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Todou has powerful nen user energy. He fights by thinking really quickly about the specifics of his opponent's power, obviously. But the way his ability is so basic is used as a strength by saying how it works, that being a lie and bluffing over how he COULD use and and when he does what exactly he'll do is so fun for me to watch. He's the best.
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Personally, I'm hoping that plant guy is actually dead. Having a villain talk about a special secret technique and then die before they can use it is too funny to pass up.
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Feb 27, 2021 13:44
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Shadowboxing in the air along with our heroes' every hit landing on the bad guy, hooting and hollering and having a good time
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Rohan Kishibe posted:Todou has powerful nen user energy. He fights by thinking really quickly about the specifics of his opponent's power, obviously. But the way his ability is so basic is used as a strength by saying how it works, that being a lie and bluffing over how he COULD use and and when he does what exactly he'll do is so fun for me to watch. He's the best. I'm pretty sure Akutani (the mangaka behind this) has outright stated that Hunter x Hunter is a big, if not the biggest, of his inspirations, so that's absolutely deliberate. Akutani's love for HxH shows in a lot too, except, and thank god for it, its release schedule. Also while we can point out how beautiful every battle is forever (and rightfully so), I have to bring attention to how weirdly inhuman Gojo looks. I love it. Like, his weird eyes and extremely long eyelashes give this mystical, otherwordly look that MAPPA perfectly nailed. Here's an anime-manga comparison I coincidentally just found, god I really like the anime take on it a lot, like it's a straight adaptation but it works incredibly well https://twitter.com/JJKPerfectShots/status/1365348601589825537 Blaze Dragon fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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Feb 27, 2021 14:31
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Feb 27, 2021 14:47
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I read a quote somewhere that the anime staff were told "Gojo has the sky in his eyes" and that's how they interpreted it
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Feb 27, 2021 16:27
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Jujutsu Kaisen is one of the most slyly self-aware shonen I've ever read. It's like every little formulaic frustration I have with the genre was something the author noticed, and felt the same way about. The protagonists are happy to gang up or ambush opponents; the rear end in a top hat faction of social conservatives are actually villains as such; having a demonic other half that you can call on for power is actually a really bad idea, etc. Is the heroes 2-on-1-ing opponents really that unusual? It feels like in a lot of shonen, the real reason the good guys win is because the (named) good guys outnumber the (named) bad guys. This is especially true in Naruto and Demon Slayer, for instance.
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Feb 27, 2021 16:44
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Silver2195 posted:Is the heroes 2-on-1-ing opponents really that unusual? It feels like in a lot of shonen, the real reason the good guys win is because the (named) good guys outnumber the (named) bad guys. This is especially true in Naruto and Demon Slayer, for instance. look i'm just traumatized by Bleach, okay
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Feb 27, 2021 16:49
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Am I the only one who dislikes Gojou as a plot device? Having one of the good guys be by far the most powerful character gets old fast. I assume the show is building up to some kind of "we're hosed now" moment when the villains find a way to take him out of play for more than an episode, hopefully sooner rather than later.
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Feb 27, 2021 17:05
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Hallucinogenic Toreador posted:Am I the only one who dislikes Gojou as a plot device? Having one of the good guys be by far the most powerful character gets old fast. I assume the show is building up to some kind of "we're hosed now" moment when the villains find a way to take him out of play for more than an episode, hopefully sooner rather than later.
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I actually really like how they handle Gojou. In a lot of shows there's this impression that the mentor figure is powerful, but you end up with them getting beaten and the heroes step up and it makes the mentor kind of look like a chump despite the hype, or you run into the problem of wondering why the gently caress the old man didn't just break the main villain over his knees rather than letting him kill half the cast first. I also like that Gojou is the top dog because it feels like in every show the best dude around is always some ancient old guy who is really entrenched in the status quo and Gojou being this young, transcendental Goku type while also having motive to upset the established authority is refreshing in shounen. It's nice how everyone knows what a tank he is too. The old guy's first instinct on Gojou showing up to his fight is to yell at him not to kill the guy. He knows the fight is over. I mean, obviously they'll need to sideline him or something eventually because this is Yuji's story but this is like the second time he's actually done something. If I had to guess he's got, at most, one more rear end kicking before he's banished to the spirit realm or sent off to kill a spirit in Australia or something. It's fun having the villains be on the back foot too.
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Its already been set up what the villain plan for Gojo is (special grade Prison Realm object) just a matter of when and how. This event was just a cover to steal a Finger.
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Feb 27, 2021 18:21
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It's the same plot device as All-Might from My Hero Academia. Have this OP character at the start to set the tone and world build in safety, then remove said character for instant stakes upping. It's just a matter of when Chekov's Gojou removing device comes into play.
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Feb 27, 2021 18:37
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I just like that they don't conjure stronger people than Gojo out of nowhere. Gojo is in fact, probably the strongest character in the series short of full-power Sukuna. Also I like that technique reigns supreme- in terms of raw power the Disaster Curses are actually head and shoulders above probably 90% of the characters in the series. This includes the special-grade sorcerers like the faculty/staff who aren't Gojo- the kids are all way, way out of their league here and the only reason a bunch of them aren't dead is because Hanami is basically the group tank for the Disaster Curses and his technique lacks bullshit death-touch mechanics or AoE effects that must be countered with domains or techniques specifically suited for it to avoid instantly dying. Most of the faculty here that aren't Gojo would probably die in a 1v1 against any of the disaster curses- they probably just wouldn't die instantly.
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I started the manga for this and fell off. Probably because I was reading Chainsaw man at the same time. After seeing the hype in this thread for the anime I’m back in. The anime is already past the point I got to in the manga. I’m sticking to the anime for now and loving it so much. We may never get HxH back but I’m glad we have this at least. Thank you for hyping it up, everyone!
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Fabricated posted:his technique lacks bullshit death-touch mechanics or AoE effects that must be countered with domains or techniques specifically suited for it to avoid instantly dying. Hanami was about to use Domain expansion would would have caused his stuff to pretty much be instant death.
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Feb 27, 2021 21:16
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MonsterEnvy posted:Hanami was about to use Domain expansion would would have caused his stuff to pretty much be instant death.
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Fabricated posted:Jougo or Mahito have a lot more means to instagib people without domain expansion. Oh of course. But the second domains are used it's pretty much over for 99% of sorcerers.
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Specifically Akutami listed Hunter X Hunter, Naruto, Bleach, One Punch Man and...Evangelion as his inspirations for JJK
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MonsterEnvy posted:Oh of course. But the second domains are used it's pretty much over for 99% of sorcerers. Oddly enough, useless Miwa isn't one of them. Unlike most sorcerers, she can make her own domain to counter the effects. She'd still probably get her rear end kicked because, you know, Miwa, but hey. It's something. (And even if her hero Gojo can't remember her name, he likes her well enough. Good for Miwa.)
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chiasaur11 posted:Oddly enough, useless Miwa isn't one of them. Unlike most sorcerers, she can make her own domain to counter the effects. I thought a domain only countered another domain if it was stronger than the first?
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Chaotic Flame posted:I thought a domain only countered another domain if it was stronger than the first? It might be like veils where the simpler and more specific it is, the more efficient it is. Could be that Miwa's is so straightforwards and simple that it might overpower a stronger, but more complex domain. Blockhouse posted:...Evangelion as his inspirations for JJK Final season spoilers: 
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Chaotic Flame posted:I thought a domain only countered another domain if it was stronger than the first? I don’t think Simple domain can’t be outright overwhelmed by a stronger domain, but all it does is pretty much create a safe zone in it where you won’t get guaranteed hit.
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MonsterEnvy posted:I don’t think Simple domain can’t be outright overwhelmed by a stronger domain, but all it does is pretty much create a safe zone in it where you won’t get guaranteed hit. It does also let you autohit just like any other domain, which is quite nice. Regarding Gojou, I guess the other thing about him is that jujutsu practitioners draw power from curses. Having power means that you are cursed, that you become a curse on the world yourself, or both. So what the gently caress has he got hanging over him that lets him be so stupidly powerful as a fair trade?
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I have nothing to back this up but I feel like Gojo is secretly not a good guy.
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Darth Walrus posted:It does also let you autohit just like any other domain, which is quite nice. Slight spoilers The moment he was born all curses became stronger to make up for the power imbalance
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chiasaur11 posted:Oddly enough, useless Miwa isn't one of them. Unlike most sorcerers, she can make her own domain to counter the effects. That and it still has the limitation that it dispels if the user moves away from the activation site.
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kirtar posted:That and it still has the limitation that it dispels if the user moves away from the activation site. It dispels if the user takes a foot off the ground.
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Try to keep manga spoiler talk to a minimum (I am aware that between where the anime is at rn and where the manga is there are like 3 arcs, with one of them being big enough to take a whole 2-cour by itself apparently), but this:MonsterEnvy posted:Slight spoilers 
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I've rewatched the last part of the last ep like 10 times. The soundtrack is so loving hype, I love this show.
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Speaking of the manga, I do have to wonder when/if they're going to adapt Volume 0. The character from it doesn't show up for quite a while in the story but they put him in the second OP so?
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muscles like this! posted:Speaking of the manga, I do have to wonder when/if they're going to adapt Volume 0. The character from it doesn't show up for quite a while in the story but they put him in the second OP so? We have four episodes left so if it gets adapted, it won't be now. I imagine it'd be a good one to start next season or maybe as an OVA with the bluray release.
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I started a thread for the manga: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3960719
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Baseball.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Baseball.
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Oh! That's A...
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I love that the little profiles Say that Mai stole Miwa's Mango
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Wants to punch a zebra someday Hahahaha, Todo’s is the best
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"Todo, everyone really hates you!" I could not stop laughing the entire time the dude was up to bat.
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Omnicrom posted:"Todo, everyone really hates you!" Nice pitch!  All the profile factoids were great. And Gojou not stepping on the ants was a great touch. I half expected Itadori's hit to go foul. It would've matched the tone of the game a lot better.
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