Whats A Good Anime To Watch?

My tops currently are;

New Episodes Weekly -
Dr Stone
DanDaDan
Gachiakuta
Clevatess
Kaiju No 8.

Rewatched Often -

Solo Leveling
Chainsaw Man
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Jujustsu Kasien
Mashle: Magic and Muscles
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
Berserk of Gluttony
AoT
Vinland Saga
Hell's Paradise

I rotate all these! Super fun watches.

I feel something in Jujutsu Kaisen derived from JoJo.

JoJo stands are the creative liberty Araki gave himself create “bizarre” setups.

Jujutsu Kaisen uses all those cursed techniques and shitz to also create “bizarre” setups.

By leveraging JoJos mentality to create a fight, they are far from animes like Dragon Ball or even Naruto, when fights were decided simply by sheer strength of the character. Jujutsu tries to make those fights look like something tactical/strategic instead of pure force.

It is interesting looking how those “styles” of confrontation are used in a manga. I personally prefer the good old punch in the face, when you beat your opponent simply because youre stronger.

Bizarre style fights requires a lot of investment to understand each moveset and characteristics. And you need to pay attention because the gimmicks are the trump card to pull a win out of nowhere. It is tiresome, and most of time, the “creativity” those mangakas use to make stands/cursed techniques are just pure ***.

"Pure ***" is what all of fiction is really. Better to see if it's believable, and bound within the rules of the world created.

You most certainly can apply this to Naruto so i have to assume you never finished it?

edge of a power system is literally all a shonen anime is. from yu yu hakusho to Jujutsu Kaisen. some are soft systems and some are hard. but half the point in understanding how the systems can be gamed.

Carol and Tuesday is pretty good :S

Yeah, I totally agree with this. While still a bit silly from the outset, Jojo still had a somewhat grounded power system (hamon), then it completely disregarded it in favor of going full silly and bizarre (stand power, that could be anything the author wants it to be at any moment). It gets a pass because, in a sense, it's staying true to what it is (or what it was supposed to become), and it provides that silly, unique adventurous entertainment. By S3, it's just a bunch of puzzle horror encounters where anyone can have 300 IQ depending on how Araki wants the encounter to play out.

Now I can't accept that in JJK because it's meaningless there. JJk wants to tell a stroy with an established cast and a world with an established power system, but you quickly realize that the power system is poorly constructed & doesn't really matter, because character abilities are constructed on the fly, and are unnecessarily complicated with rules that you need a primer/manual to grasp them to understand (and enjoy) "the game" that is about to go down, which is made worse when one of the characters dies in the next fight anyways.

It's something Togashi went to extremes with in HxH and I very much dislike it. It's so unchecked in the Dark Contenant arc that 90% of the dialogue is explaining newly establisted, complex game rules, with the remaining 10% being characters playing 5D chess. Go make a game already instead of gamifying your manga to such ridiculous degrees.

Me, after seeing a couple of women in Jujutsu Kaisen with good… “assets”…

"Detectives These Days Are Crazy!" is dumb fun.

I finished ranking of kings recently per a recommendation and I enjoyed it more than I expected
Had a classic feel for something that came out fairly recently

Not a japanese story, but Jolies Ténèbres is quite interesting story.

I really liked how subtle and meaningful the allegory was written

Personally, I call it "mechanic/rule based combat system".

Hunter x Hunter did this a lot, and IMO the early arc did this kind of system better than JJK. Though later arc in HxH gets worse, I think the mangaka ran out of good ideas on HxH combat mechanics lol.

I am not a fan of JJK's implementation of the mechanic based battles though, I often feel it's overly complicated and it has too much "this happened because the author said so, not because of the pre-established rules" happened in those fights.

IMO one of the best mechanic based combat that I've read recently is Frieren Golden City Arc. The enemy combat mechanic that Frieren has to deal with in this arc is simplistic, threatening and fits well with the core theme. It reminded me early HxH arcs when mechanic based combat system was still good.

No spoilers

Trailer of Steel Ball Run.

The part where I see most people claiming is the best of the JoJo franchise.

I will see if I do my homework and restart reading JoJo from the beginning (despite already knowing the entire story already).

Back then I started reading way before the scanlations from the part 1 were even complete.

I simply gave up reading because there were so many chapters and no scanlation available.

Now that JoJo is "mainstream", I suppose I can find the entire serie completely in english