Yuji is basically not the typical MC that try to talk with the villain, he isn't the type of nice talented MC like deku/Naruto/tanjiro or an extreme MC like a Denji/guts/Kagurabachi but he is still a hero, but doesn't mind killing the bad guys, he is in the middle of both
Bro please work on your thumbnails, i like your vids but you spoiled Nobara return, please wait until officials before showing spoilers in thumbnails at least. I know you love your leaks but please think about your whole audience, you're great but just saying
@@DmDaPDm “new possible endings” with Nobara with an eyepatch (a Fanart that has existed for years) and Is Yuji a bad MC with deus ex Machina on the thumbnail are only spoilers if you *already* know what’s going on. I try really hard not to blatantly spoil things unlike 99% of other YTers
Everybody keeps forgetting that Yuji is literally still a teenager that got dragged in to sorcery. Everybody else is experienced He's literally still learning it It's like being mad at a baby for crawling instead of running He's
@@8cheesepizza And yet Yuji in his verse has had great growth and is a literal prodigy with an unique power, Yuji isn't some boring loser-- Sure, fucking teenager Goku would wash the shit out of him but that's because the powerscaling is different.
The reason Yuta used shrine like sukuna was because he understood the technique the way sukuna would. He constantly got explanations on the technique and visually saw and understood it. So that was his interpretation of the technique.
I love the theory btw but how would that explain the other techniques like Kenny’s or hakari Yuji is also capable of normal slashes but prefer the soul bcz it does the most damage and mostly effective against the opponent with two souls he can still use dismantle and cleave normally he’s shown it multiple times in the fight
Yuji's black flashes are not even from Sukuna. We've never seen Sukuna land several black flashes in a row like that, it's due to Yuji's own mentality letting him hyperfocus on his fights and he only unlocked Shrine due to that mentality. Also Goku has next to no original techniques, they've pretty much all been taught to him by others so if you're gonna hate on Yuji for getting help from his friends then you should hate on him too.
That guy must hate almost every character because literally all the strong characters were gifted something, gojo six eyes and limitless(although he has done some of the most "training" in the series), Sukuna gifted shrine and a power boost from eating his twin, Yuta got Rika and Copy, etc etc. Who in the manga has a majority of there strength through hardwork that is actually strong?
I'm with you but saying Sukuna hasn't chained black flashes like Yuji is just wrong. He chained 7(if I'm remembering right) then immediately after Yuji chained 8. That's not saying he's the reason Yuji can do it like Manga said bc he's absolutely not. We got what was essentially a mini arc with Todo damn near teaching him how to do it by training his ability to "lag" his cursed energy. Immediately after that lesson(ass whooping) from Todo, Yuji landed a BF on Hanami. So no, it didn't have shit to do with Sukuna but I'm sure having special grade CE within him helped.
This is exactly what I was thinking lol there's no way he can say all that about Yuji & in the same breath say Goku is a good MC while he isn't lmaooo. Most of everything Goku gets is either taught to him or because of his bloodline. (Don't even get me started on Naruto & Ichigo's bloodline lol) & I really love all of these characters but let's be serious now
Unfortunately a lot of jjk readers are pseudo-intellectuals; they think they know what great or bad writing is but they actually just get upset with anything they don’t like
Half of the fanbase just experiences the series through leaks and they just parrot the opinions of people who have read the manga lol. There are definitely valid criticisms to make about JJK but you need to read the thing first before you can have a proper opinion on it
Ironic; it’s bad when they do it, but it’s okay when you do it? You’re somehow the sole authority on what’s good writing as long as you like JJK and think it’s flawless?
All of Yuji’s feats come from another character pulling a asspull for him. Any time he damaged Mahito : needed Nobara to him Mahito with a black flash. Needed to be saved by Todo twice. Wouldn’t have blacked flashed Mahito had todo not faked him out the the no-hand clap (literally stated by Gege) Gege needed to bring in a random character that had 0 screen time (the heart guy), give him a SECOND ability to his CT, just so Yuji can hit 8 black flashes, then immediately wrote random heart guy out the story. Yuji was legit gonna die until Yuta showed up vs Sukuna. Twice. Not to mention Gege had to give Ui Ui a random SECOND CT (swapping SOULS has nothing to do with teleporting) just so Yuji can somehow get simple domain and RCT withOUT training or trying.
I could definitely see Gege returning to JJK after a while. Taking a long break from the week to week basis of drawing dynamic fights of JJK might give him some motivation to expand upon the story. Even then we still have half of the story to be adapted into anime so even with the manga seemingly coming to a close, we will still be eating good for the next for years in terms of JJK content.
Thank you for being one of the cool-headed and passionate voices in this community, especially when lobotomy takes hold, I hope Gege can give us with a satisfying ending! I have a theory about Yuji’s Domain Expansion, mainly on how it works and why it seems so unique. I believe that Benevolent Shrine (yes I know it’s played out but I promise I can convince you) is both the thematic and functional inverse of Malevolent Shrine. The way I assume it works is that BS commits the opposite cardinal sin that MS does; rather than create a sure-hit kill zone with no barrier, Yuji’s DE creates a barrier with no cursed technique imbued within at first. It uses a Binding Vow similar to MS, but in reverse. So when Yuji creates his domain, he’s able to mold the inside of the barrier to any environment he wishes, an empty canvas to be painted upon at the cost of the sure-hit. The reason for this is that Sukuna’s DE offers a “chance” of escape via the lack of a barrier, but realistically nobody can take advantage of that. It’s a false hope meant to give himself greater power. Meanwhile, Yuji’s DE offers a genuine chance for the opponent to stand down and give up before a Shrine is imbued within. Of course, Sukuna would never accept that, and that’s why he gets showered with soul Dismantles, but that isn’t the point. This explains why Yuji and Sukuna are able to seemingly traverse so many parts of Japan, because Yuji is purposefully changing the environment to show Sukuna his memories from a new perspective. So how is it thematically relevant? For one, it shows how two sorcerers using the same cursed technique can create vastly different domains based on their ideologies. Sukuna offers the faintest glimmer of hope before annihilating it and anyone else in his way, while Yuji offers a genuine chance to end the fight without violence, because that’s who he is. No matter how much hate he has for his enemies, he still sees them as humans and always wants to offer the chance to stand down. Additionally, despite not being Special Grade in the way we define it, it shows how radically different of a sorcerer Yuji is from anyone else. He’s using the zenith of jujutsu not as a weapon, but as a means of offering a chance for peace. Yuji flies in the face of not only Sukuna’s beliefs, but sorcerer society as a whole. In a world quite literally built upon negative energy, where only the most selfish can gain the most power, Yuji goes against that. He uses the most powerful and coveted ability a sorcerer can learn not to destroy, but to create an offering of peace. A place where kindness and mercy can trump selfishness and violence. A Shrine of Benevolence.
I think Yuji getting all his power ups from others is what makes him a good MC for this story. The philosophy behind is that we all grow and learn from others, we're not alone and that gives us strength. I feel it's the power of friendship made right and literal
Thoughts on if the one to teach Sukuna about love will be Rika? If I’m not mistaken, the last time we saw Rika was that really ambiguous Panel of Rika holding Yuta. I refuse to believe that Rika’s fight in this battle is over. The queen of curses being the one to teach the king of curses about love would be very poetic. I imagine she will do some kind of binding vow, I just don’t know what. Maybe she sacrifices herself to save Yuta in some way. The self sacrifice and love behind it would be the direct anti-thesis to Sukuna and his ideaIs. Also, I think that Sukuna is about to throw up a bunch of fingers again, and if he does, I think it’s possible that Yuji and/or Rika, could eat them, sealing him for good. Rika and Yuta’s entire dynamic is about love. Yuta’s domain is literally named after their eternal unequivocal love for each other. Additionally, Gojo said as far back as JJK Zero that love is the most powerful curse, in reference to Yuta and Rika. Sukuna being someone who doesn’t know Love, basically means he can never be the strongest curse. I think it would be a nice subversion as most people tend to think Yuji or Gojo would’ve been the one. But we haven’t seen the phrase “the one to teach Sukuna about love is” in a while. Rika coming back to do that would be awesome imo. I also think Rika might have something to do with Nobara waking up, I do think Gege will explain that either way, so I’d encourage people not to get too hung up on the whole retcon thing until they actually know what happened. Thanks as always.
3:30 wholly disagree with some of these points. Sukuna’s presence in Yuji wasn’t valuable to his growth until the recent chapters where he was able to pick up higher level sorcery quicker than others, specifically reverse cursed technique and domain. However his own cursed energy control that allowed him to learn and hit black flashes came from Yuji’s ability alone.
That was such a weird take by him, naruto didn't "earn" kurama, luffy didn't "earn" the gum gum fruit. It was as out of their control as yuuji being kenjaku's puppet.
@@LoveYourself-318Well said. Plus the reason Sukuna hates Yuuji is specifically because he has an indomitable soul. He can't break Yuji and that's arguably more important than powers because its Yuji who's left standing now
Kusakabe asked Yuji why he became strong so fast these months he's been a sorcerer. Yuji says, all shy, he guesses he's talented "wrong, is because of Sukuna" It's the same as the body swap training
If you don’t think Naruto earned Kurama, then you didn’t watch Naruto. All the training and growth he had to go through to control Kurama and befriend him.
Very contradicting for people to say yuji isnt like someone such as naruto and Ichigo. Naruto goes through his own time skips, and ichigo was a lab rat for aizen. I'm not tweaking right?
Naruto learned absolutely nothing over the timeskip except “big Rasengan”; we actually see him learn Sage Mode, the Rasengan, the Rasenshuriken, and kind of the Shadow Clone Jutsu (at the very least we see him expand upon it with Kakashi’s training trick); the only thing we’ve seen Yuji train is his Cursed Energy control.
You guys need to realise that yuji was never built upon there are no actual evidence to back you guys up yuji has no feats for you ninjas to glaze him this much its like as soon as gojo died his salty braindead fanbase just switched sides yuji was carried by the plot he never compares to main characters like naruto or luffy etc he isnt even the best written character not in top 5 ninja sukuna had more character than yuji
@@Nov0320 that’s not true at all. Did you forget that the inventory arc which centered around gojo and geto has the best character developments and just story in general. Gege managed to still make gojo interesting while being the strongest. And in modern times kenjaku as the main villain would be peak
@@Lifelsfullofsurprises bro ? The only person who could touch him in that arc was Toji and that was after weeks of planning and wearing him down and after that he was never touched again. Btw not saying he didn’t have a good story in HI but let’s not act like HI wasn’t good because of multiple factors like Geto’s deflection and Toji + his own story tying into Megumi’s future. A story on Gojo will simply be uneventful from a long storytelling standpoint in a battle manga. A one shot tho ? I could see but then again that basically the HI we already got. So there’s not much else to work with
Has anyone really earned their power in this story? At the end of the day, Gojo was born with those eyes, Yuta has lots of curse energy from his family. Maki got her powerup from Mai's sacrifice. Sukuna has four arms and two mouths. Etc
Gojo straight up said a person's power is 80% natural talent/something you're born with. Training, experience, etc only accounts the remaining 20% Almost nobody "earns" shit in this series.
@@RGA301092Literally, bro is complaining Yuji hasn't earned any of his techniques like 99% of the cast wasn't just born with their abilities either. Ig he hates every MC. Ichigo was literally born a part of every single species and is the god hybrid of all of them, Luffy ate a mythical zoan (a literally deity based one), Naruto was literally the son of the 4th Hokage, and an Uzumaki clan member, and was the incarnation of a god in his own verse, Asura. Bro's point makes 0 sense
I felt the same as Fugly however this last arch has really cemented Yuji as being able to stand on his own. He took his own struggles against Mahito and Sukuna and tailored his repertoire around them. While in a sense he was given privilege in the form of zenkais and whatnot, compared to Naruto Yuji has had to work and suffer to reach the peaks in which he has. I'd even go as far as to say he's kinda more interesting then Yuta atm.
But Naruto was gifted the 9 tails by his father and immense chakra reserves from his mother. Then given the last Uchiha, the child prodigy Kakashi and two members of the Legendary Sannin as mentors. Not really a surprise he did well.
@@thrilla72 Yuji is just as gifted as Naruto in the scope of JJK verse yet he isn't even close to Gojo in terms of power eventhough the series is ending That's like EOS Naruto being weaker than Hashirama, Yuji is just a pathetic MC cause Gege dont want his golden boi, Gojo and Sukuna being surpassed by anyone in the series
I think the whole debate with Yuji not "earning" anything actually adds to his role in the story. He's a narrative foil to Sukuna. Sukuna gained all his strength through selfishness and evil, disregarding everyone and becoming a force of nature. By comparison, Yuji is a group project. His strength is a product of selflessness, comradery, and cooperation. Not just on his part, but on the part of every Jujustu Sorcerer. His strength is proof that Sukuna's mindset is wrong.
I dont think Yuji is a bad MC, JJK (Gege) has a different writing style which tells you the story about the world of JJK and puts a secondary focus on the characters we see before us. Example is when we got the Hidden Inventory arc, it deviated from the mainstory to tell the story of Geto and Gojo. Yes there are characters that heavily outshine Yuji (Like Yuta, Gojo, Geto) but really, the story revolves around Yuji becoming a sorcerer and dealing with Cursed Spirits thats opposing him and his friends. Lets be honest though, Yuji has been outgunned for every opponent hes had. Lets look at vs. Mahito, hes had help(Nobura/Todo/Nanami), even farther back, when Yuji/Gojo vs. Jogo for the first time. So is he a bad MC? Nah. Hes just outgunned, but hey, teamwork makes the dreamwork. Amiright? xD
Black sparks don't choose shiz. Black flashes aren't skill. If it was Gojo would be spamming Black flashes is just luck. Basically video game crit hits. Yuji isn't skilled for shiz
@@GOldenPROdigy115black flashes are more like a mindset thing. practically EVERY time yuji has got a black flash, he fully intented on landing one in that moment specifically. also saying “yuji isnt skilled” is a crazy take given hed beat everybody in jjk in a hands contest besides sukuna and gojo 😭
@@GOldenPROdigy115no tf? Only one you can argue is Maki. Are you sure you're not confusing Post Awakening Yuji with the previous iterations of Yuji when you say all the other names?
Only thing I'd say about Bleach. Yes it's "done", however it's not entirely. Some interesting facts: 1. The Thousand Year Blood War arc is currently being adapted into anime. Tite Kubo is working directly with the animation studio to tell his full vision of the story. This means he's actually adding in additional lore and scenes into the story that previously didn't exist. It's possible that as we move into Season 3 and Season 4 we'll get even more additions and changes that really flesh out the lore and make the battles that much more hype. It's unlikely the conclusion will be wildly different though 2. There was a one-shot chapter released a while back as an anniversary celebration that basically showed all of our characters in the future facing off against an opponent from Hell. A lot of people are excited and hopeful that this means there is a Hell Arc in the works and may eventually come out after TTYB adaptation is complete 3. Burn the Witch shares the same world as Bleach Even if you don't cover the series, I highly recommend catching up with the anime. The latest adaptation is truly fantastic and has none of the filler the original airing suffered from originally
@@gustavoburciaga6200 Honestly, it's amazing how with all the crap going on, that even half of the people involved in this Anti-Sukuna squad havent just bailed and ran away bawling their eyes out.
Chainsawman has my vote for a next series to focus on. It’s pretty similar to JJK in a lot of ways (the biggest difference I would say is that it has a lot of horniness which jjk pretty much has none of)
primarily csm being very theorised would make it a really good video subject. like imagine manganimist researching Christianity to predict Nostradamus and all that. both csm n jjk got lots of religious influence so it would be interesting
2:00 While i dont disagree that Yuji was given a whole lot of stuff, using characters like Ichigo, and Naruto as better examples is such a dumb take. Lets take Naruto first. Naruto was the reincarnation of Ashura (and thus Hashirama), was a jinchuruki of the 9 tails (who's stronger than all other tailed beasts except 10 tails, combined) part of the Uzumaki clan, son of the 4th Hokage and the previous 9 tails Jinchuruki, was trained by the 6th Hokage and a prime candidate for the 5th. Then later on, by the creator of Ninshu and the 8 tails Jinchuruki. Naruto from a single read was able to do shadow clone jutsu, was able to do Rasengan in 3 days, was able to reach Sage mode in record time, and of course has his all powerful Talk No Jutsu. As for Ichigo, well everyone knows the memes. He's a literal group project. His father, a retired Shinigami, and his mother, a great Quincy. He is part Hollow , and he's a fullbringer. He learned Bankai in 3 days, and Shikai in even shorter time. He learned to unleash his true bankai with the Soul King's guards, etc etc. I mention these because, just like Yuji, while their fighting is important, their strength is not the most deciding factor. Ichigo just wants to protect his town and his friends. Naruto wanted to be Hokage, which while having strength as a factor, didn't have it as the deciding factor. Ultimately, their strength while important, weren't pivotal to their stories much like how Yuji's isn't. The focus is on their character and how they change and achieve their dreams, not with them becoming stronger.
Yuji is a great example of you need darkness to have light. We have characters like Naruto who has the nine tail fox, tho Sukuna is completely evil and hates yuji. They both use the power of another to gain power themselves, Yuta literally TAKES others powers that’s his whole thing and he’s a very much liked character. If all MC’s are gonna be the same, why would anyone continue to make manga/anime?
I don’t think Nobara returning is a deus ex machina but I do think if it were to have any real emotional impact it needed to have happened 20-30 chapters before the ending instead of like… 5. Happening this late into the story, at this critical of a moment, it’s impossible for it NOT to feel like a plot contrivance even if it does have setup.
So if Gege hadn''t said how many chapters were left it wouldn't feel contrived? I mean looking back it couldn't have been more laid out for her to come back. Not to mention SO many people were very confident she was coming back, but people have a hard on for saying anything is cope when it comes to JJK
Yeah, it just doesn't hit and imagine the anime of her just popping out of nowhere 💀 when the anime is almost over, the viewers will be either excited or most wil be like wtf.
@@justinfoster1040 you realize that even if he didn’t *tell* us it was gonna end in 5 chapters, it still would’ve ended in 5 chapters, right? The problem isn’t her coming back, it’s her coming back at literally the last minute. At this point she’s literally been out of the story for longer than she’s been in it. Her return was really cool in the moment but after all the hype dies down, I’m doubtful that her resolution can actually be tied up in a meaningful, emotionally impactful way in the runtime that we have remaining.
Do you think we’ll ever get another series that’ll dethrone the brainrot of r/jujustufolk? jjk is a great series but I feel like the memes and fandom shot it to pure super stardom especially with guys like you breaking it down and talking about the lore. like, what anime community lore series comes close?
If people call JJK Disney Kaisen then Disney should be proud to have their name junctioned to this amazing story. JJK is better than anything i've watched from that corporation.
Hey so with jjk coming to an end in 4 chapters I feel it would be unnecessary to come up with any new theories for how jjk will end when Gege already has everything set in stone, so I'd like to share some theories that probably won't ever get confirmed about things earlier in the series with you: 1: Are all curse techniques inherited, or are some learnable? So it was said that Nobora learned straw doll manipulation from her grandma, but could that imply that some curse techniques can be learned by anyone with CE? Unlikely but it could be interesting that some CTs are inherited while others can be learned like simple domain. 2: Who is panda's sister? Panda said that anyone who sees his sister will surely dies, but kashimo kills both her and his brother before he has the chance to activate it, so my theory for that is based of what panda might reference from a writing standpoint. Principal Yaga is Panda's father in a way and is stated by Gege to be based off of Gendo from Evangelion, so it would fit that Panda could be based off of Shinji given their similar personality (without the uhh..quirks), so could the "gorilla brother" be based of Asuka-who is more aggressive, rough, and more physically capable while Panda's sister (who i think was a triceratops) was described as shy but fearsome be based on Rei, who was the one who caused the end of the world in end of evangelion? (Thus making panda a potential special grade pre losing weight) 3. With 4 chapters left I doubt gojo is coming back, but my last bit of copium lies with the 3 dies or 3 live rule; as we know Gege likes to always do the unexpected, so there is a chance like you said earlier that he completely ignores this "rule", but i think its more likely that he follows it in a way we wouldn't expect. So what he could mean is that 3 will die, and we have already seen 3 die: yuji in the opening episodes, nobora in shibuya, and gojo (although arguably twice now), and so far only megumi has never died. Since both yuji and nobora came back, in my hopium I still think there's a chance for Gojo, but with that said I'm very happy with where the story is now and respect Gege's freedom to end it how he wants. 4. In the past, when gojo mentioned a 6-eyed user and a 10 shadows user killing each other, in my headcannon I think it was more like a fully fledge 10 shadows clan head who mastered his ct already who fought a teen 6-eyes user, since even sukuna (exceptionally talented and tamed mahoraga) with both shrine and 10 shadows barely beat a fully mastered 6 eyes user, i think its more likely that it was a premature 6 eyes (and infinity) user that died to a mahoraga that adapted to both blue and red. What do you think about this past fight? 5. The 10 shadows domain has never been shown to be complete, but if it were would it more likely be that its a barrierless domain? Maybe the reason megumi couldn't complete his domain was because he was trying to follow the barriered domain model, while it was never meant to be barriered. 6. When sukuna "found" of his brain that he could use to activate his domain again (i think when fighting todo yuji and choso) it was an incomplete domain, could this be that he actually used a part of megumi's soul instead of a part of his own body, hence why it was an incomplete domain? Anyways, its been an honor to stick with you throughout this jjk journey
+1 to doing Chainsaw Man in the future, I really think you will enjoy it. If you need something to sway your opinion, you can read the Goodbye Eri/Sayonara Eri one shot (same author).
Hey, Manganimist! With regards to the person that mentioned covering Bleach - It's actually the perfect time to dive in. The Thousand Year Blood War anime is spinning up again soon and we're entering a point in the anime where there appears to be significant divergence from the original manga run. Also, with how you like to dig into symbolism on JJK there's a lot to enjoy in the later/current section of Bleach. I'd honestly just recommend reading the manga to catch up instead of trying to go back to the anime. Knowing the manga ending ahead of this upcoming season will leave creators in that space with a ton to talk about from a comparison standpoint. Your JJK videos have been very enjoyable so I'd definitely regret it if I didn't try to put you on to Bleach while there's still time to catch up. Anyways, thanks for the videos!
Unless we have a sequel, we can really say we have about effectively 3 chapters to wrap up the story (since usually the last chapter is focused moreso on the aftermath). I'm really curious on how Gege is going to wrap up this fight and especially what'll happen with Hikari and Uraume I'd hope we segway into the next chapter with the Hikari fight and conclude that there. Second to last chapter jump back to the Sukuna beatings and we slide from there. I want to know about the geopolitical aftermath of this event
Yuji >> Deku, Tanjiro A character who has shown more emotions instead of just being over the top honest and kind or just shouting loud and being a edgelord in rage moments.
Yuji did some of these, Mahito final black flash, Beating the shit out of Mahito after Nanami died Deku has had rage moments but he usually goes dead silent during them and just focuses on trying to beat the hell out of the opponent, Deku Vs Muscular, Deku Vs Shagaraki post Bakugou injury. I barely remember/watch Demon Slayer so I won’t speak for that.
@@hatman9609beating the shit out is crazy work😭 both todo and nobara was gone for like 4 years in real time in the manga to give yuji a high diff fight against mahito And he couldnt even kill him Deku might have been better as mc if not for the absolute shitass ending and his ideals never being challenged and the fact that he never witnessed true dread Yuji is the closest mc to the likes of seinen mcs ( also denji )
Hey Brother, it seems to me that Yuji has set Sukuna on fire and have not seen others bring it up. I though it was that his domain was imbued with the Furnace part of Shrine but after a closer look it seems it's just coming from his chest where Yuji had hit him with dismantle. Maybe he is applying the furnace fire at his dismantle? Side effect of Resonance? Sure hit of the domain? Friction burn? Just not really sure what is going on there, any thoughts? Thanks 😄
I mean does fugly want yuji to turn out to have been part of a warrior race from another planet? Or to have more base chakra than basically anyone else + nearly infinite chakra given to him at birth that is then later unlocked by someone else? Luffy is not at all in the same category as the others, ichigo is kinda in between. Bro just did not read the story and idk what he wants to see yuji do a hashira training arc? 0 brain cells unfortunately And I mean all of the abilities in JJK are "given" to them in that they're born with their CT and CE reserves based on their lineage/maybe some randomness. Its how they use their abilities in creative/smart ways. Also Idk if yuji hits black flashes because he's had sukuna in him, but maybe it is said somewhere by gege.
Yuji is the second most blessed character in the series, and if Gege actually wants him to surpass both Gojo and Sukuna, he would have already given Yuji Domain Amplification to deal with Gojo and had him whoop a 100% Heian Era Sukuna but the fact that doesnt happen is enough proof that Gege dont consider Yuji to be in the same league as the both of them despite being the MC I dont know why you're defending Gege's decision of having Yuji being a complete bum to the real top tier of JJK
@@OnlyTheStrongest116I’ve seen no one defend that take, but most likely because no one saw any need to. If Yuji after what, 5 to 6 months as a sorcerer was as strong as the absolute top tiers of the verse, most people would find that stupid. There’s no reason for him to be there, even Gojo wasn’t that good
@@OnlyTheStrongest116 you’re implying that Gege wants yuji to surpass both gojo and sukuna in terms of combat strength? And you really think yuji having domain amplification lets him “deal with” gojo, and why would yuji be fighting gojo anyways? This series is not “how can we make the mc the strongest in the verse”. He’s definitely got to make him strong enough to keep up with sukuna that’s why he has blood manipulation, crazy base stats, incredible focus, hits black flashes more than anybody, and now has shrine. But all of that is only a means to an end and it’s not just so he’s the strongest in the verse. That’s actually kind of one of the biggest points of JJK that individual strength isn’t ultimately the main thing to focus on. Didn’t end up working out well for gojo, and I don’t have a feeling sukuna being the literal strongest in history is going to end up too good for him in the end. If you wanna watch “mc go brr cause he strongest” there’s plenty of options for you
@@justinfoster1040 The series in hindsight would turn into a complete joke once you realized that EOS Yuji can't handle someone like Gojo and Full Power Sukuna. There's far more benefit to having a strong MC compared to a weak one
With all the suffering, we saw Yuji gone through because being weak, and now there's people saying he doesn't deserve his power is criminal. And compared to others MC he compared him to, who just have to scream louder to get astounded power at least his abilities and where they come from are well explained and doesn't just go from 0-100, he evolve steadily. There's some that saying his awakening was lackluster because he didn't seem much more powerful than before. His domain isn't powerful enough to one-shot Sukuna at his state with his sure hit. For me, he deserves even more. That's why I think the story is not over yet. Him and Megumi and others too have more room for growth.
0:52 "Deus ex machina - a *person* or a thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced *suddenly* and *unexpectedly* and provides a *contrived solution* to an apparently insoluble *difficulty* " Sorry dude, those are just facts. It's not a matter of subjectivity. She's a deus ex machina.
To say Yuji is a bad MC because he gets "handed" powerful abilities feels kind of disingenuous tbh. Yuji taking things like Simple Domain and Blood Manipulation aren't good because they're "feats" but because that proves his ideology right. Sukuna believes that a person's strength defines them or rather doesn't understand the idea that someone's strength can be defined by the people they surround themselves with. Yuji taking techniques and moves from his friends, teachers, and brother proves that on their own they couldn't stand up to Sukuna but by building those connections with eachother Yuji defeats Sukuna with the one thing the King of Curses could never understand or copy
I also think the reason why the cleave looked different when yuta used it. Is due to we are in yuji's perspective, we get to see him trace the snip in his mind. I think of it like how when we were in mukuna's perspective, when he did the spiderweb in the maki and yuji brawl. It gets outlined and then happens.
Hey love your content man its so good. When it comes to suggestig new stuff, this doesn't need to be your main since you're not caught up but no anime i inow provokes more discussion than one piece. You have so much to talk about there. You seem to really enjoy goig through ideas and theories and one piece has that in spades and its consistenly popular and on going so you can at least get a good few years of content from it
Resident Bleach agenda pusher Crimson here Wanted to provide some info on the situation of bleach. As many know, the anime ran from 2004 to 2012, and was canceled before it had the chance to adapt the manga's final arc, with the manga ending in 2016 after concluding it's final arc. As a 20th year anniversary celebration of the manga, it was announced the final arc was receiving an adaptation in 2022 (10 years after the original anime ended), and that adaptation is currently ongoing, heading into it's 3rd of 4 seasons, so there is some current momentum for the series thanks to that. However, we also got a one-shot for that 20th anniversary that functionally served as an extended chapter 1 to what is a new arc, but we have heard no news since on Kubo releasing new chapters or continuing that one-shot. All this is to say, it would be awesome to see you consider the series more heavily should the manga make a full return ❤
I would love to see you cover One Punch Man, I think you would definitely enjoy it and with season 3 of the anime coming soon it could be a good time to jump on the OPM train. Also, you already replaced everyone as my go to JJK youtuber, I wouldn't mind replacing for OPM too :)
Yuji beat a tired Sukuna that got ganked by something that he can't prepare for aka Nobara Gojo literally solo'd a 100% Meguna and put him at death door despite being a side character, do you see how disrespectful it is to Yuji that he isn't even given the chance to fight and possibly defeat a full power Heian Era Sukuna despite being the MC?
@@OnlyTheStrongest116 Why would Yuji or any other jujutsu high students fight sukuna solo? The fact they did a group effort of taking him makes way sense then ass pull powerups. Yuji also did 1v1 sukuna multiple times and did the most damage this entire arc besides gojo. Just became nobara helped at the end doesn't change that.
@@xblade149 nice reasoning. Chekhov's guns shouldn't be used in such straight forward way. The fact that many people was so sure that nobara must come back and just did is a sign of poorly made gun. There was no meaning whithin the story but just a cheap plot twist to serve author
@@xblade149 For example, Yuta making Gojo coming back is actually a good Chekhov's gun. We knew that something would happen but it was mystery and then puzzle is completed. You get satisfaction because author played with you, you accepted the rules of the game and still was shocked of the outcome which happened but hadn't broken those rules
@@starkiller3097 Probably not a textbook example of a Chekov's gun. I think a strict definition of it actually includes an act structure with the "gun" placed at specific parts.
For me because there nothing special about him is why he is my favorite MC. He is what I describes as F2P main character. He is not special like other people in the series, that's why he consider him a "cog".
Yes, please read Chainsaw Man! Definetely my second favorite shonen series rn behind JJK. Granted I haven't read Dandandan and Sakamoto Days, but they're on my tbr.
How is Nobara a Deus Ex? she been hinted at for a while, and logically Gege could say everyone told Yuji that she was dead because they feared Sukuna could know his thoughts due to the resonance.
It is kinda of dues ex mainly for the reason of it being this late in the game. If you can’t take a character out for that long only to back in the last 5 chapters because of their power that’s a little too plot convenient to not be dues ex.
In addition to last comment. Whole mystery behind her was not for Yuji to not know but for readers to speculate more about jjk plot going in either direction. And because of it for us it feels underwhelming. When Chekhov's gun has no solid reasoning whithin the plot it feels like deus ex machina (as in my country it is called "piano in the bush")
I'm kinda thinking the Merger might be used to turn every non sorceror in Japan into one. That'd get rid of Cursed Spirits in Japan, which would bring things back around...though require a lot of work to fix up.
Gotta disagree with the arguments against Nobara's sudden appearance not being a Deus Ex Machina situation due to how extremely coincidental her waking up was. To put it bluntly : 1. She woke up post-Gojo's death 2. During the time-frame the Sukuna gauntlet was still ongoing 3. During Yuji's domain, a time at which Mei Mei's crow can't provide visual reconnaissance which then leads to 4. Nobara struck the finger at the exact moment Sukuna was about to use his DE and prevented him from overtaking Yuji's domain and granting Yuji's domain the chance to land the sure-hit effect Had Todo talked about Nobara's recovery when he was reintroduced a few chapters ago then Gege would have re-incorporated her into the story in a much proper way than have this "oh she just woke up and she inadvertently saved Yuji, yay power of friendship" type of moment.
2:20 Yuji's thing is being able to pull off black flashes almost willingly "not at will but way more often than every other BF user". No one can do it like he does, not even Sukuna or Gojo, that has always been more or less his "trademark".
If you like looking into a breaking down symbolism and just big theories and analysis Chainsaw man is 100% for you! The symbolism and sure wildness of that manga is probably an easy jump from JJK. I mean Fujimoto and Gege have talked about copying each other abd really loving their series’s
getting mad at someone for how they write their story is like getting mad at someone for drawing a character how they want it this is their story that they wanted to share with us
like god forbid some people survive after we lost half the cool characters on the cast and now its disney kaisen after literally months of mfs dying and sukuna ass pulls? Fans gotta stop like atp go watch attack on titan you edge lords gottas chill
I don't understand why people were so butthurt about her return tbh. There was even a precedent set for this entire thing, which is why I never stopped coping/hoping she would come back. In season 1 Itadori "dies" for a while without anyone knowing he's actually alive, this is literally just the exact opposite. Last time, we as the audience, watched from Itadori's pov so we knew he was alive the entire time. This time we still watched from Itadori's pov, which is why we were led to believe she didn't make it the same way he was until her return.
It just feels like a clumsy plot. Gege used her death to reinforce speculation about "either one will die" and then revived her to cheer up her fans. If she was my favorite character, i would be disappointed. No development of a character and also devaluation of her death and the meaning behind of it
every single complaint about Yuji in that comment misses the whole point that collectivism > individualism. Community strength over isolated power. JJK fans proper hate when JJK characters reflect the themes of JJK instead of being goku
What do you mean yuji was given these powers , all sorcerers are born with 80% of theit innate potential if yuji didn't earn his powerups , most didn't
I agree i actually i don't really care about the power scaling either i care more about the characters growth not just in strength and it was hella cool when Yuji got his get back against sukuna
The one will die ending, my guess would be that Yuji dies with all of Sukuna's fingers, as that was Yuji's goal in the beginning of the series, as that's the only thing he can do.
No, Yuji is not a bad MC. It's just that JJK should have never been a shounen anime/manga. Yuji is quite different, by shounen standards, but if JJK had been made outside of that ridiculous category to make more money, Yuji would have been a pretty interesting MC. Just my two cents, of course.
How would jjk being categorized outside of shounen help Yuji as a character? The stories aren't defined by the genre, the genre is defined by the story. Meaning a writer doesn't write their mc's personality, work ethic etc based on the acceptable standards of the genre. They write the character as they see fit, and outline the story as a whole within the shounen category. Yes shounen mc's tend to be very similar, no a shounen mc does not have to follow that trend. FMA, Fate/Stay, Blue Exorcist and JJK are prime examples.
Are you trying to say that JJK would have been better as a novel or a western style comic? Just curious on your perspective because I’ve never heard that before
If jjk wasn’t a shonen it would loose its greatest asset which is its break neck pace and constant fights, if it was a seinen the lack of specific character interactions like the skipped stuff after gojo came out of the prison realm or nobara and megumi being shafted very much in favor of fights upon fights upon fights, it’s would’ve being judged wayyy more harshly on its characters, yuji is an above average Mc with his best moments being in shibuya unfortunately he is not great not because jjk is not a seinen but because jjk doesn’t give its characters a breather to interact, not to say it’s pure fights , shonen are to tell stories with fights which is what jjk does best but at the expense of deeper characters, the most glaring example of that is trading geto arguably one of the best characters in jjk for kenjaku a literal plot device to create more fights, fortunately satoru and sukuna worked well within that frame because their journey is about strength and how it shaped their views in life , all this issue could’ve being resolved with a longer final arc but gege is cooking what he is cooking and I’m here for the meal
Stfu with this deconstruction of shonen shit. Latest chapter shows jjk is just like any other Shonen just because he kills characters don't make him different
I think the best defense of Yuji I have his the MC that showed and stepped up when they needed him to, The power system of the verse is directly related to personal growth and no one can argue mf has not grown.
To all of yuji's opps. First of all Yuji has been a sorcer for the same amount of time as yuta in Jjk0. People forget everything in the manga literally happened in the course of 6 months. Secondly I like Yuji cause he grows through actual growth, Gege wrote talk no jutsu the right way by attaching ones own understanding of self to their innate understanding of their technique. I hope future generations of writers use Yuji as a template for what they can accomplish with their characters!
I’m done. I’m done with this community. I’m a huge JJK fan but I do not put myself with the fandom not just because of the contagious lobotomy within it but because all of them are constantly upset when one person does what. When a character doesn’t do what they want, they get mad, and when they do, they still get mad. Theses guys are impossible to satisfy. I get it. JJK is just too crazy to have weekly to double-weekly releases- it’s probably peak shonen fights in my opinion- but these guys are getting it get to them and now they complain when ever a chapter releases. You can’t have any fun with these guys. All they talk about how everyone is a fraud, Gege is a bad writer, and beyond that still find ways to hate. I don’t hate anyone but I am starting to hate this fandom.
To the point of Yuji having no powers of his own making, Goku is a great example of someone who has no techniques of his own either. His most popular move, the Kamehameha wave is from Master Roshi, the Kaioken from North Kai, Super Saiyan from his heritage, Instant Transmission from Yardrat, UI from Whis, etc.. The only thing you could say he cooked up on his own is SSJ3, but that transformation suprisingly has very few major feats (outside of non-canon movies), and in that same vein you could say Divergent Fist is Yuji's one unique ability.
Question: Could Yuta sacrifice one of the six eyes to remove the time limit or the cooldown of Kenjaku's technique? Or would it be sacrificed to bring Gojo back like we all want? Either way, i think Yuta might die or nearly die. Imagine if Nobara got the six eyes which probably won't happen, but it is fun to think about. What do you think would happen? Also, If Gojo does come back, excluding Yuji, who do you think out of all three would be the most likely to die. Good job on the vids!
Do you think Yuji is a bad MC?
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Yuji is basically not the typical MC that try to talk with the villain, he isn't the type of nice talented MC like deku/Naruto/tanjiro or an extreme MC like a Denji/guts/Kagurabachi but he is still a hero, but doesn't mind killing the bad guys, he is in the middle of both
Bro please work on your thumbnails, i like your vids but you spoiled Nobara return, please wait until officials before showing spoilers in thumbnails at least. I know you love your leaks but please think about your whole audience, you're great but just saying
@@DmDaPDm “new possible endings” with Nobara with an eyepatch (a Fanart that has existed for years) and Is Yuji a bad MC with deus ex Machina on the thumbnail are only spoilers if you *already* know what’s going on. I try really hard not to blatantly spoil things unlike 99% of other YTers
Nah.Yuji is 7 or 8/10 Mc
Everybody keeps forgetting that Yuji is literally still a teenager that got dragged in to sorcery. Everybody else is experienced He's literally still learning it
It's like being mad at a baby for crawling instead of running He's
Crazy part is people for some reason willingly choose to ignore that Yuji is a cursed tool consumer and a prodigy with amazing growth rate. Smh
Terrible excuse. There’s tons of teenage mc’s who’d body Yuji
@@8cheesepizza Did you read the comment properly? or are you just yapping
@@breaddddd1I think they are just yapping
@@8cheesepizza And yet Yuji in his verse has had great growth and is a literal prodigy with an unique power, Yuji isn't some boring loser-- Sure, fucking teenager Goku would wash the shit out of him but that's because the powerscaling is different.
The reason Yuta used shrine like sukuna was because he understood the technique the way sukuna would. He constantly got explanations on the technique and visually saw and understood it. So that was his interpretation of the technique.
also i think it was simply a decoy (not sure if right term)
making sukuna think that all the fingers were in places he knows of
I love the theory btw but how would that explain the other techniques like Kenny’s or hakari Yuji is also capable of normal slashes but prefer the soul bcz it does the most damage and mostly effective against the opponent with two souls he can still use dismantle and cleave normally he’s shown it multiple times in the fight
Yuji's black flashes are not even from Sukuna. We've never seen Sukuna land several black flashes in a row like that, it's due to Yuji's own mentality letting him hyperfocus on his fights and he only unlocked Shrine due to that mentality. Also Goku has next to no original techniques, they've pretty much all been taught to him by others so if you're gonna hate on Yuji for getting help from his friends then you should hate on him too.
That guy must hate almost every character because literally all the strong characters were gifted something, gojo six eyes and limitless(although he has done some of the most "training" in the series), Sukuna gifted shrine and a power boost from eating his twin, Yuta got Rika and Copy, etc etc. Who in the manga has a majority of there strength through hardwork that is actually strong?
I'm with you but saying Sukuna hasn't chained black flashes like Yuji is just wrong. He chained 7(if I'm remembering right) then immediately after Yuji chained 8. That's not saying he's the reason Yuji can do it like Manga said bc he's absolutely not.
We got what was essentially a mini arc with Todo damn near teaching him how to do it by training his ability to "lag" his cursed energy. Immediately after that lesson(ass whooping) from Todo, Yuji landed a BF on Hanami. So no, it didn't have shit to do with Sukuna but I'm sure having special grade CE within him helped.
Sounds pretty racist
@@jackson_craft_gamingscates9324 I am racist.
This is exactly what I was thinking lol there's no way he can say all that about Yuji & in the same breath say Goku is a good MC while he isn't lmaooo. Most of everything Goku gets is either taught to him or because of his bloodline. (Don't even get me started on Naruto & Ichigo's bloodline lol) & I really love all of these characters but let's be serious now
Unfortunately a lot of jjk readers are pseudo-intellectuals; they think they know what great or bad writing is but they actually just get upset with anything they don’t like
that's what happens when you're terminal brain dead online
not how i want the story to end = bad writing. like bruh, not every anime plot point needs to be resolved by the power of friendship
It's called opinions...
Half of the fanbase just experiences the series through leaks and they just parrot the opinions of people who have read the manga lol. There are definitely valid criticisms to make about JJK but you need to read the thing first before you can have a proper opinion on it
Ironic; it’s bad when they do it, but it’s okay when you do it? You’re somehow the sole authority on what’s good writing as long as you like JJK and think it’s flawless?
“Complains Yuji has no feats”
“Ignores/writes off a Yuji feat”
JJK fan moment
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All of Yuji’s feats come from another character pulling a asspull for him.
Any time he damaged Mahito : needed Nobara to him Mahito with a black flash. Needed to be saved by Todo twice. Wouldn’t have blacked flashed Mahito had todo not faked him out the the no-hand clap (literally stated by Gege)
Gege needed to bring in a random character that had 0 screen time (the heart guy), give him a SECOND ability to his CT, just so Yuji can hit 8 black flashes, then immediately wrote random heart guy out the story.
Yuji was legit gonna die until Yuta showed up vs Sukuna. Twice. Not to mention Gege had to give Ui Ui a random SECOND CT (swapping SOULS has nothing to do with teleporting) just so Yuji can somehow get simple domain and RCT withOUT training or trying.
@@usurperzoye you kinda cooked here ..
@@indakullet ppl use that two ways so I assume you saying I’m tripping? What am I wrong about
@@usurperzo bro .. I said “ you cooked here “ not “ your cooked here “ I was saying you made sense 💀
I could definitely see Gege returning to JJK after a while. Taking a long break from the week to week basis of drawing dynamic fights of JJK might give him some motivation to expand upon the story. Even then we still have half of the story to be adapted into anime so even with the manga seemingly coming to a close, we will still be eating good for the next for years in terms of JJK content.
i would personally love to see csm content. i love your style of analysis and think it would be perfect for csm
Agreed, I think he would love CSM and it would fit perfectly for him.
We even had a whole plot point about Gojo tricking people into thinking Yuji is dead.
Thank you for being one of the cool-headed and passionate voices in this community, especially when lobotomy takes hold, I hope Gege can give us with a satisfying ending!
I have a theory about Yuji’s Domain Expansion, mainly on how it works and why it seems so unique. I believe that Benevolent Shrine (yes I know it’s played out but I promise I can convince you) is both the thematic and functional inverse of Malevolent Shrine.
The way I assume it works is that BS commits the opposite cardinal sin that MS does; rather than create a sure-hit kill zone with no barrier, Yuji’s DE creates a barrier with no cursed technique imbued within at first. It uses a Binding Vow similar to MS, but in reverse.
So when Yuji creates his domain, he’s able to mold the inside of the barrier to any environment he wishes, an empty canvas to be painted upon at the cost of the sure-hit. The reason for this is that Sukuna’s DE offers a “chance” of escape via the lack of a barrier, but realistically nobody can take advantage of that. It’s a false hope meant to give himself greater power. Meanwhile, Yuji’s DE offers a genuine chance for the opponent to stand down and give up before a Shrine is imbued within. Of course, Sukuna would never accept that, and that’s why he gets showered with soul Dismantles, but that isn’t the point. This explains why Yuji and Sukuna are able to seemingly traverse so many parts of Japan, because Yuji is purposefully changing the environment to show Sukuna his memories from a new perspective.
So how is it thematically relevant? For one, it shows how two sorcerers using the same cursed technique can create vastly different domains based on their ideologies. Sukuna offers the faintest glimmer of hope before annihilating it and anyone else in his way, while Yuji offers a genuine chance to end the fight without violence, because that’s who he is. No matter how much hate he has for his enemies, he still sees them as humans and always wants to offer the chance to stand down. Additionally, despite not being Special Grade in the way we define it, it shows how radically different of a sorcerer Yuji is from anyone else. He’s using the zenith of jujutsu not as a weapon, but as a means of offering a chance for peace. Yuji flies in the face of not only Sukuna’s beliefs, but sorcerer society as a whole.
In a world quite literally built upon negative energy, where only the most selfish can gain the most power, Yuji goes against that. He uses the most powerful and coveted ability a sorcerer can learn not to destroy, but to create an offering of peace. A place where kindness and mercy can trump selfishness and violence. A Shrine of Benevolence.
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I think Yuji getting all his power ups from others is what makes him a good MC for this story. The philosophy behind is that we all grow and learn from others, we're not alone and that gives us strength. I feel it's the power of friendship made right and literal
Thoughts on if the one to teach Sukuna about love will be Rika? If I’m not mistaken, the last time we saw Rika was that really ambiguous Panel of Rika holding Yuta. I refuse to believe that Rika’s fight in this battle is over. The queen of curses being the one to teach the king of curses about love would be very poetic. I imagine she will do some kind of binding vow, I just don’t know what. Maybe she sacrifices herself to save Yuta in some way. The self sacrifice and love behind it would be the direct anti-thesis to Sukuna and his ideaIs. Also, I think that Sukuna is about to throw up a bunch of fingers again, and if he does, I think it’s possible that Yuji and/or Rika, could eat them, sealing him for good.
Rika and Yuta’s entire dynamic is about love. Yuta’s domain is literally named after their eternal unequivocal love for each other. Additionally, Gojo said as far back as JJK Zero that love is the most powerful curse, in reference to Yuta and Rika. Sukuna being someone who doesn’t know Love, basically means he can never be the strongest curse. I think it would be a nice subversion as most people tend to think Yuji or Gojo would’ve been the one. But we haven’t seen the phrase “the one to teach Sukuna about love is” in a while. Rika coming back to do that would be awesome imo. I also think Rika might have something to do with Nobara waking up, I do think Gege will explain that either way, so I’d encourage people not to get too hung up on the whole retcon thing until they actually know what happened.
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Doesn’t really help Fugly that he just described every manga/anime character arc/power up of all time as why he doesn’t like Yuji…
Whoever asked this question: your mom is a bad MC
Bro roast is better than Sukuna's Furnace 💀💀
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3:30 wholly disagree with some of these points. Sukuna’s presence in Yuji wasn’t valuable to his growth until the recent chapters where he was able to pick up higher level sorcery quicker than others, specifically reverse cursed technique and domain. However his own cursed energy control that allowed him to learn and hit black flashes came from Yuji’s ability alone.
Would you argue that his presence in yuji wasnt valuable at all as he was already born with the cursed finger inside him?
That was such a weird take by him, naruto didn't "earn" kurama, luffy didn't "earn" the gum gum fruit. It was as out of their control as yuuji being kenjaku's puppet.
@@LoveYourself-318Well said. Plus the reason Sukuna hates Yuuji is specifically because he has an indomitable soul. He can't break Yuji and that's arguably more important than powers because its Yuji who's left standing now
Kusakabe asked Yuji why he became strong so fast these months he's been a sorcerer. Yuji says, all shy, he guesses he's talented
"wrong, is because of Sukuna" It's the same as the body swap training
If you don’t think Naruto earned Kurama, then you didn’t watch Naruto. All the training and growth he had to go through to control Kurama and befriend him.
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Very contradicting for people to say yuji isnt like someone such as naruto and Ichigo. Naruto goes through his own time skips, and ichigo was a lab rat for aizen. I'm not tweaking right?
If ANYONE deserves the "deus Ex" title it's literally those two mfs. Like what even was ichigo arc besides finding out his complex conception?
Naruto learned absolutely nothing over the timeskip except “big Rasengan”; we actually see him learn Sage Mode, the Rasengan, the Rasenshuriken, and kind of the Shadow Clone Jutsu (at the very least we see him expand upon it with Kakashi’s training trick); the only thing we’ve seen Yuji train is his Cursed Energy control.
@@bigdojacoom8999 Naruto and Jjk are two different stories my dude.
You guys need to realise that yuji was never built upon there are no actual evidence to back you guys up yuji has no feats for you ninjas to glaze him this much its like as soon as gojo died his salty braindead fanbase just switched sides yuji was carried by the plot he never compares to main characters like naruto or luffy etc he isnt even the best written character not in top 5 ninja sukuna had more character than yuji
@@levenup6423 stop getting your sources from a crack pipe
Yuji is a good mc. He’s just overshadowed by one of the most popular anime characters of all time (Gojo)
A gojo anime would go hard af
Yuji is the second most popular character bruh what you on? 😭
@@Lifelsfullofsurprises he’d just defeat everyone he comes in contact with so there’s really nothing interesting we’d get from that
@@Nov0320 that’s not true at all. Did you forget that the inventory arc which centered around gojo and geto has the best character developments and just story in general. Gege managed to still make gojo interesting while being the strongest. And in modern times kenjaku as the main villain would be peak
@@Lifelsfullofsurprises bro ? The only person who could touch him in that arc was Toji and that was after weeks of planning and wearing him down and after that he was never touched again.
Btw not saying he didn’t have a good story in HI but let’s not act like HI wasn’t good because of multiple factors like Geto’s deflection and Toji + his own story tying into Megumi’s future. A story on Gojo will simply be uneventful from a long storytelling standpoint in a battle manga. A one shot tho ? I could see but then again that basically the HI we already got. So there’s not much else to work with
Has anyone really earned their power in this story? At the end of the day, Gojo was born with those eyes, Yuta has lots of curse energy from his family. Maki got her powerup from Mai's sacrifice. Sukuna has four arms and two mouths. Etc
The simple answer is yes
Gojo straight up said a person's power is 80% natural talent/something you're born with. Training, experience, etc only accounts the remaining 20%
Almost nobody "earns" shit in this series.
@@RGA301092Literally, bro is complaining Yuji hasn't earned any of his techniques like 99% of the cast wasn't just born with their abilities either. Ig he hates every MC. Ichigo was literally born a part of every single species and is the god hybrid of all of them, Luffy ate a mythical zoan (a literally deity based one), Naruto was literally the son of the 4th Hokage, and an Uzumaki clan member, and was the incarnation of a god in his own verse, Asura. Bro's point makes 0 sense
I hope yuji will live
I felt the same as Fugly however this last arch has really cemented Yuji as being able to stand on his own. He took his own struggles against Mahito and Sukuna and tailored his repertoire around them. While in a sense he was given privilege in the form of zenkais and whatnot, compared to Naruto Yuji has had to work and suffer to reach the peaks in which he has. I'd even go as far as to say he's kinda more interesting then Yuta atm.
But Naruto was gifted the 9 tails by his father and immense chakra reserves from his mother. Then given the last Uchiha, the child prodigy Kakashi and two members of the Legendary Sannin as mentors. Not really a surprise he did well.
He's always been more interesting than Yuta
@@thrilla72 Yuji is just as gifted as Naruto in the scope of JJK verse yet he isn't even close to Gojo in terms of power eventhough the series is ending
That's like EOS Naruto being weaker than Hashirama, Yuji is just a pathetic MC cause Gege dont want his golden boi, Gojo and Sukuna being surpassed by anyone in the series
@@thrilla72 "gifted" the 9 tails is kinda crazy, bro was just the only option
@@Mangotunde He could've sealed it back into his wife
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I think the whole debate with Yuji not "earning" anything actually adds to his role in the story. He's a narrative foil to Sukuna. Sukuna gained all his strength through selfishness and evil, disregarding everyone and becoming a force of nature.
By comparison, Yuji is a group project. His strength is a product of selflessness, comradery, and cooperation. Not just on his part, but on the part of every Jujustu Sorcerer. His strength is proof that Sukuna's mindset is wrong.
I dont think Yuji is a bad MC, JJK (Gege) has a different writing style which tells you the story about the world of JJK and puts a secondary focus on the characters we see before us. Example is when we got the Hidden Inventory arc, it deviated from the mainstory to tell the story of Geto and Gojo. Yes there are characters that heavily outshine Yuji (Like Yuta, Gojo, Geto) but really, the story revolves around Yuji becoming a sorcerer and dealing with Cursed Spirits thats opposing him and his friends.
Lets be honest though, Yuji has been outgunned for every opponent hes had. Lets look at vs. Mahito, hes had help(Nobura/Todo/Nanami), even farther back, when Yuji/Gojo vs. Jogo for the first time.
So is he a bad MC? Nah. Hes just outgunned, but hey, teamwork makes the dreamwork. Amiright? xD
Owls? Bro is thinking of Guardians of gahoole 😭😭😭
Yuji black flashes is all him. He was chosen by the black sparks. It has nothing to do with sukuna
Black sparks don't choose shiz. Black flashes aren't skill. If it was Gojo would be spamming
Black flashes is just luck. Basically video game crit hits. Yuji isn't skilled for shiz
@@GOldenPROdigy115black flashes are more like a mindset thing. practically EVERY time yuji has got a black flash, he fully intented on landing one in that moment specifically.
also saying “yuji isnt skilled” is a crazy take given hed beat everybody in jjk in a hands contest besides sukuna and gojo 😭
@@fasttastic Todo, Miguel, Hakari and Maki beats Yuji in hands
Cope
@@GOldenPROdigy115no tf? Only one you can argue is Maki.
Are you sure you're not confusing Post Awakening Yuji with the previous iterations of Yuji when you say all the other names?
@@GOldenPROdigy115buddy is saying cope while not knowing yuji the word cope got old buddy use another one.
Only thing I'd say about Bleach. Yes it's "done", however it's not entirely. Some interesting facts:
1. The Thousand Year Blood War arc is currently being adapted into anime. Tite Kubo is working directly with the animation studio to tell his full vision of the story. This means he's actually adding in additional lore and scenes into the story that previously didn't exist. It's possible that as we move into Season 3 and Season 4 we'll get even more additions and changes that really flesh out the lore and make the battles that much more hype. It's unlikely the conclusion will be wildly different though
2. There was a one-shot chapter released a while back as an anniversary celebration that basically showed all of our characters in the future facing off against an opponent from Hell. A lot of people are excited and hopeful that this means there is a Hell Arc in the works and may eventually come out after TTYB adaptation is complete
3. Burn the Witch shares the same world as Bleach
Even if you don't cover the series, I highly recommend catching up with the anime. The latest adaptation is truly fantastic and has none of the filler the original airing suffered from originally
One of the best animations for sure ....Plus for the 1st point we will get a ton of new scenes
I’ve been wanting to watch. Where do you recommend streaming it and where to start?
Man I just want a Shoko cover…
She literly looks better than Yuki, Mei Mei, and Maki combined imo.
She’s literally my favorite character, her nonchalant personality during all this madness always gives me a good laugh
@@gustavoburciaga6200 Honestly, it's amazing how with all the crap going on, that even half of the people involved in this Anti-Sukuna squad havent just bailed and ran away bawling their eyes out.
Chainsawman has my vote for a next series to focus on. It’s pretty similar to JJK in a lot of ways (the biggest difference I would say is that it has a lot of horniness which jjk pretty much has none of)
yeahh lmao it would be mad funny seeing him try explain some of the shit that happens like chap 167😭😭
primarily csm being very theorised would make it a really good video subject. like imagine manganimist researching Christianity to predict Nostradamus and all that. both csm n jjk got lots of religious influence so it would be interesting
Seconded
It's actually better written than JJK.
2:00 While i dont disagree that Yuji was given a whole lot of stuff, using characters like Ichigo, and Naruto as better examples is such a dumb take.
Lets take Naruto first. Naruto was the reincarnation of Ashura (and thus Hashirama), was a jinchuruki of the 9 tails (who's stronger than all other tailed beasts except 10 tails, combined) part of the Uzumaki clan, son of the 4th Hokage and the previous 9 tails Jinchuruki, was trained by the 6th Hokage and a prime candidate for the 5th. Then later on, by the creator of Ninshu and the 8 tails Jinchuruki. Naruto from a single read was able to do shadow clone jutsu, was able to do Rasengan in 3 days, was able to reach Sage mode in record time, and of course has his all powerful Talk No Jutsu.
As for Ichigo, well everyone knows the memes. He's a literal group project. His father, a retired Shinigami, and his mother, a great Quincy. He is part Hollow , and he's a fullbringer. He learned Bankai in 3 days, and Shikai in even shorter time. He learned to unleash his true bankai with the Soul King's guards, etc etc.
I mention these because, just like Yuji, while their fighting is important, their strength is not the most deciding factor. Ichigo just wants to protect his town and his friends. Naruto wanted to be Hokage, which while having strength as a factor, didn't have it as the deciding factor. Ultimately, their strength while important, weren't pivotal to their stories much like how Yuji's isn't. The focus is on their character and how they change and achieve their dreams, not with them becoming stronger.
Yuji is a great example of you need darkness to have light. We have characters like Naruto who has the nine tail fox, tho Sukuna is completely evil and hates yuji. They both use the power of another to gain power themselves, Yuta literally TAKES others powers that’s his whole thing and he’s a very much liked character. If all MC’s are gonna be the same, why would anyone continue to make manga/anime?
I don’t think Nobara returning is a deus ex machina but I do think if it were to have any real emotional impact it needed to have happened 20-30 chapters before the ending instead of like… 5. Happening this late into the story, at this critical of a moment, it’s impossible for it NOT to feel like a plot contrivance even if it does have setup.
Amen
So if Gege hadn''t said how many chapters were left it wouldn't feel contrived? I mean looking back it couldn't have been more laid out for her to come back.
Not to mention SO many people were very confident she was coming back, but people have a hard on for saying anything is cope when it comes to JJK
Yeah, it just doesn't hit and imagine the anime of her just popping out of nowhere 💀 when the anime is almost over, the viewers will be either excited or most wil be like wtf.
@@justinfoster1040 you realize that even if he didn’t *tell* us it was gonna end in 5 chapters, it still would’ve ended in 5 chapters, right?
The problem isn’t her coming back, it’s her coming back at literally the last minute. At this point she’s literally been out of the story for longer than she’s been in it. Her return was really cool in the moment but after all the hype dies down, I’m doubtful that her resolution can actually be tied up in a meaningful, emotionally impactful way in the runtime that we have remaining.
what setup?
Do you think we’ll ever get another series that’ll dethrone the brainrot of r/jujustufolk? jjk is a great series but I feel like the memes and fandom shot it to pure super stardom especially with guys like you breaking it down and talking about the lore.
like, what anime community lore series comes close?
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If people call JJK Disney Kaisen then Disney should be proud to have their name junctioned to this amazing story. JJK is better than anything i've watched from that corporation.
0:10 also volume 0's cover is kinda .... Weird
I'm just saying she's technically not 10 years old
@@kikor4954that's what Drake said
@@LDarmygiggle giggle
Just because she's hugging Rika why is that weird?
rika did get a chance to grow up and mature.. as a curse though. and it’s not like rika and yuta can get into a relationship anymore than romantic.
In addition to Kagarabachi, seeing you cover Choujin X would also be dope
Hey so with jjk coming to an end in 4 chapters I feel it would be unnecessary to come up with any new theories for how jjk will end when Gege already has everything set in stone, so I'd like to share some theories that probably won't ever get confirmed about things earlier in the series with you:
1: Are all curse techniques inherited, or are some learnable? So it was said that Nobora learned straw doll manipulation from her grandma, but could that imply that some curse techniques can be learned by anyone with CE? Unlikely but it could be interesting that some CTs are inherited while others can be learned like simple domain.
2: Who is panda's sister? Panda said that anyone who sees his sister will surely dies, but kashimo kills both her and his brother before he has the chance to activate it, so my theory for that is based of what panda might reference from a writing standpoint. Principal Yaga is Panda's father in a way and is stated by Gege to be based off of Gendo from Evangelion, so it would fit that Panda could be based off of Shinji given their similar personality (without the uhh..quirks), so could the "gorilla brother" be based of Asuka-who is more aggressive, rough, and more physically capable while Panda's sister (who i think was a triceratops) was described as shy but fearsome be based on Rei, who was the one who caused the end of the world in end of evangelion? (Thus making panda a potential special grade pre losing weight)
3. With 4 chapters left I doubt gojo is coming back, but my last bit of copium lies with the 3 dies or 3 live rule; as we know Gege likes to always do the unexpected, so there is a chance like you said earlier that he completely ignores this "rule", but i think its more likely that he follows it in a way we wouldn't expect. So what he could mean is that 3 will die, and we have already seen 3 die: yuji in the opening episodes, nobora in shibuya, and gojo (although arguably twice now), and so far only megumi has never died. Since both yuji and nobora came back, in my hopium I still think there's a chance for Gojo, but with that said I'm very happy with where the story is now and respect Gege's freedom to end it how he wants.
4. In the past, when gojo mentioned a 6-eyed user and a 10 shadows user killing each other, in my headcannon I think it was more like a fully fledge 10 shadows clan head who mastered his ct already who fought a teen 6-eyes user, since even sukuna (exceptionally talented and tamed mahoraga) with both shrine and 10 shadows barely beat a fully mastered 6 eyes user, i think its more likely that it was a premature 6 eyes (and infinity) user that died to a mahoraga that adapted to both blue and red. What do you think about this past fight?
5. The 10 shadows domain has never been shown to be complete, but if it were would it more likely be that its a barrierless domain? Maybe the reason megumi couldn't complete his domain was because he was trying to follow the barriered domain model, while it was never meant to be barriered.
6. When sukuna "found" of his brain that he could use to activate his domain again (i think when fighting todo yuji and choso) it was an incomplete domain, could this be that he actually used a part of megumi's soul instead of a part of his own body, hence why it was an incomplete domain?
Anyways, its been an honor to stick with you throughout this jjk journey
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+1 to doing Chainsaw Man in the future, I really think you will enjoy it. If you need something to sway your opinion, you can read the Goodbye Eri/Sayonara Eri one shot (same author).
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One name for Yuji's domain I heard was "Domain Expansion: Ay lemme tell you sutten real quick" 😂😂
Pretty much
Hey, Manganimist! With regards to the person that mentioned covering Bleach - It's actually the perfect time to dive in. The Thousand Year Blood War anime is spinning up again soon and we're entering a point in the anime where there appears to be significant divergence from the original manga run. Also, with how you like to dig into symbolism on JJK there's a lot to enjoy in the later/current section of Bleach. I'd honestly just recommend reading the manga to catch up instead of trying to go back to the anime. Knowing the manga ending ahead of this upcoming season will leave creators in that space with a ton to talk about from a comparison standpoint.
Your JJK videos have been very enjoyable so I'd definitely regret it if I didn't try to put you on to Bleach while there's still time to catch up. Anyways, thanks for the videos!
Unless we have a sequel, we can really say we have about effectively 3 chapters to wrap up the story (since usually the last chapter is focused moreso on the aftermath). I'm really curious on how Gege is going to wrap up this fight and especially what'll happen with Hikari and Uraume
I'd hope we segway into the next chapter with the Hikari fight and conclude that there. Second to last chapter jump back to the Sukuna beatings and we slide from there. I want to know about the geopolitical aftermath of this event
Yuji >> Deku, Tanjiro
A character who has shown more emotions instead of just being over the top honest and kind or just shouting loud and being a edgelord in rage moments.
Yuji did some of these, Mahito final black flash, Beating the shit out of Mahito after Nanami died
Deku has had rage moments but he usually goes dead silent during them and just focuses on trying to beat the hell out of the opponent, Deku Vs Muscular, Deku Vs Shagaraki post Bakugou injury.
I barely remember/watch Demon Slayer so I won’t speak for that.
@@hatman9609beating the shit out is crazy work😭 both todo and nobara was gone for like 4 years in real time in the manga to give yuji a high diff fight against mahito
And he couldnt even kill him
Deku might have been better as mc if not for the absolute shitass ending and his ideals never being challenged and the fact that he never witnessed true dread
Yuji is the closest mc to the likes of seinen mcs ( also denji )
You mean the eagles?! The owls?!
Hey Brother, it seems to me that Yuji has set Sukuna on fire and have not seen others bring it up. I though it was that his domain was imbued with the Furnace part of Shrine but after a closer look it seems it's just coming from his chest where Yuji had hit him with dismantle. Maybe he is applying the furnace fire at his dismantle? Side effect of Resonance? Sure hit of the domain? Friction burn? Just not really sure what is going on there, any thoughts?
Thanks 😄
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I mean does fugly want yuji to turn out to have been part of a warrior race from another planet? Or to have more base chakra than basically anyone else + nearly infinite chakra given to him at birth that is then later unlocked by someone else? Luffy is not at all in the same category as the others, ichigo is kinda in between.
Bro just did not read the story and idk what he wants to see yuji do a hashira training arc? 0 brain cells unfortunately
And I mean all of the abilities in JJK are "given" to them in that they're born with their CT and CE reserves based on their lineage/maybe some randomness. Its how they use their abilities in creative/smart ways. Also Idk if yuji hits black flashes because he's had sukuna in him, but maybe it is said somewhere by gege.
He quite literally had a ridiculous take on this
Yuji is the second most blessed character in the series, and if Gege actually wants him to surpass both Gojo and Sukuna, he would have already given Yuji Domain Amplification to deal with Gojo and had him whoop a 100% Heian Era Sukuna but the fact that doesnt happen is enough proof that Gege dont consider Yuji to be in the same league as the both of them despite being the MC
I dont know why you're defending Gege's decision of having Yuji being a complete bum to the real top tier of JJK
@@OnlyTheStrongest116I’ve seen no one defend that take, but most likely because no one saw any need to. If Yuji after what, 5 to 6 months as a sorcerer was as strong as the absolute top tiers of the verse, most people would find that stupid. There’s no reason for him to be there, even Gojo wasn’t that good
@@OnlyTheStrongest116 you’re implying that Gege wants yuji to surpass both gojo and sukuna in terms of combat strength? And you really think yuji having domain amplification lets him “deal with” gojo, and why would yuji be fighting gojo anyways?
This series is not “how can we make the mc the strongest in the verse”. He’s definitely got to make him strong enough to keep up with sukuna that’s why he has blood manipulation, crazy base stats, incredible focus, hits black flashes more than anybody, and now has shrine. But all of that is only a means to an end and it’s not just so he’s the strongest in the verse.
That’s actually kind of one of the biggest points of JJK that individual strength isn’t ultimately the main thing to focus on. Didn’t end up working out well for gojo, and I don’t have a feeling sukuna being the literal strongest in history is going to end up too good for him in the end.
If you wanna watch “mc go brr cause he strongest” there’s plenty of options for you
@@justinfoster1040 The series in hindsight would turn into a complete joke once you realized that EOS Yuji can't handle someone like Gojo and Full Power Sukuna. There's far more benefit to having a strong MC compared to a weak one
Bleach is actually kicking back up with new manga and the season of the anime is about to start up. Perfect time to get into bleach
With all the suffering, we saw Yuji gone through because being weak, and now there's people saying he doesn't deserve his power is criminal. And compared to others MC he compared him to, who just have to scream louder to get astounded power at least his abilities and where they come from are well explained and doesn't just go from 0-100, he evolve steadily. There's some that saying his awakening was lackluster because he didn't seem much more powerful than before. His domain isn't powerful enough to one-shot Sukuna at his state with his sure hit. For me, he deserves even more. That's why I think the story is not over yet. Him and Megumi and others too have more room for growth.
Excuse me? The What now in the LotR? Great points thogh
I like the idea of Yuta getting a binding bow placed on himself by gojo in Gojo’s body
A JJK - Bleach crossover would be straight fire and blow up the internet
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"Deus ex machina - a *person* or a thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced *suddenly* and *unexpectedly* and provides a *contrived solution* to an apparently insoluble *difficulty* "
Sorry dude, those are just facts. It's not a matter of subjectivity. She's a deus ex machina.
It's not really contrived if Gege intentionally saved the final finger to be resonanced by her
Ahhh there he is...the jjk guy
To say Yuji is a bad MC because he gets "handed" powerful abilities feels kind of disingenuous tbh. Yuji taking things like Simple Domain and Blood Manipulation aren't good because they're "feats" but because that proves his ideology right. Sukuna believes that a person's strength defines them or rather doesn't understand the idea that someone's strength can be defined by the people they surround themselves with. Yuji taking techniques and moves from his friends, teachers, and brother proves that on their own they couldn't stand up to Sukuna but by building those connections with eachother Yuji defeats Sukuna with the one thing the King of Curses could never understand or copy
Wow it's like someone actually read the series and not with their butts
@@xblade149it's crazy how many people haven't read the manga and just experience it through leaks on twitter lol
Yuta being in the cover is nice also
I also think the reason why the cleave looked different when yuta used it. Is due to we are in yuji's perspective, we get to see him trace the snip in his mind. I think of it like how when we were in mukuna's perspective, when he did the spiderweb in the maki and yuji brawl. It gets outlined and then happens.
Hey love your content man its so good. When it comes to suggestig new stuff, this doesn't need to be your main since you're not caught up but no anime i inow provokes more discussion than one piece. You have so much to talk about there. You seem to really enjoy goig through ideas and theories and one piece has that in spades and its consistenly popular and on going so you can at least get a good few years of content from it
Resident Bleach agenda pusher Crimson here
Wanted to provide some info on the situation of bleach. As many know, the anime ran from 2004 to 2012, and was canceled before it had the chance to adapt the manga's final arc, with the manga ending in 2016 after concluding it's final arc.
As a 20th year anniversary celebration of the manga, it was announced the final arc was receiving an adaptation in 2022 (10 years after the original anime ended), and that adaptation is currently ongoing, heading into it's 3rd of 4 seasons, so there is some current momentum for the series thanks to that.
However, we also got a one-shot for that 20th anniversary that functionally served as an extended chapter 1 to what is a new arc, but we have heard no news since on Kubo releasing new chapters or continuing that one-shot.
All this is to say, it would be awesome to see you consider the series more heavily should the manga make a full return ❤
I would love to see you cover One Punch Man, I think you would definitely enjoy it and with season 3 of the anime coming soon it could be a good time to jump on the OPM train. Also, you already replaced everyone as my go to JJK youtuber, I wouldn't mind replacing for OPM too :)
My man's is really mad that Yuji beat Sukuna. He's a gojo glazers that was expecting him to come back and kill sukuna but nope didn't happened
Yuji beat a tired Sukuna that got ganked by something that he can't prepare for aka Nobara
Gojo literally solo'd a 100% Meguna and put him at death door despite being a side character, do you see how disrespectful it is to Yuji that he isn't even given the chance to fight and possibly defeat a full power Heian Era Sukuna despite being the MC?
@@OnlyTheStrongest116 Why would Yuji or any other jujutsu high students fight sukuna solo? The fact they did a group effort of taking him makes way sense then ass pull powerups. Yuji also did 1v1 sukuna multiple times and did the most damage this entire arc besides gojo. Just became nobara helped at the end doesn't change that.
Nobara less of a Deus ex Machina and more of a Chekov's gun.
Yes but bad example of Chekhov's gun
@@starkiller3097 no
@@xblade149 nice reasoning. Chekhov's guns shouldn't be used in such straight forward way. The fact that many people was so sure that nobara must come back and just did is a sign of poorly made gun. There was no meaning whithin the story but just a cheap plot twist to serve author
@@xblade149 For example, Yuta making Gojo coming back is actually a good Chekhov's gun. We knew that something would happen but it was mystery and then puzzle is completed. You get satisfaction because author played with you, you accepted the rules of the game and still was shocked of the outcome which happened but hadn't broken those rules
@@starkiller3097 Probably not a textbook example of a Chekov's gun. I think a strict definition of it actually includes an act structure with the "gun" placed at specific parts.
Bleach is worth covering for TYBW thats coming out, honestly only other thing giving me life other than JJK
Iirc, the positioning of Yuta's sword in the cover art mimicks where he got hit with the World Cutting Slash. If so, sly details by Gege there
You should make content on Kagurabachi imo. I think it will be the next big thing hands down.
For me because there nothing special about him is why he is my favorite MC. He is what I describes as F2P main character. He is not special like other people in the series, that's why he consider him a "cog".
Yes, please read Chainsaw Man! Definetely my second favorite shonen series rn behind JJK. Granted I haven't read Dandandan and Sakamoto Days, but they're on my tbr.
How is Nobara a Deus Ex? she been hinted at for a while, and logically Gege could say everyone told Yuji that she was dead because they feared Sukuna could know his thoughts due to the resonance.
It is kinda of dues ex mainly for the reason of it being this late in the game. If you can’t take a character out for that long only to back in the last 5 chapters because of their power that’s a little too plot convenient to not be dues ex.
In addition to last comment. Whole mystery behind her was not for Yuji to not know but for readers to speculate more about jjk plot going in either direction. And because of it for us it feels underwhelming. When Chekhov's gun has no solid reasoning whithin the plot it feels like deus ex machina (as in my country it is called "piano in the bush")
Nobara just has to be explained cause if it just ended, ya ass pull
Insane plot twist where gojo retakes his body to somehow bind Sukunas soul to his soul to then die with Sukuna
I'm kinda thinking the Merger might be used to turn every non sorceror in Japan into one. That'd get rid of Cursed Spirits in Japan, which would bring things back around...though require a lot of work to fix up.
Gotta disagree with the arguments against Nobara's sudden appearance not being a Deus Ex Machina situation due to how extremely coincidental her waking up was. To put it bluntly :
1. She woke up post-Gojo's death
2. During the time-frame the Sukuna gauntlet was still ongoing
3. During Yuji's domain, a time at which Mei Mei's crow can't provide visual reconnaissance which then leads to
4. Nobara struck the finger at the exact moment Sukuna was about to use his DE and prevented him from overtaking Yuji's domain and granting Yuji's domain the chance to land the sure-hit effect
Had Todo talked about Nobara's recovery when he was reintroduced a few chapters ago then Gege would have re-incorporated her into the story in a much proper way than have this "oh she just woke up and she inadvertently saved Yuji, yay power of friendship" type of moment.
Yuji's domain name would be call memory shrine
2:20 Yuji's thing is being able to pull off black flashes almost willingly "not at will but way more often than every other BF user". No one can do it like he does, not even Sukuna or Gojo, that has always been more or less his "trademark".
If you like looking into a breaking down symbolism and just big theories and analysis Chainsaw man is 100% for you! The symbolism and sure wildness of that manga is probably an easy jump from JJK. I mean Fujimoto and Gege have talked about copying each other abd really loving their series’s
getting mad at someone for how they write their story is like getting mad at someone for drawing a character how they want it this is their story that they wanted to share with us
like god forbid some people survive after we lost half the cool characters on the cast and now its disney kaisen after literally months of mfs dying and sukuna ass pulls? Fans gotta stop like atp go watch attack on titan you edge lords gottas chill
If gege wants to write shit I’ll let him, it’s not gonna stop me from calling it shit. 🤣
Sukuna is gonna scream out to his bath giving buddy, but no response. Help will not arrive...777. If you know, you know.
I don't understand why people were so butthurt about her return tbh. There was even a precedent set for this entire thing, which is why I never stopped coping/hoping she would come back. In season 1 Itadori "dies" for a while without anyone knowing he's actually alive, this is literally just the exact opposite. Last time, we as the audience, watched from Itadori's pov so we knew he was alive the entire time. This time we still watched from Itadori's pov, which is why we were led to believe she didn't make it the same way he was until her return.
It just feels like a clumsy plot. Gege used her death to reinforce speculation about "either one will die" and then revived her to cheer up her fans. If she was my favorite character, i would be disappointed. No development of a character and also devaluation of her death and the meaning behind of it
You literally answered your own question in the last part of your comment. We knew that Yuji wasn't dead. Not same for Nobara
Bro
CSM is amazing, legit doing new shit i never seen before please give it a chance
every single complaint about Yuji in that comment misses the whole point that collectivism > individualism. Community strength over isolated power.
JJK fans proper hate when JJK characters reflect the themes of JJK instead of being goku
What do you mean yuji was given these powers , all sorcerers are born with 80% of theit innate potential
if yuji didn't earn his powerups , most didn't
If the next chapter starts with Yuji at the airport I‘m losing my shit
Yuji isn’t the MC because of his power. Yuji is the MC because of his mindset and his growth as a person.
I agree i actually i don't really care about the power scaling either i care more about the characters growth not just in strength and it was hella cool when Yuji got his get back against sukuna
My boy Yuta looking good on that cover
Did anyone else notice that sukuna was throwing up fingers. I wonder how many fingers sukuna has rn
The one will die ending, my guess would be that Yuji dies with all of Sukuna's fingers, as that was Yuji's goal in the beginning of the series, as that's the only thing he can do.
I hope the next volume cover is Yuji
No, Yuji is not a bad MC. It's just that JJK should have never been a shounen anime/manga. Yuji is quite different, by shounen standards, but if JJK had been made outside of that ridiculous category to make more money, Yuji would have been a pretty interesting MC. Just my two cents, of course.
How would jjk being categorized outside of shounen help Yuji as a character? The stories aren't defined by the genre, the genre is defined by the story. Meaning a writer doesn't write their mc's personality, work ethic etc based on the acceptable standards of the genre. They write the character as they see fit, and outline the story as a whole within the shounen category. Yes shounen mc's tend to be very similar, no a shounen mc does not have to follow that trend. FMA, Fate/Stay, Blue Exorcist and JJK are prime examples.
Are you trying to say that JJK would have been better as a novel or a western style comic? Just curious on your perspective because I’ve never heard that before
@@jaydenakey6309no he means a seinen is think
If jjk wasn’t a shonen it would loose its greatest asset which is its break neck pace and constant fights,
if it was a seinen the lack of specific character interactions like the skipped stuff after gojo came out of the prison realm or nobara and megumi being shafted very much in favor of fights upon fights upon fights, it’s would’ve being judged wayyy more harshly on its characters,
yuji is an above average Mc with his best moments being in shibuya unfortunately he is not great not because jjk is not a seinen but because jjk doesn’t give its characters a breather to interact, not to say it’s pure fights , shonen are to tell stories with fights which is what jjk does best but at the expense of deeper characters, the most glaring example of that is trading geto arguably one of the best characters in jjk for kenjaku a literal plot device to create more fights,
fortunately satoru and sukuna worked well within that frame because their journey is about strength and how it shaped their views in life , all this issue could’ve being resolved with a longer final arc but gege is cooking what he is cooking and I’m here for the meal
Stfu with this deconstruction of shonen shit. Latest chapter shows jjk is just like any other Shonen just because he kills characters don't make him different
What content are you going to make after jjk ends?
If last volume cover ain’t Yuji I will personally find Gege
Fuck Yuji bro 🤨
I think the best defense of Yuji I have his the MC that showed and stepped up when they needed him to, The power system of the verse is directly related to personal growth and no one can argue mf has not grown.
To all of yuji's opps. First of all Yuji has been a sorcer for the same amount of time as yuta in Jjk0. People forget everything in the manga literally happened in the course of 6 months. Secondly I like Yuji cause he grows through actual growth, Gege wrote talk no jutsu the right way by attaching ones own understanding of self to their innate understanding of their technique. I hope future generations of writers use Yuji as a template for what they can accomplish with their characters!
I’m done. I’m done with this community.
I’m a huge JJK fan but I do not put myself with the fandom not just because of the contagious lobotomy within it but because all of them are constantly upset when one person does what. When a character doesn’t do what they want, they get mad, and when they do, they still get mad. Theses guys are impossible to satisfy.
I get it. JJK is just too crazy to have weekly to double-weekly releases- it’s probably peak shonen fights in my opinion- but these guys are getting it get to them and now they complain when ever a chapter releases.
You can’t have any fun with these guys. All they talk about how everyone is a fraud, Gege is a bad writer, and beyond that still find ways to hate. I don’t hate anyone but I am starting to hate this fandom.
Love the video as always, but gotta say that they were eagles not owls
To the point of Yuji having no powers of his own making, Goku is a great example of someone who has no techniques of his own either. His most popular move, the Kamehameha wave is from Master Roshi, the Kaioken from North Kai, Super Saiyan from his heritage, Instant Transmission from Yardrat, UI from Whis, etc.. The only thing you could say he cooked up on his own is SSJ3, but that transformation suprisingly has very few major feats (outside of non-canon movies), and in that same vein you could say Divergent Fist is Yuji's one unique ability.
Remember people no body no death. It's the same as chekhov's gun. And I thought Nobara was dead as well but always kept that rule in mind.
reducing yuji's relevency as an MC by his powerscaling and training arc in the verse is literally child like
Question:
Could Yuta sacrifice one of the six eyes to remove the time limit or the cooldown of Kenjaku's technique?
Or would it be sacrificed to bring Gojo back like we all want?
Either way, i think Yuta might die or nearly die.
Imagine if Nobara got the six eyes which probably won't happen, but it is fun to think about. What do you think would happen?
Also, If Gojo does come back, excluding Yuji, who do you think out of all three would be the most likely to die.
Good job on the vids!
9:45, gettin' some Dune vibes from that one!
Bleach and Chainsaw man would both be amazing. The bleach anime is coming back next month and the chainsaw man manga is insane right now