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Manic Modyuu <3

In chapter 2 Gojou asks Megumi what should they do with Yuuji despite the fact that there is clear law: he has to be killed. Megumi says he wants to save Yuuji.

In chapter 72 Getou asks Gojou what should they do if Riko doesn't want to merge. Gojou says they will give her a choice. In the same chapter Riko muses how lonely she is without her parents and her desire to merge was partially desire to not feel alone anymore. Yuuji is also shown to be a kid that can easily connect with others but other than Wasuke he had no one else.

I think we can talk about Yuuji and Riko as similar characters with similar fate. Riko being selected to be a vessel for Tengen and Yuuji made to be vessel for Sukuna. Both potential powerful sorcerers intended to be killed. Both sacrifices however to different ideological views that are bubbling under the surface. Tengen is all about stagnation. She lives in the basement. She doesn't go out and she's afraid of change. Her technique is immortality and barrier techniques. Keeping things inside and as they are forever. Kenjaku's ideology is constant fluidity and change. Riko's sacrifice is a sacrifice to be made to keep the world as is. Yuuji's eventually death of the soul to be Sukuna's vessel is a sacrifice through Culling games as a bid for change.

Both are attempted to be saved by Gojou.

Megumi and Getou are especially interesting in this context. In both cases Gojou already made up his mind about it but Getou prompting a question makes Gojou to prompt him back "are you afraid? We are the strongest."

Gojou asking Megumi is the same trick he wants to see how Megumi will react, if he's afraid. Megumi isn't.

She's from Thailand and moved to Japan either for college or just generally more recently and part of why she's so concerned with what everyone thinks of her is because she feels like an outsider.

In the original iteration of Hot Rodyssey (originally a very generic shonen manga concept... I could explain it all later lol), her name was Kiera and her only two traits were that she was hot and evil. She seduced Joba onto the Evil Team and that's literally it... which is why now I think it's funny if she's the one who's whipped in their current iteration.

She took me almost an entire year to come up with a design for and another six months to name.

I humbly offer a small Lawan in thanks:

13. Jojo x music

Itafushi

Back from vacation so I'm back to work on commissions, but in the meantime, a warmup tonight