I've seen all the comments about the spoilers in the thumbnails, I didn't think it was that much of a big deal when I first uploaded the video but you guys have convinced me that I made a mistake. I've changed the thumbnail to something less "spoilery", which is definitely hard to gauge since there is no uniform position on what that means. I hope that suffices & my bad to anybody who I may have spoiled. Thanks again for watching everybody

Honestly, the only thing that sort of slightly cheapens some of the deaths in the series is just that so many of them feel like they happen one after another and a lot of them don’t get a period to just dwell on that loss.

I think the death issue is actually a symptom of the greater problem people have with the story: it doesn’t take the time to fully explore itself. While other historically long shonen have had their own issues they don't often feel as unexplained as JJK often does. There are countless dedicated avenues of duscussion just based around questions you would assume the story would have a pretty direct answer for. I think the best example of JJK's lack of exploration is the month after Gojo is released and countless characters from all parts and eras of the story come together, some for the first time in hundreds of chapters, so many things to be said, so many interactions to have, so much story to have And it all gets skipped. Now obviously we've gotten the most relevant flashbacks from that time when necessary but thats almost besides the point. Even if you want to argue none of the other interactions during that month were ultimately unnecessarily , not taking the time to explore *any* of all those variously characters and plot points coming together for a full month in such a specific circumstance is deeply narratively unsatisfying, which is why any of rampant, seeming out nowhere deaths worth. Now you could argue that that lack of satisfaction is the point but 1. Just because you do something on purpose does not mean its a good choice and 2. You can have a deeply tragic narrative that is still very much narratively satisfying. Acting like they're diametrically opposed or that its unnecessary is a disservice to authors who balance the line. Even if their arcs weren't *complete*, them ending with death is acceptable for both the impact it had on the story and how it wrapped up the character. Kenjaku's death is just the culmination of this mindset of treating the story and what it's built up so flippiantly because this is someone who is basically why 90% of the story even happens and we truly know maybe 10% at best about him and his impact and motives and they basically got unceremoniously merked like they were barely relevant. Its nothing new to the series at all but its the prime example of why this mentality in writing is just as flawed as not killing any characters if not more so because while a dead character can still have a major effective on the narrative, a living character will always inherently be able to do more and fullfill that potential.

Kenny’s death kinda mirrors Yuki’s imo. Characters with opposing philosophies unable to see the future they desire but passing on their will.

It feels rushed, and the problem with those deaths is... there is a line that was crossed and when it happend they have started to loose their meaning. Now it is one big meme. Also many characters were killed before their chance to shine - there were so many ideas and interaction cut because Gege dicided that it is time to end somebody (too soon). So - it was good and shocking at first, now it is just flustrating and meaningless.

I'd call the story's use of death 'wasteful' because at the end of the day, I have only so much investment I'm willing to give. If you start putting all my favorite characters on the chopping block, I'm not gonna care ONE BIT about how the story ends. Why would I, when the whole cast I grew to appreciate is in the ground. His skill with characters and writing relationships is really his best quality as a writer and squandering that to prove a point about death is the true waste imo.

The only thing Gege is predictable about protecting is Sukuna... But yeah, other than that, Gege is unpredictable.

Agreed with the ending particularly with how out of character it feels like for Kenjaku to have lied about dying if he does comeback, but then again if he is dead fr then this doesn’t feel like him either as you put it

This video just comes off as you saying "well gege intended it to be that way" intention or not, gege fails at making fully developed fully realized characters before unceremoniously killing them off. there are plenty of tragic characters in shonen, but before they can be tragic, theyre CHARACTERS first. Yuki wasnt allowed to be a character in the present before just dying pointlessly. What's the point of establishing her relationship to Todo if they dont even interact once? Tsumiki isnt even a character and we're supposed to care that she's killed? Nobara who was the main heroine of the series, atleast initially, is sidelined for most of the manga then killed in shibuya before making ANY semblance of an impact on the story. The problem with the characters in the series is Gege writes them to serve the plot, not the story. What do I mean by that? The plot is the point A point B planning of things, the story is the story. Yuki's death helps the plot because it allows Kenjaku to get Tengu which is important, but what does it do for the story? Kill of a super hyped sorcerer with apparent massive influence and impact on the world and the future. And Im guessing you think because they're using her book now that makes things better lmfao.

I don't have an inherent problem with stories killing off a bunch of characters but it does make things really boring for me, in the sense that there's no sense of urgency anymore when I know that anyone can die at any time. I'm surprised that my favorite character has lasted as long as he has, especially since he came extremely close to dying, but I've already accepted his death as a matter of when, not if.

Gege is the exact opposite of Oda when it comes to writing characters. One kills everyone. The other hesitates to kill even minor and forgettable characters.

I feel like JJK is one of those shows that's massive while it's running but the constant pile up of disappointments within the fandom will kill its hype once we finally find out what Gege's end plan is

Jjk should had expand on their characters more. Here’s a good question, why should I care about Yuki or Nobara if they weren’t fleshed out enough!?

My boy Nanami was done DIRTY. Gege really threw 3 special grades at him in shibuya.

IDK, maybe modern Shounen Jump mangaka's shouldn't be so scared about writing a long-running series if their story needs to be fleshed out more. Seems like too many are just speedrunning their plot and narrative.

The downside about this method of writing is I just don’t care about the cast now and really haven’t since Yuki’s death. Personally though my new issue is apparently Sukuna not trying at all so far which just sours the gojo vs sukuna fight cause now it feels so fake.

My criticism with JJK is extremely simple. It lacks strong constrast between tragedy and happinness. Gonna use HxH 2011 as an example, you know how wholesome that anime is right ? Gon finishing the exam with some fun things like him a child using human as a bait for Hisoka without giving any sense of remorse. Or the fact that Netero allows psychopath like Hisoka gain free jail card access. None of those really felt noticeable since the show hides it under it's wholsome aura lol. Then Yorknew arc came in which is a crime mafia arc which has dark tone. After that, came the wholsome Greed Island. Then came, The Chimera Ant which is the darkest arc in the story. These darkness wouldn't feel as impactful if it weren't for the existence of it's wholsome aura that contrast it. Evil exist because good exist. Strong exist because weak exist. Tragedy exist because happiness exist. Remove one and the other will never exist. JJK is too focused on the tragedy (or more of Fantasy Torture) that it ironically making the tragedy aspect felt so easy to be memed because it's meaning is not as strong without the contrast to support it. How can JJK contrast it ? By simply show more of the character intercating with each other. Ironically enough, Berserk which has one of the most darkest chapter, The Eclipse, also has ton of wholsome moment after that. Heck, even the art style of the manga became more cleaner and less darker except the recent new chapters 💀 which felt impactful because of those contrast. The problem with JJK is not death itself but how it conveys those deaths to truly feels like tragedy instead of fantasy torture that can be memed as "Sukuna Lobotomy Kaisen, since Heian Era"

A story can get stale if theirs no death. But the same applies to the opposite.

I think my main problems with how the series is written don't really have to do with the deaths but more with how the world building is inconsistent and vague and how characters just.... leave. Concepts get mentioned but never explained (six-eyes) and characters that were shown to be not only fun but strong get written out without comments (Todo). This may be intended to make the world feel real, but it basically does two things: -It gives Gege a lot of leeway to "cheat" and this wiggle room is perceived so large it is where all the "asspull" discourse stems from. -It completely fucks with build-up and pay-off, which frustrates the readers and lessens the enjoyment a lot of people get out of it. In my opinion this makes for a worse story but that's personal preference. So even if there *is* a greater plan to the narrative, and there very well might be, its communicated poorly by Gege.

I feel like more of my problem is less of how death itself is handled, (I actually agree with a lot of the cases of the more controversial "wasted" deaths having purpose to them) but how much the laser-focus on the presence or even bombardment of death comes at the expense of those are still living. Of course there are key exceptions in the very most significant characters right now like Yuji and Maki, but it makes a lot of the side cast feeling like they just kinda exist (The Kyoto students are a big example) make me more apathetic towards their presence. Side cast neglect is hardly an exclusive issue to JJK in the Shonen sphere, but in a story where death is such a dominant prevailing element, and especially since it feels like it's thematically building up to a confrontation against the cruel foundations of JJK's world, it would feel a lot more profound to place just as much weight on the idea that every currently standing life counts. I actually find the feeling of no character being safe regardless of significance in JJK to be pretty refreshing when I feel most series that build up an "anyone can die at any moment" atmosphere wind up having a select handful of characters that you know are gonna stick around through at least the majority of the narrative, I just feel like it overcompensates on that aspect in a way that doesn't leave me feeling much connection to who's still around.

"Agenda Kaisen" 😭

How did maki get hotter AFTER getting brutally scarred

I'm going to be honest. I dislike how gege writes death not because I feel like the characters are wasted. I just feel detached emotionally. Just like gege. It makes me not care about any of the characters, aside of yuji and megumi, to the point where they are the only reason I'm still reading manga. I don't care about this lawyer dude, nor do I care about yuta, this old guy with katana, yuji's brother nor anyone else. They just don't feel like characters to me, just pawns, tools to tell specific stories, I can't bring myself to caring about them at all. Nobara's and Nanami's deaths were amazing, but if you repeat the same trick multiple times - I'll just stop caring. Not to mention that I did not develop any attachment to any new characters after that because they weren't present for long enough.

I wonder this is why series like One Piece rarelly has someone dying.. Once a character dies for good there is not much to dwell deeper and engage with the audience. Too many deseaced characters can be as bad as having too little at times.

Excellent video as per usual Radman, on Kenjaku's death I feel like it really just cemented my biggest worries about his character. If Kenjaku is done here then he really was nothing more than a fancy plot device who shows up whenever Gege needs to push the plot forward and now that we're in the endgame and his will to start the merger has been passed on to Megumi/Sukuna he is simply no longer needed and was thus killed off. (this is a very simplistic view of things but I'm still upset that my favorite character got killed like that so forgive me)

i agree plot armor can really hinder a show but so can constant death with a story like this

the characters are the world there is no world building and the author is clearly just making it up as he goes because too many plot threads are hanging

Ever since the start of Shibuya arc, the deaths in JJK have gotten very stale. Gege tries his best to misdirect only to kill a character off spontaneously. Ironically, this little formula of his has gotten predictable. And if we are being honest, most of the time, it comes across as only being for shock value or meant to be motivation for the protagonists. All while the antagonists/villains have plot armor. This has gotten to the point where the only way to enjoy Jujutsu Kaisen is to root for the curse users and cursed spirits.

Gege has a problem with writing and maintaining women characters

I cant believe we dontveven fully know nobara died because we literally get no time for it to sink in before the next death . The characters dont get the react . We dont get to react . One of our big three died and were not rven sire she died becaise it just happened and was never brought back again ? Like .... I dunno . Csm atleast let you sink it in There was a breathe when you knew oh this character we knew is gone . They had a story they were important to us yes they happen fast but it is brought up the mc thinks about them . It's not just oh they might be dead but since we never really see anyone react cause now it's the next death

The fact that Gege fridged pretty much the entire female cast is a clear showcase of his dedication not to writing but to shock value

I think my issue is the inconsistency in the quality that Gege has his character deaths. Nanami was a great death in terms of it being impactful in the moment, but then with all the death in that arc, simply injuring Nobara and Todo essentially just sidelined them from the story, what point is it to keep them alive? None, they don’t come back, so it would have been more impactful to actually kill them to have that be a driving force for Yuji. Edit: I retract my comments about Todo, never mind, Gege was cooking with that one. Then there’s Yuki which I’m not even going to get into, that leads directly into the unsatisfying and anti-climatic death for Kenjaku. Gojos death wasn’t even shocking we all knew it was bound to happen or have a very high likelyhood of happening. The issue is how it was executed, and the blatant disregard for our intelligence and the longing Gege must of had to “shock” us to put that garbage on paper starting the chapter off with Gojo dead as fuck, one tapped, after he was in the middle of winning the fight. when it comes to Sukuna. Sukuna went from oh he’s the strongest guy and he’s the villian to this guy is literally a god and there’s no way we can realistically win. I see people trying to pull revisionist history like Kashimo wasn’t talked up since his introduction. Then you make him use his secret technique that would kill him anyway, just for him also to get one shot? Why waste our time with his character if he was going to do literally nothing. Gege tells us how strong Higuruma is and how he just learned RCT mid fight… to get one shot. Like wtf is that? Yuta, who was the strongest person we had left, used Jacobs Ladder on Sukuna, and he effing tanked it, and took out Yuta, and now maki looks cooked, so now you want me to belive in any way possible that Kusakabe can do ANYTHING?!?! Like idk if Gege things we are stupid or can’t see through the bullshit or what but it’s just annoying at this point

spoilers in the thumbnail is wild

Absolutely glazing 💀

Past Nanami, I think JJK characters death feel meaningless now. Why would someone feel sad for Mai's death if she wasnt properly shown. She wasnt even given supporting character role. I dont understand what is killing this many characters trying to prove? Thats its better than Tokyo Ghoul, Vinland Saga or Attack on Titan? It does not. Because it just feels like a gauntlet. Everyone comes to fight Sukuna and die. Leaving no impact.

gege wrote himself to a corner, to the point where he has to do lazy writing to conclude some characters

Killing off a character because he's too over powered just to shift focus to another character that's significantly stronger. Gege is unable to develop interesting side characters.

Kenny died because he dropped his guard and was having fun for the first time in probably 1000 years Kenny has done everything out of boredom and amusement, and the comedian was able to satisfy that boredom and amusement. The merger less important for him, never cared about the merger itself just about creating chaos.

The problem with this story is that there’s so much imabalance of plot armor and plot convenience.

I think a big problem is that nobody actually WANTS a world where nobody is safe. They want a world that FEELS dangerous but is still able to keep characters going and only kill them when there's a good point to it. If nobody is actually safe at all and their deaths are going to mean nothing either way, then who cares? It just makes me less engaged with the story because nothing really matters. Why should I care about, say, Maki, if even the main trio isn't safe? She's way more disposable narratively than Nobara was. Why not have her just get turned to juice by Sukuna? It's not going to make a difference either way, it's not like she's going to be a factor in solving that problem or anything. Why even care? This is something Attack on Titan does way better. The setting feels grim as fuck, but not a lot of main characters actually die and the ones who do feel like they tend to get pretty respectable sendoffs. I can feel fine as a fan watching someone I like leave the story because they're going to go out doing something important, and I know that loss is going to shape the rest of the cast going forward. And that's a series where people don't even really have unique fighting styles or abilities like JJK does, meaning when someone dies they're WAY easier to replace narratively by just introducing another recruit. It just doesn't feel deserved or deep when JJK does this stuff. It feels frustrating and it feels like the writer doesn't know what they're doing. I don't feel satisfied with Nobara going out the way she did, I feel annoyed that she got fridged to push another character, and that frustration makes me like Yuji WAY less by proxy just because of how someone I liked got screwed over to push this other person.

Bro... I don't know, like... I can't. I just CAN'T with Jujutsu Kaisen fans. Like... can we stop with GEGE'S MEATRIDING FOR FIVE MINUTES!? Dude, I mean... Listen I respect what you're doing. And I admit that you made a couple of interesting points in the video. For example, I'm with you on the fact that it's annoying how Gege keeps tickling our balls with uncertain status of Nobara. I also liked your idea that characters can become stronger after near-death experience. However, the sheer amount of Gege glazing in this video is ridiculous. And I'm not even talking about 100% clear glazing like 21:32 where you talks about how "Gege Akutami writes his characters like he's moving chess pieces on a board" Like c'mon, how are you not embarrassed to say stuff like that? No, I'm talking about other things. Like 11:00 where you basically said "Yeah, that character death was completely pointless and random but BRO you just don't get it, it was supposed to feel pointless and random". And I thought to myself: "Yeah, bro. No". This argument sucks cause you can apply it to pretty much any other death in any other manga, any other piece of media. I mean we have manga like goofy murderfest that is Akame ga Kill, we have silly cartoonish violence Future Diary, we have Elfen Lied. And you know Elfen Lied. The show about schoolgirl with super abilities killing everyone. All while the fans of Elfen Lied saying stuff like "Bro this anime is so deep and through gore and violence it explores the themes of cruelty of human nature" Yeah, bro, whatever. What I'm trying to say is that an argument about how "a bad thing is supposed to be bad" is a week one. Because it’s too abstract and you can use it to make excuses about every single piece of bad writing in every other piece of media. But then... It just got worse. 11:34. "Characters deaths especially in Jujutsu Kaisen are never actually pointless. And this is a generalization that can honestly be applied to every damn story" YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS BRO. And you had the audacity to show Shonen titles which are notorious for pointless deaths. Please don't tell me you actually believe that every single death in My Hero Academia has its meaning. PLEASE, PLEASE don't tell me that you actually believe that there are no pointless, anticlimactic, out of nowhere deaths in, for example, NARUTO. Neji? Madara? C’mon! «Even when they are made to fell pointless, there is always a point» Yeah, but that point can be TRASH. Then you proceed to say some… well pretty much objectively questionable things. Like when you said that Kashimo put up a decent fight against Sukuna. I mean are we serious right now? You also said that Yuji and Megumi used Nobara as a silent middle ground that would listen to them. I don’t know, maybe we read different manga. Cause I thought that Megumi was the silent middle ground. He is the most mature out of them, for them he is like Aki for Denji and Power. Also you said that Megumi is a «talented Zenin prodigy». Bruh it’s 2024 everyone knows that Megumi is SORRY ASS. Then 20:24 you were discussing Kashimo and you said that he is «not as important character as many people thought». So approximately 80% of the fandom think that Kashimo death was pathetic and you say that it’s their fault for having high expectations? 28:42 «Suffering in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen has been suffocating lately and that’s a good thing» BRO STOP. STOP. ENOUGH. This is the problem with Jujutsu Kaisen fans. You all just can’t for the love of God stop meatriding Gege. It may surprise you but I’m not stupid, at least not super dumb. And I’m not super smart either. I’m a «normal» fan and along with many other «normal» fans I have my, not necessary true, but simple opinions. «Kashimo was irrelevant» «Yuki death sucked» «Mechamaru was underwhelming». And these opinions are OK. But not for people like you, oh nooo, not for you - glazers. Instead of explaining why Kashimo death made any sense you start making excuses. «Nobara died out of nowhere»-«Oh but it’s supposed to feel underwhelming» «Kashimo sucked»-«Oh, but it’s fans fault for having expectations» «Kenjaku went down like loser» - «Oh it’s because… errr… well it’s just Gege being Gege am I right?» STOP. You people will never admit that Jujutsu Kaisen is just like every other Shonen manga out there. Yeah, more mature that My hero Academia. But just like My Hero, Jujutsu Kaisen has its own flaws. But you will never admit it. You will never admit that almighty Gege can make a mistake, can make an underwhelming/stupid/dumb, simply bad decision. No you won’t admit it cause you just have that need to feel superior towards fans of other Shonen mangas, you just need to feel special. Kinda like Hunter x Hunter fans. HxH fans will eat their own shit to explain why HxH is the best Shonen in history. Kinda like fans of A24 studio films. They will say «Yeah, the movie is a boring slog, but its supposed to be boring». And Jujutsu Kaisen fans are the same. They can’t be like Jojo fans that can have a good laugh about all the «Araki forget» moments. Nooo, for Jujutsu fans Its not enough to simply like the manga - they will keep making ridiculous excuses about «bad things is supposed to be bad», because they need to prove to you that their manga is perfection.

Great video. I don’t know what this problem is with anything, especially media, where people can’t admit faults at all. I just read a comment on this video that said “I’d rather have this than whatever one piece does” and that’s the exact sentence I have a problem with. We’re not talking about one piece we’re talking about JJK, saying one thing in the story isn’t your cup of tea isn’t a bad thing and you’re not a hater for noticing it. It’s so annoying you can’t see a fault in one thing without everyone just coping and deflecting as hard as they can.

Love how the thumbnail has changed 3 times already

Kenny died as he lived yapping 💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

LMAO STOP GLAZING GEGE. THE DEATHS IN JJK ARE POINTLESS. ENOUGH SAID.

He just kills them off to the point where the audience starts getting numb to it. What makes it worse is that now I see no way for them to actually kill sukuna due to the sheer amount of important people are now dead in the story

JJK is a perfect example of true wasted potential in shonen. Could have been an all time great series if Gege tried but he just doesn't seem to care about it. Ik it's his first manga and he is only going to get better with his future series but boy does it suck what he did with his current story.

I think i know the crucial difference between Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen despite their similarities: Chainsaw Man is very obviously planned out to the last detail. This is a story where Fujimoto knows what he wants to do with every character and im willing to bet he even has an ending fully planned out. Should it be at the end of Part 2 or a potential Part 3. Jujutsu Kaisen on the other hand feels like Gege hasnt planned nearly as far ahead or he just wants to rush to the nest big plot beat. This is felt recently specifically with the Sukuna Cycle that has made it genuinely hard to want to keep up with the franchise. What Gege needs to do (in my opinion. Take this with a grain of salt) is to slow down. Thats it, he just needs to slow down

Tbh the only reason these flaws are showing up, everything being anticlimactic, and the entire thing being unsatisfactory is because he's clearly rushing the story after season one. Notice that in season one everything was much more detailed we even got more info a build up however immediately after season 1 it all went crazy fast and bare bones. I think he hates writing his own work now.

When was the last time we even got a very good death in JJK, Nanami?

Personally, I think a video from LocalScriptMan about The Walking Dead explained it best: While death in real life is random and has no rhyme or reason, people aren't going into stories with the expectation or desire for randomness. People tell stories because we as humans crave patterns and meaning in a seemingly meaningless world, it's why the Hero's Journey, The Story Circle, and Kishotenketsu are popular formats for telling a story. The things I see about JJK is the same stuff I read about TWD: If people are gonna die no matter what, and death is random and unpredictable, why should I be bothered with following the story? I'll just wait until it concludes, THEN I'll see how it plays out. It's a death lottery, and I think it's pretty safe to say that when your favorite character is dead and gone, your investment in said story drops siginicantly unless you are a ride or die. I think it's safe to say people go tired of The Walking Dead killing off so many characters after a while. Is it really a surprise that the Season 11 (most likely the series) finale of the show had the second lowest viewership in the show's history, while the Season 6 finale was the highest? I hate to sound cynical, especially since I kinda enjoy JuJutsu Kaisen's paralells to Bleach, but the same thing is gonna happen if this formula keeps up. All in all, if Gege feels that this is the best thing for his story, I'm gonna let king do his thing, but I'm also not gonna pretend that his story isn't becoming Shonen's version of TWD and might lose it's readership unless he wraps this story up quickly.

I think Gege is just speed running through the story so he can end it. It’s easy to deal with a character and tie the bow on their story without it taking much time when you just kill the character off. For a character to reach full potential it takes more writing which would make the story longer. Gege is just done with JJK and wants to get it over and done with as quickly as possible. That said he doesn’t want it to be garbage which is why he’s taking his time with Sukuna. IMO.

yapping for 30 mins to defend bad writing is crazy

probably my fav new jjk channel you vids are amazing.

JJK is probably going to go down the Demon Slayer route, where people lobe it so much because of reasons, but then people start to call it overrated later down the line.

For how much people call Nobara a "good female character of shonen" she is just same useless female character in the end. Had no connections to the world of Jujutsu kaisen, no special relationship between her and other characters besides just normal friendship, no relevancy to the story, wasn't as strong as other main characters, even Gojo didn't have any advice for her or any training with her, shit they barely interacted. She is worse than a side character. Junpei was more relevant. When is this problem gonna end?

I have a feeling that gege kept nobaras fate as a mystery so that he can pull the rug from under us in some way

I understand the writer had his vision for the story and characters, but I wish the concept of curses was explored more like Devils in Chainsaw man. Curses come from negative emotion, so why wasnt there a Death Curse? Or a CURSE Curse? Ir probably would have made the story more classic Shonen, but I feel there was so much more potential for the JJK world.

Sorry, but how the hell is Kenjaku negating the black hole a 3000iq play? He literally didn't even know what her cursed technique was and he just happened to have obtained the PERFECT counter for that specific ability by complete coincidence (a power that never came back btw so it's literally just a plot device), thats just lazy writing. I also find it funny that you shit on people coping about Nobara and Kashimo and call their deaths "expected" and then you turn around and cope about Kenjaku lol

lol thank goodness others realize just how absolutely unserious this manga is

I think Sukuna is the MC of the show as it seems JJK is a story about how to create a Sukuna. Yuji will become the new Sukuna. He has already been compared to a natural calamity as he is the other side to the coin that is Mahito (who would've also become a new Sukuna). His brother referred to him as a demon God. Much like Sukuna, Yuji also eats people beginning with Sukuna's fingers and including his brothers the death womb paintings. He's not as smart or gifted as sukuna or mahito for they could copy techniques they've seen one time as with becoming a cursed object in Sukuna or a fraction of a second domain expansion in Mahito. Yuji has one up on Mahito in that he has not manifested a domain yet, so he will likely get an overpowered one like Sukuna that is without barrier. If lesser jjk sorcerer have domain expansions & yuji has performed black flash multiple times but doesn't, he lonely manifest one that's defies the rules of domains much like Sukuna, especially since he's soaked in Sukuna's cursed energy and its stated he will manifest sukuna's abilities. Also, Sukuna stated he was an unwanted child; Yuji is very much like the child of Sukuna as he was created for him. Yuji is clearly unwanted by Sukuna

This is what happens when you as an author could not give two sh!ts about your own characters. Because its true, Gege does not even care about the supposed main character, he hates Gojo as well like what is he doing at this point. That attitude is also being reflected in the community, so many people saying they basically consider the culinary game arc non-existent and have become bored and numb to the deaths. I know it is supposed to reflect that sudden death is tragic and sad, its more realistic, however not developing them before they get killed is so wasteful.

i feel the same about kenjaku's death. like i can forgive gege not resolving plotlines. like that was kinda the point of toji vs megumi and gojo's death. but like my issue with it is. kenjaku is the mastermind behind the entire story, to see this person whos planed out everything for centuries just decide to give up and place his hope in sukuna someone he knows will likley betray him. just feels wrong. like itadori never even met kenjaku really, and i understand that yuta being the one to do him in is in character for him but kenjaku is itadori's mother, kenjaku is the reason why sukuna is back why the shibuya incident happened and why the culling games exist. having him die and say "oops guess its on you ryomen oh buddy oh pal" just feels not only anti climactic but also wrong. i hope this is all a 3000000 iq play by him but my soul tells me other wise. according to gege jjk is ending soon and you can really feel that with the current chapters. the only threat left is sukuna. so either 1 gege is lying and is real life kenjaku and has a 6d chess play so massive it changes how we view the story. or gege is burnt out and wants to end the story.

I think there's a point where deaths become unneeded after a certain arc in any manga. Shibuya was already showing us how much death happens left and right: Nobara, Nanami, Naobito, Hanami, Jogo, Mahito, Haruta, the twins... we got the point death happens and it can come out of nowhere and no one's really important but after that why keep doing it? It just causes less room for developing the new character on screen, instead Yuki now has to be potentially developed in flashbacks... not the best way to show that. Yuki became useful with her soul research, but she could've been useful alive with that soul research. The past sorcerers help in showing how death is the main theme, but why get rid of characters that can help flesh out lore? Why didn't we get anything from Ryu's time? Why didn't we get more from Uro or Yorozu, they were around in Sukuna's time, the time of the best sorcerers and we get nothing. Like of course the story is about death and how sorcerers are at the foot of it every time but other aspects of a story need to be told to create a full story, if you're main focus is themes then you're doing something wrong with the story. Look to Bleach or Naruto: They show us death far more than JJK has yet they write the story's other aspects in full. Lore? We get turn back the pendulum in Bleach, showing us where everything started for Aizen. Ichigo's origins? We get that from his father explaining what happened with his mother. The Espada are given origins, we see what they came from and how its changed them. Naruto we got Kakashi's backstory with Obito. Naruto's birth? we got that shown and understand more about Minato's past and Obito's. Madara vs Hashirama? got that. Even got their childhood and how they met shown. And while all this is given we still are shown countless deaths whether that be most the Espada dying, most the Akatsuki dying, Jiraiya & Itachi's death, Zabuza and Haku's death, Asuma's death, Deidara's, we get so much death in both these series and yet they still know how to develop other aspects of the story. And the thing is death is a big theme in both them for shinobi face death, the hopelessness and hollowness Hollows face in their life, how all the Espada are aspects of death lmao. And even ignoring death as a theme there's other themes within both series that also get touched on, yet they know how to show us a full story with all its aspects being fed. Biggest point is that themes are fun and good to have in your story as it helps enrich the characters but after a while you gotta hit on the story's other avenues and sadly it seems Gege chose fights as the avenue to hit. Gege decided "I'll focus on the themes and fights but for lore I'll leave crumbs" which is weird considering how he gave us HI which shows he can write past events and do it well but he's just decided on not doing it.

Another awesome video. I was never upset by Kenjaku's death and I think this video (in its totality) explained why. Characters in JJK, more than -any- most other series, are not "dealing" with death but moreso _gambling_ with it. We see the phrase used multiple times outright while some characters literally have gambling as a key part of their very technique. Even when not blatantly said, characters are making gambles that either turn to or against their favor. Gojo gambles he learns RCT before dying, Kenjaku gambles his CT will protect him against the black hole, Sukuna gambles that Mahoraga will show him a way around Limitless that he can emulate. Every character is playing their hand and it's either win, lose, or draw, with "lose" either resulting in death or a serious dismantling of their plans. Again, when you reread the series through that lens, character deaths start to "make more sense". Kenjaku, as an example, is effectively the House/Dealer and has managed to make such intelligent and conservative bets that he almost always wins. He only loses to a man that defies all logic and leaves him open to the heroes' true plan at the tail end. Whether it's Sukuna gambling that Yuji won't take back control after losing his heart, Todo gambling that Mahito will believe his ruse one last time, or Yuji gambling that Megumi would be willing to wrest back control against Sukuna, characters are constantly gambling, with a loss often resulting in them dying.

My question is why did kenjaku make yuji? If his goal was to bring back sakuna and bring forth the merger with humanity and tengen why make Yuji in the first place… to help bring forth the king of curses? But we see how easily he can control amothers body that doesn't seem like the reason.. That my biggest question…

very well edited video, extreamly enjoyable to watch and listen to youre commentary

I finally understand why the deaths irk me and so many others the wrong way. It's because they are the exact opposite of how most sane writers would choose to write their story. In most stories deaths are treated with care and emotion to make them hit hard. They can end a character's arc or signal the start of another part of the story. But few, if any, stories do what JJK does with deaths. JJK is one of the only ones willing to both admit the tragedy, and leave it at that for the audience. The forced realization that death is always tragic, sad, and inevitable while simultaneously being pointless is uncomfortable. The world moves on. And we don't like that because it sucks. BUT, the pointless deaths make the character as a whole feel pointless. It makes the audience feel like the character wasn't important to anything, whether the writer, the story, or something different altogether. That's the killing point, that Gege is doing something antithetical to investment and it's damn point of the story! I do still think that death is overused to the point that it hurts the immersion, but at the same time I can recognize the beauty and skill present. What would have helped was just more time! The story never stops and lets the characters breath, so when they die it feels like we spent no time at all with them.

Sometimes I forget I'm 30. Took me a while to understand why people get so shook by characters dying in the story, to me it's always been about the kind of story the author intends to tell, rather than my personal preferences about it. Ywah, if everyone lived it would be bonkers, but death being used as a narrative period really increases the urgency of the plot and characters involved in it

So im not the only one to be furious about Kenjakus death? 😭

Have those deaths been in-service of the story he wishes to tell or has it been BS as he has no idea what the end game even is?

There's no weight to the deaths at this point. Almost feels like a comedy

spot on with kenjaku i think someone else also pointed out that another disappointing aspect wasnt necesarily that kenjaku didnt get to show us his entire bag or even that he and yuta didnt face off despite it being a fight thats been setup the most after gojo v sukuna But rather that in his final few chapters we hardly learned something about him and that it was focused around a relatively irrelevant side character that not many readers have resonated with he is the most lore heavy character in the entire series, i wouldnt even be surprised if he was married to tsumkis mom His strength was also impressive. ofc against yuki,choso and tengen he shined but that anti gravity was kinda bs unless gojo dropping to the ground was foreshadowing of his gravity manipulation and then theres also the scene where the majhong blocks fall over simultaneously but this is a guy who has a domain on sukunas level (disregarding curse energy and lethality) and we didnt get to see him humble someone for using a domain against him "divine like sukuna" based on what? because he couldnt do anything to gojo, so what made his domain so special? we didnt get to see and its such a shame because he also had tengen and getou himself was also a very good barrier user, not that kenjaku would learn anything from geto tho We shouldve seen more we dont even know what kenjakus real domain does

think whole situation of nanami and nobara is brilliant. it's a contrast bw kusakabe and nobara and nanami and mei mei which sets the values of the world. Nanami said the situation is for atleast grade 1... But nobara didn't care because she couldn't leave her friends behind. She showed bravery she died. Kusakabe was grade one and was sent to protect people.. but he showed cowardice and great perception of his own abilities and situation. He lived. Nanami and nobara die. Mei mei and kusakabe lived. Stark contrast and actual reality. Also some are saying not confirming nobara's death cheapens it. it doesn't cheapen anything.. mahito used a quick touch while running from yuji.. she might or might not have died.. But Yuji couldn't understand or had perspective on anything that was going on..so he went in mental trauma. And another great example of natural screenplay is that Yuji could not be motivated just with todo's words. He was completely in despair.. But when nitta says she has 1% chance of living, Yuji clings to that hope and that makes him come out of sense and then words help him. It's like a kid who is crying for his mom.. If you give him a candy to stop him from crying he wont take it. But if you say his mom is coming and in the meantime he can take the candy. He will take the candy and Stop crying. Because you gave him the hope to fall onto. That's what gege did..the screenplay was perfection and probably never done before in anime.... usually words motivate people which is meh.. If she's dead. It is what it is. If she's alive..then she might be in coma, she might be out of commission or she's training her ct so she doesn't become a burden next time for her friends which are in narrative consistency and personality of character. Gege never said she's dead. People assumed it.. and with the way Yuji acts in culling games it's probable nobara is alive but in bad condition and out of commission like todou..

For me, I think the worst was probably Tsumiki... girl was straight up innocent, her mom put her in the position to be besides a sorcerer prodigy. Because she was closest to Megumi, Kenjaku cursed her to put in Yorozu. She didnt even get a single thought in a panel post flashbacks. But it is what it is. And yes Nobara as well yet I dont think she dead tho.

Never had a problem with the deaths tbh. It was already established that death is a regular thing so im not going to expect most kf the deaths to be emotional. Im more interested if in how it effects the plot and other characters.

I get where gege comes from with how he treats characters. Death is an important part of a story and many authors are afraid to use it and Gege is not at all afraid to kill off his characters. But I feel like this kinda cuts both ways. Characters are essential to a story and killing off to many can be a disservice to the story. Lot of my favorite characters just die and it makes me not want to read it. Sure it makes sense but that doesn't make it any better. I wanted to see more Kashimo and yes his death makes perfect sense but it was bittersweet at best and I just hate how it was handled. I see why people defend the story but I feel like it can't end in a way that satisfies me which yes that's probably the point and would make sense but again, doesn't make it any better.

I think a lot of your reasoning behind these things are cope that sounds nice. For example Gege didnt kill yuji in the first arc because it fit a theme. It was a way of getting readership back with a big cliffhanger when it had started to drop. Also dead characters inherently matter less. The complain people have isnt that no character should be introduced and die tragically but that characters are turned into plot devices that completely wastes potential and it rips the viewer out of the immersion of the story. Some characters needed to die or be completely incapacitated for a couple of reasons (Gojo), while others have made the story objectively worse from both a narrative and writing perspective because they died (Yuki). Kenjaku's death was also a prime example of objectively bad writing. He was a villain introduced with a lot of knowledge and history, his own plans and ideas, a mechanism by which to cause harm to the protagonists and even though it was my favorite character who killed him, his death this early in the final arc made the story feel worse. As a result, instead of Sukuna being plausible to beat through a number of methods that just shouldve killed him so far in the story, hes had to recieve significant handholding from the story so that it can continue. Another opinion I disagree with is Kashimo serving his purpose. He didnt serve one, he showed up, ruined panda's plot point, lost a fight, ceased the exist till gojo fought Sukuna and then died. He didnt add anything to the narrative, provide us with new info or do anything of real value. He could be removed from the story and it would be arguably improved.

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With the most recent chapters it just feels repetitive. New characters comes in, they get dumpstered, repeat. SPOILERS but why are we digging into deep layers of side characters like Miguel instead of actually moving forward with the story. Like we all know Miguel is dead within the next chapter or two and in marches the next person to the slaughter.

Nobara “dying” made more sense to me and felt genuinely impactful. Yuki got erased as soon as she became relevant so that upset me more. She didn’t serve enough purpose to me and the way she was beaten felt really stupid especially seeing how easily Kenjaku was defeated.

A characters death isn’t good if they didn’t die without potential being wasted, at that point the death means nothing.

Personally, it was Haruta Shigemo that killed the story for me, as he made it feel like the author was just writing the story to kill characters without real purpose. He's a minor character who causes a lot of damage, defeating Nobara and killing/wounding many others, before he gets defeated like the minor character that he is. Despite this, he's back right after this as though Nanami beating him didn't matter, and once again this minor character plays a major role in the story, forcing Megumi to use the technique that would later lead to Gojo's death... and Haruta was only capable of this because of plot armor that was written into the story seconds before his own death. A forced explanation added after the fact. Meanwhile Nobara ignores her own loss, injuries, and advice from Nanami and just dies. Likewise, Dagan, another character who had barely any development causes Maki, Namami, and the old guy's near defeat, and is only beaten because a revived from the dead character acts in an out of character manner and saves everyone... only for the author to invoke fatal wounds on the three survivors. (Maki surviving being killed off in the story for a second point at this time.) Which further highlights the appearance of this out of no where character, Choso, appearing and killing the main character... with us then having a bunch of other characters added out of no where just so more people can die... and when one thinks about how the braided whip came out of no where just to hinder Gojo, the meaning starts falling out of the window because the author is over doing it. Everything is realistic and meaningless so there is little point into investing oneself in characters as they are passerbys who will be killed by passerbys.

Just wait for Takaba to come back, unleash his reverse comedian, kill Sukuna in one hit whilst he's off guard(merger doesn't happen). And the story just ends abruptly, no post Shinjuku showdown scenes, that's literally just the last chapter.

Wow thoughtful JJK analysis. You got a sub.

Love the vid and the ds2 majula music lol

It’s not gojos imagination or delusions, it’s the cursed realm. They were talking about things that would be impossible for gojo to know. Like when Sukuna talks to jogo or when yuji and mahito walk through the snow or like when that one guy saw his dead dog when he fought geto.

thius video was fucking amazing bro holy shit keep it up

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So basically JJK is disappointment kaisen

This video is Rad, man

JJK is not a tragedy; it’s a torture fantasy. A true tragedy is not just character torture for fun. It’s supposed to be the tragic results of a person’s innate flaws governing their actions and choices. There are a lot of deaths in JJK that have nothing to do with the character making bad choices deserving of death

to be honest I do think that kenjaku would try to become a curse object or at the very least have a curse object of himself somewhere. Because kenjaku is the one that figured out how to become one so he should be able to do that even if it's not like 20 fingers like sukuna

I actually like how gege is dealing with deaths and probably would of done it the same way. Gege is letting the story write itself. Just like life is a flip of a coin. So is Jjk

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vid so good i switched to my 2nd account and let the ads play to their full 4 minutes 🔥

While I do understand all this, but I just never vibed with Jjk. I just want to atleast get attached to some characters to even care about the plot and the story(character > plot for me), but I never felt this way for a single character in Jjk, except maybe Yuji. maybe because we don't see much character interactions in the early part(it was more like Gege ticking checkboxes on how to start a shounen). That's why I will always prefer CSM over Jjk because the main trio has such great chemistry in less chapters. Spoilers for CSM below: I actually felt sad about the random deaths of Power and Aki. Their lives were also cut short, but the impact was there because they had so much personality and character dynamics with each other. Can't say the same for Nobara or Megumi.

the problem is he keeps alive the most one dimensional characters and he has one of the worst protagonists ever written. the manga had potential to be the best ever, but all the lore or stories that could have been expanded upon that we re interesting were abandoned for this good vs evil, unconditionally good good guy vs supreme evil bs that has been told 1000 times before with much more emotion than this ever will be. the biggest problem was that none of the characters that died mattered in any way, the impact of nobara on the story does not exist at all, the paralel to gojos former team means nothing, it s just stylistic, all that the deaths acomplished was 1 panel of yuji questioning himself, in a manga in which emotion is not the strongest part. who the hell believes yuji can win vs sukuna, why is his backstory not explored more, why is the power level completely fucked, how is a story where yuji wins in a world where everybody dies just to weaken sukuna interesting. at this point sukuna has to win for it to be interesting in any way.

I honestly don't care how JJK ends anymore so long as Todo survives. I just need one of anime's best bois Aoi Todo to make it to the end of this story and I'll be happy.

Good video👍