Say what you want about the CSM ending being rushed or whatever, but at least it didn't make me physically stop and comment out-loud "Oh God, I don't want to read this" the way JJK's ending did.
Don't get me wrong, I love the characters, setting and concept of JJK, but those last chapters were a painful slog to get through. The constant and I mean constant giant blocks of text of the narrator explaining some overly complicated hyperspecific niche of someone's technique, followed by the characters commenting on the same thing, followed by the narration revealing yet another hyperspecific detail previously not considered, followed by characters suddenly naming that new detail, followed by said name being repeated 40 times over, all increasingly getting more and more convoluted until it was literally just fucking Action Sounding Words Adlib. Jesus Christ it was nauseating, it read like actual shounen slop.
I'm not the best at following action scenes on the best of days but the moment we started fighting Sukuna literally everything on screen became simultaneously tideously over-explained and spoon-fed to the audience, and yet somehow entirely incomprehensible at the exact same time. How do you even do that?
At least CSM had the good grace to bow out the moment the last action scene started to drag, and also never felt the need to explain a goddamn thing about how its power system worked. At least JoJo's limits its painfully specific explanations of entirely nonsensical abilities to one (1) time, and then let's you just gape at the spectacle for the rest of it even if you're confused. Hell I actively dislike Bungou Stray Dogs' "Whatever shit just happens" approach to abilities but at least it lets us just look at cool shit happening without having to untangle a dissertation's worth of made up words pretending to be text.
The entire JJK finale was EXHAUSTING.










