I love how megumis powers play into his complex’s. Anything he puts into his shadows he physically has to bear the weight of. And in the context of jjk your ct is apart of your soul. So the more burdens he decides to place on himself and his soul the more he suffers and this comes to a breaking point when meguna kills tsumiki and he is visually trapped in the bottomless depths of his shadow
This video deserves so much more attention! A lot of JJK expects you to read between the lines and that goes double for Megumi. He's a clear product of trauma, but he says very little of this out loud and instead communicates it through his actions and the occasional flashback. As Yuji and Nobara point out: he never tells them (or anyone) about himself. Megumi is a character you have to work to appreciate, but it's very much worth it. Seeing him figure out what he cares about (and even finding some small amount of self-love through Yuji) is so rewarding. My only real disappointment with the series is I'd have liked a little more of an epilogue showing him recovering and contextualizing his journey. I realize that the mangaka probably HAD to finish the story in X amount of chapters and did the best with what they had, especially given that there were tons of other characters and themes that needed wrapping up as well.
Really good video, honestly a lot of the symbolism of Megumi's character really flew over my head. I honestly wish this video was longer, it would have been nice to see a complete retrospective of Megumi's character
I don't view fiction or stories in the way a lot of people do, with enjoyment being a secondary or tertiary end. I say that to say, I'm glad JJK ended so someone like you could come along and thread elements and beats I either hadn't considered before together, or bringing them back to the forefront for a better look. There is value in liking, loving, a work of art. Your video, to me, resonates on a level beyond (not better than, just different) that. It is an appreciation of art, something I care about feeling more than anything else. Keep up the good work and I hope you're feeling better.
Thank you! I am feeling way better. and indeed. I am glad to find a community of people who enjoy this things that would normally just remain in my head only to be rehashed when the series is used by another series. I appreciate you for the support! :D
Megumi's character gives me the vibe of a Greek tragic hero, and I really hate it when people mischaracterize him. Both Megumi and Maki are the most mischaracterized characters by the fandom. Can you imagine some people really see Maki as a f*cking tsundere character instead of a child who was abused her whole life before? That's why she can't communicate with her loved ones emotionally like other children of her age without sounding borderline rude.
It seems there's a lot of people who like Maki, but I never saw the appeal, similarly to Nobara she has no major flaws and her defeats are never her fault, there's nothing to improve on with her character.
Even though I loved this video and pretty much everything about it, I hope what I'm about to say doesn't make me sound like some mouth-breathing pleb. While Megumi is my favourite character, there's one thing I have to side with the fandom on, in spite of agreeing with literally everything in this video. High-minded elements like symbolism aren't enough to satisfactorily elevate a character or story for most people, irrespective of how richly steeped they might be in them. Getting all the basic ingredients of a story, or character, right is what makes those other factors explode in a way that even casual partakers would appreciate. After watching this, reading about Megumi feels less like eating a subpar cake, and more like eating a decent cake with hella icing on it. I hope I'm making sense. That being said, this was a fantastic video and it made me feel a bit less let down by how my homie was handled. I loved the insight and hope you keep up the great work.
I'm glad that someone see the deeper meaning in the story too. It bothers me that a lot of people don't read past surface level or analyze works of fiction and movies properly. I didn't do it well myself until about high school and I appreciate now a great piece of art, writing style or even painting because it takes a certain kind of person, to put down a perspective to look at it from another's. An empathic method that is written through pictures and fiction.
Beautifully said. When I was reading tweets and articles talking about Megumi being mishandled and how “sukuna” took over and he did nothing for the rest of the series… I was like yeah… people missed the point 💀. I am glad there are people out here that care about visual and narrative storytelling like I do tbh.
i feel like thats 90% of jjk criticisms. it felt like a lot of people just wanted to sound smart by pointing out things they didnt understand/didnt like as faults of the series rather than just taking more than a week to actually understand it. it doesnt help that leaks made things so much worse for the agenda
So basically Gege write in a level so deep in metaphor that I can't comprehend the message, my interpretation for Megumi was always about depression and the denial of living your own life because of trauma.
Thank you for this video. I really feel you've opened my mind to why I liked the ending soo much. I disagreed with all the negativity but struggled to explain why, but this is perfect and I 100% agree that this was what Gege was going for Good job 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
it wasn't even just with Megumi, that was the majority of the criticism the entire manga received, which kind of shows how invested people were in a way. So much of the criticism around JJK are people wanting the author to have basically just written a different story or character. It's almost like Dragonball Super. People are completely unwilling to accept what is written and engage with or criticize the story on those terms, and instead you get people complaining that Megumi didn't turn into a badass 10 shadows serial assassin. I think with any kind of literary analysis, it does good to step back and examine the whole thing. Try and understand the author's intent, and know when something is just your own interpretation of the story. When you ask a very broad question about a character in a story like "What is the point of this character" (an example I've seen people ask about Megumi), the entire context of the story is very important for coming up with an answer, and people will likely all have pretty different answers.
Really like this video because I’ve always said that Megumi’s journey was never his potential as a sorcerer. His story was always one of self worth, moral and care. One avenue Gege used to explore that was his strength. Not being able to do his best. It’s a method used to tell his story it the story itself which is why we don’t see a complete domain and making that a priority would have been odd. It was nice seeing a video not only express that idea, but also expand and explain it much better adding to it in ways I never even considered before but reinforces my previous ideas. I WOULD LOVE to see a video on Yuji and Higurama as that dynamic is my favourite. Specifically how Yuji says he’s a sorcerer for the first time since mid Shibuya after Higurama looks Yuji in the eyes before seemingly being killed. But the eye contact marks a shift in Higurama as well which is why he doesn’t die narratively and why Gege left the crumbs of him using RCT to live. His purpose wasn’t to die anymore. And for me this marks a shift in Yuji where he no longer see’s himself as just a cog but as a person and sorcerer and just the idea of Yuji, someone struggling with guilt, meeting a lawyer struggling with the Japan judicial system is GENIUS As well as the symbolism with eyes for Higurama. He has his quote on lady justice eyes being blindfolded to show the impartiality of the law but how he himself keeps his own open so he can help those reaching out. This symbolism is used a lot for Higurama through his shikigami who’s eyes are forced shut by stitches when Judgeman is impartial and random but forcibly opens one eye when Higurama used the system to his advantage to help the sorcerers. As well with how he can’t look Yuji in the eyes, and then when he does it helps Yuji Love to hear your thoughts
@NoeActually I don’t mind if you pin it If you do Higurama I’d love to see it but take your time haha. And feel free to take anything I said and put it in the video. I’m sure you’d add to what I said in a meaningful way as well and make me appreciate the dynamic between Higurma and Yuji even more
The Dagon fight just got so much deeper to me now, damn. The symbolism on the disaster curses was awesome as well, I never would've thought about it. Great video man, keep it up!
Choosing the path to be proud of neither myself nor others is so accurate because sometimes it feels like you have been wronged so many times by so many people that you don't even feel like trying again. pls make a video on Toji next pls pls.
You did your thing with this video, although many people didn’t like it the ending I loved it because I feel like it was a great way to wrap up all the physiological and thematic points of the story. I feel like JJK is less a story about the characters and more about humanity and how peoples minds can affect their lives.
thank you for your analysis of Megumi’s character!! he’s one of my favorite characters in jjk and you made me look on the story a bit differently and understand it better 🤍 hope your work gets more recognition it truly deserves!
Still not sure how ppl miss the point of JJK. The story sums up like this: For as much potential as one may have, if the individual lacks the autonomy, willpower, ferocity, etc. to push toward their ideals, they along with said potential will simply become lapdogs for the higher ups. In society, we’re all cogs in a machine. None of us will be here forever. Yuji, after having this realization, is able to reach and perform higher levels of jujutsu within a seemingly short amount of time compared to others. The story was never about any of the main cast becoming the “strongest” bc that already existed in Sukuna. Typical human beings aren’t as selfishly cunning and conniving as Kenjaku nor Sukuna which also speaks to their perseverance in achieving their ideals. Ppl wanted Yuji vs Megumi or Yuji vs Gota and it just wasn’t happening. Even after over 20+ chapters of nonstop fighting ppl wanted more from Sukuna’s ending. Those ppl are just like Mahito by the end of the story lol. Gege makes all of this very clear but again some JJK fans truly do lack comprehension skills.
I think when u say people wanted more from sukuna's ending ur mixing the battle hungry fans with the contect hungry. Some wanted more from the character than just battles. So there is quite the distinction to be made there
This a very good video and made me appreciate Megumi more, I still don't like how a lot of the specifics of his character is handled (mostly due to feeling like the final stretch of the manga didn't focus on the proper things to strengthen its thematic through line and instead focusing on aspects I don't think strengthened the emotional or thematic depth of the series (edit: i do like the final chapter i just think the set of chapters before up around Nobara's return just felt lacking in their focus,)) but I feel better about him cuz this video. I like good analytical jjk content that shows it has more depth than people give it credit for, for that im gon sub.
"NO shut up how dare you feel sad that you're friend is gone despite the fact you havent had time to grieve over her body, you should feel ashamed to think she ever coming back, how dare you say that yuji apologize" you know i dont care for yuji but this one interaction between him and angel just made want to have a talk to gege in a boxing ring .
Your videos are great at breaking down themes in a way my mind can grasp it, would you ever consider doing videos on blue lock, its heavy with themes of ego and gets brought up along jujutsu kaisen on that aspect.
@@NoeActuallyThank you for reaponding and thank you even more for those words, from what I’ve heard and experienced, reading blue lock is a better experience than watching, if that makes it better🙏
Nice video this pretty much wraps up what i got from megumi its quite similar to a greek hero (but worse honestly) but it still makes me a little sad i missed nothing jjk is truly the most 6-7/10 show i watched
@@NoeActually also i will like to add that i think so because i just didnt like the narrative it had a lot of potential but it just didnt go far enough BUT it stuck its landing with what it had it stayed true to its core even if it could have worked more things like i wanted to see more of almost every character and their themes could have been deeper but i blame the editors on the preassure they placed on the damn cat
Wow... after watching this and the Yujikuna video i feel pretty stupid for not seeing most of that but in my defense i feel like anyone who doesn't study psychology wouldn't have seen these deep metaphors and crap. would it have hurt Gege to make it a bit more clear and accessible 😅 Also I'd like to say that you have taken away a large part of what i used to criticize JJK for. Now the only criticisms i have left is the wasted potential around plot points, character interactions and the development of some character (but i guess you could justify that by saying that JJK is a theme driven story but ngl that would be unsatisfying to me. Anyways great video you got yourself a new subscriber!
True. And thematic storytelling tend to not be very satisfying because it leaves it too open ended with the “it is all about the journey” approach this types of stories take. I didn’t get evangelion until I grew and it clicked. Welcome to the channel! :)
Oh, no, i don't think i've missed anything about Megumi's character. No amount of symbolism, mentioning Jung or any other author to strengthen your argument is going to make me forget that Akutami could not even figure out a simple math and manged to get a regular multiplier and exponent for black flash all wrong. He is not a literary genius, far from it. I was satisfied with the series during it's great run in 2018 and 2019, during HI and Shibuya Incident arcs. However, it became apparent to me, that after some point during CGs arc, Gege was getting exhausted and rather disinterested in exploring all facets of the world he created, following on every theme he'd set up, on every plotline he introduced. After that, the already fast pace of the series became abhorent. Having a timeskip without meaningful interactions after the center piece of the story is unsealed, resolving the entire plot of foreign millitary invasion in 2 chapters, while admitting in the Volume author comments that drawing millitary is just too bothersome, cutting Yuki and Kenjaku, and by extension, their entire conflicting dynamic, which carried the theme of "optimization vs breaking away" of the cursed energy. Literal crux for the character arcs of Geto, Yuki, Kenjaku, SPV Riko, the reason for curses existing, for Higer Ups still remaining in power, the existence of CE... gets thrown down the garbage can. What about Hakari's wish to rule the Jujutsu Society through his Fight Club? What about Gojo wanting to change the future of the world not by killing HUps, since it would repeat the cycle? And Megumi... for a character that i always wanted to break free from his own mental schackles of being dependent on his sister, her being his only reason for living, at the end of the day, he does not change a one bit. Not only that, he pretty much accepts to live "selfishly" for other people.... which has already done.... he literally did not change, and instead replaced Tsumiki with Yuji. And don't even get me started with a tone deaf ending of unnecessary SDomain lore dump, and not characters interacting with each other in a meaninful way. No, it's either post match talk with Gege trying his hardest to defend his writing choices of why the Shinjuku Dragdown could not have went any other way, if you at some point started to question the logistics behind multiple plot induced stupidity of certain characters, plot contrivences, and straight up dumb slugfest of an action. I'm not very keen on calling this manga "Potential Manga", as if it's reflecting most of it's cast, not only Megumi in that regard. What i prefer to call it is "Implication Kaisen". There are always implications of interesting lore, history between different characters, existing worldbuilding which remain implications.... At the end if the day we have a sloppily executed, yet again, theme of "Nature vs Nurture", "Conservatism vs Progress", another patch of buddhist refrences and allusions, which are prevelant in tons of japanese mangas, since it's, you know, a cultural thing for them, a pretty common one at that.... and it's not even done that well. I like how most of the people defending the the ending don't even bother to understand the criticism of those who have more than one brain cell and have watched/read the story not through TikTok, before judging those as lacking "reading comprehension", not possessing one to begin with. A lot of fancy words and filling in the gaps with head canon and intellectual framework of, once again, completely irrelevant stuff. Have nothing against the author, but JJK is mediocre at best, with as underwhelming of an ending as it can get. Nothing stated in the video changed anything about it for me.
Interesting topic, but also a little pretentious to say that people simply don't understand Megumi or JJK is inaccessible to read. The execution is what left people disappointed not the character motivations or themes themselves. Megumi ends the series in nearly the exact same place he started while many of his major character moments were completely glossed over in the undeniably rushed final chapters.
Haha… okay, but am I wrong? How many people actually understood the message Megumi was meant to convey? Saying that Megumi ended up in nearly the same place is wild-he was quite literally a ticking time bomb, and his moral compass was based on his idea of his sister, someone he didn’t even know very well. And then, to see him actually laugh? Just because the story didn’t end the way people expect a regular shonen to end doesn’t mean it was bad. The message was “be ok being a kid… do little jobs that won’t put your life at risk”. In Japan, the response to the ending and Megumi was mostly positive, which is why I feel comfortable saying that most people didn’t get the point… or at the very least didn’t even bother to make a point in English.
@@NoeActuallyThe character shift he had at the end was just the tip of the iceberg that we never got to see, Megumi starts the series living for Tsumiki and tying his value and morals to her happiness. While simultaneously thinking he himself is unwanted by even his own father, then at the end he says he wants to try that one more time with someone else. What happens if Yuji dies? Where is Megumi's agency for his own life independent of another person? JJK constantly shows that one should find internal motivation and Megumi was on the path at the start of the Culling Games to finding out who he wants to be before his character agency nosedived. He is only just beginning to heal at the end of the series, but we hardly even get to see that because they skipped over Shoko or Gojo telling him who his Father even was. Even though Toji is the main reason for Megumi having a complex in the first place. I agree that many people undersell the complexity of Jujutsu Kaisen and it does have things to say that can easily be missed, but the execution of Megumi being sub par is really just an unfortunate part of JJK's rushed ending. I don't disagree with you that Megumi has good character writing in many areas, I just feel his conclusion flies in the face of what he was built up for.
@@Rimplestint-m7y "Superior"? Everyone? Is EVERYONE in the room right now? Because A LOT of people agree with me... Many people brought up excellent points I never thought about until they brought it up. Also... Have you seen the Japanese forums? I know nothing next to many people (Especially mangakas who have worked as assistants). But to those complaining about Megumi being written poorly because "He didn't have enough character development? or "Sukuna took over, and Megumi did nothing?" This demonstrates you are not entirely familiar with the basics of visual storytelling.
@ExtraAttack146 Megumi not caring about his father since he was also a part of the reason why he was in the slump is a given. The guy had agency, but it was taken when sukuna took away the one piece of life he had left. Which was meant to force him into darkness. This was how it was. Most didn't get that trauma, and pain can do that. Wasn't at the end where he took back that which sukuna stole for him to forgive himself. I don't agree he ends up the same place especially when his in a far better space than he was before.
While I understand that Megumi didn't want to live on after losing Tsumiki and Gojo; that's understandable. What I'm mad about is that he summoned Moharaga on some semi-grade 3, level 1 CROOK.
Didn't watch the video yet, but i just wanna say that if no one in the fandom got what author wanted to say that is only author's fault that he weren't able to properly display his idea
I disagree. It is not the mangakas job to teach you how to read manga or dumb it down by spelling it out for you. In Japan, you’re learning Japanese literature and visual storytelling since elementary school. So why would an author have to take into consideration the international audience who doesn’t even get to vote on who stays and who goes in the magazine?
@@NoeActually because thats his audience, no? Also, if understanding manga requires learning Japanese literature and visual storytelling since elementary school, that shouldnt be a surprise that majority wont understand your language. Other mangakas somehow were able to tell their stories without requirement of this things.
The primary audience of this work is normally japanese though. All mangas are japanese so it will obviosuly be written with the primary audience in mind first. Sure there are other parts of the world that will enjoy it, but that doesn't really mean as much.
@@KuthGoblin all mangaka's books are read by Japanese. The ones we read are translated to us, some times without the full message. The argument that other mangaka's can do it why not him removes the first people who get to read it.
@@TopHatMurkrow again, for some reason other mangakas were able to tell story normally. And gege too. He is a good writer, there are more than enough proofs of that.
Not really. Because in terms of what the message was, Yuta would be the Gojo if strength was love. So, Pretty much what Gege think a genuinely good person looks like . Megumi is closer to Yuji, who still don’t know what caring for another really is like.
Very solid interpretation of his character, it brought up some interesting aspects and symbolism I hadn't ever thought about. However, all of this doesn't mean the fandom is in any way wrong in calling Megumi a bad character or saying he has missed potential. Because the best symbolism, the most interesting themes, cannot redeem something that is on the surface disappointing and incomplete. Yes, Megumi grew by the end of the series, but we don't even get enough time to showcase that growth. He might truly be more optimistic, but we see barely a chapter's worth of panels of him after the end of the Sukuna fight. The part of him that was shown during his fight at the end of Season 1 against the Finger Bearer, was never seen again or capitalized on at all. I'm not saying Megumi should be as extreme as he was in that scene all the time, but it clearly showed his bottled-up emotions that he never let out again after that point. (I disagree with the idea that him summoning Mahoraga is him letting out his emotions, in my opinion Mahoraga is simply an extension of his self-sacrificial tendencies and his actions in Shibuya were him choosing to sacrifice himself and give up on his life, entirely rolling back the development from the Death Paintings arc.) His character and development was cut short because Jujutsu Kaisen was. Had there been more time to show him in more nuanced ways, I don't think there would be this widespread hate of his character today. But in the end, it's still a shonen series, so while the deeper interpretations are important, the character still needs to be interesting and fun to read on the surface. Because really, not many people would read a battle shonen of all things for deep and complex storytelling that requires extensive analysis to understand.
Fair! :) the chimera shadow garden is letting out the bottled up emotion. Mahoraga (to me) was the suppressed resentment which is anger + sadness that he holds within the unconscious. I saw it more like people would describe “blinded by rage”. Personally though. I think Genre triumph over demographics because from the get go it showed it was not intended for kids (also due to the fact that the average age of the shonen reader according to a 2018 survey ran by shonen magazine and the app is between the ages of 24-30 the sweet spot being 28 years old. That being said in 2018 we saw 2 “adult” ish works (chainsaw man is also not kid friendly) so I am thinking they are catering to the more mature audience, pulling an “evangelion” where you can probably watch it and being entertained when you’re 16 but not get much (kind of lost me after the angel fights to be honest)… but you probably won’t get it until your 20s. And the only way to transmit those nuanced messages is through visuals for better or worse(because doing that as anything else will always come across as preachy). I do think that most of the message was on Yuji and everyone around it was to complement his message. Because again (to me) jjk is the story of how Yuji learns about himself and his darkness to save Megumi and Megumi the gifted one to accept the saving after becoming the strongest sorcerer. That’s it. Everything else is fluff. But that’s just how I see it! You bring very valid points as well.
I agree that the pacing could have been slowed down and not relying so much on the base knowledge of an audience since if you’re writing shonen you should know that your audience might be international and not be familiar with the storytelling Japanese reader grew with (chainsaw man did this quite well). I think Gege only thought of Japan. 😂
It's not my place to say whether someone's interpretation of a piece of media is wrong BUT,... I think this is a case of Author: "The sky was blue with some clouds here and there" Reader: "The story here is saying, between the lines, that the unseen depths of the character's psyche is not as clear as it seems" Which isn't a bad interpretation but you're definitely pulling a muscle. Again, I'm not against interpretations of text but you seem to be trying to adapt the text to a tool of analysis. I can say that there are influences of Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant and Schopenhauer on Berserk because the manga is not subtle about, or George Bataille in Hellraiser (which the movie is really subtle with it), or Jungian concepts to Persona videogames; but applying biopolitics to Attack on Titan is a bizarre thing. Not saying you can't but...
Well, it is not only that. It combines the explicit references that inspired it and that Dark Fantasy has the same structure that follows one single mangaka Go Nagai. You can trace jujutsu kaisen to devilman. Just like you can trace Beserk to demon lord Dante. Go Nagai was a massive fan of Jung and Freud. Symbolism is used in many works. Just because you can't make connections doesn't mean they don't exist. I suggest you watch my manga 1010 video, where I explain how manga works. It might help.
Ok then why did he call yuji selfish and implied he was too much in his emotions when he was reacting to sukuna taking over his body (when he asker him and yuta to help him save his sister) but when the same happens to him he breaks down
Sorry but any story that you have to write an essay about ☝️🤓 “well actually, you just don’t understand the story” means that the author failed to get that point across to the general audience and has thus failed the character. In all honesty Gege failed Megumi and Nobara (who should’ve stayed dead) by not actually going into any sort of character analysis especially at the end and just let the characters exist just to exist.
If the target audience (Japanese) was able to understand it and were mostly fine and the international audience didn’t. The author didn’t failed. Which is why I made the essay. Cuz blaming mangakas because you are not able to understand something by they can is silly. Of course I went more in depth because I focused on the writing and creation of his character. But the fact that for example (sukuna within Megumi is Megumi and that Toji coming back to life quite literally means his problems coming to surface) is quite standard and something you learn in elementary school (allegory through characters). So trust me. I thought a lot of this was quite obvious myself. But what can I say. 😂
@ and yet I’ve heard just as many complaints from people in Japan hell most of my Japanese friends hated it, you can’t just say “you’re all dumb” when the author literally didn’t develop his characters especially in any meaningful way besides Yuji, if all of Megumi’s growth and characterization come from how others had to tell him then his character progression really isn’t due to any personal growth it’s due to others again telling him how to live…hence his whole character arc wasn’t really even his own it was other people making him do things…I appreciate the fact that you took time to make a video but my point stands anime is world wide and globally marketed Japanese themes and life is ingrained in almost every shounen or manga from culture to characterization, if Gege isn’t getting his points across to the general audience (even though I know and have seen plenty of Japanese people just as mad) he isn’t doing a good job 👍🏾 good talk bud
@ haha globally marketed? Nope. AMERICAN COMPANIES (vic, crunchyroll ect) market the anime. You get licenses your relevancy goes as far as the renewal date💀. Why you think international audiences don’t get a say on what goes in or out of the shonen magazine. Delusional. The anime gets most of its revenue through LOCAL tv plays (ad rev) and merch. The global market is irrelevant. At least for now. Not everyone. Because clearly part of the audience DID understand the point of Megumi. And saying that “just as many people in japan” is absolutely wild. Go outside of twitter to ACTUAL Japanese forums. And you will see that’s definitely not the case. 😂 but hey… My hero academia, attack on titan and Jujutsu kaisen ending were well received in japan but not in the us. I am sure THEY ARE the problem. 💀
@ it’s literally globally popular and marketed doesn’t matter if the companies are American or not, it’s ok buddy good chat sorry you can’t take criticism cry alone
Do you know the situation he was in when he summon mahoraga? At that time he was out of curse energy coz he fought 3 fights before (1 with Yuji against that old man where he summon elephant which takes alot curse energy and one against dagon where he clash his domain against dagons and cancel out sure hit effect which lead to survival of maki, nanami, and naobito)also toji who has super human strength where teen geto was failed even being a 1st grade sorcocer and toji stabbed him and gave fetal injury and he lost alot blood due to that plus that blondie attacked him from behind which also lead him to fall and was on the verge of death so he decided to drag blondie with him so basically his idea of summoning mahoraga was right coz killing atleast one person is better than dying alone
@@sunshine-jw8of THANK YOU. People who don't know why he summoned Mahoraga can't read because after fighting TOJI FUCKING ZENIN and getting stabbed in the back right before he summoned Mahoraga he was basically on death's door and he knew the best thing to do in the moment was at the very least take out Haruta and die along with him before he could hurt any more people during the Shibuya incident.
I think you can like something without understanding it. When I first watched evangelion when I was a kid I liked it, but I definitely did not understand what it was trying to say. :)
First off I am so sorry! Thank you for letting me know! I’ll put you in the description immediately. I am assuming @isagisrae is a good handle or galixieRae better? I just followed you! :D thank you!
@@NoeActually @GalixieRae please bc thats where the art is posted. And where I mainly draw 😊 No worries about it happening. I only found out bc oomf posted about your video and felt happy c:
I love how megumis powers play into his complex’s. Anything he puts into his shadows he physically has to bear the weight of. And in the context of jjk your ct is apart of your soul. So the more burdens he decides to place on himself and his soul the more he suffers and this comes to a breaking point when meguna kills tsumiki and he is visually trapped in the bottomless depths of his shadow
OOOOO That’s such a good observation!
I'm not even close to the first to say this but the JJK fandom isn't beating the lack of reading comprehension allegations.
dark fantasy is not the genre for that. 🤣
This video deserves so much more attention! A lot of JJK expects you to read between the lines and that goes double for Megumi. He's a clear product of trauma, but he says very little of this out loud and instead communicates it through his actions and the occasional flashback. As Yuji and Nobara point out: he never tells them (or anyone) about himself. Megumi is a character you have to work to appreciate, but it's very much worth it. Seeing him figure out what he cares about (and even finding some small amount of self-love through Yuji) is so rewarding.
My only real disappointment with the series is I'd have liked a little more of an epilogue showing him recovering and contextualizing his journey. I realize that the mangaka probably HAD to finish the story in X amount of chapters and did the best with what they had, especially given that there were tons of other characters and themes that needed wrapping up as well.
Really good video, honestly a lot of the symbolism of Megumi's character really flew over my head. I honestly wish this video was longer, it would have been nice to see a complete retrospective of Megumi's character
True bro made me see an entire different side to megumi
I don't view fiction or stories in the way a lot of people do, with enjoyment being a secondary or tertiary end. I say that to say, I'm glad JJK ended so someone like you could come along and thread elements and beats I either hadn't considered before together, or bringing them back to the forefront for a better look.
There is value in liking, loving, a work of art. Your video, to me, resonates on a level beyond (not better than, just different) that. It is an appreciation of art, something I care about feeling more than anything else. Keep up the good work and I hope you're feeling better.
Thank you! I am feeling way better. and indeed. I am glad to find a community of people who enjoy this things that would normally just remain in my head only to be rehashed when the series is used by another series. I appreciate you for the support! :D
Well, yeah. First and foremost, fiction is supposed to teach through itself.
Man your jjk vids are truly next level unlike any other i have seen
Thank you! I had fun! :)
Megumi's character gives me the vibe of a Greek tragic hero, and I really hate it when people mischaracterize him.
Both Megumi and Maki are the most mischaracterized characters by the fandom. Can you imagine some people really see Maki as a f*cking tsundere character instead of a child who was abused her whole life before? That's why she can't communicate with her loved ones emotionally like other children of her age without sounding borderline rude.
So true and Mai too. Maki’s burn it all to the ground moment was so good.
@@NoeActuallyyep,Mai too.
@@NoeActuallyplz,can u also make a video on maki? I am truly interested in knowing ur perspective about her.
I love both Megumi AND Maki, the latter especially. And I get pissed that people mischaracterize both.
It seems there's a lot of people who like Maki, but I never saw the appeal, similarly to Nobara she has no major flaws and her defeats are never her fault, there's nothing to improve on with her character.
My goat finally getting a glaze video
I couldn’t take it anymore.
Even though I loved this video and pretty much everything about it, I hope what I'm about to say doesn't make me sound like some mouth-breathing pleb.
While Megumi is my favourite character, there's one thing I have to side with the fandom on, in spite of agreeing with literally everything in this video. High-minded elements like symbolism aren't enough to satisfactorily elevate a character or story for most people, irrespective of how richly steeped they might be in them.
Getting all the basic ingredients of a story, or character, right is what makes those other factors explode in a way that even casual partakers would appreciate.
After watching this, reading about Megumi feels less like eating a subpar cake, and more like eating a decent cake with hella icing on it. I hope I'm making sense.
That being said, this was a fantastic video and it made me feel a bit less let down by how my homie was handled. I loved the insight and hope you keep up the great work.
I'm glad that someone see the deeper meaning in the story too. It bothers me that a lot of people don't read past surface level or analyze works of fiction and movies properly. I didn't do it well myself until about high school and I appreciate now a great piece of art, writing style or even painting because it takes a certain kind of person, to put down a perspective to look at it from another's. An empathic method that is written through pictures and fiction.
Beautifully said. When I was reading tweets and articles talking about Megumi being mishandled and how “sukuna” took over and he did nothing for the rest of the series… I was like yeah… people missed the point 💀. I am glad there are people out here that care about visual and narrative storytelling like I do tbh.
Thank you so much for understanding my favorite character and explaining him to the rest of the class. 💚
You’re welcome! Maki needs one too!
I hope everyone enjoys the video and has a great day. :)
TY bro 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
Thank you, hope you also have a great day
@@AnimationsStudioza Thank you!
@@l11.a.person Thank you.
i feel like thats 90% of jjk criticisms. it felt like a lot of people just wanted to sound smart by pointing out things they didnt understand/didnt like as faults of the series rather than just taking more than a week to actually understand it. it doesnt help that leaks made things so much worse for the agenda
True. And they’re the same people who want to tell you that you’re thinking too deeply about it… 😂
@@NoeActually
>"gege who never thought of any of that"
>wrote the series
To be 100% fair the official translations were far worse than the leaks.
@@soldierbreed The John Werry curse hunts us till this day.
So basically Gege write in a level so deep in metaphor that I can't comprehend the message, my interpretation for Megumi was always about depression and the denial of living your own life because of trauma.
I mean… add a dash of anger and you’re pretty much spot on. 👌
Thank you for this video. I really feel you've opened my mind to why I liked the ending soo much. I disagreed with all the negativity but struggled to explain why, but this is perfect and I 100% agree that this was what Gege was going for
Good job
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you!
Thank you for being one of the few people who actually try to understand jjk, I can’t wait for more videos
:) thank you!
Damn, I'm glad I found this video. It really put some things into perspective of a few things.
Megumi might me more relatable than I thought. How interesting
it wasn't even just with Megumi, that was the majority of the criticism the entire manga received, which kind of shows how invested people were in a way. So much of the criticism around JJK are people wanting the author to have basically just written a different story or character. It's almost like Dragonball Super. People are completely unwilling to accept what is written and engage with or criticize the story on those terms, and instead you get people complaining that Megumi didn't turn into a badass 10 shadows serial assassin.
I think with any kind of literary analysis, it does good to step back and examine the whole thing. Try and understand the author's intent, and know when something is just your own interpretation of the story. When you ask a very broad question about a character in a story like "What is the point of this character" (an example I've seen people ask about Megumi), the entire context of the story is very important for coming up with an answer, and people will likely all have pretty different answers.
True… when someone offered to “make jjk better” by redoing everything from 236… I was gonna lose it. 🙄
Really like this video because I’ve always said that Megumi’s journey was never his potential as a sorcerer. His story was always one of self worth, moral and care. One avenue Gege used to explore that was his strength. Not being able to do his best. It’s a method used to tell his story it the story itself which is why we don’t see a complete domain and making that a priority would have been odd.
It was nice seeing a video not only express that idea, but also expand and explain it much better adding to it in ways I never even considered before but reinforces my previous ideas.
I WOULD LOVE to see a video on Yuji and Higurama as that dynamic is my favourite.
Specifically how Yuji says he’s a sorcerer for the first time since mid Shibuya after Higurama looks Yuji in the eyes before seemingly being killed. But the eye contact marks a shift in Higurama as well which is why he doesn’t die narratively and why Gege left the crumbs of him using RCT to live. His purpose wasn’t to die anymore. And for me this marks a shift in Yuji where he no longer see’s himself as just a cog but as a person and sorcerer and just the idea of Yuji, someone struggling with guilt, meeting a lawyer struggling with the Japan judicial system is GENIUS
As well as the symbolism with eyes for Higurama. He has his quote on lady justice eyes being blindfolded to show the impartiality of the law but how he himself keeps his own open so he can help those reaching out. This symbolism is used a lot for Higurama through his shikigami who’s eyes are forced shut by stitches when Judgeman is impartial and random but forcibly opens one eye when Higurama used the system to his advantage to help the sorcerers. As well with how he can’t look Yuji in the eyes, and then when he does it helps Yuji
Love to hear your thoughts
This is amazing! Can I pin your comment? And yes I can do Higurama (there might be a bit of a wait time) 😅
@NoeActually I don’t mind if you pin it
If you do Higurama I’d love to see it but take your time haha. And feel free to take anything I said and put it in the video. I’m sure you’d add to what I said in a meaningful way as well and make me appreciate the dynamic between Higurma and Yuji even more
The Dagon fight just got so much deeper to me now, damn. The symbolism on the disaster curses was awesome as well, I never would've thought about it. Great video man, keep it up!
Thank you! I am glad I got the point across for the most part. ☺️
Choosing the path to be proud of neither myself nor others is so accurate because sometimes it feels like you have been wronged so many times by so many people that you don't even feel like trying again. pls make a video on Toji next pls pls.
You are so underrated! This was incredible.
Thank you!
holy guacamole, amazing video. you deserve way more traction!
Thank you! ☺️
I love that you bring up the “shadow” it’s such an interesting topic
You’ll love part 1 then. 😂
this is an amazing analysis
Thank you!
When people started calling Megumi a Sasuke Rip-off, I wondered if people were actually reading the manga. I had this exact same reaction at 10:25.
You did your thing with this video, although many people didn’t like it the ending I loved it because I feel like it was a great way to wrap up all the physiological and thematic points of the story. I feel like JJK is less a story about the characters and more about humanity and how peoples minds can affect their lives.
YEEEEEES! 👌 spot on!
While i disagree with most of the JJk hate i do agree the ending did not stick the landing.n
thank you for your analysis of Megumi’s character!!
he’s one of my favorite characters in jjk and you made me look on the story a bit differently and understand it better 🤍
hope your work gets more recognition it truly deserves!
Thank you! I am glad!
Your analysis are so on point.
i love this analysis sm, megumi's character deserves more love
I agree! Maybe in the anime people will come around… ☺️
It seemed more people were angry with Nobara being alive than Megumi but maybe I'm mistaken
That too 😭
I always resonated with megumi because he had the strength to give up
Still not sure how ppl miss the point of JJK. The story sums up like this: For as much potential as one may have, if the individual lacks the autonomy, willpower, ferocity, etc. to push toward their ideals, they along with said potential will simply become lapdogs for the higher ups. In society, we’re all cogs in a machine. None of us will be here forever. Yuji, after having this realization, is able to reach and perform higher levels of jujutsu within a seemingly short amount of time compared to others. The story was never about any of the main cast becoming the “strongest” bc that already existed in Sukuna. Typical human beings aren’t as selfishly cunning and conniving as Kenjaku nor Sukuna which also speaks to their perseverance in achieving their ideals.
Ppl wanted Yuji vs Megumi or Yuji vs Gota and it just wasn’t happening. Even after over 20+ chapters of nonstop fighting ppl wanted more from Sukuna’s ending. Those ppl are just like Mahito by the end of the story lol. Gege makes all of this very clear but again some JJK fans truly do lack comprehension skills.
YES!
I think when u say people wanted more from sukuna's ending ur mixing the battle hungry fans with the contect hungry. Some wanted more from the character than just battles. So there is quite the distinction to be made there
4:06 I guard others to a treasure that i can not posses.
You deserve so much more recognition bro omg
Very good video
Thank you!
Great video 🐐🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I appreciate your support. It really means a lot!
Gege who had never thought of any of that:
Sure😂
Gege just wanted the story to end 😂😂
Can you read his mind? I'm just saying.
@@faith4657 Mf can you??
@@silversoulken I just read the book. But like I said, can you read intent or his mind?
very good video 💯 it kinda left me speechless‼️
Thank you!
Yes, megumi enjoyers rise up!
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“Man, this video is mad profound and nice as a Megumi fa-“ 12:06 IS THAT AN OMORI REFERENCE?!? HYPERFIXATION: *GO!!!*
This a very good video and made me appreciate Megumi more, I still don't like how a lot of the specifics of his character is handled (mostly due to feeling like the final stretch of the manga didn't focus on the proper things to strengthen its thematic through line and instead focusing on aspects I don't think strengthened the emotional or thematic depth of the series (edit: i do like the final chapter i just think the set of chapters before up around Nobara's return just felt lacking in their focus,)) but I feel better about him cuz this video. I like good analytical jjk content that shows it has more depth than people give it credit for, for that im gon sub.
Great video
Thank you!
I like this analysis. Great vid 👍
Appreciate it! Thank you.
"NO shut up how dare you feel sad that you're friend is gone despite the fact you havent had time to grieve over her body, you should feel ashamed to think she ever coming back, how dare you say that yuji apologize" you know i dont care for yuji but this one interaction between him and angel just made want to have a talk to gege in a boxing ring .
。。。 it starts with sorry.
Great video. Maybe it does make me a child, but I still wanted Megumi to contribute to the fight after awakening. Just to extra prove the haters wrong
No… that’s valid. We all have our definition of strenght. Yours is to prove the naysayers wrong. Pretty bada$s.
I really like your mindset
Thanks
You are getting better and better! Nice job.
Tysm! ☺️
Your videos are great at breaking down themes in a way my mind can grasp it, would you ever consider doing videos on blue lock, its heavy with themes of ego and gets brought up along jujutsu kaisen on that aspect.
that would be fun! I haven’t watched much of bluelock but I’ll give it a shot
@@NoeActuallyThank you for reaponding and thank you even more for those words, from what I’ve heard and experienced, reading blue lock is a better experience than watching, if that makes it better🙏
Nice video this pretty much wraps up what i got from megumi its quite similar to a greek hero (but worse honestly) but it still makes me a little sad i missed nothing jjk is truly the most 6-7/10 show i watched
Valid!
@@NoeActually also i will like to add that i think so because i just didnt like the narrative it had a lot of potential but it just didnt go far enough BUT it stuck its landing with what it had it stayed true to its core even if it could have worked more things like i wanted to see more of almost every character and their themes could have been deeper but i blame the editors on the preassure they placed on the damn cat
wHAT!? ACTUAL LITERARY ANALYSIS FOR JUJUTSU KAISEN!?
I know I know… sorry to disappoint. No recap or react videos 🙂↕️
Can we get a sukuna focused video next? Christmas coming up you can’t say no man 🫠
Yes :)
@ 🥹💯
Wow... after watching this and the Yujikuna video i feel pretty stupid for not seeing most of that but in my defense i feel like anyone who doesn't study psychology wouldn't have seen these deep metaphors and crap. would it have hurt Gege to make it a bit more clear and accessible 😅
Also I'd like to say that you have taken away a large part of what i used to criticize JJK for. Now the only criticisms i have left is the wasted potential around plot points, character interactions and the development of some character (but i guess you could justify that by saying that JJK is a theme driven story but ngl that would be unsatisfying to me. Anyways great video you got yourself a new subscriber!
True. And thematic storytelling tend to not be very satisfying because it leaves it too open ended with the “it is all about the journey” approach this types of stories take. I didn’t get evangelion until I grew and it clicked. Welcome to the channel! :)
Like your video and I do agree with what you said mostly about him
But I’m pushing my agenda
It is your sorcery fight. 🫡
Oh, no, i don't think i've missed anything about Megumi's character. No amount of symbolism, mentioning Jung or any other author to strengthen your argument is going to make me forget that Akutami could not even figure out a simple math and manged to get a regular multiplier and exponent for black flash all wrong.
He is not a literary genius, far from it.
I was satisfied with the series during it's great run in 2018 and 2019, during HI and Shibuya Incident arcs.
However, it became apparent to me, that after some point during CGs arc, Gege was getting exhausted and rather disinterested in exploring all facets of the world he created, following on every theme he'd set up, on every plotline he introduced.
After that, the already fast pace of the series became abhorent. Having a timeskip without meaningful interactions after the center piece of the story is unsealed, resolving the entire plot of foreign millitary invasion in 2 chapters, while admitting in the Volume author comments that drawing millitary is just too bothersome, cutting Yuki and Kenjaku, and by extension, their entire conflicting dynamic, which carried the theme of "optimization vs breaking away" of the cursed energy.
Literal crux for the character arcs of Geto, Yuki, Kenjaku, SPV Riko, the reason for curses existing, for Higer Ups still remaining in power, the existence of CE...
gets thrown down the garbage can.
What about Hakari's wish to rule the Jujutsu Society through his Fight Club? What about Gojo wanting to change the future of the world not by killing HUps, since it would repeat the cycle?
And Megumi... for a character that i always wanted to break free from his own mental schackles of being dependent on his sister, her being his only reason for living, at the end of the day, he does not change a one bit. Not only that, he pretty much accepts to live "selfishly" for other people.... which has already done.... he literally did not change, and instead replaced Tsumiki with Yuji.
And don't even get me started with a tone deaf ending of unnecessary SDomain lore dump, and not characters interacting with each other in a meaninful way.
No, it's either post match talk with Gege trying his hardest to defend his writing choices of why the Shinjuku Dragdown could not have went any other way, if you at some point started to question the logistics behind multiple plot induced stupidity of certain characters, plot contrivences, and straight up dumb slugfest of an action.
I'm not very keen on calling this manga "Potential Manga", as if it's reflecting most of it's cast, not only Megumi in that regard. What i prefer to call it is "Implication Kaisen".
There are always implications of interesting lore, history between different characters, existing worldbuilding which remain implications....
At the end if the day we have a sloppily executed, yet again, theme of "Nature vs Nurture", "Conservatism vs Progress", another patch of buddhist refrences and allusions, which are prevelant in tons of japanese mangas, since it's, you know, a cultural thing for them, a pretty common one at that.... and it's not even done that well.
I like how most of the people defending the the ending don't even bother to understand the criticism of those who have more than one brain cell and have watched/read the story not through TikTok, before judging those as lacking "reading comprehension", not possessing one to begin with.
A lot of fancy words and filling in the gaps with head canon and intellectual framework of, once again, completely irrelevant stuff.
Have nothing against the author, but JJK is mediocre at best, with as underwhelming of an ending as it can get.
Nothing stated in the video changed anything about it for me.
Day 61 million waiting for jjk religious influence video 😂 no problem take your time
I am genuinely so bad with Religion! T.T Maybe a video about the angel and Megumi! xD
Bro was asking for the video scince Heian era 💀
@@jzh4805 How did you know i’m sorry brother but do you know too much time to sleep forever
"when sukuna takes the finger out of yuji's body and-"
Phrasing 🗣️
Interesting topic, but also a little pretentious to say that people simply don't understand Megumi or JJK is inaccessible to read. The execution is what left people disappointed not the character motivations or themes themselves. Megumi ends the series in nearly the exact same place he started while many of his major character moments were completely glossed over in the undeniably rushed final chapters.
Haha… okay, but am I wrong? How many people actually understood the message Megumi was meant to convey? Saying that Megumi ended up in nearly the same place is wild-he was quite literally a ticking time bomb, and his moral compass was based on his idea of his sister, someone he didn’t even know very well. And then, to see him actually laugh? Just because the story didn’t end the way people expect a regular shonen to end doesn’t mean it was bad. The message was “be ok being a kid… do little jobs that won’t put your life at risk”. In Japan, the response to the ending and Megumi was mostly positive, which is why I feel comfortable saying that most people didn’t get the point… or at the very least didn’t even bother to make a point in English.
@@NoeActuallyThe character shift he had at the end was just the tip of the iceberg that we never got to see, Megumi starts the series living for Tsumiki and tying his value and morals to her happiness. While simultaneously thinking he himself is unwanted by even his own father, then at the end he says he wants to try that one more time with someone else. What happens if Yuji dies? Where is Megumi's agency for his own life independent of another person?
JJK constantly shows that one should find internal motivation and Megumi was on the path at the start of the Culling Games to finding out who he wants to be before his character agency nosedived. He is only just beginning to heal at the end of the series, but we hardly even get to see that because they skipped over Shoko or Gojo telling him who his Father even was. Even though Toji is the main reason for Megumi having a complex in the first place.
I agree that many people undersell the complexity of Jujutsu Kaisen and it does have things to say that can easily be missed, but the execution of Megumi being sub par is really just an unfortunate part of JJK's rushed ending. I don't disagree with you that Megumi has good character writing in many areas, I just feel his conclusion flies in the face of what he was built up for.
@@NoeActually Wow so you really do just think your opinion is superior to everyone else's, funny stuff.
@@Rimplestint-m7y "Superior"? Everyone? Is EVERYONE in the room right now? Because A LOT of people agree with me... Many people brought up excellent points I never thought about until they brought it up. Also... Have you seen the Japanese forums? I know nothing next to many people (Especially mangakas who have worked as assistants). But to those complaining about Megumi being written poorly because "He didn't have enough character development? or "Sukuna took over, and Megumi did nothing?" This demonstrates you are not entirely familiar with the basics of visual storytelling.
@ExtraAttack146 Megumi not caring about his father since he was also a part of the reason why he was in the slump is a given. The guy had agency, but it was taken when sukuna took away the one piece of life he had left. Which was meant to force him into darkness. This was how it was. Most didn't get that trauma, and pain can do that. Wasn't at the end where he took back that which sukuna stole for him to forgive himself. I don't agree he ends up the same place especially when his in a far better space than he was before.
This doesn’t change the fact that he bowed out for the majority of the series.
That is if you separate megukuna from Megumi... which… you’re not supposed to.
While I understand that Megumi didn't want to live on after losing Tsumiki and Gojo; that's understandable. What I'm mad about is that he summoned Moharaga on some semi-grade 3, level 1 CROOK.
Truly… megumi could have squared up and throw some hands and he would have been fine.
Arcane vid next ?
YES!!!!!! I need a JJK break.
i like your video sir
Didn't watch the video yet, but i just wanna say that if no one in the fandom got what author wanted to say that is only author's fault that he weren't able to properly display his idea
I disagree. It is not the mangakas job to teach you how to read manga or dumb it down by spelling it out for you. In Japan, you’re learning Japanese literature and visual storytelling since elementary school. So why would an author have to take into consideration the international audience who doesn’t even get to vote on who stays and who goes in the magazine?
@@NoeActually because thats his audience, no? Also, if understanding manga requires learning Japanese literature and visual storytelling since elementary school, that shouldnt be a surprise that majority wont understand your language. Other mangakas somehow were able to tell their stories without requirement of this things.
The primary audience of this work is normally japanese though. All mangas are japanese so it will obviosuly be written with the primary audience in mind first. Sure there are other parts of the world that will enjoy it, but that doesn't really mean as much.
@@KuthGoblin all mangaka's books are read by Japanese. The ones we read are translated to us, some times without the full message. The argument that other mangaka's can do it why not him removes the first people who get to read it.
@@TopHatMurkrow again, for some reason other mangakas were able to tell story normally. And gege too. He is a good writer, there are more than enough proofs of that.
Ur higher than gojo when he awakened
You could be right? YOU’RE SO RIGHT! 🤪
I know Noahsxz punching the air rn
In excitement I hope? 🥹
Bumgumi
Valid
Jujutsu kaisen bad Had me Rolling. Anyways, Good Video man, you nailed with also Carefully studying religion you can become catholic!
Thank you! Haha I was raised catholic, I’ve built a robust immune system. 😂
Commenting for the algorithm
May the algolord hear you.
Yeah bro and Nobara is a well written character.
True!
Would you say megumi was more of the deuteragonist then Yuta
Not really. Because in terms of what the message was, Yuta would be the Gojo if strength was love. So, Pretty much what Gege think a genuinely good person looks like . Megumi is closer to Yuji, who still don’t know what caring for another really is like.
Very solid interpretation of his character, it brought up some interesting aspects and symbolism I hadn't ever thought about. However, all of this doesn't mean the fandom is in any way wrong in calling Megumi a bad character or saying he has missed potential. Because the best symbolism, the most interesting themes, cannot redeem something that is on the surface disappointing and incomplete.
Yes, Megumi grew by the end of the series, but we don't even get enough time to showcase that growth. He might truly be more optimistic, but we see barely a chapter's worth of panels of him after the end of the Sukuna fight. The part of him that was shown during his fight at the end of Season 1 against the Finger Bearer, was never seen again or capitalized on at all. I'm not saying Megumi should be as extreme as he was in that scene all the time, but it clearly showed his bottled-up emotions that he never let out again after that point. (I disagree with the idea that him summoning Mahoraga is him letting out his emotions, in my opinion Mahoraga is simply an extension of his self-sacrificial tendencies and his actions in Shibuya were him choosing to sacrifice himself and give up on his life, entirely rolling back the development from the Death Paintings arc.)
His character and development was cut short because Jujutsu Kaisen was. Had there been more time to show him in more nuanced ways, I don't think there would be this widespread hate of his character today. But in the end, it's still a shonen series, so while the deeper interpretations are important, the character still needs to be interesting and fun to read on the surface. Because really, not many people would read a battle shonen of all things for deep and complex storytelling that requires extensive analysis to understand.
Fair! :) the chimera shadow garden is letting out the bottled up emotion. Mahoraga (to me) was the suppressed resentment which is anger + sadness that he holds within the unconscious. I saw it more like people would describe “blinded by rage”. Personally though. I think Genre triumph over demographics because from the get go it showed it was not intended for kids (also due to the fact that the average age of the shonen reader according to a 2018 survey ran by shonen magazine and the app is between the ages of 24-30 the sweet spot being 28 years old. That being said in 2018 we saw 2 “adult” ish works (chainsaw man is also not kid friendly) so I am thinking they are catering to the more mature audience, pulling an “evangelion” where you can probably watch it and being entertained when you’re 16 but not get much (kind of lost me after the angel fights to be honest)… but you probably won’t get it until your 20s. And the only way to transmit those nuanced messages is through visuals for better or worse(because doing that as anything else will always come across as preachy). I do think that most of the message was on Yuji and everyone around it was to complement his message. Because again (to me) jjk is the story of how Yuji learns about himself and his darkness to save Megumi and Megumi the gifted one to accept the saving after becoming the strongest sorcerer. That’s it. Everything else is fluff. But that’s just how I see it! You bring very valid points as well.
I agree that the pacing could have been slowed down and not relying so much on the base knowledge of an audience since if you’re writing shonen you should know that your audience might be international and not be familiar with the storytelling Japanese reader grew with (chainsaw man did this quite well). I think Gege only thought of Japan. 😂
It's not my place to say whether someone's interpretation of a piece of media is wrong BUT,... I think this is a case of
Author: "The sky was blue with some clouds here and there"
Reader: "The story here is saying, between the lines, that the unseen depths of the character's psyche is not as clear as it seems"
Which isn't a bad interpretation but you're definitely pulling a muscle. Again, I'm not against interpretations of text but you seem to be trying to adapt the text to a tool of analysis. I can say that there are influences of Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant and Schopenhauer on Berserk because the manga is not subtle about, or George Bataille in Hellraiser (which the movie is really subtle with it), or Jungian concepts to Persona videogames; but applying biopolitics to Attack on Titan is a bizarre thing. Not saying you can't but...
It's mainly the 'video essayist syndrome' where they apply a piece of learned knowledge to pieces of media, that rubs the wrong way
Well, it is not only that. It combines the explicit references that inspired it and that Dark Fantasy has the same structure that follows one single mangaka Go Nagai. You can trace jujutsu kaisen to devilman. Just like you can trace Beserk to demon lord Dante. Go Nagai was a massive fan of Jung and Freud. Symbolism is used in many works. Just because you can't make connections doesn't mean they don't exist. I suggest you watch my manga 1010 video, where I explain how manga works. It might help.
Ok then why did he call yuji selfish and implied he was too much in his emotions when he was reacting to sukuna taking over his body (when he asker him and yuta to help him save his sister) but when the same happens to him he breaks down
Sorry.... Are you asking about Sukuna and why he is a representation of the darkest side of the shadow? Or the projection?
8:22 … UNLESS
OH… 💀
its just the reading comprehension curse
Sorry but any story that you have to write an essay about ☝️🤓 “well actually, you just don’t understand the story” means that the author failed to get that point across to the general audience and has thus failed the character.
In all honesty Gege failed Megumi and Nobara (who should’ve stayed dead) by not actually going into any sort of character analysis especially at the end and just let the characters exist just to exist.
If the target audience (Japanese) was able to understand it and were mostly fine and the international audience didn’t. The author didn’t failed. Which is why I made the essay. Cuz blaming mangakas because you are not able to understand something by they can is silly. Of course I went more in depth because I focused on the writing and creation of his character. But the fact that for example (sukuna within Megumi is Megumi and that Toji coming back to life quite literally means his problems coming to surface) is quite standard and something you learn in elementary school (allegory through characters). So trust me. I thought a lot of this was quite obvious myself. But what can I say. 😂
@ and yet I’ve heard just as many complaints from people in Japan hell most of my Japanese friends hated it, you can’t just say “you’re all dumb” when the author literally didn’t develop his characters especially in any meaningful way besides Yuji, if all of Megumi’s growth and characterization come from how others had to tell him then his character progression really isn’t due to any personal growth it’s due to others again telling him how to live…hence his whole character arc wasn’t really even his own it was other people making him do things…I appreciate the fact that you took time to make a video but my point stands anime is world wide and globally marketed Japanese themes and life is ingrained in almost every shounen or manga from culture to characterization, if Gege isn’t getting his points across to the general audience (even though I know and have seen plenty of Japanese people just as mad) he isn’t doing a good job 👍🏾 good talk bud
@ haha globally marketed? Nope. AMERICAN COMPANIES (vic, crunchyroll ect) market the anime. You get licenses your relevancy goes as far as the renewal date💀. Why you think international audiences don’t get a say on what goes in or out of the shonen magazine. Delusional. The anime gets most of its revenue through LOCAL tv plays (ad rev) and merch. The global market is irrelevant. At least for now. Not everyone. Because clearly part of the audience DID understand the point of Megumi. And saying that “just as many people in japan” is absolutely wild. Go outside of twitter to ACTUAL Japanese forums. And you will see that’s definitely not the case. 😂 but hey… My hero academia, attack on titan and Jujutsu kaisen ending were well received in japan but not in the us. I am sure THEY ARE the problem. 💀
@ it’s literally globally popular and marketed doesn’t matter if the companies are American or not, it’s ok buddy good chat sorry you can’t take criticism cry alone
3:21 then there is no such thing as truth
If you need help about the religious video I know couple of good TH-cam channels about religion their names let’s talk religion and esoterica
They are some good TH-cam channels about religion Let’s talk religion and esoterica and drangelapuca 👍
Yes please!
@@NoeActually if you need more could watch drangelapuca
why tell the world who you are when theyre hunting you?
Nah, Fraudgumi is just a bum, who didn't save his sister and gave up his friend's lives, just so he could wallow in selfdeprecation.
Great point! 👍
I only hate him because HOLY SHIT DID HE TO HAVE SUMMON BIG RAGA ON SOME BLONDE TWINK.
True.
Do you know the situation he was in when he summon mahoraga? At that time he was out of curse energy coz he fought 3 fights before (1 with Yuji against that old man where he summon elephant which takes alot curse energy and one against dagon where he clash his domain against dagons and cancel out sure hit effect which lead to survival of maki, nanami, and naobito)also toji who has super human strength where teen geto was failed even being a 1st grade sorcocer and toji stabbed him and gave fetal injury and he lost alot blood due to that plus that blondie attacked him from behind which also lead him to fall and was on the verge of death so he decided to drag blondie with him so basically his idea of summoning mahoraga was right coz killing atleast one person is better than dying alone
@@sunshine-jw8of THANK YOU. People who don't know why he summoned Mahoraga can't read because after fighting TOJI FUCKING ZENIN and getting stabbed in the back right before he summoned Mahoraga he was basically on death's door and he knew the best thing to do in the moment was at the very least take out Haruta and die along with him before he could hurt any more people during the Shibuya incident.
Megumi is trash 😂.the guy dont deserved the ten Shadows tecnic
Valid take.
3:00 Either AI voice or poor editing lol
No need to call out my editing skills like that. 😂
Hahahaha no worries, great vid though man!
Understanding and not liking it isn’t a seperate thing
I think you can like something without understanding it. When I first watched evangelion when I was a kid I liked it, but I definitely did not understand what it was trying to say. :)
It's not that deep Megumi is just a bum.
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INTJ narrow mindedness
bro analyses characters like real people but doesnt understand that bumgumi thing is just a meme
So was the yuji thing. 😅
Such an overreach for bad writing.
That’s valid.
Megumi a bum.
Valid point.
You used my art in the thumbnail 🩷 Thanks for liking my redraw. Great vid!
First off I am so sorry! Thank you for letting me know! I’ll put you in the description immediately. I am assuming @isagisrae is a good handle or galixieRae better? I just followed you! :D thank you!
@@NoeActually @GalixieRae please bc thats where the art is posted. And where I mainly draw 😊
No worries about it happening. I only found out bc oomf posted about your video and felt happy c:
@@GalixieRae Sweet I put both just in case! Thank you for letting me know! :3