#so is gege lowkey but that’s not really the point

[comradekarin]

being a sukugo fan (or a sukuna AND gojo fan) is so easy when you don’t have an ugly bitch/dudebro in your ear power scaling (yet somehow managing to miss the nuances of jujutsu), forcing you to choose between the two of them or playing moral high ground. all of these yap sessions and those two were playing like overpowered kids on a playground. arguably the best jjk characters mind yall! the ones that will teach each other about love due to the sheer magnitude of their self-isolation and loneliness from their status as the strongest. all that work gege put in… people are so afraid of sukugo/sukuna…

[jubburb]

SatoSuguᡣ𐭩ྀིྀི

Looking at the stars ✮

(Lives/afterlives)

From time to time, although not that often, Satoru and Suguru would go stargazing. They're too busy living out the best of their ( ), just being in each other's presence.

It's been far too long since they had this much peace, considering they were on opposing sides. But now, they finally have what they wanted, what they needed the most.

"It was lonely. You know that, right Suguru?"

"You gave me too much free will Satoru, of course I know. But I won't say I regretted my actions, knowing fully well it's too late."

He stated, looking at the stars.

"Don't blame yourself Satoru."

The time they spent talking, Gojo was looking at Geto, his eyes full of pain, regret, and guilt.

He turned to the sky, the comets and stars shimmering. The moon was especially pretty today.

"The moon is beautiful, isn't it?"

Gojo smiles, knowing Suguru knew what he meant.

"It truly is beautiful.."

...

"Me too."

He finally looked at him in the eye.

࣪ ִֶָ☾.── .✦

✮⋆˙You can fill in the blanks with lives/afterlives. This is leaning towards more where they are already dead, living in the afterlife. But if you want to read it as if they are still alive, then go for it.

-Jღ

The ways in which you talk to me, "sugudu" have me wishing I were gone, "SAT OR OOO" - C's shenanigans..

[zuzu-draws]

sending lots of hugs your way :''3

Thanks, i really needed those. The shock is starting to wear off and i'm getting more and more... emotional :"D How...do they expect us to enjoy this week's Gojo episode when Gege pulled this in the manga. I didn't like to admit it but i did have a soft spot for him, damnit.

[natsuslover]

☆.｡.:* yuji itadori bf headcanons

notes— i love my pookie yuji he’s the greenest green flag to ever exist and he would be a wonderful bf i js know it. if only gege would let him be happy…

ft. yuji itadori

content: sfw, fluff, cute innocent pining bc bro yuji’s in love

first things first, he’s SOOOOO lover boy golden retriever

his love language is absolutely acts of service bc he adores u and he loves showing how much he loves u by doing things for u

he likes taking u out to eat (his treat ofc) bc he wholeheartedly believes food is the way to a person’s heart (he’s right)

he loves watching movies and he’ll take u to all the human earthworm movies with him even if u don’t like them

he doesn’t mind that u don’t like them he’s just happy ur there

but he’s so cute and gets all excited when he’s explaining the movies to u that u end up getting into the franchise too

takes his jennifer lawrence poster down just for u 🫶

whenever he’s bored he follows u around like a puppy

like he’s lowkey so clingy bc he wants to be around u 24/7 but it’s cute

he’s very considerate, for example, if you’re carrying something heavy (actually it doesn’t even have to be heavy) he’ll immediately carry it for u without saying a word

he likes giving u nicknames but not like “babe” or “darling”

they’ll literally be the most random ass words and he thinks they’re the greatest nicknames

it takes A LOT for yuji to get jealous but when he does… i feel bad for whoever the jealousy is directed towards

he acts like a kid most of the time but he’s super protective of u

yaps abt u to nobara and megumi all the time to the point they know all the details of every date u guys have been on

he’s the type of bf to see a really pretty flower outside and say it reminds him of u

his favorite way of showing affection is giving big bear hugs

he wraps his arms around u and practically drapes his whole body on u and i just know it would be the warmest hug ever

there’s definitely been a few times where his feelings got so overwhelming he tried writing love letters to u but realized how horrible he is at spelling and writing so he asked megumi for help

he 100% goes to nobara for gf advice (like where to take u on dates and shit)

he texts u good morning every single day without fail

he also really likes nightly facetimes bc he loves when the conversation goes on for so long u start to fall asleep

he screenshots u sleeping for future reference

speaking of which, he loves taking random pics of u when ur caught off guard or not looking

and whenever he feels like he misses u he looks through all of them while smiling like a lovesick idiot

he’s such a gentleman omg and it comes so naturally to him because all he wants to is take care of u and make sure ur happy

knowing how much yuji cares for his friends and how loyal he is ik he would love u more than anyone or anything else for as long as he possibly could

this is shorter than i wanted it to be… i also haven’t posted in over a month bc i’ve been so lazy to do anything really but i’m getting back on the anime grind so expect a lot of writing!

[dyaz-stories]

Yuta, Gojo, Geto, and does the end justify the means?

[spoilers up until JJK 269]

I've seen a post floating around about what the point of Yuta overtaking Gojo's body was, and since I haven't seen many people interpret it the way I have, I wanted to take a minute to talk about it.

First of all, I do think Gege had several reasons to do it, one of them being to give the answer to the "are you Gojo Satoru because you're the strongest or are you the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru". However, while many people tend to center that idea, it's only one aspect of it for me.

I'm also of the mind that part of it was telling the fans that nah, he really really wasn't coming back (don't necessarily assign malice to it, but yeah I think it was part of the point). That being said, there is an argument to be made that it was foreshadowed in chapter 90 by Kenjaku, so I don't think that was solely the point and Gege might have had this planned for a lot longer.

However, for me, it's not so much about the battle or about the plot, but rather about the themes it sets in place for the story, and these themes have been present for a while in Jujutsu Kaisen.

At the heart of it is, essentially, "does the end justify the means?"

That's a big theme in the manga as a whole, I'd argue. It's at the heart of the Geto thing ("does saving the lives of sorcerers justify killing every single non-sorcerer") in particular. It's behind most of the higher-ups' actions, though their 'ends' don't appear to be altruistic. It's also a question Gojo usually refuses to answer, or tentatively says "no" to — in refusing to kill Yuuji, Yuta, in protecting Hakari, and probably plenty of people before them. He does end up playing in that game, though, when he kills the higher-ups — deciding that the end might justify the means, a gamble he hadn't always thought worth taking until then. [This is my read on Gojo, but it's open to interpretation]

(I can't be brief to save my life so I'm putting the rest of this Very Long Post under the cut)

We see this not so much with the fight, but mostly in the conversations we see Yuta having in chapter 261, before taking Gojo's body. That's the whole point of the debate they're all having. Yuta is arguing that you have to do whatever to win against Sukuna,

while others, Kusakabe and Maki in particular, have their reservations. [Which is interesting considering Kusakabe does think that killing Yuuji to kill Sukuna was warranted, shows that values are complicated things]

Yuta's whole speech is about, really, the fact that you have to do whatever you can do, no matter what that is, to win. No matter whether or not you destroy yourself as a person, no matter how heinous it is, if it gets a win, it needs to be done.

There's something a little self-sacrificial, self-martyrdom, lowkey suicidal about it too imo but that's besides the point (not necessarily a criticism of Yuta btw, think it makes him more interesting and gives him a lot of depth).

Anyway, back to the point: Yuta is emphatically saying, yes, the end justifies the means. That was also what the fandom was saying when the chapter was coming out, actually. I saw a lot of the argument that it was 'not realistic' for them not to do that, and that 'this was a war and yes, it's horrible, but war is horrible', etc, etc.

Now at that point, I was seething in my small corner of the Internet because from the moment that conversation was had, I needed Yuta to lose, because I fucking hated the message it would give if he won. This is, admittedly, a deeply subjective thing — it's a personal and political opinion, and everyone's going to have their own, but as far as I'm concerned, it would have been awful. At that point I was still really worried that the story was going to go full grimdark and I would have hated it if the last message we got was that renouncing all your values is justified in war if it gets you a win.

Anyway, we all know this by now, but that's not what happened.

Geto, who ended up renouncing even his own values by attacking sorcerers in the name of building his perfect world, loses to the love that Yuta has for Maki and Rika in particular, two non-sorcerers.

And Sukuna loses, not to a Kamo, a Zen'in or a Gojo, not even to the descendant of the big three vengeful spirits, all of whom have sacrificed so much of their values to get to the level of power they have, but to a no-name kid who doesn't even have a cursed technique armed with the power of love and friendship. (Not mocking this btw, thrilled about it) Just as importantly, Yuuji has done the very opposite of abandoning his values: he's fought to keep them until the very end. Even at the very end, he offers Sukuna a hand, because his main value is not to kill people, unless absolutely necessary.

Meanwhile, Yuta going into Gojo's body gets him nothing. He's committed the abominable, and it's not a decisive move against Sukuna. He's gone against some very general human values — anyone can see why what he's done is fucked up (and I can't pinpoint it precisely but I'd argue that there's a parallel between that and him cursing Rika) — and it gets him nothing. Even if it had gotten him somewhere, there was another way. A way that didn't involve that.

So that, to me, is the point of Yuta taking over Gojo's body: no, you can't just do anything to win a battle, and yes, you can refuse to do certain sacrifices and succeed. Don't abandon the things you hold dear. You can lose, but you can also still prevail, Jujutsu Kaisen says in the end.

Now for the more critical part of this broadcast, while I do think this aspect is why Gege chose to have that happen, I 100% find that chapter 269 and the complete lack of consequences the action ends up carrying really really cheapens it. Everyone was up in arms about it at first, and then Yuta comes back and we act like nothing's happened? I mean it's a theme of the chapter for sure, acting like nothing's happened that is, but it still sucks.

I think that's partly why Maki is mad at Yuta in chapter 269, considering she was the one who was most strongly against the idea, but it's not brought up explicitly. It's completely incomprehensible to me that Gege thought the chapter would be better used talking about how they could have acted differently and that whole New Shadow Style school thing than dealing with the consequences of the characters' actions that he'd prepared earlier, but whatever.

So in the end, while it was an interesting point to bring to the story, it was not used to its full potential. In a story that's all about breaking cycles, it's a shame that there wasn't more light shed on how people kept repeating the same mistake.

[cruyuu]

Just saw the leaks of the new chapter and.....well, this is it for me then

Hi anon!

I was holding myself back (desperately) from taking a look. In fact, I really wanted to stop looking at leaks and wait for one chapter normally but once my friend started spamming me and I saw the messages...

I'll put everything behind the cut for those who do not wish to be spoiled. Let's just say that I'm moved. Gege killed me.

Ok, so. Wow. I don't know where to start lmfao.

I was doubtful, anon. I was so, so doubtful how this story is progressing and what the hell was even happening. In fact, I also made peace with the fact that maybe whatever the hell was happening between Yuuji and Sukuna was never going to be addressed (because, oh well, who cares), Sukuna will kick the bucket and Yuuji won't even look at him, etc.

Only for Gege to deliver everything I was hoping for.

I don't know why some Sukuna fans are disappointed by this chapter. Yes, he is put in a pathetic position, despite practically carrying the narrative on his back and being this incredible villain but "looking cool" and "being powerful" had consequences in this manga (points at Gojo).

I, as a Sukuna fan, am not dissatisfied because I love him whether he's cool or pathetic. Tbh, I'm really happy! because I always believed that both of them were pretending and that it was about damn time the masks fell. It was about damn time these two saw each other for who they truly were.

And Yuuji accepted him!!! He said "lets try one more time", not "go rot in hell". He broke the cycle because he had grown to understand him. Not hate, but love. Accepting. Empathetic. Being everything no one in this narrative was able to give to Sukuna and therefore failed in reaching him.

Now, on the other hand, this was also the final proof I needed for my theory that these two were always twins (that the uncle/nephew through reincarnation was just a lie because, again, this never got mentioned again and is barely given relevance) but because Sukuna had rejected such fate, Yuuji didn't get born alongside him, but got born in a totally different era. By eating his twin- stealing Yuuji's fate- Sukuna got born in the wrong era (the era of peace) while Yuuji got thrown into the hell that is the modern world (and he has Sukuna to thank for that). They practically switched destinies (hence why Yuuji talks about matters of chance) and are both living at the wrong time, yet living at the wrong time had gotten them to this point, where both got what they wished for. Sukuna - strength. Yuuji - company.

The way the narrative did a very clever switch is also lowkey messing me up. Considering Sukuna is Yuuji (what Yuuji tells Sukuna), then their personalities are basically switched. They're true reflections of each other- Sukuna shows who Yuuji is, and Yuuji shows who Sukuna is. It's Sukuna who wanted company while Yuuji wanted strength.

This explains their contradicting behavior. How Sukuna understands love yet says it's worthless (but never elaborates) and also explains how Yuuji was incredibly strong in his youth, why he couldn't understand why his grandfather is choosing euthanasia (if he cared for others viewpoints, he would've known why) and why he's constantly shouting "it should be me" yet constantly sending people to death and not killing himself.

And yes, I know this isn't confirmed but atp it's pretty believable more so than the uncle/nephew thing.

Yuuji sees Sukuna in such a state and doesn't mock him, doesn't hate him and as someone who expected Yuuji to just straight up start laughing at him (because I know how severely Sukuna is hated by this fandom and this is what the fans were expecting) this was already a big win for me. An even bigger win was Yuuji telling him to try one more time. Hell, he says "even if no one accepts you, I will live on with you"! Hello!?!!??!!!!?!? That's practically pure love right there. Seeing him like this and yet still accepting him... that's actually really deep. If it was anyone else in Yuuji's shoes, they wouldn't act that way. (Hell, just look at this fandom itself. People love ideas, but close their eyes to the truth. They love power, but once that power is gone, they're quick to jump ship and escape or think "That can't be right".)

I love this chapter truly because I always had an inkling Sukuna was projecting this entire time, as was Yuuji. There's a reason, after all, why he escaped from him and looked for a "better vessel" and why Yuuji was putting on a front this entire time (about being caring and living for every single moment) while at the same time willing to eat a finger (like it was no biggie), eat his half-brothers and "want to die" yet not die.

And now the truth is exposed? Sukuna is Yuuji. Yuuji is Sukuna. They've inverted their destinies, fulfilled their dreams (Yuuji had come to connect with people finally, Sukuna had come to achieve incredible strength and not be a weakling), and finally managed to understand each other. Sukuna understood how Yuuji felt all this time and Yuuji had grown to understand how Sukuna felt all this time and why he's telling him this in the first place.

It's genuinely beautiful.

Even if the "we were twins" theory of mine is debunked, them not being twins just adds even more beauty to this. They didn't need to be born together to understand each other. Hell, if they were born like that, the fate which would've awaited them would probably be similar to what happened with Maki and Mai.

Yet they were different. They survived.

[majycka]

hi quick random question, do you think Kyoto students and utahime especially her dynamic with Gojo could have been utilised a bit better in shibuya because they have potential if they were fleshed out.

what are your thoughts i just feel there could have been potential.

There certainly was a potential anon!

Reading this linkspooky anon ask, she said that the mechamuru traitor plot line could've been fleshed out more to point out the flaws of the school system(which gege isn't really interested in exploring) thus also allowing us to explore the differences between teacher Gojo and Utahime plus their kids. I agree with what the anon and she had to say so imma try to explain it further.

I know canon told us that Utahime was able to figure out the mole via process of elimination but if we were to really to draw out the traitor plot line, I can imagine Utahime, the investigator, digging deeper into the motive on why possible Mechamaru even considered doing it. She's an attentive teacher afterall so I wouldn't doubt she probably cares about why her kid ends up like that. In this way, we get to see the differences between how Gojo and Utahime treat their kids as well as how the school system using these kids as child soldiers affects them. Through this way, we get to see Gojo and Utahime interact more. I’d dare say that Utahime will probably call out the way how absent and “sink-or-swim” Gojo’s ways of teaching are. I mean, it does work for his students, but sometimes he ignores a crucial and obvious part that they are STILL kids.

That’s the whole point of Nanami’s care for Yuuji who’s originally under Gojo’s wing, and how Yuuji expressed that it’s Nanami underestimating his skills when in fact, Yuuji is STILL a child, and Nanami, as the adult, has to protect him.

Gojo is not too aware of this fact that they ARE still child soldiers because he is raised in the same system afterall. However, with Utahime’s caring, and doesn’t-take-any-bullshit-from-Gojo personality, there’s no doubt she’ll call the fuck out of him. 

Moving on to the actual students themselves, I actually like how Gege kept the Kyoto kids lowkey in this arc and when they showed up, they were a team (even Todo included with his help with Yuuji). I'd like it more if we were shown how the Kyoto kids navigated the culling game arc because the game could have forced Kyoto plus Tokyo to cooperate with each other. Maybe even under Utahime's wing because most of the adults got nerfed in Shibuya. Also, Kyoto kids offer the weaker pov things in the series, and I'm all out for underdog characters. There’s just lots of inner conflict going on when you’re in a world who favors the strong while the weak gets hammered down. 

Moreover, another thematic potential I can think for the kyoto-tokyo dynamic is sharing comradery on entering adulthood. This is somehow shown with Kamo & Maki vs Naoya fight, and imo, this fight is a good CANON example that "at the very verryyy least"  fulfilled the potential of the Kyoto-Tokyo dynamic.

More yapping under the cut cuz this is actually one of my fav fights in CG arc >.<

The goodwill event shows the battling philosophies of the schools, however it also shows how complementary they are..Kyoto wants to be understood in a lashing out way but Tokyo merely responded with callousness to it and has the "who cares what others think" mindset.

Nobara and Momo fight on misogyny

Mechamaru expressing his disability with panda

Megumi vs Kamo "We are the same"

Maki and Mai "why didn't you left the Zenin clan"

I mean Tokyo ain't wrong about their individualistic mindset but at the same time, it just sounded unsympathetic especially when all those kids are all in the SAME boat being child soldiers under the jjk ruthless system. Kyoto kids unhealthily lashes out but they aren't wrong about it either cuz it's a reality that they suffer a lot from this system. These openness of Kyoto Tech however did make them closer like mutamiwa and kyoto girls (mai, miwa, momo).

Overall, Tokyo needed the Kyoto comrade nature while at the same time Kyoto needed the independence of Tokyo kids and in that kamo-maki vs Naoya fight, it showed us how these philosophies made a great working teamwork for them...

Recap to that fight, Naoya shows up as a cursed spirit and boom maki has to deal with it now luckily Kamo is there to help. With the help of Kamo's teamwork, Maki was bought some time to recover (deal with those samurai and sumo duo) and boom defeat him. 

Kamo sympathised with Maki’s situation after the fight. Even back in the fight with Megumi, Kamo seems to be one trying to seek understanding from kids under the big clans because he kinda understands the pressure they are under. Despite barely interacting on screen, it's no wonder 100% Kamo backed up Maki. Moreover, what makes this fight pair up fulfilling is the parallels they have despite being different ends of the spectrum. They even opened up about their family problems, and this is coming from Maki who tends to keep to herself.

"Don’t fall in the same rut."

Maki opens up and give advice in communicating more to their family because Maki regretted not doing the same for their mom, and we cut to throwback of the Kamo’s mom was that she named him Noritoshi just to spite the Kamo clan.

I've seen criticism about this part. It's pretty shitty the mom named her kid practically Hitler,  abandoned the same kid, and expects the kid himself to come back, and I agree with the criticism. However, looking at it from a different angle, it's shown at the same time that jjk is a coming of age series, kids growing into adulthood aka shouldering the shit that adults have failed to do...

Adults can be shit at doing their job to their kids like what Kamo's mom did to Noritoshi. Like c'mon mom! you could have done your job as an adult and be the one to approach your kid or pull him out of the clan situation but no. Sometimes the Reality is fully accepting that parents are shitty sometimes and the kid of the situation has to push themselves to be mature and take over the adult's work, and as for Kamo, that is having to be the one to find his mother to find closure and from then on, he will be the one to decide what will be next.

[yinyuedijun]

hi maomi just wanted to drop by and say that your jjk takes are very sexy and correct, not that i expected any less of you. i agree w you so hard on gojo’s death and it lowkey drives me insane how many people literally don’t get the entire point of his character. and the pacing is super wack, esp how the ending is playing out, but the decisions being made make sense. very interested in seeing your reaction to the ending once it happens!!! i am not ready!!!

ps. i personally like noritoshis new look but it is uhhh drastic

hi anon my darling!!! aw thanks I'm glad you enjoy my rambling! unfortunately I always wanna yap about it when I'm consuming media so ofc I had to say something about gojo lol. I think gojo is a very well-loved character so people were understandably upset by seeing him die, but the death made sense narratively and I liked its execution. (as an aside, I really liked nanami's death but I think it also suffered from similar problems lol - I don't know the fandom well enough to know how people feel about it these days though.)

also you're right the pacing is SOOOO ABSURD LOL I think gege had a very solid plan for jjk, but that plan involved a series that was literally double the current number of chapters and then he got burned out 😭 because if you look at the major plot and character beats they feel sensible! but the execution just suffers horrifically from the pacing overall and also the nonlinear storytelling around the battles. the lost potential is disappointing, but it is what it is - weekly serialization is a brutal format for an author to deliver and disorienting for the reader to experience. neither party can be sure what the complete work will be until they arrive at it together, and that's just something I've come to accept as a manga reader lol. anyway it looks like he's going for a very lighthearted ending chapter, which I'm excited for after all of that because WHHLSHFLWDJD I JUST TOOK SO MUCH EMOTIONAL DAMAGE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS

my toxic trait is that I actually kind of miss the long hair on kamo, I wish he had just tied his hair back or something 😔 the short hair has grown on me though !!!!!

[prettyboykatsuki]

how does one brainstorm a cursed technique? i wanna make one for selfinsert purposes but idk how

step one: don't. turn back. free yourself from the shackles.

im kidding sdkjfsdn. kinda,. lowkey i cant give u advice for this bc im literal dogwater at worldbuilding. it is my worst skill as a writer LMAOO but i'll try my best

basically like cursed energy is described as electricity by gojo - so its powerful and uninhibited in it's raw for. techniques themselves are usually innate and manifest in people young, and are thus further expanded upon through a lot of training. this is usually the case with yuuji as the exception

anyhow, a cursed technique can be represented by anything. gege describes it as a softer nen-system. the problem is that it can be anything tho LMAOO

for me personally - i wanted to base this characters technique off their personality so it's based partially on gambling kind of like hikaris but it also uses beautiful imagery from hanafuda. my original inspo was essentially card tricks since the reader im writing has kind of a slippery personality. card tricks -> card games -> hanafuda -> koi-koi

my best advice is pick something you like and see how you can make a technique out of it lol with the power conversion in mind.

so like.. lets say u pick clown symbolism. you can have the innate technique be something like an illusion ability. to expand on that u can create a cursed item that's like those never-ending handkerchief that you can essentially turn into a whip using your cursed energy. you can create a domain expansion and call it circus and trap your opponent in a fun house making causing confusion to the point of injuring themselves. you get me

that is what i did basically. i just narrowed it down, and then figured out what i wanted readers power level to be.

for realism purposes, i would also recommend adding backlash or consequence or limits to this ability if they are really strong lol

[portchuuya]

Hello, can I ask from this ask game :

https://www.tumblr.com/threecheersforinking/677824836625694720/anime-ask-game?source=share

For anime/manga : Haikyuu, Bungou Stray Dogs, and Jujutsu Kaisen.

Thanks 🌻

of course hehe this was fun

haikyuu

Favorite Character: oh my god i have WAY too many snd it changes every day but i would say tsukki hinata and kuroo currently i could write an essay about each one ngl

Favorite Arc/Episode/Scene: tsukishima’s block in the shiratorizawa match oh my goddd and of course the beloved tokyo training arc

Character I Think is Underrated: idk if he counts as underrated but lowkey kita.. he’s so insightful and i think he points out one of the most important points of the whole series which many fans tend to miss - that the debate between talent vs hard work is shallow and misleading (i could also write a whole essay about this)

Character I Think is Overrated: NONE i literally love every character in the show

Favorite Ship/Pairing: i’ve never talked about them here but i have a severe case of iwaoi brain worms and kagehina ofc

Something I Love About the Show/Movie: every character is SOO well written and carries a different message. it’s not just a story about working hard and winning but self-care and handling losses when they come

bungou stray dogs

Favorite Character: CHUUYAAA literally who my acc is based off

Favorite Arc/Episode/Scene: lowkey dark era.. and idk if this counts but i LOVE the stormbringer light novel

Character I Think is Underrated: yosano tbh she’s literally the reason why half of the ada are still alive and she pulls thru every time but i still see ppl discredit her abilities

Character I Think is Overrated: 🤭

Favorite Ship/Pairing: soukoku (act surprised)

Something I Love About the Show/Movie: i know we joke about how we never know what’s going on but i love how complex it is and i think the light novels are so so soo good and make everything better

jujutsu kaisen

Favorite Character: NANAMI 🥲

Favorite Arc/Episode/Scene: none every scene had me fighting for my life (jkjk hidden inventory will always be my fav)

Character I Think is Underrated: YUKI she had soo much potential but i feel like gege rlly downplayed it so she doesn’t really get much appreciation

Character I Think is Overrated: i am not starting any fights today

Favorite Ship/Pairing: stsg the actual reason i started this acc

Something I Love About the Show/Movie: not a single boring character, everyone has their own motives and abilities it makes it so interesting

[dreamii-yume]

For the 8 months that I was working in and out of that Inumaki sinfic, it led to quite an in-depth research about Inumaki himself and it just solidified that fact that he’s my favorite character in JJK lol

When I was studying how to properly use his language for the Sinfic because I’m a nerd ☠️ I realized how much of a fucking troll Inumaki is lol Like this man could have learned sign language, he could’ve wrote what he wants to say using a simple pen and paper, or just phone alone, but nope—He decided he wants to speak in rice balls 😭 He wanted people to have a Bachelor’s Degree as a requirement to be on level 5 friendship with him 🧎‍♀️

The author confirmed that “Salmon is Yes” and “Bonito Flakes is No” and everything else is gibberish and that’s?? What do you mean half of the time he’s saying rice ball ingredients just to fuck with people?? 😭 He’s so unserious broo

But his silliness aside, I love him because he’s not a powerhouse like Gojo or Nanami—He’s a character meant for defense, because though his technique seems really powerful and cool on paper, it’s incredibly high-maintenance. Using it for attack is too risky and once he damages his throat to the point that he can’t speak, it’s over ☠️ So, I love how Inumaki compensated that by being physically active and resorts to using it only when he needs to protect his juniors 🥺

Also, do you think Inumaki cringes every once in a while whenever he remembers that he used to put his hair up and was rowdy as hell as a first-year 🤔

I mean, the first time I saw his first-year design, I couldn’t even believe that THAT was him lol I liked Inumaki in the current timeline because he’s so big-brother-like and was so responsible with his cursed technique—He didn’t change that much, but in the movie, he almost seemed he liked showing off by saying powerful words that were more than his throat could take haha

Present Inumaki could only DREAM of saying shit like “Get twisted” and “Get crushed” now unless it’s really a dire situation lol Fantastic character development I’d say—He really learned his lesson lol

…I need to remind myself to keep my love for this character lowkey cause you’ll be seeing me in the news if Gege does something to him in the manga or something—Please I don’t want him losing more than an arm ☠️

[babyboybokuto]

hiii cece hope you're having a great day/night ♡ i wanted to return the favor and ask you something !! sooo i wanted to know your favorite characters of all time, like your top 5, and if u want to i would like to know why !! i just think u can learn a lot from someone by their favorite blorbos lol

OOOOOO this is a good one, ok in no particular order (because I just can’t I love them all so much) I’m gonna say my top 5 are

1) Bokuto (obv, that’s my sunshine cinnamon apple)

My best friend was the one to get me into Haikyuu and the first character I actually loved was Nishinoya, but when this himbo ball of light came on screen my heart was like “him, that’s our boy”

Also fun fact I’m actually such a hater lowkey because in my first year of college (before I was into anime) my ex was actually watching Haikyuu and I walked in on her crying over an episode and I looked at her like 🤨 what is wrong with you crying over some pictures (oh how the turnt tables am I right)

2) Gon and Killua (you can’t separate them)

My babies my sons my everything’s , HxH had such a big impact on me and it took me FOREVER to watch it so it was a part of my routine for a while and it sounds silly to say I was inspired by some 12 year olds but genuinely I was I absolutely love their characters and their development throughout the story

3) Nobara (best girl)

From the moment she showed up on screen I have loved this girl so much she’s so sassy and funny and she is so sure about herself her sense of self is something I can only dream to have and she’s such a fucking badass her technique is incredible and I miss her so much GEGE BRING HER BACK

4) Gojo

Riding that jjk train still it’s actually really funny because I actually hated Gojo when I first watched season 1, I found him to be arrogant and annoying, and then I read the manga and I realized that the reason I hate him was not really because he’s arrogant and annoying (which he is) but it’s because I saw myself in him (tragic I know) and then especially after I read Hidden Inventory arc my entire perspective changed and I realized he’s actually a character I treasure very much and I love him

5) Zoro and Sanji (another package deal sorry)

Now hear me out right I am like 0.000001% of the way through one piece (I’m on like episode 140) but the way these characters have stolen my heart is insane, and do I happen to also simp for both of them?? Yes, but the point is that their actual characters are so amazing to me and I know there’s still more of Sanjis backstory that I haven’t really seen and it’s most likely going to break me but I just have such a love for them and their dynamic so I’m gonna say they’re top five for me; the way that Zoro is so dedicated and loyal is something I find to be an incredible aspect of him (not to mention his talents as a swordsman), and Sanji cares so deeply for people and is such a caretaker and the fact that he is able to fight using only his legs is also incredible to me

So those are my top 5 (7?) favorite blorbos and a little bit as to why , idk why I stuck specifically to anime because I definitely have favorite characters from other forms of media but this is just what my brain wanted to supply at this very moment

thank you for the question carmen 🥺🫶🏼

[kafkaoftherubble]

头脑痒痒

I'm so itching to format essays better!

Writing the zine essay(s) on Microsoft Word reminded the you of these days how great it is to have more range of formatting. Such fancy formatting should be made a mainstay feature here in our garden! After all, our garden looks pretty good for reading already [1].

Citation: [1] My ass.

There are a few essay avenues.

สาธุ! But we will need to rewatch it again, especially if we hope to write something a bit more in-depth about the characters and explain Monk Dol's Dhamma Talks. The best time to revisit is when Season 2's date is announced/teaser dropped.

On that note: I can't wait for Tomorrow + I to drop sooner. Future Lyns will have something to say about it!

Oh. Depending on how many people analyze those show, we can also ramble about Hellbound Season 2 and Squid Game Season 2.

Waiting for some sparks to seize for After God and HikaNatsu! After God at least has the "this story is about addiction" idea, but we certainly need more points to build it. Gotta bounce more ideas off Rigless Prince!

Study notes for The Enigma of Reason. There is likely no reader for this other than us. But it's a good spring of cognitive science essays and I lowkey think Tumblr is not having enough academic, scientific essays with more robust and rigorous citations. I guess it's fine for everyone to just write from their lived experience, but personally, it's hard to be satisfied by that alone.

One last Jujutsu Kaisen ramble about the last chapter. Some fresh angles from good old Buddhism on why Gege chose to plan his story this way.

I kinda think that... maybe it's not too bad to write about Buddhist Philosophy here sometimes. If there's a reason to, though.

Maybe we can digitize some notes of very interesting podcast episodes on philosophy and science, too.

Not essays, but it will be really nice to do fancy formatting for Project G(ho)u(l) too.

There are principles to adhere to, though.

Do not write rambling essays for the sake of writing. There has to be substance and reason for it to be written. Useful, meaningful, or interesting angles someone who reads it can benefit from and think about. Don't waste our kamma!

Experimental ground:

Testing solid colors beyond Tumblr's stupid restrictions!

Fionn's color code is correct now!

I have our color code too!

This will be Rigless Prince's color code! 

[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

[kafkaoftherubble]

Yo, other than the intrigue and the enthusiasm for Sukuna (mine is much, much lower than yours 😝) you spoke the words outta me mouth!

Sukuna? To me, he's an interesting villain, but not the most interesting character I care about. I am shamelessly pro-Yuta pro-Gojo (welp this one's gone) and lowkey pro-Hakari and pro-Yuji and pro-Higgy (oops another one gone). Yuta's eyebags supremacy!

Him as a source of philosophical tension was rather surprising to me, not gonna lie, but when I really think about it... It actually is in line with Gege's (also surprising) penchant to sneak philosophy in under the flashy stuff.

However, I think Sukuna's waxing philosophy is only more... substantive if he has actual philosophical foils or counters to play off with. Him v. Jogo and him v Gojo, to me, were great showcases. Due to my personal interest, Sukuna v. Gojo back then had been really meaty because I could draw it to Buddhist philosophy, particularly on the doctrine of "the self" and "non-self." I'm quite infamous for being rather into this whole shebang, heh! Two or three of my friends have already suffered impromptu lectures regarding Buddhism.

Don't ask me for that ramble though! First off, the best person to spout it was the Lyns of Last Year, because they were the ones who had the most thoughts and cohesive points for it. The me now? My head's currently dominated by Ajin: Demi-human and... Astral Chain, which isn't even that deep, haha! I can't cook a good ramble regarding this at the moment!!!

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I did save (screenshot) some exchanges I had on the YouTube comment section back when Sukuna V. Gojo was at its peak. The gentleman I was speaking to was pretty learned in Buddhism too, so we had a really great conversation interpreting the philosophical underpinning of that fight. I intended to transfer it here to make it part of my rambles, but I hadn't gotten the time, and now I'm a bit lacking on the will, heh heh 😅/scratches head. Nonetheless, I do wanna revisit that conversation and at least toss it out here someday for people who snort meta essays like coke. I just... need time... and the willingness... and the intent... and the impetus... and the... Gojo... I mean maybe I'm just waiting for more info about Sukuna and his thought process? Oh, yea. That's gotta be the excuse reason!

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I wasn't too impressed with the conversation between Sukuna and Hajime "Twinkachu" Kashimo, though. I think it's because I find Kashimo's characterization kinda... off when you compare it to his throwdown with Hakari. It was quite the whiplash for me.

Sukuna made his own life philosophy much clearer in that conversation, I'll give you that—personally, it harkens to the Daoist idea of 无为 (Wuwei, "effortless effort"). But the concept of 无为 is so flexible and malleable that it encompasses many different interpretations, ranging from morality and ethics, to statecraft and politics, to strategy and tactics, to supernatural pursuits and metaphysics. Personally, I don't think Sukuna's way of practicing 无为 (if we would even call it that!) is actually as noble and enlightened as some others in r/Jujutsushi made it sound; eating other humans, for example, is hardly concise with the sort of natural order Daoism stresses.

And yea, I was no fan of how the fight between Kashimo and Sukuna ended. Maybe it covered the beats Gege wanted, I don't know. I just didn't feel rewarded.

The one good thing about that fight, though, is that it sets up for Sukuna's midlife crisis moment in c248! I laughed when I saw its glory unfold! I have never thought of him as the type to do a whole-ass monologue, but man, his hate game for Yuji is so strong it sends him into an internal debate because "fucking brat learned RCT?! Fucking brat... has that cursed shonen superpower called INDOMITABLE WILL?! What am I here for?! I hate the fact that I almost praise him! Aaarghhhhhh"

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Yea, I really did not like the way the Courtroom fight ended! Worse, we seemed to have traded that Legal Battle for old-fashioned throwing hands, and yet even that was unsatisfactory. Higgy just died like that after taking away Sukuna's baby rattle. The Executioner Sword was a dud (we expected that, but I really had hoped it was a dud in a more... creative way). The whole sequence was, to me, as big of a waste as Kashimo v. Sukuna. And it really made me even sicker of this four-armed son of a Gege.

Also, hear-hear on Kenjaku bowing out of the story! Nowhere did any of us in the past ever think that was the last of Kenny because of how unceremonious it was; I just thought it was a fake-out! Dude is the other tether to the Heian Era! He's... Yuji and Choso's parent! There is so much more to be learned about, come on! Even if Sukuna ended up becoming the link to Heian past (through flashbacks or something), it still wouldn't necessarily tell us more about Kenny's relationship with Tengen. I get that we have learned enough about Kenny as a person, but he's also a really good device for us to learn about the period he was from.

I really hope that's not the end of Kenny. I really, really do. I commend the protagonists for finally scoring a win by outsmarting a talking brain, but can it not be at the cost of exploring a wee bit more about JJK lore? Or even more about Yuji himself? Come on!

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Finally, of course. I'm a (begrudging, do-not-want-to-admit-it) Gojo fan. I do get excited thinking about him possibly making a comeback, preferably in a genius, nani-the-fuck-is-this way par Shibuya Incident's ingenuity. Or just... him coming back, period. But well, part of me is rather worried about its execution (if it happens). It will definitely be hyped as fuck—internet-breaking, even, just like c236 was—but will it come at a cost of the story's philosophy and themes?

Ah, I'm so torn.

I hope I didn't mistake you for someone else, but I think you're the other mutual I have who's into JJK, right? I only have two mutuals who reads JJK ahahahha. So it should be you...

Have ya read the (albeit terribly-translated) leaks for C248 yet? Thoughts?

Yes I am the other JJK mutual lol, you weren’t mistaken! I have read the leaks, but I usually wait till TCB scanlations and then official translations (although I hate official translations, John Werry really needs to be replaced) so I can compare them and come to a conclusion about my thoughts.

I’m a bit more ready to negatively criticize JJK than most, but I do so because I know Gege is capable of really good writing. Shibuya is one of the best written arcs I’ve seen, and the philosophy and themes aren’t new but they are written in ways that are intriguing to me.

Sukuna is one of my favorite characters, but the mass Sukuna v. Everyone fight has steadily become more and more boring to me. There’s only so many times I can be “off the edge of my seat” with constant deaths and death scares and “Sukuna defeat” close calls before I just become blasé to it. I was expecting there to be many deaths (it is a war after all), I was expecting Sukuna to be difficult (He is known as the most powerful sorcerer for a reason), but it feels less like a battle of tension and cunning and more close to levels of “last season of Game of Thrones” writing (although not nearly as egregious, Gege is still a competent writer and he clearly is trying to tie this up as best as he can).

The Kenjaku v Takaba fight is, no joke, one of my favorite fights in the series. I think it’s a wonderful display of how cunning Sorcerers need to be whilst showing the creativity of the power system Gege has made. And I think that’s what I feel is missing from the Sukuna fight, or is steadily disappearing. Sukuna is meant to be cunning, he’s meant to be smart, but it feels less like he’s winning because he’s cunning and more because he’s winning because well…Gege needs him to for tension reasons.

The court room fight is a good example of this. Lord I would’ve loved to see Sukuna utilize his intelligence to overcome Higuruma’s domain, it would’ve been much more satisfying than Sukuna getting that one weapon confiscated and the whole fight just ending in like 4 panels and that’s that.

I also will be majorly rankled if Kenjaku is actually dead and gone. There is no reason they should be as Kenjaku, the person that prepared for this whole debacle for over 800 years, is much more cunning than to just be killed by a decapitation. I think it’s fair to say that Kenjaku is the main overarching villain, none of this would be happening if it wasn’t for them, nor would Sukuna be here either. To kill then off as if they were some dumb goon obstacle boss would be an insult to their character. Kenjaku’s connections to the Heian era, to Tengen, to Yuuji and Choso, is too valuable for them to just be gone.

Anyways, I’m intrigued to see where this will go and what Sukuna will do know that he has the ability to go forward with the Merger. Although I’m confused on why he would even bother doing that or what interest he would have in that.

I’m also interested to see where Gege is trying to go when it comes to themes of love, power, and loneliness when it comes to Sukuna. The theme of “it is lonely to be at the top” is budding into something intriguing, which is why I think Sukuna is fascinating to me. I don’t care to much about his fights, and more of him as a philosophical figure, because he his quite philosophical in and outside of fights. His ending conversation with Kashimo was quite cool. He also can’t stop being very homoerotic towards the enemies he fights and defeats. It’s funny to see hm having fun and being satisfied by an opponent and then being sent into a philosophical crisis over human emotion.

Also I am always fascinated by Gojo fans absolute hope in Gojo coming back. I think this chapter sent them into more of a fervor, I am rooting for them it would be funny to see honestly.

[cruyuu]

Hi!

My thoughts about what I'm about to point out aren't coherent yet but you're the first person I thought of when it came to me

So Yuuji's still missing his left pinky finger after Sukuna changed vessel and RCT can't fix that because that's a piece of Yuuji's soul that was ripped off

And now I'm following the theory that the finger in the last panel is the one that was imbued in Yuuji from birth that he removed himself through his ring finger

And in my brain it's like 'there's some skit bs going on here' and idk if I'm making sense because I'm not sure of where this is going 😅 but with the left ring finger being associated with engagements and weddings getting rind of the last piece of the other's soul through that finger could be akin to throwing away your wedding ring (the divorce era is real) but maybe they've rotten my brain a bit too much

In any case I'm looking forward to any thoughts you have on this chapter (and thank you for reading my ramblings) <3

Hi there anon!

I love your thought process and the fact that you remembered that! It would be extremely fitting (even if far-fetched for those who are not as insane as we are) because they just big sigh. They just have to act like that and be that way lol. I wouldn't put it past our dear author who delivered a lot on sukuita week no less (that is still some crazy coincidence) to again make something about them both. If not the finger, then the soul connection, if not that then something else. Like Gege definitely didn't need to write Yuuji chasing after his inner demon and spending time with him (hell, saying he was frantic and wanting Sukuna to indulge him), especially not when that same demon is someone who continually kept ruining his life and took the very person Yuuji confessed he feels lonely without, but here we are.

I'm waiting for the official chapter to drop so I can really get the whole picture since leaks are just a tiny piece. Shipping aside, I don't know what to make of that panel with Sukuna's finger. jjk is pretty close to ending now and hence, I am skeptical. I really wish for there to be another arc after Shinjuku because it feels very off to me to end everything in like two more chapters. I'm hoping for more because it still feels like there's more left. Maybe I'm just insane and will be missing this manga a lot which is why I'm sensing that, idk.

Divorce arc has never been realer now and it's lowkey slightly painful to me since Yuuji wanted a compromise. What's very fucking funny still is that Yuuji reached out to him, first and foremost, realized he can't affect him (that sad look in his eyes) and then switched back to his usual response. Meanwhile Sukuna's still pretending he doesn't care even though he indulged Yuuji and spent nearly an entire day with him before he finally snapped when he realized Yuuji was sad about him lol. Still, the vehement anger Sukuna feels is keeping me rather well fed because Sukuna has no business being so against Yuuji saving Megumi. Like why?? He had no trouble being patient and even explaining his viewpoint when Yuuji DE-ed them away and talked about himself, but then the second Yuuji mentioned saving Fushiguro, he's shaking with rage and promising to kill everyone Yuuji loves.

Chapter 265 is literally:

yuuji: spend some time with me

sukuna: ok

yuuji: so here's what i realized

sukuna: why are you telling this to me oh my god i don't care like i understand your point but i don't feel anyth—

yuuji: i want to save fushiguro

sukuna: 😡🤬😡🤬😠😠🤬😡🤬😡😠🤬 (that wasn't meant for me?!?!?!?!)

I am also brain rotting hard about everything. 266 fueled my brain and filled it with one-sided sukuita fic ideas which are just peak angst and I live for angst so yeah. I'll have to get to writing soon because I have a lot of ideas for these two (the writers block is keeping me away from that, as is my slightly limited english vocabulary and real life unfortunately).

Thank you for sending this ask, anon, and also thank you for listening to me ramble about these two as well! <3 I'm more than happy to discuss these two for eternity because they just make me insane.