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linkspooky · 1 year

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Jujutsu Kaisen, Chapter 204 Thoughts.

I thought I was not going to have much to say about this week’s chapter, because it is mainly fighting, however, I read a tweet about opening words that got cut out of the English Translation of the chapter.

“A life they never asked for, but more brothers than they could hope for.

A special warmth that is a pillar for his heart there….! Choso and his brothers stand firmly together as one!”

Which just perfectly summarizes how Choso embodies all of the positives of a sibling relationship. Let’s talk about what Jujutsu Kaisen has to say about siblings underneath the cut.

1. Big Brother.

What is unique about Choso is that his entire character revolves around the role the eldest born / first son / big brother is supposed to play to their family. Which is ironic, because Choso’s family is his mad scientist father, all of the failed creations he got bored of and abandoned, and also the mother who was abused to make him and all of his siblings.

“A life they never asked for...” is putting it mildly, the life Choso was born into through no choice of his own, is unrelentingly, despair inducing-ly bleak.

The death painting brother’s response in general to this hopeless situation they were born into, and have relatively no control over is to completely rely on each other. They have no relatoinship to their mother or father, they have only had each other for hundreds of years.

Which is where much like Choso’s own hybrid nature, they like many cursed spirits the death paitning brothers horrifying abominations, and yet they regard each other the same way a normal human family would. To the point where Choso’s motivations are incredibly understandable to us the reader because his entire motivation is to try to act as this ideal older brother figure, which could resemble a sibling relationships many humans have or possibly wish for. The way Choso loves his siblings, despite their horrifying origin, is the same way an older brother is expected toc are for his younger brothers, if a bit idealized.

Choso and his brothers are quite literally aborted fetuses at various stage of fetal developments. They were people never meant to be born into this world. They are not equipped to survive. They were abominations sealed away by Jujutsu Academy, and then two thirds of them were killed by Jujutsu Sorcerers soon after they were born. Nobara and Yuji also kill them without hestiation because they are cursed spirits despite the obvious signs of intelligence they showed, whereas they might have hesitated if they were human curse users.

Choso’s love for his siblings represents both Choso trying to make the best of the situation he was born into, and an active choice on his part to love his brothers. As stated in the panel above, Choso and his brothers could so easily hate the world for what it did to them, and yet that’s not their objective, they don’t want revenge, purely what they want is to survive. They were never meant to be born, yet they are trying to live in the world, and live for each other.

Choso, Eso, Kechizu live for the sake of each other, that’s the way they cope and try to make the best of the situation they were born into. However, loving is also an active choice on Choso’s part. There are other siblings born into similiar situations, unhealthy family households who are faced with similiar choices as Choso.

Naoya who has no relationships to his siblings, and at large no relationship to his family treats people as nothing more than dispoable actions, relationships as transactions where he gets something out of them.

There is another you could draw a comparison between Choso in the Zenin household. Maki and Mai parallel Choso’s relatoinship to his borthers in the fact that twins are considered “cursed” because of the omens associated with them. Maki is also born in a way that makes her an outcast to her clan, having a restriction that makes her unable to see cursed techniques in exhcange for increased strength. Choso and his brothers are the shame of the Kamo family, Maki and Mai are considered shameful by their father Ogi and he blames them as the reason he wasn’t made clan head. Kenjaku similiarly, abandoned the Death Painting Bros because he didn’t consider them interesting

The way Choso acts as a ig brother, and the way Mai acts as a big sister are markedly different however. Mai and Maki are continually in conflict with one another. While Choso and his brothers do everything together, Mai and Maki are seperate.

Maki’s intentions may have been to reform the Zenin for Mai’s sake, but she didn’t make that clear to Mai. Mai beleives Maki left her behind, and maybe, Maki did prioritze being strong and defeating the Zenin over her relaitonship with her sister. Maki a staunch individualist would have hated herself if she stayed in that household with Mai forever.

Maki and Mai are born connected, the same way CHoso and his brothers are all connected to one another, but while their sibling relaitonship is a blessing, something they use to make their situation better Mai internalizes the idea that she is a burden to Maki/. THat she is the reason Maki cannot get stronger. That their connection is holding Maki back. To the point where Mai choosing to die is the thing that finally makes Maki stronger. Maki gets stronger, but only as an indivdual, with her sister permanently lost.

Maki is stronger now, but she is stronger alone. This is in comparison to Choso who is labeled weak and uninteresting this chapter by his own father. Choso who even considers himself a failure.

However, Choso always chose his relationship with his brothers over his individual strength. He chose, even to accept and forgive Yuji after learning they were brothers. He is able to find love in his life because he made that choice to love his brothers. Even though two of Choso’s brothers die similiary to Maki and Mai, his situation as a whole is far less tragic.

And I say it’s a choice because during the same arc where YUji and Co fought the death paintings, there was a clear foiling between Megumi’s relationship with his adoptive sister, and the chosen relationship of the Death Painting brothers.

Just like how I choose who to help, you choose who to protect me. Megumi and Choso are foils in regars to the fact that they were abndoned by their actual blood fathers, and despite having no family Megumi similiar to Choso chooses to prioritize his adoptive sister who he has no blood relationship’s well being over everything else.

In all of these cases a good relationship with their sibling isn’t something that happens on his own, it’s a choice made by the characters to try to be good to their siblings.

#choso #kechizu #eso #jjk meta #kenjaku #jujutsu kaisen meta #jujutsu kaisen #maki #mai #maki zenin #mai zenin #naoya zenin #megumi fushiguro #jjk 204 #jjk 204 spoilers

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flwrtalgi · 1 year

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jujutsu kaisen chapter 204 panel redraw!

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanart #jjk art #tsukumo yuki #yuki tsukumo #she is so hot oh my god #anime #manga #digitial art #art #flwrtalgi

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jinn-mori · 6 months

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20 Questions For Writers

@pencilofawesomeness Doing this because why not

How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 17 works as of this post. There is a good chance that there will be many more. Pencil, I envy you and all your brainchildren.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

I am at a grand total of... 119,898 words. Holy cow! I'm willing to bet most of that came from AHC.

3. What fandoms do I write for?

Whatever piece of media I'm hyperfixating on at that point in time, though I do try to keep myself from writing too many multi-chapters. My main fandoms are Bleach, Fairy Tail, and Jujutsu Kaisen with what I write though I do plan on writing some stuff for NNT and Hellsing.

4. What are your top fics by kudos?

5. Apocrypha (Bleach) - 98 kudos

4. Dear God (Bleach) - 121 kudos

3. Just In Case (Bleach) - 204 kudos

2. A Hollow Crown (Bleach) - 413 kudos

A Wisteria To Our Eternity (Jujutsu Kaisen) - 581 kudos

Three of my top five fics are AiIchi. Wasn't surprised that AHC would be up there since it's kind of my HTTYDS.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. There are times where I can't figure out how to respond to a comment to I just kinda leave it be. Other times, I could respond because I want to know the audience's thoughts on a chapter or they mention liking this or that and I want to know why. To me, what helps improve writing is understanding not only how something works but why it works. For example, why do so many people like my characterization of Aizen in A Hollow Crown? What about his characterization makes people like him? Or I go to the comments when I need ideas and running around in my own head doesn't do the trick. Hell, I'll even leave it in the author's notes if I'm having trouble with a plot point and could use some audience feedback.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I'd say Ich bin verlore since it was a one-shot about longing for something you'd never have and wondering if what you did have was the real thing or not. Also, it's a Berserk fic so angst is inevitable.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

If we only include multi-chapters, then it could only go to A Hollow Crown since it's my only completed multichapter. And I'd say is a quiet sort of happiness, setting up for events to come and giving some characters a sense of hope. If we include one-shots, then I'd give that one to Dear God since it's an ending on a hopeful note where things can only really go up.

8. Do you get any hate on fics?

Nope! Hasn't happened to me.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

It's all yaoi smut. I tend to keep things from going into dub-con territory as smut where the consent isn't exactly clear is a squick for me. Any smut I write is between two or more adults, as I find writing smut of underage characters to be... ew.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I plan to write some. I've got an NNT x TOH fic I'm debating writing, one that's a big ol' fandom crossover inspired by Fear and Hunger 2: Termina. Another one I have in mind to write is this Bleach x Seven Deadly Sins that's moreso the world of NNT with the characters of Bleach (like pencil's Genshin x NNT fic).

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope, and I hope I never get one stolen.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, though I'd love to take a crack at translating my own fics. Gotta get in that translation practice somehow!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

I do have a lot of ships, but I wouldn't quite say I have a favorite. I've written the most for AiIchi but I'd love to write for some others. Also, I'm someone who is more on board for found family fics or fics just focusing on the bonds between people.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Someday, I will return to my WIPs and finish them! Or I'd like to. To be honest, I have sooo many in my head that I need to put to paper.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I'd say character analysis. Several people have said that I'm good at breaking down a character and seeing what makes them work and then putting them into a fic.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

This is more of a personal nitpick with myself, but I feel like I struggle with making my chapters long enough. How do I get myself to write longer chapters? I wanna write longer chapters, dammit.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

You're asking this from the world languages major! I love adding that in... well, when it makes sense. If I can use it to add some spice to a character or give hints about them *cough* AHC!Grimmjow *cough* then I'll go right ahead. Ya just need to do it in a way that makes sense both in and out of the story to where readers can get the gist of it.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Fairy Tail! Demons x Dragonslayers is my oldest fic and first wrote it on Wattpad but started its rewrite on when I started cross-posting it on AO3.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

It'd have to be A Hollow Crown and by extension its series Hollow Moon . Yes, DxD is what started my fanfic journey but it was A Hollow Crown that really kicked it off. It also started my obsession of 'what if Aizen but good but he was still Aizen'.

Get tagged bozos: @johannepetereric , @averiina , @skullywullypully , @backwardshirt

#tag game #fanfiction #god I have so many fics to write HAAAAAAAALP

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hxhhasmysoul · 1 year

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Is Jujutsu Kaisen feminism for 15yo boys?

The short answer is yes, so you can skip the rest of this ridiculously long post.

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Disclaimers:

If you haven’t read the manga up until chapter 204 you’ll see spoilers here, also you probably won’t know what/who I’m talking about at times.

I have adhd, this is rambly af, this post is actually for me to organise my thoughts and not a hot take I want to convince others to buy into. but anyone is welcome to read if they have the patience.

They/them pronouns for Akutami because if the cursed cat isn’t explicitly assigning a gender to themself, hell if I will.

They/them pronouns for Kenny.

Now let’s watch this post age like dairy. I so hope it won’t, Gege please don’t disappoint me.

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Let’s go.

There are a few things that make me obsessed with juju.

1. The fact that its plot and story structure are my wet dream - all these factions and individuals who are doing their own thing. All of these plots intertwining and coming together.

2. My sweet child Yuuji. *coughs* I mean, juju’s focus on characters. I’m very normal about Yuuji, I fucking swear.

3. The art, it’s simply beautiful but I also have thoughts.

4. The bs power system, I live for that stuff.

5. It’s aggressively progressive.

So lets focus on point 5.

Is juju as politically left as I am? Fuck no, not even close. There are things I wish it was braver on, like for instance the queerness. Fuck, braver on its leftism and feminism too. Is it very current and openly and aggressively progressive? Very much so.

If we look at the biggest antagonists of juju we get:

1. Toxic masculinity personified. A hyper-individualist. A 1000yo manosphere youtuber. A guy who thinks that strength should dictate hierarchy. A man who thinks he can hurt whomever he wants for his own pleasure and amusement because everyone is beneath him. A man who doesn’t care for anyone else but himself. A mass murderer and nihilist.

2. A 1000yo person of unknown gender who presents most often as a man. An eugenicist. Someone entitled to women’s bodies and their reproductive rights. Someone who thinks their own children are only as valuable as they fulfil their ambitions. Someone who thinks they can hurt anyone because their goals are superior, because people are instrumental to them. And also a fucking classist piece of shit. (honestly idk why half of the fandom reacted surprised to the hyper capitalist moment in the recent chapters, as if in their first scene in the entire manga they didn’t say: this is a nuisance but at least it’s the poors that are being burnt to death before my eyes. - Gege didn’t need to add this line there, it’s not relevant to the conversation that is happening then but the line is there anyway.)

3. Two awfully sexist clans which have huge superiority complexes and are built on bloodlines and traditions and breeding for power.

4. A bunch of mostly faceless old people who pull the strings from the shadows and do everything in the name of the status quo, constantly using tradition as an excuse. Who are afraid of the new, of the changes in society of new technologies. They won’t even accept them when they create powerful sorcerers.

5. A male presenting personification of human hate and fear of one another. Who again, feels entitled to the bodies of others and doesn’t respect the bodily autonomy of others. Who’s a destructive and cruel nihilist.

6. A young man who got radicalised into fascism because he was faced with the horrors of the status quo, of toxic tradition and backwater thinking and drew the wrong conclusions as to how to fix it.

On the other side we get kids and tired and/or silly millennials. And isn’t that just like real life, where the inaction and misdeeds of the previous generations blows up in the faces of today’s teens.

1. Teenagers. Teenagers who either don’t have family connections and come from lower classes. Or outcasts from their rich and powerful families. Children betrayed by traditions and the status quo. Children used or targeted by old people, ostracised, disrespected and violated. Children who have to suffer and die because the old people are only concentrating on maintaining the status quo.

2. Gojou, this ex edgy teen who saw his bf (I won’t police how you read that) get redpilled and radicalised into fascism. It was all fun and games, stanning the joker and tyler durden until Getou decided to seriously go full on fasc with it and Gojou was like: man for real? I thought we were memeing here. So then Gojou turned into one of those “this is how I got off the far right pipeline” videos. Gojou is actually this rich privileged boy but he’s trying, he really is taking his best shot at progressivism. (sealed)

3. A feminist who’s calling out and fighting worthless old farts who feel entitled to women’s bodies. And who wants to change the world to make life better for everyone.

4. A socially conscious man disillusioned with capitalism who takes a lot of responsibility for other people. (deceased)

5. A victim of eugenics who tries to be a good older brother to his brothers, also victims of eugenics. (the only one here who’s actually over 30)

6. Some other, less important, decent people in their twenties.

There are few people over 30 in juju that deserve any respect.

1. Headmaster Yaga, single dad. Does felting as a hobby. (deceased)

2. Yoshino Nagi, good single mum. (deceased)

3. Iori Utahime, a woman trying her best to do right by the teens despite having to work with Gojou.

4. Higuruma Hiromi, an idealist, mentally broken by the realities of the criminal justice system. Hobby: 5 min therapy sessions.

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Juju isn’t in any way shy about the fact that we should not respect elders when they fucking destroy everything. It’s established very early on that regressive traditionalists suck. That passive adults suck. That the status quo sux. That it should be the duty of adults to protect the children and not to make the world worse for everyone. That educating the youth and instilling different values in them is what can save us all, if we’re not beyond saving. That we need social change. We even get teen Noritoshi’s story, a cautionary tale about respectability, about trying to satisfy the requirements of the system to protect your own and how that is doomed to fail. And my leftist soul resonates with all that.

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So in this clear leftist propaganda there is also feminism.

And Gege does their best feminism when they aren’t trying, especially when they aren’t trying to verbalise it. My suspicion is that with this much internalised leftism Gege has internalised a lot of feminism but at a conscious level the fact that Gege was most likely socialised male takes its toll.

What I mean by that is that Nobara’s girlboss rant at Momo is weak. But I will give it a pass because Nobara is 16 and nothing about her screams discourse junkie so you know, it fits her character. Because even at it its least inspired the feminism in juju deserves a passing grade. Gege is trying.

There’s also the sad truth of shounen that women just aren’t meant to be prioritised in it, that it’s not the genre expectation. The fact that Maki gets so much focus and page time, that she has her own fucking arc, it’s already a lot for shounen. The fact that she’s built and now also permanently disfigured and the dudebros and weebs still worship the ground she walks on is a fucking achievement in itself. Proof that if you write a female character well you can take away her standard beauty and not tank her popularity. It’d be still much harder to make her not typically pretty from the start and achieve this but culture changes one step at a time. I wish we were there but we aren’t so I’m going to appreciate what I can get.

Maki is both verbalised and implicit feminism. Verbalised because she fucking slaughters a whole fucking clan of misogynists. It’s not subtle. Implicit because of her appearance and personality. She’s written like a male character but not meaning that she’s masculine or that she could be replaced in the narrative by a man. No, she has a narrative arc of her own, she’s written with agency and with no regard for making her personality be pleasing or oriented towards others. And her story is specifically a story of a woman in the world of jujutsu.

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Generally, in most cases, if you try to apply the feminist lens to a shounen manga you’ll just make yourself sad. You can do it for some shounen characters or plotlines and get something nice but you need to be very careful not to try to generalise that onto the whole work. My enjoyment of a lot of titles is dependant on my very conscious choice to rein in my feminism and leftism.

With juju, though, with juju you’re safe. You can do it. You can go for it. It’s not going to be the most radical and mind-blowing experience ever but it’s possible.

Because the female characters aren’t where the most of the feminism is. They can’t be, it’s a shounen and they don’t get enough pagetime. The verbalised feminism is very clear in how the villains are framed, how much misogyny you can find among the evil characters. The implicit feminism, the better one, is very strong in the young male characters.

Unlike in a lot of hyper violent media targeted at boys, in juju you never have these lines about what a man should be. Or what it means to be a man, especially a true man. What is most important is that nothing like that is ever said to a teenage boy. On the side we’re meant to root for we get a lot of different men and none of them are labelled as “true”. They are there for readers to identify with, to model behaviour after. And because no teen in the manga has his masculinity questioned then no reader will have to question his. Juju won’t contribute to such insecurity for anyone, an insecurity that can turn violent irl.

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Girls in juju are people.

What’s more, all the teen guys in juju have extremely normal relationships with the girls around them. They just interact with them without any exaggerated awkwardness or this “girls are strange, we can’t bond with them unless we want to date them”. Among the teens, the new generation, the hope for the future, there’s no separation built between men and women. Not through words and not through actions.

The nonsexual, organic friendship, built on idiot to idiot communication, Yuuji and Nobara have, gives me life. And it happens despite Yuuji not understanding Nobara at first. Because it doesn’t matter that she’s different from him, they don’t dwell on it, they don’t try to make the differences into a big thing, into a rift. There’s no big arc of them working out their differences because these differences aren’t artificially blown up to underline some core differences between men and women. They can fail to understand each other totally but they can still be friends, they can still vibe with one another, care for one another. Femininity and masculinity don’t need to be some issues to deal with while forming a friendship between a guy and a girl.

It’s fascinating how Yuuji fighting together with Megumi isn’t half as exciting and organic as when he fights together with Nobara. Their strengths and powers compliment each other so well. I’m actually angry that Gege didn’t let them fight Mahito together longer. Even if they would’ve done to Nobara the same thing they did. Why not let them be epic together again? (I’m also super angry at what they did to Nobara, she better come back, fucking hell)

And it’s a pattern too. Despite Yuuji being very much socialised as a guy in a very patriarchal and sexist society, so much so that he has a type at 15 and hangs bikini posters on his walls, he hasn't turned girls into aliens in his mind. They are still just people in his head. When Yuuji interacts with a real woman the male socialisation isn’t deeply rooted enough to hinder him. It’s never an issue.

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Toudou

Toudou tries to do this very masculine bonding thing with Yuuji and Yuuji is super confused by it. Because Yuuji’s relationships aren’t built on the concept of masculinity. And I mean Yuuji bonds with Toudou eventually because it’s Yuuji but we are shown the struggle when with Nobara or Megumi or Junpei it just happens. Also Yuuji is the only one who bonds with Toudou but that’s because Yuuji is compassion.

Toudou is generally disliked and his dumb male posturing contributes to that. Also in the Japanese context it’s very clear that Toudou is an unserious person and that’s how he’s meant to be perceived. If you have any doubt about that, the juju fanbook is there for you where Gege is very clear about that. Basically the idol thing is there to paint Toudou as immature. The whole conversation Megumi has with Toudou is a very clear lesson for teen boys. Be like Megumi and girls will like you, if you are a Toudou you’re a joke. You can be built and powerful and clever and still be a joke and girls won’t like you.

I like Toudou a lot btw, I actually think it’s funny that an 18yo boy thinks he reached some deeper truth about people because he knows what a fetish or kink is and he’s tactless enough to ask openly about it. It’s fucking hilarious but also some teen boys just be like that unironically. But I also like him because of how his character is framed and how he functions in the story. Because Toudou gives another important lesson to teen boys. A lesson about rejection. In the story he makes up in his head we see him confessing his feelings to Takada and she turns him down. And he just takes it. This is such an important message. In Japan stalking is a huge problem, stalkers murdering their victims is a problem. Men who feel entitled to women in such a violent way. And here we have a guy who gets rejected and takes the L with grace. And all he wants is for his best friend to console him.

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I’m very normal about Yuuji.

So the balls on Gege to name their typically shounen protag “calm compassion”, or maybe “endless humanity”, “endless compassion”, “quiet humanity”, all of the above? More?

Gojou says that to be a sorcerer one needs to be crazy. And he says that Yuuji has a few screws loose from the start. The thing is that yes, Yuuji is odd but not in the way the rest of the sorcerers are. So far in the manga Yuuji has never entered the state of mind that to my understanding Gojou is thinking about when he talks about being crazy. What I think Gojou means is this state of unhinged glee during the fight. And the ability to compartmentalise the fights and the kills.

So far in his fights Yuuji has been neutral, proud of himself when he was doing well, hyper focused, frustrated, desperate, depressed and filled with all-consuming rage. Never filled with unhinged glee. And he hasn’t compartmentalised any fight, any failure or any kill, not one, they all seep into a huge ball of guilt inside him. And it’s his kills and Sukuna’s together. Yuuji’s compassion is actively destroying him from the inside. Yuuji can’t disconnect from his humanity and that’s a basic job requirement for a sorcerer.

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Yuuji constantly shows how much emotional intelligence he has. When he defuses the situation with Junpei at the school. When Megumi finds out about Tsumiki going under the bridge. When he’s with Chousou. When he puts his depression on hold to help Megumi during the culling game. He shows understanding, emotional support, physical contact and prioritises the emotions of others over his own.

Compassion, empathy, responsiveness towards others, willingness to adjust and accommodate aren’t stereotypically masculine traits. No, they are culturally feminine in many places around the world, including Japan.

Yuuji is also passive and reactive despite being stronger than normal people, and that too is culturally more feminine than masculine. Yuuji doesn’t really have much of the shounen protag drive. It can be lit in him in the form of resilience or determination or rage but it’s not self-sustaining, reactive not proactive

And speaking of Japan and East Asia, what Yuuji is displaying can’t be written off as collectivism either. Because these reactions are personal, they aren’t towards the society at large. They aren’t giri aka a specifically culturally Japanese sense of duty, or any other of several similar concepts. There is no sense of duty or obligation in what Yuuji does, not on a group level. Yuuji says that he wouldn't be able to forgive himself if people got hurt because he didn’t try to get rid of Sukuna. For him it’s not because it’s the moral thing to do, or the right thing to do but because he’s concerned about the suffering of those people on this very empathetic level. As Nanami says: he genuinely gets upset on behalf of others.

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That might be why Yuuji isn’t really that popular as a character. Maybe that’s why people prefer Megumi who’s more typically masculine, stoic, distant, intellectual but also proactive and not reactive in his violence and values.

A lot of people consider Yuuji weak. They complain about how much he loses and how in most of his fights he gets carried by other characters, how they are actually the winning factor and not him.

I actually like that a lot. I think it makes the story interesting, it makes Yuuji interesting that he’s at his best when he’s not alone, that he’s actually doing best when he’s support. That his strength is in how he compliments others. I honestly don’t want him to change into a more typical shounen protagonist. Thematically the way his fights go suits him perfectly because humans are a social species, we thrive on cooperation. And if Yuuji is boundless humanity he shouldn’t stand alone.

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I’m very normal about Yuuji so it turned into a post about him. I swear this wasn’t the plan. The plan was to write about leftist propaganda. The other guys in juju are actually really cool too. Like Megumi, him constantly trying to figure out his values and reconcile what’s happening around him with them is great. Yuuta with his need to belong and justify himself is amazing. Chousou the family oriented sap (please survive baby). Hakari who said fuck you to the conservatives even though he wasn’t so well positioned as Gojou and it resulted in him getting ostracised. I’m not going to shout out everyone or go deeper into these characters but I really like how there isn’t one type of masculinity in juju.

I don’t know how much these are conscious choices by Gege, or how much it’s just their internalised leftism seeping through. But it’s nice. It feels good to read. And I hope that because the messaging isn’t always as didactic as with the Zen’in or the Kamo clans, that it’ll go down well and actually be this tiny crumb of feminism in the minds of 15yo boys who read it. And with how hype juju is atm, I hope that overt leftism will strengthen in the pop cultural mainstream directed at boys. And with it feminism.

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Could juju be better?

Of course, there’s no perfect work of art. No author is perfect and perfectly enlightened. No work is ever going to 100% match with anyone’s politics, sensibilities or expectations. etc etc. But I really think juju already does a lot. The fact that it’s open to a feminist reading is a lot. And I appreciate it for it.

I really wish juju was better on the queer stuff but I’m wary of assigning blame here. Idk if it’s Gege who misunderstands stuff and is uninformed and crude. Or is it because they write a shounen series for Shounen Jump a corporation which is averse to risk.

I really wish Kirara had a canon gender and identity. I wish Gege made an official call on Kenny’s gender as they did with Tengen. I wish Gege also clearly stated that Kenny is Yuuji’s mum because the fandom cishets are really twisting themselves into pretzels trying to come up with theories that the mum is actually some woman controlled by Kenny and not Kenny. I wish Gege made NobaMaki canon instead of drawing fanart of the ship and pretending it’s not what it looks like. And even though ItaFushi leaves me mostly cold I wish Megumi’s answer proved to be what all the itafushis headcanon it to be, even if it was to prove to be one sided. I wish I wish I wish.

#off topic #rambling #my ramblings #jjk #collecting my thoughts #i write out my adhd i'm sorry #i didn't even talk about character designs but i ran out of steam #i have extreme juju brainrot #this is the tip of the iceberg #i'm sure i forgot half the things i wanted to say #i will regret this in the morning

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lolitafushiguro · 1 year

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oh. my. god.

im so excited to read the next chapters 😭

#lolita laughs #or should i say #lolita simps 😭#choso #choso kamo #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jujutsu kaisen spoiler #jjk spoiler #jujutsu kaisen chapter 204 #I LOVE HIM #MY PRECIOUS BABY IS FINALLY GETTING HIS SPOTLIGHT #i will not forgive the animators if they animate him ugly again #oh my good lords gege #he knows what he's doing that's for sure #but please #i cannot allow him to die #pls dont kill him off gege-sama 😔🛐

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unikittythings · 1 year

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I'm back baby!

Jujutsu kaisen manga chapter 200:

So we're playing charades now😂

It's interesting that he can still control his body even when he's in the internal domain (or I'm just reading it wrong)

Yuji is completely ready to die if it helps everyone else 😟

That's a lot of people

He's doing politics, omg Geto

Yeah let's get the government involved, what a great idea 🤦‍♀️😬

What?! You want to use it as a power source?! Huh??!!

It's getting worse by the second 😰

Forget Sukuna the pure incarnation of evil is this fucking brain tumor

Chapter 201:

Things that fuck up people in these imaginary worlds: government/higher class and parents

"Humane"?!! Oh fuck off

Gege why did you put this in?! I already hate this subplot/plotpoint

Yeah, uhm, that didn't work in your favor

Chapter 202 to 204 Blood and Oil:

Surprisingly homey here in your domain, Tengen

Omg, so Tsukumo really is a star plasma vessel

Of course he's here 😤

I'm proud of you Choso for talking back

A cinema, ok?

I'm just going to pretend that I understood what they were talking abou

Oh Choso 🥺 you care so much about Yuji, you are a great brother

It was a good try Choso

Strangely enough, the way Choso is drawn right now, is giving me Toji

Chapter 205 to 208 Stars and Oil:

So what's your plan against Kenjaku

Let's go Girl!

I guess you got him where you want him

Reading the end chapter notes got me even more confused, how does Gege come up with this?

At this point I think you need a degree in like 3 different fields to understand what's going on

Sounds like a plan

"They miscalculated" 😰 I don't like the implications of this

Yeah this doesn't look like a closed barrier

Fuck

She's though I like it

Honestly, patricide is absolutely deserved in this situation

And another person with a hole in their torso, great 😬

Oh Choso 🥺

What is this comparison between Tengen and Sukuna? 😧

Oh my god 😮 GIRL

Fuck

#jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen manga #jjk manga #jjk manga spoilers

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seekers-who-are-lovers · 1 year

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Kenjaku: It’s useless. Your blood’s poison won’t affect me. I’m your father.

#jujutsu kaisen #kenjaku #chapter 204 #the time when kenjaku has become darth vader #trying to assert himself himself #what an abusive father #no I am your father

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animeeveryday · 1 year

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Jujutsu Kaisen won’t return this week. But Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 204 will come out earlier next week. Well, manga readers are waiting to learn about Choso and Kenjaku’s fight. That will be going to escalate in the upcoming chapter. In the previous chapter, Kenjaku overpowers Choso, but it won’t last long. Now Choso will return with full force and hit Kenjaku hard. Let’s see how Kenjaku will react.The following storyline will continue the battle between Choso and Kenjaku. Choso will be inspired by his deceased fellow mates and use their will to attack the former. While Kenjaku believes that the Death Painting Womb couldn’t harm him, he will prove him wrong.Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 204: What Will Happen Next?The upcoming chapter’s title teased to be “Blood And Oil, Part 3.” The will of Kechizu, Yuji, and Eso will motivate Choso. It will help Choso overcome his emotions, pushing him to fight again. He will use Blood Manipulation in a way inspired by the late Kechizu and Eso’s cursed techniques. Despite things remaining unclear, one thing is clear Choso will use two new techniques against Kenjaku.He will first attack him with a ring-like appendage connected to his back. This technique generally seems to use toxic blood, infecting anyone close to it. But Kenjaku already revealed that this toxic blood technique wouldn’t work on it. He will also unleash several cursed spirits to attack Choso. But the Death Painting Womb changes his attack technique and detaches his arm, allowing those cursed spirits to connect with his blood. He will use his hand to hook Kenjaku in his position and smash him on the floor.A Quick Recap!The 203rd chapter Jujutsu Kaisen opened up with Choso telling Tengen and Yuki that he could face Kenjaku alone. But Yuki informed him that Choso would die if he tried to. So he countered by asking her to join him in this battle. He also admitted that they were in a condition where they should engage Kenjaku in combat to learn about his cursed techniques. Yuki warned him again that he might die in this combat. But Choso was focused on killing the villain.Back to the present, Choso attacked Kenjaku using the Blood Manipulation technique. But the former dodged the attack releasing cursed spirit energy. However, it didn’t affect Choso, as he destroyed it. The former then used this opportunity to hit Choso with a huge concrete block. Kenjaku used several cursed spirits that approached Choso from behind the slab. But Choso used Supernova, engaging Kenjaku in hand-to-hand combat. Choso tried to buy some time, so he asked Kenjaku how he intended to use Yuji. He stated Yuji had no purpose, but she was the eye of the storm.Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 204: Release DateChoso will be fighting ferociously with Kenjaku to tone down him in the upcoming chapter. He will expand his energy to kick off Kenjaku. You will learn it in Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 204, which will come out on November 14, 2022. You can catch it on Shonen Jump, Viz Media, and MangaPlus. Stay tuned. The Anime Daily will keep you updated.

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Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 Release Date, Spoilers & Raw: Tsukumo Yuki Vs. Kenjaku!

Unfortunately, Jujutsu Kaisen is the only series break in the upcoming issue of the weekly shonen and we will have to wait until the next issue of the magazine is released. Thus, Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 will take it to be released by the end of this month. Aside from the tremendous amount of information that is being revealed in One Piece, the tense in Huter x Hunter, Jujutsu Kaisen is highly focused on the action-oriented narration currently and filling the gap that the other mangas are missing. While the American soldiers are infiltrating the colonies as Kenajaku planned, the latter himself is planning something on his own by abducting Tengen and using their abilities for their own good. The plot of the series right now may be messy with everything considered, however, the fight for the point being is awesome and the plot will come up as one of the best plots. The previous two chapters of the series were focused on the self-claimed loving older brother of Yuji who was fighting Kenjaku. Choso's main goal was to get Kenjaku to use some of his abilities so that Tsukumo Yuki has an advantage when she fights the latter even if meant Choso dies trying. The best outcome of this fight would have been Kenjaku using his Domain Expansion. But in the Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 204, we saw that not only did Choso get Kenjaku to use something other than the low cursed spirits, but Choso has also managed to stay alive and Yuki has joined the fight. If Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 won't switch to some other narrative, then we will surely see a two-against-one fight in the chapter. So, here is everything you need to know about the Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205. We will every detail about the Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 like when it is going to be released as it is the main concern of the masses given that it is on the break as well as the details on where you can read the Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 legally and for free. So without any further ado, here are the updates regarding the Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205. Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 Raw Scans And Spoilers Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 204 begins with Choso getting his imaginary motivation from his dead brothers and Yuji as well. Choso begins to use his abilities "Piecering Blood" trying hard to get Kenjaku to use his abilities and weaken him. However, Kenjaku dodges the Piecering Blood technique while saying that if he dodges this attack at first then no matter how many courses that projectile attacks take, it won't be as fast as the last time the attack was released. Choso uses Eso's Wing King to get faster and uses close combat to fight Kenjaku. Whereas, we also learn that, as their parent, Kenjaku cannot even be affected by the Poison inside the piercing blood. Choso desperately tries more and more attacks to keep Kenajaku at bay and get him to use techniques other than releasing curse spirits. Tricky, Choso gets a lot of compressed blood near Kenjaku that will be fatal for him however, Kenjaku uses a cursed technique that knocks down the compressed blood meaning that Kenjaku used something other than cursed spirit manipulation. Thus enters Yuki applauding Choso's efforts and seemingly joining the fight. Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 will likely continue with the battle between them and we might finally see Yuki's cursed techniques and why she is a special-grade sorcerer. Whereas, we could also see Choso using Domain Expansion as well and Kenjaku himself using other cursed techniques. The Raw Scans and Spoiler for Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 aren't out yet and given that the chapter won't be released in the upcoming issue, the spoilers and the raw scans will also be delayed and will be out by next Wednesday i.e. 23rd of November. Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 Release Date As mentioned earlier, Jujutsu Kaisen will be on a break in the upcoming issue thus, Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 will be back in the later issue of the weekly shonen jump magazine number 52nd releasing on November 27th, 2022. Where to read Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205? Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 205 will be free to read on various platforms such as Viz Media and Manga Plus. Whereas you can also read the first three and the latest three chapters of the series as well, however, to read the entire catalog, you will have to switch to their paid subscription. Also Read:My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 8 Release Date: Class A And B Will Work As Heroes! Read the full article

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