#hanami actually didn't do much in terms of damage

[erigold13261]

"JJK Doodles"

While drawing these, I realized that I'm pretty sure Hanami didn't kill or significantly injure a major character of the series like Mahito, Jogo, and Dagon did (though I could absolutely be wrong).

She really out here not doing much, and I love that for her. Go girl! Give us nothing! <3

[hxhhasmysoul]

Same anon and fwiw, I think Gojo will win but die and the students will have to deal with everything else, and Sukuna will have to accept being defeated and weaker than someone which will be interesting for his character.

And sorry, I don't see an issue with depending on on the fly smart manoeuvres over long term strategy. And I liked your blog before but I feel you're being unpleasantly rude to people who like Gojo and aren't calling Sukuna a fraud or shit like that.

There is so much to unpack here.

You came to me with your first ask that was phrased in a way meant to provoke me due to its tone, and I explained to you why I think the thing I think. Gave you 2 arguments for it. Then you came with your second ask which you phrased in a pretty rude way and in which you try to provoke me more by completely ignoring the points I made. Kept implying that the main problem is that I don't want to admit that Gojou's smart or whatever.

You finished it off with: "You hate the idea of Gojo winning, I get it, but you could be more self aware of your bias lol." Do you think this sentence somehow doesn't mean: your opinions are stupid because you're not perfectly objective. And implies this as a contrast between you, the objective one and me, the subjective one. Are you a right wing/centrist influencer who thinks that the appeal to the fallacy of objectivism is somehow a discussion ending statement? Do you somehow not know that the accusation of subjectivism and emotion is used by the right wingers and centrists to shut up people, especially women and queer people? If you weren't aware what you sounded like. If you really didn't mean it in your head as a dismissive provocation, I'm sorry to tell you, you live in a culture with certain cliches and strangers online will not be able to glean your pure intentions when you use loaded language like this.

So I matched your tone. And now you're here: I don't like you anymore because when I was rude to you, you should've been extra nice to me. I'm sorry stranger online who I had no idea reads things on my blog that I won't roll over for you and pretend to you that this also isn't straight from some right wing playbook of internet discourse. The appeal to civility when you broke the rules of it first.

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Yes, Sukuna managed to seem a bit human in this fight, got a tiny bit character development. Gojou got none.

Both of them enjoyed this fight equally, they were both very mean to each other and insulted each other to rattle each other. Both of them were purely focused on dominating. Gojou in an even more open way by yelling: look I will humiliate you in front of an audience...

Gojou never respects his opponents, in no fight of his, he always insults them. Sukuna actually praised his opponents 3 times in total, 1 time purely mockingly, the finger bearer, 2 times the mocking tone was actually laced with sincerity, Megumi and Jougo.

Because Gojou disrespects his opponents he makes them other people's problems.

He disregards Touji, thinks Touji's attacks and actions are merely to distract Gojou so Touji can go after Riko, because Gojou can't even perceive himself as vulnerable or as a target at a time when his techniques aren't perfected yet, then he's still a kid. Riko dies. But Gojou ascends because he's untouchable. He suffers no permanent damage from that just gets stronger.

He destroys the Inverted Spear of Heaven and the Black Rope later out of pure selfishness and pettiness because they could be used against him and even a tiny bit level the playing field, that will not stand.

He doesn't contain Jougo, just bullies him in the open. Hanami saves Jougo and Gojou doesn't give a shit because he can easily best Jougo. Countless people die, including Nanami.

Gojou doesn't make sure to kill Hanami during the school attack.

Had he respected these opponents and killed them, Kenjaku would've had a much harder time pulling off Shibuya.

Gojou knows something's cooking, that he might be a target. He very flippantly concerns himself with it. After all, he can take everything that anyone throws at him.

Shibuya happens, countless people die. Culling games happen countless people are affected, die, are displaced. All because Gojou has zero respect for his opponents.

He doesn't even treat Sukuna as a potential threat. He'd win, maybe he'd break a bit of a sweat but he'd win. And he does. Because the rules that govern all other characters, including Sukuna do not apply to Gojou.

Gojou is exactly the amount a piece of shit as Sukuna. Sukuna is actively homicidal and Gojou shows so little regard for others and is so neglectful that people die and suffer. But Gojou is worshiped, there's so much propaganda behind him that everyone sees him as a savior. It's perverse.

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Sukuna didn't get nervous so he lost. Sukuna lost because the longer they fought the more damage he too, it affected him. His power level, his abilities, his durability.

Nothing that happened in the fight affected Gojou for longer than a moment. His power level kept resetting. None of the damage stuck.

The brain damage Sukuna suffered was because that's how Gojou's technique works. Sukuna had no choice but to take it and hope for the best, he miscalculated, didn't asses his condition well enough. Instant consequences, that carry on throughout the fight.

The brain damage Gojou suffered was unintentionally self inflicted. He instantly gets over it, he didn't know that it'd happen but he walks it off. It has no bearing on the fight going forward.

Gojou has a secret childhood technique that perfectly counters Sukuna's type of attack. No damage.

Gojou can pull off a Black Flash because he's undamaged, because he's power levels don't drop.

Why can't Sukuna perform it? Why doesn't he counter with it and reap the benefits of it? He doesn't know how to? Toudou explained it to Yuuji, so even if Sukuna didn't know it before then he'd've known it now.

Oh and Hollow Purple doesn't affect Gojou because it's his own cursed energy... Funny how that didn't apply to Yuki.

Clever moves mean nothing if you're not bound by the rules of the game. Sukuna isn't worse than Gojou in figuring out what's going on in the fight on the spot. He's just bound by the rules. All the other characters are.

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Being able to think on the fly isn't less than planning. It can be absolutely fucking amazing. Yuuji fights like that. All his fights are so fucking good. He's very good at reading and understanding his opponent. In matching them, in countering them. The fights wouldn't be half as good if he wasn't bound by the rules. If his reactions or tactics or maneuvers always worked flawlessly. If he didn't take damage. If his superhuman qualities weren't consistently met with reality checks.

These fights are fucking brutal, they are heart breaking. He's so amazing and heart-wrenching alone, he's even better when he fights with someone else, with Nanami, with Nobara, with Toudou with Megumi or Maki. His fights are gripping, they make me scream, or cheer, or cry.

But thinking on the fly to magically counter everything that is thrown at you is not exciting after a while. Coming up with clever tactics that always work as planned, especially when the character isn't affected by the fight while their opponent is.. and while their opponent really planned for the fight. and while the opponent is equally smart but somehow fails a lot... that's just plot armour, that's deus ex machina. For me there's no excitement in that. And if everything works in Gojou's favour it really doesn't feel like he's actually doing much.

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But all above is actually just insult to the true injury that is this fight happening at all.

You know what would've been perfect. If Gege never answered the question who's the strongest. If those two arrogant fuckers never got to measure their dicks against one another. If they both got humbled and suffered the consequences of who they are.

Gojou should've stayed in the box until it was all over. He should've have been thusly rewarded for his arrogance. It should've been proven to him that he's not indispensable. That him being one of the kind is nice but the world doesn't need that. That the victims of his negligence managed to clean up his fucking mess. And that if he wants to be a part of the world he needs to rethink who he is.

Sukuna should've been beaten by people individually weaker than him. It doesn't really humble him to be beaten by an invulnerable being. Sukuna did consider himself above all but at no point it seems that he thinks that the rule don't apply to him.

Gojou comes from the supposition that they won't, that whatever reckless thing he does, the universe will align itself and it does. There are no stakes, there is no tension.

All the stress is manufactured by Gege adding an audience because none of it comes from Gojou himself. It's all from the people who don't know that the rules don't apply to him and who care about him.

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People whose potential is being wasted, whose stories are being put on hold.

And look what Kusakabe says: there are still Uraume and Kenjaku to fight... why isn't Gojou going to kill them? He's fine, he can't be affected by anything. So now others are supposed to risk their lives... Why? What's the logic here?

Because the Sukuna fight was Gojou's dick measuring contest, a little ego booster, an opportunity to show off to the public. There's nothing cool with him coming up to Uraume and exploding them like he did with Hanami. The audience wouldn't even register that it happened. He's done. He showed how cool he is, he didn't save Megumi but that never was the point of this exercise. He's done.

Also as I said, magically nothing he did made Megumi worse, at least nothing to the effect has been mentioned. The stakes literally don't exist.

Now the kids can go and die dealing with Uraume and Kenjaku, tough love... or like Ijichi put it he's just lazy. And selfish. He kinda beat Sukuna... will he contain him? Considering how he behaved with Jougo... Maybe he learned something from that one...

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Speaking of the kids, he supposedly does it all for them, just not for Megumi fuck that one. And fuck all the weak ones who didn't survive, like Mai. So he put Gakuganji in charge. Gakuganji who doesn't consider Yuuji human. Gakuganji who killed Yaga. A death Gojou made all about himself. He wasn't there to prevent it. But now he surely will be so it's okay to put Yaga's murderer and the person who actively tried to kill Yuuji twice, in charge of the system the kids are trapped in. The system that killed Mai because there was no way out for her.

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To me whether Gojou's move can be considered tactics or can be considered smart is a moot point in the context of how his character functions in the story. If he pulled some of these things... not all of them because the sheer amount of these clever instant solutions also diminishes their impact... If he pulled some of them off, failed others and was actually in any way affected by the fight then we could talk about him outplaying Sukuna. I will repeat it one last time. You can't outplay anyone if the rules don't apply to you because then you're not actually playing the game, you're just taking the board and breaking it.

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I have no idea how Gege is planning to sell whatever happens next.

If they focus on Yuuji now and his overdue family time and matricide, if it's painful, excruciating, tense and beautiful I will stop caring about how annoying and disappointing this fight was.