jjk reading
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fwcuUH, so like in 2021 I read jjk all the way up to the end of the shibuya arc. twice over even I think? and then I sort of gave up once the culling game arc started because uh dawgggg the state of our women in this manga, on top of everyone thirsting over naoya like i genuinely couldn’t. older, and once again at an extreme mental low, I decided to finally finish jjk, also known as the potential man’s potential battle shounen. you will understand what I mean soon. I started from the culling game arc, because I didn’t need to go through hidden inventory or shibuya incident all over again. I did my time. I genuinely still that that stretch of chapters is basically perfect shounen and everything you would want from the genre, excellent, exemplemary, there’s a bl subplot, it’s basically just as perfect and just as good as the hxh chimera ant arc and the final battle. which again, one of the hardest greatest, if not The Greatest, final battle ever.
>so like the ideal form of jjk is as anime/manga but also the ideal form of jjk is like Not the shounen genre But also the third secret thing that is his passion is to do Meta style breakdowns of who beats what in really complicated rock paper scissors games
>like he is not actually interested in the battle or the emotional stakes or the hype moments and aura he’s like >Here’s who’s more powerful and Why and what their secret movie is
>and its like dawg you should be a chess commentator atp
>but it is why I really liked the show off between kenjaku and yuki bc he was like ‘actually these are two guys who shouldnt even be fighting each other and therefore Dont want to’ but the nature of shounen battle manga and Plot forced there to be a winner/loser
>crazy af tho that choso is somehow still alive while yuki is dead. hwateverrr
>>[noura]like in theory i want to like the shibuya arc, the idea of it all taking place on a single night where the characters are facing unknown threats and are very limited in how much they can communicate is a good premise and on paper that's what happens but i still get the feeling that it's too soon in the story for this to have happened
>okay wait I have to defend shibuya arc because it happening ‘way too soon’ really is what made it so good and high stakes before the next arc started and we realised akutami was nottt taking this shit serious I genuinely think the shibuya incident is the High point of jjk like i think the jarring escalation really throws you off and then really captures rhe chaos and craziness that is about to unfold
>>re: jjk, a lot of people's complaints are something like "maki didn't get anything to do once she killed naoya" to which the responses are essentially "yeah because that was the culimnation of her arc" which is like...... sure i guess, but that doesn't feel satisfying
>but also I don’t even feel like this is TRUEEE bc she litr gets brought back for the sukuna fight and becomes the next object in line that sukuna chases and glazes but then it doesnt matter bc the sukuna fight post gojo litr just became about conveyor belt sushi…
>though I will say I like that yuuji’s arc/culmination of power/etc ended with him just mastering the abilities of his mentors re/todo, nanami, choso like that was satisfying if not Cool and I really do think the domain expansion where he was just showing sukuna around sendai was such a powerful emotional chapter and break and it really captured a thing that Akutami Could Do where clearly he does care about mundanity and morality and the human/meaning question but also like really cares about the Actual Physical environment which is whyy the sendai chapter is so good but He also doesnt care enough to write ittt
>Idk I feel like jjk did start off with the promise of doing something interesting with the shounen genre and how it racked up ‘pointless’ deaths vs training arcs like the disjoint in arcs and the whiplash tone promised something way more interesting than what ended up happening
>also in the same way he had a lot to say about how we value certain facets of our institutional systems re/schools/education/power/law/manga he also clearly had something to say about japanese national politics/infrastructure alongside international global powers but again none of that was streamlined into Plot or Theme it was just There
>I think probably what’s interesting and somewhat redeeming about jjk is that you can at least tell that these inclusions are here For A Reason and not just random bullshit to keep the story serialised otherwise their incorporation and randomness make No sense but also
>>yeah i think ultimately i ended up feeling like gege had a lot of good ideas and concepts and potential but just couldn't stick the execution >>however much that's due to wsj schedule fuckery or his own shortcomings as a writer
>>and i guess my other feeling is that he's either shit at character writing or just doesn't care enough about character writing vis a vis shounen powerscaling plot bc the only good character he wrote was gojo
>I think he had good concepts/shells/frames for characters to work around but no execution for most of them
>>yeah.. i think this is basically what i meant when i said shibuya was too soon, bc i like the IDEA of ramping up the stakes but bc i didn't feel invested enough in the characters it didn't have the intended effect. to me
>yeahhh thats understandable / I think hidden inventory did a lot of the emotional heavy lifting for me so there was that / But then again that only makes u care about gojo LOL
>though wow radman wa sliterally making jjk look sooo thought out and eloquent and full of themes and ideas
>Like I didnt know that was happening
>>i’m sayinggggg
>>hes geges strongest soldier fr
>>[ciel] not gege being the potential man all along….
>i feel like the other thing I really have to give jjk its flowers for is that it is actually urban fantasy for real for real like no matter how much it does glaze heian era and some jp traditionalisms it also like cares so much about period-accurate magical adaptations and technique and make so much use out of Urban Infrastructure as a real setting
>gege akutami >I love concrete I love railways I love cell phones I love animation I love pachinko
>the other thing that I forgot to mention is that I actually really appreciate the plasticity of characters like they get different looks/clothes to represent different ‘eras’ / chara development I ENJOY ITTT
>[re: radman gojo v sukuna vid] actuallt was really touched and moved by him mentioning the modernist/postmodernist themes of jjk as symbolised via gojo v sukuna bc its basically what my follow up thought for this was bc its so true that there is such a prescient fascination with modernity that runs thru jjk and is one of the more interesting things about it on a narrative level bc its basically what cares so much about its references and how it tries to embody elements that are better suited for other mediums into its own narrative
>its just litr also true that gege akutami was sort of not talented enough(?)/afforded enough time/edittinf/etc to make the mixed media manga/cross genre manga of his dreams but its also sooo obviously that these are the things he’s fixated on both in shallow and deep ways >Also his reading of the idea of the narrator was really cool and interesting i also found it sort of disjointive that what the characters themselves would say was very different from what the narrator would declare but we’re supposed to see the narrator as the Omniscient Objective voice but jjk’s entire battle thesis comes down to Perception and how sensory input is the Ultimate Deciding factor of all
>Like again I cannot say jjk is good but I can say that it grapples with so many interesting things
>final ranking: gojo > yuta > maki >>> toji/nobara >>>> megumi/itadori/yuki/etc ... maki stone butch top it's TRUEEE
>between toji and maki icb megumi is the most popular of the clan…
>this is made extra crazy by the fact they all litr have the same fucking face and hair and yet makitoji are beautiful busty baras and me:gumi >wow i literally hate to see a twink .
>megumi is actually really cute and slayful but he’s Normal
>all i can say… akutami lowkey bad at drawinf… like obviously hes better than me but aomw of this is just silly
>>[poppy]i think makiyuuta is really good also i think yuuta has the best chemistry with them
>>but to be honest i would even entertain gojo and yuuta before i entertained inumaki and yuuta like i have no idea what is going on thereee well i can see it kind of but at the same time [weibocrylaugh] circling back to the onigiri ingredients or whatever thing inumaki has going on
>gojo<>yuuta i think lowkey has the most sauce out of all the gojo student ships
>tho it might be about equal with gojo/yuiji because he actually genuinely does end up treating yuiji like an equal while yuta is stuck in mentee-zone forever which is good or bad depending on how u think of it
>And RIP to megumi the potential man once again like you had nepotism (real, literal, on many levels even) on your side but you still couldn’t make it there?
>soemthing so funny about gojo jjk being the only pretty boy Ive liked uncomplicatedly
>>and he was light hair uke even….
>No literally like i picked my one exception
>[re: white hair ukes] ITS NOT ABOUT LOOKING LIKE GOJO!!!! Gojo’s appeal isnt even the way he looks…
>like obviously i think he looks nice bc hes handsome pretty which is my ideal visual type but it is the 30 yr old virgin and widow cosplay that really make the appeal… and that he’s most annoying guy on earth
>looking thru this artist’s media tab and horny gripping and killing myswlf https://twitter.com/pasinee1855/media
>Like I didn’t know how much my passion was a broad guy in shirt and slacks with handsome face bur actually I did know tjat <guy who's favourite bl rn is sugar trap
>turns out my getogojo guy used to be a gojotoji guy like my god i wouldve turned into the joker lowkey
>Like u went here for toji hole and gojoLEFT and one change of heart later and all you see is gojo hole
>Though ill be honest if I was the average jjk fan and I loved toji I would just invest my stocks into maki
>an dguess what. that is exactly what I did.
>anyway my 1 nitpick with jjk gojo fic is that that man is 190cm and no one is giving adequate attention` to how Much Limb that is
>like look i also care about him getting rawed. but there are serious logistical issues at play here >Okay I don’t understand the point of jjk fic where its No Powers AU
>Like the whole appeal of gojo is that he’s The Strongest and also in love with genocidal murderer best friend
>>is geto just a normal serial killer in those
>Also everyone keeps making him a twink ev like cmon man Thats never been true
>in the end I think adult gojo is way sxcier than teen gojo to me the concept of being the strongest guy in da world except you’re pushing 30 and hung up over ur middle school gf anddd haven’t fucked anyone in 10 years and basically took a vow of chaste widowhood and you’re DTF that genocidal murderer cult leader…
>just saw an ‘incel gojo’ tag okay well why don’t you go watch radman’s video and come back again
>so believe it or not there are two actual incels in the series without you even having to stretch so far about it
>everyone allowed to have preferences but I think the canon wants u to know he [gojo] bottoms [[about gojo straddling sukuna mid battle pages]]
>sometimes your shounen with real bl in it is not as fic-tivating as your shounen with no yaoi in it >its litr the >You have real bl, we don’t have to write bl for you
>like I like sgst i really do its truly a ship that makes me feel [indescribable emotion] but it’s also like Dawg what more can I say … Canon has it covered That was a full Bl That was really our bl subplot in the battle shounen
>I don’t think gojo had daddy issues. I think gojo specifically has toji issues, and toji probably thinks more about fatherhood than he does
>>well gojo is literally the father that stepped up even
>>kinda
>i think gojo hair ranking is short bangs > pushed back > long bangs > spikey stack
>and i don’t even think it cancels out the maki twincest or anythint >like both are true
>I think the fact that both of them are haunted by their first loves is also the most beautiful thing in the world again
>Or i just feel nothing horny about megumi on the ofher hand i need makiyuuta 74243 situation rn
>being cursed by an evil possessive girl who is only selfless moment is her very last act where she bequeaths her entire existence to you >>> gg
>yuuta is so cute
>not only did I already like yuutamaki but I also already like makimai and yutarika andddd litr from 2020 one of my dw draft has >mai becomes maki’s cursed swore >So i always knew
>well actually one of my og ships was also maki/megumi but that’s just normal bc i love twincest
>[maki being called a monster panel] ohhhh you’re everything to me ya toxic bad boy love interest maki…
>okay every jjk fan who is like ‘yuutamaki came out of nowhere’ literally were reading with their eyes shut lowkey bc ever since they both came back nearly every single appearance has them either talking to each other or in each other’s proximity
>which sure, does not a romance make. But also you’re reading (1) a shounen manga (2) one as poorly written as jjk
>but also something so beautiful wnd delicious about a guy who cannot sense any cursed energy at all vs a guy who is reeking so much of curse energy and being Haunted and Doom that everyone gets the heebie jeebies near him… [olivia wilde head shaking nod gif]
>and the most lines she gets during one of their planning stages is saying ‘yuta don’t kill yourself’ except she is saying everything but those words… which… yeah
>i love guy who can only say the wrong extremely mean thing vs guy who is built like soft firm tofu and just taking it completely at face value and with so much love and passivity in their heart
>yuta beinf definitionally the Monsterfucker and never ever letting up on being the Monsterfucker and he lowkey carried more than gojo did anddd he’s SOOOO POLITE AND CUTE!!! chewing biting gnawing eating his head off
>Allegedly there are 3 kisses in jjk, two of them are yuuta with cursed spirits and the last one is makimaiiii… WHO ELSE CHEEREDDD
>no way that maki strongest weapon user of all time and yuta the guy who always making up for his physical inability with his endless cursed energy arent each other’s default sparring partners
>yuta is such a cute girl
>kind of no words for how much I’d blow up the world over uhhhh
>groomed by cursed spirit of his 10 yr old ex girlfriend
>literally only knows how to live self-sacrificially and is kind of quite literally the eldest daughter who is making all the same mistakes/sacrifices as her mom while her mom doesn’t see her at all
>IS SOOOO POLITE… litr the cutest most unbelievable gapmoe trait of all time is guy who is so scary and so gloomy being so so sooooo polite… also a beautiful pushover puppy people pleaser type…
>he was made to be railed into a mattress i can tell you that. everyone on ao3 is like convinced of yuta’s ‘secret dark side’ he doesn’t have that. like we probably could’ve had like 3-8 different yuta secret dark/intense side reveals but instead we keep getting shown a dude who is extremely cool-headed all the time and is highly competent and otherwise is weirdly lax about kissing monsters.
>um litr they made yuta to make me want to kill myself with the moebomb vat… [indescrible emojis] and they gave him built in sexy bara stoic cold guy top [more indescribable emojis]
>but everyone on ao3 is convinced maki is a y/n nothing girl to carry their fantasies forward and not an extremely sexy cold heartless The Killer Masc
>but she is litr the killer its true we saw that happen ij real time
>Who is in love with her sister btw. who lost the ability to have a heart when her sister died. like this is also like cuckhold4cuckhold ship WHICH IS ALSO SO EBAUTIFUL TO MEEEEE
>also i don’t want to do this but I need to argue for maki whump rights and if anyone should be terrorised with naoya well… she was litr right there
>‘Maki whump rights’ dawg her entire life was also toji 2.0
>The mascificatiom also btw was really crazy bc she did go from long hair preppy jock girl to TojiClone
>litr so fucked up that sometimes being a woman will make it so people will ignore that you are the reincarnation of this sexist guy’s biggest complex like i don’t want to get into it but truly maki was born on this earth to ruin naoya’s life
>wow… theres something actually so so romantic about truly being the daughter of your mother
>if maki is toji reincarnated without any shame or reflection just pure Reccurence then yuta is seriously seeing all of gojo’s struggles and flaws and comparing himself against their shape while being totally overlooked by gojo himself [:weibocrylaugh:] whoever said eldest daughter yuta okkotsu really did get it
>[about yuta] everyone point and laugh at me for giving into the evil id when they put a perfect victim in front of me
>>i was like is makiyuuta really not popular and i looked it up and why does makiyuuta have <1k works when INUMAKIYUUTA HAS 2.6K?
>uhh wombo combo of
>everyone wants yuta to top that twink
>yuta is a nothing y/n self-insert with no character. just like toge.l actually. but its crazy bc yuta and maki both actually have characters and backstory so like what’s happening here
>Gay ship winning over het
>which is so crazy bc yuuta’s main ship should litr be rika/yuuta like that is litr the only canon cp we have genuinely
>and its a het thats even better because of curse form even….
>though one of gege akutami’s funniest moves was giving a 10 year the most twisted psychological profile on earth
>like if rika had lived and was a sorcerer she couldve 1v1’d kenjaku
>>yuuta kiss with monster rika in jjk0... [olivia wilde nodding gif]
>no I’m sayinng like
>wears her ring all the time and even before he wore it on his finger he wore it as a necklace
>an extremely adoring yandere cursed spirit who he treats with the same amount of love and affection back … genuinely kind of insane that he sees her kill 289292 people and sees her be gross looking and still is like ‘i would never hate you’ and kisses her
> no reason at all to be so nice and gentle and delicate with curse he has total control over but that terror is litr getting the princess treatment always + domain is litr called ‘pure love’ alright man we get it
>>LITERALLY THE MOST ROMANTIC STORY IN THE WORLD TO MEEEE
>>its genuinely so romantic and fairytaleesque to me idk [rainbow jokebear] although i know there are like 90000000 guys any given time going his love for rika isnt ROMANTIC [eyeroll emoji] it is romantic to meeeeee
>its litr romantic
>Like what do u mean its not romantic
>like he’s not in love with a 10 yr old girl but he does genuinely love whatever form her soul takes cmon now guys
>yutarika stocks have always been a given. To Me. but I also locked into makiyuta stocks bc Im a fucking real one That’s my students 2pick who tf do u think i am
>going thru yutamaki tag like
>she wouldnt fucking say that
>she wouldnt fuckinf do that
>cmon man cmon guys
>I feel like people write het with ‘strong badass female characters’ sort of to ‘allow’ them to engage in their vulnerability beyond the tough shell but it comes off sexist rather than depthful
>like maki straight up doesn’t give a shit about her burn scars and yeah that could change but I don’t need a fic about her being insecure over them when she’s never had any sort of problem or complex about her looks
>[yuta pic attached] genuinely my gongeous gongeous girl… has all design quirks I enjoy
>big eyes + dark circles
>prey animal af
>really cutieful hair style
>big top [[read however you want]]
>And he’s never going to look this cute and harmless in canon ever again because after gege’s like >He’s going to creepy doll max. he’s going to corpsemaxx. he’s going to become the weird horror movie kid thats Looming in the corner ...
>but it's okay because his haunted doll arc is also cutieful and slay to meeeeee...
>I do think yuta and maki pt2 have the most slayful uniform modifications
>look I don’t care that they get married and have babies I just care about MAIKYUTA ENDGAMEEEE… ig acrually I wish they didnt have babies and yuta wasn’t a clan head but whatever
some of my livetweets from discord. which btw I don’t do this often so EVERYONE JOIN TW3 DISCORD TO ACTUALLY KEEP UP WITH MY OTHER REVIEWS/LIVETWEETS/THOUGHTS. i guess I just feel like it’s worth it to record my jjk journey because we’re doing this all over again don’t worry. okay but also this went from me just perusing the ao3 tag to actually reading the whole second half, and my overall review is going to be in the author section... and if I have any other words I will write them after this:
>horny gojo art literally about to make me finish reading jujutsu kaisen
[THE AUTHOR IS NOT DEAD. TO ME.]
>gege akutami’s passion is to do clip away mokumentary style parody manga… that incorporates a lot of ‘movie’ techniques>so like the ideal form of jjk is as anime/manga but also the ideal form of jjk is like Not the shounen genre But also the third secret thing that is his passion is to do Meta style breakdowns of who beats what in really complicated rock paper scissors games
>like he is not actually interested in the battle or the emotional stakes or the hype moments and aura he’s like >Here’s who’s more powerful and Why and what their secret movie is
>and its like dawg you should be a chess commentator atp
>but it is why I really liked the show off between kenjaku and yuki bc he was like ‘actually these are two guys who shouldnt even be fighting each other and therefore Dont want to’ but the nature of shounen battle manga and Plot forced there to be a winner/loser
>crazy af tho that choso is somehow still alive while yuki is dead. hwateverrr
>>[noura]like in theory i want to like the shibuya arc, the idea of it all taking place on a single night where the characters are facing unknown threats and are very limited in how much they can communicate is a good premise and on paper that's what happens but i still get the feeling that it's too soon in the story for this to have happened
>okay wait I have to defend shibuya arc because it happening ‘way too soon’ really is what made it so good and high stakes before the next arc started and we realised akutami was nottt taking this shit serious I genuinely think the shibuya incident is the High point of jjk like i think the jarring escalation really throws you off and then really captures rhe chaos and craziness that is about to unfold
>>re: jjk, a lot of people's complaints are something like "maki didn't get anything to do once she killed naoya" to which the responses are essentially "yeah because that was the culimnation of her arc" which is like...... sure i guess, but that doesn't feel satisfying
>but also I don’t even feel like this is TRUEEE bc she litr gets brought back for the sukuna fight and becomes the next object in line that sukuna chases and glazes but then it doesnt matter bc the sukuna fight post gojo litr just became about conveyor belt sushi…
>though I will say I like that yuuji’s arc/culmination of power/etc ended with him just mastering the abilities of his mentors re/todo, nanami, choso like that was satisfying if not Cool and I really do think the domain expansion where he was just showing sukuna around sendai was such a powerful emotional chapter and break and it really captured a thing that Akutami Could Do where clearly he does care about mundanity and morality and the human/meaning question but also like really cares about the Actual Physical environment which is whyy the sendai chapter is so good but He also doesnt care enough to write ittt
>Idk I feel like jjk did start off with the promise of doing something interesting with the shounen genre and how it racked up ‘pointless’ deaths vs training arcs like the disjoint in arcs and the whiplash tone promised something way more interesting than what ended up happening
>also in the same way he had a lot to say about how we value certain facets of our institutional systems re/schools/education/power/law/manga he also clearly had something to say about japanese national politics/infrastructure alongside international global powers but again none of that was streamlined into Plot or Theme it was just There
>I think probably what’s interesting and somewhat redeeming about jjk is that you can at least tell that these inclusions are here For A Reason and not just random bullshit to keep the story serialised otherwise their incorporation and randomness make No sense but also
>>yeah i think ultimately i ended up feeling like gege had a lot of good ideas and concepts and potential but just couldn't stick the execution >>however much that's due to wsj schedule fuckery or his own shortcomings as a writer
>>and i guess my other feeling is that he's either shit at character writing or just doesn't care enough about character writing vis a vis shounen powerscaling plot bc the only good character he wrote was gojo
>I think he had good concepts/shells/frames for characters to work around but no execution for most of them
>>yeah.. i think this is basically what i meant when i said shibuya was too soon, bc i like the IDEA of ramping up the stakes but bc i didn't feel invested enough in the characters it didn't have the intended effect. to me
>yeahhh thats understandable / I think hidden inventory did a lot of the emotional heavy lifting for me so there was that / But then again that only makes u care about gojo LOL
>though wow radman wa sliterally making jjk look sooo thought out and eloquent and full of themes and ideas
>Like I didnt know that was happening
>>i’m sayinggggg
>>hes geges strongest soldier fr
>>[ciel] not gege being the potential man all along….
>i feel like the other thing I really have to give jjk its flowers for is that it is actually urban fantasy for real for real like no matter how much it does glaze heian era and some jp traditionalisms it also like cares so much about period-accurate magical adaptations and technique and make so much use out of Urban Infrastructure as a real setting
>gege akutami >I love concrete I love railways I love cell phones I love animation I love pachinko
>the other thing that I forgot to mention is that I actually really appreciate the plasticity of characters like they get different looks/clothes to represent different ‘eras’ / chara development I ENJOY ITTT
>[re: radman gojo v sukuna vid] actuallt was really touched and moved by him mentioning the modernist/postmodernist themes of jjk as symbolised via gojo v sukuna bc its basically what my follow up thought for this was bc its so true that there is such a prescient fascination with modernity that runs thru jjk and is one of the more interesting things about it on a narrative level bc its basically what cares so much about its references and how it tries to embody elements that are better suited for other mediums into its own narrative
>its just litr also true that gege akutami was sort of not talented enough(?)/afforded enough time/edittinf/etc to make the mixed media manga/cross genre manga of his dreams but its also sooo obviously that these are the things he’s fixated on both in shallow and deep ways >Also his reading of the idea of the narrator was really cool and interesting i also found it sort of disjointive that what the characters themselves would say was very different from what the narrator would declare but we’re supposed to see the narrator as the Omniscient Objective voice but jjk’s entire battle thesis comes down to Perception and how sensory input is the Ultimate Deciding factor of all
>Like again I cannot say jjk is good but I can say that it grapples with so many interesting things
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>my jjk top4 are probably gojo maki yuta toji and yes I want all of them as 0s>final ranking: gojo > yuta > maki >>> toji/nobara >>>> megumi/itadori/yuki/etc ... maki stone butch top it's TRUEEE
>between toji and maki icb megumi is the most popular of the clan…
>this is made extra crazy by the fact they all litr have the same fucking face and hair and yet makitoji are beautiful busty baras and me:gumi >wow i literally hate to see a twink .
>megumi is actually really cute and slayful but he’s Normal
>all i can say… akutami lowkey bad at drawinf… like obviously hes better than me but aomw of this is just silly
>>[poppy]i think makiyuuta is really good also i think yuuta has the best chemistry with them
>>but to be honest i would even entertain gojo and yuuta before i entertained inumaki and yuuta like i have no idea what is going on thereee well i can see it kind of but at the same time [weibocrylaugh] circling back to the onigiri ingredients or whatever thing inumaki has going on
>gojo<>yuuta i think lowkey has the most sauce out of all the gojo student ships
>tho it might be about equal with gojo/yuiji because he actually genuinely does end up treating yuiji like an equal while yuta is stuck in mentee-zone forever which is good or bad depending on how u think of it
>And RIP to megumi the potential man once again like you had nepotism (real, literal, on many levels even) on your side but you still couldn’t make it there?
[gojo brain quarantine]
>The way jjk art gave me hives for the last two years but now I’m looking at proper order art of my fave ship and ifs like YESSSSSSSSS YYAAASSSSSSS so good so organic>soemthing so funny about gojo jjk being the only pretty boy Ive liked uncomplicatedly
>>and he was light hair uke even….
>No literally like i picked my one exception
>[re: white hair ukes] ITS NOT ABOUT LOOKING LIKE GOJO!!!! Gojo’s appeal isnt even the way he looks…
>like obviously i think he looks nice bc hes handsome pretty which is my ideal visual type but it is the 30 yr old virgin and widow cosplay that really make the appeal… and that he’s most annoying guy on earth
>looking thru this artist’s media tab and horny gripping and killing myswlf https://twitter.com/pasinee1855/media
>Like I didn’t know how much my passion was a broad guy in shirt and slacks with handsome face bur actually I did know tjat <guy who's favourite bl rn is sugar trap
>Like u went here for toji hole and gojoLEFT and one change of heart later and all you see is gojo hole
>Though ill be honest if I was the average jjk fan and I loved toji I would just invest my stocks into maki
>an dguess what. that is exactly what I did.
>anyway my 1 nitpick with jjk gojo fic is that that man is 190cm and no one is giving adequate attention` to how Much Limb that is
>like look i also care about him getting rawed. but there are serious logistical issues at play here >Okay I don’t understand the point of jjk fic where its No Powers AU
>Like the whole appeal of gojo is that he’s The Strongest and also in love with genocidal murderer best friend
>>is geto just a normal serial killer in those
>Also everyone keeps making him a twink ev like cmon man Thats never been true
>in the end I think adult gojo is way sxcier than teen gojo to me the concept of being the strongest guy in da world except you’re pushing 30 and hung up over ur middle school gf anddd haven’t fucked anyone in 10 years and basically took a vow of chaste widowhood and you’re DTF that genocidal murderer cult leader…
>just saw an ‘incel gojo’ tag okay well why don’t you go watch radman’s video and come back again
>so believe it or not there are two actual incels in the series without you even having to stretch so far about it
>Just searched up >gojo eye trauma and >gojo eye gouging and got less than 20 results both times. like. litr the character who this applies to The Most?
>they will be like He got the six eyes and They are a physical attribute and then no one is doing anything to make that physical attribute fuck him over
>my guy canonically already wears a blindfold everywhere if not sunglasses …!
>Which also okay if youre going to modern au no powers no curses them and u can give geto arfid u can give gojo an eye condition… or u are contractually obligated to
>um gojo is still one of the greatest characters ever invented I have to say that
>though once again I really am so confused some of the discourse I’ve seen bc its true someone can be a good mentor and a bad teacher even
>everyone allowed to have preferences but I think the canon wants u to know he [gojo] bottoms [[about gojo straddling sukuna mid battle pages]]
>sometimes your shounen with real bl in it is not as fic-tivating as your shounen with no yaoi in it >its litr the >You have real bl, we don’t have to write bl for you
>like I like sgst i really do its truly a ship that makes me feel [indescribable emotion] but it’s also like Dawg what more can I say … Canon has it covered That was a full Bl That was really our bl subplot in the battle shounen
>i feel like I should technically like tojigo but i dont think i do… [asexual flag emoji] [kaneki penguin] [cruxification emoji]
>>well gojo is literally the father that stepped up even
>>kinda
>i think gojo hair ranking is short bangs > pushed back > long bangs > spikey stack
>gojo/utahime is truly one of the ships of all time like first of all there, Shoko is there and finds him just as annoying .
>[re: dubcon fic] This is from like 2022 but i felt like gojo’s story/esp getogojo is so much about how being the strongest does not offer him any aort of control at all ESPECIALLY when it comes to geto so this just felt sort of antithetical to what I think their rs represents/is like
>[re: juuchan] they have a really charming geto/gojo overall which I enjoy … i like the geto is the one in rational control v gojo is driven by id/libido/passion and that’s a weird stalemate
bc I think people sort of latch onto geto’s insecurities as a src of his complicated fucked up incel mental state but I also enjoy the unevenness of guy you would pick over everyone v guy who never chose youuu
>but juuchan's dynamic of >horny insatiable slut and >in control providing dom is litr […] hmmm
>
I really do think that’s sort of more real but also not exactly it… but also idgaf about geto outside of being a device to torture gojo with so i really cant say…
>until like 1 week ago I didn’t know what the pain slut tag meant but by perusing ao3 and also reading horny meta I do have to agree
>like that makes sense to me. i do think it’s true probably.
>like getting knifed down by toji was the single most bodily defining moment in gojo’s life trueeee
>like there genuinely are truly so many horny things that could be said about gojo and most of them of them are true.
>anyway gojo0 no switch no reverse even if he is a pretty boy top and is capable of topping i just don’t think he wants to
>i actually also did not know so many people wanted gojo tiny pussy and i am not unopposed I just think big dick gojo that gets no action is so cute
>I rhink gojo really is such a great horny character porn vehicle Like he is TO ME sooo #MadonnaWhore realised and idealised where the wombo combo of shamelessness + desperation is fully believable
>Like sometimes u have to work hard on both the repression front and the #enjoyingthehumiliation front to make ur typically chaste whores feel sexy and complete but gojo really be doing having the built in repression and degradation kink that can be accessed easily no problem… so in the end… Thank You Toji?
>like I like really repressed characters obviously thats my favourite kind but sometimes readinf sex about them is sooo nails on chalkboard bc no one is doing any of the narrative work to make it seem theyre secretly enjoying this and I don’t particularly like rape/noncon bc it can be so scary for that reason…
>but its true that gojo is actually only physically repressed and not like psychologically repressed which is adding to sexiness probably like idk I guess I get the appeal of top gojo and its not like I cant see it but its unsatisfying for meeee bc of the lack of role reversal Which is crazy bc I usually hate role reversal but here role reversal is good bc its true that gojo actually doesn’t want to be the strongest
>Idk in the end I really just want to give every character what they want so
[what if i was a guy haunted by my first love and you were a guy haunted by your first love and together we were in cuckhold4cuckhold beholden to curses ship of all time]
>in fhe end makiyuuta kind of myyyy perfect ship in many ways i love stoic girl who is a boy x gloomy boy who’s a girl>and i don’t even think it cancels out the maki twincest or anythint >like both are true
>I think the fact that both of them are haunted by their first loves is also the most beautiful thing in the world again
>Or i just feel nothing horny about megumi on the ofher hand i need makiyuuta 74243 situation rn
>being cursed by an evil possessive girl who is only selfless moment is her very last act where she bequeaths her entire existence to you >>> gg
>yuuta is so cute
>not only did I already like yuutamaki but I also already like makimai and yutarika andddd litr from 2020 one of my dw draft has >mai becomes maki’s cursed swore >So i always knew
>well actually one of my og ships was also maki/megumi but that’s just normal bc i love twincest
>[maki being called a monster panel] ohhhh you’re everything to me ya toxic bad boy love interest maki…
>okay every jjk fan who is like ‘yuutamaki came out of nowhere’ literally were reading with their eyes shut lowkey bc ever since they both came back nearly every single appearance has them either talking to each other or in each other’s proximity
>which sure, does not a romance make. But also you’re reading (1) a shounen manga (2) one as poorly written as jjk
>but also something so beautiful wnd delicious about a guy who cannot sense any cursed energy at all vs a guy who is reeking so much of curse energy and being Haunted and Doom that everyone gets the heebie jeebies near him… [olivia wilde head shaking nod gif]
>and the most lines she gets during one of their planning stages is saying ‘yuta don’t kill yourself’ except she is saying everything but those words… which… yeah
>i love guy who can only say the wrong extremely mean thing vs guy who is built like soft firm tofu and just taking it completely at face value and with so much love and passivity in their heart
>yuta beinf definitionally the Monsterfucker and never ever letting up on being the Monsterfucker and he lowkey carried more than gojo did anddd he’s SOOOO POLITE AND CUTE!!! chewing biting gnawing eating his head off
>Allegedly there are 3 kisses in jjk, two of them are yuuta with cursed spirits and the last one is makimaiiii… WHO ELSE CHEEREDDD
>no way that maki strongest weapon user of all time and yuta the guy who always making up for his physical inability with his endless cursed energy arent each other’s default sparring partners
>yuta is such a cute girl
>kind of no words for how much I’d blow up the world over uhhhh
>groomed by cursed spirit of his 10 yr old ex girlfriend
>literally only knows how to live self-sacrificially and is kind of quite literally the eldest daughter who is making all the same mistakes/sacrifices as her mom while her mom doesn’t see her at all
>IS SOOOO POLITE… litr the cutest most unbelievable gapmoe trait of all time is guy who is so scary and so gloomy being so so sooooo polite… also a beautiful pushover puppy people pleaser type…
>he was made to be railed into a mattress i can tell you that. everyone on ao3 is like convinced of yuta’s ‘secret dark side’ he doesn’t have that. like we probably could’ve had like 3-8 different yuta secret dark/intense side reveals but instead we keep getting shown a dude who is extremely cool-headed all the time and is highly competent and otherwise is weirdly lax about kissing monsters.
>um litr they made yuta to make me want to kill myself with the moebomb vat… [indescrible emojis] and they gave him built in sexy bara stoic cold guy top [more indescribable emojis]
>but everyone on ao3 is convinced maki is a y/n nothing girl to carry their fantasies forward and not an extremely sexy cold heartless The Killer Masc
>but she is litr the killer its true we saw that happen ij real time
>Who is in love with her sister btw. who lost the ability to have a heart when her sister died. like this is also like cuckhold4cuckhold ship WHICH IS ALSO SO EBAUTIFUL TO MEEEEE
>also i don’t want to do this but I need to argue for maki whump rights and if anyone should be terrorised with naoya well… she was litr right there
>‘Maki whump rights’ dawg her entire life was also toji 2.0
>The mascificatiom also btw was really crazy bc she did go from long hair preppy jock girl to TojiClone
>litr so fucked up that sometimes being a woman will make it so people will ignore that you are the reincarnation of this sexist guy’s biggest complex like i don’t want to get into it but truly maki was born on this earth to ruin naoya’s life
>wow… theres something actually so so romantic about truly being the daughter of your mother
>if maki is toji reincarnated without any shame or reflection just pure Reccurence then yuta is seriously seeing all of gojo’s struggles and flaws and comparing himself against their shape while being totally overlooked by gojo himself [:weibocrylaugh:] whoever said eldest daughter yuta okkotsu really did get it
>[about yuta] everyone point and laugh at me for giving into the evil id when they put a perfect victim in front of me
>>i was like is makiyuuta really not popular and i looked it up and why does makiyuuta have <1k works when INUMAKIYUUTA HAS 2.6K?
>uhh wombo combo of
>everyone wants yuta to top that twink
>yuta is a nothing y/n self-insert with no character. just like toge.l actually. but its crazy bc yuta and maki both actually have characters and backstory so like what’s happening here
>Gay ship winning over het
>which is so crazy bc yuuta’s main ship should litr be rika/yuuta like that is litr the only canon cp we have genuinely
>and its a het thats even better because of curse form even….
>though one of gege akutami’s funniest moves was giving a 10 year the most twisted psychological profile on earth
>like if rika had lived and was a sorcerer she couldve 1v1’d kenjaku
>>yuuta kiss with monster rika in jjk0... [olivia wilde nodding gif]
>no I’m sayinng like
>wears her ring all the time and even before he wore it on his finger he wore it as a necklace
>an extremely adoring yandere cursed spirit who he treats with the same amount of love and affection back … genuinely kind of insane that he sees her kill 289292 people and sees her be gross looking and still is like ‘i would never hate you’ and kisses her
> no reason at all to be so nice and gentle and delicate with curse he has total control over but that terror is litr getting the princess treatment always + domain is litr called ‘pure love’ alright man we get it
>>LITERALLY THE MOST ROMANTIC STORY IN THE WORLD TO MEEEE
>>its genuinely so romantic and fairytaleesque to me idk [rainbow jokebear] although i know there are like 90000000 guys any given time going his love for rika isnt ROMANTIC [eyeroll emoji] it is romantic to meeeeee
>its litr romantic
>Like what do u mean its not romantic
>like he’s not in love with a 10 yr old girl but he does genuinely love whatever form her soul takes cmon now guys
>yutarika stocks have always been a given. To Me. but I also locked into makiyuta stocks bc Im a fucking real one That’s my students 2pick who tf do u think i am
>going thru yutamaki tag like
>she wouldnt fucking say that
>she wouldnt fuckinf do that
>cmon man cmon guys
>I feel like people write het with ‘strong badass female characters’ sort of to ‘allow’ them to engage in their vulnerability beyond the tough shell but it comes off sexist rather than depthful
>like maki straight up doesn’t give a shit about her burn scars and yeah that could change but I don’t need a fic about her being insecure over them when she’s never had any sort of problem or complex about her looks
>[yuta pic attached] genuinely my gongeous gongeous girl… has all design quirks I enjoy
>big eyes + dark circles
>prey animal af
>really cutieful hair style
>big top [[read however you want]]
>And he’s never going to look this cute and harmless in canon ever again because after gege’s like >He’s going to creepy doll max. he’s going to corpsemaxx. he’s going to become the weird horror movie kid thats Looming in the corner ...
>but it's okay because his haunted doll arc is also cutieful and slay to meeeeee...
>I do think yuta and maki pt2 have the most slayful uniform modifications
>look I don’t care that they get married and have babies I just care about MAIKYUTA ENDGAMEEEE… ig acrually I wish they didnt have babies and yuta wasn’t a clan head but whatever
uh okay final quick speed wrap-up thoughts. in the end jjk is litr the mid-to-good media series that takes up so much brain space by imagining how it could be good. though seriously everyone go watch a radman jjk video rn like he's doing so much work to make jjk make sense and seem thematically satisfying and well thought out, though i may argue it's more on the strength and generosity of his readings than the actual text :weibocrylaugh:
EDIT: okay wait my actual closing final notes
- ANYWAY there is so much negative space left in the contour of what could've been the maki/yuta relationship which is genuinely crack cocaine to my brain rn the way 夏五 were in 2021. though 夏五 is very much still there and arguably is so much of the foundation of what so much of the plot of jjk and it's emotional core sort of rest on, icb it's a real thing we have to keep grappling with FOUR YEARS LATERRR... so no one's ever going to do it like fujoshi akutami ever agan... if I write anything it's probably going to be makiyuta but if i end up back in those fucking 夏五 mines well that's no one's business and it checks out. though canon did also convince me into sukugo though i cannot figure out how it might work. anyway I might update or follow up with this post bc i swear I had more thoughts about everything but it's fineeeee..
- i think JJK literally has so much unsatisfying character writing, even with gojo because the fucking time skip between nov19 to dec24 should've Technically given everyone so much time to have moments and #bonding with one another, like what I wouldn't give to see gojo react to maki being toji2 but gege akutami dgaf... on top of that megumi litr theeee MOSTTTT potential Man of all time like not a single technique or lick of development for him, why was he damsel'd and dropped in the last hour? who cares. and it's specifically because of the lack of focus/attention/substance given to ALL of these characters that I can't even be that mad about maki's writing, because she did get More [and I genuinely do mean this Fr] in despite also getting sexistly pinhole'd at the very very end... like obviously everything was rushed but in the same way her last few interactions only circled around yuta, like yuta's own actions/thoughts/etc only circled around gojo! and you literally have to read jjk0 to understand why!!! [...] IDKKKKK I still think maki<>toji is really really good and maki's character arc and realisation into becoming a deadbeat is awesome. TO ME. i just wish other people also read it that way. like the feminism there was litr #WomenInMaleDominatedFields but taken to the max possible. in the end i am trying to say that everyone's writing was Bad and i wish it was betterrrr... but fanfiction will save me....
- also I did think sukuna v gojo was really good but the battle really stopped being anything in the pt2 where Everyone was queuing up to get sukuna but my bad maybe watching a radman video will fix me...
- for a guy who really cared about #NOBA_COME_HOME... least satisfying return in the world. i'm sending that shit back. i did find the letters to the first yrs sooo cute though esp gojo's one to megumi... like wow what an asshole.
