#mahito the people

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choso week day 6: college

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Kaela Kimura - "Color Me feat. Mahito the People"

Label: ELA - Victor (2022)

Tracklist

1. Color Me feat. Mahito the People

[hebidem]

recent artworks of jjk!!!! i am trying to incorporate more color but it’s turning out pretty poorly

[radchocoart]

ITS MY BIRTHDAYYYY!!! 1/24, AND IM 24, SO GOLDEN BIRTHDAY 💛💛💛💛💛💛

[jarimaa]

hey, i was just wondering what are your thoughts on the final chapter of jjk…

The End

This is gonna be a little detailed. I am gonna first give a short answer and what I liked and disliked, then a little more detailed one. This is about ending as a whole.

I remember I did quite some research during my college time on post modernism and existentialism because i had to write an essay (it isn't about that) but I will be referring to what I researched here and there, when put forth my points.

Short answer- I am content with the ending. I am also surprised since this is the first time gege wrote a full manga for the first time, but he still managed to give an ending better than most. And any gripe that still remains, I will not hold it against the author cause the story and characters aren't real, Gege is.

Yuji, Sukuna, and Gojo's character have some of the best conclusions within the story (unpopular opinion probably 😮‍💨). The way they were written and the consistency with regards to their characterization was amazing.

As for what I am conflicted about, well, it's Megumi's character. I don't know how to say it, I liked it his conclusion, but I wish there was more introspection to how he reached there. But alternatively, I talked with a moot of mine, and they think the lack of introspection from Megumi is quite in-character. He decided to live for others once again (i.e., he didn't address his problems at all) and he is finding peace and comfort in the cage he is stuck at, it's such simple decision from his part, cause he is very clueless about his own psychology, and this is the beauty of it, that we as readers know what caused him to make that decision-according to my moot. I highlighted this one, cause this interpretation stood out the most. I also talked with other people, who seem to hold dislike for the lack of introspection from Megumi's end. While I am still conflicted, maybe I will address in some other posts or not at all, idk, but right now, I haven't formed my opinion on it. But I am satisfied, to say the least, conclusion itself isn't bad for me.

Detail:-

I like that it's more about evolving and coexistence rather than breaking the cycle or one conclusive solution. Regardless of Sukuna's or Yuji's existence, the curses will always continue to exist. It's humans' negative emotions that create curses in the first place. If the negative emotions of humans can't cease to exist, then curses won't either. Jujutsu Kaisen in a way rejects the idea that life can just have a start, middle, and end, or that one single truth/solution can provide closure. Maybe things can get worse in the future, maybe things can get better, that's up to you to decide, in that particular sense, it's open-ended.

You may ask what was even the point then? Well, let me offer a perspective, although it's just my interpretation, you don't have to agree to it...

When characters within a story accept a belief, perspective, or solution as the only truth, it can lead to their failure, especially if that belief oversimplifies a complex reality. But, one character who comes to understand the complexity can find a way to coexist with the chaos or ambiguity, though not necessarily "fixing" things.

In narratives such as these, the answer isn’t just a rejection of truth but a recognition of multiplicity, the presence of multiple perspectives, interpretations, or meanings within a single work or the idea that one truth or solution cannot account for the full stretch of experience. The character who realises the absence of a single "fix" often ends up navigating the challenges in a more nuanced way. They may not succeed in traditional terms, but they endure by accepting life’s complexity.

Many characters within JJK try to find some single "fix" to the system or the problem of curses and cursed energy and each of them had very flawed solution which we see failing--Yuki/Kenjaku/Geto were all extremists in that sense, one of my friend mentioned this in twt, Yuki wanted to completely break away from CE but also she didn't have any concrete plan, and Kenjaku who wanted to optimise it, but never really knew what merger could do, himself. Even Geto knew that killing all non-sorcorers is not possible.

Sukuna/Gojo-- both their ideals were extremely flawed. Many people have written amazing analysis on this, so i won't go in detail. But we see in the story how strength was the reason for both their solitude and which led them to path of their own death. But Sukuna perfected what Gojo didn't, sukuna completely threw away his humanity and was content living as a curse. A hollow human, who only ever cares about strength, he deemed love worthless, like Gojo deemed love to be the most twisted curse. However, gojo still wanted connections at the end of the day, and this kept him a little more humane than sukuna, who became a monster who clung to life wanting to stay at the pinnacle.

I liked that in the end Gojo realised that Yuji and other should follow their own path rather than just following his goals (although he would've like that) and I am glad they didn't follow his footsteps.

This conversation between sukuna and mahito just added so much to their characters.

Sukuna is the man who perfected his ego. He discarded his humanity till his last breath. Sukuna says he was an unwanted child (maybe cause he ate his twin in his mothers womb, someone on twt pointed out that this is similar to biological condition called "fetus in fetu") and he internalised this all and lived his whole life as a curse, only ever caring about his pleasures and displeasure and being the pinnacle. But even a perfected ego gets humbled in death, and the same happened with him. He acknowledges that he could have taken a different route, and if there is a next time, it would be nice to walk on a different path. Beautiful, honestly.

Now, Mahito is the literal manifestation of humans' hatred for others. He is a true curse, and he wasn't able to reconcile with his humanity after death because, unlike sukuna, he has none, he is not human. He is the manifestation of the same cycle of human hatred, he didn't change, he is the only one left sulking like a child. As I mentioned before, if the negative emotions of humans can't cease to exist, then curses like mahito won't either.

You could then say - well, then nothing changed?

I mean, is it really nothing? Tengen is no more, and this is the curse user Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara caught, and what happened to him?

Earlier, he probably would have been executed, but now Yuji offered him a chance to change.

Yuji turns out to be the person who learns to coexist. He is, for me, the best written character within the story with the best conclusion.

Now, let's just say that doesn't mean anything, nothing changed at all, there was no point...

However, the idea that "nothing changed" often misses the deeper layers of such narratives, which are less about external change and more about internal realizations, the acceptance of ambiguity and even the rejection of simplistic resolutions.

The "point" is not necessarily achieving change or a clear resolution, but rather witnessing the struggle itself. How characters navigate or accept a chaotic/indifferent universe.

There are two examples I can think of, first one being, Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus", Sisyphus endlessly pushes a boulder up a hill, only for it to roll back down, its completely futile, yet the "point" is his perseverance. The second one is "Waiting for Godot" by Beckett, nothing really appears to happen in the story, and characters seem stuck in a cycle of waiting for this supposed person calles Gadot. However, the "point" is in the waiting itself. It's a reflection on the human condition, the search for meaning, and how we deal with uncertainty and the passage of time.

Thus, the point of such narratives is not in "what changed" but how we live with things not changing, how we adapt, or re-contextualise meaning of things when the world resists easy solutions or "fix its". It's reflectimg on the messiness of real life, where change is often slow, subtle, or non-existent, and simple answers are rarely seen.

So it's up to you to decide what you wanna make of this ending. Personally, I am very, very content.

(Again, this is my interpretation, I could be completely off charts, and I don't mind, maybe I will change my mind after thinking about it again, or maybe not, but one thing remains, that I throughly enjoyed all 4 years I was reading this manga. Peace✌️)

[billygoat26]

JJK characters make the silliest faces omg…

And these are only a few- still trying to get that one split second frame of Sukuna’s basically troll face during his fight with Jogo lmao

Edit: not the Sukuna one I was going for but I got this Absolute Cinema from the Mahoraga fight

Edit 2: I FINALLY GOT IT

[starfallen-archives]

I return with sketches and an entirely new fandom (I didn't use a reference for anything so if the anatomy is off... shhhh)

There's also this thing

[ultfreakme]

They could've been the best mother-son duo like (after Nagi-Junpei of course).

Neither of them will get better, in fact Junpei will be 100 times worse and will still die.

But imagine if Geto somehow lived through JJK0, kept the cult running, and Junpei joined him(I love my son but he's the perfect target for a cult). It's the battle of the exes between Gojo and Geto with their sopping wet cat sons they picked up off the streets(who are also into each other)

[ruushes]

Hello I just discovered your blog because I love Bg3 and your art is just *keysmash* 😍😱💚 You named your Tav Lux and your Durge Nox? That is beautiful! Normally I'm most obsessed with my own Durge (her name is Maev 😊) but you got me hooked and I would love to know more of them! Are they shape shifters/trans/androgynous? (Correct me if I'm wrong but I think I spied both male and female forms 🧐) I love your design and the concept that Nox is like a cat, innocently playing with half dead things while the others witness it with shock and disgust 😆

💕💕🩷💜🩵THANK YOU for asking about my creature i love them so much 😭😭😭😭💕💕 answers under the cut so i can ramble contentedly and here is a wip of their cult leader days vs their return to baldur's gate (i just got to act 3 and they are Going Through It)

they originally started as a tav w/ the name lux, short for the tiefling virtue name luxury, then i restarted w/ them as a durge and the name nox bc it was like the opposite of lux (night vs light). they've evolved pretty far from the original lux character in terms of backstory, motivations and priorities, though personality-wise they're still pretty similar. i'm still considering whether i want to preserve/develop lux as a separate tav 🤔

they like to change up their gender presentation but tragically (in their opinion) are unable to physically change shape (major point of sibling rivalry with orin). i guess the best term for them might be genderfluid, or polygender? they're fine w/ any pronouns and gendered words but tend to most enjoy androgyny and ambiguity

and yes you get it..! that's a good analogy, not exactly innocent but amoral in the literal meaning of the word, like outside of mortal morality. cause they're not mortal ultimately and even by the end of the game struggle to see anything wrong with their enjoyment of violence and killing

they think about things less in terms of right and wrong and more in terms of what they care about and how they're affected (though they do throughout the course of the game begin to redevelop their very beaten down and atrophied sense of sympathy). luckily for everyone involved they want to be Loved and can compromise by mostly only enjoying socially acceptable violence and killing lol

[purrgiri]

All for one vs salem (my hero academia Vs RWBY)

His appearance in shigiaraki vs mahito had me inspired so i made a little something about my favourite for him

Due note this has some minor spoilers for mha manga so consider yourself warned

Connections:

-Ancient villains from a bygone era (the dawn of quirks and first humanity)

-both fashion themselves king/queen of evil (all for one consider himself the symbol of evil and demon king and salem is the queen of grimm)

-both own an army of monsters they command (grimm and nomu)

-both lead an inner faction that handles more delicate work (salem inner circle and the league of villains)

-both would implant a spy in their enemy factions (Aoyama and lionheart)

-both have a giant monster meant to destroy cities (machia and monstra)

-both have an underling that worships them (tyrian and the doctor)

-both would groom a child to serve as a vessel for a power they need to accomplish their goals (shigiaraki was groomed to inherit all for one so he may steal one for all and cinder was groomed to take the maiden powers so salem could get the relics)

-thier arch nemesis is a loved one possessing a strong sense of justice who opposed them in life and ended up dying in battle against them later (yochi and ozma)

-said loved one would later return as a spirit inhabiting different bodies including a teenager to battle them (oscar and the various Ozcarnations and izuku and the one for all users)

Animation:

Lots of range blasts of magic and quirks

Nomu vs grimm

A whole lot of mocking eachother each boasting about divinity and being unstoppable and a lot of attempts at manipulation falling flat

Salem knocking all for one into a grimm pool as she turns back thinking it killed him he blasts back out being revealed to have used a rewind bullet to narrowly survive it

The climax has all for one try and forcibly transfer all for one to salem leading to a confrontation in a mixed vestige world that's a mix of the one all for one and shigiaraki had and a darker version of salem old tower (or evernight both could work) where he mocks her for basically living his dreams and yet wanting to die before he gets consumed and killed (kinda like shigiaraki vs mahito)

Debate:

Now this one is actually very interesting and not just because of how similar it is to shigiaraki vs mahito

The stats definitely go to all for one salem due to her really only becoming a physical threat in volume 8 with the show going on hiatus post 9 (which she didn't even apper in) really only has one fight where she wasn't really trying but even then it's made abundantly clear she dunks on pretty much the entire cast and should upscale along with having her own feat via the grimm river she's in the large island and FTL range

this is definitely not the height of salem power she's clearly not really going all out during her fight in volume 8

Unfortunately this doesn't change much when it comes to her physical abilities compared to all for one since even if we assume that salem is absurdly casual with her feats and massively upscales everyone else and say that when serious she's 10 or even 20 times stronger and faster that still falls short of all for one so he clearly takes stats

However anyone here who watched RWBY knows that if being able to level a country was enough to beat salem the series wouldn't have even happened to begin with which is where we get to the actual meat of the debate

Can all for one actually kill or otherwise incapacitate salem?

Salem can definitely kill him either by wearing him down and overtaxing his quirks as they are still physical abilities over a long campaign as her stamina is endless using the nightmare grimm (less reliable all for one would likely still be able to use his quirks as he and shigiaraki could use Thier quirks in the vestige world which is really no different to the nightmare meaning he'd still have search allowing him to quickly locate the nightmare grimm and defeat it really his only concern would be nightmare all for one but it's manageable) swarming with apathy's dunking him in a grimm pool using the relic if you want to give her those or saying fuck it and taking the abuse till he dies from old age (even if not traditional that's still technically a win con even if a cheap one)

But what can all for one do to bypass her curse?

The way i see he has two possibilities and that's where it becomes similar to shigiaraki vs mahito with it coming down to interpretation

The first option and the not very reliable one in my opinion is instead of using the rewind bullet on himself as intended he instead uses it on salem and rewind her out of existence

I don't think it will really work for multiple reasons

the first one being the possibility her healing factor might just cleanse her of the rewind drug she might get rewound a bit but considering she hadn't aged a day in a couple million years this is hardly a problem

The second being what the rewind bullet even does i mean yeah it rewinds her till she turns to her dad seman and then nothing but i don't see why it would effect her curse when she's completely rewound from existence i don't see why she won't just heal anyway at most it might get rid of her grimm side but considering she can summon grimm that make pools and just jump in them to get it back it's hardly a problem

And the final problem salem age

That women is old and i mean really freaking old millions of years old if miles is to be believed

It took all for one like what 10 minutes to deage 150 years while getting wailed on?

It's seriously not out of the question that even with the rewind effecting her all for one might still die from old age or just run out of stamina by the time she even loses the grimm let alone gets turned to nothing

And it also effectively buffs her regen which also just makes it worse for all for one

Now comes his actual somewhat believable win con the possession via giving away all for one

Now under normal circumstances i don't really consider this a win con for most fights since the way the series paints the effects of all for one on someone who wasn't born with it or got the modifications from the doctor if all for one actually got it inside deku he'd have just exploded immediately which would have killed all for one so i can hardly call it a win con

But salem has a very powerful healing factor meaning she might actually survive it and not immediately explode from quirk cancer she'd probably be in that almost explode state shigiaraki was in during the first war

But frankly trying to possess salem might be the worst thing all for one can do because salem is part grimm

All grimm much like their "ancestor" the jabbawalker possess the ability to absorb and destroy souls an ability also shared by those who are part grimm that's how cinder steals the maiden powers by absorbing the original owner soul destroying it and keeping just the power

Logically salem should possess this power as well so if we treat vestiges as souls....

Yeah she's literally having him for dinner if he tries to possess her

Even if we don't treat the vestiges as souls and just pure biology her healing factor would just overwrite it the only reason the grimm pools could overwrite her DNA is because it's the equal and opposite of light pool and there is no reason to think all for one could accomplish a similar feat it would just be treated a foreign agent and be cleansed

And that's before getting into the pure willpower thing salem definitely has all for one beat there

Overall i think it should go to salem she may be weaker but she ultimately wins the war of attrition since she basically cheats in those and all of all for one win cons have a higher chance of killing him then they do salem

My personal opinion:

I fully recognise that's it's probably not the best for either but personally I love it because it's kind of funny when you think about these characters motivations and why they do what they did

All for one aspires to be the immortal all powerful demon king immortal and beyond all

Basically what Salem already is and hates being

She is basically living his dreams and hating every second of it just wishing to die

And i kind of like it for the way it could echo mahito Vs shigiaraki in certain ways

The potential character interactions really make me wish those two could officially meet but considering mha is basically over it's probably never happening

Also bonus TN that is my favourite but i didn't use because it feels more fitting for cinder vs shigiaraki might make a post about that at some point

[tedlebred]

new pfp material i'd say

[devi-hydra]

I made this comic because i need old men desperately.

[jacenbren]

hot take but I think mahito would stop being evil if somebody just gave him a fidget spinner

[eggslamwich]

Continuing I guess from the previous post I absolutely believe tho Kenjaku sees Mahito as a tool/object. They are interested in its growth and teaching him about the world as a means to unlock their potential, and I think hold a little fondness because of it. But I don’t think for a minute Kenjaku ever thought of or valued Mahito as a person.

[hermitw]

why I love sukuna and hate Mahito.

They're both rly well-written characters, but Mahito's evil is on a different level, he was born from humans in the worst possible way. (same link as above, my interpretation of him)

Sukuna is a relatable, understandable character. He was an unwanted child - the fact that his mother carried twins (a bad omen) and sukuna ate his in the womb, but still could not undo the curse, tells me there was nothing he could have done to change his fate.

He fails to understand love (a common theme in the manga) and doesn't really have any hobbies, except for eating (which very often stems from loneliness). Sukuna isn't comfortable being close to people, except for Uraume (who keeps a respectful distance, approaches him carefully, and their relationship is extremely platonic. They're like a servant that Sukuna keeps around for cooking so well, and I think their calm, predictable demeanor is also a part of why Sukuna lets them in).

Sorcerers would seek out Sukuna in order to fight him, to test their own strength, and would always fail. I think he ate them as a sign of respect, maybe to grow stronger (maybe that's why he has so many random abilities) but I doubt he'd think of it that way.

Sukuna was outcast from a young age, knows little or nothing about his family, and the attention that he did get was a creepy, infatuated harassment. Yorozu might have called that love, but she didn't respect his boundaries or feelings.

So with no one to bond with, all that Sukuna had left was to live by his own whims for his own amusement. Imo he doesn't rly have a sense of honor or pride - he fought Gojo 3 against 1, keeps using pacts etc, and from the beginning said that Gojo would be the first person he kills. But soon after that targeted Fushiguro, and did kill many people in Shibuya.

He might have some sense of responsibility with Kenjaku, but I think that's for himself - to fight the merger would be better than sorcerers, something different and more challenging. They really don't seem to get along with each other, despite planning this over a thousand years (and pacts might be involved too).

Edit to add - this post with a far more in-depth analysis is worth reading

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