Jujutsu Kaisen

Im thinking that those two Geto minions actually did survive the meteor. The conversation Yuta was having with Miguel took place after that, and Miguel doesn't seem to think of them as being out of the picture. Who knows, maybe they'll throw their hats into the ring next? Why not, when we had to have a chapter of Kusakabe of all people fighting Sukuna?

Edited by ThreeFacedMan on Apr 1st 2024 at 2:18:10 AM

Mannnnn... we are 14 chapters into "Everyone vs Sukuna" and not only has he still not brought out his "Open" technique but he's supposedly going to start healing again.

The Mahito fight was like 12 chapters and even that was reaching "why won't this motherfucker die already" territory.

I'm still thrown by how much of an anticlimax to the series all this feels. We still don't know anything about Kenjaku's backstory—the guy who was ostensibly the main villain of the series—and this is how the manga is apparently going to conclude? With a fight that's even duller than the one against Kaguya Otsutsuki in Naruto?

Well I don't think we can rule out some sort of Sukuna/Tengen fusion happening somehow.

Honestly not sure whether that would make the proceedings more or less interesting...But he'd have to be pressed to that point first, and he keeps just lol no-ing everything the protagonists throw at him.

Sorry, I don't have anything new to contribute to the covo, but:

My God, I just can't stop listening to the anime's "Season 2" OP. I don't know what it is, but something about the song is so addictive.

Chapter 257:
Black Flash after Black Flash! Also, INOOOO-

”Brat I am your uncle!”

God, I hope that was just speculation on Sukuna's part, because that explanation was so, so very stupid.

Nah remember at the very beginning Megumi could sense Sukuna from Yuji even before he had a finger on him or ate some Sukuna Fried Finger. Nobody met him before he ate the finger except Megumi.

As shown he’s already able to use Sukunas technique as well, adapted both to how he’d use it and modern times.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Apr 21st 2024 at 5:02:43 AM

True enough! Still though, if it was a revelation planned from the start the execution was very lacking. You couldn't reasonably draw anything approaching the correct conclusion just based on what we've seen so far.

Not everything needs foreshadowing, where there clues to Kenjaku being Yuji's mother? Or was it just a plot twist reveal?

People were always expecting some connection of Yuji to the Jujutsu world even before this point. I’d seen my fair share of guessing at some relative or the like of Sukuna, and even theories of Kenjaku being connected due to Yuji being a vessel suited to Sukuna and his physical ability being way beyond a normal humans before the reveal and how Kenjaku only experiments with things that pique his interest.

The exact details are much more absurd. Much like we never learn what Yujis grandfather wanted to tell him about his parents, and when we finally do see him again it’s a flashback that reveals who Yujis mom is.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Apr 22nd 2024 at 10:39:29 AM

Forgot to mention it last week but I did think having Yuji's soul punches counteract Sunuka's Black Flash boost was a pretty satisfying counter.

And very good to see Sukuna losing his cool

Guess Yuji finally attaining Sukuna's technique is going to be the impetus for us learning how it properly works beyond just slashes.

Edited by Moth13 on Apr 22nd 2024 at 2:02:00 PM

Honestly, I think the reason why that one works for me instead of this, is because that scene did double-duty as both a revelation and a way to invite further speculation. It also relied upon things we already knew to have oomph, i.e.: that Kenjaku can steal bodies and does so for a specific reason. This recent reveal felt more like a half-assed "oh, by the way..." as the manga is coming to the end, without any groundwork laid prior for the possibility of reincarnation outside of cursed objects (and cursed spirits), Sukuna having a twin he ate in utero, and that twin reincarnating into Yuji's father.

Edited by ThreeFacedMan on Apr 22nd 2024 at 11:57:45 PM

It’s definitely relying on his mythological roots as Ryomen(Two-face) Sukuna has long been theorized or believe to represent twins or brothers. It’s not something immediately obvious unless you know lore and speculation around the existence of the actual figure Sukuna is based on.

If that's true, then my response to that would be the same as if I'd watched a film adaptation of a book that didn't make sense because it left out details from the original work: it needs to make sense on it's own merits, and not rely on people doing homework to get the full picture.

Edited by ThreeFacedMan on Apr 23rd 2024 at 12:12:13 AM

There is some of that already in Jujutsu Kaisen, the fact twins share a soul in the Jujutsu world and why Maki could only use her full power when Mai died, the fact Ryomen Sukuna is named after a mythical figure and everything about him is a spin on how the myths went, etc.

People had already been speculating on the twins thing for awhile now that I’ve looked it up, but most assumed it was Yuji.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Apr 22nd 2024 at 7:21:07 AM

Yeah, people speculating a direct connection between Sukuna and Yuji is not a new thing.

They may well have been. My point is that (and this is just my opinion) the explanation for the connection feels slap-dash, without any groundwork laid as to its mechanics, and reliant on knowledge of an obscure bit of Japanese folklore that the author doesn't bother himself to really expound upon in his work.

Edited by ThreeFacedMan on Apr 23rd 2024 at 2:52:14 AM

That might also just be a cultural thing, though. For the Japanese audience this bit of lore may very well not be considered nearly as obscure or hard to find out about it. Which doesn't mean you being dissatisfied with it is invalid, but it is a perspective worth keeping in mind.

No, Ryoumen Sukuna's myth is very regional. You wouldn't hear about him outside of small cities in Gifu before the manga popularized his name.

But the thing with this reveal is that it's a first-page reveal answering a question no one asked before, so it's clearly not intended to be a bombshell, it's meant to lay the groundwork for future content. Both content already delivered (explaining the addition of Cleave to Itadori's moveset) and upcoming content.

I know Ryomen Sukuna was featured in some Japanese creepypastas a while back, and gained a bit of popularity there. That's how I actually heard of Ryomen Sukuna in the first place: a YouTuber specializing in Japanese horror brought up his story in one of their videos.

My first run-in with Ryomen Sukuna in media outside of creepypasta was actually through Nioh 2, since he's a boss in that game. And yes, he's a pain in the ass.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Apr 24th 2024 at 11:52:39 AM

I know first learned about him via the Demon Slayer Collab in Granblue Fantasy, which was based on a more heroic and sacrificial versions of Sukuna from what I understand.

He also had two faces since he was two figures fused together and was sealing a literal Hellgate from flooding the Sky Realm with The Legions of Hell.

Made even funnier when Sukuna himself made zero cameo appearances in the Jujutsu Kaisen collab.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Apr 24th 2024 at 12:19:47 PM

Yeah, I remember hearing that it was the creepypastas that inspired Gege to do research into and use Sukuna, though I'm not sure how true that is.

Still remember the first time I ever heard of Sukuna being the brief appearance in an early arc of Negima. How time flies.

Edited by Chaosjunction on Apr 24th 2024 at 8:02:14 AM