#also geto sure is 'maki is trash useless monkey' after getting owned by a trash useless monkey. geto. geto your ideology

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"the second funniest thing is the attempt to make us feel emotions about geto 'wants to do a genocide' suguru maybe not completely hating gojo :( and maybe.... being able to come back?" YES PLEASE OMG everyone on my tl were going on & on about how great these two were that when I finally watched the show I was like HUH? THIS is who you want me to root for?? THIS is what y'all were going crazy about? THESE TWO??

This 100% personal bias since it's one of my favorite manga but while watching jjk, I couldn't stop comparing parts of Gojo & Suguru to Donten ni Warau (especially Gojo to Tenka, one of the MCs of the manga, since they have similar personalities) and kept feeling like Donten did it better...

I haven't seen Donten ni Warau! But you're right - given all the hype I heard about these two, I was rather shocked to see what we were actually given to work with. 5 episodes of backstory, only one of which actually gave extended focus to Gojo and Geto's backstory, and the one movie where Geto gets to be a villain?

And then he's dead. Poof. It's been Kenjaku the whole time. I'm really bemused by it. I'm not kidding when I say JJK's first s2 opening had to do a lot of the legwork of establishing the tone of their friendship.

I'm really sorry, but I'm supposed to spend Hidden Inventory caring about Gojo and Geto instead of Riko? Instead of Gojo vs Toji? okay. (Toji's resurrection is the third funniest thing. Did you realise you killed him too soon, Mr Author? Talk about the most pointless resurrection ever. Like, I'm glad to see him, it's a good look, but?? Lol??)

It's a crying shame that ... well, JJK 0 was much better ground to stress test Gojo and Geto's relationship, and that was a one-off/movie. If we'd spent more time with villainous cult leader weirdo Geto bouncing off Gojo before killing him off and replacing him, maybe I'd be more engaged? As it is I'm just kinda. "Yep, he sure is a character that exists and was friends with Gojo I guess."

That being said, I'm not super sold on any relationships in JJK. I barely spend enough time with these characters to care when some of them died, let alone bought into their interpersonal relationships. Itadori and Megumi's friendship feels like an informed attribute most of the time - there's really not that much time between Itadori's 'return' and the Shibuya arc, and the Shibuya arc killed off Nanami and Nobara before they got to do much of anything...

I think JJK 0 works better with its cast given the time it has - I'm sold on the 2nd years though I won't be too shocked if that's the most significant interaction they end up getting given prior patterns, but the main characters... man, they faked out Itadori's death way too soon. And kept him off screen way too long. Say what you will about Naruto, but the Bell Test and the Land of Waves did a lot of heavy lifting when it came to establishing that the team comes to care about each other before the Chuunin Exams.

I mean, it falls off later with Team 7, but pre-Shippuuden.

I'm just so bewildered with this show. Characters I like died in season 2 before they did much of anything. Nothing interesting has happened yet. It feels like we missed a bunch of arcs that should've been crammed in before Shibuya. What's going on.