#thank you Cyclops Cat for this mad wild ride

[laindir]

The last colour spread with almost everyone :'') Thank you, Akutami-sensei, for this whirlwind of paingst, feels, and laughs. It wasn't always quite perfect and has its own share of shortcomings, but I was still truly entertained and enamored through it all, so JJK will always have a special place in my cursed edgy little heart 🔥🔥

I love my plant trio children so much, I’m just happy they can continue to be ridiculously silly together like this even at the end.

Some might find this ending too anti-climatic or abrupt with too many loose ends (fair enough assessment… but well, it is what it is). Personally though, I'm a little more partial to this sort of quieter, mundane endings, so I do appreciate and love it a lot. It might seem strange and out of place for a dark horror series like JJK, but after all the tragedy, loss, and despair, I think it's somewhat befitting that Yuuji is given a quiet ending (or another beginning, if you will). The kind that people like Nanami, and even Gojou himself, had fought hard and hoped for, when they had passed the baton on to their students and juniors. That Yuuji is to be able to smile with utmost carefree sincerity with his two best friends by his side once again as they continue forward with their growth as the next generation of jujutsu sorcerers.

The way Sukuna continues to be the funniest jjk villian break expectations when he does the complete opposite and chooses the boring and quiet life this time, much to Mahito's incredulity and dismay lmfao. I don't really find Sukuna's decision here to be all that strange either. He still accepts that his experiences throughout the centuries are of his own volition; that he had chosen to walk the path of violence and destruction of his own accord, and not simply because it was in his "nature". But as much as he is prideful of his strengths and capabilities, he is also self-assured enough to acknowledge that he had ultimately lost to Yuuji and the modern sorcerers of this era, and that this defeat is, perhaps, a cosmic sign that he too can choose to live his next life differently this time.

ALSO.... Yuuji being the one who took Sukuna's cursed finger out from the Stevenson screen, and is now the one who finally returned the non-cursed finger back as a protection talisman; how Sukuna's remains are now used in place of Tengen's as the main pillar and spiritual barrier to protect Japan (and thus, his body has now transcended that of a malignant curse into the protector of humanity, much like his real-world inspiration in Gifu Prefecture); the contrast of the first opening scene at night vs. the final ending scene in daylight.... POETIC CINEMA 🔥 I fucking LOVE bookends 🔥🔥

A Japanese fan also caught this little thematic callback too and how Akutami-sensei had planned this from the start: Stevenson screens should always face North, implying that Sukuna, in the end, also chose to “head North” / "to change / to surpass one's current self" this time in the cycle of samsara, choosing to be reborn into a simpler, mundane life with Uraume instead of perpetuating destruction.

And on a final note, I'm sharing this screencap for posterity because I made this tweet exactly one week ago before the last chapter. I'm always winning on my JJK bingo cards with my predictive cursed shitposting tweets akdjkfjsgbd LMAO