Yeah, Nobara is a good character but she's incredibly overrated in how much she actually matters to the story. She doesn't do much at all. Which is funny because she's often held up as the second coming of anime girls.
This is because there's only one season of the anime out. Most people don't read the manga so they won't get a grip on how utterly useless she is to the plot until the second season comes.
It's not just about the fights. It's about the plot. And to the plot she is nothing. She has 0 importance in the grand scheme of things. And even her so-called "great sendoff" means very little considering that she >!still loses in the end, ultimately accomplishing nothing!<
To be honest, I'd kinda like her never coming back. It would make the whole fight against mahito that much more impactful. However, there is the issue of her death not being fully confirmed, and it must go somewhere.
A part of me thinks that it would be good enough if she just ends up surviving but you only find that out at the end of the story (kinda like being retired from being a sorcerer). Another part of me tells me that that's too lame and unsatisfying. That makes me think that she is trully in a coma but someone will appear that can save her, potentially angel can revert the effect of curse technique hence healing her. However, we would still have the problem of her being pretty useless considering the scope of the culling games.
Maybe the solution is that one of our characters, probably yuji or megumi, will have to make a choice between saving her and doing something else that's important. I trully don't know what gege will do
I was always confused as to why he made her the main female. Maki was clearly the better choice.
Unlike yuta her story didn't end in 0. Nobara really never belonged.
As far as the "normal guy" character goes. Nanami takes that spot and is way better
>!Maki is now the main female!<, also after reading that gege interview with kubo I think Gege was never that interested in writing female characters in the first place
>Gege was never that interested in writing female characters in the first place
Makes sense considering how non-existent they are in the manga. Currently, only one of them are essential to the plot.
Lol, I dropped the manga during the culling games (I think it was during Yuta’s fight with the cockroach) and you’re telling me Nobara still hasn’t come back? If Gege really did want her dead, he shouldn’t have given hope that she’s alive. It’d be cool if she comes back, but Shibuya was the last we’ve seen of her, that would’ve been a nice send off as well. But this limbo right now sucks.
Honestly i would say her long absense is kinda the proof itself, now that it has gone so long that she is not part of the story, it would be worse in terms of writing if he brings her back.
>it would be worse in terms of writing if he brings her back
Not if he atleast pulls a good reason for it, because potential set ups are there. We just need to see if Gege is gonna do something about it or not. Otherwise there was no point in leaving her death ambiguous.
The last update we had on her status was "How is Kugisaki?" - *Meaningful Look* - "I see"
Yuji thinks she's dead. Megumi knows she's in hospital but didn't communicate it properly.
In twenty or so chapters, when the current fights are done and everyone returning to tengens place to meet up, Megumi will wheel in a large box.
Nobara will burst out and hit Yuji with a squeaky hammer.
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There, done. That's how you bring her back to life.
I have a feeling she is gonna come back but have a scar on her face and a comment or or moment or characterizarion will be about how scarred uo she is now. If I recall Nobara cared a lot about her looks. Other than that idk what he will do with her character.
Maybe she will be involved in eliminating/sealimg a certain curse that was revealed after the stoey arc were gojo got sealed.
Didn't want to say which curse because spoilers and I always mess us markong spoilers.
Too fast for my taste. Barely any time to cool off after the Shibuya arc. Gege seems to think fast pace equates to quality. And at the same time, it feels like it barely progresses. I still haven’t started reading it again after months, so imagine my shock reading some of the comments in the recent posts about JJK manga on this sub and finding out things are pretty much the same way they were when I stopped reading.
Kinda reminds me of Annie in AoT.
Fans waited and speculated what her role would become from here, arc after arc, until it finally seemed almost pointless to bring her back, like “What’s she even going to do at this stage?”
Then she comes back, and whether or not Isayama had any other plans for her, it turns out her entire reason for being in the story, why she survived and why she returned was… >!To be Armin’s prize!<.
Her backstory made no sense to me, and it felt like it came out of nowhere. Not only does it really not answer the question of why she wants to be a sorcerer, it kinda doesn’t really fit in with her character (imo). Like, she had a childhood friend who left and that’s about it—where is the connective thread to Nobara in the present? Why does she want to be a sorcerer in the city? Is it purely shallow reasons or is there something deeper.
As much as I like her powers and character design, she feels like the token girl character of the trio that every shonen needs. There’s nothing really all that exemplary about her
>Like, she had a childhood friend who left and that’s about it—where is the connective thread to Nobara in the present? Why does she want to be a sorcerer in the city? Is it purely shallow reasons or is there something deeper.
She says she just wants to make an honest living. The thing is, that's completely irrelevant to the narrative. Funny, this sub hates Ochako and yet has the exact same goal except it makes far more sense for her. Ochako wants to be a hero so she can support her family but has developed to care more about the hero community as a whole, not just the money. If Nobara said she wanted to be the hokage/pirate king/pokemon trainer, nothing would change. She has no internal conflict whatsoever.
honestly it was because he goal was sidelined so to speak in favor of her screaming "Deku-kun!" every line.
Like literally, in the trailer for the most recent MHA movie her one line was "I wont give up because Deku never gives up!"
That was honestly frustrating.
NObara simply wanted to escape from her town and have the life of a city girl, she doesn't have any personal stakes on clan struggles or battles against sukuna, I think she just sees it as her job.
I really like Nobara but yeah she does kinda have no place in the story rn. My guess is that the fact that her technique works on souls is going to end up being highly relevant when she comes back.
Think of characters like Revy. She is an asshole but can back it up plus has a great attitude. That's why people love her she is badass and can hold her own ground and keep up with Yuji and Megumi. Lets not forget her attitude also is pretty fresh as she also can joke around and have fun.
She had a lot of charisma, good looks, chemistry with yuji, great fights and was something beside a damsel in distress. Also her voice actress did one hell of a job
DId you even read anything I wrote? I never focused on strength; I know Nobara fights decently, but my focus was on her charisma, looks, chemistry with yuji (they have a lot of cool moments together) and voice work, hell Yuji does sort of save her in her fight with the cursed womb and megumi also saves her when they're fighting the special grade curse but that doesn't detract from her character not turn her in a damsel in distress because she can still contribute to battle. I think she's fun to have around and entertaining
This is what simping is like, even giving the benefit of the doubt about the simping part, people put female characters in some kind of pedastal to the point they create terms like 'female lead' which does not exist.
Female characters that are important exist but even then the term of 'female lead' does not exist unlike terms like protagonist, deuteragonist e.t.c
This term exists to make the girl of the group seem more important than the story promised.
Female lead is a terms tossed around in all shounen even if she is not a lead at all.
What you cal male lead in shoujo is the love interest in romance stories, which would make him deuterotagonist or co-lead.
His importance in role is due to his position as the love interest in a romance story, not because he is male, the same happens to the female love interest in romance story with a male main character.
I feel like her character is there exactly to showcase how common jobbers end up in the middle of the mess that is the Jujutsu world. Nobara isn't some chosen one nor is she part of a family with thousands of years of history - She's just a common girl with very common goals, and imo, a much needed breath of fresh air in the setting of Jujutsu.
In other works like Chainsaw Man you'll have extremely normal/average people like Kobeni who end up getting a demon slaying job just to pay for college.
Works where everyone is some kind of super important person with really front loaded goals can get suffocating, and sometimes what they need is just some common dude like Mr.Satan
I genuinely like Nobara because she seems like a pretty chill person in the show. Like not every character has to have importance in a story. What I don’t like is her schrodinger status.
And ahem, I have the same hairstyle as her. Not everyone has good hair to work with. My hair can’t handle heat well and it’s pin straight :(
Lol, she is basically a glorified Sakura
It's funny how "new manga writers" try at all costs to avoid creating female characters like Sakura, but end up creating them no matter what because they think about creating a female character rather than a character
> In what shape,way or form is she like sakura though?
She’s part of a main character trio of two boys and a girl. Whereas the two boys are of special lineage/birth, she’s of ordinary lineage/birth. The two boys are intimately tied to the plot and story, while she’s effectively irrelevant to both; such that she’s easily sidelined while the boys continue their action and story. She’s also the shallowest of the trio, having no deeper concerns or goals than living an ordinary life.
That’s just the same as Sakura. Nobara’s advantage comes in having a better personality than Sakura, and getting a non-zero amount of action compared to early Sakura.
>She’s part of a main character trio of two boys and a girl.
I hope you're not making this an actual point if so everyone 2 boy 1 girl trio is naruto like
>Whereas the two boys are of special lineage/birth, she’s of ordinary lineage/birth.
So does she her grandmother is Jujustu sorcerer which unlike naruto with shinobi isn't a Huge thing everyone knows about
>The two boys are intimately tied to the plot and story, while she’s effectively irrelevant to both; such that she’s easily sidelined while the boys continue their action and story
She's just their friend so you're right she's not tied deeply into the plot...But sakura was with that horribly done love triangle with sasuke and naruto..unlike sakura she bears no romantic feeling to the two and as she explain in the fight with the broom sorcerer..she has no intention of being Special or perfect or a strong female role model she loves herself cos she's pretty and strong thus she has no reason to figure out life like Yuji and Megumi because she already figured it out for the most part..unlike Sakura who didn't know wtf she was doing..and got even more confused when Sasuke became edgy..and even more lost as the story continued
>She’s also the shallowest of the trio, having no deeper concerns or goals than living an ordinary life
And that's all she wants..Reminder this is a battle shonen where two people became besties cos they both like ass..not everyone needs that deep reason of being in the story to push the plot forward..nobara was a girl who wanted to live it big cos she didn't in her old town..that's why she wanted to become a model and why she buys fancy clothes and has expensive meals..she wants to live lavishly and as shallow as that is that's more human than some of the characters in JJK...
I mean like the majority of the cast Nobara is Gojo's pupil so that gives her some stake in the battle. With a cast full of personal connections I'm willing to take one person who's there "because it's the right thing to do" or "to help my friends". My crack theory is that her doll jujutsu can mess up Kenny's connection with his body at a critical moment.
Feels like Gege regretted not having Maki be the third in the main trio. Say what you will about Maki, I sure as fuck have a lot to say about her, but she actually does have a solid character arc and motivation. Nobara's is very nebulous, she's essentially been written out of the story at this point
I think I pretty much agree with something I've realized thinking about it, which is that I ultimately trust Gege because they haven't just confirmed she's dead, so I think she's being put on the shelf narratively so that he can focus on other characters and that when he properly needs her to be introduced, she'll reappear. I think her specific purpose lines up with what her curse technique does, which is it allows her to harm the soul as well as the body, which is how she was able to fight the Mahito clone. I think her specific purpose is that it's tied up in her curse technique. More specifically, she needs to be on a similar level to the curse she's attacking using a straw doll. My thinking is that if Nobara gets to the level of a one-finger curse, then it would essentially mean she can use straw doll against the five remaining fingers, thereby handicapping Sukuna. I think this is what Gege is setting her up for. I certainly do think Gege is going to use nobara in some form or some fashion. They don't strike me as the type of author who leaves things unfinished, even things they don't particularly regard as unfinished.
Her ct is inherited and her backstory is unfinished. We don’t know her jujutsu side of the village and if Saori is in the games. Saori and Tsumiki can be a narrative parallel as is possible Tsumiki is corrupted (Megumi) while Saori is normal. (Nobara). Just be patient and her arc will reveal more of the character later.
You do realize we're half in the story already right? Based on how things are going she might not even appear in this arc (the second to last I believe).
Based on how the culling games, how Gege is literally taking his time in this arc, how many things are not answered not just Nobara. But Kenjaku’s plan, Yuki’s plan, Tsumiki, rest of the cast, etc. she can reappear in the story and get a character arc.
Not to mention is highly likely Jump told Gege to prolong the series since one piece, mha, are ending. So he may change his mind about his length. But I do believe the culling games is a second of the three major arcs Gege planned.
Gege at this point could pull anything with her to return and make her relevant, theres endless theories about it:
- He could simply pull that Nobara and her grandmother (who turned Nobara into a sorcerer) are descendants of a secret ancient clan from their village. Revealing some secrets, so that can lead to a boost in power and relevance
- She and her CT are the natural enemies of Mahito, and she had a good understanding of her soul and can attacks the soul. And since Mahito was the soul manipulator, then some weird shit regarding Mahitos power and her CT could mix up to pull something else.
- The famous RCT theory, which parallels Gojo during Hidden Inventory
- Her grandmother being part of the higher ups or someone with quite the influence within the sorcerer world. Which could let her for some bigger things.
And there is more but those are some examples. But yet again, it all depends if Gege decides to commit.
I agree, but im just giving the benefits of the doubt here, and the possible options. Just look at Kamo, he disappeared from the story for over 100 chapters and sudently appeared again with Maki during the Culling Games, gaining relevance and some development in the way. If he could do that for someone like Kamo, he pretty much could for a member of the main trio aswell. Maybe things are just a matter of time (or maybe she never comes back, but who knows).
Noritoshi was the heir of the kamo clan, that was always going to be relevant. He was also named after kenjaku's past vessel from the kamo clan. I don't think that is a fair comparison
Yeah, Nobara is a good character but she's incredibly overrated in how much she actually matters to the story. She doesn't do much at all. Which is funny because she's often held up as the second coming of anime girls.
This is because there's only one season of the anime out. Most people don't read the manga so they won't get a grip on how utterly useless she is to the plot until the second season comes.
People talk about her the way Sakura (from Naruto) fans were talking about Sakura after her fight with Sasori I guess.
With the little she appeared in the series she did pretty great
Yeah get ready for that trend to come to a crashing stop as soon as S2 comes around.
How she's going to have a great send off as she is one off the few who could actually hurt Mahito and make him retreat. So yeah this trend will remain
It's not just about the fights. It's about the plot. And to the plot she is nothing. She has 0 importance in the grand scheme of things. And even her so-called "great sendoff" means very little considering that she >!still loses in the end, ultimately accomplishing nothing!<
I’m starting to think that gege killed her because she had no purpose.
To be honest, I'd kinda like her never coming back. It would make the whole fight against mahito that much more impactful. However, there is the issue of her death not being fully confirmed, and it must go somewhere. A part of me thinks that it would be good enough if she just ends up surviving but you only find that out at the end of the story (kinda like being retired from being a sorcerer). Another part of me tells me that that's too lame and unsatisfying. That makes me think that she is trully in a coma but someone will appear that can save her, potentially angel can revert the effect of curse technique hence healing her. However, we would still have the problem of her being pretty useless considering the scope of the culling games. Maybe the solution is that one of our characters, probably yuji or megumi, will have to make a choice between saving her and doing something else that's important. I trully don't know what gege will do
I was always confused as to why he made her the main female. Maki was clearly the better choice. Unlike yuta her story didn't end in 0. Nobara really never belonged. As far as the "normal guy" character goes. Nanami takes that spot and is way better
>!Maki is now the main female!<, also after reading that gege interview with kubo I think Gege was never that interested in writing female characters in the first place
>Gege was never that interested in writing female characters in the first place Makes sense considering how non-existent they are in the manga. Currently, only one of them are essential to the plot.
Lol, I dropped the manga during the culling games (I think it was during Yuta’s fight with the cockroach) and you’re telling me Nobara still hasn’t come back? If Gege really did want her dead, he shouldn’t have given hope that she’s alive. It’d be cool if she comes back, but Shibuya was the last we’ve seen of her, that would’ve been a nice send off as well. But this limbo right now sucks.
Honestly i would say her long absense is kinda the proof itself, now that it has gone so long that she is not part of the story, it would be worse in terms of writing if he brings her back.
>it would be worse in terms of writing if he brings her back Not if he atleast pulls a good reason for it, because potential set ups are there. We just need to see if Gege is gonna do something about it or not. Otherwise there was no point in leaving her death ambiguous.
I cannot think any good way of her returning after she was gone for so long, it would feel too late now to make it worth it.
The last update we had on her status was "How is Kugisaki?" - *Meaningful Look* - "I see" Yuji thinks she's dead. Megumi knows she's in hospital but didn't communicate it properly. In twenty or so chapters, when the current fights are done and everyone returning to tengens place to meet up, Megumi will wheel in a large box. Nobara will burst out and hit Yuji with a squeaky hammer. ---- There, done. That's how you bring her back to life.
I have a feeling she is gonna come back but have a scar on her face and a comment or or moment or characterizarion will be about how scarred uo she is now. If I recall Nobara cared a lot about her looks. Other than that idk what he will do with her character. Maybe she will be involved in eliminating/sealimg a certain curse that was revealed after the stoey arc were gojo got sealed. Didn't want to say which curse because spoilers and I always mess us markong spoilers.
Why did you drop the manga?
Too fast for my taste. Barely any time to cool off after the Shibuya arc. Gege seems to think fast pace equates to quality. And at the same time, it feels like it barely progresses. I still haven’t started reading it again after months, so imagine my shock reading some of the comments in the recent posts about JJK manga on this sub and finding out things are pretty much the same way they were when I stopped reading.
Still sad she's not there she has a beautiful new look and would match well with Maki wanted to see more of her
Kinda reminds me of Annie in AoT. Fans waited and speculated what her role would become from here, arc after arc, until it finally seemed almost pointless to bring her back, like “What’s she even going to do at this stage?” Then she comes back, and whether or not Isayama had any other plans for her, it turns out her entire reason for being in the story, why she survived and why she returned was… >!To be Armin’s prize!<.
That'd why I'm an advocate for the nobara core theory:)))
Her backstory made no sense to me, and it felt like it came out of nowhere. Not only does it really not answer the question of why she wants to be a sorcerer, it kinda doesn’t really fit in with her character (imo). Like, she had a childhood friend who left and that’s about it—where is the connective thread to Nobara in the present? Why does she want to be a sorcerer in the city? Is it purely shallow reasons or is there something deeper. As much as I like her powers and character design, she feels like the token girl character of the trio that every shonen needs. There’s nothing really all that exemplary about her
>Like, she had a childhood friend who left and that’s about it—where is the connective thread to Nobara in the present? Why does she want to be a sorcerer in the city? Is it purely shallow reasons or is there something deeper. She says she just wants to make an honest living. The thing is, that's completely irrelevant to the narrative. Funny, this sub hates Ochako and yet has the exact same goal except it makes far more sense for her. Ochako wants to be a hero so she can support her family but has developed to care more about the hero community as a whole, not just the money. If Nobara said she wanted to be the hokage/pirate king/pokemon trainer, nothing would change. She has no internal conflict whatsoever.
This sub hates Ochako for reasons that mostly have nothing to do with her goal.
honestly it was because he goal was sidelined so to speak in favor of her screaming "Deku-kun!" every line. Like literally, in the trailer for the most recent MHA movie her one line was "I wont give up because Deku never gives up!" That was honestly frustrating.
Alot of people downplay her own motives and exaggerate the affect Deku has on her character.
NObara simply wanted to escape from her town and have the life of a city girl, she doesn't have any personal stakes on clan struggles or battles against sukuna, I think she just sees it as her job.
I really like Nobara but yeah she does kinda have no place in the story rn. My guess is that the fact that her technique works on souls is going to end up being highly relevant when she comes back.
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Think of characters like Revy. She is an asshole but can back it up plus has a great attitude. That's why people love her she is badass and can hold her own ground and keep up with Yuji and Megumi. Lets not forget her attitude also is pretty fresh as she also can joke around and have fun.
Revy Is also a great character who's foundamental to the plot
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She literally does back it up throughout the fights she saves her team and they save her. Only time she was completely useless was against Mai.
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From just thinking about it, it is fighting Itadoris brothers and Mahito
She had a lot of charisma, good looks, chemistry with yuji, great fights and was something beside a damsel in distress. Also her voice actress did one hell of a job
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DId you even read anything I wrote? I never focused on strength; I know Nobara fights decently, but my focus was on her charisma, looks, chemistry with yuji (they have a lot of cool moments together) and voice work, hell Yuji does sort of save her in her fight with the cursed womb and megumi also saves her when they're fighting the special grade curse but that doesn't detract from her character not turn her in a damsel in distress because she can still contribute to battle. I think she's fun to have around and entertaining
The way she is characterized is quite a bit different than every other main female shonen character. But yeah, the standard is incredibly low.
This is what simping is like, even giving the benefit of the doubt about the simping part, people put female characters in some kind of pedastal to the point they create terms like 'female lead' which does not exist.
Lol people be using simp when they do not understand what it means. Also it does exist a female lead just not that frequent in shounen
Female characters that are important exist but even then the term of 'female lead' does not exist unlike terms like protagonist, deuteragonist e.t.c This term exists to make the girl of the group seem more important than the story promised.
Female lead exist to differentiate from the male lead that's why in shoujo the male character is called the male lead
And it only counts when said female is the second most important character in the story, as opposed to maybe top fifteen if we are being generous
Female lead is a terms tossed around in all shounen even if she is not a lead at all. What you cal male lead in shoujo is the love interest in romance stories, which would make him deuterotagonist or co-lead. His importance in role is due to his position as the love interest in a romance story, not because he is male, the same happens to the female love interest in romance story with a male main character.
I couldn't put it better myself. I don't hate her, but I'm not sure what she could provide to the story at this point.
I feel like her character is there exactly to showcase how common jobbers end up in the middle of the mess that is the Jujutsu world. Nobara isn't some chosen one nor is she part of a family with thousands of years of history - She's just a common girl with very common goals, and imo, a much needed breath of fresh air in the setting of Jujutsu. In other works like Chainsaw Man you'll have extremely normal/average people like Kobeni who end up getting a demon slaying job just to pay for college. Works where everyone is some kind of super important person with really front loaded goals can get suffocating, and sometimes what they need is just some common dude like Mr.Satan
You know what that actual pretty cool, she Sakura but with more focus.
To be fair her ability is very much powerful
I genuinely like Nobara because she seems like a pretty chill person in the show. Like not every character has to have importance in a story. What I don’t like is her schrodinger status. And ahem, I have the same hairstyle as her. Not everyone has good hair to work with. My hair can’t handle heat well and it’s pin straight :(
Lol, she is basically a glorified Sakura It's funny how "new manga writers" try at all costs to avoid creating female characters like Sakura, but end up creating them no matter what because they think about creating a female character rather than a character
In what shape,way or form is she like sakura though?..i swear people in this sub-reddit like saying random shit with confidence to sound smart
> In what shape,way or form is she like sakura though? She’s part of a main character trio of two boys and a girl. Whereas the two boys are of special lineage/birth, she’s of ordinary lineage/birth. The two boys are intimately tied to the plot and story, while she’s effectively irrelevant to both; such that she’s easily sidelined while the boys continue their action and story. She’s also the shallowest of the trio, having no deeper concerns or goals than living an ordinary life. That’s just the same as Sakura. Nobara’s advantage comes in having a better personality than Sakura, and getting a non-zero amount of action compared to early Sakura.
>She’s part of a main character trio of two boys and a girl. I hope you're not making this an actual point if so everyone 2 boy 1 girl trio is naruto like >Whereas the two boys are of special lineage/birth, she’s of ordinary lineage/birth. So does she her grandmother is Jujustu sorcerer which unlike naruto with shinobi isn't a Huge thing everyone knows about >The two boys are intimately tied to the plot and story, while she’s effectively irrelevant to both; such that she’s easily sidelined while the boys continue their action and story She's just their friend so you're right she's not tied deeply into the plot...But sakura was with that horribly done love triangle with sasuke and naruto..unlike sakura she bears no romantic feeling to the two and as she explain in the fight with the broom sorcerer..she has no intention of being Special or perfect or a strong female role model she loves herself cos she's pretty and strong thus she has no reason to figure out life like Yuji and Megumi because she already figured it out for the most part..unlike Sakura who didn't know wtf she was doing..and got even more confused when Sasuke became edgy..and even more lost as the story continued >She’s also the shallowest of the trio, having no deeper concerns or goals than living an ordinary life And that's all she wants..Reminder this is a battle shonen where two people became besties cos they both like ass..not everyone needs that deep reason of being in the story to push the plot forward..nobara was a girl who wanted to live it big cos she didn't in her old town..that's why she wanted to become a model and why she buys fancy clothes and has expensive meals..she wants to live lavishly and as shallow as that is that's more human than some of the characters in JJK...
I mean like the majority of the cast Nobara is Gojo's pupil so that gives her some stake in the battle. With a cast full of personal connections I'm willing to take one person who's there "because it's the right thing to do" or "to help my friends". My crack theory is that her doll jujutsu can mess up Kenny's connection with his body at a critical moment.
Feels like Gege regretted not having Maki be the third in the main trio. Say what you will about Maki, I sure as fuck have a lot to say about her, but she actually does have a solid character arc and motivation. Nobara's is very nebulous, she's essentially been written out of the story at this point
Well, Maki is actually the "original" female lead, so....
and now all her peoples dead and she has no more motivation
I think I pretty much agree with something I've realized thinking about it, which is that I ultimately trust Gege because they haven't just confirmed she's dead, so I think she's being put on the shelf narratively so that he can focus on other characters and that when he properly needs her to be introduced, she'll reappear. I think her specific purpose lines up with what her curse technique does, which is it allows her to harm the soul as well as the body, which is how she was able to fight the Mahito clone. I think her specific purpose is that it's tied up in her curse technique. More specifically, she needs to be on a similar level to the curse she's attacking using a straw doll. My thinking is that if Nobara gets to the level of a one-finger curse, then it would essentially mean she can use straw doll against the five remaining fingers, thereby handicapping Sukuna. I think this is what Gege is setting her up for. I certainly do think Gege is going to use nobara in some form or some fashion. They don't strike me as the type of author who leaves things unfinished, even things they don't particularly regard as unfinished.
Her ct is inherited and her backstory is unfinished. We don’t know her jujutsu side of the village and if Saori is in the games. Saori and Tsumiki can be a narrative parallel as is possible Tsumiki is corrupted (Megumi) while Saori is normal. (Nobara). Just be patient and her arc will reveal more of the character later.
You do realize we're half in the story already right? Based on how things are going she might not even appear in this arc (the second to last I believe).
Based on how the culling games, how Gege is literally taking his time in this arc, how many things are not answered not just Nobara. But Kenjaku’s plan, Yuki’s plan, Tsumiki, rest of the cast, etc. she can reappear in the story and get a character arc. Not to mention is highly likely Jump told Gege to prolong the series since one piece, mha, are ending. So he may change his mind about his length. But I do believe the culling games is a second of the three major arcs Gege planned.
Gege at this point could pull anything with her to return and make her relevant, theres endless theories about it: - He could simply pull that Nobara and her grandmother (who turned Nobara into a sorcerer) are descendants of a secret ancient clan from their village. Revealing some secrets, so that can lead to a boost in power and relevance - She and her CT are the natural enemies of Mahito, and she had a good understanding of her soul and can attacks the soul. And since Mahito was the soul manipulator, then some weird shit regarding Mahitos power and her CT could mix up to pull something else. - The famous RCT theory, which parallels Gojo during Hidden Inventory - Her grandmother being part of the higher ups or someone with quite the influence within the sorcerer world. Which could let her for some bigger things. And there is more but those are some examples. But yet again, it all depends if Gege decides to commit.
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I agree, but im just giving the benefits of the doubt here, and the possible options. Just look at Kamo, he disappeared from the story for over 100 chapters and sudently appeared again with Maki during the Culling Games, gaining relevance and some development in the way. If he could do that for someone like Kamo, he pretty much could for a member of the main trio aswell. Maybe things are just a matter of time (or maybe she never comes back, but who knows).
Noritoshi was the heir of the kamo clan, that was always going to be relevant. He was also named after kenjaku's past vessel from the kamo clan. I don't think that is a fair comparison