The third season of the anime «Jujutsu Kaisen» confidently started on January 8, but the third episode, which was released last week, unexpectedly became one of the lowest-rated in the history of the series. The episode titled «About Deadly Migration» received 7.8 points on IMDb — significantly less than the first two episodes of the season with ratings of 9.2 and 8.8, respectively. Only two episodes of the first season had a lower rating, and fans were quick to express their dissatisfaction.
The main complaint of the audience was that the episode turned out to be excessively «lore-heavy» and resembled a boring history lesson — so much so that part of the audience simply did not finish watching the episode. At the same time, it is this episode that plays a key role in understanding further events: it explains in detail the essence of «Deadly Migration» — a deadly «royal battle» launched by Kenjaku to accumulate cursed energy.
The audience's reaction, however, did not go unanswered. The anime authors quickly released a short three-minute video in chibi-style, which analyzes the rules of «Deadly Migration» in a compressed format. The video was received much more warmly on the network, and many fans regarded it as a kind of apology for the episode overloaded with explanations.
The premiere of the fourth episode of the third season will take place on January 22. In total, the season will consist of 24 episodes.
The video is available at the following link.