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goatyuuji · 4 months ago

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JJK 271: The death of Ryomen Sukuna

As a Sukuna fan, this chapter was everything I could ask for. Such a beautiful end for such an interesting antagonist. Okay coming back to the chapter, more specifically to Sukuna and Mahito conversation, we see Sukuna admitting that he had different paths he could have travelled, two to be more precise: one being with Uraume and one with a mysterious black hair figure who is dressed as a shrine maiden, so the question here is who is this mystery person...it's definitely not Yorozu since Yorozu has never dressed this modestly and I don't think this is Sukuna's mom either...so who is this???

I believe this is Kenjaku when he first approached Sukuna in the Heian era.

We previously had a panel of Sukuna's mummified body dressed as a monk by Tengen in the manga...so Sukuna might have grown up in a religious setting, and what better way to get close to him than approaching him as a miko or a shrine maiden.

But that's beside the point. The point here is Sukuna talking about the two paths he could have chosen, and he ends up choosing Kenjaku. He allows Kenjaku to make him as a curse object, allows Kenjaku to make a vessel for him to reside into, allows Kenjaku to rope him into the culling games, and even allows Kenjaku to trust him with Tengen and the merger. But the sukuna who chose this path was an angry version of him, the curse version of him if you will. He wanted to spit back the curses that were residing him, so full of anger anger anger hate hate hate. Even at his death bed his only response to kindness was "don't underestimate me, I'm a curse". So this version of Sukuna choosing Kenjaku over Uraume was no surprise.

But what changed then????....well.....HE LOST

He lost, not to Gojo or Yuta or Yuji or the serveral dozen sorcerers who jumped him, in the end he lost to MEGUMI FUSHIGURO. In ch 268 we see Sukuna trying to manipulate Megumi to give him all the control, to give up and leave it to him.

This curse version of Sukuna who doesn't know anything except cursing others back, recounting all the deaths Megumi caused to him, telling Megumi how he can't live a proper life anymore....somehow somewhere it feels like he is trying to delude himself too by saying after all the atrocities he caused in 1000 years there is no use fighting back, no use in living a proper life anymore. And this Sukuna has never lived for anyone except himself so it's easier to curse the world back, easier to give up all the control and just cause panic and doom and death.

But Megumi is not just living for himself, he lives for Tsumiki, for Yuuji, he can't doom the entire world when the world has people like Tsumiki and Yuuji in it and so he fights, he refutes the notion of proper life and says he wanna try living for someone else one more time.

All this could not have been done without Yuuji Itadori of course, Yuuji Itadori who came as a guardian angel to Megumi Fushiguro, who never gave up on Megumi once, who showed Megumi how to live one more time.

Not only that Yuuji Itadori showed Sukuna, the king of curses, the one person who kept cursing and ruining his life again and again, pity. Yuuji who was cursed by several people in his life, his grandpa, Nanami, Junpei, Mahito, Gojo, Choso, Nobara and Sukuna himself, still able to live his life without cursing others back, still able to live his life with compassion. And Sukuna reaction to it is understandable: rage. Because Yuuji is everything that his chosen path won't let him be, Yuuji is everything that that Sukuna could have been if only he hadn't chosen the path with Kenjaku...if only...

So after Sukuna who has lost everything and there is nothing more for him to lose, he decides to choose a different path, he chooses Uraume. And just like Megumi who decides to live for someone else (Yuuji) when given the second chance, Sukuna chooses to live for Uraume this time. He acknowledges his defeat with grace, does not condemn the path he chose the first time but instead he is regretful which is so raw and unfiltered coming from Sukuna, and moves on North this time with Uraume. This time Sukuna chooses Uraume instead of Uraume choosing Sukuna and serving him.

And with this the story of Ryomen Sukuna comes to an end. We never got his backstory, we never even got his real name because he never looked back behind him to acknowledge those measly things. To say in short, this is the death of the King of Curses who was just living to cause death and destruction around him and rebirth of someone entirely new.

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saturnscherie · 19 days ago

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Megumi’s Epilogue.

༄ I wanted to clear up the mind of anyone who didn't like Megumi not getting an Epilogue. This is just my interpretation. You’re still allowed to feel unsatisfied with Megumi’s ending because I am too. I personally just don’t believe JJK ended with Yuji being in Sendai timeline-wise. This means that the last panel we see of Megumi in Ozawa’s Epilogue isn’t supposed to be taken as his last moment in the series.

(There are spoilers below and it’s quite a long discussion. So, please don’t waste your time if you think reading this won't be worth it to you. Everyone’s time is precious.)

Something about Megumi not having closure in the Epilogue section didn’t make any sense to me. So I got to thinking.

I eventually realized that both Yuji and Nobara’s appearance in the Epilogue section, involved them tying up loose ends with their family.

When I thought about it I realized that Megumi ties up loose ends with Tsumiki by laying her to rest in ch. 270. So, there was no need for him to get closure in the Epilogue section.

If you think about it, ch. 270 serves as an Epilogue for not only Megumi but for the other Culling Game characters.

༄ Cont. reading below to see why I think Megumi’s Epilogue happens in ch. 270.

Theory about the Timeline of Events

I have a theory that the last mission the first years go on at the end of ch. 270-271, happens two weeks after December 24th, the day when the Culling Game ended.

༄ Analysis

In ch. 270 When Ijichi explains the last mission to the first years, he suggests that the victim's fiancée started seeing his face being morphed, two weeks ago.

Megumi also mentions to Yuji that the culprit might be an awakened player from the Culling Game.

This suggests that the Culling Game ended on December 24th, the day of the Shinjuku Showdown arc, which was two weeks before the start of ch.270-271/the last mission.

I also noticed that Megumi confirms the two-week time skip at the start of ch. 270.

While Megumi is leaving his sister’s burial site with Shoko, he receives a phone call most likely from Ijichi, and tells him he’ll head to the last mission now.

So what do these two weeks after the Culling Game suggest about the order of events?

༄ Within those two weeks before the last mission, I believe this is how the order of events went down:

1. Yuji goes to Sendai to handle business with the inheritance of his grandfather’s house.

2. Nobara meets up with her mom.

༄ The day of the last mission ch. 270-271:

3. Megumi puts Tsumiki to rest.

4. The first years meet up and then go on their last mission together.

5. The first years finish their last mission, talk about Sukuna’s finger, and walk forward on a path of a new era together.

1. Yuji goes to Sendai to take care of the inheritance of his grandfather’s house.

In Ozawa’s Epilogue, Yuji goes to Sendai and tells Ozawa that he left his grandfather's house empty when he moved to Tokyo. He then says that he has loose ends to tie up.

I believe those loose ends were him taking care of the inheritance of his grandfather’s house and putting Sukuna’s last finger in the thermometer box back at his old high school.

Later on in Ozawa’s Epilogue, Yuji tells Ozawa that it’s snowing.

When Yuji was in his domain with Sukuna, he told him it barely snows in Sendai anymore. So, I thought that if it snowed the day Yuji went to Sendai, the chance of it snowing after that day had to be super rare.

With this in mind, I checked to see if the panel of the thermometer box where Sukuna’s last finger was located, had snow on the ground. To my surprise it did! The grass has snow on it!

To me, this suggests that Yuji had to have placed the finger there during his visit back to Sendai. The same day it snowed when he saw Ozawa.

2. Nobara meets up with her mom.

༄ Before I address Nobara’s Epilogue I wanted to point out why her Epilogue may have not taken place so far into the future because it seems her hair is the same length as it always was. (I added this section about her hair because I received a comment about it)

When I first read her Epilogue I thought a lot of time had passed because it seemed her hair was long enough to now be put in a ponytail.

But, when I checked the manga to see if Gege ever drew her with her hair in a ponytail, I found a drawing of her at the start of ch.32 with the same type of hairstyle from her Epilogue. I also think her hair at the beginning of ch.38 where she is drawn in a panda shirt, is the same type of hairstyle from her Epilogue as well. (Please check out the beginning of these chapters, only if you want to see what I’m talking about)

It seems her hair was always long enough to be put in a ponytail. This is why I think it’s safe to assume not much time has passed for her Epilogue to take place. Gege always had the option to draw her hair in the main story with a ponytail he just chose not to.

༄ Nobara meets up with her mom

I believe Nobara goes to meet her mom after she’s had a random feeling that Yuji is getting ahead of her.

Her saying, “Something tells me,” is she admitting she didn’t know what Yuji was doing. She just had a feeling he was, “standing at the doorway to adulthood.”

It’s Megumi who tells her what Yuji is doing. He responds to her comments by saying, “Well yeah inheriting the house isn’t something a kid can do.”

This implies that Megumi already knew Yuji went back to Sendai to take care of matters involving his grandfather’s house, based on his response to Nobara.

༄ Homage

In the image above, the first panel pays homage to the third panel. The third panel is Nobara not liking the idea of Yuji getting a girlfriend before she got a boyfriend.

Her reaction to Yuji in both panels suggests that she wants to beat Yuji when it comes to big milestones in life. For Nobara’s character, this homage proves that she still values the silly little competition she has with Yuji.

༄ From my perspective

These panels have nothing to do with her suggesting Yuji and Ozawa are getting together. Especially since it implies she doesn’t even know what Yuji is doing in Sendai until Megumi tells her.

Also, some people theorize that Megumi and Nobara are in Sendai with him, but it doesn’t make sense based on their clothes. Megumi and Nobara are wearing their uniform and Yuji is wearing his casual clothes.

This further proves my point, that she had no idea what Yuji was up to, she just had a feeling he was getting ahead of her. But keep in mind her not knowing, doesn’t mean that she has a weak character relationship with the Yuji. Just based on the fact that she randomly gets a feeling that Yuji’s ahead of her, is a good representation of their bond.

This is why I believe her Epilogue with her mom happens after Ozawa’s Epilogue. Nobara finally meeting with her mom to honor Gojo’s dying wish, also suggests her wanting to catch back up to Yuji.

༄ Megumi’s reaction

It’s funny to see that Megumi doesn’t sound or look surprised in both panels. I think these panels add to the suggestion Nobara makes, about Megumi knowing Yuji better than she does. (She says this to Ozawa at the cafe)

3. Megumi puts Tsumiki to rest. (I’ll include all panels I think are meant to be his Epilogue)

Megumi’s Epilogue occurs after Ozawa’s and Nobara’s because it happens the same day as the first year’s last mission. Two weeks after the Culling Game ended. (All these panels are from ch. 270)

It also makes sense that it would take Shoko two weeks to finally get a chance to cremate Tsumiki. I’m assuming that after the Culling Game, Shoko had to heal a lot of injured players and civilians.

I’m also sure she needed Megumi’s help to find Tsumiki’s body since he knew where she was based on him watching everything Sukuna was doing on the inside, with his body.

༄ Love interests

You can see that Megumi’s Epilogue is very similar to Yuji's appearance in Ozawa’s Epilogue. Both Yuji and Megumi take the time to resolve their families loose ends and have conversations with their love interests.

This creates a typical Shonen Jump-style ending, where the two main characters in the series engage in discussions with their given love interests. But, for jjk, it remains one-sided/unrequited on the girl's end.

4. The first years meet up and then go on their last mission together.

Together the first years stop the guy who was making a woman’s fiancé's face morph, with his curse technique.

This mission suggests that they are all capable of working together on missions, even if they enjoy their youth by joking around. Even though Yuji and Nobara share the same brain cell, Megumi is there to hold them together.

5. The first years finish their last mission, talk about Sukuna’s finger, and walk forward on a path of a new era together.

Now I will wrap up this analysis as to why Megumi’s Epilogue is implied to be in ch.270. I will talk about how the first year's final scene in ch. 271, the last chapter of JJK, further proves my point.

༄ Sukuna’s last finger

In their final scene together in ch.271, the first years discuss what happened to Sukuna’s last finger after they finish their last mission.

Nobara asks Yuji what did he “do with that thing?” He responds to her and says that he “tossed it,” jokingly obliviously. Fushiguro then says, “Come on” and Yuji tells him not to worry because it isn’t “dangerous anymore.”

After this, the next panel is from Yuji’s pov with him staring at his left hand. The hand where he lost his pinky and ring finger. He then tells Fushiguro that “it’s all good.”

This entire conversation proves that Yuji had already taken care of Sukuna’s finger back when he was in Sendai, during Ozawa’s Epilogue.

༄ What does this ending suggest about the first years?

By the end of the manga, the first years have now all tied up their loose ends with their families. Timeline-wise, first it was Yuji, then Nobara, and lastly Megumi.

It’s also good to note that Yuji’s grandfather was the reincarnated soul of Sukuna’s twin, not Yuji’s dad. Knowing that in the JJK verse twins are connected, Sukuna’s death means that both Yuji’s grandfather and Sukuna's souls can move on. Therefore, when Yuji took care of his inheritance regarding his grandpa’s house he had to make sure he took care of Sukuna’s last finger. It was his way of tying up loose ends with his family.

The final panel of ch. 271 (I already added the image above) shows that the thermometer box is left slightly cracked, with Sukuna’s finger wrapped without a protection seal, in an open box. This is the perfect way to symbolize that Sukuna is no longer a threat. The finger is harmless and the start of a new era has begun.

The first years are now ready to move forward together, with the strong and intelligent allies they make along the way. Gojo’s dream finally came true.♡

If you made it this far thanks for reading! Please feel free to comment what you think!

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deedeeznoothere · 5 months ago

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MY JJK LAST CHAPTERS PREDICTIONS

(No specific spoilers but yk they’re predictions so if you’re not caught up they won’t rlly make sense lol)

CH. 269: Concluding the Yuta/Gojo thing. Will prob have emotional stuff with the JJK 0 kids since they were the original cast. After that chapter will end on a cliffhanger with someone holding the last finger (since I’m p sure it still exists)

CH. 270: Blah blah blah Yuji eats the last finger to ensure its security. I do think that Sukuna will incarnate with this last finger but Yuji obv overpowers one finger Sukuna by this point so he’s completely fine. We’ll probably get one last “conversation” with Sukuna but it’s most likely gna be Sukuna screaming and crying lol.

CH 271: Timeskip most likely. I’m hoping it’ll timeskip to 2024 just because I think that’d be cool af but if not that then it’ll probably be a timeskip to Yuji on his deathbed as an old man. He’s dying surrounded by loved ones just like his grandpa wanted. His last words will either be something along the lines of Nanami’s “you’ve got it from here” or something like him telling all of them to enjoy their lives. Once old man Yuji dies (with Sukuna inside him so Sukuna is gone for good!) there will likely be an afterlife scene of all the characters just chilling.

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runabout-river · 4 months ago

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Thoughts on JJK chapter 271 - the last chapter (spoilers)

I did a live reading of this chapter you can find here if you're interested how my panel per panel thoughts progressed while reading it 😄

This very last chapter we start where we left off in ch 270: with the mission where the woman can't see the face of her boyfriend correctly anymore.

The first year trio are hard at work thinking through their options on what to do and how to pull that curse user out of hiding. We get a new sort of funny faces from the idiot duo, for them at least, I think these faces appeared in the Kenjaku/Takaba fight as well

The trio enacts their plan now and they catch the perpetrator really fast. Nobara does some funny yet unnecessary property damage in the process and we first get a cool panel of her and Yuji together than another silly panel of them not able to see their faces properly.

The perpetrator btw is a no name never before seen character created just for this mission so the guys can have one last low stakes adventure together.

We get a Gojo flashback giving Yuji a talk, saying his students should become better than him and forget him too, at least one of them. It isn't out of character for Gojo to say that but the placement and the build up for it is somewhat unsatisfying.

Yuji shows how he internalized Gojo's last words by encouraging the criminal to be better.

We get a cool Megumi pose with Kon after he showed us why he was the brains in the group but unfortunately that's basically it for him. Even though he was possessed and tortured by Sukuna for a month there is nothing left of that on him except superficial scars.

When Sukuna took him over Megumi was turned into an object meant to suffer. Now it feels like he's still that: an object but this time meant to be happy in a forcefully conflict free way.

When the readers believed in the dream theory, elements like that was where our thoughts came from. This forceful happy ending for everyone, a genre shift from what JJK had been at this point ��

Now we get a surprise Mahito and Sukuna interaction in the space before souls move on. Their conversation is interesting as is the reference to Sukuna's past and what he chose for himself.

In a way it was always apparent that Sukuna was bullshitting the people around him when he talked about himself and what others should do and not. For me it was the speech he gave to Yuji after possessing Megumi about how Yuji should stifle his misery because he was born low.

That immediately stood in stark contrast to what he later said to Kashimo about being born unwanted and cursed because now he admitted that he was in Yuji's position once too and still he developed that insanely arrogant self image.

My problem here is that this interaction references things that were not implied before like what his two paths above were supposed to be. Every time I look at that I get new ideas on what it could've been he's talking about.

It's good to have room for interpretation on someone's backstory. But to this degree it's just confusing. I thought the woman on the left is his mother, others said it could be Kenjaku or Yorozu. Whoever that is, the meaning of what Sukuna says changes drastically here.

His relationship and history with Uraume is also insufficiently explored. This scene unfortunately does not have the emotional impact it could've had if Gege had planted the correct seeds previously.

Sukuna walking away from the curse that represents human hatred however is meaningful. That part was halfway build up during the Yorozu fight when Sukuna said he would be willing to accept defeat.

We get the end of the manga the way it started: with Sukuna's last finger back in a box in a small shrine. It's poetic but the path towards it, these last chapters and the last arcs...

...it felt underwhelming, not gonna lie. Towards this ending were those unneeded scenes with the NSS and even the majority of this chapter was unnecessary and wasted time. What could've been a better last chapter than this while still hitting all the same beats would've been one solely from Sukuna's point of view.

Sukuna from before his birth, his infancy, his childhood. Showing us the path he talks about here. Giving us a glimpse on what the Calamity was, his relationship with Uraume, showing us why he accepted Kenjaku's offer. Then the canon timeline but all of it from his view. His thoughts on Megumi while he possessed him. Even the talk Yuji had with Gojo could've been shown because of the established resonance between Yuji and Sukuna.

Then should come his talk with Mahito. Then we would've understood and sympathized with it without problems .

We did not need the trio's last mission. The end scene of ch 270 was enough to make us imagine that mission on our own. This chapter could've been about sth with more meaning and the exact ending of it could've still been achieved without problems, all e.g. with Sukuna's last thoughts narrated over the happy faces of Gojo's students 😣

Overall I liked the chapter but I felt like sth was missing from this entire ending. It was safe for Gege to write I guess but it was also boring in a lost potential kind of way...

...and then I see that fucking time on that one panel and I think again about Gege wanting to troll us!

That's the same time we saw in ch 269 and I have no idea what it's supposed to mean. So now I'll make one last fucked up prediction, partly meant to be serious, mostly meant to entertain me these last few hours before the official gets released:

The digital release of chapter 271 is going to be a different chapter than the magazine release.

Why???? Because wtf not?? Shueisha and Gege probably too hate the leaks and don't you think this is only a problem in the anglosphere. Of course the Japanese side distributes these leaks around as well. From one small glimpse I saw, Japanese fans are wondering if JJK was cancelled because of this ending.

It would also fit with the dream theory or just my own thoughts from above about a differently structured last chapter.

So like, why not troll the fanbase? Many of whom have shown with Gojo's death chapter how they can't keep their eyes away from the leaks. Previously my own thoughts had been that WSJ could release final chapters like this exclusively on digital first to nip the leak problem in the bud.

But like, don't take this theory too seriously 😄

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