Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 episode 4 is the anime’s most cathartic (and visually inventive) entry yet

Season 3 of Jujutsu Kaisen laid down the convoluted rules of the Culling Game last week, yielding an episode that allows Yuji Itadori and his allies to take stock of what’s coming next. MAPPA effectively used fluid illustrations and simplified flowcharts to break down Kenjaku’s grand plan, marking an improvement on the adapted chapters from Gege Akutami’s acclaimed manga. Episode 4, which covers the Maki Zenin-focused Perfect Preparation arc, runs five minutes longer than the average Jujutsu Kaisen episode, and there’s a good reason for that, since the story is spread across chapters 148–153 in the manga. Episode 4 does justice to this point-of-no-return moment in just under 28 minutes.