The Blinding Stoicism of Kokichi Muta || Mechamaru || 

I gotta respect how bro wasted zero time and got straight back to business as soon as he got his body back👏🏽😤

Mechamaru is definitely one of the tragedies of JJK for multiple reasons, but one that doesn't get pointed out enough is how he could have benefited the world at large. Man created a battery that could hold 17 years of cursed energy and he could utilize it to perform tasks. That sort of thing could revolutionize the world. Transferring cursed energy to batteries could also help alleviate one of the problems at the core of Jujutsu Kaisen (free cursed energy coalescing into spirits) while simultaneously aiding the world.

U hear people calling Muta greedy for wanting more because he was surrounded by friends and love but who wouldn’t do what he did to feel and do things someone with a fully functioning body can do

I think kokichi's story is a great way to show the cruelty of the world of jjk that even someone as talented intelligent and well-prepared as muta can die from poor decision-making and or unforeseen factors as well as showing how much of a threat mhaito is.

He’s like a jujutsu artificer. He made the most of his bad situation and was still able to fight

The crazy part is even though he still is a “traitor” no one blames him for what he did bc at the end of the day we would too if we were in the same predicament, he just wanted to live his life as kokichi, not mechamaru.

Mechamaru is easily my favorite character in JJK from an aspect of relatability, and understanding his mindset. I was super sickly when I was younger needing to be in the hospital pretty frequently. And I built up a wall for a while because of that. Seeing just how bad his situation was when we got the reveal of his real body just made him even more badass to me. I also loved how he was (lightly) taken advantage of by his friends due to his naivety in a sadly humorous way, and then not so lightly when the same happens dealing with the villians of the series. Making him ironically look the most human. It was short but really fulfilling arc for my robot bro. It's sad he couldn't have more time to express how he felt to Miwa, but he went out protecting those special to him. Which in JJK is the heart of what makes the series great.

Kokichi has almost the exact same story as Robot from Invincible. Born deformed and unable to function outside a mechanical puppet. Incredibly gifted and smart enough to create an army of those mechanical puppets along with one giant one. Works with the villains in exchange of information so they can make him a new body. Turns and fights those villains right after they help him, first sending out an army of little versions of the main bot, then retreating into one big bot to fight them off. Though in Invincible Robot actually wins the fight.

If find it ironic that he was given a Brand NEW body. Yet it came with a scar😂

You gotta be willing to burn everything down to achieve your dream. He tried to embody that and succeed, but also failed. The most aggravating part of being jujutsu sorcerer.

I can’t respect a traitor But I can respect muta

Mechamaru is such a compelling side character, his moments in the shibuya arc are so engaging, and I would say he is my favourite Kyoto student, after Todo of course. My personal favourite moment of Kokichi was when he gave advice to yuji on how to fight choso, and at first he just tells him that from his knowledge of blood manipulation users and how he is death womb painting, he had no weaknesses, then yuji grumbles about how that didn’t help him at all. He does end up helping yuji by getting him to take Choso to a place where he could not use his blood as well because it was too wet, but the first part was funny to me.

Am I the only who notices his similarities with Rudy aka Robot from Invincible?Their control over robots nationwide; Their desires of having a normal body and experience everything; teaming up with the bad guys to get the bodies they’ve always dreamed of ..anyone??

bro embodies the phrase "hating isn't a flaw, it's a skill."

Mechamaru's mistake was not planting a note in his fake hideout pointing the crew to his real location. Seeing as he kept footage on all of Mahito's fights he most likely expected to be attacked by them at some point. Either leave a note or focus on escaping after being attacked. Instead he tried to take one 2 massively dangerous enemies on his own. He should have also not piloted the mech directly, but with a puppet since mahito's win condition was getting to him

I like the fact that hes the total opposite of maki, one had 0 cursed energy but immense physical abilities and the other has so so much cursed energy but a hardly functioming body

I like Kokichi Muta. Probaly he is the most effective secondary character when it comes to make me like him. it's understandable why he was the traitor, and i can't feel any hate towards him. He was also a genuine good man who in his last words just wanted Miwa to be happy.

You would think he'd anticipate the use of a curtain to prevent contacting Gojo. But he's 17 years old so obviously he didn't think this through

And this is just a single character within the show, that is also killed fairly early but is still so well written cool and thought provoking. Wow Jjk really is something else

YOOO THAT GEATS REFRENCE MAKES SO MUCH SENSE

Never been this early to a meti video, and even better it’s on the most underrated character in jjk

In the lower tiers of JJK universe, the standard procedure when facing Curse Spirit or Curse User who's above your abilities is to run away and call for backup. I imagine Mechamaru is the most available one for these kind of scenarios because he has Curse Corpses across Japan and it's pretty powerful too. Sad he wasn't able to get the same backup when he needed it.

Bro really was hyping me up every week with the Mahito fight, some of the best shit in JJK when it comes to the verse, powers and story, it really shows you how vast cursed energy can be

Before he could act remotelly he most likely didnt have friends, social contsct, and only consumed media; it makes a lot of sense that the guy is somewhat of a chuni.

I have got to appreciate this guys taste in robots. Making an Evangelion mech right when he gets a new body? I couldn't stop geeking out about that!

I wish he was still alive Dude had hella potential

I really liked him, seems like the most reasonable and strong character when it comes to Utahimes students. Todo and Muta be carrying fr shame both got sidelined p quick. Everyone else sucked and Gojos students took the limelight naturally

Thank you for explaining Kokichi further, his story was so tragic that I had to pause several times because it was just getting sad. AND NO ONE EVEN SAW HOW HE LOOKED! HEALTHY AND HEALED :( what breaks me even more is he only spent a few hours of his renewed body with enemies.

You know, if he managed to live from his encoutner with Mahito with his body still, he likely wouldve become a special grade curse user. He likely wouldve needed to be taught how to fight well in close quarters, plus have multiple other sort of smaller gadgets he could manipulate. He couldve been CRAZY to fight against

Not an anime but the name Mechamaru is also used in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

bro really had the inverse of Toji and Maki's heavenly restriction

Oh hey, It's Aki from Chainsaw Man

surprising that the robot guy from invincible wasn’t mentioned at all considering they pretty much have the same origin story

Gotta say that I loved this guy from the brief moment we got to spend with him

Akutami could have also taken inspiration for Mechamaru's story from Invincible's Robot.

All of his designs are some of my favorite in the series. The robot is just a fantastic design, his bandage form is neat and he looks really really cool with his new body, the scar is one of my favorite parts.

Seeing all these Kamen Rider references makes me hope you do a video on one of them one day

Love how Meti leaves Tokusatsu references in his recent videos

How is it that Mahito is able to bypass the drawbacks of a Heavenly restriction while leaving all the benefits completely intact

So, I actually have a fun detail that only occured to me recently! Minor Danganronpa 2 spoilers below. The character Nekomaru Nidai from DR2 attempts to have a hand to hand duel with Monokuma before he gets to really come into his own (Very reminiciscent of Panda vs. Mechamaru) And as a result of that battle you get to learn a lot about him, but not without him becoming a full robot, hence the name Mechamaru. This mirrors Kokichi's own transformation into a full person from what the audience only knows as a robot. Later even using a small character named Minimaru, similar to the communication mechamarus shown later. MaJor spoilers for DR2 AND minor for JJK Similarly though they both found their undoing to a person who would agree to duel them, dying in a final stand for the sake of others. Ironically, Nekomaru dying TO a chuuni loner with a princess lover, and Kokichi Muta BEING a chuuni loner with a working class lover lol. Whether any of that is intentional or coincidence, it was a recent and familiar usage of Mechamaru as a name.

Someone really enjoyed Geats

I love this character, if you think he could've been happy as he was, his story becomes really tragic, losing everything he had in a spur of... maybe not greed, but desperation and "weakness", like he himself says. But, if you believe he wouldn't be able to live freely in his tub, like everyone who thinks his relationship with Miwa is weird, then you'd be proving him right in that he could never live a fullfiling life with that body.

Kokichi could have been a game changer in the long run. We are talking about a complete set of curse technology, he not only already the teorics down, he already had at least some functional tech outside of his own technique. Just imagine... Panda's own secret of how they are independent is considered a special grade one, because of the possibility of of making a self sufficient cursed corpse army that could even have its own techniques. Kokichi could have opened immense possibilities, juryoku is unyield but it is extremely powerful and it can easily power physics defying properties, if those could be harnessed... we talking about complete technological evolution. But at the same time... if that fell in the wrong hands... we talking about a complete overturn of human right, something that can very well happen because of Kenjaku spilling the beans about jujutsu to other countries governments... i hope he doesn't have any of Kokichi's tech after his death.

Mother of god, I know you had to do it on purpose. That opening 6 seconds of "You're Not There" from Silent Hill 3 is a perfect encapsulation of Kokichi Muta. Absolute genius.

He was my favorite character I would've love to him grow more he would've been so great for the Shibuya arc

Mechamaru's face also looks like EVA Unit 01's face without the helmet as seen in the anime after the Zeruel fight when it ate the S2 Engine.

If only he saw gojo use hollow purple once he Mightve been able to live

When u think about it. Gojo's death,Culling Games,Sukuna taking megumi's body, Most of shibuya as a whole could've been prevended if mahito didn't want to kill mechamaru or Kenjaku not placing a veil and maybe if he let others in the loop. SO he could get back up against mahito

Is it just me or does no one bring up how similar his usage of his mechamaru's are to Robot from Invincible?

The name Mechamaru could be a reference to Danganronpa, as in the second game’s 4th chapter, the character Nekomaru was turned into a robot and one of his friends gave him the nickname Mechamaru.

If Kokichi knew Yuta then he could've helped him take out Mahito and let Yuta copy Mahito's technique to fix his restriction.

Bro literally had theoretically the strongest curse technique in the series, hear me out: Problem 1- cursed technique efficiency: Mechamaru wasted his cursed energy efficiency by simply cannon blasting pure cursed energy beams, thus explaining why YEARS of his cursed energy reserve were wasted like garbage, mechamaru just didn't care at that point Solution to problem 1- Yorozu mentioned that bugs can be highly efficient in using cursed energy, and one of her strongest attacks was a bug armor that physically overwhelmed even sukuna, utahime mentioned that mechamaru can probably make mosquito sized mechs, so it wouldn't be out of the question that mechamaru can make bug mechs of different sizes + theoretically they wouldn't be manned by a human, thus increasing efficiency, theoretically, if mechamaru focused on efficiency to reach optimization, i think he'd reach gojo/sukuna levels of cursed energy efficiency, thus becoming a non stop fighting machine Problem 2- information: Mechamaru could collect information like it's nothing apparently, so he'd probably have been capable of spying even more information, maybe then he'd have learned panda's secret, or played a bigger more effective supporting role like he did in yuji vs choso Problem 3- simple domain: If he can contain simple domain in capsules, why didn't he stock up on more? I wouldn't imagine he wasted energy on making them

OPENING TO THE VIDEO KAMEN RIDER GEATS MENTIONED LETS GO

Am I the only person who noticed that Kokichi scar is missing in the panel with Miwa on the plane? Does lack of the scar represent him getting finally healing that inner hatred?

Just realized he looked like makoto shishio

Hope he gets a spot in Cursed Clash (prob as Dlc)

The dark tragic sorcerer version of Ironman.

I just wanna know where he got the materials to build a GIANT ROBOT and how he did it in complete secrecy.

HEAVENLY RESTRICTED INDIVIDUAL

Theres an aspect of his designs that isnt discussed here. The whole "fragile skin" and living in a bath down underground is clear inspirstion from that one french revolution writer who lived in a bath in the sewers wrapped in bandages cuz his skin was too fucked up by toxic chemicals to whistand the light

Oddly enough everything is his fault if he didn’t do what he did the story would have never gotten so bad but at the same time u can’t help but feel for someone who just wants to be able to give physical affection to those who made his life worth living

I hope meti will do a kamen rider analysis

First time i've been this early. nice

Mannn he couldn't even used all the stored energy

I know we’re all watching for Jujutsu Kaisen but was that a clip from Kamen Rider at the beginning?!

I always thought Mechamaru reminded me of Robot from Invincible, in terms of design, abilities and use

I won't lie, I forgot that Mechamaru wasn't his actual name lmao

Damn can we get a kamen rider video soon

Mechamaru has even more similarities with Robot from invincible, it would be cool if gege took inspiration from a lesser known western media than iron man

Ay kamen rider geats

Amazing video as usual but please make common rider character breakdown videos please🙏

Kokichi: I was born with glass bones and paper skin 😥

I found this by accident so early 😅😂

Honestly im not mad at anything muta did. Bro if i was born like him i doubt i could survive a single month in that boy im switching up fast

At first I thought you made a video about Shishio.

Nice

I'm not even sure if you keep up with One Piece but if you do I think you should do a Building a Bastard video on Spandam the absolute bastard and bane of Nico Robin's life up until the end of Enies Lobby.

Ultimate Mechamaru reminds me of fockin Robo-Ky from Guilty Gear

He is probably jjk's most tragic character.

he is just robot from Invincible comics

Hey, a suggestion for the next video, Puss in boats and it’s characters

Am I the only one who thinks Absolute Mechamaru looks like Rika?

So if you put pain and konkonkuro together you get mechamaru

bro seems like someone's been watching geats edit: Bro i just finished watching the video and you also put rogue in there

first 10 seconds and i already saw Kamen rider Geats reference Meti bro plese make some videos related to Kamen Rider

isnt his robot name a danganronpa reference?

My only question is, why when making a binding vow with Kenjaku and Mahito, did he not include a clause to leave safely with his life and health intact? Could he not in theory make that part of the deal, if neither side is able to break once the deal is struck?

Ngl, i just took a glance at the thumbnail and thought it was makoto shishio from rurouni kenshin

Gentoku at the end of the video 😂

Can you do megumi next time you do a jjk video please

3:29 I thought he copied speed of sound sonic from opm

Maybe not the mecha guy

Yo meti can you please do a video about kishibe from chainsaw man

Meti just does not miss

Can you do one about Nier and Drakengard or Hell’s Paradise

I'm seeing Pain

If only they gave him a gf😢.Bro is crippled and alone.jjk society is so strong.

YES YES YES YES YES YES

then yuji killed him after getting turned into locust mutant

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