>>282993837
We will see him again by chapter 8 btw

fat flop

>>282993837
Leaks got me excited but it was only two panels. Well, a panel and a close up really

5 chapters in and Gege is already pulling the "Man things were so cool after they beat Sukuna you guys. You don't even know" card. Things aren't going too well.

Dead for 100 years, btw

>>282993837
>dump thread died at 200 posts
so much for saving rumao

>>282993837
He won't appear till the last battle I bet.

>>282993837
He failed to kill the old dude.

>>282993837
that's a flashback anon, a flashback for decades ago, the man is old or dead, he won't be fighting shit anymore

>>282995466
they said it's intended from the start as a short series so the whole plot was probably made in advance
granted wouldn't have been too hard to slip this into the existing outline

>>282993837
Yuji is dead

so which twin is going to die to buff the other?

>>282996241
Maru is already far stronger than the vast majority of sorcerers in JJK, and Cross is likely the same. There's no need for either of them to be buffed.

>>282996297
I think they're both about semi grade 1s.

>>282996356
Nta but Maru stomped a grade 1.

>>282996425
I don't think either of them come even close to the feats we've seen from todo/nanami/kusakabe

>>282996484
This
oldman is a grade 1, but he is re*wa era grade 1.
Reiwa jobbers are nowhere near as strong as heiseichads or even heianfrauds.

>>282993837
>Yuji comes back
>Official chapter release thread died halfway through

>>282996526
>>282995706
You say as if fucking Bumgumi coming back from the grade 3 curse is going to revive the hype

>>282996484
Creating the pillar of ice Maru did, just to say one, impressed me more than most feats from those three.

>>282996570
>You say as if fucking Bumgumi coming back from the grade 3 curse is going to revive the hype
I'd be fucking hyped actually. Better than dealing with these siblings and a discount Yuji/Sukuna

>>282996521
>oldman is a grade 1
He's not confirmed as a grade 1, Tsurugi guesses he might have "the skills of a grade 1 sorcerer" based on a single strike.
I think tsurugi is wrong, and if he's below the level of a grade 1 it's a reasonable mistake
>>282996650
It's reasonably impressive, but creating ice from water is nowhere near the feats we've seen from someone like Uraume who can create far more ice from air.
There's a decent chance maru is actually a special grade, but if we're going by raw power I'd put it on the order of Nanami's ratio collapse, and in terms of versitility I'd put it below boogie woogie/crow control.

>>282996857
>nowhere near the feats we've seen from someone like Uraume who can create far more ice from air
Yes, and Uraume is far stronger than even Kusakabe, already the strongest grade 1.
>in terms of versitility I'd put it below boogie woogie/crow control.
While I agree that it hasn't shown greater power than ratio collapse yet I think the versatility it's shown is far superior to those two, it can make items float, disrupt enemy techniques, knock out weaker opponents on the spot, move trajectories, make things blow up and alter temperatures just from what we saw. Those techniques are versatile but Maru's seem on another level.

>>282997073
A varied effect and unpredictability isn't the same thing as versatility, IMO. In the right conditions I'm sure it's strong, but if it is what it seems to be (either the inversion of nature or generic ESP) then it seems fundamentally reliant on the environment in order to function. The direct effect seems to be resisted by Tsurugi even after he's already severely exhausted, which also seems to be why Maru unconsciously avoids using it on the geezer.

It seems very likely that it will end up being stronger and more versatile than the grade 1 techniques, but right now it could go either way.

>>282997204
>varied effect and unpredictability isn't the same thing as versatility, IMO
True, a single effect can be versatile, but something capable of generating multiple phenomena has the advantage
>it seems fundamentally reliant on the environment in order to function.
That's true for black bird manipulation and Boogie Woogie too.
>The direct effect seems to be resisted by Tsurugi even after he's already severely exhausted, which also seems to be why Maru unconsciously avoids using it on the geezer
He used it on the geezer at the start of the fight, it confused him and disrupted his control over his technique, the geezer stabbed himself at the start of the chapter to dispel the confusion.

>>282993837
Watch this be a nothingburger

>>282993837
Yuko's husband btw

>>282997466
>That's true for black bird manipulation and Boogie Woogie too.
The specific example I'm thinking about is with regards to a domain. We see the crows get included in smallpox deity's domain because they're living beings, whereas the general environment is excluded.
Boogie woogie obviously still applies to anyone with cursed energy, and anything in his possession (i.e. cursed tools) will stay with him when he's trapped in the domain and he can still use his technique on any other people present.
Plus the prerequisites of both are things that you're largely able to control yourself, whereas maru's technique is extremely context dependent. Imagine how all 3 would perform inside tengen's domain, for instance
>He used it on the geezer at the start of the fight, it confused him and disrupted his control over his technique, the geezer stabbed himself at the start of the chapter to dispel the confusion.
So either maru avoided using it after that or the geezer fought the entire time without experiencing any adverse effects from it. In either case, I don't think it's a strong argument in favour of maru

>>282993837
MY FUARKING HERO

>>282993837
>Couldn't kill an old man

>old man still alive and kicking while Yuji nowhere to be found
got killed oldfag and died offscreen

>>282998007
he wasn't born old dumbass

>>282993837
>The previous thread didn't even reach the bump limit

>>282998093
The official one didn't but the leak one did

Wake me up when Kashimo's sexy hips appear again.

>>282998302
Hopefully never, by the grace of allah

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I irderd this One and anithr

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>>282998309
>by thr grace of the crabs nesting in my pissy
brptorb

I alsos tried to Scry, christian God. Saw thr doors of some Egyptian Lie chambe but. Dk whats inside. hiding… The energy I coldnt rely sense it wa realy Smal light , hidings itself

Yahweh dot even eed to explain

Idk were i am nowe i think it r the temple, wen i opens another door tere is a small, tiny. Doggyz . It has likewr a persons face overlaping the dog fce it realy weird amd Smiling At me

Hmmmmmmmmm

>>282998329
pOST HAND AND TITS YOU SLUT

>>282998649
>>282998727
Go to church

Hello I am here to discuss the jujutsu kaisen modulo manga

>>282997838
Maru too can bring things in a domain, can use the domain's feature and can still use the offensive aspect of it
>So either maru avoided using it after that or the geezer fought the entire time without experiencing any adverse effects from it. In either case, I don't think it's a strong argument in favour of maru
It is the reason the sorcerer doesn't have his shinigami this chapter
>>282999085
What do you want to discuss?

Could be because the agenda posters poisoner my brain but I feel like Megumi being the "smart" guy of the main duo really falls apart because you'd think he makes up his lack of physical prowess with his creativity in using 10S but I'm pretty sure that was never the case
>Summons Dog or Nue
>He attacks. They attack
>Rinse and repeat
>If pushed. Try makora (failed)

>>282999414
His battle IQ is just very low.

>>282999271
>can use the domain's feature and can still use the offensive aspect of it
I won't take this for granted until we see it in action. It's so far pretty unclear to what extent the environment of the domain is material. Obviously yuji throws a skull inside sukuna's innate domain, but that's not strong confirmation either way.
>It is the reason the sorcerer doesn't have his shinigami this chapter
That's kind of an annoying effect, but it doesn't seem to significantly disrupt his movement. We'll see though.

>>282999414
>>282999438
Is this just really, really shit bait?
As a fraction of his fights this describes like maybe 5%

>>282998309
Wow, what a great success! We are about to become a popular manga modulosissies!

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>>282999271
>What do you want to discuss?
Besto Girl and how cute she is

>>282999414
Why do you think people slander him when Sukuna finally showed that 10S is actually a fun ability? Megumi is just really boring hence he has no creativity

People ITT acting like:
>Megumi vs Sukuna
>Megumi vs Todo
>Megumi vs finger bearer
>Megumi vs toji
>Megumi vs Reggie
All did not exist

>>282999532
>I won't take this for granted until we see it in action. It's so far pretty unclear to what extent the environment of the domain is material. Obviously yuji throws a skull inside sukuna's innate domain, but that's not strong confirmation either way.
Fair, but I offered alternatives, like the same Todo would use, bringing with him a cursed tool
>That's kind of an annoying effect, but it doesn't seem to significantly disrupt his movement. We'll see though.
While yes, the confusing effect seems to not be too effective on a grade 1, who immediately noticed it and stabbed his hand to focus, the effect that disrupt the opponent's control over his CT is undeniably strong, it deprived the old guy of his technique basically.
Also we saw that against weaker opponents it can be a oneshot.

>>282999686
She's cute.

>>282999414
>>282999438
>>282999834
>megumi initiates a bait domain clash against dagon, with the aim of escaping and beating him up when his CT is burnt out
>megumi intentionally keeps nue summoned while in a potential ambush to get the jump on his attackers
>megumi intentionally baits kamo into a narrow corridor to make max elephant more effective, and then hits him with nue in the open
>"dae megumi sucks???"

>>283000281
>Fair, but I offered alternatives, like the same Todo would use, bringing with him a cursed tool
I'm going to need an example here to know what you meant
>the confusing effect seems to not be too effective on a grade 1, who immediately noticed it and stabbed his hand to focus, the effect that disrupt the opponent's control over his CT is undeniably strong, it deprived the old guy of his technique basically
Sure, I'm not denying it's good. Just less universally applicable on its own.

I think he's most likely special grade and we haven't seen a full demo of his powers yet.

>>283000447
>>282999927
I do feel like a lot of Megumi agenda works that way because almost everyone skipped post Shibuya. Until it's time for Gojo vs Sukuna.

>>283000690
>almost everyone skipped post Shibuya. Until it's time for Gojo vs Sukuna.
I wonder who are the retards who actually did this.

>>283000690
>>283000738
I see it being skipping culling games. Some still stayed for everything before the Fortnite arc

>>283000690
To be fair. It is pretty shitty to have the one arc where he did good be on what's essentially a filler arc.

Because for real. Yuji and Megumi's colony was the only relevant one

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>>283000838
Hakari's colony was relevant to me......

>>283000989
I genuinely have no idea why anyone likes hakari/kashimo
I'm not intelectually capable of understanding any positive qualities of either of them

>>283000989
>Kashimo.
>Charles
>Hakari
>FUCKING PANDA
This is the colony of entirely irrelevant people

>>283001155
Wasn't miwa there too?

>>283001180
Miwa is in Sendai aura farming for no reason

Retards saying because the guy thought of anti gravity that yuji must have awakened that technique are absolute fucking morons. They're going to cry about gege not giving yuji that anti gravity technique when they dont even understand how techniques work in JJK

>>283001204
It was so funny watching it all happen and that image get referenced in posts only for nothing to actually happen.
>>283001280
>Mom has gravity CT
>Ummm CT is hereditary right??
>So why didn't Yuji get it????
The train of thought.

>>283001344
>>Ummm CT is hereditary right??
Actually incredible how many times this is explained and yet people still don't get it

>>283001385
Not even going to bother replying or explaining it to the retard. It's been years since it was explained. They're either trolling or they are just that dumb.

It's obvious that he met him when he was much younger, why is everyone going OMG YUJI IS IMMORTAL.

>>283001385
>>283001466
How are you missing that was meant to be facetious?

>>282996297

I think Maru looked kinda impressive but also he had a lot of wasted fluff movements, which makes me think that his technique is more visually appealing than factually powerful. Basically, it "looks" strong but it was actually kinda lacking in offensive power? Instead Maru had to rely on physical attacks to actually fight the old man.

I'd guess Maru has two movesets:

Eye
>Can perform some sort of psychic stun attack. Also seems to be responsible for controlling him when he is knocked out? The eye some sort of graft that has been added to the twins? Or is it a rare mutation?

Cursed technique
>I'm gonna guess the basic idea of the cursed technique is that it works around the concept of reversing natural forces. It reverses gravitational pull, heat, etc. Visually appealing but is probably not directly useable on people, which limits its power significantly compared to direct attack techniques like Malevolent Shrine.

Honestly so far the mental stun attack seems stronger. It has knocked out one sorcerer flat and it cancelled the old man's shikigami.

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It's so fucking funny only two Yuji panels that aren't even all that big brought in more fanart than any of the actual new characters

>>283001600
I was commenting on the people who run through your hypothetical logic
THE canonical examples of herediatary techniques are the gojo and zen'in clans where clearly the hereditary techniques are extremely rare and yet people act like it's guaranteed.

If yuji was going to have a CT, then gojo would have known what it was.

>>283001693
Nips is a Yuji land
But also, man are the siblings are a bunch of flops

Yuka a cute

>>283001812
>Yuka is just missing
>Tsurugi is just rehash Megumi but played very safe

Yuji is cute

>>283001942
I want to throw up

>>283001693
>>283001812
>character that has an entire story is generating more fan art than two characters that dont even have 10 chapters of story yet
No sequel has ever burst into the scene and taken over its predecessor. You genuinely sound retarded

>>283002200
The star wars prequels were like that, to be fair

>>283000557
>I'm going to need an example here to know what you meant
I'm saying that even if he can't control the domain matter he can, like Todo in your example, simply bring stuff with him.
>Sure, I'm not denying it's good. Just less universally applicable on its own.
I think we just have to agree to disagree on this.
>>283001657
I think you are forgetting his first use, harmonizing Yuka with the world to find Tsurugi, I think that's the basis of his technique.

>>283002496
>simply bring stuff with him
I'm asking what stuff
He's not going to bring a pool with him lmao

>>283001979
Fuck off geygey

>is a distant sequel that unceremoniously kills off every character from the original work that you may have cared about, and who could have had continued development or character arcs in your path
I can enjoy this series as it’s own thing to a degree, but it’s a bit sad that the original cast where just tossed in the trash, especially when a lot of them lacked development or exploration by the series’ end to begin with. I guess having the original cast fight the aliens would have been a little too similar to Naruto.

>>283002761
It's like 70 years after, the characters aren't killed off, they just died. Though really, at that point might as well name it some other thing entirely.

>>283002761
>unceremoniously kills off every character from the original work that you may have cared about
Mother fucker people die when they get old. That's not unceremonial, that's life
There is a time in the future when everyone you have ever known will be dead

>>283002830
The series ends with much of the cast as teenagers. In Yuji and Megumi’s case, they reach their peak as sorcerers at the end, Yuji finally getting a real repertoire and only getting to show it off against Sukuna, and Megumi never getting to show off anything ever again. The author choose to do a distant sequel but, considering he went the fucking creatively bankrupt muh aliens route for Modulo, it wouldn’t have been hard to manufacture a new challenge for the OG cast after Sukuna/Kenjaku. (maybe timeskip to them as adults and keep them as the MCs? Although, maybe SJ wouldn’t like that)

>>283003001
It's not plausible or interesting that they'd have another challenge on the level of kenjaku/sukuna again within their lifetimes. By the sound of things, we're likely to get at least some level of callbacks to feats that they achieved in their lives but the fact that they seemingly were able to live long and fulfilled lives is basically the ideal outcome as far as essentially everyone in the original cast is concerned.

I would have liked to see megumi reach his potential and tame makora, but given that was taken away as an option for him I'm happy with what we got - and I'm sure he'd be happier too

>>283003090
Realistically. It might've been all but makora. Because unless Sukuna implanted steroids into Megumi's twinky body. He's not doing it solo

>>283003303
The dude already got half of his domain down at 15 when gojo didn't figure his out until after he was 17 - he never even landed a black flash before his body got taken off of him.
On his own, I think it's probably possible for him with the other 9 shadows if he expands his cursed energy usage and his use of shadows, and refines his domain. If he also keeps sukuna's CT on top of 10s then it's 100% possible for him - sukuna already showed how to do it once

>>282993837
Yuji doesn't have an anti gravity technique despite his mother having one, maybe its a relative?

I'm not really holding out Megumi might get a mention or whatever. We are talking the infamous deuteroganist who disappointed fans and even his own haters when their expectations were already at bare minimum

Will nobara and yuji's grandkids (plural) appear in modulo?

>>283003599
Honestly. I'm expecting Megumi's first real modulo mention doing his Mahoraga pose because of course Gege would do that. His journey started and ended with Mahoraga

>>283003673
>>283003599
Mahoraga and most of his technique is dead. He doesn't even want to be a sorcerer, you can't get strong without that.

>>283003599
>>283003673
Ever since the sequel became a thing. I am leaning onto the theory that Megumi's children became proactive goal oriented people.
And hated their father because he was the reason for so many of the stuff happening. Not total hate, just disappointment.
It's very in character that the universe just hates Megumi having a chance to be happy

>>283003742
>father, you did not prevent the random appearance of aliens 100 years in the future and I hate you
fatherless reply

Kenny should had just waited another 100 years for these frauds. Why enact this whole plan when Gojo is alive.

>>283003599
Gege left so many vague shit for Megumi. Sukuna got his kit destroyed but that was left ambiguous. Divine Dog is Megumi's starter but nothing else was shown. Hell, his "ending" is very open ended.

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>>283001693
As weird as it as to say, Yuji is nowhere near the level of "nepo-baby" as our current MCs

Time has redeemed him as the real GOAT of the series.

>>283003798
Bro half of the plot points got dropped after culling arc, killing Yuki killed an entire branch of the plot.

>>283003847
>Yuki
Don't remind me of her.
Imagine pulling a black hole and still end up dying in your first and only fight

>>283003793
The star plasma vessel and the 6 eyes are connected by fate, dumbass.
He could only trigger the conditions for the merger when someone like gojo was alive, and he couldn't just wait for gojo to die or else:
1. His vessel (with cursed spirit manipulation) would also die
2. Tengen would evolve even further, potentially ruining his plans

>>283003807
Yuji was always a based protagonist

...said no one ever.

>>283003599
I'm not holding out either. The epilogue chapters were given focus to Nobara, Yuta, Panda, and Yuko
You might argue the post Sukuna chapters were Megumi's ending but I digress. It's clear Gege wants nothing to do with Megumi anymore

The most you can say about his conclusion is that. At least he survived

>>283003904
>Yuko: Only exists to be Yuji's wife
>Yuki: LM@O
>Yuka: Already irrelevant and a jobber in chapter 2

There's a pattern

>>283003964
I do wonder. Because Tsurugi is still just Megumi but without the problems people have with him

>>283003925
>His vessel (with cursed spirit manipulation) would also die
He literally has Yuji mom CE. He can carry over techniques.

>>283003964
>Yuko
I will never forgive the cat

>>283004169
It seems like he only gets his own + 1 previous, and that's under the assumption that he only has to do one switch before gojo dies.
The series gives him the perfect opportunity anyway, and his plan succeeds completely - why would he have to change it?

>>283004030
I still think Yuko body change was due to Mahito or Kenny but Gege didn't want to bother.

>>283004219
based schizo???

Yuta is Gege’s OC (ideal)
Megumi is also Gege’s OC (reality)

>>283004318
>Stills remain popular despite people hating on his fuckups and writing. Making JJK wasted potential
Perfectly describes Megumi to a T

Is this the megumi seethe general?

>>283004433
It was worse when the manga was still running. I assure you
Nowadays. It's just recycled jokes

>>283001979
Sukuna...

>>283004094
I see Tsurugi as a neutered Megumi. Has the looks and some of his more likable aspects but replaced with a less interesting but safer power route and potential plot progression. People don't expect much from HR users since they're so straightforward. Plus. He's a katana wielder and has Simple Domain

I'm not the biggest fan of Yuka, but I would absolutely still beg on my knees for her to have sex with me

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>>282999414
Megumi made up the Well's Unknown Abyss and his incomplete Domain. Problem is Gege didn't think further than that hence no more combinations and only a tease of his complete Domain visuals with the bones.

>>283004723
It's been like 3 years and we have no idea what's the purpose of the weird skeleton. Did it actually do anything

>>283004723
>>283004843
I'm sure MAPPA will put in their fanfiction somehow. After all, they went extra on the Shibuya fights. They're gonna make Reggie look like a god

>>283004886
It's going to be so hilarious Reggie is getting a massive upscale just because he's the last fight for part 1

>>283004843
No. It disappeared after the Domain was activated.

>>283004917
I'm thinking either Reggie or the Sendai Threesome for part 1 but Reggie is probably the better ending. It's quite literally Megumi's final battle.

And the cliffhanger would be Hana flying down to save him after the fight. Ending it on the Miwa aura farming would be too hilarious

>>283005011
>Sendai Threesome
Not enough episodes. There's a lot of shit happening before the actual culling games
>Itadori Extermination: confirmed to be two episodes
>Panda and Yaga backstory
>Tengen
>Backstory of the CG players.
>Manki (two episodes at least)
>Hakari's recruitment. (Likely two or three episodes?)
>Then Tokyo 1 Colony (two episodes for Yuji. Two episodes for Megumi)

>>283004843
My headcanon is that it's supposed to be a giant conglomeration of all 10s shadows into one creature.

>>283004843
It doesn't need to do anything, its just his inner world.

>>282996297
Maru and his brother will side with humanity after war breaks out, one of them will die to buff the other and fight ayysukuna.

>>283005213
which one of yuka and tsurugi

>>283002570
He can simply brings some things to trow and blow up on the opponent, or liquids to freeze them in the opponent's face, or honestly parctically everything, he has shown tons of possible moves.

>>283006110
I don't think he's walking around with 10l of water

>>283003793
This was the best time, he had Mahito, so the culling games could incluse tons of extra sorcerers, he had Yuji, so he had Sukuna's vessel, he had just got a lucky break from Toji speeding Tengen's evolution, so he could control him, he had the disaster curses to help him to seal the six eyes.

Nobara

Kugisaki

>>282993837
This manga really is just cameo garbage. Gege is so cringe

I just cameo'd all over that anon's mom's face

>>282993837
I hear a COG turning.

>>283007778
have you checked your carbon monoxide levels?

>>283007718
Yuji is the only cameo nigger

>>282996570
The megumi memes is what rules this fandom so unironically yes

>>283008390
The jogo glazing and culling games in general sucked a lot too

>>283008428
What you got against JoGOAT?

>>283008428
>The jogo glazing
Nah, that was at least somewhat amusing because while he embarrassingly lost, he went up against the two strongest characters in the verse with some level of bravado both times. He also canonically held hands with Gojo and that's very funny to me.

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>>283001693
I'm waiting for the kuna's return in any form

>>283009679
he's fucking twinks in the afterlife

>>283001693
I think you guys guzzled too much of the shitposting around these parts, pretty sure Naruto, Ichigo, Inuyasha and Yoh still had more fanart of them than their kid MCs at the early parts.

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>>283001693
Yuji's hoodie is white while Megumi and Nobara still have their normal uniforms. He reached special grade after the epilogue.

>>283004318
Yuji is Gege's brother, the man he's envious of.
>is a Chad/jock
>is the only guy in the manga with a cute waifu
>it's implied that Nobara, one of the few cute girls to survive JJK, has a crush on him
>his name is mentioned alongside Satoru Gojo
>Is a legend due to the Shinjuku Raid and the Culling of Sorcerers
I'd love it if the novel sequels covers Yuji's hunt for the reincarnated sorcerers. Imagine how powerful he must have become if every day for him was like Yuta's battles in Sendai.

>>282997872
He was a kid when Yuji was hunting him. Given that the guy has PTSD from his encounter with Yuji, the guy fucking fled and went into hiding for decades.

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I miss my girls

Megumi's hoodie in Perfect Preparation is black

And Yuji's hoodie is black

You know what that means.....

>>283013756
me too

How popular do you think JJK would have become if Gege was able to push it too 650-700 chapters? (like Naruto or Bleach)

>>283013898
he wouldn't have survived

>>283013898
Probably would have overstayed its welcome. Current mangaka don't have it in them to make long-runners anymore (nor I think the current public would handle them).

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>>283013898
I mean it should be the same if you you mean its still the same story events besides expanding each scene to be twice its length, Shibuya will still be a big hit and be seen as peak for the series much like how Soul Society was for Bleach. Some moments and scenes might hit better due to like having more time to get attached to the characters like Mai and Yuki before their demise. Manga readers would start to dwindle at the final arc which will be even more disliked though for dragging out fights and maybe adding more nobodies to stall Sukuna, more people will admit its a mid series, but by then Culling Games arc is done being animated and they start teasing Gojo vs Sukuna as a movie and they just wont bother adapting the aftermath/conclusion like how the original Bleach anime just ended at the Fullbringer arc.

Now if you mean the story will go more than the final arc, then Sukuna will get sealed/imprisoned rather than get killed, Uraume either flees or submits to join Sukuna. Turns out actually, that there's some really ancient reincarnated sorcerers that are stronger and smarter than Kenny that they were able to dismantle the rules/bindings he made and enact their own plans. America and maybe a few other nations also later found out a way to make artificial sorcerers and decide to invade Japan. Then the aliens also show up like in Modulo except they aren't refugees and are expanding their territories instead, leading to them having to release Sukuna and Uraume to help defeat.

Yuji's popularity is actually kinda baffling when you think about it

If it wasn't for the tone of JJK being what it is, people would call out Yuji for being so generic. Quite literally a happy go lucky idiot hero who goes super serious in a fight

>>283014860
Yuji is just likeable

>>283014708
To be fair is likely that Sukuna will be back somehow

>>283014860
I unironically think sidelining him for Yuta actually did more good. You might argue this is also why Megumi and Nobara still have massive defenders precisely because they were sidelined hard

I lived long enough to see JJK get its own Shart Poo

>>283014860
I wouldn't call him generic, really. If he was generic. He would've won most of his fights solo (and maybe some friendship power). Megumi would also finally win some fights and not just jobbing for most of his appearances.
I don't get why people have to compare JJK to other shounen when it blatantly goes against the usual tropes.

>>283014907
No it wasn't, Yutashitter, Yuta was boring and Yuji was a lot better. Yuta story should have ended in 0

>>283014907
Really? Yuta is a boring Gary stu, ugly and his constant fake humble shit was tiring. Maki fucking sucked too. I wanted Yuji, choso and Todo trio kino

>>283014973
I do want Yuji to get his power ups gradually than gettinng all of them in the literal last chapters. Like the fuck you mean he learned like 5 fucking techniques when he was stuck with Black Flash for 90% of the manga?

You fuckers say as if Yuji and Megumi were more entertaining, especially that bum megumi

>>283015082
They were entertaining because they actually get to suffer
Name one bad thing that actually happened to Yuta

PERMNANENTLY

>>283014903
But that's reincarnation shit, which would take several years before "he" can grow old enough to do anything to really affect the plot. I mean I guess its possible to go for them to go the DB path and let our characters become parents during the series but that creates some issues like the main cast being much "older" than Sukuna and making the dynamic off.

>>283015082
>say as if
good morning sir

>>283014924
This is JJK Bort not Shart Poo

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>>283014860
>Quite literally a happy go lucky idiot hero who goes super serious in a fight
That's Yuji's appeal.
In a series of schizos and assholes with complex powers, he's just a chill dude throwing hands. Yuji fights are a nice refresher.

>>283013756
they were only in like 5 chapters total

>>283015119
Nta, and disagree with him but he lost his childhood friend, his mentor, good part of his childhood (during wich he was in suicidal despair, clearly got depression after his wife's death.

>>283014860
I wouldn't call Yuji generic
He is a lot more morally grey than resident self hating emo Megumi.

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>>283005080
God, this season and the next one are gonna be pure filter. I don't know what Gege was thinking with the Culling Games, it's such a huge departure from the mood and pacing of the first chapters and the Shibuya Incident.

>>283017992
It's what he wanted to start the manga with, until the editors convinced him it was necessary to better flesh out the main characters, the setting, and the sorcery rules before throwing readers into a battle royale type of shit where they still didn't know and care about anyone. As soon as Shibuya was over, he went back to his original idea. That's why it feels so disconnected from the rest.

>>283017992
he has autism and loves coming up with irrelevant powersets

Yuji and Maki vs Meguna is gonna be fun to see animated, at least

Amazing how one panel was enough to inspire so much fanart

>>283013898
300-400 would have been perfect for JJK if Gege did some actual world building and didn't immediately rush the story into it's Endgame phase with the Shibuya Incident coming right after Goodwill/Death Painting, a huge jump in stakes for the story

>>283018978
Yuji is by the book shonen mc character. I don't know why Gege thinks he's hard to write

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>>283019131
It truly does.

>>283017992
I like the culling games way more than the very first arc so I'm not complaining.

>>283019171
You have people calling modulo the most boring shit in jump.
They ask for character moments yet don't like it.

>>283020980
That's because very few people care about Yutamaki and their grandkids. No one asked for a 70 years timeskip with aliens that implies the Buddhist roots the series had were all due to ayy lmao. Gege always refused to show more interactions between the original trio (so much Mappa was forced to fill the blanks on their own to justify Yuji's reaction at Nobara's "death"), and even his villains' motives are just "I'm bored lmao" and "I was born deformed and people hated me, so now I hate everyone". It's a pity, because he can write decent interactions when he wants to, but he only ever does it with characters no one gives a shit about.

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>>283021222
>Gege always refused to show more interactions between the original trio (so much Mappa was forced to fill the blanks on their own to justify Yuji's reaction at Nobara's "death")
>canonically speaking the trio + Gojo spent just a few weeks together
>Yuji has a breakdown when he thinks Nobara is dead
>Megumi becomes his only reason to fight when he gets possessed
>"It will be lonely without you, Fushiguro"
>???

I get it, you tend to get attached to people during super stressful, dangerous times, and these three kids were constantly fighting for their lives, but it felt really far fetched at times.

It felt so lacking when Tsurugi and Maru are having their interactions. Like this is potentially a what if scenario if Megumi wasn't so bitchcoded towards the very person he saved but it's wasted on a retread version of those two

>>283021307
Yuji's fake death was a mistake, but at the same time you'd have to make up another excuse for Sukuna to do the vow with Yuji.

>>283021369
>Megumi: Cool power. Shitty character concept
>Tsurugi: lame power. Good character concept
Why is Gege like this?

>>283021402
That's another thing that bothers me in the writing. Sukuna had no idea who Megumi was until he "fought" him and found out about his powerful technique. He decides to make him his vessel in the near future and tricks Yuji with a binding vow. Lo and behold, Megumi's sister is also a vessel. Sukuna just needs to kill her in order to fully possess this boy with the super powerful technique he discovered a few weeks ago. It's as if Kenjaku predicted all of this 1000 years ago, and each piece of the puzzle perfectly fits with each other despite it all being a huge coincidence. And what even was Sukuna's objective once he killed every brat and lay waste to Tokyo? Roam the country and eat everyone like in the past?

>>283021472
>Megumi
>Cool powers that can rival most CTs
>Absolutely wasted on a bum who likes being useless while acting high and mighty for some reason

>Tsurugi
>His power is just super strength and durability featuring a Katana and Simple Domain
>But he wants to get stronger and is way more nicer

If only you can smush their good parts together but alas

>the scene between Gojo and Geto at the airport was suggested by the anime director, according to Gege, in order to "make things more emotional"
Do you think MAPPA will include some exclusive scenes not present in the manga? Maybe as a way to make some characters more interesting, explore some loose threads, and "continue" Gege's work?

>>283021307
Anon, the naruto trio spent very little time too, same for the straw hats, having character developing relationship unnaturally fast is baked in shonen.

>>283021597
Naruto, OP ,and bleach for that matter had the benefit of fillers which created the illusion of them being close

JJK doesn't

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>>283021597
I think the exposition is the problem. You knew the Naruto trio went to school, there are even some scenes of them attending different tests, and you saw them grow up together, so it felt natural to imagine them as friends. For the Straw Hats you could fill in the blanks, imagining the different ways they would spend time together on the sea while traveling from one island to another. And they started small, first fighting very simple enemies, almost like in an RPG.

The JJK trio feels rushed in a sense: they're instantly thrown into high stakes situations with the big villains already present and ready to kill them, and you have barely time to digest everything that one of their mentors is dead, another is locked away, the female member is in a coma for the next 100+ chapters, and they are separated into different colonies to fight alone and hope no Merger will happen.

>>283021742
That's absolutely true, people always underestimated the importance of filler.
>>283021792
This too is true, while I like the story Gege wanted to use a lot of shocking moments wich leave the story without breath. I would still argue that we had the timeskip until Shibuya that can be used for that.

I wonder what stupid fillers JJK would've gotten if it aired during the boomer era

I just read JJK again and it's still the best battle shonen ever. Kinda insane how gege cut the fat from shonen and still made something amazing. It'll be 20 years at least until something comes by they surpasses JJK

>>283022504
>What if Miwa was possessed by a special grade curse and became super competent
>What if Takada was canceled and it's up to Todo to fix it
>What if Maki and Mai switched bodies for a day
>What if Gojo has a nightmare where he's the weakest

>>283023227
>>What if Takada was canceled and it's up to Todo to fix it
>Yuji ends up getting dragged into it

>>283022504
>Bodyswap episode but with Yuji so someone gets front row seats to Sukuna, they forget everything once they swap back
>A race to find a super powerful Heian era cursed tool, it's then revealed to be useless since it's that old now
>A baby curse is born and the trio try to make it good with Yuji's insistence, it doesn't work out

>>283023479
>>A race to find a super powerful Heian era cursed tool, it's then revealed to be useless since it's that old now
This one is literally a Ben 10 episode

>>283023506
Yes that was exactly what I was ripping off of lol. It's a fun idea that I'm surprised people don't do enough. Like yeah, the super old ancient weapon is probably going to be useless since it's unattended.

>>283023479
>Bodyswap episode but with Yuji so someone gets front row seats to Sukuna, they forget everything once they swap back
>Switch with Todo
>Sukuna's Inner Domain is overwritten with Todo's schizophrenic AU and the former has to survive

>>283022504
>Episode set entirely in Todo's delusions
>The Disaster Curses show up as delinquent students from another school
>They look exactly the same but in school uniforms

>>283024152
Yeah they still have to explain why Mahito was a schoolgirl.

>>283007778
Can't be Yuji, he saved Megumi by dropping that mentality.

it was horribly handled by sidelining Yuji so much but that's the obvious implication for why Megumi gave up. Yuji himself shut down and didn't understand his own value. He was the only person who could reach Megumi at that point, but he was the last person who should've spoken to him.

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>>283022504
>Sukuna makes Yuji fail his driving exam

>>282995466
Yuji, Gojo, Maki, Sukuna, and Yuta.

Those are the five characters from JJK that were namedropped for Modulo. They're the only ones you should expect to see mentioned. Gege is well aware Yuji is a popular boy despite his hangups over him, he'll get at least a cameo or two, perhaps a scene of being a cool mentor to the MCs.

>>283024536
>Yuji is driving
>"Oi kozo, I heard that these "cars" are a leading cause of death in this era."
>"I thought that was interesting."
>"Enchain"

>>283024604
Imo
>Yuta being summoned using the ring
>The reincarnation of Sukuna
>GOJO IS BACK (but it's actually the shark guy)

>>283021792
The entirety of JJK takes place in a couple of months. Its pacing is fucking ridiculously fast.

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>>282993837
megumichads...

In hindsight, I enjoyed how grounded and scaled down the final fight was.

>>283004843
It's Mahoraga innit

>>283021792
Because Gege wanted Yuta maki so he rushed the trio, sadly. He could have used more gojos from the clan, keep toji alive more, look for Sukuna fingers instead of being fed almost every finger etc

>>283024767
Don't worry, the anime will fix that!

>>283021584
Benevolent Shrine will be an entire episode of SoL.

>>283024817
I hope not. It's stupid to say, but the final fight was just street level stuff and that's dope. Better than the fully realized 10S Megumi and 20 Finger Powered Yuji against the merger.

>>283024817
I just want an entire episode of Yuji and Sukuna walking around Yuji's Domain...

>>283014860
Yuji is the freaking Kuwabara. He's a bro character that became a main character, Megumi is the typical protagonist.

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>So you're that "Dabura" guy, eh? My cute kouhais are here, so I'm gonna show off for a bit if you don't mind.

>>283024865
>I hope not
Me too, but they already set the tone in the past seasons.

>>283024962
I would like more psychedelic imagery for the Sukuna vs Gojo fight. Michael vs Lucifer.

I just hope they make the final Black Flash look cool

>>283024817
Prepare for Kusakabe vs Sukuna sakuga.

>>283025119
>3 different shots
>A slow mo shot
>A shot of Sukuna's face
>A shot of Yuji's face
>A shot of all the other characters faces
>A shot of Yutajo faceplanted
>A completely random shot of Yuko in a cafe elsewhere
>A rewind of the black flash but this time with narration

>>283025119
Mappa wil have Yuji send Sukuna nearly into the stratosphere with that final black flash. The sparks will spread to every corner of Shinjuku.

On some Saitama shit

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>>283024957
>Kekekeke BAKA Dabura! Observe the maximum technique of the Kamo clan's blood manipulation, BLOOD SWORD!

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KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *faints*

In the end, I have no idea what was supposed to be Megumi's role on the final product. He's too weak to be a rival. He's very not helpful as a friend. He's not a girl so he's not a love interest either. He's not a heavy hitter but he has no support moves either to relegate him to healer status (if only he bothered to tame the deer).

>>283025119
Kusakabe wouldn't be the worst choice of secondary character to give focus to help foreshadow Yuji's big moment.

>>283025828
meant for
>>283025214

>>283025793
To be honest. I know it's never happening considering the characters in question but I wished we got full potential realized Yuji vs Megumi
No Sukuna takeover. Just them. It would've been so cool but I digress

Imagine the political climate by the time the anime gets around to adapting Gojo's unironic ricel moment praising Miguel simply for being a nigger. Think they'll cut it?

>>283025945
Japan isn't beholden to the political attitudes of the West. If they were, most female anime characters would be ugly

>>283025929
>Yuji is too nice to fight Megumi. Especially after the Sukuna raid
>Megumi likely still lacks the desire to get stronger
I can see why the "Yuji vs Megumi" fights we had were always taken by Sukuna on either side.

>>283025987
>Japan isn't beholden to the political attitudes of the West
How I wish you were right...

>>283025793
A long lasting plot device for Sukuna to power up himself and kill Gojo. That's it really. There's also the lack of interactions between him and Yuji that cements their bond for it to make sense. Not helping that the bum tends to act like an asshole towards his so called best friend

>>283021222
The antagonists' reasons for being degenerates worked imo, for once they weren't presented as sad backstories to make us feel bad for them, it's just to give us more context as to why Kenjaku does all sorts of bullshit and why Sukuna is always seething like a little bitch deep inside. I still think Kenjaku's backstory with Tengen felt like something was missing, like Gege wanted to develop it more but didn't know how to do that or when so he skipped it.

>>283021584
I can only see it happen if Gege creates these scenes for Mappa. Like with the Jujusanpo Gege wrote for the HI compilation movie. Given what he said about Modulo I think he would rather be too involved with JJK to prevent others from making everyone and everything too ooc.

>>283025793
I think he is supposed to represent how not everyone is made out to be a sorcerer. He wanted to be with his family first above all else.

>>283022504
An episode showing what Sukuna, Kenjaku and Uraume were up to the month before Sukuna vs Gojo and it's just all of them arguing all the time like in a shitty sitcom.

>>283025793
Unironically. Potential Man
He could've been someone great. But he refused it. To be honest. I had no real problem with his powerscaling problem. I think most people can agree it's him giving up in Shinjuku being the actual reason to hate him

>>283023506
>>283023713
It's also a whole arc in Final Fantasy 2 where one of the previously playable character dies to let you access a super powerful spell and it's dog shit when you use it in gameplay because of the dev doing his job badly and coping by saying it's an old spell so it's outdated.

>>283026235
>>283026289
It's really prevalent. I don't know why people think Megumi is ever getting a power up. There's literally a scene where Gojo is surprised Megumi asked him for training. The biggest red flag that he never did train under Gojo despite what people claim

>>283024865
Gojo destroying that one massive government building all by throwing Sukuna against it like a ragdoll was street level?

>>283026371
He never had the drive to get stronger. Only had the drive to survive with friends.

>>283026392
Yes that is street level.

>>283025793
>He's not a girl so he's not a love interest either
He's the heroine (male) and Yuji loves him from the bottom of his heart (platonic, allegedly), so much that he was willing to die to save him.

>>283026289
I think people would be more forgiving of him if the writing on that plot point was given more focus instead of letting readers piece the puzzle themselves.
I also think Isekais being a super popular thing also hampered Megumi's character arc because they all expected the main characters to be super strong chads. Likely why former Megumi fans switched to Yuta since he's quite literally what they wanted from Megumi.
But indeed Gege shouldn't have destroyed his rep like that.

>>283026404
Well, no it's not. By the way there's a free observatory in that building if you ever visit Tokyo.

>>283026576
Street level.

>>283025793
Gotta say Potential Man too but I'll be serious on this one
>Rival: he did state this but either it was a weird early design choice or just him wanting to be with Yuji (likely the latter). I really don't think there's a single version of Megumi that could've beat the weakest version of Yuji.
>Friend: He assumed he didn't need to be by his side 24/7 since he knows he's safe with others.
>Love Interest: I'll skip this one but we all know the answer
>Heavy Hitter: Didn't want the burden that Gojo has or the problems that come with it
>Healer Status: Only one I will definitely complain. The next Shikigami is a healing deer..... could've help him a lot in fights

I hope Mappa gives Heian Sukuna a massive ass

Cokejo is actually ESTP

>>283026961
I hope his butt cheeks will jiggle all the time.

>>283027141
>Nikkekuna

I can't wait to see how much rage Suwabe puts on "You goddamned brat!" and Sukuna's reaction to Yuji pitying him

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>>283026591
No.

>>283027486
Why would you post a clear Spider-man tier feat?

>>283027517
>Spider-man
>Street
Come on, at least powerscale right.

>283027544
>Implying SpiderSHIT is not street level

>>283027544
Beating Firelord that one time doesn't count

Yuji's VA voiced spider man btw

>KEKperman

>>283004723
Probably representative of his progress as a sorcerer. Like his first incomplete domain was just shadow goop everywhere. Very bland landscape of his innate domain.

Skelly is incomplete but the framework is there, so it indicates he’s getting closer to a full DE. Maybe his progression of his mindset as well. Gege was probably going to go down this route, eventually showing Megumi with a full DE, and nixed it cause he was sick of the mangaka life. It’s a bit sad to think the high class of bummery displayed by Megumi is a consequence of Gege’s burnout.

>>283025793
His fate was sealed the moment Sukuna got the body swap idea + Reggie curse. He made so many mistakes during the culling game and it cost him. Honestly he’s lucky Yuji never gave up on him. Had it not been for Yuji he would have died with Sukuna.

>>282993837
the manga becomes completely unintelligible when that ritual/contest begins and they start fighting for points and what not. Read a couple of chapters and dropped it.

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>>283015436
Exactly. I wish they were in more.

>>283025793
Just a plot device for Sukuna.

>>283028147
off model

>>283021307
>>Yuji has a breakdown when he thinks Nobara is dead
Yes faggot because prior to this:
>His grandpa died, leaving him with the burden of "dying surrounded by people you love"
>He then had to give up basically every prior relationship to become a jujutsu sorcerer
>Rapid trauma bonding with Megumi+Nobara as they get sent on a suicide mission for literally their first job, and continue to get jumped by special grades after the fact
>Finally get to shibuya
>Gojo is sealed straight away, basically the entire world could be upended
>Rush down to save him, and it's another fucking special grade
>"At least I can open the way for-" *jobs*
>Sukuna takes over his body because he lost, resulting in thousands of deaths
>Immediately runs into mahito just in time to see him kill his mentour
>Pushed right to 0%, nobara finally breaks through and reminds him he's not alone
>Except, fuck she dies in one hit because she got too greedy
No shit he feels survivors guilt for that, and no shit he feels like he has to save megumi when he's the only one capable of saving him after higuruma dies. Do you just not understand his character?

The handful of people I've genuinely connected with over the course of my life have been basically instantaneous connections. I find it very relatable that you could have that sort of bond with someone after only a couple of months

Since no one cares about the new characters, how do we save modulo?

>>283021511
>Lo and behold, Megumi's sister is also a vessel. Sukuna just needs to kill her in order to fully possess this boy with the super powerful technique he discovered a few weeks ago
It didn't have to be that, and he was already in control of megumi's body at that point. "the bath" was only necessary to complete his control.
It never had to be megumi's sister either. Sukuna was in complete control of when he used enchain and if some other opportunity had presented itself then he could have used that instead. They're jujutsu sorcerers ffs, they've already had to watch colleagues/mentours die multiple times before sukuna uses enchain. If it wasn't then it would have been some other time instead.

It fits together perfectly because the characters are responding to the opportunities in front of them. That's good writing retard

>>283028574
Yuka tits double page spread

>>283028646
who's yuka

>>283028657
Yuta with tits

>>283027486
Kars is lightspeed and dodges this and no diffs sukuka, btw

>>283028710
cool

>>283025793
I honestly have no idea why Gege kept Megumi alive that long If he's just not gonna do anything of real importance
And it's not because he's popular. Nobara was placed in a coma and Gojo got sealed. Megumi could also be taken out of the plot and have him return back for enchain to happen

>>283029091
Come on, this is being dense. The final fight's other objective is to save him.

>>283024624
Based KING killing children's dreams

>>283024624
kek

>>283025793
It makes me think Megumi lacks the screentime but then I found out he has the second most panels after Yuji and I was thinking

The fuck did Megumi do with 1000+ panels worth of manga?

>>283029091
>>283029340
The most jarring is that he didn't change at all in terms of character. He still acts the same. Cold towards both Yuji and Nobara despite literally being the reason why he's still alive. And still uses his CT the most basic way possible

>>283027486
Fuck, I am so sad we'll never get to see Shibuya properly animated. The linework is so clean and easy to follow, instead of the headache in the anime that made gege give up on the manga.

>>283029410
>Cold towards both Yuji and Nobara despite literally being the reason why he's still alive.
He's just tsundere with them, Yuji and Nobara know that he still likes them because they're not that stupid.

>>282993837
That’s my goat the shiesty sorcerer, not PUNCH KICK merchant.

>>282993837
Dead series

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>>283021222
>and even his villains' motives are just "I'm bored lmao" and "I was born deformed and people hated me, so now I hate everyone". It's a pity, because he can write decent interactions when he wants to, but he only ever does it with characters no one gives a shit about.
No. You're completely missing the point of the themes and power dynamics of the show. Curse energy is negative. The system is built on harnessing destructive forces. That is why the strongest sorcerers are dysfunctional individuals. Your head has to be missing screws to be one in the first place, and the more selfish you become, the easier it is to gain power. It is only right that Sukuna and Kenjaku have completely one-dimensional and banal motivations. They care about their pleasure first and foremost. That is why they are proper villains. And it is why they are strong. That's effective story-telling that plays into the setting that they exist in. That's how you write an antagonist.

>>282996057
Gojo failed to kill Jogo, failed to kill Hanami, failed to save Riko, failed to save Geto, would've failed to save Yuta and his students if Yuta wasn't cracked, failed to kill the disaster curses again - he actually fails at the majority of shit he tried to do

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>>283001112
>Battle autists
>Cool powers for both (lightning dudes are always popular, Hakari's gimmick is fun)
>that one panel of Hakari boogieing in the background I can't be bothered finding
>"That's how losers think"
>Picrel
It was a fun time. And then both of them are horribly wasted for the rest of the manga Why wasn't Hakari part of the Sukunabowl it would make so much more sense for him to be there with his infinite healing gimmick than fucking Miguel reeeee

>>283001112
Hakari vs Kashimo is a top 3 fight, and this is only because it has no emotional stakes. From the start to finish: strong choreography, high-tension personalities, brilliant tactics, and both feeling each other's vibe. The only debatably better battles were the ones pushed heavily by the story.

>>283033130
One thing I liked is how ruthless Kashimo's fighting style is. The man didn't let up for a second and always aiming for the jugular. It showed that he'd been doing this for all his life.

>>283033159
the choreography is dogshit and the entire thing is
>kashimo tries something
>hakari heals automatically
>kashimo almost wins
>*12 pages of power explanation lore dump*
>hakari pulls some new bullshit out and wins anyway
Genuinely the worst fight in the entire series.

>>283033490
>Wins anyway
Come on.

>>283033501
The mother fucker was unconscious and under water from chlorine inhalation and then suddenly RCT can heal physiological poison now come the fuck on dude how can you find that bullshit satisfying?
Him being able to chain DEs together was interesting, and good setup for shinjuku, but everything else about the fight fucking sucked. "Luck based powers" basically just means the author arbitrarily gets to choose where the wheel lands which is boring as fuck. "he wins now because I said he rolls the power where he wins".

Even the usage of powers aren't that interesting. How are you honestly going to compare that to basically any other fight in the story, or even the culling games favorably?

>>283033490
If you're reductionist, you could say that about any fight. More like
>Kashimo struggles to land hits
>Hakari does something ridiculous to get out of it
>Kashimo lands more
>Hakari decides enough is enough and transports him to the ocean
>Kashimo fucking poisons him
>Hakari's RCT is automatic
>Kashimo explodes to take out any option of Hakari coming back
>Hakari uses a BV, making him smarter than 99% of the cast that overlook this skill
Kashimo doesn't just try shit. He uses different methods and approaches to win, but Hakari's regen is absolutely busted, and Kashimo only learns how busted at the end because of the cooldown of his ability. It makes perfect sense because Hakari's one power is regeneration, and it's the best in the entire series. Better than Gojo and Sukuna's. It absolutely should be that hard to get around.

All this between martial exchanges and beatdowns using whatever they had in the environment. It's both brains and brawn.

>>283033654
>>Hakari uses a BV, making him smarter than 99% of the cast that overlook this skill
This is a horribly underused part of JJK, yes it can be bullshit as what people claim Sukuna's shit is but it's a one time sacrifice that you have to follow. Miwa's was a good example considering it just highlighted how desperate the situation was. Fucking use binding vows, it came with your jujutsu.

>>283033654
>Kashimo doesn't just try shit. He uses different methods and approaches to win
Yes, that's called "trying shit" and it's not like the result of him trying shit is reaching a fuller understanding of hakari's technique, it's that some new bullshit counter is invented to completely negate whatever tactic Kashimo tried post hoc.
>take my arm off - instant heal
>reach the end of the timer - jackpot restores ct
>strike his head - somehow automatically expells ct so doesn't count
>knock him unconscious with chlorine - rct now heals poison ecks dee
>blow him up - o my binding vow
A narratively satisfying fight sets up the board in a clear state and then moves the pieces in unexpected and exciting ways. Todo sets up boogie woogie way before it's used in a fight, and then the fight constantly escalates the mind games every single time it appears
>Swap hanami into her own attack
>Wombo combo with yuji due to size difference
>Clapping with no switch to fuck with hanami even more
>Switching yuji with playful cloud, which most readers probably already forgot about
And then it gets taken even further when mahito returns

And then speaking of mahito, all of his appearances follow this example to a T. Yuji breaking into his domain is perfect storytelling, his 0.2s domain expansion into black flash into metamorphasis is perfect storytelling. The idea that these fights are in the same manga as hakari vs kashimo is genuinely baffling to me

>Better than Gojo and Sukuna's
Genuinely dogshit take holy shit there is no world in which you could possibly defend this

>>283033654
>>283033902
>Genuinely dogshit take holy shit there is no world in which you could possibly defend this
Rereading this I realise you meant it's better than limitless and shrine. I think shrine is overall a pretty mid technique which is only as powerful as it is because of how much the manga glazes sukuna and what it lets him get away with.
Limitless is incredibly, incredibly busted and there is nothing that hakari could do to gojo even if his effect was actually guaranteed rather than a random jackpot

>>283033902
>Swap hanami into her own attack
>her
Anon, I...

>>283033902
>a fuller understanding of hakari's technique
But that's exactly what's happening.
>First bolt
>Hakari regens immediately and later shows off the domain
>information floods Kashimo's mind
>Kashimo understands the RCT coming from unlimited CE
>Kashimo fries the head because RCT is from the head
>Kashimo's lightning is raw CE so it can be expelled. Hakari is one of the only characters who can do this because his RCT is explicitly the fastest in the manga.
This part isn't automatic. Hakari himself manually blew that charge out of his nose.
>Kashimo next snipes Hakari in the moment when JP ends so Hakari can't regen
>Hakari domains because luck is his gimmick
>Kashimo uses Chlorine gas
>Hakari's RCT is proven automatic, which follows because he doesn't have RCT. He never did. It's not ability he ever used consciously, but as a side-effect of Jackpot. On top of that, we know advanced RCT heals poison. All of this was already established before this scene happened, so it flowed logically.
This fight is Kashimo cornering Hakari and exposing how rigged Hakari's game is until Kashimo decides he's had enough and aimed to stop Hakari from expanding his domain at all. The only issue is that he realized too late. Hakari lost his arm so JP was now impossible, but Kashimo's last ditch tactic cost him all his CE so he couldn't win.

>rct now heals poison ecks dee

RCT was stated to heal poison ages before this. This is on you, anon.

>Better than Gojo and Sukuna's

Stated outright by Sukuna's #1 glazer. There's no issue because RCT is basically the only power Hakari has legitimately, and it is enough to make him one of the strongest in the setting.

>>blow him up - o my binding vow

Yes. Using BV to direct all energy from an arm that will become useless to let the rest of his body survive is brains. Shame on the rest for not being as sensible with such an easily exploitable mechanic.

Sounds like your beef with this fight is Hakari being strong, lucky, and smart.

>>283033996
He means that Jackpot's regeneration is better than Sukuna and Gojo's regeneration. This is confirmed by Uraume.

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>>283028289
That's what makes it fun

>>283034208
>But that's exactly what's happening.
No, it isn't. Clearly it isn't. None of the examples you live are anything even like what I described in the earlier instances.
What the fuck reader could reasonably infer that any of the things that you list would be possible for hakari without gege just making it the fuck up whenever he boxes himself into a corner?
How could you possibly think this is on the same level of "my technique swaps two items with cursed energy" and "cursed tools have cursed energy"

Something being consistent is not the same thing as something being narratively satisfying dumbass. It's entirely possible that the same set of facts presented in a different way could have resulted in a fight that wasn't complete fucking garbage dogshit waste of time fucking awful character filler fucking trash bullshit worst fight in the series but that's not what happened. The pacing of the fight was a huge lore dump for powers which are completely uninteresting and non-thematic, and then two toddlers playing make believe and saying "nuh uh" whenever one of them does something.

>Hakari being strong
I don't give a shit about strong characters. I like basically all of Yuta's fights, and Maki's culling game fights. Shinjuku is one of the best fights in the series and it's basically just glazing sukuna/gojo
>lucky
Yes, luck sucks narratively. I think haruta is about the limits of how much you can integrate luck into a story without it being completely distorting. I'm not a huge fan of Takaba, but I think his chemistry with Kenjaku really salvaged their fight and pushed Takaba's powers to interesting places.
Hakari is just "invincible whenever the author feels like it lol". boring as fuck
>smart
He doesn't do anything smart in the entire fight. His intelligence feats are fucking automatic. Genuinely there's not a single thing he does which can be called smart.

>>283034261
I really don't think I believe that after gojo survives malevolent shrine.

>>283022504
I mean didn't Mappa already kinda have those filler clips at the end of episodes in S1? Just extend those.
>Nobara and Yuji stalking Megumi, sees how he interacts with Tsumiki and concludes that's his secret lover
>a special grade curse having their closed off space change into a whole school setting instead of being a weird and twisted landscape, disaster curses get caught up in it and think they are also students
>disaster curses chilling in their downtime and even at the beach whilst waiting for the date of Shibuya incident
>school festival arc which would tease some ships while also foreshadowing Utahime and Gakuganji role as "cheerleading" ability for Gojo later on
>Panda is knocked out during a hunt for some curse, gets transported into a zoo where he has to actually act like a panda until its closing time
>some eps of Kyoto squad going on missions of their own and showing their team dynamic

>>283034208
>>283034409
And in case this is somehow still unclear I'll make it even more obvious. Let's look at the shibuya mahito fight specifically and everything that we see:
>Mahito lands a black flash on yuji - we both already know what a black flash is, and that anyone with cursed energy is capable of using it, but it's still unexpected because we're never explicitly given reason to expect a curse could use it.
>Nobara's resonance - we already know it targets the soul, and so it's a reasonable step that it would be uniquely harmful to mahito due to the way he distorts his soul
>Todo's boogie woogie can swap with objects he imbuse cursed energy into like stones - unexpected, but completely consistent with how cursed energy/boogie woogie were explained before and there were no times during the hanami fight where this would have been obviously superior to what todo did already
>0.2s domain expansion - a direct mirror of gojo's earlier feat
>Todo clapping mahito's hand - we've never been given any reason to consider what would happen in this case, and it's perfectly consistent with his previous actions
>Metamorphasis - multiple times mahito explicitly says in narration "if I land 1 more black flash I'll finally know the true essence of my soul", and he achieves it immediately after landing a black flash on todo due to CT burnout.
Everything else is just a matter of composition of already known techniques. There isn't a single instance where something new happens without precedent or telegraphing beforehand and that's a huge part of why the fight is so successful - everything feels like it naturally falls into place.

Nothing about jackpot would imply that it can restore burnt out domains. Up to that point domains being 1 time use was basically a hard rule of the setting. Nothing about automatic healing would imply hakari would be able to expel lightning from his nose or recover from being poisoned. We still have no idea how binding vows work even now!!
It's bad.

>>283034409
>Something being consistent is not the same thing as something being narratively satisfying
What you find satisfying is entirely your opinion. Your complaints are dogshit and amount to "I don't like this!". Everything is consistent with the internal logistics of the setting. Both Hakari and Kashimo are high-energy personas who do crazy shit. Their fight also involves tactics and isn't just a shitty beat em up.
>Hakari is just "invincible whenever the author feels like it lol". boring as fuck
except he isn't invincible you fucking retard. Hakari can definitely be defeated. Kashimo only realized the method too late and played into Hakari's hands. Deliberately, because he wished to beat the game himself.That's the whole point of
>that's how losers think
How are you so fucking stupid that you can't realize this?
Also
>I really don't think I believe
Choosing your own headcanon over the story. Yeah that tracks.
>>283034777
>If this thing is consistent with what we knew before and is used in a smart way, it's good.
So exactly like Hakari vs Kashimo.
You didn't even know RCT was already revealed to have countered poison.
You somehow think that Hakari blowing lightning is automatic instead of it being a crazy tactic Hakari throught up because being a deviant is his personality.
You say Hakari isn't intelligient despite him using Binding vows as they should be used, and exploiting the weakness of Kashimo's CE to dump him in a nearby ocean so he could exhaust his CE.

Man, just say you're biased and stop wasting my time with this pseudo-intellectual nonsense. People like you who feel the need to justify their dislike when they're in fact spinning their wheels are frustrating as hell.

In the end, it doesn't matter because Hakari's only legacy will forever be spending the entirety of the final battle stalling Sukuna's fridge
A fight that ended with Uraume killing herself cause Sukuna lost, by the way

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>>283022504
haunted ryokan hot springs episode

>>283034772
there's also the bonuses and spinoff LNs that have stuff like that.
i liked the one about the kyoto girls having to team up to take out a lesser curse, its' nice to see some regular sorcerers occasionally instead of all the genetic freaks in the main cast

>>283025793
damsel in distress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aExV6D_81E
Why are there so many fucking zoomer rap edits for JJK?

>>283035337
Hood weebs as they call it. It's not just JJK, but there is indeed a lot. Though funnily, most of the songs associated with it aren't really "for" black people
>Some fucking brazillian phonk
>Skyfall (has 59 million views btw)

Is Gojohime still the most popular straight ship?

>>283035337
zoomers like both rap and jjk

I like the spic and Spanish raps

Did we see any Cursed Technique Reversals other than Red?

>>283035512
Kenjaku's stolen CT, kinda?

>>283035512
Kenny turning anti-gravity into gravity. And nothing else.

>>283035512
>no Uraume shooting fire
>no Sukuna gluing things together
>no Yuta giving abilities to others
Gege? A HACK.

>>283035512
What the others said.
I'm hoping all of the stuff Maru did is like Cursed Technique Reversal of his 'Harmony' technique

>>283035512
As usual Gege thought up a cool idea and then realized it doesn't work with most of the powers in the setting, like the guarantee-hit domains. Would have been cool for Uruame to use fire powers at some point with CTR.

>>283035713
>no Yuta giving abilities to others
The reversal of Copy should be outright erasing others' CTs when Rika eats their limbs.

>>283035512
Right, I forgot Kenny's Ultra Shield of Anti Black Hole Protection

Jjkbros...

>>283035512
Remember that RCT is rare in the first place.

>>283028147
nice

>>283034991
what the hell is the pokemon manga even about