A guy's reaction to chapter 242: "Kenny became a woman so he is gonna die next chapter" chapter 243: Kenjaku dies

honestly nobara getting all those praises should prove how low the bar actually was if anything

I'm still mad at how dirty he did Yuki. So much of her character went unexplored for no reason other than to kill her off for maximum shock value.

Honestly, I agree. Personally, this situation has a larger problem with talks about media. People are willing to instantly praise something for not doing a trope or cliche regardless on how it's executed and throw other things under the bus if they have those tropes regardless how well it's done

When you realize Kenjaku was the most plot relevant female character 💀

You hit the nail on the head, people have such low standards these days.

JJK made me realize that I don't really care that much that a character can fight or not , is physically strong or not , what I care is that the character has a good personality, a good chemistry with others (and maybe compelling goals and backstory). And female characters (and characters in general) in jjk fail at that.

Um Guys do you notice how little to no interaction between nobara and gojo. We saw gojo spending times with yuji, we saw him train megumi on one to one about risking death to win. But, we never saw even moment or flashback of gojo training with nobara, giving her advice or anything. And I saw that pattern with naruto , where kakashi spending more moments with naruto and sasuke but little to no with sakura. Its like these three are the main characters , but two of them are really important to the plot and the girl either learn things on her own or the show says she learnt it somehow. Really, why is their even a teacher if nobara can off screen learn the black flash.

todo's treatment still pains me to this day. I dont mind retiring characters, but dude got NOTHING after the mahito, bro must have turned into oxygen cause i aint seeing him

I’ve never seen a character get treated as badly as Nobara in anything I’ve ever read or watched

I believe that the female cast was being hyped up so hard because in the beginning, they had interesting setups for great character arcs and depth, but they got pushed to the sideline due to JJK being a more plot-driven story. I find that very disappointing because I thought that the female students and some of the Kyoto students, like Kamo, would have stories and character arcs that lead to them going against the Jujustu society and Higher-Ups, both physically and ideology, as there is some social commentary.

It was so funny to me how people called JJK's female cast revolutionary for the shonen genre when Nobara had her moment in season1 (a cool moment I'd say! But not revolutionary) People saw female characters that weren't useless 99% of the time or simping over the male leads and lost their damn minds; despite the fact that the treatment of the female cast of JJK is at times WORSE than shonen that have came before it (Claymore still clears+Flame of Reeca's Fuuko clears any JJK female character out the water) The bar is in hell. I'm a JJK fanboy and even I know this shit wasn't "game changing" Gege literally said he murked Nobara to break Yuji (and the audience's heart) *textbook definition of fridging* JJK didn't push the envelope on shonen women. it just gave it a new look edit: WE BOTH SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT TEXTBOOK CASE OF FRIDGING! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

To be fair all you need to be considered a good male character is a sad/inspirational back story and a raw fight. Rock Lee been carried by that gara fight for almost two decades now

Always remember Treat your female characters like actual people and not "girl character", a good female character doesn't just have cool fights but is treated just as well as literary any other character around them

Bro I've never forgiving Gege for how dirty he did Nobara and then dragging his feet on whether not she's dead. I feel like I was lied to. Your point about how male characters like Kaminari get headcanoned to hell and back whereas female characters are not extended any grace is very reminiscent of that Tumblr post about how fandom approaches male characters from a Watsonian perspective and female characters from a Doylist perspective. How underdeveloped male characters are assumed to have rich inner lives while female characters are taken at extreme face value.

This is why Black Clover keeps having the best female characters of all Shonen anime, you can use Noelle as an example, who has a huge crush on Asta but also has a lot of character development even outside of her relationship with the protagonist (her family and the Heart Kingdom), showing that you can have femininity while also being a motivational figure and a freaking powerhouse.

While it certainly has great moments for its female characters (particularly Maki), it's kinda weird to see so many people laud the series as a trailblazer for women in Shonen when other series have consistent emphasis on their female cast like Chainsaw Man or even great main female characters like Akane-Banashi while JJK gets all the attention

I'm not going to sugarcoat it, Uraraka is a better and even more importantly, well utilized main female character than Nobara. As a big fan of her character and how she's able to so easily bounce off the personalities and beliefs of her friends and other characters, the only reason Nobara gets gassed up in comparison to more controversial shounen female leads to such a disportionate degree is particularly because she doesn't have any romantic attraction to a male character, and I'm glad you're calling that out. Unlike a comatosed one eye shut in, at least Uraraka manages to finish her arc that not only follows through plot lines that were set up beforehand, but is also actually relevant, if not intrinsically crucial to the overall narrative the main plot is focusing on. Now is MHAs 'main plot' good as of now? Ehhhhhhhhhhh not really, but at least Uraraka's story fits within the general narrative of empathy and emotional suppression Horikoshi is hammering down in the final act.

So basically JJK has a problem with its plot quick pacing & the treatment of its female cast is one of the side effects. I’ve always found the hate towards filler a bit excessive at times. Yeah, it can get annoying if overdone, but it can be a good excuse to have more moments with the cast & maybe give them some more excuses for action scenes with them. How am I supposed to care about the plot if I don’t care enough about the characters due to their lack of screen time?! It’s like Gege overreacted to the hate for filler & overdid it. I’ve heard MHA kinda suffered from that, with the author wanting to have the main cast grow into adults but the editors wanted him to pick up the pace with the plot. It’s weird how MHA fans are acting like Uraraka having feelings for Deku automatically ruins her. You can have a strong well rounded character while letting them be love interests too, you know. And what is with Shoko? She was apparently a trio with Ghetto & the fan girl magnet back then, but we barely see how she feels about the predicaments with them lately.

Great video! While Nobara being popular and highly praised because shes not a stereotypical love stricken female character. She was being overrated because she wasnt being a stereotype. Main stream articles clearly dont read enough manga cause there are series that have good female character.

I can understand not liking Mirko, and I can definitely agree with a few of your points, but discounting that as a "raw fight" I think does a disservice to her. She fought like a rabid animal that just refused to die, ripping her hair off when she was caught by it, and I'm pretty sure I remember her straight-up biting when her limbs were made useless, and then after straight-up LOSING some of them, which would have absolutely been the retirement point for any rational person, she gets prosthetic limbs, and is just like "Yeah, I'm still gonna be a hero, whatevs.", and continues to put herself in those almost assured death fights. She fought harder than anyone in the series, and that includes Deku. He's messed himself up, but he's always healed. She went beyond that by fighting after losing limbs, but if Deku loses his arms and still goes on to fight(which is tricky to even wonder about, with very current events, but I don't want to spoil anything), then I'd argue that he'd be on the same level as her, but until then, she is THE MOST savage fighter in the show, unless I'm forgetting about someone. That being said, your comment of there being not much else to her is fairly true, but DAYUM was her fighting just basically like that of a wild animal.

The Papers Please theme in the background hit me with so much nostalgia for some reason

As much as I love JJK, it hadn't really "pushed" any envelope. Female characters being developed? See this vid. Inner Demon actually being unable to be befriended? Oozaru. Villains being pure evil? Literally all of mainstreem shounen.

You're right. Hell, the main reason people like Nobara is same for what she says "I like being pretty and strong." Such a simple desire to be powerful and seen. Everyone wants that in some way. Every character in most shonen has something on that line. Hearing her say that made her stand out because she wasn't trying to be something, just more of what she already was. Maki is either loved for her drama with the clan or her transformation into scarred waifu. Neither of them are groundbreaking characters, but they're the bare minimum. I will say the fridge thing is a bit less likely since multiple characters have died before Nobara and even Megumi could be considered fridged since he's effectively dead right now. Jjk seems to both reward and punish characters based on who they are. Being a scumbag keeps you going longer but caring kills you.

Good video. I personally never understood why women in jjk were praised to be this new higher standard. I think they and really just kugisaki did some more then your average shounen female character and to most people that was gods work lol.

Based based based! This vid turned out really well. It is a really striking point that sexuality and fighting are totally allowed to be explored, neither a matter of “how much we depict this” being the issue. But rather that because of the pretty underwhelming roster of female characters in media over the years - we tend to frontload a lot of chips onto crafting the catch-all female character, when really we should just be making good characters. This of course isn’t to say that you can’t write female characters with their femininity as the focus, but at least with shounen I’m fine not expecting anything incredibly evocative. JJK’s cast far from delivered, but maybe the next series gassed will raise people’s standards.

I think part of the problem is the obsession with the phrase "strong female character". As I interpret it, this phrase is meant to describe a female character with a "strong" identity and story. Strong in this context doesn't mean she punches hard, it means she's interesting with deep and compelling motivations and undergoes a captivating story arc. Basically, it means "a well written character who happens to be female", which when put like that makes it so fucking depressing that THAT is meant to be a crowning achievement of a writer when it should be the bare minimum. Where I think a lot of media, shonen manga in particular, goes wrong is they focus on and misinterpret the "strong" part and think that's all they have to do to fix the issue. That a female character instantly goes from dog shit to peak if she's fighting alongside the boys. Maki and Nobara both fit this mould; they have very little in the way of interesting character moments but are portrayed as powerful, skilled and competent fighters. Nobara does have a bit more going for her with her chair philosophy but then she got slapped outta the story by Mahito. For an example of how to write compelling female characters, Arcane is probably the best in recent years. Every female character is deep, rich, compelling and oozing with personality. Even Mel Medarda who doesn't need to fight to be strong, her strength takes the form of intelligence, manipulation and political strategy. Vi's physical strength isn't her sole character trait, Caitlyn isn't defined by her rebellious desire to become a cop instead of a high society noblewoman, Jinx is such a complex character that trying to summarise what makes her so good in a youtube comment would do a disservice to Arcane's writers. To get to the point, JJK doesn't have peak female characters, it has female characters that are slightly above the abysmal quality we have come to expect from shonen manga. They only seem "peak" because their audience has terribly low standards and just doesn't realise it.

This will be a fun watch, even tho I never touched JJK Edit: You cooked. ECHIDNA MENTIONED GRAHHHHHHHHHHH

Worst part is they were so close to all pushing the envelope but one by one they all were written out, only Maki is great but even now she’s more of a Toji 2.0 rather her own character

OCHAKO MENTIONED LETS GOOOOO

Im glad someone brought up shoko. Shes forgotten by the main fanbase and rightfully so with how shes treated. But shes the poster child of gege shelving his side cast

Great video, Asa! This topic has been on my mind for a while, and as a female anime fan, I want to share my thought. As a woman who has been watching shonen jump anime for arguably too long, the most important question I ask myself when evaluating a female character is this: what has she done throughout the story? This doesn’t have to be explicitly tied to fighting, though since this is shonen so that’s par for the course, but more than anything I care about how much this character has contributed to the story. It doesn’t matter is a woman can hit hard or is “subverting expectations” if she’s barely in the story to begin with. And frankly most of peoples’ praises or issues with female characters can either be corroborated or argued against when this single question is answered. Ochaco is not a terrible or poorly written character because she has a crush on a boy. She had her potential wasted because Horikoshi decided to side line her in favor of the more popular male characters. Maki is not a great character because she hits hard. She had the potential to be a great character because of her struggles and her personality was fun, but instead is just there to punch things now. And finally, Nobara was NOT a great character because she had both feminine and masculine traits and yes, hit hard. She was a fun character that had an incredibly awesome power and interesting backstory that was cut short when Akutami made the decision to remove her from the story a third of the way in. And yet, there is a shonen jump series that has a host of female characters that have participated story, sometimes as soon as they’re introduced, but is only brought up to be mocked: Black Clover. Say what you want about the female characters; that Noelle is nothing but a tsundere love interest, that Vanessa and Mimosa remove all stakes because they’re too overpowered, that Charmy is just a gag character, at least they fucking do something. These characters, and a lot of the other female characters in Black Clover, have individually and collectively participated in more fights or story-related events than any female character in MHA and JJK. And no, this is not subjective; simply go through each series and count how many fights or story-related events the female characters have played roles in and you will see how relevant these characters really were. Not only that, but a lot of these characters are support or healing mages, which means that they are relevant to the fights without directly damaging their opponents, showing that female characters can be strong without have to be physical or magical attackers. And yet whenever the female characters are brought up, it’s to deride them for the aforementioned reasons; yet the male characters, especially the “manly” ones like Yami and Magna, are almost always praised despite holding just as much relevance and getting the same amount of screen time. In the end, so much of this reeks of sexism and hypocrisy. Male characters get away with looking effeminate, have a crush on others, or show other traditionally feminine traits, but if a female characters does the same, she’s a “stereotype” or a “badly written” character. Judge a female character for what she contributes to the story, not by her femininity or lack thereof.

Yeah I definitely agree with the consensus of the video being that it's not _necessarily_ Gege having some sort of agenda against female characters but rather he has a very, _very_ bad track record with actually utilizing his side cast as efficiently as possible. Regardless of their status, gender and even Sorcery grade power level, they are just forgotten to the wayside by either kicking the bucket or just never showing up after one or two fights in favor of the main characters and villains. The amount of misopportunity to actually further develop his sight cast is just completely missing since the manga's always going to the next big thing. Hell, I'll go as far as to say even the main cast suffers from parts of this too, although I haven't caught up to the manga in a long time. Whenever I see a moment where Yuji, or Megumi can just sit down and the story is able to further explore the emotions, feelings and overall trauma of these characters and humanize them, only for Gege to move on and just blatantly overlook that opportunity. It just kind of just gets to me, you know?

Nobara... what an individual she is. Great video Asa. The masses will see the truth, eventually.

Never got into JJK but really well done video. 🔥

Yeah, the female cast is pretty bad. They're very non cutesy so, people thought they were better, but nah

Friking final I can watch you talk about something I'm caught up to You've became one of those few channels I auto like the video before playing ❤ keep up the good stuff man You're the reason I'm going to read ReZero buy the way so good job

Tis will be a holy night when the populous stops acting like “fight sexy” is revolutionizing the shonen game(miruko). On my soul, nobody in their life has seen a think piece/thread of someone analyzing Miruko’s character. The bar has to be raised. Its ok tho, Takeru Hokazono will fix that with Kagurabachi

God I love your content

It's less like a problem with the writing of female characters but a problem with the writing of all of its characters in general but since there are generally less female characters than male characters it seems more prominent with the female cast

Good video

If anything, it set the conversation back

bro we need more people like you to analyze these kind of stuff. as people these days only wanted to see good fighting anime and easily rated 9/10 on MAL lmao

I love jjk but Gege sensei's delivery when it comes to female characters is so subper it's disappointing. Can we please stop being so overhyped for characters when the series had like 2 seasons out, cos I remember everyone labeling Gege as a feminist on twitter as if he's doing some grand service towards women empowerment only for it to age so badly in the manga. Also I have to mention the fact that part of the jjk fanbase bashed on female chars from other shounen series, such as Sakura Orihime or Tsunade but at least these characters have so much depth despite having been created 20 something years ago. You think we'd have better in 2024 but the bar is still so low.

12:13 excuse to draw geges favourite sexy man is so on point 😭😭😭

More of this!

It's funny how Bleach is still one of the best big shonen for female representation, despite it not doing much better. Rukia has some good showings from time to time, Orihime is a heal carry, Soi Fon actually wins her fights and a few female characters like Neliel and Yoruichi get good fights from time to time, though they always end up losing for one reason or another.

Off the top of my head, the bleach manga probably has the best female cast in Shonen. I'm probably biased, but honestly, I can't think of any other series that can match bleach in the quality of its female cast

Thank You 🙏

Not a Sunday? Are you changing your schedule mr Asa?

Where's my Ipod Nano.

I dont have much of quality to say, but here’s an algorythm comment, nice vid man

What are your thought on kusuriya no hitorigoto? I think it has a pretty compelling female lead, but curious what you have to say about it.

The less Meimei is mentioned the better

Fairy Tail legitimately has a very well done cast of female characters and some of the best moments in the series are from the female characters themselves, but it feels like a lot of people disregard them because they get fanserviced a lot in spite of how well written and developed they are, and because of Fairy Tail’s reputation in general

im subbing for this one 🤝

Great video. In my opinion when it comes to representing woman we shouldn’t demonize femininity since that isn’t the problem why woman been represented poorly. It’s because they didn’t have no character at all and was just used for the male gaze. Does that means I don’t want female characters that act masculine. No. Since not every woman act the same. My problem is when we demonize femininity since femininity isn’t the problem. It’s how the patriarchal society treats feminist as a problem when it is not. Sorry if this doesn’t make any scene. Great video and keep up the great work.

Nobara was clearly waisted to me. She kinda got that Sakura treatment to be be honest. You know.. When a female character starts to shine and ACTUALLY doing something which raises your expectations and makes you think the character is going to be really THERE only to be thrown away 2 sec later ? I say "Sakura treatment" because I saw the 2 being compared a lot when season 1 came out and people praising Nobara and saying that she was what Sakura should’ve been while she actually was done even worse. Yuki was waisted to the point that this is just outrageous. She barely got any screentime, no backstory, literally nothing and just straight up dies before even starting to be really active in the story which is such a shame because she clearly could’ve been one of the biggest jjk female icons alongside Maki and Nobara. She literally became a sacrifice again like almost everyone else and never got the possibility to shine which is such a shame. I already see you guys coming talking about Maki so fine let’s talk about her Well.. Maki is Toji.. But female. I’m sorry but at that point that’s the only thing noticeable about her now. It pain me to say that but Maki feels no longer herself anymore. Maki doesn’t have defined goals that made her stand out from the rest she’s just.. Toji. Everytime she fights or that an opponent or ally analyze her they don’t acknowledge her as who she is but only see Toji. Maki’s ambitions and dreams as well as everything that makes her special is gone. Maki isn’t a character anymore, Maki is just a way for Toji to stay relevant in the story despite literally dying before it even started. I’m so glad that you highlighted the fact that this problem also impacts a lot of male characters too but that the problem is that it spared none of the female characters and harmed them more.

I agree with the video. I also known you are smart. I know you hate it when people misinterpret what you say. I know you put a disclaimer that fighting strength or power is important in a Shonen. I just have this deep fear that it will push people away from making powerful female characters which might be unwarranted but I grew up my whole life wanting female characters to be relevant and powerful and I have been disappointed more times than I can count to the point of crying and I am not saying you are to blame but what I am trying to say is that I want female characters that can fight well and also have relevant stories. All I am hoping for is that in the future you go a little bit easier on physically strong or powerful female characters and make it more clear that you want them to have more deep character wise and they don’t have to be made weaker as well as making people understand more female characters could stand to be more powerful combat wise. I understand if you feel that you already made that clear I just wish it was even more clear. I am sorry for trauma dumping. I am sorry if the comment is too long or you find it annoying. I genuinely wish the best for you because you are a cool dude and I hope you have a great day.

I think it's so funny comparing these series to something like csm. in that the women are MORE important then most of the male cast

factssss i was just thinking about this

JJK pushing the envelope for female characters and revolutionising female characters is the biggest LIE ever told. Except maki every female character is useless. Heck even she is reduced to being just a female toji.

I know that a lot of video/people claim that Noelle silva from black clover have a good developement and it well use untile the end even if she a love interste and a tsundere have you any opinion about this that?

it's finally here hell yeah

Nobara: Throughout the old and new generation, I alone am the wasted one.

I agree with everything you said. Also where’s my iPhone?

Toji is the gender swapped version of maki, not the opposite. Maki was introduced and had her motivations, characteristics and goals laid out first. She was the first Heavenly restricted Zenin outcast and Toji has always a parallel to her. I also completely disagree that Yuki died "trying to save a male character". She died trying to kill the main antagonist, she refuses to jump into the fight despite Choso being in fatal danger because it wasn't optimal and only jumps in because what she was waiting for happened regardless of Choso's fate. She cares for him but she doesn't prioritize him over Kenjaku's defeat.

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Nobara was described to be in the position of a “hero” rather than the “heroine”, so I was always curious what Gege plan with her. She has mostly stay as a strong head character, so during the reading of Shibuya I was hoping that this is when were start to see changes cause her friend Yuji is spiraling. And she’ll need to consider that with Gojo gone and the villain takeover, the chance of her dying in this line of work before meeting Saori is pretty high. So is she willing to commit to into the claws of Jujutsu society? But nope, she just die even when she’s about to get a power up against Mahito. Yuki is a character that was introduced to have heavy lore implications, a former Star Plasma vessel, a person that neither walk to the beat of Jujustu society or Curse User’s drums, a person that’s researching a way for human to have no curse energy. And then poof. 1 battle, no research. Gege created good concept but like he doesn’t really want to commit to most character or do character interactions. Aside from Geto&Gojo, Yuuji&Gojo; a lot of them don’t have much interactions going on which hurt their characterization. Nobara is Gojo’s student, yet in Season 1 there’s no scene of him or Nanami trying to teacher her anything. Then, Gojo and Megumi could’ve had more interactions as guardian and ward before he got sealed to elevate Sukuna vs Gojo. In the beginning he beat Sukuna to show off to Megumi, then in this battle he beat Sukuna in Megumi’s body to show off to all his other students. That parallel could be way cooler if we had more scenes with Gojo and his students.

Season one and the early parts of season 2 made me really like Nobara. Not as like a revolutionary groundbreaking character, but she’s was a comfort character that I really loved to see just like interact with the rest of the cast and her personality resonated with me a lot. I got spoiled that she dies and so I put off watching the rest of season 2 until yesterday and words can’t express how much I felt robbed of a character I adored. She put in no work and got no screen time until she Nanami needed a moment and then she died. I think the show has moments and themes that are incredibly well done, but I’m starting to see a massive gap form in the capabilities of the main cast and the side cast that is incredibly reminiscent of dragon ball and I’m extremely worried about how the series will proceed

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Im glad more people are understanding this! Nobara was basically a WORSE version of Sakura plot wise but with a better personality

(4:05 to 4:50) This is something I never really considered, I admit kind of just rode the wave of "JJK does female characters exceptionally well" because the bar is so damn low that getting even this much (JJK EP 17) seemed like a step forward rather than a simple tying of the shoelaces. Kind of sad to think about honestly.

yeah i think the shonen genre tends to push male characters more cause that’s the bigger demographic. i don’t see why we can’t get a strong feminine female character who’s highly relevant. especially considering there’s more of a female audience now a days.

11:18 wrong. Shoko is saving Gojo as we speak. GOJO LIVES. TRUST THE PLAN.

The JJK cast did not push any envelope simple as that

For me nobara fell flat from the beginning.almost all of jjk's characters are built around the fast pacing of the manga,gojo's escalation to godhood,yuji's suppression,mahito being the anti human ultimatum curse these all fit right into the faster pacing of the show.hell,even geto who turned evil in an moments notice already viewed non sorcerers weak,calling question on his original views to begin with.

What sets people over the edge when it comes to jjk's female is sad, frustrating,anger, all the negative emotions combined Like they introduced "great characters who happens to be female" They didn't went with the female characters there for "plot,love interest or ornament" They were so developed but at the same time real with many great motivation and stood on the same level as many male characters and all these things breaks "anime norm" And at first when nobara died, we deluded ourselves into believing "it's understandable" But after maki turning into a reflection of a male character, Yuki..... unreasonable death and many more ........it became clear that jjk didn't care about female characters and nobara was wasted Like no offense but if jjk's female characters was introduced and was as same as many popular anime female characters....just for show, fanservice,plot, ornament.....we won't have cared so much about wether jjk failed female characters or not We were given so much hope and all these new elements were brought on how they were able to defies anime norms but they constantly kept on failing them So i don't care, jjk female characters are just as sheety written as most of the others anime female, we were just delusional

I'm probably gonna get slandered for saying this, because people love to just view her in the most superficial and missguided way possible, but Mikasa from AOT as a female character is a lot better from purely a writing stand-point than Nobara or any of the JJK girls.

Fridging? Don't you mean the...Worf effect? :)

That's why I rock with Fairy Tail so much. Beautiful, compelling and strong. Wonderful.

Does arneid from vinland saga belong to fridging trope?

when I think about it I wonder if Fairy Tale's female cast was as bad as I remember, maybe side characters, but I do remember Lucy and Erza's personalities and arcs as vividly as Natsu o Grey, and the four are protagonists after all

Many, many good points. Absolutely agree that the standard for Female characters is incredibly low when they should just be held to the same standard any character should, be decently good. There were some promising moments for the JJK female cast, but aside from Maki it’s entirely……overrated. I think now what really keeps people looking into the cast is they just being hot, which is cool, but……I want a character man. Justice for Yuki and Nobara ✊

So I think I know why JJK gets praise for its female characters and why it’s misplaced. It’s not that the female characters are inherently groundbreaking, it’s how the author treats the female characters. They never use them for outright sex appeal or portrays them in a demeaning exploitative way. Is Nami from one piece a better character than Nobara? Yes. Does her design change from pre to post time skip make me gag. Also yes and that’s where gege breaks the mold. They aren’t at all exploitative in their design of female characters.

"This series just doesn't really like its cast." THERE IT IS. THERE IT FREAKING ISSSSSSSSS. Not just the female characters, but most of the male characters, too, like it is COMPLETELY uninterested in exploring any of these people as PEOPLE aside from maybe Satoru Gojo. Which, don't get me wrong, Gojo is genuinely a very fascinating character, but he CANNOT carry this whole series on his shoulders forever just like he couldn't carry the jujutsu world on his shoulders forever. There are so many characters that could be genuinely interesting, fleshed out people, and they really made some great strides in that direction with the movie (best piece of JJK media I've seen thus far), but there was NO followup on that for characters like Inumaki or Panda. Inumaki has one of the most interesting gimmicks and powers along with a debilitating handicap that he has to work around, but none of that is EVER explored; he got 4 lines in S2 and has been, for all intents and purposes, permanently sidelined. *Yuta* has used Toge's own curse technique more than he has at this point! That's just sad. Nobara absolutely deserved better, too; she reminded me a little of Rachel from the Animorphs book series, which is a huge complement, because I cannot think of a SINGLE other character in media quite like Rachel. A preppy, beautiful, popular gymnast who loved shopping, clothes, fashion, *and* her eventual boyfriend... who was also the single most bloodthirsty member of the main cast, who loved the thrill of battle, who was always the first one into a fight and the last one out of it, who scared both her friends and *herself* with how vicious she could sometimes be, who was stalwartly strong, and loyal, and selfless, and loving, and unapologetically *feminine.* Nobara felt like she could have become that type of character for JJK, and I was all for that... and then the Shabuya arc happened. And now it really doesn't matter if she's dead or not, because it's not like she'll ever have a significant affect on the story again. :/ And that... it just feels bad, scoob. This all feels *bad.* And it SUCKS, because JJK really could have been something so special. But apart from the amazing action sequences, it just feels... hollow. You cannot speedrun a story and character development and expect people to care. Period.

What happened to your Kagurabachi vid

I felt no emotion when she died it felt flat and out of nowhere but oh well we shall see😊

Also I agree with you on the fact that fans can not accept female characters being human or weak or just in love as if it's something bad, while fans simultaneously being in love with fictional men who don't exist. I mean I'm a simp for Gojo so why can't female characters find a person to be romantically invested as well. Why is that part of her personality non existent. Shounen female chars really follow some extreme archetypes to the point it erases their humanity, sometimes I feel like male mangaka do not really understand women they're so far detached from reality it hurts.

fully agreed

You forgot one more character Rica, I don't know if she's really counts as a character anymore.

Just leaving this comment to curse you for that Bakudeku image at the beginning😭

I liked the female cast of JJK at first and now Maki is pretty much the only good one left. Nobara was decent and had so much potential and yet got screwed followed by the rest. There are a few things that I disagreed with but overall, you made a great argument man. Kudos.

You forgot zoro

Reallz good represantation of a strong woman character is Robin from One piece.

Well said, it is hard to defend JJK as pushing the envelope. The female cast does not do much compared to the male characters. Out of curiosity, is there any reason you did not bring up Mei Mei during your discussion of what the female characters have don(10:44).

Do a video for chainsaw man’s female cast

Then we compare this with komugi/bisky/pakunoda/ in hunter hunter.

As a manga reader: yes

Its not even like JJK is bad at doing characterization in battles. Hell, a lot of the fights in the culling games do have some fun characterization for the enemy sorcerers...who then promptly turn into complete morons and die instantly. A lot of their deaths are made even more bizarre by how brainless they are. These characters who are introduced as being cunning as any other sorcerer suddenly make the dumbest possible decisions or strategies that wind up with them getting killed, most of the time, without doing or accomplishing anything, making all the time spent with them feel like a waste. Yeah, I don't think JJK likes its cast.