#The negative. And the ultimate positive aspect at the core of it all. That Gojo did care and that Gojo did take care | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

longagoitwastuesday · 3 months ago

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ngl it sort of pisses me off the way adults regard Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen at times. Which could be a very interesting and poignant point in a good way if well written, but as it is it becomes mainly just frustrating and sad in a negative way.

Nanami saying Gojo never cared about anything or anyone other than himself crashes interestingly with Kusakabe saying the whole situation was just all his fault because he refused to kill Itadori. The students are very aware of those aspects of Gojo's personality, but overall they seem to regard him with way more kindness and fondness even when at their rudest, not truly coinciding with either Nanami's or Kusakabe's views.

#Kusakabe's words are harsh and negative but there's some true and some logic to them #but in beholding the entire story and the whole context‚ especially with the flashbacks in mind‚ in getting to know the sweet kid Yuuji is‚#the reader is made to find Kusakabe's words a bit outrageous and cruel and Gojo's position becomes the obvious one like Nanami's was #Like Kusakabe's is too in a way since he too says no matter what it's always the adults' fault whatever the cause was #And following the story we see Gojo cared a lot about those kids and them keeping their youthful cheerfulness if in his very flippant way #That's basically his main constant thread. We see it at the very beginning in what he did for Yuta and how Yuta is so fond of him #We see him at the very end in a way too with the letters he left #And his entire motivation was changing the very messed up society to avoid the kids going through what he and his friends went through #and to prevent them from being lonely the way he felt he was. Ontologically alienated. Entirely othered #And of course it's in part him keeping people away like Shoko. Or even Yuta (though here again it's at the core of his action his attempt #at protecting the kids and trying to prevent them from growing too fast)#And of course this is motivated by his own experiences and in that sense not entirely a selfless act #But those things still don't negate that his goal was for the future kids to be... in a better situation than what he and his friends lived #So Nanami's words are very cruel and... blind. Of course it's possible that Gojo's way of approaching the problem is still something #Nanami would regard as selfish (but it could be argued that so is Nanami's)‚ or that Gojo's perception of Nanami's way of thinking #about him would be this negative. But what we see through the story absolutely contradict Nanami's words in that airport #And though both Nanami's words and Kusakabe's are negative in regards to Gojo‚ they in a way contradict each other #The kids' words and way of seeing Gojo is most of the time more... accurate? If also diverse among them #They see him like an idiot. They trust him. They think he's childish and annoying. They love him #They find him flippant. They know he cares about them. In a way they see both what Kusakabe and Nanami say about him #The negative. And the ultimate positive aspect at the core of it all. That Gojo did care and that Gojo did take care #and that Gojo risked and sacrificed a lot for them and that Gojo was doing this in great part because of his own past #Yuta perhaps is the one who sees it best but it's so interesting too the dynamic Maki‚ Yuuji and Megumi have with Gojo‚ his acts and antics #And this whole thing‚ this frivolous and even... cruel way most adults seem to regard Gojo and how it clashes with the kids' deep feelings #about him (beyond the initial 'he's an untrustworthy idiot' though those as well!') is super interesting and super sad and super juicy #OR IT COULD BE bc in the end all that happens is that Nanami says that and Gojo pouts comically or that Kusakabe makes that offhand comment #as if it held no weight‚ as if Yuji weren't present and had never agonised over it‚ as if Gojo hadn't lost his life trying to save the kid #And yes he risked more than his life but he was trying to save a kid bc another kid (bc Megumi!) asked. But maybe it didn't matter if no one #asked. He saved Yuta too. Of course he would have risked it all. In his mix of selfishness and selflessness. Everything is so juicy #yet the writing feels so dry and lame. There's no pondering. There's talk of guilt and grief without any true sense of grieving or loss

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