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Please let Kenjaku live
Sukuna is untouchable, elegant, he is Might Makes Right. He is an interesting character, but I feel he’s often given the author’s more monotonous parts of the plot. Sukuna often… brings out the angst in our heroes? Characters who fight Sukuna do it one-on-one to prove a point about their own strength, or be taught about love, or etc etc.
This isn't bad or poorly written, but Yorozu -> Gojo -> Kashimo encompassed several months of Loneliness-Love-Strength talk.
...on the opposite side of the spectrum, characters fight Kenny because they are an evil evil Motherfucker who has to be fucking taken down! Our heroes have to just fucking repeatedly jump Kenjaku because otherwise they will kill everyone for their fun quirky science experiment. Kenjaku revels in making and carrying out evil plans, and whenever they aren’t on-page both the characters and the reader just know they're up to some evil plan shit. It makes every time they appears feel so much more impactful.
Sukuna would’ve had a plan to take out Choso and Yuki. Kenny just waltzed on in ready with a fully-prepared lecture, got their ass beat, and almost died three times. Their fights are a lot scrappier and desperate on both sides because they are not about Strength or Loneliness or Love, they're about Literally How Do We Kill Kenjaku. They is incredibly smart and powerful, how can we use their personality against them?
In the Choso-Yuki fight, you really get the sense that Kenny barely survived due to quick thinking and grit.
Because of all this, the characters’ plan of “Distract Kenjaku with a Shiny New Toy so Yuta can get a cheap shot in” is way more fun (in my opinion) than how they’ve dealt with 10Shadows Sukuna until now. This kind of plot progression is necessary (in my opinion) to keeping me interested in the characters' plan, and right now Kenny, as an antagonist, is just making the protagonist group do more interesting things.
TL;DR I want Kenjaku to win the story please... I want to see their reaction to the merger! And tell Yuji that they are his mother! Sorry Yuta I love you but I hope you get body snatched
If Uraume knew that Kenjaku forgot to put their name in the Culling Games ending condition they'd be so pissed
I miss kenjaku
This would also make Gege calling attention to Sukuna not using the fire arrow yet make sense...!
okay, im catching up with the jjk manga and im about partway through 246 rn
i have a theory on what the fire technique sukuna used in shibuya was and if im right it will be so cool and i will be a genius for realizing
okay, so! sukuna has been in yujis body this whole time and he really hasnt gotten oppurtunities to fight in it other than in shibuya and at the highschool in the beginning. yuji as we know cannot use cursed techniques yet because hes just too inexperienced at the moment so he fights by channeling his cursed energy into his limbs right?
when sukuna takes over he can use his own cursed techniques like slash and cleave and when fighting as yuji this is basically all we see him use until the fight with jogo when he whips out the fire arrow technique. my first thought was that sukuna just has two techniques or has found a way to learn two techniques but i dont think this is the case now
when sukuna takes over megumi he like almost instantly starts using megumis 10 shadows which is interesting to learn he can do. it leads us to learn that sukuna can use his vessels techniques and apparently at much more advanced levels than the vessels themselves can as we can see during the fight with yorozu and gojo. also during the fight with gojo sukuna says himself that cursed techniques are written into the frontal lobe and basically just waiting to be unlocked/discovered by the curse user
so my thought is this, the fire technique wasnt just another technique or a specific way sukuna was using his cursed technique to create the fire arrow.
i think the curse technique is actually yujis technique that he just hasnt learned how to use yet!! it makes sense with all we have learned from how sukuna possesing a vessel works now that hes possessed megumi and it would also explain why he hasnt once used the technique again after switching from megumi! its because he physically CANT
Comparing the JJK fan's current experience with my experience with Jojolion
From 2020 - 2021, the Jojolion fandom was a pressure cooker: fan theories and coping and criticisms were everywhere. Some were determined to keep the faith, some were proclaiming the story ruined, but we all were held hostage by our need to know how it ended, how everything payed off. Reading JJK weekly now, I feel like we are going through something similar. Spoiler-heavy observations and parallels below the cut.
TL;DR - watching, chapter-by-chapter, as a story you care about makes mistakes (whether perceived or not) near its end is maddening. Read Jojolion.
Disclaimers:
1) I very much love both series, warts and all. 2) Even while reading weekly/monthly, both series have great moments and art. It's never all doom and gloom. 3) These are feelings that are massively exacerbated by watching a story you're very invested in finish in slow motion. Jojolion's last arc works better in hindsight (warts and all), and I'm sure this arc will work much better when it's done -- think about how much hate the Culling Games got while that arc was coming out.
Heavy, HEAVY Jujutsu Kaisen and Jojolion manga Spoilers below:
Reasons fans began to dread the end of both JJK/JJL:
Major character that has been very plot-relevant getting an unsatisfying, abrupt death. You never truly shake the feeling it was intended to be a fake-out death
(Literally no one believed Jobin was dead for years) (Gojo can apply here too)
Hyped-up, fan-favorite side characters end up feeling underexplored, getting extremely quick and underwhelming deaths
Too much of the finite remaining page time and plot relevance is being given to characters with no real apparent arc or fewer interesting character dynamics
(Love both characters but its true)
Resisting the encroaching fear that long-awaited moments will never come until the story ends abruptly (JJK will most likely end abruptly). "This can't be the last arc, I've been obsessing over this unaddressed plot thread for months!"
Phases of the battle/arc feel extra long due to wait between chapters, protagonists can feel stuck in one place for months
Fan-favorite character dynamics being absent for long stretches of time (YasuGap, Most of JJK's cast lowkey)
The story frequently references its framing device, keeping the faith alive that everything has been meticulously planned
(Don't get me started on the flashforward)
All this, slowly stewing in the fanbase over months, can make fans feel trapped between faith, dread, and pessimism as the story moves at a seemingly glacial pace towards its ending.
I feel like by the time Jojolion was finally ending, everyone's nerves were so fried that we barely even wanted to discuss the ending at all. I hope we can avoid a similar collapse, but we'll see how Gege chooses to end his story. As someone deeply invested JJK's ending, I think it's been important for me to separate from the story for a bit when needed.
Again, keep in mind that I've learned to appreciate Wonder Of U, and I am still enjoying JJK quite a lot. Both series, while very different, never fail to make interesting choices in how they interact with battle manga tropes and structure. They can just be perplexing and frustrating at times, especially so close to the end.
I'm sure this is not a unique phenomena. It's basically what sports fans go through, in a way. These are just two recent examples that really stick out in my personal experience.
This arc finally got the moment it's needed :D
Amazing jjk chapter this week. Feels good to say that!
For the first time, we see outsiders, Miguel and Larau, analyze how weakened Sukuna has gotten. And honestly? we really needed a story beat putting this whole exhausting gauntlet into perspective like that.
An under appreciated part of this arc, so far, has been its gauntlet structure. Sukuna survives sorcerer after sorcerer, winning through both brute force, quick thinking, and luck. A cool idea for an extended sequence.
However, this idea has felt monotonous at times because so many chapters have ended on:
New character is going to take on Sukuna??, or
Sukuna regained the upper hand!! (now wait two weeks)
I think week-to-week (+ breaks), people have gotten tired of Sukuna "never losing the upper hand", but basically every major character (except Choso rip) has gotten at least one good hit on him. We just needed a breather like this to put all the characters' work into perspective. We hear a comprehensive list of every injury we've seen him get over the last year...
and suddenly everyone's back on their feet, and he's getting danced on, and he's lost another hand, and he's lost his trump card, and Yuji's starting to hope again but you know there's some BS he hasn't accounted for and--
its so nice to feel excited to see “how's Sukuna gonna get out of this one??”
gonna miss jjk
I have been reading jjk weekly since the end of the mahito-yuji fight in shibuya, and gotta say it’s been such a fun ride. Gege has created so many great characters, character moments, and fun plot ideas. I think the way he structures arcs has been really interesting, and, as a huge hxh obsessive, I love seeing how much he takes and remixes his favorite ideas from there. I’ve been consistently floored (and exasperated) by his love of cliffhangers, too, but honestly it’s a huge part of the fun because you can tell he really enjoys being as devious as possible.
spoilers below:
oh my god that better be Kenjaku that would be so funny please. Gege is such a troll and I’m going to miss being trolled by his story. You know he was chuckling while drawing that textbox damn.
also I’m seeing rumors of a part 2 a lot atm. I honestly doubt it, but I’d love to be proven wrong!
Longer final thoughts going into the last chapter:
I don’t need Gojo to come back. He is obviously teasing the comeback with the clock shananagans, but who knows
if its Gojo in Geto’s body, that’d be kind of disappointing to me, but the shipping fanart will go crazy so win-win
if it’s geto I will be bummed out bc he works best as a ghost haunting the narrative more than a character interacting with other characters imo
i was hyped for a downer ending, but honestly I really enjoyed the entire squad sitting down and reviewing their performance against Sukuna. Felt like a work meeting, and you can tell Greg likes writing their interactions. Every character pointing out the flaws in their plans, their regrets and opinions, feels very hxh-y. You know Gege just likes explaining a complicated, well thought-out plan (eg. all of Kenjaku’s character, the culling games)
haguruma(sp?) should be dead by all accounts, but oh well. It was never an airtight story, and I don’t need it to be. Good to see him in an arm sling and sad eyes.
I liked JJK and its ending. All of the spoilers
I really liked the ending actually. Obviously there are flaws, etc etc, but I think everyone is so eager to hate it, in part, because twitter leak culture fucked up everyone’s perception of the series? Maybe?
it feels like Gege was tired and wanted a happy ending to wrap things up. The idea that there was going to be this horrible, grim dark ending came from early interviews and the bleakness of Shibuya. a)JJK was never planned out too far in advance, and b) the tone gets noticeably less nihilistic once the culling games start imo.
I don’t think Gege has a vendetta against Gojo, I think he joked about hating Gojo when he was just struggling with writing his story around this all-powerful character (he likes to be edgy and trolly). Again, JJK was not planned out at all, and it shows in all of these really cool ideas that go underutilized (Yuji’s parentage, Tengen, consequences for Yuta, culling games, world politics). While imo the ending will age a little better over time, these omissions will always be a mark on its legacy. In terms of more concrete Gojo closure, maybe a couple of pages expressing the students’ thoughts would have felt more natural, but I think Gege has the bare minimum there for the reader to see his students cared.
It’s not a lot, and probably not enough, but it’s there. The Yuji flashback bit is a little corny as a way to tie up that thread, but, hey, Yuji and Gojo got along because they were both cheesy sorta characters. Reading weekly, I could see how the lack of intense Gojo closure would be frustrating, especially if you are really invested in Gojo and his angst. I think it is clear which ideas Gege finds interesting and which he does not.
If the ending was ‘originally’ going to be grim and bleak, it feels like Gege either lied or changed his mind. In interviews, it often sounds like Gege is burnt out on the shonen grind, and frequently just as critical of JJK as his fans. I think Gege made a creative, banger manga that got a little rushed and messy towards the end, which is quite a few shonen manga anyway whoops
Jjk 255 without context
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
not the dilf I wanted to come back but you know I’ll take it
WELCOME BACK HIROMI 😭
JUJUTSU KAISEN : GOJO SATORU ! ✧.*☄. *. ⋆
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rip this reach of mine 😔 I will not give up hope for future chapters 🙏
Gojo comes back jjk ch 257 (I definitely didn't rearrange the satosugu number...)