#Our opinion on «Jujutsu Kaisen 0»

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“Our opinion on «Jujutsu Kaisen 0»
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“Jujutsu Kaisen 0” was launched in German cinemas on March 29th as part of the KAZÉ Anime Night, with great success and many special screenings. We were there and watched the flick, but does it really live up to the hype?

At a young age, Yūta Okkotsu had to watch his girlfriend Rika Orimoto die in an accident. As a result of this tragedy, she haunts him as a curse, which is why he longs for his death. At least until the strongest jujuzist, Satoru Gojō, accepts him at the Jujutsu Academy and he forms new bonds with Maki Zen’in, Toge Inumaki and Panda. Yūta’s will to live is reignited and he is determined to break Rika’s curse, but a menacing shadow falls over Shinjuku and Kyoto… The evil curse mage Suguru Getō is about to unleash a thousand curses to wipe out all non-mages and to create a paradise for jujuzists.

Phonix

“Jujutsu Kaisen 0” tells the story behind the associated anime series. Prior knowledge of the series is recommended, but not essential.

The film tells the story of Yūta Okkotsu who lost his childhood friend and is haunted by her as a curse. After gaining new courage to live, he decides to join the Jujuzists in order to break the curse and free himself from this burden. He fights the hostile curses side by side with Maki Zen’in, Toge Inumaki and Panda.

The film fits well into the context of the anime series and can definitely represent it in feature length. Like most films, this one also puts the main focus on action-packed fights, but never forgets to adequately address the backgrounds of the new characters. The people already known from the series are only mentioned in passing, but you can follow the plot without any problems even without prior knowledge. So the film is also suitable for newcomers.

The film can be recommended without reservation, especially for fans of the series, and not only offers fights in the usual high quality, but also a previously unknown plot line. This is also accompanied by great animations, a solid background music and a very good German dubbing.

Nevertheless, as a fan of the series, you “only” get what you expect from the outset. You don’t see any new facets and the story is objectively rather mediocre, as is common with Shonen titles.

Rating: 7/10

Ahmet

I jumped on the «Jujutsu Kaisen» hype train relatively late. Since my impressions of the anime series are very positive and still quite fresh, I had correspondingly high expectations of the prequel film «Jujutsu Kaisen 0». By the way, this tells the story of Yūta Okkotsu, one of the main characters of the anime series.

The film begins with a rather somber scene showing a young Yūta. Right from the start, the power he possesses is shown as he defends himself against and kills others. The film grabbed me right away and I wanted to learn more about Yūta’s mysterious power. You also experienced this in the course of the film, but in my opinion the great narrative sequences unfortunately fell a bit short. Nevertheless, the short time was enough to get at least some insight into the past of various “Jujutsu Kaisen” characters from the series.

The gaps in the story passages that were neglected were filled with fights. There was a lot of fighting between the “heroes” of Jujutsu Academy and Suguru Getō and his henchmen. In my opinion, it could have been one less fight here. However, the fights were not boring, but excitingly staged and very well animated. At times I wasn’t able to follow the fights very closely as there were a lot of scene changes between fights taking place at the same time. By the way, I can’t say much about the music. While there were some songs and background music, I found these to be fairly generic and replaceable. You could definitely have done better here.

All in all «Jujutsu Kaisen 0» is a solid movie, but I find it a bit overhyped. The film offers an exciting and gripping story, which unfortunately falls short in favor of the many fights. Although these are well staged, it becomes more and more difficult to concentrate on a fight later on due to the crowd. As a result, the entertainment factor suffers – at least for me. Although the film is the history of the series, in my opinion the film is not suitable for beginners. There are some elements that it would be beneficial to understand if you had previewed the series. At least as a fan of the series you will learn something new about the anime characters you have come to love.

Rating: 7/10

Moby

As a fan of the series, although not to the extent that others are, I was excited to see the film. I couldn’t escape the hype about the series either. Even if you don’t need to know the series for this prequel movie, it becomes clear in some scenes that it is helpful. When unnamed characters are briefly given the spotlight, there is an implicit expectation that you know the character from season one.

The film’s story comes from a one-shot that was adapted as a prequel to «Jujutsu Kaisen» and I felt that. When scenes stretched out, especially in the beginning, I noticed that the film wants to be artistically stretched and more developed than the Shonen-like scenes allow. Unfortunately that didn’t work for me. The comedy wasn’t always used well, which is why the seriousness was sometimes ridiculed. The film got the biggest laugh from the audience from an involuntarily funny expression by Satoru Gojo about Miguel. I noticed negatively the many flashbacks to scenes that were only 1 to 3 minutes ago. You can do that between episodes on a series, but on a movie it seems like the producers are expecting an elementary school kid in the audience. Since you’re only allowed to watch this film from the age of 16 anyway, you don’t feel that you’re being taken seriously as an adult. Speaking of ages 16 and up: the violence is illustrated with liters of blood, but then quickly put into perspective as “injuries”, which is why the violence then takes place in a cartoon-like manner without any consequences.

The film gets plus points from me because the film expands the world of the Jujuzists and explains the backgrounds of series characters more thoroughly. Suguru Geto’s actions and ideology, and his connection to Satoru Gojo, are portrayed in more detail here than in the show’s first season. Even Toge Inumaki and his curse speech get a little more time than in the series. Kiyotaka Ichiji and his position with the jujuzists is now better explained to me, since you can see him using magic for the first time.

The music is predictably monotonous at times, but it’s impressive in the most important scenes. The German dubbing is just as excellent as it was in the series. For minor characters and future characters (for season 2 or later) they have already thought about good casts. I can understand the viewers’ confusion about the lack of clarity about the number of 100 or 1000 demons. However, since this also seems to affect the subtitled version, the discrepancy can probably be found in the original Japanese script. The German dialogue book is otherwise not much different than in the series. The jokes and phrases have also been partially given a German spin. In the case of the German video material, an effort was also made to make some important signs and overlays easier to read with hardcoded typesets. Due to the large screen and the short fade-in time, you couldn’t always read the texts completely, which isn’t that important for the plot. In my opinion, you should read the overlays again, there were 2 places where something didn’t seem right.

My final word on «Jujutsu Kaisen 0» is that the film is more for series fans than for those who are looking for an introduction to this prequel. The fan service and the patience required for some scenes may be too much for (not yet) fans, which the great animations alone cannot make up for. Anyone who is waiting for the second season of the series will have found a good gap filler in the film. The post-credits scene also introduces a storyline that we hope will be explored in Season 2. As a standalone film, however, I liked the “Demon Slayer: Mugen Train” film more, although it takes place between 2 seasons, neither of which I saw.

Rating: 6/10

Koro-sensei

Although the anime hasn’t quite grabbed me yet, I was really looking forward to the film at first as it was getting a lot of hype from fans on social media. So I went into the film with slightly higher expectations and I have to say that the hype definitely didn’t do the film justice for me personally.

So the story is actually quite solid, but not uninteresting. A girl who dies after an accident curses the protagonist Yūta Okkotsu. With the help of the Jujutsu Academy, he now wants to learn how to deal with the curse, use the power of the curse and fight other curses with it, and finally Yūta wants to break free from the curse. Since his curse, Rika, is very strong, the opponents try to grab the curse. After the story is told so far, Yūta and the newcomers of the Jujutsu Academy get together in various fights that were specially brought about by the curse magician Suguru Getō. So you get to know the people of the jujutsu academy in the one-on-one fights, their abilities and a few character backgrounds. All in all, this is not really important for the progression of the story and just a nice extra. Also the fights aren’t really more than a nice entertainment, because even with the few fights in the middle of the movie nothing really happens, except for a fight. As I just said, this is very nice to look at, since the fights and the whole film are beautifully animated and have appropriate music. But since it contributes next to nothing to the story, one could have come up with something better here.

That’s exactly how it goes on. As it gets closer to the climax, various fights take place. On the one hand the main fight between Yuta and Suguru in the academy, on the other hand between the rest of the academy against the curses summoned by Suguru in the middle of Japan. And the climax mood doesn’t really come up after switching between these two fights every 3 minutes. Many well-known characters from the series also appear in Japan, but they don’t play a major role and are just an extra. In the battle in the academy, more and more violent techniques are used, but somehow these are not really relevant, since a big attack ends everything at the end. Since the fights also alternate, there was unfortunately no climax feeling here and the finale seemed rather surprising because it was just one attack of many before.

All in all, the film is quite good, but not a masterpiece either. Animations are coherent, the music is very good (especially the ending songs were great!) and the German dubbing fits perfectly. If you want short-term entertainment, this film is definitely a good choice.

Rating: 7/10

We would like to thank the entire KAZÉ team for providing the guest list places & screener.

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