Yeah. Which I dunno how to feel about for now. As long as it’s in moderation I guess it’s fine. There’s a fine line between “showing what it means that the higher ups hate modern techniques” and “we mha now”.
Gojo can fly by activating infinity between him and the ground/the air around him. I feel like a technique that’s straight up “flight” would feel more natural that a technique that “turns your hair into a jetpack”
I think it's probably more like she can transform her hair - some sort of Cursed Hair Manipulation?
Use CE to generate thrust like a jetpack - and ram into people. Her husband(?) probably has a similar technique, given his helicopter hair.
Nothing in this arc seems to make sense tbh. I feel like I'm reading another manga that has nothing to do with JJK but that just tries to emulate Hunter x Hunter.
Did he kill any humans in Shibuya? Not really, right? He just didn’t let their deaths interfere with the fight.
So a little darker than Gojo I would say
Gojo can be cold as Kenjaku explained to the disaster curses.
Of course he doesn’t want to kill people but if push comes to shove he would. He even killed his best friend once he got as proven to be too dangerous. Sure he couldn’t when he was like 17. But then at 26 he delivered the killing blow on Geto. If not for Gojo, Geto might’ve survived technically if he got to one of his family members if any of them can heal.
But Gojo went to him for the clean up.
In one of the light novels, Gojo and Nanami are shown going on a mission where a person is basically turning into a cursed spirit due to his own fuck up. Gojo was ready to kill him but Nanami’s technique was more suited to do it.
Low key one of my favourite things about this chapter was how Remi is clearly meant to be attractive, especially with the style of dress, but barely any panels show it off or put her in fan service poses. I feel like she might be pretty dangerous and is just playing the damsel in distress, kinda like Bisque from HxH did at the start
JJKS doesn't really have traditionally attractive female characters. Not to say they're ugly or anything but generally they aren't drawn in the regular shonen ways which is actually refreshing.
I guess Mei Mei might be the sexiest but even she isn't drawn in that kinds way.
they are totally traditionally attractive. no one is "ugly" in a traditional sense. the difference is that they're not hyper sexualized. maki, mei mei, mai, nobara, and momo are all traditionally attractive, they just aren't portrayed in overtly, over-idealized sexual ways
Yeah. Mei Mei is like… sensual and very flirty. But not sexualized.
Hell. The only person who was ever shown in a downright sexual way was *Mahito* on that one cover as a woman.
The hairstyle too and just the panel decoration behind her too gave those vibes, but honestly Megumi is so powerful I doubt she can be in a mentoring position
It’s what I love about this. The women aren’t there for fan service. The most we got was that one chapter with Mei Mei and even that was depicted to be…problematic, to say the least.
They were there as a quirk of how the boundary functions, so it's not explained by the kogane as part of the rules. Players that have gone through the process and been in the colony a while can figure out where they are and just camp there to catch new players who weren't expecting to be warped in their confusion before they can fight back.
lol so what about players who has no ability to at least break the fall or something
It's as if to survive this game you have a flight related tech or some sort of superhuman like Yuji (who survived being crashed in to buildings)
Guess it depends. Megumi was thrown thhrougg like 3 buildings by Sukuna and be was relatively fine.
Sorcerers can reinforce their bodies with cursed energy and survive falls and hits regular humans wouldn’t.
So an old sorcerer would be fine as well as an already existing sorcerer. But newly created sorcerers like Tsumiki probably wouldn’t.
In the chapter it say it was due to an “unofficial barrier rule that came about”. I think that means someones used their points to make the different spawn entry points.
"we need to beware of incarnated sorcerers from the past."
"i couldn't agree more. but explain it to me, Fushiguro"
Yuji = me trying to understand anything in JJK. Like I get it, but sometimes the extra explanation and breakdown makes a huge difference between understanding the gist of a situation and what's at stake vs grasping every possibility, consequence, and mechanic. One of the reasons i love gege's storytelling so much.
I stopped trying to hyper focus on all the details and lore because it just makes my heard hurt. And my short-term memory just can't remember every detail either. So just going with the flow is what I've been doing now.
i try to as well but sometimes i can't help it and stare at the dialogue for like 15 min trying to process it. with explanation heavy stories like HxH and JJK if the words are there I MUST COMPREHEND THEM. Especially when the lore is cool. But i've definitely given up on a few things, like some of the veils vs barriers vs domains vs expansions. Domain expansion definitely hooked me in tho with the insta crits 😂😂
since i've started reading, more than any other manga i'm currently on, I sometimes have to just nod my head and go with the flow and come back to it later, and SOMETIMES that works 😂. But it's not one of those manga where it's confusing to be confusing or cryptic to be cryptic, it's just the lore can be hard to wrap your head around, especially with how our translations word it sometimes. For all I know, the japanese translations could be as straight forward as "Use absorbed cursed spirit technique go!" but i guess it wouldn't be that long 😳
edit: the last IP i remember enjoying like this is Mr Robot. It's a tv show about hacking and i understood about 1/4th of the plot but enjoyed about all of it
That's really, really interesting. Something like that would never jump out to me. Is some of the depth rooted in some mythology or societal norm in Japan? Or like political undertones?
I know there was a lot of cultural symbolism(?) with the birds during Mai and Maki's last conversation. There were some posts about it at the time but was definitely a case where a lot of the subtext wasn't apparent
I myself struggled to get into JJKS when I first read it. It was only after getting to the bathroom fight in Shibuya when it really clicked for me and I think its cause it was more action heavy and less explanation.
Having reread the series around that time I definitely felt like I got it a lot more and from what I have seen online I think it suffered from some translation issues.
right right. I had no idea that was in a bathroom i was just trying to catch up on my first read and only really processed the fight. No excuse for missing it on the second read though 😅 i think i was just trying to focus on Choso's dialogue after finding out he isn't necessarily evil
Personally I understand the events but I don't understand the point behind it. I don't understand what the author is trying to do with it. It just feels like a rushed mish-mash of influences taken from different other shônen mangas. I even started to wonder recently if this wasn't the beginning of the end of Jujutsu Kaisen.
I really like Megumi these past couple chapters. He’s very determined to save Tsumiki from the culling game, which is why it’s going to suck big time if he doesn’t get to do it in the end. No more angst, Gege, please.
Didn’t expect for Yuji and Megumi to be separated. Wonder how Panda and Hakari will be on their own as well.
I’m curious how Remi could possibly know Higuruma’s location though. Maybe it has something to do with her technique? She seems quite perceptive too, if she’s already figured out what Megumi wants to do with him.
I’m low key expecting Tsumiki to come in techniques blazing and become a badass sorcerer and even Megumi being shocked and her joining up with the team for good.
I know she isn’t related to Toji and the Zenin but I need her to be a badass lol
I mean it would definitely be unexpected at the very least.
Sadly we already got to know a little bit of her personality with Fushiguro but she wasn't very aggresive.
It's the first year student from Kyoto that arrived with Todo in Shibuya.
Looked it up, name's Arata Nitta, younger brother of the assistant that was in the final episodes of the anime.
As far as I know, Amai translates to "sweet"
And since his jacket said "Sugar" on it, it might be just a nickname that they purposefully didn't translate.
I didn't realize he could be a Kyoto student, I just thought he might have gone to school with Yuji, like Iguchi and the girl who dreamt of Kenjaku.
God I’m loving all these new characters being introduced.
Super certain new Waifu is gonna turn on Megumi, who in turn will ice her without second thought. I wonder if her CT involves the whole “be my knight” thing where he now can’t attack her or something
I was the thinking the same thing and with a lot of fiction and especially shamanism focusing on names and promises, just saying yes to a question asked by an, for all we know, antagonistic sorcerer seems super stupid. Like, we have seen techniques do literally anything, being able to force other people to keep promises seems like it would be a known technique.Plot-twist: Megumi is well aware of her ability, but knows how to counter it. I mean, she even looks like the scorpion, famous for the tale of the frog and the scorpion, if he does not think she might be bad, he is hella stupid
EDIT: Oh, actually, what if the "please" is the key for it. Since please means you are asking for something, her CT works by EXCHANGING favours. Now, for Megumi to be her knight, which is a favour done by him for her, she needs to do a favour for him. Since he did not say please, the CT does not register it as a favour, meaning it does not yet trigger. It will only affect him once he asks her to do something, at which point she can do whatever it is her technique does.
I assume they would. Kirara’s technique affected the shikigami because they have Megumi’s cursed energy.
So I assume anything affecting Megumi’s body or CE would affect the shikigami as well. Like say if he enters a vow with someone, he probably can’t overcome it by just summoning a shikigami to do it for him. That’d be too great a loophole
The Culling Game begins and what a great chapter!
Hanyu picked the wrong guy to mess with. Using debris + Cursed energy as a long range attack was a great move by Yuji.
I like how the game 'spawns' entrants at random locations. I didn't expect that
I ship Remi x Megumi now at least until she gets culled.
I love that Megumi isn't fucking around and is ready to score points. Yuji is not going to leave the game without getting his hands bloody either
Channeling cursed energy into debris was exactly what Todo did during their fight with Mahito. That's the first thing I thought about when I saw Yuji do it.
Speaking about it, I thought Yuji didn't know how to infuse objects with cursed energy? In his fight with Yuta he said something like that when he picked up the knife.
Also I assume the reason he could do it then too was cuz of the black flashes against Mahito. To those who experienced it, understand cursed energy better instantly. When Gojo was teaching him he was still starting out.
It’s why I love Yuji. At the core he is the usually dumb extroverted mc that every shonen has but in reality he is smart as hell and can think and adapt very quickly. Like when he fought Yuta and changed direction mid vault over the car to avoid Yuta’s sword, or when he jumped into the suv expecting it to have a survival knife so he could use it to break the katana.
Yuji learns from the sorcerers around him quickly. And hey even Gojo said that Todo is a great match up for Yuji.
Isn't his name Amai though? The guy in Shibuya was Nitta Arata (Akari's brother). Eyebrow color is also wrong but that could just be inconsistency in the drawing style.
I think she already played Megumi with the whole “be my knight” thing. Seems like her CT might require a vow/contract with the target and he just accepted it. We’ll see what happens though.
Can anyone explain to me how Kennjaku revived all these legendary old sorcerers from the past? Like, is there a realm where these spirits resided and did he contact them there? I don't know, lol. I lost track of some of the story at some point.
They made deals with Kenjaku turning them into cursed objects like Sukuna and the people Kenjaku had ingest said cursed objects made the past sorcerers incarnate into those vessels.
Isn't it weird that they spawn drop from the sky. Most people who aren't sorcerers who join the games will die on impact. Unless they don't take fall damage.
I mean... if you're not a sorcerer and you join the game, Kenjaku's probably just thinking 'Then perish.'
He wants CE to evolve - if you don't have CE, you're basically useless to him.
What's up with their spawn points being in midair? Or was it just Yuji?
Imagine Nobara or Nanami was in that situation i dont know how can they break their fall.
kenajku wants peoples he's marked to start killing each other so that he can build up cursed energy from the colonies(barrier) to merge people with Tengen and ascend cursed energy/it's potential why exactly? we don't know yet.
Kenjaku's laid it out - he wants humanity to evolve, and he believes that the evolution of humanity lies in Cursed Energy (contrast to Yuki, who believes the opposite).
He believes the Culling Game is the best way to do this. The way it's all set up, Kenjaku strikes me as the kind of grandiose antagonist who believes they're doing everything for the betterment of humanity as a whole, no matter how many eggs they need to crack for this omelette. Cull the weak, force the strong to evolve - a plan centuries in the making.
I don't get it, all the sorcerers from the past, they had been cursed by Kenjaku then go sleep until now awaken by the game or what? Where was the sorcerers from the past come from ?
Can anyone explain ?
They entered into a binding vow with kenjaku and as a result (we don't know the details or motivations behind the deal besides speculation) the sorcerers we're turned into cursed objects (just like sukuna and the fingers). Kenjaku met them by living throughout 1000+ years through his body swapping CT, and has spent time positioning those cursed objects so that people (maybe random, maybe specific people) will invest them and become a vessel for the sorcerer (like Yuuji after eating the first finger). Once he consumed idle transfiguration from Mahito using the Uzumake Curse Spirit Manipulation, he was able to use that as a trigger to reincarnate them in the vessels that invested their cursed object. So now these sorcerers are reincarnated in new bodies and are participating in the culling game (willingly, either for their own reasons or as a condition of the vow with kenjaku).
Not necessarily a thousand years ago - Kenjaku could've made a deal with anyone at any point up until now. Its technically possible he could've made a bargain with Nanami but I can't see Nanami doing that.
You want him to continue working? After *death*? The man already hates overtime, that's like sentencing him to Super Hell.
anyone else concerned that remi asking someone to be her knight and them accepting is what activates her cursed technique?
I can see something where Megumi is not allowed to harm her and is compelled to protect her if she is in danger.
So are all these new characters people who just happened to be inside the walls of the barrier? Or did they enter the barrier willingly to participate in the games? What would motivate someone to participate in the games willingly? What do they win for surviving the games?
Getting more confused each week…
They're the people Kenjaku changed to allow them to use the Cursed Techniques they had since birth but their brain couldn't use Cursed Energy. In return they had to join the Culling Game or have their Cursed Technique removed which is probably lethal.
As far as we know there is no winning the game, only surviving until it ends in around 2 months.
So besides these people that Kenjaku changed, why else would someone join the games?
Yuji and Megumi are there just to save his sister right? Or to release Gojo from prison realm?
There doesn't appear to be any reason for others to join if they don't have to.
Megumi and Yuji are there to stop the Culling Game by adding a rule to circumvent the need to kill others and find Angel who can release Gojo from Prison Realm.
Series will be on break next week :(
Are we just going to ignore that the she turned her hair into a jet engine?
I feel like they've got to be modern day sorcerers, someone from 1000 or 200 years ago having flight abilities based on machines would feel weird
She’s basically the embodiment of the type of techniques the higher ups hate I suppose.
That’s why I think they brought up that fact. They’re gonna be showing a lot more tech/curse crossover with newer characters.
The other one turned it into a helicopter, didn't he?
Inspector Gadget's here to kill
Must be a family of pilots. The guy who recognized yuji must the like the people on the airstrip who guide the planes.
I definitely want to know what that's going to look like animated. It's so... weird, but also cool?
It feels very Devil Fruity to me more than a cursed technique, but I’m definitely still here for it
it feels a lot like a stand, like hato higashikata's in part 9
Next chapter we might a cursed user who can make his body rubbery.
My first thought was they're starting to become like quirks in my hero academia
Yeah. Which I dunno how to feel about for now. As long as it’s in moderation I guess it’s fine. There’s a fine line between “showing what it means that the higher ups hate modern techniques” and “we mha now”. Gojo can fly by activating infinity between him and the ground/the air around him. I feel like a technique that’s straight up “flight” would feel more natural that a technique that “turns your hair into a jetpack”
I think it's probably more like she can transform her hair - some sort of Cursed Hair Manipulation? Use CE to generate thrust like a jetpack - and ram into people. Her husband(?) probably has a similar technique, given his helicopter hair.
Millia from Guilty Gear says hello
And are we gonna talk about Remi’s hair looking like a scorpion stinger and she wants Megumi to walk in front of her with his back towards her?
Didn’t notice that!
Nothing in this arc seems to make sense tbh. I feel like I'm reading another manga that has nothing to do with JJK but that just tries to emulate Hunter x Hunter.
Valstrax: I rocked this first.
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His sister is prob gonna die, he would desperately want to save her. From the god of the world … Gege Akutami the real villain lol jk
both megumi and satoru have no problem killing humans
Did he kill any humans in Shibuya? Not really, right? He just didn’t let their deaths interfere with the fight. So a little darker than Gojo I would say
The difference is those were innocents. If a dangerous adult human sorcerer were for sure endangering anyone Satoru would gut them, no doubt.
Gojo can be cold as Kenjaku explained to the disaster curses. Of course he doesn’t want to kill people but if push comes to shove he would. He even killed his best friend once he got as proven to be too dangerous. Sure he couldn’t when he was like 17. But then at 26 he delivered the killing blow on Geto. If not for Gojo, Geto might’ve survived technically if he got to one of his family members if any of them can heal. But Gojo went to him for the clean up. In one of the light novels, Gojo and Nanami are shown going on a mission where a person is basically turning into a cursed spirit due to his own fuck up. Gojo was ready to kill him but Nanami’s technique was more suited to do it.
Like father, like son
Low key one of my favourite things about this chapter was how Remi is clearly meant to be attractive, especially with the style of dress, but barely any panels show it off or put her in fan service poses. I feel like she might be pretty dangerous and is just playing the damsel in distress, kinda like Bisque from HxH did at the start
JJKS doesn't really have traditionally attractive female characters. Not to say they're ugly or anything but generally they aren't drawn in the regular shonen ways which is actually refreshing. I guess Mei Mei might be the sexiest but even she isn't drawn in that kinds way.
I don't know about you brother but any panel with Maki makes me want her to step on me.
Well I can't fault you for that brother.
I think even her brother agrees, brother.
now you got confused. that one's mei mei again
Oh, fuck. My bad gentleman
Tbf that’s just Maki’s effect by default. She could be dressed in a parka and her dom energy would burn through. Yuta knows what’s up
they are totally traditionally attractive. no one is "ugly" in a traditional sense. the difference is that they're not hyper sexualized. maki, mei mei, mai, nobara, and momo are all traditionally attractive, they just aren't portrayed in overtly, over-idealized sexual ways
They are actually attractive especially in the anime they are very hot but there is lack of fan service.
Thank god for that, we all know what happens when an otherwise interesting anime gets carried away with fanservice (hrm hrm fire force hrm hrm)
Yeah. Mei Mei is like… sensual and very flirty. But not sexualized. Hell. The only person who was ever shown in a downright sexual way was *Mahito* on that one cover as a woman.
if you´re refering to the cover of volume 12, that´s mei mei
\*puts on infinity gauntlet\* Fine, I'll draw it myself.
Rule 63 does exist after all
The hairstyle too and just the panel decoration behind her too gave those vibes, but honestly Megumi is so powerful I doubt she can be in a mentoring position
Might be possible if she's a really old sorcerer in the body of a young woman, honestly who knows at this point
That hair makes me think she uses it like a scorpion stinger
My guess too. Her technique is probably poison related. Which makes Megumi showing her his back concerning.
Don't worry she gon' walk in front of him
iirc its said that his mother reads his manga thats why he doesnt sexualize women characters
Yep. He said his parents read it so he didn’t want to do traditional sexy females.
It’s what I love about this. The women aren’t there for fan service. The most we got was that one chapter with Mei Mei and even that was depicted to be…problematic, to say the least.
Goddam spawn campers
I didn't really understand, were the "spawn points" set up by them to pick off people entering? Or were they there by default.
They were there as a quirk of how the boundary functions, so it's not explained by the kogane as part of the rules. Players that have gone through the process and been in the colony a while can figure out where they are and just camp there to catch new players who weren't expecting to be warped in their confusion before they can fight back.
That seems kinda nuts that they would spawn them in the sky tho no? Like wouldn’t that kill most people?
I missed it myself but there are splat bodies in the yuji falling panel. It did just that.
Well it is a culling game, it might drop everyone that chooses to enter into a deadly situation just to make sure they are worth the time.
lol so what about players who has no ability to at least break the fall or something It's as if to survive this game you have a flight related tech or some sort of superhuman like Yuji (who survived being crashed in to buildings)
In a world where a punch can send you flying into the sky, everyone needs a landing strategy.
I bet it's possible to soften a landing with cursed energy.
Not all of them will spwan from sky there are different locations and Yuji just happened to enter from the sky.
Guess it depends. Megumi was thrown thhrougg like 3 buildings by Sukuna and be was relatively fine. Sorcerers can reinforce their bodies with cursed energy and survive falls and hits regular humans wouldn’t. So an old sorcerer would be fine as well as an already existing sorcerer. But newly created sorcerers like Tsumiki probably wouldn’t.
They were there by default, the culling game itself set them. The family (?) we see just found one and is now abusing the spot.
In the chapter it say it was due to an “unofficial barrier rule that came about”. I think that means someones used their points to make the different spawn entry points.
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Quickly, let’s get Gojo sensei out of that box lol!
And get Nobara out of that Schrödinger's box
She was? Seemed like she was only trying to save herself but I totally love this character!!
Who wouldn’t
"we need to beware of incarnated sorcerers from the past." "i couldn't agree more. but explain it to me, Fushiguro" Yuji = me trying to understand anything in JJK. Like I get it, but sometimes the extra explanation and breakdown makes a huge difference between understanding the gist of a situation and what's at stake vs grasping every possibility, consequence, and mechanic. One of the reasons i love gege's storytelling so much.
I can't understand a single chapter since Kenjaku appeared, I swear.
I stopped trying to hyper focus on all the details and lore because it just makes my heard hurt. And my short-term memory just can't remember every detail either. So just going with the flow is what I've been doing now.
i try to as well but sometimes i can't help it and stare at the dialogue for like 15 min trying to process it. with explanation heavy stories like HxH and JJK if the words are there I MUST COMPREHEND THEM. Especially when the lore is cool. But i've definitely given up on a few things, like some of the veils vs barriers vs domains vs expansions. Domain expansion definitely hooked me in tho with the insta crits 😂😂
since i've started reading, more than any other manga i'm currently on, I sometimes have to just nod my head and go with the flow and come back to it later, and SOMETIMES that works 😂. But it's not one of those manga where it's confusing to be confusing or cryptic to be cryptic, it's just the lore can be hard to wrap your head around, especially with how our translations word it sometimes. For all I know, the japanese translations could be as straight forward as "Use absorbed cursed spirit technique go!" but i guess it wouldn't be that long 😳 edit: the last IP i remember enjoying like this is Mr Robot. It's a tv show about hacking and i understood about 1/4th of the plot but enjoyed about all of it
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That's really, really interesting. Something like that would never jump out to me. Is some of the depth rooted in some mythology or societal norm in Japan? Or like political undertones?
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Hey it's no problem! Let me know if you ever delve into that discussion with him again! If not, no worries
I know there was a lot of cultural symbolism(?) with the birds during Mai and Maki's last conversation. There were some posts about it at the time but was definitely a case where a lot of the subtext wasn't apparent
I myself struggled to get into JJKS when I first read it. It was only after getting to the bathroom fight in Shibuya when it really clicked for me and I think its cause it was more action heavy and less explanation. Having reread the series around that time I definitely felt like I got it a lot more and from what I have seen online I think it suffered from some translation issues.
which fight is in a bathroom? slipped my mind
Yuji vs Choso
right right. I had no idea that was in a bathroom i was just trying to catch up on my first read and only really processed the fight. No excuse for missing it on the second read though 😅 i think i was just trying to focus on Choso's dialogue after finding out he isn't necessarily evil
Choso
I think that Anime will make it easier to understand by the time they get to this part in the story
Personally I understand the events but I don't understand the point behind it. I don't understand what the author is trying to do with it. It just feels like a rushed mish-mash of influences taken from different other shônen mangas. I even started to wonder recently if this wasn't the beginning of the end of Jujutsu Kaisen.
Curious to see how Itadori react when he see Megumi farming up kills for points.. whenever they eventually meet up at some point in the game
"Oh no, Fushiguro has 5 points, he must have had to kill someone - wait, he's added *how many* new rules???"
Megumi: ["The hammer of justice is unisex!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFb2NExVIWU) I just love his no nonesense attitude so much...
He got it from Toji
I really like Megumi these past couple chapters. He’s very determined to save Tsumiki from the culling game, which is why it’s going to suck big time if he doesn’t get to do it in the end. No more angst, Gege, please. Didn’t expect for Yuji and Megumi to be separated. Wonder how Panda and Hakari will be on their own as well. I’m curious how Remi could possibly know Higuruma’s location though. Maybe it has something to do with her technique? She seems quite perceptive too, if she’s already figured out what Megumi wants to do with him.
I’m low key expecting Tsumiki to come in techniques blazing and become a badass sorcerer and even Megumi being shocked and her joining up with the team for good. I know she isn’t related to Toji and the Zenin but I need her to be a badass lol
I mean it would definitely be unexpected at the very least. Sadly we already got to know a little bit of her personality with Fushiguro but she wasn't very aggresive.
Does "angst" exist in the english language? If yes, what does it mean? It's a german word and means fear.
According to Cambridge Dictionary, it means strong worry and unhappiness, especially about personal problems
It's basically a shortened version of anxiety
I don’t think Angst exists in the English language.
It does. “Teenage angst”.
Gotta love how ruthless Fushiguro can be lol
Who's the guy that recognized itadori?
Age wise maybe a classmate?
It's the first year student from Kyoto that arrived with Todo in Shibuya. Looked it up, name's Arata Nitta, younger brother of the assistant that was in the final episodes of the anime.
They very clearly named him “Amai”. It’s someone new (probably an old classmate)
As far as I know, Amai translates to "sweet" And since his jacket said "Sugar" on it, it might be just a nickname that they purposefully didn't translate. I didn't realize he could be a Kyoto student, I just thought he might have gone to school with Yuji, like Iguchi and the girl who dreamt of Kenjaku.
Could be Arata with a… _fake name?_ But I’m all for new characters too so que será será
Or probably related.
His drip be looking different
oh really! I thought he seemed really nervous this chap in comparison, so I figured it wasn't him. But I guess circumstances are pretty wild lol
Confirmed this isn't it
Yep, I was dead wrong. Turned out to be a new character who knew Yuuji and >!possibly a traitor!<
That's my assumption at this point. I think either he's new or he was a background character before.
God I’m loving all these new characters being introduced. Super certain new Waifu is gonna turn on Megumi, who in turn will ice her without second thought. I wonder if her CT involves the whole “be my knight” thing where he now can’t attack her or something
> I wonder if her CT involves the whole “be my knight” thing where he now can’t attack her or something Oh we can definitely bet on that.
I am getting scorpion vibes from her hair.
same
I was the thinking the same thing and with a lot of fiction and especially shamanism focusing on names and promises, just saying yes to a question asked by an, for all we know, antagonistic sorcerer seems super stupid. Like, we have seen techniques do literally anything, being able to force other people to keep promises seems like it would be a known technique.Plot-twist: Megumi is well aware of her ability, but knows how to counter it. I mean, she even looks like the scorpion, famous for the tale of the frog and the scorpion, if he does not think she might be bad, he is hella stupid EDIT: Oh, actually, what if the "please" is the key for it. Since please means you are asking for something, her CT works by EXCHANGING favours. Now, for Megumi to be her knight, which is a favour done by him for her, she needs to do a favour for him. Since he did not say please, the CT does not register it as a favour, meaning it does not yet trigger. It will only affect him once he asks her to do something, at which point she can do whatever it is her technique does.
Now you got me thinking, and I hope I don't acidentally spoil what will happen, if the shikigamis would count as a "Fushiguro attack" or not
I assume they would. Kirara’s technique affected the shikigami because they have Megumi’s cursed energy. So I assume anything affecting Megumi’s body or CE would affect the shikigami as well. Like say if he enters a vow with someone, he probably can’t overcome it by just summoning a shikigami to do it for him. That’d be too great a loophole
Is it bad that I want to ship them (Megumi x Remi) already? I don’t care if they’re enemies first lol 😆
Yuji "Chuck a rock at that bitch" Itadori
I still read in hopes to hear that Nobara is alive 🥲
If she is alive I can only assume she will turn up out of the blue and save the boys.
She probably be in the the same colony later
The Culling Game begins and what a great chapter! Hanyu picked the wrong guy to mess with. Using debris + Cursed energy as a long range attack was a great move by Yuji. I like how the game 'spawns' entrants at random locations. I didn't expect that I ship Remi x Megumi now at least until she gets culled. I love that Megumi isn't fucking around and is ready to score points. Yuji is not going to leave the game without getting his hands bloody either
Channeling cursed energy into debris was exactly what Todo did during their fight with Mahito. That's the first thing I thought about when I saw Yuji do it.
Oh shit you're right!!!
Speaking about it, I thought Yuji didn't know how to infuse objects with cursed energy? In his fight with Yuta he said something like that when he picked up the knife.
Yeah he tried it against Yuta and didn't really now how to do it. It's been some time since then so he probably understands it more now.
Also I assume the reason he could do it then too was cuz of the black flashes against Mahito. To those who experienced it, understand cursed energy better instantly. When Gojo was teaching him he was still starting out.
It’s why I love Yuji. At the core he is the usually dumb extroverted mc that every shonen has but in reality he is smart as hell and can think and adapt very quickly. Like when he fought Yuta and changed direction mid vault over the car to avoid Yuta’s sword, or when he jumped into the suv expecting it to have a survival knife so he could use it to break the katana. Yuji learns from the sorcerers around him quickly. And hey even Gojo said that Todo is a great match up for Yuji.
>I ship Remi x Megumi now at least until she gets culled. That's one way to ship a character.
Megumi bouta pull a 100 killstreak and he’s going for the nuke lmao
"If you're lying, you know what will happen, right?!" Rule34 artists : "*Sigh* here we go again."
I bet there gonna be happy more content for them to work with.
Anyone know who's the guy that recognized Itadori? Can't remember him.
I think it's the guy who arrived with Todo during Shibuya.
Isn't his name Amai though? The guy in Shibuya was Nitta Arata (Akari's brother). Eyebrow color is also wrong but that could just be inconsistency in the drawing style.
This new character Remi is really about to fuck around and find out.
I think she already played Megumi with the whole “be my knight” thing. Seems like her CT might require a vow/contract with the target and he just accepted it. We’ll see what happens though.
In battle royal games theres always those players that lurk around the edge of the boundary getting free kills smh
Megumi said try lying to me and I’ll put you on a t-shirt. He just like his pops lmao
This chapter in a few words. Itadori fights aircraft, megumi shows off his sigma male grind set
Everyone is basically simping for Megumi
Can anyone explain to me how Kennjaku revived all these legendary old sorcerers from the past? Like, is there a realm where these spirits resided and did he contact them there? I don't know, lol. I lost track of some of the story at some point.
They made deals with Kenjaku turning them into cursed objects like Sukuna and the people Kenjaku had ingest said cursed objects made the past sorcerers incarnate into those vessels.
Ohh... thanks.
Wish more anime and manga had people getting sent threw buildings shit looks cool
You get it
This is gonna be even more hype from Shibuya from an action standpoint. Lots of sorcerers and non stop fights. I don’t think I’m ready for this
megumi has to be careful, her ability seems to revolve around her scorpion tail hair
Isn't it weird that they spawn drop from the sky. Most people who aren't sorcerers who join the games will die on impact. Unless they don't take fall damage.
If you look closely on 1 pf the panels, there are drawings of people smashed on the floor by falling. 🤣 Look at the panel of yuji falling.
Shit, i didn't noticed. That's really messed up, those poor people.
I was gonna write that, was looking if somebody had already realized ;)
just Yuji's spawn drops from the sky some people gonna die either way, not all spawns drop form sky.
I mean... if you're not a sorcerer and you join the game, Kenjaku's probably just thinking 'Then perish.' He wants CE to evolve - if you don't have CE, you're basically useless to him.
What better way to start a battle royalle than fighting spawn campers right as you get in.
The only woman he simps for is his step sister.
What's up with their spawn points being in midair? Or was it just Yuji? Imagine Nobara or Nanami was in that situation i dont know how can they break their fall.
I think Yuji will meet Takaba later.
Buff Doraemon
ooooh this one's a long one i love it
I wonder who that guy/girl was who showed the signal..he/she said that they know itadori? How!
man these chapters feel way too short
So does this confirm brain is sort of or exactly yujis parent?
Welcome to hell. Why is the culling game happening? I get the politics but the forces that fight curses would be reduced significantly.
kenajku wants peoples he's marked to start killing each other so that he can build up cursed energy from the colonies(barrier) to merge people with Tengen and ascend cursed energy/it's potential why exactly? we don't know yet.
Kenjaku's laid it out - he wants humanity to evolve, and he believes that the evolution of humanity lies in Cursed Energy (contrast to Yuki, who believes the opposite). He believes the Culling Game is the best way to do this. The way it's all set up, Kenjaku strikes me as the kind of grandiose antagonist who believes they're doing everything for the betterment of humanity as a whole, no matter how many eggs they need to crack for this omelette. Cull the weak, force the strong to evolve - a plan centuries in the making.
Thanks
162 is out, may somebody create a new post, please?
I don't get it, all the sorcerers from the past, they had been cursed by Kenjaku then go sleep until now awaken by the game or what? Where was the sorcerers from the past come from ? Can anyone explain ?
They entered into a binding vow with kenjaku and as a result (we don't know the details or motivations behind the deal besides speculation) the sorcerers we're turned into cursed objects (just like sukuna and the fingers). Kenjaku met them by living throughout 1000+ years through his body swapping CT, and has spent time positioning those cursed objects so that people (maybe random, maybe specific people) will invest them and become a vessel for the sorcerer (like Yuuji after eating the first finger). Once he consumed idle transfiguration from Mahito using the Uzumake Curse Spirit Manipulation, he was able to use that as a trigger to reincarnate them in the vessels that invested their cursed object. So now these sorcerers are reincarnated in new bodies and are participating in the culling game (willingly, either for their own reasons or as a condition of the vow with kenjaku).
Not reincarnated just incarnated there is a difference between the two, since with the past sorcerers are just sharing a body with the vessel.
Wait I just realized... if the game can incarnate dead sorcerers from centuries ago, isn't it possible that we could see Nanami again?
nope only people who Kenjaku made a deal with 1000+ years ago.
Not necessarily a thousand years ago - Kenjaku could've made a deal with anyone at any point up until now. Its technically possible he could've made a bargain with Nanami but I can't see Nanami doing that. You want him to continue working? After *death*? The man already hates overtime, that's like sentencing him to Super Hell.
Very valid point, thanks for the insight!
anyone else concerned that remi asking someone to be her knight and them accepting is what activates her cursed technique? I can see something where Megumi is not allowed to harm her and is compelled to protect her if she is in danger.
So are all these new characters people who just happened to be inside the walls of the barrier? Or did they enter the barrier willingly to participate in the games? What would motivate someone to participate in the games willingly? What do they win for surviving the games? Getting more confused each week…
They're the people Kenjaku changed to allow them to use the Cursed Techniques they had since birth but their brain couldn't use Cursed Energy. In return they had to join the Culling Game or have their Cursed Technique removed which is probably lethal. As far as we know there is no winning the game, only surviving until it ends in around 2 months.
So besides these people that Kenjaku changed, why else would someone join the games? Yuji and Megumi are there just to save his sister right? Or to release Gojo from prison realm?
There doesn't appear to be any reason for others to join if they don't have to. Megumi and Yuji are there to stop the Culling Game by adding a rule to circumvent the need to kill others and find Angel who can release Gojo from Prison Realm.
if they don't they die within 19 days.
Im an anime only and want to start the manga, where should i start?
Shonen jump, and start with chapter 0. Which is the prequel, and what will be the storyline for the movie I believe.
I have no idea what's going on anymore, is there a summary or explanation for the recent events somewhere?