Thank you! Exactly my point, narrative wise it only makes sense. To say he was wrapped up with a bow would just be a lie, and would’ve felt rushed here. It’s not unbelievable to believe he died and will come back or that he faked his death. There’s too many reasons why he is still alive. These fights with Sukuna is not lasting the whole year either.

Its what I was saying earlier. (Altho it might be possible) I just dont think that what Sukuna just consumed was Tengen but it was Kenjakus soul - similar to the cursed items and fingers Kenjaku created. Giving now Sukuna access to CSM and technically Megumi the authority to complete the merging. Eating tengen would make no sense cause the merger woulf be suicide so what else could it be?

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I always think the misconceptions from the fandom are quite interesting. This includes JJK0 which heavily boosts Yuta. Maki is top 5 and Yuji is definitely the portagonist

Just got word Shoko and Utahime in the lab cooking 😎

True, and many people are also convinced that Gege is teasing Gojo's return. If we entertain that possibility, one way to justify it happening is the existence of Kenjaku as the final villain. It makes sense to me to assume that the conflict between Gojo and Sukuna is over, but it's important to remember that Gojo still has a (very personal) score to settle with Kenjaku.

Interesting. But I don't think Kenjaku would sacrifice himself to give Sukuna full control. I think it'd be the other way around. Then again, we also know that two independent souls can inhabit the same body, so who knows.

Damn not one thing right lol

There’s another f***ing break???

it was wishful thinking man

How long?

this week

Ending of last chapter Kinda blue balled us. Looked like yuji was about to stab him but then this chapter he’s catching the pendent? Weird

gege has been doing that for a while now. Its basically just bait for the weekly readers because in the grander scheme of things the story still flows normally. Really not liking it but it makes social media go nuts so...

f*** it I wanna talk about the chapter so sorry for long post

I get why people wanna call Sukuna one-dimensional because he is the embodiment of selfishness and evil but it is a very bad faith argument imo. People shouldnt confuse having a fix strong position to being one-dimensional. Or else almost every shounen protagonist can be written off as being just overly "good".

Just the latest chapters have given us a new perspective into Sukuna by just seeing his inner monologue. Once again gege does alot with subtext. Gege imo is an incredible author when it comes to building up characters extremely fast and with just a few lines of dialogue he hints that there is more to every person. He might or might not ever show it but it gives the characters a certain reallness imo.

Like why does Sukuna repeat the sentiment like it is his life motto. He is reaffirming his position to himself but if he constantly has to remind himself does he really believe it?

Like is he jealous? Is he empty? He tells us that coexisting with Yuji and learning that in fact peoples ideals are real and they are fighting for them challenges his worldview.

its interesting cause sukunas worldview until this point has only been proven correct. Mahito even forced Yuji to become a cog in the existence of sorcery. Sukuna was the OG of this mentality 1000 years ago. The quintessence of it and he of all people now questions himself. Reminds me alot of Yujis interaction with Hakari. Something up with Yuji. Cog mentality is a scam and sukuna knows it but doesnt want to admit

Nobody can convince me gege is a bad writer
f*** it if he a bad writer im a bad reader idgaf

i think gojo's body being teleported away was just the characters realizing their mistake in leaving geto and toji's bodies unattended to. i mean imagine if yuta failed and kenjaku was able to get gojos body somehow.

i just think yuji is the most uninteresting character. yuta would have been a better mc.

maybe if his character design was a little less lame

Yuta as a side character >>>> Yuta as MC

in jjk0 he was your stereotypical shy shounen protanoist thats secretely really OP.

I feel like in jjk gege had done some major changes to his character leaning heavily into his weirdness which was a very good change.

Cant agree at all with you tho.

I would have no idea where he couldve went with his character after 0. He would just breeze past all fights too

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And while im here, what even is that "criticism" going around about Gege being bad at worldbuilding so they call JJK straight up bad or Gege a bad writer, like what the f*** is there to build? He deliberately makes it that 99% of sorcerers are from japan and only a few cases exists outside of it, that straight up rules out the need to expand outside of japan so he can concentrate on more important points.
A lot of people really want every shonen to be like one piece when 90% of the time there is no need for such kind of thing like look at demon slayer, tokyo ghoul, chainsaw man and more, animangas that are f***ing amazing and we didnt go to every island, country, planet, etc for it to be good or interesting. Writers can be good at worldbuilding and literally base the story in one place

Its also meant to be believable in Japan. We can pinpoint the locations of the characters in shibuya. Gege has woven tons of real japanese mythology into the story. Its a very realistic type of worldbuilding that all wants to give the impression that sorcerers are real people from our society like Higurama and that the sorcerer society could be in our world like how they are hidden with tengens barriers.

Its meant to be feel real but that doesnt mean it isnt carefully crafted. Definitely think the Japanese audience picks up more to the details gege puts in.

One piece on the other hand on scale is totally unbelievable. Like just the estimates from how big the planet is. Zunesha is like 35km tall. All ships are skyscraper high. And they managed to sail through like half the world in a couple weeks. But it doesnt matter cause oda wants to tell a fantastical adventure story

Both authors have great storytelling but clearly gege wants it to feel like its part of our world and oda wants to be massive and adventurous in scale.

I liked this chapter. Was waiting for the official translation to react but yea I like it the nonstop fighting can obscure character motivations and development but I found this to be a welcome reorientation. Also sukuna spacing out is legit funny to me. Gege the goat at drawing characters in internal debate.

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Todo and his curse technique makes his fights very fun

Holy... These official translations are so f***ing bad bro wtf

"i lost Supreme martial solution" man what

"I come back.. no matter how many times his spirit breaks"

They need to fire this mf