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philosophiums · 25 days

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to everyone who is complaining about the rapid ending of jjk and the decisions being made on how it's finishing i would like to say:

A. in order for these decisions to be different and also not feel cheesy as shit, there would have had to have been vastly different story decisions made wayyyy earlier in the manga. i'm talking culling games or before. a lot of the things that people want to see happen have no backing in the prior story. we all just spent an entire arc (rightfully imo) criticizing like... "oh of course sukuna has the perfect, previously unmentioned, incredibly niche skill to counteract this specific ct," but now you want more impossible things to happen that have not been foreshadowed or set up in-universe and you super pinky promise that this one won't make you upset? get real

B. one of the reasons the manga is being wrapped up so quickly is bc the fanbase is full of disrespectful vengeful assholes who sent gege death threats bc of his decisions to kill "their husbands." i wouldn't want to keep putting effort and energy into a story if that was the fan response either. gege is better than me bc my ass would have just stopped writing

C. one of the other reasons the manga is being wrapped up so quickly is bc of gege's health issues

D. all of the decisions make perfect sense for a plot-driven story. the plot that was laid out is coming to an end. and this has been, as gege has stated, a plot-focused story. he hasn't focused on character, so things that are happening now are not going to focus on character

now do i think that the story would have been better if it was character-driven yes. do i think it's good and smart and healthy for fans to criticize their favorite media yes. have fans been criticizing and complaining about their favorite media since the dawn of time obviously. but i also firmly believe that every criticism should come from a place of understanding and realization and not just "this is what i thought would/should happen and now im fucking pissed bc it didn't"

#i don't want this to come across as me trying to put down a law that No One Can Complain About JJK bc that's stupid #i complain about jjk all the gd time. i think it's healthy and a good way to flex your Media Criticism muscles #but all i've been seeing are complaints that stem from a place of like. either #personal entitlement (the ppl who want gojo back no matter what) or a place that is more #of a... wishing jjk would focus on character. and i agree it *should* focus on character. it should have *always* focused on character #but we're so so so far past the point where that is even remotely a reasonable expectation to have for jjk #that ship sailed as soon as the culling game arc started and the main cast was split up #which was like.... what? 4 years ago now?#anyway im keeping reblogs off bc i don't want this spreading w/o my tags #criticism is good criticism is great. but criticism without logic and understanding of the media is just. whining #'xyz should have happened and gege is a terrible writer n should die' - my guy pls just write a fanfic instead of being loud and rude #jjk #jjk spoilers #<- just in case. this is vague as hell

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