The Unfair Judgement of Megumi Fushiguro 

Megumi is that guy who's rich and inherited his family's businesses but somehow ended up being broke and homeless

sukuna after meeting megumi: "I likes ya, and I wants ya"

By saying that Megumi should just "get up and lock in" people are invalidating everything that Sukuna has done to assure that it wouldn't happen. You all are underestimating the villain, like always. Sukuna said that Megumi had the potential to become a cage for him exactly like Yuji, so he had to wait until his soul broke to take over him. So Megumi got possessed by 16 fingers Sukuna (we now know it was 16 fingers and not 15) all at once after his soul was already in shambles. Not even Yuji could keep control after eating 10 fingers in one sitting. Even after this Megumi was able to fight back and lower Sukuna's CE, which is the reason why Yuji and Maki didn't get killed and which surprised Sukuna. So then his soul had to be suppressed a second time with the bath, drowing it in negative emotions and basically pure evilness. That was also not enough to be sure he wouldn't fight back and so Sukuna killed his sister. It was a chain of events. Sukuna literally cursed with the whole "he will lose all will to live". Then after that Megumi's soul stayed in the abyss for more than a month. By comparison even in Shibuya Yuji stayed possessed for like an hour and he was totally broken and later had to get a speech from Todo. Imagine more than a month. Then Megumi's soul took 5 UVs which, even tho are only dangerous when hitting the brain, must have not been pleasant. Then he killed Gojo, who Megumi cared about, and then hurt his friends. What happened in 251 was realistic: he isn't sitting back expecting to be saved without doing anything, he is telling Yuji to forget about saving him and finish the job. Continuing to fight to save him is YUJI'S choice and it's important for his character. Megumi's moment will come, but he needs support and probably a motivational speech like Yuji got from Todo. Having a bit of compassion and patience will pay off in the end for the fans that can understand the situation and aren't driven by agendas

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One of the worst things to happen to Animanga discourse, espeically with JJK is fans are unable to view stories and characters like they aren’t celebrities to worship or athletes to idolize. Nobody understands character at all in battle shonen these days outside of power ups and winning fights. The whole point of Megumi is he’s a guy who largely wasn’t really given a choice on being a sorceror, and his real motivator was someone who was largely inactive, and the minute he’s allowed to at respite it’s stolen from him, so the motivator is gone, and then he has his agency stolen from him in a literal sense. He then kills his mentor with his own body. These aren’t “ fumbles” these are explicitly used of his character. The whole point of the Shinjuku Showdown is it’s a Megumi Retrieval Arc. Fans act like there’s only 1 way to execute story and any other way is bad, but no one can actually describe what it is. Discourse in Animanga has devolved into basically a whining cinema sins type of thing, not an ounce of nuance or contextual analysis. I’m here to see if this video goes somewhere different.

People seem to forget Yuji has had Sukuna take over him for a total of maybe an hour? The fights with Jogo and Mahoraga probably lasted 15 minutes and that still almost broke Yuji if not for Todo being there. Megumi has been taken over for months now without anyone to pull him out + he had the supressing ritual done + he got hit with the strain of multiple Infinite Voids. It shouldn't be a surprise that he broke.

People are honestly way too cruel to Megumi, like he was easily one of the most skilled developing sorcerer's we've seen and it's his first year being a Jujutsu Sorcerer.

As Megumi’s biggest hater, I gotta admit that you did a really great job pointing out the best elements of his character and the potential he still has narratively

I dont know why people ignore all megumi has done up until he got body snatched witch was supposed to be a tragic moment even then megumi will likely come back either to help fight the merger or even activate it him self but im sure yuji will be able to give megumi a new reason to live even if it comes at the cost of his own life

i feel like the people who *really* hate megumi are the same ones who hate shinji for not handling well the fact that he was literally tasked to save the word💀

The fact that Yuji lost Choso and Gojo- And is still going out of his way to save Megumi says a lot about how much he’s grown as a character.

Reggie did this boy dirty with his fibal words.

Megumi is genuinely one of my favorite characters. People who clown on him for “not having the will to live” just show a lack of emotional intelligence

We know Gege cooks. He’s just letting Megumi marinate ❤.

I think the most important thing you've said here is that Gege plays the long game It's always been the case Setups and payoffs are one of the best things about JJK But people still act like the manga is already over after every chapter

“We can only go up from here” yeah i can’t think of a way for Megumi to make his situation worse atp

When all Sukuna has done over the past couple dozen chapters is win against every single character lining up to fight him, everyone starts to feel like a Potential Man. Even if Nobara was revealed to have survived and might turn the tide for once, for example, she'll probably get shit-stomped just like everyone else.

As Megumis biggest glazer I'd like to add my theory that Megumi is gonna become the ten shadows and eat Sukuna ending him and coming back to the show

i just want more fights like when he clapped reggie or the fingerer 😭

I genuinely feel like megumi deserved better.

Megumi had everything going for him and had it pulled out from under him Edit: Also wanting yuji to hit megumi with the "I'm You" moment, but seeing how the mangas going i doubt we will see it

Yuji was literally bred to be a vessel for Sukuna so I don’t understand how people compare him to Megumi and call Megumi a bum.

Imagine if Megumi reached 120% of his potential and managed to summon Ran Yakumo. If that happens, i will probably respect him a little bit more

Hot takes: Gege making megumi look like a failure cause he focus on yuji

Megumi is still my personal favorite. I hate the fact that Sukuna has taken his body. I really wanted to see more of Megumi. He's not a punk, he can fight and win, and he's overall just cool. I'm more upset he's not fighting Sukuna. He would win. I kinda wish he was the Main Character.

Megumi is one of my favourite characters

Megumi is the kind of guy to go through a tutorial on a video game but still somehow ends up fumbling at easy stage of it.

Gojo was a better deuteragonist, he even had more screen time until the end or Perfect preparation.

his whole argument relies on eventually, potential man's quote on the bottom truly represents salad bar's argument.

megumi js didnt live up to the expectations

Always “if” and “when” but never *is*

"stumbles on a pebble" "with this treasure i summon"

Honestly, I feel like Megumi having wasted potential could be either something that is aimed to be fixed in the future as part of his character development, or it is a key part of his character. He’s made out to be someone with “as much potential as Gojo” multiple times, yet it is put to waste so much, and his potential is only shown through Sukuna. So, Yuji and Megumi’s dynamic could be something like Gojo and Geto, just that their end is opposite. It could be that Yuji, no matter what, would stay good until the end, unlike Geto, who gave in into his dark thoughts, while Megumi, unlike Gojo, gave up, and because of that, either became evil and had an awakening that way, or simply gave up and chose to use himself as a sacrifice, like the final tool in order for everyone else to achieve victory.

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I would say "In the past, Mahoraga defeated a 6-eyes user." Is more accurate. Ain't no way in hell the past 10-shadows user did much to the past 6-eyes user. The 10-shadows is basically useless unless you're Sukuna.

Huge text warning lmao So, Im a Megumi and JJK fan, but y'all have to know that jujutsu is filled with flaws and gege DOES NOT know how to write deep backgrounds, and I shouldnt expect more of a shounen. Obviously jjk "breaks" the "Hero journey" rule/base that 99% of shounens use, but we have to admit that both women and men in jjk are mostly poorly written and "forgotten", in my honest opinion as a Moster, Oyasumi Pun Pun, Evangelion and Happiness, JJK is cooked, it has passed too much time to fix it all, Gege should have explored more of the mental health and mentality of his characters. The biggest quality of jjk is that is rushed and "breaks" a pattern, but the biggest flaw is the same thing, sometimes where it should be slower, is rushed. I will not stop liking the series however, every manga has its flaws, like Kimetsu, but it stills a wholesome anime and pretty fun to watch, obviously I wont say is the peak of anime, but if u ignore the poorly written characters (by adding lore onto it yourself) its a fantastic anime, with drama and climax well put together

I like megumi alot but myself hate on him for entertainment purposes and also for jokes But though i'm glad people pounted out the potential Megumi has knowing he's not just potential man

Don’t forget he’s a bum so his real name is bumgumi

Awesome video dude.

This is a unfairly written character by an author that didnt *believe* in his potential from the beginning. Like a lot more characters from jjk he just wasn't given enough screen time and he didn't have his big moment before supposedly dying when Sukuna took over his body completely.. How can an audience root for him when the author is not (he is a fan favorite in Japan so that usualy means a lot of hatred from the creator and a lot of love from the fans 😂😂)

That background music earned you a sub and a like, nice breakdown too.

Uhm, as a Megumi fan... i couldn't agree more with this video- i dont know how to explain but yeah, i agree with basicly everything you said! (ik from a Megumi fan isnt much but, whatever- lmao) (Amazing video btw, i liked it! almost screamed one time or another? yeah, but thats the fun part of watching a video like this- isnt it?- idk- im an akward person to write comments, lol)

maintaining the agenda is our top priority

I’ve been a pretty big megumi hater recently but this vid helped me leaning to being more forgiving to his character even with his flaws !

I think Megumi is the most well written character to his ideology about saving people unequally to his ct

As per usual, Salad dropped a banger while also changing my view on Megumi. Peak

Literally the most tragic character.

I got a feeling that Sukuna’s ten shadows were destroyed, but not Megumi’s. Sure, he’ll not have Mahoga, but he will have the ability to use all 10 eventually. (besides white dog.)

MEGUMI VIDEO DAY 1 🔥🔥

dude, i'm halfway through the video and YOUR REALLY NOT SPOILING ANYTHING OTHER THAN MEGUMI GETTING TAKEN OVER. I watched a video where it spoiled chapter 236 and 260 with NO WARNING AT ALL. I had to break a promise with my brother because I needed to know wth was happening in jjk, so I continued without him. God why can't people be like you XD, also love the video and editing style :P edit: nvm I just remembered you spiled chapter 236 too, but at least you said you were going to, good on you, ik it doesn't seem like a lot, but to me it does.

For me im not upset he couldnt tame mahoraga, im just confused why he never made more totalities, like imagine if he had his own version of agito

> strongest technique > inherited one of the 3 most valuable sorcery bs >never even uses it at max potential >gets taken over by a random deadbeat uncle >everyone saves him, doesn't want to come back.

Loved Megumi, enjoyed his moral dispute with Itadori, yet being great friends. Gege did him absolutely dirty. He really didnt deserve it. Also gets too much hate just because he got shafted. Atleast he doesnt make the manga actively worse like Yuta or Maki (her arcs were the worst in the entire series)

Fantastic video, wholly agreed

megumi is my second favorite character (my blue eyed king stays on top)

I can't understand the hate for Megumi. Jesus, what did he do to you?I understand the dislike for Mahito who loves to kill or for Sukuna, but people are angry at the kid who was emotionally destroyed plus his will was surrendered to Sukuna after the ritual bath. I have the impression that people who write that he should do something even after this, do not realize or do not want to realize that everyone goes through trauma differently, and what Megumi is doing now is actually the most...natural and human reaction. He won't get up after a minute of nervous breakdown and go into battle like Yuji or other heroes from other anime, Hefeel despair and helplessness after the loss that normal people feel. After something like that, I would want to kil myself too probably. You won't change certain emotions in a minute and it won't be ok.

“The rise and fall of” ahh editing

I feel like I’m always defending this man😂

how can he be saved though, gege is notorious for picking the absolute worst fate for all his characters, geto got his ass beat by toji and saw one girl die and was lost, megumi literally flattened shibuya by summoning mahoraga, then got his body taken over and killed his sister, killed gojo and many many others. At first, when you see him on the ground having given up I was like wtf bro, but after thinking about it, idk how a person can get over such guilt and also his sister was the only person he cared about and he killed her. Also boy got hit with what, 4 infinite voids? Bro is gone

i feel like, to add onto the domain. it doesn't have a defined border, making his domain more rare than literally all but one

Potential Man.

he did explain things well but one problem remains "if" and "when" but never "is"

The fact is megumi might be the same age as yuji but not in terms of sorcery or experience and when you compare mentalities and resolves megumi doesn’t make sense

Megumi vs Reggie was a top 2 fight for me, I love his CT and wanted to see what he'd do next. Then all of the stuff afterward happened lol.

Megumi is still one of my favorite characters in JJK, and that is never changing 😊

I don’t care if he’s a bum he’ll always be my goat

You’re right Yuji is EXACTLY like Gojo in every way except mentally. In Gojo’s past he was reduced to a vessel for strength by his best friend Geto when he was asked if he was Gojo Satarou because he was the strongest, and in Yuji’s battle he is LITERALLY a vessel for everyones strength.

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Great video honestly To me everything leads to Megumi being a key factor to beating Sukuna considering their fates as well as Yuji’s being intertwined ever since the juvenile detention arc So as Bumgumi’s strongest hater it’s gonna be pretty annoying when everyone switches up on him and when he and Yuji will eventually pull up against the merger like they’re not the fakest duo in fiction I will peacefully drop the series with a tear in my eye

Mehgumi

Gege is setting up MeGOATmi for the biggest return since Sukuna took him. Limitless multiple hits should have made Megumi into pudding. He actually spoke. Rct and brains rewiring Fighting all the powerhouses in the game and seeing all their tricks Binding vows usage Watching the master of jj utilize your skillset and actually internalizing it(elephant water) Etc. You get the picture. As the holder of 99.2% of Megumi stocks bonds and bitcoin I'm telling you now...Gege is cooking a masterpiece. He won't tolerate Gojo dying again...

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Megumi is one of the smartest when it comes to fight IQ but 10S WITHOUT Big Raga is too strong for him to throw away his life 5 times first season. Please remember, he was training with Gojo as soon as he awakened his inherited CT.

The thing with Megumi is that yeah he may have a comeback but for what, like the problem I see is that If Sukuna gets ejected from Megumi´s body is gonna be over, there´s nothing else left

I mean, 15 years old. Idk about yall but i relate to him, not to say that i dont want to live or stuff like that, but i relate to that fact that some of us have an insane potential or something that was inherited, but we dont have the mentality to draw it out yet, thats why is sympathize with his frustration and worry of not being as strong as his friends

Need that Hakari vs Fuuko as a video 🙏

Noahsxz would not accept this 🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭

Well, he still is potential man

The agenda will be pushed! Nothing can save Bumgumi from the JJK fandom especially after the Gojo incident.

I'm more curious about one thing... If he does get saved from Sukuna, would his body revert back to Megumi or would it be Sukuna's body he'll continue to live in instead?

Music riff in the intro was very nice

i hate megumi because he had all this power and potential and yet he still lost to someone that yuji from all people could take on. And the fact he always wanted to summon mahoraga ya...he lost all of my respect

it’s ok bumgumi, i still love u 🫶🏾

People being mad about megumi not waking upto yuji is literally so dumb, the baths sukuna took and stuff was just so he couldn't wake up

People who harp on kids being kids in anime are just losers

I can’t believe he made a video about mahoraga guys

Womp womp.

I actually believe Megumi will come back by becoming the worst version of himself. Yuji already tried being nice and it didn't do much. Jujutsu Kaisen's power system literally runs on evil, negative emotions and mental instability. He doesn't need friendship or commitment for the greater good, he needs unrelenting, overwhealming hatred to fuel his potential Like Gojo said, he has to selfish. Like Sukuna said, he lacks hunger

Yes, it is as bad as we all think. He's just a poorly written character who doesn't have a whole lot of purpose or even motivation to do what he does. There are like.. only 3 well written JJK character and almost all of them are already dead so.. yeah nah this series is just cooked imo

I saw a post somewhere else that basically said: This is how megumi's character is. He is very nihilistic, and therefore one strike at his weakspot (that is, Tsumiki, who is basically his mental lifeline) is all it takes to break him. Only sukuna, the king of curses, is cruel enough to do this to a somewhat depressed, albeit physically attractive 15 year old. He is recently changed from his encounter and friendship with Itadori Yuji, but alas, he just didn't get strong enough on time. This is how Gege write a melancholic(?) deuteragonist, Fushiguro Megumi. It's all... designed to be like this. Give it time, at this point it's just a matter of when megumi will be free from Sukuna, not if.

Haven't watched the video yet and honestly I don't really like megumi as a character and I think the potential man meme is hilarious but we gotta be fr, he's defeated special grade curses multiple grade 1 sorcerers and has an imperfect domain as a first year, that is INSANE in the jujutsu world a domain at his age is almost unheard of hell even powerhouses like kashimo don't even have a domain he's seriously super powerful but he's still only 15 if he had maybe 5 more years to mature he could become the pinnacle of grade 1 alas jjk ain't the kind of story to nurture characters like that so we'll most likely never see his full potential

Maintaining the agenda is our top priority

Also the way his haters are, that's why he says "I save people unequally"🗿

I always thought Megumi was a good character we always know that Megumi had the potential to surpass Gojo and he a really powerful sourcer. If he comes back into the story if the others managed to get Sukuna out of his body. His potential would be unlock heavily due to Sukuna using the ten shadows in his body

i understand what you're saying, and agree with it to some degree, but megumi is still disappointing to me. he has about the same amount of character development as nobara, and she got none + is dead. aside from the issue of his whole raison d'etre (his sister) being completely offscreened, he as a character doesn't get much in the way of... purpose? i'm not sure if that's the right word, but he feels kinda directionless for no real reason. that's a big problem for a lot of the jjk characters tbh, but it's especially egregious for the ostensible deuteragonist. like, i get that he's depressed and kinda suicidal, but that begs the question-- why? people love to glaze gege for his liberal use of flashbacks, but it bothers me that we don't get to know the motivations or origins of 75% of the cast until they're on death's door. i have to assume we'll get one for meg eventually, but i don't feel like you can call the fushiguro we have right now anything but half-baked, and staying like that for the vast majority of the story is unbelievably disappointing. great vid tho 🤓

thee thing is in the anime megumi uses around 2 shikigami frequently when he has access to 7 more to use is probably why ppl hate on him

WITH THIS TREASURE I SUMMON MAHORAGA

It doesn't matter if Megumi is a bum or not, I get see Ino overperforming very well against Sukuna because of it so i can't say too bad about him.

Gave megumi a sister , dad , and step dad so they all can be killed