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The best worldbuilding in Shounen — JJK Season 1 Review

Molly O'Brien
5 min readJan 11, 2024

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SPOILERS FOR JJK SEASON 1

Jujutsu Kaisen, when season 1 was released, was groundbreaking for many reasons, which made many people interested in the show and had slowly grown a creative and interactive fanbase that has now grown into one of the biggest anime fandoms. The show is about a young boy named Yuji Itadori who attends an occult club in a normal secondary school. This is until one day he comes across a dangerous object known as a cursed object hiding an antcient and dangerous monster named Sukana. He soon swallows the finger and starts to share a body with this monster.

This was a show I had found out had a big fandom through social media and within the anime community, so I was curious about watching it, but I was not disappointed by what I was met with on my watch of season 1. The art was very beautiful and not something I had seen a lot of. I got really connected with the characters and the complex world that the show portrayed, and yes, I was not a seasoned Shounen watcher, but from what I had heard, many people who had watched Shounen had found this a breath of fresh air.

The worldbuilding in anime can either be way too simple or way too complicated, and in…

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Molly O'Brien
Molly O'Brien

Written by Molly O'Brien

Hello, My names is Molly. I’m a 24-year-old writer. I’ll be writing about what I’ve learned from my life and hobbies.

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