“megumis missing an arc” EXACTLY. him wanting to live for others again is, like. hes just gonna go back to how he was with tsumiki but just with other people. (mainly yuuji) and he knows this too but he doesn’t care cuz thats what he knows. to love someone more than him dying (tho very rika of him) hell even rika gets closure but what happened to megumi ? who knows. i mean hey i love some codependent itfs dialled to the worst case too
oh thanks to modulo we know Exactly that it was codependent itfs dialled to an 11 To Hell And Back
i mean *points at yuuji* LOOK AT HIM!! HE TURNED INTO BOTH HIS FATHERS IN LAW!!
that entire part about yuuji spending half of modulo gambling?? showing up taking everybody out?? Thats Literally Just Toji In HI down to looking at his hand and thinking about megumi
(You Cannot Convince Me Yuuji Looking Down At The Two Fingers - one used to doom megumi and the other used to save him - Isnt Thinking About Megumi. BE FUCKING SERIOUS)
but whats a really underrated part of megumis character is that hes never been scared of death. his entire life hes been far more scared to live than ever dying. it punches up his breakdown over the fact yorozus been posessing tsumiki for over two weeks. it was fate worse than death.
i mean this is the kid who looked at The King Of Curses and went "oh youre scared to die. pussy. cant relate."* and LAUGHED in the face of his own death, his dads death, his Other dads death. he probably laughed when geto died!!
but his entire character arc is about choosing to live. his first action is him choosing to let yuuji live, (probably had a hand in yuutas execution postponement too); his season 1 climax is about letting himself fight to live despite despite despite everything; season 2 is a tragic breakdown of his arc - despite him wanting to live hes forced to die anyway; season 3 is about forcing himself to live despite despite despite; the 2nd part of the culling games is continuation of that until his soul breaks.
thats when his own life and body and soul get ripped away. hes physically and metaphorically crushed under the weight of everything with no one to pick him.
yuuji has to land 7 black flashes and countless other hits DIRECTLY TO THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THEIR SOULS for megumi to even have A CHANCE at choosing.
All Of The Damage It Took To Take Down Sukuna Was The Same Amount Of Damage Needed To Lift Just Enough Of The Weight Off Megumi.
THATS when yuuji tells him its okay if he wants to die, no one will blame him, they'll all be here if he wants to come back. (there seems to be a lot of misinterpretation about that conversation, but ill save that rant for another day)
he has nothing to live for. Literally Each Of His Lives Has Been Destroyed. his non-shaman life through tsumiki and saitama and tokyo, his sorcerer life through gojo the clans the jj society structure and college.
and we Already see him back pushing through all of the trauma to take his own life back with his bare teeth. Thats what the mission in 271/272 is about.
but theres a hopeful part about it: megumi wont let kenjaku and sukuna take away the last part of him - his technique and his job.
but YEAH were missing a big chunk of his character arc to end on a positive note: where he starts living for himself, because he can and wants to.
and personally i appreciate the choice of not making megumi "fixed" overnight just to rush the happy ending.
it takes time in-universe and care out-of-universe for him to get all that. its a good choice to Not put it in the main series, Looking At Where We End The Main Series.
its a perfect idea for a sequel, even a 3 volume thing like modulo. but it all depends on whether its the kind of story gege thinks himself capable and/or wanting to make.
*(im actually p confident megumi wouldnt use misogynistic slurs/derogatory terms like calling people whores, bitches, etc. except for cunt)
