Alternate recommendation that won’t sacrifice your emotional well-being for the sake of good storytelling:

One Punch Man is a shockingly good read. It’s not exactly an earth shattering narrative like Goodnight Punpun, but it is equally a one-of-a-kind manga/anime.

You wouldn’t think a story where the protagonist is effectively invincible and seemingly infinitely powerful would be interesting, but they do A LOT with the premise. The action is great, but the side-characters really form the meat of the story, and there’s a lot of genuinely wholesome, funny, and sometimes sad moments.

The anime is very faithful to the manga, so I recommend them both. However the anime is very far behind in the story, so you’ll inevitably end up reading the manga if you enjoy the story.

Oyasumi Punpun (Goodnight Punpun) is a cross-section of a boy’s life, who was raised in fucked up circumstances and showcases the horrific consequences it can have going into adulthood. Be warned, it qualifies for nearly every trigger warning under the sun: >!depression, suicide, emotional abuse, a wide range of violence, arson, sex crimes against adults and minors, other borderline sex crimes, parental abuse (physical + emotional), domestic assault, neurodivergence amongst children and the behavior/language that entails, cults!<…

It’s a great ‘slice of life’, but it is truly disturbing. And it’s disturbing in a way that no amount of gore and violence could achieve…because you watch Punpun grow up, and he feels like someone you may have known or may have been. You’ll have so much sympathy for Punpun…and he will test that sympathy.

Oh, and the art is phenomenal. The stylistic choice to render the main character and his family as cartoonish birds was brilliant, and the art in general is fantastic.

I’m absolutely willing to buy Blu-rays, but what I’m worried about is there being no English dub/subs. For JJK in particular it seems that, at the moment, Blu-rays only exist for native Japanese speakers…

But it seems like it shouldn’t be that hard of a task for someone to rip the subs/dubs off of a ghosted English copy and paste it onto the unghosted Japanese copy… But I can’t find any. Thus, my quest for a service that doesn’t even provide a ghosted copy continues.

Just look at the image I included in the original post. It’s a comparison between several shots in Jujutsu Kaisen where the shot is ghosted+dimmed and one has not.

In order to satisfy laws for preventing seizures for a minority of children in Japan, studios are required to release their animations with these filters applied to certain scenes. However, the Blu-ray releases are not required to be released with these restrictions, so the animations released in that format are unhindered and can be viewed as they were intended to be viewed.