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Can't wait for Todo to become Liquid Ocelot.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Can't wait for Todo to become Liquid Ocelot. Well he does scream "Brothah!!!" a lot
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Oct 20, 2023 20:27
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I admit my mental voice for Todo is Macho Man Randy Savage.
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Oct 20, 2023 20:31
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Brought To You By posted:You joke, but the story did establish that Todo can still use Boogie Woogie so long as he can make his hand touch another hand. I'm not saying she doesn't need her own hands. But Todo does have a classmate that can put stuff in stasis and I assume this also stops decomposition. He could definitely be rocking a new hand next time we see him. I don't think so actually? He doesn't need his own hand, he used Boogie Woogie by slapping Mahito's hand once. But by touching Mahito then, his soul was transformed in such a matter that Boogie Woogie was killed and now it's just gone. At least that's how I interpreted it.
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Oct 20, 2023 20:52
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cgfreak posted:I don't think so actually? He doesn't need his own hand, he used Boogie Woogie by slapping Mahito's hand once. But by touching Mahito then, his soul was transformed in such a matter that Boogie Woogie was killed and now it's just gone. At least that's how I interpreted it.
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Oct 20, 2023 20:59
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I thought choso was just imagining an alternate reality where the tragedy didn't happen and all his brothers lived together peacefully. Doesn't seem that deep
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Oct 20, 2023 21:00
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LMAO that even in Choso's delusion his other brothers are still just fetuses in jars
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Oct 20, 2023 23:29
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Brought To You By posted:You joke, but the story did establish that Todo can still use Boogie Woogie so long as he can make his hand touch another hand. I'm not saying she doesn't need her own hands. But Todo does have a classmate that can put stuff in stasis and I assume this also stops decomposition. He could definitely be rocking a new hand next time we see him. Todo comes back with the hand sword that one sorceror had and it counts by the rules of Jujutsu
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Oct 20, 2023 23:41
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:I thought choso was just imagining an alternate reality where the tragedy didn't happen and all his brothers lived together peacefully. Doesn't seem that deep Sukuna reacts to the memory ocurring, he see's it happening and is surprised by it. It's definitely more than just that and in an interview with Gege, they actually bleeped out the part where he explains it, because it was such a large spoiler for the story.
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Oct 20, 2023 23:59
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I fully expect that the whole choso/todo deal is going to tie in to the whole thing about Sukuna not caring about love or connection with a reveal that Itadori actually did have a CT that was dormant, one people didn’t recognize because it’s deeply antithetical to the kill or be killed ethos of jujutsu society, that he can use and be empowered by the connections he makes and the positive energy generated from them, and he can turn even the most tenuous of connections into unbreakable bonds. In other words, he’s going to literally beat Sukuna’s rear end with the power of friendship and brotherly love
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Oct 21, 2023 00:07
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Gologle posted:LMAO that even in Choso's delusion his other brothers are still just fetuses in jars It’s the only form they ever had.
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Oct 21, 2023 00:36
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Asuron posted:Sukuna reacts to the memory ocurring, he see's it happening and is surprised by it. It's definitely more than just that and in an interview with Gege, they actually bleeped out the part where he explains it, because it was such a large spoiler for the story. No Gege just said the memory thing was not a Yuji ability or anything of the kind. The part that got bleeped out was when he stated what Sukuna was interested in Megumi for.
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Oct 21, 2023 00:40
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jujutsu society and the structure of the entire system is the way it is probably because it was engineered to be this way 1.000 years ago by Tengan and friends. Kenjaku, Angel, and Sukuna were likely involved too and apart of the same organization since they seem to know each other. It’s been preserved and maintained by Tengan which is why Kenjaku and Yuki said not to trust her. It’s why Japan is the only country in the world where cursed energy and spirits are so potent. We don’t know for what purpose it’s for, but it’s a cruel and tyrannical system that rewards selfishness and punishes those who value lives other than their own. The end result of such a system is a being like Sukuna. He is “enlightened” because he knows the truth of the system and thrives in it. The theme of the new wave overturning the old and corrupt is prevalent throughout and it’s especially notable with Gojo’s death. Gojo’s role in the story is to be a teacher, which goes along with all the Buddha references. He’s a lovely teacher because he can’t explain anything, but he teaches by example. He’s meant to be the best of us, someone born with everything: ingenuity, strength, skill, an op technique, and an innate genetic advantage through the 6 eyes. But he is still merely an individual. His loss to Sukuna was foretold because an individual cannot dismantle a system. Sukuna is a 1,000 year old monster, armed with institutional knowledge and experience, along with all the treasures he’s stolen and accumulated from others. He’s a vampire that literally stole everything from Megumi, who isn’t even a legal adult. We’re probably going to see Hakari/Higuruma pull some wacky domain stuff and something RCT-cursed technique related from Yuta that learned from Gojo’s fight. I guess the real message of that fight was it takes more than one person, no matter how exceptional, to dismantle the system. That’s my head canon anyways, maybe we’ll cut back to the fight and the entire gang will be just legs
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Oct 21, 2023 00:57
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So your theory is word for word this reddit post? https://www.reddit.com/r/Jujutsushi/comments/17ckk6v/the_problem_was_always_systemic/
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Oct 21, 2023 06:06
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Shinjobi posted:I liked the theory someone floated that grandpa accidentally cursed him when told him to be surrounded by friends when he's on his deathbed. It would be the weirdest swerve but it cracks me up too much to turn down completely. Sukuna fled Yuuji without killing him because extended physical proximity to Yuuji makes you view him as a friend/brother (he was just immune to this while inside Yuuji)
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Oct 21, 2023 06:26
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Regarding Yuji and Choso. I don't remember in the manga, but the anime explicitly shows their blood commingling on the ground. I think Choso sensed their kinship immediately then and his mind went haywire from the implications.
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scaterry posted:So your theory is word for word this reddit post? Considering that Redditor has the same exact opinions as Yum, it's probably literally the same person as the goon here.
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that’s me. i’m the redditor. pls don’t make fun of me edit: I don’t think i need to justify why i use reddit (brainworms) but I specifically posted that there because I just wanted to throw the systemic angle out there. No one really talks about the bigger picture, so hopefully my post encourages someone else to dive deeper. From a meta perspective, if Gege’s entire message was that enlightenment meant being a selfish rear end in a top hat and everyone should be like Sukuna, then JJK probably wouldn’t be allowed to be published in SJ. Clearly the underlying theme is that the system is at fault for uplifting such an individual. yum fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Oct 21, 2023 |
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Oct 21, 2023 10:12
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Interesting thoughts. For the record, at least one translation specifically mentions Angel was a part of some force Sukuna defeated in the Heian era during a recent chapter (can't remember which exactly). So they know each other because they were contemporaries, doubtful they specifically collaborated though. Just a detail I remembered, theory is cool though
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Oct 21, 2023 11:50
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Official Release https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/jujutsu-kaisen-chapter-239/chapter/40539?action=read
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My Parade of One Thousand Demons Will Drain All Your Cursed Energy, Draw and Quarter You and Teleport You Into the Sea vs. No They Won't
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Oct 22, 2023 18:02
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potential for the dumbest fight in the whole series, can't wait
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Oct 22, 2023 18:26
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Jon Irenicus posted:potential for the dumbest fight in the whole series, can't wait Dumb Fight would be Comedy Man Vs Pachinko. Which I would admittedly enjoy reading.
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Oxxidation posted:My Parade of One Thousand Demons Will Drain All Your Cursed Energy, Draw and Quarter You and Teleport You Into the Sea vs. No They Won't  Reminder that this comedian could 1v1 Satoru Gojo as a joke and win.
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also the only circumstances, but that doesn't make your post untrue
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Oct 23, 2023 05:09
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I know the official translation is generally terrible but this week it was particularly egregious...
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Lily Catts posted:I know the official translation is generally terrible but this week it was particularly egregious... It makes me hesitant to buy the physical volumes because it's so distracting   Like this inconsistency from the previous chapter, what was the decision-making behind localizing 'Kamutoke' as 'Supreme Martial Solution,' but retaining 'Hiken' in its original form?
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Oct 23, 2023 10:15
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It's all according to keikaku
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yum posted:Like this inconsistency from the previous chapter, what was the decision-making behind localizing 'Kamutoke' as 'Supreme Martial Solution,' but retaining 'Hiken' in its original form? I'm given to understand some of examples of weird translation are an insistence from the Japanese side.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I fully expect that the whole choso/todo deal is going to tie in to the whole thing about Sukuna not caring about love or connection with a reveal that Itadori actually did have a CT that was dormant, one people didn’t recognize because it’s deeply antithetical to the kill or be killed ethos of jujutsu society, that he can use and be empowered by the connections he makes and the positive energy generated from them, and he can turn even the most tenuous of connections into unbreakable bonds. The darker side of this is this all figures into Kenjaku's insane plan to merge everyone in Japan into Tengen. We get clues that Kenjaku basically engineered Yuji's existence but still don't know why. A CT that creates 'connections', amplified, could be the vector for that plan. Or maybe the counterbalance to it, Yuji being some sort of new/different Star Vessel. usenet celeb 1992 fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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I mean if we're talking dark here: does Kenjaku pull off their plan and nearly everyone dies? there's also the question of do the other countries go full crazy and start attacking everyone in what's left of japan? this is a manga where I could see us getting the bad ending
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:I mean if we're talking dark here: does Kenjaku pull off their plan and nearly everyone dies? there's also the question of do the other countries go full crazy and start attacking everyone in what's left of japan? this is a manga where I could see us getting the bad ending
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watching the (excellent) s2 of the anime, the religious group that hired Toji is probably founded by Kenjaku since the founder tells Toji and the mediator that their religion has literally the exact same goal: to merge with Tengan. He also mentions it was founded in the Nara period which is ~200 years after the Heian era, so Kenjaku had this dream in mind for a while now. I like the theory of Yuji being made from Sukuna’s missing 20th finger. We know Kenjaku had all 20 fingers at one point and he was also purposefully placing them in areas where Yuji would encounter them. We’re still missing the background on why Kenny selected the Itadori bloodline though, since Kaori is from outside the family and Jin didn’t seem to want to be with anyone else. Where did Yuji learn that ancient martial art from anyways?
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Unrelated to the current conversation but it just popped into my head, bro what was up with megumi sukuna getting a weird giant gross tiki head to bite Angel??? He is otherwise totally normal but then transforms his head to become giant somehow? Despite transformation to his cursed state apparently being a one time thing and not featuring a weird tiki head? random...
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Funniest drat thing I've ever seen
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yum posted:watching the (excellent) s2 of the anime, the religious group that hired Toji is probably founded by Kenjaku since the founder tells Toji and the mediator that their religion has literally the exact same goal: to merge with Tengan. He also mentions it was founded in the Nara period which is ~200 years after the Heian era, so Kenjaku had this dream in mind for a while now. I don’t buy the finger thing. I think it’s off somewhere, and will be used against sukuna at some point. Considering the amount of times “twins are a bad omen” comes up, I think Kenjaku made/incarnated/whatever Sukuna’s twin. Yuji is possibly the reincarnated soul of Sukunas twin. Sukuna probably ate his twin, and maybe even in the womb (since Yuji is some form of cursed womb). Them being a twin means some sort of heavenly binding vow associated with him or something. There’s a lot of hints that suggest this could be true. The fact that Yuji is uniquely qualified to manage sukuna; Yuji’s similarity to Maki being stronger physically without cursed technique; obviously the physical similarities from past-era sukuna; Sukunas weird body and double of everything... I think the Itadori line was chosen by Kenjaku because they are likely certainly descendants of the same line Sukuna comes from. This also could be a solid way to power up Yuji for the finale without it being too much of a power-of-friendship-rear end-pull. I guess in theory, Yuji being the 20th finger and my theory could both be true though. Bread Set Jettison fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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Bread Set Jettison posted:I don’t buy the finger thing. I think it’s off somewhere, and will be used against sukuna at some point. I like this theory too! The topic of twins will definitely come up again, as well as something connecting to Panda’s whole thing of being a vessel for multiple souls edit: one version of the Sukuna urban legend has Sukuna consuming his twin, who was physically, mentally gifted, and had a sheltered and rich upbringing vs Sukuna’s crippled and shunned existence. On the subject of connections, that’d make him Sukuna’s most hated person, so the twin theory would be one way to emotionally tie Sukuna to Yuji. yum fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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it would be weird if twice in the manga a character almost killed the MC but then suddenly had new impossible memories of them being besties, and it was just a coincidence and didn't mean anything. it's not a normal thing to happen once let alone twice
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Jerkface posted:Unrelated to the current conversation but it just popped into my head, bro what was up with megumi sukuna getting a weird giant gross tiki head to bite Angel??? He is otherwise totally normal but then transforms his head to become giant somehow? Despite transformation to his cursed state apparently being a one time thing and not featuring a weird tiki head? I assume Sukuna can shape his soul and therefore shape his body.
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