Jujutsu Kaisen 2 Hurts Worse Than You Realize | WIAOP?
How can one anime simultaneously be the hypest thing since Hunter x Hunter AND the saddest thing since Anohana?
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00:00 Intro
04:14 Ao No Sumika ("Where Our Blue Is")
19:24 SPECIALZ !!Manga Spoiler Warning!!
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Have you considered going back to the weekly video releases?
Ninja is not asian kung-fu 😢
Hey @mothersbasement I know it's been a while since the show ended but I wanna ask if you ever plan on covering MSG - Witch of Mecury?
Hope the 3rd season op is purple themed.
“Gojo will never lose his virginity because Gojo never loses” Yeah that tracks.
Even if he fucks, he'll still have his virginity.
Not any more if you read the manga
I swear I could hear OSP squee.
@@ianmontecillo1493yeah they fucking.
Yeah uhm..
Jujutsu kaisen has hurt me deeply, changed my life for the worse and probably shortened my lifespan. 10/10 would recommend
tryna get my friends to watch this lovely anime so I can share my pain
6/10, would recommend to only get more mad at Akutami and remind yourself why some traditional shonen tropes actually work. Could have been an 8, but man does that guy move too fast.
hope you atleast get to use a cool curse technique with the shortened lifespan
@@Alex-rl2mkthat’s so bold, i wouldn’t even wish that upon my worst enemies
Same
for some reason, the fact that Megumi was ACTUALLY going to summon Mahoraga because Todo threathened him is so funny to me
Its the amount of spite involved in that scenario, killing yourself and todo over a relatively minor disagreement. Fortunately Gogo eventually teaches Megumi the difference between dieing to win and risking death to win. (Grey of fairytale has a similarly stupid kill self to autowin fight ability, but in the instance where Megumi decides to take out the stupid luck evil curse user i agree, he was an absolute menace that would probably have killed all the downed sourcerers)
@@jasonreed7522 Y'know I've been trying to figure out what Gojo meant with the baseball analogy he told Megumi in season 1 for the past two years and your comment managed to explain what was living in my head rent free without me realizing. Thanks!
Lies and slander.
@@RoseEyed i mostly understood what Gojo meant the first time, but i had no idea the Megumi had an actual kill self to autowin ability. I had just assumed that he kept making plays/plans that sacrificed himself to protect his allies. (Like hitting a bunt you expect to get you out but will advance the bases vs going for the home run with every hit) The reveal of Maharoga retroactively changes that conversation for the better. Also glad i helped you better understand the show.
dude imagine if he fucking did 😭 "your taste in women SUCKS" *slams into wall* "eight handled sword, divine general Mahoraga"
Kills me how not enough people realise that at the end of JJK 0 Suguru was written to believe Gojo had lost faith in him, then Gojo proved him wrong. And THEN the main manga keeps proving how Gojo's very much a morally gray character who didn't once thought of Suguru as a real enemy. He had 10 years, he knew exactly where Suguru was, he did nothing to stop his genocidal best friend. What's more, they never fought. Not even Gojo's favorite flick to the forehead. Gojo has been kind and considerate towards exactly one person, and that was Suguru Geto... his moral compass, the yin to his yang. Gege's writing van be weak in some parts but he becomes Shakespeare when it comes to these two. This isn't just Mappa going all out, Gege is the one who keeps writing stuff that even JP shippers have called delusional shipper behavior lmao
Someone said on Twitter (I refused to call it anything else Elon) that those two are the dynamic Dumbledore and Grindewald should have been and I can’t unsee it since - two people are the top of their secret society, one stronger enough that it shouldn’t be a problem to stop the other… but he can’t not for a copout pact like the movies did, but because of all the conflicting feelings.
I frickin read 'Morally GAY character' and I was all 'Mh, weird way to say it, but yeah, I agree now that you mention it !'. Akutami made my bain rot about those two goddsdammit. Also, I'm not a 'Gojo my one and only' lover, I'm a 'Sukuna is my master and I will hit my head on the floor when he demands you to kneel' enjoyer. Gojo isn't even close to my fav characters, Sukuna is my king and will forever take no1, Megumi is not so far 2nd (and me shipping those two isn't weird, manga told me Sukuna was indeed very attracted to Megumi's uhm... Everything. So I wasn't exactly wrong !), then Toji, then Nanami and Choso, then Geto, Yuuji, Mahito, Jogo and now Gojo. But those two belong together in a omg-they-were-roomates kind of way. And I kinda ripped my heart out, because I frickin HOPE that Megumi isn't getting the Nobara's special.
Fun fact: a recent poll has shown that this generation (gen z) kids are more likely to recognize gojo than shakespeare, which shows just how big of a deal gojo and JJk is
“As a manga reader, all I could feel was pain.” Geoff continues to speak for all of us.😭
Geoff speaks for the entire JJK manga community
“This world shall know pain.” -Gege probably
Go/jo
@@rushpatriot2866 👁️ Sukuna 👁️ 👄 👁️ 👁️
Gege just took a reverse turn from, good won! To eh he half now.
Correction, Naobito is not Maki's father. He is her uncle. Maki's father is Naobito's younger brother Ougi Zenin. Edit: Whyyyyy is my most liked comment ever me doing an um acshually.
Clan daddy maybe
@@heck3933Yup. He's the head of the Zen'in clan at the time of this arc.
Ougi Zenin, also known as Piece of Shit Father Zenin
Naobito Zenin was the head and Ougi Zenin doesn't have a head.
@@rohannborah9025 He has half a head, come on.
During the clapping scene for Ao no Sumika, it can also be implied that those were the people who were clapping during Riko's death, they're even all wearing white
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
ohmygod
I’ll see myself out It’s the sound of gojo clapping geto cheeks
not sure if I'm more surprised by the incoherence of the statement or by the mf with the mindblown emojis
I thought with the blue background it’s Toji emerging from Megumis portal in the Dagon fight
The longer I read jujutsu kaisen the more I understand why Gege decided not to show his face. 😂
LOL
Gege when i catch you gege.
Isn't it still ambiguous if Gege is he or she? They don't use gender specific pronouns right?
Check in on your fellow Gojo fans, they've had a rough time this week 😂
Yup we all got cooked
I need therapy after this.
I actually felt real grief this week. It hasn't been this bad since my dog died. I will make it clear, it wasn't as bad as me losing my dog, but still.
JJK fans in general have had a rough week, that chapter was horrible. We all knew it had to happen eventually, but the way it did was so bafflingly awful that it killed my already dwindling opinion of Gege as a writer.
@@alenor210 My opinion of Gege as a writer has been fairly low for at least a year, but this isn't an example of bad writing. Maybe the paneling made it seem too sudden, but the actual explanation had been set up since Shibuya, when Sukuna first fought Mahoraga.
No wonder Fujimoto and Gege are good friends. Bros both kicking back drinks to seeing their characters suffer and their fans too
At least Fujimotor occasionally makes us laugh...
both bros WHAT??? *HAPPY DE UMEZUKUSHITE-*
I think everyone in JJK has it worse then Denji rn imo atleast Denji has new friends, and a chance to revive one of his old ones… Yuji’s practically powerless now, Megumi can’t do crap but watch as Sukuna goes on a rampage, and Nobara is in a schrödinger’s cat situation, which is better then being tortured
The difference between fujimoto and gege can be summarized in 2 words *mirai saiko*
@@leoultimaupgraded9914true, but this is csm, so Fujimoto might pull a "fuck you" on the readers and pull out a nuke out of his pocket to subvert everyone's expectations.
After starting this vid and getting to the “spoiler section” I sat down and proceeded to read all of shibuya arc in one sitting and I am just sad nothing else that entire arc was just pure pain
But hype pain
IN ONE SITTING??????? oh my god are you ok.
@@fvshisu 😂😂😂 to be exact I started from gojo being sealed to the first few chapters of the next arc but yea it was just too good to stop I finished it in like an hour and a half
@@stylevender6142hype pain perfectly encapsulates JJK atm
It’s also as good as JJK gets (for now). Sadly, everything after it has failed to match up to either it or what came before it
Finding out that Mothers Basement is a SatoSugu shipper was the real plot twist I wasn’t expecting
HOW hes an incredibly media literate person and the satosugu shit is written intentionally clear. You can even look at other romantic and sexual relationships in the series and see that w the exception of two not yet introduced characters in the anime they are all heavily and intentionally implied, never outright stated.
@@ImFeelingChickems It’s so hilarious that fans pull up canon receipt, after receipt, after receipt where romance is outright implied between Gojo and Geto, but people STILL insist they’re just best friends. So glad that MB is a fellow STSG-er
@@sussiesushi9474 I never even considered the ship until now because when I saw their dynamic it felt exactly like me with my perfect best bro. Like, that kind of perfect friendship were you instantly click that feels as strong as love. Everything about their relationship felt to me like two friends who were made to complete each other. It doesn't matter if it's romantic or platonic, the point is that they were each the only one who understood the other. The tragedy of what happens between them is just as impactful if they're true perfect friends.
@@Bunkus41 I think what is beautiful about their relashionship is exactly the fact that it was written as soul mates, doesn't matter the kind of love. They could easily be in romantic love, they could very much be the best of friends in the universe who have a homo affective (not erotic, not romantic, etc) relashionship. Because those are also out there. So the shippers are not wrong, neither are the ones who see them as just friends. Everyone wins.
@@mtpaneguini6118 Exactly.
Man, the first few times I listened to "Ao no Sumika" I really got bittersweet vibes from it. And then I looked up the English lyrics to it, and boy, I let out an audible "Oh. Damn." after reading through them.
Yeah it’s really gay gay homosexual
The ending song “Akari” has the same levels of lethality in its lyrics. Everything about jjk s2 is pain…
Where Our Blue Is being described as Anohana-esque is EXACTLY what it feels like, one of my favorite openings of the year
Yeah its suppose to be peak happy youth moment before their lives went to shit
Listen to the part where he said that again. He didn’t use the word “esque” lol
Specialz manages to get even more painful as the season progresses. With every character death people get dropped from the group scenes until its just Yuji alone, but the most noticable change is the crater of darkness that appears in the overview of the city.
And the Akira-esque landscape shot of the destroyed Shibuya skyline.
In the last episode op, yuuta also makes an appearance, replacing shoko’s scene 28:49
Surprised, you didn't mention the hand claps from the first opening of season 2 being a reference to the cult celebrating Riko's death, which is the catalyst for Geto's eventual fall and what causes the rift between him and Gojo.
"How Jujutsu Kaisen Hurts You" I know the answer to that💀 Gege gives you hope, lost of it, whiles simultaneously keeping the stakes high and making you still root for the heroes despite the desperate situation, only to then at the point where the heroes are about to win via the power of friendship, he *RIPS AWAY* The hope he's been accumulating in you for the ast couple of chapters, *IN THE MOST HEART WRENCHING WAY POSSIBLE*
Just a reminder that a certain character died in Shibuya because Gege woke up one day and decided to kill them.
You cant convinve me they are dead... i think they are kept hidden becausw od their unique talents being usefull for the end of the plot. Similar to how yuji being alive was kept secret.
@@omegaminoseer4539 Who ?
@@Fleck7140 if they had a time to be useful that would be *Now* Like...why TF weren't they using the last finger to use their "CT"? If that was me I would've been spamming that sh*t like there's no tomorrow, lying on hospital bed crippled or not💀🙏
it's just NTR if you think about it
The strongest being beaten by sentiment rather than big attacks is honestly my favorite thing in recent anime
He got beaten and killed by a big attack at the end tho. Try to guess who killed him?
@@carlososler7024 you're lucky I've already been spoiled else I'd be pissed
@@c.o7993 It's impossible not to be spoiled
@@carlososler7024 tell me about People suck
@@c.o7993Man, I'm so sorry people spoiled you. Sometimes the community really sucks. This was such a big moment, you should have been allowed to experience it at your own pace. I hope you find the time to catch up when you can. Spoilers aside, there's still so much surrounding context that can make those scenes enjoyable still ♡
Three years. The blue spring of his youth. All the memories came flooding into his brain.
"If you can find a heterosexual explanation for THAT, there is a job waiting for you at Bandai Namco." I need you to know, Geoff, that line made me laugh so hard it expelled all the air from my lungs and gave me a headache. 10/10 would wheeze again. Thank you.
what's the context here?
@@kiranv2085 iirc bamco tried to undo the lesbian marriage in the ending from gundam the witch from mercury, but honestly i didnt follow the story so it could be different
@@Yuki_Seraphim this exactly. They get engaged episode 1, end the show wearing wedding rings, and when Suletta's gundam overdoses so hard on the show's Mecha Power Juice it goes super saiyan, it turns into a moving mass of rainbow light. Execs tried to say their relationship is "up to interpretation"
Wasn’t expecting a “What’s in an OP?” in the year of our Haruhi 2023, but I’ll take it.
There's one for Oshi no Ko on Basement Life too!
SPECIALZ sounds Straight up like a Halloween song and I’m all here for! It perfectly matches the atmosphere the Shibuya Arc is setting up in the Anime
Kinda awesome that Shibuya happens on Halloween canonically. And it really started to ramp up all-round Halloween of this year
“Where our blue is” is the summer version of winter’s story from Given.
THIS. THIS!!!!!
THIS.
my brain just expanded
Given was so angsty and fluffy and cosy. I loved it.
Mind blown
I cannot decide if the returning Star Trek joke, the increasingly unhinged shipping, or the jokes about your straight-wash calling are my favourite thing about this video that is actually also a great analysis :'D
Sukuna been hurting the fans recently 😞
More like Gege has. That evil cat bastard
Why is sukuna attacking people's fans
Thank god Jogo put him in his place
Nah bruh we winning! I say, Good riddance! Can't wait to see how gege bullshits their way out in making Sukuna too OP. Maybe we get to see him getting jumped
@@jaydencrooks5064💀who put who in who's place now??
It's especially nasty to have the same character get defeated two different ways in the manga and anime at what feels like the same time. At least he looked cool both times...
Yh all in the sane week.... But ey both weren't half bad... Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be in the corner.
Not even the first time gege did that. When season one was airing, nanami’s first appearance in the anime lined up with… you know…
@@javelinmaster2I forgot exactly how far apart they were. But yeah, you-know-who never fails to look like a badass. Even when he loses, he loses in a way that makes him look even cooler.
Eh atleast he made it the first time
I knew what was happening in the manga, but as I only just finished the anime last month I had no idea THAT happened around the same time. That is horrifically cruel.
I can feel my chest bleeding bruh, all the slice of life moments, including the op, just made everything hurt just a bit more as an anime-only fan, now I get it, now I understand what the manga readers were warning us about it hurts bruh, Geto is kinda too relatable to the point where I felt like I should check in with my therapist shfbxbxj, which I should
"If you can find a heterosexual explanation for THAT, there is a job waiting for you at Bandai-Namco!" This sends me! All the shade to them forever. Up to interpretation my ass!
I will never forget the dirty quote when they said "It's up to interpretation"
@@Wowjeez right? What's up to interpretation about wedding rings, talks of marriage, and "sister in law"? If this was a straight couple it would be 100% confirmed. The creative team did their best to make it obvious while dealing with this kind of bullshit from the higher ups. And Geto and Gojo deserve the same chance to be "roommates", "best friends" even. Like look at them on that bike together without a straight thought in their heads. They are precious and deserve gay joy.
@@Luinta As someone who have an almost brother relationship with my best friend, you freaks creeped me out. Our relationship is like Gojo and Geto, and we are Not Gay. The most homo moment we had for each other is to dm the free guy late at night to buy condoms cause we can't leave our btch mid seggs. You never have a real "best friend", do you?
Weirdos
@@Luinta you degenerates will never be able to fathom that friendships exist as nothing more than that, if you don't make it gay you just don't comprehend it. Gojo and geto don't have romantic feelings for each other but keep inserting your sexualities onto everything you consume
Pretty sure the shot in SPECIALZ right after the fingers (23:59) is supposed to be Yuji despairing in front of an ossuary; a place people's remains are kept. In other words, showing that Sukuna has already killed a bunch of people and Yuji is overcome by guilt.
Yeah SPOILERS I think it's meant to reference Yuji's breakdown after Sukuna used Malevolent Shrine
Spoilers Yep. The amount of people killed isn't stated, but it must've been at least 1000+ in that area. I can't do math so don't quote me on it.
An ossuary is shown in the manga when Todo is talking to Yuji after the latter talks how he can't forgive himself for the deaths caused by Sukuna.
This video has confirmed that I have absolutely zero ability to notice romantic tension. I literally just thought "wow these guys are such good friends" the whole time. I totally see it now that you spelled it out for me. These OPs go so hard though, it's great.
It's just a fun joke, one can have fun headcanons, even Geoff too. It's a shame we'll never get a confirmation because of Geto's fate.
is this a joke bro there is literally no romantic tension
@@Wowjeezwe actually did already
i mean, did you guys watch the video? things don't need to be explicitly stated to be true.
To me they're good friends that bounce off each other and rivals like naruto sasuke. Those jabs in the video were bits referencing how Bandai tried to water down SuleMio relationship and the changes in that yuri dynamic in Sailor moon for sailor moon dub. That's how I interpreted those things in the video. Geoff take on their relationship may be different and he admits that in the video. Also stop assuming people don't watch the video that they're commenting in.
Okay yes, also not big on shipping but... but the longing on Gojo's side does feel romantic and quite wholesome. Pain
It has to do with the solitude of strength brings longing for love. It's a theme for the strongest in jjk character like gojo and sukuna have that theme in every hard fight they have. Geto used to be considered part of the strongest..this is why gojo and geto understand each other and because they're the strongest it also brings about love. It's not gay love it's the empathy of the strongest. An understanding.
@rushpatriot2866 well it could be romantic love, you're not gege. You don't know for sure. Plus Gojo and Sukuna's relationship in the manga is nothing compared to Geto and Gojo's relationship. So obviously it's not just about strength.
@@a.a677 Could be but I doubt it, considering the recent chapter (no spoilers) it seems unlikely even more given gojo's attitude. Akutami also doesnt seem to like putting any hints romance whatsoever unless its there to prove a point.
@@a.a677yes it is just about strength. Stop trying to make everything gay. So fucking cringe
@@rushpatriot2866gay love is just romantic love and feelings aside, this is obviously romantic. Change the gender of one character and it’s obvious. Don’t be dumb
11:21 "Gojou would never lose his virginity because Gojou would never loses," gdi the layers in this joke 💯
The part where they show all the characters' hand doing their signature moves alongside the music goes incredibly hard.
Not to mention ANIMATING DETAILED HANDS DOING COMPLEX MOVEMENTS?!?!?!? that is absolutely insane!!!! The SKILL that must take!!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯
@@princessthyemis True
Why do people always get so offended when a creator mentions shipping?? I'm not the biggest fan of SuguSato personally, I've always preferred looking at their relationship from a more platonic lense, but some people really show their ass by how totally and unnecessarily angry they get at the mere thought that *maybe* there could have been romantic undertones. If you think their relationship was totally and completely platonic, that's fine! That's a completely valid viewpoint to have, but it's also valid for someone else to look at their relationship and see romance. There's no one true way to analyze a story and its characters, it's all subjective *"People aren't allowed to just be friends anymore!"* Like, my guy. People shipping two drawings together in a work of fiction does not delete the concept of friendship. Geto and Gojo aren't real people. Even if Gege came out later and said, "Yeah, they're just bros," fans continuing to ship them doesn't necessarily mean they're downplaying the concept of friendship itself.
Say it louder for the people in the back! In a story where one of the main themes is love, and how it’s either a curse or a blessing, forgive fans for interpreting the strongest relationship in the entire series as romantic I don’t mind Gojo and Geto’s relationship as either platonic or romantic, but when the series uses the word ‘love’ in a romantic manner to describe their relationship multiple times, it’s a little goofy when people deny it so much
Is this for people sharing their opinion or just individuals that being a jerk about it?
This I can definitely agree with. I'm in the camp that I think their relationship is platonic. Not once did I interpret it as romantic. Just them being really close. Like Sasuke and Naruto or Zack and Cloud. It doesn't bother me when people want to think there's romance in there. People can believe what they want, same as me. But what I can't necessarily agree with is when people start projecting their desires as facts. But until the author confirms or denies whether they're platonic or romantic, we don't know. So when people say "no one can deny they're coded" or stuff like that, I see it as closed minded. If it turns out they ARE romantically attached to each other, that's fine. No reason to be bothered about that and it's not anyone's story to tell but Gege's anyway. But if it turns out they're not and they're completely straight, there's nothing wrong with that either. Not every relationship between two close characters of the same sex has to be gay. It's just as bad when someone says they disagree with the idea and they get attacked and accused of being homophobic or something. And something I'd might as well say too that I know might get some ire is just the amount of attention MB brought to it. The first time he voiced in the video he thought they were romantic was fine. But by the third or fourth, felt like a bit much. But like what I said earlier, not my video. Besides, more importantly, the video was still enjoyable. It was a great analysis of both OPs.
Why do people get so offended when someone doesn't like shipping? Like bro not every male character in every story has to be gay. Your weird head cannon is not fact, stop treating it like it is.
@GOJOpacklmaoo Do you perhaps lack reading comprehension? I already said I don't specifically ship them, but if someone *does* see romantic implications behind their relationship, that is valid. Manga is storytelling, and storytelling is an art form, meaning it is subjective and is up to interpretation. Acting as though people liking a ship is erasing friendship dynamics screams insecurity
24:10 correction: Yuji is standing infront of a mass crematorium/ mausoleum (similar to the one where he cremated his grandfather) representing all the people the sukuna mass burned to death after Jogo feeds him the 10 fingers
I absolutely love how everyone agrees that Gojo and Geto are THE most romantically coded pair of characters ever.
Very very close friends 🥰
@@christopherross8976 Gal pals, as historians call it.
Get that shit out of here, they are best friends.
@@carlososler7024does baby need a diaper change?
@@carlososler7024 Are you really best friends if people don't at least SUSPECT you're gay for each other?
That "Cuz their not gay" caught me off guard. Old but gold meme for the win. 😂
"Could you mess things up some more?" that one line alone in the song is basically what JJK is about to be as the Shibuya arc progresses.
SPOILER WARNING 27:05 ACSHUALLY the reason Choso freaks out is well explained in the manga. He can perceive any transformation his little brothers have, and death is the ultimate transformation. Yuji died in that fight, only kept in suspended death by Sukuna's power. And Yuji is actually Choso' littlest brother, since they share a parent. His fantasy sequence of them hanging out is a rationalization of this relationship they all share. This explaination stands well on its own until we get an explaination of Yuji's new soul swapping technique XD
Wait... I didn't understand the thing about Yuji's soul swapping technique.... I know that even us manga readers can't quite explain 90% of the shit that's happening, but can you perhaps explain that? if you can =P
@@TheMindofagenius1 Chapter 222, page 10, we see a confident Yuji beating up Kusakabe, a grade 1 sorcerer, with ease, only to be revealed next page that Yuji's body talks to Kusakabe calling him "Itadori", and telling him he has to get a handle on this, referring probably to Yuji's cursed technique that apparently lets him swap bodies with others. Other than that little panel that could be completely missed during a quick read, I don't think we have any other clue of Yuji's cursed technique, except MAYBE his uncanny ability to get really really close to people he feels a connection to, possibly implanting fake memories in them subconciously. Also, reading Sukuna vs Jogo again, I noticed that Sukuna has some ability similar to this, with which he talks to people and curses he just fought with, but he says he has no idea what this ability even is (chapter 116). He talked this way to Jogo, telling him to stand proud, but he also told something similar to Kashimo when he wasn't in Yuji's body anymore, so maybe he inherited this technique by spending time inside Yuji, maybe it's something completely different, who knows. Lastly, I'm afraid he used this ability on Gojo as well, giving him the vision of all his dead friends welcoming him in the afterlife... The only vision he stayed out of, since he got to really respect Gojo during their battle. So yeah, clues scattered around, nothing certain XD
@@TheDahaka1 oh yeah that line (between Yuji and Kusakabe) confused me and my friends like nothing else! But I thought Yuji doesn't have a Cursed Technique, right? Isn't that what we were basically told in the fight between Yuji and Higuruma?
@@TheMindofagenius1 We only know that he didn't have one YET, and Kusakabe is exactly the other one that hasn't a cursed technique, so we can exclude that it's his own, since he's quite a coward that doesn't like to work that hard and wouldn't have developed one in this short amount of time, while Yuji is still growing and discovering what he can do on his own. We also can't exclude it's the technique of one of the other Death Paintings, since Yuji probably consumed them all to acquire extra strenght. There's a conversation between him and Choso where the big bro allows him to do anything he wants with them. They're probably all related to blood techniques, though, since the three brothers we've seen (Choso, Kechizu and Eso) where all blood users, and therefore I'm leaning way more on it's Yuji's own technique that he developed recently.
@@TheDahaka1 that's.... actually quite reasonable....!🤔 I suppose he COULD have "developed" a cursed technique *after* the fight with Higuruma, true! And also the implication he might have "consumed" the death paintings is..... yeeeesh o_o sure it may not be the WORST thing he'd consumed in his life, but still yeeesh =P
The second opening is the definition of "Hype", especially in the part with the hand signs.
I appreciate all of the Witch From Mercury "open to interpretation" jokes about Bandai. Also I just really like WFM, and I love hearing you talk about it. So thanks.
Honestly, it’s a really cool for an opening analysis to acknowledge the different interpretations of Gojo and Geto’s dynamic. As you said, romantically or platonically, these two HURT no matter what! (It’s also kind of sad to think about how if SatoSugu was a straight ship, nobody would be making arguments insisting they’re ‘just friends’. Like, the lyrics in both the OP and ED name drop the word ‘love’ in a romantic manner, yet people are still in against the idea?)
Even though I see nothing more than a platonic friendship, I don't really have a problem with said ships as long as theyre not shoved into faces of other people. What I do dislike is whenever people jump to shipping two characters whether straight or not, as the only meaningful form of connection two characters can have.
To be fair the lyrics of the intro song are not written by gege so despite them being very romantic it still wouldn’t confirm anything.
@@phylocybe_yeah, I agree with you and the person above us where I’m fine with people shipping, but it’s kinda sad that people think it’s wrong to leave it to interpretation and only lovers can have a close relationship. There’s no actual confirmation I’ve seen from Gege and it’s really up to the viewer, if the ship is what you like, cool, it can leave a more unique and interesting bond for you but if not, that’s also cool, just don’t shove your opinion in the others face like it’s fact.
Correction, It is confirmed that Yuji does not create fake memories, Choso only got those memories as he was about to kill his actual brother, as Kenjaku is the Mother of Yuji, making Choso his half brother, with Todo, he's just Todo
One little detail on Specialz is the transition from Unlimited avoid to Shibuya. The ripple effect I think is a way of saying the knowledge (possibly from Unlimited Void) of jujutsu is “rippling” out into the rest of the world and becoming known to non-sorcerers
Oooh cool touch
Also after Sukina does "the thing" the OP changes to reflect the city's new geography. "Specialz" changes alot over the season, mostly dropping characters from group scenes the episode after they are dropped from the story.
Whenever I watch Ao No Sumika and see the Gojo and Geto scenes, I think of the ProZD audio "oh they fucking"
thank you for being one of the only people who actually brings up the romantic "subtext" and "undertones" in geto and gojo's relationships; its very telling how people will talk abt, for example, gojo's strengths and weaknesses and completely gloss over probably the biggest textual example (his love for geto) :) edit: ok i wanna clarify some things for the replies; 1) romance does not equal sex; they are two different things and while you can have both you can also have one without the other. when i say romantic subtext, i mean _romantic_ subtext - what that means depends on what you (and the text) deems romantic. i could go on abt the parallels between yuuta and rika / geto and gojo's true love in the movie but the point is made itself. i think people's insistence on seeing sexuality between these two characters when people claim romance comes from their misconceptions of not being able to separate the two. 2) a romantic relationship between geto and gojo isn't really _more_ meaningful than a platonic one, in the text itself. but, if we chose to look outside of jjk and at the real world implications of that (ie. an actual mainstream queer relationship in a hit shonen series) then there's an added layer of meaning to that for queer people especially. it's a little disrespectful claim that we're making everything gay, or whatever when we've never gotten something this textual and blatant -(that I've seen, at least). we're not trying to ruin male friendships (that would be nartuo and sasuke lmao)-; we're just filling in the gaps as we see fit, as a lot of the nuance of jjk is up to audience interpretation. if you see it as romantic, then great! you have a lot of evidence to support it. if you see it as platonic (i tend towards qpr myself) then great! you can derive meaning from that! if you see one and refuse to respect people who see the other, I'm afraid one group has more nefarious, ignorant (and probably homophobic) motives than the other.
I think it's fine if Gojo and Geto loved each other romantically but it bothers me a little that it seems like the only way to have a meaningful relationship is through love and romance... I mean I identify with the lyrics of the first op, to me It reminds me of my relationship with my best friend and how we changed and we are no longer best friends, also the part about "no prayer or word could ever reach you, no matter how close they could get to you" I think me and my friend really can identify with that part because of personal things in our lives. (but yeah it really seems like geto and gojo liked each other i guess, that's really a lot of simbolism in the op)
I just hate how it must be sexualized and that anyone who thinks different is wrong.... When I watched the show I really liked the opening but I didn't really see it as romantic, just more that they were each other's favorite person. While it obviously can be interpreted like that it's not the only read on the situation. Plus the english translation of the lyrics isn't really 1:1. It is a translation after all. Obviously it could be romantic or it could just be another Naruto/Sasuke type thing over again.
@@royshavrickthe lyrics use the term 恋 which can only be interpretated in a romantic way (I repeat, ONLY. As in, there's no "non-romantic" definition of it) The song is hella romantic even in Japanese context
@@kadag10for that, you've got to blame Gege for his choices of words for these two lol Like for example in 236, Geto expressed his jealousy about Gojo having fun fighting Sukuna using 妬ける instead of 羨ましい 妬ける is a synonym for 嫉妬, which is more often used to express your jealousy when your lover/crush is getting close to someone else
@@Cranefeathers oh im an anime only so... but well they were gonna fight in some point obviusly but... wait what
"Gojo doesn't wanna lose his virginity, because Gojo never loses" Jfc I could not stop laughing.
I have a feeling I know how this anime is going to end. This is NOT a spoiler because there is nothing to indicate this will be the end and doesn't spoil any future plot elements, but given how much JJK likes to hurt us and Gege's overall writing style...it has a certain tragic anti-parallel cruel tragic beauty to it. In the first chapter, Yuji's grandpa's last words to him were "When it's time to go, make sure you're surrounded by others. Don't end up like me." This makes Yuji's goal to live a life ended by a good death, surrounded by loved ones. The tragic opposite of this is if Yuji somehow winds up immortal, but forever alone. Instead of a good death surrounded by loved ones, he'll live forever surrounded by no one. I have my guess as to how this is going to happen, but this is how I see this wonderful, painful series ending. Like Geoff said in his Shonen Power systems video (it's wonderful, go watch it), JJK is Shonen battle themed tragedy, and this ending would be the ultimate cruel irony for our little axolotl.
That's supported by Gege saying that spoiler (probably) Either only Yuji will die or all but Yuji will die.
@@rileyflack8010 Welp...
@@Nate-yb4ox shhhh and also i'm still on copium
@@rileyflack8010 Gege is watching
how do you think the manga will end though? Spoiler ahead With Sukuna reigning supreme, or Yuji and the others managing to defeat him?
Surprised you didn't point out that the clapping in Where Our Blue Is comes from the star cultists after they retrieve the body.
megumi: *stubs toe* megumi 0.00000000001 seconds later:....with this treasure i summon....eight handled...
you missed to mention that in the last group shot of op 2 the only two to move are nanami and nobara, everyone else is standing still, i think this is a suddle hint to their fates
The amount of foreshadowing and symbolism the people who design these OPs put into them NEVER CEASE TO BLOW MY MIND!!!! /pos
To me the clapping symbolizes the worshippers that were clapping for Amanai’s dead body. That’s what tore Gojo and Geto
I wouldn't say it was Riko's death ENTIRELY. I'd say part of it was also Gojo being sent on missions alone after his awakening, leaving an already-uncertain Geto to stew in his thoughts more, to the point of no return.
there's a shot of Nanami in episode 10 where he enters a veil and holds on for a second to talk to yuji, and he's just there, half of his face/body hidden in the darkness, and i just knew how mean the director was being to me at this moment
CORRECTION: Choso's vision of Yuji was NOT any Cursed Technique of his and not foreshadowed by Todo's vision. Gege Akutami clarified in an interview that it wasnt an ablity of Yuji and we later learn that the connection between the two is that Yuji and Choso were both created by Kenjaku, making Yuji technically the tenth Death Painting and the real biological brother of Choso. We also later see that Yuji is confirmed not to have a Cursed Technique since Higuruma's confiscation ability confiscates his Cursed Energy automatically instead of his CT on account of him not having one.
i mean, it WAS foreshadowed by Todo’s whole thing, thats what foreshadowing is, but it wasn’t anything deeper or more causal than that. it wasn’t foreshadowing yuji having any particular ability or anything but it was quite literally foreshadowing Choso having a parallel experience due to entirely different circumstances that were much more important than Todo’s funny egg brain. like idk even if gege directly said it wasn’t at all foreshadowing anything i’d just have to fight HIM on the definition of foreshadowing. its like a movie starting out with a kid crashing toy cars together only for it to end in an automobile accident, those aren’t related, the child has no Car Precognition Ability, but it absolutely is foreshadowing.
foreshadowing has to be deliberate @@ZannyAisling
1:23 Man, they really went from an opener that invoked lots of hype, happy feels, and head bops....to feeling like the worst horror imaginable is coming. "Special" really makes you think everything is going to flip on its head and you will be left with pain and despair...which you will be! It's such a perfect op to match the source material, and the animation was phenomenal to match!
NNSNSNSN YOU GET IT. a subsection of the internet will really hate you but c’mon the material is there and it just adds layers to the story. them being best friends does not dismiss them maybe having feelings that they just didn’t necessarily act on 😭 i think the op and ed did such a great job of fleshing out gojo’s time in high school and why he treasures that time so much. i’ve never seen an op/ed do that so well. it’s nice to know gege was involved in/looking over the production of this season too. so so great
What an amazing analysis, thank you for this, I know every whats in an OP takes loads of time to make and must be a copyright nightmare, but it is my favourite series from you by a MILE, so each one brings me unending joy.
I couldn't agree more!!!! Merely the intro to this had me squealing with happiness and I don't know anything about the specifics of this anime, but I was just so delighted to hear him gushing and analyzing, especially since I'm working to design my own OP for a short film I'm working on, and his WIAOP videos always give me incredible inspiration!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍
not even dudebros can deny that satosugu are doing the absolute most for each other to a point that it's not platonic anymore
This Manga makes me very upset, but I love it.😭
I wanted to quit after gojo but I can’t .. I’m too invested
First of all, when i read the lyrics to Ao no Sumika it all clicked for me. It was so obvious how coded Geto and Gojo are. I'm flabbergasted that I only ever read it as them being best friends but the song really re-contextualizes their relationship if you choose to view the song as canon to Gojo's viewpoint. I feel seen, Geoff!! Also, yeah. Where is Gege Akutami? I just want to talk to the cat! Just talk, I swear!
Why do you need to feel seen in manga? Narcissist?
@@rh31n Are you good, dawg? Pretty beta response over a comment I made.
@@SuffleKoh13 Sure dude. Beta cuck all the way. Whatever helps. Why do you need to see yourself in someone's art? Serious question.
are you for real or is this your first day on earth ??@@rh31n
@@rh31n this is one of the most stupid comments i've ever read, it's almost funny 😭 even while ignoring the fact that you couldn't read 4 words right and still tried to have your "gotcha moment"
I had only a passing interest in JJK but hearing geoff say 'there are plenty of ways to interpret their relationship and none of them are straight' has actually made me interested
Let me help you get more into it. JJK becomes INCREASINGLY queer as it continues. They introduce more and more NB/queer/pan characters as the story progresses. There is even a trans woman character who is explicitly stated to be trans in a relationship with one of the most masculine characters in the series. They are both expelled students of Jujutsu High and their relationship is also stated as one, not implied. There is also a chapter in the manga that came out recently that doubled down on Gojo and Getos relationship being romantic.
You're only interested in a story because it may have lgbt hints in it?
@@shantheman9922 I don't watch anime
@@xazz ok? I dont see your point. All im saying is that theres far better reasons to watch a show than "it has gay people in it". This isn't exclusive to anime
why are you mad lol@@shantheman9922
"You missed your calling writing 90s dubs" you had me dying over and over with this one!
another fun fact, the part of that shot of Yuji holding his head in that room. that perticular room is a specific place where they keep bodies( forgot the name im mad i cant remember it), basically indicating how all the lives lost, or will be lost, will affect him during this arc and onward
A morgue?
I'm still unclear about Yuji's alleged curse technique. We saw it in action two times, but the first may very well just be Todo being Todo and the second one seems to actually have a very good reason to have worked this way that isn't realted to any technique but just Yuji's origin.
Yeah Jeff is clearly very up to date so I'm not sure why he was being coy with that one. It's a theory anime onlys will have but we know the truth at this point sooo
@@what.the..6990 Kusakabe one was misinterpretation. yuji cant switch with sukuna whenever, hes eseentialy stopping him from taking over but 'lets go' should sukuna also agree (just like when he doesnt against his initial encounter with mahito). Also yuji's mother had a gravity CT which he uses in his fight against Yuki, its the reason he got her body to begin with because yuji was not even a part of his grand plan.
Satosugu definitely "grappled" with each other at least once. Totally like bros, totally not feelings involved. Totally.
the very last shot of geto confidently looking up as his plans come into action, and gojo, covering his eyes and slumping downwards as his time to shine dims away like the light in his eyes.
"gojo would never lose his virginity cuz gojo never loses" is the funniest line I have heard about this show ever
I'm so happy someone made such a detailed analysis of openings, both visuals and lyrics. I'd love the same with endings too. "Akari" is so painful T_T But yeah, "Ao no Sumika" - SatoSugu tragic soulmates and "SPECIALZ" - it's all about to go to shit... dramatically
That joke about Bandai Namco around 16:00 is fucking murder, Geoff. It was right there and you NAILED it.
Great video. Always had a feeling about Gojo and Geto, but you laid it out perfectly. Really tragic. Also I loved the shoutout to WFM and Bandais shitty behaviour. I would love to see a video of yours on Witch from Mercury. I really liked the anime, especially for its character-writing.
thank you for talking about the romantic subtext between gojo and geto
Your videos always make my days better jeff! Youre the best😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
Glad you like them! And thanks for always leaving such lovely comments
@@mothersbasementyou're awesome man! That's the least i can do!😊😊😊
Funny how Geto left Gojo, but chose to wear a gojo-kesa robe
One cool detail about the blue opening is that it begins with Gojo asleep in his Office and the flashback ends with Gojo waking up in his Office with his 3 students, like he was dreaming
Which is also how the flashback arc in the manga was framed
If you listen real close, you can hear Yazy crying in the background over getting sucked in by Gojo.
Saw her liking fanarts from gojo/megumi shippers on twitter 💀
ao no sumika was hype, the first ending was full of feels, specialz sounds like a nightclub song but makes sense, the whole cast looks like is going to a summer festival and finally, more than words DESTROYS MY HEART.
Yeah I have yet to muster the courage to read "more than words" lyrics because the rest of the song already destroyed my heart 🫠
Im not going to say gojo and geto are gay. But when i, as a man, flirt with my boyfriend, i do similar things. Ive been told from some less than trustworthy sources that 2 men dating is gay. Just food for thought of course.
Man the animators, are really going in on the deathflags this season. They even have her covering her eye in the ending😢
We all know Gojo and Geto would've wrestled to see who was bottom for the day 😂
Gege built up Gojo as the strongest to be his punching bag🥺 also Specialz has been my favorite OP I’ve heard this whole year. Looks & sounds amazing.
This is my first real experience being one of the people who knows everything that's coming. It's been really surreal seeing everybody react to iconic moments in the JJK story for the first time in animated form. Riko being assassinated by Toji just when Geto thinks she's safe, Gojo's awakening against Toji in his rematch, and Gojo being sealed in the prison realm after realizing the friend he knew he killed is still around, except not really. There's many, many more iconic moments to come in the Shibuya arc, and in the Culling Games after it. I can't wait to see anime onlys seeing these moments we read 2+ years ago for the first time, and feeling what we did back then.
I want there to be some near slice of life like anime just focusing on Gojo's younger years and all of them just hanging out and living their student JJ High life before the whole Hidden Inventory ordeal.
Yeah it would be nice if they had some OVA episodes for that as bonus side material.
I took the hand coming forward at the end of "Where Our Blue Is" was Gojo removing the blindfold. The OP is essentially him reminiscing right before his students walk in and he uncovers an eye to look at them (at the end of the Hidden Inventory arc)
I don't know another way of describing the vibe of SPECIALZ, it feels like a Chainsaw Man ED in the best ways possible. It makes it looks like the coolest horror/action anime ever. As someone who never got into JJK, it almost makes me want to pick it up
I was thinking the exact same thing! I tried 3 epsiodes and it didn't grab me from a story perspective, although the animation is PHENOMENAL. I kinda want to give it another try!
@@princessthyemis Definitely give it another go. It's one of those series what takes a moment to establish characters rather than story, so once it starts cooking, it's a full kitchen ensemble. I've watched the first season around 20 times (after the first time, it was me showing it to friends I swear lol), and I started the manga after the 5th episode had aired since I didn't want to wait. Approach it however you want! If you want to start at the movie (the prequel) and second season, that's cool too ^-^ The animation really kicks off, and the director for this season directed CSM.
@@princessthyemis I wasn't really hooked on season 1 until about episode 4. That was the one that made me realize it was not going to go the way other shonen series had. Episode 12 solidified that.
Dammit, and here I was just getting over the recent manga chapters. I will say I never knew that the first S2 OP song was actually composed from the POV of Gojo towards Geto.The OP and posters for the HI arc always gave me this melancholy feeling of better days gone by, regrets, and what could have been, but now with that new info and knowing the meaning of the lyrics it just hits even harder. Good stuff good stuff
I actually saw the clapping part was a misdirection for anime fans, as if they're claps of praise and encouragement to the two strongest sorcerers, just for the meaning to be flipped over it's head after the end of episode 4, including a similar shot of the two of them that symbolizes their split. The ending gives a much sadder reflection on the good times they all had, I wish you covered it here too. They did an amazing job with symbolism in these episodes.
I've been missing these WIAOPs! It's what originally drew me to your channel many years ago, and then you do it for one of my favourite anime!!!! Gonna add some of my own thoughts here, with MANGA SPOILERS Some things you might have missed or left out for times sake in 'Ao no sumika' is that (1) sharing a bicycle in Japan is considered romantic, (2) that the empty classroom at the end could mirror the scene in JJK0 where Gojo is sitting right by such a sunset in a classroom reminiscing about Geto (while Geto is also staring at the same sunset probably also reminicing about him) and (3) that the text above the chalkboard in the classroom says "Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honoured one." Also the way the first OP and ED interact when it comes to the tragic end of Gojo's and Geto's relationship is just painful, the lyrics have forever changed me. In 'SPECIALZ' when Yuuji is having his mental breakdown in front of the ossuary (?) you can also see that the decorations on them look like a brain with it's two distinct hemispheres, a reference to the brain inside Getou's body -pointing to Kenjaku's involvement with Yuuji and how almost everything bad happening to the characters including the Sukuna-massacre that Yuuji is breaking down over is because of Kenjaku (considering the implications that Kenjaku birthed Yuuji, probably to be a vessel for Sukuna as a back-up plan if the sealing failed). After the shot of Gojo opening his eyes and the zoom in over Tokyo, I also read the ripple effect as showing how everything that happens in Shibuya (including Gojo's sealing) has a big ripple effect over all of Japan. I have been thinking way too much about JJK these past months... Oh god the manga...
King Gnu is my new favorite little freak band and I hope they never stop.
The entire opening, but that scene of Shoko leaning on the railing has me on my KNEES. She deserved so much better. But every literal second of this opening is art. Literal ART.
I’m so happy to see this video on my feed!!! The first OP might be my favorite of the entire year so it’s so cool to see you cover it so throughly
You get a like for that oddly relevant and excellent ad tie-in.
Yeah. I remember seeing how the women of the Zenin clan were treated. Like servants at best if not outright breeding stock. That whole clan needed to burn!
the end shot of the empty classroom also directly connects to the end of the beach end credits on the second half of season 2. yuji and his friends fill up those empty spaces of jujutsu high again, fading in as the camera widens. a second chance at the dynamic that created such broken and problematically powerful sorcerers 10 years prior.
this video made my day, i'm so not normal about jjk on an average day but with the things happening in the manga right now i think about it almost every single minute i'm awake so it came at the right time. your analysis is genuinely so much fun to watch, especially since i'm obsessed with both of those ops and have tried deciphering them on my own. also you're so real for being a shonen enjoyer who isn't allergic to the idea that maybe not every kickass shonen guy is 110% straight, obviously nothing is explicity canon but honestly i find the idea of them being in love interesting to think about, it adds another (very painful) layer to their already painful relationship.
As a King Gnu fan I was extremely hyped for Specialz but Ao no Sumika remains my favorite.
This is one of my newest favorite Jujutsu Kaisen video in history, Geoff!😍❤️
Suguru and Satoru's break up changed the world.....let that sink in
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!! These videos of yours always give me such HUGE inspiration, but especially this one!!!! I just listened to the song for 3 and a half hours while I drew pages of concept art and character sketches for my own short film and its OP--your statement at 13:44 of "as symbolism goes, this is just ambiguous enough to not spoil what it's pretty obviously spoiling" AS LIT MY IMAGINATION ON FIRE for the symbolism and Easter Eggs I can use for my own OP!!! I can't thank you enough!!!! I'm also going to give the anime another try and have a good feeling I'm gonna get hooked!!!!!!
Can't wait for the third opening to have a purple vibe. Let Megumi direct it, too.