Deadass bro, gege made a lot of foreshadowing and a lot of concepts. Like the fact that geto was able to briefly take over his right hand to fight choke kenjaku, and that never happened with yuta.
@@sageanimations2463imo wit Yuta I def think it’s just cuz gojo wasn’t tryna do that to Yuta. Sure he prolly didn’t love it, but I’m sure gojo knew it was necessary to do everything they could. Not to say he couldn’t do that cuz I’m sure he could but just didn’t need to ya know?
@@glaiveb9957 lol. They had a chapter about kenjaku taking over the kamo clan but then never elaborated on it. Neither about the consequences of the zenin clan massacre.
This story is literally the end of that era. That would be like watching the Sopranos show and getting mad that there’s all this lore and dialogue about the five families of New York and it’s never explored. The entire point is Gojo trying to foster a new generation that ends the current system. Tony soprano came in after the hay day and so did Gojo.
this would explain why he made yuji the main character only to halfway through decide to make gojo the main character instead.. like if he had planned further along perhaps he wouldve made gojo the main character all along
@@mariasafron7789 He literally hated Gojo and regretted having him in the series. what you talking about? it's the fans that made Gojo the main character not Gege, the story has always been about Yuji and Yuta.
It also seemed like Gege just wasn't that interested in writting the story anymore and just wanted to wrap it up. We also know he had health problems and apparently even a surgery during the big break he took(not completely sure about that but it was apparently in the extra info we recently got). He has also been talking about doing another project for a while. But on the bright side I think JJK's ending was left open enough where a JJK part 2 is still possible one day if Gege wants to return to the series.
It happens. Sometimes you lose the passion or care for a project that you spent a long time working on, and sometimes you realize that when you're so far in that you have to finish it. Plus, endings are often hard to write especially in a way that satisfies and lives up to the high points of the story.
yeah but still...Its very popular to crap on MHA ending but atleast Deku "surpassed" all might, Yuji couldnt with gojo. Sometimes it annoys me how gege forgets YUJI is the main character nad the one that should have the most epic moments, not gojo
@@mariasafron7789 the point was never to surpass Gojo. different stories..different goals...Sukuna and Gojo were introduced as the strongest..and remained the strongest till the end
@@Dan-bd2lz well they’re only gonna be the strongest for the next like I don’t 10 years by the time they’re gojo’s age somebody Sakuna level potential with blood mani and soul cutting shrine is bound to surpass gojo eventually. Give Sukuna soul cutting shrine and the first time gojo has to deal with his sure hit in their fight he dies.
The Gojuta storyline really was such a waste smh, people were hating on the fact that Yuta took over Gojos body so much and they wanted Gojo back so badly and I was just so hyped for Yuta to come back and GOAT himself further, only for him to accomplish pretty much nothing and then go to sleep smh. Such a waste of what could've been a really cool plot line.
it felt like an excuse to bring gojo back, which sucks because in the end they never get the chance for yuji to truly be the main character... like tbh they shouldve just made gojo the main character if gege was going to focus sooo much more on him
My least favorite part of the fandom is the “if you didn’t like it you didn’t read crowd”. It’s so pretentious and disingenuous. “You didn’t like it so obviously you didn’t pay attention” is so disrespectful.
Because 95% of the people complaining didn’t read it, I saw someone genuinely say that yuji having a hoodie was a plot hole and how yuta surviving was a plot a hole
@@Wu_bandzas annoying as the TikTok and Twitter fans are, I think using them as a meter for “people who didn’t like it” I think is pretty dumb. There’s plenty of folks who read it, and didn’t like it, and that’s okay. To each their own.
Not to mention all the wasted potential from the characters. It’s like Gege wanted to get over with as fast as possible. Megumi was hyped up so much to not even being able to utilize his technique properly by the end. No taming Mahoraga, no finished domain, nothing. His last fight was with REGGIE like cmon. Yuji too. Yuji’s domain got nothing either no name, no actual explanation of what it does although we can infer the sure hit effect is the soul dismantles and he never even figured out the connection he has to Kenjaku which is something that could recontextualize how he saw his grandpa. I love this story but it’s a damn shame how it ended.
I hate it for megumi sssooooooo much man. While Reggie is not peak jjk, that fight was fuckin amazing for me. Seeing megumi actually push himself an dig in his bag is soo fun to watch and read. But ultimately he really was potential man cuz after sukuna used 10 shadows, there was no hope of megumi ever reaching his potential even if the series kept going, he prolly woulda got hoed again or just straight up not have that trace amount of dog in him anymore. Sucks so much man I was sooo high on him until he got taken. Ima Sasuke Stan so he fit my type perfectly but ultimately makes me depressed
I think yujis domain was just normal dismantles not soul ones because they were making sukuna bleed, and you can’t apply a binding vow target change technique to a domain or sukunas domain would be World slashes
i assume he was meant to parallel geto, so it seems like his downfall was inevitable. but considering how megumis character was developed, there should have been more depth to his "downfall." i still hate the fact that megumi had all this build up to his character just for it to end like it ended
If 269 didn’t exist I’d like the epilogue a lot more. The simple domain lore on top of Yuta being 100% back to normal after using Gojo’s body felt like that OP chapter when Kinemon survived against Kaido.
it was an excuse to bring gojo back, which sucks because in the end they never get the chance for yuji to truly be the main character... like just make gojo the main character at that point
That point was that Gojo DIDNT want them to throw a burial for him, much less remember him. It would be more disrespectful to throw one than not to in this case. Don’t confuse your own feelings for character’s in-story
@@MilleniumKage I am not? Gojo has been important to some notable characters lives, he has saved yuta, megumi and yuji. He fought the king of curses knowing he would likely die and passed it to the next generation to beat him. Sure he didn't want to have a burial, but that is not disrespectful at all, having a speech about what an amazing guy he was and sending him off by continuing his legacy would have been better than just "forgot" about it. Having yuji or yuta acknowledge that gojo was more than just a weapon but also a human and vowing to continue his legacy would've been better than just ignoring his existence. He already got a good ending, by him hanging out with geto and his friends in the after life, this isn't really more about how gojo feels anymore, it's about how other characters feel and their reaction to his death. Literally nobody talked about gojo when megumi woke up isn't that a bit weird for them to literally have jack shit reactions to his death when they were shambling and praying to God that gojo returns to fix the culling games disaster?
@@sageanimations2463 they weren’t “shambling” for Gojo to return, that was the fans 😂. The story shows you that Yuji didn’t see Gojo as a weapon, I’m sorry it didn’t have every character give some speech about him in the end
@@MilleniumKage OH THEY WERE DEFINITELY SHAMBLING. The entire Shibuya arc was a complete disaster because he was sealed, the first plan to fix the culling games was to literally free gojo by destroying the back of the prison realm, they couldn't immediately do that because the ISOH was gone, the black whip was destroyed and angel was roaming around everywhere. So they opted to just suppress the culling games and save megumi's sister instead so that when they found angel gojo could have a much easier time fixing the culling games. The entire jujutsu tech was shambling because of his imprisonment. Shibuya and the culling games were the biggest example of sorcerers completely fucking up without gojo. Having yuji or yuta make a speech about how gojo isn't a weapon to everyone would've been enough. Not everyone has to have a private pep talk with gojo about how he feels lonely, they just need to understand. And with yuji or yuta doing that, everyone can at the very least understand gojo more.
Some people would complain saying how "it's Jujutsu Society! They don't do funerals!" Like, Yuji came into it 6 months prior In-Universe. He finished burying his dead grandpa! Showing Yuji having a Speech about his last 6 months, and mentioning Gojo & Sukuna, with everyone who died, that'll literally show how Jujutsu Society is starting to change! It'll show how Gojo's Dreams of changing Jujutsu Society coming true! Burying the Old, starting with the New!!
@ So you're telling me, that if Yuji Itadori introduces Funerals (something Jujutsu Society doesn't do), it would mean a Change to Jujutsu Society for betterment for the future? Something that Gojo wanted for how harsh and cruel Jujutsu Society is?!
@baligong3592 gojo wanted to change how jujutsu society functions with the higher ups being greedy morally horrible people and depending on him only. He solved both by ending the higher ups and creating a generation of extremely powerful sorcerers that can handle themselves and don't need to rely on him. What are you yapping about? Bros really making a big deal about a funeral 😭😭
@@Oknahidwin You came to me. If you really didn't wanted someone "yapping" you should've just not responded. Besides that, you're only saying part of Gojo's reasons. Gojo wanted originally to kill the Higher Ups, because they did not care for the death of Riko Amanai, a 14 year old girl... Rathermore, they celebrated. They rely heavily on him, yes, but they robbed him of his Childhood. Him being forced to be The Strongest, because it's all he was ever taught, made him desire that it should be a shared title to the next generation. Throughout everything Gojo wanted, the point of why he wanted the change was because of how brutal the society is, how they do not care for People and only see them as tools. They saw Gojo as a Weapon, they saw Riko Amanai as just Care Package, they tried to Eliminate Yuta and Yuji like they're livestocks. They don't even host a funeral because Sorcerors are just Objects to them. Like mentioned, a Funeral is just a way to respect the Dead, something that's never been done. Yuji, who joined Jujutsu Society recently, and buried his Grandpa, could've introduced that. It'll show how Gojo had his Goals accomplished through Yuji.
@@Oknahidwin I'm going to make a Bonus comment and state again: IF you aren't looking to discuss or be Civil, don't bother responding. I don't see you making a reasonable response on why Yuji changing the Jujutsu World by 1 introduction is a bad thing. You came to me, and commented. Don't be acting like it's somehow my fault for something you did to yourself.
This is a genuine response, so many other creators are tryna gaslight the community into thinking that they have no reason to dislike the ending, could honestly write my own spin off series with all these unanswered questions
Honestly W video as always, I honestly am really tight we didn’t get to see anything of any importance from the Heian Era, that era was so interesting to me I was honestly hoping we’d get at least 5 chapters from that era, like who the hell was Yamata no Orochi? sukuna said that Mahoraga had the similar CT to him yet we don’t even learn it
7:40 my interpretation of that lady is sukanas mother the person who brought this calamity onto the world, by going north and rejecting her sukana himself is saying that there's no point to try and repeat that cycle. He lost in the battle of ideals to yuji so clearly the path he walked wasn't correct
Let's talk Tengen. What was his point? If Tengen doesn't get a vessel it'll be bad. (Nothing happened) If Tengen is killed it'll be bad. (Nothing happened) If the merger happens, watch out for Tengen (Nothing happened) Remove Tengen from the story and nothing changes 😂
Tengen is the Sole reason Cursed energy is mostly Abundant In Japan thanks to her barriers and is the reason the sorcerer’s knew who Kenjaku was and how to prepare against him
I just feel like Yuujis closure cant happen without Kenjakus. I like Yuujis character arc in how he transition from Black and White to seeing the Gray areas but theres something missing. Like how Ichigo was progressing but is very similar in which we could never get the full picture until Everything but the Rain. Something similar would fill out Yuujis full character imo along with givng us the much needed Kenjaku Sukuna Twin content and why Yuuji is super human but not HR. Idk im rambling but anyways, I really love how your Editing has been getting better and better! ❤
JJK had the potential to be as good as the big 3. Season 1 was giving heavy big 3 vibes. Unfortunately it went in a completely weird direction and just got worse and worse over time. Started off as a 9/10, ended as a 5/10.
Sukuna's talk with Mahito and the last mission were great, and I don't mind not knowing anything about Sukuna's past because I don't think that was really the point. I personally think that Gege did a phenomenal job not letting us down with the hype surrounding Sukuna, and just how long and much it took to kill him; that made Yuji's moments greater because of that. I also loved all of the messages from Gojo to his students. They were nice. I also liked that Nobara came back, though it could have been much earlier, like, before Sukuna took Megumi kinda earlier. Explanation to still trick Sukuna? Same reason as Noritoshi Kamo. Sukuna could very easily just assume that Kugisaki isn't in the battlefield because she is too weak, so she would be at a high risk of just dying, only to be hit with resonance at the time he did in the actual fight. That's one thing I would like to change in the Anime adaptation. My biggest complaints are: the New Shadow stuff, and the Clan wars, which the the ladder should have been the arc after Maki killed the Zenin clan, before the culling games, and that's where we could have been met with the New shadow school, as well as spending an arc with Kusikabe and some of the other sorcerers. I thought it was genius to have Yuta go into Gojo's body, and not doing anything to Sukuna, because he tried to take a short cut at becoming the strongest, sacrificing his humanity to get there, effectively losing the battles of both ideals and strategy to Sukuna, in contrast to Yuji succeeding in both if those areas, being the embodiment of Gojo's actual victory and what he wanted. but there is no shortcuts. Gojo wasn't just the strongest for his cursed technique, but also his talent fueled skill at using that technique, and it makes sense why Yuta would think he could pull it off because Gojo makes it look so easy, but in all actuality, despite having a copy technique, he still needs to learn the technique, and for infinity, he would need to master it if he wants to put it to good use. I would have liked it a whole lot more if Yuta had stayed in Gojo's body, and actually had to deal with the consequences of his actions. That would virtually put him back at square one in terms of his skill, and he would have to live with his decision. He would have lost Rika, his cursed technique, and the respect of a lot of his peers, all because he was impatient, acted irrationally, and didn't have faith in Yuji and Todou's ability to finish the job. He was acting foolish and need the consequences. Those are just my thoughts.
5:00 that part where Kenjaku talks to the US government kinda felt like it took inspiration from HxH sucession war - kinda like Gege was trying to explore the diplomatic aspect of the world building. I remember the US flying to Japan in JJK and felt like "this is so HxH, looks like what Togashi does giving some real world and complex vibes to the history". Idk why I'm saying that I just felt like sharing my thoughts and knowing GG loves HxH... great video btw
For me the only sections I liked were the conclusions to Yuji, Gojo and Sukuna's character arcs. Other than that this chapter felt like a whole lot of nothing. Rather than being an end to a series, it felt like an end to an arc. Even other anime/manga series with their negative received endings like AOT and MHA at least felt like a conclusion to an entire story. For JJK it left a LOT of stuff in the story for much to desire. Other than the main cast, there's barely any investment Gege left for us to form a bond with certain characters (Kusakabe, Yuki, Hakari, Kashimo, Mai, Noritoshi, Miwa, Shoko, Yaga, and Utahime). The most hurtful example is Tsumiki (Megumi's Sister). Like literally all we know of her is that she's Megumi's step sister and is kind. The only reason we feel sad for her death is because of Megumi. Take him out of the equation, we feel nothing noteworthy was lost. That's how much of a nothing character she was. As for the subplots, they barely had any impact on the main story and went almost nowhere: (Star Plasma Cult - went nowhere) (Miwa in culling games - went nowhere) (U.S and rest of the world finding about CURSES and CURSED ENERGY - went nowhere) (Special Grade cursed corpses - went nowhere) (Hakari's plan for expanding his Curse User Fight Club - went nowhere) (Jujutsu Society Corruption - went nowhere) (Culling Games merger - went nowhere) (Simple Domain Monopoly - LITERALLY introduced and ended in ONE CHAPTER.) All in all, JJK is just one of those series that left so much to desire and puts little investment in its lore, character drama, and world building. Which is a shame because it's the fact that I like the series very much which is why I'm being critical on the many things it had the potential to expand on but didn't.But hey, that's just my opinion.
Gege is the type of author to think the audience knows what he means but forgot to even explain it in the first place” Bro deadass name dropped Usami’s name like we were supposed to know who that was? Also yeah leakers are deadass bums
Honestly one reason why I didn’t nessecarily like this ending is because of the relation between Yuji and Kenjaku, and it was never explored (considering Kenjaku is his mummy)
Kenjaku was this close to transforming the entire world of JJK into a dystopian vertion of the MHA universe. Imagine JJK 2 is set up in a world were everyone awakens cursed techniques no exeption and they have to deal with more dangerous and diverse supernatural curses. gege could make JJK2 and then break the internet.
I’m not gonna speak for everyone else but I don’t mind a hiatus, be it a few weeks, months, or even years. His health matters above all else, however when a mangaka visibly wants to end a manga as quickly as possible without giving nearly enough closure to the promising elements that they have introduced in their story it kinda feels like a slap in the face as an reader.
@@Puvantis Yeah i know and i'm sad about it too, i feel like shonen jump also had something to do with all of this with their schedule and Gege couldn't keep up and was burnt out
Really though JJK's ending being painfully mediocre is almost worse than a bad ending. It just made the manga so damn forgettable. I went from barley being able to get through the week with excitement for chapters to immediately forgetting about JJK for weeks after the ending dropped. There is just absolutely nothing in those final few chapters to leave a lasting impression and keep discussion going.
Damn you got a point. When I finished jjk I was just like “oh ok well time to go read Dandadan.” Like I didn’t really feel any emotion when it ended which is so…weird for a series I was looking forward to week after week.
It was a horrible ending, but only because Gege created such a *great series. It's horrible because something great was wasted.* Although in a vacuum It was an alright ending.
The ending it’s self is not the worst just pretty mediocre but the potential gege wasted for an entire year of shock factor fights and ass pull binding vows soured the series significantly
The problem is the instant quality drop in the last 2 chapters, had it been the same for like 15-20 chapters before or more no one would have been this mad but this felt like something that Gege did willingly to mess with the Gojo fanbase..
Jjk is trash my boy, W fights W animation/ L story blant L fight outcomes, L progression, L character development L plot armor :/ I really liked the anime so far up to Gojo coming back that’s when it was done for me after Gojo vs sukuna, it all started being trash
JJK was being held up by the fights and the anime. The Sukuna cycle was trash and seeing how it ended, feels so damn drawn out. Nobara deadass woke up 45 min after Gojo vs Sukuna, that's how bad the writing is
I actually quite liked the epilogue, especially the last chapter, but I had most of my issues with Shinjuku itself even if overall I had a good time. I genuinely feel like the 2 biggest things JJK would've benefited from are a Heian era arc (maybe as a side manga) and even just a few more chapters in the epilogue to better tie up some loose ends, but more so another arc either right before Shibuya or after Perfect Preparation. Plus I fully agree the leaks ruined the perception of the manga, I've seen WAY too many people shouting for plot holes where it's fully explained in the manga. Hell, most of them had to be corrected on what a plot hole even *IS* cuz they didn't know bruh, that's who we're dealing with 😭
I’m mad that it kinda ended with leaving a lot of stuff unfinished but I actually really like how it all played out plus it’s not like they gonna struggle with any curses now
I thought they said something about the world balancing out the power when gojo was born. Of course its not like we will see it. Man, so many plot threads had huge potential.
Having finished a 425 chapter manga 2 days ago (Karakuri Circus for those looking for the name) I noticed a few similarities to JJK. 1. A very complex world with a defined villains and heroes 2. A loaded cast of characters 3. Several characters dying halfway through in a large-scale assault plan arc 4. Characters being introduced and dying within the same arc 5. The final battle against the main villain ending with several characters dying Difference is, KC always gave characters that were recently introduced strong characterization and a great conclusion. For already established characters they were given well-defined arcs and beautiful conclusions even if they were just side-characters. Also one of the best aspects of the series is the character dynamics, the way each person interacts with another was amazing. JJK wants to have this down to a science but ended up not doing a thing with it. Already-established characters weren't thoroughly explored and 99% of the side-characters were shallow and given mid conclusions or had their conclusions undone. The main cast also lacked meaningful character arcs for most of the characters, we got Maki, Yuji and Megumi for good arcs and that's it, even then they weren't much. Breaking the cycle and embracing yourself, becoming a cog and persevering, and maturing and becoming more confident. Dynamics are also in the toilet. Gege's either trolling, secretly dying, got pressured by Jump or gave up on JJK
I was hoping that we might see more sorcerers from other countries, you’re telling me only Japan and some parts of Africa can produce curses and sorcery😂???
Oh man I love my Goat Yuuta but oh man oh man, his speech was so peak to end this way . I really thought the possibility of him being of two blood clans, Kamo and Gojo, would mean his Kamo blood the one Kenjaku is from would save him from f up but nah not even that just here you go hes alive, be happy.
7:55 you do know why Sukuna was persecuted. You have to infer his story from the other characters. Aspects of Sukuna are reflected in the rest of the cast. The 2 important ones for the “revenge” narrative are Choso and Maki. He parallels Makis story a lot. Maki and Sukuna are twins. Twins are a bad omen and they are “cursed” from birth. Sukuna ate his twin brother and that’s why he has a cursed body. Hes got all the pairs. 4 arms, 4 eyes, 2 mouths, and 2 unique cursed techniques even. He was born half cursed half human like Choso. Choso started his path as a curse and later took a path of humanity alongside Yuji. Maki was born with a heavenly restriction that made her different from her clan and shunned. She wanted revenge and killed the entire zenin clan. Sukuna wanted revenge against those who persecuted him. “A cursed unwanted little wretch” describes Makis experience in the zenin clan. Both Sukuna and Maki acquire special grade cursed tools from a creation user. Sukunas first black flash was in his fight with Maki. As laid out in that fight. As much as the 2 of them are similar they are different in where their power comes from. Gege almost spoon fed this one to us there are enough clues here. JJKs ending will not be appreciated by the fan base until a year later when someone does a close read through of the manga and makes a 2 hour video on “the backstory of Sukuna we never saw” that lays out all the clues so the people who can’t read will understand it.
Honestly I wish he just handed the story over to someone else or just quit it rather than this rushed ending. Because it really did have SO MUCH potential. But it never lived up
My brother in christ we NEVER GOT YUJI DOMAIN EXPANSION NAME, nor what it did exactly. Was it talk no jutsu was it guaranteed black flashes no one knows!!!
We NEED a jjk two so badly, so many unexplored plotlines so many character statements unfulfilled i liked jjks ending personally but the ending SCREAMS rushed it basically demands a part 2 otherwise it will be a terrible ending
So funny how these are all criticisms that people like me have been shouting since the final 5 chapter announcement but dickriders kept coping and giving gege so many excuses. Now all of a sudden everyone is coming back around after realising that there won't be a jjk part 2 smh. This ending is G A R B A G E.
It felt obviously rushed. Whether that was because of Shonen Jump or Gege just not wanting to write anymore, it doesn’t matter. I would have had zero issue if Gege took a two three four or even five month break just to get his passion back. It’s ridiculous how much info Gege tried to squeeze in towards the end. And damn near all of it was through flashbacks. We even got introduced to a character that was mentioned a total of one time *after* the manga ended. We barely got to know about the big three families, we didn’t get any Hein era flashback, Tengen was a useless character, the merger was a wasted concept, its actually crazy.
It’s true that there are too many unexplored plot points that will hopefully be explored in future light novels or a JJK 2 (like how bleach had great lore drops in light novels after the manga ended) but I really enjoyed it. And Sukuna’s ending is still great to me as even if we didn’t see what happened, I personally find it easy enough to understand: Sukuna was hated as a kid probably because of his strength and appearance and stuff so he lived the way he did and due to his strength at his peak surpassing everyone by far, he became worshipped as a god. Also, we still have the anime that can fix stuff like it’s doing for bleach.
The best quote I heard was" it isn't the end of Jjk, it's just the manga that won't have more chapters. You know I love JJK, but I kinda hate what it has become (yes I don't like the ending, mildly said) and the more I re-read the story, the amount of plot conveniences and contrivances, lack of characterization, characters being only a plot device, abandoned plot lines, lack of characters interactions is "concerning" to say the least. Gege is a great concept maker, seriously the whole power system, abilities, domain expansion (which is the coolest sh*t ever in manga) but is clearly lacking in writing department. Many fans think, that he was just fed up with the story and wanted to end it asap, a big deal imo was the one month break (where he apparently had a surgery) and infamous chapters with Yuta in Gojo's body (which after the end, it turned out to be a pointless mess, seriously why make a big deal about Kenjaku's body hopping ability, the 5 min time limit and its aftermath just to conclude it in a "lol, somehow I managed to return to my body unscathed thanks to Rika, btw. Rika can use RCT now so she was healing my body" and Kusakabe saying "lol, Kenjaku probably was using some kind of barrier techniques in his brain, nevermind, let's go we need to wrap up the story". Anyway this truly was our Jujutsu Kaisen and Kenjaku plan/merger was the friends we've made along the way ;)
The reason why there is no Heian era arc or flashback or anything is because the Heian era as a part of the actual worldbuilding doesn't exist. It exists only as a tool to hype up Sukuna, and everything that we got besides that in terms of "lore" is directly taken from Japanese folklore and mythology. Gege never actually developed the Heian era, and instead used it and the stuff it's based on as a shortcut to make is main villain more impressive, so he didn't have anything to show to begin with. He couldn't write a Heian era arc even if he wanted to, because there is nothing to show
Aight hear my theory maybe….. maybe….. Gege is Togashi all the time in disguise!! It ain’t coincidence that HxH is coming back right after JJK ended on that bs 🤣
Ngl i think people aren’t reading it on the context it’s meant to be read (Buddhism/japanese) which just because of hype. They were trying to get exposition on everything when it sort of clear that bro was not gonna do that, if anything the culling games would’ve been the perfect time to get into more story and world building but he ain’t do that. While you have people leaking his hard work, as a creative i would personally make everyone unsatisfied too if my work was being leaked, and at the same time you have people pining for gojo still, then there’s people actually trying to understand what he actually put out. At a certain point, people aren’t reading any works as they are meant to be read. Like bro if he write an idol manga after jjk I’d fully understand; if there is a part two of jjk it definitely shouldn’t be in shonen the fanbase just ain’t it fr especially with leak culture because it makes people jump to conclusions about the shit they haven’t read yet. I feel like leak culture made the series seem worse than it was because it is good when you read outside of hype and actually read it with some philosophical understanding or just idk reread the manga. Not every series gotta have bleach and Naruto levels of world building. not every world is gonna be like the soul society where you know everything but things even characters don’t know. People can’t actually understand bro probably just wanted to write a lil story in the world of his one-shot
I think the main reason fans are disappointed (apart from the delusional 'Gojo is coming back' fans) is because of the JJK shippuden rumors that spread out once it was announced that JJK would end in 5 chapters, and then it never came true. this is why I hate Twitter, it's always filled with false rumors and people end up disappointed that their rumor isn't true, I think the ending would have been much better if Gege didn't announce that the story would end in 5 chapters
i don’t think the ending was anything special but it also wasn’t horrendous, i personally think leaving major questions unanswered can genuinely be a good thing it allows the community to speculate and bring more life and theories into the mix like in the cod zombies map mob of the dead was better leaving lots of questions unanswered because when those questions were answered in blood of the dead the answer wasn’t exactly what the community wanted to me the ending was just the cast moving on with their lives after a crazy ass battle nothing special nothing bad tho
Do you remember the time that gege got sick during yuta in gojo's body fighting sukuna? I think gege got tired of writing jjk at that point and just wanted to end it quickly because of his health and jjk fans sending him death threats.
honestly the latter part of the series is just rlly vague to me in terms how the series had progressed so far. there was just so much potential but it was never explored. i felt we were stuck in a corner, dealing with kenjaku but there were just so many loose threads to tie up, which never really happened. plus gege definitely could have used the lore he had built up in the initial arcs to bring a smooth ending. plus i felt like characters didn't play their role well, i never got any closure with a lot of people, especially megumi. personally i wanted to also see a flashback or like going into the past like the heian era, i think that could have been fun. what truly hurts me the most is how mediocre the ending was. i mean if it was downright bad then atleast u can see the passion behind the work, the effort put into it. i won't deny that there was a lot effort and thought put into it, but by the end of the series it genuinely feels rushed and just not it. hence it's not even bad it's just so-so. well it is what it is.
The manga up to the culling games was actually pretty good, Shinjuku and everything afterwards started veering off on the deep end. The only reason why I wouldn’t call JJK bad or mid is because of how good the beginning and middle was.
Thank you for actually being reasonable and explaining your points. Lot of people hating without saying why, but this actually convinced me to change my mind. I still think Gege shouldn't be hated on for it, but the story has issues.
The comment in the beginning summed up my feelings on the ending as well. Like most newer gen manga it had a lot of potential that just was never reached. Just like Megumi.
ppl flaming demon slayer for being carried by the anime when jjk as been carried throughout the whole run is crazy 😭DO not compare demon slayer to jjk i dont even like demon slayer that much but it still has a good story than jjk
My jjk 2 storyline The CE collected from culling games becomes a curse in megumi And it want's to become it's final from(merger) As gojo's body didn't had a proper burial Some other ancient sorcerer who also knew the technique of kenjaku took that body but it cant do much So it's plan is to capture yuta and yuji so they could use megumi to start merger Edit: As sukuna's remains were scattered in the places where tengen's barrier used to be so Sukuna reincarnates but as a good person But they have to take sukuna too to completely start the merger Gojo v sukuna happens third time Yuta also gets sealed Megumi is took on by the curse but it has to kill yuta ko start the merger
if JJK gets a part 2, the world that this series built could have a lot of much needed and much deserved spotlight i wanna see some politics, with our chad higurama as our mc
People who tells us that the ending wasnt bad are just coping. This criticism always comes from people who cant accept their favorite media can have flaws in any way. I heard the same argument with mha ending a lot and boi I'm glad they died down and realized that the ending is as bad as it seems if you reread the series from the start. Same with jujutsu kaisen
I really thought it was doing really well up until the chapter they defeated sukuna. It felt anticlimactic and then they didn’t really wrap things up at all and it felt like a waste of a few chapters. They buried Sukuna but not Gojo like what even is that. What happens with Megumi how strong is yuji actually now without sukuna because up until the last fight he was pretty weak. So many unfinished things for a finished manga.
I think people don't put into context that the whole sukuna fight was an extended ending. i don't think we needed more fighting, the whole point of the gauntlet was to steadily cheap away at sukuna, every exchange did something to weaken him and nobara was the last nail on the coffin, yuji did a hell of alot and fought along side multiple people. Remember that gege thought he would finish the manga last year and i think this is why. Gege always told the story the same way, he communicated the world through the characters and didn't go through extensive flashbacks ever, he never was the type of author to expand on every single thing, world building doesn't mean going into detail about everything you mention, the point is to make a believable world and an engaging story and that's what he did, that doesn't mean you can't be disappointed about stuff that you wanted but that doesn't make it bad and i do think it was weird not expanding more on kenjaku. I don't think that sukuna's character was supposed to be expanded upon more than he already was, gege gives you all the information to understand why he was unloved and why he made the choices he made, for example just knowing how jujutsu society treats deformities and twins should tell you enough about sukuna's life and i think that's more powerful. Alot of the issues from jjk don't come from the ending or world building in my opinion, i agree with everything you said about hakari, his character wasn't fulfilled at all and i don't think that gege was vague on purpose there, he either had plans for more chapters about hakari vs uraume but couldn't because of his operation or he was just careless but i think something there is missing, i always expected for hakari's luck to run out at some point.
Lets be 100% honest: the ending was ass. There was no way they left us with even more doubts and unsatisfaction than ever. ATLEAST MHA EXPLORED MORE THE IMPORTANT CHARACTERS. These kids which most of em own their lifes to Gojo never were shown to go to his funeral. Like MF saved alot of them from judgment and execution. No answer about what would happen if anybody becomes sukuna vessel, families being no relevant, kenjaku just a mystery even after DYING AND COMING BACK, binding vows and heavenly restrictions still unexplored, Heian era unexplored, etc.
If I rate JJK just based on the 2 seasons of anime alone, I would give it 9/10. If I'm including all of the stuffs from manga, then it becomes 6.5/10. There are some entertaining stuffs here and there from the manga continuing from the anime for sure, but the overall quality of the story is definitely declining the more we get to the end. Reminded me of Game of Thrones final season. I don't think it's as bad but definitely same vibe.
ngas when gege tells us sukuna>inumaki: 🫡😱🙀
ngas when gege gives no world building: 😴🥱😪
lol first
Yuta > stallkari
accuracy: *200%*
Yo can you start covering hxh we gonna have it for 20 chapters so it will help give us over from no more jjk
@@xebec995 you can keep dreaming big dawg, dont ever disrespect my goat ever again
Gege created an entire an entire Jujutsu society with 3 main families and higher ups, then proceeded to never explore it
Deadass bro, gege made a lot of foreshadowing and a lot of concepts. Like the fact that geto was able to briefly take over his right hand to fight choke kenjaku, and that never happened with yuta.
@@sageanimations2463imo wit Yuta I def think it’s just cuz gojo wasn’t tryna do that to Yuta. Sure he prolly didn’t love it, but I’m sure gojo knew it was necessary to do everything they could. Not to say he couldn’t do that cuz I’m sure he could but just didn’t need to ya know?
My first thought was "hey! The zenins were pretty fleshed out!" Then i remembered that fact i don’t even remember the other two families-
@@glaiveb9957 lol. They had a chapter about kenjaku taking over the kamo clan but then never elaborated on it. Neither about the consequences of the zenin clan massacre.
This story is literally the end of that era. That would be like watching the Sopranos show and getting mad that there’s all this lore and dialogue about the five families of New York and it’s never explored. The entire point is Gojo trying to foster a new generation that ends the current system. Tony soprano came in after the hay day and so did Gojo.
I legit don't think Gege expected JJK to pop off the way it did. Plus, he just seemed disinterested in the latter half of the series
Yeah Gege never planned for jjk to be more than a one shot
this would explain why he made yuji the main character only to halfway through decide to make gojo the main character instead.. like if he had planned further along perhaps he wouldve made gojo the main character all along
@@mariasafron7789 He literally hated Gojo and regretted having him in the series. what you talking about? it's the fans that made Gojo the main character not Gege, the story has always been about Yuji and Yuta.
@@boodyjacob9322 literally
I hate Jjk ending because it feels like an incomplete work. It feels like a manga that Jump canceled.
Shiiit, the whole series is an incomplete piece of work.
@daeryk6424 Facts
It also seemed like Gege just wasn't that interested in writting the story anymore and just wanted to wrap it up. We also know he had health problems and apparently even a surgery during the big break he took(not completely sure about that but it was apparently in the extra info we recently got). He has also been talking about doing another project for a while. But on the bright side I think JJK's ending was left open enough where a JJK part 2 is still possible one day if Gege wants to return to the series.
It happens. Sometimes you lose the passion or care for a project that you spent a long time working on, and sometimes you realize that when you're so far in that you have to finish it. Plus, endings are often hard to write especially in a way that satisfies and lives up to the high points of the story.
yeah but still...Its very popular to crap on MHA ending but atleast Deku "surpassed" all might, Yuji couldnt with gojo.
Sometimes it annoys me how gege forgets YUJI is the main character nad the one that should have the most epic moments, not gojo
@@mariasafron7789 the point was never to surpass Gojo. different stories..different goals...Sukuna and Gojo were introduced as the strongest..and remained the strongest till the end
lol and y'all clowned MHA's ending when this shit was somehow worse. Karma is a btch eh?
@@Dan-bd2lz well they’re only gonna be the strongest for the next like I don’t 10 years by the time they’re gojo’s age somebody Sakuna level potential with blood mani and soul cutting shrine is bound to surpass gojo eventually. Give Sukuna soul cutting shrine and the first time gojo has to deal with his sure hit in their fight he dies.
Gege offscreened uraume vs Hakari mane. How you cannot be mad at that
The anime better carry 😂
@@Bumblitz0 they literally are, demon slayer gets flamed for anime making the series good when the anime has carried jjk so hard
@@moonless4246😂Fact's
And i was wondering why everyone writing about hakari getting over 30 jackpots in that fight so i was hyped to see that
Man...
The Gojuta storyline really was such a waste smh, people were hating on the fact that Yuta took over Gojos body so much and they wanted Gojo back so badly and I was just so hyped for Yuta to come back and GOAT himself further, only for him to accomplish pretty much nothing and then go to sleep smh. Such a waste of what could've been a really cool plot line.
it felt like an excuse to bring gojo back, which sucks because in the end they never get the chance for yuji to truly be the main character... like tbh they shouldve just made gojo the main character if gege was going to focus sooo much more on him
@@mariasafron7789 gege focused so much more on him cuz he "hated" him and wanted to end him
My least favorite part of the fandom is the “if you didn’t like it you didn’t read crowd”. It’s so pretentious and disingenuous. “You didn’t like it so obviously you didn’t pay attention” is so disrespectful.
Because 95% of the people complaining didn’t read it, I saw someone genuinely say that yuji having a hoodie was a plot hole and how yuta surviving was a plot a hole
@@Wu_bandzas annoying as the TikTok and Twitter fans are, I think using them as a meter for “people who didn’t like it” I think is pretty dumb. There’s plenty of folks who read it, and didn’t like it, and that’s okay. To each their own.
Yeah, the ending was a generous 4/10 for me. It felt like Gege decided to just find one point to clear then wrap it up as quick as possible.
It definitely had potential to end as a 9/10 manga, but it was still a solid 7/10 for me.
Mmmmm id say closer to a 5,
PAINFULLY average.
Reminds me HEAVILY of demon slayers ending.
@@GiRR007Demon slayer's ending was way better
@@malevolentkitchen0 I gave demon slayer a good 7.5. Not the best, but still pretty solid for what it was.
This shit is a solid 6. Just fights and power system with cool characters with not a lot of depth. Narrative is Literaly nothing at the end.
Yeah a solid 6/10 the highs carry but too much left undone or poorly executed
Not to mention all the wasted potential from the characters. It’s like Gege wanted to get over with as fast as possible. Megumi was hyped up so much to not even being able to utilize his technique properly by the end. No taming Mahoraga, no finished domain, nothing. His last fight was with REGGIE like cmon. Yuji too. Yuji’s domain got nothing either no name, no actual explanation of what it does although we can infer the sure hit effect is the soul dismantles and he never even figured out the connection he has to Kenjaku which is something that could recontextualize how he saw his grandpa. I love this story but it’s a damn shame how it ended.
I hate it for megumi sssooooooo much man. While Reggie is not peak jjk, that fight was fuckin amazing for me. Seeing megumi actually push himself an dig in his bag is soo fun to watch and read. But ultimately he really was potential man cuz after sukuna used 10 shadows, there was no hope of megumi ever reaching his potential even if the series kept going, he prolly woulda got hoed again or just straight up not have that trace amount of dog in him anymore. Sucks so much man I was sooo high on him until he got taken. Ima Sasuke Stan so he fit my type perfectly but ultimately makes me depressed
I think yujis domain was just normal dismantles not soul ones because they were making sukuna bleed, and you can’t apply a binding vow target change technique to a domain or sukunas domain would be World slashes
i assume he was meant to parallel geto, so it seems like his downfall was inevitable. but considering how megumis character was developed, there should have been more depth to his "downfall." i still hate the fact that megumi had all this build up to his character just for it to end like it ended
If 269 didn’t exist I’d like the epilogue a lot more. The simple domain lore on top of Yuta being 100% back to normal after using Gojo’s body felt like that OP chapter when Kinemon survived against Kaido.
it was an excuse to bring gojo back, which sucks because in the end they never get the chance for yuji to truly be the main character... like just make gojo the main character at that point
@@mariasafron7789 Why do you want that much that Gojo was the main character
They never gave gojo a proper burial or a funeral. They just forgot about him, goes to show that everyone really did see him as a weapon.
Sound slow asf
That point was that Gojo DIDNT want them to throw a burial for him, much less remember him. It would be more disrespectful to throw one than not to in this case. Don’t confuse your own feelings for character’s in-story
@@MilleniumKage I am not? Gojo has been important to some notable characters lives, he has saved yuta, megumi and yuji. He fought the king of curses knowing he would likely die and passed it to the next generation to beat him. Sure he didn't want to have a burial, but that is not disrespectful at all, having a speech about what an amazing guy he was and sending him off by continuing his legacy would have been better than just "forgot" about it. Having yuji or yuta acknowledge that gojo was more than just a weapon but also a human and vowing to continue his legacy would've been better than just ignoring his existence. He already got a good ending, by him hanging out with geto and his friends in the after life, this isn't really more about how gojo feels anymore, it's about how other characters feel and their reaction to his death. Literally nobody talked about gojo when megumi woke up isn't that a bit weird for them to literally have jack shit reactions to his death when they were shambling and praying to God that gojo returns to fix the culling games disaster?
@@sageanimations2463 they weren’t “shambling” for Gojo to return, that was the fans 😂. The story shows you that Yuji didn’t see Gojo as a weapon, I’m sorry it didn’t have every character give some speech about him in the end
@@MilleniumKage OH THEY WERE DEFINITELY SHAMBLING. The entire Shibuya arc was a complete disaster because he was sealed, the first plan to fix the culling games was to literally free gojo by destroying the back of the prison realm, they couldn't immediately do that because the ISOH was gone, the black whip was destroyed and angel was roaming around everywhere. So they opted to just suppress the culling games and save megumi's sister instead so that when they found angel gojo could have a much easier time fixing the culling games.
The entire jujutsu tech was shambling because of his imprisonment. Shibuya and the culling games were the biggest example of sorcerers completely fucking up without gojo.
Having yuji or yuta make a speech about how gojo isn't a weapon to everyone would've been enough. Not everyone has to have a private pep talk with gojo about how he feels lonely, they just need to understand. And with yuji or yuta doing that, everyone can at the very least understand gojo more.
Unc better start on a new series or else he gonna have to rev up them fryers😭😭😭🙏🙏
He teased the 3 way domain expansion & it never came back
That’s such a cool ass idea and it gives us nothing 😭
He didn't tease it. It happened and nothing happens cause they all cancel each other out
@@Oknahidwin No the roach curse broke it from the outside.
Some people would complain saying how "it's Jujutsu Society! They don't do funerals!"
Like, Yuji came into it 6 months prior In-Universe. He finished burying his dead grandpa!
Showing Yuji having a Speech about his last 6 months, and mentioning Gojo & Sukuna, with everyone who died, that'll literally show how Jujutsu Society is starting to change! It'll show how Gojo's Dreams of changing Jujutsu Society coming true!
Burying the Old, starting with the New!!
The sorcerers don't get funerals. That's obviously the point
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So you're telling me, that if Yuji Itadori introduces Funerals (something Jujutsu Society doesn't do), it would mean a Change to Jujutsu Society for betterment for the future? Something that Gojo wanted for how harsh and cruel Jujutsu Society is?!
@baligong3592 gojo wanted to change how jujutsu society functions with the higher ups being greedy morally horrible people and depending on him only. He solved both by ending the higher ups and creating a generation of extremely powerful sorcerers that can handle themselves and don't need to rely on him. What are you yapping about? Bros really making a big deal about a funeral 😭😭
@@Oknahidwin
You came to me. If you really didn't wanted someone "yapping" you should've just not responded.
Besides that, you're only saying part of Gojo's reasons. Gojo wanted originally to kill the Higher Ups, because they did not care for the death of Riko Amanai, a 14 year old girl... Rathermore, they celebrated. They rely heavily on him, yes, but they robbed him of his Childhood. Him being forced to be The Strongest, because it's all he was ever taught, made him desire that it should be a shared title to the next generation.
Throughout everything Gojo wanted, the point of why he wanted the change was because of how brutal the society is, how they do not care for People and only see them as tools. They saw Gojo as a Weapon, they saw Riko Amanai as just Care Package, they tried to Eliminate Yuta and Yuji like they're livestocks. They don't even host a funeral because Sorcerors are just Objects to them.
Like mentioned, a Funeral is just a way to respect the Dead, something that's never been done. Yuji, who joined Jujutsu Society recently, and buried his Grandpa, could've introduced that. It'll show how Gojo had his Goals accomplished through Yuji.
@@Oknahidwin
I'm going to make a Bonus comment and state again: IF you aren't looking to discuss or be Civil, don't bother responding. I don't see you making a reasonable response on why Yuji changing the Jujutsu World by 1 introduction is a bad thing.
You came to me, and commented. Don't be acting like it's somehow my fault for something you did to yourself.
This is a genuine response, so many other creators are tryna gaslight the community into thinking that they have no reason to dislike the ending, could honestly write my own spin off series with all these unanswered questions
Most creators are gegemeat riders
They are shill copers
Honestly W video as always, I honestly am really tight we didn’t get to see anything of any importance from the Heian Era, that era was so interesting to me I was honestly hoping we’d get at least 5 chapters from that era, like who the hell was Yamata no Orochi? sukuna said that Mahoraga had the similar CT to him yet we don’t even learn it
No way my comment got used. Thanks RestlessGambler! 😂Great vid!
Edit: Wait both of my comments! Holy shit😂!
i didn’t even notice both of those were yours😭😭😭
Still lit, glad you use the people's input none the less!
7:40 my interpretation of that lady is sukanas mother the person who brought this calamity onto the world, by going north and rejecting her sukana himself is saying that there's no point to try and repeat that cycle. He lost in the battle of ideals to yuji so clearly the path he walked wasn't correct
Thing is, gege just hated writing Jujutsu kaisen at that point. With no passion for the series, it was obvious the story Wasn't gonna end well
My question is why can’t gege give his manga to a more ambitious more interesting mangaka
@naraydaniels7832 Cause he worked on it for six years at the cost of his health and time? I would expect him to get the benefits/money backm
Write with the end in mind, something Japanese do not do.
I hate this mentality, you don't know him stop attributing negative emotions it
Where do you guys get that gege hated to write his series? Yall just inventing stufg
Let's talk Tengen. What was his point?
If Tengen doesn't get a vessel it'll be bad.
(Nothing happened)
If Tengen is killed it'll be bad.
(Nothing happened)
If the merger happens, watch out for Tengen
(Nothing happened)
Remove Tengen from the story and nothing changes 😂
Tengen is the Sole reason Cursed energy is mostly Abundant In Japan thanks to her barriers and is the reason the sorcerer’s knew who Kenjaku was and how to prepare against him
I just feel like Yuujis closure cant happen without Kenjakus. I like Yuujis character arc in how he transition from Black and White to seeing the Gray areas but theres something missing. Like how Ichigo was progressing but is very similar in which we could never get the full picture until Everything but the Rain. Something similar would fill out Yuujis full character imo along with givng us the much needed Kenjaku Sukuna Twin content and why Yuuji is super human but not HR. Idk im rambling but anyways, I really love how your Editing has been getting better and better! ❤
Detention arc ending. His former editor pushed him to retcon.
JJK had the potential to be as good as the big 3. Season 1 was giving heavy big 3 vibes. Unfortunately it went in a completely weird direction and just got worse and worse over time. Started off as a 9/10, ended as a 5/10.
My exact feelings
Sukuna's talk with Mahito and the last mission were great, and I don't mind not knowing anything about Sukuna's past because I don't think that was really the point. I personally think that Gege did a phenomenal job not letting us down with the hype surrounding Sukuna, and just how long and much it took to kill him; that made Yuji's moments greater because of that. I also loved all of the messages from Gojo to his students. They were nice. I also liked that Nobara came back, though it could have been much earlier, like, before Sukuna took Megumi kinda earlier. Explanation to still trick Sukuna? Same reason as Noritoshi Kamo. Sukuna could very easily just assume that Kugisaki isn't in the battlefield because she is too weak, so she would be at a high risk of just dying, only to be hit with resonance at the time he did in the actual fight. That's one thing I would like to change in the Anime adaptation.
My biggest complaints are:
the New Shadow stuff, and the Clan wars, which the the ladder should have been the arc after Maki killed the Zenin clan, before the culling games, and that's where we could have been met with the New shadow school, as well as spending an arc with Kusikabe and some of the other sorcerers.
I thought it was genius to have Yuta go into Gojo's body, and not doing anything to Sukuna, because he tried to take a short cut at becoming the strongest, sacrificing his humanity to get there, effectively losing the battles of both ideals and strategy to Sukuna, in contrast to Yuji succeeding in both if those areas, being the embodiment of Gojo's actual victory and what he wanted. but there is no shortcuts. Gojo wasn't just the strongest for his cursed technique, but also his talent fueled skill at using that technique, and it makes sense why Yuta would think he could pull it off because Gojo makes it look so easy, but in all actuality, despite having a copy technique, he still needs to learn the technique, and for infinity, he would need to master it if he wants to put it to good use.
I would have liked it a whole lot more if Yuta had stayed in Gojo's body, and actually had to deal with the consequences of his actions. That would virtually put him back at square one in terms of his skill, and he would have to live with his decision. He would have lost Rika, his cursed technique, and the respect of a lot of his peers, all because he was impatient, acted irrationally, and didn't have faith in Yuji and Todou's ability to finish the job. He was acting foolish and need the consequences.
Those are just my thoughts.
5:00 that part where Kenjaku talks to the US government kinda felt like it took inspiration from HxH sucession war - kinda like Gege was trying to explore the diplomatic aspect of the world building. I remember the US flying to Japan in JJK and felt like "this is so HxH, looks like what Togashi does giving some real world and complex vibes to the history". Idk why I'm saying that I just felt like sharing my thoughts and knowing GG loves HxH... great video btw
There was another comment saying he he is togashi
For me the only sections I liked were the conclusions to Yuji, Gojo and Sukuna's character arcs. Other than that this chapter felt like a whole lot of nothing. Rather than being an end to a series, it felt like an end to an arc. Even other anime/manga series with their negative received endings like AOT and MHA at least felt like a conclusion to an entire story.
For JJK it left a LOT of stuff in the story for much to desire. Other than the main cast, there's barely any investment Gege left for us to form a bond with certain characters (Kusakabe, Yuki, Hakari, Kashimo, Mai, Noritoshi, Miwa, Shoko, Yaga, and Utahime). The most hurtful example is Tsumiki (Megumi's Sister). Like literally all we know of her is that she's Megumi's step sister and is kind. The only reason we feel sad for her death is because of Megumi. Take him out of the equation, we feel nothing noteworthy was lost. That's how much of a nothing character she was.
As for the subplots, they barely had any impact on the main story and went almost nowhere:
(Star Plasma Cult - went nowhere)
(Miwa in culling games - went nowhere)
(U.S and rest of the world finding about CURSES and CURSED ENERGY - went nowhere)
(Special Grade cursed corpses - went nowhere)
(Hakari's plan for expanding his Curse User Fight Club - went nowhere)
(Jujutsu Society Corruption - went nowhere)
(Culling Games merger - went nowhere)
(Simple Domain Monopoly - LITERALLY introduced and ended in ONE CHAPTER.)
All in all, JJK is just one of those series that left so much to desire and puts little investment in its lore, character drama, and world building. Which is a shame because it's the fact that I like the series very much which is why I'm being critical on the many things it had the potential to expand on but didn't.But hey, that's just my opinion.
Went downhill when they timeskipped from the culling games to shinjuku
Gege is the type of author to think the audience knows what he means but forgot to even explain it in the first place”
Bro deadass name dropped Usami’s name like we were supposed to know who that was?
Also yeah leakers are deadass bums
How the fuck do you make the greatest manga of all time then end it like this
Honestly one reason why I didn’t nessecarily like this ending is because of the relation between Yuji and Kenjaku, and it was never explored (considering Kenjaku is his mummy)
Kenjaku was this close to transforming the entire world of JJK into a dystopian vertion of the MHA universe.
Imagine JJK 2 is set up in a world were everyone awakens cursed techniques no exeption and they have to deal with more dangerous and diverse supernatural curses.
gege could make JJK2 and then break the internet.
Gege had no more passion and was sick, so he finished it as quick as possible
I’m not gonna speak for everyone else but I don’t mind a hiatus, be it a few weeks, months, or even years. His health matters above all else, however when a mangaka visibly wants to end a manga as quickly as possible without giving nearly enough closure to the promising elements that they have introduced in their story it kinda feels like a slap in the face as an reader.
@@Puvantis Yeah i know and i'm sad about it too, i feel like shonen jump also had something to do with all of this with their schedule and Gege couldn't keep up and was burnt out
Really though JJK's ending being painfully mediocre is almost worse than a bad ending. It just made the manga so damn forgettable. I went from barley being able to get through the week with excitement for chapters to immediately forgetting about JJK for weeks after the ending dropped. There is just absolutely nothing in those final few chapters to leave a lasting impression and keep discussion going.
Damn you got a point. When I finished jjk I was just like “oh ok well time to go read Dandadan.” Like I didn’t really feel any emotion when it ended which is so…weird for a series I was looking forward to week after week.
JJK's ending is so forgettable that it cannot even be memed.
It wasn’t mediocre, it was the worst ending in manga history possibly, people like you are just sugarcoating it
@@merikijiya13spoilers, dandadan also sucks
@@youfellowceltor5587 chapter 150 and it’s great
It was a horrible ending, but only because Gege created such a *great series. It's horrible because something great was wasted.*
Although in a vacuum It was an alright ending.
Jjk gotta go down in history as one of the worst written mangas / forgotten plot points
Not getting to see megumi fight again is a CRIME. literally never getting to see potential mans potential
I have a perfect explanation... Gege forgot he was ending the story.
14:06 "why are we discussing the obvious stuff" proceeds to ask "Where is Gojos body" lmao 😭, what do you do with a dead body Gambler?
Literally 🤣🤣
you right lmfao
The ending it’s self is not the worst just pretty mediocre but the potential gege wasted for an entire year of shock factor fights and ass pull binding vows soured the series significantly
man, this was my favorite manga 😭
The problem is the instant quality drop in the last 2 chapters, had it been the same for like 15-20 chapters before or more no one would have been this mad but this felt like something that Gege did willingly to mess with the Gojo fanbase..
That thumbnail is elite 😭😭😭
It really feels gege wanted to not write the story after culling games
That kenjaku appearance in 270 needs explanation
Jjk is trash my boy, W fights W animation/ L story blant L fight outcomes, L progression, L character development L plot armor :/ I really liked the anime so far up to Gojo coming back that’s when it was done for me after Gojo vs sukuna, it all started being trash
JJK was being held up by the fights and the anime. The Sukuna cycle was trash and seeing how it ended, feels so damn drawn out. Nobara deadass woke up 45 min after Gojo vs Sukuna, that's how bad the writing is
I actually quite liked the epilogue, especially the last chapter, but I had most of my issues with Shinjuku itself even if overall I had a good time. I genuinely feel like the 2 biggest things JJK would've benefited from are a Heian era arc (maybe as a side manga) and even just a few more chapters in the epilogue to better tie up some loose ends, but more so another arc either right before Shibuya or after Perfect Preparation.
Plus I fully agree the leaks ruined the perception of the manga, I've seen WAY too many people shouting for plot holes where it's fully explained in the manga. Hell, most of them had to be corrected on what a plot hole even *IS* cuz they didn't know bruh, that's who we're dealing with 😭
I’m mad that it kinda ended with leaving a lot of stuff unfinished but I actually really like how it all played out plus it’s not like they gonna struggle with any curses now
I thought they said something about the world balancing out the power when gojo was born. Of course its not like we will see it. Man, so many plot threads had huge potential.
I was searching for the "1 panel for your goat? Just put the fries in the bag lil bro" comment
Having finished a 425 chapter manga 2 days ago (Karakuri Circus for those looking for the name) I noticed a few similarities to JJK.
1. A very complex world with a defined villains and heroes
2. A loaded cast of characters
3. Several characters dying halfway through in a large-scale assault plan arc
4. Characters being introduced and dying within the same arc
5. The final battle against the main villain ending with several characters dying
Difference is, KC always gave characters that were recently introduced strong characterization and a great conclusion. For already established characters they were given well-defined arcs and beautiful conclusions even if they were just side-characters. Also one of the best aspects of the series is the character dynamics, the way each person interacts with another was amazing.
JJK wants to have this down to a science but ended up not doing a thing with it. Already-established characters weren't thoroughly explored and 99% of the side-characters were shallow and given mid conclusions or had their conclusions undone. The main cast also lacked meaningful character arcs for most of the characters, we got Maki, Yuji and Megumi for good arcs and that's it, even then they weren't much. Breaking the cycle and embracing yourself, becoming a cog and persevering, and maturing and becoming more confident. Dynamics are also in the toilet.
Gege's either trolling, secretly dying, got pressured by Jump or gave up on JJK
I was hoping that we might see more sorcerers from other countries, you’re telling me only Japan and some parts of Africa can produce curses and sorcery😂???
Oh man I love my Goat Yuuta but oh man oh man, his speech was so peak to end this way . I really thought the possibility of him being of two blood clans, Kamo and Gojo, would mean his Kamo blood the one Kenjaku is from would save him from f up but nah not even that just here you go hes alive, be happy.
Jjk post shibuya:fights and aura
Story, worldbuilding, characters interacting nah we don't want that.
Smh gege
7:55 you do know why Sukuna was persecuted. You have to infer his story from the other characters. Aspects of Sukuna are reflected in the rest of the cast. The 2 important ones for the “revenge” narrative are Choso and Maki. He parallels Makis story a lot. Maki and Sukuna are twins. Twins are a bad omen and they are “cursed” from birth. Sukuna ate his twin brother and that’s why he has a cursed body. Hes got all the pairs. 4 arms, 4 eyes, 2 mouths, and 2 unique cursed techniques even. He was born half cursed half human like Choso. Choso started his path as a curse and later took a path of humanity alongside Yuji. Maki was born with a heavenly restriction that made her different from her clan and shunned. She wanted revenge and killed the entire zenin clan. Sukuna wanted revenge against those who persecuted him. “A cursed unwanted little wretch” describes Makis experience in the zenin clan. Both Sukuna and Maki acquire special grade cursed tools from a creation user. Sukunas first black flash was in his fight with Maki. As laid out in that fight. As much as the 2 of them are similar they are different in where their power comes from. Gege almost spoon fed this one to us there are enough clues here.
JJKs ending will not be appreciated by the fan base until a year later when someone does a close read through of the manga and makes a 2 hour video on “the backstory of Sukuna we never saw” that lays out all the clues so the people who can’t read will understand it.
gege got tired and came up with a ambiguous ending. I myself is thoroughly disappointed.
Honestly I wish he just handed the story over to someone else or just quit it rather than this rushed ending. Because it really did have SO MUCH potential. But it never lived up
My brother in christ we NEVER GOT YUJI DOMAIN EXPANSION NAME, nor what it did exactly. Was it talk no jutsu was it guaranteed black flashes no one knows!!!
Fucking finally... A youtuber who say it as it is. Everyone still glazing Gege.
Disappointment Kaisen 😢
We NEED a jjk two so badly, so many unexplored plotlines so many character statements unfulfilled i liked jjks ending personally but the ending SCREAMS rushed it basically demands a part 2 otherwise it will be a terrible ending
Sanji slowly sneaking up on Restless and slowly taking him hostage force him to do Sanji vid since JJK is over lol
So funny how these are all criticisms that people like me have been shouting since the final 5 chapter announcement but dickriders kept coping and giving gege so many excuses. Now all of a sudden everyone is coming back around after realising that there won't be a jjk part 2 smh. This ending is G A R B A G E.
It felt obviously rushed. Whether that was because of Shonen Jump or Gege just not wanting to write anymore, it doesn’t matter. I would have had zero issue if Gege took a two three four or even five month break just to get his passion back. It’s ridiculous how much info Gege tried to squeeze in towards the end. And damn near all of it was through flashbacks. We even got introduced to a character that was mentioned a total of one time *after* the manga ended. We barely got to know about the big three families, we didn’t get any Hein era flashback, Tengen was a useless character, the merger was a wasted concept, its actually crazy.
If I didn't know better than I would have thought JJK was cancelled by how bad the ending is
It’s true that there are too many unexplored plot points that will hopefully be explored in future light novels or a JJK 2 (like how bleach had great lore drops in light novels after the manga ended) but I really enjoyed it. And Sukuna’s ending is still great to me as even if we didn’t see what happened, I personally find it easy enough to understand: Sukuna was hated as a kid probably because of his strength and appearance and stuff so he lived the way he did and due to his strength at his peak surpassing everyone by far, he became worshipped as a god. Also, we still have the anime that can fix stuff like it’s doing for bleach.
The best quote I heard was" it isn't the end of Jjk, it's just the manga that won't have more chapters. You know I love JJK, but I kinda hate what it has become (yes I don't like the ending, mildly said) and the more I re-read the story, the amount of plot conveniences and contrivances, lack of characterization, characters being only a plot device, abandoned plot lines, lack of characters interactions is "concerning" to say the least. Gege is a great concept maker, seriously the whole power system, abilities, domain expansion (which is the coolest sh*t ever in manga) but is clearly lacking in writing department. Many fans think, that he was just fed up with the story and wanted to end it asap, a big deal imo was the one month break (where he apparently had a surgery) and infamous chapters with Yuta in Gojo's body (which after the end, it turned out to be a pointless mess, seriously why make a big deal about Kenjaku's body hopping ability, the 5 min time limit and its aftermath just to conclude it in a "lol, somehow I managed to return to my body unscathed thanks to Rika, btw. Rika can use RCT now so she was healing my body" and Kusakabe saying "lol, Kenjaku probably was using some kind of barrier techniques in his brain, nevermind, let's go we need to wrap up the story". Anyway this truly was our Jujutsu Kaisen and Kenjaku plan/merger was the friends we've made along the way ;)
The reason why there is no Heian era arc or flashback or anything is because the Heian era as a part of the actual worldbuilding doesn't exist. It exists only as a tool to hype up Sukuna, and everything that we got besides that in terms of "lore" is directly taken from Japanese folklore and mythology. Gege never actually developed the Heian era, and instead used it and the stuff it's based on as a shortcut to make is main villain more impressive, so he didn't have anything to show to begin with. He couldn't write a Heian era arc even if he wanted to, because there is nothing to show
Would be nice if he explained the origins of sukuna..
Aight hear my theory maybe….. maybe….. Gege is Togashi all the time in disguise!! It ain’t coincidence that HxH is coming back right after JJK ended on that bs 🤣
Ngl i think people aren’t reading it on the context it’s meant to be read (Buddhism/japanese) which just because of hype. They were trying to get exposition on everything when it sort of clear that bro was not gonna do that, if anything the culling games would’ve been the perfect time to get into more story and world building but he ain’t do that. While you have people leaking his hard work, as a creative i would personally make everyone unsatisfied too if my work was being leaked, and at the same time you have people pining for gojo still, then there’s people actually trying to understand what he actually put out. At a certain point, people aren’t reading any works as they are meant to be read. Like bro if he write an idol manga after jjk I’d fully understand; if there is a part two of jjk it definitely shouldn’t be in shonen the fanbase just ain’t it fr especially with leak culture because it makes people jump to conclusions about the shit they haven’t read yet. I feel like leak culture made the series seem worse than it was because it is good when you read outside of hype and actually read it with some philosophical understanding or just idk reread the manga.
Not every series gotta have bleach and Naruto levels of world building. not every world is gonna be like the soul society where you know everything but things even characters don’t know. People can’t actually understand bro probably just wanted to write a lil story in the world of his one-shot
I think the main reason fans are disappointed (apart from the delusional 'Gojo is coming back' fans) is because of the JJK shippuden rumors that spread out once it was announced that JJK would end in 5 chapters, and then it never came true.
this is why I hate Twitter, it's always filled with false rumors and people end up disappointed that their rumor isn't true, I think the ending would have been much better if Gege didn't announce that the story would end in 5 chapters
I disagree. That would’ve been way worse.
Yuta being alive is a good thing 😭🙏
i don’t think the ending was anything special but it also wasn’t horrendous, i personally think leaving major questions unanswered can genuinely be a good thing it allows the community to speculate and bring more life and theories into the mix like in the cod zombies map mob of the dead was better leaving lots of questions unanswered because when those questions were answered in blood of the dead the answer wasn’t exactly what the community wanted
to me the ending was just the cast moving on with their lives after a crazy ass battle nothing special nothing bad tho
Leaving questions unanswered can be a good thing. It isn’t a good thing here though. It’s a really bad thing in this situation.
real asf, im kind of just mad at how many things were left unexplained but its not a bad ending.
Do you remember the time that gege got sick during yuta in gojo's body fighting sukuna? I think gege got tired of writing jjk at that point and just wanted to end it quickly because of his health and jjk fans sending him death threats.
Hakari needs a spinoff
Some people were asking why they didnt use inumaki earlier tho. You have multiple reddit threads on this.
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honestly the latter part of the series is just rlly vague to me in terms how the series had progressed so far. there was just so much potential but it was never explored. i felt we were stuck in a corner, dealing with kenjaku but there were just so many loose threads to tie up, which never really happened.
plus gege definitely could have used the lore he had built up in the initial arcs to bring a smooth ending. plus i felt like characters didn't play their role well, i never got any closure with a lot of people, especially megumi. personally i wanted to also see a flashback or like going into the past like the heian era, i think that could have been fun.
what truly hurts me the most is how mediocre the ending was. i mean if it was downright bad then atleast u can see the passion behind the work, the effort put into it. i won't deny that there was a lot effort and thought put into it, but by the end of the series it genuinely feels rushed and just not it. hence it's not even bad it's just so-so.
well it is what it is.
Was one of my favorite mangas until like the last 15 chapters or so. It was so sad to see the series I love turn into such a awful ending
Threw that dude Gojuices brain away!
YUTA!!! 🫶🏽
The manga up to the culling games was actually pretty good, Shinjuku and everything afterwards started veering off on the deep end. The only reason why I wouldn’t call JJK bad or mid is because of how good the beginning and middle was.
Thank you for actually being reasonable and explaining your points. Lot of people hating without saying why, but this actually convinced me to change my mind. I still think Gege shouldn't be hated on for it, but the story has issues.
Uruame telling Hikari “Y’all were lucky” and then offing himself speaks for itself.
8.5/10 for the fight and power systems.
6/10 for characters and plots.
The comment in the beginning summed up my feelings on the ending as well. Like most newer gen manga it had a lot of potential that just was never reached. Just like Megumi.
I have an idea for how it should have ended, similar story beats but different ways of getting there
ppl flaming demon slayer for being carried by the anime when jjk as been carried throughout the whole run is crazy 😭DO not compare demon slayer to jjk i dont even like demon slayer that much but it still has a good story than jjk
My jjk 2 storyline
The CE collected from culling games becomes a curse in megumi
And it want's to become it's final from(merger)
As gojo's body didn't had a proper burial
Some other ancient sorcerer who also knew the technique of kenjaku took that body but it cant do much
So it's plan is to capture yuta and yuji so they could use megumi to start merger
Edit: As sukuna's remains were scattered in the places where tengen's barrier used to be so Sukuna reincarnates but as a good person
But they have to take sukuna too to completely start the merger
Gojo v sukuna happens third time
Yuta also gets sealed
Megumi is took on by the curse but it has to kill yuta ko start the merger
Brooooo I could feel the honesty in your voice 🤦🏾♂️ 😂
It was trash some jjk fans be glazing it like crazy 90 percent of anime > jjk
Sukuna before dying “ don’t underestimate me I am still a curse”. Sukuna in the last chapter yeah I will choose a new path😂
if JJK gets a part 2, the world that this series built could have a lot of much needed and much deserved spotlight
i wanna see some politics, with our chad higurama as our mc
Gege gotta rewrite the ending of shinjuku bro 🤦♂️
People who tells us that the ending wasnt bad are just coping. This criticism always comes from people who cant accept their favorite media can have flaws in any way. I heard the same argument with mha ending a lot and boi I'm glad they died down and realized that the ending is as bad as it seems if you reread the series from the start. Same with jujutsu kaisen
I really thought it was doing really well up until the chapter they defeated sukuna. It felt anticlimactic and then they didn’t really wrap things up at all and it felt like a waste of a few chapters. They buried Sukuna but not Gojo like what even is that. What happens with Megumi how strong is yuji actually now without sukuna because up until the last fight he was pretty weak. So many unfinished things for a finished manga.
Imagine if GeGe made a hidden heian era arc ? Would be whoelsome for sukuna
shit so awful that i had to remind people that they have to read shit instead of basing perception of of uncooked LEAKS
I think people don't put into context that the whole sukuna fight was an extended ending. i don't think we needed more fighting, the whole point of the gauntlet was to steadily cheap away at sukuna, every exchange did something to weaken him and nobara was the last nail on the coffin, yuji did a hell of alot and fought along side multiple people. Remember that gege thought he would finish the manga last year and i think this is why. Gege always told the story the same way, he communicated the world through the characters and didn't go through extensive flashbacks ever, he never was the type of author to expand on every single thing, world building doesn't mean going into detail about everything you mention, the point is to make a believable world and an engaging story and that's what he did, that doesn't mean you can't be disappointed about stuff that you wanted but that doesn't make it bad and i do think it was weird not expanding more on kenjaku. I don't think that sukuna's character was supposed to be expanded upon more than he already was, gege gives you all the information to understand why he was unloved and why he made the choices he made, for example just knowing how jujutsu society treats deformities and twins should tell you enough about sukuna's life and i think that's more powerful.
Alot of the issues from jjk don't come from the ending or world building in my opinion, i agree with everything you said about hakari, his character wasn't fulfilled at all and i don't think that gege was vague on purpose there, he either had plans for more chapters about hakari vs uraume but couldn't because of his operation or he was just careless but i think something there is missing, i always expected for hakari's luck to run out at some point.
Lets be 100% honest: the ending was ass.
There was no way they left us with even more doubts and unsatisfaction than ever. ATLEAST MHA EXPLORED MORE THE IMPORTANT CHARACTERS.
These kids which most of em own their lifes to Gojo never were shown to go to his funeral. Like MF saved alot of them from judgment and execution.
No answer about what would happen if anybody becomes sukuna vessel, families being no relevant, kenjaku just a mystery even after DYING AND COMING BACK, binding vows and heavenly restrictions still unexplored, Heian era unexplored, etc.
mha ending was meh, but they did the main character so dirty bro
don’t know which one was worse, WWDC 2024 or JJK ending brah
JJK is like Neymar's career. Potential to be in T5-10 convos. Just fell off bruh
If I rate JJK just based on the 2 seasons of anime alone, I would give it 9/10. If I'm including all of the stuffs from manga, then it becomes 6.5/10. There are some entertaining stuffs here and there from the manga continuing from the anime for sure, but the overall quality of the story is definitely declining the more we get to the end. Reminded me of Game of Thrones final season. I don't think it's as bad but definitely same vibe.