#it just feels like sometimes that not even gege knows what he’s doing 😭

[gothsuguru]

ok. genuine thoughts. i’m upset that this was the route taken… i just think that it would’ve been more impactful had it actually BEEN satoru/hell even if it was sukuna’s mind playing tricks on him… bc it would’ve been instilling fear/doubt in sukuna’s mind which has never been done by anyone else before! also… i just wish it was JUST satoru himself. like i love yuuta and if it HAD to be anyone overtaking satoru’s body, i mean i’m glad it was yuuta and not kenjaku bc at least you know there’s no maliciousness involved! but it’s like… it’s so burdensome. to yuuta to have to do this and live w this fact + satoru said he doesn’t care what happens to his dead body but idk i just would think that gege would leave gojo’s body ALONE. gojo’s body should’ve never been on the playing field of “being used” i think he should’ve been the exception… having someone else inside THE gojo satoru’s body is just idk i don’t like that writing choice…

also. wouldn’t it have been more impactful if either:

1) sukuna AND yuji saw gojo and didn’t know what the hell was going on? sukuna feeling doubt at what he’s seeing and yuji feeling doubt/relief? because that’s HIS sensei. even if it was a mirage i think it would’ve been better than what we got if i’m being honest

2) and this is my own PERSONAL wish. i just wish that satoru would have chosen north and reached enlightenment/chose his students and pushed forward. bc that’s what makes satoru, SATORU. the youth. the future. his students. him losing the six eyes and not being “the strongest” anymore but it doesn’t matter bc his students got HIS back and he has THEIRS. hell even if he keeps his six eyes and just reaches enlightenment to GET stronger would be totally fine too! bc guess what… megumi is STILL inside sukuna. like i think gege fucking forgot about him -> in turn satoru doesn’t mention megumi… which is INSANITY bc he RAISED that boy. satoru raised megumi longer than toji did. like… idk.

there’s just personally so many things i’d do differently and it’s not even about “subverting expectations” i think gege should still service the story/characters without always caring about what Crazy Subversion he can do… bc then you end up LOSING the ideals/personality of the characters themselves!

idk man… i’m beyond glad we got gojo panels and i’m glad yuuta is back but also… it isn’t yuuta in his own body 😭 and also i feel like we should’ve gotten more yuji/yuuta team up… and ANOTHER also. i didn’t feel anything when choso died like………. gege is so casually killing characters off and it doesn’t even service the plot it’s just useless… so there’s no EMOTION behind it. which is crazy bc i love choso and i should’ve been wailing when he died but there just wasn’t any build up… :/ also. i’m still mad about the twin theory not being real. uncle/nephew is one thing but twin theory would have been PERFECT. same with gojo losing six eyes/reaching white light enlightenment idc either one. also suguru would absolutely be the type of man who would tell satoru to go forward and go north… same w nanami. nanami would want yuji protected at all costs… AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON GOJO BARELY EMOTING WHEN NANAMI DIED!!!!!! ok now i’m just ranting abt my qualms w the manga. anyways. i’m curious what happens but like… these chapters don’t HIT like how hidden inventory/yuji higu fight hit… like atp bring back toji again i think he’d team up w yuji to bring his son back like we lost the plot…

but also. anyone being mad at yuuta you have critical thinking/reading issues… like yuuta is doing all of this out of desperation he has no other choice 😭 you can’t fight sukuna by being all sweet and humane like… i fear you gotta get monstrous to deal w a demon like him. yuji ate his siblings. there’s just heinous shit you gotta do to deal with this type of man and that’s what you have to do… again it’s the tie in of being a “monster” and feeling like you have no other options: aka something that ALL jjk characters (gojo, geto, toji, yuji, megumi, nanami) had to DO. you’ll have to do things you don’t want to in order to secure a safer future for your loved ones. like damn i hate that gege wrote it like this but alas… what can we do! 😭 just don’t be mean to yuuta or else i’ll fight you idgaf 🤨 but tbh w the way shit is going… if gege kills off yuuta… i’m killing myself. i’m gonna acc drop the manga………….

[cherryys]

I don't particularly like how people sometimes portray itafushi as "pretty smart guy x dumb himbo" mainly because, to me, has implications of "there needs to be a dainty guy who's the brains and a big strong guy who's just nothing but brawns" which feels like an interpretation confromed in heteronormativity. You don't have to make one guy in a gay ship a damsel in distress who can't protect himself and only exists to tell the other guy what to do because he's "smarter", and you don't have to infantalize the other and make him dumb as rocks that only know hows to punch and kick and needs constant guidance from his partner on what to do in any given situation. You can make them both capable. You can make them both able to think for themselves and their actions. You can make them both strong. You can find balancing ways to make them both compliment each other. These characters are complex, they exist beyond the character trope boxes you try to force them into.

One of my favorite things about megumi and yuuji's dynamics is that they make up for any weak spots the other would have during a fight. Yuuji acts first and thinks later, and that could be super beneficial for most fights, especially since Curses and Curse Users are known for taking drastic action first, but sometimes you have complex techniques like Inverse which needs a little bit more strategizing first, which is where Megumi, who thinks first and acts later, comes in. Apart from the fact that he just has more jujutsu knowledge than Yuuji, Megumi has a keen eye for detail (see: even in the midst of being severely injured, he managed to notice Hanami's weak point and tell Todo (and later Gojo) about it). He just noticed Inverse's mechanics and quickly applied a strategy to beat him. This is not to say Yuuji wouldn't have eventually figured it out (he's very adaptable and a quick learner!) Megumi just figured it out faster due to his high Battle IQ, but that does not diminish Yuuji's intelligence at all. He's quick on his feet, he's relentless in his attacks (Mahito) and can adjust to any changes in the battle (allies coming to help him). That's intelligence.

On the other hand, we have people who think Megumi is incapable of fighting. Now, this is mostly because Gege gave Megumi so many Ls at the start (😭), but if you see his growth, you can see him plenty capable of taking on opponents on his own. He can fight for himself, he's a capable fighter too. He handled himself well against Toji (despite what the anime wants you to believe), got jumped by 3 people while really exhausted and still won. Just because Yuuji is stronger than him physically (and not by that large of a margin as some make out) doesn't make him any less capable of scraping with someone, fists and all.

You can make them balanced while still having flaws (Yuuji being reckless, Megumi being someone hesitant who always second-guesses his actions) but i get annoyed when those flaws turn up to a 1000

[epickiya722]

Haha right? It's so normalized while it's actually so inappropriate to go to a stranger and talk about their sexual preferences.

I hate how "x fans" is called "x fuckers" now. Yeah I like Sukuna. No I don't want to fuck him. But all there is in his tags.

I'd go as far as to say that people don't care about characters. They just want to put them into tropes box to imagine them as their vampire/alpha male/ceo lover.

And I find it ironic how the same will trash talk about fanboys while they do the exact same thing. '"let women be horny" they will say, because reducing a story to you being horny is ok.

I still want to publish my stories because some fandom gave me hope. But I don't hold my breath anymore.

It is very inappropriate. Like, damn, I can't just like the character? I can't be entertained by their antics?

There are just so many things that shouldn't be normalized across fandoms and going into someone's inbox to be like "*insert character* fucker" is one.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind people having their fantasies about their faves, let alone am I gonna police anybody on or care to. Waste of my time, I got fics to write! Posts to post! 😭

But sometimes I do think "does this person actually care about the character's story"?

Because some of those same people will have so many takes on their faves that don't even be that character. That is a whole OC you created!!

I actually wasn't aware of this until only recently that people accepted for Sukuna to become some absolute horndog when Yorozu was up all over him. Maybe I missed something, but Sukuna only ever expressed being interested in fighting and killing people and personally, he never really came across as some sexual deviant to me.

I feel like sometimes if you have this fanon version of your fave, that is not your favorite. In no way, should you feel the need to like this whole other version of your "fave" in order to like him. Then why have them as your favorite in the first place?

I like Sukuna because he entertains me. He's this evil ass menace who wants all the smoke and the biggest beef he has is with a 15 year old (who is my all time favorite of JJK). Sukuna also this mysterious air about him because we still don't know much about his backstory, let alone everything he can do. (I had this recent thought about a technique that I should probably get to writing.) I have theories about his character, like how he may really be as a person, true. But at the same time, I'm not gonna believe my theories about him are canon because "I know him better than Gege". Anything I say isn't canon unless said so explicitly. I didn't create Sukuna. I am just another fan just vibing along with the story.

And it really is insane to me that people will do that. People were saying "female fans of JJK are ruining the fandom, they're all so horny" as if all us are horny, let alone engage in the anime for said reasons.

The same people *cough cough* misogynists *cough* who say that be the same people who will have a wallpaper of someone like Nami as their header and she'll have boobs bigger than what she has in canon.

Oooh, y'all don't like folks be objectifying the JJK men, huh? Even though for years female characters have gotten the treatment in Shonen. You cannot be dragging Gojo fans when you want to be Makima's dog. Stop that now.

Also, its not just the men! Uh, Yuki Tsukumo exists! She has a lot of fans who find her attractive. There's Shoko, Utahime, Takako, Mei Mei...

I'm waiting for the day 143 gets animated because I just know people are gonna go 👀.

Like, either way, if you're a person who gets constantly horny over your faves, why are you upset with someone doing the same?

I saw this meme post about how people tend to overlook the story and its details and only focus on the attractive cast and fights. And some people were like "but people are only focusing on the fights and attractive cast".

No, they're not. You're missing the point.

For one, you can find the characters attractive and enjoy the fights. That is fine. But at the same time, don't miss the story. Pay attention to it because it's just as important, if not more.

Second, not everyone is focused on just the fights and cast. If that was the cast, why do we have theories and meta posts? Why do we have people writing fics that study the character they're writing about? If no one is focusing on the story and only like the fights and attractiveness of the characters, then those kind of posts from fans wouldn't exist.

[celestie0]

I’m so sorry that you have to deal with that. It genuinely is a gap in maturity because he’s a person with a life before reader (I know Gojo is fictional but for the sake of this topic I’m going to ask yall to be realistic since IHM touches on a lot of reality). People aren’t just side characters to your story, they’ve existed and will continue to exist whether or not you’re around. That doesn’t devalue anyone or make them gross, that’s just life 😭

You are absolutely right that it is a red flag if someone (that’s interested in relationships and stuff) has not had any prior experience bc that means there’s a reason for it 😭

We still don’t even know WHY they split, people break up over things all the time and sometimes nobody is the villain in the story. We don’t really know all that much about Gojo yet so let’s be patient PLS

Yes we’ve seen that his ex is going to try and get him back but we literally know nothing about where Gojo and Y/N stand at that point. Right now, we know they’re (at least physically) attracted to each other but they’re not at the point where exclusivity is expected. Maybe the ex is trying to wait out their marriage, maybe she actually does just suck but we DONT KNOW ANYTHING YET PLS WAIT 😭

I’m so sorry you’re getting those asks. I get that people are super excited but damn, these are the things that discourage writers from sharing their works or leaving platforms. The worst thing we can do is pressure someone (unless it’s gege) to change their story so that it’ll please you. LET AUTHORS COOK (unless it’s gege) 😤

ILYSM and I’m so sorry about the essay 😞 I got your back and will support any and all decisions you make as an author 🥰 now get behind me 🤺🤺🤺

hiiii makimais bb thx sm for ur sweet words ahhhh i adore u. n you’re one of my readers who understands ihm so much n so it really means a lot 😭💕

thank u sm. yes i think i have always try to write my gojos as their own ppl. i want to develop them outside of just the reader. this is partially bc i adore canon gojo n it’s fun to picture how he would think/feel/act in these alternate universes im putting him in based on what we know of his personality per gege, but also i think that it makes a story more interesting? i have high standards for media i consume, esp when it comes to character devlopment, so there is high chance i will include things in fics that ppl may not like if it means it matches my vision for the character’s growth

and yeahh i think that’s the thing. i understand being antsy over learning things ab the story, but like…we don’t know anything ab ihm gojo (well i know everything ab him actually but yall stay safe tho 😂😂😂) n so the pre emptive hate was kinda shocking

yes pls lemme cook i promise i’m makin a meal over here. truuussstttt. and if it’s not to ur liking, simply leave the restaurant hahah

thanks bb <3 love u tooooo n yes ellie has been feeling a lil fragile lately so i shall get behind u ty

[unclassedguy]

Jjk 261 leaks ahead:

Alright I was going to post about this in the morning but I got distracted and needed time to process everything anyways.

I don't usually share my thoughts on the new chapters publicly but I will make an exception now 😔.

Yap incoming

ok, so there were a lot of theories floating around before 261 about if we would actually be getting a gojo comeback or not. Honestly, some people pointed out why gojo reviving might not be the best decision for the story, but I was placing bets on it anyways because I too was pretty bummed by his end and also because my naive self chose to believe it was the most likely choice for gege to make.

However I did try to keep my hopes reasonable, choosing to belive that it could just be a hallucination.

Truthfully, I didn't think it would be Kenjaku. I'd seen the theory that it could be them but I honestly doubted gege would do that. Yet in the depths of my copium filled soul I had always been holding onto the hope that kenjaku would somehow return to the story. When I tell you my secret little stash of cope was as potent as some gojo fans im telling the truth 😭.

I honestly hoped maybe it would be kenjaku, just maybe. This morning I sought out the leaks and you know what I saw? This:

I was DYING. For a second I thought gege had really done, I was in disbelief, I was in shock, I briefly wondered if this was a joke.

AND THEN I WAS SO HAPPY. I was like: Yes! Answers! Yuji-kenjaku interactions! An unexpected twist in the fight! Forget the logistics of how kenjaku ended up in Gojo's body, I was going to trust gege's cooking and enjoy the chapter before taking a step back and critiquing anything.

And then I read that it wasn't kenjaku. It was Yuta using kenjaku's ct.

I didn't want to belive it could be Yuta. Of all the outcome I thought it CANNOT be Yuta. Not possibly. BUT IT WAS. IT WAS YUTA.

I have felt emotional when consuming media before, and sometimes underwhelmed or critical when something didn't rub me the right way, but I'd never understood people who act so utterly devastated by an author's decisions.

I UNDERSTAND NOW.

I've been mourning all day man 😭. My gojo cope, my kenjaku cope, all of it down the drain just like that AND ALL AT ONCE. I genuinely am not sure what about this chapter gas prompted such emotion in me. Am I lobotomized after all? I choose to belive its the sheer shock of this chapters events.

Tbh, I read the rest of the chapter in a bit of a daze and I'd have to go back and look over it again to share any actual thoughts or analysis, but I will says some other things stood out at me about it.

first of all, I don't hate Yuta. He's not my favorite character but I don't hate him and I wish the best to you yuta fans, however yall are feeling. his line about how the others are so worried about becoming monsters, unknowing that they've forced that role onto gojo all this time hit pretty hard for me. And now Yuta is taking on the same role since gojo's gone. He's strong and is not just taking Gojo's body but in a way taking on his position as the 'monster' of the jujutsu world, even if only for the dubious amount of time he had left.

Also the way sukuna just, punches yuji aside 😭. Nahh. The disrespect. He rlly just sees yuta in gojo's body and tosses yuji away. Rlly hope my boy beats him up next chapter and it doesn't become a yuta-one-man-show.

Overall I'm dying, I'm crying, I'm gritting my teeth, I miss kenjaku, I miss gojo, rip yuta 😭

(Please gege give me my wife back. Even just a kenjaku flashback is enough. Gege pls.)

[fushiglow]

i cannot stand this smartass!! (affectionate)

the thoughts are flowing and i can't keep a lid on my brain, so here are my hastily written thoughts on jjk 235 before something juicier on sunday

HE DID IT!! HE DID THE THING!!!! 😭

now that's out of my system, let me just say that being in the jjk fandom feels like constant gaslighting sometimes lol

i've always believed deep down that gojo would win this fight. i didn't think it would be *this* clear cut, but it seemed like the most likely outcome given what we know about the characters and the story up to this point. he's the strongest, right??

so WHY have i been doubting my own sanity every week since 221 came out???? like, i have two literature degrees and generally think i have a good grasp on literary analysis, but there have been multiple moments over the last few months where i felt like i must have made everything up??? even though gege gave us ALL the signs from the start????

anyway.

it goes without saying that i loved this chapter and the fight on the whole. i've seen countless (*ahem* whiny) complaints that gojo vs sukuna was 'boring' or 'unimportant to the narrative' or 'destroyed their characters', but i think time will be kind to this arc.

the best plot beats are those that seem obvious in hindsight. twists are only satisfying when they're given sufficient foreshadowing (like sukuna possessing megumi) so i've always thought that gojo dying after sukuna wiped the floor with him would be a shocking choice in the worst possible way.

i put my faith in gege and i'm glad i did, because he's just delivered a masterclass in making the expected ending feel unexpected. as they say — it's about the journey, not the destination!!

some things i loved this chapter:

"first time blowing myself up" looool i guess gojo is still the same nerdy teenager at heart. he's been treating this fight like it's an academic exercise, and he was SO excited to learn something new about his technique — even though it nearly melted his face off 💀 gojo is kinda mad scientist coded and i think that's beautiful tbh

while i don't think gojo is out of the woods just yet, i do believe that 235 marks the definitive conclusion to the battle of the strongest. putting gojo aside for a second, i'm genuinely delighted with the outcome because i think it's by far the most interesting choice for sukuna's character too. this is a 1000 year old guy who equates losing with dying, so how is he going to wrap his head around a defeat that challenges his entire worldview? sukuna's character arc starts NOW

also also the callback to chapter 76 and the "automatic selection of the technique’s target" to explain why mahoraga didn't get pulled by blue but gojo did? pure genius 😭 gege is so meticulous with his callbacks!!

as for what happens next, who the fuck knows??? although i've got my predictions, i can't see how any of them fit together at this point.

in gege we trust!!

[vorfreudevortex]

arguments part 2 was SO SO SO SO GOOOD!! like you wrote the nuance of complicated relationship stuff and that’s hard to do in traditional writing styles. but in smau???? where you’ve gotta work in a really limited viewpoint??? AMAZING STUNNING SHOWSTOPPING

you’re so good at capturing different dynamics like!!!! and i personally LOVED that the apologies where clearly only the start of longer conversations and not an easy wrap up of part 1. has me daydreaming about what they say and how they treat reader after 🥰

standing ovation for a reader that refuses to not be valued by the beautiful anime man 👏 always room for different types of reader and stories about diff types of relationship ofc! but these are prob my personal faves 💕

choso’s punched me right in the chest oml 😭😭 he’s a sweetheart he totally would let yuji do and say anything to him and not have any boundaries 🥲 but he’s learning how he wants to be loved!!! aaahhh!!!! 💕💕💕

oh my god thank you so much i will cry rn (threat) ??!! okay so:

thank you SOOO much for this. making smaus make sense in a limit of a screenshot or two is so hard sometimes for me and other times super easy, and i try so so hard to make them make sense !!

i try my best at making sure the relationship dynamics and viewpoints are all in character as well as making the reader's "personality" a little different for each one while trying not to be too vague!! i had so much trouble coming up with a good way to wrap them up until i realized that these are literally just fake text messages, of course the real conversations are going to happen in person and they can be left unresolved over text if i need them to be.

YES THANK YOU!!! SO MUCH!!! i had mentioned it before in that post but i wanted these arguments to be actual, believable ones over real-life problems. i also didn't want the resolution to just be "it's okay ily!" and act like nothing ever happened. it's really tempting to do sometimes but i want my smaus to be somewhat realistic even though they're literally made up lmao. couples have arguments all the time and i wanted to create a situation where the jjk boys were less than perfect (they're still perfect, thank you gege).

choso's ALSO punched me in the chest ;((( like he just doesn't know any better!! he's still learning!! boundaries and things!!! but it's okay, yuji didn't realize he was hurting choso's feelings, apologized, and won't do it again. i would die for both of them.

thank you thank you thank you for reading my works and leaving me your feedback and thoughts :')))) i literally LOVE hearing these things and they help me feel validated that i'm producing good content for you all!!! ILYSM ANON!!!! <333

[duckiemimi]

the recent chapter left me feeling so warm :( & bittersweet! made me feel like rereading all of ur analysis again lol. i love how on par u r with gege’s message! everyone is entitled to their own opinion & interpretation but what were not gonna do is make you seem like someone who’s stupid or bending shit to fit their own agenda. sorry to mention again, just wanted to let u know how much i love reading what u think ab jjk!

yuuji my baby :( his words made me think about geto & gojo more than anything. esp geto 💔 i never really favored geto, but as I spend more time with this story i feel his presence in EVERYTHING 😭…

this also confirmed how i felt about sukuna. i don’t know WHO can show him the light at this point 😭. so he’s evil for the sake of being evil because he can’t feel anything for his victims?

i'm sorry i got to this so late, but i assume this is about chapter 265 or 266! i love both chapters! thank you for keeping me in mind as you read them :')

oh, yuuji...i'm glad he's finally having his moment here, one on one. for someone who writes about geto a lot, even i'm sometimes surprised by how omnipresent he is in the story, even without mention! and about sukuna, i'm not sure if you've caught up to chapter 268 leaks, but his come-to-god moment is still pretty unclear, i'd say. at least we know that he can feel something, despite what he said in 265. and that's indignation, frustration, and maybe (juuust maybe) also a sense of insecurity about his self-perception!

[emotionaldepravity]

My full thoughts on the Shibuya Incident

Initially I was kind of hyped. With someone as powerful as Gojo, he had to have something done to him for the story to continue. It literally would be impossible to have high stakes if every fight was "we are waiting patiently for Satoru's big cock to get here so we can jerk him off right now!!!" Its great for narrative tension. Combined with the deaths in the first section/ season one of the anime, it really was good. I love that he got jar Douman'd. (A little meme for NA FGO players to enjoy.)

I fell in love with Geto so the fake Geto stuff is sad, but he is so hot. Geto is literally one of the hottest characters in the verse. I don't care that he isn't really Geto. I'm still down bad for him. Him being Choso's dad and Yuji's mom doesn't even bother me. I know it should. Everything about this man should bother me, but I don't think he knows what is wrong with him. He is cooking with the stove off and no oil in the pan, but that's okay. I'll just cook dinner instead. I'll fix him. Maybe... though for real? He is just a good overall "I'm here for chaos" villain. His plan is nonsensical, but DAMN he is PLANNING! Everything has gone right for him! Even better than he hoped sometimes!!! That's hot. You can't tell me that isn't so sexy. He is so fucked up. I need him biblically. Not sure I want to be experimented on, but with that face? I'd probably say yes.

THE DEATHS............................................ I can't think of a single one that was worth it. Mahito was the only person I wanted to die by arc's end, and it wasn't brutal enough for me to be satisfied.

Rip Hanami and Jogo. Best married couple. Dagon, our little creature, rip. You eating all those people were adorable, you did nothing wrong.

NANAMI 😭 NOBARA 😭 GETO'S DAUGHTERS 😭

At least they can be dead together .....😭

WHY DIDN'T MEI MEI DIE!!!!!!!!!??????? I HATE HER!!!!!! Literally the arc would have been better if she died. I'm not kidding.

Thank goodness Maki didn't die. I just... ahhhh.

The principal dying....................... pointless and stupid. Literally didn't know him and then he died. This felt like Gege wanted to kill off someone else and just did a lottery.

Toji gets a "best dad award!" We love him. 💕

CHOSO IS THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE FRANCHISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTHING IS BETTER THAN A GUY WHO LOVES HIS BROTHERS AND MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED THIS MAN!!!!!!!!! I NEED HIM NOW AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

I'd do anything for Choso.

Miwa and Mechamaru (I don't know what his real name is sorry.) ........... honestly nothing hurts worse than that subway scene. I wish they could have been together. It just... I get it but I hate the themes of JJK. I might hate the story too at this point. I just am on the train to see the trainwreak.

Sukuna somehow takes sexy evil and makes it unsexy and boring. I want to like him, but gosh its so hard to. He is really... boring... Just like how it took me a while to realize I was being tsundere for Gojo, I just haven't decided how I feel about him. Like okay him blowing away that many people is hot but he made Yuji cry......I'm just kidding I just feel like he has yet to have any qualities I see as redeeming or interesting, and his psyche isn't as bizarre and confusing as fake Geto so I don't want to put him in an observation chamber and study him. I need some information about him. I have no attachment. I think Hidden Inventory made me like Gojo so if we get anything about Sukuna's past I'll feel some way about him.

[satorugojoswiife]

I know that a lot of the fandom want him to come back but personally I would rather let Satoru rest. I mean, I respect Gege's work but I feel like sometimes his writing is a hit or miss. A lot of the plot was promising and had a lot of potential but he didn't elaborate in some of those points, then you have strong, engaging characters but he also dropped the ball on them and it's okay, its his story but as a reader it's a kinda frustrating. Personally after being let down by one of the big three (Naruto) after investing 10+ years and making peace with it, I like to believe that Satoru is now on his fandom's hands, and we're going to take good care of him, rather than him just getting into perhaps another plot point that Gege might not even give justice to the character. That’s just my opinion as an older fan.

Love your content btw ♥

Again, I feel like it's hard for me to fully form my own opinion on it just because it's still unfinished. I have no doubt we will be seeing flashbacks with gojo present and maybe through those it will tie things together and make everything feel more complete. I also feel like weekly release format can often make the story feel really disjointed, but often once it's all finished and you go back and read it all together it feels alot more put together.

I try to cut mangaka a bit of slack bc of how insane their work schedule and environment can be. What they put themselves through is actually crazy and the fact they are still able to put out the quality they do is amazing. 😭

I get where you are coming from, (especially in regards to Naruto 😬) I think that's a really sweet sentiment to have about the fandom taking care of him 💕 we will for sure continue to love and take care of him<3

[m1ckeyb3rry]

AHJSJSJS TUMBLRS A BITCH BUT YOU DONT NEED TO APOLOGIZE ITS NOT YOUR FAULT i was also getting some things done i just took a quick break and saw Jeirin’s post LMAO (epic crossover fr HAHA) so i didn’t have the time to notice but also even if i did id probably assume you were just touching grass (which you were LMAOOO)

L is now trademarked by otoya yup he doesn’t have any Ls in his name so he had to make up for it elsewhere (haha Lswhere I’ll shut up now)

SUHSJSSH WAIT OK GOOD I wasn’t sure if it was a shitty kid bully teasing or like a cute friend teasing it’s good that it wasn’t bullying though because if anything it is a rather cute nickname I just didn’t know if you had trauma from it SHSHSHSH

Ah 2022 jjk era….yk back then I definitely would’ve been like “NOOO DONT END SOON” now I’m like “yeah fucking finally” it had its good run back then now it’s fr just kinda insane also it’s actually so sad that at some point I ended up just full on saving the TikTok’s I knew I needed to reference back to later on just in case they disappeared forever SHSBSNS I have so many random

tutorials saved on there too like I’m not losing this hack

- Karasu anon

HAHA sometimes i do see your asks but i’m like “i know i’m going to write a super lengthy response to this so let me save it for later” LMAOAOA like i know for a fact i’m going to ramble and have to whip out my ipad for it meanwhile i can post my silly two sentence thoughts and responses to comments in five seconds on my phone so i’ll be active just not answering-asks-active if that makes sense HAHAH but yeah idk why tumblr does that with longer asks especially it just freaks out 😭 maybe one day they will resolve it…

LSWHERE PLS no yeah it’s his letter honestly he’s lowkey chill i think he would find it funny that we slander him sm…idk how to describe it i just have this hunch that if he knew he’d think it’s his rizz at work or smth

yeahhh i never got mad i thought it was so cute as a nickname!! pls i was too mean to be bullied…i was rlly shy as a little kid so i got bullied when i was like really young?? not like making fun of me bullied but forced to do stuff by my “friends” because i didn’t want to hurt their feelings by saying no 😭 but i got new friends and ended up moving for middle school anyways!! and at that point i had developed the most villainous mouth ever i was actually lowkey evil with some of my quips BUT only to people who deserved it so like it cancelled out 😩 mostly everyone liked me so it was def meant as an endearment thing like aww cutie pie mouse mira hehe especially because that was back when the guys were just starting to hit their growth spurts and they loved to do anything to show off that they were now 5’7 instead of 5’3 so they’d pat me on the head after singing the little song LMAOAOOA icl looking back it’s lowkey unreal but then again what in the mira lore isn’t

REALLLL 2022 jjk era was so diff i also thought back then that the manga would go on for much longer so it was a diff vibe?? tbh i still can’t believe it already ended tbh i feel like it had such a short runtime for a manga…like attack on titan i know ran from before 2013 (because that’s when s1 of the anime came out so it would’ve had to have been before) and the manga ended in 2021 and that’s not to mention the ones like one piece that have been going on FOREVER ofc idt jjk should’ve gone on for quite that long but it def could’ve done with some extra time i think 😩 did you see that gege straight up released a new character LKSDJFH like what even

no that’s so real half of my saved tik toks are edits and the other half are makeup tutorials…ngl i never use them though because the only makeup i can ever do is a tiny bit of pencil liner, mascara, blush, OCCASIONALLY highlight if it’s smth super important/a special event, and some color on my lips!! so like all of the foundation/contour hacks are very useless for me and same with the eyeshadow tutorials but that doesn’t stop me from watching and saving HAHAH

[nanamis-baker]

ᯓ★ tasha

now that jjk has ended, what do you think of it? ><

Hello Ray! 🌷

I'm gonna go off because my thoughts are pretty mixed 🥲 Spoilers below the cut!

Obviously, I loved jjk and still do. Gege created one of the most beautifully complex characters in his story with a compelling storyline that kept me at the edge of my seat, wondering what would happen next. Like at one moment I would be like "nah gege won't do that it's too risky" but in the next chapter he would prove me wrong and do the exact same thing. And this is something I really appreciate - when authors take risk in their writing.

Given all this, one would expect better from the ending right? I think I see the vision Gege had. A lot of people compared it with AoT ending (including me) before the pages with Sukuna's conversation with Mahito came out. But here's the thing, Sukuna says that he will take a different path, try to do things differently and that makes it so much different from AoT's ending? It doesn't show that whatever happened in jjk is an endless cycle, but more like completing a full cycle and going back where it started, but this time things will be different?

Like in the first chapter, we see Sukuna's finger all bound in those seals because it was such an ominous and potent object, but at the end it's just there in the open with no seal or anything and it just shows that it's not that big of a threat anymore yk? But this is just my perception.

Now this being said, I think the ending is really incomplete and a lot of things could be done better.

Firstly the character development. Yuji had the most character development and so did gojo, but since Megumi and Nobara were such an important part of the story I feel like their development wasn't shown. And yes I know it all happens under 3-4 months but look at how much Yuji has changed. I don't think it's wrong to expect it from Megumi or Nobara. Don't get me wrong, I love these two people, but something didn't sit right with me when it comes to their ending or character development. Honestly just one panel of Nobara saying yes to Yuji when he asks her to watch earthworm man 5 would have made a good impact.

And then Megumi. Man I expected him to acknowledge Gojo. That man literally raised him? And also more reaction for his sister's death besides just visiting her grave. I don't know, Megumi ended right where he started and while he is one of my faves, I don't think there was much character development in his case yk?

And I am happy with Yuji's ending. I don't think I have anything to say there ahaha

I think my biggest complaint from the ending, aside from Gojo's treatment, is that there was no solution for curses. Geto left the jujutsu society and turned into a curse user because he wanted to get rid of curses. Gojo never wanted to steal youth from children, and tried to make sure everyone loved their youth and was not burdened by the responsibilities of being a sorcerer. But in the end, we see the trio take on a mission. So ultimately, all those 271 chapters + jjk0 resulted in the death of the king of curses which didn't even get rid of curses. That's the net change we had from chapter 1 to this. And ofc losing some beloved characters. We don't see how Sukuna's death affected the curses, aside from Mahito. Did they get weak or something? We don't know. From what I understood, Sukuna was a part of the problem but not the problem itself. I hope this made sense.

I am not a Sukuna fan, but his ending was really well done. I think a little info about the person who was standing behind Sukuna towards the left would have made his ending perfect, but it's gege holding the pen.

Oh and Gojo. The character he is, the connect we had with him aaahhh sometimes I cant believe he is fictional because I just feel so much for him😭 and i absolutely HATED how gege treated him. Like he made your manga this popular, let's be real. That's why he was used so much in the marketing of last few chapters else who will read it? If you see the posts by official accounts and official art released in the past couple of months, almost all had gojo and they were some important panels.

Without gojo, most people wouldn't have survived Shibuya (I am looking at you kasukabe (?) it should have been you instead of Nanami) yet somehow gojo was the one to blame for everything. We did not get any kind of acknowledgement from any characters except Yuji, and kinda Yuta. It made me hate everyone like wtff??

Anyways, I found this twitter and it makes so much sense? Because at times it did feel like gege isn't happy with his manga. Maybe he wanted to do something different but because what he wanted to make was not what people wanted to read, he was forced to change things up a little and create this. Even after all this, gege did cook. If we remove the takaba part - which is funny but idk I am not a big fan of that part - I think the manga was pretty good up until the last 3 chapters. And (again, just what I think) gege has been kinda sick this year a lot. Maybe the rushed ending had something to do with it because I kinda see the vision, and if it was properly executed it could have been really satisfying.

Yeah I know I went on, and there still so much I wanna add 😭 but I'll leave it here. These are just my views and I am not even sure if this answers your question aaaahhh. But I wish you a great day and would love to know your thoughts on the ending! ✨

[hualianff]

XL would definitely have a squishmallow addiction.

His favorite is a giant fox that reminds him of San Lang 🥰

They take up so much space on the bed that HuaLian eventually get a new bed specifically for the squishmallows.

To let out pent up frustration, XL sometimes throws the squishmallows across the room or smacks them. HC walks into the room and stands there like 🧍🏻 as XL growls while attacking his squishmallows.

HC fully indulges XL in his squishmallow addiction and makes quite the picture of a tall, brooding man in the checkout lane holding a gigantic bananya squishmallow to present as one of his endless offerings to his Gege.

If HC has to leave for business for a few days, XL insists he take one of the squishmallows as a companion so he doesn’t get to lonely. HC usually chooses the ferret squishmallow.

If XL ever sees someone who feels down, he’ll offer one of his squishmallows for comfort. FX lowkey has many and MQ hastily accepts them but always returns them. QYZ loves them too

As many people do, XL sets up fictional storylines where the squishmallows have tea parties, go to war, fall in love, etc.

HC walking in on XL making the fox and ferret squishmallows kiss: 😳

XL: “now kiss” 😇

HC, in his head: “isn’t that us?” 😭

Somehow, XL convinces HC to change a few of his opponents in squishmallows instead of daruma dolls - just for funsies!

This leads to HC turning himself into a squishmallow because Gege has been neglecting him for inanimate stuffed animals.

(Read: If you can’t beat them, become one of them!)

Plus, wouldn’t it be so funny if HC turned himself into a squishmallow to surprise Gege for his bday ?

When XL sees the San-Lang-squishmallow waiting for him on their bed, he positively squeals while squeezing and poking the squishmallow and HC is completely defenseless to the attack 😭

XL: “SO CUTE I MUST SQUISH”

HC, a squishmallow: “aBORT ABORT”

Except-

HC can’t change back! He becomes stuck like that. 😭

XL, walking around the realms with San Lang’s squishmallow body, wondering where his husband is: “it’s my bday, I deserve kisses, where is he? 😡”

While looking for his boss, YY spots XL carrying around a Hua Chengzhu squishmallow: “I don’t even want to know”

XL asking everyone if they’ve seen or heard from HC. Everyone answers no, that they haven’t seen him since so and so.

XL: “Oh…anyways, look what he gifted me!” 🥰

XL proudly showing off the San Lang squishmallow, encouraging them to squeeze and pinch the extra soft plushie.

HC, on the inside, assaulted by prodding fingers: “so this is what hell is” 🫠

The day passes by and XL is just very confused and misses his husband.

XL cooking alone in Puqi Shrine, talking to San Lang squishmallow: “where did he go? you would know, right?”

XL hugs the squishmallow snug to his body, smelling the familiar scent of HC lingering. He sighs, eyes closing in comfort.

HC, a squishmallow: “GEGE IM RIGHT HERE IN YOUR ARMS BUT IDK HOW TO CHANGE BACK BUT I SWEAR I DIDNT LEAVE YOU”

XL doesn’t even have to think twice before he’s leaning down and pressing his lips to San Lang squishmallow forehead.

POOF!

HC, now a human, still in XL’s arms, eye wide in surprise. XL, not even total shock will cause him to drop his San Lang.

XL, on the inside: “he looks at me…and I look at him-“ 👁👁 ↔️ ◼️👁

HC, sweating and really embarrassed: “hehe, surprise ?”

XL puts HC down and happily hugs him, ready to finally celebrate his bday with his husband !

After that, XL reels his addiction in a little bit so HC doesn’t get too many ideas in the future… 😅😂

OOMF’S ART

[suguwu]

i dunk on toji a lot for the memes 😌 classic "attractive guy and therefore must be a f-boy" but in reality he does have a lot of unexplored depth. also honestly with all the shit he's had to wade through i do really wanna be his friend. with benefits? maybe 😏 but the guy really needs a friend, methinks.

i still hold to my heart that after losing people he's cared about he would be hesitant on settling down in another relationship, but part of him also wants that stability that comes with it. so toji being an awesome FwB is one of my fav hcs (for obv reasons~). maybe he finds comfort and escapism in physical contact, including sex? or sometimes just shooting the shit with someone brings a sense of normalcy that he's missing.

yes i so desperately want to write this fic 😩 maybe one day, but not yet!

also bee 🤗😚💞 kithes! i hope you're doing okay!!

lily omg the way i thought i answered this but it's just been living in my drafts 😭

toji is inherently dunkable for sure and esp considering that we do have limited material with him but yes, exactly, there's so much there. we know so little about the zen'ins—which is saying a lot, since we know more about them than any other clan—but what we do know paints a grim picture for toji's life prior to meeting megumi's mom (gege give us a name i stg)

i def agree he would be hesitant/would keep his distance, and i think fwb works pretty well for him! i do wonder how used to gentle/non-threatening physical touch he is, and i think that could take some getting used to (but that's in part bc i live for 'gentle touch feeling like violence' and re-learning how to accept softness and accepting that you deserve softness).

yesss i would love a toji fwb fic that gives him even the smallest sense of stability ahhhh

i hope you're having a most excellent day 💞💞💞

[m1ckeyb3rry]

That’s a good idea….will start check marking….. I’m also realizing I think part of the problem was I actually do press send sometimes but if the connection is spotty and I don’t realize I close out tumblr and then it never ends up fully loading/sending properly….

SHSHS I cant imagine that’d be comfortable with the dizziness…well uh..at least it’s over now!! Haha…..

OUUU wait that’s a good take…..it’s kinda funny I think I remember Isagi and Yuta having the same mbti too?? Not sure how accurate the typing actually is but I thought that was funny LOL but IM CRYING LMAOOOO you really said I need some spice in my life let’s switch it up

Honestly I would not be surprised if that ended up being the case like….after every single time we’ve manifested something into existence I’d be more surprised if it didn’t get manifested into reality LMAO

SHEGSHS every now and then I think about how I’m blowing up your inbox but omg another special tag I’m so honored LOL hope the ideas prove useful for when you’re in a slump!!

AHAHAHA atp trying to guess your final wc should just be a game im sure its at least mildly frustrating for you but I can’t lie every time it happens I chuckle a bit especially when you post it with that one ant meme LMFAOOA

Oh em gee very excited!! Whenever that comes out im gonna reread part 1 to refresh first LOL it’s ok we gotta give our man a break from being protag he’s been going through it LMAOAO between getting insulted by the love of his life in fwtkac the whole freaky Friday conflict and now bfb where he’s been pining since he could walk I

Gotta bless the other sectors of the fandom with your work….give them a taste of your writing then they’ll discover your blog read the Karasu fics and join Karasu nation…that’s the end goal LMAO atp you’re just overseeing all of bllknation covering every base

Hsjshsj glad it went well!! Struggle because of motion sickness I assume? Manifesting very hard that that goes away soon…

GAGAMARU AND YUKI LMAOOO ok that’s a pair I was not expecting ngl it’s ok it’s the power duo one blind one and one with super vision /j actually I feel like that’d be really funny like…since yuki is also a model he has such a refined vibe and as we know is very well mannered while gagamaru spends a lot of the time in the woods in the wilderness fighting bears or something LOL such opposite vibes

Yeah…like I get the shock factor thing but tbh to me that still doesn’t “justify it” to me LOL like it was just so sudden?? And there’s still so many holes like how’d she suddenly just appear good as new minus the one eye…no I fully agree like it was so random, not lead up not even a hint from the past what like 30 chapters?? Like they really just decided to throw her back into the ring at the last second….like we haven’t seen her since Shibuya arc and she somehow just spawned back like make it make sense…..tbh I think the “shock my readers” thing is such a gege thing to do :,) considering all the other comments we’ve heard from him LMAO but yeah the execution was not it……jjk fandom is also scary I see people getting eaten alive for “hot takes”

LMAO safe from kaiserism today…tbh I can’t see myself actually converting BUT the compass >>> the whole animal shelter dog scene was Lowk so cute I love the use of the dog’s own background in paralleling kaiser’s own situation! But that line “she’s my mother but I’m not her son” LITERARY GENIUS but also I’m crying when they talk about marriage and a wedding I’m fr just imagining ness just standing there alone on kaisers side something about the scene just seems so funny to me

- Karasu anon

tumblr is so glitchy sometimes i can’t even blame you 😔 the amount of times i’ve thought i posted something and didn’t or someone will send an ask and i just won’t get a notification for it??? same with dms and then people think i’m ignoring them but that’s not my intention at all 😭💔

yess they do have the same mbti!! and so does hiori apparently 🤔 tbh i tend to like characters who are sassier because they’re more like me so they’re easier to write/connect with (asshole karasu 🤝 asshole mira) but realistically in a relationship you can only rlly have one person like that the other needs to be nice or else it’s just stressful 😭 irl whenever i meet people who match my freak toooo well i get annoyed because like why are we only being mean to each other but when people start to get too moral abt it it’s like “oh it was never that deep” LMAOAAO there needs to be a happy medium of someone who finds it funny and can throw a jab or two out there when necessary but for the most part they’re just chilling 😩 which lowkey IS isagi (and hiori) now that i think abt it but NOOOO if i convert to isagism what will become of me

HFJDJSSJ okay random kiyora headcanons speedrun (kaneshiro if you’re watching these are fire pls include them in the manga): he ran cross country for one year during the soccer off season and he liked it because he could listen to music during races but it wasn’t competitive enough for him so he quit, he’s lowkey fire at either knitting or crochet but no one knows (he’s not shy abt it though it’s just that no one talks to him for long enough to realize), and he got a pet umbrella cockatoo after watching the movie rio in theaters

NO I LOVE GETTING THE NOTIFICATION YOU SENT AN ASK it’s so fun to read them 🥹 and PLSS honestly it’s less frustrating and more just like 😨 whenever the word count gets crazy long because for the most part i’m just happy to be providing 😩 the only thing that worries me is when i take too long writing smth rlly long and people think i’m on hiatus 😭 like no i’m still here it’s just that this one shot is now novel length so…

okay wait genuinely multiple people have been converted to karasu nation because of me LMAOAOA especially bfb and fwtkac…honestly it’s a role i’m proud to play 🤩🙏🏻 but yes atm i need to expand my outreach/not make karasu suffer any longer he’s been through it in the miraverse as of late 😟 i’m excited for cherry tree pt2 i think it’s probably going to be shorter but very cute 🥹 which yk cute and rin don’t necessarily go together very naturally given how he is but trust i will make it work 🤩

HEAR ME OUT GAGAMARU AND YUKI / TARZAN AND JANE AU LMAOOOOO no it’s so perfect hold on i’m going to edit a screen cap of it once i’ve responded to this why does it fit uncannily well…i’ve convinced myself gagamaru and yuki besties number one bllk duo forget bachisagi or kunigiri or nagireo or tabieita or whatever 🥱 gagayuki the ONLY pair i care about (and karasu + shidou they’re cool too)

i completely agree although i’ve already seen people on all corners of the internet calling people who are dissatisfied with it brain dead or without reading comprehension/media literacy…that’s just how it’s going to be ig 😓 jjk to me has this problem where it’s simultaneously overhated AND overrated 🤔 because people do not realize there is a middle ground!! like no it’s not the worst manga ever and there are several high points + on the whole it is better written than several other animangas especially shounen ones however it is NOT peak fiction and it is definitely not the best thing to come out in recent times!! like people don’t realize you can criticize it and still not bash it/gege completely 😒 also i have to say it…a manga being popular ≠ good idk WHY that’s such a popular argument but things can be popular without being well written!! look at any number of ya dystopian novels from the 2010s for proof 😭 nobody’s denying that jjk is popular it’s just that that doesn’t automatically make it the best thing ever…i saw someone on tik tok say that a lot of jjk fans confuse hype moments/panels with good writing and i do think that that’s the case at times 🫣 but what do i know lol

tbh smth abt kaiser’s fuck ass haircut turns me off rlly bad like maybe if he still had the shaggy blond going on or if he put it in a bun more often i’d see the appeal but the rat tails are not it 😰 and LMAOAOAO PLSSS kaiser’s side at the wedding is just ness and noel noa (he was paid to be there) and both of them are just like 😐😐 the whole time HAHAHA they are not into it at all…maybe kaiser was onto smth when he said that they should just get married without any guests because imagine how awk it would be otherwise 😭

[m1ckeyb3rry]

💟 I feel like Tullia will definitely get her ass… as for Jean and the rest of their friends, they would be so disappointed and would flame her heavily behind her back😭

Kiran is such a fun character and his crush on Gojo is so funny!!

Ikr Choso looked so good in the manga I miss him, I hope he’ll make an appearance at some point😕 the new arc is so confusing but just so fun at the same time? Very unpopular opinion but I got bored reading Shibuya sometimes 😭 it just felt like everything was going on at once and it was quite drawn out but there were also parts of it that were literally so good I couldn’t stop reading?

And I just read the new SitH chapter literally 5 minutes ago and Colt and Cordelia actually became a thing omg.. I wonder what he would think if he found out about Y/N getting close to Hadrian in her time at the Amatas’ and her sleeping with Friedrich💀 either way seeing this new relationship is interesting for sure, highkey excited to see wtf happens from here? And I’m concerned about what Y/N is gonna have to do in this upcoming arc I just hope things will be fine even if they most likely won’t 😔 she can’t redeem Marley’s war crimes but I hope Y/N does find a new perspective and really acknowledges the wrongs😕 I can’t tell if she would go against them blatantly but I feel like she knows enough from what she and Hadrian talked about that she would really have to consider things.

jean would definitely make an instagram hate page for y/n and it would have like two followers and they’re just jean’s other accounts. but as for how tullia and the others react…ig you’ll have to wait and see 😈😏

KIRAN IS THE BEST AHAHAH you all are probably tired of hearing abt the different people my original characters are based off of but kiran is based off of my younger brother!! he and y/n even have the same age difference as my brother irl and i. my brother and i are quite close and he knows way more about my romantic life than he probably wants to which is one of the reasons why kiran is the one y/n goes to for advice. they also only really have each other as their parents are always away (which is not like my parents irl ofc) so they’re super close because of that.

honestly i agree w shibuya i was either crying or yawning 😭 but i think it’ll be really cool animated!! I SWEAR IF GEGE DOES SMTH TO CHOSO I’LL BE SO MAD HE DESERVES THE WORLD

dude colt would be so upset if he found out abt hadrian…and genuinely finding out abt how close friedrich and y/n got over their trip might be his final straw 😭😭😭 but yeah cordelia is going to shake up some dynamics which will be really fun i hope!!

lol spoiler but y/n is not going to be doing any redeeming. i mentioned it a while ago but this is the arc where she changes a LOT, to the point that even friedrich (THE ONE WHO’S LITERALLY KILLED PEOPLE ALREADY) doesn’t agree with her decisions and actions. there’s one thing in specific (the “twist” i’ve been talking about) that he’s just absolutely horrified by lol.