The Subtle Philosophy of Jujutsu Kaisen
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Examining Yuji's arc and the death of good and evil.
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How would you describe Yuji's philosophy? How would you rate his character arc?
Only thing I have to add is I feel like he transcended his grandpa's "curse" at the end. If you choose how to view the words "You're strong. Protect others. Don't die alone. Don't be like me.", that exact moment with Sukuna near the end could have turned out very differently. He chose mercy and was kind of spit on in return, but he attempted the gesture. The difference in potential philosophies would be that not showing mercy in this moment could have led to a personal regret down the line, it's a moment you can never undo. Sukuna cursing his fate and choosing to be defeated is... kind of a Sukuna move considering how he treats others when their time comes. He tends to treat true, absolute loss as an inevitablity for one side when they push themselves to the lengths they do when fighting.
I come from a moba background in most laning stages there's always a loser. There isn't any sense in beating up your teammate for losing lane, it was bound to happen to one of the laners. The notion that you have to be able to accept loss and roll with the emotions is something that usually separates people who grow, learn, and stick around and those who declare everything is impossible and just give up. It's a lot harder on your ego to lose for 30 min straight than most people realize. Yuji ate L after L after L for six months. Family member dead, scheduled execution, mentors, friends, tremendous loss of life, beatdowns, guilt over being responsible for the actions of Sukuna across the entire series. Yuji saddled up to claim responsibility even when he wished he was dead and had given up upon witnessing the Mahoraga-Nanami combo.
He climbed the fucking jacobs ladder, hurled Sukuna by his ankles down to earth and domain expansioned his ass with a talk no jutsu offering, said alright bet and ended the god damn series. He did so while eating huge shots that could have made anyone buckle over and decide they would give up, it was all too tough. He was determined to set things right and he helped Megumi through something that Megumi kind of helped Yuji through himself, right at the start. It doesn't play out the same way, but Yuji was going to need Megumi's help and probably perish if it wasn't for the results of his actions in the first part of the story at the school.
The ideals Yuji has at the start that place him into the story by helping in the fight and eating the finger are the same he has later but are very much changed by all the things that happened to him. I don't think the Yuji at the end of the story would have pulled the same move at the detention center to self-sacrifice anymore, but instead use the tools he built for himself to tear Sukuna out of him rather than essentially fold his poker hand and say me dying is the only way out of this. I think his definition or viewpoint of what a cog has significantly changed. In mechanics there is what is known as a "sacrificial part", like a plastic gear or coupling that shreds when a motor runs out of whack. I think he stopped letting himself be the sacrificial part in this machine, no matter how many times he had to hit the ground running and eat shit. The anger and (rightful) indignation he grows is the backbone he needed in life to deal with people like Sukuna who will use others for all of their worth and discard them.
@@MegaJackolopespoiler in chapter 271 revealed that he is the reincarnation of Sukuna and Mahito reincarnate into curse user in same chapter.
@@RACH90810 No it didnt...
There is great wisdom in Yuuji's simplicity.
So much more depth than tanjiro
Offering mercy and empathy towards an antagonist is pretty common for shonen MCs, but my favorite part of yujis character arc was that offering sukuna mercy and a chance to experience life as a human, and to experience what a bond between others truly feels like, is that in no way was it for the sake of a moral highground or to emphasize that killing him "isnt the right way" or to empathize that many villains were first victims like so many others come across to me.
For yuji it isn't abt proving anything, or being above anyone else.
Offering to spare sukunas life after all that hes done and despite the danger his existence poses is what heals him, overrides sukunas worldview and shows the true nature of yuji all at the same time.
To believe that sukunas life has value innately for existing, and therefore deserves for empathy and humanity to be shown to him is the last piece of the puzzle to show that HE deserves those things too.
After all hes been through and the self hatred and disregard hes felt, his new philosophy allows him to see beyond the consequences of actions out of his control and let go of the weight of the sins he commited, or couldn't prevent.
It also proved that sukunas belief that ones value stems from their strength, and to be strong you must forsake your humanity and exist a calamity isn't the only path, and by it being essentially his son(from ces perspective jin and Sukuna are the same so in a sense soul wise sukuna is yujis dad) Show that collective strength and human connection along with maintained ideals can best him topples his place in the hierarchy.
It also shows that at his core, yuji values humanity so much that even sukuna is offered a chance to experience it, bc they are the same. Both born bearing curses while completely unaware of it, sukuna became a monster bc of chance, but yuji had his grandpa, he wanted to be to sukuna what his grandpa was to him.
Its poetic, the last words of his grandpa led him to the point he even tried to save the one who hurt him the most.
Fuck i love yuji as a character, idc what anyone says hes one of the best written mcs in shonen
Bro yapping
(I agreed with each and every line you wrote)
Even at the end Yuji didn’t give in to Sukuna‘s yapping.
He stayed true and Sukuna to himself
Yuji saying Sukuna that he can still accept him seeing value in not Sukuna's personality or the things he does but in life as a whole beyond his intentions is one of the most beautiful thing in Shonen at the end Yuji ended up finding his own way conclusion about Finding meaning and value in life itself and living behind the cog mentality Even valueing someone like Sukuna's life
Yes! I personally enjoyed that moment a lot because it was so fitting for Yuji.
Yes but it also meant he didn't decide for his opponent, his opponent made the decision to die or live inside him( equally as dead) basically yuuji didnt bear the burden of his death
This was a great analysis of Yuji and of course timing it before the last chapter was a great call. I guess to add to this were arcs that tested Yuji's mindset at each turn. First with Junpei being someone Yuji couldn't save and his reluctance to harm morphed humans. Then after Shibuya where Yuji was quite lost, Megumi came to him for help. Once that was seemingly done Yuji was ready to let Hana/Angel finish him off. Only for that lack of self worth to be challenged again by Sukuna using enchain and realizing the binding vow to not harm anyone didn't include Yuji. Now I will say how we got from here to a Yuji with self worth kinda fell into the timeskip. But I do like how when Yuji first finger was lost it was a sign he felt disposable. Meanwhile his second finger loss was when he was crucial to the plan. I feel like the overall idea of being a cog in system is somewhat retained throughout the story. But the value of that cog outside their purpose is what's changed. Valuing one's life is indeed a core message of the series and that can be seen with Megumi too, but that's a whole other topic.
And with the Series Ending i Learn to be and be Better than Yuji!
I thought the point was that things will often never turn out how you want, so deal with it.
Yuji was so locked in that we didn't even know it til way later, and his chapter with Sukuna gonna forever be one of my favourites
Man, it's kinda sad how I have zero emotional attachment to JJK. Those 271 chapters failed to create a connection with me and by the time I caught up with the weekly release, I was reading the series just due to sunk-cost fallacy and memes.
So even a well-made video with good arguments like this is not doing anything for me. After this week, I will propably never intentionally think about Yuji ever again.
Good for you i guess
I respect your honesty.
Fair enough ig, I'm the opposite. I was incredibly invested in jjk from the jump and I'll probably wind up talking about yuji at least once a week for a year or so
@@IanHarrison-n9mSame. Yuji’s been my favorite character since day one, and I think I can confidently put him as one of the best shonen protagonists perood.
Respect your opinion fam.
The most important thing jujutsu kaisen had taught me is that it’s okay to be selfish.
It also teaches what unchecked selfishness ends with, a lonely existence that amounts to nothing.
Those selfish enough to take hold of their desires will grow but the ones who latch on so tight they disregard everything else live empty, hollow lives.
Great dichotomy honestly
But not selfish where you step on ppl and be an asshole
I love Yuuji and I think his completion was satisfying in his maturity in understanding the world is not black and white but because of circumstances there are gray areas. But the story pacing... Gege could have done better and given Yuuji more polish.
W
The idea of Yuji learning complexity of curses and humanity could’ve been great for Yuji but Jjk honestly didn’t do enough for Yuji to make us truly be able to understand that he learned that lesson and he didn’t have to many fights or confrontations to really show that grey area most of the curses Yuji fought had only been evil Choso just randomly realized they were brothers Sukuna never showed us why he’s evil he was just evil but I dunno I looking back there not much that truly allowed us to ponder the reasons why these characters did what they did
Sukuna has always talked that how he was an unwanted child and didn't experience love. Yuji's fight with mahito was where he went from that mindset to this.
@@faith4657 you have made me rethink my argument thinking back there are a lot of cases of individuals being wanted and wanted in the story looking back now though Sukuna being unwanted from birth could’ve been explored better then it is in the story being born as a twin he wouldn’t have had cursed energy being rejected by the sorcery world though he would’ve been born with Jin Itadori from what little we see of him he was a very kind individual if we was born with Sukuna he most likely would’ve had someone who accepted him
@@artimoltros5055 True, like it was the case. A lot of ppl in JJK were unwanted or treated badly. Yuta and Yuji would have been a sukuna if not for Gojo. I wish luck in gege's next project if he comes back to the series I'll be happy.
@@faith4657 Yuta ability does stem from him wanting Rika to be alive and reaching the peak of this power required him to accepting her through marriage there are a lot of examples thinking about it but I wish jjk did slow down a bit to get that point across hopefully Gene does better next time around
i feel that the vitriol over JJKs ending has been a bit overblown, and while the ending isnt everything i want, if you look at yuji and his arc as the center point of the story then i think it got where it wanted to go. i think that what the artist is trying to say is part of what makes a piece of art interesting, and in that vein id say Gege stuck the landing with the philosophy of the story. sure there are loose ends and underutilized characters, but i dont think the heart of the story went anywhere and i think thats worth quite a bit. Yuji finally found a way to live amidst the maelstrom of curses, he found himself, and theres a distinct beauty in that and looking back on the journey he had to go through to find his actualization.
Jjk truly is the best manga in all of existance
never let bro cook again🙏🙏🙏💀💀💀
Gege who did not think of any of that: 😰
(it's a joke, w video)
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Jjk isn’t a top 5 new gen
To Hell with what Oda said. Mangaka make subtle retcons every goddamn chance they get or we'll just outright forget what they've written thousands of chapters ago.
Akira Toriyama, MAY HE REST IN PEACE, forgot his own series continuity on a regular basis.
I would really reccomend that all the people who consider themselves manga fans explore other things than battle shonen. I think a lot of ya'll would realise that the manga you claim are "peak fiction" are mediocre as best. Please read things outside Weekly Shonen Jump and Attack on Titan!!!
What you guys don't understand is, if you're a refugee or veteran. You relate with jjk more
jjK was mega mid. Most trash ending in modern shonen.
Dude, you gotta watch the video before you comment you know that right
bots comments are crazy
@@C052-ip9zs I am more real than your momma.
@@julianpete5254 the ending has been p lack luster not about this video yuuji tho
I mean I have some issues with the pacing and how exactly everything tied together in retrospect but given it's actually pretty solid on a technical level, to say the ending was trash just sounds like you didn't like it and can't seperate your personal taste from your analysis.
And idek what you mean by saying the series is mid. every time I've seen something being called that the meaning changes a bit, so what do you even mean? That it was avg? That it was mediocre? Bad? What?