#jjk chapter 222

[basically-an-anime-stan-acct]

LMFAOOOOOOOO Kenjaku didn’t want no more smoke with Gojo. ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

— Also his face when he says “if I had left Sukuna’s side I’d already been killed by Gojo Satoru” is so funny 😂

All I have to say is no, I am not prepared for these next few chapters and if Gojo dies I might unalive myself (I won’t but in theory I might)

Stay safe Gojo! 🫶🏼 and Kick Sukuna’s ass for Megumi and Itadori 👏🏼

[fire-loving-siren]

Chapter 222 titled "Omen" and the fact that Gojo is looking like Toji in these clothes makes me incredibly anxious. I don't like this. I don't like any of this.

Gege, please don't break my heart. I can't take any more pain after Nanami and Nobara.

[fushiguro]

gojo hiding the last sukuna finger so that yuuji was never executed? that’s very “i’m not the stepfather i’m the father that stepped up” of him

[skullssy]

Kinda just accepting by this point that Nobara might actually just be dead (or she's deadass gonna be brough back in like, the final chapter and that's it), cause they really do just NEVER talk about her and it's so fucking weird

[gojossugarcandy]

Well, as the new chapters of JJK continue on with Sukuna killing almost everyone in JJK, it kinda made me pissed off at him, like you know-plot armour, but this one edit has me back to square one i.e. head over heels for him.

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Like, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH, literally his smirk is making me crazy for him. Plus the song went hand-in-hand with his smirk.

And then comes JJK's Goat - GOJO - my god, i got no words. I am absolutely speechless.

(I tried but i couldn't find the official creator's video - probably NinjaristicNinja)

[lavenderjewels]

[ID: Panel of Kenjaku, Uraume, and Sukuna facing away. Uraume looks annoyed and is shooing Kenjaku away. Kenjaku looks annoyed and sighs with speech bubbles saying: “How could I? Until today, had I left sukuna’s side, satoru gojo would have killed me.” End ID.]

They hate kenjaku so much, its incredible to watch. mother of the year and centuries old loser playing video games by themself

[stillalittlelostngl]

Gojos new fits got me kicking my feet and gigglin

[olasketches]

UTAHIME WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN LOCA?

[myamiamiaouuuuu]

JUJUTSU KAISEN - Chapter 222

Same outfit, same destiny ?

The animation is scheduled for July, but we all know how did it end. This day that Gojo became a father. By the way, I just watched a reels about the relation between Satoru and Megumi (@siguru.gay.toe on tt) : just look how lil' Fushiguro ✨fix✨ his hair.

Toji's hair falls naturally, but that's not how you see Megumi's because BIG Fushiguro didn't raise him...

So don't let these clothes be cursed Satoru. Don't leave your students without a teacher, but don't give up on your first student. To be continued...

[basically-an-anime-stan-acct]

Thanks to Myamura (@King_Jin_Woo3) on Twitter for the leaks. You a real one 🫶🏼

Anyway—

I love how everyone else was scared or didn’t know how to approach Gojo as he heads out to fight Sukuna and Yuuji is just like yo sensei turn off your CT so I can wish you luck bro lmao

I love their relationship so much too. Like ugh.

But this just means that JJK ending this year is almost a definite and my heart is breaking 🥺

The 1 V 1 we’ve all been waiting for starts next week! Send help I’m not okay.

[freckledgeto]

this weeks chapter was very... :/

i don’t even hate the chapter this week like content wise i don’t think it’s a bad chapter i just think that the lead up (the entirety of the culling game) and the pacing and gojos reaction to everything is making it all very. meh to me :/

the whole culling game wasn’t my favorite for a lot of reasons and i don’t necessarily blame gege for it completely. i think that there isn’t an arc better than hidden inventory and there aren’t any fights better than the ones in shibuya, so following both of those really incredible arcs with another that is supposed to be equally as good or better does not seem like an easy thing. (spoilers for CG and new ch. under the cut)

one of the reasons the fights in shibuya are sooo good to me is because they are fights that are deeply rooted in character and character development. maki killing the zenin clan, megumi fighting toji, etc. the itadori-mahito fight at the end of the shibuya arc is entirely a character/meant for character development fight for itadori, with his whole "i am you, you are me" realization/acceptance, and it is arguably the best fight in the manga like it is sooo good.

but there arent any fights built around character in the culling game and like. given that gege has made such amazing, character oriented fights in the past. it is a little bit disappointing. esp since i don’t personally want to just watch/read a bunch of fights repeatedly like i WANT there to be some kind of deeper meaning/purpose to them (outside of trying to end the culling game/free gojo obv). makis fight in the CG is probably the most “character” oriented fight and i was just very eh about it :/ but i love maki <3

the treatment of the women in the CG recently has just turned me away from the manga in general too. scorpion hair remi girl was fucked, uro not having more of a role was disappointing, yuki DYING wasn’t great.

tsumiki was the reason i didn’t stop reading the manga earlier in the arc because i was looking forward to her having her moment for LITERALLY THE ENTIIREEEE ARC. just for gege to do that to her and it reallllyy pissed me off.

as much as i hate how tsumikis arc went, i think i could’ve been a liiittle bit more accepting of it if the whole yorozu-sukuna thing was done well. but i didn’t like that either LMAO. i think the whole “yorozu loves sukuna and she sees how lonely he is etc” is like. a cool concept overall and i think if it was done right it could’ve been a good addition to the plot. even if there was just a little bit more of a flashback of yorozu and sukuna from that era with more information and context i think it would’ve made it a lot better. and i could’ve been like. a tiny bit less pissed about tsumiki. but the fact that it wasn’t a very satisfying arc for tsumiki OR yorozu just made it all very underwhelming to me. esp since tsumiki was what i was looking forward to the most in this arc 🙃🙃🙃

so yeah this chapter wasnt the worst thing in the world its just very underwhelming bc everything that led up to this was really underwhelming for me too :( and gojos reacction in this chapter is. upsetting. esp following the whole yorozu-sukuna thing and the "sukuna is lonely" part of it. like sukuna and gojo are meant to be foils of each other. gojos character is built around the fact that he has those connections and relationships with his friends and the students and he fell in gay love with geto and he "wont let anyone else be lonely" like the relationships he has is WHY HES LIKE THAATTTTT. him having no reaction to nanamis death and nobaras condition and maki and megumi and ALL of his students feels like a very surface level "gojo is a funny silly goofy guy" thing to do. but i would like to believe that gege knows and cares about his characters more than a surface level interpretation but. idk well see i guess. i just would have liked to see the sukuna-gojo being foils of e/o actually being played out narratively in these past few chapters more. but hopefully there'll be more of that during the next arc.

anyways so like. the chapter itself is not necessarily bad i just think that the CG itself was really abrupt and lacked a lot emotionally/character wise (for me at least), and then the pacing of this whole thing has been really off for me so its hard to look at the whole thing collectively and actually like it lol.

i feel like gege is really just trying to speedrun the rest of the manga and move onto something else which SUCKS bc it has soo much potential to be sooooo good. whatever anyways goodnight.

[frost-felon]

221 was mostly fine, and 222 was a valley of highs and lows for me. 222 is perhaps one of the chapters that suffers the most from Gege's hardcuts. I would go from, "Are we actually gonna get a better understanding of Kenny's relationship to Tengen?" to 'I love Ino, I hope he has at least a single line of dialogue.' to "'Regulations'. Are these 'higher-ups' or this 'Jujutsu Headquarters' in the room with us right now?" to bemoaning the timeskip, etc, etc.

I'm glad we got some character moments, but knowing that moments like these can't properly stand on their own weight stings. That is, the depth of each character is often held back. I noticed it particularly hard with Maki, whose actions are hard to discern (in comparison to, say, how she acted at her introduction, months prior in the story's timeframe) based on what we're given. The panel I'm discussing, for reference:

As told to some of my friends: "Is she making a light-hearted comment because she's grown fonder of Gojo? Because she's uneasy? Because she wants to lighten the mood? Is she conscious that she's still giving Gojo more credit than she did months ago?

"It's a change from how Maki acted earlier in the story, sure, but not one I can point to with analysis to her character or how her relationship to Gojo has (or hasn't) changed. It's just there."

I am factoring in how Perfect Preparation changed her, her discussions with Noritoshi, and the sumo self-discovery (which was less about Maki, in my opinion, and more about Toji haunting the narrative), but I can't really land on an interpretation for this moment, with evidence provided by earlier chapters. With the ~month-long timeskip, it is impossible for me to know if any of the character interactions I can presume happened with Maki and Gojo led to this. Simply because I can't know what those interactions were, or even how many they had.

So this ends up just being nothing. The bare minimum, and maximum, it does is tell me that Maki has returned to a state of mind where she can 'threaten' some good old-fashioned roughhousing, maybe. There are some bits just a little later that could potentially give me more to go on, but she's largely played as having the same role as at least two other people in the following scenes. There are differences in expression for the "Go get 'em, tiger." scene with Gojo, but Maki doesn't affect anything through her action or inaction, and ends up replaceable, as a result. Though not nearly to the extent of Miwa, who might as well be named "Missing", for all her lack of relevance to...anything.

This is fairly light analysis, damn near a vent post with extra steps, but I do think the short supply of character-building moments throughout the manga cheapens both its characters and its pacing. Culling Games, while having FAR more pressing issues than needing more time to flesh out characters, did suffer from the time-jumps that the first half of the manga was prone to, and I hate to see this story convention return so abruptly and damningly.

[rzeckism]

GEGE DID NOT JUST MAKE A TIME SKIP holy shit

[i-keepmyideals]

GEGE AKUTAMI ISTG KMWRJOBJOEWNWLJENDEJEWKNEQKQ

GUESS IM DRAWING AGAIN

[duckiemimi]

positive thinking :

gege skipped a whole training arc, skipped the group recalibrating, skipped gojo’s emotions, skipped proper reintroductions (like choso and gojo) so fic writers can fill in the gaps <3

everyone !! write what happens during the time skip since i’m certain we’ll never know what happened anyway !!! xoxo ,,,,

[fan-of-chaos]

Okay, what the fuck is happening here???

I am so confused.