Those who love all things horror in the anime world might be in for a treat with the new adaptation of Jujutsu Kaisen. This series just started airing on Crunchyroll in early October and is an adaptation of the hit Shonen Jump manga by Gege Akutami.

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There are a multitude of reasons for its popularity, but one big reason is that Jujutsu Kaisen brings some unique stuff to the table compared to other Shonen stories. Obviously, it's not a completely unique show, but there's a lot of concepts it adds to the genre.

10 Mature Content

Jujutsu Kaisen: Itadori Cuts A Curse To Pieces As Sukuna

First and foremost it needs to be said immediately that Jujutsu Kaisen is violent to a pretty absurd degree. People/curses get stabbed, burned, decapitated, and blown away constantly in this show. It's all about monster-slaying after all, so it sadly makes sense.

One prime example of how the violence sort of just jumps from 1 to 100 is when Geto is meeting with the Special-Grade Curses Jogo and Hanami in the cafe and Jogo suddenly just decides to burn everyone in there alive.

9 Death Is Ever-Present

Yuji Itadori's classmates get consumed by a Cursed Spirit in Jujutsu Kaisen

Speaking of its violence, there's also a ton of death in Jujutsu Kaisen. The introductory arc might make it seem like death is an everpresent threat that usually just keeps things tense, but it quickly becomes apparent that this won't be the case going forward.

Sure, Itadori and his normal-school friends escape some nasty curses mostly scot-free in the introduction but believe us, that isn't the case for most of the series. Important characters can die, random civilians might die for no real reason, or even entire crowds can die en-mass depending on the situation.

8 Every Character Is At Least A Bit Crazy

Jujutsu Kaisen: Itadori/Sukuna Looking Real Crazy

Jujutsu Sorcerers are always putting their lives on the line for a job that literally comes with no appreciation for what usually comes down to absurd levels of sacrifice. So, it takes a certain type of person to go down this occult career path.

The Principal of Tokyo Jujutsu High Masamichi Yaga sums it up best early on while testing Itadori for his entrance exam "You have to be a little crazy and highly motivated to handle it", "it" of course meaning the job as a Jujutsu Sorcerer. And, so far, all the Sorcerers fans have seen in the anime to date are absolutely a bit off their rockers and it only gets crazier from there.

7 The Power System Is Complex To A Fault

Jujutsu Kaisen: Gojo Briefly Explaining His Powers

In the beginning, it seemed like Jujutsu Kaisen was going to have a relatively simplistic yet well-developed power system similar to something like Magic in other stories. Not a ton of rules, and plenty of room to play around with unique abilities. But, as the narrative continues, the powers only become more complex as we the reader/viewer start to understand Jujutsu techniques along with Itadori.

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So, what originally seemed like Magic is becoming hard to fathom akin to something like Stands in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (especially the scarier Stands). There are some in particular, such as Satoru Gojo's powers that are so overexplained they become nigh incomprehensible.

6 It Has A Lightning Fast Pace

Jujutsu Kaisen: Itadori Held Hostage After Eating Sukuna's Finger

We, like most other fans, are well aware of all the classic Shonen arcs such as the Tournament Arc, the Rescue Arc, The Beach Arc, or even the Storming The Enemy Base arc. All of these are stereotypical narrative devices used by Shonen authors constantly, so much so that fans can always tell when one is coming. Usually, they're spread out throughout the story pretty strategically, with tons of downtime in between. But, Jujutsu Kaisen is not a series about the quieter moments.

The big bad of the whole story literally becomes part of the main character episode 1(he even pops out for visits sometimes), the Tournament Arc takes place not long after the 1st year's initial mission, and there are rarely any moments in the story at all where characters aren't fighting or training in some small way.

5 No, You Can't Save Everyone

Jujutsu Kaisen: An Important Spoiler Character Death

There's nothing more classic for the Shonen Genre than a main character who naively thinks they can save everyone. And, in most of these stories, everyone tries so hard to tell them that it's impossible, yet the protagonist perseveres and manages to save everyone anyway (for the most part).

Jujutsu Kaisen is not one of those stories, the MC Yuji Itadori, finds out incredibly early on that he won't be able to save everyone, and his entire goal as a Jujutsu Sorcerer in the first place is to make sure those he cares about have "good" deaths (natural ones, like his grandfather's). And, once he crosses that line, there's really no coming back, and that's a part of him now, whether he likes it or not.

4 Powers Are Situational And Insanely Strong Depending On Context

Jujutsu Kaisen: Sukuna Unleashed

To be fair, this next one isn't entirely unique for a Shonen series. But, still, it's hard to do it right, and only a few manage to do it as well as Jujutsu Kaisen, JoJo, or One Piece. We're of course talking about the concept of a power system that emphasizes that characters should think creatively with their powers and allows for seemingly awful abilities to become insanely strong under certain situations. Take Nobara Kugisaki for example, her Resonance power seems decent but isn't as strong as say Fushigoro's Ten Shadows technique.

Yet, if her opponent is one that has to touch her in order to do damage or launches projectiles in any way that would be considered "part of their body", Kugisaki can use that to her advantage to drive her nails in and trigger Resonance. And that's just one example of many.

3 Constant Battles...Like All The Time

Jujutsu Kaisen: Itadori's First Real Battle

There are a lot of fights in Jujutsu Kaisen, so many that we sort of lose track of when one ends and another begins. We know it was mentioned earlier that Jujutsu Kaisen has a fast pace, but it can't be understated just how quickly characters are introduced and then fight in this series.

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Seriously, within the 120+ chapters currently out, characters are fighting with Curses or each other what seems like 80% of the time. And that sort of constant action just doesn't happen with Shonen series nowadays. At least not often it doesn't.

2 Frequent Small Time-Skips

Jujutsu Kaisen: Promo Art Of Both Sukuna And Itadori

The idea of a timeskip isn't at all unique for a Shonen series, in fact, it's pretty common. But, being able to expertly pull off a timeskip is the sign of a true masterwork, considering even One Piece's timeskip is still argued about between the fanbase. What Jujutsu Kaisen does differently though, is that, instead of one big timeskip, JK is constantly jumping forward in time by small amounts whether it's a few weeks or a couple of months.

This story is obviously built upon hopping between big events rather than slice-of-life moments that will lead into the next arc, and these timeskips are a tell-tale sign of that.

1 The Villains Aren't Relatable At All, Most Aren't Even Human

Jujutsu Kaisen: Jogo's Anime Design And A Frame Of Them Using Their Powers

And lastly, Jujutsu Kaisen very rarely if at all has relatable villains. The Sorcerers in this show are fighting against Curses, after all, sometimes even hybrid curses, all of which takes a bit of getting used to. Curses are sort of pure in a way, completely true to themselves as evil beings. And, while this makes for some really messed up moments of true cruelty, it doesn't exactly give readers/viewers many options they can even sort of empathize with.

Most of the villains seen early on are just straight up trying to murder people for fun, so it's a bit hard to give them even a bit of leeway like people would for Hisoka from Hunter X Hunter or Sasuke in Naruto Shippuden.

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