#cinderella had a pumpkin coach and mice. Geto suguru had a giant four-winged stork and Toji's fuck-ass worm

[akwertyy]

Why I like Satosugu [Pt.2]

link to part 1

Geto is a character that I have mixed feelings about. I can understand why he snapped in the way that he did, and even find the depiction of his downward spiral to be pretty compelling. The endless monotony of going through the motions, only to be met with the corpses of your comrades as your best friend leaves you behind? The frustration that you can't overcome your lack of talent? Chef's kiss.

The whole situation resulted in Geto forming a superiority complex in order to hide his inferiority complex. He acted as if he was a higher being with superior logic, when he was actually lashing out in blind rage at all non-sorcerers.

He formed new connections, just like Gojo, but he cut off all of his old ones in order to do so. For example, he took in Mimiko and Nanako, in exchange for murdering his own parents.

All of this is pretty interesting stuff to chew on. I guess it's the holier-than-thou attitude he's got going on that doesn't exactly endear him to me. Y'know what, it's complicated. I like him and I don't. There's parts of him that I do, and parts of him that I don't. Gojo is arrogant too, but we get to see a lot more of his quiet sentimentality, so it balances out. There are sides of Gojo we get to see that Geto never gets a chance to show because he's, well, dead.

One of Geto's rare appearances after the Hidden Inventory Arc is when Mimiko and Nanako recall the time they'd asked Geto who Gojo Satoru was. Geto answers with "He was my best friend. But we fought, and things have been like this ever since."

He used the past tense, making the distinction that they were once best friends but aren't anymore. Interestingly, by comparison, Gojo referred to Geto as his best friend in the present tense when he returns Okkotsu's ID card to him at the end of JJK0. As if Geto had always been his best friend and never stopped being his best friend.

This reflects the difference in their attitudes pretty well. Like I said, Geto left behind his old ties to form new connections. Gojo, on the other hand, was still bound by his ties to the past, to the point that he referred to the past as if it were the present. He even experienced the past as the present when he saw Kenjaku and relived those three years of his youth. From just this standpoint, you could argue that Geto didn't care that much about Gojo, in the end. But that's not the whole picture. Did Geto move on? Yes, but even he still held onto vestiges of his youth.

Even with his use of the past tense, Geto's first response when asked about Gojo is that he was his best friend. I forget which chapter it was in, but there was an extra where the 1st years and 2nd years of Tokyo High plus like Nanami and Todo are asked "What is Gojo Satoru to you?" They all gave slightly varying answers, but they all end up defining him as "The Strongest." And in the same panel, it's just Gojo standing by himself.

Geto left Gojo behind after asking "Are you the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru? Or are you Gojo Satoru because you're the strongest?"

And despite almost everything in the story screaming about Gojo standing alone as the strongest for essentially a decade, Geto still thought of him as former best friend first and a sorcerer second.

Not to mention their final conversation. We didn't get to see it as much, but Geto still cared. Even if he had tried to move on after a decade. He still had soft words for Gojo at the end of it all.