Yo! In case you're curious, here's the songs I used in the video (in order and with timestamps!): 0:00- At the Racetrack (Everhood OST) 1:43- Makoto, Journey to the One (Gran Turismo 5) 3:15- Weatherscan, Track 3 5:50- USA NYC Times Square (Smash Court 2 OST) 9:38- Factory Stage (Marvel Vs Capcom 2 OST) 11:09- Beneath the Mask (Persona 5 OST) 14:02- BGM Rip Training (Smash Court 2 OST) 17:03- How Do You Think? (Date of Birth) 19:16- Baking the Wonder Tart (Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course OST) 20:58- Shop Music (Cuphead OST) 21:40- Kitsch Beach Stage (Tekken 4 OST) 23:56- 07 Naked Glow (R4 Ridge Racer Type 4 OST) 25:18- Pursuit (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney OST) 26:15- Via Dolce (Lola Pop’s Stage, ARMS OST) 28:00- Checker Knights (Kirby Air Ride OST) 29:38- Apotos, Windmill Isle, Day (Sonic Unleashed OST) 31:40- Spider-Man’s Theme (Marvel vs Capcom 3) 32:30- Forest Replay (Sega Rally) 33:20- Palmtree Panic Past (Sonic the Hedgehog CD) 34:11- Move Me (R4 Ridge Racer OST) 36:13- Great Grey Wolf Sif (Dark Souls OST) 37:08- Factory Stage (Marvel vs Capcom 2 OST) 39:12- Aria Math (C418, Minecraft) 41:56- Arcana Pack Theme (Balatro) 44:14- River Stage (Marvel vs Capcom 2 OST) 46:38- Reflection (Sonic Adventure 2 Battle OST) 48:16- Move Me (R4 Ridge Racer OST) 50:48- Gorgeous Days, Private Suite (Monster Hunter World OST) 53:14- Apotos, Windmill Isle, Night (Sonic Unleashed OST) 55:52- Apotos, Night (Sonic Unleashed OST) I hope you enjoyed the video! Have a nice day!
@@KnightlyReviewsI liked it personally cause the ENTIRE thing came off like a jojo fight, and it doesn’t help that Reggie looks like a part 8 jojo character and his name is “Reggie Star”
thank you dude "Everybody in the village was crazy... That notion was never true, it was just the voices of those who spoke louder than the rest." could never be more truer here i enjoyed listening to you talking about JJK and im glad youre standing out
Definitely wouldn't call the ending peak, but people are waaaay overblown on it, it was pretty decent. Gege makes it clear in his message in the last volume that there are things he also wanted to make different. I also think that a lot of people shifted their opinion when Gege took a month break and that wasn't his fault either.
The issue with JJK's ending isn't the ending itself, but the amount of plotpoints either unfinished or finished in an unsatisfying way. I think Gege knows that though.
@@bigshot9514i think I agree, for me the weakest points of jjk are in the build up to Shinjuku. I think this is one of the better ways the story could've panned out with the setup it had
@@bigshot9514 tbh I think the word amount here is slightly exaggerated, the only plotpoint that really must have been explored more is cursed energy optimization, like the whole reason this story happened, especially with the ending releasing cursed energy to the world
Oh my gosh, THANK YOU for making this video. I almost gave up on the manga and anime because the fandom was mostly represented by those kinds of jerks who would not shut up and let us enjoy and/or take our own conclusions, enjoy the experience in our own way. I was honestly happy with the ending and enjoyed the whole journey towards it. It also helped that I distanced myself from X/Twitter around that time, but needless to say, I was satisfied.
This video has the same vibe as when i asked my mate why people were calling kusakabe potential man and he ended up drunkenly explaining the entire second half of the series to me for about 2 hours. suffice to say I very much enjoyed the video.
My problem with JJK and its ending is that it all feels like the bare minimum to make an interesting Shonen. So much more could have been done to make it amazing but its kinda just... there. I love JJK and I think its a good 7/10 on a objective analysis level but nothing about its end can be classified as peak. It just was what it was, the end of JJK's story with all of the missed potential we have had before.
Fair enough man, it's not perfect by any means but it does a lot of the things I enjoy in storytelling (especially shonen storytelling) pretty well, so it's higher on my list than most
Gege always had this endings messages and theme be what is focused on when making this story. Everything that happens in this *STORY* is all to build up to Yuji and Sukuna’s ending. Without making this story drag on or explore unnecessary details to the overall focused narrative, what could Gege have done to reach its “full potential”?
My main issue with Sukuna is how his binding vows kinda feel like cheating. He kinda just gets to do what he wants and half the time there isn’t really a downside.
The thing is that there are downsides, but Sukuna is playing at such a higher level that it feels sorta negligible. Let's pretend Sukuna misses the first wcs, he would NEVER touch Gojo with it. But because he's power cliffed the rest of the cast he can still manage to get away with it
@@KnightlyReviews But that's completely your headcanon, Binding Vows need to be equal cost for equal price, you can't just "play at such a higher level that it feels sorta negligible".
@ARandomEliatrope Let me clarify, I don't mean that Sukuna is so good it's negligible for him, I mean that Sukuna is so good that the drawbacks of the binding vow seems negligible because no one he's fighting is good enough to capitalize on them. Like I said in the first comment, let's pretend he misses the first world cutting slash. If he's fighting Gojo and he needs to do the handsigns, chants, and point to aim he wouldn't be able to get that move off successfully. In the same way Sukuna was preventing the hollow purple Gojo could play around the WCS setup to avoid it. However, because Sukuna is so strong compared to the rest of cast it can FEEL like there aren't any drawbacks to the WCS. If he were as strong as Yuta this would be a MASSIVE drawback, if he were as strong as Yuji or the rest the Shinjuku Squad this would be a MASSIVE drawback. But because he's playing at a higher level he can get away with longer setups easier. This technically isn't stated anywhere but I don't think it falls under headcanon status (technically). This is just my estimation of the relative power of the cast during the final arc (based on what's shown, said, and what I've inferred) Sorry if I wasn't clear enough with the initial reply though, I hope that clears it up
@ARandomEliatrope I don't think Binding Vows work on the basis on equivalent exchange like in Fullmetel alchemest, but is just a contract that you do with other people, or yourself for an increase in power. therefore although even tho you have to give up something relative for exchange for something else, this does not mean equivalent exchange.
@@arkdoesstuff7362you are correct because there's a certain binding vows that basically just proves that guys argument which is basically hikari sacrificing his arm to save his life. I'm pretty sure an arm is not worth a life
Idk if anyone pointed this out yet, but even before the example of Todo surviving idle transfiguration, Nanami did. In his first fight with Mahito he got hit with it, and it wounded him pretty bad but didn't kill him. Mahito even says that Nanami was able to survive because he subconsciously protected himself with cursed energy, and he'd just need to hit him a couple more times to actually transfigure him. So we had an example of someone surviving that even before Todo. Still you don't have a character get injured, and another character show up and say to the audience that "They could survive." and then just kill them off screen anyway. I was confident Nobara would make a comeback too.
I think the problem just was it took an entire year to tell the story when this was (mine included) first manga being read week to week. So many people came in off the backs of the anime Shibuya incident and weren’t ready for only getting like a third or fourth of an episode a week, which soured a lot of people’s mood.
Yeah it's a pretty rough transition when you're getting into the meduim, ESPECIALLY if it's something that's coming out weekly (I recommend you give ranger reject a shot! it's getting animated but the manga was pretty good while I was reading it. I haven't read it in like a year and a half plus though so if it's gotten wonky I CAN'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE)
4:14 Gojo meant to kill Sukuna for real, remember when Sukuna newly took Megumi 's body and Yuji told Maki "Kill him, he wouldn't Die" the goal is to hurt the body so bad that the parasite (Sukuna) losses control over the body and unfortunately it's only at deaths door that is possible because Sukuna is just that GUY!.. Also remember when Sukuna pulled out Itadori's heart and was still alive. To win against Sukuna, Megumi's body must be at the state of death, that regular RCT cannot help even with that Sukuna will still be alive because. Also remember when Yuji almost died at the hands of Choso in Shibuya, but only survived because of Sukuna, Megumi needed to be at a similar state or worse because of how powerful Sukuna's RCT was.
Well is a couples points of contention in your statement but the biggest one is the example you used with sukuna and pulling out Yujis heart. Sukuna has the best Trump card in the series. Buy having his soul spread out in individual things that could be absorbed and have him reincarnate. Which is why when he was taunting and mocking Megumi, gaslighting him about what happened to him thus far. It's because all of his fingers except for the last one could all be destroyed. I want one time and as Yuji said. That 1 single wouldn't be enough to sustain his soul, so it's was because Sukina was THAT GUY but merely the plan Kenjaku had prior still showed its be benefits even at that time. If Sukuna actually was nervous about dying he'd have never pulled out Yujis heart. Another prominent example are the 2 sisters that tried to barter with sukuna and he took it as a grave offense. He could care less about a single finger since he was just given 10 and potentially one more prior to Jogo showing up.
@@NamelessNomad00 the point is not about Sukuna being dead, the point is about Gojo's intention during the fight, if you want to rescue Megumi you have to kill him.
To be entirely fair to the "Sukuna would have lost without Ten Shadows" argument. Mahoraga was doing some very heavy lifting when it came to his win, Sukuna probably wouldn't have been able to do world slash without Mahoraga as a blueprint and would have died in the 5th domain clash if it wasn't for him. Not to call him a fraud or anything, but there was realistically nothing he could do against infinity which was why he needed Mahoraga in the first place
I think I agree with you for the most part, he definitely wouldn't have figured out the world cutting slash. However I think that he probably would have won in a different way (MAYBE even sooner) if he wasn't focusing on the adaptation. Without ten shadows Sukuna's counters to infinity are domain amplification (which he can use at the same as his cursed technique, I can't remember the chapter where he does it but I can go looking for it later) and domain expansion, and I think that in his true form he could probably do one or two more than gojo. That is assuming quite a bit though, I totally get what you're saying and I agree
The thing that makes the entire Mahoraga carried sukuna argument fall flat on its face is without sukuna, mahoraga doesn’t last even 1 second against gojo. Sukuna IS THE ONLY REASON why maho is relevant in the gojo fight! Sukuna can fight gojo on his own, Mahoraga can’t. Sukuna LITERALLY bore the burden of adapting for mahoraga, because a single red would kill it So tell me who really carried who?😂
Thats false @@CertainlyCynical they both were relative to each other in relevance.. Is it wasn't for Mahoraga after the third domain attempt that he was laid on, he would have gotten his a** be within the inch of his life a d forced to Transforme earlier. Sukuna kept desummoning Mahoraga to keep his wheel active, if he didn't and he got destroyed early then once again we're back to square one. The fact that he had to pull out a third a Shikigami is only more proof of that.
@@KnightlyReviewsunless Sukuna could uses fire around which we all understand that you could not. There was no other way for him to win.. he couldn't transform because he needed a 10 shadows and his technique. Working together, not just one or the other.
8:03 if Sukuna really had Mahoraga summoned from the beginning of the fight, that means he bared the full weight of Mahoraga the entire fight, if true WOW!!!
Also on this point at 23:20 I think that another reason didn’t take yuta seriously as a threat is because he fundamentally misunderstood how his technique worked. In chapter 90 he says that yuta’s power is due to him detaining rika’s soul basically implying that rika was what made him powerful but based on gojo’s research in volume 0 we know that rika only became that powerful because of yuta’s latent ability. Which makes sense considering that rika is fully gone by the end of 0 but yuta MILES stronger when he re enters the story. So In other words I think kenny underestimated yuta because he believed he received his power and strength from rika when really it was the other way around
I dont have a problem with the ending itself so much as the fact that the entire plot of the manga got derailed for the last fifth of the story to be an extended fight against Sukuna. Kenjaku has gotta be one of the biggest fumbles of a character I've ever seen
Kenjaku ain’t really a fumble if u look at him as just another character. He wasn’t made to antagonize the main cast but he does because his plans call for it. Like in the video he explained that Kenjaku doesn’t care about them. So if u see bro as just a character (which u probably should since jjk is so focused on its characters) his ending was a pretty satisfying for him
@@METALLIX1000 But he is NOT just another character, he is literally the driving force behind 90% of the story's conflicts! Almost everything that happens happened because of him.
I don't think Kenny was a fumble, but I don't think it's outrageous to have that opinion. I think it could've been handled differently and still been successful for sure, but I'm fairly happy with how it went. I still think the amorphous merger monster is a bad idea, but it's not like I don't wonder what could've come from it. That said though, Kenny's character gets rounded out because of Takaba. He got exactly what he was aiming for through Takaba, so it doesn't leave me particularly wanting for the merger (that said though, I do get it)
@@Chrysostomus_17 nah he literally is don’t close ur mind by boxing these characters into tropes. His end was fitting for his character but ig it could be disappointing if you treat him like a steryotypical mastermind villain which u shouldn’t do
@METALLIX1000 But he was the mastermind. Try to explain the events in the story without him. You can't. Gege treated him as a plot device more than a character and that's why he's so shallow and disappointing.
10:10 I think gojo can see the slashes. The reason he turns back there is because the slash didn't hit him. Instead sukuna targeted the building behind gojo to make it fall on him. In fact(ignoring sound) the only reason gojo would turn around and look at the building before it starts falling is if he saw the slash travel past him Instead of hitting him and he was following it, with his eyes. I also think your point about the world cutting slash looking no different from a regular dismantle is a good enough explanation for why gojo didn't evade. He simply didn't think he needed to.
I have a point to add for Kenjakus death, and that is that Kenjaku represents a sorta Buddhist Monk, so it is kinda ironic that his downfall is being excited during the fight with Takaba Also, for Nobara, that's Idle Transfiguration damage, Shoko can't heal that. Other than that, it's a solid argument.
Some pointers on the video, from someone that never read the leaks and didnt go week to week, just read what was out each few months, but still didnt really like it. -First the most minor stuff that isnt as damaging from the Sukuna vs Gojo fight. With the Mahoraga thing you really cant base a defense on a fan theory, especially in something like jjk, when you know and cant deny if it being summoned the whole time was the intention, there would have been a five page long explanation detailing it. And stuff about Gojo letting his guard down a bit sounded weird, specially from someone that spent so long trying to make the infinite barrier permanent unlike all others before him, and while fighting Sukuna. -About why people call the ending off-screen im not sure why you cant see the difference, something like Jogo vs Sukuna was a foregone conclusion, we knew he would lose at any second and the main focus was the spectacle and respect he got from the king of curses. On the other hand Gojo vs Sukuna was a constant back and forth, and from one page to another we went from him cuttnig off Sukuna's arm and getting the upper hand to immediate death. Sure you can make those kinds of sudden twists for shock value or display brutality, but not in the middle of the fight that the whole manga was building up to. -Then Kashimo... what was even the point? Sure, the Gojo or Sukuna from his era, his loneliness in power... but we already have two better characters building up on that theme, and he only gets a meaningful interaction with one right after death. Im not one to advocate for character cutting, but what did he ad to the story? In actions, character, themes..? Just the two fight scenes? We have plenty of those. -And yeah, speaking of fight scenes, weekly reading or not this arc feels exhausting on the gauntlet, i understand wanting to display the scope of his strenght, but a lot of clashes didnt really ad anything of note, we brought back completely random character only to hype them up and lose in two chapters, over and over again... Also the overexplanation of their powers and random flashbacks constantly breaking the pace of the fight, reading it almost in a binge you can really tell the difference in fight pacing. -For Nobara, the issue is not her coming back, i always believed that, you cant have a character say 'the chances or survival arent zero' in a story and not live after all lol, but having one of your main characters missing for over half the story just for a moment of surprise, sorry but that one is straight up bad writing, we missed interactions, characterization, fights... everything about her just for a gotcha moment. -Fushiguro didnt have much else either, other than the last minute moment of resistance he is mostly beaten around the whole arc, his sister that was his main motivation unceremoniously killed... he just doesnt get much of a final moment or conclusion to his character. In general the ending is just that, just there, one final fight and nothing else to flesh out the characters more or give them conclusions, other than a few interactions, wouldnt call it awful but cant say its good either.
Hey! I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment, even if we didn't end up agreeing on everything. - I get ya, but I don't necessarily like that plot beat either. I wanted to share that reddit theory as a fun what if while I was already on the topic, but I see how that could've sounded like a defense of the choice. Like I said, if Mahoraga's first appearance was an issue for you (or anyone) I won't argue it. It's genuinely completely valid criticism. - To be fair, wasn't Gojo and Sukuna a forgone conclusion as well? Sukuna is the strongest sorcerer after all, and to me it seemed obvious because Gojo winning would end the story too early. Gege let him do his thing and show off a bit since it was going to be his last fight, and then the obvious pick to win won. -I think Kashimo is a cool guy personally. I wouldn't ever complain about another character adding more to a theme. In my eyes he gave a good amount of insight into what Gojo and Sukuna were thinking during their fight, and if you want to keep it purely practical he forced Sukuna to fully reincarnate (which again, is a great card to take out of the deck early into the battle) - I think it's pretty reductive to say that they're just bringing back "completely random character[s] only to hype them up and lose in two chapters, over and over again". You could say that about pretty much any final fight in a shonen anime. It feels a little extra strange seeing that claim when their stated goal is to whittle him down since he's just one guy. (plus most of the contributions made are incredibly impactful and it's safe to say that if any one of them didn't pan out the Shinjuku Squad would be cooked) - I disagree but I think this one is a matter of taste. Nobara's story early in JJK (up to her not death) was about bittersweet endings and how there's still happiness to be found there. I do wish that she had more interactions with Gojo throughout the series, like seriously I think they talk two times total, but I also understand why Gege did it this way. (Nobara also wouldn't be able to keep up with culling games players anyway, so having her in that arc would make her feel more like dead weight than anything) - Megumi's character is a little strange, but I think that his moment of fighting back came at the perfect time storywise (to show Itadori that he wasn't alone). I wish he had gotten a little more though (especially cause we don't see his initial reaction to Tsumiki being killed) I think this ending works pretty well (in case you couldn't tell), because it's so much more than "just one final fight", but I definitely understand where you're coming from
@KnightlyReviews Its all good, It was a good video and well thought out. At the end of the day Its always a matter of which issues affect someone's enjoyment more or less, and what things improve or not their overall enjoyment, so things will never match up exactly. I Guess a final response on that one, is that by the end of the fight being abrupt i dont refer to Gojo losing being the more clear answer, more with the clash of going from him getting the upper hand to immediate death internal monologue. For such a climactic moment something like a final clash or standoff before confirmed death would have very much been needed. And by the characters getting hyped to lose in a couple characters was more referring to everyone that never had any previous build up till this fight, stuff like Miguel and sorry but Kusakabe haha. It feels more appropiate for a final fight to revolve more around the ones we already know all of, Yuji, Maki, Yuta, Choso... Instead of taking time out of the conflict for someone that hasnt been developed before.
I agree with a lot of your points but I’d argue against a couple -Gojo has be caught off guard multiple times due to his arrogance. Hanami saving Jogo, Kenny and the Prison Realm, and his first fight with Toji. It isn’t unsurprising that in his arrogance he doesn’t finish off Sukuna and gets snuck. -Kashimo was supposed to be a big fish in a small pond, a sorry man excuse for a sorcerer that hadn’t been pushed or grown like anyone in the Heian or modern eras. I see Gege’s intent with him, but he just didn’t get enough screen time to explore that further. Each fight in the Sukuna gauntlet measures the different paths to power one could take in the series. Kashimo was untested strength that never knew struggle or defeat. Higuruma was potential without the experience to make the most of it. Yuta was unfocused love. Maki was heavenly restriction vs. pure sorcery, mastery of the body vs. mastery of the soul. Etc. etc. if you want more of my interpretations of these fights I’ll share but I think you get the point. While not a fan of Nobara’s return, I wouldn’t say it’s bad writing to keep her out of the previous arc. It made her absence feel tangible just as it did Gojo’s and helped set the expectation for her not to return and subvert it. Is it good writing, debatably so but I wouldn’t say it’s outright bad.
@maximoy2288 I'm picking up what you're putting down, and I'm really glad you enjoyed the video! (And when I make some more jjk content I better hear from you in the comments again!)
No hate, but some points I have to make argument against cause it still bothers me and generally some points I have. Sukuna vs Gojo. Yes, using Binding vow was bs and off-screening too. But Binding Vows as whole are just extremely stupid concept. They basically allow users to do anything. What stopped Sukuna from making Binding Vow to bypass infinity in some way and end fight in 5 seconds. What stopped Gojo from (for instance) sacrificing Limitless to see Sukuna slashes? As a whole system is broken and not very thought out (making any weakness and strengths of one's action to be non existent, instead of making them a key point in fights) Yujo-Gota (basically Yuta in Gojo body) - So first about Executioner sword part sure enjoying story and all, but it's writer job to ensure easy ways out of situation don't feel like 100% would solve problem. But my issue is.... what is the point? Cause to me it just served as momentary bait/hype moment (which Gege just seem to love a bit too much). Domain Expansion: First one is what even is the name of expansion? Like it would be cool to get name of DE of MAIN CHARACTER. Nobara return just sucks from many angles, but I'm going to shorten it up to two. 1st is the fact that she as character is finished since Shibuya and fact that it took her 140 chapters to come back for last 5 proves it. And while she had "foreshadowing" (once again in Shibuya so +100 chapters before) this isn't satisfying return and it didn't need to happen. 2nd in terms in story Nobara literally just woke up and she's already walking doing CT without issue which is extremely funny. Like her managing to wake up perfectly for that moment for that fight Epilogue: I see no reason to explain simple domain in last 3 chapters (this is something that straight up needed less explanation than something like Binding Vows) like it's cool that Mei Mei did something, but I feel like we could've done something more interesting. Overall 269 felt like explaining stuff in case readers have issues rather than actual chapter of characters aftermath of the battle.
Glad you watched the video dude! But let's get down to it I like Binding Vows, it adds to the power system in a pretty fun way but I also think they were a little underutilized. We never got to see what happens when you break a binding vow, and stuff like that could add quite a bit to the story. I think the lack of use makes them feel a bit nebulous at times, but I think Gege does a pretty good job of making the tradeoff feel meaningful. What stopped Sukuna from making Binding Vow to bypass infinity somehow and end the fight in 5 seconds? He can't! He can't get an "I win" button for free, that's why he went through the trouble of acquiring ten shadows. Binding vows are typically self-imposed, relating, and restricting. Over all else though they're equivalent. What would Gojo gain out of a binding vow that killed him instantly? Nothing! So it doesn't work within the framework of a valid binding vow (at that rate why couldn't Miwa say "I'll kill kenjaku and never swing a sword again" in Shibuya? The binding vow is restricted to the self, so she exchanged her ability to swing a sword) What would've stopped Gojo from being able to sacrifice limitless to see the slashes? Nothing I guess, but that wouldn't be worth the trade. Assuming the trade is loss of limitless (his entire cursed technique) for enhancing the six eyes (so he can see the slashes) he wouldn't even be able to fight at that rate (aside from CE amplification). Sukuna's binding vow was to skip the requirements for the WCS (the handsign) once, while adding two extra requirements (a lengthy chant and physically aiming it with his palm). It works for me because it's just changing the target, so the strength isn't really a factor in the same way it would be traditionally. Overall though, I think binding vows work fairly well, but I get why they seem like a get-out-of-jail-free card. I get what you're saying but with that one specifically it literally just wouldn't work. A fresh sukuna is way too far out of Inumaki's league for technique activation (he could hardly handle Hanami after all). Yutajo in general adds a whole lot to character parallels (Gojo/Geto, Geto/Megumi, Kenjaku/Yuta, etc.) and is an interesting way to keep Yuta involved in the story. If it's not your cup of tea that's fine but I think it's pretty rad. I explain the parallels a little more in depth in the video so I hope you don't mind if I don't elaborate here. Benevolent Shrine, duh (I kid). I think it's fine, he threw it out on a whim but I imagine it would just be a twist on Sukuna's domain name. I do get wanting to know it though. Nobara's return is cool to me, but she just doesn't have much to do in the culling games. Everyone is too far out of her league for her to meaningfully contribute, and her absence leaves room for Yuji and Megumi to grow. Not my favorite choice of his but I understand it (sorta). I do think her comeback works though. Also yeah? She's not weak or anything like that, assuming she recovered fully I don't get why she couldn't. It wasn't to explain simple domain and where it comes from, it's to show that people without cursed techniques won't be exploited in the new era of jujutsu society. I think it works but again I get it if you don't. Anywho, thanks for leaving a comment dude! I'd love to hear what you think about some of this stuff
i don't mind that confiscation took kamutoke but i think it would've been cooler and more natural if it took his cursed technique and sukuna was forced to rely on kamutoke and by the end of the higuruma portion higuruma dies or whatever so sukunas cursed technique returns to him but before dying higuruma manages to destroy kamutoke it would leave us at the same place we ended up in but would've gave kamutoke a bigger role (since it currently feels like it showed up just to counter higuruma's domain and nothing more) and would've shown even more how powerful sukuna is that he can fight all these people without even needing his cursed technique
great video!! I love the Kashimo introspective. he's one of my fave characters. yet people hate on him for losing to Sukuna because..?? as if this wasn't expected..???? yet Vegeta in dragon ball is a "GOAT" when he does it...
Bro I'm 4 mintues into the video and i wanted to say thank you for shouting out Professer Coach, he was the go to guy for me when it came to JJK TikTok. I just want to say this before i watch the video that i think of lot of peoples opinions on the ending are due to judging the ending before the full chapter came out on leak night, I remember when those 6 pages got realeased of the final chapter and people were judging the ending as a whole because of those pages and people ran with it. The only reason i can whole heartly say this is because of TikTok's i see with thousands of likes using Gojo's "I have loves and dreams too" quote even though it was a mistranslation from leak night. I truly don't think JJK's ending is bad.
Part way through, but that's a masterclass in justifying Kenjaku's fate. ^^ Passionate, great delivery and a well fought case. Bravo! I agree that this is the intent of the manga. That said, you made a comment that I find interesting on this point specifically, and since you told me to come back after the Kenjaku section.... might as well ask now! *Is* Kenny the secondary antagonist? In retrospect? Hell yeah. But that's kinda clarified *by* the final arc and its focus on Sukuna. Going into it, the main villain position could've easily swung either way. For all of Sukuna's raw power, Kenjaku has the brains and the versatility to compete, with so much time to prepare and versatile cursed technique usage. Sukuna has the personal connection to Yuji, but so does Kenjaku due to the Momma Itadori thing. And it's Kenjaku who set the actual ongoing events in motion, who hijacked Geto's body, set up the Shibuya Incident and later the Culling game. Sukuna kinda reads like Kenjaku's muscle - the big physical threat helping the main villain achieve his goals. And if you go in that way, Kenny's death becomes unsatisfying. The guy behind everything gets the undignified death, the secondary villain becomes the big bad by default 'cos there's no one left to fight. I'm... a little torn personally. I loved the comedy battle with Takaba, and I'm okay with Yuta striking a cool sneak attack.... but I enjoyed Kenjaku as a villain, and feel he left a little early. It also kinda turns this into the Yuta show when he gets both this big moment, and becomes utterly critical in the Sukuna fight. (Now, back to the rest of the video!)
To me Kenny was the secondary antagonist because the Sukuna plot (and his existence in general) was so intrinsically tied to Yuji. His revival is the catalyst for practically everything in the series (not hidden inventory of course). Kenny is cool but it feels like a very Megatron/Starscream dynamic between the two of them (if that makes any sense). Also! I don't mind Yuta getting the Kenny kill and coming back to help in the Sukuna fight. He's the only one with the kit to handle the fight with Kenny and it's immediate aftermath, and he was only able to pilot Gojo because he had beaten Kennu. It all kinda works out for me but I get what you're saying (also, thanks for commenting again! i was really hoping you would)
@@KnightlyReviewsKenjaku already reincarnated but didnt join culling game and meeting Takaba as his new comedy partner at the ending. He got good ending.
The main problem was that people were judging the ending solely based on leaks that weren’t even telling the full story. Don’t get me wrong, I still don’t think the ending was really a satisfying conclusion to some big plot point but I’ve definitely seen worse😂
I don't think it's the worst ending or a bad ending I think it's fine, just fine, but it was rushed I think gege was sick and he was tired I believe even with an extra 20 ch, we got the same ending, but it would have been way better I think I just wanted more from jujutsu kisen's world and characters
I think that's fair but that can be said about pretty much any manga that's ended y'know? Im really excited to go through the chapters again once all the corrections and stuff are complete so I definitely feel ya on that one
@@KnightlyReviews Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Code Geass, Steins;Gate. They all end and you go like, Yea that is a good ending. Also even if Hunter x Hunter is not ended the end of chimera ant arc ark was also a good ending.
@@RACH90810i imagine in that case fushiguro probably would've just taken a bigger role in fighting back (and maybe yuta would've just eaten it and that have been the reveal)
I'm gonna jump in here before watching, cos I've got a hottake/theory on this reaction. It's the Culling Game's fault. In isolation, the finale is great. But the arc leading into it.... great *components*. Individual cool fight and cool characters. But it felt like it was building up to something different, some great twist on Kenjaku's plan, some major subversion of what we know. And it... simply isn't. There *is* a twist going into the final arc, it's a good twist, but it's not the 'shake everything on its head' sort of thing. The final battle is the final battle. If you went in expecting a complication, that's gonna disappoint.
I like the culling games but it's definitely the weakest part of the series, like it's not even close. Im not going to spoil my own video for you though so you should comment again after you get through Kenny's section so we can talk about it
This isn't a hot take, but it is an incomplete assumption. First, a lot of people hated the Culling Games precisely because it was distracting from Gojo vs Sukuna. People were complaining the entire time that watching these fights felt pointless. However, people got their hopes up specifically that we'd see the Merger only after the Culling Games arc was technically over. This is when we get into the territory where people simply have terrible reading comprehension. People who don't know the first thing about writing convinced themselves that the Merger HAD to happen since it was mentioned, ignoring that it was an apocalyptic scenario, and also convinced themselves JJK was going to turn into a global military story, ignoring that Kenjaku made it pretty clear all foreign soldiers would die to sorcerers and cursed spirits. There are several elements dropped in the Culling Games that feed directly into the finale that people didn't understand because they simply didn't grasp what the Culling Games was a metaphor for. Uraume described the bath as a way to get closer to evil, a basket of venomous creatures killing each other until the most toxic survived and accumulated the power of the rest. This is how cursed objects were traditionally made. People kept claiming Yuji stopped being the protagonist (as a joke, mind you) and actually missed how all of this was part of his story. The Culling Games was an excuse to get Sukuna and Yuji to concentrate all their curses until one remained. Kenjaku kept making a point that he wanted Yuji to be fully realized as one who saves no matter what while Sukuna gets to run as free as he wants to kill whatever he wants. People kept joking over the text and convinced themselves that the story was something that it wasn't. Shibuya didn't feel like a warning to them. It felt like a prelude to something even bigger. They wanted the Great Ninja War in a setting that was more like martial arts Mob Psycho.
@@KnightlyReviews people are saying it isn't cause sukuna couldn't do the hand signals, i did not read in a while but i'm pretty sure he couldn't use it.
@@Carlinhos-tx4cuwell just because we didn't see him do the hand sign doesn't mean he didn't, right? We were looking at megumi in his soul and the words disrupted it, and the next page is the slash landing. It's just definitely implied (cause why would sukuna just do the chant and nothing else? I could see it as a way to just buff the slash in general, but my understanding is that the WCS didn't kill yuta because he just got hit with Jacob's ladder)
@@GocanTHthey don't show it but why would he do just one? We were looking at megumi and yuji talking inside megumi's soul, and the text interrupts that
I think JJK from 236 was really polarising, the start was good imo. (Higurama jump (even though the exectutioner dodge was kinda lazy),Takaba vs Kenny, Yuta + Yuji vs Sukuna), but after that I think it was simply the tear Sukuna down which i did not find fun (but that is my subjective take), but iI think it picks up the pace at Choso's death and Yuta's character coming full circle, which are probably the best moments of the ending. After its clasic shonen ending, nothing horrendous, but nothing stelar (I still think Yuta and Yuji should have paid respects to Gojo, because Yuta was probably the closest person to Gojo and he saved both of their lives), but this is the problem of Gege being rushed by Shonen Jump, which is not his fault. I think most people are dissapointed by the rushed plot rather then it being bad and areoverexadurating. Only thing i did not like in the slightest was the Nobara return, it felt like such a copout, because Gege made us believe she was dead and she just returned to save the day, feels like a deus ex machina. Nobara was so wasted, because she was not in the manga for so long, that it felt like a forced choice to make hype. Siimiliar thing happened to Todo, but I liked it there, because no one baited us about him never returning and he has a serious injury that he needed to overcome (the vibroslap is genuinely such a genious idea) and he changed how he uses his technique acordingly, Nobara just stayed the same, just with an eyepatch. I don't think her returning added anything and it felt cheap, If Megumi and Yuji beat Sukuna alone it would be better, because it would feel way more earned and it gives Megumi way bigger role than tripping Sukuna once (but this is also my subjective take). Glad you enjoyed it though, all to you. I think it was wasted potential, but its not bad and its also not the fault of Gege that it was rushed.
Personally, I like unexplained plot points in media. Gives more stuff to think about well after its conclusion and keeps it alive Edit: I was not expecting "I named my cat mahoraga" 😭
14:00 I don't think this is a very even way of presenting it because we know damn well Jogo is not competing with Sukuna, and we got the result within the same chapter/episode. The equivalent would be like if we came back from the flashback and Jogo had suddenly won. Further building from your earlier analogy - no I don't expect Gojo to dodge the gun, but if you see someone reaching into their pocket why would Gojo not kill before he can pull out said gun. Even if it's ineffective you don't want him attacking anymore. Now if there was something like Gojo hesitating to finish him off because Megumi needs to come back and that's what gives Sukuna his time it'd feel a lot better. Instead we get this King Crimson effect that doesn't particularly feel good to read. I think Gege knows this too be because that's why we had the binding vow mention later, which feels like an entirely different problem
I think it's pretty fair because both fights were foregone conclusions to me. If you honestly actually thought Gojo was going to win I see why this would feel so different but otherwise, he's just using the same storytelling tool that he did earlier (again, also with Sukuna). Also while there is a chapter break it hasn't been animated, so we can't say yet if they'll do it like a cliffhanger or in the episode like Jogo's. Going back to the analogy I think it still works because the point of Sukuna's binding vow is that Gojo wouldn't be able to see him pulling it out. Before the binding vow, Sukuna needed the hand sign but didn't need to aim it with his palm. He could've sent it just like any other dismantle without giving off other cues (like firing them off without moving during his fight with Kusakabe in chapter 254). Additionally, we see that Gojo couldn't see or react to the dismantles that Sukuna sent so there's that to consider. Imagine you're fighting a guy and he looks pretty much done for, and seemingly out of nowhere an invisible bullet flies out of his chest. Dodge that Anywho, that's why the comparison works for me. I also wanted to say thanks for watching the video! Even if we don't agree on everything I think it's really cool that you took the time to hear me out first.
i don't like nobara coming back, i know it makes sense and i saw it from a mile away but like, nobara was such a cool character and i feel like if you were gonna bring her back the whole time you should've just done it at the culling games nobara was supposed to be a part of the "main trio" so having her missing for more than half of the story just for her to come back randomly and beat the bad guy just feels wrong the scene from shibuya was already pretty bad and now it feels like a joke when you re read it lol
I get what you're saying but I don't think there's anything she can even do if she gets brought back earlier? Like realistically how is she contributing in any other manner? I guess she could spam the resonance but that's a little lame imo. It's just an unfortunate situation to put such a cool character into y'know?
@KnightlyReviews she has plenty of room to grow, her technique is super unique and characters get stronger through combat i'm sure there's plenty of new aplications she could get for it like idk a maximum technique or a reversal it could've been cool to have her fight along side megumi since their dinamic in the trio ended up going pretty unexplored
I liked the ending. Definitely wasn't a highlight of the series, but JJK still remains my favorite Shonen manga and has some of the best highs of any action series.
I think the ending was ok but not offensively bad. It went kinda how i predicted Nobara coming back was basically told to us. It definitely peaked with Gojo vs Sukuna and i loved Gojo’s death ending with he won just to open up to the Airport scene slowly realizing he died. I only read it cause i was spoiled had i waited for the anime like i planned i definitely would’ve liked it even more
Idc anyone thinks but due to yuji having a crazy blood line along with talent I think he is the strongest in jjk especially in the epilogue and will grow even stronger (I mostly say this because I think yuji has the same level of aging as choso due to him being a death painting)
Ending isn't as bad as everyone says it was if you go through and read it. A lot of people who say it's the most horrible shit known to man are kinda just malders Though I wouldn't say it's peak nor excuse any of it's flaws. The problem isn't the ending in of itself but moreso the entirety of Shinjuku Showdown, the plotholes, so on so forth. Sure, the ending makes 'sense' but that's the bare minimum to make it not as bullshit as something like, say, Tokyo Revengers. It still fails to wrap up character arcs, it's still let down a lot of characters as, well, characters. It still felt corny and cheap with the return of Nobara to simply be a plot device at the very, very end. Also a few weird choices like keeping Higuruma alive ( ? ) despite framing it as if it were his final sacrifice in Shinjuku Showdown. Kinda weird, but eh. The downfall of JJK as a storytelling series can be seen and studied from as early on as the culling games. I don't think its the fault of Gege Akutami but rather the publishing schedule of WSJ -- Sucking the blood out of creative intent. Gege has went on record to say that he had way more planned for the culling games, which could insinuate a lot more for the series in of itself
I get what you're saying. About higaruma specifically though I think it makes sense that he lived, since the ending of the series is about the new generation of sorcerer's leading society forward. Only the older sorcerers died in the battle (gojo, choso, kashimo) so I think I get what he was going for
Gege isn’t an idiot, but the people who only read leaks got rough scans and def didn’t see the true implied version, but my biggest issue is with the mega lackluster pacing, and the “well alls well that ends well” last chapter, with no long lasting effects on anyone or the world for that matter. While characters are whittling him down, theres just a lot of things that ruin the fights stakes and impact for me. ESPECIALLY Yuta and Todo’s appearance on the battlefield, along with Yuji’s abilities (his cursed technique and domain eghhh) being brought out at the end, for Gege just to take a note out of Oda’s book post timeskip and make the winning blow a talk no jutsu plus a big punch (nothing wrong with big punches and immense focus can bring about BF but the rarity of it being a critical hit has BEEN out of the window for awhile, yes the more you hit during a battle will increase its rate but it’s almost egregious how much both characters are using it. Gojo vs Sukuna works because it’s Sukuna’s craftiness against Gojo. Yes the dude is strong, but Gojo’s infinity is a tall order to overcome. Sukuna seeing Megumi’s tricks and knowing about his environment and the era he’s incarnated to is a great plot point and the finger bearer swap is a great moment. I could go on but I’d have to make an hour long video myself!😂 great vid Budz
Claiming there weren't long-lasting effects implies you just didn't read the actual ending yourself. Nobody needs to be permanently hospitalized or lose their memory for there to be consequences. Tengen's barrier is barely hanging on, and Gakuganji is dedicating the rest of his life to watching it before passing it on to, implicitly, Utahime. The implication is that, eventually, there WILL be an era where curses run rampant and barriers become harder to maintain. Tokyo is basically done for. Maki says that cursed spirits are flocking there and that's where everyone thinks they come from, and it's basically become a lint trap for cursed energy. Incarnated sorcerers are going there to hide and get hunted by Jujutsu High, which means some characters we know and like are going to be killed because their existence is unethical. The kids don't execute criminals anymore. They capture and attempt to rehabilitate them, but now they have an issue is a bubch of curse users running around attacking people because the Culling Games made them feel bold. However, people now know they can call sorcerers to help with those types of issues. Yuji has a burden to help people forgive themselves and hopefully live their lives differently. It's said that they don't know if everything they did was the right thing or not, so a bunch of elements are implied to be walking a thin line. Sukuna is going to be reincarnated, and his finger is still used as a talisman. Nobody knows what that could mean. Kusakabe is training more sorcerers in the New Shadow Style, but Mei Mei still has plans to make money from it. He clans are destabilized by a lot, which means that a huge area of support is just gone, and most of the characters we know are all that's left to deal with he countless cursed spirits running around still. They will never go back to normal since there's no "strongest" to fix it all.
You did not read the manga if you say there was no long lasting effects and especially if you call Yuji's chapter of reflection and development as talk no jujutsu.
Gotcha! While I think it's kinda lame that we didn't get to see more than about a chapter and a half of Hakari and Urame's fight I understand Gege's decision not to show much of it. It would essentially follow the formula of kashimo vs hakari, urame would throw out a big attack that "can't possibly fail" and Hakari will land a jackpot and recover. Hakari's kit is just really good at stalling people out and that's hard to make interesting for a long period of time. I'm sure it'll get expanded upon in the anime by a fair amount but who's to say until it happens. I also wish there some more emotional significance to it but who knows what could've happened if Gege had more time
I loved every second of this manga from start to finish. Leaks culture fucked me and i resent it so much, i can't love this series without seeing vietnam flashbacks of bottom feeders like mya getting flowers before gege. Anyway uh, my stream of consciousness goes below: Nah dude, fuck that, kusakabe needs no apology from no one, he ain't deserving the goat title, dude's a waster and it was finally time for him to lock in, nothing more, nothing less. His showing was so lackluster too. His dialogue made him last longer but it was so out of nowhere and boring. Kashimo almost killed sukuna, you can see him chaining his lightning strike which tore holes into hakari way back then. Sukuna getting gouged into having to pull the reincarnation card out is so important. Todo's pullup and powerup was peak. His plan to hide everything from yuji was a decent explanation for the narrative setup. Higuruma not dying and contradicting the word of sukuna(even after his death, kamutoke is still gone) felt a bit weird, sukuna was otherwise kinda reliable when it came to narration, why would the recently awakened rct not be able to fix the body of a user on sukuna's level of potential? Idk, sukuna shouldn't have assumed him dead even if he was just playing him Rika's tears having healing properties, and nobara waking up just in time to nail sukuna's coffin were unneeded contrivances, gege could've just had maki come back into the fight and hit sukuna the same way she hit naoya, yuta could've died and i wouldn't have complained The final exchange of hits between yuji and sukuna was so fucking good Sukuna being able to separate himself from megumi? I thought incarnated players essentially killed their host if they fully incarnated, biggest plothole ever was megumi coming back from sukuna reincarnating. With kon too, to add to its awfulness. Megumi should be back as full heian form and into a 6 month unlimited void induced coma.
a lot of my problems with the ending come from the fact that, yes it works within the universe, but that doesn't make it good story telling. I don't think gege is a bad writer, I just think that like all writers he can have bad writing, write himself into a corner, execute good writing poorly. edit 1: I would like to clarify that, while I view jjk as a bad writing, it may well not be, art is subjective, *dnd beholder here*
personally id prefer if yuji's domain was a bit cooler like it make it just the graveyard bcs YUJIS LIFE WAS FULL OF DEATH and the tumbstones are filled with memorys of people close to him make the "you are me" talk in set domain like sukuna turns into a blob no talking its just yuji stomping sukuna He already gave him the last change in the domain NOW ITS TIME TO DIE . and that would be the best ending jjk could have bonus points if choso survived and we got a cure scene with yuji.choso and todo being brothers but ye thats just as a bonus ITS GREAT STILL DONT GET WHY THEY ARE ALREADY THRUSTED INTO MISSIONS THEY LOST LIKE EVERY PERSON THEY HOLD DEAR put them in therapy they deserve it BUT YE ITS A GOOD ENDING
I dunno, I think I like Yuji's domain being calmer than most. It really emphasizes his humanity, and while we could get something really cool I think this is a much more interesting direction to take it. I think it took that sort of shape because Yuji is still relatively new to Jujutsu, so the reflection of his soul is more informed by the life he wants to protect and foster for others (as opposed to the his new life that's filled with pain and suffering)
@@KnightlyReviews i agree his domain should be calmer but i never sayed it should be the most heavy metal domain ever But more of a place where yuji honors the dead people from his life
I think it's fine to write an alternate ending (it's just fanfiction after all) but the attitude they have towards the entire thing is absurd and horrible
18:04 love the video but one tiny thing is that uraume’s like DEFINITELY nonbinary, if i remember right everyone who actually knows them (sukuna, kenjaku) dont use gendered pronouns for them and even the people who do say “androgynous monk” or switch between he and she Not only this but the bandages they have around their torso in the end of the hakari vs uraume fight to me atleast definitely look like theyre meant to be a diy binder Its confirmed if i remember right that the vessel for uraume is a girl but i have *serious* doubts that uraume themselves is actually a girl with all the evidence
In my opinion the endings of series like Jujutsu kaisen are controversial because you have to really read into what happens and not many people do that (especially a community like jjk) and most people who read manga are casual readers and they don't read jjk like its a novel they read it like its a manga. I make that distinction because i find novels to require more attentiveness and analytic thinking whereas manga is a weekly serialization where people finish each chapter in like 5 minutes tops. Obviously the problem is that shounen jump doesnt let the authors do what they want very much and constantly pressures them to make certain changes and stress them with deadlines and for creative writing this is obviously going to take its toll on the material's quality, but then again the ending isnt bad its just that the target audience aren't people who read novels its people who read comic books and thats likely why the reception was so divisive (my personal opinion on the matter).
Some things in the video i dont agree with but i see the point. But sukuna definitely needed ten shadows like nothing he got from heian form give him a big edge, four arms, chanting ok? Its not a bigger benefit that the whole ten shadows kit and mahoraga
I don't think so? The four arms and extra mouth allow him to do handsigns and chants without letting up on offense or defense. He's also built as hell (kashimo said his body was "perfect" when he looked at the muscle) so his cursed energy would be multiplying off of a much higher base. His cursed energy total is higher than yuta's and he's just about as efficient as gojo is so gojo can't really stall him out. Sukuna would've probably just out domained him if the fight went on for longer (or catch gojo while he's in curse technique burnout) Also furnace is a duraneg anyway (I'm like decently sure) But otherwise I'm really glad that you watched through it!
To clarify: the conditions for using Kamino (Furnace), at least the way he used it in this fight, weren't just using Cleave and Dismantle a certain number of times. He has to use his Domain specifically because it chops and pulverizes everything in its radius to a fine dust. At that point, he uses Kamino to ignite it. It's based on a real phenomenon, where large quantities of fine particles in the air cause even a small flame to combust out of control. Then, while the barrier is sealed off, the oxygen gets used up by the flames, creating a vacuum; meaning if you somehow survive the extreme heat and getting pummeled by the repeated shockwaves caused by the alternating pressure fronts, then in the aftermath, you'll be asphyxiated. So it'll kill you now *and* it'll kill you later. So Sukuna really, really, *really* wanted everybody dead.
The oddest thing about people wanting the Merger, is that it couldn't happen. The conditions for the Merger required every main character to die, unless they wanted the most bullshit binding vow that they keep saying Sukuna does. There was no way to do the Merger without ending the series there, and so the Merger means the manga ends and the world is destroyed; and so the only way for things to go well is that the Merger never happens and can never happen.
I think entirely different jogo and gojo finale hit we know exactly how jogo there was no need to see it. With gojo especially with a whole new move used with an explanation and a character with the advantage. Understanding how the interaction at the end just makes it more digestible and less confusing for the readers.
Respectfully the exact same thing could be said about the Jogo/Sukuna fight. Like fr the EXACT same thing could be said. (I think the main difference is that some people genuinely thought Gojo was going to win, but I saw the fight as having a forgone conclusion just like the Jogo/Sukuna one so it works for me. I definitely get it though)
Taking into consideration what the World Cutting Slash, dismantles, and cleaves are, is it unreasonable for Gege to assume that a panel showing Gojo getting hit by the slash was unnecessary since you can imagine what it would look like? The whole event wouldn’t hit nearly as hard if we were given more details, in my opinion.
Awesome vid I love the Shinjuku Showdown Favorite part (There are many) was when Nobara returned because every chapter that came out made me lose a bit of hope but then…
Gojo should have been able to regen his lower half tho. Bro survived being stabbed in the head, waist down is ALOT less lethal given that people HAVE survived having their lower half removed.
@@KnightlyReviews Maybe he don't, BUT I DO Anw, for Gojo not being able to regenerate his lower half, I kinda agree. I think his death was beautiful and tragic, but I also wonder what's the logical reason for Gojo not being able to regenerate since RCT comes from the brain if I recall correctly. I assume it's because Gojo at the airport decided to not return. :((
However the ending might have been the hate that gege receives both by the "fans " and haters of the manga is just really off putting to me like in the final volume gege shares their struggles with writing jjk and I see many people just taking away that " he himself admitted that his manga is trash " like they never said that just read the damn thing and it also doesn't help that gege is quite self deprecating in his humour
Yeah it's pretty frustrating, that's one of the big things that motivated me to make the video in the first place. I hope he's enjoying his break before he gets back to writing
Nah it's not official or anything so i probably won't, plus the guy who's making it had a real bad attitude about the thing. Writing a fan ending is fine (i mean it's just fanfic) but the tweet where he announced it put me off of it super hard
@@KnightlyReviews i skimmed through the first chapter and its actually pretty bad and i think twitters already exposing them for using AI and tracing other peoples artworks in their panels dialogue is not very good either and they seemed to have changed some bits about that stuff with the going north or south thing 😭
You touched on this in the video but the bits of sluggishness and damage that Sukuna accumulated in each fight is what usually played a large role in allowing the next “runner up” to keep up at all. Essentially, this extremely specific and situational battle was their ONLY chance, and they knew that as well.
Thing is gege did indeed drop the ball and drop off on characterization for the cast thats his major fumble, but the rest was pretty good besides nobara coming back so late, which is you take what todo and yuta said about lying to him to not let sukuna sense or dicern it because they were soul linke or something, but the story writing and the whole track after shibuya was pretty good.
I left another comment, but it felt important to leave this comment, and have it separate. You've got a great eye for themes and characterization, and I appreciate that you don't try to pacify the people who came so close to ruining the experience of this series for everyone. I hope to see a lot more analyses from you in the future.
Thanks so much dude! I really want this community to be a place for people who want to talk about this kind of stuff without the fear of being ridiculed just for liking something others may not, and I'm glad to know that you'll be tuning in from now on. I really appreciate it!
I checked out of the JJK anti-fandom when I watched a video where a guy deadass said that Sukuna's binding vow for the World Cutting Slash doesn't make sense because nobody else in the series attempted the same vow. Almost like Sukuna was fine permanently impairing that one ability because 1. He was confident he could beat everyone else with the handicap and 2. He only needed the move to guarantee kill one person.
Would have rather the ending went on a bit longer to flesh out the world a bit more and give some of the fights a bit more focus but overall the final arc was great, it's my 3rd favourite after Hidden Inventory and Shibuya.
great video!! it really gave me a new perspective on the ending and honestly that's really weird because i knew literally all of this lol, i guess it just helped me get my thoughts in order mahoraga is very cute and also it's very funny that you forgot about hakari and uraume too lol
I quite enjoyed this video and even if I thought a couple of chapters were weaker than others in the video, I can tell that you actually read and understood why Shinjuku Showdown was executed the way it was. Personally, I think people exaggerate the quality of the ending and SS as an arc. It definitely has problems to me, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as people make it out at times. To me if I would describe in one word it would be conflicted. I find the pacing in the arc generally too fast in some areas like the immediate ending to the fight itself for example cutting to how Yuta was doing. Other times I was underwhelmed with the conclusions of certain plot points such as the Yuta being a monster plot point, Kenjaku as a character, Megumi during the last stretch after 265 especially once Nobara was back, the execution of Nobara’s return itself etc. I understand why Gege decided to do things the way he did after all the arc is mainly about Sukuna slowly but surely getting defeated overtime, however I just wish at least a few of these points in the story got a bit more time than they actually did. That said though, at the same time I really think this arc had some of the best chapters in the series. I enjoyed Takaba vs Kenjaku, Gojo vs Sukuna is one of my favorite fights in the series and in manga in general, I enjoyed Kashimo vs Sukuna as well even if it didn’t last that long, I liked the flashbacks to Gojo along with 261 and 271 (for Gojo specifically of course) with Yuta as both really added to their characters respectively and Gojo’s death in 236, Choso’s death was really well handled, I enjoyed Todo’s reintroduction, Sukuna’s character in the ending, and 265 with Yuji’s domain to name a few. My biggest problem outside of the pacing and certain things feeling underdeveloped in some areas was that I wish a couple of characters in the end got more consequences than they received. I’m not asking for them to be dead, but at the same time I don’t like how Yuta or Megumi essentially got off scott free. Overall as of now, I’m mixed on SS and the ending as a whole. Despite that, I still like JJK for the most part up until the ending of the Culling Games arc. Even then, I still think the series had quality storytelling in some areas and the fights and paneling were great as always All in all, do I think SS and the ending is peak? No, do I think it was one of the worst endings of all time either? Also no, I just thought that it was okay with some neat conclusions here and there. It’s been a minute since I’ve read JJK, I did read the leaks when they were out after I caught up from with the manga in early 2024 after season 2 of the anime, but I did actually make sure to read the actual chapters on the Shonen Jump app once they came out. So some of my critiques may not hold much weight
I agree with you for the most part. For me Peak isn't necessarily a denotation of quality but of enjoyment. Is JJK (or SS in specific if you want) the peak of all anime and manga forever? No! I don't think there is a peak to a medium like this. There are definitely a couple spots that need some more work on them in the arc, and I wish certain plotlines in the series got way more focus than they did. (For example, I think Tsumiki is WAY too underdeveloped for the audience to care about her. The most interesting thing that happened to her was Yorozu taking over her, but that's not enough IMO. Imagine if the only thing that was interesting about Yuji was that he was possessed by Sukuna. That would super suck!) But I think SS is peak because it held my (and a ton of other people's) interest for well over a year, and continues to do so every time I go back to read more. For this video I ran through this arc about thirty times in the span of a month, and every time I was still clicking next page before I had even realized.
initially i didn't like the Shinjuku showdown because i read leaks but when it came down to the final 5 chapters i started to think that i misunderstood it and began looking at it differently now i love the showdown arc it was so well crafted especially sukunas conclusion now i love sukuna and all of jjk so i encourage anybody who didn't like jjks ending to reread the whole arc in one shot it is a way different experience than the week to week reads and if you still didn't like it after reading at least you gave it a genuine shot i love jjk and my fav characters were sukuna yuji yuta uraume mahito and kenjaku :)
Sukuna outclassed Gojo? Really?) All fight Sukuna was just copying techniques of others (Gojo's brain reset and Mahoraga's world cutting slash), while Gojo literally on the fly came up with the counter to Sukuna's open domain, and he was the first sorcerer in history who was able to use rct to heal his burned out cursed technique. And of course, Gojo was relative to Sukuna in Megumi's body while fighting inside Sukuna's domain without his ct, so thinking that 2 arms + an additional mouth would be enough to outclass Gojo is just ridiculous
I literally JUST typed this all out and I'm still waking up so I'm just gonna copy and paste it (I'm sorry for being lazy) I mean I think so. The four arms and extra mouth allow him to do handsigns and chants without letting up on offense or defense. He's also built as hell (kashimo said his body was "perfect" when he looked at the muscle) so his cursed energy would be multiplying off of a much higher base. His cursed energy total is higher than yuta's and he's just about as efficient as gojo is so gojo can't really stall him out. Sukuna would've probably just out domained him if the fight went on for longer (or catch gojo while he's in curse technique burnout) Also furnace is a duraneg anyway (I'm like decently sure)
@@KnightlyReviews 2 extra arms and a mouth would make the match-up even, but nothing more. Kashimo only mentioned his additional arms and mouth, he didn't say anything about his ce or muscles. And Sukuna was nowhere near Gojo's efficiency. He was afraid of using brain reset for the third time, while Gojo used it 4 times. And, of course, it was said that six eyes give the user infinite efficiency, so Satoru didn't need to spend his ce at all, while Sukuna wasted half of his ce by the ch 250. Fuga is duraneg? I guess that's why Choso was able to completely block it😅
Erm actually! I think you're being a little ridiculous to say that the two arms and mouth make Sukuna EQUAL to Gojo. If the fight was already this close and we give the Sukuna just the extra mouth to use chants (for everything nonstop) his attacks strength and his overall cursed energy output would skyrocket. Also let's use our eyes here, right? Sukuna very clearly has more muscle than the average sorcerer. If not the average sorcerer he clearly has more muscle than at least Gojo in his Heian Era form (Gojo looks more cut or lean, but Sukuna quite literally just has more muscle). But also in chapter 225 (page ten) Kashimo says that if Gojo didn't have the six eyes Sukuna would beat him in cursed energy efficiency. So yes, Gojo is more efficient, but they're still AT LEAST comparable (and closely). Plus Gojo using the brain reset more doesn't mean anything except that Gojo was willing to burn out his brain more (which he'd been doing constantly since highschool anyway) Also Sukuna wasted half of his cursed energy because he fought several people who were specifically aiming to lower his cursed energy output (Yuji via soul punches and dismantles, Yuta via Jacobs Ladder, Hana via Jacobs Ladder, Megumi via fighting back from the inside) and a bunch of other people with the single aim of weakening him. They stacked STUPID type advantage to be able to win that fight Also also Choso literally died to block that move for Yuji. I think it's fine.
@@KnightlyReviews too many headcanons for just one comment 1) "An additional mouth would make ce output skyrocket." And where exactly was it said? We weren't given any information about how much it increases output, so making such a claim is disengenius 2) "Sukuna had more muscles than an average sorcerer." And what? He was, and that's obvious, but would it be enough to nullify the difference in speed? And they weren't close, Sukuna was eating the floor 80% of the time, and another 20% they were inside Sukuna's domain, and his 1 and only strike that wasn't blocked by Gojo he delivered after teaming up with big Maha, who was AT LEAST as fast as fatigued Sukuna. And during that exchange, Satoru wasn't using blue - a technique that skyrockets his speed😏 And also one note - Gojo wasn't trying to kill Sukuna) You said that in your own video 3) "In ch 225 Kasimo said that Gojo would've lost to Sukuna in ce efficiency without 6 eyes." And what? That's cool, but Gojo HAD 6 eyes, so this argument is irrelevant. 4) Sukuna wasted his ce because he was SPENDING it on techniques. Yuji was lowering OUTPUT, not the amount of ce that Sukuna had. And I don't even remember if Jacobs Ladder was lowering his ce output, but I'm too lazy to check, so whatever 5) No, it's not fine. Choso was waaaaaaaaay weaker than Gojo, and even he was able to block fuga. He died only because he was weak. And I really doubt he would've been able to block purple like that)
It just personally annoys me because it's like i can't even mention JJK in a casual conversation anymore without random people just going insane over how trash both the series is and how i am for liking it. Either people are a hardcore glazer or a hardcore hater. And normal people like us are squashed.
Facts man. I liked the ending well enough but had some issues with it. There’s so many insane takes from everywhere for this shit that I feel crazy for just being like “yeah it’s ight I guess”😂
@@KnightlyReviewsno you're right for all intents and purposes he was a girl since he was incarnated into a girl's body (by choice) and was a boy in the hein era
I mean my cope payed off (but if you're talking about gojo there's literal in text reasons that one happened and the other one is a fan theory that doesn't work on several levels)
I assumed cause the comparison is so apparent (between gojo and nobara), and I like one while the other is completely ridiculous in my eyes My fault for assuming g
@@KnightlyReviewsthat literally contradicts your point about her, but whatever. cognitive dissonance is common for diehard jjk glazers though, so I get it
Yo! In case you're curious, here's the songs I used in the video (in order and with timestamps!):
0:00- At the Racetrack (Everhood OST)
1:43- Makoto, Journey to the One (Gran Turismo 5)
3:15- Weatherscan, Track 3
5:50- USA NYC Times Square (Smash Court 2 OST)
9:38- Factory Stage (Marvel Vs Capcom 2 OST)
11:09- Beneath the Mask (Persona 5 OST)
14:02- BGM Rip Training (Smash Court 2 OST)
17:03- How Do You Think? (Date of Birth)
19:16- Baking the Wonder Tart (Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course OST)
20:58- Shop Music (Cuphead OST)
21:40- Kitsch Beach Stage (Tekken 4 OST)
23:56- 07 Naked Glow (R4 Ridge Racer Type 4 OST)
25:18- Pursuit (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney OST)
26:15- Via Dolce (Lola Pop’s Stage, ARMS OST)
28:00- Checker Knights (Kirby Air Ride OST)
29:38- Apotos, Windmill Isle, Day (Sonic Unleashed OST)
31:40- Spider-Man’s Theme (Marvel vs Capcom 3)
32:30- Forest Replay (Sega Rally)
33:20- Palmtree Panic Past (Sonic the Hedgehog CD)
34:11- Move Me (R4 Ridge Racer OST)
36:13- Great Grey Wolf Sif (Dark Souls OST)
37:08- Factory Stage (Marvel vs Capcom 2 OST)
39:12- Aria Math (C418, Minecraft)
41:56- Arcana Pack Theme (Balatro)
44:14- River Stage (Marvel vs Capcom 2 OST)
46:38- Reflection (Sonic Adventure 2 Battle OST)
48:16- Move Me (R4 Ridge Racer OST)
50:48- Gorgeous Days, Private Suite (Monster Hunter World OST)
53:14- Apotos, Windmill Isle, Night (Sonic Unleashed OST)
55:52- Apotos, Night (Sonic Unleashed OST)
I hope you enjoyed the video! Have a nice day!
In retrospect, the way Sukuna beat Gojo makes much more sense when you remember Reggie’s line: “Jujutsu Sorcerers are conartists”
That Reggie star fight is probably my favorite in the series, it was so good for no reason
@@KnightlyReviewsit really is so good but it’s kinda sad when you remember it’s Megumi’s last fight in the entire series lol
@@gaelgonzales3672 Unless we count Megumi’s battle against depression lmao
@@KnightlyReviewsI liked it personally cause the ENTIRE thing came off like a jojo fight, and it doesn’t help that Reggie looks like a part 8 jojo character and his name is “Reggie Star”
@@dataroaming7512 longest Megumi fight if I remember correctly
thank you dude
"Everybody in the village was crazy... That notion was never true, it was just the voices of those who spoke louder than the rest." could never be more truer here
i enjoyed listening to you talking about JJK and im glad youre standing out
no problem man, im really glad you enjoyed the video!
The biggest crime is not seeing todo and choso fight together.
The biggest crime was Todo not asking sukuna his type
@@KnightlyReviews actually phenomenal
@@KnightlyReviews bro would just say men and keep fighting
Definitely wouldn't call the ending peak, but people are waaaay overblown on it, it was pretty decent. Gege makes it clear in his message in the last volume that there are things he also wanted to make different. I also think that a lot of people shifted their opinion when Gege took a month break and that wasn't his fault either.
Was gonna comment this exactly but yeah. Not peak but it’s not this giant shitshow people make it out to be
The issue with JJK's ending isn't the ending itself, but the amount of plotpoints either unfinished or finished in an unsatisfying way. I think Gege knows that though.
@@bigshot9514 exactly, I think despite the sukuna fight being dragged the fuck on, jjk ended too early
@@bigshot9514i think I agree, for me the weakest points of jjk are in the build up to Shinjuku. I think this is one of the better ways the story could've panned out with the setup it had
@@bigshot9514 tbh I think the word amount here is slightly exaggerated, the only plotpoint that really must have been explored more is cursed energy optimization, like the whole reason this story happened, especially with the ending releasing cursed energy to the world
Oh my gosh, THANK YOU for making this video. I almost gave up on the manga and anime because the fandom was mostly represented by those kinds of jerks who would not shut up and let us enjoy and/or take our own conclusions, enjoy the experience in our own way. I was honestly happy with the ending and enjoyed the whole journey towards it. It also helped that I distanced myself from X/Twitter around that time, but needless to say, I was satisfied.
This video has the same vibe as when i asked my mate why people were calling kusakabe potential man and he ended up drunkenly explaining the entire second half of the series to me for about 2 hours. suffice to say I very much enjoyed the video.
Tell your mate that they're a genius for me
@@KnightlyReviewsYuji is reincarnation of Sukuna all along. To sum up.
My problem with JJK and its ending is that it all feels like the bare minimum to make an interesting Shonen.
So much more could have been done to make it amazing but its kinda just... there.
I love JJK and I think its a good 7/10 on a objective analysis level but nothing about its end can be classified as peak. It just was what it was, the end of JJK's story with all of the missed potential we have had before.
Fair enough man, it's not perfect by any means but it does a lot of the things I enjoy in storytelling (especially shonen storytelling) pretty well, so it's higher on my list than most
Gege always had this endings messages and theme be what is focused on when making this story. Everything that happens in this *STORY* is all to build up to Yuji and Sukuna’s ending.
Without making this story drag on or explore unnecessary details to the overall focused narrative, what could Gege have done to reach its “full potential”?
My main issue with Sukuna is how his binding vows kinda feel like cheating. He kinda just gets to do what he wants and half the time there isn’t really a downside.
The thing is that there are downsides, but Sukuna is playing at such a higher level that it feels sorta negligible. Let's pretend Sukuna misses the first wcs, he would NEVER touch Gojo with it. But because he's power cliffed the rest of the cast he can still manage to get away with it
@@KnightlyReviews But that's completely your headcanon, Binding Vows need to be equal cost for equal price, you can't just "play at such a higher level that it feels sorta negligible".
@ARandomEliatrope Let me clarify, I don't mean that Sukuna is so good it's negligible for him, I mean that Sukuna is so good that the drawbacks of the binding vow seems negligible because no one he's fighting is good enough to capitalize on them. Like I said in the first comment, let's pretend he misses the first world cutting slash. If he's fighting Gojo and he needs to do the handsigns, chants, and point to aim he wouldn't be able to get that move off successfully. In the same way Sukuna was preventing the hollow purple Gojo could play around the WCS setup to avoid it.
However, because Sukuna is so strong compared to the rest of cast it can FEEL like there aren't any drawbacks to the WCS. If he were as strong as Yuta this would be a MASSIVE drawback, if he were as strong as Yuji or the rest the Shinjuku Squad this would be a MASSIVE drawback. But because he's playing at a higher level he can get away with longer setups easier.
This technically isn't stated anywhere but I don't think it falls under headcanon status (technically). This is just my estimation of the relative power of the cast during the final arc (based on what's shown, said, and what I've inferred)
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough with the initial reply though, I hope that clears it up
@ARandomEliatrope I don't think Binding Vows work on the basis on equivalent exchange like in Fullmetel alchemest, but is just a contract that you do with other people, or yourself for an increase in power. therefore although even tho you have to give up something relative for exchange for something else, this does not mean equivalent exchange.
@@arkdoesstuff7362you are correct because there's a certain binding vows that basically just proves that guys argument which is basically hikari sacrificing his arm to save his life. I'm pretty sure an arm is not worth a life
Literally nothing Gege wrote would have satisfied a majority of the loudest voices
I've been thinking a lot of this since the ending came out. Thank you for being a voice for us.
I think that Gege made up for it, by giving the extra chapter. And Sukuna accepting defeat in death is amazing to me.
Idk if anyone pointed this out yet, but even before the example of Todo surviving idle transfiguration, Nanami did. In his first fight with Mahito he got hit with it, and it wounded him pretty bad but didn't kill him. Mahito even says that Nanami was able to survive because he subconsciously protected himself with cursed energy, and he'd just need to hit him a couple more times to actually transfigure him. So we had an example of someone surviving that even before Todo.
Still you don't have a character get injured, and another character show up and say to the audience that "They could survive." and then just kill them off screen anyway. I was confident Nobara would make a comeback too.
Dude! You're so right, I can't believe I forgot about that (I REALLY need to touch up on my early jjk knowledge)
The way they had a character say "She's not dead" and then the fan base thought she was dead was wiiiild. 😭
They didn't read it (or watch it apparently)
The meaning of fraud is so watered down
Blame gojo fans
I think the problem just was it took an entire year to tell the story when this was (mine included) first manga being read week to week. So many people came in off the backs of the anime Shibuya incident and weren’t ready for only getting like a third or fourth of an episode a week, which soured a lot of people’s mood.
Yeah it's a pretty rough transition when you're getting into the meduim, ESPECIALLY if it's something that's coming out weekly (I recommend you give ranger reject a shot! it's getting animated but the manga was pretty good while I was reading it. I haven't read it in like a year and a half plus though so if it's gotten wonky I CAN'T BE HELD RESPONSIBLE)
4:14 Gojo meant to kill Sukuna for real, remember when Sukuna newly took Megumi 's body and Yuji told Maki "Kill him, he wouldn't Die" the goal is to hurt the body so bad that the parasite (Sukuna) losses control over the body and unfortunately it's only at deaths door that is possible because Sukuna is just that GUY!.. Also remember when Sukuna pulled out Itadori's heart and was still alive. To win against Sukuna, Megumi's body must be at the state of death, that regular RCT cannot help even with that Sukuna will still be alive because. Also remember when Yuji almost died at the hands of Choso in Shibuya, but only survived because of Sukuna, Megumi needed to be at a similar state or worse because of how powerful Sukuna's RCT was.
Well is a couples points of contention in your statement but the biggest one is the example you used with sukuna and pulling out Yujis heart.
Sukuna has the best Trump card in the series. Buy having his soul spread out in individual things that could be absorbed and have him reincarnate. Which is why when he was taunting and mocking Megumi, gaslighting him about what happened to him thus far. It's because all of his fingers except for the last one could all be destroyed. I want one time and as Yuji said. That 1 single wouldn't be enough to sustain his soul, so it's was because Sukina was THAT GUY but merely the plan Kenjaku had prior still showed its be benefits even at that time. If Sukuna actually was nervous about dying he'd have never pulled out Yujis heart. Another prominent example are the 2 sisters that tried to barter with sukuna and he took it as a grave offense. He could care less about a single finger since he was just given 10 and potentially one more prior to Jogo showing up.
@@NamelessNomad00 the point is not about Sukuna being dead, the point is about Gojo's intention during the fight, if you want to rescue Megumi you have to kill him.
To be entirely fair to the "Sukuna would have lost without Ten Shadows" argument. Mahoraga was doing some very heavy lifting when it came to his win, Sukuna probably wouldn't have been able to do world slash without Mahoraga as a blueprint and would have died in the 5th domain clash if it wasn't for him. Not to call him a fraud or anything, but there was realistically nothing he could do against infinity which was why he needed Mahoraga in the first place
I think I agree with you for the most part, he definitely wouldn't have figured out the world cutting slash. However I think that he probably would have won in a different way (MAYBE even sooner) if he wasn't focusing on the adaptation.
Without ten shadows Sukuna's counters to infinity are domain amplification (which he can use at the same as his cursed technique, I can't remember the chapter where he does it but I can go looking for it later) and domain expansion, and I think that in his true form he could probably do one or two more than gojo. That is assuming quite a bit though, I totally get what you're saying and I agree
The thing that makes the entire Mahoraga carried sukuna argument fall flat on its face is without sukuna, mahoraga doesn’t last even 1 second against gojo.
Sukuna IS THE ONLY REASON why maho is relevant in the gojo fight!
Sukuna can fight gojo on his own, Mahoraga can’t.
Sukuna LITERALLY bore the burden of adapting for mahoraga, because a single red would kill it
So tell me who really carried who?😂
Thats false @@CertainlyCynical they both were relative to each other in relevance..
Is it wasn't for Mahoraga after the third domain attempt that he was laid on, he would have gotten his a** be within the inch of his life a d forced to Transforme earlier.
Sukuna kept desummoning Mahoraga to keep his wheel active, if he didn't and he got destroyed early then once again we're back to square one.
The fact that he had to pull out a third a Shikigami is only more proof of that.
@@KnightlyReviewsunless Sukuna could uses fire around which we all understand that you could not. There was no other way for him to win.. he couldn't transform because he needed a 10 shadows and his technique. Working together, not just one or the other.
8:03 if Sukuna really had Mahoraga summoned from the beginning of the fight, that means he bared the full weight of Mahoraga the entire fight, if true WOW!!!
It wasn't the entire fight though it was onlwhen the domai6ckash started that he began Mahoragas adaptation
AINT NO WAY RUclips NOTIFS HID THIS FROM ME
Amazing coverage!
thank you so much?
Also on this point at 23:20 I think that another reason didn’t take yuta seriously as a threat is because he fundamentally misunderstood how his technique worked. In chapter 90 he says that yuta’s power is due to him detaining rika’s soul basically implying that rika was what made him powerful but based on gojo’s research in volume 0 we know that rika only became that powerful because of yuta’s latent ability. Which makes sense considering that rika is fully gone by the end of 0 but yuta MILES stronger when he re enters the story. So In other words I think kenny underestimated yuta because he believed he received his power and strength from rika when really it was the other way around
Really good point actually, I hadn't considered that
I dont have a problem with the ending itself so much as the fact that the entire plot of the manga got derailed for the last fifth of the story to be an extended fight against Sukuna. Kenjaku has gotta be one of the biggest fumbles of a character I've ever seen
Kenjaku ain’t really a fumble if u look at him as just another character. He wasn’t made to antagonize the main cast but he does because his plans call for it. Like in the video he explained that Kenjaku doesn’t care about them. So if u see bro as just a character (which u probably should since jjk is so focused on its characters) his ending was a pretty satisfying for him
@@METALLIX1000 But he is NOT just another character, he is literally the driving force behind 90% of the story's conflicts! Almost everything that happens happened because of him.
I don't think Kenny was a fumble, but I don't think it's outrageous to have that opinion.
I think it could've been handled differently and still been successful for sure, but I'm fairly happy with how it went. I still think the amorphous merger monster is a bad idea, but it's not like I don't wonder what could've come from it. That said though, Kenny's character gets rounded out because of Takaba. He got exactly what he was aiming for through Takaba, so it doesn't leave me particularly wanting for the merger (that said though, I do get it)
@@Chrysostomus_17 nah he literally is don’t close ur mind by boxing these characters into tropes. His end was fitting for his character but ig it could be disappointing if you treat him like a steryotypical mastermind villain which u shouldn’t do
@METALLIX1000 But he was the mastermind. Try to explain the events in the story without him. You can't. Gege treated him as a plot device more than a character and that's why he's so shallow and disappointing.
Also... if Gojo's six eyes can see the cursed energy in everything. He should have seen the build up near Sukuna. But I could be wrong.
That "FUCK!" at 11:00 was too real lmao
10:10 I think gojo can see the slashes. The reason he turns back there is because the slash didn't hit him. Instead sukuna targeted the building behind gojo to make it fall on him. In fact(ignoring sound) the only reason gojo would turn around and look at the building before it starts falling is if he saw the slash travel past him Instead of hitting him and he was following it, with his eyes. I also think your point about the world cutting slash looking no different from a regular dismantle is a good enough explanation for why gojo didn't evade. He simply didn't think he needed to.
I have a point to add for Kenjakus death, and that is that Kenjaku represents a sorta Buddhist Monk, so it is kinda ironic that his downfall is being excited during the fight with Takaba
Also, for Nobara, that's Idle Transfiguration damage, Shoko can't heal that. Other than that, it's a solid argument.
Some pointers on the video, from someone that never read the leaks and didnt go week to week, just read what was out each few months, but still didnt really like it.
-First the most minor stuff that isnt as damaging from the Sukuna vs Gojo fight. With the Mahoraga thing you really cant base a defense on a fan theory, especially in something like jjk, when you know and cant deny if it being summoned the whole time was the intention, there would have been a five page long explanation detailing it. And stuff about Gojo letting his guard down a bit sounded weird, specially from someone that spent so long trying to make the infinite barrier permanent unlike all others before him, and while fighting Sukuna.
-About why people call the ending off-screen im not sure why you cant see the difference, something like Jogo vs Sukuna was a foregone conclusion, we knew he would lose at any second and the main focus was the spectacle and respect he got from the king of curses. On the other hand Gojo vs Sukuna was a constant back and forth, and from one page to another we went from him cuttnig off Sukuna's arm and getting the upper hand to immediate death. Sure you can make those kinds of sudden twists for shock value or display brutality, but not in the middle of the fight that the whole manga was building up to.
-Then Kashimo... what was even the point? Sure, the Gojo or Sukuna from his era, his loneliness in power... but we already have two better characters building up on that theme, and he only gets a meaningful interaction with one right after death. Im not one to advocate for character cutting, but what did he ad to the story? In actions, character, themes..? Just the two fight scenes? We have plenty of those.
-And yeah, speaking of fight scenes, weekly reading or not this arc feels exhausting on the gauntlet, i understand wanting to display the scope of his strenght, but a lot of clashes didnt really ad anything of note, we brought back completely random character only to hype them up and lose in two chapters, over and over again... Also the overexplanation of their powers and random flashbacks constantly breaking the pace of the fight, reading it almost in a binge you can really tell the difference in fight pacing.
-For Nobara, the issue is not her coming back, i always believed that, you cant have a character say 'the chances or survival arent zero' in a story and not live after all lol, but having one of your main characters missing for over half the story just for a moment of surprise, sorry but that one is straight up bad writing, we missed interactions, characterization, fights... everything about her just for a gotcha moment.
-Fushiguro didnt have much else either, other than the last minute moment of resistance he is mostly beaten around the whole arc, his sister that was his main motivation unceremoniously killed... he just doesnt get much of a final moment or conclusion to his character.
In general the ending is just that, just there, one final fight and nothing else to flesh out the characters more or give them conclusions, other than a few interactions, wouldnt call it awful but cant say its good either.
Hey! I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment, even if we didn't end up agreeing on everything.
- I get ya, but I don't necessarily like that plot beat either. I wanted to share that reddit theory as a fun what if while I was already on the topic, but I see how that could've sounded like a defense of the choice. Like I said, if Mahoraga's first appearance was an issue for you (or anyone) I won't argue it. It's genuinely completely valid criticism.
- To be fair, wasn't Gojo and Sukuna a forgone conclusion as well? Sukuna is the strongest sorcerer after all, and to me it seemed obvious because Gojo winning would end the story too early. Gege let him do his thing and show off a bit since it was going to be his last fight, and then the obvious pick to win won.
-I think Kashimo is a cool guy personally. I wouldn't ever complain about another character adding more to a theme. In my eyes he gave a good amount of insight into what Gojo and Sukuna were thinking during their fight, and if you want to keep it purely practical he forced Sukuna to fully reincarnate (which again, is a great card to take out of the deck early into the battle)
- I think it's pretty reductive to say that they're just bringing back "completely random character[s] only to hype them up and lose in two chapters, over and over again". You could say that about pretty much any final fight in a shonen anime. It feels a little extra strange seeing that claim when their stated goal is to whittle him down since he's just one guy. (plus most of the contributions made are incredibly impactful and it's safe to say that if any one of them didn't pan out the Shinjuku Squad would be cooked)
- I disagree but I think this one is a matter of taste. Nobara's story early in JJK (up to her not death) was about bittersweet endings and how there's still happiness to be found there. I do wish that she had more interactions with Gojo throughout the series, like seriously I think they talk two times total, but I also understand why Gege did it this way. (Nobara also wouldn't be able to keep up with culling games players anyway, so having her in that arc would make her feel more like dead weight than anything)
- Megumi's character is a little strange, but I think that his moment of fighting back came at the perfect time storywise (to show Itadori that he wasn't alone). I wish he had gotten a little more though (especially cause we don't see his initial reaction to Tsumiki being killed)
I think this ending works pretty well (in case you couldn't tell), because it's so much more than "just one final fight", but I definitely understand where you're coming from
@KnightlyReviews Its all good, It was a good video and well thought out. At the end of the day Its always a matter of which issues affect someone's enjoyment more or less, and what things improve or not their overall enjoyment, so things will never match up exactly.
I Guess a final response on that one, is that by the end of the fight being abrupt i dont refer to Gojo losing being the more clear answer, more with the clash of going from him getting the upper hand to immediate death internal monologue. For such a climactic moment something like a final clash or standoff before confirmed death would have very much been needed.
And by the characters getting hyped to lose in a couple characters was more referring to everyone that never had any previous build up till this fight, stuff like Miguel and sorry but Kusakabe haha. It feels more appropiate for a final fight to revolve more around the ones we already know all of, Yuji, Maki, Yuta, Choso... Instead of taking time out of the conflict for someone that hasnt been developed before.
I agree with a lot of your points but I’d argue against a couple
-Gojo has be caught off guard multiple times due to his arrogance. Hanami saving Jogo, Kenny and the Prison Realm, and his first fight with Toji. It isn’t unsurprising that in his arrogance he doesn’t finish off Sukuna and gets snuck.
-Kashimo was supposed to be a big fish in a small pond, a sorry man excuse for a sorcerer that hadn’t been pushed or grown like anyone in the Heian or modern eras. I see Gege’s intent with him, but he just didn’t get enough screen time to explore that further.
Each fight in the Sukuna gauntlet measures the different paths to power one could take in the series. Kashimo was untested strength that never knew struggle or defeat. Higuruma was potential without the experience to make the most of it. Yuta was unfocused love. Maki was heavenly restriction vs. pure sorcery, mastery of the body vs. mastery of the soul. Etc. etc. if you want more of my interpretations of these fights I’ll share but I think you get the point.
While not a fan of Nobara’s return, I wouldn’t say it’s bad writing to keep her out of the previous arc. It made her absence feel tangible just as it did Gojo’s and helped set the expectation for her not to return and subvert it. Is it good writing, debatably so but I wouldn’t say it’s outright bad.
@maximoy2288 I'm picking up what you're putting down, and I'm really glad you enjoyed the video! (And when I make some more jjk content I better hear from you in the comments again!)
@@FK74396PLEASE share, you were absolutely cooking
No hate, but some points I have to make argument against cause it still bothers me and generally some points I have.
Sukuna vs Gojo. Yes, using Binding vow was bs and off-screening too. But Binding Vows as whole are just extremely stupid concept. They basically allow users to do anything. What stopped Sukuna from making Binding Vow to bypass infinity in some way and end fight in 5 seconds. What stopped Gojo from (for instance) sacrificing Limitless to see Sukuna slashes? As a whole system is broken and not very thought out (making any weakness and strengths of one's action to be non existent, instead of making them a key point in fights)
Yujo-Gota (basically Yuta in Gojo body) - So first about Executioner sword part sure enjoying story and all, but it's writer job to ensure easy ways out of situation don't feel like 100% would solve problem. But my issue is.... what is the point? Cause to me it just served as momentary bait/hype moment (which Gege just seem to love a bit too much).
Domain Expansion: First one is what even is the name of expansion? Like it would be cool to get name of DE of MAIN CHARACTER. Nobara return just sucks from many angles, but I'm going to shorten it up to two. 1st is the fact that she as character is finished since Shibuya and fact that it took her 140 chapters to come back for last 5 proves it. And while she had "foreshadowing" (once again in Shibuya so +100 chapters before) this isn't satisfying return and it didn't need to happen. 2nd in terms in story Nobara literally just woke up and she's already walking doing CT without issue which is extremely funny. Like her managing to wake up perfectly for that moment for that fight
Epilogue: I see no reason to explain simple domain in last 3 chapters (this is something that straight up needed less explanation than something like Binding Vows) like it's cool that Mei Mei did something, but I feel like we could've done something more interesting. Overall 269 felt like explaining stuff in case readers have issues rather than actual chapter of characters aftermath of the battle.
Glad you watched the video dude! But let's get down to it
I like Binding Vows, it adds to the power system in a pretty fun way but I also think they were a little underutilized. We never got to see what happens when you break a binding vow, and stuff like that could add quite a bit to the story. I think the lack of use makes them feel a bit nebulous at times, but I think Gege does a pretty good job of making the tradeoff feel meaningful. What stopped Sukuna from making Binding Vow to bypass infinity somehow and end the fight in 5 seconds? He can't! He can't get an "I win" button for free, that's why he went through the trouble of acquiring ten shadows. Binding vows are typically self-imposed, relating, and restricting. Over all else though they're equivalent. What would Gojo gain out of a binding vow that killed him instantly? Nothing! So it doesn't work within the framework of a valid binding vow (at that rate why couldn't Miwa say "I'll kill kenjaku and never swing a sword again" in Shibuya? The binding vow is restricted to the self, so she exchanged her ability to swing a sword)
What would've stopped Gojo from being able to sacrifice limitless to see the slashes? Nothing I guess, but that wouldn't be worth the trade. Assuming the trade is loss of limitless (his entire cursed technique) for enhancing the six eyes (so he can see the slashes) he wouldn't even be able to fight at that rate (aside from CE amplification).
Sukuna's binding vow was to skip the requirements for the WCS (the handsign) once, while adding two extra requirements (a lengthy chant and physically aiming it with his palm). It works for me because it's just changing the target, so the strength isn't really a factor in the same way it would be traditionally.
Overall though, I think binding vows work fairly well, but I get why they seem like a get-out-of-jail-free card.
I get what you're saying but with that one specifically it literally just wouldn't work. A fresh sukuna is way too far out of Inumaki's league for technique activation (he could hardly handle Hanami after all). Yutajo in general adds a whole lot to character parallels (Gojo/Geto, Geto/Megumi, Kenjaku/Yuta, etc.) and is an interesting way to keep Yuta involved in the story. If it's not your cup of tea that's fine but I think it's pretty rad. I explain the parallels a little more in depth in the video so I hope you don't mind if I don't elaborate here.
Benevolent Shrine, duh (I kid). I think it's fine, he threw it out on a whim but I imagine it would just be a twist on Sukuna's domain name. I do get wanting to know it though. Nobara's return is cool to me, but she just doesn't have much to do in the culling games. Everyone is too far out of her league for her to meaningfully contribute, and her absence leaves room for Yuji and Megumi to grow. Not my favorite choice of his but I understand it (sorta). I do think her comeback works though. Also yeah? She's not weak or anything like that, assuming she recovered fully I don't get why she couldn't.
It wasn't to explain simple domain and where it comes from, it's to show that people without cursed techniques won't be exploited in the new era of jujutsu society. I think it works but again I get it if you don't.
Anywho, thanks for leaving a comment dude! I'd love to hear what you think about some of this stuff
@@KnightlyReviews Nah, I think Yuji's DE name is Benevalant Garden
i don't mind that confiscation took kamutoke but i think it would've been cooler and more natural if it took his cursed technique and sukuna was forced to rely on kamutoke and by the end of the higuruma portion higuruma dies or whatever so sukunas cursed technique returns to him but before dying higuruma manages to destroy kamutoke
it would leave us at the same place we ended up in but would've gave kamutoke a bigger role (since it currently feels like it showed up just to counter higuruma's domain and nothing more) and would've shown even more how powerful sukuna is that he can fight all these people without even needing his cursed technique
great video!! I love the Kashimo introspective. he's one of my fave characters. yet people hate on him for losing to Sukuna because..?? as if this wasn't expected..???? yet Vegeta in dragon ball is a "GOAT" when he does it...
Bro I'm 4 mintues into the video and i wanted to say thank you for shouting out Professer Coach, he was the go to guy for me when it came to JJK TikTok. I just want to say this before i watch the video that i think of lot of peoples opinions on the ending are due to judging the ending before the full chapter came out on leak night, I remember when those 6 pages got realeased of the final chapter and people were judging the ending as a whole because of those pages and people ran with it. The only reason i can whole heartly say this is because of TikTok's i see with thousands of likes using Gojo's "I have loves and dreams too" quote even though it was a mistranslation from leak night. I truly don't think JJK's ending is bad.
Part way through, but that's a masterclass in justifying Kenjaku's fate. ^^ Passionate, great delivery and a well fought case. Bravo!
I agree that this is the intent of the manga. That said, you made a comment that I find interesting on this point specifically, and since you told me to come back after the Kenjaku section.... might as well ask now!
*Is* Kenny the secondary antagonist?
In retrospect? Hell yeah. But that's kinda clarified *by* the final arc and its focus on Sukuna. Going into it, the main villain position could've easily swung either way. For all of Sukuna's raw power, Kenjaku has the brains and the versatility to compete, with so much time to prepare and versatile cursed technique usage. Sukuna has the personal connection to Yuji, but so does Kenjaku due to the Momma Itadori thing. And it's Kenjaku who set the actual ongoing events in motion, who hijacked Geto's body, set up the Shibuya Incident and later the Culling game. Sukuna kinda reads like Kenjaku's muscle - the big physical threat helping the main villain achieve his goals.
And if you go in that way, Kenny's death becomes unsatisfying. The guy behind everything gets the undignified death, the secondary villain becomes the big bad by default 'cos there's no one left to fight.
I'm... a little torn personally. I loved the comedy battle with Takaba, and I'm okay with Yuta striking a cool sneak attack.... but I enjoyed Kenjaku as a villain, and feel he left a little early. It also kinda turns this into the Yuta show when he gets both this big moment, and becomes utterly critical in the Sukuna fight.
(Now, back to the rest of the video!)
To me Kenny was the secondary antagonist because the Sukuna plot (and his existence in general) was so intrinsically tied to Yuji. His revival is the catalyst for practically everything in the series (not hidden inventory of course). Kenny is cool but it feels like a very Megatron/Starscream dynamic between the two of them (if that makes any sense).
Also! I don't mind Yuta getting the Kenny kill and coming back to help in the Sukuna fight. He's the only one with the kit to handle the fight with Kenny and it's immediate aftermath, and he was only able to pilot Gojo because he had beaten Kennu. It all kinda works out for me but I get what you're saying
(also, thanks for commenting again! i was really hoping you would)
@@KnightlyReviewsKenjaku already reincarnated but didnt join culling game and meeting Takaba as his new comedy partner at the ending. He got good ending.
The main problem was that people were judging the ending solely based on leaks that weren’t even telling the full story. Don’t get me wrong, I still don’t think the ending was really a satisfying conclusion to some big plot point but I’ve definitely seen worse😂
I don't think it's the worst ending or a bad ending
I think it's fine, just fine, but it was rushed
I think gege was sick and he was tired
I believe even with an extra 20 ch, we got the same ending, but it would have been way better
I think I just wanted more from jujutsu kisen's world and characters
I think that's fair but that can be said about pretty much any manga that's ended y'know? Im really excited to go through the chapters again once all the corrections and stuff are complete so I definitely feel ya on that one
@KnightlyReviews yea, I really missed jjk leaks
Every time they said gojo is coming back
Gonna go pray for jjk shippuden now
@@KnightlyReviews Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Code Geass, Steins;Gate.
They all end and you go like, Yea that is a good ending.
Also even if Hunter x Hunter is not ended the end of chimera ant arc ark was also a good ending.
@@KnightlyReviewsif Nobara died permanently he couldnt cover 20th finger plothole.
@@RACH90810i imagine in that case fushiguro probably would've just taken a bigger role in fighting back (and maybe yuta would've just eaten it and that have been the reveal)
I'm gonna jump in here before watching, cos I've got a hottake/theory on this reaction.
It's the Culling Game's fault.
In isolation, the finale is great. But the arc leading into it.... great *components*. Individual cool fight and cool characters. But it felt like it was building up to something different, some great twist on Kenjaku's plan, some major subversion of what we know. And it... simply isn't. There *is* a twist going into the final arc, it's a good twist, but it's not the 'shake everything on its head' sort of thing. The final battle is the final battle. If you went in expecting a complication, that's gonna disappoint.
I like the culling games but it's definitely the weakest part of the series, like it's not even close. Im not going to spoil my own video for you though so you should comment again after you get through Kenny's section so we can talk about it
This isn't a hot take, but it is an incomplete assumption.
First, a lot of people hated the Culling Games precisely because it was distracting from Gojo vs Sukuna. People were complaining the entire time that watching these fights felt pointless.
However, people got their hopes up specifically that we'd see the Merger only after the Culling Games arc was technically over.
This is when we get into the territory where people simply have terrible reading comprehension.
People who don't know the first thing about writing convinced themselves that the Merger HAD to happen since it was mentioned, ignoring that it was an apocalyptic scenario, and also convinced themselves JJK was going to turn into a global military story, ignoring that Kenjaku made it pretty clear all foreign soldiers would die to sorcerers and cursed spirits.
There are several elements dropped in the Culling Games that feed directly into the finale that people didn't understand because they simply didn't grasp what the Culling Games was a metaphor for. Uraume described the bath as a way to get closer to evil, a basket of venomous creatures killing each other until the most toxic survived and accumulated the power of the rest. This is how cursed objects were traditionally made.
People kept claiming Yuji stopped being the protagonist (as a joke, mind you) and actually missed how all of this was part of his story. The Culling Games was an excuse to get Sukuna and Yuji to concentrate all their curses until one remained. Kenjaku kept making a point that he wanted Yuji to be fully realized as one who saves no matter what while Sukuna gets to run as free as he wants to kill whatever he wants. People kept joking over the text and convinced themselves that the story was something that it wasn't. Shibuya didn't feel like a warning to them. It felt like a prelude to something even bigger. They wanted the Great Ninja War in a setting that was more like martial arts Mob Psycho.
The slash that Sukuna did against Yuta wasnt a WCS, it was just a powered up Dismantle
I'm pretty sure it is? He did the chants on the same page as the megumi depression panel
@@KnightlyReviews people are saying it isn't cause sukuna couldn't do the hand signals, i did not read in a while but i'm pretty sure he couldn't use it.
@@KnightlyReviews but he didn't do all 3 requirements, aim the attack with one hand, do the hand sign with 2 hands, and chant
@@Carlinhos-tx4cuwell just because we didn't see him do the hand sign doesn't mean he didn't, right? We were looking at megumi in his soul and the words disrupted it, and the next page is the slash landing. It's just definitely implied (cause why would sukuna just do the chant and nothing else? I could see it as a way to just buff the slash in general, but my understanding is that the WCS didn't kill yuta because he just got hit with Jacob's ladder)
@@GocanTHthey don't show it but why would he do just one? We were looking at megumi and yuji talking inside megumi's soul, and the text interrupts that
he's backkkk
(see you in 4-8 months😈)
I think JJK from 236 was really polarising, the start was good imo. (Higurama jump (even though the exectutioner dodge was kinda lazy),Takaba vs Kenny, Yuta + Yuji vs Sukuna), but after that I think it was simply the tear Sukuna down which i did not find fun (but that is my subjective take), but iI think it picks up the pace at Choso's death and Yuta's character coming full circle, which are probably the best moments of the ending. After its clasic shonen ending, nothing horrendous, but nothing stelar (I still think Yuta and Yuji should have paid respects to Gojo, because Yuta was probably the closest person to Gojo and he saved both of their lives), but this is the problem of Gege being rushed by Shonen Jump, which is not his fault. I think most people are dissapointed by the rushed plot rather then it being bad and areoverexadurating.
Only thing i did not like in the slightest was the Nobara return, it felt like such a copout, because Gege made us believe she was dead and she just returned to save the day, feels like a deus ex machina. Nobara was so wasted, because she was not in the manga for so long, that it felt like a forced choice to make hype. Siimiliar thing happened to Todo, but I liked it there, because no one baited us about him never returning and he has a serious injury that he needed to overcome (the vibroslap is genuinely such a genious idea) and he changed how he uses his technique acordingly, Nobara just stayed the same, just with an eyepatch. I don't think her returning added anything and it felt cheap, If Megumi and Yuji beat Sukuna alone it would be better, because it would feel way more earned and it gives Megumi way bigger role than tripping Sukuna once (but this is also my subjective take).
Glad you enjoyed it though, all to you. I think it was wasted potential, but its not bad and its also not the fault of Gege that it was rushed.
Personally, I like unexplained plot points in media. Gives more stuff to think about well after its conclusion and keeps it alive
Edit: I was not expecting "I named my cat mahoraga" 😭
Lol the Planet DOB music in the background is dope
1:19 the only jkk to give a spoiler warning
I feel like people who don't do that are weird
14:00 I don't think this is a very even way of presenting it because we know damn well Jogo is not competing with Sukuna, and we got the result within the same chapter/episode. The equivalent would be like if we came back from the flashback and Jogo had suddenly won. Further building from your earlier analogy - no I don't expect Gojo to dodge the gun, but if you see someone reaching into their pocket why would Gojo not kill before he can pull out said gun. Even if it's ineffective you don't want him attacking anymore. Now if there was something like Gojo hesitating to finish him off because Megumi needs to come back and that's what gives Sukuna his time it'd feel a lot better. Instead we get this King Crimson effect that doesn't particularly feel good to read. I think Gege knows this too be because that's why we had the binding vow mention later, which feels like an entirely different problem
I think it's pretty fair because both fights were foregone conclusions to me. If you honestly actually thought Gojo was going to win I see why this would feel so different but otherwise, he's just using the same storytelling tool that he did earlier (again, also with Sukuna). Also while there is a chapter break it hasn't been animated, so we can't say yet if they'll do it like a cliffhanger or in the episode like Jogo's.
Going back to the analogy I think it still works because the point of Sukuna's binding vow is that Gojo wouldn't be able to see him pulling it out. Before the binding vow, Sukuna needed the hand sign but didn't need to aim it with his palm. He could've sent it just like any other dismantle without giving off other cues (like firing them off without moving during his fight with Kusakabe in chapter 254).
Additionally, we see that Gojo couldn't see or react to the dismantles that Sukuna sent so there's that to consider. Imagine you're fighting a guy and he looks pretty much done for, and seemingly out of nowhere an invisible bullet flies out of his chest. Dodge that
Anywho, that's why the comparison works for me. I also wanted to say thanks for watching the video! Even if we don't agree on everything I think it's really cool that you took the time to hear me out first.
I just wanted more from this World
Can’t wait for the 10 minute video on jujustu no kaisen next!🙏
My ass is NOT reading that (I already did it was really really bad)
@@KnightlyReviews Make the video. Do it. You know you wanna.
you, sir, have gained yourself a new sub, great video
Thank you so much dude!
good vid 👍
Thank you for watching! I'm happy you enjoyed it
i don't like nobara coming back, i know it makes sense and i saw it from a mile away but like, nobara was such a cool character and i feel like if you were gonna bring her back the whole time you should've just done it at the culling games
nobara was supposed to be a part of the "main trio" so having her missing for more than half of the story just for her to come back randomly and beat the bad guy just feels wrong
the scene from shibuya was already pretty bad and now it feels like a joke when you re read it lol
I get what you're saying but I don't think there's anything she can even do if she gets brought back earlier? Like realistically how is she contributing in any other manner? I guess she could spam the resonance but that's a little lame imo. It's just an unfortunate situation to put such a cool character into y'know?
@KnightlyReviews she has plenty of room to grow, her technique is super unique and characters get stronger through combat
i'm sure there's plenty of new aplications she could get for it like idk a maximum technique or a reversal
it could've been cool to have her fight along side megumi since their dinamic in the trio ended up going pretty unexplored
I liked the ending. Definitely wasn't a highlight of the series, but JJK still remains my favorite Shonen manga and has some of the best highs of any action series.
definitely feel ya there
I think the ending was ok but not offensively bad. It went kinda how i predicted Nobara coming back was basically told to us. It definitely peaked with Gojo vs Sukuna and i loved Gojo’s death ending with he won just to open up to the Airport scene slowly realizing he died. I only read it cause i was spoiled had i waited for the anime like i planned i definitely would’ve liked it even more
Idc anyone thinks but due to yuji having a crazy blood line along with talent I think he is the strongest in jjk especially in the epilogue and will grow even stronger (I mostly say this because I think yuji has the same level of aging as choso due to him being a death painting)
Yeah in about eighty years he's gonna cook
Ending isn't as bad as everyone says it was if you go through and read it. A lot of people who say it's the most horrible shit known to man are kinda just malders
Though I wouldn't say it's peak nor excuse any of it's flaws. The problem isn't the ending in of itself but moreso the entirety of Shinjuku Showdown, the plotholes, so on so forth. Sure, the ending makes 'sense' but that's the bare minimum to make it not as bullshit as something like, say, Tokyo Revengers. It still fails to wrap up character arcs, it's still let down a lot of characters as, well, characters. It still felt corny and cheap with the return of Nobara to simply be a plot device at the very, very end.
Also a few weird choices like keeping Higuruma alive ( ? ) despite framing it as if it were his final sacrifice in Shinjuku Showdown. Kinda weird, but eh.
The downfall of JJK as a storytelling series can be seen and studied from as early on as the culling games. I don't think its the fault of Gege Akutami but rather the publishing schedule of WSJ -- Sucking the blood out of creative intent. Gege has went on record to say that he had way more planned for the culling games, which could insinuate a lot more for the series in of itself
I get what you're saying. About higaruma specifically though I think it makes sense that he lived, since the ending of the series is about the new generation of sorcerer's leading society forward. Only the older sorcerers died in the battle (gojo, choso, kashimo) so I think I get what he was going for
Gege isn’t an idiot, but the people who only read leaks got rough scans and def didn’t see the true implied version, but my biggest issue is with the mega lackluster pacing, and the “well alls well that ends well” last chapter, with no long lasting effects on anyone or the world for that matter. While characters are whittling him down, theres just a lot of things that ruin the fights stakes and impact for me. ESPECIALLY Yuta and Todo’s appearance on the battlefield, along with Yuji’s abilities (his cursed technique and domain eghhh) being brought out at the end, for Gege just to take a note out of Oda’s book post timeskip and make the winning blow a talk no jutsu plus a big punch (nothing wrong with big punches and immense focus can bring about BF but the rarity of it being a critical hit has BEEN out of the window for awhile, yes the more you hit during a battle will increase its rate but it’s almost egregious how much both characters are using it. Gojo vs Sukuna works because it’s Sukuna’s craftiness against Gojo. Yes the dude is strong, but Gojo’s infinity is a tall order to overcome. Sukuna seeing Megumi’s tricks and knowing about his environment and the era he’s incarnated to is a great plot point and the finger bearer swap is a great moment. I could go on but I’d have to make an hour long video myself!😂 great vid Budz
Ending’s a decent 6.5/10 though imho
First video I've made exclusively about manga, but practice makes perfect!
ENDINGN OF JJK* vid was good
Claiming there weren't long-lasting effects implies you just didn't read the actual ending yourself. Nobody needs to be permanently hospitalized or lose their memory for there to be consequences.
Tengen's barrier is barely hanging on, and Gakuganji is dedicating the rest of his life to watching it before passing it on to, implicitly, Utahime. The implication is that, eventually, there WILL be an era where curses run rampant and barriers become harder to maintain.
Tokyo is basically done for. Maki says that cursed spirits are flocking there and that's where everyone thinks they come from, and it's basically become a lint trap for cursed energy. Incarnated sorcerers are going there to hide and get hunted by Jujutsu High, which means some characters we know and like are going to be killed because their existence is unethical.
The kids don't execute criminals anymore. They capture and attempt to rehabilitate them, but now they have an issue is a bubch of curse users running around attacking people because the Culling Games made them feel bold. However, people now know they can call sorcerers to help with those types of issues. Yuji has a burden to help people forgive themselves and hopefully live their lives differently.
It's said that they don't know if everything they did was the right thing or not, so a bunch of elements are implied to be walking a thin line. Sukuna is going to be reincarnated, and his finger is still used as a talisman. Nobody knows what that could mean. Kusakabe is training more sorcerers in the New Shadow Style, but Mei Mei still has plans to make money from it. He clans are destabilized by a lot, which means that a huge area of support is just gone, and most of the characters we know are all that's left to deal with he countless cursed spirits running around still. They will never go back to normal since there's no "strongest" to fix it all.
You did not read the manga if you say there was no long lasting effects and especially if you call Yuji's chapter of reflection and development as talk no jujutsu.
I would be interested in hearing about Hakari and Uraume :3
Gotcha!
While I think it's kinda lame that we didn't get to see more than about a chapter and a half of Hakari and Urame's fight I understand Gege's decision not to show much of it. It would essentially follow the formula of kashimo vs hakari, urame would throw out a big attack that "can't possibly fail" and Hakari will land a jackpot and recover. Hakari's kit is just really good at stalling people out and that's hard to make interesting for a long period of time. I'm sure it'll get expanded upon in the anime by a fair amount but who's to say until it happens.
I also wish there some more emotional significance to it but who knows what could've happened if Gege had more time
@@KnightlyReviews Cool! Thanks for sharing! And yeah, I hope the anime can flesh it out just a liiittle bit more.
Great Video!!!!!!
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked it
i always took mahoraga coming out during the domain as mahoraga acting on it's own in order to help it's user, i don't think it's that deep
I feel ya, but it bothers me that there was no activation hand sign (plus someone did all the hard work of theorizing for me so🤷🏽)
17:10 speak your facts brother
Dude they're GAY
It's indeed PEAK
I loved every second of this manga from start to finish. Leaks culture fucked me and i resent it so much, i can't love this series without seeing vietnam flashbacks of bottom feeders like mya getting flowers before gege. Anyway uh, my stream of consciousness goes below:
Nah dude, fuck that, kusakabe needs no apology from no one, he ain't deserving the goat title, dude's a waster and it was finally time for him to lock in, nothing more, nothing less. His showing was so lackluster too. His dialogue made him last longer but it was so out of nowhere and boring.
Kashimo almost killed sukuna, you can see him chaining his lightning strike which tore holes into hakari way back then. Sukuna getting gouged into having to pull the reincarnation card out is so important.
Todo's pullup and powerup was peak.
His plan to hide everything from yuji was a decent explanation for the narrative setup.
Higuruma not dying and contradicting the word of sukuna(even after his death, kamutoke is still gone) felt a bit weird, sukuna was otherwise kinda reliable when it came to narration, why would the recently awakened rct not be able to fix the body of a user on sukuna's level of potential? Idk, sukuna shouldn't have assumed him dead even if he was just playing him
Rika's tears having healing properties, and nobara waking up just in time to nail sukuna's coffin were unneeded contrivances, gege could've just had maki come back into the fight and hit sukuna the same way she hit naoya, yuta could've died and i wouldn't have complained
The final exchange of hits between yuji and sukuna was so fucking good
Sukuna being able to separate himself from megumi? I thought incarnated players essentially killed their host if they fully incarnated, biggest plothole ever was megumi coming back from sukuna reincarnating. With kon too, to add to its awfulness. Megumi should be back as full heian form and into a 6 month unlimited void induced coma.
a lot of my problems with the ending come from the fact that, yes it works within the universe, but that doesn't make it good story telling. I don't think gege is a bad writer, I just think that like all writers he can have bad writing, write himself into a corner, execute good writing poorly.
edit 1: I would like to clarify that, while I view jjk as a bad writing, it may well not be, art is subjective, *dnd beholder here*
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Dude I LOVE that ost
oh knightly reviews my adorable youtube crush
Nigga QUIT it
personally id prefer if yuji's domain was a bit cooler
like it make it just the graveyard bcs YUJIS LIFE WAS FULL OF DEATH and the tumbstones are filled with memorys of people close to him
make the "you are me" talk in set domain like sukuna turns into a blob no talking its just yuji stomping sukuna
He already gave him the last change in the domain NOW ITS TIME TO DIE . and that would be the best ending jjk could have bonus points if choso survived and we got a cure scene with yuji.choso and todo being brothers but ye thats just as a bonus ITS GREAT
STILL DONT GET WHY THEY ARE ALREADY THRUSTED INTO MISSIONS
THEY LOST LIKE EVERY PERSON THEY HOLD DEAR
put them in therapy they deserve it
BUT YE ITS A GOOD ENDING
I dunno, I think I like Yuji's domain being calmer than most. It really emphasizes his humanity, and while we could get something really cool I think this is a much more interesting direction to take it. I think it took that sort of shape because Yuji is still relatively new to Jujutsu, so the reflection of his soul is more informed by the life he wants to protect and foster for others (as opposed to the his new life that's filled with pain and suffering)
@@KnightlyReviews i agree his domain should be calmer
but i never sayed it should be the most heavy metal domain ever
But more of a place where yuji honors the dead people from his life
What do you think of the jujutsu no kaisen fan project to write a new ending ?
I think it's fine to write an alternate ending (it's just fanfiction after all) but the attitude they have towards the entire thing is absurd and horrible
Based on the thumbnail I’m just gonna assume you read with your eyes closed
You should watch the video
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18:04 love the video but one tiny thing is that uraume’s like DEFINITELY nonbinary, if i remember right everyone who actually knows them (sukuna, kenjaku) dont use gendered pronouns for them and even the people who do say “androgynous monk” or switch between he and she
Not only this but the bandages they have around their torso in the end of the hakari vs uraume fight to me atleast definitely look like theyre meant to be a diy binder
Its confirmed if i remember right that the vessel for uraume is a girl but i have *serious* doubts that uraume themselves is actually a girl with all the evidence
Oops! But yeah that makes total sense to me, I'll keep it in mind for future stuff (thanks g!)
In my opinion the endings of series like Jujutsu kaisen are controversial because you have to really read into what happens and not many people do that (especially a community like jjk) and most people who read manga are casual readers and they don't read jjk like its a novel they read it like its a manga. I make that distinction because i find novels to require more attentiveness and analytic thinking whereas manga is a weekly serialization where people finish each chapter in like 5 minutes tops. Obviously the problem is that shounen jump doesnt let the authors do what they want very much and constantly pressures them to make certain changes and stress them with deadlines and for creative writing this is obviously going to take its toll on the material's quality, but then again the ending isnt bad its just that the target audience aren't people who read novels its people who read comic books and thats likely why the reception was so divisive (my personal opinion on the matter).
He's back, spitting once again
That's what I do man, what can I say
Some things in the video i dont agree with but i see the point. But sukuna definitely needed ten shadows like nothing he got from heian form give him a big edge, four arms, chanting ok? Its not a bigger benefit that the whole ten shadows kit and mahoraga
I don't think so? The four arms and extra mouth allow him to do handsigns and chants without letting up on offense or defense. He's also built as hell (kashimo said his body was "perfect" when he looked at the muscle) so his cursed energy would be multiplying off of a much higher base. His cursed energy total is higher than yuta's and he's just about as efficient as gojo is so gojo can't really stall him out.
Sukuna would've probably just out domained him if the fight went on for longer (or catch gojo while he's in curse technique burnout)
Also furnace is a duraneg anyway (I'm like decently sure)
But otherwise I'm really glad that you watched through it!
To clarify: the conditions for using Kamino (Furnace), at least the way he used it in this fight, weren't just using Cleave and Dismantle a certain number of times. He has to use his Domain specifically because it chops and pulverizes everything in its radius to a fine dust. At that point, he uses Kamino to ignite it. It's based on a real phenomenon, where large quantities of fine particles in the air cause even a small flame to combust out of control.
Then, while the barrier is sealed off, the oxygen gets used up by the flames, creating a vacuum; meaning if you somehow survive the extreme heat and getting pummeled by the repeated shockwaves caused by the alternating pressure fronts, then in the aftermath, you'll be asphyxiated. So it'll kill you now *and* it'll kill you later. So Sukuna really, really, *really* wanted everybody dead.
The oddest thing about people wanting the Merger, is that it couldn't happen. The conditions for the Merger required every main character to die, unless they wanted the most bullshit binding vow that they keep saying Sukuna does.
There was no way to do the Merger without ending the series there, and so the Merger means the manga ends and the world is destroyed; and so the only way for things to go well is that the Merger never happens and can never happen.
Jjk's ending isn't bad but there was still too many plot points still left answered it was just too sudden
I feel ya, Shonen Jump REALLY needs to let their talent breath (ESPECIALLY when they have the industry in a legitimate chokehold)
I think entirely different jogo and gojo finale hit we know exactly how jogo there was no need to see it. With gojo especially with a whole new move used with an explanation and a character with the advantage. Understanding how the interaction at the end just makes it more digestible and less confusing for the readers.
Respectfully the exact same thing could be said about the Jogo/Sukuna fight.
Like fr the EXACT same thing could be said. (I think the main difference is that some people genuinely thought Gojo was going to win, but I saw the fight as having a forgone conclusion just like the Jogo/Sukuna one so it works for me. I definitely get it though)
Taking into consideration what the World Cutting Slash, dismantles, and cleaves are, is it unreasonable for Gege to assume that a panel showing Gojo getting hit by the slash was unnecessary since you can imagine what it would look like?
The whole event wouldn’t hit nearly as hard if we were given more details, in my opinion.
Awesome vid
I love the Shinjuku Showdown
Favorite part (There are many) was when Nobara returned because every chapter that came out made me lose a bit of hope but then…
Gojo should have been able to regen his lower half tho.
Bro survived being stabbed in the head, waist down is ALOT less lethal given that people HAVE survived having their lower half removed.
Cursed energy comes from the stomach if gojo is slashed there he can't heal
No shot you want pantless gojo in the fight bro
@@KnightlyReviews Maybe he don't, BUT I DO
Anw, for Gojo not being able to regenerate his lower half, I kinda agree. I think his death was beautiful and tragic, but I also wonder what's the logical reason for Gojo not being able to regenerate since RCT comes from the brain if I recall correctly. I assume it's because Gojo at the airport decided to not return. :((
Holy smokes I can’t believe I found you when you’re so small! We will be watching you with great interest!
Thanks so much dude! I really appreciate it
kusakabe the GOAT
However the ending might have been the hate that gege receives both by the "fans " and haters of the manga is just really off putting to me like in the final volume gege shares their struggles with writing jjk and I see many people just taking away that " he himself admitted that his manga is trash " like they never said that just read the damn thing and it also doesn't help that gege is quite self deprecating in his humour
Yeah it's pretty frustrating, that's one of the big things that motivated me to make the video in the first place. I hope he's enjoying his break before he gets back to writing
do u think you'll review the new ending for Jujutsu Kaisen? It was called Jujutsu no kaisen and its first chapter just now came out
Nah it's not official or anything so i probably won't, plus the guy who's making it had a real bad attitude about the thing. Writing a fan ending is fine (i mean it's just fanfic) but the tweet where he announced it put me off of it super hard
@@KnightlyReviews i skimmed through the first chapter and its actually pretty bad and i think twitters already exposing them for using AI and tracing other peoples artworks in their panels
dialogue is not very good either and they seemed to have changed some bits about that stuff with the going north or south thing 😭
Ok maybe I'll read it lmao
You touched on this in the video but the bits of sluggishness and damage that Sukuna accumulated in each fight is what usually played a large role in allowing the next “runner up” to keep up at all. Essentially, this extremely specific and situational battle was their ONLY chance, and they knew that as well.
Thing is gege did indeed drop the ball and drop off on characterization for the cast thats his major fumble, but the rest was pretty good besides nobara coming back so late, which is you take what todo and yuta said about lying to him to not let sukuna sense or dicern it because they were soul linke or something, but the story writing and the whole track after shibuya was pretty good.
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You should watch the video
I left another comment, but it felt important to leave this comment, and have it separate. You've got a great eye for themes and characterization, and I appreciate that you don't try to pacify the people who came so close to ruining the experience of this series for everyone. I hope to see a lot more analyses from you in the future.
Thanks so much dude! I really want this community to be a place for people who want to talk about this kind of stuff without the fear of being ridiculed just for liking something others may not, and I'm glad to know that you'll be tuning in from now on. I really appreciate it!
I checked out of the JJK anti-fandom when I watched a video where a guy deadass said that Sukuna's binding vow for the World Cutting Slash doesn't make sense because nobody else in the series attempted the same vow. Almost like Sukuna was fine permanently impairing that one ability because 1. He was confident he could beat everyone else with the handicap and 2. He only needed the move to guarantee kill one person.
I'm telling you dude they don't read
Jjk fans when they actually read the manga:
Would have rather the ending went on a bit longer to flesh out the world a bit more and give some of the fights a bit more focus but overall the final arc was great, it's my 3rd favourite after Hidden Inventory and Shibuya.
I think they if gege didn't have issues with SJ it could've been SO much better, but I'm personally fairly happy with the final product
@@KnightlyReviews Yeah, I still thought the final chapter was awesome, most of all the Sukuna and Mahito scene (Sukuna is my favourite character)
i liked it as well , other than Nobara rushed late comeback, i personally dont have many problems
great video!! it really gave me a new perspective on the ending and honestly that's really weird because i knew literally all of this lol, i guess it just helped me get my thoughts in order
mahoraga is very cute and also it's very funny that you forgot about hakari and uraume too lol
I'm so glad you liked it dude!
love the Takaba v Kenjaku praise. I love this fight, one of my fave in the manga. when Takaba said "I just realized.. this has to end." I cried!
random ahh L take in the middle of a peak video true form sukuna gets washed by gojo
I mean I appreciate the compliment but I think we've gotta agree to disagree🫡
I quite enjoyed this video and even if I thought a couple of chapters were weaker than others in the video, I can tell that you actually read and understood why Shinjuku Showdown was executed the way it was. Personally, I think people exaggerate the quality of the ending and SS as an arc. It definitely has problems to me, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as people make it out at times. To me if I would describe in one word it would be conflicted. I find the pacing in the arc generally too fast in some areas like the immediate ending to the fight itself for example cutting to how Yuta was doing. Other times I was underwhelmed with the conclusions of certain plot points such as the Yuta being a monster plot point, Kenjaku as a character, Megumi during the last stretch after 265 especially once Nobara was back, the execution of Nobara’s return itself etc. I understand why Gege decided to do things the way he did after all the arc is mainly about Sukuna slowly but surely getting defeated overtime, however I just wish at least a few of these points in the story got a bit more time than they actually did. That said though, at the same time I really think this arc had some of the best chapters in the series. I enjoyed Takaba vs Kenjaku, Gojo vs Sukuna is one of my favorite fights in the series and in manga in general, I enjoyed Kashimo vs Sukuna as well even if it didn’t last that long, I liked the flashbacks to Gojo along with 261 and 271 (for Gojo specifically of course) with Yuta as both really added to their characters respectively and Gojo’s death in 236, Choso’s death was really well handled, I enjoyed Todo’s reintroduction, Sukuna’s character in the ending, and 265 with Yuji’s domain to name a few. My biggest problem outside of the pacing and certain things feeling underdeveloped in some areas was that I wish a couple of characters in the end got more consequences than they received. I’m not asking for them to be dead, but at the same time I don’t like how Yuta or Megumi essentially got off scott free. Overall as of now, I’m mixed on SS and the ending as a whole. Despite that, I still like JJK for the most part up until the ending of the Culling Games arc. Even then, I still think the series had quality storytelling in some areas and the fights and paneling were great as always
All in all, do I think SS and the ending is peak? No, do I think it was one of the worst endings of all time either? Also no, I just thought that it was okay with some neat conclusions here and there. It’s been a minute since I’ve read JJK, I did read the leaks when they were out after I caught up from with the manga in early 2024 after season 2 of the anime, but I did actually make sure to read the actual chapters on the Shonen Jump app once they came out. So some of my critiques may not hold much weight
I agree with you for the most part. For me Peak isn't necessarily a denotation of quality but of enjoyment. Is JJK (or SS in specific if you want) the peak of all anime and manga forever? No! I don't think there is a peak to a medium like this. There are definitely a couple spots that need some more work on them in the arc, and I wish certain plotlines in the series got way more focus than they did. (For example, I think Tsumiki is WAY too underdeveloped for the audience to care about her. The most interesting thing that happened to her was Yorozu taking over her, but that's not enough IMO. Imagine if the only thing that was interesting about Yuji was that he was possessed by Sukuna. That would super suck!)
But I think SS is peak because it held my (and a ton of other people's) interest for well over a year, and continues to do so every time I go back to read more. For this video I ran through this arc about thirty times in the span of a month, and every time I was still clicking next page before I had even realized.
initially i didn't like the Shinjuku showdown because i read leaks but when it came down to the final 5 chapters i started to think that i misunderstood it and began looking at it differently now i love the showdown arc it was so well crafted especially sukunas conclusion now i love sukuna and all of jjk so i encourage anybody who didn't like jjks ending to reread the whole arc in one shot it is a way different experience than the week to week reads and if you still didn't like it after reading at least you gave it a genuine shot i love jjk and my fav characters were sukuna yuji yuta uraume mahito and kenjaku :)
Sukuna outclassed Gojo? Really?) All fight Sukuna was just copying techniques of others (Gojo's brain reset and Mahoraga's world cutting slash), while Gojo literally on the fly came up with the counter to Sukuna's open domain, and he was the first sorcerer in history who was able to use rct to heal his burned out cursed technique.
And of course, Gojo was relative to Sukuna in Megumi's body while fighting inside Sukuna's domain without his ct, so thinking that 2 arms + an additional mouth would be enough to outclass Gojo is just ridiculous
I literally JUST typed this all out and I'm still waking up so I'm just gonna copy and paste it (I'm sorry for being lazy)
I mean I think so. The four arms and extra mouth allow him to do handsigns and chants without letting up on offense or defense. He's also built as hell (kashimo said his body was
"perfect" when he looked at the muscle) so his cursed energy would be multiplying off of a much higher base. His cursed energy total is higher than yuta's and he's just about as efficient as gojo is so gojo can't really stall him out.
Sukuna would've probably just out domained him if the fight went on for longer (or catch gojo while he's in curse technique burnout)
Also furnace is a duraneg anyway (I'm like decently sure)
@@KnightlyReviews 2 extra arms and a mouth would make the match-up even, but nothing more.
Kashimo only mentioned his additional arms and mouth, he didn't say anything about his ce or muscles. And Sukuna was nowhere near Gojo's efficiency. He was afraid of using brain reset for the third time, while Gojo used it 4 times. And, of course, it was said that six eyes give the user infinite efficiency, so Satoru didn't need to spend his ce at all, while Sukuna wasted half of his ce by the ch 250.
Fuga is duraneg? I guess that's why Choso was able to completely block it😅
Erm actually!
I think you're being a little ridiculous to say that the two arms and mouth make Sukuna EQUAL to Gojo. If the fight was already this close and we give the Sukuna just the extra mouth to use chants (for everything nonstop) his attacks strength and his overall cursed energy output would skyrocket.
Also let's use our eyes here, right? Sukuna very clearly has more muscle than the average sorcerer. If not the average sorcerer he clearly has more muscle than at least Gojo in his Heian Era form (Gojo looks more cut or lean, but Sukuna quite literally just has more muscle). But also in chapter 225 (page ten) Kashimo says that if Gojo didn't have the six eyes Sukuna would beat him in cursed energy efficiency. So yes, Gojo is more efficient, but they're still AT LEAST comparable (and closely). Plus Gojo using the brain reset more doesn't mean anything except that Gojo was willing to burn out his brain more (which he'd been doing constantly since highschool anyway)
Also Sukuna wasted half of his cursed energy because he fought several people who were specifically aiming to lower his cursed energy output (Yuji via soul punches and dismantles, Yuta via Jacobs Ladder, Hana via Jacobs Ladder, Megumi via fighting back from the inside) and a bunch of other people with the single aim of weakening him. They stacked STUPID type advantage to be able to win that fight
Also also Choso literally died to block that move for Yuji. I think it's fine.
@@KnightlyReviews too many headcanons for just one comment
1) "An additional mouth would make ce output skyrocket." And where exactly was it said? We weren't given any information about how much it increases output, so making such a claim is disengenius
2) "Sukuna had more muscles than an average sorcerer." And what? He was, and that's obvious, but would it be enough to nullify the difference in speed? And they weren't close, Sukuna was eating the floor 80% of the time, and another 20% they were inside Sukuna's domain, and his 1 and only strike that wasn't blocked by Gojo he delivered after teaming up with big Maha, who was AT LEAST as fast as fatigued Sukuna. And during that exchange, Satoru wasn't using blue - a technique that skyrockets his speed😏
And also one note - Gojo wasn't trying to kill Sukuna) You said that in your own video
3) "In ch 225 Kasimo said that Gojo would've lost to Sukuna in ce efficiency without 6 eyes." And what? That's cool, but Gojo HAD 6 eyes, so this argument is irrelevant.
4) Sukuna wasted his ce because he was SPENDING it on techniques. Yuji was lowering OUTPUT, not the amount of ce that Sukuna had. And I don't even remember if Jacobs Ladder was lowering his ce output, but I'm too lazy to check, so whatever
5) No, it's not fine. Choso was waaaaaaaaay weaker than Gojo, and even he was able to block fuga. He died only because he was weak. And I really doubt he would've been able to block purple like that)
@@KnightlyReviews i can even argue that Gojo could survive fuga by just using ce reinforcement)
It just personally annoys me because it's like i can't even mention JJK in a casual conversation anymore without random people just going insane over how trash both the series is and how i am for liking it. Either people are a hardcore glazer or a hardcore hater. And normal people like us are squashed.
Facts man. I liked the ending well enough but had some issues with it. There’s so many insane takes from everywhere for this shit that I feel crazy for just being like “yeah it’s ight I guess”😂
Fr dude, it also kills me because the community used to be so much fun to talk with. It's like half the reason I like the show as much as I do
The ending is ight. There’s just 30+ issues with Shinjuku.
i mean i liked it but i would've taken pretty much anything so long as it was better with culling games tbh
@@KnightlyReviews At least culling games had some good fights. Shinjuku just has Takaba vs Kenjaku and Rika, Yuta and Yuji vs Sukuna.
I think its "divisive" because people are just salty that its over
calling my AMAB non binary goat Uraume a "she" 🥶after that massive pro-lgbtq accepting 2 frames with geto and gojo is crazy work
I MISSPOKE ON THE TAKE I PROMISE
@@KnightlyReviewsno you're right for all intents and purposes he was a girl since he was incarnated into a girl's body (by choice) and was a boy in the hein era
49:06 you're so biased, it's hilarious
I mean my cope payed off (but if you're talking about gojo there's literal in text reasons that one happened and the other one is a fan theory that doesn't work on several levels)
@ I respect your takes, I just think you predicted a very predictable manga and let it fuel your bias in favor of the mangas ending.
@@KnightlyReviewsalso why would i be talking about gojo, did you not see what i was referring to with my time stamp? nobara's comeback was bs
I assumed cause the comparison is so apparent (between gojo and nobara), and I like one while the other is completely ridiculous in my eyes
My fault for assuming g
@@KnightlyReviewsthat literally contradicts your point about her, but whatever. cognitive dissonance is common for diehard jjk glazers though, so I get it
Well, i think Sukuna only won because of Ten Shadows... But that REALLY doesn't matter. It was part of his plan from the very start