just on a roadtrip engaging in baseless speculation… I think gojo assertion about being surpassed is about ideals on shaping jujutsu society rather than strength. With yutas gambit I think we are getting his interpretation of how to surpass which is p sad tbh. I think we get hakaris approach next then yuji. I really think yuji gon die trying but successfully get to megumi who will ultimately fulfill gojos wish on some shinji ikari self realization tip. Not a megumi fan personally but I have a hunch he’ll be final girl. Could be wrong

same
don't mind it being used occasionally but it's a bit heavy handed at the moment
the story is still interesting but it gets repetitive

Outside of being surprised when a thing happens i fail to see what the positives are to things being told in this type of way. All these characters getting development or way past due character moments Is very needed but if gege showed this before the sukuna fight I think all the deaths that happened would've hit way harder.

Also everyone complaining about how what yuta is doing is so inhuman is f\*\*\*ing crazy to me :Dead: Maki commited genocide and nobody batted an eye, You have a pedophile helping you, Kusakabe has yaga put his sisters son soul in a doll or something and actually supported the higher ups killing Yuji, and they are all in a system that basically encourages kids to die but yuta using gojos body is where yall draw the line get tf

the emotions not being conveyed enough is the usual problem of geges fast paced writing but I really disagree with you. Showing chapters on chapters of different character exposition dumping their plans to beat Sukuna all wouldve A) been boring and B) made the entire Gojo fight feel awful cause it wouldve basically confirmed that Gojo would die because why else have 5 chapters of explaining plans

Unless you rewrite the entire saga since chapter 212 I dont see any problem with the timeskip writing wise.

I think this will flow beautifully in adaptation. Its the perfect way to balance out the constant fighting.

Obviously its personal preference but I think its an interesting discussion nonetheless because so far I think geges execution of these flashbacks has been flawless and much better than anything he has ever done. Keeps us guessing

Just realized Yuta can’t die from decapitation right now lol he’ll have to be stabbed through the brain?

Let’s not down play lol

Yuta is literally Frankenstein in his dead Sensei/cousin’s caucus and is a damn brain with teeth being a parasite. The other things are bad yes, but this is worse than just clinically insane and would possibly leave Yuta not Yuta (That’s traumatic as f\*\*\*, and you’re doing it purposely, how can you ever live life thinking you’re okay as a person?) if he survived. He sacrificed his humanity quite literally, he’s a brain that used another person as a weapon and to ruin the body after death more. People who’ve killed can live with themselves a little more than someone wearing a meat suit of someone they cared for. It’s best he’s put out his misery after this because you can’t tell me you would be mentally okay doing this more so than the other s\*\*\*. Be for real

This is why most on the team disagreed with the plan because it was unethical and none of them would do that orochimaru type of s\*\*\*. That makes you closer to a freak dabbling in twisted s\*\*\* desecrating corpse. Normal people kill people, psychopaths are mass murders, but this is a bit beyond it. And he had to justify it to himself. Kusakabe knew once he did this, there’s no turning back. You can never smile after this. This literal 101 monster documentary s\*\*\*.

And if you still for whatever reason don’t see it, apply it to real life. In general, is a killer after spending their time in prison going to a mental ward in a straitjacket? A pedo? Or is someone who wore another’s skin and did stuff in it going to be there forever each time? Even if found innocent. Even if Yuta isn’t doing evil s\*\*\* in the body, he has to constantly remind himself of that because only the sickest minded individuals will do something like this. Other stuff regular s\*\*\*ty humans do and just get a criminal record for.

The storytelling is much better this way for the reasons you stated in my opinion too. I knew Gege would fill in the fight with flashbacks to enhance the story and I don’t hate flashbacks unless they are pointless or just filler which these aren’t. I’m so glad we got to the fight and didn’t waste months on the month before it. Plus some of these things were MEANT to be big reveals so Gege did this purposely. He couldn’t have shown this prior or it ruins the surprise. I feel some others are ignoring that fact. To each their own though.

The reception of the chapter changed drastically online (now I’m only seeing praise) once people were told to not call something bad writing just because you don’t agree with. I can understand not liking it because it disgusts you, but this isn’t bad writing. It makes sense.

i fw this

Someone put it nicely, if you are trying to beat the strongest, and this was an actual in-verse option, it would actually be DUMB if they didn’t consider it, seeing as it heightens their chance of victory. It being a last resort just shows no one wanted to do it. It makes sense in a realistic way, not just narratively.

Hmmm

What if the callback Gege goes for is when Yuji was faking being dead to Megumi and Nobara? Last chapter they assume he’s dead, just for him to jump outta casket or show up alive like before lol I think Nobara is going to be a cursed doll like panda though. She had her brain idle transfigured, unless it was just her eye.

Magnificently handled in this latest chapter.

Gege also experimented alot with the writing.

Shibuya was very linear with multiple storylines happeninh at once. Every chapter went back and forth between exact places and even timeframes that you can track. It makes sense because in the story it was literally the incident. A suprise attack and a full on blackout. It was disorienting and so was the story written

Culling games is more episodic with longer stretches spending time in one colony. which makes sense because it is both a race against time to save Megumis sister and a distraction for Kenjakus actual plan. Its also a introduction arc for the major players of the story to come. Gege almost isolated the reader into one colony. Going months without telling us whats happening with Megumi and Yuji and Tengen While our sorcerers had a plan by the time we actually reached the point of it succeeding we already knew it was too late.

And Shinjuku I pretty much just talked about. We get the unfolding of a plan. For the first time our gang is a step ahead of the reader not the other way around.

Gege this for sure Togashi inspired you dont see that in shounen alot. Most mangaka in the magacine have one style of writing and then they repeat it for their arcs

the fact that Yuta, Gojo, Kenjaku are all in the same body rn is f\*\*\*ing incredible lmao

Dear god no lmao

That is horrific 😭

But I can see it 😵‍💫

I think he hasn’t really planned that far ahead. Not to say he doesn’t know how it’s going to end overall but closing certain character arcs is a bit more difficult.

I’m a bit tired of it because like you said we have in universe explanations of how things work but some fights some exception happens and we learn about it after the fact. The fact that Sukuna is the strongest means anything is possible but you do roll your eyes a bit as it gets a bit formulaic

I know Im an annoying stan so feel free to ignore this but can you atleast provide examples before saying that Gege writes so many asspulls and doesnt know what hes doing

I actually cant think of a single ability that was used in this entire fight that we didnt know before. Everything we couldve guessed before the fight except yuta using kenjakus ability because we obviously didnt know Kenjaku was about to die

Correction: Miguels and Larues abilities were new reveals but at the same time they werent OP or a massive gamechanger

Don’t call yourself an annoying Stan for liking a series and not agreeing with the contrarians lol

Jjk discourse is exhausting, I doubt there’s much that’ll make people happy. Even if Kenjaku comes back

Tbh we reached the peak of the attack on titan fandom were either peoples expectations are so skyhigh in such a specific way that they will never be happy while at the same time the fandom is so annoying people stop bothering getting invested in this amazing manga and giving it any credit at all

I think similar to Attack on titan once it gets to the anime the discourse will shift cause I cant see anything wrong with it rn. Its all still fantastic. The manga community has always been a bit gatekeepy and elitist in every direction.

Yup it’s exactly like the AOT fandom. Misunderstanding the plot and story, and hating on the author beyond reason. Like you and I know there’s no such thing as a perfect story, but we are appreciating great work for how it is intended to be told by the author. He takes bold risks to do his own thing in shonen and does it well knit. He hasn’t done anything to ruin it this far. Simple as that. But people just want to tear s*** down just because. “Hate reading” has to be the worst thing to happen to manga. Every week a new critique on what they don’t like lol Once the infamous hit piece YouTube video we all know is coming, comes out after its conclusion saying why JJK failed in its thematic department, you’ll see people’s slander become solidified in their mind. It’s sad, I’ve seen this all before with masterly told stories. What happened to AOT is a damn shame.