How did a series where the protagonist's only power is punching hard take off?It's like if Naruto didn't have the Shadow Clone Jutsu.
>>291691208That's like 80% of shounens
>>291691208gojo
>>291691208He should have learned to kick
>>291691388The very first attack he does is a kick.
>>291691208got similar energy to one punch man
>>291691208high budget anime adaptation.that's literally it.there's a reason nobody gives a fuck about the actual meat of the series. it's the same reason why nobody gave a fuck about one punch man until it got redrawn by murata, and nobody gave a fuck about the OPM anime once it lost its budget. all you have to do to make literally any dogshit series popular to retards is jingle keys in front of their face.
>>291691208Have it being a genuine limitation the MC has to overcome with tricks, enviroment,assist from secondary characters and tools.JJK almost got this good by having Yuji to think outside the box with his super body in order to survive , and sometimes not even that was enough to win (his defeat with Choso)To bad he got ditched completely after Higuruma until the final battle and got powers offscreen without much exploration (you can tell this about everything post-Shibuya to be fair), but his fights were the best ones in the manga for how much he had to adapt and be tricky, compared to the slogs with Maki just bruteforcing things because “mhu 0 CE heavenly restriction let me survive an orbital bombing while stunned BECAUSE ITS LE STRONG!”
>>291691208You forgot a few more things>characters doing hand signs for their special techniques so you know it's an automatic appeal for the nigga nigga niggas>"strong" female leads that either jobs or only beat nobodies>or in mai's case she has only beaten a niconico douga meme>perfect material for out of context scenes to be reposted on youtube shorts or instagram reels>aura and hype moments but never consistencyThere's a reason why no one talks about the ending aside that the ending just made this whole series simply empty. JJK just has nothing going for it. Especially you could have a better time reading other battle shonens like Sakigake Otokojuku, Tekken Chinmi, Kinnikuman. Yu-Gi-Oh even.
>>291691208He is like neji with well timed Chakra punches
started reading last month and just got to the part where emo dude and his ghost gf beat the sky lady and guy from jojohow far am i from the last big fight?heard that it takes up 10% of the total manga
>>291693395Yuta vs Ryu is volume 20.Final fight starts volume 25.The end is volume 30.
>>291693453i think i'm at chapter 170 somethingbut sounds like it's close, cheers
>>291691208JJK took off because of Gojo and Sukuna, they made up for Yuji.
>>291691208Gon says hi
>>291691208Hokuto no KenSaint Seiya
>>291691208It's the best power there is, newfag.
>>291693509>Gojo and SukunaYuji's more popular than Sukuna by a wide margin. Yuji's the second most popular character in JJK, and sales went up after Gojo died. Yuji carried the last set of volumes and series to the finish line.
>>291691208JJK has got a gritty feel and the down to earth protagonist uses grit, teamwork and the enviornment to beat people that are always stronger than him.That is the ideal shounen and it made it succeeded inspite of Mappa's sabotage
>>291694602Yuji is awesome
>>291691208Yuji is the only protagonist who stays a maidenless virgin till the very end. That’s why JJK attracts so many fags especially westoids. They can freely discuss it with their discord buddies without feeling "weird"
Real answer is domain expansion and gojo. Thats the reason JJK is so popular. No one liked Yuji during its runtime (including his author) and only powerscaling tards pretend to like him nowadays. Gege even said during modulo he’d prefer to have wrote a story with Yuta and Maki as the MCs
>>291691208It tapped into modern sensibilities where "aura farming" matters more.
>>291691208The other battles are really cool as well and Nobara has some really big tits.
>>291694691>larper seethingand same fagging too, looks like
>>291694691You really think a tall, good looking muscular guy like Yuji had no women for 50+ years? You dumbass. He realized it would get weird that he didnt age. I doubt him and Nobara didnt at least shag once.
>>291694977thats definitely canon with how they sync'd up so often. She's one of the only ones left that can understand him now too.
Cuz jjk use environment Any other shounen do that?
>>291694918All the best fights in the manga are Yuji's fights. "Kungfu guy has to figure out how to overcome convoluted power" is the base essence of shounen.
>>291695019not enough
>>291695021I agree with you, but look at Gojo vs Sukuna, even /a/ was unusuable for a while.
>>291695048true
https://desuarchive.org/a/search/filename/Jujutsu_kaisen.jpg/
>>291691208I don't care about the punching but Itadori Yuji is an exceptionally tasteless boring MC
>>291695249I feel like he's a lot like Luffy in that he is initially set up to be a very interesting character but over time turns into the stock-standard shonen idiot hero, presumably because writing that is much easier.
>>291691208Weapons are gay
>>291695249>>291695344Yuji works because he's a stock shonen protagonist in a world of LN and seinen protags. Everyone is either crazy, or creepy, or totally apathetic to the suffering of normal people except Yuji. So, you know, it's a low bar because JJK is full of shitty characters
>>291694748If Gege really did that, imagine how it would have flopped, Yuta and Maki are the most boring and bland characters in the manga. Everyone and their grandma wanted more Yuji and Nobara, just see how everyone loved the Modulo ending.>>291694918Based
>>291694602Stop using drugs son, it is clearly killing you.
>>291696199It's objective fact for the popularity contests. Technically, its just subjective fact that Yuji's fights are all the best.
>bad guy comes back as a pokemonwhat a twist
>>291691208Zoomers are subhuman cattle who only care about flashy (even if shitty) animation and "aura farming".
>>291696887It's a digimon dude.Diaboromon
>>291696887>foreshadowed since way back at Yuji's 2nd or 3rd execution.
>>291693657Hey man, Seiya have at least one attack that doesn't involve punching.
>>291697601I'll admit, I don't know exactly what I'm looking at but the drawing shows afterimages of a body moving up through the beam so this seems to be an uppercut while surrounded by energy. It seems that this does involve punching. (which is a good thing)
Why introduce and kill Amanai in like 3 episodes if nothing is going to change? FFS I never gave a fuck about her.
>>291694935Your image proves nothing
>>291695536>yuji worksRetard
>>291698116>>291698138It directly proves you were wrong.
>>291698233It Doesn't because that wasn't me
>>291698081Her death is the cause of many things, like Geto turns evil, Gojo wanting to change jujutsu society, Tengen slowly becomes a curse which led to him being absorbed by Kenjaku
>>291698081I cared about her. It's tragic that she was walking to her own death and tragic again when she was killed the moment she chose to live
>>291691208>How did a series where the protagonist's only power is punching hard take off?Nigga that's almost every battle shonen MC, the only ones that come to mind who do more than punch (or swing their sword) harder are>Kiyomaru and GashAnd that's it
>>291698309haha, that's so dumb
>>291691208Hype moments and aura combined with the dumbest generation yet.
>>291694977>>291694997Love hags. Befriend hags. Hug a hag from behind. Pomf a hag into your bed. French kiss a hag. Hold hands with a hag. Put an engagment ring on a hag's finger. Cook hags nice food. Watch movies with hags. Missionary position with a hag. Record loving making with a hag. Eat out a hag. Resurrect a hag womb. Mating press hags. Impregnate hags. Marry hags. Have children with hags. Drown hags in love. Grow old with hags. Sexo with hags.
>>291691208I seriously never gave a fuck about yuji there were just great animation with cool villains and power system. He's the most boring character on screen unless he's sukuna possesed.
>>291699666The power system is a fucking joke, it's barely a system. It's a bunch of random powers with nothing in common except the same energy source
>>291699737That's true but I liked when they tried to deep dive the physics or domain/technique of what was going on
>>291699737What are you talking about? Your seething has blinded you. How is that any different than One Piece, Bleach, YuYu Hakusho, Jojo, MHA, DS, DB and on and on and on.
>>291691208Just like CSM Makina, JJK has Gojo. That's why it got big.
>>291698953I accept your concession
>>291698451>Geto turns evilNo, the cause for that was the death of that sorcerer friend of nanami>Gojo wanting to change jujutsu societyIf this happened then the mere fact that I don't remember it proves me right>Tengen slowly becomes a curse which led to him being absorbed by KenjakuHaven't watched the anime up to that point so this is irrelevant. And don't get me started on that Tengen character it has so many flaws.
ITT: It's popular so it sucksYou can just not watch it or discuss it if you hate it so much. Why fuel its popularity with hype and discussion?Enjoy your shitty thread.
>>291698548>It's tragic that she was walking to her own deathNo because she's a character no one gives a shit about>tragic again when she was killed the moment she chose to liveFushiguro is a Gary Stu. I was too bummed about how shitty JJJK is to care about that.
>>291694935>shows an image where it explicitly states how Yuji isn't a manWhy would someone L themselves this hard?
>>291697780See. https://youtu.be/rClA_y6AkUk?si=57PK43J-kQPw-DjL
>>291699842
>>291701297I thought you were joking. Ok, I'll explain it. >Anon made up something. >I disproved it with a manga page. Showing Yuji getting with a girl and Nobara sensing it to confirm>You said that doesn't disprove it> on the contrary it directly disproves it>you say that wasn't you. >I laughed because that's irrelevant since you stepped in to defend it. and probably also a lie
>>291699952How is it the same?
>>291701640Nobara never said that he became a man
>>291701569I still count anime suplexes under the kungfu umbrela.
>>291701648The individual powers are unrelated and only the base energy is the same. How is that not obvious?
>>291701681You would claim to be literate right? Go on and read the page I kindly provided. It is right there.
>>291701767Quote the phrase where she said you retard. Go on i'll wait.
>>291701483You're a monkey. All you can say is that (you) don't get it and (you) don't care. I gave a reason why its tragic and a reason why someone would care. I know you don't have the capacity to understand the difference but you should know that the other people reading these posts do. Seething further is just going to backfire for you.
>>291701736Because those don't try to juggle with several different techniques and powers at the same time so much that it's impossible to keep track. The fact that you included MHA in there means you have negative IQ.
>>291701407>speedreader>animeonlydumb dumbo
>>291701845There is no way you can read. Ask whoever is reading these posts to you to explain this pic.
>>291701887I watched the anime at the normal speed though so ypu have no argument
(You)
>>291701942It means that he's just standing there not becoming an adultWay to own yourself
>>291701407>animeonly>can't even remember more than one event at a time.What if, just imagine, someone is influenced by more than one event in their past? Not just Riko, not just Nanami's friend but the twin girls he found in the village all influenced Geto. Is that really something you couldn't pick up on your own? I find that so hard to believe.
>>291702043I'll keep you enternained lookDomain expansion
>>291702054haha, you're so dumb. Good bit
>>291701885Try to explain yourself. The reason I included MHA is because they all have random powers from birth, like my other examples.
>>291701439Anything that's popular has to cater to complete retards inherently.
Can we talk about how pants on head retarded the power curve on this series is? Yuji is fighting special category curses from the get go. Fucking awful.
>>291702098>i'll call you dumb because i have no argument
>>291695720> just see how everyone loved the Modulo endingThat a VEEEEEERYYYYYY big stretch.People loved the Oldji and Hagbara moment, but Modulo’s ending (or everything after the Nigga moment between Npc Sorcerer and Npc Alien to kickstart that forced duel go be real) was downright shit aside from Makora vs Dabura.The ending was one of the biggest and most rushed asspull ever written in fiction, requiring a guy finding out that “actually my technique is to make wishes reality , also somehow Rika in Shikigami form can do anything because fuck you!” To works in a very very very clumsy way.
>>291702072Thing is you could have cut the entire where our blue is arc or whatever the fuck it's called and nothing would change. Geto never gave a fuck about Riko afterwads hell not even Gojo. No one gives a fuck about her.
>>291702131No one has a problem with MHA power system
>>291702502Gege hated Yuji so he made sure he barely did anythingThe ending could have perfectly used Yuji and Hagbara instead of Todo and the hag idol
>>291695720I hate when authors are contrarians and boycott the superior option. NEVER goes well
>>291702697....so the fact that has random powers, like JJK would make the original complaint nonsensical. I've been saying that the entire time.
>>291702482but people can just read the earlier reply...Look, I also think JJK haters are stupid but this is starting to seem like a false flag op.
>>291702705Stop trying to push your Gege-fanfiction. Gege gave Yuji all the strongest character moments in JJK and in Modulo, Yuji is the strongest, the deterrent, the immortal and the 2nd half of the deus ex - solve everything button.
>>291702825>but people can just read the earlier reply...What?you were never able to show how Nobara said that Yuji became a man so you are the dumb onw
>>291702664How would know? You didn't even remember it happened. And then, you think that just removing it wouldn't matter because... you say it doesn't matter? In spite of the story showing it mattered? You're a narcissist monkey dude.
>>291702795No becasue these are superheroes we are talking about. they are supposed to have random powers.
>>291702898> 2nd half of the deus ex - solve everything button.More like 3rd thirt of the deus ex button.The second is always Rika shikigami somehow having such rule breaking level of consciousness (despite the ending of JJK0) and Yuta “jujutsu jesus” Okkutsu putting CE inside of it for 70 years (and somehow Kenjaku never did something similar despite being 1000’s years old? And Yuta did so good with just 70 years? Gege is a fucking hack)
>>291703045>You didn't even remember it happened.The fuck are you talking about?>And then, you think that just removing it wouldn't matter because... you say it doesn't matter?It never showed that it mattered you mattered
>>291702458But JJK does an excellent job with the power curve. Yuji looses completely to special grades and only puts up a fight thanks to teamwork or exceptions like Sukuna.Semi-related. I love to point out that the strong bad guys and the leaders should act themselves instead of giving the main character a training arc by sending progressively stronger and stronger enemies. The special grades coming out first is a good thing.
>>291701708Cool. Still not punching.
>>291703072I'm rolling my eyes really hard right now. How is that not a problem with MHA but is with JJK, for only you?No, don't bother giving me more bs. Just go on and address any of my other examples then.
>>291703204>Yuji looses completely to special grades and only puts up a fight thanks to teamwork
>>291703211I think we're on the same side here. So, I'm just trying to be clear here; the fags trying to use "punch-kick merchant" as an insult don't mean literally just punching. Otherwise, they couldn't apply it to Yuji either.
>>291703267So you have a problem with superheroes then
>>291691208>How did a series where the protagonist's only power is punching hard take off?All gas, little fluff compared to say Bleach or One Piece. That's what really appealed to me, personally. It didn't stray or postpone the main story almost ever. The Gojo flashback arc was also great and gave the audience what it wanted for a long time (focus on Gojo story)
>>291702072>jjk animeonlyBadge of honor
>>291703322Right... this is a 'special grade' because it is a curse spirit that can speak. It's like a technicality. Or, just look. >
>>291703349No, I'm the one arguing that this isn't an issue. You've got beef with the JJK hater.
>>291703439It's really weird you bring up MHA because no one has a problem with the power system because there is none
>>291703406So you were wrong
>>291703485Its relevant to my examples and like you said, it isn't a problem. You agree with me.There are a million more examples besides
>>291703551I'm right. You're playing semantics and intentionally misunderstanding.
>>291703627Sorcerers aren't superheroes. they shouldn't have random powers
>>291703682If it can speak then it's a special grade and Yuji soloed that locust curse. So no semantics here.
>>291703915Looking at the wiki, the ability to speak means that a curse is at least a grade 2. If it’s wrong, then I will admit I’m an idiot.
>>291691208Because punching is cool.
>>291691208simplicity isn't a problem. just look at dragonball or dragonball z.sometimes a simple power can be used as a smaller part of a larger complex system too.see hxh where enhancers have simple but strong powers that are also suited to their personalities.but i'm unfamiliar with jjk so i can't comment on what i think of it in particular in terms of its power system.i've heard it's supposed to be confusing or all over the place though.
>>291702502You see I also think Maru sue had an asspull moment, but just the Yuji Nobara reunion made the last chapter enjoyable. Everyone wanted to see the OG cast and know what became of them, they didn't care about Gege's dumb plot about happily accepting immigrants in your country kek
>>291691208This series got carried hard by its animation.Look at what happened to OPM when the animation budget got the axe
>>291703915The core of the discussion here is if Yuji is obliterating the strongest in the verse because they're labeled "special grade." Which would make the power curve ridculousIf the locuts/grasshoper is a special grade, then that is only due to the naming convention used by the Jujutsu society. It is not the same as saying Yuji is soloing Gojo, or any of the disaster curses. The power curve is logical and handled well.
is the jjk anime good or is the manga better?
>>291704794Manga is way better. The anime removes things at random and adds noncanon crap all the time to force it to hit their corporate mandated runtimes. It loses all the original feel of the manga and makes everyone act stupider. Genuinely, the "hype and aura" insult is purely an animeonly invention. That's how bad Mappa fucked it up.
>>291704908>Genuinely, the "hype and aura" insult is purely an animeonly invention. No, it's fault of the braindead western fandom.
>>291692971>To bad he got ditched completely after Higuruma until the final battle and got powers offscreen without much explorationJust being able to target the soul and possessing Sukuna's CT was enough. I didn't care for how hard the climax pushed the super hybrid stuff. It was too rushed and the story doesn't do much of interest with any of it anyway.
>>291691208>It's like if Naruto didn't have the Shadow Clone Jutsu.Isn't it what the "Rock Lee should've been the MC" faggots wanted
>>291705647We also wanted the side characters to do shit so JJK was a real godsend. Though that is mainly because the story ended quickly
>>291705868Side characters don't do anything in JJK either
>>291691208I don't think I have ever seen anyone talk about Yuji ever.
>>291706247Of course they do. We had four mini-arcs in the culling game that focused on side characters doing shit and they all did something in the final battle.
>>291699493
>>291706421That's just because you're a newfag. It happens and happened all the time.
>>291706439And how much of that actually mattered?
>>291706529All of it.
The last arc was a definite letdown (though I liked Gojo's death), but it's honestly not any worse than a number of other major battle shonen. YYH and Bleach are more to my tastes but I wouldn't call them better-written, for the most part.
>>291699493wise post, many should learn from it
>>291691208Still better than most slop like Naruto, Bleach, KnY, CSM, Sakamoto Days, and to an extent One Piece and DBZ. Which is not a ridiculously high bar to clear. But it's something.>>291693050Contrary to what some people say, the females at least do something. Maki literally has a whole arc dedicated to her. Which is more than what I can say for most WSJ series that isn't female led.Like it's good to binge watch if you want something after HxH (2011). But the idea is that you shouldn't get too invested into it. It's only a step-up from being pure slop.Kinnikuman is also more of a Seinen, especially the sequel.
>>291707221Shinjuku starts off strong and just gets exponentially worse. I think the problem is that there are just too many characters and Sukuna isn't a good enough villain to justify the amount of plot armor he's given.
>>291704908>The anime removes things at random and adds noncanon crap all the time to force it to hit their corporate mandated runtimes. It loses all the original feel of the manga and makes everyone act stupider. Genuinely, the "hype and aura" insult is purely an animeonly invention. That's how bad Mappa fucked it up.Alright, save this shit for the archives other than "Nobara wore a bra in the anime."
>>291694977Yuji is gay. I’m sure he had sex with tons of guys.
>>291707640I didn't mind Sukuna's plot armor, per se. He's the best wizard to ever wizard, it makes sense that he'd be busted if he can kill Gojo (who has plot armor as his CT), and I thought that was handled mostly okay.The revolving door of jobbers taking pot shots at him afterwards grew tedious, though. It's even goofier given how almost nobody fucking dies.
>>291707632Kinikkuman is a pure shonen
>>291707632JJK literally steals from all of those series without understand why they worked.It's like a Japanese RWBY; it copies the aesthetics, but doesn't understand the substance
>>291708563And yet how many series can you say the same for when it came to Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, MHA?Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But to Japan, it might as well be considered sucking-up.Take Naruto:>Hunter X Hunter>Blade of the Immortal>Akira>Dragon Ball Z>Brave RaideenTook after all those series but failed to understand why those former worked so well.
>>291707670Thanks
>>291707632Maki's arc is a meme dude
>>291707632Maki's arc doesn't impact the plot on any way.
