Jujutsu Kaisen is ending in 5 chapters - and this all feels very familiar. I wanted to lend my perspective as a long-time Bleach fan who experienced something very similar almost 10 years ago. How do you feel about JJK ending so soon? What do you think will happen in the final chapters? Let me know!
I will be honest: I paused JJK mid-Season 2 anime airing. I still haven't finished the anime so far, though your last JJK video tempted me to educate myself. Now it's ending similar to Bleach? Almost like the last 8 years barely happened 😅
It's not just Bleach, they did it with Hitman Reborn and they tried to do it with Gintama as well. In the case of Gintama, the author is a massive troll and he wound up driving them crazy by continuing to kick the ending down the road.
I, for one, look forward to the Inhuman Makyo Shinjuku Showdown anime adaptation 10 years from now, when Gege will really get to show off what he couldn’t in the manga
it seemed like the natural flow of the story, especially to flesh out yuki's sacrifice, tengen's relationship with Sukuna and Kenny. But Gege was adamant he was gonna be done this year
@@GirlthatsBilly the merger is related to a binding vow Kenjaku made, and once he died all of his vows become null, right now the only thing stopping the merger from happening is Sukuna's will for it to happen, since Kenjaku's last act was giving him (Sukuna) the power to start it
No it not going to be rushed. There nothing jjk has to offer for it to last longer now, literally Gojo died most of the connected characters died also and other than main villian sukuna there nothing more series can offer. So instead of dragging with more chapters for sukuna fighting more it better to end it with nice meaning full fight
@@Pujan-Offical The merger was the entire plot of the story, no heian era flashback, knowledge over tengen and kenjaku etc etc. 5 chapters isn't going to live up to a satisfying ending imho.
@@eliasmartin9842 the flashback can be done in one chapter. About tengen and kenjaku those can be involved in flashback chapter, the jjk story itself is coming to end so ending it will be better
I’m so used to seeing Bleach content here that I was seriously looking for the “spoilers for the tybw arc in the video to come” segment in a video about JJK. Great content btw, as always.
The fact we don’t have a backstory or much lore about him either frustrates me too. Gege was rushing things then realized he couldn’t rush it, then rushes it again 💀
Yeah, I mean the fight itself was cool. But really lacking on any actual emotional engagement with the characters. Just ended up being a nothing burger of a villain, just like Sukuna.
Imagine if in Bleach, Rukia just get critically Injured against Aaroniero and then we just don't hear from her for the rest of the series. This is kinda what Gege Akutani did for Nobara.
@@PeripheriAe With 5 chapters left? I guess she can just show up for one panel at the end. What else is she gonna do at this point? Randomly show up by the end and cut Sukuna's head off?
@@goldmemberpb Spoliers ahead. With the recent chapter revealing 1 of Sukuna's fingers still remains, people have theorised that Nobara would use Resonance to make Sukuna's control over Megumi weak enough for Yuji to cut the connection between them. That this is the real reason why Yuji used Domain Expansion at this point where Sukuna would be at his weakest and Megumi would fight back. Which ngl is kinda beautiful in a way. Gojo's students picking up where he left things off and clutching the victory against Sukuna, proving that Gojo's path was the right one in contrast Sukuna's and showing that the new gen of sorcerers is gonna be alright after all. Nobara being revealed to be alive and well wouldn't be jarring as it would complete the trifecta of 1st years. Honestly, it wouldn't be jarring at all. Not when you compare it to the YuJo brain swap which I'm still surprised made very little impact on the story.
What do you mean nothing much else left to do. We really gonna introduce this whole series with a secondary villain, Kenjaku, who LITERALLY BIRTHED YUUJI the MC, to be some part of 1000 year plan. Just to fking get offscreened? This is like Ywach being fking offscreened after implementing the invasion. Like wut?
@@Seven_DB My man had what 2-3 panels of him dying to an ambush by Yuta and died. The guy lived through 1000 years, through stronger eras of sorcerers where they were more savage. He has no backup plans? Telling me he even killed a 6eyes before and now just dies to an ambush. Yuta didn't even use any special ability was literally just a straight sword swing.
@@Dupingmaster 1. So you admit he didn't get off screened. That's really all I corrected. Everything else you said and I'm about to say is removed from the original point 2. Yuta is outright stronger than Kenjaku in physical stats. Yes Kenjaku is a heian era sorcerer and fought in that blood thirsty era but let's not forget Yuta is number 2 in the modern era. He's defeated Ryu a top 2 edo era fighter and Uro a prolific Heian era fighter WITHOUT intent to kill 3. Kenjaku was clearly distracted by Takeba's CT, a chaos he couldn't control which he loves, and got very caught up in the moment 4. Todo guaranteed the kill by using Boogie Woogie to disorient Kenjaku even further So it was the combination of a stronger fighter than Kenjaku, a technique that even Sukuna has trouble dealing with, and the best possible distraction they could manage to land that killing blow. Kenjaku is not incredibly powerful. Yuta could reasonably beat him in a 1 on 1 but they couldn't afford the resources. So they played into the modern era's unexpected strengths and beat him
It seems we are entering a new era of Jump. JJK, MHA and Black Clover are reaching their ends and OP is in the final saga. On the plus side, so many of the big titles ending most likely means that Jump will be eager for Kubo to write the Hell arc, to ensure that one of their big series remains profitable.
It feels weird that JJK began in 2018 and is now the 3rd oldest manga in WSJ behind One Piece (1997) and Hiatus × Hiatus (1998). 20 years of series have come and gone between them.
I still remember when we found out Bleach was ending in just five chapters. I couldn’t believe it. how was Kubo supposed to tie everything up with so little time? When I heard about JJK ending, Bleach immediately popped into my mind, but there’s a big difference here. Kubo was really under the gun, pushed by all sorts of pressures, and you could tell things were rushed even before the announcement. But with Gege, it feels like this is really his call. He’s been telling us for a while that the end was coming. Five chapters still feels wild to me, how can he possibly wrap things up in so few? But at least it seems like it’s his decision, not something he’s being forced into.
I think Gege has phoned it in and is planning to resolve Yuuji and Megumi's arc at the expense of anything else. That, and he's a hack writer who has never convincingly tied together his most interesting elements to create compelling characters or story.
This is not how Gege wants it to end, this is more like something he has to do in order to not prolong the finale considering he is already fed up and wants to start something new.. 5 chapters is just too little time considering there has to be room for an aftermath, which is why in the tybw manga we barely had any aftermath and needed the novels in order to make up what actually happened to everyone after tybw.
@WieldMyWord The situations are not the same, Kubo was given a specific amount of chapters to end the story, he had no say in when to end his story. Gege has all the time in the world to end his story, I imagine the magazine actually wants him to continue, so how and when his story ends is completely up to him. So yes, this is how Gege wants the story to end.
I honestly think it's unfair to even compare those two situations. Prior to 1000 Year Blood War, Bleach, unlike JJK which only had Shibuya (and Hidden Inventory) , had several arcs, characters and story aspects which made it so good. And Kubo wasn't happy with how it ended but was forced to by his publisher. Gege on the other hand takes so many brakes (some because of his health), wasted so many characters/plot points at times on purpose at times because he doesn't know any better and most importantly made it clear, that he managed to make the ending HE himself wanted. He never rushed himself because he never intended to include more lore or world building in his series because he didn't bother on one hand and didn't know any better on the other hand. He rather focused on fights and memes. Which is straight up garbage, in my opinion. So he didn't "rush" anything as this is how he evnisioned the ending. People should just realize that this guy simply isn't as good of an author as they originally thought. Nobara only existed because of the intervention of an editor and apparently his first vision of JJK was the Culling Game with even less plot...Kubo and Bleach may also had its flaws at times but atleast he gave us more than whatever TF Gege gave his audience and tried to redeem himself with the anime. I don't think Gege wants to do the same as he seems more than happy to move on from the series. So that means one hand you have someone who, at this point, couldn't care less about his story, his characters and desperately tries to move on while the other one loved his series, was forced to rush it but redeemed himself with the anime where he can finally end it the way HE wanted it. So while you get Gege's ending in the manga, you'll get Kubo's in the anime.
Your argument for the merger really on point, something that I have a hard time trying to explain to people why if it didn't happen, it'll be bad. The merger is basically just like your run off the mill "big bad guy win=end of the world, therefore must prevent". So if it didn't happen, it's actually fine. But when - as you said - Sukuna doesn't even come close to actually do the merger, it kind of a wasted potential, a chekhov's gun that is not triggered, a set up that never actually happen. Other than Bleach's example, I think FMAB can also be an example. In FMAB, Father devise a plan to turn people in Amestris into philosopher stone to obtain god, he did go with the plan and it did happen, until Hohenheim prevent it by reversing the process mid way and giving back Amestris people's souls to their owner. The merger didn't happen will be as if all of Father's plan to turn Amestris people into philosopher stone just got yoinked out before it could even remotely began, it'll be extremely unsatisfying. We need to at least see half the potential of what merger could do, the process of it happening, and the further implication if it did happen and successful.
@@alpguy4865 Sukuna said outright that he’d complete the merger after killing off the cast just so he’d fight it. Sukuna doesn’t have the lofty plans of world domination or human evolution like Kenjaku does. He simply cares about power. It makes sense that Sukuna didn’t use the merger. That’s why Kusikabe literally stated that so long as Kenjaku was dealt with, they, could deal with Sukuna later, since until he got the merger, he wasn’t nowhere near the threat Kenny was as Sukuna just lives to do what he wants.
@@Bornagainvillain The reason for merger is more about out-universe rather than in-universe. People can argue whether the merger will happen or not based on the character's characterization and motivation (just like what you said about Sukuna), but that's not necessarily what I (and many people) want to argue. It's more about the out-universe reason, more about how Gege write his story. The merger is a set up by Gege as the writer of JJK, he made that up. When you already set up something, people expect you to at least deliver it to a certain degree, which I argue if it didn't happen at all, it'll be unsatisfying. Now just like I (and MrTommo alluded), it doesn't need to actually be successful. It can just be half the way in but then got stopped by our protagonists. Because if that happen, at least the set up that Gege had planned actually happen rather than just seemingly going nowhere.
I am genuinely curious, as someone that never saw Naruto's ending in manga format, when did the chapter announcement for the end of Naruto come out and how did you feel for it?
The fact that two major shonen series like MHA and JJK are both ending within less than two months is mad!At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Luffy finds the One Piece and Oda wraps up that series as well before the end of September 😂
@Bornagainvillain I admit that the ending arc of MHA had good pacing. I mean sure, we don't know who Deku's deadbeat dad is and if Deku and Uraraka ever became a thing 🤷🏾♂️But Deku fulfilled the prophecy of completing One For All. And overall, the ending was alright😌 but on the other hand with JJK...we still haven't gotten a Sukuna and Angel flashback. AND HAKARI AND URAUME!? Is Hakari just going to be offscreened and wake up at some random airport in the next chapter??😂
The two of them feel rushed, but in different ways to me. For Bleach, it feels like Kubo had a solid idea of where he wanted to go and where he wanted to end but simply lacked the time, but for Gege it feels like he knows where he wants to end but not at all how to get there in a satisfying manner.
With kubo you could tell it was rushed and that there was so much missing from the final arc, so much lore and scenes that were left out. For JJK it feels like gege isn't sure how to tie everything together. I'm not saying he cant do it in the last 5 chapters, but then he's gonna need to compress and condense alot of things
@@mouseofharry1703 yeah and I know this is kind of a hot take, but I feel like JJK didn't even have this issue until Yuji got his big moment Like if Sukuna had lost to Jacob's Ladder, it would've made every single thing that happened prior feel like setup to that conclusion, which imo would've worked. Instead, now everything kind of feels like it was just filler, with Gege just doing things he think should happen but not knowing how to make it all matter.
This is the best way to put it. Gege has long struggled to tie the disparate elements of his story and characters together, and it's absolutely killed JJK. Now, he's ending it right as the plot finally had some clarity and focus, which goes to show he probably still didn't have much of an idea of how to end things.
Jjk's is a more fair comparison to Game of Thrones. The producers rushed the end while everyone, even HBO, wanted more seasons. Kubo was forced to rush it. It's not even 300 chapters long and it's all unraveling at the seams. Kubo and Oda really have aged like fine wine
Hi tommo, thank you for the video it helped me feel better about the jjk situation. Hope you will continue to make more jjk videos as it’s one of my fave series alongside bleach
Oof this video brought back a wave of memories from college. I remember reading those 5-6 Bleach chapters and feeling like I got gut punched seeing my favorite series end so abruptly.
Was reading Bleach before it ended and i started jjk since day 1. They don't feel the same. The only person that wants jjk to end in 5 chapters is gege :D. It wasn't looking like there was going to be a next arc anyway and it felt that way to me for about a year and a half. Jjk is at an all time high popularity wise, i really think gege just decided this is where he's stopping now. Maybe for a sequel series setup or maybe because he is finished with this story. Right now in jjk all the stakes are on the outcome of this fight. There's nothing more but a few epilogue chapters in it. Kubo was legit just starting to pay off on the setup he worked so hard for.
Late to this video, but wanted to comment. You HAVE to talk about the chapter thay dropped today, i mean just wow. Not gonna post about what happens just to avoid spoilers to those who haven't read it yet, but I will say it's absolutely amazing.
I'm honestly not sure what made me think of this, something about you saying Gege is going to end the series the way "he" wants, but: I think a really cool idea for a series ending would be something where the series already contained some time-travel-esque elements to it, and the creator ends the series off exactly how they intended to from the beginning, regardless of the fan's opinions or desires. THEN, years later, they revive the IP by introducing some of the previously mentioned time-travel shenanigans, and keep pumping out more content for the series, almost like canon 'What If' endings. In this way, the hypothetical series could technically cater to everyone's wishes, but the creator gets to tell the exact story they wanted to first, from start to finish, and then just kind of adds to the top/middle of it later to appease various groups in their fandom.
I bet it hey have been talking about this for a while on the Japanese scene. It’s been an over a year… 44 chapters of ONE friggin fight. I’ve been over JJk for a minute. Every week it’s been “oh look sukuna is still alive, and figured out how to somehow get out of his sure death”…. With all the translation issues and things being lost in translation, I guarantee this has been being talked about.
I can't say I'm surprised to hear of the series ending given Gege either late 2022 or early 2023 said he wanted to end the series in 2023. Im more surprised that he's doing so with some story elements still being up in the air.
I'm actually on quite a different opinion from you Tommo, I don't think there needs to be some dramatic final moment where Sukuna almost wins I think Gege might actually be going for something more sad and subtle Sukuna throughout this entire final arc has already proven how easy it is for him to turn things around if the right opportunity presents itself and now yuji has this surefire way to beat him and I think he will As for how I think it'll end, I think we'll see Sukuna's defeat and then a very short time skip giving us all the living characters pov's and the conclusion of those we think are deceased along with a conclusion to Urame's fight I just keep seeing everyone say it's gonna be a bad rushed ending purely because of my hero and Aot's ending like come on people have faith in Gege he has said he's had the ending written for a very long time now and he's not the type of author to be influenced by fans to change the ending like Aots author and he also isn't the type of author to just have straight up moments of bad writing before ending the series like my hero's it sounds like he has something satisfied and planned out for us and ykw? I can't wait for his next series
Whats with series ending this year being rushed lol, I feel like there are so many questions/things we never explored that are just never going to be touched on
First of all, I always think it’s good to end a series on a high note, when the story is still interesting to follow. The publisher has every incentive to continue because they want to make more money, but I think it’s bad for the series in general. I’m so glad that Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba has ended and not being dragged on. I have the same feeling about Jujutsu Kaisen. It’s a good thing it’ll end. I don’t have access to Jump magazine and so I’m not on the latest chapter. But I read the manga as they’re published and I do feel the fight with Sukuna has been a bit dragged out. Consequently I’m glad it’s going to end soon.
This is Gege's first manga, as he stated when the first chapter released. I don't think he knows what to do, from an author standpoint, on where to take the story. Like HxH author gave his ending last year. Sometimes writers don't know where to take their story. Gege choosing to end it is a combination of him not knowing where to take the story plus Shonen Jump editors probably realising the constant 2 years of Sukuna cycle is going down hill. I mean, Gege couldn't even use Hakari vs Uruame properly. That fight was used as plot device for Uruame to say "He's not even trying"
"Kenjaku deserved better" is a lie, that guy deserved so much worse. I think there's still a chance for flashbacks/backstory though, since Yuji's Domain Expansion seems like a memory lane effect; if it lets him explore the memories of Sukuna (which is possible, since it already let him get that glimpse of Megumi) then we might see a bit of his past before it ends. The presence of the finger fuels the Nobara copium flames, but for those that are sure she's dead and gone: her grandmother, the one that taught her that technique, is still alive afaik. If Nobara's alive (whether barely hanging on or recovered), or if her grandma's pissed enough to enter the fray, the Soul Resonance attacks (previously shown to wreck Mahito because they only need a piece to damage the whole being) are likely to play a key role in the final chapters
wouldn’t be necessary thankfully because they’ve satisfyingly put the villain into a really weak spot unlike Yhwach who was up five chapters before the end lol
I personally have no problem with how Kenjaku died as I felt it was a fitting karmic way for him to go. For someone who freely ended the lives of so many with the intent to end countless more without consideration for their own wishes and dreams it seemed fitting that he should be cut down just as abruptly while denied the chance to see his own goals played out. I think a lot of people disregard the human element of the story which is what Yuji has been fighting for and has believed in this whole time. Each of those deaths was a story cut short for seemingly no good reason and it is the villain's inability to see the tragedy in what they are taking away with their actions that is the driving problem. So yeah, TLDR: Not sad Kenjaku died how he did, he had it comin' and Sukuna does too.
Man I remember how I felt when bleach manga was ending cause when they got to the big fight with ichigo and aizen vs Yhwach I told my yo my son aizen bout to go bankai then next thing u know oh only so and so chapters left so I feel bro I was pissed
It was ending soon regardless. Dunno why anyone thinks this was sudden when he announced the series was ending sometime in 2022-23. He wanted it to end in 2023, and couldn’t finish it by then. JJK is not one of those long series like Bleach or Naruto spanning 700 plus chapters. Gege obviously didn’t want it to run that long. Anyone thinking a Heian era arc was coming were fooling themselves. Granted I had my own theories on the merger happening and it might happen in a different sort of way with a different result(the whole doing something about cursed energy), but it ending soon, everyone saw this coming, even the bigger JJK channels.
I don't see anyone complaining that it is ending, but rather that many loose ends aren't going to be answered/solved, etc in only 5 chapters, or simply be far too rushed.
@@aishwaryaprateek8b737 Gege apparently doesn’t think so. Not enough for a WHOLE ARC like fans who don’t contribute to the writing want. It’s not important enough to cover.
Because it is basically impossible for him to wrap it up in a satisfying way with 5 chapters. It could be this year but 5 chapters isnt enough so hes just going to end up leaving a million loose ends out there. At least the MHA ending (that has been shit on) wrapped up pretty much everything, and even that felt rushed
Tbh it’s been painfully obvious Gege has been trying to end the series for a while now, but he couldn’t figure out how. I’ll be surprised if he can wrap everything up in 5 chapters.
ok weirdly, I kinda like that the Merger isn't going to happen, JJK's villains are the focal point, the final fight against a monster doesn't really work for me. But yeah, I do like that the heroes winning means the end of the world DOESN'T happen. Sukuna is also very close, if he wins this fight, the Merger will happen, but also the merger was more Kenjaku's crazy idea, Sukuna is the focus, not ther merger, and I'm ok with that. In terms of a Sukuna backstory, I'm actually split on it, because I wonder how much explaining the thing that is Sukuna would help and how much would result in him just losing his mystery. Harari vs Uraume... yeah not gonna defend that lol, it is weird that it's been off screen completely. I actually suspect they are still in deadlock, but Uraume will give up with Sukuna's death since that's all she lives for.
Sorry but this isn't really anything like Bleach's situation. Bleach rushed ending came due to a LOT of external factors forcing Kubo's hand whereas JJK's upcoming rushed ending is due to Gege messing up his own story.
Weekly Shonen Jump is having an issue... they just lost MHA and now JJK? My god One Piece is the only big Title left for them. The other Mangas in the lineup are ok but they are not nearly big enough to fill these 2 gigantic holes.
Bleach really ended only 8 years ago... Feels like an eternity. Which is good, i suddenly don't feel THAT old as before. Just plain old. Godammit, somebody sell me some copium please.
I’m actually kinda optimistic about this ending, I feel like ending in 5 chapters while not ideal could work well. To compare it to bleach I’d say the point when it was announced that bleach was ending the fight had barely just begun meaning it ended up rather anticlimactic whereas in Jjk it feels as if the fight has advanced a lot more and could feasibly be over in 5 chapters. The other thing I’d say is that comparatively jjk focuses more on using text to tell its story where as bleach focuses on using imagery meaning that jjk can squeeze more story content onto each page on average. And finally because jjk simply has a smaller world and cast compared to bleach there isn’t as much that needs to be accounted for in the epilogue. Don’t get me wrong tho 5 chapters is still a very tight frame so I’m not completely sure of this.
Itll be the end of an Era thats for sure 😔 My last anime manga obsession was Bleach and that was well over a decade ago before I attached to JJK as my new. Its gonna be a long time before I will get the same feelings Bleach and JJK brought together for me to a new series. Im not sure how to feel yet until we reach Sep 30 spelling the end. I cant say Goodbye yet. At least Bleach had LNs and Hell Arc then Anime TYBW. JJK we don't know if there will be more. But... at least Gege gets the choice to end it how he would want it to end unlike Kubo who did not have the luxury to end it with his own terms.
I am genuinely not surprised, but also not even disappointed because Gege has already disappointed me in every way. I could go on a cuss-filled tirade about JJK and what it did wrong, but there's no point wasting my breath. Piss off Gege, and only come back when you learn how to actually write characters.
Another thing to consider is that Kubo would have had a flashback arc in TYBW given more tike. Kubo has phenomenal flashbacks. I have re read Everything But The Rain multiple times. Gege is allergic to character development.
The dude got massively overshadowed by Maki, Yuta and Gojo despite being the MC. Yuta legit felt like the MC too. Goes on a training arc abroad for a year and comes back and smokes the competition until Sukuna himself.
I assumed jjk was going to be pretty short. The movie is about a separate character, and the show had a pretty straight forward premise of 1 character being destined to defeat 1 other character, and the series could end at any time when that was achieved. Sure they could do a boruto and just follow another character in the future or adjacently, but it would be their own story in the universe.
Honestly I feel like the entire culling games arc could be... well culled. Most of its setup didnt really lead to anything, and most of the characters introduced in it pretty much were just there to get one shot by Sukuna so we could see his strenght. The Kenjaku and Takaba fight was my favorite of the series but considering that was just his end and none of his plans meant anything its very disappointing.
There are so many things left to answer but at the same time I feel like the time for answering them is long gone. Exploring the 3 families and their origin cursed spirits, the cursed realm, the fact that supposedly everybody knows about what is going on since Shibuya and cursed energy was made public and the usa's involvement in the culling games, ton of characters we never saw again, the merger... In general I think the world should've been kept smaller or had extra time to build itself, I haven't felt as invested in the story, partially because so much stuff I was interested in never got to develop. A personal preference like any but I think it's a fair view. I also agree with the points you brought up
@@D3ltus nah. That would result in a longer series than the author wanted. Not every detail needs to be covered for a story to be successful. It’s just lore for lore’s sake.
@@Bornagainvillain honestly he shouldve just cut the entire culling games arc. what did it even do? All of the setup went nowhere and pretty much all of the characters introduced in it did basically nothing in the end
The craziness and unpredictability of JJK kept me from ever being able to guess how and when it was going to end. It did a lot of things that might initially rub people the wrong way as a knee-jerk reaction because it was trying to be subversive of our expectations, of shonen expectations, and that doesn't mean it's wrong or bad. It is different and trying to do things in a way we're not used to and avoid stuff that we do technically make fun of as tropes despite expecting them every single time. JJK is not perfect pacing-wise I feel but it did a lot of interesting choices that are way more satisfying in how they pay off when compared to a much more popular series like Hunter X Hunter as much as I love that franchise so much too.
I can now freely say I was disappointed with Kenjaku's death. The ultimate mastermind of everything that happened in the story just died with a sneak swing from Yuta 😢. I'm guessing Gege needs rest
While it is sad to see such a good story end. It is also nice to know that because it’s done, the rest of the anime won’t have to split up such a long arc into 2 seasons to avoid catching up with the material.
I read the first 60 chapters of JJK and I really just couldn't get into it, the power system just seemed too wishy washy to me and I never really gave a crap about any of the characters. However, I have been following the release since the start of the final battle in hopes that it would make me want yo go back and read the rest, and it hasn't. I'm perfectly fine with JJK getting a rushed ending because the story was that great to begin with. Bleach, however, deserved at least another 6 months to flesh out the endgame properly because there were so many characters that I actually did want to see more elaborate backstories/bankai for.
JJK has always made odd choices, and it's something I've grown to love, but the news was hard to hear. If I didn't know any better, I would say it's Gege trolling and setting up a part 2 sort of thing, but realistically, that's probably not gonna happen. I just don't see it ending in 5 chapters and feeling satisfied.......and Hikari's fight possibly getting offscreened. That one would sting.
I was hoping to have a backstory on Yuji' parents, Backstory on Kenjaku and Sukuna in the Heian era, an explanation on the creation of Yuji by Kenjaku, and I'm also disappointed on Kenjaku's fate, for me he was the Aizen mastermind of the Story, and he died just like any cursed spirit, I was waiting for a backstory of him and his journey to this point, and absolutely nothing
The moment when Sukuna defeats Gojo for the second time is the Ywhabach flooding the Seretei equivalent. It's an easy miss with just how long this one fight has been.
I could be forgetting something but I don't remember sukuna ever expressing that he really cared about doing the merger I thought it was just kinchaku gave him the power to do it and he almost is forced to because of the rules of the Cullen games
We have Season 3 and likely a Season 4 in the mix. Likely with the ending of the manga, there’s room for improvement and expanding the material to give a proper conclusion
Jujutsu Kaisen is ending in 5 chapters - and this all feels very familiar. I wanted to lend my perspective as a long-time Bleach fan who experienced something very similar almost 10 years ago. How do you feel about JJK ending so soon? What do you think will happen in the final chapters? Let me know!
I was so shocked
I'm just shocked. I never saw you talk about anything else, but bleach, it's refreshing kinda
I will be honest: I paused JJK mid-Season 2 anime airing. I still haven't finished the anime so far, though your last JJK video tempted me to educate myself.
Now it's ending similar to Bleach? Almost like the last 8 years barely happened 😅
It's not just Bleach, they did it with Hitman Reborn and they tried to do it with Gintama as well. In the case of Gintama, the author is a massive troll and he wound up driving them crazy by continuing to kick the ending down the road.
I, for one, look forward to the Inhuman Makyo Shinjuku Showdown anime adaptation 10 years from now, when Gege will really get to show off what he couldn’t in the manga
When Gege said JJK is inspired by Bleach, he REALLY meant it
Stealing comments? Lmao
@@Fast-g9zNo one cares
@@Fast-g9z you know it's just a sentance right
does he mean it tho
Frfr!
Hakari in 5 chapters: "I'm not going to sugarcoat it... STRONG OFFSCREEN"
Did Hakari learn offscreen haki?
I completely forgot they're still fighting......😂😅
Hakari's stocks 📉📉
I think so did gege @@piyoweb
Tommo: starts making jjk content
Jjk: *ends*
lmao
That hasn't stopped him with Bleach to be fair
The Curse of Tommo
He could jump on the Kagurabachi train
@@leezus7875Peakgurapeakchi*
I saw the 5 chapter announcement, and I got instant Bleach flashbacks
Gege really did take inspiration from tite
We may have JJK light novels like Bleach to show content that JJK Manga didn't show after its end.
@@jegjasperbarajan548 Novels suck. Mangas are where you tell and show the action.
1. You need to read more.
2. You don't know what a light novel is.
@@Unaliq A small fry brain like you could never appreciate a good novel. Imagination is a luxury reserved for the curious, after all.
@@orlandomejia6818 So easy to trigger people like you.
“No one expected the merger to happen-“ Lol nah like half the community thought it would/still think it will
it seemed like the natural flow of the story, especially to flesh out yuki's sacrifice, tengen's relationship with Sukuna and Kenny. But Gege was adamant he was gonna be done this year
@@BioZook It seemed natural if you forget that for the merger to happen all of the MCs have to die.... I hate the jjk fan base.
Still didn't understand why was Yuki left to go away when she was a Star plasma for Tengen [that's one detail I don't get].
@@GirlthatsBilly the merger is related to a binding vow Kenjaku made, and once he died all of his vows become null, right now the only thing stopping the merger from happening is Sukuna's will for it to happen, since Kenjaku's last act was giving him (Sukuna) the power to start it
@@GirlthatsBilly calm down, get this man a puppers
It happened in FMA, wasnt gonna discount it here :)
Absolutely did not see this coming so soon
Mimic what you doing here?! Promised consort is kicking my ass
I honestly did, and it's just the final turd on top of the shit mountain that JJK became.
When I heard MrTommo would start producing JJK content again, this wasn't what I thought he would begin with. XD
bleach was my first thought when i heard this announcement this jjk ending is definitely going to be rushed
No it not going to be rushed. There nothing jjk has to offer for it to last longer now, literally Gojo died most of the connected characters died also and other than main villian sukuna there nothing more series can offer. So instead of dragging with more chapters for sukuna fighting more it better to end it with nice meaning full fight
@@Pujan-Offical The merger was the entire plot of the story, no heian era flashback, knowledge over tengen and kenjaku etc etc. 5 chapters isn't going to live up to a satisfying ending imho.
@@Pujan-Officalthe way S2 played out I knew that S3 will be final season
@@eliasmartin9842 the flashback can be done in one chapter. About tengen and kenjaku those can be involved in flashback chapter, the jjk story itself is coming to end so ending it will be better
@@Pujan-Offical overall a bit of a trainwreck of a story though, even though I enjoyed most of it.
I’m so used to seeing Bleach content here that I was seriously looking for the “spoilers for the tybw arc in the video to come” segment in a video about JJK. Great content btw, as always.
Kenjaku’s defeat was so underwhelming i genuinely forgot it happened until you mentioned it in this video
The fact we don’t have a backstory or much lore about him either frustrates me too. Gege was rushing things then realized he couldn’t rush it, then rushes it again 💀
Yeah, I mean the fight itself was cool. But really lacking on any actual emotional engagement with the characters. Just ended up being a nothing burger of a villain, just like Sukuna.
When Kenjaku was killed I realized that this was the end. He was no aizen at the end
@@crisgon9552frs
Imagine if in Bleach, Rukia just get critically Injured against Aaroniero and then we just don't hear from her for the rest of the series. This is kinda what Gege Akutani did for Nobara.
"critically injured" keep coping my brother. Nobara stocks can still go up
@@PeripheriAe Nobara could have gone out in a far more effective way, it was kinda anticlimactic.
@@PeripheriAe With 5 chapters left? I guess she can just show up for one panel at the end. What else is she gonna do at this point? Randomly show up by the end and cut Sukuna's head off?
@@goldmemberpb Spoliers ahead.
With the recent chapter revealing 1 of Sukuna's fingers still remains, people have theorised that Nobara would use Resonance to make Sukuna's control over Megumi weak enough for Yuji to cut the connection between them. That this is the real reason why Yuji used Domain Expansion at this point where Sukuna would be at his weakest and Megumi would fight back.
Which ngl is kinda beautiful in a way. Gojo's students picking up where he left things off and clutching the victory against Sukuna, proving that Gojo's path was the right one in contrast Sukuna's and showing that the new gen of sorcerers is gonna be alright after all. Nobara being revealed to be alive and well wouldn't be jarring as it would complete the trifecta of 1st years.
Honestly, it wouldn't be jarring at all. Not when you compare it to the YuJo brain swap which I'm still surprised made very little impact on the story.
She was fatally injured, not critically. lol You do understand how Mahito's ability works right? She ain't surviving that.
What do you mean nothing much else left to do. We really gonna introduce this whole series with a secondary villain, Kenjaku, who LITERALLY BIRTHED YUUJI the MC, to be some part of 1000 year plan. Just to fking get offscreened? This is like Ywach being fking offscreened after implementing the invasion. Like wut?
Nah its more like Aizen being off screened. Kenjaku was THAT important in the set up of the events as they are now
@@Dupingmasterprofit that JJK fans don’t read…
Kenjaku didn’t get offscreened tho
@@Seven_DB My man had what 2-3 panels of him dying to an ambush by Yuta and died. The guy lived through 1000 years, through stronger eras of sorcerers where they were more savage. He has no backup plans? Telling me he even killed a 6eyes before and now just dies to an ambush. Yuta didn't even use any special ability was literally just a straight sword swing.
@@Dupingmaster 1. So you admit he didn't get off screened. That's really all I corrected. Everything else you said and I'm about to say is removed from the original point
2. Yuta is outright stronger than Kenjaku in physical stats. Yes Kenjaku is a heian era sorcerer and fought in that blood thirsty era but let's not forget Yuta is number 2 in the modern era. He's defeated Ryu a top 2 edo era fighter and Uro a prolific Heian era fighter WITHOUT intent to kill
3. Kenjaku was clearly distracted by Takeba's CT, a chaos he couldn't control which he loves, and got very caught up in the moment
4. Todo guaranteed the kill by using Boogie Woogie to disorient Kenjaku even further
So it was the combination of a stronger fighter than Kenjaku, a technique that even Sukuna has trouble dealing with, and the best possible distraction they could manage to land that killing blow. Kenjaku is not incredibly powerful. Yuta could reasonably beat him in a 1 on 1 but they couldn't afford the resources. So they played into the modern era's unexpected strengths and beat him
Nobara waking up to use "resonance" was Uryuu's "Silver arrow "
It seems we are entering a new era of Jump. JJK, MHA and Black Clover are reaching their ends and OP is in the final saga. On the plus side, so many of the big titles ending most likely means that Jump will be eager for Kubo to write the Hell arc, to ensure that one of their big series remains profitable.
It feels weird that JJK began in 2018 and is now the 3rd oldest manga in WSJ behind One Piece (1997) and Hiatus × Hiatus (1998). 20 years of series have come and gone between them.
One piece still gonna continue for years anyways haha, i expect we will be in elbaf for like a year
I feel like kubo will start the arc right after cour 4 ends
@@OvercookedOmlette i hope
@@Calebe428 I'ma be the odd one out and predict that Elbaf will be like 2-3 years.
I still remember when we found out Bleach was ending in just five chapters. I couldn’t believe it. how was Kubo supposed to tie everything up with so little time? When I heard about JJK ending, Bleach immediately popped into my mind, but there’s a big difference here. Kubo was really under the gun, pushed by all sorts of pressures, and you could tell things were rushed even before the announcement.
But with Gege, it feels like this is really his call. He’s been telling us for a while that the end was coming. Five chapters still feels wild to me, how can he possibly wrap things up in so few? But at least it seems like it’s his decision, not something he’s being forced into.
I think Gege has phoned it in and is planning to resolve Yuuji and Megumi's arc at the expense of anything else.
That, and he's a hack writer who has never convincingly tied together his most interesting elements to create compelling characters or story.
@@MrGksarathytrue
This is not how Gege wants it to end, this is more like something he has to do in order to not prolong the finale considering he is already fed up and wants to start something new.. 5 chapters is just too little time considering there has to be room for an aftermath, which is why in the tybw manga we barely had any aftermath and needed the novels in order to make up what actually happened to everyone after tybw.
@WieldMyWord The situations are not the same, Kubo was given a specific amount of chapters to end the story, he had no say in when to end his story.
Gege has all the time in the world to end his story, I imagine the magazine actually wants him to continue, so how and when his story ends is completely up to him.
So yes, this is how Gege wants the story to end.
@@grizzlyv2.076 kubo could have not have written at such a slow pace , for one .
I honestly think it's unfair to even compare those two situations. Prior to 1000 Year Blood War, Bleach, unlike JJK which only had Shibuya (and Hidden Inventory) , had several arcs, characters and story aspects which made it so good. And Kubo wasn't happy with how it ended but was forced to by his publisher. Gege on the other hand takes so many brakes (some because of his health), wasted so many characters/plot points at times on purpose at times because he doesn't know any better and most importantly made it clear, that he managed to make the ending HE himself wanted. He never rushed himself because he never intended to include more lore or world building in his series because he didn't bother on one hand and didn't know any better on the other hand. He rather focused on fights and memes. Which is straight up garbage, in my opinion. So he didn't "rush" anything as this is how he evnisioned the ending. People should just realize that this guy simply isn't as good of an author as they originally thought. Nobara only existed because of the intervention of an editor and apparently his first vision of JJK was the Culling Game with even less plot...Kubo and Bleach may also had its flaws at times but atleast he gave us more than whatever TF Gege gave his audience and tried to redeem himself with the anime. I don't think Gege wants to do the same as he seems more than happy to move on from the series. So that means one hand you have someone who, at this point, couldn't care less about his story, his characters and desperately tries to move on while the other one loved his series, was forced to rush it but redeemed himself with the anime where he can finally end it the way HE wanted it. So while you get Gege's ending in the manga, you'll get Kubo's in the anime.
I think with time Gege and JJK will be a cautionary tale. Great cast of characters just no direction.
Finally someone said it!
Exactly. Great analysis.
Can't Fear Your Own Domain light novel coming soon
I’m also reminded of Tokyo Ghoul re’s rushed ending (and the change from a train wreck ending to a happier one) as well.
Your argument for the merger really on point, something that I have a hard time trying to explain to people why if it didn't happen, it'll be bad.
The merger is basically just like your run off the mill "big bad guy win=end of the world, therefore must prevent". So if it didn't happen, it's actually fine. But when - as you said - Sukuna doesn't even come close to actually do the merger, it kind of a wasted potential, a chekhov's gun that is not triggered, a set up that never actually happen.
Other than Bleach's example, I think FMAB can also be an example. In FMAB, Father devise a plan to turn people in Amestris into philosopher stone to obtain god, he did go with the plan and it did happen, until Hohenheim prevent it by reversing the process mid way and giving back Amestris people's souls to their owner. The merger didn't happen will be as if all of Father's plan to turn Amestris people into philosopher stone just got yoinked out before it could even remotely began, it'll be extremely unsatisfying.
We need to at least see half the potential of what merger could do, the process of it happening, and the further implication if it did happen and successful.
@@alpguy4865 Sukuna said outright that he’d complete the merger after killing off the cast just so he’d fight it. Sukuna doesn’t have the lofty plans of world domination or human evolution like Kenjaku does. He simply cares about power. It makes sense that Sukuna didn’t use the merger. That’s why Kusikabe literally stated that so long as Kenjaku was dealt with, they, could deal with Sukuna later, since until he got the merger, he wasn’t nowhere near the threat Kenny was as Sukuna just lives to do what he wants.
@@Bornagainvillain The reason for merger is more about out-universe rather than in-universe.
People can argue whether the merger will happen or not based on the character's characterization and motivation (just like what you said about Sukuna), but that's not necessarily what I (and many people) want to argue. It's more about the out-universe reason, more about how Gege write his story.
The merger is a set up by Gege as the writer of JJK, he made that up. When you already set up something, people expect you to at least deliver it to a certain degree, which I argue if it didn't happen at all, it'll be unsatisfying. Now just like I (and MrTommo alluded), it doesn't need to actually be successful. It can just be half the way in but then got stopped by our protagonists. Because if that happen, at least the set up that Gege had planned actually happen rather than just seemingly going nowhere.
@@Bornagainvillain sure you can give a characters reason for it, but it still doesnt make it compelling
I remember the 5 chapter announcements for both Bleach and Naruto, I also remember being disappointed by their endings…
I am genuinely curious, as someone that never saw Naruto's ending in manga format, when did the chapter announcement for the end of Naruto come out and how did you feel for it?
Naruto had a great ending what cmon now dont be a madara meatrider
THE 4TH GREAT NINJA WAR IS NOT THE GOD DAMN ENDING
@@booga324 Boruto is even worse than the end of Naruto
@@diono5324 im not talking about boruto, the ending to naruto is the wedding
Gojos anime references of Metal&Skull greymon and bankai were heartwarming for my inner child. RIP to a beautiful series
The fact that two major shonen series like MHA and JJK are both ending within less than two months is mad!At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Luffy finds the One Piece and Oda wraps up that series as well before the end of September 😂
No 2032
@@M.F.M-t1i except you already knew for years that MHA and JJK were ending…
One Piece outlasts both MHA and JJK, what an incredible achievement.
@Bornagainvillain I admit that the ending arc of MHA had good pacing. I mean sure, we don't know who Deku's deadbeat dad is and if Deku and Uraraka ever became a thing 🤷🏾♂️But Deku fulfilled the prophecy of completing One For All. And overall, the ending was alright😌 but on the other hand with JJK...we still haven't gotten a Sukuna and Angel flashback. AND HAKARI AND URAUME!? Is Hakari just going to be offscreened and wake up at some random airport in the next chapter??😂
Kindly, do not compare those small fodder street carts to the 5 star chef in the Michelin kitchen, you pμ₪¥ child.
The two of them feel rushed, but in different ways to me. For Bleach, it feels like Kubo had a solid idea of where he wanted to go and where he wanted to end but simply lacked the time, but for Gege it feels like he knows where he wants to end but not at all how to get there in a satisfying manner.
With kubo you could tell it was rushed and that there was so much missing from the final arc, so much lore and scenes that were left out. For JJK it feels like gege isn't sure how to tie everything together. I'm not saying he cant do it in the last 5 chapters, but then he's gonna need to compress and condense alot of things
@@mouseofharry1703 yeah and I know this is kind of a hot take, but I feel like JJK didn't even have this issue until Yuji got his big moment
Like if Sukuna had lost to Jacob's Ladder, it would've made every single thing that happened prior feel like setup to that conclusion, which imo would've worked. Instead, now everything kind of feels like it was just filler, with Gege just doing things he think should happen but not knowing how to make it all matter.
This is the best way to put it. Gege has long struggled to tie the disparate elements of his story and characters together, and it's absolutely killed JJK. Now, he's ending it right as the plot finally had some clarity and focus, which goes to show he probably still didn't have much of an idea of how to end things.
JJK rushed? Desagree, Gege did everything he wanted.
Kubo had the story ready. But he often had problems with pacing. So he ran out of time sadly
Gege put himself in this situation. Dude spent more than on everything other than the main character and now gotta figure out an ending.
Gege: lemme copy your homework
Kubo: ok but make it a little different
Jjk's is a more fair comparison to Game of Thrones. The producers rushed the end while everyone, even HBO, wanted more seasons. Kubo was forced to rush it. It's not even 300 chapters long and it's all unraveling at the seams. Kubo and Oda really have aged like fine wine
All of th plotlines will be concluded in a new JJK light novel: Cant Black Your Own Flash
Hi tommo, thank you for the video it helped me feel better about the jjk situation. Hope you will continue to make more jjk videos as it’s one of my fave series alongside bleach
Yes! Lately I've been getting that familiar feeling but didnt know where. you Nailed it! BLEACH.
You guys are gonna think I’m nuts, but I never got too far into JJK.
I got bored, I guess.
Oof this video brought back a wave of memories from college. I remember reading those 5-6 Bleach chapters and feeling like I got gut punched seeing my favorite series end so abruptly.
Was reading Bleach before it ended and i started jjk since day 1. They don't feel the same. The only person that wants jjk to end in 5 chapters is gege :D. It wasn't looking like there was going to be a next arc anyway and it felt that way to me for about a year and a half. Jjk is at an all time high popularity wise, i really think gege just decided this is where he's stopping now. Maybe for a sequel series setup or maybe because he is finished with this story. Right now in jjk all the stakes are on the outcome of this fight. There's nothing more but a few epilogue chapters in it. Kubo was legit just starting to pay off on the setup he worked so hard for.
Based and correct
Late to this video, but wanted to comment. You HAVE to talk about the chapter thay dropped today, i mean just wow. Not gonna post about what happens just to avoid spoilers to those who haven't read it yet, but I will say it's absolutely amazing.
Kinda odd hearing you talk about a different series, but you know what… I’m here for it!!
Tommo: " I held onto some hope foolishly evidently that he (kenjaku) might return"
Every JJKtiktoker/ Gojo Stan: "We're not so different you and I"
I'm honestly not sure what made me think of this, something about you saying Gege is going to end the series the way "he" wants, but:
I think a really cool idea for a series ending would be something where the series already contained some time-travel-esque elements to it, and the creator ends the series off exactly how they intended to from the beginning, regardless of the fan's opinions or desires.
THEN, years later, they revive the IP by introducing some of the previously mentioned time-travel shenanigans, and keep pumping out more content for the series, almost like canon 'What If' endings.
In this way, the hypothetical series could technically cater to everyone's wishes, but the creator gets to tell the exact story they wanted to first, from start to finish, and then just kind of adds to the top/middle of it later to appease various groups in their fandom.
Geges gonna be playing Sparking Zero, chad move.. GGs.
As soon as I saw the news I got major PTSD😢
I bet it hey have been talking about this for a while on the Japanese scene. It’s been an over a year… 44 chapters of ONE friggin fight. I’ve been over JJk for a minute. Every week it’s been “oh look sukuna is still alive, and figured out how to somehow get out of his sure death”…. With all the translation issues and things being lost in translation, I guarantee this has been being talked about.
Eyyyyy, I’ve been waiting for more Tommo JJK
I can't say I'm surprised to hear of the series ending given Gege either late 2022 or early 2023 said he wanted to end the series in 2023. Im more surprised that he's doing so with some story elements still being up in the air.
I'm actually on quite a different opinion from you Tommo, I don't think there needs to be some dramatic final moment where Sukuna almost wins I think Gege might actually be going for something more sad and subtle
Sukuna throughout this entire final arc has already proven how easy it is for him to turn things around if the right opportunity presents itself and now yuji has this surefire way to beat him and I think he will
As for how I think it'll end, I think we'll see Sukuna's defeat and then a very short time skip giving us all the living characters pov's and the conclusion of those we think are deceased along with a conclusion to Urame's fight
I just keep seeing everyone say it's gonna be a bad rushed ending purely because of my hero and Aot's ending like come on people have faith in Gege he has said he's had the ending written for a very long time now and he's not the type of author to be influenced by fans to change the ending like Aots author and he also isn't the type of author to just have straight up moments of bad writing before ending the series like my hero's it sounds like he has something satisfied and planned out for us and ykw? I can't wait for his next series
Whats with series ending this year being rushed lol, I feel like there are so many questions/things we never explored that are just never going to be touched on
Blud meant it LITERALLY when he said Bleach inspired him to create JJK. 💀
sukuna climbing the ladder was outrageous
Cope and seethe. Yuji followed him
@@oyamampendu9467 like unc like nephew
@@oyamampendu9467Yuji isn't as evil, if any. Sukuna climbing Jacob's Ladder is like Superman eating Kryptonite. Or a Devil Fruit user swimming
First of all, I always think it’s good to end a series on a high note, when the story is still interesting to follow. The publisher has every incentive to continue because they want to make more money, but I think it’s bad for the series in general.
I’m so glad that Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba has ended and not being dragged on. I have the same feeling about Jujutsu Kaisen. It’s a good thing it’ll end. I don’t have access to Jump magazine and so I’m not on the latest chapter. But I read the manga as they’re published and I do feel the fight with Sukuna has been a bit dragged out. Consequently I’m glad it’s going to end soon.
I've never been able to get behind Sukuna's design. He doesn't look good, cool, or scary to me.
This is Gege's first manga, as he stated when the first chapter released. I don't think he knows what to do, from an author standpoint, on where to take the story. Like HxH author gave his ending last year. Sometimes writers don't know where to take their story. Gege choosing to end it is a combination of him not knowing where to take the story plus Shonen Jump editors probably realising the constant 2 years of Sukuna cycle is going down hill. I mean, Gege couldn't even use Hakari vs Uruame properly. That fight was used as plot device for Uruame to say "He's not even trying"
"Kenjaku deserved better" is a lie, that guy deserved so much worse. I think there's still a chance for flashbacks/backstory though, since Yuji's Domain Expansion seems like a memory lane effect; if it lets him explore the memories of Sukuna (which is possible, since it already let him get that glimpse of Megumi) then we might see a bit of his past before it ends.
The presence of the finger fuels the Nobara copium flames, but for those that are sure she's dead and gone: her grandmother, the one that taught her that technique, is still alive afaik. If Nobara's alive (whether barely hanging on or recovered), or if her grandma's pissed enough to enter the fray, the Soul Resonance attacks (previously shown to wreck Mahito because they only need a piece to damage the whole being) are likely to play a key role in the final chapters
As someone who has not read JJK, beware the plot arrow
wouldn’t be necessary thankfully because they’ve satisfyingly put the villain into a really weak spot unlike Yhwach who was up five chapters before the end lol
Don’t he just get his technique back as the cliffhanger last chapter?
@@hasan7275 Gege is just trolling you all. 5 chapters ends Sukuna's battle, then the real Main villain Kenjaku comes in.
@zephirol4638 Kenjaku is dead
@@YonkoAgenda He's not, go educate yourself on how Rika's ability actually works.
I personally have no problem with how Kenjaku died as I felt it was a fitting karmic way for him to go. For someone who freely ended the lives of so many with the intent to end countless more without consideration for their own wishes and dreams it seemed fitting that he should be cut down just as abruptly while denied the chance to see his own goals played out. I think a lot of people disregard the human element of the story which is what Yuji has been fighting for and has believed in this whole time. Each of those deaths was a story cut short for seemingly no good reason and it is the villain's inability to see the tragedy in what they are taking away with their actions that is the driving problem. So yeah, TLDR: Not sad Kenjaku died how he did, he had it comin' and Sukuna does too.
Man I remember how I felt when bleach manga was ending cause when they got to the big fight with ichigo and aizen vs Yhwach I told my yo my son aizen bout to go bankai then next thing u know oh only so and so chapters left so I feel bro I was pissed
The Fact that the "Merger" was brought up, and nothing is going to happen with it is disappointing.
@@davidettles1992 that’s the thing they’re supposed to prevent. The merger = end of the world. It’s not supposed to happen.
YOOOOO, I was thinking the exact same thing! I knew you'd get it
So gege really took inspiration from bleach with a mirrored ending.
I literally commented “it gives bleach ending vibes” on a short earlier. Crazy
1:03 you said it yourself. Jjk story has nothing left to offer while Bleach had A LOT to offer yet when its abrupt ending was announced...
It was ending soon regardless. Dunno why anyone thinks this was sudden when he announced the series was ending sometime in 2022-23. He wanted it to end in 2023, and couldn’t finish it by then.
JJK is not one of those long series like Bleach or Naruto spanning 700 plus chapters. Gege obviously didn’t want it to run that long. Anyone thinking a Heian era arc was coming were fooling themselves. Granted I had my own theories on the merger happening and it might happen in a different sort of way with a different result(the whole doing something about cursed energy), but it ending soon, everyone saw this coming, even the bigger JJK channels.
I don't see anyone complaining that it is ending, but rather that many loose ends aren't going to be answered/solved, etc in only 5 chapters, or simply be far too rushed.
@@aishwaryaprateek8b737 Gege apparently doesn’t think so. Not enough for a WHOLE ARC like fans who don’t contribute to the writing want. It’s not important enough to cover.
Because it is basically impossible for him to wrap it up in a satisfying way with 5 chapters. It could be this year but 5 chapters isnt enough so hes just going to end up leaving a million loose ends out there. At least the MHA ending (that has been shit on) wrapped up pretty much everything, and even that felt rushed
The memes have honestly been some of the most enjoyable/memorable experience of JJK's publication. I'll miss them.
Tbh it’s been painfully obvious Gege has been trying to end the series for a while now, but he couldn’t figure out how. I’ll be surprised if he can wrap everything up in 5 chapters.
ok weirdly, I kinda like that the Merger isn't going to happen, JJK's villains are the focal point, the final fight against a monster doesn't really work for me.
But yeah, I do like that the heroes winning means the end of the world DOESN'T happen.
Sukuna is also very close, if he wins this fight, the Merger will happen, but also the merger was more Kenjaku's crazy idea, Sukuna is the focus, not ther merger, and I'm ok with that.
In terms of a Sukuna backstory, I'm actually split on it, because I wonder how much explaining the thing that is Sukuna would help and how much would result in him just losing his mystery.
Harari vs Uraume... yeah not gonna defend that lol, it is weird that it's been off screen completely. I actually suspect they are still in deadlock, but Uraume will give up with Sukuna's death since that's all she lives for.
Sorry but this isn't really anything like Bleach's situation. Bleach rushed ending came due to a LOT of external factors forcing Kubo's hand whereas JJK's upcoming rushed ending is due to Gege messing up his own story.
Based take
Excellent take. I agree.
Weekly Shonen Jump is having an issue... they just lost MHA and now JJK? My god One Piece is the only big Title left for them. The other Mangas in the lineup are ok but they are not nearly big enough to fill these 2 gigantic holes.
And One Piece last 2 arcs (Wano and Egghead ) have been absolute trash
@@Mira-cchiWano yes, Egghead has been great.
3rd act Wano defenders piss me off so much
Sakamoto Days are going to big once the anime is released.
@@Dave102693 wano kuni was great
@@Mira-cchi lmao clown
Bleach really ended only 8 years ago... Feels like an eternity. Which is good, i suddenly don't feel THAT old as before. Just plain old.
Godammit, somebody sell me some copium please.
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I’m actually kinda optimistic about this ending, I feel like ending in 5 chapters while not ideal could work well. To compare it to bleach I’d say the point when it was announced that bleach was ending the fight had barely just begun meaning it ended up rather anticlimactic whereas in Jjk it feels as if the fight has advanced a lot more and could feasibly be over in 5 chapters. The other thing I’d say is that comparatively jjk focuses more on using text to tell its story where as bleach focuses on using imagery meaning that jjk can squeeze more story content onto each page on average. And finally because jjk simply has a smaller world and cast compared to bleach there isn’t as much that needs to be accounted for in the epilogue. Don’t get me wrong tho 5 chapters is still a very tight frame so I’m not completely sure of this.
Itll be the end of an Era thats for sure 😔
My last anime manga obsession was Bleach and that was well over a decade ago before I attached to JJK as my new. Its gonna be a long time before I will get the same feelings Bleach and JJK brought together for me to a new series. Im not sure how to feel yet until we reach Sep 30 spelling the end. I cant say Goodbye yet. At least Bleach had LNs and Hell Arc then Anime TYBW. JJK we don't know if there will be more. But... at least Gege gets the choice to end it how he would want it to end unlike Kubo who did not have the luxury to end it with his own terms.
There’s so much mystery’s left unanswered 💀
I am genuinely not surprised, but also not even disappointed because Gege has already disappointed me in every way.
I could go on a cuss-filled tirade about JJK and what it did wrong, but there's no point wasting my breath.
Piss off Gege, and only come back when you learn how to actually write characters.
To me, bleach ending was abrupt. I've been waiting JJK to end for awhile
Another thing to consider is that Kubo would have had a flashback arc in TYBW given more tike. Kubo has phenomenal flashbacks. I have re read Everything But The Rain multiple times. Gege is allergic to character development.
Hot take, yuji feels like he was in the back burner for a good portion
The dude got massively overshadowed by Maki, Yuta and Gojo despite being the MC. Yuta legit felt like the MC too. Goes on a training arc abroad for a year and comes back and smokes the competition until Sukuna himself.
@@djaxeman2424 bruh yuji was basically the background character of his own story!
Tekking definitely getting flashbacks today as well 😭😭
YESSS new jjk vid!!!
Among the Shounen I’ve been reading, JJK is probably the one I’m least interested in so it ending doesn’t really affect too much.
I assumed jjk was going to be pretty short. The movie is about a separate character, and the show had a pretty straight forward premise of 1 character being destined to defeat 1 other character, and the series could end at any time when that was achieved. Sure they could do a boruto and just follow another character in the future or adjacently, but it would be their own story in the universe.
Honestly I feel like the entire culling games arc could be... well culled. Most of its setup didnt really lead to anything, and most of the characters introduced in it pretty much were just there to get one shot by Sukuna so we could see his strenght. The Kenjaku and Takaba fight was my favorite of the series but considering that was just his end and none of his plans meant anything its very disappointing.
Kenjaku defeat and Haraki unknown condition are the top 2 biggest unexplained mistake of JJK.
Meanwhile we have maaaany Sukuna comeback cycle
Your channel really grew, good job man!
There are so many things left to answer but at the same time I feel like the time for answering them is long gone. Exploring the 3 families and their origin cursed spirits, the cursed realm, the fact that supposedly everybody knows about what is going on since Shibuya and cursed energy was made public and the usa's involvement in the culling games, ton of characters we never saw again, the merger... In general I think the world should've been kept smaller or had extra time to build itself, I haven't felt as invested in the story, partially because so much stuff I was interested in never got to develop. A personal preference like any but I think it's a fair view. I also agree with the points you brought up
@@D3ltus nah. That would result in a longer series than the author wanted. Not every detail needs to be covered for a story to be successful. It’s just lore for lore’s sake.
@@Bornagainvillain honestly he shouldve just cut the entire culling games arc. what did it even do? All of the setup went nowhere and pretty much all of the characters introduced in it did basically nothing in the end
Honestly I wouldn't mind if Gege went the bleach route of releasing novels in the world of jjk to catch up with everyone
It felt just yesterday when Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia started and now one is ending in 5 chapters and another has ended 😢
The craziness and unpredictability of JJK kept me from ever being able to guess how and when it was going to end. It did a lot of things that might initially rub people the wrong way as a knee-jerk reaction because it was trying to be subversive of our expectations, of shonen expectations, and that doesn't mean it's wrong or bad. It is different and trying to do things in a way we're not used to and avoid stuff that we do technically make fun of as tropes despite expecting them every single time. JJK is not perfect pacing-wise I feel but it did a lot of interesting choices that are way more satisfying in how they pay off when compared to a much more popular series like Hunter X Hunter as much as I love that franchise so much too.
I can now freely say I was disappointed with Kenjaku's death. The ultimate mastermind of everything that happened in the story just died with a sneak swing from Yuta 😢.
I'm guessing Gege needs rest
Im glad its ending the recent chapters have been significantly better lately like he can finally do the series on his terms.
gosh I completely forgot pachinko guy was fighting cold guy all this time
While it is sad to see such a good story end. It is also nice to know that because it’s done, the rest of the anime won’t have to split up such a long arc into 2 seasons to avoid catching up with the material.
I read the first 60 chapters of JJK and I really just couldn't get into it, the power system just seemed too wishy washy to me and I never really gave a crap about any of the characters. However, I have been following the release since the start of the final battle in hopes that it would make me want yo go back and read the rest, and it hasn't. I'm perfectly fine with JJK getting a rushed ending because the story was that great to begin with. Bleach, however, deserved at least another 6 months to flesh out the endgame properly because there were so many characters that I actually did want to see more elaborate backstories/bankai for.
JJK has always made odd choices, and it's something I've grown to love, but the news was hard to hear. If I didn't know any better, I would say it's Gege trolling and setting up a part 2 sort of thing, but realistically, that's probably not gonna happen. I just don't see it ending in 5 chapters and feeling satisfied.......and Hikari's fight possibly getting offscreened. That one would sting.
I was hoping to have a backstory on Yuji' parents, Backstory on Kenjaku and Sukuna in the Heian era, an explanation on the creation of Yuji by Kenjaku, and I'm also disappointed on Kenjaku's fate, for me he was the Aizen mastermind of the Story, and he died just like any cursed spirit, I was waiting for a backstory of him and his journey to this point, and absolutely nothing
Gege being sick is eerily similar to the way Kubo was sick before the ending of Bleach.
Haven't followed JJK at all other than th first season of the anime. Well now is a great time to look into it.
Super conflicted, but we can do is wait and see how Gege will work it
The moment when Sukuna defeats Gojo for the second time is the Ywhabach flooding the Seretei equivalent. It's an easy miss with just how long this one fight has been.
Bush camping is often an effective but looked down upon strategy.. respect to yuta for not arriving in front of kenjaku and challenging him 1v1
I could be forgetting something but I don't remember sukuna ever expressing that he really cared about doing the merger I thought it was just kinchaku gave him the power to do it and he almost is forced to because of the rules of the Cullen games
Brings back Shaman King vibes too
Turn Back The Pendulum Kaisen is gonna go fucking crazy, hear me now.
Also, Hikari doing the Urahara ending!!!!
We have Season 3 and likely a Season 4 in the mix. Likely with the ending of the manga, there’s room for improvement and expanding the material to give a proper conclusion
Nah