Jujutsu Kaisen's Ending Was... 

even as someone who likes the ending, 269 definitely was the worst chapter of the series

he was definitely, fed up probably cuz of schedule. i still liked the ending tho

@@eddy_pues Plus Gege hates Gojo sadly while the fans love him.

@@anthonyduran7553 also that, we honestly could have got some visual closure to his character Also.” A grave “🤦🏿‍♂️

That sounds about right for JJK. It always prioritizes the battles over the story, in my opinion.

@@TK-867 what makes it(jjk)different is that it handles both very,smoothly and both go kind of hand in hand like how gojo vs sukuna still is considered to contain symbolism,dynamics and whatever but the last 5 chapters failed to do that(other then sukuna's death or his redemption)

@@Friedrice885 Your mistake was forgetting Gege hates you

@@Friedrice885 I mean the last few chapters are essentially a passing of the torch to the new generation and rounding out yuji's character. His motivation for being a sorcerer is constantly called into question throughout the series so its nice to see him adopt a bit of Gojo's perspective at the end. I kinda agree that the stuff with simple domain was unnecessary, but between that and the end of basically every major family it also reinforced the concept that the jujutsu world was corrupted and conservative to a fault. If that isn't symbolism I don't really know what is.

@@nathanielmathews2617 His mistake was actually thinking Gege was a great author

Not that I think it was a great ending overall, but I did love sukuna and yuji’s conclusion. And that’s the most important thing so I’m at least somewhat satisfied. Still hoping for a part 2. If there is, this could become a great ending instead of a serviceable one.

I get what you mean (and what Gege probably meant), but I looked at Sukuna as more than that. His whole thing was pride and selfishness, I don't think he should've conceded that easily, just because he lost a 1 vs 63618 fight. And even if he did, the whole thing needed more time, a LOT more than what it got. Like I said in the video, the concept is fantastic, but the execution was severely lacking.

@@ProbablyPretentious for most things you said, I agree with the sentiment. Most things in the last 5 chapters needed more time. But for sukuna’s change, there was setup at least 23 chapters ago, in 248. Possibly more than 50 if you consider the line that Sukuna kept thinking about, “the one who will teach you about love is…”. 248 showed us that by sharing a body with yuji, sukuna saw for the first time that someone else had an ideal that was different than his, but just as unshakable. Yuji never giving up on megumi, and eventually reaching him, and even reaching out a hand to sukuna, cemented in sukuna’s mind that it was possible for him to have taken a different path in life. He was too proud to accept Yuji’s hand and change his path in his current life, but it was enough to make him accept that maybe hedonism wasn’t the absolute truth that he thought it was, and try for something else in his next life. I think execution was lacking in a lot of aspects of the ending and a lot of things needed more time, but sukuna’s conclusion is the one thing that I thought was fantastic in concept and execution. Art is subjective though, and I’m always glad to hear your takes👍

​@@ProbablyPretentiousyou can think of it this way: he just got bored. He essentially died and was given a chance at a new life, why not try out different paths? It's basically a new game plus for him

​@@ProbablyPretentious This last chapter completes sukuna and doesn't contradict what he did and said previously. with the latest chapter I see loads of possibilities for sukuna in a completely new light. A boy who was cursed by his surroundings so much that he encapsulated that persona. Its like if Naruto turned a villain and committed so many atrocities to the point where he feels like he is nature's divine wrath on life. Sukuna's atrocities will also be seen in a new light. But even sukuna doesn't care about redeemability. He is not somebody who is completely changed but wonders about the second path because losing meant death and now he wonders after seeing what would happen if he took the second path. Maybe at the end it wasn't as fulfilling as he thought his end would be. Its a brilliant characterization and subversion of tropes. We thought sukuna was kurama but he was Naruto who didn't have someone to lift him up and turned out to be like this after decades of slaughter.

I’m still trying to figure out what was the point of having Kenjaku in the last chapters with a censored face. It’s obviously him because he’s the only weirdo with a hairstyle like that. So… is he just a good guy now because Takaba made him laugh? He gets to avoid any kind of punishment for a thousand year long mass murder spree (including causing literally every death we saw in the series) for the sake of experiments? No more interest in the culling games or the merger? It’s just weird.

​@@arpadszabo661 Maybe it's just Takaba's imagination manifested using his CT but there's really no definite explanation. It's understandable not to spoon-feed everything to the readers but Gege downright skipped many plot points that seemed important.

They hating but they can only say it's bad if their a writer Ofc they hate on every single ending ever

Not to mention aot's ending was good for me

I like Demon Slayer's ending. The ending for AOT was good too, I understood the author's point. The rest were good, not great. None of them were trash

True I feel the same they call almost every ending mid or bad

@@JayanthReddy-g5n people wanted a sequel not an ending bc they thought it'll probably be suck(said by them).

Yuki, kashimo, and the other culling games characters get killed even halfway of the culling games

Though the execution was a bit lacking I agree with you, a lot of people that think the conclusion was trash and called Sukuna "fraud" for fighting with Megumi's technique really miss the point with is character. They thought he was the coolest and the "rawest" despite Gege continuously showing how pathetic and petty he actually was, they remember how he defeated Jogo and Maho without breaking a sweat, fucking mahito off with only a look, his almost poetic dialogues etc. They really overlooked a lot that makes him a disgusting curse, stuff like laughing with mahito over Junpei dying in helpless Yuji's arms, revealing to Yuji that people died on Yasohachi bridge was because he ate the finger, cutting Jogo for not kneeling low enough, killing the girls for bargaining with him, messing with Kusakabe and Panda just cause he can, decimating Shibuya just for Yuji to feel responsible, again laughing at yuji with Uraume, getting pissed that Yuji pitied him etc. All that being said, I still think he is pretty fucking cool because of he is so nonchalant about everything he does, he's dgaf attitude, he's character design, but that is not all of him. He may look cool to us but as a living character his personality was very petty, that is the reason Yuji pitied him and wanted to give him a second chance. People just take things at face value and run without actually looking into it and when something happens that doesn't match with preconceived notion they freak out and throw around shit like "fraud" "clown". I also think the anime blew up his coolness out of proportion (which I love and it's not a negative) with the music, the animation, the storyboarding around his scene, his VA and the general presentation had the "rawest aura" around him. That's you see so many Sukuna pfps everywhere, they have this image of him that is not true to his character. His last confession to Yuji was similar to how he acknowledged Jojo in Shibuya and his last talk to Gojo in Shinjuku. He absolutely despised Yuji more than anyone because Yuji tried his best despite being so weak, and that weak "brat" was his prison. Yuji always overpowered him eventually and Sukuna hated it, that why he looked for a "better" vessel in Megumi. Sukuna knew Yuji in and out, he knew how fragile his soul was, how hurtful he was of others suffering, and to Sukuna those ideas were weak and pathetic. Sukuna hated that Yuji that he still fought, he could never acknowledge Yuji cause that would make his ideals of strength somewhat wrong. But in the end he did just that when he lost, Sukuna wasn't even taking 80% of the last fight seriously unless he had to fight Yuji, yes everyone chipped away his hp but it was Yuji that truly defeated him. He acknowledged Yuji in the end and his fate.

It's just kids being mad tbh, they complain when what they want doesn't happen and also complain whenever it does

would be hilarious to see newgen manga readers go through something like the boo arc in DBZ or the ending of Naruto. Those are some actually terrible/rushed capstones to great works

@@sabershark3102 schrodinger's fanbase, gege is simultaneously a hack for doing something I don't want and a hack for listening to me

They know better what profits them most

lmao csm fans are the most spoilt; imagine having such a good adaptation and hating it.

Money talks

You already commented this exact thing on another video about the ending, do you seriously have nothing better to do?

​@@Sanji_articyeah Sloppy seconds? Csm has one of the best animation in recent shonen

They would have to overhaul the entire final arc to properly "fix" the ending

@@TheRockerX I am not suggesting an entire new ending, I just want them to add some new scenes and stuff

AOTs ending was already good, all it needed was a few touchups. JJKs ending is an absolute dumpster fire, they need to completely change it to make it good.

AOT's ending being fixed seems more like input from the actual author who wrote the story than MAPPA's involvement, but yeah I agree I hope the anime expands on it at least a little.

Isayama had full hands in that. He stated in a con that he was still immature when writing the manga ending. The anime ending is his vision for the story fully realized.

I don't understand bringing up bleach almost every time. Yes, Gege clearly took inspiration from bleach but jjk's storyline & plot progressed independently without a significant overlap between both the shows.

​@@just1narcissistwell brought it for fun but the thing is that several panels of sukuna ending looks very similar to how yhwach got defeated. I guess csm is gonna carry sheshimo line and mappa's legacy

@@vaidikchauhan4382 An animation company's legacy does not depend on the content ufotable is still held in high regard for the fate movies even though some of them are horrible adaptations

​@@KartkKar-ld2rlbro I said the legacy thing for fun however ending was pretty underwhelming hope gege does this right in anime

About what you said about inspiration, does the maximum output techniques count as bankai?

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

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

thats the thing its not an ending its just blank.....

​​@@Jaideep-cq1dy i know. That's probably why I was just staring at my screen for a solid 10 minutes. Thank heavens I read more manga than just Battle Shonen

"No one could reach him,he was easily understood by people" Brother it's been stated multiple times by gojo and the cast that no one can understand him,that's literally true no one understood him that's why his fight with sukuna was so important for him.

Tbh Aot's ending was good for me. They just want a sequel for every popular series(I think).

@@sunilshakya7415 the trailer was really very great in terms of direction,art direction and animation. And cgi fire very well in show. Its gonna be great visually.

A lot of anime took inspiration from dragon ball, and ended up being better than him

@@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)

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.

Lol no offence but you remind me of this guy on MAL who keeps hating on jjk and starts praising csm like it’s the most perfect thing on earth. Unlike you tho they speak very rudely

Chainsaw Man is miles better than Jjk. I don't like to compare but Tatsuki fujimoto is just a more capable author compared to Gege .

Ah yes,5 lines about jjk on a jjk video and the rest glazing csm lmfao stop coming out on anime videos

fr it would be a crime comparing average shonen jjk to CSM, csm is literally so superior, new, fresh, cool, funny, charismatic, alive, complex, deeper its not even a comparison CSM probably best anime from the last decade

@@hood4364 Bait used to be believable

Nooooo, I wanted Shuu Sugita to work on the remake, not Naruto.

Average literally means mid

@@OK-69420 lol I made a mistake... I'll edit it. But still tho, according to many people who use the word "mid" they mean it's trash or bad...

India and I remember him telling he is from west bengal+ also said he play with dolls he makes and use niddle on them too.

Clearly seems to be Indian.

​@@vaidikchauhan4382damn his accent is good

He's from North Carolina, USA... how could you not tell?

Cope harder lol

I might have agreed on this statement if gege had atleast considered that he is gonna end THE FRIGGIN' MANGA AND SHOULD TAKE IT SERIOUSLY !! ... but he fcked up hard time

Come on I have never watched mha but still think it was a fine ending... I mean, it was a very "heroic" type story and the ending is suitable for it.

Jjk fans being the most pathetic and miserable people on earth and not accepting the fact that other stories simply had better endings:

why is mha supposed to be bad? because Deku didn't slay Uraraka at the end?