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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Is the Best-Directed Modern Shonen We've Had

Shibuya is a nightmare, and MAPPA's staff makes you feel every hour of it.

Rowan Fitzgerald

Senior Reviews Editor · 2026-02-10

1 min read 77 words

Season 2 opens on Gojo's high school days and closes on the destruction of Shibuya. Between them: fifteen episodes that will define the studio for a decade.

The Hidden Inventory arc reframes Gojo as a person, not a punchline. Shibuya reframes the entire cast as vulnerable in a way early Season 1 never let them be. Nanami, Nobara, Kento — none of these losses are cheap.

9/10. Watch it with the Japanese track and the volume up.

Modern Japan hides three jujutsu schools, a conservative sorcerer aristocracy, and a Curses population that the state prefers to pretend does not exist. Every arc peels back a layer of that governance until Shibuya makes clear that the old order was rotting all along.

Fearsome Womb — Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara take their first mission at the juvenile detention center.
Vs. Mahito — The introduction of Junpei and the transformation of Yuji's shonen ideals into something colder.
Hidden Inventory / Premature Death — Gojo's past — the arc that made a generation understand why he laughs so much.

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Is the Best-Directed Modern Shonen We've Had

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