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 Jujutsu Kaisen's anime has a fairly active thread, but up to now, the manga has been discussed in the Miscellaneous Shonen thread rather than getting a thread of its own. Now I'm finally correcting that! Summary shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia: quote:Setting Thus summarized, it may sound a bit generic, but I would say Jujutsu Kaisen has four key qualities that make it stand out. The first is perhaps best summarized by this post: Tuxedo Catfish posted:Jujutsu Kaisen is one of the most slyly self-aware shonen I've ever read. It's like every little formulaic frustration I have with the genre was something the author noticed, and felt the same way about. The protagonists are happy to gang up or ambush opponents; the rear end in a top hat faction of social conservatives are actually villains as such; having a demonic other half that you can call on for power is actually a really bad idea, etc. Jujutsu Kaisen also has good fight scenes (obviously an important quality for a battle manga); they're consistently both visually impressive and clever. Thirdly, it has a great sense of horror (but without being Chainsaw Man levels of edgy). And finally, I find its attempts at humor actually funny (subjective, I know), which is rare for shonen manga.
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Feb 28, 2021 23:21
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Blaze Dragon posted:This is a drat good one. I started reading it after watching the first anime episode and being in love with how it looked, and I caught up very fast. The series has also only gotten more interesting with time, and this last arc has opened more than a few questions, like why Rika's back with Okkotsu and what he's actually aiming towards. If it ends up in a fight between both protagonists, then that makes sense, but his personality seems very different than what it was in Volume Zero. I wonder what happened there. Oh yeah, should have mentioned that. It's on the Viz app.
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Feb 28, 2021 23:26
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Akutami has called Okkotsu "indecisive." I think Okkotsu himself isn't sure whether he's trying to kill Itadori or not.
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Mar 9, 2021 21:54
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Random thought: After archive-binging Food Wars and Assassination Classroom on the Shonen Jump app, I found it interesting that (in contrast to MHA as well as both of those stories), Jujutsu Kaisen isn't really a school story at all, despite the main characters theoretically being high school students. There are passing references to classes (which presumably are more like tutoring sessions, since there are only three or so students in each year), but the story mostly treats the school as just their organization's base. There's no plotlines about exams, clubs (except of course at Itadori's previous school at the very beginning), a cultural festival, a student council, etc. There's also none of those inane high-stakes bets between students that drive so much of the plot of Food Wars and to a lesser extent AssClass, no Class-A-vs.-Class-B rivalries, and no grand statements about education. There's an arc involving conflict and competition between schools, but this is basically a conflict between organizations, akin to Leaf vs. Sand or Ichigo and his friends vs. Soul Society; the main issues in contention are Yuji being accepted as a Jujutsu Sorcerer instead of being executed, the Zenin clan's family drama, and Miwa wanting to show off her power so she can get promoted and make more money, rather than educational philosophy or "school spirit."
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Mar 14, 2021 03:27
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Jerkface posted:Not sure how I feel about this manga killing / maiming most of the female cast??????? I don't want Nobara, Maki, or Mai to die, but I don't see anything wrong with giving them some scars. Their character designs will be extra-distinctive now. 
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Mar 25, 2021 22:58
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The Notorious ZSB posted:Is volume 0 a separate entry on the Viz shounen jump app or have they not done an official release here? Is there a good link to it since I haven't read it... It’s on the app as chapters 0.1 through 0.4 of Jujutsu Kaisen.
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Mar 26, 2021 20:21
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Ethiser posted:It seems like once you have the power to force every magical person in the country to participate in a survival game against their will you should have been able to just kill everyone who might go against your plan. The way Tengen explained it, Kenjaku only has the power to force everyone into the culling game precisely because he's doing it in a convoluted way. It's a Nen-style power-from-restrictions thing.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:37
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Gojo has explicitly literally contemplated killing all the "higher-ups," though. He thought better of it, but it's something he's considered doing.
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May 17, 2021 18:37
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Wow, Maki just went full Itachi on the Zenin clan.
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May 28, 2021 19:45
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Yeah, it’s not an entirely coherent concept. In practice, I guess it makes you faster and your movements more precise, at the cost of having to plan out those movements in advance.
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Jun 5, 2021 03:19
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TheHan posted:The six eyes are inherited within the Gojo clan right? I think they've always been a big deal but Satoru is the biggest of deals. IIRC, Six Eyes and The Limitless are both inherited. Satoru is special because he has both at once and they synergize well.
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Jun 14, 2021 02:12
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