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Translation

Jujusanpo audiodrama

Let’s settle this! Limitless cursed technique! (extra comic from vol. 15)  

Abyss of Math Course: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4

Cursed Object Picture Book Deluxe (Extra materials about cursed object from Jump Giga Autumn 2021 bonus)

Jump Giga Autumn 2022 extra material: Unraveling the Gosanke Akutami-sensei’s Q&As

Jump Giga Early Spring 2023 Extra: Akutami Gege-sensei talking about Prison Realm Boundary

Character short profiles in the 3rd Popularity Poll 

Official Jujutsu Kaisen Fanbook (on-going)

List of pages currently translated: 

Itadori Yuuji

Fushiguro Megumi

Nanami Kento

Ryomen Sukuna

Uraume

Kenjaku

Fushiguro Touji (and Kon shiu)

Hakari

Zenin Naobito

Tsukumo Yuki

Ieiri Shouko

Iori Utahime

Haibara Yu

Yaga Masamichi

Getou Suguru

Kusouzu (death painting) brothers (Choso, Eso, Kechizu)

Cursed technique: Limitless 

Chart of all technique terms

Cursed tools

Akutami Gege’s Bible : Movie, Manga

Akutami Gege’s Q&As

Excerpts of JJK 0 light novel: Nanami’s black flash scene The Kyoto students battle

Analysis

General Meta tag

Character analysis: Itadori Yuuji • Nanami Kento • Fushiguro Megumi  • Fushiguro Touji • Kugisaki Nobara • Zenin Maki • Yu-un

Nanami and Itadori 

Fushiguro and Itadori:  not your usual rivals •  the cogs in the machine

Tsukumo Yuki and Kenjaku

What’s going on in the second opening?

Tragedy of Haibara Yu

The goose who holds a reed between its mouth 

Stronger through death

“Above heaven under heaven, I am alone the honored one”

Enlightenment

About the soul : soul, body, and Heavenly Restriction • soul in the brain

Jujutsu world : how to be a strong jujutsushi • rebirth • moving forward

Mythology in Jujutsu Kaisen

Video and Audio

Compilation of Audiodrama links 

The first year trio go to Yokohama to watch a movie, jjk phantom parade stream

Enoki Junya (Itadori's seiyuu) narrating Itadori's thought when he fights Mahito in Shibuya, Jump Festa 2022

Night Gourmet, Nanami-only audiodrama bonus DVD 4

After the Walkway excerpt, plant Trio, bonus DVD 8

Miscellaneous  

About me

My favorite jjk characters 

Interview of Akutami Gege in Mando Kobayashi

Why do you call the first years “plant trio”?

Fushiguro/Itadori ship manifesto

The infamous Itadori pregnancy theory

Official media tag

Do you have any feeling for what could have been a better way to end things, if indeed things are ended, for Gojou Satoru? Or do you agree that things have been moving too fast?

Sorry for this and please feel free not to answer if this is not the kind of question you want to entertain, I am just curious if you have an opinion you're willing to share since I feel you have a very good grasp of the jjk's plot and themes! I trained as a literature major, so my interest is always in whether character consistency is maintained and what a story is saying and whether that message is carried successfully or not and what that might mean for us as readers. I'm personally still on the fence about this particular twist because I'm trying to withhold judgement of the piece until we actually see it as a whole, but I am starting to feel that the narrative started to unravel a bit after Shibuya, like somehow we didn't see a lot of the characters to their full potential (like Nobara T.T my baby Nobara). Maybe this is just part of gege's notorious fast pace.

Some of this I believe is due to JJK's titular meaning of the issue of curses and what they represent being an "endless battle" but there's only so many times one can show hopelessness and loss I think before it becomes almost redundant. We actually haven't seen that many on-screen sorcerer deaths, but somehow it's been two of the most popular adult characters so far, and only direct mentors, which is a frequent trope of the hero's journey in western literature. I think that even though I really wish it hadn't happened, Nanami's ending made a lot of sense. Power-wise, Gojo's current death also makes sense, and he's not the kind of character who instantly changes his mind or learns something in his heart from a single experience, but I think it feels somewhat frustrating from my point of view because despite the bodhisattva imagery, he had more to learn as a living person, rather than continuing to believe he was like a flower and maybe no one had the right to ask him to understand. I don't know, it's just a bit frustrating for me because I think it feels character consistent (which I think gege tends to be pretty good at) but somehow incomplete too.

Again my apologies for the long ask, you're always the one I wish I could sit down and have a conversation about these things with!

-raindrop anon

Hi, raindrop anon,. Good to see you again.

First of all, I don't really think Gojou's death is particularly bad, but yeah, as you said, there might be something leaves to be desired in the plot - if jjk is a traditional shonen manga, that is. But jjk is different, which is also the reason for its popularity. I feel that jjk storytelling has always been fast-paced, and one thing that Akutami-sensei does really well is to stick to the main points that he wants to tell with his manga. The last time we have a non-serious non-battle chapter was probably chapter 64 lol - but at the same time, this also shows how jjk departs from the traditional shonen jump manga custom where the mangaka tends to drag the story to make the manga runs longer. Gege on the other hand, seems adamant to want to end the story sooner than later (if his last estimation is to be believed, only a few months left for jjk).

I don't actually have a strong feeling of how gege should end thing with Gojou, but it's been a habit of him to get to the.. shocking side of things; we see this with Gojou getting sealed back in Shibuya. Nanami's death. Then we see the Culling game, and Tengen getting killed. And lastly for Gojou to die. The longstanding status quo is going to be changed eventually. And the next one with status quo is already targeted; Sukuna himself.

As I follow this manga, "things moving too fast" has always been the opinion I saw a lot discussed here in my askbox for many, many developments in the manga. And this is more of a personal preference, but I actually like the fast-get-to-the-point-storytelling that Gege uses with jjk, exactly because how it breaks away from traditional jump manga. I feel that this fast pace is just how gege do his storytelling since the beginning lol

I think he's a pretty complex character, and multi-faceted at that. Although Sensei commented that he "doesn't have personality", Gege accidentally actually makes Gojou more complex than what he actually seems lol.

I would disagree with "he never had a growth" actually. Gojou had a growth phase - that is the whole Hidden Inventory arc is about. He matured during that arc to be the Gojou that we know in the current storyline. So it's not that he never had a growth, he already did and what we get more is adult Gojou who had finished his growth.

I would agree actually with Nanami's comment, that Gojou is "a pervert who uses jujutsu for his own sake" (yes, he straight up called Gojou hentai in the jpn text lol). Since he's the strongest in jujutsu society, his ego would center on using jujutsu for his own satisfaction. But that's not all of him; he is also a teacher who cares for his students because he wants to see them grow strong, despite his motivation for them growing strong is rather egoistical too. And you can see here, that his character is a mixed of egoistical but also caring -- simply said, pretty human for one called to be strongest.

In jjk, to be strongest means to be alone. To stand on the peak that no other ever see, that no other ever feel. The only people who understand the feeling is the one who also reach that peak. For beings like Sukuna and Gojou, seeing others is like them standing alone on top of the tallest mountain, looking down at people who don't even have the motivation to even glance at the peak - because noone would ever want to try to compete to be the strongest while those two are around. This is the flowers metaphors that appears on the latest chapter; that you can grow the flowers but you can't ask them to understand. Gojou will help his students, people around him, caring and making them stronger, but he can't never ask them to try to reach for that highest peak, to that loneliness of being the strongest. They can't never understand how it feels to be a beings like him or Sukuna.

"his whole character basically revolved around Geto" - well, just no. Yeah, he holds Geto in high regard, but if he really does anything for Getou's sake, then he'd join Getou's case in destroying jujutsu society. But as we see, he doesn't. He becomes a teacher because he wanted to change jujutsu society so no one would become another Getou, not because of Getou's sake, but rather the sake of younger generation. So that he can prevent another youth being wasted by the jujutsu society tradition; which is why he picks up the most "troublesome" students that jujutsu society least cares for; from Maki, Yuta, Inumaki, even Yuuji.

I didn’t see this in your asks yet, but I was wondering if you could explain how Sukuna can use Piercing Blood? And why is he relying on it so much in recent chapters vs his trademark Cleave and butcher-inspired moves?

Thank you!!

Hii, thank you for the kind words. I promise I will try until the last chapter :")

Yeah, we still don't have much detail on that, though there are a few possibilities. The first that he took it when he was in Yuuji's body, since Yuuji shares blood with Choso so there might be trace of the technique engraved in his soul but his curse energy is not enough to manifest it. The other possibility being Sukuna copies it. We still don't know what exactly Sukuna's curse technique even now. Slashing is his preferred technique until now - but we don't even know if it is his actual curse technique. Not to mention the fire arrow that he used against Jogo in Shibuya. For all we know, his curse technique might be stealing or copying others. And the last possibility (that I don't really like but can't be dismissed nonetheless) is Megumi. Since we don't actually know the details on his mother, it might be from his mother's side that Megumi or even Touji don't know.

I wish to get a tattoo of Sakayume's lyrics and I wanna be sure I'm getting the right characters written. I keep finding different lyrics on the internet for the first two sentences, so could you confirm this is the good spelling for "if you wish, shoot through my heart"?

「あなたが望むなら

この胸を射通して」

Thank you ❤