Probably pretentious and mankoman are tied for my favorite RU-vidr. Please keep up the amazing content, as someone who really goes deep into the animation side of shows, I appreciate your every video!
Dude after watching this video, I’d love to hear your take on dorohedoro. Extremely different tone wise but oddly similar thematically. Regardless both are a fkn blast to read.
Dorohedoro is one of the most underrated anime/manga, but I am glad that there will be a season 2 produced by MAPPA again. I am pretty sure he hasn't heard about it either.
@@indianflippingart9593 I know l know but still jjk is not the greatest shounen anime ever animes like black colver, bleach, one piece, naruto and also father of all anime dragon ball are better than jjk 😌(cry about it)
@@prashantbhatia2211Dragonball isn't the father of all anime. Astro Boy is the closest thing to that Dragonball is the father of modern battle manga and even then it owes influence to Kinnikuman and other series
READ THIS CAZ I SPENT MY TIME(LIFE) ON TYPING THIS SO COMMENT SO THAT I KNOW U READ THIS BRO CALLING JJK METHODICA AND PERPOUSFULL is quite absurd jjk is one of the most senceless manga comepete ripoff of hunterxhunter(power stustem), bleach like mc(no purpose), shallow world building, and thing here were meant to be deep became shallow for example yuji's grandfather died with no one around him which was shown in start of story ,and yuji wanted a death with people around him but what that shit mangaka do yuji lived which make no sence a 17 year old kikked thousand year old curce same with yuta killing kenjaku , nobara comeback from no ware her head was split open come on , and jjk was ment TO BE DARK but but was this ending every one alive and sunshine and rainbows, honesty i have accepted the fact shonen is for kids so moving on to senin and don't forget CHAINSAW MAN >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>JJK only good shonen's are chainsaw man monogatri series hunter x hunter
17:40 that is copium, an ending is very important to any story no matter what genre or style or else the author can make bullshit stuff up whenever they want without following up on it. I can agree not everything needs to be answered, but JJK have a lot of critical stuff that were missing or didnt fulfill on. I agree an ending shouldn't take away all enjoyment of a work, but JJK is not even a masterclass storytelling from the beginning to the mid point even. There is a lot of stuff that makes zero sense if you put some logic in to it, like how Geto's dilemma leading him to become a villain made no sense. He had an third option other than genocide which would be giving up on becoming a sorcerer, or he could have gone full rogue against the whole time vessel association (would have made him a far more interesting character and a morally grey one too) rather every non-sorcerers since they could be trained to not leak cursed energy. Despite this Geto gets offscreen taken by Kenjaku after the JJK 0 which is just silly and bad writing, if Gege wanted to lead to this conclusion there is so many better ways to handle this "takeover" without it being an asspull. This is just one out of many problems, even the way how someone gain cursed energy in itself is a plothole in the worldbuilding given how easily it could be abused..
11:56 Nobara was dead, she got her head penetrated to death.. and the closest form for resurecction in JJK is the séance technique which wasn't used so if her body could rot away until someone came and "insert plothole" then Nanami could have been brought back to life too. Gojo wouldn't have needed a deus ex machina character switch up and could have instead been resurrected on the sideline. People thought Nobara was dead (sure it wasn't 100% confirmed, but the display was fatal) because she didn't return for a very long time and she recieved a deathblow.. but apparently JJK is just another fakeout death manga now. Disney Kaisen here we go..
Although i don't agree with how late Nobara came back, Nobara's "death" was left with purposeful ambiguity, and remember, Nita was able to apply his technique to her which prevented her from bleeding out entirely, Shoko also alluded to Nobara "not being fully recoverd" at the start of the Shinjuku showdown, again, i think the way Nobara came back was too late, however it was still foreshadowed.
@@itapproaches3484but for what purpose? Was Gege just too lazy to develop Nobara? It just feels like he didn't want to do anything with her character and brought her back at the VERY END just to say "hey! Look she's actually helpful! She's so cool right!?" while he doesn't care about her in the slightest. He just wanted a woman in the trio for the quota imo
@mishmashed3842 "didn't want to" it's not about wanting to, not only is Shonen jump absolutely repulsive with the workloads that it puts on authors, plus there's a specific deadline Gege had to abide by which was impossible as his health has been deteriorating for awhile now, which is why he needs to take so much breaks, Gege clearly wanted more time to flesh out the story, however he just can't.
@@itapproaches3484absolutely agree with this but i don't feel like this was the issue. She brought nothing to the story since the beginning imo. Sure, she got 1 or 2 (realistically, one) "hype moments" only to die the next season. Rushing characters isn't a problem at all tho and i absolutely get that the schedule is tight but the other characters have at least some kind of purpose/role and bare minimum backstory. Nobara? She... had a childhood. Gojo never spoke to her, no focus on her. She pretty much already had the death mark on her head since the beginning. This is so disappointing. I can't even give you a resume of her character and personality since we got nothing. All that for what? To actually not die just to appear at the very end of the story. You get what I mean?
15:22 I think I have an answer for what changed when Sukuna accepted Yuji. It’s not as simple as “Sukuna lost and Yuji’s strength won, so Sukuna accepts him now”. There’s a more thematic reason for it I feel. As we’ve seen, Gojo had to humble himself in order to gain some sort of connection with his students, while he couldn’t full on connect with them, his role as a teacher through humbling himself helped him to connect with them in a way where Gojo continued to be a selfless individual who cared and fought for others. Sukuna on the other hand never cared enough about others to humble himself the same way. He always understood selflessness and why people engaged with it, but he simply never cared to humble himself to get to their level. When Yuji and his friends beat Sukuna, they FORCED him to humble himself, they showed him what it was like to be on the level of the people below him. Through this, it makes sense why Sukuna would change his world view so drastically, he was able to see things from the perspective of others, and this lead to him to not mind living with others rather than cursing them. There’s always been a clear thematic connection between unstoppable power coming with solitude, so logically, it would make sense for this humbling of Sukuna’s power to change his world view on living with others instead of in solitude.
Really great analysis here. I just wanted to say that I know you mainly do animation breakdown content, but this is also incredible. So please keep it up with both. Cheers
I waited so long to read the visual novel after only watching the anime, and I had originally really enjoyed the anime. I was expecting good things from the VN, and let me just say it didnt just meet expectation it surpassed them, just after reading the first route the ending was absolutely phenomenal and left me aching to read more!
The ending was an outline more than anything. We could've easily had another volume's worth of chapters to let it breathe more. It's definitely not the worst shounen ending I've read, that honor goes to Tokyo Revengers. MAPPA has a huge task ahead of them. One has to wonder, though, who wants to work on that project given the hellish conditions of season two.
14:42 in this panel, sukuna was kinda saying "im amazed how you take this bs(aka the thematic of yuji emphasizing or pitying him) too this point" This is how I think ofc. He never admits the defeat until In the last chapter deciding to go to north, by becoming a new person. Very sweet ending to show at the end, sukuna accept his defeat and become a new person like gojo.
The thing is people comments are so dramatically toxic towards gege work that they sounds quiet beefing. The over all show jjk. The story in general make sense with flawlessly logic continuity from the beginning to now and it stays to his true logic. Gorgeous thematic and philosophy wise writing without breaks, epic hype continuisity, loveable characters, characters returns are awesome especially todo one(aside nobara that it's surprising in both confused and happy). And on ability, he's genius for it in my opinion. But the only flaws is lack of character interaction. And leaving questionable number of questions without any answer which some of them are irrevelant. Basically you see a professional artist showing his process. People generally use to make rough sketch, clean sketch and line work etc. But the artist just straight up use the rough line and went to coloring and yet result still masterpiece, and leaving people Perplexed with many questions. Or we could say professional artist says I did this and this but people still have more question but the artist never answer again. Jjk writing is gorgeous since the beginning to now but it has empty space in between every chapters. Those empty are basically chapters dedicated for the explanation. People instead use word bad writing and shaming people who who love it without proper reasons, that rather become more personal than facts. The "unfortunate lost opportunity" or "a very cool idea not realized" these type of words is the right word to make yourself understand rather conclude your paragraph sentence with "bad writing" and yet the reason of major tappers "is gege losing the opportunity of going more deep into it the specific thing" PP did explain well. Thanks you gege
A lot of the endings of popular mangas are not considered good. Me, I find a lot of them to be perfectly okay, for example one of the most recent ones with MHA being fine. I think JJK is one of the few manga endings I actually find to be complete shit (I'm really talking about the 5-10 last chapters). It feels rushed & badly written, the little amount of time we have to close the story is used on stuff that amounts or means nothing, The final showdown was the most anticlimatic thing ever, etc... I could keep going. The actual final confrontation was Gojo vs Sukuna and actually hooked me. The ending of that fight was actually really good and broung interesting topics.
I'd write a wall of text, but I'd rather cut it short and say that I have many problems with this manga, it's purely subjective. Easiest to understand: I don't like how it looks
I think the ending makes perfect sense but some aspects of it were very rushed. Gojo's legacy and hope for the future of jujutsu world lives through Yuji (Yuji has powerful allies that can help him improve the system - something that Gojo always wanted. Gojo got his arc nicely wrapped back in 236 and I still think he got the most meaningful farewell out of all characters along with a few earlier characters like Nanami, Geto, Mahito and Jogo). I never thought Sukuna was truly enlightened and unbothered because he was very clearly bitter about Yuji at an abnormal level for him. I've always known Yuji will be the one to defeat Sukuna since Yuji's main power has always been connecting to others, something that Sukuna rejected and Gojo couldn't achieve after Geto. The way Sukuna was losing his unbothered mask whenever Yuji was involved (and the fact that it's the son of his reincarnated twin he ate that kinda predetermined his path and existence), him saying things like "I was a cursed unwanted little wrench", and just how he was convinced that love and connections are unnecessary and weak but got defeated by the representation of this exact thing, it would make sense Sukuna would at least consider a different path when the previous one failed. I agree that it should have been explored more during his fight with Yuji and not just by him being bothered with everything Yuji was/represented. My main critique is that the pacing of the last arc was rushed and a lot of other characters didn't get enough attention to emotionally connect to their journey and conclusion. I wish Kenjaku had a better ending to his arc or that we could have at least seen the consequences of his merger plan's failure. Megumi's arc was underexplored and jumped right to a disconnected "happy" conclusion. We never got to properly know or connect to some newer characters that showed up for Culling Game - there was no time to develop them. All in all, I think the problem with everything after the Shibuya arc and Sukuna vs Gojo was pacing. Gege still managed to explore major story themes, the main plot and conclusion made sense but the journey was rushed and skipped some development and exploration for some characters. Overall, I believe the entire story is incredibly captivating and has held people in its grip for years but I agree that Gege was burned out and was in a rush to finish it. I still think Hidden Inventory arc was his favorite (he never really put as much effort and time into exploring characters not only on thematic but emotional level but the scale of that arc is also much smaller than the ones after that).
The fact that Gege spent a chapter on yapping about simple domains and using his characters as mouthpiece to argue with critics with only 2 chapters left is crazy
Yes you said it, the ending was ok as a filler but it left alot to be desired. So much potential. I do like Sukunas end as I had so much fun laughing in the last pages but thats it... everyone elses felt like they needed more. Anyways I love your fight analysis, 100% agree with it.
This is going to sound really petty and I genuinely don’t mean it to but what changed between when you were saying “JJK fans are forcing their head canons on the author (who obviously knows better than them)” a month ago and now, when you’re saying what themes you think Gege missed, character moments you would’ve changed, etc.? I honestly already leaned more towards the perspective you have now and didn’t fully understand your point last time, but now I’m just more confused haha
I think his point last time was simply: "We should wait for the whole picture to render itself instead of trying to fit in our ideas of what we think the picture looks like and claiming that to be the fact of the matter."
@@sonicsenryaku6205 yeah I fully get that but it seemed more like he was talking about events that already happened, he also complained about people saying the arc felt rushed while in this video he says that he thinks Gege rushed it. I’m just kinda confused on the different between his complaints now, and others complaints before
@@berdabo9271 Right; previously it seemed his point was: "you can't know for sure these aspects of the story are rushed until you see the whole picture," Now that he has the whole picture and can draw from those remaining 5 chapters, his opinion is now, "Yeeeeeaaaaa you know what, things did feel a bit rushed because those last 5 chapters didn't allocate their time properly to flesh out the ending in a satisfying enough way." It's not really a backpedal. Before, he was simply saying that the story for the most part has done a good job getting to where it was, and that we'd need to see how the 5 chapters play out to verify whether it sticks the landing or not. Now that we have the context of the remaining 5 chapters, he feels there are a few things lacking in refinement. Even if his opinion seems to be in agreement with what the fandom was saying previously, his stance still remains that it's more beneficial to wait for things to play out than assuming you know the truth about something you don't have the full picture of
@@sonicsenryaku6205 right makes sense so maybe. I think I just personally think it’s valid to make up your mind on something’s quality before you’ve seen how it’s played out, purely because of it being less personally enjoyable than it used to be, regardless of what will happen. I also get the perspective that something should only be viewed by the sum of its parts, but I guess I just don’t enjoy things the same way 🤷♂️
@@berdabo9271 I think it's valid to express how you feel regardless of how complete something is; but i also think people should formulate their opinions responsibly and demonstrate some self-awareness with how they interact with media. Be able to recognize when you're having a knee-jerk reaction to content; be able to have enough humility to allow your opinions to change IF there is enough information and evidence to warrant it; be able to recognize when you might be glazing something a bit too much due to an initial first impression; be able to accept that you're a human being and are susceptible to impulsive reactions; that your opinions can skewed by certain biases. Basically, so as long as you demonstrate a capacity to reflect and edit your viewpoints, as any experienced critical thinker should, it's perfectly fine to have strong initial impressions and to be able to express them
