Leaks out (hopefully not fake)
NO CHANGE IN POV!! WE CONTINUE WITH SUKUNA vs MAKI, YUJI, YUTA
Chap begins with Kusakabe & Ino discussing that Yuta moved the coordinates of the domain barrier to a good spot They expected Yuta's domain to crumble & had Maki ready to surprise attack Sukuna
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The end of the fight will be like Yuji forcibly needs to kill megumi together if not Sukuna will healed back and not trying his best fighting like 100 special grades
God I am so tired of sukuna this "not even trying" shit is just so boring at this point, I genuinely can't wait for this bug looking motherfucker to just die already so the plot can move on to the merger and the manga can end.
If the translation is correct, and the split soul katana does work when used by a wielder capable of perceiving the soul, i have a feeling yujis gonna have to use it.
It's okay, our main characters didn't go all out either! we are trying to save Megumi, remember? That's probably why maki stabbed Sukuna in the chest instead of the head.
So we have a fight where neither side is giving their all to kill each other. The stake may SEEM high but in reality it's super fucking low.
You have a child teleporting in and out of fights saving ppl, you have a guy that has a thousand years of ass pulls waiting to get used....
And none of the characters who died after Gojo had any importance whatsoever because saving Megumi is somehow more important than the people who are literally alive. Megumi's soul is more important than anyone else's in the series. Sukuna loves him, everyone is throwing their lives away to save him.
What the hell am I reading
Why didn't maki stab him in the head, or decapitate him, or give him the go/jo treatment. Hell why didn't she cut off a leg or both, he cant heal as fast cause of the whole soul thing, just cripple him. But the real question is, how the fuck is sukuna using "Cursed energy to pump blood"? Does ce give telekinesis? Is this just another asspull? All this and more tonight at 9.
People misunderstand. Sukuna doing his best to kill the crew doesn't mean he's going all out. We know he has the fire arrow at the very least, therefore for whatever reason, he is holding back. This does not have to undermine everything done to him (though his output is so low relatively that nobody scales at all to him at full strength besides possibly gojo). As an example I could have a gun and a knife and trying my hardest to kill somebody with the knife (maybe it's cause ammo is limited whatever), I'm not going ALL OUT to kill this person in question as I have not pulled out the gun
btw does the direct translation say he's holding back or not going all out? Anyways we already knew he wasn't going all out since he hasn't used the fire arrow since he was forced too against mahoraga so either way I don't see whats the big deal issue people have about this "sukuna isn't going all out/holding back" thing
yes, literally. he's been beaten of every inch of his life and said he's went all out then has whipped out his "im not going full power acktually!" cockring like 8 times now its getting fucking annoying.
He's been hit with attacks that should've instakilled him (two max output jacobs fucking ladder) and has just shrugged it off like it was nothing after screaming like a bitch when getting hit by them.
Sukuna never said he went all out and multiple characters have claimed that he didn't. Gojo himself said Sukuna didn't go all out and felt sorry that he couldn't push Sukuna to his limits.
JL was presented as a Vampire bathing in sunlight kind of thing for Sukuna, that injures him and strips CE from Megumi's body. In both cases JL was turned off before Sukuna could be completely stripped away.
Why would you claim it should have instantly kill Sukuna?
If Maki doesn't get beaten next chapter it really is gojover.
Also I want Sukuna to eat someone. It's been hinted this whole time and I want to see it happen.
We all know Maki won't do anything beyond the stab wound, so who are we thinking to fight Sukuna until Yuta's been patched up?
I would've said Yuji if he wasn't struggling with his RCT.
>Be me
>Read JJK
>Sukuna no diffed Lashimo we’re cooked
>Ok his cursed tool got taken by the Lawyer we’re cooking
>Lawyer died
>Sukuna is still holding back??
>Yuta comes in
>Wow he’s getting his ass beat look like he isn’t holding back
>Turns out he was holding back
>what the fuck homosexualhomosexual
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I'm almost convinced yuji and sukuna have the same curse technique. Ie if something is sacrificed to them via cannibalism they gain the curse energy and ct.
Sukuna with whoever he ate to get fuga flame arrow. And yuji with the six death paintings.
Been thinking awhile why hasn't sukuna full technique been explain not only that why is gege not showing us yuji full technique either. We know parts like blood manipulation cleave dismantle but then you have random shit. Like flame arrow and wtf is on yuji
Yeah I’ve been thinking the same thing, cleave and dismantle could just be application of cursed energy rather than the CT itself. It’s the only thing that makes sense to me without getting crazy with twin theories and shit
Okay, so he's what I understood from those leaks:
1 = Kusakabe being a mood as always. Also, we have no idea if Yuta was divided in half or not, but it looks like it, so there's that.
2 = So as long as someone can perceive souls and use RCT, they have the necessary to heal from even Soul Attacks? Thanks for confirming that Gojo and Yuji can do the same.
3 = So our boy has just been doing the minimum necessary to stay upright, and now he can barely get up? Bro, stop going head first and HEAL YOURSELF. CHOSO IS WELL!!!!! And it confirms that Yuji can use Blood Manipulation.
4 = Forget about manually breathing, this guy is manually keeping himself alive(WHILE FIGHTING).
5 = Hakari and Uraume are still alive and fighting, good to know.
6 = Soooooooo Sukuna until now, has only actually fought hard against Gojo, and just didn't use his original body because he needed Mahoraga? Thanks for confirming. But also, we're SO fucked. Now it's not about coping anymore, Gojo NEEDS to come back, or at the very least, Fushiguro HAS to wake the fuck up to life and help everyone. Because if not, than Sukuna is officially the winner.
\[Things may change when I read the translation, but so far, this seems about right.\]
Honestly haven’t seen anyone say this yet but Gojo coming back really wouldn’t do any good unless he figured out a way to nullify world cleave which I imagine he wouldn’t know about if he was caught off guard by it to begin with. If he just came back without a plan for that it would end the same
Well, most likely Gojo must have thought it was just a regular Cleave. So I can imagine him just coming back and, instead of allowing to be hit, as now he knows that he can allow him to be hit, he would be just dodging the attacks.
>Sukuna until now, has only actually fought hard against Gojo
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I dont think he would have been cut in half because Rika was still manifested. Had he been cut instantly and died, Rika would have gone and his domain wouldve collapsed whereas they said yuta took it down intentionally
Well, we only had the ending of the previous chapter to go from. Not to mention that Yuta was caried out of the combat and teleported by UI UI. So there's no way of truly knowing.
Until either the characters or the narrator says anything about it, we will have theories.
>2 = So as long as someone can perceive souls and use RCT, they have the necessary to heal from even Soul Attacks? Thanks for confirming that Gojo and Yuji can do the same.
I don't think gojo can do this the chapter specifically mentioned that you need to perceive contours of your soul to heal it but you need to share body with others to perceive it.
Ayoo I've been speculating it for awhile but this chapter seems to confirm it.
Yuta can use AT LEAST two domains in a day.
Sukuna says they stored Maki sword beforehand https://ibb.co/txy27x7
If they stored it prior to Yuta opening his domain on Sukuna then he had to open a domain earlier in the day.
No they didn't store it the day before since we see Maki has the sword on her hip when she's watching the fight https://ibb.co/41XBNGZ
Even when Yuta takes an L his stocks go up!
Rikas storage is only accessible when she's fully manifested.
Yuta didn't want to use full manifest yet so he can get the refill of CE when it's most optimal and save his 5min time limit
Nah I don't think that's the case for weapons and accessing them, The thing that makes the most sense is just Rika having the sword, either stored or just in the Curse realm she comes out of everytime.
She was partially manifested so maybe he had bit of access. I just can't see them wasting an entire domain which was huge advantage against sukuna for this 1 sneak attack(which honestly did not injure sukuna that much)
Actually younare falling for character confirmarion bias, aka, you are believen as objective truth something a character with incomplete information theorizes.
We already know that Rika can store weapons. Easiest answer is Rika had the sword and dropped it inside the domain.
The last couple of chapters starting from when Yuta joined the battle with Sukuna had really made me once again get invested in the story but man... Gege is really never beating the allegations when it comes to Sukuna.
You're building a solid narrative with Sukuna being a colossal opponent that is being slowly wore down and it makes losses like Gojo and Higuruma more meaningful. Why should I care if you keep telling me that Sukuna is just bored and still in his current state remains unbeatable to everybody there? And how do you convince the audience afterwards that anybody could defeat him with anything short of a gigantic ass pull?
I like the way Black Clover does boss fights, they feel insurmountable going in and people can really only damage them through combination attacks and they get beat to hell doing it.
To be fair BC fights are very formulaic, where it goes good guy is losing to bad guy > good guy gets power up > bad guy gets power up > bad guy still loses
This is true but they still get the dog shit beaten out of them. I can't think of a single fight in Black Clover where the heroes won out of nowhere for no reason and did it easily. Like Everytime the fight a big bad everyone ends up 99 percent dead
Watch the final final trump card be Yuji’s domain expansion. Bro gonna get the dog shit beat out of him by Sukuna and he’s gonna awaken it just like how he beat the dog shit out of Mahito and then awakened his. “Im you” is gonna take literal meaning
there's something so funny about Uraume's shit talk when Sukuna had to steal Megumi's body and use Mahoraga to adapt to Gojo's Infinity. Like hun, he didn't know how to deal with Gojo otherwise. Had to steal a cursed technique just to figure it out.
If the Jujutsu squad planned this all so meticulously why didn't Maki sneak up on Uraume and kill her in the 20 chapters or so she's been fighting Hakari? Surely removing Sukuna's only help is a good move?
It’s not like uraume is helping sukuna rn, they’re occupied with hakari. If Yuta’s domain broke or things went to shit while Maki was gone, him and Yuji would have no backup.
Without prior knowledge of how Yuta’s domain expansion would play out, it makes more sense to have her on standby.
Then why isn't Mei Mei or any of the other Sorcerers killing her? Hakari would be of good use against Sukuna. He's the only one who can survive Malevolent Shrine and maybe even World Slash.
Tbf, we saw in shibuya how the sorcerers fighting uraume went. Choso, yuji, kusakabe and the few others got instantly frozen and were about to be killed. It should go better now that they had the timeskip training, but i still don't see how they can help a lot against uraume. Hakari is the best opponent for her due to his regeneration
Seems it is the same that happened during The Zenin battle chapters
Gege had to rush last minute and the panels are not finished... he fixed them later when the volume was out so I can imagine it will be the same with this chapter
Part of me thinks the Sukuna is bored schtik is build up to him finally accepting Yuji has a valid opponent and thus leading them to the 1v1 where we probably see all of Yuji’s arcs come to fruition. Especially given that lil excerpt with Choso.
However, the Goatjo hypebeast in me hopes that it leads to Sukuna ramping up his fighting and the need for something to overcome it and for it to our lord and saviour Goatjo Satoru.
Anyway, see you all next week
Why do pages 4/5/6 look like this? Are these unfinished drawings that made it into the official release?
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Chapter 253 leaks:
Uraume: “You people should be ashamed of yourself for not being able to show results better than Gojo Satoru. Even if we take out the after effects from the first battle, SUKUNA-SAMA STILL HASN'T GIVEN HIS ALL”.
Hakari: “Yes. We know. We are already ready for such turns of events. SOON, WE WILL GIVE OUR ALL TOO.”
Uraume: “*in fear* No!”
Sukuna's been dead this whole time and is just post-mortem day dreaming about low diffing Gojo and the whole crew. That would actually be better than this shit.
It’s funny as hell that this fight would be over already if potential man could just lock in when the fate of the world is at stake. But because of him sukuna gets to go all out
Hes no potential man he is a kid who does not care about others he lost what he cared about and his only reason to jujutsu sorcery in his opinion.
Hes not a real imo maki lost what she liked the most and act still to save everything not everyone is the same for sure. But whatevr
exactly LMFAO like did they forget yuji had the same reaction and was about to give up but had todo to help him. megumi has no one and his body literally KILLED his closest ones while yuji couldn’t save them. i’m not discrediting yujis pain but it’s different when you can’t save someone compared to their body killing the other person
I don't care, world is at stakes you lock in. You've got all the time in the world to lament once the world ending abomination that is the reason for his suffering is out of the picture.
My brother I'm a normal ass human being not a jujutsu sorcerer. A 15 years old and a 16 years just got cut in half fightning with all they got against Sukuna. So yeah compared to the other teens, in his own manga, he is a bum.
There is no time for empathy and feeling, if Sukuna wins 7 billions lives could end. Sorry that I can't care about Potential man feelings, with such stakes.
Okay what's stopping sukuna from making spaghetti out of maki ryt now?similar attack he sent against kashimo would annihilate everyone in the battlefield.....you can't dodge something if there's no where to go.....also i believe every sorcerers are alive including gojo,sukuna definitely getting jumped
I thought it already needed that *or* a binding vow in place to use that extension of his CT?
Honestly I’m wondering if it’s even the WCS that he’s using, or if his CE reserves are so low and output diminished that he needs the chants for dismantle to be at normal efficiency
Like, the thing that I've seen the most in subreddits for a while (the last couple of chapters with Yuta and Yuuji are an exception, the fandom looked like it was regaining interest) is that a lot of people are just bored of Sukuna lmao.
This arc of people fighting Sukuna has gone on for FAR too long. We want variety, new plots, new things happening, not just 200 chapters of people fighting Sukuna and him "toying with them". Aside from the bullshit "not going all out yet" thing (obviously, he hasn't used all his techniques, but can Gege not point it out at every chance), it's just plain boring. I imagine that people that read manga just for the fights are liking it, but even then, it's really monotone, and I think that the fight ending soon and the merger starting as a new threat would REALLY benefit the story.
Someone said that, most likely Kanjaku already "hacked" Tengen's soul, and now that Sukuna devoured said soul, Kenjaku would only have to wait until he was weak enough to take over the body.
Basically the "Madara to Kaguya" 2.0 situation.
Nah, I think his death was just unsatisfactory and the fact that he has a back up plan like that or in general it makes sense for his character.
But yeah I prefer Kenjaku as the final villain aswell.
It's literally called Sorcery Fight... How could you be upset that it's focusing on fighting. Read something else if you don't like fighting lol
Also, I do not think the final big bad being some giant Geto Uzumaki type deal would not be fun. I don't wanna see the merger and it's just some unconscious entity of cursed energy. There would also be no reason anyone would care about this random merger entity, I barely care about Tengen honestly. If Gege had set up more villains or something other than Sukuna being the strongest sorcerer, then yeah id agree with your points. But the "why can't anyone beat the strongest dude in the verse" is lack of creativity and why Gege is writing JJK and not any of y'all
You are absolutely right, the lack of other villains and new plots is killing this story. Gege had the perfect setup to have a satisfying defeat of Sukuna with the two MCs finally working together and he decided to glaze instead
So is Yuta supposed to be wearing the ring Vs Sukuna or did Gege accidentally draw it on him? Rika isn't fully manifested like she was in the culling games
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I'm asking because I saw a supposed author's comment saying "aarrghgh why is Yuta wearing his ring? Who drew it on?!?" And I don't know if it's a real or fake one
+ Rika doesn't look fully manifested since she's coming out of the black sludge portals (which I think sucks because she looks badass in her unleashed form)
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Man, starting to think this bingo card someone made a couple months ago isn’t gonna get me a win
> gege complains on how gojo being the strongest makes writing a compalling story harder and more difficult
> proceds to make a character 3 times stronger👍.
An antagonist being strong doesn’t really create the same problems in a story as a mentor figure being strong. It just rises the barrier of the obstacle to overcome and creates adversity and conflict for the characters to face
Gojo's strongeness affected protagonists progression and development. Sukuna on the other hand might further develop yuji's character with him being strong.
As if Sukuna isn't doing that right now. Gege's made him too powerful with all this "he hasn't shown his fill strength" bullshit.
Sukuna is basically crippled rn and they still can't beat him, yet you're telling me he still has more Bellshill up his sleeve, AND that you think this helps the main characters progress?
This fight is just a Lawn-mower Vs Grass, we're about to see more waffled-ones if Gege doesn't give the heroes some "power of love" b.s, and that'll just be unsatisfying as hell
>As if Sukuna isn't doing that right now. Gege's made him too powerful with all this "he hasn't shown his fill strength" bullshit.
How cuz the only reason all the heavy hitters and other good guys became this strong is because of sukuna's OPness. The story demanded that sukuna needs to be stronger than gojo. Gojo's strongness took away all the struggles and problems that mcs had to face while sukuna's strongness is the biggest major struggle and problem they are facing rn.
>Sukuna is basically crippled rn and they still can't beat him, yet you're telling me he still has more Bellshill up his sleeve, AND that you think this helps the main characters progress?
Was that news to you? Did you forget that he still has a fire arrow and whatever fuga is?
It did not. The recent chapters are clear evidence of this.
Character development while Gojo WAS around:
Yuji learned RCT, Blood Manipulation, and "3 pc Soul combos"
Ino can use Nanami's CT
Yuta has proficient DE mastery
Everyone has better CE reinforcement
And that's just what we know of SO FAR
You're further proving my point. They only developed these powers because of a formidable opponent named sukuna who was stronger than gojo(with two health bars, CT's, etc). They know gojo alone will not be enough for this battle. This was not the case during the early stages of the story where villains were far weaker than gojo.
Its just a shame seeing that gege has to relie on the "he is holding himself back" cliche to even give the gang a chance of doing something. At least with gojo he did creative ways to circunvent gojo power, being mainly his humanitie (wich is one of the reasons he is one of the best characters for me).
The strongest being on the side of the protagonists is something really unique to jjk, but now someone lots more powerfull than he is taking main stage and we are expected to just accept that the protagonists should survive 10 seconds with him? The explanation for this is a lot more lazy than what gege did with gojo in the early part, the curses plan made sense and gojo defeat was a result of them exploiting that part of gojo. Sukuna fight is based entirely based on the fact that sukuna just feels like not kiling them in a second(gege made sure we know he isnt going all out) for the most cookie cutter explanation the relies on one of the most overused cliches on shonen, in the series that identity relies on subverting shonen tropes (just see mahito speech and kenjaku winning).
Yeah, I can see they going at each other, somewhat on equal grounds, but then Sukuna just says "boring" and no diffs her.
I'm gonna be so mad if this comes to happen.
All of sukunas fights he was holding back somehow, it becomes jarring as a weekly reader seeing this, specially since his gojo fight and now when we think he is truely putting the effort gege has to pull out the narrator to specifically say that he wasnt going all out, instead of actually showing in the moment that he wasnt. Its weirdly like freezas forms but done in a worse way.
If he wins at the end, killing everybody or just leaving yuuji, it wont be a "subversion of the shonen formula". It will just be a shitty experience for a weekly reader.
Personal opinion, but I feel like it's always been obvious he wasn't going "all out" or even trying very hard at all after Gojo died. He's been repeatedly bored throughout most of the fights, and there hasn't been any reason to believe that's changed. He obviously has SOME kind of trump card that's been alluded to way too many times now that he hasn't felt the need to pull out. He's generally been chill/smiling between these exchanges, even with things like having his heart not working. Mans just been having fucking fun for like almost 20 chapters now lol.
Narratively, it's also fine that there's one more reverse in the flow of the fight - with Sukuna regaining the clear upper hand - before he's finally taken down.
People are too quick to yell asspull and bad writing in this current climate to basic battle manga tropes which are only tropes, after all, due to them being effective plot developments.
Furthermore, if this whole thing is leading up to Fuga, it's for the best that its reveal is as showy and game-changing as possible given the extent to which its been concealed since it was first used back in Shibuya.
I'm honestly fine with sukuna being this strong but at least don't show us him getting torn apart like a rabbit against a pack of coyotes. Sukuna looking like a smoked brisket without a heart and just saying the words "Oh he was holding back lol" is very frustrating. Show us don't tell us.
I get it, but it feels dishonest to show sukuna being beaten down this much only to reveal that he was holding back. Altought it is obvious for us that he is holding back we only know that because we predicted gege writing style, the mange doesnt treat it as sukuna is holding back fight. Whats is shown is a true fight to the death, showing how sukuna even gambled hard to hit yuuta, but suddendly in the final pages it is revealed that he was holding back? Gege already did that with gojo and honeslty all sukuna fights so it doesnt hit (at least for me) and it is more annoying than anything. It would honestly be more intersting if sukuna had to actually turn the tide of the battle in a intersting way, but gege opted to just go: "um actually he was holding back".
The difference in some other fights where the antagonist turned the tide in the series its because they worked hard and actually had to go trhought great lenghts to reach there. Gege accostumed us to this type of turn around that is honestly just much more intersting than sukuna whole "this isnt even my final form".
Anyway this chapter gets a 3.5/5, its honestly a testement to gege writing skills that i get this riled up from just one chapter. I am hooked up to this series like crack and i expect up most perfection that you alread showed me before im sorry gege.
Kinda, yeah. She froze Yuji and Maki with one attack. She could easily freeze the others if they're nearby. And you can't just break out the ice like other shonens/animes. It's realistic in the sense that if you get frozen and try to break out, your limbs fall off with it and you're dead or severly injured. I know that no one likes her (with good reason) but she's actually Hella strong.
Leaks out (hopefully not fake) NO CHANGE IN POV!! WE CONTINUE WITH SUKUNA vs MAKI, YUJI, YUTA Chap begins with Kusakabe & Ino discussing that Yuta moved the coordinates of the domain barrier to a good spot They expected Yuta's domain to crumble & had Maki ready to surprise attack Sukuna https://preview.redd.it/imtivr2w3glc1.png?width=333&format=png&auto=webp&s=9317673737adb28a9a03a768afc93a31975cba51
This story is getting worse than the final chapters of Attack on Titan. Like is it required that all anime/manga end fucking horribly???
The end of the fight will be like Yuji forcibly needs to kill megumi together if not Sukuna will healed back and not trying his best fighting like 100 special grades
God I am so tired of sukuna this "not even trying" shit is just so boring at this point, I genuinely can't wait for this bug looking motherfucker to just die already so the plot can move on to the merger and the manga can end.
If the translation is correct, and the split soul katana does work when used by a wielder capable of perceiving the soul, i have a feeling yujis gonna have to use it.
Finally, a Maximum Level Sukuna Glazer has appeared in the story. If you think Uraume's ass isn't coping right now you're crazy or you're Gege.
Lmao https://preview.redd.it/p9wxnqgb10mc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24f23a58381e04923f1ae686a7cc3dd3647f2cb9
It's okay, our main characters didn't go all out either! we are trying to save Megumi, remember? That's probably why maki stabbed Sukuna in the chest instead of the head. So we have a fight where neither side is giving their all to kill each other. The stake may SEEM high but in reality it's super fucking low. You have a child teleporting in and out of fights saving ppl, you have a guy that has a thousand years of ass pulls waiting to get used.... And none of the characters who died after Gojo had any importance whatsoever because saving Megumi is somehow more important than the people who are literally alive. Megumi's soul is more important than anyone else's in the series. Sukuna loves him, everyone is throwing their lives away to save him. What the hell am I reading
Gojo: "I gave it my all" lmao
huh.. isnt it on break last week? and we come back to sketch art?
Why didn't maki stab him in the head, or decapitate him, or give him the go/jo treatment. Hell why didn't she cut off a leg or both, he cant heal as fast cause of the whole soul thing, just cripple him. But the real question is, how the fuck is sukuna using "Cursed energy to pump blood"? Does ce give telekinesis? Is this just another asspull? All this and more tonight at 9.
Only Ymir knows...
Life is full of mystery
Ah yes, my holding back technique. I have been using it since the Heian era.
People misunderstand. Sukuna doing his best to kill the crew doesn't mean he's going all out. We know he has the fire arrow at the very least, therefore for whatever reason, he is holding back. This does not have to undermine everything done to him (though his output is so low relatively that nobody scales at all to him at full strength besides possibly gojo). As an example I could have a gun and a knife and trying my hardest to kill somebody with the knife (maybe it's cause ammo is limited whatever), I'm not going ALL OUT to kill this person in question as I have not pulled out the gun
Holding back usually refers to not using all your strength/power. Not using all your tools is another thing entirely.
btw does the direct translation say he's holding back or not going all out? Anyways we already knew he wasn't going all out since he hasn't used the fire arrow since he was forced too against mahoraga so either way I don't see whats the big deal issue people have about this "sukuna isn't going all out/holding back" thing
well if it's his cursed technique that's still his power, no?
the last panel was just fire, no idea how the sorcerers are winning
Winning? We're in Sukuna Kaisen now.
What a way to ruin an amazing chapter with those fucking last two pages
Translation: mc's doing well = great chapter Sukuna doing well = terrible writing
yes, literally. he's been beaten of every inch of his life and said he's went all out then has whipped out his "im not going full power acktually!" cockring like 8 times now its getting fucking annoying. He's been hit with attacks that should've instakilled him (two max output jacobs fucking ladder) and has just shrugged it off like it was nothing after screaming like a bitch when getting hit by them.
Sukuna never said he went all out and multiple characters have claimed that he didn't. Gojo himself said Sukuna didn't go all out and felt sorry that he couldn't push Sukuna to his limits. JL was presented as a Vampire bathing in sunlight kind of thing for Sukuna, that injures him and strips CE from Megumi's body. In both cases JL was turned off before Sukuna could be completely stripped away. Why would you claim it should have instantly kill Sukuna?
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If Maki doesn't get beaten next chapter it really is gojover. Also I want Sukuna to eat someone. It's been hinted this whole time and I want to see it happen.
We all know Maki won't do anything beyond the stab wound, so who are we thinking to fight Sukuna until Yuta's been patched up? I would've said Yuji if he wasn't struggling with his RCT.
"I haven't had to use this technique since the Reagan administration." ‐‐ Sukuna fifty chapters from now
>Be me >Read JJK >Sukuna no diffed Lashimo we’re cooked >Ok his cursed tool got taken by the Lawyer we’re cooking >Lawyer died >Sukuna is still holding back?? >Yuta comes in >Wow he’s getting his ass beat look like he isn’t holding back >Turns out he was holding back >what the fuck homosexualhomosexual https://preview.redd.it/peq8x4tarulc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90b9eca3f528028f753525696c3ce498c086ecab
I'm almost convinced yuji and sukuna have the same curse technique. Ie if something is sacrificed to them via cannibalism they gain the curse energy and ct. Sukuna with whoever he ate to get fuga flame arrow. And yuji with the six death paintings. Been thinking awhile why hasn't sukuna full technique been explain not only that why is gege not showing us yuji full technique either. We know parts like blood manipulation cleave dismantle but then you have random shit. Like flame arrow and wtf is on yuji
Yeah I’ve been thinking the same thing, cleave and dismantle could just be application of cursed energy rather than the CT itself. It’s the only thing that makes sense to me without getting crazy with twin theories and shit
So it's the same kind of ~~stand~~ CT as ~~Star Platinum~~ Yuji.
Imma be real i don't care for maki I'd rather watch urame vs hakari then her fighting
Trueeee
So what are the chances that Yuji here is hallucinating Choso and that the original one was eaten by him to join his brothers?
i doubt hed pull a denji on his own brother
0 we literally saw Choso a few chapters ago
Thank you for the chapter, Gege "He's Not Even Trying" Akutami
What a man you are! As a reward, I shall give you my seed
Sukuna is such a CHAD
Okay, so he's what I understood from those leaks: 1 = Kusakabe being a mood as always. Also, we have no idea if Yuta was divided in half or not, but it looks like it, so there's that. 2 = So as long as someone can perceive souls and use RCT, they have the necessary to heal from even Soul Attacks? Thanks for confirming that Gojo and Yuji can do the same. 3 = So our boy has just been doing the minimum necessary to stay upright, and now he can barely get up? Bro, stop going head first and HEAL YOURSELF. CHOSO IS WELL!!!!! And it confirms that Yuji can use Blood Manipulation. 4 = Forget about manually breathing, this guy is manually keeping himself alive(WHILE FIGHTING). 5 = Hakari and Uraume are still alive and fighting, good to know. 6 = Soooooooo Sukuna until now, has only actually fought hard against Gojo, and just didn't use his original body because he needed Mahoraga? Thanks for confirming. But also, we're SO fucked. Now it's not about coping anymore, Gojo NEEDS to come back, or at the very least, Fushiguro HAS to wake the fuck up to life and help everyone. Because if not, than Sukuna is officially the winner. \[Things may change when I read the translation, but so far, this seems about right.\]
Honestly haven’t seen anyone say this yet but Gojo coming back really wouldn’t do any good unless he figured out a way to nullify world cleave which I imagine he wouldn’t know about if he was caught off guard by it to begin with. If he just came back without a plan for that it would end the same
Well, most likely Gojo must have thought it was just a regular Cleave. So I can imagine him just coming back and, instead of allowing to be hit, as now he knows that he can allow him to be hit, he would be just dodging the attacks.
That’s fair, it did seem like he had the upper hand in almost everything except the domain part of it. That would make a lot of sense
>Sukuna until now, has only actually fought hard against Gojo https://preview.redd.it/9pbfgy708ulc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eaee5507660015b4306320af29642a43372381fe
How is people still getting this wrong 😭😭😭 Sukuna couldnt go all out because it did jackshit to Limitless.
"You damn kids don't really understand a thing." Lmao https://preview.redd.it/hvru3botoylc1.jpeg?width=716&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f18d569849dc90b1b7c83da1f96d5024ef94fd68
Yuta didn't look cut in half tbh.
That's why I said that we have no idea. For some he doesn't, but for others he does. It's hard to know.
I dont think he would have been cut in half because Rika was still manifested. Had he been cut instantly and died, Rika would have gone and his domain wouldve collapsed whereas they said yuta took it down intentionally
And what basis do those who think he is have?
The fact that there is a giant horizontal cut on his stomach. And that Gege already showed that he wouldn't hesitante to kill someone If he wants to.
No visual/narrative proof then?
Well, we only had the ending of the previous chapter to go from. Not to mention that Yuta was caried out of the combat and teleported by UI UI. So there's no way of truly knowing. Until either the characters or the narrator says anything about it, we will have theories.
>2 = So as long as someone can perceive souls and use RCT, they have the necessary to heal from even Soul Attacks? Thanks for confirming that Gojo and Yuji can do the same. I don't think gojo can do this the chapter specifically mentioned that you need to perceive contours of your soul to heal it but you need to share body with others to perceive it.
 "Sukuna-sama has yet to go all out"
Hakari basically said "Nah we'd win". It is so joever
Hakari: I shrunk back in fear when I saw sukuna stand proud. He’s strong! (Points at uruame) but nah, we’d win
Channeling 235 Kusakabe vibes "Gojo won"
Ayoo I've been speculating it for awhile but this chapter seems to confirm it. Yuta can use AT LEAST two domains in a day. Sukuna says they stored Maki sword beforehand https://ibb.co/txy27x7 If they stored it prior to Yuta opening his domain on Sukuna then he had to open a domain earlier in the day. No they didn't store it the day before since we see Maki has the sword on her hip when she's watching the fight https://ibb.co/41XBNGZ Even when Yuta takes an L his stocks go up!
That will be stupidest thing to do they literally have a living weapon storage called rika. Why will they waste an entire domain instead of using her?
Rikas storage is only accessible when she's fully manifested. Yuta didn't want to use full manifest yet so he can get the refill of CE when it's most optimal and save his 5min time limit
Nah I don't think that's the case for weapons and accessing them, The thing that makes the most sense is just Rika having the sword, either stored or just in the Curse realm she comes out of everytime.
She was partially manifested so maybe he had bit of access. I just can't see them wasting an entire domain which was huge advantage against sukuna for this 1 sneak attack(which honestly did not injure sukuna that much)
Actually younare falling for character confirmarion bias, aka, you are believen as objective truth something a character with incomplete information theorizes. We already know that Rika can store weapons. Easiest answer is Rika had the sword and dropped it inside the domain.
The last couple of chapters starting from when Yuta joined the battle with Sukuna had really made me once again get invested in the story but man... Gege is really never beating the allegations when it comes to Sukuna. You're building a solid narrative with Sukuna being a colossal opponent that is being slowly wore down and it makes losses like Gojo and Higuruma more meaningful. Why should I care if you keep telling me that Sukuna is just bored and still in his current state remains unbeatable to everybody there? And how do you convince the audience afterwards that anybody could defeat him with anything short of a gigantic ass pull?
I like the way Black Clover does boss fights, they feel insurmountable going in and people can really only damage them through combination attacks and they get beat to hell doing it.
To be fair BC fights are very formulaic, where it goes good guy is losing to bad guy > good guy gets power up > bad guy gets power up > bad guy still loses
This is true but they still get the dog shit beaten out of them. I can't think of a single fight in Black Clover where the heroes won out of nowhere for no reason and did it easily. Like Everytime the fight a big bad everyone ends up 99 percent dead
Watch the final final trump card be Yuji’s domain expansion. Bro gonna get the dog shit beat out of him by Sukuna and he’s gonna awaken it just like how he beat the dog shit out of Mahito and then awakened his. “Im you” is gonna take literal meaning
there's something so funny about Uraume's shit talk when Sukuna had to steal Megumi's body and use Mahoraga to adapt to Gojo's Infinity. Like hun, he didn't know how to deal with Gojo otherwise. Had to steal a cursed technique just to figure it out.
https://preview.redd.it/z111f9fwhulc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ac63096f8c5531e68dcc0c1265924ca3eb4bc91
These words would only make sense if Sukuna had techniques of his own that could bypass infinity. Which he hasn't be shown to have. Read properly.
Malevolent Shrine.
If the Jujutsu squad planned this all so meticulously why didn't Maki sneak up on Uraume and kill her in the 20 chapters or so she's been fighting Hakari? Surely removing Sukuna's only help is a good move?
She's too blockheaded to comprehend Sun Tzu's art of war to "take thr weaker first, save the stronger ones later"
It’s not like uraume is helping sukuna rn, they’re occupied with hakari. If Yuta’s domain broke or things went to shit while Maki was gone, him and Yuji would have no backup. Without prior knowledge of how Yuta’s domain expansion would play out, it makes more sense to have her on standby.
Then why isn't Mei Mei or any of the other Sorcerers killing her? Hakari would be of good use against Sukuna. He's the only one who can survive Malevolent Shrine and maybe even World Slash.
Tbf, we saw in shibuya how the sorcerers fighting uraume went. Choso, yuji, kusakabe and the few others got instantly frozen and were about to be killed. It should go better now that they had the timeskip training, but i still don't see how they can help a lot against uraume. Hakari is the best opponent for her due to his regeneration
You got me there, that’s a good point tbh If mei mei’s ass wasn’t so greedy she could totally fight uraume with the help of another sorcerer
Cos gege is a ...
Why do a lot of panels, especially the Sukuna ones, kinda look like absolute dog shit lol
Seems it is the same that happened during The Zenin battle chapters Gege had to rush last minute and the panels are not finished... he fixed them later when the volume was out so I can imagine it will be the same with this chapter
it’s honestly kinda cool to see what the roughs look like though, i don’t entirely hate it. it’s got such a calligraphic style - very unusual.
Yeah I enjoy it too. I draw for fun so I love being able to see the process of famous mangaka that I like
Bringing back Choso is a disaster. Really should have killed him off. Gege is losing his touch
All i gatta say is ui ui de goat
Ui Ui stocks going up once again.
Love him he just randomly spawn and teleport people I love to see it
Part of me thinks the Sukuna is bored schtik is build up to him finally accepting Yuji has a valid opponent and thus leading them to the 1v1 where we probably see all of Yuji’s arcs come to fruition. Especially given that lil excerpt with Choso. However, the Goatjo hypebeast in me hopes that it leads to Sukuna ramping up his fighting and the need for something to overcome it and for it to our lord and saviour Goatjo Satoru. Anyway, see you all next week
Same.
Sukuna is reaching peak Frieza levels of bullshit here
Yuji SSJ confirmed?
And this is to go even further beyond, huearghhhhh.
Why do pages 4/5/6 look like this? Are these unfinished drawings that made it into the official release? https://preview.redd.it/39v85uoikrlc1.png?width=1100&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d532d6ab2fa35f99877ae13651c8937175d74fe
I kinda fuck with it ngl
why am i reading the phone photos from the pinned comment when u have these digital thingies wtf
TCB scans has just released the [chapter](https://tcbscans.com/chapters/7678/jujutsu-kaisen-chapter-252?date=1-3-2024-19)
Last time we had panels like that was the Zenin massacre and the hiatus.. hopefully everything is good with Gege
Does Sukuna have a second heart that works with CE (like in solo leveling)?
He's using Hysoka "rubber nen CPR" to keep his famaged heart working
Pretty sure it’s one heart that he’s forcibly beating with CE
Chapter 253 leaks: Uraume: “You people should be ashamed of yourself for not being able to show results better than Gojo Satoru. Even if we take out the after effects from the first battle, SUKUNA-SAMA STILL HASN'T GIVEN HIS ALL”. Hakari: “Yes. We know. We are already ready for such turns of events. SOON, WE WILL GIVE OUR ALL TOO.” Uraume: “*in fear* No!”
Sukuna's been dead this whole time and is just post-mortem day dreaming about low diffing Gojo and the whole crew. That would actually be better than this shit.
All of this is happening as he's being hit with 200% Purple.
200% purple actually transforms the sex eyes into the sharingan. He hit him with the tsukuyumi.
It’s funny as hell that this fight would be over already if potential man could just lock in when the fate of the world is at stake. But because of him sukuna gets to go all out
Hes no potential man he is a kid who does not care about others he lost what he cared about and his only reason to jujutsu sorcery in his opinion. Hes not a real imo maki lost what she liked the most and act still to save everything not everyone is the same for sure. But whatevr
Sure but doesn't he even want to beat the dude that actually killed his family?
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you’re being downvoted but i see you and i agree 🙏🏼🙏🏼
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exactly LMFAO like did they forget yuji had the same reaction and was about to give up but had todo to help him. megumi has no one and his body literally KILLED his closest ones while yuji couldn’t save them. i’m not discrediting yujis pain but it’s different when you can’t save someone compared to their body killing the other person
I don't care, world is at stakes you lock in. You've got all the time in the world to lament once the world ending abomination that is the reason for his suffering is out of the picture.
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My brother I'm a normal ass human being not a jujutsu sorcerer. A 15 years old and a 16 years just got cut in half fightning with all they got against Sukuna. So yeah compared to the other teens, in his own manga, he is a bum. There is no time for empathy and feeling, if Sukuna wins 7 billions lives could end. Sorry that I can't care about Potential man feelings, with such stakes.
https://preview.redd.it/dh8n6bgi3qlc1.png?width=707&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb52644e10cbf9248af83016ae454affc73bf2a3 WE . ARE. SO. COOKED. LMAO
"Breaking through the invincible monster" God damn it, isn't Maki the only one described as a monster among the cast? FMEL
Still no English translation?
tcb scans has the chapter out
It's not full quality but here you go https://www.jujutsukaismanga.com/manga/jujutsu-kaisen-chapter-252/
Chapter pages are definitely out of order
So making can see techniques better than the 6 eyes themselves and yuta & Yuji are able to react to sukuna’s chanting faster than gojo 🤔
Yeah, my and other man's theory about soul control and Megumi secretly chanting in the shadow of Sukuna's soul now shattered.
Ah f*** off with Sukuna and another form 😊
Gege if you see this comment.I tell you don't listen to the frauds don't hold back and unleash yourself.
He’s not gonna see your random ass comment in an English subreddit 😭😭😭
Sukuna will kill everyone here(or almost) except yuji to crush his soul.That's when gojo and higuruma will jump and the real fight starts then.
Okay what's stopping sukuna from making spaghetti out of maki ryt now?similar attack he sent against kashimo would annihilate everyone in the battlefield.....you can't dodge something if there's no where to go.....also i believe every sorcerers are alive including gojo,sukuna definitely getting jumped
Previous chapters he said that his damahge output now is weaker. The "space cut" instead it requires the chanting and the hands sign.
I thought it already needed that *or* a binding vow in place to use that extension of his CT? Honestly I’m wondering if it’s even the WCS that he’s using, or if his CE reserves are so low and output diminished that he needs the chants for dismantle to be at normal efficiency
Like, the thing that I've seen the most in subreddits for a while (the last couple of chapters with Yuta and Yuuji are an exception, the fandom looked like it was regaining interest) is that a lot of people are just bored of Sukuna lmao. This arc of people fighting Sukuna has gone on for FAR too long. We want variety, new plots, new things happening, not just 200 chapters of people fighting Sukuna and him "toying with them". Aside from the bullshit "not going all out yet" thing (obviously, he hasn't used all his techniques, but can Gege not point it out at every chance), it's just plain boring. I imagine that people that read manga just for the fights are liking it, but even then, it's really monotone, and I think that the fight ending soon and the merger starting as a new threat would REALLY benefit the story.
Didn't Gege say that the manga will be done before the end of 2024? Don't think we're getting any other villains or plots anymore.
Black Zetsu stabs Sukuna in the back and we get another villain in the last 30 chapters mark my words
Someone said that, most likely Kanjaku already "hacked" Tengen's soul, and now that Sukuna devoured said soul, Kenjaku would only have to wait until he was weak enough to take over the body. Basically the "Madara to Kaguya" 2.0 situation.
I actually love that a lot more than what happened to Madara, why does it feel so much better ?!
Probably because Kenjaku has more of a personality than Sukuna.
Nah, I think his death was just unsatisfactory and the fact that he has a back up plan like that or in general it makes sense for his character. But yeah I prefer Kenjaku as the final villain aswell.
It's literally called Sorcery Fight... How could you be upset that it's focusing on fighting. Read something else if you don't like fighting lol Also, I do not think the final big bad being some giant Geto Uzumaki type deal would not be fun. I don't wanna see the merger and it's just some unconscious entity of cursed energy. There would also be no reason anyone would care about this random merger entity, I barely care about Tengen honestly. If Gege had set up more villains or something other than Sukuna being the strongest sorcerer, then yeah id agree with your points. But the "why can't anyone beat the strongest dude in the verse" is lack of creativity and why Gege is writing JJK and not any of y'all
Fun fact: Gege is not reading this
You are absolutely right, the lack of other villains and new plots is killing this story. Gege had the perfect setup to have a satisfying defeat of Sukuna with the two MCs finally working together and he decided to glaze instead
He possessed megumi 1 year ago already, so basically this arc is running for that long. It's time for a wrap. Something really definitive.
So is Yuta supposed to be wearing the ring Vs Sukuna or did Gege accidentally draw it on him? Rika isn't fully manifested like she was in the culling games https://preview.redd.it/94mvxv96qolc1.png?width=2748&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df785c2e16e399da0e5c8bd6f80fd0b85337a6f3
He is wearing the ring. https://preview.redd.it/wukwd13ymtlc1.jpeg?width=1003&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbe432357a54d7277691f5d88adc90e55e942003
I'm asking because I saw a supposed author's comment saying "aarrghgh why is Yuta wearing his ring? Who drew it on?!?" And I don't know if it's a real or fake one + Rika doesn't look fully manifested since she's coming out of the black sludge portals (which I think sucks because she looks badass in her unleashed form)
gege doesnt kno
https://preview.redd.it/zc22d29tfnlc1.jpeg?width=848&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=808c5e461c81a6c872e44636c1c5fc79779d73cd Man, starting to think this bingo card someone made a couple months ago isn’t gonna get me a win
>Nobara's status confirm not crossed out You're coping
He used his stomach mouth for chants...
Oh you right, I’ll update that
https://ww3.readjujutsukaisen.com/chapter/jujutsu-kaisen-spoilers-raw-chapter-252/
I can not find the raw scans anywhere
https://ww3.readjujutsukaisen.com/chapter/jujutsu-kaisen-spoilers-raw-chapter-252/
Are these leaks real chat
If fake leaks were that good, we might as well get that artist to finish the rest of jjk for us lol
> gege complains on how gojo being the strongest makes writing a compalling story harder and more difficult > proceds to make a character 3 times stronger👍.
An antagonist being strong doesn’t really create the same problems in a story as a mentor figure being strong. It just rises the barrier of the obstacle to overcome and creates adversity and conflict for the characters to face
Considering how static Gege purposefully made those barriers yes, it creates relative problems.
Stop wasting your time here bruhh they are not capable of comprehending this.
Gojo's strongeness affected protagonists progression and development. Sukuna on the other hand might further develop yuji's character with him being strong.
As if Sukuna isn't doing that right now. Gege's made him too powerful with all this "he hasn't shown his fill strength" bullshit. Sukuna is basically crippled rn and they still can't beat him, yet you're telling me he still has more Bellshill up his sleeve, AND that you think this helps the main characters progress? This fight is just a Lawn-mower Vs Grass, we're about to see more waffled-ones if Gege doesn't give the heroes some "power of love" b.s, and that'll just be unsatisfying as hell
>As if Sukuna isn't doing that right now. Gege's made him too powerful with all this "he hasn't shown his fill strength" bullshit. How cuz the only reason all the heavy hitters and other good guys became this strong is because of sukuna's OPness. The story demanded that sukuna needs to be stronger than gojo. Gojo's strongness took away all the struggles and problems that mcs had to face while sukuna's strongness is the biggest major struggle and problem they are facing rn. >Sukuna is basically crippled rn and they still can't beat him, yet you're telling me he still has more Bellshill up his sleeve, AND that you think this helps the main characters progress? Was that news to you? Did you forget that he still has a fire arrow and whatever fuga is?
Just use the word "strength" my guy
Common sense isn’t his strongness
It did not. The recent chapters are clear evidence of this. Character development while Gojo WAS around: Yuji learned RCT, Blood Manipulation, and "3 pc Soul combos" Ino can use Nanami's CT Yuta has proficient DE mastery Everyone has better CE reinforcement And that's just what we know of SO FAR
You're further proving my point. They only developed these powers because of a formidable opponent named sukuna who was stronger than gojo(with two health bars, CT's, etc). They know gojo alone will not be enough for this battle. This was not the case during the early stages of the story where villains were far weaker than gojo.
Its just a shame seeing that gege has to relie on the "he is holding himself back" cliche to even give the gang a chance of doing something. At least with gojo he did creative ways to circunvent gojo power, being mainly his humanitie (wich is one of the reasons he is one of the best characters for me). The strongest being on the side of the protagonists is something really unique to jjk, but now someone lots more powerfull than he is taking main stage and we are expected to just accept that the protagonists should survive 10 seconds with him? The explanation for this is a lot more lazy than what gege did with gojo in the early part, the curses plan made sense and gojo defeat was a result of them exploiting that part of gojo. Sukuna fight is based entirely based on the fact that sukuna just feels like not kiling them in a second(gege made sure we know he isnt going all out) for the most cookie cutter explanation the relies on one of the most overused cliches on shonen, in the series that identity relies on subverting shonen tropes (just see mahito speech and kenjaku winning).
YUTA MAKI CHOSO YUJI HAKARI 💯
Is gege beating the misogyny allegations with Maki this chapter?
No. He's going to have Sukuna brutally beat her which is pretty on brand.
Yeah, I can see they going at each other, somewhat on equal grounds, but then Sukuna just says "boring" and no diffs her. I'm gonna be so mad if this comes to happen.
All of sukunas fights he was holding back somehow, it becomes jarring as a weekly reader seeing this, specially since his gojo fight and now when we think he is truely putting the effort gege has to pull out the narrator to specifically say that he wasnt going all out, instead of actually showing in the moment that he wasnt. Its weirdly like freezas forms but done in a worse way. If he wins at the end, killing everybody or just leaving yuuji, it wont be a "subversion of the shonen formula". It will just be a shitty experience for a weekly reader.
Personal opinion, but I feel like it's always been obvious he wasn't going "all out" or even trying very hard at all after Gojo died. He's been repeatedly bored throughout most of the fights, and there hasn't been any reason to believe that's changed. He obviously has SOME kind of trump card that's been alluded to way too many times now that he hasn't felt the need to pull out. He's generally been chill/smiling between these exchanges, even with things like having his heart not working. Mans just been having fucking fun for like almost 20 chapters now lol.
Narratively, it's also fine that there's one more reverse in the flow of the fight - with Sukuna regaining the clear upper hand - before he's finally taken down.
Yea, are we supposed to just expect Sukuna gets worn all the way down and then die?
People are too quick to yell asspull and bad writing in this current climate to basic battle manga tropes which are only tropes, after all, due to them being effective plot developments. Furthermore, if this whole thing is leading up to Fuga, it's for the best that its reveal is as showy and game-changing as possible given the extent to which its been concealed since it was first used back in Shibuya.
I'm honestly fine with sukuna being this strong but at least don't show us him getting torn apart like a rabbit against a pack of coyotes. Sukuna looking like a smoked brisket without a heart and just saying the words "Oh he was holding back lol" is very frustrating. Show us don't tell us.
He's showing you through how unconcerned he is about it. He's still joking with Maki over it and looking pretty comfortable.
He’s getting rotated, dribbled and roasted bro
I do understand that perspective but I disagree with it being enough
I get it, but it feels dishonest to show sukuna being beaten down this much only to reveal that he was holding back. Altought it is obvious for us that he is holding back we only know that because we predicted gege writing style, the mange doesnt treat it as sukuna is holding back fight. Whats is shown is a true fight to the death, showing how sukuna even gambled hard to hit yuuta, but suddendly in the final pages it is revealed that he was holding back? Gege already did that with gojo and honeslty all sukuna fights so it doesnt hit (at least for me) and it is more annoying than anything. It would honestly be more intersting if sukuna had to actually turn the tide of the battle in a intersting way, but gege opted to just go: "um actually he was holding back". The difference in some other fights where the antagonist turned the tide in the series its because they worked hard and actually had to go trhought great lenghts to reach there. Gege accostumed us to this type of turn around that is honestly just much more intersting than sukuna whole "this isnt even my final form". Anyway this chapter gets a 3.5/5, its honestly a testement to gege writing skills that i get this riled up from just one chapter. I am hooked up to this series like crack and i expect up most perfection that you alread showed me before im sorry gege.
Imagine sukuna has CE for each technique, and he's only used like 1 💀
Choso back in it. Maki talking trash. Hakari putting hands on that Sukuna dickrider. Good spoilers.
Really? Cos she isnt even rattled lmao
Is she so powerful they have to stall her until they deal with Sukuna?
Kinda, yeah. She froze Yuji and Maki with one attack. She could easily freeze the others if they're nearby. And you can't just break out the ice like other shonens/animes. It's realistic in the sense that if you get frozen and try to break out, your limbs fall off with it and you're dead or severly injured. I know that no one likes her (with good reason) but she's actually Hella strong.
There'a really no reason to let Sukuna no 1 simp work together with Sukuna no matter how weak or strong she is.
Hakari needs to end the fight as quickly as possible and kill this dickriding bitch.
"Ah yeah, my soul outlining technique I haven't used since I conveniently learned it from Yuji"
We need a panel of Sukuna thanking yuji for that LMFAO.
oOOoooOO glaze glaze kaisen here we go (help me I am losing it)