Anyone else not a fan of JJK season 3?

before we start I am not a JJK hater. I absolutely loved season 2 but there is just something about this season that I'm just not enjoying and I see most people loving it and I just dont see it. First, I think the animation just doesn't look good and the are really overdirecting these fights. Secondly I feel like the story is so lackluster and they way they are just like throwing things at you so quick and fast paced. It seems like they dont care about having an actual story right now, especially with so many people calling this most recent ep the greatest ep they ever have seen. I do hope my opinions change in these next upcoming eps because I was really excited for this season. This is just a mini rant post and I hope there's other people out there who are not liking this season also. maybe im just crazy

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Cheap_Scar_6982026-01-23 23:17

You're not crazy, I fully agree with you and from someone who's read the manga it's only going yo get worse sadly

mucklaenthusiast2026-01-23 23:18

I think this is the best JJK has ever looked, at less the first two episodes.

The story is just…well, the Culling Game is a divisive arc, I‘d say.
JJK has very frantic pacing and at times the writing feels erratic.
The anime can’t necessarily fix that, I don’t think.

iWill_2026-01-23 23:23

yea its that erratic writing that I just dont like at all. I probably just have to stop expecting a good story to come and just enjoy the fights.

mucklaenthusiast2026-01-23 23:49

I mean, it depends, right?
I don't think erratic means bad. I do think JJK has an exceptionally strong story, I actually think all four episodes we got from this season were fantastic in terms of character writing.
Yuji, Yuta, Maki, Choso, Naoya are really rich characters that got a lot of focus already.

But I know many people don't like how fast-paced JJK is.
Also, JJK tends to reference or mention things without getting more explicit. A lot of the story is implied.

So...my answer to this

>stop expecting a good story to come and just enjoy the fights

would be:

No, you just have readjust what you consider a story and what it is that the anime wants to tell you, not what you want to hear from the anime.
As I said, I think JJK has incredibly writing, but I will admit this is one of the weaker arcs (though it has probably my second favourite fight, including absolutely stellar character work).

But I am not sure: What didn't you like about episode 4 in terms of the story?
I thought the story was great.

iWill_2026-01-24 00:19

I feel like they dont do the best explaining things leaving me a little confused at points. Like I dont understand why Mai was in the warehouse to begin with?

mucklaenthusiast2026-01-24 09:04

She was brought there by her father as bait, I think.
He knew Maki was coming and his goal was to kill his two daughters.

SaroorShad2026-01-23 23:19

If you don’t enjoy this season so far then you won’t like the rest of the “story.” From here on it’s fast paced fight after fight with exposition explaining their techniques.

DaoEmperorFather2026-01-23 23:19

Im not a fan off jjk since season 1 im glad because the manga ending was super trash

908NoirDDT2026-01-23 23:20

I have been enjoying it. The lore has been fun to keep up. Fights have been on point.

n080dy1232026-01-23 23:22

I've always more or less liked JJK but yeah that entire fucking episode of diagrams and on screen text expositing all of the rules ahead of time was so egregious. I appreciate explanation, JJK as an anime has always been a bit shakey on providing enough explanation of the power system, but that exposition is the sort of thing that works in manga but NOT anime (which is odd given the mangaka envisions the manga essentially as an anime while making it).

Also while the animation for the Maki episode was very good I just *really* did not care at all, I was only mildly invested in her character, not at all in Mai, and all but two of the foes in that episode were basically mooks, one of whom was at best just above a background character who only appeared in one scene prior like 2 episodes ago. I get the catharsis for her, but it after a point it just felt like mindless, meaningless violence.

rvkizu2026-01-24 20:24

I think that a lot of people would have been fuming if the rules have been explained when a certain rule was active. Like the case „Killing a person gives you points“ and we only know that after a person has been killed. I think the whole dump beforehand is fine and better in terms of the writing. It‘s still bad don‘t get me wrong but I think in case of the culling game it‘s the best way to implement it. Ya‘ll can still convince otherwise but rn I think it was the best solution.

Wouldn‘t say it was meaningless violence as the Zenin clan wouldn‘t have handed out the cursed tools and they even said that they would kill Maki and Fushigoro if they free Gojo. Also they tried to kill her and her sister just because they were „failures“. They had the choice to be killed or stay alive by killing everyone who wants to kill them. But yeah I understand the part with Maki and Mai. We didn‘t have a lot of interaction with them (as far as I remember).

n080dy1232026-01-24 21:03

When I say "meaningless violence" I meant more in the meta sense, that this sequence of this piece of entertainment felt meaningless. She had reason to do it in-universe but in the context of the story it felt like it didn't really add anything besides looking cool and *at length* establishing Maki as stronger now.

rvkizu2026-01-24 21:29

Ah ok mb then. Valid then. It‘s the generic „showcase hoe much stronger character x became“.

NoHead17152026-01-23 23:24

Agree on the animation. Feels like it no longer fits in to the earlier seasons. This might be the case of production catering to the western audience. Or director is heavily influenced by Tatantino type.

I'm still interested in the story though.

loudersubs2026-01-23 23:29

I have to agree. Everyone is glazing the show over the KB Maki scene but I have seen people lose their mind over tracing yet this gets a pass? It’s shot for shot in not a good way. Maki’s moment got turned into a movie reference and I feel so bad for her because that moment was amazing for me in the manga and it was HER moment.

I remember JJK 0 and the Hidden Inventory arc. The show is definitely using camera work to make up for the lack of fluid animation and they pretty much traced over an entire fight scene in a movie they knew people wouldn’t criticize them for…

Eh. I am still going to watch, it’s still satisfying but I’m actually not sure why the quality has dipped but I seem to be only few who think so

xaklx202026-01-23 23:30

I'm a JJK hater, and I'm a fan of season 3 😂 for now, Maki is the only character I like from the 6 kids, so chapter 4 was definitely peak for me

hungrybaggel2026-01-23 23:31

i feel exactly the same everything is just underwhelming and i was gonna make a post about it but you beat me to it

Goeppertia_Insignis2026-01-23 23:34

The story has always been JJK's weakest point imho, at this point I'm only watching it for the vibes and I mostly ignore everything said during the exhausting exposition monologues. The first half of S2 was the closest the show has ever come to being good, story wise, pretty much everything else has been convoluted nonsense.

I think the visuals have been pretty decent this season so far. So on that point I don't really agree. But yeah the story is... not good.

SadSecurity2026-01-24 00:07

> at this point I'm only watching it for the vibes

I watch it and read it only for lobotomy.

joey_joestar12026-01-23 23:36

I haven't truly enjoyed JJK since hidden inventory, I agree with you that the story isn't good. I'm watching to see how wacky and creative they can get with the animation and directing.

Smol_WoL2026-01-23 23:42

it’s the same situation that happened with the sukuna maahoraga fight. That shit was animated poorly yet you have people calling it peak. Even the animators knew it wasn’t good (not their fault).

JJK peaked in Shibuya, so it’s really just downhill from there.

Sabunn2026-01-23 23:46

Not sure your eyes work if you think the animation looks bad

Technical-Contest-302026-01-24 00:15

I think JJK animation is great, amazing, and sadly wasted in a shitty story/world. The fights are nuts and absolute eye candy, but there is barely any character construction, there is barely a law to the power system, everything happens because "yes", the anime barely gives a backstory to the characters, and only provide something as they are about to die(the fastfood of a backstory), so I frankly am unable to care for anything that happens. A bunch of cool looking things happen, but there is no weight to anything, there does not seem to be an overarching story, just bits of "oooh sukuna", "oooh other spirits", but there isn't a thing that seems important, just a bunch of random points, things happening here and there, with awesome animation.

So no clear power system just "this person does it because he/she is cool"

So no overarching story just "this happened, so this other person did this and that", it all seems random.

Etc. This episode is a clear example here, Maki is absolutely "spanked" by the heads of the family, but for some reason ("because yes") nothing that hits her damages her, but the moment she hits, it is destroying, one hit is enough to win. Same thing happened in the previous episode with the blood guy, spanked and then landed one hit that was enough to win. Everything in JJK happens to the same rule, which is, "because I the author says so", which is why no win has weight, which is why lots of people don't like it.

rvkizu2026-01-24 20:30

Could explain why you need a backstory for a character that is about to die? Like if they didn‘t get a backstory throughout the seasons then they weren‘t really important in the first place no?

Also Maki got extremely buffed through heavenly restrictions as Mai took all the cursed energy with her and the constraints of heavenly restrictions were cancelled which made her Toji level.

Technical-Contest-302026-01-26 18:51

Sorry, I expressed myself badly, I meant, the anime barely gives the character a backstory, and only gives you some backstory as they are about to die, as if they mattered, so they had nothing in their names for the entirety of the anime, but in the moment they are about to die, the author creates a little backstory just so you care, but it is weightless, because you weren't given a reason to care for 30 episodes, why would you now ?

Regarding Maki being buffed, it is the obvious explanation, anyone can conclude that after seeing the episode, but there is no weight to it. Like, Vampire Knight kind of does the same with "twins born power split, later in life they become one, so way more powerful now", but, the buff of one person is enough to overpower the entire clan and their best most talented people ? Doesn't feel right, power balancing wise, which is the point of the rant, the power system has no rules, only the rule of "cool", which we saw this episode, the animation, fight was pretty cool and that is all that there is to it.
I wish the studio adapting this remade naruto haha that would be peak

Hungry_Implement49802026-01-24 00:27

Characters get OP because yes

New_Essay_48692026-01-24 01:09

Ive just never really found JJK appealing outside of its bnager openings and its one banger ED

reaper5272026-01-24 01:35

haven't watched season 3 yet (saw 1+2) and just found the series "ok". like, it's not bad, but it's not good either. it's something to flip on when there's nothing else to watch. enjoyable, but not worth going out of the way for.

it's definitely one of those series that will be totally forgotten about 5-10 years from now.

abandoned_idol2026-01-24 04:04

I've been apathetic to it since it started.

I never related to the characters/comedy.

Without being able to relate, the "cool" scenes never felt cool.

It just feels like "Bleach" (I don't' care for Bleach either).

I think JJK is lame. I'm watching the sakuga. Animation is nice.

FaithlessnessNo94512026-01-24 05:37

I hate the screen reader but I dont have a choice in it.

Evening_Row_93812026-01-24 08:44

I think it feels way too choppy as the storyline feels rushed. It looks very good but the pacing feels completely out of touch from the previous two season.

Yashi2K2026-01-24 20:49

In my opinion it's trash 🗑️

Deep-Law-7632026-01-28 06:59

Season 3 absolutely sucks! The animation style is off and it's poorly done! Really disappointed since the first 2 seasons were really good!