The new episode of jjk is called "Fever" . After the devastation or massacre of the Shibuya Incident and the maki vengeance of the Zen'in clan massacre of the previous episode, this episode serves as a connect shifting the focus back to our core protagonist Yuji Itadori . While the episode eventually picks up the pace with a new mission, it opens with another tragedy and that is the final moments of Principal Yaga. Truthfully I did not see his death coming, like what is wrong with jjk? Anyways that is why we love jjk. The death of Yaga was tragic. Accused of treason by the Jujutsu higher-ups for his "Cursed Corpse" technique, which they fear could be used to create an autonomous army. Like if he could create Panda, imagine a thousand panda like cursed users and maybe he could even create stronger cursed dolls. To be honest his potential is crazy. I find myself wishing the Jujutsu higher-ups get the Zen'in Clan treatment. Seeing the man who literally "created" Panda, accept his fate with such dignity was gut-wrenching. The subsequent scene of Panda running to his "father" was arguably the most emotional moment of the season so farOnce the mourning scene concludes, the episode shifts gears into Yuji and Megumi, who are trying to find Hakari, and why are they looking for hakari? To get his help and enlist him for the upcoming culling games, hakari is a suspended third-year student whose power level is rumored to rival even that of Yuta Okkotsu.
To get to Hakari, Yuji has to go undercover as a fighter in an illegal, underground sorcerer combat ring. This sequence was visually stunning with more handheld-style in a fight with Panda, in which of course the fight wasn’t serious and he “defeated” panda and the other opponents quite easily.
Hakari’s entrance lived up to the hype for those that have read the manga. Yuji is invited to meet hakari after basically winning his fights and yuji is supposed to feign ignorance but slips when Hakari talks about gojo and yuji feigns ignorance pretending not to know him and right there hakari clocks that something is wrong because there is no one in the jujutsu society wo doesn’t know Gojo satorou. That is like an American not knowing who Donald trump is, like that’s just impossible, anyways right their and then yuji knew he messed up and the episode ends with hakari and yuji getting into a fight. We cannot wait to see the fight.
. My only issue with this episode is this period in the episode in that it felt jarring to jump from seeing Panda be distraught and crying over yaga only to then be acting silly in his ‘fight’ with Yuji later in the episode. We weren’t allotted any time to process his grief