#he lacks patience and doesn't take enough time to build a proper foundation for his ideas

[nanamis-bigtie]

gege is really good at character design & development, so it hurts even more to see how much of it goes to waste or just...passes by unnoticed because the most interesting aspects of the story are closed forever in author's commentary instead of being put into the manga

take toji as an example. he's easily one of the most tragic figures, and fuck, we all know that gege made competition for this title extra hard, but to get proper insight into his story we need to fish for scraps of data all over the place except for its part shown in manga. his relationship with zen'in clan, his relationship with megumi's mom and their tragic fate - two cores of his character - are mentioned somewhere in author's notes or thrown in passing much later than it's needed to properly understand scenes that happened months ago. the reading of his actions completely changes when you know what led him to become the man we've met in gojo's backstory.

and hell, it doesn't influence just toji. megumi's, maki's, mai's, naoya's storylines are inextricably tied with toji's, he's the foil and the trigger for all of them, and you can't quite grasp the understanding of them without understanding of toji first, and toji is so underwritten it hurts

"people can't read with understanding of text anymore" people shouldn't dig in extras to be able to grasp characters and story as author intended for fucks sake

show, don't tell, show, don't tell, show, don't fucking tell