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Hey, Mangamist, i don’t know if you’re going to see this, but I was wondering how Gojo would put up against Death from Final Destination, I wondered what would happen, and what specifically death would do to kill Gojo due to his infinity, However there are obviously some things to point out, Number one, this would take place AFTER, Gojos fight with Toji, meaning that Toji is dead and that Curse tool that can Pearce his infinity is gone, secondly, This takes place in between the Geto turns evil situation, meaning Geto and Gojo are still friends. Finally, despite this taking place after Gojos awakening, and since I want him to be a bit more vulnerable, he’s still training his infinity, meaning he can’t keep it on for too long, but he has mastered it so that he can have it on ALMOST constant, but not too much, which would give death less time or a chance to kill him.
Higuruma's case is curious beacuse it can lead to multiple paths. 1.- He refuses to join the jujutsu world and gives himself to the police beacuse of the murders he commited at the start of the culling games and we see a replay of Yuji's escene but this time with Higuruma. 2.- Since he has nothing else to do he ends up joining the jujutsu world as a teacher or mentor or whatever. 3.- He's truly done with everything and ends himself.
@@SGT_NUMBNUTZ2736 his DE's a godsend for atleast determining the defendant being guilty or not. His DE is tailor made to run in accordance with law while still an ace for an attorney or prosecutor. Though i still think his murder spree's not in the same ballpark as Maki (somewhat justified) but didn't Yuta kill a fair share of bullies?
The only real reason I think everyone is up in arms about these recent chapters is because it feels like everything is happening so fast, Nobara after absolutely 0 mention since the beginning of the culling games shows up the same chapter Megumi comes back from Sukuna, just seems super convenient and rushed, it’s almost like Nobara was written out because her cursed technique was so broken. Then the literally next chapter after they both come back Sukuna is defeated and they’re just chilling having fun, there’s no post fight sigh or relief, it’s just a “sukuna you’re me” then “hey guys did you miss me” from Nobara, same with Yuta, it goes from oh he could die to “don’t worry about it guys Rika was keeping me alive and then I was able to just be fixed” and we didn’t see anything of it, long story short, I think people just want to see how we get to some of these story beats with gege just telling us how it happened. It kinda cheapens the stakes if they just can be A-okay the literal next chapter and we don’t have any hints or follow through stuff. A solution maybe could’ve shown Rika with an aura of rct around Yutas body to let the more intuitive reader see that and go “huh she’s healing his body that might be important later”, maybe have Nobara and Megumi come back a few chapters apart and flush out their return a bit more, just so people feel satisfied like these things we’ve been waiting for feel like they paid off
True , the aftermath of 'the sukana fight' feels very lackluster. The working of binding vows is not explained either , like if it's an automatic process any feat done with it , is not impressive!
You forget the part where being closer to death is part of a sorcerer's life. It was even stated a couple of times in the story. As a sorcerer, you fight and those around you may die and you have to move on because it is the life of a sorcerer. And yeah, Gege don't need to show us how they cleaned up after the fight. And while there are dramatic moments here and there, it is a "Kaisen", the story is about fighting. And would you have Nobara show herself way before and ruin the surprise for readers? They hid her death on purpose just like Gojo initially hid Yuji's coming back to life.
Exactly. Every major plot point that people actually care about are unexplained and there’s only 2 chapters left. Not to mention he spent an entire chapter talking about a plot point that he literally created and resolved in the same chapter, that NO ONE cared about, knowing full well there’s only 3 more chapters. He did one piece level of fake out deaths for no reason, he leaves anything with any sort of relevance off screen. This is just bad writing. It’s bad. I know Gege is a great writer but this is bad writing. No consequences for majority of the characters but consequences for some. Why?? I would like to know 10 people who would’ve wanted the intricacies of simple donation to be expanded on during the last 3 chapters. Also bringing back characters for no reason at the end just shows that their “deaths” were entirely for shock value, and not to actually write a story.
In all fairness, I get Nobara's return being a "I bet you forgot this" more then anything. There isn't really a character arc associated with her return, she has her entire recovery off screen and just happened to recover enough to be able to hit Sukuna with a resonance at the last possible moment. Not at all similar to Sakura from Naruto suddenly deciding she was relevant, Nobara despite her very chequered record has always been very effective when her hammer gimmick is pulled off at full force (e.g. resonance, and striking Momo with a hammer likely would've killed her if she aimed for the kill.) but I could see from a writing perspective how that would be just convenient She just happened to finally make her presence known the minute she was needed and not any sooner.
I think one of the reasons for fans questioning the writing is because Gege can be a good writer, and has written many great moments, but where Gege struggles in is consistency and pacing. Like some golden moments are so well thought out and are fleshed out fully, but then others moments feel random with someone saying "oh this happened cause of this thing that we never stated could be a thing, but actually that was always a thing" or sometimes shit in general is just inconsistent This previous statement can apply to the most recent chapter as most people will point to it due to recency, and while I agree with some of those, I've been arguing about the inconsistencies such as Gojo's "teleport" conditions or Sukuna's cursed tool being taken (among other things) seemed very convenient and wasn't well established beforehand for quite some time. As for pacing, I don't think I need to make a case for the pacing cause it seems fairly obvious and is one of JJK's main criticisms I still enjoy JJK and by no means am I calling out Gege for being a bad writer cause they're not, but I still think there are moments that are never lived up too their true potential, which is kind of ironic in parallel with the world of Jujutsu
Yea I've been saying this for ages. Gege isn't a bad writer, jjk just isn't his full potential. Most of jjk is clearly not his 100% but when you get to see glimpses of it, you see a writer with so much potential behind them
accept that it is consistent. I seen people act like hitting black flashes to regain your RTC is an ass pull when Sukuna did it... while its been established by Gojo over 50 chapters ago thats Black flashes can rewrite the brain. The fact people are acting like these guys death were 100% confirm meanwhile for the last 50 chapters everyone theorize that they all gonna return for the last round. you cant have it both ways.
Well, the thing with pacing is that it's tough to debate, since pacing itself is not the problem; pacing is dependent on other issues throughout the story affecting it. I think what affects JJK's pacing is its focus on battle, strategy, and the explanation of techniques and abilities. All of this is amazing, and is the reason why JJK is so popular, but it comes in the way of character work and more world building. Let's take Sukuna for example, not much is known about him other than his overbearing need for combat and destruction. Geto is also pretty cut and dry too. Toji is the first complex villain this show ever had, and Kenjaku had quite a bit on him which makes him great. The series just needs a bit more character drama and development. I understand Gege wanted to do the 1 month time skip to the Sukuna battle, but we needed more characters interacting before that. Why has Kashimo also never met Ryu since they're from the same era? Why is Kashimo so bent on fighting Sukuna, yet we never saw him have an interaction with Gojo? Why haven't more Culling Game characters had a chance to interact with Gojo, someone who from their perspective, is the rumored BEST of the modern era? Why has Todo and Choso never even been around each other when they both have a brotherhood bond with Yuji?
@@dr.boring7022 Character interactions/development and story telling is part of pacing ;-; Edit: the guys comment was altered from when I read it and now I 100% agree with it
The weird thing to me is that Higuruma explicitly went into this fight not *expecting* to die, but *hoping* to die. It feels like of all the characters to kill off he was just an easy one to add to Sukuna's kill count I don't particularly care for dark endings so I'm happy to see him alive, but it's incredibly weird regardless
tbh the dark ending might be him not dying, surviving to face the bad things he has done, not getting the easy way out but also getting a second chance to fix stuff, kind of like how rehabilitation should work for real life criminals. for me, it's more poetic that higuruma survives.
The Culling games has a rule that if players points remain the same for a while, they die. So here is my question. Is the Culling games over. Cos if it isn't, that's just a massive genocide everyone has ignored. And if it was ended, I will very much like to know how tf they pulled that off.
This chapter was gege answering TH-cam comments. Next two chapters he answers Twitter and Reddit questions. 😃 😊 No really it's tough to end a series but if his health is suffering let the man end it the way he wants.
I don’t think Gege is a bad writer, he’s produced some of the greatest shonen moments in my recent memory. However, I think as readers it’s important for us to acknowledge that he does have weaknesses as a writer, particularly with developing interpersonal relationships between characters. Overall, it’s not fair to call Gege a bad writer on account of his weaknesses as every writer has their strengths and weaknesses, no one is perfect. But I think it’s also unfair to dismiss people who fairly criticize and highlight those weaknesses as people trying to hate or bring negativity
@@ManganimistYT Yeah anime fandoms tend to operate on extremes so my comment was more directed at that. You can appreciate geges writing while acknowledging where he excels and where he falters, a lot of people try to make it a matter of great vs horrible writer. But in the end, it’s very hard to get your own multi million dollar franchise without writing skill. Gege is definitely a good writer, if not a great one. He just handles certain things in a way that some(including me) don’t appreciate as much as the next guy
The problem is most of the "criticism" is flooding social media with extreme hate for the author and memes and saying here's another trash ending etc. I just prefer to like JJK in my own solidarity. I could give less than a f**k on what others think about it
I thinks it’s funny how people used to complain, “ everyone dies in jjk, this is lazy writing” and then when people actually survive they are now complaining, “why is no one dead”
Yea it's done poorly. Less people died in this final battle (actual meaningful deaths) than during the shinjuku showdown. Sukuna beat up every one of them within an inch of their life. Yuta and Higuruma almost got cut in half. How did more people not die? And how did fodder like Miwa survive Sukuna's domain expansion?
I think it parallels the Shibuya incident very nicely. In Shibuya, everything went wrong. Gojo got sealed, a ton of people died, Sukuna decimated the city, and Kenjaku started the culling games. Shibuya is the "darkest hour" moment of JJK. Contrasting this with the Shinjuku showdown, where the good guys made a very detailed plan to take down Sukuna. Gojo may have lost the battle, but he played a crucial role in the fight. He crippled Sukuna's RCT for a large part of the fight and rendered his domain nigh unusable. Then, the whole gauntlet of sorcerers slowly chipped away at Sukuna's CE reserves and dealt small victories to him. This all culminated with Yuji's domain, where he finally lands a finishing blow on Sukuna. The Shinjuku Showdown was a "what if Shibuya went right". Very few people died, the main villain was defeated, and Megumi was rescued.
What I dont like about this arc is that it lacks the consequences that the shibuya incident had. The shibuya incident HAD MASSIVE CONSEQUENCES, the sealing of gojo brought forth literal hell, the second he was gone, notable sorcerers like nanami were dead, nobara was mortally injured, todo and inumaki was dismembered, maki was burned alive, ino got his head beaten to a bloody pulp, everyone that was in shibuya when sukuna was fighting jogo were either torned to pieces or incinerated, evergkne that was in shibuya while sukuna and mahoraga were either smashed to bits, dismembered, turned to dust, incinerated etc. Yuji's execution was continued and Yuta was sent as his executioner Shibuya had massive consequences that the characters had to go through. In the Shinjuku showdown however? Not that much. Gojo, choso and kashimo died. I mean the deaths aren't a problem, my issue was that there aren't any meaningful consequences like there were in shibuya. Higuruma should've died a noble death who defended the innocent, yuta should've either died or be permanently stuck at gojo's body, megumi should've been in a coma after eating 5 domain expansions.
One minute the JJK community was mad at Gege having everyone "die", now that people realize these characters didn't die, they were just injured and recovered, now it doesn't have "massive consequences".
@@SpyJamz I liked the deaths during the Shibuya arc although seeing a favourite character die would be devastating. It doesn't mean it's bad, hell it doesn't have to be deaths in general, massive consequences still need to happen after fighting the strongest sorcerer in the world. How did the strongest sorcerer who's main ability is cut things not dismember any of the anti sukuna squad? Higuruma got dismembered yeah but he got RCT to patch it back up. What about ino? Kusakabe? Miwa? Lerou? Or hell how did maki not get heavily injured? She should be bed ridden after eating 2 black flashes and 1 domain expansion that she has no protection against and I know for certain miwa was not fast enough to help her out quickly enough, she got fucking slashed apart. How did none of the anti-sukuna squad get any scars for fighting the king of curses? One of them should've lost an arm or leg or at the very least gotten scars on their face or arms after fighting sukuna. But shoko has RCT? You mean to tell me jogo's flames were more powerful because shoko's RCT couldn't fix maki's scars?
I think the last arc having a bright ending is fitting. They were able to pull off a miracle because of the will and dreams of Gojo and the power of the community. Together, they disproved Sukuna's worldview to usher in a new era of healing. I think that's beautiful.
The real problem with the Sukuna fight is just how incredibly bad the overall plan was. Gege just runs through a bunch of ideas without thinking how a competent group of experienced fighters would use what's at thier disposal. 1. You have a sword that can one shot Sukuna that anyone can hold as we see with Yuji. 2. Teleportation you can get anyone out of the fight at anytime. 3. boogie woogie you can overwhelm your opponents senses making them unable to know what attack is coming from where. 4. Yuta's domain expansion which can deal critical damage. The executioner sword, Yuta's domain and boogie woogie are all spread throughout the fight when combining them raises the odds of victory significantly. Higuruma can just be teleported out leaving the executioner sword for anyone to use then once Yuta and Todo get back from Kenjaku they can combine all their abilities and kill Sukuna easily. They even have Maki to sneak Sukuna with the executioner sword since Todo can easily swap it with the split soul. This whole fight just made everyone look like clowns
Thank you sooo much for this amazing video, you deserve all the yapping and praise, too!!!! I love Higuruma so much. The panel in which Higuruma's client gave him THAT look was one of the most tragic pictures I've ever seen. Everything about Higuruma's experience is really haunting and painful, but at the same time he has an incomparable mental strength. My question: Could you tell 5 positive reasons why JJK should end after the coming two chaps? I don't know why people are complaining about the latest chaps and the ending or why they're trying to guilt-trip JJK-lovers, but my gut says: It's just a great time to wrap this journey up. Thank you :)
My friend and I were discussing the ending to JJK and one thing he said I have to agree with. Sukuna is both the greatest threat and the biggest jobber in the series. I've never seen a final antagonist on the level of Sukuna who during the Shibuya arc absolutely wreak havoc and killing so many characters feeling like such a massive threat only for the final arc to happen and he could only kill a few a people. It makes him feel less like a threat when he's hitting people like Larue with a black flash and doesn't kill them. I also hate the fact he was just "toying" with them because it just makes him look like an idiot. And honestly, no matter what you may say, chapter 269 is awful. An author using their characters as straw men for the audience to insecurely explain why the fight panned out the way it did is bad writing no buts about it.
Higuruma being alive actually fixes a plot hole. Curses are supposed to get stronger after people die, so if Higuruma was really dead, then his executioner’s sword should have gotten stronger. However, it shatters when Yuji tries to use it against Sukuna.
no the plot hole is actually him being alive. htf did he survive even sukuna was 100% bro was dead worse is his curse technique deactivated so we know for sure he didn't heal himself. he should be 100% dead how did he survive that's the current pothole, sukuna said shoko couldn't heal him plus she was busy working on gojo's body anyways so just how did bro survive
@AniSwiftTVRecaps sit down this ain't shibuya sukuna was holding back so he survived which make way to much sense to me I don't get why you want the characters to die like literally bro sit down💀💀💀
My opinion of Gege and JJK is that it does some things amazing, particularly in building up hype confrontations and some satisfying character arcs. But Gege also has genuine weaknesses as an author, particularly in character development and pacing like others have said. And with JJK being his first project, that's more than fine. He's already made a good series, and I'm looking forward to seeing him make a great one in future.
Guess what, bozo, most of the great Mangaka made a great series in their debut. Miura (Berserk), Oda (One Piece), Isayama (AoT), and Fujimoto (Fire Punch), then there's one-eyed cat bum with only hype moments and aura bs in his writing, yet his plots are generic and mid (except HI arc, he outdid himself in that part), all he ever good with is writing complicated power system which most Shonen brainrot like the most, fuck good wiring, lol
I don't really care that Higuruma survived (Not that I don't like him, the guy is one of my Top 5 favorite characters) but what annoys me is the fact that after all the drama and tension that was created with Yuta using Kenjaku's CT, risking his own life and "becoming a monster"....he comes back with zero consequences.
@@jeezyyplays6234I agree and plus Yuta wasnt left alone long enough for. An opportunity for him to be punished. Yuji and Todo immediately after the domain clash came to fight Sukuna. Ive said it before this whole monster thing. Yuta dipped his foot into it but, not completely. He asked Gojo permission for his body after potential death. Which a monster wouldnt do. Kenjaku and Sukuna both took his vessels bodies without permission. Unlike Yuta and yeah the collaboration of everyone saved Yuta from being punished.
@@ManganimistYT i see you too are on the copium till the end :D i'm close to breaking but i don't wanna become part of the meme that says that all the gojo hopers give up just before he returns xD
Yuuta had Rika along with everyone else, he was never alone. Thats why many of them didn't die except Choso but once more Yuuji was not alone he had Todo and Choso, Higgy was not alone with Uiui teleporting him asap, Yuuta had Yuuji to cover for him and Rika when he got hit by the dismantle. Maki had Miwa in that one needed scenario. A part of a reason Gojo failed was because _he was alone_ by choice. He did not have anyone to cover him for his mistakes mishaps etc him getting chopped in half first aid could not be administered because he was already gone by the time Higgy and Yuuji got there to teleport Gojo body away. He did not have a Rika to RCT him either. The whole point was how selfish Gojo and Sukuna were in which they believed they did not need anyone's help, Sukuna seeing others trash and Gojo seeing others as hindrance. When in the end strength prevailed in numbers, unity, and companions. Selfless love for others.
I don't mind any of The Characters coming back... Something just feels strange about the environment after the Fight against Sukuna. Nothing feels Serious. Not the destruction of Shinjuku, countless deaths and not to say GOJO's death... What is GEGE thinking? This ending is so unsatisfying that it just feels strange reading JJK cause it doesn't feel like I'm reading JJK 💀
i think gege has a hard time making people feel stuff/conveying emotions through his writing and i think that's not because he doesn't know how but because he prioritizes other stuff, like fixing plot holes and focusing more on shocking us and subverting expectations. the maki part should makes us feel things, we should feel that she is angry because she is worried for yuta, because she loves him. gege wanted to convey that but he also wanted to steelman his argument of why everything should have happened they way it did in the fight against sukuna and that takes people out of it and doesn't let them feel the feelings. having so very few chapters left and so many missed opportunities to let us sit with the characters and get to really know em deeply, like nobara staying dead for the shock value of coming back right at the end is another example of what i'm talking about.
I feel nothing. Bc there are no stakes The real point of stakes are taken out. And sukuna is visibly seen going down and down as the raid goes on. In the end nobara comes and cucks yuji with the victory shot
The thing is that you are using the good writing of Gege in past chapters to justify this rushed and full of looseends last chapters as being good writing. Loose ends, rushing the storying and selling a dark ending since Shibuya and than showing everyone alive and well, even the ones with good endings like higuruma, and Jumping to this chapter about New Shadow Style that no one asked and wanted to know. Why not use this Chapter to end well Hakari fight or other thing that he left open...
Thanks for always keeping it real. I agree with your thoughts on whether the deaths / lack of deaths were planned or foreshadowed and not bad writing 👍🏾.
@@DavidWhat-j9swith the amount of people he's killed over the span of years. I think he'd know. His domain broke after he died. Yuta was cut in half with Rika holding his body. This shouldve been the end for th we guys
You said if Sukuna wanted Higuruma dead then he would've been dead, well in 248 Sukuna says "even after his death Kamutoke is still gone". He then later in the chapter says "did that sorcerer's death disappoint me?" I can see why people dislike Higuruma being alive, and I think the dislike is warranted. It's pretty much a fake out death. It's not like Nobara because in her case, Nitta told us that she had a chance at survival, and we were never told outright that she died. With Higuruma, Gege has him think that he should play his role to completion and die in that fight, we see him get hit with Cleave by Sukuna, and then we get a scene that mirrors Nanami's death, he then tells Yuji "I've done what I can". I disliked him being alive and I understand why so many people feel the same way.
I think manganimist covers why it was the best scenario for Higuruma to come back well in this video, so that aside...Sukuna is an unreliable narrator, so taking anything he said about topics you know as the reader he isnt the authority on as the truth is shaky at best. Sukuna's narration was basically what the reader was meant to be thinking because, just like him, we didnt have all the details on the good guys' plan.
The biggest hint that higuruma lived is the fact that right before sukuna slashed him he was missing an arm, but when ui ui picked him up it was healed. Higuruma most likely just got knocked out.
appreciate ya putting this out, was definitely surprised gege confirmed him alive, but of the "aura loss" moments I'm even more surprised people pointed to this as one. Sukuna was literally bored and playing with a sorcerer he thought could be potentially powerful. That's like the height of sukuna's selfish sadistic brand of evil. The disney kaisen allegations aside, I do feel the ending has tilted into a lord of the rings flavor of suspense, where the characters have been in constant threat of danger, but not many actually lost their lives from it. That being said, the cast has been put through the fucking ringer, and I'd rather more characters get to walk into the sunset after this historic fight, than gege killing them off relentlessly for the sake of ending the story faster. Keep on cookin penguin man!
There's nothing wrong with bringing back characters but you cant just write them like they died and then just suddenly bring them back That entire moment where Higuruma says his farewell to Yuji only to comeback just feels off especially when it was used as an emotional moment for Yuji Ppl can defend it all they want but the ending and overall wrap up on this paticular arc was handled poorly on Gege's part since he had the ending in mind for years At least have a chapter where things transition smoothly instead of just throwing things in last minute such as Nobara randomly coming back right before Sukuna's defeat like wow how convienent
I know right, it's like if hanami said all that goodbye to yuji, exploded and then after shibuya ended he's like "sup yuji *insert explanation on how tf he survived mahito here* and I'm back now. Also it's kinda funny that mahito is like deadlier than sukuna, like damn sukuna out here doin paper cuts over and over while mahito can touch you and you're dead, sukuna shoulda just possessed mahito's body lmao, fuck 10 shadows you only need this 1 ct
Thanks for telling us you did not read the story properly. What part of those chapters definitively stated that Higuruma died? It was not like the Nanami scene at all. If he did came back, then feel free to bitch about it. On Nobara, boy oh boy, the moment her CT was introduced most people who can think already had an inkling she will do something in the end. Then there was that "is dead or is she not". She was not done like Nanami as well so we know she could have survived and she was even put in a suspended state. Plus, she is also the natural enemy of Mahitor, a guy with powers in relation to souls (and Sukuna is also functioning on manipulating souls). And then Yuji asking and not getting a verbal response but only a look. And then the rest of the story every readers half-expecting her to come back. Then the whole soul thing with Mahito and the resonance she did with Yuji's brothers and later was called back. I mean there were signs! Too many signs! The moment I saw her use her resonance on the body part of Yuji's brother the thought immediately cross my mind, well, Sukuna's fingers are parts of himself, how convenient if Nobara gets one of those. And then a lot of TH-camrs even made theories about how she'd do it. All the elements were set way back in the story. And as readers, we should just put our hands on our face and say either " I knew it!" or "Oh my, why did I not realize that". And since you probably did not get that, you are one of those "I did not see that coming, it is bad".
@@angrymeowngi just because the elements are set up and a death is not confirmed doesnt mean it is well executed at all. For all your reading , the arguments are very basic. Ofcourse there is setup to the story , ofcourse she is strong enough and enemy to mahito and can do a lot with sukuna's fingers. Its just the stupidiest explanation that " she woke up at the right time ". That is such an unserious way to bring her back into the mess. Not to mention just randomly share yuji's moment when he clearly he himself was sure he could kill sukuna. Its unnecessarily sharing yuji's victory moment..someone who the stakes with someone who did not. If megumi shared the final attack it would have been leagues better as writing and if u cant accept that then its ur problem Coming to higurama. There can be a million reasons for why higuruma dies. Even gege himself couldve ouright stated on the next page he has lived. But the way he departed from the field with the emotions used by gege on the field draws clear or atleast partial parallels to nanami. Its just a blueball sucker punch moment to get someone invested in a death and do a fakeout. Many other series do it and get criticised even with heaps of reasoning behind it. Jjk will be too. There are many theories as to how Pell survives. Dont take away the fact its shit writing.
It was obvious Higuruma didn’t die. They carried him away, his death wasnt as brutal as Gege normally makes it, and Sukuna was surprised that his cursed tool was still gone even after Higuruma’s “death”. I also theorized that Sukuna held back because he didn’t actually want to snuff out the talent of Higuruma. Which Sukuna even touched on right after Higurumas death, but denied and still noticed he changed because of Yuji. Later on at Sukuna’s death he still denied being Human even though he was (although he was a very cursed and unfortunate human). Even Yuji recognized how Sukuna’s denial of being human caused him to become like a curse. He is called the king of cursed for a reason. Not because he is king over curses, but because he is the most cursed and unfortunate being in the series. Just as Rika was the most cursed girl in the series(cursed by selfish love). Sukuna was cursed by a lack of love. Due to all this I believe that Higuruma lived due to multiple reasons; as a way to show Sukuna’s cursed humanity and Yuji’s influence on his life, a sort of way to show the fandom the life of a new sorcerer, a redemption of nanamis death, and as a plot point to show the humanity that sorcerers hide to be able to stay confident and sure of them self in the face of overwhelming odds. P.S.- the entire series, Gege purposefully causes us to view sorcerers as far from human, and to see them as dealing with problems too complex for us to understand(being fully exemplified within Gojo and Sukuna’s lack of Humanity). But within that confusion, Gege uses Yuji to create a bridge between our own simple lives and humanity and Sukuna’s overlooked humanity. Sorry I went off on a tangent, it’s just hard for me not to when fans get so obsessed with ideas which Gege already explained away. Although I glaze Gege’s philosophy and writing style, I am kind of annoyed at some of the ways he just seems to pass from one idea to the next without giving downtime for the readers to think about what just happened. So although I believe the origin of Gege’s philosophy and his ideas for the series are perfect, the way he executes them definitely isn’t. But I put some blame on Shonen jump for rushing Gege.
That’s the reason, although not my favorite part of the series, I appreciate the Mahito Arc because of how Gege handles Yuji’s growth as a sorcerer and his ideas as well as how Nanami and him speak after the mission about the importance of a sorcerers mission and how they handle death. Another example is Shibuya and how the downtime afterwards and the preparation for the culling games allowed for the fandom to understand Geges themes and writing choices. But after that and we came to the final two arcs of the manga, Gege began to rush his writing even more than normal and lost that downtime and break for the readers. And I hope that the anime fixes that.
Totally agree on the Higuruma rant. Higuruma is also one of my fave characters and having him die is such a missed opportunity for Gojo’s vision. Higuruma would be perfect to be a part of the new Jujutsu higher-ups Fair, noble person who can see things through his lawyer/law perspective. Not stupid nor cruel, and can’t be bribed or corrupted like the former higher-ups. Still on a personal note #269 was my all time least liked chapter of JJK
Hearing you talk about Higuruma's narrative arc and the way it ties into Yuji's arc and reasons for living and what Yuji represents makes me again wish that it was Geto who remained as one of the final villains. Alot of what Higuruma was struggling with reminded me powerfully of Geto's struggles and it would have been amazing to see Yuji and adult Geto meet and argue about their ideologies, especially since they both have ties to Gojo. IMO it would have deepened the narrative and their characters even further. Kenjaku although potentially interesting with several powerful plots as his set up never lived up to his potential for me. I still can't believe one of the biggest Chekhov's Guns in the series - him being Yuji's mother - was never explored! Like Gege why write it at all then?! Just my opinion, but it's always seemed like Hidden Inventory was the deepest, most well written arc and the fallout from that and the battle of ideologies stemming from the trauma of the JJ world was the core of JJK. So I do think Geto being one of the final villains would have been better and things like the links to Sukuna could still have been woven in with a Kenjaku like figure Geto was aligned with or some such. Thanks again for the analysis, I appreciate the way you respect others' POV, but also stand up for your own.
You make a very great point on his character arc He is also one of my favorite characters of the series and looking back this would have to be the way in order to have an impact of his character long after the series ends Think about it: if he wasn’t given this chance to do some good again and learn not to hate himself to the point it blinds him from his job, people would be validated in calling it out So yes, I’m glad he’s gotten another chance
no one would be mad if the ending was better lol. We'd all be saying "peak"! But this ending isn't peak, it's rushed, and the characterization is bad rn, so we're fairly criticizing it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Predictable take. Every other JJK creator has opinions that vary according to their preferences and tolerance for certain things. That's what makes them interesting and sincere. Even when they have takes I don't agree with I can respect it because it's coming from the heart. Then there is this guy... who unconditionally praises whatever happens in the story. How tf could that ever be authentic? With everyone else I can get a sense of their mindsets and life experiences from their opinions. But this guy's relationship with the story is... corporate and sanitised.
I'm a follower of your content. Regardless of your opinion, it’s all opinionated, but it makes sense. I think JJK is a good writer; however, he could’ve done much better. I don't care about people dying or who dies.
I wouldnt worry about it Manganimist-san. JJK is amazing in so many ways, there’s bound to be ppl that say Gege is wack because Gege didnt write the story the way that their brain can interpret makes sense. This is art. Art is subjective…and abstract. Its not always supposed to make sense. That being said, this direction makes total sense to me and I believe it to be great writing.
I think Higuruma surviving isn't anything in the good or bad category of writing, my biggest critique of GeGe is the direct, stares-into-camera defense of his writing 269 represents. Nothing about the outcome of the story, but the way he used an entire chapter to tell, rather than show, explanations for his previous writing. It's arguably even worse, in that rather than telling-not-showing at the time of an event, like having a character narrate what's happening, he's revisiting events dozens of chapters ago and having a character not just explain the event, but explain why something else didn't occur. It's one thing for there to be a point of contention; for a particular story beat having a viable alternative that wasn't utilized. But, the most optimal thing occurring doesn't always happen, and it isn't bad writing for a writer to not have the best course of action undertaken by their characters. The part where I draw the line is GeGe very obviously understanding the gaps in his writing, and then doubling down by trying to narrate an explanation that ex post facto makes his writing iron-clad.
This 100%. I like this channel for his insights on the story but he just cannot critique the author. Tell not show is a legit literary crime. Characters being alive after being “killed off” also removes all gravitas. Finally, using one full chapter for post-facto exposition rather than resolution (i.e., what happened to the world afterwards, characters grieving, etc.) is such a waste
@@ArcHeus08 yes and i have asked him for his critiques in this video. Bc i feel he glosses over those , but goes deeply into the praises. I agree that it is the contenr he wants to make..but glossing over prroblems or blind defending and only talking about the good makes it feel disingenious
I was not surprised he survived because I felt if he was believed dead he would have been featured in Yuji's memorial images of people who influenced him along with Junpei, Mahito, Gojo, Nanami, and Nobara. I think one problem readers had with this arc and manga is they keep forgetting how little in-verse time has passed. To them these people are recupertaing after being dead/dying for years but it's often only been a few days/weeks. Having the Sukuna fight drag on as long as it did was I think a bad decision on Gege's part and this is a symptom of that I think. Plus this "yapter" would have been better in little chunks in-between bouts of the battle, probably, but oh well. I'm just happy Higaruma did not get the easy way out and will have to find a way to use his gifts for good and come to terms with the harm he did in the courtroom that day.
I loved the chapter. It makes sense thats the sorcerers would be discussing it like this because most of them didn't know each other's plans. They were all acting on their own agendas and it was just lucky that it all worked out for them. I still think geges gonna hit us with some twist in the last two chapters because hes evil
For me it's a great death ruined until I'm proven otherwise in the next chapters. I really did like the way he went down and the fact it didn't even work was so tragic daah dammit! Ps: Kusakabe was never supposed to be considered dead, this one is on the clown readers of the jjk circus.
This is one of those times I completely disagree with you man sometime we just have to be honest and acknowledge when something is bad it’s bad and not try to desperately find a good in it no this was bad…
I have three questions for you: 1. Supposing that Choso did not pursue to let Yuji eating the other brothers or simply got ahold of them before he found out Yuji was his kid brother, do you think he would have found people to force feed them to in order to let them have bodies? Do you think if the other six brothers did incarnate it would have had any impact on the Shinjuku fight? 2. Supposing that Sukuna managed to gain a body that was his own to fully control, essentially being his body, not something they could force his soul from like with Megumi, do you think they'd have lost?
Honestly the 269 hate train has been bugging me out. Some people really need to go touch grass. Mangas don’t get the same level of editing a book does but get held to the same standard when actively circulating. There is only so much to be done with you’ve get a tight deadline and less time for deep critical feedback or to rework a whole drafted plan. It’s pretty solid for a years long project with a very specific style to storytelling that tries to keep any detail out of the authors main desired points, pithy as hell. I did think Higurama was dead but a read back and considerations for what they had going, makes sense. Readers across different medias, book series, managas, original anime’s, tv series, etc tend to expect you need a lot of deaths for a final fight but if you’ve been dealing with an antagonist a whole story, logic would point that by now you should have built wisdom to give a better fight and see less net loss.
The person that needs to touch grass is the person crying that people don’t like a chapter of a manga & continues to write a paragraph crying that others don’t think like them.
i don't mind the fewer deaths and all that nonsense the community is complaining about, what i mind is that with 3 chapters left we got gege trying to steelman an argument to the fans (why the fight should have happened the way it did) instead of spending some time with characters that we missed for so many chapters (megumi and nobara) just so their return would be a shock. we should have also skipped all that yuta in gojo's body plot. i know there are parts of that that had significance but they didn't outweigh the bad and again, it felt like a cheap shock value thing. in general i'm ok with how things are ending in jjk and i enjoyed the whole experience of following this show but some of the misses make me feel so disappointed. it not even that they are bad, it just feels like wasted potential.
The bit I don't understand is that higuruma, someone who JUST LEARNED RCT, gets his arm and entire stomach torn to shreds and sukuna says hes dead survives. But someone who had just hit a black flash and six eyes to more efficiently produce RCT couldn't use RCT because he CONVENIENTLY died upon IMPACT of the world cutting slash.
@@sinobomnjengabantu9604 Shouldn't matter, it was one slash. It had no reason being as lethal as it was. And you say he was playing with higuruma so he survived but look at kashimo.
@@Tarou06 like I said as it was explained on the last chapter sukuna was playing with hugarimo but he wasn't with Kashimo Simple as that no need for an elaborate complex explanation
I tutor at a community college and the quarantine generation is borderline illiterate. Academics will be studying the Zoom class speed-bump for a century.
Gege was cooking with Higarumas survival and he laid down the exact path to it: Kusakabe said that the only people allowed to fight Sukuna were people with reversed curse technique or a death wish because facing Sukuna without a way to heal is asking for death. Higaruma fell into the death wish category but learned RCT on the fly against Sukuna which earned him the right to survive, thematically. He stepped away from his suicidal feelings to evolve as a sorcerer and person. He actually had a very similar cog mentality to Yuji but way more depressed about it, but he broke away from that to do what he thought was right (help defeat Sukuna.) Gege treated this positive character development as atonement for Higaruma’s sins, and spared his life.
Shouldnt focus on the "bad writing " crowd. They are spreading to every other community, and give the absolutely DUMBEST plot ammendments. Like Sukuna killing everyone then feels bad, and this is a alternative that seems to be the most common.
Hidden Inventory is by far the best arc in terms of writing in the series which makes it so much more frustrating when Gege completely drops the ball in terms of character writing. Needing to write a chapter at the end of your story basically speaking directly to the readers to tie up plot holes and questions you've raised is simply not a sign of good writing.
i agree, gege has the potential to write characters properly but just like his art the character writing too dropped. i don't know if it's his style that changed or maybe his health is really much worse than we though and he is rushing the hell out of the manga for a while now T-T
How are people hating on higuruma being alive. Hes such a goated character. I was so happy to see him alive. Awesome sorcerer. Plus. Jjk doesn't really have that high a death count. Exclusing hidden inventory we have nanami, mechamaru, choso and thats all i can remember. Did anyone die during the culling games? Just bad guys. People stop whining
Yeah, 99% of people who thinks that Gege's writing is just bad seem to be people who just can read and have very low level of comprehension. I mean, sure there were complicated parts, but for the most part the entire story is straightforward. Gege puts elements to set things up, some go far back, some a bit too close but he does put them there. There are only very few legitimate claims when Gege fumbled something. Even people criticizing him for just going straight into the fight without fully showing how they all prepared for the last month failed to recognize the value of integrating them in the fight scenes and creating surprise for both Sukuna and us readers. Then this ending chapters is where he reserved the exposition dump and people complained there was not much talk during the fight scenes. Well, they are fight scenes and we already hate it when characters just yap in the middle of a fight. People who complain just don't know what they want and they can't read. At least point out something that is really bad in the actual writing and not just "I wanted this to happen but Gege did not write it" or "Other authors always show this and that and Gege did not". At this point, do you really want to read a story? When it is unpredictable people these same low comprehension people hate it, when it is predictable, then they also hate it.
@@remus4283well , by you saying this you are disagreeing with his opinion and putting your opinion above his which disproves your opinion but doing so you make his opinion true but if it's true that means your opinion is false but now that your opinion makes his opinion be a fact does that mean "I am you?"
@@Blackvoidwithwhiteside7193 that's not how that works. I never said disagreeing is a problem. Saying that everyone who has an opinion that is contrary to yours is an idiot is. Especially when you strawman and cherry pick opposing arguments and pretend like better ones don't exist. Next time try reading to understand rather than reading to reply.
I think he should survive, this is a shonen manga and he is like a shonen protag. He is very idealistic, he's brave, he learn RCT at a faster rate like a main character
remember when geto was suddenly able to choke himself/ kenjaku on Shibuya? what are we supposed to do with that? , gege could have done something amazing with that with gojo/yuta but he messed it up again, just like how messed up his binding vow shenanigans
Higuruma is the best person to help define the new rules of jujutsu society, not that he knows the most about jujutsu but he knows the most about legislation
The reason why everyone is angry about writing is because gege is literally killing everyone ex junpei,his mom,nanami, Megumi sister and want us to know that it's a dark story and now everyone has already accepted that it's a dark story so everyone expect that everyone gonna die but now gege writing become all peaceful so it's makes sense why people are angry about gege writing, well gege is just getting his karma back as how he always teased his fans by killing their favourite character.
saying "it's not bad writing" because a char is "one of my favs" is the laziest argument you've ever made. it's like me saying "I don't like Higuruma because I'm a fan of Geto, and Higuruma is an ally of the filthiest monkeys." (personal preference) Technically, Higuruma is a curse user and has some similarities with Geto. They both snapped and killed people in the event. His so-called "redemption arc" doesn't mean it's not bad writing. the whole chapter 269 is one of those people tend to call bad writing and dislike, because its only purpose is to fill plot holes. it reads like Gege either noticed some after he wrote the battle scenes, or he was made aware of them by others (editor, someone from his team, etc.) so he wrote 269 to address the issues with some dialogue. in general, that's what is called lazy (bad) writing, or making up excuses for your overused plot armor.
Nothing in the chapter (concerning the fight) was something you couldn't determine on your own, with information that was already available. What plot holes are you referring to?
@@KallenScarlet ofc, there would be one of those "IF YOU HAD READ CAREFULLY YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED..." trolls out there. if it all had been so obvious as you say, Gege himself wouldn't have used one of his LAST chapters of the manga to talk about this stuff. apparently you are way smarter than the author himself!! - oh, wait, you are not! you just had the advantage of claiming to be after countless smarter people than you dissected every single chapter and every single panel from beginning to end. wow. you are soooo smart xD
@mindgames470 actually, you have an interesting point here regarding Geto & Higuruma: one got labeled the Worst Curse User of all time, and the other is a genius "Sorcerer," a hero everyone sympathizes with. sure, one killed way more people than the other, but they are both murderers. the difference is that one did it before hell broke loose, and the other was just the right kind of crazy during wartime when peace was no longer an option or something to be disturbed.
Ngl ion like what kusekabe was saying about how it’s Gojo’s fault because he didn’t kill yuji, only because they would STILL have the problem of the rest of his fingers being out there 😂 0:05
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought Higuruma traded his life to seal Sukuna's cursed tool Kamutoke. If Higuruma is alive, shouldn't Kamutoke have regained its abilities sometime during the Sukuna raid?
nope, that was part of higuruma's domain. he judged sukuna and the punishment was to take away his weapon and also to get the executioners sword, so he can execute him with it :P
Sorry I might've been unclear in my initial statement. I was under the impression that Higuruma's domain only took something away temporarily. And Higuruma had to sacrifice himself to permanently take away Kamutoke; that's why we don't see it for the rest of the raid. If Higuruma was alive this whole time, Kamutoke should be usable again after some time. It seems like a plot hole to me unless I'm missing something.
@@Mania476 i don't remember if confiscation is perma or not when it comes to items :D but i think i understand what u mean and it might indeed be a plot hole
I call it bad writing because of the symbolic representation to Nanami is completely shattered but the video maee me realize the parallel and welp, made me like the scene more Not as bad as yutas brain hopping having no consequence when it should, the implications he had put when he copied the technique and the 5 minute timer, as well rika being able to heal yuta's original body while he was in gojo's retcons the entirety of rct as the requirements for it to have the users mind and sould in tact, non of which was in yuta's original body had when he was using gojos
"JJK isn't like any other Shonen" ahh moment, lol. If an author spends an entire chapter explaining the "obvious" stuff, then they almost certainly didn't believe that it *was* obvious. That one-eyed cat bum is truly a mediocre and cowardly writer. Just when you think the previous 2 chapters were below subpar, then comes 269. He literally wanted to justify every asspull and bad writing he made throughout the Shinjuku arc with this yapping session chapter, and yeah, let's forget about The Executioner Sword suddenly vanished when Yuji was about to stab Sukuna because Higuruma by story and plot was supposedly dead dead in that moment, not to mention Yuta and all the asspull that bum wrote for him just to please his glazers. Imagine defending this mid any longer, couldn't be me, lol.
I read a comment that said Sukuna said something along the lines of “Even after his death Kamatoke is still gone”…so that implies that Higarumas CT was still active…because he was alive…
Sukana was also sure he would win so he was planning of killing everybody at the end anyway. So it didn't matter if higuruma survives a bit longer at this point, he was off the battle which was enough for sukuna
The only person that Sukuna truly tried to kill in all this gauntlet was Yuji. He hit him with a net like dismantle which chopped up his torso only for Sukuna to see him back on his feet realising that he learned RCT
I’m not upset that Higuruma, Yuta, and Kusakabe are alive, however, them all still living takes enormous emotional weight away from their respective “last stands”. Yuta taking over Gojo’s body meant extremely little in the grand scheme of things. Sukuna choosing not to kill people in the heat of the moment is weird. An actual training arc would have felt much more grounded than the randomness we received in terms of countless flashbacks, and would have felt like a much more natural way to talk about simple domain. Maki disappearing from the battle completely after Sukunas domain actually makes less sense with this new explanation chapter, genuinely could have rushed to sneak Uraume so Hakari could come and domain clash, or just helped Yuji and Todo. Much of the story feels worthless when most of it was used to setup both Kenjaku and Uraume as major threats. Just because Gege takes a chapter to explain it, doesn’t mean I’m swayed to his side. Gege has made really weird choices towards the end of this series, and really screwed up the payoff for much of his setup, which is an example of bad writing.
Once you see all he ever good with were hype moments and aura merchant, then you'll know he's a mid writer, lol. There's nothing good in his writing except HI arc, it's not non-stop flashy action and yapping session, typical generic battle Shonen
I disagree with the take on Higuruma for multiple reasons. As opposed to Yuji, Higuruma had given up on his good/optimistic/empathetic side, he killed people and he had no more will to live. So him ending up in arguably the same situation as Yuji (alive and "well" ?) makes the whole pick an ideology and stick to it idea from Gege inconsequential. Higuruma should have died, or at least should have been punished in a serious way. Narratively, it doesn't fit with Jujutsu Kaisen's initial concept which is that choices HAVE consequences as in real life, all paths do not lead to the same puppies and flowers ending. This is what has been illustrated with Geto, with Sukuna as he died too. This is a huge issue because after all it's missed plotlines and wasted characters (like Kashimo and Hakari), JJK still had it's nature of being a serious and somewhat realistic ( in the sense that people die, things happen, decisions make a difference ) mainstream manga. With this end, basically everything that was done by Gege in that direction gets undone. Yuta is a perfect example of that, in what way did he become a monster if the only thing he did was just make Maki a tad worried for him ? And I'm betting we'll still hear about Gojo to top it all. However with Kusakabe, I agree that it was a good choice and narratively made sense, he was a somewhat weak sorcerer in the middle of a war that surpassed him completely, the whole point of the character was to fight for it's survival and in the last moments he gave up on that for the good of the team, it makes sense that he was rewarded. Finally, the ending is disappointing because the only consequential deaths we'd have will be Kashimo's and Choso's : Kashimo just to show that egoism doesn't work but it was made all so quickly and kinda wasted the character that it feels bland. And Choso who was a cursed spirit but joined the "good" team and got rewarded for that with death, also doesn't make sense to me.
I think the biggest point is he underestimated everyone he constantly look down on humanity and he didn’t think that they were capable of anything near what he would be if he would have taken them seriously I think he would’ve won
I understand that people want JJK deaths to have meaning. This last fight made both the fight itself and Mahito’s fight have far less consequences. BUT IDGAF GIVE ME MY DISNEY KAISEN IF IT MEANS BY BOYS CAN BE HAPPY.
Sukanas kill count is low cause as uraume said he wasn't taking anyone seriously since gojo. Maki got him to bring out his black flash cause he wanted to find out if her heavenly restriction was better than sorcery itself. So he entered the zone .I don't understand why readers believe that jumping sukuna with everyone would work when the show goes on to tell us that gojos best fighting condition is alone and pressuring sukana like what yuta said he would do by going to help would actually just cause sukuna to play more dangerous cards.
This is bad writing. I gave Gege a lot of leeway this whole time but this is just another level of fumbling. This is pell’s explosion from one piece, but transformed into jjk. If you’re going to milk him off then whatever, you’ve already set that precedent, but just leaving all the major plot points + the most important 1vs1 in the series’s ending off screen, but instead choosing to spend an entire chapter when there’s only 3 left, yapping about simple domain, which nobody cares about, is actually insane to me. It’s bad writing. And that’s fine. I like JJK for the most part but if you’re going to sit here and tell me that all of this was well executed then you’re just delusional.
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Hey, Mangamist, i don’t know if you’re going to see this, but I was wondering how Gojo would put up against Death from Final Destination, I wondered what would happen, and what specifically death would do to kill Gojo due to his infinity, However there are obviously some things to point out, Number one, this would take place AFTER, Gojos fight with Toji, meaning that Toji is dead and that Curse tool that can Pearce his infinity is gone, secondly, This takes place in between the Geto turns evil situation, meaning Geto and Gojo are still friends. Finally, despite this taking place after Gojos awakening, and since I want him to be a bit more vulnerable, he’s still training his infinity, meaning he can’t keep it on for too long, but he has mastered it so that he can have it on ALMOST constant, but not too much, which would give death less time or a chance to kill him.
Higuruma's case is curious beacuse it can lead to multiple paths.
1.- He refuses to join the jujutsu world and gives himself to the police beacuse of the murders he commited at the start of the culling games and we see a replay of Yuji's escene but this time with Higuruma.
2.- Since he has nothing else to do he ends up joining the jujutsu world as a teacher or mentor or whatever.
3.- He's truly done with everything and ends himself.
4- Gets back into being a lawyer and actually goes on to become a good one.
@@SGT_NUMBNUTZ2736 his DE's a godsend for atleast determining the defendant being guilty or not. His DE is tailor made to run in accordance with law while still an ace for an attorney or prosecutor. Though i still think his murder spree's not in the same ballpark as Maki (somewhat justified) but didn't Yuta kill a fair share of bullies?
jjk shippuden needs higuruma 🤒
@@naufalmEZaRika kills him not yuta
@@SGT_NUMBNUTZ2736 he WAS a good lawyer, but the odds were always stacked against him
The only real reason I think everyone is up in arms about these recent chapters is because it feels like everything is happening so fast, Nobara after absolutely 0 mention since the beginning of the culling games shows up the same chapter Megumi comes back from Sukuna, just seems super convenient and rushed, it’s almost like Nobara was written out because her cursed technique was so broken. Then the literally next chapter after they both come back Sukuna is defeated and they’re just chilling having fun, there’s no post fight sigh or relief, it’s just a “sukuna you’re me” then “hey guys did you miss me” from Nobara, same with Yuta, it goes from oh he could die to “don’t worry about it guys Rika was keeping me alive and then I was able to just be fixed” and we didn’t see anything of it, long story short, I think people just want to see how we get to some of these story beats with gege just telling us how it happened. It kinda cheapens the stakes if they just can be A-okay the literal next chapter and we don’t have any hints or follow through stuff. A solution maybe could’ve shown Rika with an aura of rct around Yutas body to let the more intuitive reader see that and go “huh she’s healing his body that might be important later”, maybe have Nobara and Megumi come back a few chapters apart and flush out their return a bit more, just so people feel satisfied like these things we’ve been waiting for feel like they paid off
True , the aftermath of 'the sukana fight' feels very lackluster.
The working of binding vows is not explained either , like if it's an automatic process any feat done with it , is not impressive!
You forget the part where being closer to death is part of a sorcerer's life. It was even stated a couple of times in the story. As a sorcerer, you fight and those around you may die and you have to move on because it is the life of a sorcerer. And yeah, Gege don't need to show us how they cleaned up after the fight. And while there are dramatic moments here and there, it is a "Kaisen", the story is about fighting. And would you have Nobara show herself way before and ruin the surprise for readers? They hid her death on purpose just like Gojo initially hid Yuji's coming back to life.
@@angrymeowngiAt the end of the day id rather have better writing than some "surprise of nobaras return"
Exactly. Every major plot point that people actually care about are unexplained and there’s only 2 chapters left. Not to mention he spent an entire chapter talking about a plot point that he literally created and resolved in the same chapter, that NO ONE cared about, knowing full well there’s only 3 more chapters. He did one piece level of fake out deaths for no reason, he leaves anything with any sort of relevance off screen. This is just bad writing. It’s bad.
I know Gege is a great writer but this is bad writing. No consequences for majority of the characters but consequences for some. Why?? I would like to know 10 people who would’ve wanted the intricacies of simple donation to be expanded on during the last 3 chapters. Also bringing back characters for no reason at the end just shows that their “deaths” were entirely for shock value, and not to actually write a story.
In all fairness, I get Nobara's return being a "I bet you forgot this" more then anything. There isn't really a character arc associated with her return, she has her entire recovery off screen and just happened to recover enough to be able to hit Sukuna with a resonance at the last possible moment. Not at all similar to Sakura from Naruto suddenly deciding she was relevant, Nobara despite her very chequered record has always been very effective when her hammer gimmick is pulled off at full force (e.g. resonance, and striking Momo with a hammer likely would've killed her if she aimed for the kill.) but I could see from a writing perspective how that would be just convenient She just happened to finally make her presence known the minute she was needed and not any sooner.
I think one of the reasons for fans questioning the writing is because Gege can be a good writer, and has written many great moments, but where Gege struggles in is consistency and pacing.
Like some golden moments are so well thought out and are fleshed out fully, but then others moments feel random with someone saying "oh this happened cause of this thing that we never stated could be a thing, but actually that was always a thing" or sometimes shit in general is just inconsistent
This previous statement can apply to the most recent chapter as most people will point to it due to recency, and while I agree with some of those, I've been arguing about the inconsistencies such as Gojo's "teleport" conditions or Sukuna's cursed tool being taken (among other things) seemed very convenient and wasn't well established beforehand for quite some time. As for pacing, I don't think I need to make a case for the pacing cause it seems fairly obvious and is one of JJK's main criticisms
I still enjoy JJK and by no means am I calling out Gege for being a bad writer cause they're not, but I still think there are moments that are never lived up too their true potential, which is kind of ironic in parallel with the world of Jujutsu
Yea I've been saying this for ages. Gege isn't a bad writer, jjk just isn't his full potential.
Most of jjk is clearly not his 100% but when you get to see glimpses of it, you see a writer with so much potential behind them
accept that it is consistent. I seen people act like hitting black flashes to regain your RTC is an ass pull when Sukuna did it... while its been established by Gojo over 50 chapters ago thats Black flashes can rewrite the brain. The fact people are acting like these guys death were 100% confirm meanwhile for the last 50 chapters everyone theorize that they all gonna return for the last round. you cant have it both ways.
w comment the fandom is so extremely divided that they don't see that gege can be a really good writer and a flawed one at the same time
Well, the thing with pacing is that it's tough to debate, since pacing itself is not the problem; pacing is dependent on other issues throughout the story affecting it. I think what affects JJK's pacing is its focus on battle, strategy, and the explanation of techniques and abilities.
All of this is amazing, and is the reason why JJK is so popular, but it comes in the way of character work and more world building. Let's take Sukuna for example, not much is known about him other than his overbearing need for combat and destruction. Geto is also pretty cut and dry too. Toji is the first complex villain this show ever had, and Kenjaku had quite a bit on him which makes him great.
The series just needs a bit more character drama and development. I understand Gege wanted to do the 1 month time skip to the Sukuna battle, but we needed more characters interacting before that.
Why has Kashimo also never met Ryu since they're from the same era?
Why is Kashimo so bent on fighting Sukuna, yet we never saw him have an interaction with Gojo? Why haven't more Culling Game characters had a chance to interact with Gojo, someone who from their perspective, is the rumored BEST of the modern era?
Why has Todo and Choso never even been around each other when they both have a brotherhood bond with Yuji?
@@dr.boring7022 Character interactions/development and story telling is part of pacing ;-;
Edit: the guys comment was altered from when I read it and now I 100% agree with it
The weird thing to me is that Higuruma explicitly went into this fight not *expecting* to die, but *hoping* to die. It feels like of all the characters to kill off he was just an easy one to add to Sukuna's kill count
I don't particularly care for dark endings so I'm happy to see him alive, but it's incredibly weird regardless
tbh the dark ending might be him not dying, surviving to face the bad things he has done, not getting the easy way out but also getting a second chance to fix stuff, kind of like how rehabilitation should work for real life criminals. for me, it's more poetic that higuruma survives.
I feel like characters who hope to die are the ones who should survive so they can learn to value their own existence again
Did we forget the whole part where yuji was encouraging him to live, and even proved it by chasing after sukuna full speed?
That's why he _shouldn't_ die. Higuruma wanted to die to atone for his sins, but that would've simply been a deeply unsatisfying ending to his arc.
Gege just wants his characters to suffer, which is why Higuruma survived.
The Culling games has a rule that if players points remain the same for a while, they die. So here is my question. Is the Culling games over. Cos if it isn't, that's just a massive genocide everyone has ignored. And if it was ended, I will very much like to know how tf they pulled that off.
This chapter was gege answering TH-cam comments.
Next two chapters he answers Twitter and Reddit questions. 😃 😊
No really it's tough to end a series but if his health is suffering let the man end it the way he wants.
Let him end how he wants for sure
Let people call it bad writing as well
I don’t think Gege is a bad writer, he’s produced some of the greatest shonen moments in my recent memory.
However, I think as readers it’s important for us to acknowledge that he does have weaknesses as a writer, particularly with developing interpersonal relationships between characters.
Overall, it’s not fair to call Gege a bad writer on account of his weaknesses as every writer has their strengths and weaknesses, no one is perfect.
But I think it’s also unfair to dismiss people who fairly criticize and highlight those weaknesses as people trying to hate or bring negativity
agreed, this video is definitely not directed at anyone who's critiquing in good faith
@@ManganimistYT Yeah anime fandoms tend to operate on extremes so my comment was more directed at that.
You can appreciate geges writing while acknowledging where he excels and where he falters, a lot of people try to make it a matter of great vs horrible writer.
But in the end, it’s very hard to get your own multi million dollar franchise without writing skill. Gege is definitely a good writer, if not a great one. He just handles certain things in a way that some(including me) don’t appreciate as much as the next guy
Also this is like Gege's first book
The problem is most of the "criticism" is flooding social media with extreme hate for the author and memes and saying here's another trash ending etc. I just prefer to like JJK in my own solidarity. I could give less than a f**k on what others think about it
@9628-y8r ill be honest, while it does take great skill to make a popular shonen.. I don't know if that skill is writing.
I thinks it’s funny how people used to complain, “ everyone dies in jjk, this is lazy writing” and then when people actually survive they are now complaining, “why is no one dead”
I mean both can be bad if they are executed poorly it’s not hypocritical
Humans are never satisfied
Yea it's done poorly. Less people died in this final battle (actual meaningful deaths) than during the shinjuku showdown.
Sukuna beat up every one of them within an inch of their life. Yuta and Higuruma almost got cut in half. How did more people not die?
And how did fodder like Miwa survive Sukuna's domain expansion?
@@JonDoe-uq1mk do you mean the shibuya incident?
This is the laziest possible defense of Gege's writing 😂like, what are you triyng to say here
I think it parallels the Shibuya incident very nicely. In Shibuya, everything went wrong. Gojo got sealed, a ton of people died, Sukuna decimated the city, and Kenjaku started the culling games. Shibuya is the "darkest hour" moment of JJK. Contrasting this with the Shinjuku showdown, where the good guys made a very detailed plan to take down Sukuna. Gojo may have lost the battle, but he played a crucial role in the fight. He crippled Sukuna's RCT for a large part of the fight and rendered his domain nigh unusable. Then, the whole gauntlet of sorcerers slowly chipped away at Sukuna's CE reserves and dealt small victories to him. This all culminated with Yuji's domain, where he finally lands a finishing blow on Sukuna. The Shinjuku Showdown was a "what if Shibuya went right". Very few people died, the main villain was defeated, and Megumi was rescued.
I just want to see Yuta and Maki get married
This man got his priorities straight! 💯
I’m jealous of Yuta. The female Tojussy should have been mine.
@@SGT_NUMBNUTZ2736IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME
Priorities. Even the haters want this
RIKKAAAAAAAAAAAA
What I dont like about this arc is that it lacks the consequences that the shibuya incident had.
The shibuya incident HAD MASSIVE CONSEQUENCES, the sealing of gojo brought forth literal hell, the second he was gone, notable sorcerers like nanami were dead, nobara was mortally injured, todo and inumaki was dismembered, maki was burned alive, ino got his head beaten to a bloody pulp, everyone that was in shibuya when sukuna was fighting jogo were either torned to pieces or incinerated, evergkne that was in shibuya while sukuna and mahoraga were either smashed to bits, dismembered, turned to dust, incinerated etc. Yuji's execution was continued and Yuta was sent as his executioner
Shibuya had massive consequences that the characters had to go through. In the Shinjuku showdown however? Not that much. Gojo, choso and kashimo died. I mean the deaths aren't a problem, my issue was that there aren't any meaningful consequences like there were in shibuya. Higuruma should've died a noble death who defended the innocent, yuta should've either died or be permanently stuck at gojo's body, megumi should've been in a coma after eating 5 domain expansions.
Actually this is a perfect statement considering they are fighting the strongest in history😅
One minute the JJK community was mad at Gege having everyone "die", now that people realize these characters didn't die, they were just injured and recovered, now it doesn't have "massive consequences".
@@SpyJamz I liked the deaths during the Shibuya arc although seeing a favourite character die would be devastating. It doesn't mean it's bad, hell it doesn't have to be deaths in general, massive consequences still need to happen after fighting the strongest sorcerer in the world. How did the strongest sorcerer who's main ability is cut things not dismember any of the anti sukuna squad? Higuruma got dismembered yeah but he got RCT to patch it back up. What about ino? Kusakabe? Miwa? Lerou? Or hell how did maki not get heavily injured? She should be bed ridden after eating 2 black flashes and 1 domain expansion that she has no protection against and I know for certain miwa was not fast enough to help her out quickly enough, she got fucking slashed apart.
How did none of the anti-sukuna squad get any scars for fighting the king of curses? One of them should've lost an arm or leg or at the very least gotten scars on their face or arms after fighting sukuna. But shoko has RCT? You mean to tell me jogo's flames were more powerful because shoko's RCT couldn't fix maki's scars?
I think the last arc having a bright ending is fitting. They were able to pull off a miracle because of the will and dreams of Gojo and the power of the community. Together, they disproved Sukuna's worldview to usher in a new era of healing. I think that's beautiful.
@@geeksquad4741💀 Disney kaisen ahh
This video really did help me better understand Higuruma
The real problem with the Sukuna fight is just how incredibly bad the overall plan was. Gege just runs through a bunch of ideas without thinking how a competent group of experienced fighters would use what's at thier disposal.
1. You have a sword that can one shot Sukuna that anyone can hold as we see with Yuji.
2. Teleportation you can get anyone out of the fight at anytime.
3. boogie woogie you can overwhelm your opponents senses making them unable to know what attack is coming from where.
4. Yuta's domain expansion which can deal critical damage.
The executioner sword, Yuta's domain and boogie woogie are all spread throughout the fight when combining them raises the odds of victory significantly.
Higuruma can just be teleported out leaving the executioner sword for anyone to use then once Yuta and Todo get back from Kenjaku they can combine all their abilities and kill Sukuna easily. They even have Maki to sneak Sukuna with the executioner sword since Todo can easily swap it with the split soul.
This whole fight just made everyone look like clowns
I think its cuz they dont wanna kill megumi
@williamafton-df2cu both the executioner sword and Yuta's jacob's ladder kill only sukuna and not megumi
@@tclotsofnumbers1125 How does bro know 🥲
Thank you sooo much for this amazing video, you deserve all the yapping and praise, too!!!!
I love Higuruma so much. The panel in which Higuruma's client gave him THAT look was one of the most tragic pictures I've ever seen. Everything about Higuruma's experience is really haunting and painful, but at the same time he has an incomparable mental strength.
My question:
Could you tell 5 positive reasons why JJK should end after the coming two chaps? I don't know why people are complaining about the latest chaps and the ending or why they're trying to guilt-trip JJK-lovers, but my gut says: It's just a great time to wrap this journey up.
Thank you :)
Hippety thank you so much for the continued support! I talk about this here: th-cam.com/video/-ZBOEMJAHEw/w-d-xo.html
My friend and I were discussing the ending to JJK and one thing he said I have to agree with. Sukuna is both the greatest threat and the biggest jobber in the series. I've never seen a final antagonist on the level of Sukuna who during the Shibuya arc absolutely wreak havoc and killing so many characters feeling like such a massive threat only for the final arc to happen and he could only kill a few a people. It makes him feel less like a threat when he's hitting people like Larue with a black flash and doesn't kill them. I also hate the fact he was just "toying" with them because it just makes him look like an idiot. And honestly, no matter what you may say, chapter 269 is awful. An author using their characters as straw men for the audience to insecurely explain why the fight panned out the way it did is bad writing no buts about it.
Higuruma being alive actually fixes a plot hole. Curses are supposed to get stronger after people die, so if Higuruma was really dead, then his executioner’s sword should have gotten stronger. However, it shatters when Yuji tries to use it against Sukuna.
This is not a plot hole. CTs aren't maintained after death, so there's zero reason for the executioner sword to be maintained if he had died.
i thought you were my account for a second because of our pfps
no the plot hole is actually him being alive. htf did he survive even sukuna was 100% bro was dead worse is his curse technique deactivated so we know for sure he didn't heal himself. he should be 100% dead how did he survive that's the current pothole, sukuna said shoko couldn't heal him plus she was busy working on gojo's body anyways so just how did bro survive
Higurama is not a curse damn. This isn't a Naoya case where he came back as a vengeful spirit with a stronger CT.
@AniSwiftTVRecaps sit down this ain't shibuya sukuna was holding back so he survived which make way to much sense to me I don't get why you want the characters to die like literally bro sit down💀💀💀
My opinion of Gege and JJK is that it does some things amazing, particularly in building up hype confrontations and some satisfying character arcs.
But Gege also has genuine weaknesses as an author, particularly in character development and pacing like others have said. And with JJK being his first project, that's more than fine. He's already made a good series, and I'm looking forward to seeing him make a great one in future.
Guess what, bozo, most of the great Mangaka made a great series in their debut. Miura (Berserk), Oda (One Piece), Isayama (AoT), and Fujimoto (Fire Punch), then there's one-eyed cat bum with only hype moments and aura bs in his writing, yet his plots are generic and mid (except HI arc, he outdid himself in that part), all he ever good with is writing complicated power system which most Shonen brainrot like the most, fuck good wiring, lol
Thats a good point. But still his faults in his first work can be critiqued. Since it boasted off high setups and no payoffs
@@rfnugi stop yapping nga nobodies reading allat. All of those series have flaws
I don't really care that Higuruma survived (Not that I don't like him, the guy is one of my Top 5 favorite characters) but what annoys me is the fact that after all the drama and tension that was created with Yuta using Kenjaku's CT, risking his own life and "becoming a monster"....he comes back with zero consequences.
I think its still too early to say that since he still has stitches on his head
withholding my judgement on the yuta/gojo stuff until the series is over and we've seen everything
@@jeezyyplays6234I agree and plus Yuta wasnt left alone long enough for. An opportunity for him to be punished. Yuji and Todo immediately after the domain clash came to fight Sukuna. Ive said it before this whole monster thing. Yuta dipped his foot into it but, not completely. He asked Gojo permission for his body after potential death. Which a monster wouldnt do. Kenjaku and Sukuna both took his vessels bodies without permission. Unlike Yuta and yeah the collaboration of everyone saved Yuta from being punished.
@@ManganimistYT i see you too are on the copium till the end :D i'm close to breaking but i don't wanna become part of the meme that says that all the gojo hopers give up just before he returns xD
Yuuta had Rika along with everyone else, he was never alone. Thats why many of them didn't die except Choso but once more Yuuji was not alone he had Todo and Choso, Higgy was not alone with Uiui teleporting him asap, Yuuta had Yuuji to cover for him and Rika when he got hit by the dismantle. Maki had Miwa in that one needed scenario. A part of a reason Gojo failed was because _he was alone_ by choice. He did not have anyone to cover him for his mistakes mishaps etc him getting chopped in half first aid could not be administered because he was already gone by the time Higgy and Yuuji got there to teleport Gojo body away. He did not have a Rika to RCT him either. The whole point was how selfish Gojo and Sukuna were in which they believed they did not need anyone's help, Sukuna seeing others trash and Gojo seeing others as hindrance. When in the end strength prevailed in numbers, unity, and companions. Selfless love for others.
I don't mind any of The Characters coming back... Something just feels strange about the environment after the Fight against Sukuna. Nothing feels Serious. Not the destruction of Shinjuku, countless deaths and not to say GOJO's death... What is GEGE thinking? This ending is so unsatisfying that it just feels strange reading JJK cause it doesn't feel like I'm reading JJK 💀
i think gege has a hard time making people feel stuff/conveying emotions through his writing and i think that's not because he doesn't know how but because he prioritizes other stuff, like fixing plot holes and focusing more on shocking us and subverting expectations.
the maki part should makes us feel things, we should feel that she is angry because she is worried for yuta, because she loves him. gege wanted to convey that but he also wanted to steelman his argument of why everything should have happened they way it did in the fight against sukuna and that takes people out of it and doesn't let them feel the feelings.
having so very few chapters left and so many missed opportunities to let us sit with the characters and get to really know em deeply, like nobara staying dead for the shock value of coming back right at the end is another example of what i'm talking about.
I think it's best to wait and see the rest.
@@faith4657 2 chapters aint go change too much
@@metalface_villainfully agreed with your statement.
Its like yes..this happened.
Thats all
I feel nothing. Bc there are no stakes
The real point of stakes are taken out.
And sukuna is visibly seen going down and down as the raid goes on. In the end nobara comes and cucks yuji with the victory shot
The thing is that you are using the good writing of Gege in past chapters to justify this rushed and full of looseends last chapters as being good writing.
Loose ends, rushing the storying and selling a dark ending since Shibuya and than showing everyone alive and well, even the ones with good endings like higuruma, and Jumping to this chapter about New Shadow Style that no one asked and wanted to know. Why not use this Chapter to end well Hakari fight or other thing that he left open...
Thanks for always keeping it real. I agree with your thoughts on whether the deaths / lack of deaths were planned or foreshadowed and not bad writing 👍🏾.
In chapter 248, Sukuna acknowledges that Higuruma died so he was serious about killing him there.
Not to mention the sword being gone
@@Tarou06well yeah he was unconscious
But should we really take Sukunas words as truth just because someone thinks something doesn’t make it the absolute truth
@DavidWhat-j9s he's the strongest char
@@DavidWhat-j9swith the amount of people he's killed over the span of years. I think he'd know. His domain broke after he died. Yuta was cut in half with Rika holding his body. This shouldve been the end for th we guys
You said if Sukuna wanted Higuruma dead then he would've been dead, well in 248 Sukuna says "even after his death Kamutoke is still gone". He then later in the chapter says "did that sorcerer's death disappoint me?" I can see why people dislike Higuruma being alive, and I think the dislike is warranted. It's pretty much a fake out death. It's not like Nobara because in her case, Nitta told us that she had a chance at survival, and we were never told outright that she died. With Higuruma, Gege has him think that he should play his role to completion and die in that fight, we see him get hit with Cleave by Sukuna, and then we get a scene that mirrors Nanami's death, he then tells Yuji "I've done what I can". I disliked him being alive and I understand why so many people feel the same way.
I think manganimist covers why it was the best scenario for Higuruma to come back well in this video, so that aside...Sukuna is an unreliable narrator, so taking anything he said about topics you know as the reader he isnt the authority on as the truth is shaky at best. Sukuna's narration was basically what the reader was meant to be thinking because, just like him, we didnt have all the details on the good guys' plan.
Higuruma had RCT. And Sukuna can't make the say much cause higuruma was given to shoko. So he would have died if he didn't get medical help
Maybe sukky is just a fraud
Maybe suckuna just didn't realize that he was alive
Yeah that’s the biggest flaw of manganimist’s point. Sukuna fully beloved Higurma to be dead
The biggest hint that higuruma lived is the fact that right before sukuna slashed him he was missing an arm, but when ui ui picked him up it was healed. Higuruma most likely just got knocked out.
As a higaruma fan idc what people say MA GOAT IS BACK
Because you won't bat an eye for good writing, you're just tuned in for hype moments and aura bs. Typical generic battle Shonen brainrot, lol
@@rfnugi you're so fucking weird bro who cares let the dude be happy it's not that deep at all you're making all these assumptions for no reason
appreciate ya putting this out, was definitely surprised gege confirmed him alive, but of the "aura loss" moments I'm even more surprised people pointed to this as one. Sukuna was literally bored and playing with a sorcerer he thought could be potentially powerful. That's like the height of sukuna's selfish sadistic brand of evil. The disney kaisen allegations aside, I do feel the ending has tilted into a lord of the rings flavor of suspense, where the characters have been in constant threat of danger, but not many actually lost their lives from it.
That being said, the cast has been put through the fucking ringer, and I'd rather more characters get to walk into the sunset after this historic fight, than gege killing them off relentlessly for the sake of ending the story faster. Keep on cookin penguin man!
There's nothing wrong with bringing back characters but you cant just write them like they died and then just suddenly bring them back
That entire moment where Higuruma says his farewell to Yuji only to comeback just feels off especially when it was used as an emotional moment for Yuji
Ppl can defend it all they want but the ending and overall wrap up on this paticular arc was handled poorly on Gege's part since he had the ending in mind for years
At least have a chapter where things transition smoothly instead of just throwing things in last minute such as Nobara randomly coming back right before Sukuna's defeat like wow how convienent
I know right, it's like if hanami said all that goodbye to yuji, exploded and then after shibuya ended he's like "sup yuji *insert explanation on how tf he survived mahito here* and I'm back now.
Also it's kinda funny that mahito is like deadlier than sukuna, like damn sukuna out here doin paper cuts over and over while mahito can touch you and you're dead, sukuna shoulda just possessed mahito's body lmao, fuck 10 shadows you only need this 1 ct
Thanks for telling us you did not read the story properly.
What part of those chapters definitively stated that Higuruma died? It was not like the Nanami scene at all. If he did came back, then feel free to bitch about it.
On Nobara, boy oh boy, the moment her CT was introduced most people who can think already had an inkling she will do something in the end. Then there was that "is dead or is she not". She was not done like Nanami as well so we know she could have survived and she was even put in a suspended state. Plus, she is also the natural enemy of Mahitor, a guy with powers in relation to souls (and Sukuna is also functioning on manipulating souls). And then Yuji asking and not getting a verbal response but only a look. And then the rest of the story every readers half-expecting her to come back. Then the whole soul thing with Mahito and the resonance she did with Yuji's brothers and later was called back. I mean there were signs! Too many signs! The moment I saw her use her resonance on the body part of Yuji's brother the thought immediately cross my mind, well, Sukuna's fingers are parts of himself, how convenient if Nobara gets one of those. And then a lot of TH-camrs even made theories about how she'd do it. All the elements were set way back in the story. And as readers, we should just put our hands on our face and say either " I knew it!" or "Oh my, why did I not realize that". And since you probably did not get that, you are one of those "I did not see that coming, it is bad".
@@angrymeowngi just because the elements are set up and a death is not confirmed doesnt mean it is well executed at all.
For all your reading , the arguments are very basic.
Ofcourse there is setup to the story , ofcourse she is strong enough and enemy to mahito and can do a lot with sukuna's fingers.
Its just the stupidiest explanation that " she woke up at the right time ".
That is such an unserious way to bring her back into the mess. Not to mention just randomly share yuji's moment when he clearly he himself was sure he could kill sukuna. Its unnecessarily sharing yuji's victory moment..someone who the stakes with someone who did not.
If megumi shared the final attack it would have been leagues better as writing and if u cant accept that then its ur problem
Coming to higurama. There can be a million reasons for why higuruma dies.
Even gege himself couldve ouright stated on the next page he has lived.
But the way he departed from the field with the emotions used by gege on the field draws clear or atleast partial parallels to nanami.
Its just a blueball sucker punch moment to get someone invested in a death and do a fakeout.
Many other series do it and get criticised even with heaps of reasoning behind it. Jjk will be too.
There are many theories as to how Pell survives. Dont take away the fact its shit writing.
It was obvious Higuruma didn’t die. They carried him away, his death wasnt as brutal as Gege normally makes it, and Sukuna was surprised that his cursed tool was still gone even after Higuruma’s “death”. I also theorized that Sukuna held back because he didn’t actually want to snuff out the talent of Higuruma. Which Sukuna even touched on right after Higurumas death, but denied and still noticed he changed because of Yuji. Later on at Sukuna’s death he still denied being Human even though he was (although he was a very cursed and unfortunate human). Even Yuji recognized how Sukuna’s denial of being human caused him to become like a curse. He is called the king of cursed for a reason. Not because he is king over curses, but because he is the most cursed and unfortunate being in the series. Just as Rika was the most cursed girl in the series(cursed by selfish love). Sukuna was cursed by a lack of love. Due to all this I believe that Higuruma lived due to multiple reasons; as a way to show Sukuna’s cursed humanity and Yuji’s influence on his life, a sort of way to show the fandom the life of a new sorcerer, a redemption of nanamis death, and as a plot point to show the humanity that sorcerers hide to be able to stay confident and sure of them self in the face of overwhelming odds.
P.S.- the entire series, Gege purposefully causes us to view sorcerers as far from human, and to see them as dealing with problems too complex for us to understand(being fully exemplified within Gojo and Sukuna’s lack of Humanity). But within that confusion, Gege uses Yuji to create a bridge between our own simple lives and humanity and Sukuna’s overlooked humanity.
Sorry I went off on a tangent, it’s just hard for me not to when fans get so obsessed with ideas which Gege already explained away.
Although I glaze Gege’s philosophy and writing style, I am kind of annoyed at some of the ways he just seems to pass from one idea to the next without giving downtime for the readers to think about what just happened. So although I believe the origin of Gege’s philosophy and his ideas for the series are perfect, the way he executes them definitely isn’t. But I put some blame on Shonen jump for rushing Gege.
That’s the reason, although not my favorite part of the series, I appreciate the Mahito Arc because of how Gege handles Yuji’s growth as a sorcerer and his ideas as well as how Nanami and him speak after the mission about the importance of a sorcerers mission and how they handle death. Another example is Shibuya and how the downtime afterwards and the preparation for the culling games allowed for the fandom to understand Geges themes and writing choices. But after that and we came to the final two arcs of the manga, Gege began to rush his writing even more than normal and lost that downtime and break for the readers. And I hope that the anime fixes that.
Gege is a bad writer and that's not an opinion. Just the facts. This is based on the entirety of his manga not just the final arc.
Sir, when did you become fluent in facts?
Totally agree on the Higuruma rant. Higuruma is also one of my fave characters and having him die is such a missed opportunity for Gojo’s vision.
Higuruma would be perfect to be a part of the new Jujutsu higher-ups
Fair, noble person who can see things through his lawyer/law perspective.
Not stupid nor cruel, and can’t be bribed or corrupted like the former higher-ups.
Still on a personal note #269 was my all time least liked chapter of JJK
Emil thank you so much for the continued support! I talk about this here: th-cam.com/video/-ZBOEMJAHEw/w-d-xo.html
I loved this chapter. Glad Im not the only one who enjoyed it
Hearing you talk about Higuruma's narrative arc and the way it ties into Yuji's arc and reasons for living and what Yuji represents makes me again wish that it was Geto who remained as one of the final villains. Alot of what Higuruma was struggling with reminded me powerfully of Geto's struggles and it would have been amazing to see Yuji and adult Geto meet and argue about their ideologies, especially since they both have ties to Gojo. IMO it would have deepened the narrative and their characters even further. Kenjaku although potentially interesting with several powerful plots as his set up never lived up to his potential for me. I still can't believe one of the biggest Chekhov's Guns in the series - him being Yuji's mother - was never explored! Like Gege why write it at all then?! Just my opinion, but it's always seemed like Hidden Inventory was the deepest, most well written arc and the fallout from that and the battle of ideologies stemming from the trauma of the JJ world was the core of JJK. So I do think Geto being one of the final villains would have been better and things like the links to Sukuna could still have been woven in with a Kenjaku like figure Geto was aligned with or some such. Thanks again for the analysis, I appreciate the way you respect others' POV, but also stand up for your own.
You make a very great point on his character arc
He is also one of my favorite characters of the series and looking back this would have to be the way in order to have an impact of his character long after the series ends
Think about it: if he wasn’t given this chance to do some good again and learn not to hate himself to the point it blinds him from his job, people would be validated in calling it out
So yes, I’m glad he’s gotten another chance
If jjk was to have a bad ending people would be mad it has a good ending and ppl are also mad theres no winning
no one would be mad if the ending was better lol. We'd all be saying "peak"!
But this ending isn't peak, it's rushed, and the characterization is bad rn, so we're fairly criticizing it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Predictable take. Every other JJK creator has opinions that vary according to their preferences and tolerance for certain things. That's what makes them interesting and sincere. Even when they have takes I don't agree with I can respect it because it's coming from the heart.
Then there is this guy... who unconditionally praises whatever happens in the story. How tf could that ever be authentic? With everyone else I can get a sense of their mindsets and life experiences from their opinions. But this guy's relationship with the story is... corporate and sanitised.
Goku could show up next chapter and this dude would just say "well, it's not objectively bad writing, it's just different from what we expected"
You really are Gege's strongest soldier, i respect it
I'm a follower of your content. Regardless of your opinion, it’s all opinionated, but it makes sense. I think JJK is a good writer; however, he could’ve done much better. I don't care about people dying or who dies.
I too am glad Higuruma is back, I like him
I wouldnt worry about it Manganimist-san. JJK is amazing in so many ways, there’s bound to be ppl that say Gege is wack because Gege didnt write the story the way that their brain can interpret makes sense.
This is art.
Art is subjective…and abstract.
Its not always supposed to make sense.
That being said, this direction makes total sense to me and I believe it to be great writing.
I think Higuruma surviving isn't anything in the good or bad category of writing, my biggest critique of GeGe is the direct, stares-into-camera defense of his writing 269 represents. Nothing about the outcome of the story, but the way he used an entire chapter to tell, rather than show, explanations for his previous writing. It's arguably even worse, in that rather than telling-not-showing at the time of an event, like having a character narrate what's happening, he's revisiting events dozens of chapters ago and having a character not just explain the event, but explain why something else didn't occur. It's one thing for there to be a point of contention; for a particular story beat having a viable alternative that wasn't utilized. But, the most optimal thing occurring doesn't always happen, and it isn't bad writing for a writer to not have the best course of action undertaken by their characters. The part where I draw the line is GeGe very obviously understanding the gaps in his writing, and then doubling down by trying to narrate an explanation that ex post facto makes his writing iron-clad.
This 100%. I like this channel for his insights on the story but he just cannot critique the author.
Tell not show is a legit literary crime. Characters being alive after being “killed off” also removes all gravitas. Finally, using one full chapter for post-facto exposition rather than resolution (i.e., what happened to the world afterwards, characters grieving, etc.) is such a waste
@@ArcHeus08ask me how I know you’re not a writer
@@phylocybe_ask me how its a stupid comment
@@ArcHeus08 yes and i have asked him for his critiques in this video. Bc i feel he glosses over those , but goes deeply into the praises.
I agree that it is the contenr he wants to make..but glossing over prroblems or blind defending and only talking about the good makes it feel disingenious
@@aritrasaha441 lmao gotcha
I still wished that Nanami would have met Higuruma
I was not surprised he survived because I felt if he was believed dead he would have been featured in Yuji's memorial images of people who influenced him along with Junpei, Mahito, Gojo, Nanami, and Nobara. I think one problem readers had with this arc and manga is they keep forgetting how little in-verse time has passed. To them these people are recupertaing after being dead/dying for years but it's often only been a few days/weeks. Having the Sukuna fight drag on as long as it did was I think a bad decision on Gege's part and this is a symptom of that I think. Plus this "yapter" would have been better in little chunks in-between bouts of the battle, probably, but oh well. I'm just happy Higaruma did not get the easy way out and will have to find a way to use his gifts for good and come to terms with the harm he did in the courtroom that day.
It being a possibility is not the issue 😅. It's a fake out milked for its emotional value and not followed through with
I loved the chapter. It makes sense thats the sorcerers would be discussing it like this because most of them didn't know each other's plans. They were all acting on their own agendas and it was just lucky that it all worked out for them. I still think geges gonna hit us with some twist in the last two chapters because hes evil
For me it's a great death ruined until I'm proven otherwise in the next chapters. I really did like the way he went down and the fact it didn't even work was so tragic daah dammit!
Ps: Kusakabe was never supposed to be considered dead, this one is on the clown readers of the jjk circus.
I love how Higuruma is back, he's one of my faves too!
BUT WHAT ABOUT MY BOY TAKABA?! 😭
This is one of those times I completely disagree with you man sometime we just have to be honest and acknowledge when something is bad it’s bad and not try to desperately find a good in it no this was bad…
think people are just forgetting how loooong this fight has been
I have three questions for you:
1. Supposing that Choso did not pursue to let Yuji eating the other brothers or simply got ahold of them before he found out Yuji was his kid brother, do you think he would have found people to force feed them to in order to let them have bodies? Do you think if the other six brothers did incarnate it would have had any impact on the Shinjuku fight?
2. Supposing that Sukuna managed to gain a body that was his own to fully control, essentially being his body, not something they could force his soul from like with Megumi, do you think they'd have lost?
Solace thank you so much for the support! I talk about this here: th-cam.com/video/-ZBOEMJAHEw/w-d-xo.html
@@ManganimistYT You made my absolute day!!
Honestly the 269 hate train has been bugging me out. Some people really need to go touch grass. Mangas don’t get the same level of editing a book does but get held to the same standard when actively circulating. There is only so much to be done with you’ve get a tight deadline and less time for deep critical feedback or to rework a whole drafted plan. It’s pretty solid for a years long project with a very specific style to storytelling that tries to keep any detail out of the authors main desired points, pithy as hell.
I did think Higurama was dead but a read back and considerations for what they had going, makes sense. Readers across different medias, book series, managas, original anime’s, tv series, etc tend to expect you need a lot of deaths for a final fight but if you’ve been dealing with an antagonist a whole story, logic would point that by now you should have built wisdom to give a better fight and see less net loss.
The person that needs to touch grass is the person crying that people don’t like a chapter of a manga & continues to write a paragraph crying that others don’t think like them.
@@SilentiumCivis go on prove my point
i don't mind the fewer deaths and all that nonsense the community is complaining about, what i mind is that with 3 chapters left we got gege trying to steelman an argument to the fans (why the fight should have happened the way it did) instead of spending some time with characters that we missed for so many chapters (megumi and nobara) just so their return would be a shock. we should have also skipped all that yuta in gojo's body plot. i know there are parts of that that had significance but they didn't outweigh the bad and again, it felt like a cheap shock value thing.
in general i'm ok with how things are ending in jjk and i enjoyed the whole experience of following this show but some of the misses make me feel so disappointed. it not even that they are bad, it just feels like wasted potential.
The bit I don't understand is that higuruma, someone who JUST LEARNED RCT, gets his arm and entire stomach torn to shreds and sukuna says hes dead survives.
But someone who had just hit a black flash and six eyes to more efficiently produce RCT couldn't use RCT because he CONVENIENTLY died upon IMPACT of the world cutting slash.
Im just commentint bc i wanna see the defenses for this.good one
Simple because sukuna wasn't playing with gojo
Like it's stated in the last chapter.
@@sinobomnjengabantu9604 Shouldn't matter, it was one slash. It had no reason being as lethal as it was. And you say he was playing with higuruma so he survived but look at kashimo.
@@Tarou06 like I said as it was explained on the last chapter sukuna was playing with hugarimo but he wasn't with Kashimo
Simple as that no need for an elaborate complex explanation
Homie, instead of outing yourself as a reel watcher, go actually read the Chapters 😂
Higaruma in prison opening his domain on all of the other inmates could be an interesting spin-off
So basically he's Saul Goodman is what you're saying.
I tutor at a community college and the quarantine generation is borderline illiterate. Academics will be studying the Zoom class speed-bump for a century.
Gege is a great writer💯 and I stand on it!💯🗣️💪🏿✊🏿
Gege was cooking with Higarumas survival and he laid down the exact path to it:
Kusakabe said that the only people allowed to fight Sukuna were people with reversed curse technique or a death wish because facing Sukuna without a way to heal is asking for death. Higaruma fell into the death wish category but learned RCT on the fly against Sukuna which earned him the right to survive, thematically. He stepped away from his suicidal feelings to evolve as a sorcerer and person. He actually had a very similar cog mentality to Yuji but way more depressed about it, but he broke away from that to do what he thought was right (help defeat Sukuna.) Gege treated this positive character development as atonement for Higaruma’s sins, and spared his life.
Shouldnt focus on the "bad writing " crowd. They are spreading to every other community, and give the absolutely DUMBEST plot ammendments. Like Sukuna killing everyone then feels bad, and this is a alternative that seems to be the most common.
Is that seriously a take people are using? And consider it better??
@@gamempire96 yea you have no idea
😭What about the Yuji turing evil crowd? They want him to become Sukuna 2.0
I'm sure they all think the Akame go Kill is a masterpiece.
Of course he would heart this strange comment
Do y'all think Gege forgot about rhe Merger?
I still fw bro’s videos but mans is on cope world tour
Hidden Inventory is by far the best arc in terms of writing in the series which makes it so much more frustrating when Gege completely drops the ball in terms of character writing. Needing to write a chapter at the end of your story basically speaking directly to the readers to tie up plot holes and questions you've raised is simply not a sign of good writing.
i agree, gege has the potential to write characters properly but just like his art the character writing too dropped. i don't know if it's his style that changed or maybe his health is really much worse than we though and he is rushing the hell out of the manga for a while now T-T
@@metalface_villain he prob just wants to be done with it to move on to other projects
Personally hate how Sukuna had no real motivation on winning seriously because it takes a lot out of everyone’s contribution to the fight.
How are people hating on higuruma being alive. Hes such a goated character. I was so happy to see him alive. Awesome sorcerer. Plus. Jjk doesn't really have that high a death count. Exclusing hidden inventory we have nanami, mechamaru, choso and thats all i can remember. Did anyone die during the culling games? Just bad guys. People stop whining
Yeah, 99% of people who thinks that Gege's writing is just bad seem to be people who just can read and have very low level of comprehension. I mean, sure there were complicated parts, but for the most part the entire story is straightforward. Gege puts elements to set things up, some go far back, some a bit too close but he does put them there. There are only very few legitimate claims when Gege fumbled something. Even people criticizing him for just going straight into the fight without fully showing how they all prepared for the last month failed to recognize the value of integrating them in the fight scenes and creating surprise for both Sukuna and us readers. Then this ending chapters is where he reserved the exposition dump and people complained there was not much talk during the fight scenes. Well, they are fight scenes and we already hate it when characters just yap in the middle of a fight. People who complain just don't know what they want and they can't read. At least point out something that is really bad in the actual writing and not just "I wanted this to happen but Gege did not write it" or "Other authors always show this and that and Gege did not". At this point, do you really want to read a story? When it is unpredictable people these same low comprehension people hate it, when it is predictable, then they also hate it.
"Everyone who doesn't share my opinion is dumb". Very mature take.
@@remus4283well , by you saying this you are disagreeing with his opinion and putting your opinion above his which disproves your opinion but doing so you make his opinion true but if it's true that means your opinion is false but now that your opinion makes his opinion be a fact does that mean "I am you?"
@@Blackvoidwithwhiteside7193 that's not how that works. I never said disagreeing is a problem. Saying that everyone who has an opinion that is contrary to yours is an idiot is. Especially when you strawman and cherry pick opposing arguments and pretend like better ones don't exist.
Next time try reading to understand rather than reading to reply.
@@remus4283 "That's harrasment" - Kalifa (one piece)
(obviously jocking, i don't think the OP is really right but i needed to make this joke)
I think he should survive, this is a shonen manga and he is like a shonen protag. He is very idealistic, he's brave, he learn RCT at a faster rate like a main character
I feel like sukuna toying with Higuruma was to see if he could impress him...like, hey bro, show me something more, bro. I know you got more in ya
remember when geto was suddenly able to choke himself/ kenjaku on Shibuya? what are we supposed to do with that? , gege could have done something amazing with that with gojo/yuta but he messed it up again, just like how messed up his binding vow shenanigans
I feel like the manga is now just a blueprint for the anime to follow and make adjustments
Some of this was (also) established when Yuta "killed" Yuji and they dedicated dialogue to explain how "death" != death.
Higuruma is the best person to help define the new rules of jujutsu society, not that he knows the most about jujutsu but he knows the most about legislation
The reason why everyone is angry about writing is because gege is literally killing everyone ex junpei,his mom,nanami, Megumi sister and want us to know that it's a dark story and now everyone has already accepted that it's a dark story so everyone expect that everyone gonna die but now gege writing become all peaceful so it's makes sense why people are angry about gege writing, well gege is just getting his karma back as how he always teased his fans by killing their favourite character.
saying "it's not bad writing" because a char is "one of my favs" is the laziest argument you've ever made. it's like me saying "I don't like Higuruma because I'm a fan of Geto, and Higuruma is an ally of the filthiest monkeys." (personal preference)
Technically, Higuruma is a curse user and has some similarities with Geto. They both snapped and killed people in the event. His so-called "redemption arc" doesn't mean it's not bad writing. the whole chapter 269 is one of those people tend to call bad writing and dislike, because its only purpose is to fill plot holes. it reads like Gege either noticed some after he wrote the battle scenes, or he was made aware of them by others (editor, someone from his team, etc.) so he wrote 269 to address the issues with some dialogue. in general, that's what is called lazy (bad) writing, or making up excuses for your overused plot armor.
Nothing in the chapter (concerning the fight) was something you couldn't determine on your own, with information that was already available. What plot holes are you referring to?
@@KallenScarlet ofc, there would be one of those "IF YOU HAD READ CAREFULLY YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED..." trolls out there. if it all had been so obvious as you say, Gege himself wouldn't have used one of his LAST chapters of the manga to talk about this stuff. apparently you are way smarter than the author himself!! - oh, wait, you are not! you just had the advantage of claiming to be after countless smarter people than you dissected every single chapter and every single panel from beginning to end. wow. you are soooo smart xD
@mindgames470 actually, you have an interesting point here regarding Geto & Higuruma: one got labeled the Worst Curse User of all time, and the other is a genius "Sorcerer," a hero everyone sympathizes with. sure, one killed way more people than the other, but they are both murderers. the difference is that one did it before hell broke loose, and the other was just the right kind of crazy during wartime when peace was no longer an option or something to be disturbed.
@@JeromeMorrow-d8r I asked for plot holes, not for you to make a strawman to argue with
@@KallenScarlethe’ll never tell you because he’s just making shit up
Ngl ion like what kusekabe was saying about how it’s Gojo’s fault because he didn’t kill yuji, only because they would STILL have the problem of the rest of his fingers being out there 😂 0:05
I’m not on the Disney kisen follower list btw I just was thinking about it cuz that seemed out of character for him because he’s a “smart” character
i'm glad higiruma is alive, i he's like nanami but with gojo's potential, i can imagine him being a mentor for a gen of sorcerers
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought Higuruma traded his life to seal Sukuna's cursed tool Kamutoke. If Higuruma is alive, shouldn't Kamutoke have regained its abilities sometime during the Sukuna raid?
nope, that was part of higuruma's domain. he judged sukuna and the punishment was to take away his weapon and also to get the executioners sword, so he can execute him with it :P
Sorry I might've been unclear in my initial statement. I was under the impression that Higuruma's domain only took something away temporarily. And Higuruma had to sacrifice himself to permanently take away Kamutoke; that's why we don't see it for the rest of the raid.
If Higuruma was alive this whole time, Kamutoke should be usable again after some time. It seems like a plot hole to me unless I'm missing something.
@@Mania476 i don't remember if confiscation is perma or not when it comes to items :D but i think i understand what u mean and it might indeed be a plot hole
From the beginning as I was reading the Shinjuku arc , i always thought that nobody except Gojo and Kashimo would actually die in the Sukuna raid
I call it bad writing because of the symbolic representation to Nanami is completely shattered but the video maee me realize the parallel and welp, made me like the scene more
Not as bad as yutas brain hopping having no consequence when it should, the implications he had put when he copied the technique and the 5 minute timer, as well rika being able to heal yuta's original body while he was in gojo's retcons the entirety of rct as the requirements for it to have the users mind and sould in tact, non of which was in yuta's original body had when he was using gojos
Nah bro the writing has gotten so bad and it’s just not about ppl coming back it’s just everything from after gojo fight been bad
So what happened to komutoke if higuruma is alive during the sukuna fight
shii i love all of this!
The place gege struggles most is character interactions and world building to an extent..i personally think..
"JJK isn't like any other Shonen" ahh moment, lol.
If an author spends an entire chapter explaining the "obvious" stuff, then they almost certainly didn't believe that it *was* obvious. That one-eyed cat bum is truly a mediocre and cowardly writer. Just when you think the previous 2 chapters were below subpar, then comes 269. He literally wanted to justify every asspull and bad writing he made throughout the Shinjuku arc with this yapping session chapter, and yeah, let's forget about The Executioner Sword suddenly vanished when Yuji was about to stab Sukuna because Higuruma by story and plot was supposedly dead dead in that moment, not to mention Yuta and all the asspull that bum wrote for him just to please his glazers.
Imagine defending this mid any longer, couldn't be me, lol.
Jjk defenders will do everything BUT view things from another perspective
I read a comment that said Sukuna said something along the lines of “Even after his death Kamatoke is still gone”…so that implies that Higarumas CT was still active…because he was alive…
Sukana was also sure he would win so he was planning of killing everybody at the end anyway. So it didn't matter if higuruma survives a bit longer at this point, he was off the battle which was enough for sukuna
1:10 also the position that hirguma is in makes it seem he is also more likely alive. At the very least he is in one piece
Wish the true current strongest sorcerer, the legendary Comedian user is still around.
The only person that Sukuna truly tried to kill in all this gauntlet was Yuji. He hit him with a net like dismantle which chopped up his torso only for Sukuna to see him back on his feet realising that he learned RCT
I’m not upset that Higuruma, Yuta, and Kusakabe are alive, however, them all still living takes enormous emotional weight away from their respective “last stands”. Yuta taking over Gojo’s body meant extremely little in the grand scheme of things. Sukuna choosing not to kill people in the heat of the moment is weird. An actual training arc would have felt much more grounded than the randomness we received in terms of countless flashbacks, and would have felt like a much more natural way to talk about simple domain. Maki disappearing from the battle completely after Sukunas domain actually makes less sense with this new explanation chapter, genuinely could have rushed to sneak Uraume so Hakari could come and domain clash, or just helped Yuji and Todo. Much of the story feels worthless when most of it was used to setup both Kenjaku and Uraume as major threats. Just because Gege takes a chapter to explain it, doesn’t mean I’m swayed to his side. Gege has made really weird choices towards the end of this series, and really screwed up the payoff for much of his setup, which is an example of bad writing.
He's not a bad writer overall.
He simply has weaknesses in his writing.
JJK is overall a good story.
Once you see all he ever good with were hype moments and aura merchant, then you'll know he's a mid writer, lol. There's nothing good in his writing except HI arc, it's not non-stop flashy action and yapping session, typical generic battle Shonen
I disagree with the take on Higuruma for multiple reasons. As opposed to Yuji, Higuruma had given up on his good/optimistic/empathetic side, he killed people and he had no more will to live. So him ending up in arguably the same situation as Yuji (alive and "well" ?) makes the whole pick an ideology and stick to it idea from Gege inconsequential. Higuruma should have died, or at least should have been punished in a serious way. Narratively, it doesn't fit with Jujutsu Kaisen's initial concept which is that choices HAVE consequences as in real life, all paths do not lead to the same puppies and flowers ending. This is what has been illustrated with Geto, with Sukuna as he died too.
This is a huge issue because after all it's missed plotlines and wasted characters (like Kashimo and Hakari), JJK still had it's nature of being a serious and somewhat realistic ( in the sense that people die, things happen, decisions make a difference ) mainstream manga. With this end, basically everything that was done by Gege in that direction gets undone. Yuta is a perfect example of that, in what way did he become a monster if the only thing he did was just make Maki a tad worried for him ? And I'm betting we'll still hear about Gojo to top it all.
However with Kusakabe, I agree that it was a good choice and narratively made sense, he was a somewhat weak sorcerer in the middle of a war that surpassed him completely, the whole point of the character was to fight for it's survival and in the last moments he gave up on that for the good of the team, it makes sense that he was rewarded.
Finally, the ending is disappointing because the only consequential deaths we'd have will be Kashimo's and Choso's : Kashimo just to show that egoism doesn't work but it was made all so quickly and kinda wasted the character that it feels bland. And Choso who was a cursed spirit but joined the "good" team and got rewarded for that with death, also doesn't make sense to me.
This was truly our jujutsu kaisen 😂😂🎉❤
people are being weird and forgetting were talking about Gege here..... there are 2 chapters left and shit can still get super wild
I think the biggest point is he underestimated everyone he constantly look down on humanity and he didn’t think that they were capable of anything near what he would be if he would have taken them seriously I think he would’ve won
Bro Higuruma being alive is the one thing I liked about last chapter.
I understand that people want JJK deaths to have meaning. This last fight made both the fight itself and Mahito’s fight have far less consequences.
BUT IDGAF GIVE ME MY DISNEY KAISEN IF IT MEANS BY BOYS CAN BE HAPPY.
Gojo and choso comback next chapter? 🎉
Kashimo come back after his body is remade with lightning ❤
Sukanas kill count is low cause as uraume said he wasn't taking anyone seriously since gojo. Maki got him to bring out his black flash cause he wanted to find out if her heavenly restriction was better than sorcery itself. So he entered the zone .I don't understand why readers believe that jumping sukuna with everyone would work when the show goes on to tell us that gojos best fighting condition is alone and pressuring sukana like what yuta said he would do by going to help would actually just cause sukuna to play more dangerous cards.
This is bad writing. I gave Gege a lot of leeway this whole time but this is just another level of fumbling. This is pell’s explosion from one piece, but transformed into jjk. If you’re going to milk him off then whatever, you’ve already set that precedent, but just leaving all the major plot points + the most important 1vs1 in the series’s ending off screen, but instead choosing to spend an entire chapter when there’s only 3 left, yapping about simple domain, which nobody cares about, is actually insane to me. It’s bad writing. And that’s fine. I like JJK for the most part but if you’re going to sit here and tell me that all of this was well executed then you’re just delusional.
The real punishment for Higaruma is to keep living, to learn from his mistakes,not to die and be able to not care about anything anymore