fair to say that tsumiki gets A LOT more characterisation and interactions in this version of the story. really would've been interesting to see how things would've panned out had gege stuck with it
Cant lie, this version is pretty good. What upsets me is that Gege clearly never intended to create Kugisaki. And the potential for her return further confirms to me that its not happening, as shes not important to the story at all.. Edit: yes, fellas, I read manga too. Sadly i had the misfortune of receiving reply notifications BEFORE reading the chapter, thus ruining the impact of the chapter 😐
Itadori was never supposed to be the main character is what boggles the mind. He was just meant to die to prop up Megumi... Kind of explains why Itadori feels shafted of personal development for most of the story.
@@abhinavg-----9434 I think I have a right to say then that I wasn't exactly satisfied with Yuji's utilization in the story. It did always feel like Yuji was brushed to the side and it was up to the audience to rally behind him.
it's still good writing for me. I love his goal, not the best mc or refined character for you but interesting how's gonna end his life. His goal was to protect and die surround by many people but don't have choice then just kill an Large amount of people and see people dies without begin able to do anything about it, he's not even an Obstacle for villain but rather a simple chess or as a benefits for villains, sukuna use yuji to reach his goal, kenjaku uses him for his plan. character who don't want be exist, a character with big problem identity, a character who want to be gone from the world. Someone who hates his nativity to the point he want at least bring to death sukuna with himself . and yet didn't got anything powerful, keep losing without anything in return. Which sticks out unlike other mc where they get beast, so strong they disintegrate everything. Like those characters who win every time, a definition of perfect character and yuji is the opposite. All the problems make his long term goal not clear or very unsure of what's gonna happen to him. Aside of his behavior and personality, he's probably a anti main character Shonen. And yet all begin not as strong as other characters, he never give up. I can't help than just root for him.
yeah this seems like it's trying too hard to be liked and kinda generic. All manga are super fast today to keep tiktok brain rot off bay. I like that jjk starts slow.
@@gustavosauro1882 Yeah, but many people claimed the early part or season 1 was mid and slow and overhyped till they finally noticed it's good. I agree though it is fast paced, just commenting on how people were calling it out season 1 and how it's not hype day one. The video's plot is sorta trying to do way too much imo vs what we got.
Honestly it’s so crazy how gege planed the CG from the beginning of jjk and damn near kept the arc the same way beat by beat, is crazy to me.Also it really shows that gege wanted to implement the CG arc some way possible. I’m glad what we have now because the CG is my favorite arc in jjk🏀🐗
Yea I’m shocked people think Culling Games is a bad arc. The characters shine more and there are sooo many twists that are paid off in the culling games. It’s interesting that Nobara isn’t apart of the original draft so it seems like it really is in the best interest of the story to kill her off
@@MrSwade009"the characters shine more" everyone was "shining" long before the culling games. And in the games we don't see any of the other Kyoto students do dick minus Kamo and even then he fades quickly , Higoromo MIA, Kashimo one real fight than nothing. Inumaki? MIA, Getos followers ? No where to be found. Pacing is all over the place and our main character with Choso a character he had made a quick alliance with we never see how that relationship start and develop in the course of the few days they were together, it was just scrapped along and now they are "brothers" like no. Underdeveloped interactions and relationships for days in the culling games.
This is the only time we can litteraly say the author litteraly had every fucking story beat planned. He said he planned how the manga would end with the final arc (and that it's natural a mangaka would), shows now how he'd planned CG since the start, and so did he the start of the story. The only part we aren't sure was planned before chapter 1 was out was the shibuya incident and that was peak anyways.
@@NASCARRebirth eh, i wouldnt say that at all. she was gone for 140 or so chapters and was in the story for around 126 counting these last 5. she had 0 character growth beyond us finding out her backstory and only was mentioned again when it was most convenient for sukuna to lose. i would barely call that a character.
@@thebman468 How many chapters was Todo gone again? Almost as many? And hell, even Gojo was gone for a long time. And neither of them really had much "growth" either. The point being, so what? They aren't the main characters. They are supporting characters. The story isn't about them and there's nothing wrong with that.
@@BrandonHeat243 The problem is that Nobara is a main character. She’s literally part of the main trio. She IS supposed to grow, and IS supposed to have actual character. Hell, thinking that side characters shouldn’t grow or be more than a cardboard cutout of a character is also really dumb. With Todo, I think his return also wasn’t very good. But at the bare minimum, his had foreshadowing. Even if it was very minor foreshadowing only 16 chapters ago, there was foreshadowing. Also, he had evolved since then with his Re: Boogie Woogie. All of that is better than Nobara, who conveniently woke up 30 minutes before she needed to do her attack, and had “foreshadowing” half of a chapter before her reveal. Also, Todo didn’t receive a thought-to-be-fatal injury before coming back. He lost his arm, yeah, but that’s a very survivable injury in JJK. His return felt like a possibility. The main characters of JJK were Itadori primarily, then Megumi and Nobara, then everyone else. Itadori massively grew as a character, Megumi grew as a character, and Nobara… is there. She’s a wasted character who was written off before she could have any meaningful character growth only to come back right when it would be most convenient.
@@thebman468 Using your logic Shoko should have as much of an arc during Hidden Inventory as Gojo and Geto. But she did literally nothing during that arc other then have a few conversations with the boys. Why? Because just because characters are on the same team doesn't mean they are of comparable importance. Hell, Todo is more significant then everyone else in his class COMBINED. And you can say the same for Maki and Yuta. They are WAY more important then Panda and Inumaki.
11:00 wild. Fans: I wish Gege kept them fighting random spirits in different places while looking for the fingers. Gege: I CAN'T WAIT TO START THE CULLING GAMES!!!
I've been noticing that most series that have some sort of 'Monster Hunting' almost always goes back to people vs people at the end of the day. JJK has a mechanic where people can tame spirits to fight for them so they still have some participation in the fights, but most of them just dont. I began noticing it when Bleach stopped focusing on the Hollow hunting, favoring Soul Reaper conflict and the problems with Aizen, and then I went to see other anime I had watched with a similar premise. It does make sense, it's way more compelling to have 2 people fighting rather than people fighting against faceless phenomenons of nature, but the spirit hunting part always intrigued me, since it felt like an actual job rather than an adventure, repetitive and infinite, like you have no hope even winning, but someone has to get the job done.
@@Drip_Wooperyeah I noticed this a lot too especially with Bleach, I actually feel like JJK did a better job with it, since curses mostly stopped being a thing around the half way point, while with bleach hollows lost a lot of relevance once we hit Soul Society. Ofc Arrancar played a big role and are Hollows but they are basically just hollow versions of soul reapers so I barely consider them hollows
@@Drip_Wooper I am telling you man, gege should've made kenjaku use CSM more!!! The 10 million curses he let out at the end of shibuya barely did anything at all plot wise and were not a problem at all except for when Yuji was exorcising them after shibuya with ease. Gege could've given cursed objects more uses as well. Can we all agree that gege kinda sucks at world building?
@@bobjones9385I wouldn’t really say JJK did it better because no curse spirt actually felt Dangerous outside of mahito, early hollows at least felt like true monsters or beasts but early curse spirts just felt like pets or humans. Also, Most curse spirts just got curse stomped to hard in there fights which made them feel overall less threatening.
Nanami as a villain would've been beyond badass. His cursed technique is also underrated. I feel like being able to make a weak point wherever you want on someone should've put him above Grade 1. I always found it odd that with a power like that, he wasn't Special Grade.
@@zanaijscott8850 I don't think so. I think special grade is specifically stated to be only sorcerers which would be strong enough to take down an entire country.
It’s so weird hearing about earlier plot points in the series mixed in with the beginning of the final version of the culling games together in one arc
Rather than mixed in, safe to assume the WHOLE SERIES was supposed to be written this way. After all, only the name sticks. Sorcery Fights, and if we assume JJK0 still took place the way it is, with minimal changes, having Yuta early, & Nanami a villain may even scale things up, ever since Hyakki Yaku O, much more than original early arcs is. Still, we wouldn't have good arcs such as Mahito's intro, Higuruma's, & Shibuya, hard to see how it all fits with this concept. CG's already bad enough, imagine all 200+ chapters of JJK being CGs. Gojo past can still happen is the only other good thing i could think of.
@@naufalmEZa honestly, if JJk was just the culling games i think it would be really great. the problem with the culling games is that it just feels kinda random. if we had, say, 100-130 chapters minimum of the Culling Games then i think it would be much better. would kinda have the same feel as fate/stay night or fate/zero at that point, which I think could work really well
In my head canon, I hereby proclaim this as an alternate universe - a parallel dimension or multiverse. A somewhat less depressing version of the events. Oh wait...
Im glad this version did not come to pass, its sounded very average. Still though Gege never had any intention of having training arcs or school setting etc given the interviews or fanbook but it was his editors pushing him to go the average shounen route in which he did for the early chapters lmao before completely doing a 180(shibuya) segueing to culling games doing what he wanted to do. Im glad we got Sukuna tho having a huge presence and identity early on and Yuuji being the protagonist instead. Im curious how he tried this to yuutas early conceptions as well
I disagree I think this version is way better then what we got as by framing the whole series in the from of the culling game's to begin with. this dose not mean early event's in the story we got don't happen but instead are reframing everything with the culling doesn't make it's conclusion seem last minute and rushed. It also allows the merger and other underdeveloped character introduced latter time to develop. moreover having curse sprit's include the element of position adds wight to there defat also changing megumi's and yuji relationship with sunkuna to be a mirror as now they are forced to kill to get piont's which make's the question are they any better then sukuna. more over keeping the sukuna on megumi mean's that he can have abetter relationship with sukuna before his full take over. In fact the dynamic write's it's self megumi is forced to act like sukuna more and more until he becomes him where as yuji is attempt to megumi away from dark make's what's happing now better if that was there entire relationship from the start. I also think in this draft the gojo sukuna fight likely happens at shibuya instead of mahgarga. which I think is better for the story as the death of gojo in the middle set's up the danger of latter culling game's. while also makeing the search for angle less about freeing gojo and more about away to stop sukuna. as with this frist draft it also make's me think that yuta and kenjoku came into the story at around the same time.
@@djt3332you just went on this whole tangent and wrote all these words to still be wrong and incoherent. Everything u just said is not better than the story we already have. Just stop it.
The culling game being more of a main focus in this draft really reminds me of the game The World Ends With You and how it mostly the characters in a game
Is it just me or is operator kinda forgeting the existence of the prequel series to jujutsu kaisen ,tokyo metropolitan jujutsu high aka now jujutsu kaisen 0 where yuta was the protaganist as it was created before the draft for jujutsu sousen cause through the video it kinda seems so but still appreciate the fact that your making a vid on this cause it seems like many people are overlooking this draft
Not really, he mentions how we are reintroduced to the jjk0 crew and how they’re recharacterized. This video is about the draft so there wasn’t any point to talk about 0
Part of the matter is that JJK 0 wasn’t initially supposed to be a prequel, but a prototype. Basically a proof of concept for what would become Jujutsu Sousen and then Jujutsu Kaisen. It only became a prequel later.
The concept was pretty intriguing. I’m happy gege didn’t go with it necessarily cause Yuji would actually have no real place in the story and megumi’s possession would feel too one note in Shonen. Yuji made the decision to swallow Sukuna’s finger so there’s a greater weight in everything Sukuna does being shouldered by Yuji since he effectively brought Sukuna back into the modern age. As opposed to megumi being marked and his cursed inherently taking him over. Plus it layers the world more by acknowledging that things like Sukuna existed and would have still existed with or without Yuji opposed to the cursed spirit inhabiting solely megumi
If Gege ever decided to do alternate timelines, drafts like these could be their own real storylines. This would be perfect, a never ending JJK franchise
Only after that idol manga though, Gege will probably need some rest from writing Shonen after JJK's ending. Not only that, but i want to see him develop more on the aspect of character interaction and the relationships between them on the idol manga he says he plans to do after JJK.
@@kirbyof590stars it’s a comic the culling game idea is gonna be the final phase of the comic while the power system is gonna be used for a different comic imma make
@@lain5858 I thought Yuji in this was boring; he was a pretty weak link in the story. I can see why Gege initially thought about killing him off if this was Yuji's conception. Megumi being Sukuna's vessel doesn't have much of a dynamic to it either I think. Idk... It's not for me.
@@lain5858 I'd say it's better because now he's forced into the world of JJK regardless if he wants to or not; Itadori's Grandpa message to "help people" translates into his rationalization of reducing less potential casualties by consuming the fingers so curses can't get to them and reek havoc. Compared to this timeline where he just is there as support for Megumi; Yuji was probably going to end up being Megumi's equivalent of Junpei to be quite honest.
Maybe a spin off with different characters/sets in years prior to Gojo's past. So many possibilities that didn't break the timeline. Though even Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School (JJK0) is pretty detached from JJK in it's own right, 16 special grades? Inumaki clans? Sugawara? So many concepts worth exploring. I assume this version's consistent with 0.
I honestly thought that a lot of early characters like Yuji didn’t really have any character development for dozens of chapters but this first draft actually fixes a lot of that problems that I had, which is why I fine it weird that so much of that possible development was dropped.
Yuji do work better as rival character, not that what we got is bad, the rate in which we're getting it is sickening. It's as if Gege actively sidelines him, and only give him proper spotlight with no one around to steal it, how convenient. Megumi on the other hand always forced in a situation he partake in his own volition, he's a walking "if it isn't the consequences of my existence" and outside of minor changes to his personality, most of it sticks to the released version. Though we've had that fair share of character with Yuta.
@@naufalmEZa Current in story yuji would be better as a side character because he is competing with like 4 other characters for the spotlight and yuji is arguable in last place in that race. Some People are still equating yuji fighting to his character development which isn’t really true but even in his best fight he didn’t even get to finish it personally. Megumi as a character is just getting drag around for the sake of the plot, he literally has one of the best back stories and powers in JJk but none of it got really got explored by him at least. His dad killed himself without Megumi knowing it was him, no real information on his mother, and his sister died right after being introduced by way of possession. This first draft literally fixes the sister part of the story weirdly enough. Yuta arguable the 5 MC in the story and his character development ran over the other two characters listed by miles even though he didn’t really need it.
i think this concept was also pretty interesting especially coming out of jjk 0, who really knows how it would've turned out but i think it makes the overall story seem more cohesive from the jump at least
Nanami was the mostsuprising for me. Although i could see him going under that path as a curse user. Also i really want to know how yuji would've gained powers ir maybe even stay a normal human and find other ways to fight
Well, i guess this clears up what went "wrong" with JJK then, with this hindsight Shibuya Incident was clearly just a way to transition the "new" story into the original culling games plot as quickly as possible, killing off all the major curses and the now redundant Nobara. Don't get me wrong, i find JJK now to still be enjoyable, but it's clear that the culling games and the way the characters within it were handled was out of place both narratively and thematically and it's nice to see why. I wonder if the characters who seemingly phased out of existence in-between the Pre-Shibuya and Sukuna fight (Todo, Miquel, etc...) did so because they either weren't intended to be introduced until their second appearance
Is Sukuna still the strongest in this draft? Gojo said that Megumi got the worst malediction but that could also mean he got the worst type of malediction, one that takes possession.
The curses being able to possess people would've been cool it would've made sukuna a lil more special because he would be the old human to figure it out without a technique
I watched this because I want to make my own manga. I must say, you do have a point with Yuji being nothing else than a inoccent person dragged into all of the problems. I was planning to do the same with one of my characters. Thanks for the advice.
Bro- Even the first draft is partially written like a slice of life~ I swear Gege just wants to write a slice of life but can't resist their urge to make their fans suffer... 😭
So there are obviously alot of clues here about how the story could end. Megumi turns evil. All I can think of is megumi fuses with the merge and that's how he gets his horn form. Like this chapter draft has me convinced sukuna will be defeated by hanahs Jacob ladder maximum output which she's never used and then megumi will be the bad guy I mean if the story is going 2 end in 2024 the most chapters we could get is 25 and that's if gege doesn't take any brakes and he pry will so there's pry only 20 chapters left idk how gege is going to end everything in that few of chapters. Its sad gege Is burnt out and is rushing the ending we didn't even get to see the hakrai uruami fight just cause gege is exhausted from the weekly shonen grid like I really wanted 2see that fight
“Would you make a manga that builds up the characters and makes then strong enough for the future arcs?” “Nah, I’d throw them into the culling games in chapter 1”
I hope if there is a different ending, I hope it will all just be a fantasy dream, but it still happens based on the characters' real world... meaning Yuji will have a not so harmonious family and Megumi have problems with dad
Ok this might be a hot take but the early draft kicks a lot more ass then the one we got for the main series, sure sekuna just randomly appearing would be to convenient but still this chapter just gives of hype
This honestly sounds like some crazy but extremely more interesting restart of devilman crybaby, it'd actually be really cool if gege had stuck to this ngl
If you notice something with the framing, the story in the draft seems way closer to the naruto story line it seems like he wrote a naruto if sasuke was the main protagonist That being said when you examin this the inspiration for bleach is seemingly absent from this first draft Why this is funny to me is. The changes that are made are seemingly done as an homage to bleach The cursed posessed people being changed in to cursed spirts. Yuji going from just a good willed person willing to help like naruto. To a personed who is pulled into a situation where he feel the responsabilty to protect as many as possible from said cursed spirits. The inclusion of cursed spirits being created through negative emotions.
I wonder if sukuna will become one of sukunas shigiami or something like that. Sukunas monster looking domain makes me wonder what he did with megumi 2 ,be able 2 make that domain.
Because he was forced to change his entire story to the point that culling games dont even made sense anymore. That's explain why he want to finish jjk soon as possible. He is tired of writting what he dont want
Yeah interesting draft, but the version we got is much better. The draft feels a lot more like a typical shonen while what we got had much better world building
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fair to say that tsumiki gets A LOT more characterisation and interactions in this version of the story. really would've been interesting to see how things would've panned out had gege stuck with it
Well megumi was the mc so not surprising they’d have more interactions
Knowing Megumi was originally the MC makes so much sense, I'm glad that was changed tho
Gege when he was.drawing this og manga probably realised yuji is just way more interesting
and the rest is history
@@pbsuite yeah to be honest megumi is not special at all, typical cold romcom mc
@@pbsuiteIn what way is Yuji more interesting than Megumi? Yuji gives off serious generic happy go luck protagonist vibes
@@Condoriano474 Bruh , your not seriously saying megumi is more interesting than yuji
@@pbsuite I'll tell you, but first you gotta explain why Yuji is more interesting.
Gege already admitted that he missed a few things with the culling game arc
Like what
He missed a lot of things in the series. This dude seriously forgets about characters and stops including them in the story
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@SupaSoldierLegend nah, he doesn't forget characters, but if that character has served their purpose, then he just leaves them be.
Hopefully, he uses the anime to add those things in...would add more incentive for ppl to watch it
Cant lie, this version is pretty good. What upsets me is that Gege clearly never intended to create Kugisaki. And the potential for her return further confirms to me that its not happening, as shes not important to the story at all..
Edit: yes, fellas, I read manga too. Sadly i had the misfortune of receiving reply notifications BEFORE reading the chapter, thus ruining the impact of the chapter 😐
Itadori was never supposed to be the main character is what boggles the mind. He was just meant to die to prop up Megumi...
Kind of explains why Itadori feels shafted of personal development for most of the story.
@@CloudyDazethis was pretty well known in the community. Gege said Megumi was supposed to be og mc before
@@abhinavg-----9434 I think I have a right to say then that I wasn't exactly satisfied with Yuji's utilization in the story. It did always feel like Yuji was brushed to the side and it was up to the audience to rally behind him.
it's still good writing for me.
I love his goal, not the best mc or refined character for you but interesting how's gonna end his life.
His goal was to protect and die surround by many people but don't have choice then just kill an Large amount of people and see people dies without begin able to do anything about it, he's not even an Obstacle for villain but rather a simple chess or as a benefits for villains, sukuna use yuji to reach his goal, kenjaku uses him for his plan.
character who don't want be exist, a character with big problem identity, a character who want to be gone from the world.
Someone who hates his nativity to the point he want at least bring to death sukuna with himself .
and yet didn't got anything powerful, keep losing without anything in return.
Which sticks out unlike other mc where they get beast, so strong they disintegrate everything.
Like those characters who win every time, a definition of perfect character and yuji is the opposite.
All the problems make his long term goal not clear or very unsure of what's gonna happen to him.
Aside of his behavior and personality, he's probably a anti main character Shonen.
And yet all begin not as strong as other characters, he never give up.
I can't help than just root for him.
Nah , I prefer what we got 😂😂
I love seeing early drafts for a series, like Fate/Prototype. It does make me curious what the timeline where the draft gets completed would look like
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The name Sorcery Fight makes a lot more sense in this story
Yh but sounds alot more worse like sorcery fight sounds like some Roblox battlegrounds AHH game 💀😭
@gritzxenus That is literally what "Jujutsu Kaisen" is in English.
@@Ciorno2K That's the name of the show 😆 Jujutsu Kaisen
This rough draft of jjk is interesting but I prefer what he made it into. The final product is enjoyable and very compelling, I’m glad he changed it.
yeah this seems like it's trying too hard to be liked and kinda generic. All manga are super fast today to keep tiktok brain rot off bay. I like that jjk starts slow.
@@nichescenes JJK is very fast paced bro
@@gustavosauro1882 Yeah, but many people claimed the early part or season 1 was mid and slow and overhyped till they finally noticed it's good. I agree though it is fast paced, just commenting on how people were calling it out season 1 and how it's not hype day one. The video's plot is sorta trying to do way too much imo vs what we got.
Honestly it’s so crazy how gege planed the CG from the beginning of jjk and damn near kept the arc the same way beat by beat, is crazy to me.Also it really shows that gege wanted to implement the CG arc some way possible. I’m glad what we have now because the CG is my favorite arc in jjk🏀🐗
Yea I’m shocked people think Culling Games is a bad arc. The characters shine more and there are sooo many twists that are paid off in the culling games.
It’s interesting that Nobara isn’t apart of the original draft so it seems like it really is in the best interest of the story to kill her off
@@MrSwade009"the characters shine more" everyone was "shining" long before the culling games. And in the games we don't see any of the other Kyoto students do dick minus Kamo and even then he fades quickly , Higoromo MIA, Kashimo one real fight than nothing. Inumaki? MIA, Getos followers ? No where to be found.
Pacing is all over the place and our main character with Choso a character he had made a quick alliance with we never see how that relationship start and develop in the course of the few days they were together, it was just scrapped along and now they are "brothers" like no. Underdeveloped interactions and relationships for days in the culling games.
This is the only time we can litteraly say the author litteraly had every fucking story beat planned. He said he planned how the manga would end with the final arc (and that it's natural a mangaka would), shows now how he'd planned CG since the start, and so did he the start of the story.
The only part we aren't sure was planned before chapter 1 was out was the shibuya incident and that was peak anyways.
@@UnifiedEntityMiguel and Larue are the only members from Geto's group that are still alive
@@MrSwade009 It's just tic tok hate. I personally love the CG arc.
I find it interesting that Nobara isn’t in the original draft which shows he never had much of a plan for her in the future.
This aged like milk
@@NASCARRebirth eh, i wouldnt say that at all. she was gone for 140 or so chapters and was in the story for around 126 counting these last 5. she had 0 character growth beyond us finding out her backstory and only was mentioned again when it was most convenient for sukuna to lose. i would barely call that a character.
@@thebman468 How many chapters was Todo gone again? Almost as many? And hell, even Gojo was gone for a long time. And neither of them really had much "growth" either. The point being, so what? They aren't the main characters. They are supporting characters. The story isn't about them and there's nothing wrong with that.
@@BrandonHeat243 The problem is that Nobara is a main character. She’s literally part of the main trio. She IS supposed to grow, and IS supposed to have actual character. Hell, thinking that side characters shouldn’t grow or be more than a cardboard cutout of a character is also really dumb.
With Todo, I think his return also wasn’t very good. But at the bare minimum, his had foreshadowing. Even if it was very minor foreshadowing only 16 chapters ago, there was foreshadowing. Also, he had evolved since then with his Re: Boogie Woogie. All of that is better than Nobara, who conveniently woke up 30 minutes before she needed to do her attack, and had “foreshadowing” half of a chapter before her reveal. Also, Todo didn’t receive a thought-to-be-fatal injury before coming back. He lost his arm, yeah, but that’s a very survivable injury in JJK. His return felt like a possibility.
The main characters of JJK were Itadori primarily, then Megumi and Nobara, then everyone else. Itadori massively grew as a character, Megumi grew as a character, and Nobara… is there. She’s a wasted character who was written off before she could have any meaningful character growth only to come back right when it would be most convenient.
@@thebman468 Using your logic Shoko should have as much of an arc during Hidden Inventory as Gojo and Geto. But she did literally nothing during that arc other then have a few conversations with the boys. Why? Because just because characters are on the same team doesn't mean they are of comparable importance. Hell, Todo is more significant then everyone else in his class COMBINED. And you can say the same for Maki and Yuta. They are WAY more important then Panda and Inumaki.
11:00 wild.
Fans: I wish Gege kept them fighting random spirits in different places while looking for the fingers.
Gege: I CAN'T WAIT TO START THE CULLING GAMES!!!
Lol yeah he didnt have any interest in curses or delving into ocult but wanting to see people fight other people with super powers 😂
I've been noticing that most series that have some sort of 'Monster Hunting' almost always goes back to people vs people at the end of the day. JJK has a mechanic where people can tame spirits to fight for them so they still have some participation in the fights, but most of them just dont. I began noticing it when Bleach stopped focusing on the Hollow hunting, favoring Soul Reaper conflict and the problems with Aizen, and then I went to see other anime I had watched with a similar premise. It does make sense, it's way more compelling to have 2 people fighting rather than people fighting against faceless phenomenons of nature, but the spirit hunting part always intrigued me, since it felt like an actual job rather than an adventure, repetitive and infinite, like you have no hope even winning, but someone has to get the job done.
@@Drip_Wooperyeah I noticed this a lot too especially with Bleach, I actually feel like JJK did a better job with it, since curses mostly stopped being a thing around the half way point, while with bleach hollows lost a lot of relevance once we hit Soul Society. Ofc Arrancar played a big role and are Hollows but they are basically just hollow versions of soul reapers so I barely consider them hollows
@@Drip_Wooper I am telling you man, gege should've made kenjaku use CSM more!!! The 10 million curses he let out at the end of shibuya barely did anything at all plot wise and were not a problem at all except for when Yuji was exorcising them after shibuya with ease. Gege could've given cursed objects more uses as well. Can we all agree that gege kinda sucks at world building?
@@bobjones9385I wouldn’t really say JJK did it better because no curse spirt actually felt Dangerous outside of mahito, early hollows at least felt like true monsters or beasts but early curse spirts just felt like pets or humans.
Also, Most curse spirts just got curse stomped to hard in there fights which made them feel overall less threatening.
The king of curses almost came with horns. We got the good timeline
Nanami as a villain would've been beyond badass. His cursed technique is also underrated. I feel like being able to make a weak point wherever you want on someone should've put him above Grade 1. I always found it odd that with a power like that, he wasn't Special Grade.
I don't think he will be strong as special grade but maybe he can be special grade one like member of zenin clan
@@mariansvoboda1575 special grade one and grade one are equal. The only difference is special grade ones are outside of the technical school system.
@@zanaijscott8850 I don't think so. I think special grade is specifically stated to be only sorcerers which would be strong enough to take down an entire country.
@@Cube-xm6vt special grade 1. Not special grade
It’s so weird hearing about earlier plot points in the series mixed in with the beginning of the final version of the culling games together in one arc
Rather than mixed in, safe to assume the WHOLE SERIES was supposed to be written this way.
After all, only the name sticks.
Sorcery Fights, and if we assume JJK0 still took place the way it is, with minimal changes, having Yuta early, & Nanami a villain may even scale things up, ever since Hyakki Yaku O, much more than original early arcs is.
Still, we wouldn't have good arcs such as Mahito's intro, Higuruma's, & Shibuya, hard to see how it all fits with this concept. CG's already bad enough, imagine all 200+ chapters of JJK being CGs. Gojo past can still happen is the only other good thing i could think of.
@@naufalmEZa honestly, if JJk was just the culling games i think it would be really great. the problem with the culling games is that it just feels kinda random. if we had, say, 100-130 chapters minimum of the Culling Games then i think it would be much better. would kinda have the same feel as fate/stay night or fate/zero at that point, which I think could work really well
In my head canon, I hereby proclaim this as an alternate universe - a parallel dimension or multiverse. A somewhat less depressing version of the events. Oh wait...
Gege says he shouldve made the CG as a tournament arc, but I myself actually enjoyed the unpredictably of the CG we got as a story.🤔
This was such a treat to see.
Im glad this version did not come to pass, its sounded very average. Still though Gege never had any intention of having training arcs or school setting etc given the interviews or fanbook but it was his editors pushing him to go the average shounen route in which he did for the early chapters lmao before completely doing a 180(shibuya) segueing to culling games doing what he wanted to do. Im glad we got Sukuna tho having a huge presence and identity early on and Yuuji being the protagonist instead. Im curious how he tried this to yuutas early conceptions as well
I disagree I think this version is way better then what we got as by framing the whole series in the from of the culling game's to begin with. this dose not mean early event's in the story we got don't happen but instead are reframing everything with the culling doesn't make it's conclusion seem last minute and rushed. It also allows the merger and other underdeveloped character introduced latter time to develop. moreover having curse sprit's include the element of position adds wight to there defat also changing megumi's and yuji relationship with sunkuna to be a mirror as now they are forced to kill to get piont's which make's the question are they any better then sukuna. more over keeping the sukuna on megumi mean's that he can have abetter relationship with sukuna before his full take over. In fact the dynamic write's it's self megumi is forced to act like sukuna more and more until he becomes him where as yuji is attempt to megumi away from dark make's what's happing now better if that was there entire relationship from the start. I also think in this draft the gojo sukuna fight likely happens at shibuya instead of mahgarga. which I think is better for the story as the death of gojo in the middle set's up the danger of latter culling game's. while also makeing the search for angle less about freeing gojo and more about away to stop sukuna. as with this frist draft it also make's me think that yuta and kenjoku came into the story at around the same time.
@@djt3332you just went on this whole tangent and wrote all these words to still be wrong and incoherent. Everything u just said is not better than the story we already have. Just stop it.
@@bankrollelii1927 I mean I guess I could have been more clear but can you say why I am wrong instead of just going "no your wrong"
@@bankrollelii1927
Nah jjk after Shibuya arc become almost garbage.
This draft version is much better
@@bankrollelii1927It's not a tanget when it's relevant to the discussion whether which one is better, dumbahh 💀
Yuji would probably get along with toji lol
The only person he can't get along with is sukuna
@@pbsuiteAnd Mahito. And Curses in general.
@@rojaedavis8367he loves curses
@@RYANARRADI Loves to beat the shit out of them
I wish we got this in some form someday
I don't care what anyone says!!! I WILL use the malediction concept in my jjk fanfiction!!!
The culling game being more of a main focus in this draft really reminds me of the game The World Ends With You and how it mostly the characters in a game
Is it just me or is operator kinda forgeting the existence of the prequel series to jujutsu kaisen ,tokyo metropolitan jujutsu high aka now jujutsu kaisen 0 where yuta was the protaganist as it was created before the draft for jujutsu sousen cause through the video it kinda seems so but still appreciate the fact that your making a vid on this cause it seems like many people are overlooking this draft
Not really, he mentions how we are reintroduced to the jjk0 crew and how they’re recharacterized. This video is about the draft so there wasn’t any point to talk about 0
Part of the matter is that JJK 0 wasn’t initially supposed to be a prequel, but a prototype. Basically a proof of concept for what would become Jujutsu Sousen and then Jujutsu Kaisen.
It only became a prequel later.
I’m prolly in the minority but i actually do like this concept more than the original.
You are not alone
It would make a cool spin-off of an alternate timeline.
Wow, the development from first draft to end product is mad
Saw this video and knew it was a banger immediately, you're getting me through the work day thank you brother.
The concept was pretty intriguing. I’m happy gege didn’t go with it necessarily cause Yuji would actually have no real place in the story and megumi’s possession would feel too one note in Shonen.
Yuji made the decision to swallow Sukuna’s finger so there’s a greater weight in everything Sukuna does being shouldered by Yuji since he effectively brought Sukuna back into the modern age.
As opposed to megumi being marked and his cursed inherently taking him over. Plus it layers the world more by acknowledging that things like Sukuna existed and would have still existed with or without Yuji opposed to the cursed spirit inhabiting solely megumi
If Gege ever decided to do alternate timelines, drafts like these could be their own real storylines. This would be perfect, a never ending JJK franchise
Only after that idol manga though, Gege will probably need some rest from writing Shonen after JJK's ending. Not only that, but i want to see him develop more on the aspect of character interaction and the relationships between them on the idol manga he says he plans to do after JJK.
Nah it’s gotta end rn it’s what’s separating manga from becoming Marvel / DC
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Bro this gave me some ideas I’m cooking now
I wanna hear ‘em when you’re done 👀👀
@@kirbyof590stars it’s a comic the culling game idea is gonna be the final phase of the comic while the power system is gonna be used for a different comic imma make
Go for it.
@@WeebGuru6 Still do show us whatcha got cooked up it sounds really interesting
@@leomata7096 if I can get it done it will get posted to youtube
Nanami was very inspired in Kira Yoshikage, so him as a villain would be a really interesting character
I'm glad we got what we have, Megumi having horns was so cringy too. What we got was so much better imo.
he looked like Devilman lmao
I liked this draft more. The whole first season is so boring until the last mini arc
@@lain5858 I thought Yuji in this was boring; he was a pretty weak link in the story. I can see why Gege initially thought about killing him off if this was Yuji's conception. Megumi being Sukuna's vessel doesn't have much of a dynamic to it either I think. Idk... It's not for me.
@@CoolOkay_
Its the same link in JJk. Yuji just want to help because of grampa
@@lain5858 I'd say it's better because now he's forced into the world of JJK regardless if he wants to or not; Itadori's Grandpa message to "help people" translates into his rationalization of reducing less potential casualties by consuming the fingers so curses can't get to them and reek havoc. Compared to this timeline where he just is there as support for Megumi; Yuji was probably going to end up being Megumi's equivalent of Junpei to be quite honest.
I would really like for gege to make this into an actual full story once jujutsu kaisen is finished.
Maybe a spin off with different characters/sets in years prior to Gojo's past.
So many possibilities that didn't break the timeline.
Though even Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School (JJK0) is pretty detached from JJK in it's own right, 16 special grades? Inumaki clans? Sugawara? So many concepts worth exploring. I assume this version's consistent with 0.
JJK finished? You mean Jujutsu Shippuden?
Gege is currently working on a different manga. I doubt he'll do it.
I honestly thought that a lot of early characters like Yuji didn’t really have any character development for dozens of chapters but this first draft actually fixes a lot of that problems that I had, which is why I fine it weird that so much of that possible development was dropped.
Yuji do work better as rival character, not that what we got is bad, the rate in which we're getting it is sickening.
It's as if Gege actively sidelines him, and only give him proper spotlight with no one around to steal it, how convenient.
Megumi on the other hand always forced in a situation he partake in his own volition, he's a walking "if it isn't the consequences of my existence" and outside of minor changes to his personality, most of it sticks to the released version.
Though we've had that fair share of character with Yuta.
@@naufalmEZa Current in story yuji would be better as a side character because he is competing with like 4 other characters for the spotlight and yuji is arguable in last place in that race.
Some People are still equating yuji fighting to his character development which isn’t really true but even in his best fight he didn’t even get to finish it personally.
Megumi as a character is just getting drag around for the sake of the plot, he literally has one of the best back stories and powers in JJk but none of it got really got explored by him at least.
His dad killed himself without Megumi knowing it was him, no real information on his mother, and his sister died right after being introduced by way of possession.
This first draft literally fixes the sister part of the story weirdly enough.
Yuta arguable the 5 MC in the story and his character development ran over the other two characters listed by miles even though he didn’t really need it.
@@nick25oo true true, my personal favorite is his clash with Higuruma, that's still by a longshot the best use of idealism clash tropes in JJK.
@@naufalmEZa I honestly forgot about that fight because Higuruma domain sorted ended it half way through but the first half was really great.
Idk why but Megumi with horns reminds me of one of Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid
i think this concept was also pretty interesting especially coming out of jjk 0, who really knows how it would've turned out but i think it makes the overall story seem more cohesive from the jump at least
this just goes to show how much gege has put into this story
Just the pure beginning as a reader of this story is better than the original jjk to me but I like the later flow of the original jjk
Damn Yuji and Megumi relationship is way better in this draft than in the entire of jjk
True Megumi and Yuji’s dynamic is very underdeveloped in JJK
Nanami was the mostsuprising for me. Although i could see him going under that path as a curse user. Also i really want to know how yuji would've gained powers ir maybe even stay a normal human and find other ways to fight
I like this version. Gege should release it for some fans
Well, i guess this clears up what went "wrong" with JJK then, with this hindsight Shibuya Incident was clearly just a way to transition the "new" story into the original culling games plot as quickly as possible, killing off all the major curses and the now redundant Nobara. Don't get me wrong, i find JJK now to still be enjoyable, but it's clear that the culling games and the way the characters within it were handled was out of place both narratively and thematically and it's nice to see why.
I wonder if the characters who seemingly phased out of existence in-between the Pre-Shibuya and Sukuna fight (Todo, Miquel, etc...) did so because they either weren't intended to be introduced until their second appearance
Happy we got JJK and not JJS.
Damn Nanami's original draft intro was FIRE!!
SMT osts in the background
Based af
Its sad to see how Gege wasted Tsumiki in the final product
ok now who wins, the malediction or 1 finger sukuna 😭😭
Malediction solos 😂😂
Blessings of Aligator's abyss
goes hard
Blessings = megumi
Aligator abyss= wanabuchi
I really want this to countinue
Is Sukuna still the strongest in this draft? Gojo said that Megumi got the worst malediction but that could also mean he got the worst type of malediction, one that takes possession.
The curses being able to possess people would've been cool it would've made sukuna a lil more special because he would be the old human to figure it out without a technique
Sukuna just hating Yuuji across all versions and timelines is pretty funny.
I would definitely love to visit the parallel world were these drafts were the actual version of jjk
This can be a nice OVA series like with AOT
I read the draft and came to a lot of the same conclusions but I like that you made a video about it and broke everything down really well.
i love when mangakas release their original drafts, its rlly cool so see how far the series went from the very beginning
I watched this because I want to make my own manga. I must say, you do have a point with Yuji being nothing else than a inoccent person dragged into all of the problems. I was planning to do the same with one of my characters. Thanks for the advice.
All this just confirms once again how awesome kenjaku is the GOAT
Always interesting seeing how things could have gone like this
Why is this actually fire asf
Bro- Even the first draft is partially written like a slice of life~
I swear Gege just wants to write a slice of life but can't resist their urge to make their fans suffer... 😭
God damn, Toji really changed the whole timeline
Day 1 asking for: Which Ben 10 alien would be necessary to beat each JJK character? 🗣️
Now I will see the video
Alien X
Alien x is the easy answer
@@ManuelDietrichsteineralien x beats most verses
Alien X is not needed for the jjk verse
14:06 does this confirm the the theory that yujis grandpas final words cursed him?
this honestly sounds dope
19:26 Nanami was a crash out fr
"deepwater crocodile" is hard as fuck
Maledictions seems to be like a heavenly restriction but without the power boost of physicality or increased CE
So there are obviously alot of clues here about how the story could end. Megumi turns evil. All I can think of is megumi fuses with the merge and that's how he gets his horn form. Like this chapter draft has me convinced sukuna will be defeated by hanahs Jacob ladder maximum output which she's never used and then megumi will be the bad guy I mean if the story is going 2 end in 2024 the most chapters we could get is 25 and that's if gege doesn't take any brakes and he pry will so there's pry only 20 chapters left idk how gege is going to end everything in that few of chapters. Its sad gege Is burnt out and is rushing the ending we didn't even get to see the hakrai uruami fight just cause gege is exhausted from the weekly shonen grid like I really wanted 2see that fight
Am I the only one that actually wants this series to be continued 😂
I would actually read this, if he made this into a spinoff after the series end I would pay for it
I love how Gege sketches
Not to shit on JJK too much but it's really crazy how a lot of this solved common gripes had with the current series
you're not wrong. I'm not a CG fan but this version explains a lot of problems JJK has right now
Much more interesting
Im going to travel to an alternate earth just to read the original Jjk
“Would you make a manga that builds up the characters and makes then strong enough for the future arcs?”
“Nah, I’d throw them into the culling games in chapter 1”
honestly i like the malediction more but everything else isnt as good
no op with the smt music is crazy
Waiting for JJK/PROTOTYPE 🔥🔥🔥
I hope if there is a different ending, I hope it will all just be a fantasy dream, but it still happens based on the characters' real world... meaning Yuji will have a not so harmonious family and Megumi have problems with dad
Ok this might be a hot take but the early draft kicks a lot more ass then the one we got for the main series, sure sekuna just randomly appearing would be to convenient but still this chapter just gives of hype
This is trippy man lol
It’s interesting but I like what we got more
This honestly sounds like some crazy but extremely more interesting restart of devilman crybaby, it'd actually be really cool if gege had stuck to this ngl
This is obviously a rough draft. JJK improves on this *a lot.*
Jjk is the worst version
You have a shit taste lil bro@@lain5858
@@lain5858No
If you notice something with the framing, the story in the draft seems way closer to the naruto story line it seems like he wrote a naruto if sasuke was the main protagonist
That being said when you examin this the inspiration for bleach is seemingly absent from this first draft
Why this is funny to me is. The changes that are made are seemingly done as an homage to bleach
The cursed posessed people being changed in to cursed spirts. Yuji going from just a good willed person willing to help like naruto. To a personed who is pulled into a situation where he feel the responsabilty to protect as many as possible from said cursed spirits. The inclusion of cursed spirits being created through negative emotions.
where can I read it??
The earlier plot is more interesting not gonna lie
I wonder if sukuna will become one of sukunas shigiami or something like that. Sukunas monster looking domain makes me wonder what he did with megumi 2 ,be able 2 make that domain.
It's a shame Gege was developing the Culling Games for so long only for it to be a boring filler arc until the interesting things start happening.
Because he was forced to change his entire story to the point that culling games dont even made sense anymore.
That's explain why he want to finish jjk soon as possible. He is tired of writting what he dont want
How the hell is culling games filler, how fucked is yours guys attention span
thank god we got kenjaku
i think the translation of malediction is actually supposed to be "curse" it would make much more sense
Its certainly interesting, but I prefer what we got
Malediction just means curse in french!
We want part 3 of how many stands can gojo kill plz bro bring that video plz
this walked so jjk could run
The changes most likely due to shonen magazine publishing market criteria
Yeah interesting draft, but the version we got is much better. The draft feels a lot more like a typical shonen while what we got had much better world building
what world building?
Worldbuilding in jjk is the WORST thing in this story.
And a school setting is the most clichê in a Shonen
The draft version is way better
@@lain5858 the final version is better tho
@@lxy3980
If you only care about Sukuna, then yeah. Bassicaly we have Sukuna Kaisen now
Why is Tsumiki more interesting in the draft😂
Make a video about smt 1 protag and can he survive jjk gauntlet
Was this before or after JJK 0
Sukuna still hating on yuji on the draft where Megumi is the protag?