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Yuji as the mc makes a lot more sense over megumi. He served as sort of an in world perspective of being thrown into the world of sorcery and as a way to introduce us the audience to everything.

So he DOES regret Tsumiki's character being essentially wasted, that was always one the most jarring parts of the story to me.

What i learned from this .... Gege changes his mind a lot. So anything can still happen

Gege just seems like the type to keep everybody in the dark about nobara just to tell us now just to mess with us

Even gege thought megumi was boring 😭

"Planned to draw a camellia flower but gojo lost so he ended up with another flower" i guess gege is rolling some d20s on that shit

I like the discussions of Nobara's death including Gege saying that Arata could save her if he did the right procedure completely ignoring that Arata is a Kyoto student not named Todo

We already knew GeGe preferred Maki over Nobara. Its like he made Nobara to channel Sakura-energy and then got bored with the idea.

Alternate title: Gege traumatizing his audience for fun

No matter what Gege says the cope will NEVER die

Seeing Gege talk about parts of the story he wasn’t happy with his execution of is really cool, usually don’t get to here that from mangaka

Kashimo with a electric sycthe would have been dope

“Because characters who don’t make the reader sad, don’t need to die.” THIS JUST CONFIRMS HE DOES THIS TO TORTURE US! GEGE WHEN I CATCH YOU GEGE!!!!

“ If they’re boring, they ain’t dying “ - Gege, kinda. Oh my god my boys Hakari and Yuta are toast… 😩

Nobara: "Throughout heaven and earth I alone am the forgotten one by gege"

Not buying nobaras death until we see a body, I’m holding out every chapter to hear an unexpected “resonance”

lol kasimo was a farmer serial killer originally? makes total sense lmao.

It’s never Nobraover🙏

Megumi such a bum,he lost his main character status 💀

Went from reaping lives with a scythe to reaping wheat. Kashimo was truly always destined to be the Farming one

Gege is a hell spawn

Yuki being a vessel for kenjaku would have been great to be fair, since Yuki felt like she was gone so fast also would be another instance of hot kenjaku

I like how Gege speaks on his own writing like it’s not him😂

Nobara comin back would've been so cool since her CT is in a way the most "curse-like" CT out there compared to the rest of the cast, seeing how it would've evolved would've been sick

saw nobara and I immediately clicked

Its a bad day to be a Nobara supremist 😔

The Mei Mei statement about her not needing to die because no one would be sad has confirmed what I and others have been saying for years Gege doesn’t kill of characters for the sake enriching the story or the characters, no he does it to troll the audience first and foremost and everything else later.

Don't take the thing he said about nobara too literally, he wouldn't drop anything so important and definitive in a fucking interview.

Gege has GOT to be rolling dice during the writing for these fights

MY SOLDIERS DENY MY SOLDIERS THEORIZE MY SOLDIERS COOOOOOOOOOPE

2:56 gege truly is a curse

Gonna be honest, I'm quickly becoming less and less interested in JJK as a whole with a lot of information that is completely vague in the manga (with hopes to get answers later on) only for these questions to be answered outside of it. Just seems a bit disappointing.

i hate that yuji robbed us of a mc that had an actual goal, i don’t need him to want to be the strongest, but at least strive to do something of purpose other than what the plot demands, L decision on gege’s behalf IMO

I think what Gege means by Gojo lost is the writer phenomenon of characters taking on their own lives. Its a weird thing that happens where if you have spent enough time with a character, you kinda go on autopilot, and the words just fall onto the page for them. You are not even aware of what you are writing at the time. The ideas just fall onto the page, and you only discover what you wrote when you read it back.

Megumi was set up for failure since day 1 😭🤣

Nobara glazers in shambles rn 💀 Edit after chapter 267: I have made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgment, and I don't expect to be forgiven. I'm simply here to apologize.

Even GEGE got tired of Megumi trying to spam Mahoraga 🤣🤣🤣on weak opponentes

Megumi originally being the mc comes as a surprise to no one.

Ngl it's pretty entertaining finding a story where not even the author knows where it's going, I just hope I get my boy Gojo back

It isn’t that random the last times she’s mentioned is when Yuji asks Megumi about her and Megumi doesn’t say anything with him saying “I get it”. The next time she was brought up was when Yuji talked about Hana and him not being comfortable with the idea that’s she’s replaced Nobara, so going from that to Hana replacing Nobara to me it seemed clear that she was dead. And it’s been years since with nothing else.

If Gojo can’t come back then Nobara wouldn’t either. Gege is evil

rip nobara. You deserved better.

I had already heard Nobara was confirmed dead in an interview, gege mentioned it before I STG

If I remember correctly in a cover page you there was mahito playing with 3 puppets and they were like nanami jumbei and nobara

At least he admitted to his faults as a writer and was honest about it.

Honestly, Nobara’s death , yuki ‘s wasted potential and Tsumiki’s lack of backstory are probably the 3 most egregious examples of Gege just doing plain bad writing. And I say this as someone who loves JJK

Looking back, gege said something along the lines of departing from nobara in shibuya. Depart means to leave as if for a journey, not kill. They left nobara to recover in shibuya, then continued the journey onwards towards the culling games. Yuji doesnt know the details of their plans so in his Domain Expansion, he very much believed Nobara was dead. We'll see who else can possibly make their return.

Gege just doesn't care about Nobara like that

What Gege said doesn't necessarily mean Nobara's dead. Emphasis on the word "departed". It could very well mean dead, as is the case with Nanami, but it could just as well mean gone from the story, which, for all intents and purposes, she'll most likely be, even if she is alive. At this point in the story her only shot of showing up again would be in the epilogue (if there's gonna be one) or at the very earliest after the battle against Sukuna is over, since if she were to participate she'd just be dead weight. So yeah, maybe it's a translation matter, but I wouldn't say it's completely Nobarover quite yet.

I’m surprised there wasn’t a statue of Gojo built like a Greek God just randomly submitted by an anonymous user in there.

There is a world where Gege genuinely thought that the way Yuji asked about Nobara and after receiving silence says "I get it" was a good enough confirmation, and therefore now commented on it like it was something said and done.

I trust nothing until the story is finished.

2:16 i disagree, idle transfiguration near the Brain sounds pretty crystal clear, Todo doesn’t even have his hand back. The souls information near Nobaras brain realistically is destroyed, she may have been stopped from getting worse but thats not healing its maintaining the state of an already fatal wound. Theres also no reason for her to be absent in so many flashbacks since Gojo v Sukuna if she really was going to come back, the truth is Fans ignored clear signs, the culling game started long before the actual arc, it was meant to cull out the weakest from the strongest, Nobaras technique was not strong enough for the fights in the rest of the series. Fans constantly said she would on the brink of death find the core of cursed energy but as usual JJK fans think taking something that happened previously in the story and changing the characters is big brained theory crafting and predicting when its actually lazy and corny. Its not Gege said it nonchalantly its that it should have been obvious since shibuya

bruh gege wanted to kill yuji so badly

we should all love meimei as much as gojo so that gege thinks she “impacts” us and kills her off

These translation notes said Nobara and Nanami "departed" which doesn't necessarily have to mean death. We know at least for sure in the case of Nanami it is. Later in the translation notes it says the sorcerers from Geto's cult in Shibuya "died". The word died could have been used for the part with Nobara like it was with other characters but it wasn't. Just something noticeable.

I’m living in shibuya rn studying abroad. I’ll try and get in there and get some 4k images and send them over to those who want them lol.

This really sucks, what a terrible way to learn Nobara is dead. Honestly my enjoyment of JJK has been diminishing with each new chapter and yet I am sticking to it cause I wanna know how it all ends.

Nah he's trolling (smokes cope in the corner)

When Gege says "can't use the flower that symbolizes rebirth", I think they mean it like this - Yuta taking over Gojo's body is not technically a rebirth, because it's not Gojo's consciousness himself coming back to life. If after Yuta's 5 minutes are up then Gojo's mind takes over the body, THAT would be a rebirth - he was actually, properly dead, then came back - as opposed to something like having his body piloted like a mecha by a pilot who didn't read the instruction manual first. Basically - I don't think after the 5 minutes that Gojo will come back - because Gege probably would've had the foresight to use the rebirth flower to hint that he'd die and come back... So maybe Yuta's stuck in Gojo's body forever, the body flops over dead, or Kenjaku takes over for a nice plot-twist.

id really like you to cover the whole exhibit when its all out and available!! im really curious about what they put up (need to see close ups of the higurama stuff and my GOAT choso) and would also really like your thoughts and opinions on all of the exhibit!

As far as I'm concerned, it changes nothing about whether she's dead or not. We still don't know. All he said is that he decided to have her "depart" in the Shibuya arc. And that's what she did, she left the story. That doesn't mean she's dead and that doesn't mean she can't come back, just that she was intended to leave the story at that point. Does that mean she's alive, then? Not necessarily, either. But Gege has gone out of his way to be vague about it and he's still being vague about it here unless the translation is just wrong. I won't believe she's 100% dead until somebody in the story says it, we see a grave, or Gege directly confirms it himself.

If Nobora dies then that means only Yuji will survive, that also means megumi is also going to die but how will his death happen?

Megumi really had the potential to be the MC 💀

4:37 this was my exact reaction, like dude tryna act like he was watching the fight as it went on😭

Is it that her death was vague or fans decided to make their own reasons for her to not be dead. I mean we watched her die and saw her final moments play out as she faded.

Nobara being dead was never uncertain, it was literally seen in panels and later implied by everyone when Yuji asked. The only reason no one said anything would be because Nobara wanted to pay Yuji back for not telling anything when he came back, but to be honest there would not be much to add to the current story if she does come back, so it doesn't makes too much sense if she is alive.

Potential man out here potentialing before his debut

Nobody: Subtitles: "*GAYGAY*"

If you are going to think about it, these statement are all "what ifs" thoughts of gege. I will stil cling to the idea that nobara is still alive knowing how its 100% vague it was back in the chapter that the person who carried her body gave them 50/50 chance she might live.

The Cope is whispering in my ear that its only to make Nobara's return more of a surprise That damn cope.

gege already pointed out nobara being dead after shibuya but people misinterpreted the panel

Nobara isn't desd. Remember, depart doesn't necessarily mean kill. Gege DID depart Nobara after Shibuya, we dont even see her currently. Its different to Nanami because for Nanami we CLEARLY saw his death, but for Nobara it's still unclear. Gege DID depart Nobara and Nanami ever since Shibuya, however Nanami is clearly dead while Nobara's condition is still unclear. That means Nobara isnt confirmed to be dead.

Megumi knew he wouldve been the bum from the start thank god he got sidelined

Hey man, I have a question. Gojo vs Sukuna (heian Era form) but only hand to hand combat. Which do you believe is better? And also could you share some light on heian Era Sukuna vs Gojo without infinity. I personally believe the fight can go either way honestly. Gojo is very powerful even without infinity

it does depend on *exactly* what he said. If he intended to "end her life" in this arc, or if he intended to "remove her from the story (temporarily?)" in this arc. What he said could have very well been a bit more ambiguous

I still have hope for Nobara, not to return to the fight but at least having made it out alive by the epilogue

I’ve been saying it for years that it was ambiguous. She’s fucking dead 😂Nobara is fucking dead and has been dead

Come back Kugisaki

I wish Megumi was the protagonist and Yuji gives off kuwabara vibes I could have got behind that

This makes me quite sad, besides her intresting CT, I would always enjoy her scenes with Yuji, even more when they fought together. I know there isn't much space for her in the story, but I do feel she was killed too early.

i still dont understand how people thought nobara was alive, there was literally a page where yuji asked what happened and then got all sad when he was given silence, implying she was 100% dead.

Bruh, nobara dying is such nothing. He had a LAYUP story beat and missed ngl.

I think there's something to be said about how fumbled Nobara's death was by Gege. People are treating a fucking QnA like Nobara's actual death scene instead of what was meant to be her death. I don't know if he's lying and planned to bring her back, or if he just thought seeing her without an eye would be good enough.

RIP Nobara and Nanami😢

Top 3 comments hating on megumi instead of actually having a discussion. Fandom is cooked.

WHAT IF KENNY RESPAWNED IN NOBARA'S CORPSE

Well for one if nobara is actually dead. Then ijichi would have said so to gojo. They only talked about nanami's death. Why no mention of nobara when she is literally his student?

What was the Gege quote? “At the end of the story, either 1 of the main cast dies or only 1 survives?” So who are you betting on; Yuji or Megumi? My money is on Megumi, just cuz I kinda see a scenario where Yuji dying kinda works with his motivation & Megumi living on while most of his friends and family are dead to be incredibly ironic (Seeing on how Megumi’s name means “blessing”).

Megumi wants to die but apparently he got lots of hate and might not get killed like Mei Mei bcs of that💀

I don’t understand how anyone reads this and doesn’t put Gege on fraud watch or a least bring him up on charges. As much as it hurts me to say this, Gege is basically tryna lazily justify/retcon his bad writing. That’s why he’s casually doing this Nobara shit. He just didn’t know what else to do with her.

I think the flower bit just meant he wanted to use a certain flower but because of the because of the way he had already written the story the meanings would contrast

Tournament arc culling game could've been soo good

Gege continues to be my favourite mangaka!

If gege didn't know what to do with megumi and tsumiki why did he even bother including them in the story

Wait... Geto's hot assistant died? To JoGoat's meteor? Damn...

Shouldn’t gege like redo culling games? And some characters?

I’m still coping for Nobara. At least until yuji or megami dies. In all honesty I feel like she has a good amount of chemistry with yuji and I’d like for them to have some relationship development. Even without that romance which admittedly I’m a sucker for I liked her character and would’ve loved to see it develop more. Maybe Greg didn’t feel there was much more to develop but I personally wanted to see her mature a bit more in her world view

Gege is legitimately just a bad writer and forgot about Nobara/thought the death was guaranteed even though he gave a level of hope by including the one guy claiming he could MAYBE save her. This dude is a hack on multiple levels. Poorly fleshed out world, power system, characters like Nobara and Megumi wasted etc.