I found that both Chainsawman and Jujutsu Kaisen are taking a little too much advantage of being week by week that, when read/watched in one go, it loses some of the impact and forethought that was put into it.
Kay, I read Jujutsu Kaisen and my thoughts on it can pretty much be summed up as Chainsawman x My Hero Academia. Comparing the two (because how can you not?) the art's a lot more refined and I think it had a stronger start with slightly more competent characterization - mostly apparent with side characters like the Zen'in sisters and Mechamaru. However it's also way heavier on shonen tropes:
- Yuji is your classic overly idealistic shonen protagonist. Even though this is a story where his unrealistic ideals are challenged at every turn, I still can't help but roll my eyes every time it comes up. Denji on the other hand is mostly just a complete dumbass.
- His "I'm gonna become the Hokage!" is "I'm gonna collect the Sakuna fingers and exorcise him!". Denji lacks this overarching goal, which IMO made the story structure feel more natural because it's not working toward an already pre-defined end goal.
- TONS of mid-action flashbacks, a trope I loathe.
- Characters internal-monologuing their strategy during fights. I appreciated this at first, because it did a decent job explaining the mechanics and made it easier to follow the action, but then the mechanics started getting more and more complicated and I didn't feel like dedicating the brainpower to figuring out if it's actually an internally-consistent magic system or if the author is just making shit up on the fly.
In general I started getting seriously disengaged during the Shibuya arc because there were just too many damn characters to keep track of who was where and who knew what, while also wasting too much time on fodder villains instead of focusing on the main villain group
who honestly get taken out pretty unceremoniously. Really, Jogo should've had more of an opportunity to prove to the audience why he's worthy of Sakuna's respect, because as-is his apparent strength seems to be more of an informed attribute with Mahito being the only one who actually seems to be a genuine threat. I also wasn't a fan of the
fake Geto twist.
I think there's some things it does better than Chainsawman. I think the character development (especially of side characters like the Zen'in sisters and Mechamaru) is generally more competent and effective, and I think parts of the worldbuilding are a bit more nuanced, such as the emphasis on the stagnation of the "magical elite" and the fact that there just aren't all that many magic users, whereas Chainsawman just uses a traditional urban fantasy setting without really exploring it any deeper. The art is obviously also quite a bit better - Chainsawman's fight sequences can become nearly incomprehensible at times due to how scribbly it can get. However, at the end of the day it's just too heavy on the shonen tropes for me.
Holy shit, Kizumonogatari is awesome. This should probably have been the introductory part to the Monogatari series instead of Bakemonogatari. Hell, it's a prequel so it's a good starting point all around. Only reason I'm watching it right now is because I wanted to watch an anime about vampires and the name came up, but there's like a dozen Monogatari parts before Kizumonogatari so I'm wondering how many people even reach Kizumonogatari before abandoning the series.
Also, that ending theme is haunting.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=duTQQWBt2Ng
I've watched up to Nekomonogatari Black so far and Kizumonogatari is definitely my favorite installment. I think I watched it immediately after Bakemonogatari, which is probably a good thing because I
definitely would have dropped the series at Nisemonogatari because it's such a boring pseudo-intellectual slog whose only redeeming quality is the
toothbrush scene 
. If anything my only complaint is that they made Hanekawa's boobs
even bigger and more jiggly to the point of being cartoonishly distracting from the otherwise more serious tone of the movies.
Also, I think Bakemonogatari should've had the extra blu-ray eps retconned into the season instead of being tacked on to the end. Narratively speaking, it makes no sense to have the date episode in the middle of the Tsubasa Cat arc, and aside from a throwaway line at the very end of the new last episode about them planning a second date that could easily be cut or altered, there's nothing chronologically setting it in the middle of Tsubasa Cat either. It's such a blatantly finale episode that has absolutely no connection to the arc it's nominally a part of, and IMO it makes so much more sense to just insert the rest of Tsubasa Cat before it and keep it as the finale. All you'd need to do is change the titlecard so that it's no longer titled Tsubasa Cat pt 3.
