#I don’t hate any of the other characters btw I just want Kenny to win
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Please let Kenjaku live
Sukuna is untouchable, elegant, he is Might Makes Right. He is an interesting character, but I feel he’s often given the author’s more monotonous parts of the plot. Sukuna often… brings out the angst in our heroes? Characters who fight Sukuna do it one-on-one to prove a point about their own strength, or be taught about love, or etc etc.
This isn't bad or poorly written, but Yorozu -> Gojo -> Kashimo encompassed several months of Loneliness-Love-Strength talk.
...on the opposite side of the spectrum, characters fight Kenny because they are an evil evil Motherfucker who has to be fucking taken down! Our heroes have to just fucking repeatedly jump Kenjaku because otherwise they will kill everyone for their fun quirky science experiment. Kenjaku revels in making and carrying out evil plans, and whenever they aren’t on-page both the characters and the reader just know they're up to some evil plan shit. It makes every time they appears feel so much more impactful.
Sukuna would’ve had a plan to take out Choso and Yuki. Kenny just waltzed on in ready with a fully-prepared lecture, got their ass beat, and almost died three times. Their fights are a lot scrappier and desperate on both sides because they are not about Strength or Loneliness or Love, they're about Literally How Do We Kill Kenjaku. They is incredibly smart and powerful, how can we use their personality against them?
In the Choso-Yuki fight, you really get the sense that Kenny barely survived due to quick thinking and grit.
Because of all this, the characters’ plan of “Distract Kenjaku with a Shiny New Toy so Yuta can get a cheap shot in” is way more fun (in my opinion) than how they’ve dealt with 10Shadows Sukuna until now. This kind of plot progression is necessary (in my opinion) to keeping me interested in the characters' plan, and right now Kenny, as an antagonist, is just making the protagonist group do more interesting things.
TL;DR I want Kenjaku to win the story please... I want to see their reaction to the merger! And tell Yuji that they are his mother! Sorry Yuta I love you but I hope you get body snatched
#jjk#jjk manga spoilers#ryomen sukuna#kenjaku#jjk 243#jjk meta#also I think Kenjaku is clearly Gege’s favorite. Maybe along with takaba#and yuta. And Ryu#Also also if he dies we lose the one character who is interested in the actually fun parts of the power system#I don’t hate any of the other characters btw I just want Kenny to win
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