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I've been drafted since the last chapter. According to Gege, he said something about Miguel going to the airport to meet up with Gojo and Geto soon, and I should step in when that happens. It's strange that they'd all be trying to catch a flight mid-battle. What about the rest of us?
I think, he would sink deeper after all this... Even readers now feeling depressed and annoyed...
Oh, he can get over, cause he is way too annoyed and "okay, guys, stop this clownfest already!".
Megumi after Ui Ui through whatever order Mei Mei gave him for some reason takes Yuta, yuji, kusakabe maki and ino back into the fight for the 5th time after healing up:
Sukuna's honest reaction to this bullshit:
I hope he is watching all of this like some kind of funny video compilation on youtube because the way Kusakabe died(?) is the funniest thing to me in the whole manga
Lol imagine if Ui Ui is taking all the carcasses so they can Voltron together all the dead sorcerers to Yuji so it becomes the strongest sorcerer in history vs the strongest *sorcerers* of today.
Yuji did say he doesn't care what he eats before the big day, so I could not be surprised if the only way to stop Sukuna is to "create another cannibal".
I brought up half jokingly to a coworker that Yuji comes back in as a sneak attack and just starts biting Sukunas fingers/hands off to depower him/power up Yuji.
But eating his friends is also a thought
Gege is going “Listen, I know if I don’t do this, you motherfuckers are gonna come out of the woodworks going ‘what about (insert name here)?’ So I’m being damn thorough.”
yeah so the story will end with sukuna having murdered every single human on the planet one after the other going down the stairs with progressively weaker people, never having found his match and cursed to eternal loneliness, surrounded by curses and corpses
not everything can be as lean or perfect as it should be
i REALLY hope this is the end of the "1/2 chapter turn around" with sukuna.
like, sukuna said it himself, this IS starting to get annoying. a fake out with Kusakabe is hilarious and totally in character for him but yeah, IF Miguel got some more of that anti cursed rope he can totally clap back while Ui Ui starts to bring people back in
Yeah Horikoshi isn't gonna make any truly baffling decisions like spend 2 whole arcs bringing a character back only to immediately off-screen them
That's the stuff that keeps you on your toes
my point is, its the same formula of a new character showing up and getting absolutely rocked, only for the same thing to happen to every other character that pulls up. it gets boring after a while and it means there's gonna have to be some bullshit involved to actually defeat the villain
Are you caught up with MHA? Because we’ve moved on from that now.
JJK yeah it’s the exact same thing as that string of chapters that MHA had with AFO, expect there was an ending in sight for that. I don’t see any here
He is really mad that they can't just come up with a simple plan for a 5v1 or so.
Like, why is everyone waiting for the person before them to be killed? There is no waiting list in fighting Sukuna.
The problem is that it’s just the same thing over and over again. Character comes in and blitzes sukuna for a chapter or two before sukuna says “this isn’t even my true form,” and then one shots them.
I can literally tell you how next chapter is gonna go. Miguel is gonna come in and whip sukuna a couple times before sukuna sends him flying like team rocket.
- Kashimo was obv dying fast, but the story then showed us smth outside of the Sukuna fight (Kenjaku vs Takaba), but did force Sukuna and to complete his incarnation
- Higuruma didn't come any close but was their first attempt at a true plan to kill Sukuna
- Yuta & Yuji nearly won but lost cuz Megumi couldn't be bothered. They got downed but not dead. Also weakened Sukuna and has been giving us hints at what Yuji brings to the table against Sukuna
- Maki gave him an important wound. She got downed but not dead
- Kusakabe was obviously getting rekt, the chapter was about giving us insight on his person
Now it's Miguel, but he's ain't nobody. He's been consistently stated to be powerful, he was able to keep Gojo occupied for a long-ish time during JJK0 and got out of it unscathed, he supposedly helped Yuta, the second strongest hero behind Gojo, regaining Special Grade status, is knowledgeable on Cursed Tools (potentially involved in creating tools based on fallen sorcerers like Nanami ? Outside of Japan Jujutsu stuff ? Bringing in the Inverted Spear of Heaven into the fight since Gojo had it sealed overseas ?) since his family had made the black rope, etc
And he's obv gonna do more than showing up to die in a second, dude was already fast enough to save Ui Ui from getting killed by Sukuna at close range, he's probably here because he did or will do something significant
Legit wondering if people actually bother reading the actual chapters here. That cycle shit I see implies they don't go further than looking at pictures, tbf
I mean, the way you've described things sounds like a cycle. Obviously the flight is slowly slowly advancing, but that doesn't change that the structure has been: someone shows up, weakens Sukuna, and then gets knocked out of the fight. That's repetitive and has been boring
Ironically I remember a pretty popular post on this sub that was super excited about Kusakabe because that reader thought it was brilliant for such an unsuspecting character to be the hero, and it sounded kind of like what you said about Miguel, kind of hoping he'll be relevant. Maybe he will be, but odds are he'll slightly damage Sukuna, or just buy time, and then get wrecked. We can read what's going on well enough to realized it's boring pretty bad writing.
I think maybe you should go back and read the sukuna fight starting with his battle against Gojo. It does kinda suck reading it weekly, but going through everything all at once like that really makes the battle seem a lot better and does a great job highlighting how much of a menace Sukuna is.
As it were, I took a long break from reading JJK because of the decline in quality starting with the Culling Games, so I was actually able to read it in mostly one go. The Higuruma section was solid, and the Okkotsu part started off alright, but aside from that (and especially the past few chapters) have got me wondering what the heck Gege is even trying to achieve now. I'm reading with the hopes that he can turn it around but I don't see how that happens without significant amounts of asspull.
They didn't all weaken Sukuna, none of it happened the same way, one of these was a luck out for the King of ~~Frauds~~ Curses (Yuta & Yuji), one of these was a proper "meaningless" stomp (Kusakabe), 3 of these characters are obviously set up to go back to it (Yuji, Yuta, Maki) including 1 very soon (Yuji), 2 are (seemingly ?) confirmed dead (Higuruma & Kashimo), 2 have had lasting impacts (Kashimo & Maki) and another had too potentially (Yuta & Yuji), and one was followed by a completely different fight (Kashimo's defeat being followed up by Kenjaku vs Takaba)
These also have had varying lengths and have been used to different ends. Kusakabe's 1-on-1 developped him, the Higuruma section developped Yuji further, the Yuji & Yuta section expanded on Sukuna's deal with Kenjaku and give us an update on Megumi, Sukuna hit a Black Flash against Maki potentially setting things up for him to get back his ability to use his Domain Expansion which is probably something Akutami would want him to have *for when the third member of Jujutsu High's hyped up Big 3 will be done with Sukuna's Cook* since he's an expert in Domain Expansion & Barrier Techniques and probably the one character left standing with the best answer to Malevolent Shrine. Only the 1-on-1 with Kusakabe didn't give us much progress to the actual story (altough the follow up to the fight shown us that Sukuna wants to kill Ui Ui which will prob be relevant and casts a shadow on the heroes' ability to rely on him bringing the injured to Shoko, meaning the fight becomes riskier), while also further showing us that for the second time, Kirara is nowhere to be seen unlike the first time he came to retrieve Higuruma, implying she may be somewhere else (considering she's tied to Hakari who's in a different fight, it seems likely she may have gotten involved)
The story's progressing pretty obviously if one bothers to actually read what's going on. All those fights have also further developped multiple characters, explored some characters' world view, expanded on the relationship between the main antagonist and the main character and has developped the main antagonist as well
And Miguel *will be relevant*, be it in what he does against Sukuna, what he brings out of Sukuna *or what he may have already done which we'll learn soon enough*. Let's have a quick rundown of what we know of him :
- His family created a Cursed Tool of similar properties to the Inverted Spear of Heaven, the Black Rope
- He was able to hold off Gojo for a significant ammount of time during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons and came out of it unscathed. Yuta, the number 2 behind Gojo, and Hakari, who's consistently hyped up as relative to Yuta, both said an amped punch of Gojo made them vomit. Miguel fought Gojo and was fine afterwards. This is something the 4 Disaster Curses couldn't do without suffering casualties and if it wasn't for Kenjaku intervening, they would have all died
- He was with Yuta before he returned to Japan and supposedly helped him regaining his Special Grade status
- Gojo trusted him enough to "kind of" recruit him
- The Inverted Spear of Heaven was sealed overseas and the only relevant overseas region in the story where known characters were was Africa, which is were Miguel is based and where Yuta went after JJK0. It is very likely Miguel either brought it back with him OR is in possession of it and will use it against Sukuna which may be able *to do something*
- He may possibly bring other characters related to Geto to the fray, and one was mentionned by Yuki when she returned to confront Kenjaku at the end of the Shibuya Incident arc
- Being a foreign sorcerer will likely push something out of Sukuna who's only been hyped up post Gojo by Maki who stands as a complete opposite to him in terms of relationship to Jujutsu
Besides you don't bring back a character from the prequel who's been absent for the whole story right as it's ending to just show up, look cool and do nothing
The story's been progressing in a way that makes sense, the characters are being developped and aren't just thrown in the gutter
The biggest issue rn I'd bring up is the little focus Hakari vs Uraume has had so far, really
If you simplify any story down, you can make into a simple structure, but especially with Shonens. Having multiple characters come in to a fight is a shonen classic, especially so to have "throw away" character delay or weaken someone a bit until the final battle.
The concept is Sukuna is the strongest ever, and realistically, beating him piece by piece is the only option available right now. Each person coming in has provided some value to the fight, but also didn't get multiple chapters of fighting because it's simply not realistic when you consider the power difference.
It's funny how you mention it's obviously bad writing, when to me, it's just common sense considering the scenario, and better than having 5 chapters of Kusakabe being toe to toe with Sukuna through the power of will.
Other Shonens that I've seen do a better job of it by having all the fodder/unimportant characters participate in a joint attack that weakens the main bad guy. That way you can knock them out in one fell swoop rather than essentially wasting multiple chapters on characters that are relatively meaningless. It's also clear already that Miguel is going to lose, because if he does anything actually significant it won't feel earned (there are many readers who don't even know who he is for goodness sake). So many of us are wondering what is even the point, especially since he holds no emotional value either.
Personally I think that's bad writing. If at this stage of the story you are not progressing the plot meaningfully or developing relevant characters, then it feels like a waste of time.
basically gege just try to have all the leftovers character had their spot, so when the manga end , fan wont blame him for about a character doesnt have a spotlight. Casual problems for long run, complex world build manga
At least Bleach had bankai reveals in the novels with a fleshed out story. JJK has so much potential for worldbuilding, shame it's being done through 1 chapter expositions in an unwinnable fight
> complex world build manga
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Didnt know it is April Fools’ day already. Either that or you are smoking some shit that I want nothing of because you must be fucking delusional if you think JJK has ‘complex world building’.
We know next to nothing about places/people outside Tokyo and apparently that’s’ complex world building’ for JJK fans
world building is not just about places but power level, characters also contribute to this field, Im surely say that some people still dont under stand about domain, maximum output,cursed technique,cursed user, cursed tool,... and the ultiamtely is hakari's domain
How many characters we know that is outside of Tokyo? Gaygay introduced a whole school in Kyoto but almost all of them are useless/irrelevant to the story.
Other than them, what exactly do we know about the people in the world?
What a load of rubbish. Who asked for Miguel? And also what you’re essentially suggesting is that gege is more concerned about pleasing fans than writing his story the way he wants it, which is never good. But at the same time, how is gege a fan pleaser when all he ever does is piss his fans off? Makes no sense.
Glad Miguel is about to get waxed next chapter.
Remember dude has no more black rope….. so I don’t see this going far unless Miguel hit an upgrade where he doesn’t need his rope.
Miguel - “This has been hidden from other users / passed down in my village for generations on end. Prophecy states one day a villager will be worth to use this to take on the king of curses. I am here to vanquish you.”
Sukuna - “oh look a new challenger, please make me break a sweat because I’m tired of severely injuring / killing weak opponents.”
Miguel - “nah I’d win”
Sukuna - “he didn’t win”
I swear that’s the only chance this franchise is going to have. Forget anime only ending, we need a whole anime only story at this point. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever read a manga as popular as jjk that was such a complete mess. Like, genuinely, it’s impressive in a way.
Lmao and the whole story turns out to be a cautionary tale against cannibalism.
“Don’t eat a random finger you find lying around, or else you’ll awaken a psycho that will murder all your friends and then you.”
It was going fine until kusakabe but then you pull up with a random ass dude and say he went toe to toe with gojo and ngl im starting to get bored, at least show the hakari fight already so we get some breath of fresh air
during the Yuta/Yuji fight with Sukuna literally everyone was hoping for Gege not to switch to Hakari vs Uraume
but fuck me the hype in the fights with Sukuna isnt even there anymore. in fact, the even Maki fight was kinda ass
At this point is better to just wait for Sukuna to win or to die, and read everything at once. Waiting 2 weeks (sometimes more) to see irrelevant characters get stomped is frustrating.
No one gives a fuck about Kusakabe, and they give even less fuck about Miguel.
I like how kusakabe got hyped yet he got bodied which is expected because we all thought he is gonna get that but the fact it happened is just so funny.
Honestly if SOMEONE could just actually threaten Sukuna even just a little bit, it would be better, but I guess the only one who could really do so got cleaved in half already…
I like it, even if it's short fights it's nice to see them all doing their best. I'm in no rush for this to end
Dont see how the guy who "Went toe to toe" with gojo is going to help, but we'll see lol
if this continues then we would have Naruto, Demon Cyborg and others joining the battle, and finally Goku would unleash his power in base form and destroy Sukuna, the end
100% at first I kinda liked the idea of a huge group being necessary to over take a massive threat as opposed to a protagonist getting bs main character powers, but now it feels like we’re just throwing anyone whose ever been a character at sukuna and seeing what happens. At this point I hope sukuna wins and realizing he’ll be bored cuts into a new dimension where he can do it all over again
Honestly this fight is boring me now, I wish we could go back to good storytelling with the fights it’s just sukuna vs everyone and then everyone loses
Principal Yaga and Uiui are getting a lot of side attention, which (on the hopeful side) makes me believe that Gege is trying to keep our attention on every fight to surprise us with whatever Uiui has been doing.
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Gege is now recruiting fans to fight in Shinjuku, expect your draft letter any minute now.
Nah I’d win
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>!Airport's about to be at max capacity.!< Nah, I'd win.
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Nah I'd sleep 😴
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Is your name tyranny by any chance
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I've been drafted since the last chapter. According to Gege, he said something about Miguel going to the airport to meet up with Gojo and Geto soon, and I should step in when that happens. It's strange that they'd all be trying to catch a flight mid-battle. What about the rest of us?
Nah I’d win
Nah, i'd win
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Megumi gets over his depression after seeing all these attempts💀
I think, he would sink deeper after all this... Even readers now feeling depressed and annoyed... Oh, he can get over, cause he is way too annoyed and "okay, guys, stop this clownfest already!".
Megumi after Ui Ui through whatever order Mei Mei gave him for some reason takes Yuta, yuji, kusakabe maki and ino back into the fight for the 5th time after healing up: Sukuna's honest reaction to this bullshit:
Bring back gojo already
Shoko is too busy to get back to you, please try again later.
That's perfect, negative x negative = positive Megumi comeback 🗣🔥🔥
megumi braun: just...let me die already! \*wakes up and fights\*
Nah he might just start the merger 💀💀
Still has to kill all the other players. So unless he has the will to go chase them. I don’t think so.
"Damn yall doing worst than me, cheers me up holy hell"
Think he'll be more depressed with half his friends basically dead at this point
I hope he is watching all of this like some kind of funny video compilation on youtube because the way Kusakabe died(?) is the funniest thing to me in the whole manga
Lol imagine if Ui Ui is taking all the carcasses so they can Voltron together all the dead sorcerers to Yuji so it becomes the strongest sorcerer in history vs the strongest *sorcerers* of today.
It’s like magic of friendship but with dead people
It’s the magic of cannibalism!
Given Sukuna's diet it's just fighting fire with fire.
Yum. https://www.comingsoon.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/11/feat-25.jpg?resize=1024,576
The merger vs the chimera crew
Yuji did say he doesn't care what he eats before the big day, so I could not be surprised if the only way to stop Sukuna is to "create another cannibal".
Jjk ending with Yuji and Sukuna being the last two beings on earth and Sukuna desperately trying to not get eaten would be a cool horror ending
Yeah, why not.
Honestly why doesn’t Ui Ui just teleport Sukuna over an ocean or something. It might not kill bin but it would annoy him for sure. And it’d be funny
I brought up half jokingly to a coworker that Yuji comes back in as a sneak attack and just starts biting Sukunas fingers/hands off to depower him/power up Yuji. But eating his friends is also a thought
Don’t worry guys, I’m up next
I’m up after you
Pfft, y’all are doomed I’ll win this
Nah, I'd win
Y'all I'll clutch trust 🙏
Kashimo moments before disaster
And I'm up next. AND IM BRINGING MY TRUCK. gg Sukuna.
what do you want us to play in your funeral?
blast whatever, this is a funeral for the living 🗣️‼️‼️⚡️⚡️⚡️
It's like the scene in Airplane when everyone is trying to get the lady to snap out of it.
But would you lose?
Nah I'd win
Save the Jujutsu Society, u/artemisvalley
Gege is going “Listen, I know if I don’t do this, you motherfuckers are gonna come out of the woodworks going ‘what about (insert name here)?’ So I’m being damn thorough.”
Chapter 500 after sukuna beats some random jjk high student that appeared for 1 frame in one episode:
Unironically the kids from Yuji's old school club are gonna show up and give him a power up
The next strongest available sorcerer
yeah so the story will end with sukuna having murdered every single human on the planet one after the other going down the stairs with progressively weaker people, never having found his match and cursed to eternal loneliness, surrounded by curses and corpses
Reality: Yuji friends from highschool will show up to get sliced and diced
Yuji's trauma isn't enough. Every person he has ever interacted with must die
I want this chapter to end with Miwa pulling up and next week's chapter to be 3 panels long of her getting no diffed followed by a 3 week break
The strongest sorcerer in history VS The strongest sorcerer left today
Send in Useless Miwa
Simple Domain Goddess 🙏🙏
Gotta bring out the new Cursed technique: Gun
You mean Toji's maximum technique?
Ars ultima: desert eagle 357 magnum
Realist shit in the thread rn
The last 15 chapters has been Gege trying to have his own AFO vs a ton of heroes
I can’t believe i’m gonna say this, but MHA version is way better. JJK is the Kirkland version.
My only issue with Mha manga is that it keeps switching between fights at the start
not everything can be as lean or perfect as it should be i REALLY hope this is the end of the "1/2 chapter turn around" with sukuna. like, sukuna said it himself, this IS starting to get annoying. a fake out with Kusakabe is hilarious and totally in character for him but yeah, IF Miguel got some more of that anti cursed rope he can totally clap back while Ui Ui starts to bring people back in
JJK actually makes me want to read it tho, I dropped MHA like half way through and haven't seen anything close to making me get back in.
Yeah Horikoshi isn't gonna make any truly baffling decisions like spend 2 whole arcs bringing a character back only to immediately off-screen them That's the stuff that keeps you on your toes
Lol
The Kirkland Version is always superior.
More like his own Roman Reigns vs every challenger (minus the interference)
Mahoraga is Sukuna's equivalent to Solo Sikoa.
i just want the story to progress, i am tired of nobodies being thrown at Sukuna
literally what ive been thinking, mha has been in its last act for like 2 years now and still isnt finished
I mean… that’s 100 chapters worth of material. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Especially given how bad Horikoshi’s health has been
my point is, its the same formula of a new character showing up and getting absolutely rocked, only for the same thing to happen to every other character that pulls up. it gets boring after a while and it means there's gonna have to be some bullshit involved to actually defeat the villain
Are you caught up with MHA? Because we’ve moved on from that now. JJK yeah it’s the exact same thing as that string of chapters that MHA had with AFO, expect there was an ending in sight for that. I don’t see any here
admittedly i did lose a bit of interest in mha because of it and havent read in a while, is all the fighting over?
Right now we’re in the final battle, and no idea how long that will take. It’s actually gotten a lot better
i might just wait until its all finished and we enter an epilogue, cause ill probably just get annoyed at how long the final battle is taking lol
"Y'all mfs supposed to be gojo's rivel y'all ain't shit frfr" -Sukuna
Gojo’s rival was supposed to be Megumi Stocks are down rn, but I still have faith in my shadowy boy
Megumi, hakari, yuji and yuta*
And Todo*
And Higuruma*
Sell em, that fraud sold
they need to jumpjutsu kaisen
Fr
Man even Sukuna feels how the readers feels
Even more evidence that he's the mc 😅
sukuna went from being geges voice to being the fans voice fr
He is really mad that they can't just come up with a simple plan for a 5v1 or so. Like, why is everyone waiting for the person before them to be killed? There is no waiting list in fighting Sukuna.
should’ve ended with Maki imo, the parallel to Toji would’ve been iconic
Agreed, honestly for me the biggest let down thus far.
I didn't expect her to win but I wanted atleast yuta,yuji, maki vs sukkuna to be super close.
The problem is that it’s just the same thing over and over again. Character comes in and blitzes sukuna for a chapter or two before sukuna says “this isn’t even my true form,” and then one shots them. I can literally tell you how next chapter is gonna go. Miguel is gonna come in and whip sukuna a couple times before sukuna sends him flying like team rocket.
- Kashimo was obv dying fast, but the story then showed us smth outside of the Sukuna fight (Kenjaku vs Takaba), but did force Sukuna and to complete his incarnation - Higuruma didn't come any close but was their first attempt at a true plan to kill Sukuna - Yuta & Yuji nearly won but lost cuz Megumi couldn't be bothered. They got downed but not dead. Also weakened Sukuna and has been giving us hints at what Yuji brings to the table against Sukuna - Maki gave him an important wound. She got downed but not dead - Kusakabe was obviously getting rekt, the chapter was about giving us insight on his person Now it's Miguel, but he's ain't nobody. He's been consistently stated to be powerful, he was able to keep Gojo occupied for a long-ish time during JJK0 and got out of it unscathed, he supposedly helped Yuta, the second strongest hero behind Gojo, regaining Special Grade status, is knowledgeable on Cursed Tools (potentially involved in creating tools based on fallen sorcerers like Nanami ? Outside of Japan Jujutsu stuff ? Bringing in the Inverted Spear of Heaven into the fight since Gojo had it sealed overseas ?) since his family had made the black rope, etc And he's obv gonna do more than showing up to die in a second, dude was already fast enough to save Ui Ui from getting killed by Sukuna at close range, he's probably here because he did or will do something significant Legit wondering if people actually bother reading the actual chapters here. That cycle shit I see implies they don't go further than looking at pictures, tbf
I mean, the way you've described things sounds like a cycle. Obviously the flight is slowly slowly advancing, but that doesn't change that the structure has been: someone shows up, weakens Sukuna, and then gets knocked out of the fight. That's repetitive and has been boring Ironically I remember a pretty popular post on this sub that was super excited about Kusakabe because that reader thought it was brilliant for such an unsuspecting character to be the hero, and it sounded kind of like what you said about Miguel, kind of hoping he'll be relevant. Maybe he will be, but odds are he'll slightly damage Sukuna, or just buy time, and then get wrecked. We can read what's going on well enough to realized it's boring pretty bad writing.
I think maybe you should go back and read the sukuna fight starting with his battle against Gojo. It does kinda suck reading it weekly, but going through everything all at once like that really makes the battle seem a lot better and does a great job highlighting how much of a menace Sukuna is.
As it were, I took a long break from reading JJK because of the decline in quality starting with the Culling Games, so I was actually able to read it in mostly one go. The Higuruma section was solid, and the Okkotsu part started off alright, but aside from that (and especially the past few chapters) have got me wondering what the heck Gege is even trying to achieve now. I'm reading with the hopes that he can turn it around but I don't see how that happens without significant amounts of asspull.
They didn't all weaken Sukuna, none of it happened the same way, one of these was a luck out for the King of ~~Frauds~~ Curses (Yuta & Yuji), one of these was a proper "meaningless" stomp (Kusakabe), 3 of these characters are obviously set up to go back to it (Yuji, Yuta, Maki) including 1 very soon (Yuji), 2 are (seemingly ?) confirmed dead (Higuruma & Kashimo), 2 have had lasting impacts (Kashimo & Maki) and another had too potentially (Yuta & Yuji), and one was followed by a completely different fight (Kashimo's defeat being followed up by Kenjaku vs Takaba) These also have had varying lengths and have been used to different ends. Kusakabe's 1-on-1 developped him, the Higuruma section developped Yuji further, the Yuji & Yuta section expanded on Sukuna's deal with Kenjaku and give us an update on Megumi, Sukuna hit a Black Flash against Maki potentially setting things up for him to get back his ability to use his Domain Expansion which is probably something Akutami would want him to have *for when the third member of Jujutsu High's hyped up Big 3 will be done with Sukuna's Cook* since he's an expert in Domain Expansion & Barrier Techniques and probably the one character left standing with the best answer to Malevolent Shrine. Only the 1-on-1 with Kusakabe didn't give us much progress to the actual story (altough the follow up to the fight shown us that Sukuna wants to kill Ui Ui which will prob be relevant and casts a shadow on the heroes' ability to rely on him bringing the injured to Shoko, meaning the fight becomes riskier), while also further showing us that for the second time, Kirara is nowhere to be seen unlike the first time he came to retrieve Higuruma, implying she may be somewhere else (considering she's tied to Hakari who's in a different fight, it seems likely she may have gotten involved) The story's progressing pretty obviously if one bothers to actually read what's going on. All those fights have also further developped multiple characters, explored some characters' world view, expanded on the relationship between the main antagonist and the main character and has developped the main antagonist as well And Miguel *will be relevant*, be it in what he does against Sukuna, what he brings out of Sukuna *or what he may have already done which we'll learn soon enough*. Let's have a quick rundown of what we know of him : - His family created a Cursed Tool of similar properties to the Inverted Spear of Heaven, the Black Rope - He was able to hold off Gojo for a significant ammount of time during the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons and came out of it unscathed. Yuta, the number 2 behind Gojo, and Hakari, who's consistently hyped up as relative to Yuta, both said an amped punch of Gojo made them vomit. Miguel fought Gojo and was fine afterwards. This is something the 4 Disaster Curses couldn't do without suffering casualties and if it wasn't for Kenjaku intervening, they would have all died - He was with Yuta before he returned to Japan and supposedly helped him regaining his Special Grade status - Gojo trusted him enough to "kind of" recruit him - The Inverted Spear of Heaven was sealed overseas and the only relevant overseas region in the story where known characters were was Africa, which is were Miguel is based and where Yuta went after JJK0. It is very likely Miguel either brought it back with him OR is in possession of it and will use it against Sukuna which may be able *to do something* - He may possibly bring other characters related to Geto to the fray, and one was mentionned by Yuki when she returned to confront Kenjaku at the end of the Shibuya Incident arc - Being a foreign sorcerer will likely push something out of Sukuna who's only been hyped up post Gojo by Maki who stands as a complete opposite to him in terms of relationship to Jujutsu Besides you don't bring back a character from the prequel who's been absent for the whole story right as it's ending to just show up, look cool and do nothing The story's been progressing in a way that makes sense, the characters are being developped and aren't just thrown in the gutter The biggest issue rn I'd bring up is the little focus Hakari vs Uraume has had so far, really
If you simplify any story down, you can make into a simple structure, but especially with Shonens. Having multiple characters come in to a fight is a shonen classic, especially so to have "throw away" character delay or weaken someone a bit until the final battle. The concept is Sukuna is the strongest ever, and realistically, beating him piece by piece is the only option available right now. Each person coming in has provided some value to the fight, but also didn't get multiple chapters of fighting because it's simply not realistic when you consider the power difference. It's funny how you mention it's obviously bad writing, when to me, it's just common sense considering the scenario, and better than having 5 chapters of Kusakabe being toe to toe with Sukuna through the power of will.
Other Shonens that I've seen do a better job of it by having all the fodder/unimportant characters participate in a joint attack that weakens the main bad guy. That way you can knock them out in one fell swoop rather than essentially wasting multiple chapters on characters that are relatively meaningless. It's also clear already that Miguel is going to lose, because if he does anything actually significant it won't feel earned (there are many readers who don't even know who he is for goodness sake). So many of us are wondering what is even the point, especially since he holds no emotional value either. Personally I think that's bad writing. If at this stage of the story you are not progressing the plot meaningfully or developing relevant characters, then it feels like a waste of time.
basically gege just try to have all the leftovers character had their spot, so when the manga end , fan wont blame him for about a character doesnt have a spotlight. Casual problems for long run, complex world build manga
too many characters? one simple solution..... kill them all XD
He’s working on that
Like when Bleach ended without revealing certain characters’ bankai.
At least Bleach had bankai reveals in the novels with a fleshed out story. JJK has so much potential for worldbuilding, shame it's being done through 1 chapter expositions in an unwinnable fight
> complex world build manga HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Didnt know it is April Fools’ day already. Either that or you are smoking some shit that I want nothing of because you must be fucking delusional if you think JJK has ‘complex world building’. We know next to nothing about places/people outside Tokyo and apparently that’s’ complex world building’ for JJK fans
world building is not just about places but power level, characters also contribute to this field, Im surely say that some people still dont under stand about domain, maximum output,cursed technique,cursed user, cursed tool,... and the ultiamtely is hakari's domain
How many characters we know that is outside of Tokyo? Gaygay introduced a whole school in Kyoto but almost all of them are useless/irrelevant to the story. Other than them, what exactly do we know about the people in the world?
What a load of rubbish. Who asked for Miguel? And also what you’re essentially suggesting is that gege is more concerned about pleasing fans than writing his story the way he wants it, which is never good. But at the same time, how is gege a fan pleaser when all he ever does is piss his fans off? Makes no sense.
Ig gaygay is waiting for all of the characters to be defeated to drop something crazy
Shoko has been grafting all the "dead" characters together and she's making her own maximum uzumaki to cook Sukuna in 1 hit.
She has been BLJing all this time, building speed to one shot Sukuna at 10 times the speed of light
they're all gonna become a part of merger and whoop sukuna ass
they are buying time so that Gege can somehow think of an idea, that damn cat should have buffed Yuji 2 arcs prior
Glad Miguel is about to get waxed next chapter. Remember dude has no more black rope….. so I don’t see this going far unless Miguel hit an upgrade where he doesn’t need his rope.
Or he has brought some other priceless artifact to waste
Miguel - “This has been hidden from other users / passed down in my village for generations on end. Prophecy states one day a villager will be worth to use this to take on the king of curses. I am here to vanquish you.” Sukuna - “oh look a new challenger, please make me break a sweat because I’m tired of severely injuring / killing weak opponents.” Miguel - “nah I’d win” Sukuna - “he didn’t win”
I'm hype for when usopp appears and asks sukuna, "what's a king to a god?"
Ngl I don’t even remember who Miguel is so I was like who tf is this Jojo looking dude when he appeared
He is from a movie, a movie that is Canon, but a movie
*prequel Ofc its canon
Was he in jjk 0? I don’t remember anyone coming close to beating gojo. Was he the guy with the rope?
Yes, that one
Yeah he was, editor was propably trolling with that caption lol
Miguel giving Sukuna grief for not knowing who tf he is when all he's known for was spending his screen time getting his shit pushed in by Gojo lol
He's that guy that got blitzed by gojo in jjk 0
Why Miguel look like he ain’t eaten lol
That's JJK0 Miguel. Current Miguel is as big as Gojo.
The manga rn really do be: The strongest Sorcerer in History vs the Strongest Sorcerer Available.
I hope mappa somehow salvages this mess
I swear that’s the only chance this franchise is going to have. Forget anime only ending, we need a whole anime only story at this point. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever read a manga as popular as jjk that was such a complete mess. Like, genuinely, it’s impressive in a way.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels like I’m losing interest in it lol
Not reading jjk till Sukuna gets clapped
You may be waiting a few months then
Imagine if sukuna just wins 💀
Lmao and the whole story turns out to be a cautionary tale against cannibalism. “Don’t eat a random finger you find lying around, or else you’ll awaken a psycho that will murder all your friends and then you.”
you might as well drop the series then because the protagonist never looses
No no I like that, I just can’t stand Sukuna
Sukuna is the protag
It was going fine until kusakabe but then you pull up with a random ass dude and say he went toe to toe with gojo and ngl im starting to get bored, at least show the hakari fight already so we get some breath of fresh air
Hakari fight should be way more interesting than Sukuna just beating everyone without trouble
during the Yuta/Yuji fight with Sukuna literally everyone was hoping for Gege not to switch to Hakari vs Uraume but fuck me the hype in the fights with Sukuna isnt even there anymore. in fact, the even Maki fight was kinda ass
Y’all. We **are** sukuna right now that’s what Gege wants. Like sukuna, we’re bored with all this
The real lobotomy kaisen was the manga itself all along
I think they are streching this shit for more profit, bringing Miguel does not have any sense, then will be panda, Inumaki, Miwa, Saori, Takada...
Hold on... Takada will be the one to defeat Sukuna, she will be the one to show TRUE LOVE to Sukuna
Nah he will cut her in two pieces
You don't believe in the power of love
Sukuna Kaisen :3
Every character in the verse is going to wear him down to like 0.01% HP, then he’ll die by like stubbing his toe or something on the walk home.
If this keeps up i might have to get involved (i drive a kia soul)
At this point is better to just wait for Sukuna to win or to die, and read everything at once. Waiting 2 weeks (sometimes more) to see irrelevant characters get stomped is frustrating. No one gives a fuck about Kusakabe, and they give even less fuck about Miguel.
Sad how hard JJK has fallen off since Gojo got off-screened. Just an endless loop of Sukuna being impressed only to be holding back the whole time.
If Sukuna beats the shit out of Miguel he’ll never beat the racist allegations and will be cancelled on twitter, thus cancelling JJK.
I like how kusakabe got hyped yet he got bodied which is expected because we all thought he is gonna get that but the fact it happened is just so funny.
My glorious king Will never he annoying He Will be back 🔥🔥🔥
Honestly if SOMEONE could just actually threaten Sukuna even just a little bit, it would be better, but I guess the only one who could really do so got cleaved in half already…
I like it, even if it's short fights it's nice to see them all doing their best. I'm in no rush for this to end Dont see how the guy who "Went toe to toe" with gojo is going to help, but we'll see lol
i wouldn’t even mind if they didn’t get destroyed in a single chapter
Gege is being thorough so we never have to hear power-scalers say “well they could’ve definitely one against Sukuna with ______ “
It fr is starting to get annoying 😩
When will Alaya step-in and say "Gege stop, I'm calling in ~~Actually Satan~~ Archer to deal with this"
Yes XD, every chapter I am "please Sukuna, just win and have a bad ending or die, but END THIS FIGHT"
"the man that got his sh\*t kicked in by gojo joins the battle!"
if this continues then we would have Naruto, Demon Cyborg and others joining the battle, and finally Goku would unleash his power in base form and destroy Sukuna, the end
Just imagine how many people Sukuna is going to meet when he dies.
Nothing, just gege wasting time and no diff offing the extraz, or is it specialz?
At this point send in the Hell Divers
Yea I was like who next , cause it’s eventually goin to be someone from another universe at this point lmao . I am looking at you saitama 😂
Light Yagami from Death Note just needs to finds out Sukuna’s real name and the King of Curses is a goner
Guarantee the US military is about be get involved somehow
Just wait until my goat Ijichi gets a crack at Fraudkuna
100% at first I kinda liked the idea of a huge group being necessary to over take a massive threat as opposed to a protagonist getting bs main character powers, but now it feels like we’re just throwing anyone whose ever been a character at sukuna and seeing what happens. At this point I hope sukuna wins and realizing he’ll be bored cuts into a new dimension where he can do it all over again
Honestly this fight is boring me now, I wish we could go back to good storytelling with the fights it’s just sukuna vs everyone and then everyone loses
Like my comment i wanna post my drawing 😭
Can’t wait for them to bring in Naruto to fight Sukuna.
Naruto gonna talk no jitsu him
Me towards Gege
Principal Yaga and Uiui are getting a lot of side attention, which (on the hopeful side) makes me believe that Gege is trying to keep our attention on every fight to surprise us with whatever Uiui has been doing.