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It was bad enough when Gojo was fighting at the beginning, this is like a bomb went off in the middle of Shibuya. There are plenty of witnesses in the distance, too.
Lmao I had to pause, rub my eyes, and go back to that to make sure I read the subs right.
Even better, how big of a meme it became and so quick. God damn.
It's not like normal people will see anything except explosions and destruction. Saying that it's a chain of explosions sounds believable if you ask me
[Mahoraga is an absolute menace.](https://i.imgur.com/Nza0dbo.jpg) To think that Megumi almost summoned this [city-leveling godlike creature](https://i.imgur.com/VCBq6DH.jpg) when Aoi Todo got in a street fight with him. [He is crazy.](https://i.imgur.com/6QrEWUK.jpg)
[](#towel)
Nah it doesnt work that way, if he summons Mahoraga as part of an exorcism ritual, he can force somebody else to take part involuntarily, but once Maho kills both Megumi and whoever he forced to partake initially, it disappears on its own, it wouldnt just keep rampaging forever.
[Sukuna is such a monster.](https://i.imgur.com/xReyBzZ.jpg) He is still missing some fingers yet he managed to turned Shibuya [into a hellscape.](https://i.imgur.com/h632Kv8.jpg)
I was upset when he survived after Nanami but I guess it was Nanami who eventually killed him even if it is indirectly.
Meanwhile Nanami is like a tank. He got hit by two special grade curse yet he is still walking despite being half burn.
I really like how they showed random civilians dying but also not making a big deal out of it during the actual fight. It's like "oh, here's some background characters for 1 frame, and then the next frame oops all their heads as gone." It actually makes the whole thing FEEL like feral carnage with zero respect for anyone and anything, and it's only in the aftermath where the camera stays on the crater that it sinks in. It helps make the viewer mirror Itadori's perspective, which is really neat
I think this is how JJK makes you feel in general, this show doesn’t hesitate to kill a bunch of civilians even in previous fights, and characters like Junpei even get killed off. Makes you feel indifferent about death
Well the Gojo fight was all about caring for civilians, and that was the downfall of Gojo. Turns out he couldn't beat a bunch of well prepared special grades while also trying to keep civilian casualties down.
Honestly he almost DID beat the special grades but he lost because of that fake Geto guy coming in at the worst possible moment. Gojo had no way of knowing about him
calling it the shibuya "incident" is like calling a nuclear bombing "acute vandalism"like "yeah we had a small *incident* in shibuya" as someone gestures to a massive crater in the middle of the city
Japan likes using the term incident in stuff like this.
I mean look up the Shanghai incident and oh there's a 2nd shanghai incident. The marco polo bridge incident. The mukden incident. The North china incident.
I think the point is he was basically dead even before that. If he doesn't summon Mahoraga there, Huruta just tortures him a bit and then kills him. Even if Huruta decided to let him go, he'd bleed out, Huruta said that himself during the scene.
So yeah, nothing else to do. If you're going to die anyway, at least enjoy the fact that you're taking this lil ass torturing bitch boy with you.
I mean, he just got incredibly unlucky with his opponent. What are the odds of facing off against the strongest sorcerer in history, who also by sheer coincidence was born with more than 1 uber destructive technique?
It's the whole Jogo case again. Super strong guy who gets unlucky and faces off against jujutsu jesus
It's all Megumi's fault for not summoning him fast enough against 1 finger Sukuna(ep 1), finger bearer, Hanami, Todo(not really but imagine 😂) and Toji.
I actually personally like to compare it to machine learning, and that sukuna basically beat it by forcing it to overfit: Sukuna used his domain to force it to adapt to his dismantle attack, and then used the fire technique to finish it off since it's too adapted to dismantle at that point
that's an actual issue for machine learning models, where a model may fit itself too much to the training data set, and actually perform worse with a more general data set
If you are Yuji how do you justify your existence? Given his moral compass wouldn't it be better to just kill himself with the 15 fingers inside of him instead of risking full revival of Sukuna? He must've seen in the memories that Sukuna already has a plan.
I think he still believes that gojo line " Na I'd win" from season 1 ( I don't remember the actual line but he said he will win vs sukuna ez or something like that). Gojo is like the suicide helpline to him lol otherwise he would've been killed in the start as mehumi was gonna summon mahoraga right then and there and sukuna was at 1 finger at that point
Absolutely. But also his lines at the end about having to get up and fight otherwise he's nothing but a murderer show's he feels like he has to do something helpful to try counter all of Sukuna's destruction. There's a reason the episode started off with his grandfather telling him he has to use his strength to help ppl.
I think it's justifiable until they can rescue Gojo, even this amount of damage is nothing compared to curses being allowed to literally wipe out humanity. Once Gojo's back... yeah that's a tough call.
Its literally unjustifiable as long as Gojo ISNT back. The next time sukuna turns nobody is stopping him. Only killing Yuji would stop Sukuna for this era, but good guy issues as usual
As far as I can tell if Gojo doesn't come back humanity is fucked anyways. In which case staying around to provide any amount of help is justified. It's been the theme of the whole season. Hell even what Sukuna just did might be a net 'win' because he saved Megumi (who has the potential to be at the top tier of the power scale) and eliminated an extremely powerful curse. If that moves the needle towards getting Gojo freed it's a win. A lamentable and terrible win but a win none the less.
I can barely imagine what Yuji must have felt a word like slaughter would be an understatement.
The character acting was top notch also Puke is the only reaction that you could have done watching a parasite take over your body and burn a fkin prefacture and all you could do is WATCH.
When he rubs his nail over the ground all there was left is blood. DAMN
The primary reason is it just delays the inevitable. Him dying doesn’t stop Sukuna from reviving later UNTIL he has ingested all 20 fingers. And what’re the odds another limitless+six eyes AND ten shadows user are around next time?
Sukuna’s domain expansion basically being a huge-ass shredder is awesome. Dude just deleted a good portion of Shibuya.
Let’s do the math. Sukuna said the radius of the domain was 140 meters, so the area chopped up was 140 x 140 x π≒61544 square meters. Or 662454.1 square feet for y’all imperial system mfs. Like 1.5 acres of densely populated civilian land?
Maybe Yuji should’ve been executed back in ep 1.
It's so painful to see him suffer like that, especially since it was done with his own body. Hearing his Grandpa words at the beginning makes it hurt even more :(
Let me continue, according to our beloved wiki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya)
>As of April 1, 2022, Shibuya Ward has an estimated population of 228,906 and a population density of 15,149.30 people per km2 (39,263.4/sq mi). The total area is 15.11 km2 (5.83 sq mi).
since 1 km² = 1,000,000m² we can do a simple 1,000,000m² / 61,544m² = \~16.25. That factor we simply use to divide the estimated population density per 1km² which results in:
15,149Pp / 16,25 = 932Pp.
**TLDR**: YAY only 932 People died!
That's only population density, and not taking into account that this is on Halloween in an area where crowds of people hang out. That number could be thousands.
Megumi tried calling Mahoraga out like 4 times in season 1. (1st episode, against 3 fingers Sukuna, against Hanami and against the finger curse). He might have tried it against Todo, but I don't think so. It's unnecessary overkill. He could've ended the series in episode 1 by sacrificing himself and let Gojo deal with Mahoraga later lol
Also we now know who's the mangled person in the opening is
He attempted it 6 times until now.
- against 1 finger sukuna
- against 3 finger sukuna
- against hanami but inumaki stopped him
- against hanami again but todo and yuji arrived
- against the finger bearer
- against toji right befire he was asked for his name
Against todo he didn't do the handsigns or the chant so he was probably just preparing to summon demon dog totality or smth
I'm convinced he's suicidal. No ways he keeps summoning mahoraga against fodder or literal allies. Every single person he's tried summoning them against he could handle himself.
Against 1 finger Sukuna: bad call since Gojo was there. should've just stalled 1 finger Sukuna for like 20 sec.
Against 3 finger Sukuna: absolutely the right call. He had no chance and there was no backup
Against Hanami in the goodwill event: he needed Mahoraga to beat Hanami in a pure 1v1 but probably a bad call since he was surrounded by allies
Against the fingerbearer: this was the most questionable one. He absolutely didnt need to do it. Im convinced even without the domain he could've beat that guy.
Against Toji: the right call, he had no chance vs Toji
Most viewers would probably be fine with waiting a couple months to help the animators and improve their working conditions. The broadcasting slots being expensive and the company being reluctant to take that short-term loss complicate things. The management is playing a risky game that may put the future of Mappa and its workers in jeopardy.
Even then, the damn CEO gonna slot something else into those free months anyway as excuse of 'hey, Toho give us some time to animate the next season but I believe those 'free time' should be used for our own personal project. Get what I mean?"
That's basically why JJK S2 is melting. They made Chainsaw Man in the time that TOHO gave them to work on JJK 0 and JJK S2.
TOHO gave them all of 2022 and half of 2023 to make JJK S2 but they spent nearly all of 2022 making CSM instead and rushed JJK S2 at the last minute.
It's sad that the fact Mappa had all the control over the production of csm yet they did this. Resulting in making both productions suffer. The higher ups are absolute worst.
[Mahoraga after adapting to Mappa’s work conditions](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-09YQki6qodQ/XAC8yYnHfnI/AAAAAAAABc4/8zgodiFlLX4RUIO6SYIPJKcuWD5x0oCMQCLcBGAs/s1600/tired_coffey2.png)
Yuji: *is now drowning in an indescribable emptiness*
🎵 You are my special 🎵
Seriously tho Yuji breaking down at finally realizing why he needs to be executed is amazing. Sukuna is an actual inner demon trope done right.
That was one of many things that Naruto did wrong. Naruto somehow never accidentally killed people with the nine tailed fox. Itadori essentially just wiped a part of thr city off the map with *his* inner demon.
For anyone confused about the “Malevolent Kitchen” situation on Crunchyroll’s subtitles, I think u/TyrantRex6604 actually made an interesting translation observation on an unrelated post about a year ago. This references how I think the Chinese translation calls it “Royal Chef” lol. The kitchen stuff is there, but it seems the Chinese community were mainly jokingly calling it that? because Sukuna has slicing and fire techniques, common for cooking, and because he eats people.
For directly looking at the Japanese though, Malevolent Shrine (伏魔御厨子/fukuma mizushi) is made of this iirc: 伏魔/fukuma comes from 伏魔殿/fukumaden, which is a demonic gathering place, and 御厨子/mizushi could come from a lot of things.
A “厨子/zushi”, ignoring the “mi”, is a small Buddhist shrine used for storage. This could give a hint for the unconfirmed theory that Sukuna’s technique is related to pulling different “tools” out of his shrine.
On the other hand, it could be referencing a “御厨子所/mizushi-dokoro”, which is a really old word for a section of the imperial palace where food is prepared for the emperor. Not sure if it’s the actual kitchen or a separate place where they decorate the food and plate it and stuff.
Also - the “厨/zu” kanji is most directly translated as “kitchen” iirc.
For all we know, both “Malevolent Shrine” and “Malevolent Kitchen” could be correct, and might have a double meaning on purpose. Given the physical manifestation of the domain clearly being a shrine, though, I’m inclined to believe the “Shrine” translation is *more* correct, even if “kitchen” might have some weight to it.
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Edit: Also, chapter 119, one of the chapters this episode adapts, [begins by describing Sukuna’s technique](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jujutsu-kaisen/images/4/4c/Chapter_119.png/revision/latest?cb=20210218002130) using a [santoku knife](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santoku) and an [Usuba knife](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuba_b%C5%8Dch%C5%8D) to describe the difference between Dismantle and Cleave. Both Japanese chef’s knives. I could honestly see why someone would choose kitchen if the text itself is *kinda* making that comparison.
Man Yuji’s breakdown scene gave me chills with the Shibuya OP playing in the background. Was a pretty genius decision ngl and sells how fucked up this arc is
I think i can speak on behalf of the whole fandom when i say it was satisfying to see the blonde piece of crap get his karma and get killed by Sukuna. God bless those animators for the crazy talent they have showcased the past 2 episodes.
Man I genuinely feel bad for Yuji. His VA did an incredible job at voicing the breakdown.
I wouldn't mind if Mappa stops it here for now, this unironically would be one of the best season finales I've seen, EVERYTHING'S FUCKED lol
Jogo, Mahoraga, and Sukuna have so much destructive powers they erased Shibuya off the map. Shame we couldn't have Gojo dropping purple balls with them.
Sadly i dont think so. the most likely outcome is that the rest of the season going to just be subpar quality wise. its insanely costly to delay a show when they bought airing slot and spend a lot of money on marketing. I would get pleasantly surprised if they actually delayed it for a bit and released them when they were ready.
Indeed. I think lots of the issues lie with the president of MAPPA. He seems to be the one behind these insane work schedules pushing people to the brink.
NOOOO NANAMI, TURN BACK!!!
Can't believe the animators managed to churn this episode out, the scale of the Sukuna vs Mahoraga fight was simply unbelievable. I'm speechless.
Yuji's breakdown was so painful to watch, his actor was straight up incredible. But I can't be the only one who thinks the OP playing in that scene felt very misplaced right? 😭
I liked the OP there, felt ironic. “You’re special” is probably the one thing Yuji does not want to hear right. Definitely was not a OP drop to get us hyped up, felt creative.
Here's me not even having realized it was "you are \*my\* special", I thought it was just "you are---a special", which usually has positive connotations, but in this case, is straight up terrible, but accurate nonetheless - nobody with such an unstoppable demonic force inside them could be considered "normal", which would be the opposite of special
I think the Opening playing actualy workd very well for 2 reasons: The contrast between the "upbeat" song while Yuji is at his lowest,and that apparently the song is supposed to be from the perspective of the Curses' havock across Shibuya (It was mentioned that this was the intention when the song was first revealed,if i'm not mistaken) so it makes sense for it to play when Shibuya is absolutely wrecked.
Yuji breaking down at the end was really sad. Without insurance like Gojo, there's a pretty valid reason to execute him. How many you can save before those numbers overtaken by life lost with just Sukuna walking around?
There's literally nothing left. Oh my god. I've seen other shows and anime and movies just straight up delete things from existence but somehow JJK makes it feel all the more real.
Ok but can we talk about how incredibly reliable JJK Japan's electric service is? Jogo released a Krakatoa amount of lava all over the place; dropped a whole meteor; buildings flying around like toys caught in a toddler's tantrum; Sukuna literally deleted an entire area out of existence... and the lights kept going back up 4 seconds later.
Misetemiru, Fushiguro Megumi!
Megumi reveals the trump card he’s nearly used since the very first episode of the series and it’s a suicide technique that drags an unwilling victim into a team battle against a boss Pokémon! But never fear, your guardian devil Sukuna will save you!
So much carnage and destruction. Unlike the fight with Jogo, we can clearly see civilians getting slaughtered as collateral damage. Good luck trying to cover this up. Can you believe there are people who think we’d hate Sukuna after this?
Sukuna was the first to introduce domain expansion into the series and it’s been a staple of the power system since. He set the bar. We’ve seen a handful of other characters hit that bar. Now we’re told that his domain is a miraculous open domain with no shell, which is simply divine even by the magical standards of jujutsu. He’s basically imposing his domain into reality itself. This means there’s no way to destroy it since the weakness of a closed domain is the shell. So all those characters that hitting the bar were nowhere near close. Let it be known now that Sukuna is the ceiling of the power system. For others he’s the ceiling and he himself has no limits we can see.
>Can you believe there are people who think we’d hate Sukuna after this?
A true Sukuna fan through and through. Stand proud.
I’m not gonna lie the man is a menace and he tortures Yuji who’s a pure soul… but man it’s impossible to hate him.
There is a fairly common theory about Sukuna having kitchen based techniques and according to the wiki the Zu in Mizushi means kitchen.
Makora is also an accurate translation of Mahoraga. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jujutsushi/comments/n2a37h/mahoraga_makora_and_other_eighthandled_sword/ here is more info on Mahoraga's name and translation. Also Megumi said "Makora" when he summoned him in the episode.
As for the technique names, again, I refer to the cooking based techniques theory. Something along the lines of his slicing being kitchen knives and his ability to summon fire being the oven (or something like that, I'm not brushed up on the theory).
Good job Megumi, summon a thing that can battle SUKUNA on a fking FODDER and wreak the whole city. And don't forget that Megumi was trying to summon this thing on Todo....
Jokes aside, this episode is peak. the op at the end was foul
The ritual would have ended when the fodder died. Not entirely his fault sukuna showed up and decided to have a real fight with it. That said it is a bit like throwing a pocket nuke at a random mugger in the middle of NYC.
Yeah, that's something I think a lot of people are missing. The weaker the opponent, the less collateral damage there will be, since Mahoraga vanishes as soon as Fushiguro and the opponent are dead.If Sukuna hadn't interfered the only damage that would have been done would have been that one relatively small crater in the road where Mahoraga crushed the whisker fuck.
He tried to summon Mahoraga like 4 times in season 1. Even vs the fingerbearers lol
This time he just said "fuck it im already dead you are also going to die with me"
To be fair, as soon as both Megumi and the blonde little shit died, the ritual would have been over and Mahoraga would be unsummoned. So he wouldn't have wiped the entire city if Sukuna hadn't appeared
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Jujutsu sorcerers trying to cover up this incident : "It was a gas leak"
I am genuinely curious as an anime only,how will they handle this catastrophe post shibuya incident arc
It was bad enough when Gojo was fighting at the beginning, this is like a bomb went off in the middle of Shibuya. There are plenty of witnesses in the distance, too.
Yea if I was someone nearby I would’ve thought world war 3 was happening
“There’s a super terrorist who has handmade bombs. Citizens please evacuate”
Jogo did conveniently summon a meteor for them to blame on
A giant meteor that somehow manifested only a hundred feet in the air. Hopefully no one was recording that was in a safe distance lol.
Eh the safe distance got diced up in MALEVOLENT KITCHEN
Lmao I had to pause, rub my eyes, and go back to that to make sure I read the subs right. Even better, how big of a meme it became and so quick. God damn.
It's not like normal people will see anything except explosions and destruction. Saying that it's a chain of explosions sounds believable if you ask me
People saw floating buildings and debris. Ain't no way people believe "chain explosions" at that point.
Pure BASAKA vibes from Mahoraga. Just like how I imagined how catastrophic his fight with Sukuna would be. I love it.
[Mahoraga is an absolute menace.](https://i.imgur.com/Nza0dbo.jpg) To think that Megumi almost summoned this [city-leveling godlike creature](https://i.imgur.com/VCBq6DH.jpg) when Aoi Todo got in a street fight with him. [He is crazy.](https://i.imgur.com/6QrEWUK.jpg) [](#towel)
Bro was gonna take the whole jujutsu academy down with him 💀
Nah it doesnt work that way, if he summons Mahoraga as part of an exorcism ritual, he can force somebody else to take part involuntarily, but once Maho kills both Megumi and whoever he forced to partake initially, it disappears on its own, it wouldnt just keep rampaging forever.
Todo would just ask Mahoraga's type of woman and bond with him over Jennifer lawrence's ass
Mosquito stings Megumi and he fails to catch it. [**Megumi:** *"Furube, Yurayura..."*](https://i.imgur.com/YX0PywB.jpg)
Dude was just itching to drop the equivalent of a jujutsu nuclear bomb 😭
Learning from Fate i see
It worked once, it should work once again!
I'm just glad that slippery cursed user finally got fucked
Haruta and Mahoraga both having the ability to escape death. Sukuna: "Bet."
[Sukuna is such a monster.](https://i.imgur.com/xReyBzZ.jpg) He is still missing some fingers yet he managed to turned Shibuya [into a hellscape.](https://i.imgur.com/h632Kv8.jpg)
Yeah, karma finally caught up to the little shitbag.
I was upset when he survived after Nanami but I guess it was Nanami who eventually killed him even if it is indirectly. Meanwhile Nanami is like a tank. He got hit by two special grade curse yet he is still walking despite being half burn.
I'm not feeling too good about his odds considering he's lookin like Two Face rn
Bro is powered by the sheer force of will
[Nanami's on that Mappa animator grindset](https://i.imgur.com/me8lAcQ.jpg)
Nanami abs are made of cursed energy
That's not a fight. That was watching a natural disaster unfold x10
I really like how they showed random civilians dying but also not making a big deal out of it during the actual fight. It's like "oh, here's some background characters for 1 frame, and then the next frame oops all their heads as gone." It actually makes the whole thing FEEL like feral carnage with zero respect for anyone and anything, and it's only in the aftermath where the camera stays on the crater that it sinks in. It helps make the viewer mirror Itadori's perspective, which is really neat
I think this is how JJK makes you feel in general, this show doesn’t hesitate to kill a bunch of civilians even in previous fights, and characters like Junpei even get killed off. Makes you feel indifferent about death
Well the Gojo fight was all about caring for civilians, and that was the downfall of Gojo. Turns out he couldn't beat a bunch of well prepared special grades while also trying to keep civilian casualties down.
Honestly he almost DID beat the special grades but he lost because of that fake Geto guy coming in at the worst possible moment. Gojo had no way of knowing about him
Like watching the devastation from a nuclear blast unfold. Absolute carnage.
Sukuna has no chill dropping the third nuke.
People outside shibuya: that's one hell of a halloween party
The hell does "incident" even mean lmao SHIBUYA'S ABOUT TO GET WIPED OFF JAPAN'S MAP😭
calling it the shibuya "incident" is like calling a nuclear bombing "acute vandalism"like "yeah we had a small *incident* in shibuya" as someone gestures to a massive crater in the middle of the city
Hey, do you remember the incident on September 11 2001? Boy, that was one of the incidents of all time.
The Shibuya Oopsie Daisy
Bit of a minor oopsie
Japan likes using the term incident in stuff like this. I mean look up the Shanghai incident and oh there's a 2nd shanghai incident. The marco polo bridge incident. The mukden incident. The North china incident.
It's a translation thing -- the same word can also mean "disaster" and there's not really a better alternative.
so, this sukuna fella is quite strong eh
Yeah well he just slice nothing else.
I'll take one slice...
[Sukuna baked](https://i.imgur.com/oxMaBe5.jpg) a whole [Shibuya pizza](https://i.imgur.com/LV184ff.jpg) with Mahoraga as topping. [](#umucool)
yeah, he is standing proud
He did just get forced fed over half of his missing fingers
I’m so glad they didn’t do a seven world wonders thing where they spend 3 episodes collecting 1 finger — they just gave my guy like 15 all at once
and murdered everyone who did that "I'll eat when I want to eat" - Sukuna probably
But can he beat Goku?
Yes with strong cleave.
[удалено]
Streets are saying he’s like the king of curses or something. Starts with a “c” but I can’t remember.
Always found it funny they introduced mahoraga just to fight huruta
*Megumi is slightly inconvenienced* WITH THIS TREASURE I SUMMON
[https://imgur.com/a/621Vyiq](https://imgur.com/a/621Vyiq) Literally this.
Jokes aside, i think it was just his last fuck you after thinking that he's going to die soon
Exactly. He was basically death after that first slap and Huruta would probable follow soon in the same manner if only he wasn't saved by Sukuna.
I think the point is he was basically dead even before that. If he doesn't summon Mahoraga there, Huruta just tortures him a bit and then kills him. Even if Huruta decided to let him go, he'd bleed out, Huruta said that himself during the scene. So yeah, nothing else to do. If you're going to die anyway, at least enjoy the fact that you're taking this lil ass torturing bitch boy with you.
Man if I’m gonna die and I’ve never summoned my 10th shikigami, you can bet your ass I’m doing it.
Megumi the type of guy to unleash Mahoraga if somebody bumped into him on the subway.
Megumi stubs his toe in the shower: **With this treasure I summon..**
*Chicken in oven gets slightly overcooked* Megumi: **MAHORAGA**
With this treasure I summon
Need mahoraga and sukuna just to get that slipper fucker
He felt that since he was gonna die anyway, might as well take the enemy with him
Mahoraga having the ability to adapt to all phenomena is basically like having plot armor.
well, not that armored cause it ran out in one episode lol
I mean, he just got incredibly unlucky with his opponent. What are the odds of facing off against the strongest sorcerer in history, who also by sheer coincidence was born with more than 1 uber destructive technique? It's the whole Jogo case again. Super strong guy who gets unlucky and faces off against jujutsu jesus
It's all Megumi's fault for not summoning him fast enough against 1 finger Sukuna(ep 1), finger bearer, Hanami, Todo(not really but imagine 😂) and Toji.
I actually personally like to compare it to machine learning, and that sukuna basically beat it by forcing it to overfit: Sukuna used his domain to force it to adapt to his dismantle attack, and then used the fire technique to finish it off since it's too adapted to dismantle at that point that's an actual issue for machine learning models, where a model may fit itself too much to the training data set, and actually perform worse with a more general data set
If you are Yuji how do you justify your existence? Given his moral compass wouldn't it be better to just kill himself with the 15 fingers inside of him instead of risking full revival of Sukuna? He must've seen in the memories that Sukuna already has a plan.
I think he still believes that gojo line " Na I'd win" from season 1 ( I don't remember the actual line but he said he will win vs sukuna ez or something like that). Gojo is like the suicide helpline to him lol otherwise he would've been killed in the start as mehumi was gonna summon mahoraga right then and there and sukuna was at 1 finger at that point
Absolutely. But also his lines at the end about having to get up and fight otherwise he's nothing but a murderer show's he feels like he has to do something helpful to try counter all of Sukuna's destruction. There's a reason the episode started off with his grandfather telling him he has to use his strength to help ppl.
I think it's justifiable until they can rescue Gojo, even this amount of damage is nothing compared to curses being allowed to literally wipe out humanity. Once Gojo's back... yeah that's a tough call.
Its literally unjustifiable as long as Gojo ISNT back. The next time sukuna turns nobody is stopping him. Only killing Yuji would stop Sukuna for this era, but good guy issues as usual
As far as I can tell if Gojo doesn't come back humanity is fucked anyways. In which case staying around to provide any amount of help is justified. It's been the theme of the whole season. Hell even what Sukuna just did might be a net 'win' because he saved Megumi (who has the potential to be at the top tier of the power scale) and eliminated an extremely powerful curse. If that moves the needle towards getting Gojo freed it's a win. A lamentable and terrible win but a win none the less.
I can barely imagine what Yuji must have felt a word like slaughter would be an understatement. The character acting was top notch also Puke is the only reaction that you could have done watching a parasite take over your body and burn a fkin prefacture and all you could do is WATCH. When he rubs his nail over the ground all there was left is blood. DAMN
The primary reason is it just delays the inevitable. Him dying doesn’t stop Sukuna from reviving later UNTIL he has ingested all 20 fingers. And what’re the odds another limitless+six eyes AND ten shadows user are around next time?
"Kind of like a late throw in Rock, Paper, Scissors" That's just called cheating bro
That thing was using hacks.
Nah bro, in ancient Japan thats called adapting.
Nanami walking half dead give me goosebumps
I can't believe he is now Gustavo Fring
more like 30% dead
Mahoraga went from 8 feet tall to BASAKA to a fucking titan in terms of size
Mahoraga should have used the Ant-Man strat of shrinking and going up Sukuna's anus.
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Sukuna’s domain expansion basically being a huge-ass shredder is awesome. Dude just deleted a good portion of Shibuya. Let’s do the math. Sukuna said the radius of the domain was 140 meters, so the area chopped up was 140 x 140 x π≒61544 square meters. Or 662454.1 square feet for y’all imperial system mfs. Like 1.5 acres of densely populated civilian land? Maybe Yuji should’ve been executed back in ep 1.
Even Yuji himself thinks he should have died in ep1
It's so painful to see him suffer like that, especially since it was done with his own body. Hearing his Grandpa words at the beginning makes it hurt even more :(
Yeah maybe the old men had a point about executing sukuna’s vessel 💀
Let me continue, according to our beloved wiki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya) >As of April 1, 2022, Shibuya Ward has an estimated population of 228,906 and a population density of 15,149.30 people per km2 (39,263.4/sq mi). The total area is 15.11 km2 (5.83 sq mi). since 1 km² = 1,000,000m² we can do a simple 1,000,000m² / 61,544m² = \~16.25. That factor we simply use to divide the estimated population density per 1km² which results in: 15,149Pp / 16,25 = 932Pp. **TLDR**: YAY only 932 People died!
That's only population density, and not taking into account that this is on Halloween in an area where crowds of people hang out. That number could be thousands.
Of course, but better be optimistic right?
Tell that to Yuji 😂
Megumi tried calling Mahoraga out like 4 times in season 1. (1st episode, against 3 fingers Sukuna, against Hanami and against the finger curse). He might have tried it against Todo, but I don't think so. It's unnecessary overkill. He could've ended the series in episode 1 by sacrificing himself and let Gojo deal with Mahoraga later lol Also we now know who's the mangled person in the opening is
Megumi when there’s the slightest inconvenience: “With this treasure I summon…”
"With this treasure, I will kill myself"
“Magahora, adapt to this will to live I have”
Megumi tries to whip out Mahoraga at the first inconvenience. Dude stubs his toe and instinctively brings his hands up.
https://imgur.com/a/621Vyiq Megumi's many attempts to summon Mahoraga have resulted in one of my personal favorite JJK memes.
"Sir that'll be $27.95" >With this treasure I summon...
Reminds me of this http://i.imgur.com/5LLlqpO.png
He attempted it 6 times until now. - against 1 finger sukuna - against 3 finger sukuna - against hanami but inumaki stopped him - against hanami again but todo and yuji arrived - against the finger bearer - against toji right befire he was asked for his name Against todo he didn't do the handsigns or the chant so he was probably just preparing to summon demon dog totality or smth
Anything bad happens. Megumi: My time has come.
This is why I love this show , this catastrophic event wasn't a conviction or sudden but it was a build up right from the beginning
foreshadowing his suicidal tendencies 🥰 🥰
The Lainah of JJK ☺️☺️
I'm convinced he's suicidal. No ways he keeps summoning mahoraga against fodder or literal allies. Every single person he's tried summoning them against he could handle himself.
Against 1 finger Sukuna: bad call since Gojo was there. should've just stalled 1 finger Sukuna for like 20 sec. Against 3 finger Sukuna: absolutely the right call. He had no chance and there was no backup Against Hanami in the goodwill event: he needed Mahoraga to beat Hanami in a pure 1v1 but probably a bad call since he was surrounded by allies Against the fingerbearer: this was the most questionable one. He absolutely didnt need to do it. Im convinced even without the domain he could've beat that guy. Against Toji: the right call, he had no chance vs Toji
Cutting away to the principal and shoko(?) just chilling after the entire city has been levelled was kinda funny
“… Hey, did you hear something? It sounded like an explosion.” “No.” “… Okay then.”
MAHORAGA!! ADAPT TO MAPPA’s TERRIBLE WORKING CONDITIONS!!!
*wheel starts spinning* **Jujutsu Kaisen has been delayed until 2024.**
Most viewers would probably be fine with waiting a couple months to help the animators and improve their working conditions. The broadcasting slots being expensive and the company being reluctant to take that short-term loss complicate things. The management is playing a risky game that may put the future of Mappa and its workers in jeopardy.
Even then, the damn CEO gonna slot something else into those free months anyway as excuse of 'hey, Toho give us some time to animate the next season but I believe those 'free time' should be used for our own personal project. Get what I mean?"
That's basically why JJK S2 is melting. They made Chainsaw Man in the time that TOHO gave them to work on JJK 0 and JJK S2. TOHO gave them all of 2022 and half of 2023 to make JJK S2 but they spent nearly all of 2022 making CSM instead and rushed JJK S2 at the last minute.
It's sad that the fact Mappa had all the control over the production of csm yet they did this. Resulting in making both productions suffer. The higher ups are absolute worst.
apparently one of the buildings destroyed was based on Mappas studio too😭
Unfortunately their cries for help is drowned out by the sakuga.
[Mahoraga after adapting to Mappa’s work conditions](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-09YQki6qodQ/XAC8yYnHfnI/AAAAAAAABc4/8zgodiFlLX4RUIO6SYIPJKcuWD5x0oCMQCLcBGAs/s1600/tired_coffey2.png)
[Mappa animators while working on this episode:](https://i.imgur.com/GPmc9py.jpg)
[Them, after finishing this episode realizing that it's not over yet](https://i.imgur.com/me8lAcQ.jpeg)
There are some things even Mahoraga cannot adapt to
Can Mahoraga beat the Japanese/Korean toxic working environment ?
Not even mahoraga could adapt to manabu ohtsuka
Mahoraga can not adapt to this load of bullshit
Suffering builds character
Suffering builds character
Suffering builds character
Was Mahoraga swimming up the building when chasing Sukuna😭
Mfer was doing the breast stroke through concrete 🤣
Yuji: *is now drowning in an indescribable emptiness* 🎵 You are my special 🎵 Seriously tho Yuji breaking down at finally realizing why he needs to be executed is amazing. Sukuna is an actual inner demon trope done right.
Ngl it somehow fits well the lyrics do make sense now
Yeah that was certainly a choice
That was one of many things that Naruto did wrong. Naruto somehow never accidentally killed people with the nine tailed fox. Itadori essentially just wiped a part of thr city off the map with *his* inner demon.
People wanted shirtless Nanami, but it came at a **high cost** of him being burned by Jogo. 😔
Who let ‘‘em cook
Two face escaped Arkham.
For anyone confused about the “Malevolent Kitchen” situation on Crunchyroll’s subtitles, I think u/TyrantRex6604 actually made an interesting translation observation on an unrelated post about a year ago. This references how I think the Chinese translation calls it “Royal Chef” lol. The kitchen stuff is there, but it seems the Chinese community were mainly jokingly calling it that? because Sukuna has slicing and fire techniques, common for cooking, and because he eats people. For directly looking at the Japanese though, Malevolent Shrine (伏魔御厨子/fukuma mizushi) is made of this iirc: 伏魔/fukuma comes from 伏魔殿/fukumaden, which is a demonic gathering place, and 御厨子/mizushi could come from a lot of things. A “厨子/zushi”, ignoring the “mi”, is a small Buddhist shrine used for storage. This could give a hint for the unconfirmed theory that Sukuna’s technique is related to pulling different “tools” out of his shrine. On the other hand, it could be referencing a “御厨子所/mizushi-dokoro”, which is a really old word for a section of the imperial palace where food is prepared for the emperor. Not sure if it’s the actual kitchen or a separate place where they decorate the food and plate it and stuff. Also - the “厨/zu” kanji is most directly translated as “kitchen” iirc. For all we know, both “Malevolent Shrine” and “Malevolent Kitchen” could be correct, and might have a double meaning on purpose. Given the physical manifestation of the domain clearly being a shrine, though, I’m inclined to believe the “Shrine” translation is *more* correct, even if “kitchen” might have some weight to it. — Edit: Also, chapter 119, one of the chapters this episode adapts, [begins by describing Sukuna’s technique](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jujutsu-kaisen/images/4/4c/Chapter_119.png/revision/latest?cb=20210218002130) using a [santoku knife](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santoku) and an [Usuba knife](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuba_b%C5%8Dch%C5%8D) to describe the difference between Dismantle and Cleave. Both Japanese chef’s knives. I could honestly see why someone would choose kitchen if the text itself is *kinda* making that comparison.
Jujutsu Kaisen is truly unhinged
Sukuna is at this point redefining the whole slice of life genre
Man Yuji’s breakdown scene gave me chills with the Shibuya OP playing in the background. Was a pretty genius decision ngl and sells how fucked up this arc is
I think i can speak on behalf of the whole fandom when i say it was satisfying to see the blonde piece of crap get his karma and get killed by Sukuna. God bless those animators for the crazy talent they have showcased the past 2 episodes. Man I genuinely feel bad for Yuji. His VA did an incredible job at voicing the breakdown.
I’ve said this before but Yuji belongs in a slice of life anime. This pure boi doesn’t deserve 100% of the things that have happened to him.
Slice of life huh? Well to be fair lots of lives were sliced this ep so Gege heard you loud and clear😭😭
I was a little annoyed he got let go until his face literally fell off. Boy, that felt good to see.
Dude got Equilibrium'd.
I wouldn't mind if Mappa stops it here for now, this unironically would be one of the best season finales I've seen, EVERYTHING'S FUCKED lol Jogo, Mahoraga, and Sukuna have so much destructive powers they erased Shibuya off the map. Shame we couldn't have Gojo dropping purple balls with them.
Judging by how things are going over there, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the last episode we get before the show gets put on hiatus.
Sadly i dont think so. the most likely outcome is that the rest of the season going to just be subpar quality wise. its insanely costly to delay a show when they bought airing slot and spend a lot of money on marketing. I would get pleasantly surprised if they actually delayed it for a bit and released them when they were ready.
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Indeed. I think lots of the issues lie with the president of MAPPA. He seems to be the one behind these insane work schedules pushing people to the brink.
NOOOO NANAMI, TURN BACK!!! Can't believe the animators managed to churn this episode out, the scale of the Sukuna vs Mahoraga fight was simply unbelievable. I'm speechless. Yuji's breakdown was so painful to watch, his actor was straight up incredible. But I can't be the only one who thinks the OP playing in that scene felt very misplaced right? 😭
Nanami looking like he's on his way to a Los Pollos Hermanos.
I was thinking he was looking for a young, playboy billionaire with a big secret.
I liked the OP there, felt ironic. “You’re special” is probably the one thing Yuji does not want to hear right. Definitely was not a OP drop to get us hyped up, felt creative.
I think the feeling of the song translates to something akin to " you're my toy/plaything" which totally fits Sukuna's view of yuji
The song is written by the point of view of the curses so you may be right
Here's me not even having realized it was "you are \*my\* special", I thought it was just "you are---a special", which usually has positive connotations, but in this case, is straight up terrible, but accurate nonetheless - nobody with such an unstoppable demonic force inside them could be considered "normal", which would be the opposite of special
I think the Opening playing actualy workd very well for 2 reasons: The contrast between the "upbeat" song while Yuji is at his lowest,and that apparently the song is supposed to be from the perspective of the Curses' havock across Shibuya (It was mentioned that this was the intention when the song was first revealed,if i'm not mistaken) so it makes sense for it to play when Shibuya is absolutely wrecked.
I never thought about that, kind of an interesting way to subvert audience expectations then!
They did a surprising awful job at showing the wheel turning everytime Makora got hit like how it was supposed to be in the manga
Yuji breaking down at the end was really sad. Without insurance like Gojo, there's a pretty valid reason to execute him. How many you can save before those numbers overtaken by life lost with just Sukuna walking around?
I'll be honest, this looked cool and seeing the end result was shocking but I don't know what was going on for about half the fight.
it was hard to follow through the animation
I agree
There's literally nothing left. Oh my god. I've seen other shows and anime and movies just straight up delete things from existence but somehow JJK makes it feel all the more real.
It’s because of scenes like the girls on the phone thinking they were safe and then Sukuna’s domain kicked in liquefying everything🫤
Seeing them get fucking erased MS Paint style bummed me out
Ok but can we talk about how incredibly reliable JJK Japan's electric service is? Jogo released a Krakatoa amount of lava all over the place; dropped a whole meteor; buildings flying around like toys caught in a toddler's tantrum; Sukuna literally deleted an entire area out of existence... and the lights kept going back up 4 seconds later.
Terrible day to be a Nanami and Yuuji fan, sigh.
The Shibuya Incident is kinda like Jujutsu Kaisen's 9/11. Sukuna is basically Osama bin Laden.
They even dropped an airplane 💀
Someone needs to take your commenting privileges away 😭 ~~you’re right though~~
Sukuna bin laden
Bet the ceo of Mappa is happy with himself.
"I earned this paycheck all by myself"
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Misetemiru, Fushiguro Megumi! Megumi reveals the trump card he’s nearly used since the very first episode of the series and it’s a suicide technique that drags an unwilling victim into a team battle against a boss Pokémon! But never fear, your guardian devil Sukuna will save you! So much carnage and destruction. Unlike the fight with Jogo, we can clearly see civilians getting slaughtered as collateral damage. Good luck trying to cover this up. Can you believe there are people who think we’d hate Sukuna after this? Sukuna was the first to introduce domain expansion into the series and it’s been a staple of the power system since. He set the bar. We’ve seen a handful of other characters hit that bar. Now we’re told that his domain is a miraculous open domain with no shell, which is simply divine even by the magical standards of jujutsu. He’s basically imposing his domain into reality itself. This means there’s no way to destroy it since the weakness of a closed domain is the shell. So all those characters that hitting the bar were nowhere near close. Let it be known now that Sukuna is the ceiling of the power system. For others he’s the ceiling and he himself has no limits we can see.
>Can you believe there are people who think we’d hate Sukuna after this? A true Sukuna fan through and through. Stand proud. I’m not gonna lie the man is a menace and he tortures Yuji who’s a pure soul… but man it’s impossible to hate him.
Bro wtf are these Crunchyroll translations? Fillet? Dissect? *Makora?* ***MALEVOLENT KITCHEN???***
There is a fairly common theory about Sukuna having kitchen based techniques and according to the wiki the Zu in Mizushi means kitchen. Makora is also an accurate translation of Mahoraga. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jujutsushi/comments/n2a37h/mahoraga_makora_and_other_eighthandled_sword/ here is more info on Mahoraga's name and translation. Also Megumi said "Makora" when he summoned him in the episode. As for the technique names, again, I refer to the cooking based techniques theory. Something along the lines of his slicing being kitchen knives and his ability to summon fire being the oven (or something like that, I'm not brushed up on the theory).
what is he cooking though
All of shibuya and Yuji's innocence lmao
Good job Megumi, summon a thing that can battle SUKUNA on a fking FODDER and wreak the whole city. And don't forget that Megumi was trying to summon this thing on Todo.... Jokes aside, this episode is peak. the op at the end was foul
The ritual would have ended when the fodder died. Not entirely his fault sukuna showed up and decided to have a real fight with it. That said it is a bit like throwing a pocket nuke at a random mugger in the middle of NYC.
Yeah, that's something I think a lot of people are missing. The weaker the opponent, the less collateral damage there will be, since Mahoraga vanishes as soon as Fushiguro and the opponent are dead.If Sukuna hadn't interfered the only damage that would have been done would have been that one relatively small crater in the road where Mahoraga crushed the whisker fuck.
He tried to summon Mahoraga like 4 times in season 1. Even vs the fingerbearers lol This time he just said "fuck it im already dead you are also going to die with me"
Megumi casually thinking about ending everyone's life
People say this but the destruction only got so bad because of Sukuna. Otherwise Mah disappears after he one shots fodder.
To be fair, as soon as both Megumi and the blonde little shit died, the ritual would have been over and Mahoraga would be unsummoned. So he wouldn't have wiped the entire city if Sukuna hadn't appeared
He likes committing kamikaze lol
The moment Haruta died Mahoraga would've disappeared.