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I mean to be honest they had plans. They had a bunch of plans. Sukuna has survived like 3-4 "this would absolutely 100% for sure loving kill anyone else out there" situations. That is why people are getting frustrated because the groups aren't just going in and dying randomly, they have plan after plan after plan and Sukuna just nosells things or gets out on a previously unestablished rule or whatever.
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rkd_ posted:https://twitter.com/enushi_saba/status/1771101072649498949 this is very sad
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What plan would you have for Sukuna really? Dude’s a walking god and he doesn’t have any obvious weaknesses like kryptonite or whatever. Pretty sure the fight would be a gigantic meat grinder no matter what the “plan” was
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CharlestonJew posted:What plan would you have for Sukuna really? Dude’s a walking god and he doesn’t have any obvious weaknesses like kryptonite or whatever. Pretty sure the fight would be a gigantic meat grinder no matter what the “plan” was I mean they had a lot of great ones. Judgeman, Maki stabbing his rear end from behind in secret, Yuji getting through to Megumi, all of those could have won the day on their own, Gojo wearing him down to nothing, etc. He's insanely strong but he isn't a god.
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rkd_ posted:https://twitter.com/enushi_saba/status/1771101072649498949 Not that I completely disagree but who is this person and why should I care about their opinion in particular.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Not that I completely disagree but who is this person and why should I care about their opinion in particular. According to their bio they are "Otaku Scum", I think the point of posting that is that japanese fans can be seemingly as frustrated at these developments as foreign ones
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CharlestonJew posted:What plan would you have for Sukuna really? Dude’s a walking god and he doesn’t have any obvious weaknesses like kryptonite or whatever. Pretty sure the fight would be a gigantic meat grinder no matter what the “plan” was buggy the clown could beat him
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Mar 25, 2024 20:22
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i like the current arc. it's great.
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Jerkface posted:According to their bio they are "Otaku Scum", I think the point of posting that is that japanese fans can be seemingly as frustrated at these developments as foreign ones so rkd is so desperate for validation that they’re fishing up Twitter takes from overseas Oh Snapple! posted:this is very sad
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rkd_ posted:https://twitter.com/enushi_saba/status/1771101072649498949 Thanks for the random Twitter opinion but have you considered this one? https://twitter.com/sharkflan/status/1771226416064971165?t=KqIK4F4GH3b_pRZK__7P9g&s=19
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Not that I completely disagree but who is this person and why should I care about their opinion in particular. You shouldn't care about their opinion, but I do think it's interesting that part of the Japanese audience feels the same way, especially since criticism here is sometimes blamed on a misunderstanding or ignorance of Japanese culture. The same sentiment is also echoed on several Japanese forums, and the tweet also got a considerable amount of likes (whatever that's worth). Oxxidation posted:so rkd is so desperate for validation that they’re fishing up Twitter takes from overseas I saw the tweet discussed in an article and thought it was interesting. If I needed validation there's plenty in this thread already, but if you like the current arc then more power to you.
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How did that get to 11 million views?
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No Wave posted:How did that get to 11 million views? Twitter's interaction and viewing numbers are profoundly hosed and not really representative of its reach these days.
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I know everyone is tired of "grr Musk Man bad" but the engagement bait on Twitter is truly out of control since they let people buy visibility boosters and stopped banning bot accounts. Reminder that there's a setting to hide if you bought Twitter Blue. mycot fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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This really is the Freeza fight all over again, with the heroes coming up with plan after plan against a single overwhelming foe only for the villain no sell them by pulling powerup after powerup out of his arse. But DBZ fans are way more used to sudden asspulls compared JJK fans.
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2 interesting quote tweets of that posted tweet from japanese fans One was that there can be 2 potential types of these shounen manga one where the author has a broad story plan and writes to follow it to a specific ending (something like One Piece or whatever where there is a clear goal) and one where the author writes what they like at the time without a real ending in mind (they put HxH and JJK in this category) - and that the latter suffers the moment it becomes boring to the reader. The other was kinda to this point: golden bubble posted:This really is the Freeza fight all over again, with the heroes coming up with plan after plan against a single overwhelming foe only for the villain no sell them by pulling powerup after powerup out of his arse. But DBZ fans are way more used to sudden asspulls compared JJK fans. The tweet basically said the Gojo vs Sukuna fight was such a climax that it would be understandable for whatever comes after to not be as exciting, and what they really need is some huge narrative shift like Yuji whipping out a big power up or something to create a new climax. We're in the denouement of the gojo fight basically and it hasnt been trending up. Where is super saiyan yuji? I liked seeing the opinions of the jp fans. Jerkface fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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golden bubble posted:This really is the Freeza fight all over again, with the heroes coming up with plan after plan against a single overwhelming foe only for the villain no sell them by pulling powerup after powerup out of his arse. But DBZ fans are way more used to sudden asspulls compared JJK fans. Frieza also saved Goku for the end, which kept the viewer hoping that The Best Fighter might have something that could turn the tide (and then he went Super Saiyan and did) while this opened by killing Gojo. It's like if they just kept throwing in more Krillins to die after Goku failed.
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Jerkface posted:2 interesting quote tweets of that posted tweet from japanese fans I mean they introduced Super Saiyan Yuji, it is whatever his body swap technique is. Which I think contributes a bit to the "Just get to it already" thing because we know what's there and the plot isn't going to get resolved until Yuji swaps a body.
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ImpAtom posted:I mean they introduced Super Saiyan Yuji, it is whatever his body swap technique is. Which I think contributes a bit to the "Just get to it already" thing because we know what's there and the plot isn't going to get resolved until Yuji swaps a body. Yea but this could go on the pile of "stuff that was teased but ultimately gets ignored/doesn't matter" which this manga has built an entire graveyard ontop of right - you'd think it would have been used at any point recently here Yuji was fighting.
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it’s been Yuji fighting the whole time. He’s been body hopping between characters and ditching right before they get mulched. That explains why everyone keeps losing since Yuji’s win record for the series is completely cursed.
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Jerkface posted:Yea but this could go on the pile of "stuff that was teased but ultimately gets ignored/doesn't matter" which this manga has built an entire graveyard ontop of right - you'd think it would have been used at any point recently here Yuji was fighting. Like to be 100% honest I'm pretty sure it is behind held off because it's a suicide technique in that Yuji will swap with Megumi and then (fulfilling the prophecy of the story) he will die to take out Sukuna, and Megumi needs to be willing to get yanked out for that to work.
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ImpAtom posted:Like to be 100% honest I'm pretty sure it is behind held off because it's a suicide technique in that Yuji will swap with Megumi and then (fulfilling the prophecy of the story) he will die to take out Sukuna, and Megumi needs to be willing to get yanked out for that to work.
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ImpAtom posted:Like to be 100% honest I'm pretty sure it is behind held off because it's a suicide technique in that Yuji will swap with Megumi and then (fulfilling the prophecy of the story) he will die to take out Sukuna, and Megumi needs to be willing to get yanked out for that to work. this makes sense. they've been going down the list of abilities trying to find a way to save Megumi. Maki came in when it became obvious that wasn't going to happen. Maki was knocked away and Kusakabe stepped in. the fight itself is moving very quickly but seems slow because we are reading week to week. from the death of Gojo til now it's been what like an hour or so? it's not like Sukuna took a time out there's also the dangling thread of what Ui Ui is ultimately up to. which wraps around to a greater backup plan. I want full crazy to happen and the good guys to pull a bad guy move. start using the bodies and blood for some ritual or binding vow
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lih posted:this is just getting really silly at this point lol Glasses girl from Yuuji's occult club shows up next to face Sukuna
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:this makes sense. they've been going down the list of abilities trying to find a way to save Megumi. Maki came in when it became obvious that wasn't going to happen. Maki was knocked away and Kusakabe stepped in. the fight itself is moving very quickly but seems slow because we are reading week to week. from the death of Gojo til now it's been what like an hour or so? it's not like Sukuna took a time out Not going to lie, if Gojo came back as a Panda core it would be the only way I wouldn't think it was lame.
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ImpAtom posted:I mean to be honest they had plans. They had a bunch of plans. Sukuna has survived like 3-4 "this would absolutely 100% for sure loving kill anyone else out there" situations. That is why people are getting frustrated because the groups aren't just going in and dying randomly, they have plan after plan after plan and Sukuna just nosells things or gets out on a previously unestablished rule or whatever. Care to give examples of these previously unestablished rules?
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Conspiratiorist posted:Care to give examples of these previously unestablished rules? Judgeman confiscates a cursed tool instead of your CT first.
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Judgeman is the only sequence that has made me go bullshit. Everything else has been ranging from fine to great.
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To be fair when I hear confiscate and someone has a weapon, I normally assume the weapon will be taken first. It was explicitly something that caught them off guard cause they had not tested that situation.
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JJK has finally reached to its logical conclusion: the story has become Mortal Kombat.
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MonsterEnvy posted:To be fair when I hear confiscate and someone has a weapon, I normally assume the weapon will be taken first. It is a complication that can make sense cropping up writing wise no doubt. To your first point i would contend we were told it was CT confiscation so it's not like it was more broadly described and open to interpretation. I would also think that carrying a weapon into the court room is against the rules and it would have been taken away just on principle. The story also gave them ample time to test Judgeman. They had a genius cooking it up and like 1 million cursed tools. Though i don't think that's necessarily a writing failure but he leaves himself open to these kinds of criticisms with the way he's handling it.
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Jerkface posted:It is a complication that can make sense cropping up writing wise no doubt. To your first point i would contend we were told it was CT confiscation so it's not like it was more broadly described and open to interpretation. I would also think that carrying a weapon into the court room is against the rules and it would have been taken away just on principle. I thought Judgeman was basically a death sentence if they were found guilty? so who wants to test the theory out? as for the weapon confiscation before entering court that would have meant both defendant and accuser would lose their cursed tools. so I could see it not applying. plus there's no bailiff which is why would have done that in the first place
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:I thought Judgeman was basically a death sentence if they were found guilty? so who wants to test the theory out? Higuruma can just... not use the sword if he's testing the Domain's ins and outs.
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Higuruma can just... not use the sword if he's testing the Domain's ins and outs. right well that also assumes there's no negative effect for doing so. I think they spent their whole time trying to figure out the legalese on how to get Sukuna but not Yuji. not testing the full scope of what Judgeman would do in various scenarios fake edit: thinking on it some more Judgeman seems to have a personality and might not take kindly to its' sentence not being carried out. actual judges hate not being listened to and generally punish those that annoy them enough I R SMART LIKE ROCK fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:Didn't seem to mind Higuruma pallin' up with Yuji. Higuruma found him to actually be innocent and dispelled the technique. so why would it mind?
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They trusted Higuruma, noted jujutsu prodigy and smarty pants with an actual law degree, to know how his legalese-based Cursed Technique worked, and Higuruma himself certainly thought he knew how his legalese-based Cursed Technique worked after having used it to kill a whole bunch of people. Nobody caught the huge fundamental red flag when he told them "Judgeman just kinda does what he wants" because he framed the problem around trying to nail the right crime. He even telegraphed that the only real rule was that Judgeman would do something that'd make to sense to him, which is exactly what happened.  I thought it was pretty funny, and a callback to the advantage of inherited techniques being they come with a manual rather than needing the sorcerer to figure them out from scratch.
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