rip people apart with her hands and bite their faces off like an animal. I understand jjk isn't really that kinda manga but I felt like this scene was something close to it in the manga so for them to go into the complete opposite direction and going full tarantino samurai mode (which in the manga the scene was definitely inspired but I wouldn't say it's a reference, they turned this whole section into just a reference imo) was disappointing for me. I It felt like kinda an obvious and almost pretentious way to go with the scene. I would have gone full brutal, I wish her speed was shown more, she kinda just looked like a strong human, I would have mimicked the speed of toji and just had her zipping all around the place with body parts and blood just flying everywhere coming from some place moving too fast too see (almost similar to when gojo did the 0.2 domain expansion, but from the soldiers perspectives and it's more brutal so you can barely see her).
Also I would change it so the squad at the end wouldn't come at her one at a time, it was kinda silly in the episode and especially the aura farming. I wish it was more savage and desperate, like they were desperately trying to win but were just getting gored and decimated, I felt them coming one at a time to say and line and then die was super cheesy, even by anime standards. Loved the animation and music for what it was going for but I just disagree with the direction of the episode as a whole

waranghira2026-01-26 11:00

True about being off-model that the base reference is obviously a man, and not a muscular woman. I guess in some clips where they roto'd it, they used a man in action as reference. I wonder if they will change it in the BluRay release.