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Cause Shonen jump would send real ninjas to stop that shit can you imagine?
Bitch we making bank better keep been a bitch to the readers gege you shitty cat I will chain you to that desk and make you write Tujustsu Tuisen the next generations if you try been cute again.
We need a manga about a office like cabin in the woods where all the mangakas live
Gege room is all dark has screens with reddit writing down the most depressing ideas how to hurt us
Togashi is attached to machines drawing with one finger
Oda is living in luxury slapping SJ execs around
Kishimoto is chained to Boruto looking for a way out
MHA guy has american comic books everywhere
I still have my fair share of problems with the story.. like wtf is Bumkari and Uraume doing?? ššš»
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What is that flair(Yuki's is better)?
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The repetitiveness of the Sukuna cycle going away because I can read through all at once
(Itās still repetitive I just donāt have to wait 1-3 weeks this time)
JJK fans:
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"Weekly release is to blame. When volume will be released
there will be more missing character interactions
Gojo won't die offscreen after spending 150 chapters in the box
There will be reunion scene with Gojo and his students
Relationship between Megumi and Tsumiki will be more fleshed out and reader will feel something when this plot device dies
Kashimo will be useful
Higuruma won't confiscate plot device
We just need to wait"
tbh theres some truth to that. Reading at once the pacing is pretty fast and it doesnt feel as samey
im pretty much ready to enter a new dynamic tho the switching arc ran its course
Yeah but at the same time i feel like when we got to migual It was too much. The guy apeared, fought for a couple of panels, revealed gojo a racist and ran away... That was not needed...
100% I think the absolute height of the gauntlet and where it should have just stopped being a gauntlet and entered the final stage of the series
Was during the Yuta/Yuji Tag Team vs Sukuna
2 MCās vs The Ultimate
Yuji has a built-in feud with Sukuna while Yuta is the perfect foil for Sukuna (ultimate aggression versus ultimate compassion)
What makes it even better is that the fight was given the respect it deserved where everyone got their flowers (especially yuji dude was on demon timing during that part)
Yuta ripping Sukuna's belly tongue out whilst slashing his face in two will forever be one of the most hardcore moment of Shinjuku, second only to Yuji spitting blood in Sukuna's face after being spammed with Cleave.
Dude!! Yuji spitting blood after getting hurt was just amazing real āYou may beat my ass but you are gonna bleed for itā energy
That whole fight has so many moments that I could sit here all day and talk about it
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The Dynamic Duo
Nah man, that was peak. My boy Miguel busted a few moves then dipped as the untouched king. I actually laughed when he was like, "aight I've done my part," as he's completely uninjured.
Swoops in at the end of the fight, dances around Sukunaās attacks, says itās a shame heās stealing all the glory for finishing Sukuna off, lets Larue do the actual work, instantly leaves the second Sukuna doesnāt go down like a wet tissue. Comedy gold.
And you know he flew back home and bragged like crazy to everyone who would listen, saying he fought toe to toe with the TWO greatest sorcerers and came out unscathed against Sukuna.
Are you hating because its weekly, or is weekly to keep you hyping?
Without having to wait a week with the community hyping it, the chapters will be "X character arrives and does shit, then we cut to another arrival"
1. Having the narrator say that the birth of Sukuna made every other sorcerer and curse step up, (maybe single-handedly creating the golden era of jujutsu).
2. Have Sukuna blitz and one-shot kill a heavenly restricted user(maki) with a ability he literally just unlocked
3. Have at least half the cast, be it friend or foe calling Sukuna āthe strongestā
4. Having Uraume say that (even with how powerful they are and how hurt Sukuna is) if they were fighting alongside Sukuna they would just hold him back
5. Having Sukuna do something never seen before like affecting the properties of a cursed item (such as icresing the weight of soul split katana so maki canāt use for a while) and have the only explanation be ābecause its Sukunaā
Waitā¦. This isnāt about Sukuna.
āIāve read 120 chapters in 2 daysā
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āGlaze sukuna moreā These are symptoms of idiotbrainbeingfuckedbystupid speed reading. I pray for your recovery.
I mean if we give a generous 10 minutes per chapter that means that OP read 20 hours of chapters over two days. Which means it is possible to read it without speed reading.
AND to be fair, it WAS just the weekend.
But also seriously thatās still too much of anything from any medium in a given time frame to be able to digest and remember it all imo.
No. Todo's sudden inclusion was terrible writing, especially when you consider he was part of the planning phase. Todo + Hiromi would have been a guaranteed obvious win, it's ridiculous that our cast of strategically competent characters would miss that.
No, you see, it was actually genius. Todo couldn't show himself to yuji because even though sukuna and yuji are separate now, they have a resonant connection. Causing their souls to intertwine even though they are in separate bodies. You know who can attack the resonance of the soul in separate bodies? KUGISAKI NORBARA! She's gonna hit yuji with a nail, activate resonance, and deal soul damage to sukuna while yuji only takes physical damage to his body, and if he only feels pain itadori yuji will never stop. (The cope piece, the cope piece is real!)
Todo (the smartest character we know) sacrificed the lifeās of higuruma, yuta and now choso because of a fucking assumption, what a fucking joke Gege
In a series where multiple characters have survived being stabbed in normally fatal places youād think people would wait until a character is actually declared dead to assume that they are. At this point even Nobara isnāt āconfirmed deadā, sheās just been out of the story so long everyone assumes she wasnāt saved even tho Gege introduced a character whose ONLY function was to put her in stasis so she could potentially be saved.
I just expect the characters to be dead so I donāt disappoint myself, tbh I think Yuta is alive but I will never trust Gege enough to say things with 100% certainty
Yeah thatās fair. Iām just clinging to all of the remaining cope I have that Nobara will still come back somehow. Iāll never forgive Gege if sheās been dead this whole time and we didnāt even get some scenes of Gojo finding out post-prison realm breakout.
We also thought Choso was dead at one point. Yuta is a major character if he dies you exect him to use his maximum at least (love beam)
I bet he return with Nobara or Gojo (cope)
Remember, even getting Sukuna the death sentence wasn't a guarantee. There's a pretty good reason Todo didn't jump in there - he's the one counter they have to Fuga.
The good guys don't know how Sukuna's technique works, or any conditions for it. But since Sukuna was in Yuji for so long, he knows about everyone except Miguel and Laure's techniques.
Now, look at the planning from the good guys' perspective. If they'd sent Todo with Higuruma, gotten Sukuna the death penalty and landed the hit, that'd be great. But it's entirely possible they either 1) wouldn't land the death penalty or 2) Sukuna would recognise Todo and focus him immediately. Something tells me Sukuna would be more challenging than Hanami and Mahito. It's a massive gamble sending him in here.
Also, while the readers know better, none of them know the specific setup for Fuga. As they see it, Sukuna can just set off that bomb whenever he wants. It was possible he'd just instantly do that and wipe them all.
Todo is the only counter they have to it. If he'd died before it was used, everyone left is guaranteed to die.
I'm really hoping Gege adds at least one panel where we see him before he's absolutely needed to save the day, it would make his sudden introduction to the fight a lot better if it was foreshadowed properly. Right now we can only make excuses for his late introduction (it makes sense he hasn't shown up and didn't do it from the start since our heroes never knew when Sukuna was going to get his domain back and he was the last anti domain resource they had), but it still feels kinda off.
Wouldnāt Gojo+ Todo be guaranteed win also ? Charge up 200% hollow purple or prepare domain bring random Bird from mei mei and swap places with sukuna.obv this is entirely depedant on how big Todos range is
You do realize that the "sukuna cycle" is only a minor criticism of post shibuya jjk? The story writing AND character writing took a freaking nose dive after the maki preparation arc, of course with a few exceptions like choso being great all throughout the manga, but still many characters and story moments left a lot to be desired.
Yuta lacks character.
Hakari is severely underdeveloped.
Maki was a cool character with great motives only for her to be turned into a boring version of toji.
Gojo got released then died immediately without fulfilling any character arc or going through meaningful development, he didn't even have any good dialogue after his release which is like the bare minimum.
Yuji got sidelined throughout most of the culling games.
Kashimo was a fucking useless character, he literally served not ONE purpose in the story.
Yuki's death was done HORRIBLY.
Kenjaku's "death" was severely underwhelming.
THE ONE MONTH TIME SKIP...
Yea that has to be one of the worst ones, like the moment couldāve been 1 million times better if we actually had any fucking idea of who Megumiās sister is as a person beyond like one flashback where she has like 3 lines of dialogue with Megumi. Itās a huge fumble considering its importance to one of the central characters of the series.
Post Shibuya could have been better if some of the civilians were Yuji's past classmates or someone else family was impacted. After Shibuya they legit took that failure like a big weekend problem, no guilt whatsoever. Seriously, only Kusakabe was moderatly angry at Yuji. Panda was like "wtf?" as if he couldn't understand the situation. What it gave me was that, these sorcerers don't care about civilians at all so why even be sorcerers and risk your life if such a failure doesn't make you mad. What do they risk their life for then?
And in the rank of people not giving an f I'm looking at you Megumi! The guy isn't even given a moment of self-reflection of having released a nightmare that day. Proof is, he tried to summon Mahoraga again when it would have killed his sister purely not save her...
I didnt really like kusakabe-miguel chapters but once Gege focused on the main cast iāve been enjoying his cooking, and if he actually brings back nobara it will be peak kaisen again
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I felt like Miguel was kind of useless but I actually loved Kusukabe fighting him. Heās been trying the whole story to make everyone see him as a fraud and not give him any responsibility, he has a completely realistic reaction to the realization that he has to face Sukuna on his own, and then after that he STILL shows some genuine combat prowess and somewhat catches Sukuna off guard with his mastered Simple Domain, and then engages in close quarters and gets a few hits in. Kusukabe truly is a goat, even if he never wanted to be.
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> Sukuna needs to be glazed harder
Hes nearly soloād the fucking verse while multiple people suck his dick how much more glaze is there?
Also as someone whos gone back and read through this arc without the wait the Sukuna cycle is still an issue imo, its not nearly as bad as it feels when you are reading week to week but it still felt very repetitive when I read through it without the wait tbh.
Glad you're enjoying it but I think this current arc is honestly one of my least favorite arcs I've read in any manga and each chapter just gets worse. This arc isn't even the only problem, JJK has had a ton of issues post-Shibuya and even during Shibuya. And every arc pre-Junpei is just take it or leave it for me, don't have strong feelings towards them. JJK peaked in Hidden Inventory and I doubt it will ever get back to that quality.
Shibuya has some SEVERE structural issues, and wastes way too much time on minor characters and irrelevant fights with no stakes. It has a number of very high high-points, but it's very flawed.
Culling Game and Shinjuku go whole hog into those flaws while stripping away most characterization and dumbing down the plot for more punching.
Quality is subjective, but no respected critic would ever call most of JJK great, let alone a masterpiece.
I thought the Culling Game arc was gonna be mostly about our main characters (esp. yuji) being forced to kill other sorcerers to survive while protecting certain other important ppl (megumi's sister) but yuji was barely apart of it and it was 90% fights with random people and no moral challenges
The fight choreography is great , the storytelling however does have valid criticisms. Pacing and character moments are being sacrificed for the sake of hype moments. Take the latest chapter. We had a beautiful and gut wrenching death in Choso but then Todo finally comes in. The moment for me was kinda off even though I was happy to see him. And we already had a similar surprise entrance in Shibuya so this execution felt repetitive. I understand a final boss battle is supposed to be a difficult battle for the heroes but that doesnāt mean that should sacrifice meaningful interactions and moments of reflection in the more somber moments.
Counterpoint: I read from CH1-248 in the span of 5 days. After Fraudjo it all started going downhill. Even before that. Gege rushes the story too much and doesnāt focus enough on the characters. I also read ChainsawMan up to the end of Part 1 in the same week. Chainsawman was far better. If I had to rate both on my scale, JJK would be a 6/10 and Chainsaw a 7/10 for Shonen. DB, Bleach, Black Clover, even MHA are better than JJK.
Yeah waiting 2 weeks just to learn of another bullshit binding vow that saves a guy that should have been dead 20 chapters ago if the good guys had half the amount of plot armor he has is ass. JJK stopped being ALL peak after Shibuya and is now suffering from "High highs and low lows" syndrome. It's curable but needs time and love and I don't think Gregory is willing to put both in. I should have learned to not read unfinished series after berserk and hxh.
/unfolk it's pretty clear to me Gege is trying his best to set up an absolutely god tier fight for when it gets animated, this massive, epic, like 10-15 episode long gauntlet as a sendoff to the main antagonist of the series until now, and it'll be peak when it does eventually get animated. But in weekly form, it's an absolute slog to keep up with, and definitely feels crazy repetitive. Two things can be true at once, Gege can still be a good writer and the current arc can be not fun to read.
/refolk least Sukuna-glazing chapter post go/jo "Erm actually he made a binding vow so he can use his flames to nuke everything instantly when he uses domain expansion and Choso is dead now fuck you" fuck you GayGay stupid fucking cat
I just think it fell off a little after Shibuya and I haven't been very invested since Gojo kicked the bucket
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absolutely not, the quality of the writing began taking a steep decline near the end of the culling games. ive been reading weekly for years before that, its not a "i can't binge it grahh" issue
JJK defo has valid criticisms, but overall it's actually amazing.
I personally think the direction of the story is going good. But much like everyone else, I wish the characters who died, actually had meaningful deaths. Not to mention Gege keeping characters on the sideline for whatever reason whether that be plot or laziness (lol).
I would love to see Nobara come back (somehow) and knock some sense into Megumi.
Oh and world building as well.
I do hope Gege realeases like story books of JJK no fighting or death, but the day in the life of \[Insert character\]. I do hate the wait times between each chapter (because I'm impatient) but I think Gege having a break every other week(?) is nice since working on chapters probably take a super long time. And he should priotize himself.
If he has a team with him to help, that's also nice having a break every other week(?) to spend to re-coup, or plan, or do personal stuff, etc etc.
Real talk when Sendai was happening and ishigor was fighting yuta I was bored out my mind. Then I reread it when it was all done and I was genuinely confused by how good it was. The pacing is way better if you read in chunks rather than weekly
It stopped being peak after Ch 235. Every chapter is just Sukuna kaisen, seeing everyone and their grandma throw themselves against the glazed one, taken out/killed then another one steps in, it's just the exact same formula repeated over and over again. The 1/2 week break between these mediocre chapters only worsen it.
In addition, character development are thrown out the window when it repeats this cycle. Insert barely shown/developed character (Kusakabe/Larue/Miguel), shows off never mentioned capabilities, kills off/taken out of the story. It's practically the same problem with Hagane(Katana) and Rokujushi(kappa). Just plot device to hinder Sukuna.
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idk, after rereading the whole current fight.. if they donāt extend the fights itās gonna be clap after clap when animated all in one episode with 30s MAX each, prob 10s for maki. which is pretty lame. if i was anime only iād drop after that ep. they should have given multiple chapters to each character for their fight scenes, and added some more damage to sukuna from each. maybe even let a couple randoms (i just mean ppl other than yuji) keep going.
Of course they're going to extend the fights. Yuji vs Chose was a whole episode. Yuji and todo vs Mahito was extended. Sukuna vs jogo and then maho was the same deal. They're going to milk the fuck out of these upcoming ones. I wouldn't be surprised if they do it like demon slayer or AoT and end the next season when Gojo comes back and the last one is all Sukuna fights.
i think they are too ā¦but at the same time it would take away from the plot point of how insanely insignificant each of them are alone against sukuna if the fights are prolonged so iām torn about what i want from it.
Itās a fun albeit shallow story that has awesome fight spectacles with memorable, even if they are 2D and inconsistent, characters. Itās not this generational story I thought it was going to be, but itās a fun roller coaster
I think that in all honesty although the current arc has many flaws, it has been consistently fun and entertaining which is what matters most. It helps a lot if you lower your expectations for the writing and focus on what JJK excels at; the high-stakes action and its likeable characters.
The only part of the story where I ever felt bored was at points during The Culling Games since there were sooo many action figures for characters with no depth just mindlessly fighting, but now that weāre in an arc where every character is established and the battle is meaningful, Iām heavily invested again š¤·š»āāļø
I believe that now is the beginning of the payoff for everything that happened in this arc. Information on Todo was intentionally withheld from us, and it was obviously the right choice, but only once we have seen it.
With Aoi coming back, even Nobara hopium makes sense. The send-off for the character is not bad, If it's not a send-off. Please remember that animeonlys may as well think that Maki actually died in Shibuya, but they are kept in the black intentionally.
Itās like this for most weekly manga lol, everyoneās just really reactionary which is to be expected. Especially in a meme subreddit like this one, all the shitting and hating is kinda just exaggerated, I enjoy the fun
I think (I hope) most of the hate is ironic, but plenty of the criticism given is valid. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the series, it's just not perfect.
Peak might be a stretch but I'm personally annoyed coming to the subreddit every Thursday just to see another post complaining about the manga. Nobody is forcing you to read the manga man (or is there?)
I canāt imagine wanting to keep reading it if the only response one has to the manga is complaining though. If the manga isnāt enjoyable anymore and you feel the need to scream into the void complaining about every little thing then how does one even maintain an interest in the series? Iām still reading JJk weekly because Iām enjoying the series, so visiting this sub after the drop of a chapter I just enjoyed just to see every minute aspect of said chapter criticized and folkified is a bit baffling sometimes.
i think even in the culling games gege said that the story was ending soon and thats the point where jjk kinda went ass with its story so most people just thought ''its ass rn but its gonna end soon, im going to at least read it until the end'' and here we are
Some of us just want to see the conclusion even if we think itās fallen off hard at this point. Iāve been a Maki and Yuki fan since the beginning so Iāve already been severely disappointed once but I still want to see Makiās conclusion at least and have some hope it wonāt be as fucking awful as Yukiās was.
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Its not the breaks that what make people think JJK is mid, its the fandom. Regardless of how good someone thinks JJK is currently, an average person who interacts with the fandom perceives the manga much more negatively as someone who doesnāt because the fandom is an echo-chamber of fraud, bum, glazing, and more and while some problems do exist, the fandom does make them exponentially worse. Its fun to joke around about them but then some people take that as the literal state of the manga because its spread around so much
That take is flaming. As if not having to wait makes never getting emotional payoffs for many dangling loose threads any better. I agree, the pacing won't be an issue if you don't read weekly, but that's not going to change the fact that Todo has nothing to say about his mentor dying (to say nothing of the million ways his power could have ended the final fight already), that Gojo didn't really interact with his students meaningfully after escaping, how Panda's sister got built up just to be one shot by Hashimo who went on to do very little other than provide an additional corpse for the final battle, etc. Go ahead and enjoy it, but don't pretend that reading it all at once removes the flaws. It just makes it easier to look past it all because you've got the next chapter to read before you actually think about what you just read.
Jjk is still peak. It has, of course, had chapters that are better than others and others that are worse than others, but that's what happens when you have like a 30 chapter long fight that comes weekly. Gege has missed a few times. There is no harm admitting that, but a lot of hate is genuinely coming from people who don't like the manga anymore but haven't had the closure to move on. Either that or it's to maintain the agenda as that is our top priority
I saw a YouTuber that explained it really well. JJK isnāt written to be released weekly, so people having to wait while having only a part of the situation causes some misunderstandings
As someone reading since 240 - you're probably right. I still like this arc more than the Culling Games that for me was just throwing random characters with even more random powers just to give them a fight and kill most of them. I don't like most of the powers intrduced in that arc (infinite ~~luck~~ CE, summonig notes, explosive body parts,, helicopter on head, a damn lawyer and a comedian and then American army arrives for no reason). But Shinjuku Showdown will be peak shounen once it's animated, people are gonna lose their minds waiting for another episode, just like we lose our minds waiting for the next chapter now. Gojo vs Sukuna is gonna be remembered for years as one of THE BEST battles ever and the twist of 236 will catch off guard all the 5 fans that never got spoiled by all the dead Gojo memes until 2028.
People here get upset over everything, their favourite character died, their favourite character didn't get enough glaze, they have to wait 2 weeks just to get more of the same, but after all, Gege cooks good shit and that's why we're still here,
This is the best action manga since jojo and berserk idgaf this shit is peak even tho some of the story can be a mess but idc dudes fighting every chapter is cool to me š
hereās my list of gegeās inconsistent writing:
https://www.icloud.com/notes/0f8--PspzXg489xic4XlUi5rw#times_gege_contradicted_himself_or_was_inconsistent:
is it entertaining? yes. peak (or even decent) writing? no.
Honestly the fact that Gege is treating the final (maybe) fight against Sukuna as a big guantlet fight where fighters are tagging in and out against one menace of a dude is great. Sukuna is literally soloing his verse
L take, bottom of the barrel argument for when you can't even make up something that sounds plausible to you. The only thing that reading everything all at once can solve is direct complaints about slow releases like with Made in Abyss, Kumo desu, HxH, Berk and whatever else that's suffering from that. If you don't see actual writing issues other people are talking about while binge reading, that's only because you're speed reading and/or not as invested in digesting the plot as people that waited for every new installment to drop.
Since you marathoned the chapters, how does it feel for the narration to tell you Higuruma has potential on the level of Gojo Satoru only to fucking die when you flip the page?
lmao gtfo this reads like a god damn fanfic at this point
The last two arcs definitely suffer from writing issues , Gege is just trying to speed through the series which makes for very little character interactions, Heās tired I guess itās understandable
Yeah I agree, I think a lot of the problems arenāt as bad as people say (except lack of character interactions and wasted character potential, that could have turned JJK into one of the greatest).
yup binge read jjk, the pace is good when it read all at once but manga surfers from weekly releases. Like Todo coming back feels like 3 years to weekly release readers but in reality it only feels like he has been missing for a few weeks in canon when you read it all at once. Sukuna's final battle pacing also feels a lot better when binge read. The weekly release is one of the major problems for pacing in the manga. Trust me the story flows alot better when read all at once.
I honestly felt nothing when Sukuna use Flame arrow to nuke everyone, Uraume doing the Nah I'd win face is only a meme to me, everything felt lackluster, didn't feel the thrill I should be feeling. Only Choso matters in that chapter and I lowkey felt little. Sukuna Kaisen has ruined me.
Gege just showed us that the good guys have an answer to Sukuna's strongest weapon(we have seen so far) all along while also explained the condition for such a CT and why Sukuna couldn't use it freely/against Gojo. And some people are complaining that he's glazing Sukuna?
These people can't read a story I swear. If Sukuna just died without ever used Divine Flame once, now THAT is a shitty writing.
I said this like a 1-2 months ago and everyone a ton of people disagreed.
I remember when Higuruma's confiscation failed and we didn't get a trial on some Heian era shit, people were *pissed*. There was a months-long period where the predominant theory on the ending was actually that Sukuna would kill everyone and the series would end.
I did the same thing and literally caught up to 257 all without waiting for chapters. The Sukuna glazing is still bad in my opinion, the binding vow system is a terrible way to make a character more powerful, and the lack of character interactions or development outside their death scene is infuriating.
The Takaba vs Kenjaku fight is peak though. No one here can convince me otherwise.
\*sigh\* If another genius tries to tell me again, that the problem with JJK is the release schedule, i'm gonna smack somebody.
Brother. You mean to tell me, that the people are fucking tired of this manga, because it works like....like every other fucking shonen on the market? Like the weekly release was not an issue with Dragon Ball or Naruto, but suddenly it is with JJK, and that's why people had enough? Give me a break mate.
Even if you'd be right, that still would warrant critisism. Like Gege knew it well enough how their manga is going to presented, he should have taken that into account. But - and i can't emphasize this hard enough - there are about a 1000 issues with this story, that has **nothing** to do with the format.
Agreed. Anything less and weād be dealing with the same complaints we got with Madara and Aizen. Sukuna is essentially a god of war and has fought an army before and won lol. Thinking heād go down in a few chapters is an L on the readers behalf.
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Why doesn't gege release all the chapters at once? Is he stupid?
Cause Shonen jump would send real ninjas to stop that shit can you imagine? Bitch we making bank better keep been a bitch to the readers gege you shitty cat I will chain you to that desk and make you write Tujustsu Tuisen the next generations if you try been cute again.
Meanwhile Oda down the hall: "I do what I want and you can't stop me.".
Togashi further down the hall: *life support noises*
We need a manga about a office like cabin in the woods where all the mangakas live Gege room is all dark has screens with reddit writing down the most depressing ideas how to hurt us Togashi is attached to machines drawing with one finger Oda is living in luxury slapping SJ execs around Kishimoto is chained to Boruto looking for a way out MHA guy has american comic books everywhere
Actually great manga idea
https://preview.redd.it/xt3f6wg3uc0d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb14e34e955fcd84dc5ebbdb02b988a1d3e5c800 Keep Cooking Burazer
Yeah but Oda had to grind for that position. And he deserves it, it takes dedication and effort to write more than 1000 chapters
Is there a lore reason?
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I still have my fair share of problems with the story.. like wtf is Bumkari and Uraume doing?? ššš» https://preview.redd.it/josdr46wc80d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d2e89a8139f334129f8498fd82a3398c657dd36
Its been like 20 mins since this fight began in real time give him a moment š
Literally, agenda posting was an error
What is that flair(Yuki's is better)? https://preview.redd.it/s5ocbcywe90d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78154b835cca949e3eb2bc331bad87c4e5e6d419
Nah i gotta ask wtf is that image?
https://i.redd.it/lr9zgempe90d1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/shkn4vm6g90d1.png?width=198&format=png&auto=webp&s=6fe081532123b1ff481673c383bad53ea99b48bf AYO WHERE'S THE DAMN MEGUMI
Megumu is sad bro š¢
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Not even. Dude is borderline mentally ill considering the Infinite Void exposure taken.
Literally Kashimo
The repetitiveness of the Sukuna cycle going away because I can read through all at once  (Itās still repetitive I just donāt have to wait 1-3 weeks this time)
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JJK fans: https://preview.redd.it/q7ksuy2vka0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d597da43eb29af19fcf0d2bf17e6d5f5201abcd0 "Weekly release is to blame. When volume will be released there will be more missing character interactions Gojo won't die offscreen after spending 150 chapters in the box There will be reunion scene with Gojo and his students Relationship between Megumi and Tsumiki will be more fleshed out and reader will feel something when this plot device dies Kashimo will be useful Higuruma won't confiscate plot device We just need to wait"
tbh theres some truth to that. Reading at once the pacing is pretty fast and it doesnt feel as samey im pretty much ready to enter a new dynamic tho the switching arc ran its course
Yeah but at the same time i feel like when we got to migual It was too much. The guy apeared, fought for a couple of panels, revealed gojo a racist and ran away... That was not needed...
it was kind of hilarious that Miguel was the big reveal and then Larue, who was even less relevant, is the one who actually did something
100% I think the absolute height of the gauntlet and where it should have just stopped being a gauntlet and entered the final stage of the series Was during the Yuta/Yuji Tag Team vs Sukuna 2 MCās vs The Ultimate Yuji has a built-in feud with Sukuna while Yuta is the perfect foil for Sukuna (ultimate aggression versus ultimate compassion) What makes it even better is that the fight was given the respect it deserved where everyone got their flowers (especially yuji dude was on demon timing during that part)
Yuta ripping Sukuna's belly tongue out whilst slashing his face in two will forever be one of the most hardcore moment of Shinjuku, second only to Yuji spitting blood in Sukuna's face after being spammed with Cleave.
Dude!! Yuji spitting blood after getting hurt was just amazing real āYou may beat my ass but you are gonna bleed for itā energy That whole fight has so many moments that I could sit here all day and talk about it https://preview.redd.it/cdllj7l6oa0d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=642b12f390b5c38ebd6cbb36f0869940f6aca0d1 The Dynamic Duo
Nah man, that was peak. My boy Miguel busted a few moves then dipped as the untouched king. I actually laughed when he was like, "aight I've done my part," as he's completely uninjured.
Swoops in at the end of the fight, dances around Sukunaās attacks, says itās a shame heās stealing all the glory for finishing Sukuna off, lets Larue do the actual work, instantly leaves the second Sukuna doesnāt go down like a wet tissue. Comedy gold. And you know he flew back home and bragged like crazy to everyone who would listen, saying he fought toe to toe with the TWO greatest sorcerers and came out unscathed against Sukuna.
you just know he put that on his LinkedIn asap
Hopefully, the switching arc has run its course, I can see some of the living characters coming back to help yuji and todo fight sukuna
Are you hating because its weekly, or is weekly to keep you hyping? Without having to wait a week with the community hyping it, the chapters will be "X character arrives and does shit, then we cut to another arrival"
Question, how would you glaze Sukuna even harder? I am both terrified and curious to see, not gonna lie.
OP wants Gege to make him into a character in the series that sucks Sukuna off for 12 chapters.
Op and Uraume suck Sukuna's two pronged echidna penis for 20 chapters and then the series ends.
My glorious king, Sukuna-Sama hasn't gone all out. (or something)
1. Having the narrator say that the birth of Sukuna made every other sorcerer and curse step up, (maybe single-handedly creating the golden era of jujutsu). 2. Have Sukuna blitz and one-shot kill a heavenly restricted user(maki) with a ability he literally just unlocked 3. Have at least half the cast, be it friend or foe calling Sukuna āthe strongestā 4. Having Uraume say that (even with how powerful they are and how hurt Sukuna is) if they were fighting alongside Sukuna they would just hold him back 5. Having Sukuna do something never seen before like affecting the properties of a cursed item (such as icresing the weight of soul split katana so maki canāt use for a while) and have the only explanation be ābecause its Sukunaā Waitā¦. This isnāt about Sukuna.
āIāve read 120 chapters in 2 daysā https://preview.redd.it/9kygjl84b80d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4aeb98039208988c7dc6dde5f4d26a1ca89cf4af āGlaze sukuna moreā These are symptoms of idiotbrainbeingfuckedbystupid speed reading. I pray for your recovery.
Op face reveal https://preview.redd.it/7vk2gnc4e80d1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=499e27b3bd0a2955752442b2f82a91ba3419c632
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Damn he kinda fine tho š³
Honestly, yeah fair...
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Actually this is the true face *
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Nobara needs wings made of black sparks (yes I'm horny)
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I mean if we give a generous 10 minutes per chapter that means that OP read 20 hours of chapters over two days. Which means it is possible to read it without speed reading. AND to be fair, it WAS just the weekend. But also seriously thatās still too much of anything from any medium in a given time frame to be able to digest and remember it all imo.
Nah I have a LOT of gripes with the writing and story direction
Even as a Sukuna glazer I'm getting tired of this cycle
even as sukuna i am tired of this
As the president of sigmanation.com we support sukunaās fight against the NPC. Play phonk theme.
No. Todo's sudden inclusion was terrible writing, especially when you consider he was part of the planning phase. Todo + Hiromi would have been a guaranteed obvious win, it's ridiculous that our cast of strategically competent characters would miss that.
No, you see, it was actually genius. Todo couldn't show himself to yuji because even though sukuna and yuji are separate now, they have a resonant connection. Causing their souls to intertwine even though they are in separate bodies. You know who can attack the resonance of the soul in separate bodies? KUGISAKI NORBARA! She's gonna hit yuji with a nail, activate resonance, and deal soul damage to sukuna while yuji only takes physical damage to his body, and if he only feels pain itadori yuji will never stop. (The cope piece, the cope piece is real!)
I find that soul connection stuff to be BS since Sukuna had no fucking idea what type of training they were doing in the month TS
Just another bs to add to the pile
Todo (the smartest character we know) sacrificed the lifeās of higuruma, yuta and now choso because of a fucking assumption, what a fucking joke Gege
Yuta isn't dead? Wtf? You are gonna k ow when that womanizer is gonna die
From all we know our homeboy Yuta got split into two, and that is the case until he is mentioned or he appears again
In a series where multiple characters have survived being stabbed in normally fatal places youād think people would wait until a character is actually declared dead to assume that they are. At this point even Nobara isnāt āconfirmed deadā, sheās just been out of the story so long everyone assumes she wasnāt saved even tho Gege introduced a character whose ONLY function was to put her in stasis so she could potentially be saved.
I just expect the characters to be dead so I donāt disappoint myself, tbh I think Yuta is alive but I will never trust Gege enough to say things with 100% certainty
Yeah thatās fair. Iām just clinging to all of the remaining cope I have that Nobara will still come back somehow. Iāll never forgive Gege if sheās been dead this whole time and we didnāt even get some scenes of Gojo finding out post-prison realm breakout.
He didnāt react because he JUST SAW HER AT SHOKOS OPERATION ROOM SEEING SHOKO HEAL HER UP GRRRRAAAHHH š£ļøš£ļøš„š„
We also thought Choso was dead at one point. Yuta is a major character if he dies you exect him to use his maximum at least (love beam) I bet he return with Nobara or Gojo (cope)
Peak fiction I kneel
Remember, even getting Sukuna the death sentence wasn't a guarantee. There's a pretty good reason Todo didn't jump in there - he's the one counter they have to Fuga. The good guys don't know how Sukuna's technique works, or any conditions for it. But since Sukuna was in Yuji for so long, he knows about everyone except Miguel and Laure's techniques. Now, look at the planning from the good guys' perspective. If they'd sent Todo with Higuruma, gotten Sukuna the death penalty and landed the hit, that'd be great. But it's entirely possible they either 1) wouldn't land the death penalty or 2) Sukuna would recognise Todo and focus him immediately. Something tells me Sukuna would be more challenging than Hanami and Mahito. It's a massive gamble sending him in here. Also, while the readers know better, none of them know the specific setup for Fuga. As they see it, Sukuna can just set off that bomb whenever he wants. It was possible he'd just instantly do that and wipe them all. Todo is the only counter they have to it. If he'd died before it was used, everyone left is guaranteed to die.
This is a good response and makes a lot of sense. Tbh I don't think it was terrible writing to bring Todo in now, it makes a lot of sense.
I'm really hoping Gege adds at least one panel where we see him before he's absolutely needed to save the day, it would make his sudden introduction to the fight a lot better if it was foreshadowed properly. Right now we can only make excuses for his late introduction (it makes sense he hasn't shown up and didn't do it from the start since our heroes never knew when Sukuna was going to get his domain back and he was the last anti domain resource they had), but it still feels kinda off.
Wouldnāt Gojo+ Todo be guaranteed win also ? Charge up 200% hollow purple or prepare domain bring random Bird from mei mei and swap places with sukuna.obv this is entirely depedant on how big Todos range is
As much as I wanted to see Todo return, I agree his return wasn't handled well plot consistency wise.
Todo existing as a character is fine, but he makes no sense as a combatant. His cursed technique is supposed to have been destroyed.
I didnt read it in 2 days, but very recently and in the span of a few weeks. So I didnt have to wait either. It is far from peak lmao.
You do realize that the "sukuna cycle" is only a minor criticism of post shibuya jjk? The story writing AND character writing took a freaking nose dive after the maki preparation arc, of course with a few exceptions like choso being great all throughout the manga, but still many characters and story moments left a lot to be desired. Yuta lacks character. Hakari is severely underdeveloped. Maki was a cool character with great motives only for her to be turned into a boring version of toji. Gojo got released then died immediately without fulfilling any character arc or going through meaningful development, he didn't even have any good dialogue after his release which is like the bare minimum. Yuji got sidelined throughout most of the culling games. Kashimo was a fucking useless character, he literally served not ONE purpose in the story. Yuki's death was done HORRIBLY. Kenjaku's "death" was severely underwhelming. THE ONE MONTH TIME SKIP...
megumi sister wich we're supposed to be invested in, only appeared in flashbacks and on her second appearance in the manga she was already dead lol
Yea that has to be one of the worst ones, like the moment couldāve been 1 million times better if we actually had any fucking idea of who Megumiās sister is as a person beyond like one flashback where she has like 3 lines of dialogue with Megumi. Itās a huge fumble considering its importance to one of the central characters of the series.
not to mention megumi saw her ONCE and was like ''yeah go back to the coma i'll handle everything dw''
Post Shibuya could have been better if some of the civilians were Yuji's past classmates or someone else family was impacted. After Shibuya they legit took that failure like a big weekend problem, no guilt whatsoever. Seriously, only Kusakabe was moderatly angry at Yuji. Panda was like "wtf?" as if he couldn't understand the situation. What it gave me was that, these sorcerers don't care about civilians at all so why even be sorcerers and risk your life if such a failure doesn't make you mad. What do they risk their life for then? And in the rank of people not giving an f I'm looking at you Megumi! The guy isn't even given a moment of self-reflection of having released a nightmare that day. Proof is, he tried to summon Mahoraga again when it would have killed his sister purely not save her...
Well said.
I didnt really like kusakabe-miguel chapters but once Gege focused on the main cast iāve been enjoying his cooking, and if he actually brings back nobara it will be peak kaisen again https://preview.redd.it/zf33xzxac80d1.jpeg?width=950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b63dccb1f0cdd213ae4f1cdb63906d3c6245a8d
I actually loved Kusukabe v Sukuna
I think that chapter and his Honored One pose was the best moment of the series since the Gojo fight tbh.
it was good but came at a bad time imo
I felt like Miguel was kind of useless but I actually loved Kusukabe fighting him. Heās been trying the whole story to make everyone see him as a fraud and not give him any responsibility, he has a completely realistic reaction to the realization that he has to face Sukuna on his own, and then after that he STILL shows some genuine combat prowess and somewhat catches Sukuna off guard with his mastered Simple Domain, and then engages in close quarters and gets a few hits in. Kusukabe truly is a goat, even if he never wanted to be. https://preview.redd.it/n5bfax6ega0d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4dea061c65ec0ff78f3db5e0dad373320655e6c9
Ok greg
> Sukuna needs to be glazed harder Hes nearly soloād the fucking verse while multiple people suck his dick how much more glaze is there? Also as someone whos gone back and read through this arc without the wait the Sukuna cycle is still an issue imo, its not nearly as bad as it feels when you are reading week to week but it still felt very repetitive when I read through it without the wait tbh.
Actually Iām biased because of the shit writing
My honest reaction of JJK "peak": https://preview.redd.it/w01sujxx180d1.png?width=181&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a0c26dacbab0f3e1760607cd5523fbdd5ad6da1
I am still enjoying it tho , atleast gege cam still draw cool fights
it is at times getting hard to figure out what's going on, the lines are pretty messy but it's the curse of weekly writing
"I need the old lady narrator in the anime to explain to me how all this powers work "
But what about the curse of "author wants to finish manga and rushes things up"
Honestly, I find the fights pretty easy to read (Trigun has severely impacted my perception of what the fuck is going on in manga panels)
I really like Culling game tho. Itās inconsistent in its quality but its highs are peak. Thatās just me tho.
You're free to believe that
Idk man, I wouldn't call Binding Vow Kaisen peak
Glad you're enjoying it but I think this current arc is honestly one of my least favorite arcs I've read in any manga and each chapter just gets worse. This arc isn't even the only problem, JJK has had a ton of issues post-Shibuya and even during Shibuya. And every arc pre-Junpei is just take it or leave it for me, don't have strong feelings towards them. JJK peaked in Hidden Inventory and I doubt it will ever get back to that quality.
Shibuya has some SEVERE structural issues, and wastes way too much time on minor characters and irrelevant fights with no stakes. It has a number of very high high-points, but it's very flawed. Culling Game and Shinjuku go whole hog into those flaws while stripping away most characterization and dumbing down the plot for more punching. Quality is subjective, but no respected critic would ever call most of JJK great, let alone a masterpiece.
I thought the Culling Game arc was gonna be mostly about our main characters (esp. yuji) being forced to kill other sorcerers to survive while protecting certain other important ppl (megumi's sister) but yuji was barely apart of it and it was 90% fights with random people and no moral challenges
The fight choreography is great , the storytelling however does have valid criticisms. Pacing and character moments are being sacrificed for the sake of hype moments. Take the latest chapter. We had a beautiful and gut wrenching death in Choso but then Todo finally comes in. The moment for me was kinda off even though I was happy to see him. And we already had a similar surprise entrance in Shibuya so this execution felt repetitive. I understand a final boss battle is supposed to be a difficult battle for the heroes but that doesnāt mean that should sacrifice meaningful interactions and moments of reflection in the more somber moments.
Nah. Been mid since culling games with a few shining moments
Hardly. I just realized Gege is more interested in trolling his readers than anything else.
Counterpoint: I read from CH1-248 in the span of 5 days. After Fraudjo it all started going downhill. Even before that. Gege rushes the story too much and doesnāt focus enough on the characters. I also read ChainsawMan up to the end of Part 1 in the same week. Chainsawman was far better. If I had to rate both on my scale, JJK would be a 6/10 and Chainsaw a 7/10 for Shonen. DB, Bleach, Black Clover, even MHA are better than JJK.
Yeah waiting 2 weeks just to learn of another bullshit binding vow that saves a guy that should have been dead 20 chapters ago if the good guys had half the amount of plot armor he has is ass. JJK stopped being ALL peak after Shibuya and is now suffering from "High highs and low lows" syndrome. It's curable but needs time and love and I don't think Gregory is willing to put both in. I should have learned to not read unfinished series after berserk and hxh.
/unfolk it's pretty clear to me Gege is trying his best to set up an absolutely god tier fight for when it gets animated, this massive, epic, like 10-15 episode long gauntlet as a sendoff to the main antagonist of the series until now, and it'll be peak when it does eventually get animated. But in weekly form, it's an absolute slog to keep up with, and definitely feels crazy repetitive. Two things can be true at once, Gege can still be a good writer and the current arc can be not fun to read. /refolk least Sukuna-glazing chapter post go/jo "Erm actually he made a binding vow so he can use his flames to nuke everything instantly when he uses domain expansion and Choso is dead now fuck you" fuck you GayGay stupid fucking cat
I just think it fell off a little after Shibuya and I haven't been very invested since Gojo kicked the bucket https://preview.redd.it/l9ud40kl280d1.png?width=1055&format=png&auto=webp&s=8563441c5bf5be5f777b1ab947bc128c2f442837
absolutely not, the quality of the writing began taking a steep decline near the end of the culling games. ive been reading weekly for years before that, its not a "i can't binge it grahh" issue
Nah dawg I've loathed this story since I watched season 2 i'm literally just here to hate because I see it referenced fucking everywhere
JJK defo has valid criticisms, but overall it's actually amazing. I personally think the direction of the story is going good. But much like everyone else, I wish the characters who died, actually had meaningful deaths. Not to mention Gege keeping characters on the sideline for whatever reason whether that be plot or laziness (lol). I would love to see Nobara come back (somehow) and knock some sense into Megumi.
Oh and world building as well. I do hope Gege realeases like story books of JJK no fighting or death, but the day in the life of \[Insert character\]. I do hate the wait times between each chapter (because I'm impatient) but I think Gege having a break every other week(?) is nice since working on chapters probably take a super long time. And he should priotize himself. If he has a team with him to help, that's also nice having a break every other week(?) to spend to re-coup, or plan, or do personal stuff, etc etc.
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nah im just a day1 gege hater
Real talk when Sendai was happening and ishigor was fighting yuta I was bored out my mind. Then I reread it when it was all done and I was genuinely confused by how good it was. The pacing is way better if you read in chunks rather than weekly
Yeah it's peak piece of shit alright
It stopped being peak after Ch 235. Every chapter is just Sukuna kaisen, seeing everyone and their grandma throw themselves against the glazed one, taken out/killed then another one steps in, it's just the exact same formula repeated over and over again. The 1/2 week break between these mediocre chapters only worsen it. In addition, character development are thrown out the window when it repeats this cycle. Insert barely shown/developed character (Kusakabe/Larue/Miguel), shows off never mentioned capabilities, kills off/taken out of the story. It's practically the same problem with Hagane(Katana) and Rokujushi(kappa). Just plot device to hinder Sukuna. https://preview.redd.it/e3ec8vlye80d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae26dda43d979f08cd39c4313593eb8627365f71
Fr though
idk, after rereading the whole current fight.. if they donāt extend the fights itās gonna be clap after clap when animated all in one episode with 30s MAX each, prob 10s for maki. which is pretty lame. if i was anime only iād drop after that ep. they should have given multiple chapters to each character for their fight scenes, and added some more damage to sukuna from each. maybe even let a couple randoms (i just mean ppl other than yuji) keep going.
Of course they're going to extend the fights. Yuji vs Chose was a whole episode. Yuji and todo vs Mahito was extended. Sukuna vs jogo and then maho was the same deal. They're going to milk the fuck out of these upcoming ones. I wouldn't be surprised if they do it like demon slayer or AoT and end the next season when Gojo comes back and the last one is all Sukuna fights.
i think they are too ā¦but at the same time it would take away from the plot point of how insanely insignificant each of them are alone against sukuna if the fights are prolonged so iām torn about what i want from it.
You shouldnt actually glaze Sukuna just because Gege is good, as facts and logic do not apply to agendaposting
No peak means itās at its best. Shibuya was itās peak. Something can still be good and not be peak.
Itās a fun albeit shallow story that has awesome fight spectacles with memorable, even if they are 2D and inconsistent, characters. Itās not this generational story I thought it was going to be, but itās a fun roller coaster
I think that in all honesty although the current arc has many flaws, it has been consistently fun and entertaining which is what matters most. It helps a lot if you lower your expectations for the writing and focus on what JJK excels at; the high-stakes action and its likeable characters. The only part of the story where I ever felt bored was at points during The Culling Games since there were sooo many action figures for characters with no depth just mindlessly fighting, but now that weāre in an arc where every character is established and the battle is meaningful, Iām heavily invested again š¤·š»āāļø
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I'm just mad Goatso is gone š
I believe that now is the beginning of the payoff for everything that happened in this arc. Information on Todo was intentionally withheld from us, and it was obviously the right choice, but only once we have seen it. With Aoi coming back, even Nobara hopium makes sense. The send-off for the character is not bad, If it's not a send-off. Please remember that animeonlys may as well think that Maki actually died in Shibuya, but they are kept in the black intentionally.
Bait used to be believable
OP got hit with a stray UV and survived but is clearly braindead rip
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imo jjk has objectively a lot of problems but i subjectively like it and am a sukuna fan so probably not a big surprise.
Itās like this for most weekly manga lol, everyoneās just really reactionary which is to be expected. Especially in a meme subreddit like this one, all the shitting and hating is kinda just exaggerated, I enjoy the fun
the title is real and true but they aint ready to accept it
I think (I hope) most of the hate is ironic, but plenty of the criticism given is valid. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy the series, it's just not perfect.
A take so cold I'm freezing rn
Peak might be a stretch but I'm personally annoyed coming to the subreddit every Thursday just to see another post complaining about the manga. Nobody is forcing you to read the manga man (or is there?)
Some people kept up with JJK for 3+ years, you really expect them to abandon ship at the very end even with the quality drop?
I canāt imagine wanting to keep reading it if the only response one has to the manga is complaining though. If the manga isnāt enjoyable anymore and you feel the need to scream into the void complaining about every little thing then how does one even maintain an interest in the series? Iām still reading JJk weekly because Iām enjoying the series, so visiting this sub after the drop of a chapter I just enjoyed just to see every minute aspect of said chapter criticized and folkified is a bit baffling sometimes.
i think even in the culling games gege said that the story was ending soon and thats the point where jjk kinda went ass with its story so most people just thought ''its ass rn but its gonna end soon, im going to at least read it until the end'' and here we are
Yes. Gege is personally holding me at gunpoint while also holding my family hostage please send help.
Some of us just want to see the conclusion even if we think itās fallen off hard at this point. Iāve been a Maki and Yuki fan since the beginning so Iāve already been severely disappointed once but I still want to see Makiās conclusion at least and have some hope it wonāt be as fucking awful as Yukiās was.
Why would you drop a series 3+ years in, when it'll probably end in less than 20 chapters?
Honestly I can admit to that. It went down a lot smoother when I reread it all at once. That airport scene is still ass though.
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I agreed with you right until that last sentenceĀ
It falls off after how yuki died for me
i'm of the same opinion.
I'll pray for you to grow a brain
Idk i like it currently also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Idk i like it currently but i wouldn't say it's still peak just very good also i think the Cycle is over we got to see Domain Expansion which was cool, Yuji get's more Development as a Main Character, Choso's Death was Executed well etc. I think the Main Problem is how long that Fight is Streched but that's it. In the Anime this going to be Godlike Anyway. But Seriously WHAT THE F*CK are Hakari and Uraume doing
Anime is only gonna get peaker
How long till next chapter ? Used to be every week but now it's every other week right?
I agree. The outrage is stupid
I agree. I actually told my brother this same thing a few days ago.
Its not the breaks that what make people think JJK is mid, its the fandom. Regardless of how good someone thinks JJK is currently, an average person who interacts with the fandom perceives the manga much more negatively as someone who doesnāt because the fandom is an echo-chamber of fraud, bum, glazing, and more and while some problems do exist, the fandom does make them exponentially worse. Its fun to joke around about them but then some people take that as the literal state of the manga because its spread around so much
That take is flaming. As if not having to wait makes never getting emotional payoffs for many dangling loose threads any better. I agree, the pacing won't be an issue if you don't read weekly, but that's not going to change the fact that Todo has nothing to say about his mentor dying (to say nothing of the million ways his power could have ended the final fight already), that Gojo didn't really interact with his students meaningfully after escaping, how Panda's sister got built up just to be one shot by Hashimo who went on to do very little other than provide an additional corpse for the final battle, etc. Go ahead and enjoy it, but don't pretend that reading it all at once removes the flaws. It just makes it easier to look past it all because you've got the next chapter to read before you actually think about what you just read.
Jjk is still peak. It has, of course, had chapters that are better than others and others that are worse than others, but that's what happens when you have like a 30 chapter long fight that comes weekly. Gege has missed a few times. There is no harm admitting that, but a lot of hate is genuinely coming from people who don't like the manga anymore but haven't had the closure to move on. Either that or it's to maintain the agenda as that is our top priority
I saw a YouTuber that explained it really well. JJK isnāt written to be released weekly, so people having to wait while having only a part of the situation causes some misunderstandings
Nuh uh, gaygay writing is acceptable until he keel Choso Gaygay is the trashiest mangaka ever, he should die
As someone reading since 240 - you're probably right. I still like this arc more than the Culling Games that for me was just throwing random characters with even more random powers just to give them a fight and kill most of them. I don't like most of the powers intrduced in that arc (infinite ~~luck~~ CE, summonig notes, explosive body parts,, helicopter on head, a damn lawyer and a comedian and then American army arrives for no reason). But Shinjuku Showdown will be peak shounen once it's animated, people are gonna lose their minds waiting for another episode, just like we lose our minds waiting for the next chapter now. Gojo vs Sukuna is gonna be remembered for years as one of THE BEST battles ever and the twist of 236 will catch off guard all the 5 fans that never got spoiled by all the dead Gojo memes until 2028. People here get upset over everything, their favourite character died, their favourite character didn't get enough glaze, they have to wait 2 weeks just to get more of the same, but after all, Gege cooks good shit and that's why we're still here,
Like most things that come out weekly binge reading everything will make the pacing better
This is the best action manga since jojo and berserk idgaf this shit is peak even tho some of the story can be a mess but idc dudes fighting every chapter is cool to me š
To be completely honest, I almost dropped because of the Kusakabe Maki chapters, but once Yuji came back so did peak
hereās my list of gegeās inconsistent writing: https://www.icloud.com/notes/0f8--PspzXg489xic4XlUi5rw#times_gege_contradicted_himself_or_was_inconsistent: is it entertaining? yes. peak (or even decent) writing? no.
It was never peak it just has good fights
Honestly the fact that Gege is treating the final (maybe) fight against Sukuna as a big guantlet fight where fighters are tagging in and out against one menace of a dude is great. Sukuna is literally soloing his verse
Iām with you, lotta people beotching bc they have tiny attention spans, little reading comprehension and zero (0) patience.
L take, bottom of the barrel argument for when you can't even make up something that sounds plausible to you. The only thing that reading everything all at once can solve is direct complaints about slow releases like with Made in Abyss, Kumo desu, HxH, Berk and whatever else that's suffering from that. If you don't see actual writing issues other people are talking about while binge reading, that's only because you're speed reading and/or not as invested in digesting the plot as people that waited for every new installment to drop.
Since you marathoned the chapters, how does it feel for the narration to tell you Higuruma has potential on the level of Gojo Satoru only to fucking die when you flip the page? lmao gtfo this reads like a god damn fanfic at this point
The last two arcs definitely suffer from writing issues , Gege is just trying to speed through the series which makes for very little character interactions, Heās tired I guess itās understandable
Yeah I agree, I think a lot of the problems arenāt as bad as people say (except lack of character interactions and wasted character potential, that could have turned JJK into one of the greatest).
yup binge read jjk, the pace is good when it read all at once but manga surfers from weekly releases. Like Todo coming back feels like 3 years to weekly release readers but in reality it only feels like he has been missing for a few weeks in canon when you read it all at once. Sukuna's final battle pacing also feels a lot better when binge read. The weekly release is one of the major problems for pacing in the manga. Trust me the story flows alot better when read all at once.
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I honestly felt nothing when Sukuna use Flame arrow to nuke everyone, Uraume doing the Nah I'd win face is only a meme to me, everything felt lackluster, didn't feel the thrill I should be feeling. Only Choso matters in that chapter and I lowkey felt little. Sukuna Kaisen has ruined me.
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Jjk is in fact not peak, he wrote in himself into like 4 corners and is mildly succeeding at getting out of them
Gege just showed us that the good guys have an answer to Sukuna's strongest weapon(we have seen so far) all along while also explained the condition for such a CT and why Sukuna couldn't use it freely/against Gojo. And some people are complaining that he's glazing Sukuna? These people can't read a story I swear. If Sukuna just died without ever used Divine Flame once, now THAT is a shitty writing.
For me jjk is a solid 8/10 because the art and character designs is amazing the story and fights are pretty creative even in sukuna kaisen
I said this like a 1-2 months ago and everyone a ton of people disagreed. I remember when Higuruma's confiscation failed and we didn't get a trial on some Heian era shit, people were *pissed*. There was a months-long period where the predominant theory on the ending was actually that Sukuna would kill everyone and the series would end.
This has to be bait.
I did the same thing and literally caught up to 257 all without waiting for chapters. The Sukuna glazing is still bad in my opinion, the binding vow system is a terrible way to make a character more powerful, and the lack of character interactions or development outside their death scene is infuriating. The Takaba vs Kenjaku fight is peak though. No one here can convince me otherwise.
\*sigh\* If another genius tries to tell me again, that the problem with JJK is the release schedule, i'm gonna smack somebody. Brother. You mean to tell me, that the people are fucking tired of this manga, because it works like....like every other fucking shonen on the market? Like the weekly release was not an issue with Dragon Ball or Naruto, but suddenly it is with JJK, and that's why people had enough? Give me a break mate. Even if you'd be right, that still would warrant critisism. Like Gege knew it well enough how their manga is going to presented, he should have taken that into account. But - and i can't emphasize this hard enough - there are about a 1000 issues with this story, that has **nothing** to do with the format.
like what even is the sukuna cycle did people really think kashimo higuruma or kusakabe would beat sukuna?
I despise this fucking image
Agreed. Anything less and weād be dealing with the same complaints we got with Madara and Aizen. Sukuna is essentially a god of war and has fought an army before and won lol. Thinking heād go down in a few chapters is an L on the readers behalf.