jujutsu kaisen: a critical diatribe

00:53:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOZzs3GEPws

Summary

TLDREl crítico comienza describiendo su relación de amor-odio con "Jujutsu Kaisen" (JJK), destacando cómo su popularidad a pesar de sus defectos refleja una aceptación acrítica por parte de sus seguidores. A lo largo del análisis, se critica fuertemente la narrativa de JJK por ser derivativa, mecánica, y frecuentemente dependiente del guion para avanzar. Los personajes son descritos en su mayoría como planos y carentes de profundidad. Solo tres personajes están considerados como buenos. Se comparan las debilidades en la construcción del mundo y el sistema de poder de JJK con otras series de anime y manga, destacando la falta de reglas claras y desarrollo de personajes a través de los sistemas establecidos. Además, se acusa al autor de JJK de utilizar excusas narrativas como "armadura argumental" en lugar de una verdadera construcción lógica y coherente del mundo. La popularidad de JJK es atribuida a su accesibilidad y atractivo estético, en contraste con series más largas y narrativamente complejas. A pesar de todo, el crítico reconoce que la temática de la autonomía personal en JJK tiene su mérito y originalidad, aunque está mal ejecutada. Finalmente, concluye que el fandom de JJK es un reflejo de la sociedad actual dependiente de gratificaciones rápidas, ignorando narrativas profundas y finalmente, criticando cómo la falta de lógica y sentido común en la serie, afecta su disfrute.

Takeaways

  • 🚫 Jujutsu Kaisen tiene problemas significativos en la escritura y desarrollo de personajes.
  • 📝 El análisis destaca una debilidad en la trama y su dependencia de conveniencias argumentales.
  • 🌟 La popularidad se atribuye a su estilo visual más que a su narrativa.
  • 📉 Se critica la superficialidad en la construcción del mundo en comparación con otras series.
  • ❗ La falta de lógica y coherencia en la trama perjudica el desarrollo narrativo.
  • 👥 El fandom refleja una priorización de la estética sobre la sustancia narrativa.
  • 🔍 El análisis compara negativamente a Jujutsu Kaisen con otras obras como Naruto y Chainsaw Man.
  • 🤔 Se cuestiona la profundidad de los personajes y su desarrollo a lo largo de la serie.
  • 🎭 Se menciona que las temáticas de Jujutsu Kaisen tienen potencial pero están mal ejecutadas.
  • 🎶 Akutami, el autor, es criticado por su infatuación con el estilo sobre el contenido.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Este video ofrecerá un análisis crítico sobre JJK y su relación con Shua, destacando problemas de copyright. A primera vista, el autor estaba desinteresado en JJK, aunque reconoce su popularidad masiva en la cultura general. Sin embargo, denuncia su falta de valor y calidad narrativa, enfatizando un vínculo de amor-odio con la serie.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    El análisis se centra en el elenco de JJK, definiendo la mayoría de sus personajes como planos e intrascendentes, salvo algunos como Gojo o Sukuna. Se refiere a otros personajes de la serie como ejemplos de escritura pobre y critica el uso de 'plot armor' y el desarrollo dependiente del guion.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    El autor aborda la trama de JJK, calificándola como terrible y llena de situaciones poco convincentes. Critica la dependencia de arreglos convenientes y el uso forzado del argumento para justificar decisiones narrativas, indicando que esto afecta la coherencia total de la serie.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Se reprocha la caracterización de personajes secundarios, señalando razones superficiales para su popularidad. Compara negativamente la calidad con otras series contemporáneas y destaca el desconocimiento en la comunidad sobre la debilidad del desarrollo de personajes.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    El diálogo se centra en la temática, abordando la autonomía personal y las dicotomías temáticas de JJK. Si bien se aprecia la originalidad de alguna de sus temáticas, se recalca la ejecución deficiente y un mundo incoherente y mal construido.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Se hace un análisis del sistema de poder en JJK, destacando su falta de coherencia y lógica en la expansión del dominio y otros aspectos, comparando negativamente con sistemas de series como Bleach. El sistema se percibe como una herramienta narrativa arbitraria sin justificación contundente.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Los combates en JJK son descritos como poco satisfactorios y carentes de profundidad. Se critica la introducción aleatoria de mecánicas de combate y un cierre insatisfactorio en las peleas, comparándolas desfavorablemente con combates de otras series de manga.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    A medida que el video avanza, se examinan agujeros de trama presentes en JJK, afectando el desarrollo lógico de la historia. Se detallan ejemplos específicos de incongruencias y se critican decisiones que parecen desarticular el desarrollo de la trama.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Las críticas se extienden al fandom de JJK, describiéndolo como poco crítico y superficial en su apreciación de la serie. Expresa descontento con la manera en que la audiencia consume JJK sin una verdadera comprensión o apreciación de su narrativa.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:53:49

    El video concluye expresando que JJK refleja una tendencia cultural de consumo superficial de medios, donde la popularidad no necesariamente refleja calidad. Se alude a otros manga clásicos como ejemplos de narrativas más robustas y satisfechas que JJK.

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Video Q&A

  • ¿Cuáles son las principales críticas hacia Jujutsu Kaisen en el video?

    El análisis sostiene que la serie tiene serios problemas en la escritura de personajes, desarrollo de trama y sistema de poder.

  • ¿Por qué es tan popular Jujutsu Kaisen a pesar de las críticas?

    Es popular debido a su estilo y personajes icónicos, pero la crítica sugiere que carece de profundidad en comparación con otros animes.

  • ¿Cómo se caracteriza a los personajes de Jujutsu Kaisen en el video?

    El video menciona que muchos personajes carecen de desarrollo y profundidad, describiéndolos como planos e insatisfactorios.

  • ¿Qué problemas de desarrollo de personajes se mencionan en el video?

    Se critica la falta de lógica y satisfacción en el arco de los personajes, dependiente en gran medida de conveniencias argumentales.

  • ¿Con qué otras series se compara Jujutsu Kaisen en el análisis?

    El video compara negativamente a Jujutsu Kaisen con series como Chainsaw Man, Naruto y Hunter x Hunter en términos de personajes y trama.

  • ¿Qué se dice sobre la escritura del argumento en Jujutsu Kaisen?

    El análisis indica una escritura inconsistente y a menudo carente de lógica en algunas resoluciones de la trama.

  • ¿Cómo se maneja el sistema de poder en Jujutsu Kaisen según el video?

    El análisis lo describe como una parte negligente de la escritura que depende demasiado de la conveniencia para los personajes.

  • ¿Cuál es la opinión del video sobre la construcción del mundo en Jujutsu Kaisen?

    Se la describe como superficial y más enfocada en la estética que en la sustancia narrativa.

  • ¿Qué se dice sobre la base de fans de Jujutsu Kaisen en el video?

    El crítico sugiere que el fandom prioriza la popularidad y la estética sobre la narrativa profunda.

  • ¿Qué problemas de trama se presentan en Jujutsu Kaisen según el video?

    La inconsistencia dentro de la narrativa y el uso frecuente de arreglos convenientes que afectan el desarrollo lógico.

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    profusely jjk has a small cast of
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    characters while the cast is decently
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    good characters in this series Gojo
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    consider to be somewhat noteworthy this
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    means nanami Yuji Maki UT hakari mahito
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    and especially kenju are not good
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    bleacher Hunter Hunter would be
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    because of
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    jjk in short the problem with jjk
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    characters is that they're all flat
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    uninteresting or backdoored by the plot
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    Yuji the main character is insanely
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    uninteresting with one Arc spending the
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    entire series with very minimal
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    development neglecting your role in
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    society and becoming a cog just to save
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    lives yeah bro we get it it is simply
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    not engaging enough and being sideline
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    constantly by far more interesting
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    characters like Maki or kosimo doesn't
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    help your case yoru Yuki higuma all
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    characters that are boring with nothing
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    to offer outside of pedantic framework
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    if you want to dive into the disaster
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    curses are an antagonist group that
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    absolutely pale in comparison to
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    a character that stands to oppose gender
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    roles and live her life freely but get
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    absolutely hold by the plot megamy the
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    entire character put on an indefinite
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    TBD basically putting him in character
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    writing limbo mahito is an interesting
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    character that subscribes to sukin as
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    philosophical belief kenju is an
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    abomination of a character that
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    completely removed any reader investment
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    or engagement naoya was an antagonist
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    absolutely shredding Maki until she got
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    blessed up by akutami and saved by two
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    randoms never to be seen again AKA plaw
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    armor how could the development and Arc
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    of a character be satisfying and
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    fulfilling if it is 100% contingent on
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    plot armor and contrivances this is just
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    Aaron the founder in the first place
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    debasing character motivations and roles
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    to garbage plot subsequentially makes
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    the character garbage as well themes and
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    emotions should not be a substitute for
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    logic and satisfying threads of plot a
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    lot of characters in jjk aren't real
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    characters meaning they have zero depth
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    and minimal characterization people like
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    characters like choso Toto Joo and yoru
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    but it's typically for insanely shallow
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    reasons choso is a mediocre character
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    with an arc around atoning for his sins
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    which has done the most uninspiring way
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    ever Toto has no real character outside
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    of being smart and I guess
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    reliable yoru is deeply flawed creating
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    most jarring reads in Shonen Jump the
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    fact is jjk has a terrible cast of
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    as it's commonly known throughout the
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    wasted and written and in most
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    unsatisfactory ways
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    possible let me start off by saying this
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    plot is nothing but terrible every
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    single Series has levels of plot armor
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    contrive situations in which people die
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    and the removal of suiki to do this we
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    need 100 points and to find the player
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    named Angel the 100 points were obtained
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    in pretty good ways that resulted in
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    either a good fight or interesting
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    found our main character no search no
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    conflict no struggle just here you go
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    here's the plot device so Daddy Gojo can
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    come back it's funny as well because
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    suca has the opportunity to straight
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    kill her ass but the plot needs her so
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    no no no no no sua can use his damn
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    domain on a finger Bearer he can use his
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    most powerful technique on someone who
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    worships him he can onot literally
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    someone with the best durability in the
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    series but he can't kill this woman why
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    do you think so it's because of the plot
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    it's contrived and I see the strings
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    akutami there is a reason why sua is
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    regarded as convenience man Suk is
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    sealed inside of Yuji so how does he get
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    out he commits acts of violence
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    completely dependent on the AR Ral of
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    one of the worst characters in the
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    series the same character that gives
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    suca a free get out of jail free card
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    simply for
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    existing naturally he gets away Scott
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    free because of porn acting characters
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    not using abilities and akutami having
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    infatuation for bad
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    writing even on a smaller scale akutami
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    simply is not good at plot development
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    Maki in culling game is absolutely
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    outclassed by niola so akutami
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    shamelessly introduces characters in
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    order to give her the win Maki goes
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    inside a literal Time Chamber a Time
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    Chamber to power up unlike Dragon Ball
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    jjk pretends to have complex theming and
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    Nuance kiyoto Goodwill had a plot about
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    killing Yuji nah nah n psyche it was
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    dropped the villains come through
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    through and are basically used as
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    training punching bags until they
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    survive nuclear attacks and steal
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    arbitrary things that have minimal
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    significance even the subplot with the
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    Traer in jiujitsu high is completely
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    garbage let's review how it is described
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    there is a mole within the school
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    feeding information to a higher up that
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    is feeding information to the bad guys
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    okay a pretty a Tob to see type of plot
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    cool kenju who is one th years old with
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    knowledge on barer techniques the six
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    size ten gen and sukin his past with all
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    of ghetto memories needs information
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    from a
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    16-year-old excuse me do we know how
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    they met n no no no no what about what
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    specific information was
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    given nah nah n n n nah so we have to
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    suspend our disbelief that the smartest
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    character in the series with memories of
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    someone who went to Jujutsu School needs
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    information from a
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    16-year-old what about the higher up who
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    is supposedly getting information from
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    mechamaru to give to
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    Kenny why does Kenny and mahito make a
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    binding vow with mechum Maru and not the
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    higher up it doesn't seem like the
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    higher up even exists but if that's true
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    what the hell is the point in mentioning
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    that is the most likely the case the
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    entire plot point is nothing short of
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    stupid and
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    contrived especially concerning the plot
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    hole we reach when mechum Maru and
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    mahito fight saving all plot holes for
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    its own section let's discuss more on
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    mahito and his performance in shabuya
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    first off shabuya is such a narrative
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    mess it supposed to be a big climactic
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    battle but reads as if the author is
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    throwing up on the page the evidence for
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    such a claim is how the antagonists are
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    handled but primarily mahita when the
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    disaster cursors are getting dismantled
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    by the strongest people to ever exist
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    seemingly
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    arbitrarily it turns the structure of
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    this Ark into a fanf in which it would
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    be so cool if sua killed him and T had
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    that dog in him mahito in shuya suggest
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    that they all play a game with itadori
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    and whoever finds and first gets to do
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    whatever he watch with them very cool
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    seems like mahito at 9:27 they all
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    agreed to this game at 9:30 mahito
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    splits himself into two people at
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    1116 mahito finds nobara and kills her
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    shortly pay attention to the timeline
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    mahito was essentially doing nothing for
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    basically 2 hours despite having two
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    eyes two arms two legs and two
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    techniques this is what makes him just
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    luckily and matter of factly stumbling
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    upon the most important people to e
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    tadori so egregious because he
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    objectively didn't earn anything the
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    writer just pulled some strings and
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    voila it is passable when kenju does
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    nothing for 2 hours because I suppose
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    he's monitoring the prison realm not
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    really but is waiting to back door Joo
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    and mahito speaking of back door ding
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    mahito the writing decision to take away
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    the satisfaction of Yuji killing mahito
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    you know the man who killed off main
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    characters instead turning him into a
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    plot device is one I hate down to my
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    core it reminds me of when Oda told us
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    the cake was going to stop big mom and
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    was the one thing we need to stop her
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    but the cake does literally nothing and
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    she walks it off it reminds me of part
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    five where every fight is a life or
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    death to the point where narancia kills
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    two zesty ass dudes in broad daylight
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    however the nastiest dude to ever exist
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    chocolata in
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    cesio gets dumped into a trash can only
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    to be confirmed dead in a Data Book
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    basically it feels like you're robbing
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    and stealing from the audience even in
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    the current stages of the manga when
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    characters have had a month to
  • 00:13:25
    deliberate and plan but something so
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    simple like sua using a substitution
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    jutsu so his curs techniques get swapped
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    with kamut to creates nothing but
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    frustration with the readers how the
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    hell can grown adults not think hey my
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    law-abiding curse technique might not
  • 00:13:45
    take away his curse technique but the
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    curse tool instead of his curse
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    technique L this is more of a nitpick
  • 00:13:53
    because it got explained and sort of
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    makes sense kind of but in Hidden
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    inventory when the maid or whatever got
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    kidnapped and then the very next panel
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    they're all fine and just chilling at
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    the beat it creates an extremely jarring
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    read like why the hell did that even
  • 00:14:11
    need to happen you're just wasting
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    [Music]
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    time weak Sorcerers do not have a sense
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    of self the Crux of JJ K's themes is
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    personal autonomy and agency a person
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    working in their own interest caring for
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    themselves only reinforced with Gojo
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    telling Megami it is okay to be selfish
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    Earl telling UT that everyone hits their
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    limit if they don't have an overwhelming
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    sense of self and Gojo and kosimo
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    disregarding their place as the
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    strongest to bond in the need to have
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    other people fulfill them a more layered
  • 00:14:50
    thematic framework consists of
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    traditionalism versus modernism
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    cyclicality and the autonomous occult of
  • 00:14:57
    cursed energy
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    the story seems to punish people who
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    deviate from their true selves while
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    rewarding those who don't the only thing
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    I really like about jjk is its theming I
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    find it decently interesting because of
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    how unique it is minus cyclicality the
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    problems I have with the theming in jjk
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    result in the pretentiousness of them
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    occasionally jjk tries to tell you that
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    there is Nuance between curses and
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    humans and that they're not different
  • 00:15:25
    sides of the same coins yada yada
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    whatever the story constantly says that
  • 00:15:30
    they're not Heroes fighting for justice
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    they're just jiujitsu Sorcerers but this
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    just isn't true Sorcerers are
  • 00:15:38
    consistently the objective good force in
  • 00:15:41
    the world for the entire series with
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    Utah saving kids Yugi's worrisome
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    disposition in Shibuya nomy abandoning
  • 00:15:49
    the work life in order to fight against
  • 00:15:51
    literal evil and mocki dismantling the
  • 00:15:54
    sexist ablest abusive Society of the
  • 00:15:57
    zanine family protecting the weak
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    striving for Universal Freedom these are
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    ontologically good things that the
  • 00:16:04
    writer isn't going to just change by
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    saying hey they're nuanced hey they're
  • 00:16:10
    not Heroes for justice my second issue
  • 00:16:13
    is with the cyclicality theme of the
  • 00:16:15
    series to keep it short and blunt it is
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    horribly executed curses spawning from
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    humans in which humans become curses we
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    have only seen this once within niola
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    and it's basically a nonf factor p
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    shabuya there's some fake World building
  • 00:16:31
    funding the cyclical idea of jjk in
  • 00:16:34
    which an example lies in Utah the story
  • 00:16:38
    starts in Sendai established by the Fuji
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    wara in the Cai Colony uro places
  • 00:16:43
    emphasis on Utah's fujiwara descent in
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    which she is beaten very similarly to
  • 00:16:49
    how the fujiwara originally took over
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    Sendai aka cyclicality the idea of
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    fujiwara continuously taking over is
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    cyclic
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    but who the hell cares who the hell is
  • 00:17:02
    Oro who the hell is the Fuji War Clan
  • 00:17:05
    why should any of this matter to the
  • 00:17:06
    audience when this is all new and vapid
  • 00:17:09
    it is so expertly not communicated that
  • 00:17:12
    many readers will never acknowledge this
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    even on a second viewing this is 100%
  • 00:17:19
    because of the terrible World
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    [Music]
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    building my definition and criteria for
  • 00:17:30
    examining World building is decently
  • 00:17:32
    awkward I think a series like Adventure
  • 00:17:34
    Time has good World building while one
  • 00:17:37
    piece doesn't have as good World
  • 00:17:38
    building as bleach in my eyes a strong
  • 00:17:41
    set of rules characters interacting with
  • 00:17:44
    the setting or large set pieces for
  • 00:17:46
    dramatic and thematic influence usually
  • 00:17:49
    constitute good World building Jutsu
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    Kaizen however has insanely terrible
  • 00:17:55
    World building firstly the Revival of
  • 00:17:58
    the Hanan era coined by kenju is
  • 00:18:00
    refurbished with the fan base and is
  • 00:18:03
    completely made up how many hand aerosur
  • 00:18:06
    were do me me what are they like what's
  • 00:18:10
    their ideal how do they know kinjaku the
  • 00:18:14
    story simply says go [ __ ] yourself we
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    meet yoru uro Angel and maybe Dao if you
  • 00:18:22
    want to take some influence from there
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    it doesn't matter we meet those boys
  • 00:18:26
    from the haen era but everyone else are
  • 00:18:28
    either modern Sorcerers Sorcerers from
  • 00:18:31
    periods older than the Han era or
  • 00:18:34
    Sorcerers from periods earlier than the
  • 00:18:37
    Heron era how do you as a writer say we
  • 00:18:41
    are going to see X but completely fail
  • 00:18:45
    to do the bare minimum this is just like
  • 00:18:47
    Oda and wano constantly saying Pirates
  • 00:18:50
    will betray each other just for 150
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    chapters later nothing of the sort even
  • 00:18:57
    comes close to happen
  • 00:18:59
    once again it is just lying to the
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    audience but much worse pump faking
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    World building I've actually noticed
  • 00:19:07
    something this is Off Script actually I
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    actually noticed something how every
  • 00:19:12
    single uh every single sourcer we spend
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    time
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    with that every single sourcer we spend
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    a lick of time with right like Angel
  • 00:19:22
    like Yu because you know we actually
  • 00:19:24
    have to they're somewhere connected
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    towards sua um even
  • 00:19:30
    Kashima so it's like suuk is the only
  • 00:19:33
    reason why these dudes exist that's
  • 00:19:35
    perfectly fine but why don't you flesh
  • 00:19:38
    out why why don't you flesh out hey Suk
  • 00:19:42
    is this guy or hey we are this guy and
  • 00:19:45
    we want this to do with sukna it's all
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    just so vapid what if we got a sorcerer
  • 00:19:51
    that stood in convention to suk's ideals
  • 00:19:54
    and when killed by him or uram or
  • 00:19:56
    whoever he grew bitter in SW V
  • 00:19:59
    what if we got a sorcerer who is more
  • 00:20:01
    invested with improving his
  • 00:20:03
    Juju looking at techniques like UT and
  • 00:20:06
    Gojo and growing envious but Innovative
  • 00:20:09
    we have so many Sorcerers that came from
  • 00:20:11
    distant places in time that we don't
  • 00:20:14
    know that is evidently garbage and
  • 00:20:16
    creatively
  • 00:20:18
    bankrupt this also extends to the Sun
  • 00:20:21
    and Moon tribes of Assassins that we
  • 00:20:23
    hear about but never see some jjk
  • 00:20:26
    readers will be like what the [ __ ] is
  • 00:20:28
    that but I guarantee you they bring this
  • 00:20:32
    [ __ ] up like a million times it just
  • 00:20:34
    doesn't damn matter we hear that sukuna
  • 00:20:37
    defeated all of them including Angel but
  • 00:20:40
    why don't we see it why tell us hey
  • 00:20:43
    these people are strong and notable but
  • 00:20:45
    not show us with their past but what
  • 00:20:48
    about the jutu families first off the
  • 00:20:51
    Gojo Clan is not real it's just a plot
  • 00:20:54
    device to have Gojo live this life of
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    solitude the Gojo Clan is not real we
  • 00:20:59
    don't know a single damn person outside
  • 00:21:01
    of Gojo inside the Gojo clan that is
  • 00:21:04
    egregious on creative
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    writing the commo clan is a nonf factor
  • 00:21:09
    in the story because there is no mahara
  • 00:21:13
    or Limitless technique in the zanine
  • 00:21:15
    family while being the best is not
  • 00:21:18
    important to the story at all it shapes
  • 00:21:20
    toi and maki's character but you can
  • 00:21:23
    effectively replace the zening clan with
  • 00:21:25
    a traumatic moment in their past to
  • 00:21:27
    yield the same result
  • 00:21:29
    why introduce these places these
  • 00:21:32
    Concepts if they don't
  • 00:21:36
    matter the families matter so little
  • 00:21:39
    that Maki straight up executed them boys
  • 00:21:42
    and nobody gave a [ __ ] which has its own
  • 00:21:46
    implications because what if some
  • 00:21:48
    members like rant were actually really
  • 00:21:50
    nice guys with family and children and
  • 00:21:53
    they were just cool but no one cares
  • 00:21:55
    right we the zenine family the zeni
  • 00:21:59
    family military is made up of two units
  • 00:22:02
    the hay and the kuuru does anyone give a
  • 00:22:05
    [ __ ] did Maki low di them all the same
  • 00:22:08
    way there is no way you critically
  • 00:22:11
    examine the ideas at play in this manga
  • 00:22:14
    and come to the conclusion of good World
  • 00:22:16
    building you especially cannot come to
  • 00:22:19
    the conclusion when you examine the
  • 00:22:20
    power system Power Systems are World
  • 00:22:23
    building this should not be a New
  • 00:22:25
    Concept to most but I feel the need to
  • 00:22:28
    say it in anyway and let me tell you
  • 00:22:30
    cursed energy is terrible outside of
  • 00:22:32
    being derivative cursed energy showcases
  • 00:22:35
    how limited and trite akutami writing
  • 00:22:38
    really is curs techniques we will call
  • 00:22:42
    CTS from now on are basically your
  • 00:22:44
    shikai while your domain expansion is
  • 00:22:47
    your bonai if you're strong enough to
  • 00:22:49
    have such a thing unlike shikai and
  • 00:22:52
    banai which serve to characterize the
  • 00:22:54
    wielder and promote subtextual writing
  • 00:22:57
    CTS and domain rarely do such a thing
  • 00:23:00
    and are often given out
  • 00:23:02
    arbitrarily how does the 10 Shadows
  • 00:23:05
    characterize
  • 00:23:06
    meami how does star raage characterize
  • 00:23:09
    Yuki how does Sky manipulation
  • 00:23:12
    characterize uro these things are just
  • 00:23:15
    randomly dished out which can be fine
  • 00:23:18
    like who needs to know how Hyo
  • 00:23:20
    characterizes Rong geku right but
  • 00:23:22
    subscribing to that belief concedes that
  • 00:23:25
    a these characters aren't important
  • 00:23:27
    enough to be characterized like that and
  • 00:23:28
    therefore for a waste your time or B the
  • 00:23:31
    author just gives people's abilities to
  • 00:23:33
    just do cool things as a priority gin
  • 00:23:35
    shikai showcases his untrustworthy
  • 00:23:38
    mysterious nature shunu shikai tells the
  • 00:23:41
    audience his relaxed free spirit
  • 00:23:43
    appearing with his
  • 00:23:45
    responsibility kuke shikai shows us how
  • 00:23:48
    resourceful and methodical he is in jjk
  • 00:23:52
    you do have exceptions like sua Gojo toi
  • 00:23:57
    somehow and higuma but exceptions do not
  • 00:24:01
    make the rule I said all this to hammer
  • 00:24:03
    home that the power system doesn't have
  • 00:24:05
    any deep character significant richness
  • 00:24:08
    to supplement any problems it has bleach
  • 00:24:11
    power system is essentially Dragon Ball
  • 00:24:14
    if I have more Spirit energy than you I
  • 00:24:17
    win GG but at least it characterizes
  • 00:24:21
    everyone in an interesting
  • 00:24:24
    way I also think bleach comparisons are
  • 00:24:27
    more than fine because akutami has
  • 00:24:29
    admitted to being a fan as well as
  • 00:24:31
    inspired by Kubo let's begin first how
  • 00:24:34
    how does one learn domain expansion we
  • 00:24:38
    know that if you externalize your zoma
  • 00:24:40
    toe Spirit then force them into
  • 00:24:42
    submission AKA accept yourself you can
  • 00:24:46
    achieve bonai so how the [ __ ] can meami
  • 00:24:49
    just whip out a domain expansion because
  • 00:24:51
    he wants to how does naolia learn a
  • 00:24:54
    domain while being a cursed Spirit did
  • 00:24:57
    he already have a domain we know domains
  • 00:25:00
    are oneto one with barriers how does him
  • 00:25:03
    being a cursed Spirit amplify his
  • 00:25:05
    knowledge on barriers does he get a
  • 00:25:08
    domain simply from switching sides did
  • 00:25:10
    he already have a domain ryu's curse
  • 00:25:13
    technique is cursed energy output which
  • 00:25:15
    by itself is pretty stupid concering the
  • 00:25:18
    narrator says it's a non sequer in
  • 00:25:21
    battle with such an odd curse technique
  • 00:25:23
    how does he imbue it into a barrier for
  • 00:25:26
    a sure hit not everything has to be so
  • 00:25:28
    logical but I understand in buing a
  • 00:25:30
    cleave or a water shiky gami or even
  • 00:25:33
    forcing someone to use your CT inside
  • 00:25:36
    your domain how does a CT which is
  • 00:25:39
    described as a non secretor get imbued
  • 00:25:41
    into a lethal
  • 00:25:43
    domain the overall point is that the
  • 00:25:46
    loose domain mechanics in which just
  • 00:25:48
    happen for the plot with very little
  • 00:25:51
    reason or
  • 00:25:53
    logic if they were logical we would
  • 00:25:56
    understand how domains can be unlocked
  • 00:25:58
    how people like Ryu can have a lethal
  • 00:26:00
    domain how does one learn domain
  • 00:26:02
    implication again we get a play-by-play
  • 00:26:05
    explanation on how keto spells are
  • 00:26:08
    generally used but in jjk people can
  • 00:26:11
    just do things by looking at it once how
  • 00:26:16
    how can higuma do domain amp after
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    saying Su didn't do it
  • 00:26:20
    once I understand mahito doing the 2
  • 00:26:24
    second domain because it was primarily a
  • 00:26:26
    gamble but hikara picked it up just by
  • 00:26:28
    seeing
  • 00:26:30
    it domain amp by itself is heavily
  • 00:26:34
    underutilized having a statement of
  • 00:26:36
    being able to erect a sure hit without
  • 00:26:38
    an actual
  • 00:26:40
    barrier why do we not see a single
  • 00:26:43
    person in the story use
  • 00:26:46
    this could you imagine Megami having
  • 00:26:49
    this technique one of the smartest
  • 00:26:51
    people in the series he uses domain amp
  • 00:26:53
    to make sure New Way lands his lightning
  • 00:26:56
    let's talk about binding vows being
  • 00:26:58
    being completely synonymous with n
  • 00:27:00
    contracts binding vs are essentially
  • 00:27:02
    plot loopholes for akutami to allow
  • 00:27:05
    people to do whatever they
  • 00:27:08
    want unlike nen contracts that were used
  • 00:27:11
    for the most dramatic and negative
  • 00:27:13
    reasons binding vales are only used for
  • 00:27:17
    [ __ ] hakari uses a binding vow to
  • 00:27:20
    sacrifice his arm to save his body nice
  • 00:27:24
    Sorcerers can reveal their CT to release
  • 00:27:27
    a binding in which they strengthen their
  • 00:27:29
    technique that's cool how exactly does
  • 00:27:32
    that strengthen the technique is never
  • 00:27:35
    explained meaning it is essentially a
  • 00:27:38
    plot necessary tool for the audience to
  • 00:27:40
    know what's happening while keeping the
  • 00:27:43
    logic of the series intact suca uses
  • 00:27:46
    multiple binding FS to save his skin
  • 00:27:49
    which is generally fine but starts to
  • 00:27:51
    feel extremely staggering after the 1
  • 00:27:53
    millionth time we learned that in order
  • 00:27:56
    to use the world/ free of
  • 00:27:58
    he taxed every other usage afterwards to
  • 00:28:01
    kill Gojo we don't even know what the
  • 00:28:03
    effects of a broken binding vow
  • 00:28:06
    is kenju said that sometimes you lose
  • 00:28:10
    what you gain but what about miwa who
  • 00:28:12
    swore to never wed swore again if she
  • 00:28:15
    picks up a sword will she just blow up
  • 00:28:17
    like an Adventure Time character or can
  • 00:28:19
    she literally never hold a sword like
  • 00:28:22
    neurologically just forgot how to your
  • 00:28:26
    guess is just as good as mine do you see
  • 00:28:28
    the consistency of binding vows instead
  • 00:28:31
    of doing anything close to his character
  • 00:28:34
    establishing as where goone corop or
  • 00:28:36
    even KOLO did akutami just uses it so
  • 00:28:40
    characters can do whatever they want
  • 00:28:42
    Hoka did something very similar to this
  • 00:28:45
    in his fight with KOLO but it was never
  • 00:28:47
    as egregious as what akutami has done
  • 00:28:50
    here apparently Sorcerers can make
  • 00:28:54
    contracts to sacrifice their lives to
  • 00:28:57
    power them elves up May's birds in Utah
  • 00:29:01
    in volume zero sacrific themselves to go
  • 00:29:04
    beyond the limit of cursed energy you're
  • 00:29:06
    telling me Sorcerers can essentially
  • 00:29:08
    start crashing out on suca to save the
  • 00:29:11
    day right now you're telling me that
  • 00:29:14
    Sorcerers can start crashing out on
  • 00:29:17
    Whoever Whenever they come close to
  • 00:29:19
    losing me personally if I was Joo or
  • 00:29:23
    yoru or Reggie or whoever the hell I
  • 00:29:26
    would just make a binding vow to give up
  • 00:29:29
    my life to get all the strength possible
  • 00:29:33
    but hey that sounds like Hunter Hunter W
  • 00:29:37
    you just praising that but it's
  • 00:29:38
    literally the same thing
  • 00:29:40
    wrong n contracts only work with intense
  • 00:29:45
    emotions AKA kopika and gone who have
  • 00:29:49
    strong feelings of selfworth and
  • 00:29:52
    ambition not just anyone can do it but
  • 00:29:55
    if birds can do it
  • 00:29:58
    why can't Joo do it the point of what
  • 00:30:01
    I'm saying is how can a power system be
  • 00:30:04
    so corrupt to the point characters can
  • 00:30:06
    essentially get God Powers anytime they
  • 00:30:10
    want but just choose not to because the
  • 00:30:12
    writer didn't give them
  • 00:30:16
    permission this reminds me of when Aaron
  • 00:30:18
    was saying that Armen only likes Annie
  • 00:30:21
    because of berto's memory and will
  • 00:30:23
    inside him but Armen the same guy who
  • 00:30:26
    advocates for peace and diplomacy
  • 00:30:29
    doesn't retort with what about you Aaron
  • 00:30:31
    aren't you motivated by the attack Titan
  • 00:30:33
    as well basically an easy argument a
  • 00:30:37
    fifth grader can make but Armen didn't
  • 00:30:39
    because the writer didn't give him
  • 00:30:42
    permission all World building issues in
  • 00:30:44
    jjk can result in a DLC that akutami has
  • 00:30:48
    not yet unlocked or just neglect to 100%
  • 00:30:52
    the game instead opting to the speed run
  • 00:30:57
    [Music]
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    this section is probably going to be the
  • 00:31:04
    weirdest one to me jjk as a battle
  • 00:31:07
    Shonen is interesting as it is all it
  • 00:31:10
    has but it's not very good to illustrate
  • 00:31:14
    my favorite fights in manga I always
  • 00:31:16
    prefer fights with depth behind them
  • 00:31:19
    properly established mechanics and a
  • 00:31:21
    good back and forth or just a satisfying
  • 00:31:24
    end jjk doesn't have a single fight like
  • 00:31:28
    this even the best fight in the series
  • 00:31:31
    with Gojo versus auna randomly
  • 00:31:34
    introduces mechanics as well as an
  • 00:31:36
    ending being offc
  • 00:31:38
    screened Gojo gets brain damage from
  • 00:31:40
    healing out of burnt CT since [ __ ]
  • 00:31:44
    when let me tell you straight not a
  • 00:31:47
    single jjk fight is better than Luffy
  • 00:31:49
    versus Luchi Ichigo versus Tachi Sasuke
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    versus deror goone versus hea or even
  • 00:31:57
    Bruno vers versus pesudo and pesi all
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    these fights either have heavy depth in
  • 00:32:03
    engaging back and forth or climactic and
  • 00:32:07
    gratifying conclusion some fights even
  • 00:32:10
    have all of this like luff versus
  • 00:32:13
    Luchi every fight in the Goodwill event
  • 00:32:16
    is a joke with characters being severely
  • 00:32:19
    outclassed eugi and totto versus hanamy
  • 00:32:22
    would be good if hanamy wasn't used as a
  • 00:32:25
    punching bag for Yugi to learn black
  • 00:32:28
    flash Gojo versus toi both rounds aren't
  • 00:32:32
    even fights if we're being honest toi
  • 00:32:35
    one shot Gojo then Gojo comes back and
  • 00:32:38
    one shots toi there's nothing at all
  • 00:32:41
    engaging about that even if they're both
  • 00:32:43
    good characters some people's bias
  • 00:32:46
    toward the anime may make what I'm about
  • 00:32:48
    to say sound a bit crazier than what it
  • 00:32:50
    is but shabuya does not have a single
  • 00:32:53
    good fight well outside of Yuji versus
  • 00:32:56
    choso which is genuinely good
  • 00:32:58
    you know you know ignoring the whole
  • 00:33:00
    mechamaru being dead thing but still
  • 00:33:03
    giving Yugi the play byplay on how to
  • 00:33:05
    win without it ever being explained how
  • 00:33:07
    he's playing that off you know outside
  • 00:33:09
    that egregious nonsense whatever that's
  • 00:33:11
    fine sua versus Joo and mahara are not
  • 00:33:15
    fights the anime will probably convince
  • 00:33:18
    you that it's a spectacle and it's
  • 00:33:20
    really cool but they are not fights and
  • 00:33:23
    even if they are who the hell likes to
  • 00:33:27
    fight in which one character just
  • 00:33:29
    dominates and destroys the
  • 00:33:31
    other where is the tension there the
  • 00:33:35
    same thing for the Dagon fight which is
  • 00:33:38
    just big daddy toi saving the day in
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    which the heroes face zero
  • 00:33:44
    ramifications I have already discussed
  • 00:33:46
    at length why mahito in shabuya is
  • 00:33:49
    insanely flawed but there is another
  • 00:33:51
    reason why this fight is bad that I'll
  • 00:33:54
    discuss in another section Gojo versus
  • 00:33:57
    the disaster cursing in the train
  • 00:33:59
    station is pretty good if I'm being
  • 00:34:01
    honest pulling games is when jjk turns
  • 00:34:04
    into all fights with zero substance
  • 00:34:07
    which is
  • 00:34:08
    exacerbated with the fights not even
  • 00:34:11
    being good Yuji versus higar rooma isn't
  • 00:34:14
    a fight because hikara just gives up
  • 00:34:17
    Midway through meami versus reggi is
  • 00:34:20
    decently cool but ends with renji
  • 00:34:22
    getting snuck by Divine dogs which
  • 00:34:25
    yields an unsatisfying ending the Utah
  • 00:34:28
    Sendai stuff is pretty good minus the
  • 00:34:31
    pump fake airball with the triple domain
  • 00:34:34
    being broken because of contant which is
  • 00:34:37
    the only reason why ear is defeated
  • 00:34:39
    there hakari versus Kimo is one of the
  • 00:34:42
    most engaging fights in the series
  • 00:34:44
    especially coming after a chapter with a
  • 00:34:46
    zesty Mong gaka in a corny damn zoo
  • 00:34:49
    animal writing off all the build up of
  • 00:34:52
    aakari strength his performance is
  • 00:34:53
    pretty good against kmo or at least good
  • 00:34:55
    enough my own personal nit pick is that
  • 00:34:58
    seeing hakari get lucky and cheese out
  • 00:35:01
    of situations because of luck or
  • 00:35:03
    coincidence isn't really my Cupa te
  • 00:35:06
    having a superior combatant get holed
  • 00:35:08
    out because of several coincidences
  • 00:35:11
    leaves a sour taste in my mouth Maki
  • 00:35:13
    versus naolia is one of the worst fights
  • 00:35:16
    in the series with zero back and forth
  • 00:35:19
    it is the antagonist dominating everyone
  • 00:35:22
    in the room the hero goes inside a Time
  • 00:35:24
    Chamber Powers up defeats the main an
  • 00:35:27
    Agonist in literally one
  • 00:35:31
    hit and nothing special happens at all
  • 00:35:35
    it is an abomination of a fight kenju
  • 00:35:39
    versus Yuki and choso would be one of
  • 00:35:42
    the best fights in the series if Yuki
  • 00:35:44
    wasn't used as Canon jobber all for
  • 00:35:47
    kenju to be dispatched in one shot you
  • 00:35:50
    can look at this fight in a vacuum if
  • 00:35:52
    you want I think you know you probably
  • 00:35:54
    should to save yourself the
  • 00:35:56
    embarrassment but stories don't exist in
  • 00:35:59
    vacuums you can't look at Attack on
  • 00:36:01
    Titan the [ __ ] trost Arc in a vacuum
  • 00:36:04
    the trost arc sets up every Arc after it
  • 00:36:07
    kenju and Yuki's ideological conflict
  • 00:36:10
    goes absolutely nowhere despite being
  • 00:36:13
    one of the most fascinating things to
  • 00:36:15
    engage with in the story up to this
  • 00:36:16
    point Cho's character isn't at all a
  • 00:36:19
    high point from this fight as he does
  • 00:36:21
    nothing for 50 chapters after this and
  • 00:36:25
    he's supposed to be redeemed for killing
  • 00:36:27
    people by protecting Yuji is Aaron
  • 00:36:30
    supposed to be redeemed because he
  • 00:36:31
    protected Elia absolutely not already
  • 00:36:36
    spoke about Yuji and Maki fighting sua
  • 00:36:38
    it is super convenient that Maki didn't
  • 00:36:41
    use Soul Liberation on a sua whose
  • 00:36:44
    output is draining rapidly I wonder what
  • 00:36:47
    would have happened the yoru fight is
  • 00:36:49
    one of the worst fights in the series
  • 00:36:52
    with sua playing around per usual so
  • 00:36:55
    it's not engaging it's extremely drawing
  • 00:36:58
    with a brother and sister talking about
  • 00:37:02
    romance and marriage concerning a dead
  • 00:37:06
    body the current Suk cycle many
  • 00:37:09
    illiterate fans have coined is not as
  • 00:37:12
    bad as what people think specifically
  • 00:37:14
    Utah Yuji fighting sukuna is a highlight
  • 00:37:17
    of the entire series however it is clear
  • 00:37:20
    to see that akutami is just spitballing
  • 00:37:22
    with every page of the manga after Gojo
  • 00:37:25
    versus suca Maki is is Mia for 10 full
  • 00:37:30
    chapters despite this clearly being the
  • 00:37:32
    most climactic section of the series
  • 00:37:35
    hakari versus orom has not been heard
  • 00:37:38
    from since chapter
  • 00:37:42
    245 akut Tommy deciding to delegate main
  • 00:37:45
    characters to the peanut gallery when
  • 00:37:47
    fans are nothing but itching to see them
  • 00:37:49
    perform is a juvenile and spiteful thing
  • 00:37:53
    to do
  • 00:37:55
    [Music]
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    every long run Series has plot holes
  • 00:38:04
    unless you're clearly exceptional at
  • 00:38:06
    your craft like bleach or usoi plot
  • 00:38:09
    holes are a part of the job I like to
  • 00:38:11
    think not every series has to be perfect
  • 00:38:14
    but when your series is flawed by itself
  • 00:38:17
    ignoring any plot holes when you include
  • 00:38:19
    them later on you turn a mediocre series
  • 00:38:21
    into a bad one in this section I'll go
  • 00:38:25
    over all the plot holes I've have
  • 00:38:26
    noticed and explained explain why they
  • 00:38:28
    are plot holes first let's explore what
  • 00:38:30
    a plot hole is to me there are two forms
  • 00:38:34
    of plot holes and not every plot hole
  • 00:38:36
    has to be story breing some can be like
  • 00:38:39
    Itachi's age in Naruto how it's very
  • 00:38:42
    very inconsistent the first plot hole is
  • 00:38:45
    the conventional type of plot hole in
  • 00:38:47
    which information is contradicted an
  • 00:38:50
    example of this comes in one piece wow I
  • 00:38:53
    wonder if anyone knew that wellow the
  • 00:38:55
    example has to do with m Adam Shirley in
  • 00:38:58
    one piece in Fishman Island she
  • 00:39:00
    explicitly says that her future telling
  • 00:39:03
    ability has nothing to do about when it
  • 00:39:06
    happens and she cannot see any time
  • 00:39:09
    frame for her fortunes I can only see
  • 00:39:13
    what
  • 00:39:15
    happens the plot hole comes in chapter
  • 00:39:18
    967 in one piece where Roger act Shirley
  • 00:39:21
    when with the princess Shiro she be born
  • 00:39:24
    and Shirley responds in 10 years the
  • 00:39:27
    second type of plot hole is the lack of
  • 00:39:29
    a bridge to connect information a to
  • 00:39:33
    event B I already mention this but a
  • 00:39:36
    good example is Gia giving the attack
  • 00:39:39
    Titan to Aaron Gia who clearly does not
  • 00:39:42
    want Aaron to rumble the world still
  • 00:39:44
    gives him the Titan in which it was
  • 00:39:47
    implied it was because Aaron was
  • 00:39:49
    manipulating his memories in forcing him
  • 00:39:52
    to see something that would change his
  • 00:39:54
    mind do we ever learn what that was hell
  • 00:39:57
    no it debases character motivations to
  • 00:40:01
    where they're mindlessly doing tasks
  • 00:40:03
    like drones for the plot now that we
  • 00:40:06
    know what makes a plot hole let's play
  • 00:40:08
    the yoru review while slightly
  • 00:40:11
    stretching my definition of a plot hole
  • 00:40:13
    yoru conveniently reincarnating into
  • 00:40:16
    megami's sister but pretending to be
  • 00:40:18
    suiki by sitting in a wheelchair for a
  • 00:40:20
    month just to have the first person she
  • 00:40:22
    fights be sua for completely arbitrary
  • 00:40:25
    reasons feel so unne necessarily
  • 00:40:28
    contrived and this is the only reason
  • 00:40:30
    Suk is able to take over megami's body
  • 00:40:33
    and is without a doubt a plot hole in my
  • 00:40:35
    mind higuma joining the alliance the
  • 00:40:38
    very last time we see higuma is in
  • 00:40:41
    chapter 167 in which he denies helping
  • 00:40:44
    Yuji because it makes him feel extra
  • 00:40:46
    guilty for becoming such a terrible
  • 00:40:49
    person in chapter 222 we see higuma with
  • 00:40:53
    the gang all cheering for Gojo after his
  • 00:40:55
    departure what the [ __ ]
  • 00:40:58
    what happened to explicitly not wanting
  • 00:41:00
    to help the character's goals and
  • 00:41:02
    motivations changing offc screen and
  • 00:41:05
    we're supposed to acclimate to them not
  • 00:41:08
    at all mahito not healing his soul in
  • 00:41:12
    chapter 252 we learn that it's
  • 00:41:14
    impossible to heal the soul from sukum
  • 00:41:17
    however how the hell did maito ever lose
  • 00:41:20
    under this rule the only caveat to
  • 00:41:22
    Healing your soul was the awareness of
  • 00:41:25
    your soul in which mahito is is we know
  • 00:41:28
    cursed Spirits heal a lot easier than
  • 00:41:30
    Sorcerers do so every single hit Mao ate
  • 00:41:33
    from Yuji should have gotten healed to
  • 00:41:35
    some extent with this logic it is
  • 00:41:38
    impossible for me to Envision mahito
  • 00:41:41
    losing when Toto isn't doing any damage
  • 00:41:43
    he's healing from yuji's punches
  • 00:41:45
    especially because he just hit two black
  • 00:41:47
    flashes and we know what black flashes
  • 00:41:49
    do to your output and he himself said
  • 00:41:52
    his Souls on a higher percentage than
  • 00:41:54
    Yuji
  • 00:41:57
    mahito CT not getting burnt out in
  • 00:42:00
    chapter 31 mahito uses his CT to escape
  • 00:42:04
    immediately after Suk and disabled his
  • 00:42:06
    domain in chapter 82 directly after Mao
  • 00:42:10
    disposed his own domain he uses his
  • 00:42:12
    curse technique to kill mechum Maru two
  • 00:42:16
    different instances of the rule just not
  • 00:42:18
    applying to mahito for whatever damn
  • 00:42:21
    reason under this logic uro should have
  • 00:42:24
    never lost Yuki and Tan's play is made
  • 00:42:27
    to look [ __ ] and Gojo should have
  • 00:42:30
    never lost his domain and thereby the
  • 00:42:32
    fight Toto not damaging the soul Toto in
  • 00:42:36
    chapter 37 tells Yuji in the audience
  • 00:42:39
    that we exist in mind body and soul and
  • 00:42:42
    that we need to understand that to let
  • 00:42:44
    cursed energy flow correctly Toto
  • 00:42:47
    himself calls himself I
  • 00:42:51
    [Music]
  • 00:42:54
    Toto Toto himself calls himself I Toto
  • 00:43:00
    I'm pronouncing that wrong he he calls
  • 00:43:03
    himself I Toto in his own head because
  • 00:43:07
    he takes these beliefs to heart we also
  • 00:43:10
    learn that Toto was basically groomed by
  • 00:43:14
    Yuki who wrote an entire book on the
  • 00:43:17
    soul which was pivotal for freeing
  • 00:43:19
    Megami in chapter
  • 00:43:21
    251 there is a preponderance of evidence
  • 00:43:24
    which suggests one outcome but that
  • 00:43:26
    outcome never manifest is it because if
  • 00:43:29
    Toto and Yuji were both black flashing
  • 00:43:31
    Mao then his ass would have gotten loow
  • 00:43:33
    died possibly what I know for certain
  • 00:43:36
    though is that denying logical
  • 00:43:38
    conclusions for plot reasons detangle
  • 00:43:40
    any web of plot you wanted to create you
  • 00:43:43
    are dismantling your own plot in order
  • 00:43:45
    to create a sensible stream of plot how
  • 00:43:49
    ironic mechum Maru damaging mahita we
  • 00:43:53
    learned in the mechum Maru fight that he
  • 00:43:54
    was using simple domain in order to
  • 00:43:56
    damage to mahita in the meami Reggie
  • 00:43:59
    fight we actually learned that simple
  • 00:44:00
    domain cannot cancel out any CT we have
  • 00:44:04
    a character Fighting by canceling out a
  • 00:44:06
    CT only to have a statement that it
  • 00:44:08
    should have never happened is anyone
  • 00:44:10
    else noticing how Mr Aku Tomi
  • 00:44:14
    operates sukuna and yuji's binding vow
  • 00:44:17
    we are all fully aware of chapter 212
  • 00:44:20
    with sua taking over megami's body the
  • 00:44:23
    context to this working is completely
  • 00:44:25
    asinine Su can have made a vow not to
  • 00:44:28
    hurt or kill anyone for one minute
  • 00:44:31
    that's fair let's
  • 00:44:33
    fart wow that's fair that's smart why
  • 00:44:38
    does he immediately knock out Hana to
  • 00:44:40
    say uh-oh I can't drop her because I
  • 00:44:43
    will break The Binding Val [ __ ]
  • 00:44:46
    what so you can knock the [ __ ] out but
  • 00:44:49
    you can't drop her on the ground because
  • 00:44:52
    you knocked her out because that will
  • 00:44:54
    break The Binding Val excuse excuse me
  • 00:44:58
    what's even worse is sua force feeding
  • 00:45:00
    Megami literal poison suk's fingers are
  • 00:45:04
    described to be a toxic lethal poison
  • 00:45:06
    because he's literally the king of
  • 00:45:09
    curses what's even worse is the fact
  • 00:45:11
    that Yuji wasn't talking about himself
  • 00:45:14
    when he made The Binding
  • 00:45:16
    vow the only reason he had to make The
  • 00:45:20
    Binding vow was because sua ripped out
  • 00:45:23
    his heart and took his body hostage
  • 00:45:28
    Gojo not knowing about suk's domain low
  • 00:45:31
    hanging fruit maybe nonissue maybe but
  • 00:45:36
    the fact that kenju told suuk about UT's
  • 00:45:39
    CT but choso didn't tell Gojo about
  • 00:45:42
    kaku's open domain and sua could have
  • 00:45:45
    also had one based off inaki and yuji's
  • 00:45:48
    Report showcases incompetence within our
  • 00:45:51
    main cast which the fight could have
  • 00:45:52
    gone an entirely different way if they
  • 00:45:55
    used that 30day actually talk to each
  • 00:45:58
    other sua's finger being
  • 00:46:01
    indestructible before we even explain
  • 00:46:03
    does that even make any [ __ ] sense do
  • 00:46:06
    we think suk's finger is indestructible
  • 00:46:09
    in
  • 00:46:10
    2024 so when we go back to like chapter
  • 00:46:13
    2 when Gojo can't destroy the finger
  • 00:46:17
    what the [ __ ] that's not even true bro
  • 00:46:19
    we seen we we saw Soul Liberation blade
  • 00:46:23
    which is able to this is Off Script bro
  • 00:46:25
    I'm [ __ ] the script bro we we saw a soul
  • 00:46:28
    Liberation blade which is able to cut
  • 00:46:31
    all inanimate objects so that would
  • 00:46:33
    include a su of finger andless suuna is
  • 00:46:36
    just H times
  • 00:46:38
    10 we know Jacob's Ladder is still a
  • 00:46:41
    thing right well not still a thing we
  • 00:46:44
    know Jacob's Ladder is a thing can
  • 00:46:46
    Jacob's Ladder just reduce the finger to
  • 00:46:49
    a [ __ ] regular finger or reduce that
  • 00:46:52
    [ __ ] to Yogurt we don't know I mean we
  • 00:46:55
    don't know um we know black rope exists
  • 00:46:58
    black rope could have opened the [ __ ]
  • 00:47:01
    prison realm what could have done to the
  • 00:47:03
    finger we know invert Spear of Heaven
  • 00:47:05
    exists which is essentially just nuh uh
  • 00:47:08
    no cursed energy so what could have
  • 00:47:10
    happened to like the finger and think
  • 00:47:13
    about Gojo satoru can't break the finger
  • 00:47:17
    or can't can't destroy that mug [ __ ] if
  • 00:47:20
    he bro if if he would have done a 200%
  • 00:47:23
    Hollow purple say oh God that [ __ ] would
  • 00:47:25
    have got destroyed we we take we get
  • 00:47:28
    every single finger possible we at we
  • 00:47:30
    get all 20 fingers cuz it's just in
  • 00:47:32
    Japan and goo can teleport goo teleports
  • 00:47:34
    around all 20 fingers b b line them all
  • 00:47:38
    up Ram starts twerking and [ __ ] a
  • 00:47:41
    [ __ ] uh old dude starts playing the
  • 00:47:43
    guitar and everything and 200% Hollow
  • 00:47:46
    purple say on God they not gone say on
  • 00:47:48
    God they not
  • 00:47:50
    gone I it it doesn't matter it's a plot
  • 00:47:53
    hole um it's so insane to me that these
  • 00:47:56
    [ __ ] going to say it's indestructible
  • 00:47:59
    after the [ __ ] we've seen of course it
  • 00:48:01
    might be like a minor issue to some
  • 00:48:02
    people because yes an idea present in
  • 00:48:05
    Chapter 2 not holding up in chapter 200
  • 00:48:09
    that's not like an uncommon thing in a
  • 00:48:10
    manga but I mean people love to praise
  • 00:48:14
    [ __ ] gay gay for his longterm
  • 00:48:17
    storytelling and he for sidled uh he he
  • 00:48:20
    he foreshadow uh Mega me and Su body and
  • 00:48:25
    uh Y in volume zero very important to
  • 00:48:28
    sck locality that's some [ __ ] bro we
  • 00:48:31
    know in Chapter 2 he can [ __ ] up on
  • 00:48:33
    regular regular things that aren't true
  • 00:48:36
    cuz no one in the right mind thinks that
  • 00:48:39
    cuz Gojo's justification for it is that
  • 00:48:41
    the curse is too powerful or a powerful
  • 00:48:44
    curse ain't it ain't it and it's so
  • 00:48:47
    [ __ ] like no one is ever going to
  • 00:48:49
    think that 200% Hollow purple who is
  • 00:48:52
    able to damage a full power suina is not
  • 00:48:55
    going to damage the [ __ ] fingers
  • 00:48:57
    that's not even logically coherent a
  • 00:48:59
    200% Hollow purple that blew this [ __ ]
  • 00:49:02
    sua's arm off can't destroy his [ __ ]
  • 00:49:04
    fingers you bugging out your dick
  • 00:49:07
    [Music]
  • 00:49:14
    [ __ ] in the last hour we have discussed
  • 00:49:17
    broken down and proved how akutami has
  • 00:49:19
    written a very flawed series naturally
  • 00:49:22
    if you derive happiness from the series
  • 00:49:24
    good for you and I'm happy for you
  • 00:49:27
    anything I say shouldn't be a bullet to
  • 00:49:28
    the chest just because you cosign
  • 00:49:30
    something that is being insulted no one
  • 00:49:33
    is insulting you and I'm sure you're a
  • 00:49:35
    fine person outside your taste and manga
  • 00:49:38
    my biggest problem with jjk personally
  • 00:49:41
    is the fan base in the audience however
  • 00:49:44
    JK's popularity completely reflects a
  • 00:49:46
    chronically online society losing its
  • 00:49:48
    touch and only relying upon robot
  • 00:49:50
    instincts in submitting to their own
  • 00:49:52
    psychosis I know people that kept up
  • 00:49:55
    with the Mong weekly despite not
  • 00:49:56
    actually reading it I know people that
  • 00:49:59
    read Gojo versus suca before they read
  • 00:50:01
    anything before that this level of
  • 00:50:03
    incorrectly engaging with the story is
  • 00:50:05
    because the part of their brain wanting
  • 00:50:07
    cool things first and not actually
  • 00:50:09
    wanting to work for it speaks to them
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    the loudest people needing finality
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    gratification do not want to start any
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    anime that are infinitely better but
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    much longer like Naruto bleach and
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    Hunter Hunter jjk is much more
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    digestible and because it is a condensed
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    formula of what works Works in bleach
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    and Hunter Hunter but executed with 90%
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    less tact the core of Peele of jjk is
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    cool raw Aura factor festering with
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    characters to the point where every
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    other story element gets ignored by the
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    reader as long as you give me Suk glaze
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    and Gojo AA I can empirically verify
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    this by an acquaintance of mine having
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    jjk as a favorite anime ever loving the
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    story and finding so much enjoyment off
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    reading it and watching it and listening
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    to the the music and buying the manga
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    and plush and data books literally the
  • 00:51:00
    whole nine yards however if you ask this
  • 00:51:04
    woman to give a quick synopsis of hakari
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    versus Kuma like lay out the story beats
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    like what happened how did the fight go
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    she'll be
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    dumbfounded it is amazing how one person
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    can swear up and down they're a fan of
  • 00:51:19
    the series but be completely dumbfounded
  • 00:51:22
    when trying to recall the
  • 00:51:24
    plot I have also seen multiple people
  • 00:51:27
    completely misinterpret misread and
  • 00:51:30
    misunderstand the series in which they
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    are supposedly fans of some fans
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    genuinely think hakari is a better
  • 00:51:37
    character than niola hakari whose
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    character is feel the fever and I'm a
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    gambler that's why you have that's why
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    gay gay gambled on my screen time and
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    base of jjk quite literally do not read
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    their own manga it's kind of a joke when
  • 00:51:56
    people say that but it's a joke because
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    it's true when some fans are proven
  • 00:52:00
    wrong they praise the mangi even though
  • 00:52:03
    their reasoning is completely valid and
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    solid what does that tell you to keep it
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    short nonsense Works Riz or a skibbidy
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    just nonsense brain run that is
  • 00:52:14
    completely synonymous with the series
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    coined as labotomy
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    Kaizen in my opinion this is a repugnant
  • 00:52:22
    State of Affairs the fan base has no one
  • 00:52:24
    but themselves to blame from from the
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    power scaling guys who make a couple
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    good arguments now they think they know
  • 00:52:30
    more than a writer shipping fan girls
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    who decide they like the series before
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    they even look at its writing brain rot
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    Merchants who engage the story as a
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    Pastime or the fake media literate goons
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    who like gagay put the blindfold over
  • 00:52:44
    them this fan base is something I detest
  • 00:52:46
    more than the actual series just a
  • 00:52:49
    conglomerate of individuals using 5% of
  • 00:52:52
    their brain
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    I
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    [Music]
Tags
  • Jujutsu Kaisen
  • anime
  • crítica
  • narrativa
  • desarrollo de personajes
  • sistema de poder
  • popularidad
  • fandom
  • cultura pop
  • análisis de medios