#there could be some fillers in there too

[longagoitwastuesday]

I am liking Jujutsu Kaisen, way more than I imagined I would, but I foresee it will let me down and it's keeping me from enjoying this as much as I could haha

I think the characters and dynamics are well set, and I think many of them have an incredibly good and deep potential, but I would be willing to bet they'll not get a proper development, enough for them to really hit. A well assembled set of gears is not enough to make the movement go, you have to wind the clockwork.

I think Gojo and Megumi have a fascinating and very complex dynamic, but I doubt it will be given the time and care that imo it needs to actually work. And it is going well enough for now! One could see the intimacy between them was deeper than the one Gojo had with, say, Yuji and Nobara ever since the very first few episodes despite the fact Fushiguro too was a first year. But the pieces forming what they have are extremely complex, and it just wouldn't be realistic if it doesn't show, even if in a not showing way, or if it doesn't have consequences or implications.

It's one of those dynamics that shape one's life, the way one regards the world, the way one establishes or not relationships with other people. It's one of those dynamics that could be full of fondness, gratitude, resentment, admiration, trust, and that imply intimacy, the good kind or the bad, even if in just the knowledge of someone who's been a constant through your life. It could, and would, imply a myriad of feelings, and probably in such a mix it could imply contradictory feelings too. Even the nothingness would weight, even the nothingness would be significant and meaningful.

Gojo took Megumi and his sister under his wing, the son of a man who murdered him, because of both selfish and selfless reasons. Megumi looks like Toji. What does Gojo feel about this? How does Gojo deal with this? How does Gojo go about taking care of Megumi? Would he walk him to school? Make him breakfast? Celebrate his birthdays making him blow candles? Did he take him to the zoo? Does the relationship between them feel professional or is it something more? Gojo appreciates his students, but is Megumi to him just another student? When Gojo faces Sukuna in Megumi's body, did he see the kid he raised, or does he just see Sukuna in one of his students' body? Did he have one faint wavering instant? And how does Megumi feel about this? Is he resentful of him? Resentful of the situation? Of the selfishness behind his actions? Does he feel like a pawn? Is he grateful? Does he resent feeling grateful? Would he rather not? Does he love Gojo? Does he feel nothing about him other than what he could feel about a teacher that sort of annoys him but knows he's reliable in his strength? Does he think it unfair, cruel or unfeeling that Gojo is close, closer perhaps, with Yuuji or Yuta, considering their story? When Sukuna slices Gojo in two, does the remnants of Megumi's soul tremble?

And not just Megumi and Gojo. Yuuji and Nanami, Gojo and Nanami, Yuuji and Fushiguro, Nobara and the boys, or Nobara and Maki, Todo and Yuuji or Yuta, Gojo and Yuta, Megumi and his sister. Gojo and Geto, even! If the pieces are well set, the dynamics are intriguing, interesting, and have potential to be deep, but then the characters have like two plot relevant scenes that punch you hard, but little more, it's not nearly enough. Especially not nearly enough for the enormity that is shonen dynamics and situations. And the potential existing at all, and then not delivering, makes it all the more frustrating when you're left with something mediocre that could have been so good.

The development of dynamics through not only a few plot relevant gut wrenching moving scenes, but also the smallness of life, is important. The friend who recommended this to me said that those things were just unnecessary filler, but I disagree. I think there's a big difference between a large amount of anime-only filler episodes whose existence is based on the fact they had run out of manga chapters to animate, and moments of quietness. The low stakes character-driven moments of quietness can be so telling and so insightful, and they are so satisfactory when brought back later in higher stakes situations. My friend teased me there was no scene of Gojo making breakfast to Megumi, that it would be an idiotic idea, but it would be so telling. How he makes breakfast, what they eat, if he tries hard or if it's all mechanised, if they have personal bowls or if they use whatever, if he just buys them some pastry on the way to school, if the way they have breakfast changes through the years, or if he doesn't make them breakfast at all! All that would be very insightful on their dynamic and its evolution. All that would give a glimpse on how they regard each other and why, even in the present. All that could become meaningful in tense situations and high stakes scenes.

These moments also let the plot breath; if a lot is happening all the time, if every character is always experiencing trauma after trauma, the entire story is so emotionally draining that at some point you don't even care all that much. Besides, these nothing moments or low stakes plot arcs, besides deepening and developing dynamics, also let some in-world time pass, which would make the intimacy and bond between characters more believable imo; between Yuuji eating Sukuna's finger and their last confrontation in December how much time has passed? A few months? Am I truly to believe these characters are so everything to each other in only a few months?

Without some smallness, some repetition, some daily life, some low stakes not plot-centric development, the dynamics don't hit, they don't truly feel fleshed out, and dynamics as complex as the ones Megumi and Gojo have, or as supposedly meaningful as the one Megumi has with Yuuji or his sister, should be fleshed out if they're going to exist at all. Otherwise they'd risk making the writing feel awkward and fake. Besides, if the dynamics felt well fleshed out and realistic, they would shape the way the characters interact and act, and how they deal with situations, thus being plot relevant.

The shonen genre has so much happening all the time, the stakes are so high, the dynamics are so rooted in big events and the relationships carry enormous weight and implications. Yet they barely get developed, and it feels so stupid, so plain, the absence of something so important noticeable like a constant void, a shapeless nothingness present in every scene. It makes the characters feel like cardboard figures. Jujutsu Kaisen is already getting a better job than many, but I doubt it will do enough for what I've heard, and I fear I am bound to feel let down, and bound to feel unmoved.

After all, if not enough time and care has been given to develop a dynamic, I am not going to feel pressured by the high stakes; if not enough time and care has been given to develop the dynamic between Megumi and Yuuji, as good potential as it has I am bound to feel little for this last confrontation between Sukuna and Itadori, and his effort in getting Megumi back.

[10hourshift]

Chapter 14

(important part under the cut)

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Girl thinks she's Sherlock Holmes lmao

Ok, so the real question here is how much do you want to know about the ghost stuff IN the comic, since I decided to keep it. If the first option wins I'll just put the essential info in the comic and all else in a separate post. If the second one wins all the info gets in the comic.

[plaidpyjamas]

just call me Kira (cause I drew half of this in the dark with my left hand inside a chip bag)

[skygirlstars]

the criticism of a lot of the Star Wars animated series post-The Clone Wars, namely Rebels and The Bad Batch, that I find absolutely bizarre is that they have “too much filler.” I disagree with that, and honestly just the concept of filler in general, but sure, you’re entitled to your opinion. but what bothers me is how a lot of people say TCW is the best Star Wars show and then hate on others like Rebels and TBB for “filler.”

like….did we watch the same TCW?

it’s probably over half “filler.” the droid arc, the one where Jar Jar gets laid, the blue shadow virus, etc etc. TBB especially reminds me so much of TCW with the sometimes meandering storylines and extremely jarring tonal shifts between episodes or arcs. but I find it kind of endearing tbh. I love that these shows are goofy some of the time and really deep other times! it’s part of the fun! that’s Star Wars!

if TCW came out today, people would hate on it. I’m not saying you have to like any of the shows, but I just find that specific criticism kind of ridiculous when someone also reveres TCW. childhood nostalgia is definitely a factor, so maybe the other shows will become more popular in a few years, we’ll see. just something to think about

[thedragonemperess]

Episode 22 of the Vampire Diaries and I'm looking for a filler episode. Where is the filler episode. This is episode 22 of Season 1 and I am in dire need of a filler episode. These characters are great, I love seeing them interact, I want a little bit less of the rapid fire plot progression in which nothing gets the time to sit in itself or grow. How high is the bidding for a filler episode. I am desperately searching for a filler episode. Can someone please get me a filler episo-

.....What's that?

............There is no filler episode?

............................................

Well, fuck me.

[koushirouizumi]

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[vaugarde]

streamed the manaphy movie and the hoenn ranger anime specials and god. i miss when team rocket was funny. i miss battle frontier

[orcelito]

Tenten is me in a knives shop 😂😂😂

[novadreii]

I honestly don't think there is greater shonen anime in existence than My Hero Academia seasons 1 & 2. The breakneck speed of the pacing, the MUSIC, the animation, the pure unbridled excitement, the realistic development of everyone's powers especially Izuku's, the emotionality. Shonen is not even my genre typically, but when I think of an anime that captures everything that I think the genre is supposed be I can't think of anything that does it better.

[yume-fanfare]

2025 shaping up to be a crazy year for anime (dungeon meshi s2 and final (i think) jshk S2, witch hat atelier anime, rose of versailles movie...)

[telephonestalker]

If paranatural ever were to become a show, I would split chapter five into three parts. First of all, I'd split it up because of how long it is. The first part is Chapter 5, Part 1: A Dangerous Game of Hitball. This follows all the way to "It's one of them!" where it cuts off. Next episode is Chapter 5, Part 2: The Hunt & Stalk a Teacher which goes to the big reveal of who's been possessed the whole time. Finally, we have Chapter 5, Part 3: The Final Showdown which is the big arc, everyone's fighting & we end the first season there.

[lurafita]

Random thoughts at midnight

Google search: "How do I adequetly express my discontent about there not having been a Musical episode in the show"

others have also searched "Malec dancing around and singing about being in love while fighting demons; is that really too much to ask"

[moonpaw]

yippee!!! a new year!!! hooray!!!

now let it be june

[yourqueenb]

your response to the ask abt number of chapters in Choices books made me remember that atv, mtfl, and weh are 100 chapters long, and now I'm wondering why PB thought that was a good idea (both in general and also for those books) considering they usually do like 16 or at most 25ish - like why not make them series and divide those stories into several books instead of doing 1 super long book?

that said, do you think there are any kinds of stories that would actually benefit from being that long? or do you feel that super long books are generally not a good idea

They always randomly decide to try to push the envelope every now and then. I know ATV was 22 chapters. And I believe they had done that many once or twice before that with TRR, but it wasn’t common for books to be that long at all and really still isn’t now. I think it made sense for ATV to be a longer book. But even with all those chapters, they still didn’t develop the story very well? Which just made it feel longer than it actually was. There’s no reason we as players should know barely anything about the two opposing sides in the war and the cultures of the different planets and stuff. Why even put all of that in there if you’re not going to explore it?

I can also kind of see why they tried 100 chapters with MTFL because 1) it was their first daily book and 2) there’s lots to write about when it comes to characters who are seniors in high school. But the execution was terrible. Still can’t wrap my head around why they decided to make Witness (I’m assuming that’s what you meant instead of WEH) 28 chapters though. That’s a mystery to me because it could have and should have been wrapped up in 16-18 chapters like pretty much every other book.

To actually answer your question though, I think they could make longer books in certain genres and they could actually be good if they finally figured out how to balance shit out. Definitely not 100 chapters long, but maybe like 23-30 (although anything over 25 is pushing it). We could probably get a very intricate and well developed mystery, psychological thriller, period piece, or action book. But I don’t expect PB to actually be able to handle something like that. So I don’t think it’s a good idea for them to attempt it

[bxtonpxss]

[frusciantesque]

didn't want the word on the street to be true but yeah the bear s3 didn't hit did it :/