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Megumi is just laid out on his back at this point from the eight black flashes.
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Nuebot posted:They go by faster though. It's really easy to scroll by boring chapters when you're just re-reading something rather than just having it sit as the one chapter you get that week. It’ll be interesting to see the pacing in the anime and how that will be received. For the manga, I think the culling games will still be a slog regardless, but you’re right it’s easier to just scroll by.
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This morning I reread the full Sukuna fight, excepting the 3 or 4 chapter Kenjaku interlude because I already reread that recently. I didn't feel like it really dragged much. What does shock me is the sheer punishment Sukuna has taken. Gojo wasn't even close to emptying his tank in the end. The reincarnation full reset and more or less mid diffing Gojo by spamming all of his Megumi abilities were definitely key to winning, but I find myself believing Sukuna probably would have won either way, even if without that major self-heal I think the gauntlet afterwards probably would have cleaned him up pretty tidily. This string of Black Flashes has to herald the end though. I think we might get the 'Open' reveal in the coming chapters. My wild guess hypothesis is that the secret activation prerequisite was that Sukuna has to respect his opponent or something and he is forced to begrudgingly recognize Yuji as an opponent. That was one of my observations rereading the whole thing. Kusakabe calls such deliberate attention to the flame arrow that there's no way it won't show up. Other stuff that I found narratively suspicious: the Higuruma segment was the biggest lull by far for its disappointing payout, but I think that it will be revisited because I still don't get the impression he's dead. He's a really interesting character though, it almost feels like Gege sees him more as a scientist. He had a lot of interesting hypotheses about cursed energy and is clearly a prodigy but didn't have time to test how everything would work properly, hence being blindsided by Kamutoke. Now that I think about it, maybe his arc did get fulfilled because the sword faded away after his death, but the removal of Sukuna's cursed tool remained, so that experiment worked out and proved his thesis about CT effects persisting postmortem, just not how he expected. Still, we've gotten a lot of hints that suggest most of the wounded aren't dead yet. Overall, I really hope the fight is finishing up because it will start to drag on otherwise, but on a reread I think it all works pretty well. The Kashimo/Higuruma segment was definitely the closest to a lull because both felt like false starts. that said, particularly the beginning of the Yuji reveal this chapter feels a little abrupt. I kind of would have liked a 'less is more' approach where we get confirmation that Yuji was one of Kenjaku's projects, but just an experiment that happened to pan out perfectly. It feels like Gege wanted to shoehorn it in a little too hard here. Tosk fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Yuji is an experiment that happened to pan out perfectly, and that's a subplot that's been delivered one page at a time spread across 250 chapters. Kenjaku had found two key pieces for a plan to assume control of Tengen's barrier with Toji and Geto coexisting in the same era, so what he needed next was an ideal vessel for Sukuna as he'd be his insurance against the current Six Eyes running interference or to clean up the culling game if necessary. Meguna shows natural-born hosts were possible, but for a number of potential reasons Kenny tried his hand at creating his own - and going off his attitude whenever Yuji's brought up, it's entirely possible that Yuji "awakening" to his talent for CE was an acceptable result for Kenjaku even if all else failed. In the end what Kenjaku desired was to push the potential of Cursed Energy further, and more than just a cog in this Rube Goldberg-like scheme he'd cooked up of tanging Japan, Yuji turned out to be a successful attempt at propagating Sukuna's bloodline and consequently latent potential into the modern era.
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No Wave posted:Momjaku has to be one of the weirdest real plot twists out there. Like gege heard about one piece's crocomom theory and decided it had to be real. honestly makes him one of the best villains to come out recently. dude was just doing poo poo to do it
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TheHan posted:honestly makes him one of the best villains to come out recently. dude was just doing poo poo to do it
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I didn’t really care for Kenjaku until the fight with Takaba, and then he shot up to be one of my all time favorite villains.
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PringleCreamEgg posted:I didn’t really care for Kenjaku until the fight with Takaba, and then he shot up to be one of my all time favorite villains. Kenjaku revealing he's a critic is an all timer.
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The Takaba fight revealed how serious Kenjaku takes The Bit. He studied the in an outs of a good bit.
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God Jin was such a freak, so many questions to be asked about what kind of poo poo Yuji's dad was on
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Hey listen man, I've seen female Kenjaku, and I don't blame him!
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I mean, considering what his soul-twin is like...
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So was Yuji being specifically at the school with the finger planned
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Fabricated posted:So was Yuji being specifically at the school with the finger planned More than likely. Since it was sitting in a thermometer shed which I think of as similar structures to where I've found Geocaches in the past. It's accessible enough to be a place to look, but the kind of thing that you might not pay attention too unless you got some prompting. Going by this chapter Yuji having sou ties to Sukuna are probably what pinged his radar
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Electric Phantasm posted:Kenjaku revealing he's a critic is an all timer. I like the reasonable reveal that a (semi-)immortal being would end up spending a lot of time consuming media.
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Sukuna's face is hilarious when he's fighting yuji. He just looks so sick of his poo poo, compared to everyone else where he's really hyped to be fighting them. The boys mere existence saps his will to live.
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Official https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/jujutsu-kaisen-chapter-257/chapter/42515?action=read https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1020761
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:God Jin was such a freak, so many questions to be asked about what kind of poo poo Yuji's dad was on After seeing Kenjaku in a nurse outfit during the Takaba fight, I can understand him
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Electric Phantasm posted:Official I have no idea if it was more accurate, but to be honest the official translation made more sense than TCB this time around.
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I think I could watch Yuji non-stop Black Flash Sukuna for another 3 or 4 chapters and not get bored of it.
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The weaker Sukuna gets, the more chances there are for Miwa to make a surprise appearance and attack him with a baseball bat.
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Just realized with Sukuna's technique manifesting in Yuji, Gege has the opportunity to do something really funny. 
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yujis ct manifesting as a computer cut symbol or instructions on where to cut in like a modern craft project is really cute
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Electric Phantasm posted:Just realized with Sukuna's technique manifesting in Yuji, Gege has the opportunity to do something really funny. only if the world dismantle shows up as an incomprehensibly large pair of scissors
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Who was born as a player in the culling game? Is Sukuna speaking figurative here?
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Yuji somehow advances the Shrine technique to where Sukuna has never thought and applies RCT for a technique reversal with glue guides appearing on objects he wants to bond together  . Gojo shows up soon after for the comeback jump. This awakening was merely an unveiling of all of Yuji's practice prior.
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Honest Thief posted:Who was born as a player in the culling game? Is Sukuna speaking figurative here? The other translations made it sound he was born *for* the culling game which makes more sense. Otherwise he would maybe mean that Yuji has awakened during the culling game, but since this is a flashback from before Yuji started cleaning house idk why he would say that.
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It's just nice to see Yuji get to loving wreck that smug son of a bitch.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/Jujutsushi/comments/1caie3k/chapter_257_translation_by_lightning/ Here's a cleaner translation by Lightning, the person who translated 236 when the official viz translator was away. They provide a lot of translation clarification on their twitter, so I trust their version more than others.
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Yo we still don't know a fuckin THING about the body swap, huh
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gee yuji, how come your mom lets you have five cts?
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Yuji is all might confirmed
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Shinjobi posted:Yo we still don't know a fuckin THING about the body swap, huh i dont think the body swap is a thing
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He's a Mishima https://twitter.com/imkornkob/status/1780910540006867330
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https://imgur.com/a/ad7dhSG 258 cam translation
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yum posted:https://imgur.com/a/ad7dhSG It's so over.... For Sukuna that is
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Sukuna is really cooking now. Next chapter: Itadori orders a cheeseburger.
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