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EP. REVIEW: Jujutsu Kaisen

I don't know why they consider nobara as cool character if the only thing she does is lose, another lost opportunity so that she can show off, but she is defeated in a humiliating way again

I don't think JJK is making any grand statement about any of these things nor is intending to.

I don't think JJK is making any grand statement about any of these things nor is intending to. It's just the perspective of how one particular character feels

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I don't think JJK is making any grand statement about any of these things nor is intending to. It's just the perspective of how one particular character feels

Yeeah. I really don't think so. Jujutsu Kaisen has a pretty consistent track of being quite anticonservative. Satoru Gojo, who's arguably the core presenter of the series' thesis, straight out says that he wants to destroy the current system which is governed by old men disconnected from the current world. The manga has an habit of quoting from important cultural hallmarks in subversive ways and the characters it tends to treat with most respect tend to be subversive and considered outliers by the larger Jujutsu Society.

Later on we even learn spoiler[ that director Gakukanji literally consumes the lives of young people (we explicitly see a young woman) to maintain himself and the whole Jujutsu system standing and the main villain of the series wants to return the world to a mythical golden age].

Taking away from Jujutsu Kaisen's countercultural spirit is doing the series a disservice when it so insistently tries to argue for a world where the new generations can live without being held back by social rules they never agreed to.

I really hoped James would talk about this in the review but if I'm not misremembering this is Nobaras third fight scene.
It's the second one that ended with her unconcious, the remaing one had her being hauled off to a hospital in the middle of it.
It's cool that the show said something about how society treats women, but I don't see how this is different from any other shounen show like Naruto or HeroAca in how it actually treats it's female cast. They might get a cool fight but they don't get to be as important to the plot as say, Megumi, who fought Sukuna once and now Sukuna wants to fight him again, setting up some juicy future plot and is probably going to affect his and Yuujis friendship in some way or another. Nobara just gets to show that's she's cool but that's it.

You've got some names mixed up there

As for, why does Shonen Jump rarely center female characters or have plot points about feminism? Maybe it’s because the magazine has never had a female editor?
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I think people in the West get the absurd idea that such, 'Progressive' things are never discussed or talked about in the world outside themselves. But they'd often be surprised to know that they have and are. But are by and large often rejected, if only because the West itself has been an evaluating testing ground for years for these ideas and the rest of the world studies the effects that these ideas are having, and weigh the good and the bad and largely come away with a negative view of Western progressivism; which they see as just another sort of imperialist idea that is being forced upon them because 'The West is da Best!' and they are often bribed to have it shoved down their throats alongside aid money.

So other countries aren't stupid or ignorant, they largely tend to remain more conservative, because they witnessing how Western society is dealing with it, and are weighing the pros and cons of Western 'progress' and then picking and choosing what ideas they feel are best suited to them, appropriating them to best suit their culture, religion, and values, whilst circumventing the social and immoral problems that progressivism has produced.

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I don't think JJK is making any grand statement about any of these things nor is intending to. It's just the perspective of how one particular character feels

Yeeah. I really don't think so. Jujutsu Kaisen has a pretty consistent track of being quite anticonservative. Satoru Gojo, who's arguably the core presenter of the series' thesis, straight out says that he wants to destroy the current system which is governed by old men disconnected from the current world. The manga has an habit of quoting from important cultural hallmarks in subversive ways and the characters it tends to treat with most respect tend to be subversive and considered outliers by the larger Jujutsu Society.

Later on we even learn spoiler[ that director Gakukanji literally consumes the lives of young people (we explicitly see a young woman) to maintain himself and the whole Jujutsu system standing and the main villain of the series wants to return the world to a mythical golden age].

Taking away from Jujutsu Kaisen's countercultural spirit is doing the series a disservice when it so insistently tries to argue for a world where the new generations can live without being held back by social rules they never agreed to.

One thing that seemed strange to me was that when Toge said "Stop" to stop Hanami, Megumi and Noritoshi were not affected. I know that it's been stablished that the Kyoto team is protecting their ears but it was never stated that the Tokyo team (or at least Megumi) was doing the same. It's not that big of a deal, it's just that I would have liked them to have addressed it.

Also, the conversation over the phone between Toge and Miwa lasted only about 10 seconds but when we cut to Toge and see the phone it said that it lasted over 1 minute and 30 seconds?! I guess Toge just like to listen to people sleeping...

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One thing that seemed strange to me was that when Toge said "Stop" to stop Hanami, Megumi and Noritoshi were not affected. I know that it's been stablished that the Kyoto team is protecting their ears but it was never stated that the Tokyo team (or at least Megumi) was doing the same. It's not that big of a deal, it's just that I would have liked them to have addressed it.

Toge can target his Cursed Speech. We see that during the initial fight against Todo and again here. The mechanics is not that of a curse that affects all that hear it but one that affects all that Toge talks to.