#yorozu is still amazing as always she can't do no wrong

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you know it’s bad when i created like three different scenarios that would make that last page feel like a pay-off… in fifteen minutes after i’ve read the chapter: 

this scene for megumi is like a vr. he has front row seats and he can’t do anything but watch. imax experience. no detail goes unnoticed. 

he tries to fight but every negative emotion he feels just builds more weight until he’s left with no power to fight back. literally. all he can do is lay there and cry. 

that bath fucks with his brain and instead of seeing yorozu and sukuna fight he’s bombarded with the visions of killing tsumiki again and again because that’s his biggest fear: to fail to protect her. so when sukuna finally allows him a little glimpse in the reality and he sees her dead body (this time very much real) he breaks right there in a span of seconds. 

just change the fucking wording on the page!!! instead of “he killed her with his own hands” write “fushiguro who failed to protect his sister sink deeper…blah-blah-blah”. 

and all of those scenarios require… just two sentences or one panel max. one page… one page and we wouldn’t be here at all. 

i hated sukuna's plan from the very start. i was like WHAAAATTT??? when sukuna started talking about it. but maybe he thought it’s gonna be yuji 2.0. but here’s the thing… no one fucking blames yuji for what happened in shibuya! his fight with higuruma literally there to tell yuji that he’s not at fault! 

someone highjacks your car and kills someone while driving it. that doesn’t make you the murderer. what backwards logic is that? megumi didn’t give his consent for sukuna to do this shit… why the manga acts like he’s at fault?  

and about tsumiki. easily fixed. we could have two panels when yorozu overrides her consciousness. show her waking up in the hospital, trying to understand what the fuck is happening. even that flashback with megumi, and after she goes back in another room, her head full of anxiety and regrets because megumi went through so much and she wasn’t there to help him. and suddenly she loses control over her own body (idk.. she realizes she can’t move her hands), until everything fades to black. next panel: we see smiling yor saying, “this body will do.” 

we, as readers, know that she’s dead. and now this fight still remains tragic even when yorozu dreams about wedding and everything. because we know the truth. TSUMIKI WAS LONG DEAD EVEN BEFORE SUKUNA KILLS HER BODY. 

(and i also created this scenario on the go…so don’t tell me that mangaka who’s entire job is to tell the story couldn’t figure out a way to add any substance to this plot).  

and last but not least: i was one of those people who wanted megumi to fight back, to be angry, to try to do anything. i wanted for this decision to bite sukuna in the ass… but the more a think about it the more i want megumi to die. if we really want to have some impact, if we really want to see the result of sukuna’s actions…he needs to die. because, otherwise, the constant praise this manga gets for ‘being different and with real stakes; being this one big fable about how the world is unfair and that everyone can die’ is just a bunch of bullshit that works only when it’s convenient for the plot (yuki). if gojo is the only one who can fight sukuna and survive, show me that. megumi is supposed to be just another body on his long list of victims.  

and also because otherwise we will get a walmart version of makimai plot (to the point of tsumiki/mai turning into some kind of weapon/thing that megumi/maki can carry with them. and no.. no it’s not “smart writing-parallels-doomed siblings thing”; it’s plot recycling with little to no change aka BAD. WRITING.). 

god, i hope angel will jump sukuna and will cook him for good.

tsumiki has always been the plot device! why are people mad at gege? why are you demanding for her to have some plotline or agency?

yeah, no shit sherlock! she always was a plot device. the problem is she's a shitty plot device now. and a shitty plot device = no stakes, no emotional involvement from the reader. there's a reason why i didn't feel anything when i saw that panel of megumi crying.

here's the difference between tsumiki in the OOO, tsumiki as the culling game player and tsumiki dying for good (allegedly) in 219: the first two instances have meaning. she's not there, but she still influences the plot because megumi is doing everything because of her. he shapes his morals after her; he tries to save her from the curse; he risks his life countless times in the culling game; he kills for her and he spares remi for her. megumi is driven by his goal: to save her no matter the cost. megumi grows WHILE he's doing all of that. we see the influence here and now. we're constantly reminded about her with words or with imagery or both. that's why it works.

fast-forward to yorozu-sukuna fight. we get one line about killing tsumiki to make megumi sink deeper. and that's it. no reaction from megumi while the killing happens, and no reaction from tsumiki herself. nothing.

but that fight isn't supposed to be emotional! it's sukuna and yorozu, they don't care!

except... they do. at least sukuna does. this fight happens only because yorozu is in tsumiki's body. he's there to kill tsumiki. but somewhere along the lines this point is lost. even when sukuna finally gets what he came for: yorozu (and tsumiki with her) dying, we get no reaction out of him. he just stands there, staring.

we get nothing from megumi; we get nothing from tsumiki; and we get nothing from sukuna, the one who started it all.

no emotional impact. yay!!!

i'm not even gonna start on how she had the chance to fuck megumi up so bad even without sukuna, to turn his whole world upside down because she turned out to be someone who megumi didn't really know. all this time, he had that idolized version of her and it had very little in common with reality. and yadayadayada... anyway...

tsumiki was god-awfully WASTED. and you have to be blind to not see that.