Jujutsu Kaisen

Seems to be the standard for the JJK translation, what with all the androgynous characters.

...Who was Kashimo again? One of the resurrected sorcerers, but did we know anything more about them?

I had to go back and check, but they were one of the Sorcerers hyped up as having gained 100+ points, along with Attorney Guy.

They used 100 points to add a rule about checking player stats.

Edited by Moth13 on May 17th 2022 at 10:12:24 AM

The Brazilian translation commits to he, but checking the raws now, yeah, Kashimo is never gendered.

And aside from knowing they used 100 out of their 200 points to create the "players can check info on other player's profiles" rule, the only other previous scene we had of them was them killing a guy and complaining. "Everyone here is too weak. 400 years ago wasn't that bad in comparison. Where's Sukuna?"

Early version of the next chapter

It appears that Panda's Brother and Sister cores have been utterly destroyed, and Panda is not in good shape.

Well fuck Sister dead before we could see what she does.

Edited by slimcoder on May 20th 2022 at 12:42:09 PM

did we know she was Triceratops before last chapter? Cause this one makes it clear with them being depicted as children.

What happened to Panda is sad and it did stir the rusty cogs in my heart, but that is it for his sister? She has not even done anything. What is the point of her character then? She is a triceratops for fuck's sake...

Reminder that Mechamaru destroyed some of his cores during the Exchange Event so presumably they can regenerate

There it's just stated they are damaged and unusable until repaired. Kashimo here seems to have utterly destroyed all but the Panda Core currently in the head. I doubt Yaga's ghost would be saying they are leaving Panda forever if they had not been broken beyond repair.

Reading the new chapter, the first part felt like a whiplash, and then they showed Panda's body utterly destroyed. Can't wait to see how Hakari fares against Kashimo...

One of my favorite things about JJK is that a character as ridiculous as Panda gets played with 100% seriousness.

Huh so the other cores are sentient too, was curious about that.

I wonder if that Charles guy is dead. Honestly he felt really random and kind of pointless, even if the point was to power up Hakari so he could fight Kashimo.

I doubt Hakari killed him.

He was really made to be the guy who loses to Hakari the hardest ever, to show off his curse. Hakari's game plan is all about distractions drawn from an in-universe manga source material, so give him a manga-obsessed opponent so he can seethe at Hakari's bastardization of this seemingly classic romance manga.

I was gonna say that we'd been shown if Hakari killed him, buuuuut Nobara.

I still have faith that she's coming back in one form or another.

“In one form or another” instantly made me think of mecha-Nobara.

The situation with Nobara and Charles is very different.

Nobara was seemingly fatally wounded by Mahito, Nitta then paused her wounds and said she had not died yet, but despite what he did, he said there is a good chance she would not be able to be saved so Yuji should not get his hopes up too much. Yuji then talked to Megumi almost two weeks later, where Megumi implied that Nobara did not survive.

Charles just got hit by Hakari before we skipped to something else.

Edited by Envyus on May 23rd 2022 at 10:48:57 AM

Straw mecha.

He implied she's gone. Whether that means she's dead or missing is unclear.

I'm still confused on the rest of the Kyoto group. Where's Utahime? Todo? Gakuganji? Arata? Seeing Arata without Nobara would make it clearer that she's dead, but the fact that all of these people are absent from the story makes me believe they're all holed up somewhere together. I'm hoping that Miwa's return will bring some clarity.

Megumi just implied dead, not gone or missing. He’s asked by Yuji about Nobara, and he gets a sullen look and averts his gaze. With Yuji stating he understands while looking sad and frustrated. This implies she did not make it, but does not outright say she died, so she can come back.

I feel like they definitely think she's dead, at least. I don't know how that exchange makes sense otherwise.

The fact the story has been dancing around it rather than a hard confirmation tells me she is 100% alive.

Edited by Moth13 on May 24th 2022 at 12:22:23 PM

The story has made it so it’s weird if she is dead and it’s weird if she isn’t.

And I really don’t see the point of dancing around it because she doesn’t feel like a character who frankly warrants it.

Edited by LSBK on May 24th 2022 at 11:43:52 AM

Could go either way, I think.

In any other story, a non-confirmed death would be a guaranteed survival, but Akutami just strikes me as the kind of author that might pretend to be playing that trope by having Aratta try to heal her but in the end just go 'Nah, she's really dead, lol. Got you real good with that one, suckers'.

If she's back I doubt she'll just be back without consequence, we got a little too much drama out of her 'death' to just press undo. And I don't mean consequence as in having an eyepatch now, I would expect something actually major. No idea what, though. Maybe she got possessed by one of these ancient sorcerers or something. That's how Itadori survived dying.

Edited by WashTheLaundryHero on May 24th 2022 at 9:54:50 AM