Jujutsu Kaisen 2 Hurts Worse Than You Realize | WIAOP? 

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“Gojo will never lose his virginity because Gojo never loses” Yeah that tracks.

for some reason, the fact that Megumi was ACTUALLY going to summon Mahoraga because Todo threathened him is so funny to me

Kills me how not enough people realise that at the end of JJK 0 Suguru was written to believe Gojo had lost faith in him, then Gojo proved him wrong. And THEN the main manga keeps proving how Gojo's very much a morally gray character who didn't once thought of Suguru as a real enemy. He had 10 years, he knew exactly where Suguru was, he did nothing to stop his genocidal best friend. What's more, they never fought. Not even Gojo's favorite flick to the forehead. Gojo has been kind and considerate towards exactly one person, and that was Suguru Geto... his moral compass, the yin to his yang. Gege's writing van be weak in some parts but he becomes Shakespeare when it comes to these two. This isn't just Mappa going all out, Gege is the one who keeps writing stuff that even JP shippers have called delusional shipper behavior lmao

The longer I read jujutsu kaisen the more I understand why Gege decided not to show his face. 😂

Jujutsu kaisen has hurt me deeply, changed my life for the worse and probably shortened my lifespan. 10/10 would recommend

“As a manga reader, all I could feel was pain.” Geoff continues to speak for all of us.😭

During the clapping scene for Ao no Sumika, it can also be implied that those were the people who were clapping during Riko's death, they're even all wearing white

Finding out that Mothers Basement is a SatoSugu shipper was the real plot twist I wasn’t expecting

Check in on your fellow Gojo fans, they've had a rough time this week 😂

Correction, Naobito is not Maki's father. He is her uncle. Maki's father is Naobito's younger brother Ougi Zenin. Edit: Whyyyyy is my most liked comment ever me doing an um acshually.

Specialz manages to get even more painful as the season progresses. With every character death people get dropped from the group scenes until its just Yuji alone, but the most noticable change is the crater of darkness that appears in the overview of the city.

"If you can find a heterosexual explanation for THAT, there is a job waiting for you at Bandai Namco." I need you to know, Geoff, that line made me laugh so hard it expelled all the air from my lungs and gave me a headache. 10/10 would wheeze again. Thank you.

No wonder Fujimoto and Gege are good friends. Bros both kicking back drinks to seeing their characters suffer and their fans too

Man, the first few times I listened to "Ao no Sumika" I really got bittersweet vibes from it. And then I looked up the English lyrics to it, and boy, I let out an audible "Oh. Damn." after reading through them.

After starting this vid and getting to the “spoiler section” I sat down and proceeded to read all of shibuya arc in one sitting and I am just sad nothing else that entire arc was just pure pain

Three years. The blue spring of his youth. All the memories came flooding into his brain.

"How Jujutsu Kaisen Hurts You" I know the answer to that💀 Gege gives you hope, lost of it, whiles simultaneously keeping the stakes high and making you still root for the heroes despite the desperate situation, only to then at the point where the heroes are about to win via the power of friendship, he *RIPS AWAY* The hope he's been accumulating in you for the ast couple of chapters, *IN THE MOST HEART WRENCHING WAY POSSIBLE*

It's especially nasty to have the same character get defeated two different ways in the manga and anime at what feels like the same time. At least he looked cool both times...

Surprised, you didn't mention the hand claps from the first opening of season 2 being a reference to the cult celebrating Riko's death, which is the catalyst for Geto's eventual fall and what causes the rift between him and Gojo.

“Where our blue is” is the summer version of winter’s story from Given.

Where Our Blue Is being described as Anohana-esque is EXACTLY what it feels like, one of my favorite openings of the year

The strongest being beaten by sentiment rather than big attacks is honestly my favorite thing in recent anime

"If you can find a heterosexual explanation for THAT, there is a job waiting for you at Bandai-Namco!" This sends me! All the shade to them forever. Up to interpretation my ass!

I cannot decide if the returning Star Trek joke, the increasingly unhinged shipping, or the jokes about your straight-wash calling are my favourite thing about this video that is actually also a great analysis :'D

Wasn’t expecting a “What’s in an OP?” in the year of our Haruhi 2023, but I’ll take it.

Pretty sure the shot in SPECIALZ right after the fingers (23:59) is supposed to be Yuji despairing in front of an ossuary; a place people's remains are kept. In other words, showing that Sukuna has already killed a bunch of people and Yuji is overcome by guilt.

I can feel my chest bleeding bruh, all the slice of life moments, including the op, just made everything hurt just a bit more as an anime-only fan, now I get it, now I understand what the manga readers were warning us about it hurts bruh, Geto is kinda too relatable to the point where I felt like I should check in with my therapist shfbxbxj, which I should

This video has confirmed that I have absolutely zero ability to notice romantic tension. I literally just thought "wow these guys are such good friends" the whole time. I totally see it now that you spelled it out for me. These OPs go so hard though, it's great.

Sukuna been hurting the fans recently 😞

11:21 "Gojou would never lose his virginity because Gojou would never loses," gdi the layers in this joke 💯

SPOILER WARNING 27:05 ACSHUALLY the reason Choso freaks out is well explained in the manga. He can perceive any transformation his little brothers have, and death is the ultimate transformation. Yuji died in that fight, only kept in suspended death by Sukuna's power. And Yuji is actually Choso' littlest brother, since they share a parent. His fantasy sequence of them hanging out is a rationalization of this relationship they all share. This explaination stands well on its own until we get an explaination of Yuji's new soul swapping technique XD

24:10 correction: Yuji is standing infront of a mass crematorium/ mausoleum (similar to the one where he cremated his grandfather) representing all the people the sukuna mass burned to death after Jogo feeds him the 10 fingers

SPECIALZ sounds Straight up like a Halloween song and I’m all here for! It perfectly matches the atmosphere the Shibuya Arc is setting up in the Anime

The part where they show all the characters' hand doing their signature moves alongside the music goes incredibly hard.

"Could you mess things up some more?" that one line alone in the song is basically what JJK is about to be as the Shibuya arc progresses.

Okay yes, also not big on shipping but... but the longing on Gojo's side does feel romantic and quite wholesome. Pain

I absolutely love how everyone agrees that Gojo and Geto are THE most romantically coded pair of characters ever.

Honestly, it’s a really cool for an opening analysis to acknowledge the different interpretations of Gojo and Geto’s dynamic. As you said, romantically or platonically, these two HURT no matter what! (It’s also kind of sad to think about how if SatoSugu was a straight ship, nobody would be making arguments insisting they’re ‘just friends’. Like, the lyrics in both the OP and ED name drop the word ‘love’ in a romantic manner, yet people are still in against the idea?)

"Gojo doesn't wanna lose his virginity, because Gojo never loses" Jfc I could not stop laughing.

That "Cuz their not gay" caught me off guard. Old but gold meme for the win. 😂

I appreciate all of the Witch From Mercury "open to interpretation" jokes about Bandai. Also I just really like WFM, and I love hearing you talk about it. So thanks.

you missed to mention that in the last group shot of op 2 the only two to move are nanami and nobara, everyone else is standing still, i think this is a suddle hint to their fates

Why do people always get so offended when a creator mentions shipping?? I'm not the biggest fan of SuguSato personally, I've always preferred looking at their relationship from a more platonic lense, but some people really show their ass by how totally and unnecessarily angry they get at the mere thought that *maybe* there could have been romantic undertones. If you think their relationship was totally and completely platonic, that's fine! That's a completely valid viewpoint to have, but it's also valid for someone else to look at their relationship and see romance. There's no one true way to analyze a story and its characters, it's all subjective *"People aren't allowed to just be friends anymore!"* Like, my guy. People shipping two drawings together in a work of fiction does not delete the concept of friendship. Geto and Gojo aren't real people. Even if Gege came out later and said, "Yeah, they're just bros," fans continuing to ship them doesn't necessarily mean they're downplaying the concept of friendship itself.

The second opening is the definition of "Hype", especially in the part with the hand signs.

One little detail on Specialz is the transition from Unlimited avoid to Shibuya. The ripple effect I think is a way of saying the knowledge (possibly from Unlimited Void) of jujutsu is “rippling” out into the rest of the world and becoming known to non-sorcerers

Correction, It is confirmed that Yuji does not create fake memories, Choso only got those memories as he was about to kill his actual brother, as Kenjaku is the Mother of Yuji, making Choso his half brother, with Todo, he's just Todo

Surprised you didn't point out that the clapping in Where Our Blue Is comes from the star cultists after they retrieve the body.

To me the clapping symbolizes the worshippers that were clapping for Amanai’s dead body. That’s what tore Gojo and Geto

1:23 Man, they really went from an opener that invoked lots of hype, happy feels, and head bops....to feeling like the worst horror imaginable is coming. "Special" really makes you think everything is going to flip on its head and you will be left with pain and despair...which you will be! It's such a perfect op to match the source material, and the animation was phenomenal to match!

there's a shot of Nanami in episode 10 where he enters a veil and holds on for a second to talk to yuji, and he's just there, half of his face/body hidden in the darkness, and i just knew how mean the director was being to me at this moment

thank you for being one of the only people who actually brings up the romantic "subtext" and "undertones" in geto and gojo's relationships; its very telling how people will talk abt, for example, gojo's strengths and weaknesses and completely gloss over probably the biggest textual example (his love for geto) :) edit: ok i wanna clarify some things for the replies; 1) romance does not equal sex; they are two different things and while you can have both you can also have one without the other. when i say romantic subtext, i mean _romantic_ subtext - what that means depends on what you (and the text) deems romantic. i could go on abt the parallels between yuuta and rika / geto and gojo's true love in the movie but the point is made itself. i think people's insistence on seeing sexuality between these two characters when people claim romance comes from their misconceptions of not being able to separate the two. 2) a romantic relationship between geto and gojo isn't really _more_ meaningful than a platonic one, in the text itself. but, if we chose to look outside of jjk and at the real world implications of that (ie. an actual mainstream queer relationship in a hit shonen series) then there's an added layer of meaning to that for queer people especially. it's a little disrespectful claim that we're making everything gay, or whatever when we've never gotten something this textual and blatant -(that I've seen, at least). we're not trying to ruin male friendships (that would be nartuo and sasuke lmao)-; we're just filling in the gaps as we see fit, as a lot of the nuance of jjk is up to audience interpretation. if you see it as romantic, then great! you have a lot of evidence to support it. if you see it as platonic (i tend towards qpr myself) then great! you can derive meaning from that! if you see one and refuse to respect people who see the other, I'm afraid one group has more nefarious, ignorant (and probably homophobic) motives than the other.

another fun fact, the part of that shot of Yuji holding his head in that room. that perticular room is a specific place where they keep bodies( forgot the name im mad i cant remember it), basically indicating how all the lives lost, or will be lost, will affect him during this arc and onward

What an amazing analysis, thank you for this, I know every whats in an OP takes loads of time to make and must be a copyright nightmare, but it is my favourite series from you by a MILE, so each one brings me unending joy.

I have a feeling I know how this anime is going to end. This is NOT a spoiler because there is nothing to indicate this will be the end and doesn't spoil any future plot elements, but given how much JJK likes to hurt us and Gege's overall writing style...it has a certain tragic anti-parallel cruel tragic beauty to it. In the first chapter, Yuji's grandpa's last words to him were "When it's time to go, make sure you're surrounded by others. Don't end up like me." This makes Yuji's goal to live a life ended by a good death, surrounded by loved ones. The tragic opposite of this is if Yuji somehow winds up immortal, but forever alone. Instead of a good death surrounded by loved ones, he'll live forever surrounded by no one. I have my guess as to how this is going to happen, but this is how I see this wonderful, painful series ending. Like Geoff said in his Shonen Power systems video (it's wonderful, go watch it), JJK is Shonen battle themed tragedy, and this ending would be the ultimate cruel irony for our little axolotl.

CORRECTION: Choso's vision of Yuji was NOT any Cursed Technique of his and not foreshadowed by Todo's vision. Gege Akutami clarified in an interview that it wasnt an ablity of Yuji and we later learn that the connection between the two is that Yuji and Choso were both created by Kenjaku, making Yuji technically the tenth Death Painting and the real biological brother of Choso. We also later see that Yuji is confirmed not to have a Cursed Technique since Higuruma's confiscation ability confiscates his Cursed Energy automatically instead of his CT on account of him not having one.

I'm still unclear about Yuji's alleged curse technique. We saw it in action two times, but the first may very well just be Todo being Todo and the second one seems to actually have a very good reason to have worked this way that isn't realted to any technique but just Yuji's origin.

I'm so happy someone made such a detailed analysis of openings, both visuals and lyrics. I'd love the same with endings too. "Akari" is so painful T_T But yeah, "Ao no Sumika" - SatoSugu tragic soulmates and "SPECIALZ" - it's all about to go to shit... dramatically

Whenever I watch Ao No Sumika and see the Gojo and Geto scenes, I think of the ProZD audio "oh they fucking"

"You missed your calling writing 90s dubs" you had me dying over and over with this one!

Your videos always make my days better jeff! Youre the best😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

This Manga makes me very upset, but I love it.😭

Satosugu definitely "grappled" with each other at least once. Totally like bros, totally not feelings involved. Totally.

the very last shot of geto confidently looking up as his plans come into action, and gojo, covering his eyes and slumping downwards as his time to shine dims away like the light in his eyes.

ao no sumika was hype, the first ending was full of feels, specialz sounds like a nightclub song but makes sense, the whole cast looks like is going to a summer festival and finally, more than words DESTROYS MY HEART.

"gojo would never lose his virginity cuz gojo never loses" is the funniest line I have heard about this show ever

Great video. Always had a feeling about Gojo and Geto, but you laid it out perfectly. Really tragic. Also I loved the shoutout to WFM and Bandais shitty behaviour. I would love to see a video of yours on Witch from Mercury. I really liked the anime, especially for its character-writing.

First of all, when i read the lyrics to Ao no Sumika it all clicked for me. It was so obvious how coded Geto and Gojo are. I'm flabbergasted that I only ever read it as them being best friends but the song really re-contextualizes their relationship if you choose to view the song as canon to Gojo's viewpoint. I feel seen, Geoff!! Also, yeah. Where is Gege Akutami? I just want to talk to the cat! Just talk, I swear!

NNSNSNSN YOU GET IT. a subsection of the internet will really hate you but c’mon the material is there and it just adds layers to the story. them being best friends does not dismiss them maybe having feelings that they just didn’t necessarily act on 😭 i think the op and ed did such a great job of fleshing out gojo’s time in high school and why he treasures that time so much. i’ve never seen an op/ed do that so well. it’s nice to know gege was involved in/looking over the production of this season too. so so great

If you listen real close, you can hear Yazy crying in the background over getting sucked in by Gojo.

I had only a passing interest in JJK but hearing geoff say 'there are plenty of ways to interpret their relationship and none of them are straight' has actually made me interested

That joke about Bandai Namco around 16:00 is fucking murder, Geoff. It was right there and you NAILED it.

Gege built up Gojo as the strongest to be his punching bag🥺 also Specialz has been my favorite OP I’ve heard this whole year. Looks & sounds amazing.

We all know Gojo and Geto would've wrestled to see who was bottom for the day 😂

One cool detail about the blue opening is that it begins with Gojo asleep in his Office and the flashback ends with Gojo waking up in his Office with his 3 students, like he was dreaming

thank you for talking about the romantic subtext between gojo and geto

I don't know another way of describing the vibe of SPECIALZ, it feels like a Chainsaw Man ED in the best ways possible. It makes it looks like the coolest horror/action anime ever. As someone who never got into JJK, it almost makes me want to pick it up

I've been missing these WIAOPs! It's what originally drew me to your channel many years ago, and then you do it for one of my favourite anime!!!! Gonna add some of my own thoughts here, with MANGA SPOILERS Some things you might have missed or left out for times sake in 'Ao no sumika' is that (1) sharing a bicycle in Japan is considered romantic, (2) that the empty classroom at the end could mirror the scene in JJK0 where Gojo is sitting right by such a sunset in a classroom reminiscing about Geto (while Geto is also staring at the same sunset probably also reminicing about him) and (3) that the text above the chalkboard in the classroom says "Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honoured one." Also the way the first OP and ED interact when it comes to the tragic end of Gojo's and Geto's relationship is just painful, the lyrics have forever changed me. In 'SPECIALZ' when Yuuji is having his mental breakdown in front of the ossuary (?) you can also see that the decorations on them look like a brain with it's two distinct hemispheres, a reference to the brain inside Getou's body -pointing to Kenjaku's involvement with Yuuji and how almost everything bad happening to the characters including the Sukuna-massacre that Yuuji is breaking down over is because of Kenjaku (considering the implications that Kenjaku birthed Yuuji, probably to be a vessel for Sukuna as a back-up plan if the sealing failed). After the shot of Gojo opening his eyes and the zoom in over Tokyo, I also read the ripple effect as showing how everything that happens in Shibuya (including Gojo's sealing) has a big ripple effect over all of Japan. I have been thinking way too much about JJK these past months... Oh god the manga...

not even dudebros can deny that satosugu are doing the absolute most for each other to a point that it's not platonic anymore

This is my first real experience being one of the people who knows everything that's coming. It's been really surreal seeing everybody react to iconic moments in the JJK story for the first time in animated form. Riko being assassinated by Toji just when Geto thinks she's safe, Gojo's awakening against Toji in his rematch, and Gojo being sealed in the prison realm after realizing the friend he knew he killed is still around, except not really. There's many, many more iconic moments to come in the Shibuya arc, and in the Culling Games after it. I can't wait to see anime onlys seeing these moments we read 2+ years ago for the first time, and feeling what we did back then.

Funny how Geto left Gojo, but chose to wear a gojo-kesa robe

Im not going to say gojo and geto are gay. But when i, as a man, flirt with my boyfriend, i do similar things. Ive been told from some less than trustworthy sources that 2 men dating is gay. Just food for thought of course.

I’m so happy to see this video on my feed!!! The first OP might be my favorite of the entire year so it’s so cool to see you cover it so throughly

I want there to be some near slice of life like anime just focusing on Gojo's younger years and all of them just hanging out and living their student JJ High life before the whole Hidden Inventory ordeal.

Man the animators, are really going in on the deathflags this season. They even have her covering her eye in the ending😢

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!! These videos of yours always give me such HUGE inspiration, but especially this one!!!! I just listened to the song for 3 and a half hours while I drew pages of concept art and character sketches for my own short film and its OP--your statement at 13:44 of "as symbolism goes, this is just ambiguous enough to not spoil what it's pretty obviously spoiling" AS LIT MY IMAGINATION ON FIRE for the symbolism and Easter Eggs I can use for my own OP!!! I can't thank you enough!!!! I'm also going to give the anime another try and have a good feeling I'm gonna get hooked!!!!!!

this video made my day, i'm so not normal about jjk on an average day but with the things happening in the manga right now i think about it almost every single minute i'm awake so it came at the right time. your analysis is genuinely so much fun to watch, especially since i'm obsessed with both of those ops and have tried deciphering them on my own. also you're so real for being a shonen enjoyer who isn't allergic to the idea that maybe not every kickass shonen guy is 110% straight, obviously nothing is explicity canon but honestly i find the idea of them being in love interesting to think about, it adds another (very painful) layer to their already painful relationship.

This is one of my newest favorite Jujutsu Kaisen video in history, Geoff!😍❤️

Toji the straighest man of the world vs the most gay duo of all time truly was the best fight of the season

The entire opening, but that scene of Shoko leaning on the railing has me on my KNEES. She deserved so much better. But every literal second of this opening is art. Literal ART.

Dammit, and here I was just getting over the recent manga chapters. I will say I never knew that the first S2 OP song was actually composed from the POV of Gojo towards Geto.The OP and posters for the HI arc always gave me this melancholy feeling of better days gone by, regrets, and what could have been, but now with that new info and knowing the meaning of the lyrics it just hits even harder. Good stuff good stuff

King Gnu is my new favorite little freak band and I hope they never stop.

Can't wait for the third opening to have a purple vibe. Let Megumi direct it, too.

30:29 There was no indication that he was gonna summon Mahoraga against Todo, we only know he was only getting serious which could have been more attack focus tactics, Max Elephant or Divine Dog: Totality. The only times he tried to summon Mahoraga were: 1)1 Finger Sukuna/Yuji (Aborted due to arrival of Gojo) 2) 3 Fingers Sukuna (Aborted because Sukuna was starting to fade away and Yuji was returning) 3) Hanami (Inumaki stopped him) 4) Finger Bearer (Decided not to here and used Chimera Shadow Garden)

I took the hand coming forward at the end of "Where Our Blue Is" was Gojo removing the blindfold. The OP is essentially him reminiscing right before his students walk in and he uncovers an eye to look at them (at the end of the Hidden Inventory arc)

Yeah. I remember seeing how the women of the Zenin clan were treated. Like servants at best if not outright breeding stock. That whole clan needed to burn!

15:01 don’t tell that Gojo smiling in the head of the dragon isn’t a reference to Dragon ball Z opening’s, with gohan over the head of Shen Long.

I actually saw the clapping part was a misdirection for anime fans, as if they're claps of praise and encouragement to the two strongest sorcerers, just for the meaning to be flipped over it's head after the end of episode 4, including a similar shot of the two of them that symbolizes their split. The ending gives a much sadder reflection on the good times they all had, I wish you covered it here too. They did an amazing job with symbolism in these episodes.

You've got a new subscriber. You're not afraid to discuss things other anime channels would never touch.

Just what i needed aftwe this crazy chapters! Love ya jeff!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤