Jujutsu Kaisen's World is built on Evil

what is evil, is it religious.is it political. whos politics are evil. does that justify their subjugation and their children and theirs still. How does evil manifest, is there a way to free our selves from evil. does it contextualize our existence. what does this have to do with jujutsu kaisen all this and more on this episode of dragon ball z
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[@GalacticDecay]

Don't worry, we're all human

[@ryanchristenson1059]

They had to introduce a literal comedian character because Yuji couldn’t be the comic relief anymore. Very few stories actually effect the overall personality of their characters!

[@Giovansbilly]

And Gege still found a way to make that comedian an actual threat to one of the two main villains at the same time

[@weggygaygay9940]

​@@Giovansbillymanga spoilers they managed to make the main villain (kenjaku) losing to a fucking joke charavter the most hype shit in the series man this manga is beautiful

[@bgrego88]

​@weggygaygay9940 life's 1 big joke for everyone.... you has the power of limited immortality, he has the ability to shape the world, instead he chose to breed humans with the metaphysical manifestation of their negative emotions. Kinda fitting that 1 of your creations killed you.

[@selfportrait8363]

Who's the comedian character? ​@@weggygaygay9940

[@pastel_magi]

@@weggygaygay9940 Adding to those spoilers- My god that was a phenomenal fight? No more like a movie

[@theplaguedoctor6271]

"are you evil because you're the Jujutsu kaisen world or are you the Jujutsu kaisen world because you're evil,"

[@NikitaClayton-qn7ge]

Are you evil because of the jujutsu kaisen world or is the jujutsu kaisen world evil because of you

[@TiinyToony]

​@@NikitaClayton-qn7ge question to gege?

[@NikitaClayton-qn7ge]

@@TiinyToony yup, it's gege. Gege is evil therefore explaining why the jujutsu world is evil

[@VOID_Too]

​@@NikitaClayton-qn7ge"WHEN I FIND YOU GEGE!"

[@DriedJizzSock]

Through the Manga and Anime Industry, I alone am the Eviled one

[@lordgeneralmilitantdeezy7550]

Let’s not forget that Captain Yamamoto was an S tier war criminal and bandit

[@rexr9781]

Or that Mayuri has been a part of 3 genocides and 1 he has perpetrated himself. Bleach and kubo make it very clear that the good guys aren't actually "good" they are the good guys because they prevent the world from going haywire and get destroyed. The fucked up nature of soul society has been very clear in every single arc.

[@lettuce3775]

Or that half of the people with commanding roles have learnt assassination techniques

[@viniciuspasquali1801]

Are war crimes that bad when you are using them against Wizard Hitler?

[@lordgeneralmilitantdeezy7550]

@@viniciuspasquali1801 they are when you desecrate corpses you killed thousands of years ago to fuck with him

[@Ibidesgsindl]

​@@viniciuspasquali1801 even before that.

[@rockhuerta]

"But the devil doesn't play favorites" goes hard

[@kagesora007]

"Seven nukes in a trench coat" too.

[@polinanosova8976]

"he has climbed to the top of the world. And on that apex. He saw that all of this its meaningless" is raw 24:52

[@Twenty-Seven]

"..Geto had to ingest hundreds if not thousands of curses." Try about 10,000 my dude lol. He split his forces on The Night of 100 Curses, and he still had over 4,000 curses to fire at Yuta with Max Uzumaki

[@walmartiancheese4922]

And each one tasted like a wet diaper

[@businessbusiness5784]

​@@walmartiancheese4922mmmm chezburgir

[@doggydude2668]

AND YUTA TANKED IT LIKE A GOATTTT jokes aside, yeah, i found him saying that pretty damn funny. it was absolutely thousands. "hundreds" is an insane delusion of the amount of garbage flavored balls he had to swallow

[@roywempor8395]

​@@walmartiancheese4922 yummers

[@wallacethelobster]

​@@roywempor8395 u wot m8?

[@JKMX76]

I still can’t believe that when Gojo was born it caused the JJK World to screw itself over trying to balance itself. This man’s birth made life hell for so many people.

[@TheCreepyLantern]

Gojo came out of the womb determined to make that accomplishment the worlds problem

[@bobdylan1968]

LOL. People, THATS NOT LITERAL lol

[@TanvirAhmed-bz2ox]

@@bobdylan1968it is literal

[@bobdylan1968]

@@TanvirAhmed-bz2ox no, it isn't. It's the same thing as in sports in the real world. When someone breaks a record, suddenly the floor raises. Everyone rises up to match that new norm. It happens in REAL life. That's what they are referring to. The curses HAD to get stronger to compete. It's a survival of the fittest situation. Curses were put in a situation where they needed to get stronger to survive. So they did. That's why your average NBA player today, is significantly better than your average NBA player of yesteryear. Or in weight lifting. The old records don't come even CLOSE. and the earlier records, they'd be seen as just a standard step in the journey and not all that big a deal. That's all it's talking about dude. People really need to take a reading comprehension class

[@TanvirAhmed-bz2ox]

@@bobdylan1968 yea u idiot…thats why i said the orginal statement is literal

[@paulvictor7489]

My favourite thing about Gojo is that throughout the show, he wants others to become stronger because he gets how dumb society is, and he knows that even with all his power, he's weak in some aspects and can't be the one God. They show this more subtly, but it is still very much part of his character. He demonstrates his one weakness being his emotional barrier and "good guy" persona many times, and he's shown almost hoping the whole time that someone with a bit tougher skin comes up to fill that gap and do what he can't. You can see how excited and obsessed almost he is with some of the characters with the most potential, especially the ones who disagree with him because he wants them to fill in that power gap where he's incapable of it himself, which is the willingness to do evil to save more people overall. I think Itadori works really well as a character as the story goes on, because he's essentially living with the exact same weakness and mentality as Gojo, but unlike Gojo he is not anywhere strong enough to back up these ideals, so they backfire on him constantly, which unlike Gojo, Forces Itadori to adapt into what Gojo could not... IDk, this might all be in my head TBH, maybe I overthought it, but that is how I interpreted the characters development and themes, and I see it as really masterful writing.

[@bignoob2726]

I really thought that U were about to say "throughout heaven and earth, he alone is..."

[@Digimonfusion280]

I never compared Yuji and Gojo in this way. I like that thought.

[@rushpatriot2866]

Fck that infinity merchant we piss on him over here

[@l.raphaelnery7299]

Honestly you have some good points...and a lot of what you said makes sense and I a gree with

[@bigbone_99]

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that the villains are the more sympathetic characters in MHA lol

[@petrolandcoffee]

I've been saying this for years bro

[@bigbone_99]

@petrolandcoffee Yeah lol. They are victims!

[@lm4733]

LMFAO

[@15THGAMERQ]

Tell that to the bodies under their belts which is un the city numbers for the main villians

[@thedarknessinthelight9824]

They are very sympathetic and are very much so victims, though the amount of lives they took are kinda crazy

[@Zxmegabomb]

Maki doesnt become near as strong as toji until she fights cursed spirit Naoya, which means she was dogging the zen'in clan at a fraction of Toji's strength

[@dublk5593]

She was around the same strength as Tojo simply lacked experience and skill with her heavenly restriction to be an equal to him yet.

[@Zxmegabomb]

@@dublk5593 Which doesn't argue/go against what I said at all. She does not become as strong as Toji until she undergoes her true metamorphosis fighting the Sumo obsessed man during the Culling Games. We also see her getting physically out-sped by cursed spirit Naoya multiple times before her 2nd awakening, and then easily out-sped him in turn (with the narrator also claiming that she had finally reached equality with Toji).

[@MuttonErase]

​@@Zxmegabombi swear she was still slower than naoya but her precog allowed her to more than make up the difference

[@muntu1221]

​@@MuttonErase You're absolutely correct. Naoya was still fastesr, he was just caught off guard because he couldn't catch her.

[@LuisBlackb]

She's still weaker than Toji because she lack his experience and strategic mind.

[@TheGodOfWarhammer]

10:40 “the devil can’t give blessings, even to his own followers” Kat Williams

[@chubbyanemone696]

??​@lostsolus9

[@xavierthomas5835]

​@Xquisitecorpseamen and amen. God bless, beloved.

[@missingname7015]

Does that make the devil a monster or does that make him fair?

[@xavierthomas5835]

@missingname7015 The devil wishes he could give blessings, just so he could have the satisfaction of denying them. Because even the good he would seem to do becomes evil for those who receive it. He is uninterested in fairness but he loves power.

[@TheGodOfWarhammer]

@@missingname7015 he’s absolutely a monster that wants nothing less than the misery of the Lord’s beloved children. It is petty and jealous. Don’t be convinced otherwise. His domain is filled with nothing but suffering, empty promises, and hopeless despair. A human life is short, but a soul is everlasting and unending torment and torture is never a fair trade.

[@Ibidesgsindl]

"ichigo didn't change soul society " if he had tried he'd either die or would have to kill THOUSANDS.

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

ThT sounds like a good story tbh, the ss should have never became good guys

[@Ibidesgsindl]

@@MILDMONSTER1234 No, that wouldn't have made sense. Like, you have a common enemy with a captain level threat and then just be like, sure we'll fight you and your group of lieutenant level threats as well.

[@Khajitxi]

Spoiler alert. Soul society aren’t the good guys. They are quite explicitly the bad guys.

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

@@Ibidesgsindl and that’s somehow bad? That just makes them a threatening antagonist that’s basicLly how 7 deadly sins is set up as well as the SS arc

[@Ibidesgsindl]

@@Khajitxi Ohhh, realllllyyyyy, I didn't notice that on All of the times they sid something shady. I need you to think for me.

[@Ramsey276one]

JJK reminded of a concept I have been toying with, summarized in this line: "You can be Drowned in the Dark or Blinded by the Light... or steer clear of both and *endure reality."* I play SMT, and love the games, FYI.

[@notacruff]

Fellow smt enjoyer

[@eavyeavy2864]

Anyone saying reality/truth usually only do so to hurt people

[@eavyeavy2864]

​@@notacruffWord people use to not appear as tryhard when in reality you are people who like said things but arent invited into the club. You are the equivalent of casual gamers

[@Ramsey276one]

"You can pray until you faint. You can 'wait to die' until the back of your brain makes you breathe and 'not die' like it's built to do. Or you can just LIVE. Whatever life you got, that's what you HAVE. So *LIVE YOUR LIFE.* Or don't, and someone else will do something... You can cry about it after if you survived..."

[@petrolandcoffee]

I've heard great things about those games

[@BlackfangDragon]

The Bleach comparison is funny to me cause, like fundamentally Ichigo never really tries to improve or change anything for the better in Soul Society. He pretty much fought to free Rukia and that was it. He’s cool with them now that he knows it was a bad Apple who did it all….who was raised in and a product of Soul Society as a system and could so easily undermine the system because of the oppressors he killed and replaced would have done the same thing. Like the unironic fact that Aizen wanted to do more to change the broken system that Soul Society is built upon even if it’s just to fuel his god complex is noticeable cause both him and Yhwach are directly the products of Soul Society and its values and they both know the root of their sin is the Soul King.

[@rexr9781]

I mean you can't really expect a kid to change shit when half the time he's depressed and the rest half he's fighting an existential crisis. Not to mention he hasn't really properly interacted with the soul society and it's people.

[@epicotakugamer4930]

@@rexr9781 Ichigo's mental states reflect how the world is around him.

[@viniciuspasquali1801]

And if you read the light novels you realize ichigo changed Jack shit, the soul society still is a horrible place because of the nobles, I really think ppl should start talking more about the light novels they are not only canon but by far the best thing from bleach

[@lastofrwby8395]

So, it’s not like he ever had a goal that was about fixing the soul society

[@naboume466]

While the novels are good, I wouldn't say they are the best thing from Bleach, imo the writing isn't as good as Kubo's, one of the things I always appreciated about Bleach, is how subtly it treats its themes, and most of what in the novels is already alluded to in the manga only in a more subtle way. Also saying that Ichigo didn't change anything is just wrong, especially since you brought up the novels which actually mentions how soul society is starting to change, and it is mostly due to Ichigo, for example Byakuya; the head of one of the 4 great noble houses, has changed because of Ichigo, while he himself never had the goal of doing that, he was a catalyst for change. @@viniciuspasquali1801

[@DenjiHendrix]

One of the best classes I've attended in a while 😭😭🙌🏾

[@petrolandcoffee]

Yeah I'm not gonna lie there's a lot more people in this lecture than i thought there would be when i planned it. I had 3 meetings with the chancellor, apparently you guys are a massive fire hazard

[@genius50002]

​@@petrolandcoffeeyou should be a history teacher

[@genius50002]

​@@petrolandcoffeewith adding memes

[@makutheboss]

Did not expect to see an estonian politician in a jjk video, truly based

[@petrolandcoffee]

I love making crazy pulls and that one felt right

[@facundopitton9011]

@@petrolandcoffee i felt the same seeing milei. pretty acurate tho

[@xiiir838]

​@@facundopitton9011literally HOW? Can you really justify calling MILEI A FREAKIN' FASH?

[@facundopitton9011]

@@xiiir838 yhea, is justified

[@xiiir838]

@@facundopitton9011 ah, choriplanero 🤮🤣🤣🤣🤣 Te van a quitar el dinero que te robas del estado y por estás bien asustado 🤣🤣

[@jairacosta3804]

This video pretty much explains why some people prefer senin over shonen, because senin are able to truly be free with what they are able to do in their story without worry of it being seen as too far, it’s honestly a miracle that the dark trio even exist on shonen jump due to how safe most of their catalog is

[@seya_2]

I associate Seinen storytelling with more of a "mental thought" process or beliefs of characters. My favourite manga Houseki no Kuni, or Land of the Lustrous portrays with the best way in my opinion

[@MILDMONSTER1234]

It’s nothing new though really, hunter x hunter was allowed to be dark, YyH was allowed to be dark, claymore and d gray man are allowed to be dark etc mangaka just choose not to go that route

[@Stryfe52]

@@MILDMONSTER1234Claymore was shounen?! Learn something new everyday I guess

[@malcomalexander9437]

@@Stryfe52 As is Death Note. Kaguya Sama Love is War is Seinen.

[@lazyvoid7107]

Not really

[@Seloliva1015]

The fact that sells cursed energy as a curse is that having none at all is actually kind of a blessing, even if the sorcerers don't thinks so (apart from yuki)

[@NCt_22gz]

You had me right up until the end. Gojo is only able to has that outlook on life because he is the strongest and has the capabilities to make it happen. If a rich man built a orphanage and bragged about it constantly, it WOULD be less noble, still helpful, but not noble.

[@persondavis1294]

I think anyone can have his outlook, even a weak person. He wants to finds and train strong students in order to impart upon them ideals he views are ultimately helpful to jjk society. If we switch gojo out for a relatively weak but wise and all round educated teacher you could get the same story. Only thing is they would have to be way more prepared and proactive.

[@benniboiii9043]

Nah he always bragged about how cool he is, never about how noble his cause was. Rather his cause is sad due to it's relation to Geto. Basically Gojo is a good guy regardless of how arrogant and fucked up he can be.

[@Stryfe52]

@@persondavis1294your idea of weak Gojo reminds me of Natsuki Subaru or Kiritsugu Emiya for whatever reason. Both characters whose power comes from their ability to plan and strategize, and not so much their literal strength

[@EbonMaster]

If he were bragging about his deeds you'd at least have a semblance of a point (one that would be pretty weak as has been pointed out, but a point nonetheless).

[@viniciuspasquali1801]

The entire point of post shibuya is that Egoism and arrogance to climb to the top is what brings out your full potential, everyone that was a formidable fighter in the culling games were like this, that’s why gojo is like this, because that’s what keeps him at the top, sukuna himself describes jujutsu like that, he tells jogo that tying yourself to a cause only leads to stunt in your growth

[@Neuroticmancer]

It makes it a bit less noble, but the point isn’t the nobility it’s the net material impact. I also think you’re not giving gojo enough credit. He wants to raise up people to be as strong as him and give up control. Does his reaction to his privilege being to progress the world and redistribute power make him noble, despite bragging about it, make him noble? I think so. Is it the same thing as your statement? I think it’s slightly different but it’s also semantics. Good video!

[@petrolandcoffee]

Hadn't thought of it like that you make a good point

[@viniciuspasquali1801]

@@petrolandcoffeeone thing I noticed from your video is that you don’t really mention yuta and choso, idk if you plan on making a video about them but they are the antithesis of jujutsu itself, they are strong because of love and appreciation not because of their traumatic experiences or their hunger for power and will to climb to the top, choso even gets stronger in his fight against kenjaku because he feels encouraged by his brothers and yuta’s domain is called true love, outside of that really cool video (also if you can make a video about bleach’s light novels I think it would be cool because all the things you said about bleach at the start are shown to not be true in the light novels, soul society continues to be a horrible place despite all ichigo has done I think it would be great if you gave it a shot thx)

[@anusaukko6792]

@@viniciuspasquali1801 Yuta is walmart brand Shirou Emiya bruh from personality to powers.

[@viniciuspasquali1801]

@@anusaukko6792 that doesn’t add anything to the point I made but sure

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​@@anusaukko6792hmmm

[@753studios6]

“If you do not adapt,you die.” This has been my life faience birth I had to adapt to foster care and learn heinous things to survive. I had to teach myself how to walk again as a child to survive I became houseless during the pandemic and i had to fight my way back Kaizen means getting one percent better every day,my kaizen was miserable,but it made me strong ,but it led me to be as kind and patient as I can be.

[@joelsasmad]

Honestly respect to you.

[@davidalejandrogomezfernand2730]

well man, you are a machine, hope you are good

[@753studios6]

@@davidalejandrogomezfernand2730 oh I’m great

[@jang2386]

Hope u doing good rn man

[@Isaax]

Survival but at what cost

[@cmays209]

JJK’s world is literally just Japan…….

[@EbonMaster]

its crazy how many fucked up anime worlds are literally just Japan with one aspect slightly more exaggerated or materialized. lol

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Just the world in general

[@marocat4749]

Similar with manhwa and south korea

[@umamifan]

Well, when you think about it. Reality is often more strange than fiction, and tends to just a parody or reflection of real life.

[@hossain1359]

And in Avengers USA

[@bungusbongus]

Good video but I heavily disagree that the soul society ever becomes "unambiguously good", if anything I'd say that bleach doubles down on how terrible the soul society is in its later stages. The most the protagonists do is make some evil characters a little less evil.

[@GocanTH]

I'd say they tripled down considering everything

[@bungusbongus]

@@GocanTH yea lol, remember in the fullbring arc when all the shinigami showed up to save ichigo and then once ichigo was gone they reveal they were actually a government issued hit squad sent to kill him incase he rebelled.

[@GocanTH]

@@bungusbongus oh and what about that they basically enslaved a man, tore out his organs and body parts for power ups, or planning on making an innocent a human a slave for them, he'll several beings as slaves

[@bungusbongus]

@@GocanTH or how in the novels its revealed that the way you get into central 46 is through birth right and their entire political system is based on nepotism

[@GocanTH]

@@bungusbongus or how they downright have war criminals run there government or at most, there "protectors"

[@ianyoder2537]

Kinda makes me think about another big philosophical question is see somewhat barely touched on in anime. _Is it wrong to want to be the best?_ I mean every one wants to be the best right? But only one can be the best right? So in order to achieve your dream, you'll have to deny everyone else their dream. Can you really call yourself a good person if what you want inherently hurts others? Is it right to compete when competition brings out the worst in you and others? Why want for more when you already have more than enough? Why is it that simultaneously every one wants to be in power but everyone hates those in power?

[@phoenixtempleeviltruth8074]

Blue Lock does this

[@ianyoder2537]

@@phoenixtempleeviltruth8074 I'll add it to the watch list.

[@kcold3277]

Literally Vagabond and (slightly) MHA.

[@Kukisei]

Have you seen Whiplash, really good movie that touches on some of these topics(it’s not an anime tho).

[@thekamotodragon]

JJK literally asks this question with Sukuna. He is the epitome of selfishness incarnate. He does whatever he wants at other people's expense and is able to get away with it because he's the strongest. Every single character calls him evil, so philosophically, i think we can say that sacrificing others to achieve your dream (also Griffith) is categorically evil, according to traditional moral values. All this stems imo from 2 mindsets, one outlook says survival of the fittest meaning that there will be winners and there will be losers and winning means someone else loses and you must be strong to win. The other is our current society, where survival of the weakest occurs. The system goes out of its way to care for the weak in many scenarios, like someone who has illness can get help at the hospital from complete strangers, also just like how sorcerers do in JJK for humans. Only in the 2nd system do the moral values i mentioned earlier say that deep selfishness is a bad thing. In "survival of the fittest", Sukuna's mindset is the literal guidebook to success.

[@dracowilderness8893]

I think you could break it down into three things, the mindset of good vs the jujutsu world, the mindset of the weak vs the jujutsu world, and the mindset of the strong vs the jujutsu world. Yuji is the good, his whole story is based of the wish By his grandpa to have friends when he dies that only curses him to suffer more in this world only for him to realize with Mahito, the only thing that matters is murder at that time. The weak mindset is Maki vs Mai, Mai laid down and let people walk over her to not be noticed and Maki stood up and faced them down ultimately ending the morally heinoun clan they had to suffer in with violence. Gojo, born into perfection and a problem less life, so strong nothing could hurt him, started with the mindset of “why should we protect the weak?” However through meeting Riko and his friendship with Geto he realized it’s because people deserve to be protected, Geto lost his faith in humanity choosing to lead them to die while gojo gained his faith, the problem being that to others gojo is only able to see it like that because he doesn’t have to suffer in the same ways because of his privileged and unbelievably strong birth. And yet all the same, no matter how arrogant he is, he wants a better world that breaks the systematic suffering of jujutsu society and he’ll use the power he was lucky enough to have to bring that goal forth because he can, he may not have suffered like others have but he will use this strength to get what he wants when he wants it, and what he wants is something inherently good. When a Rich man brags about an orphanage it’s selfish sounding and arrogant but if the kids there are thriving and enjoying life, then it’s still helping the world.

[@icecreamchief5417]

Part of me believes that his arrogance is mostly used as a facade for most of the series...okay it was his personality during hidden inventory, but from then on it has a different context behind it. When comparing his arrogance before and after, it looks like he tries to play the fool to mask what he truly feels. After all, he is the equivalent to the symbol of peace, except those same people who he is with are on the prowl looking for anything in order to end him. It's like he can't show his true self and, honestly, I don't think he knows how to show his true self anymore. There have been moments where Gojo can't realy put up the facade, like when he was carrying Rika's body, Yuji's death, encountering Kenjaku for the first time, there was no jokes, just sadness, rage, or emptiness.

[@tamavehemental6701]

I feel the same. Being more serious or intimidating isn't a need to him because everyone knows he's the strongest. So he can afford the luxury of silliness to get closer to others.

[@tnuhenaj3752]

Ichigo absolutely did not make the soul society good. It's one of the biggest criticisms of him that he didn't do anything about the people still suffering and starving in rukongai. The people complaining about that for his character didn't take the line literally enough where he says he's no saint or superman he only wants to protect as many people as he can hold in his arms. Or maybe they forgot. Anyway most of the arrancar wanted to mind their own business. How did you watch shunsui vs starrk and think shunsui was the good guy? Starrk never wanted to fight in the first place and shunsui stabbed him in the back while he was offering his 2 other opponents mercy not to finish them off, then killed him in cold blood. The whole point about every conflict in bleach is that they are morally grey and both sides are reprehensible. It just doesn't pull the trigger and condemn the soul society until the light novels set after the final arc when it begins to tackle that issue. But even before that it never shies away from painting the shinigami as being as bad if not worse than the opposition. They literally wanted to use ichigo as backup soul king in case things went awry. That means dismembering him and sealing him in a jar for all eternity as a vegetable like the current one is. And lets not forget while they did a nice thing restoring his powers when he lost them they could've done that was sooner but instead let his family and friends get hypnotized while he has a mental breakdown all because they wanted to test his loyalty and use him to find the location of the previous tool that found out their true nature. Ichigo isn't a triumphant hero. He just has small scale priorities that line up with what the soul society wants and that makes him convenient to them. If any of the villains who want to upset the status quo succeed then ichigo's close ones will suffer so he stops them and unintentionally propagates the status quo. You spend hours making a 30 minute deep dive for JJK then do the most surface level reading for bleach to make comparisons to. If you don't like it and can't be bothered to look into it at all you should've just said that instead of spewing rubbish.

[@xrossingtherubicon]

Best comment so far.

[@diogenesbarrel7350]

Thank you! Istg a lot of people either never read bleach or have the comprehension skills of a 2 year old. Ichigo is just your average guy thrown into a shit storm and does what he does to protect those he loves. To hell with the other stuff because quite honestly, it's not his business.

[@wastyaza]

@@diogenesbarrel7350the whole soul society issue is way to big for ichigo or even his strong allies like a couple captain level characters to take on so i don’t even know why people would fathom ichigo being able to make any real difference when it’s already such an out of character thing for him to do

[@LeoLikesLamb]

Thank you for this peak comment man! Didnt appreciate this guy saying bleachs execution was "shaky"

[@alcatrazvongola]

Well said! It's funny how he bashes Bleach when Gege himself said that he was INSPIRED from Bleach and Hunter X Hunter too. Ichigo and Yuji both have a lot in common as they are both soldiers fighting a war where they want to protect their loved ones. They aren't planning on making big changes in the world, but their small actions are the steps towards making change.

[@Vittoo]

Gojo start to take being good guys for others seriously after he lost Geto. When his only friend who used to has better moral than him turn evil, that's when he look back to himself and doesn't want to repeat his mistake

[@nosauceorbrothchild8772]

Soul Society was never “the good guys”. There is really no good guys in Bleach.

[@xrossingtherubicon]

It seems very apparent that the people who dislike bleach really don't understand a thing about the story. I see it over and over again.

[@Creepsandwicheater]

I guess in general anime fans have trouble picking up on subtext, especially on series with a lot of bad faith criticism. Guess thats why solo leveling needs the mc to say he was mocked and given the title "the weakest hunter" because he was weak lol.

[@abhinandp1844]

The audience often seeks surface-level understanding; we can't blame them. Most viewers watch or read for entertainment and are satisfied with what the anime presents on the surface

[@SuperZergMan]

I mean, I dislike Bleach because it felt like the author was pulling new powers out of nowhere all the time. Like, yeah, I TOTALLY believe that Yoruichi has always had this special catgirl form we haven't ever seen before, which also just so happens to counter this new villain's power perfectly. Definitely planned out from the start and a satisfying way to write the fight scene, yup.

[@Creepsandwicheater]

@SuperZergMan you don't believe the girl who was introduced as a cat, and has an ability that used lightning to enhance their abilities, could combine those 2 abilities? Dude saw the special beam cannon and went "hey piccolo couldn't make a beam that shape before what an asspull"

[@SebastiansSebastian-fc4pj]

nah its just the flashbacks that throw us off (and the bad power scaling.. jesus christ dude Ichigo finished demigods off and is still struggling against regular hallows for 10 seconds per 1

[@SlickAndroid94]

The way you described Deku also describes Naruto's character pretty well (and I like Naruto).

[@petrolandcoffee]

Oh I have some thoughts on Naruto, I think I talkked a lot about it in my first demon slayer video

[@SlickAndroid94]

@@petrolandcoffee I'll have to watch that. My thing about Naruto is that while he's free-spirited, he's still participating in a corrupt system responsible for the problems in the series, and I feel like he doesn't question it enough. Finding out the Third Hokage was the one who ordered the Uchiha massacre, thus setting Sasuke on his path of vengeance, is something that should not only shake him to his core, but have a profound impact on his beliefs and make him question why he even wants to be hokage, in my opinion. Like, if Naruto was in the world of One Piece, he wouldn't be a pirate. He'd be a marine (like Coby).

[@nikamoreillus661]

​@@SlickAndroid94 didnt naruto bring an era of peace by changing how these things work. I forget if naruto even knows about what the 3rd did. Plus him wanting to be hokage for the people who literally ostracized him and his response is that hes going to change the village and their outlook on jinchuriki. Naruto doesnt really participate in this system, like the shinobi world is shown to us in the land of waves arc, grimm, unforgiving and corrupt. Narutos ideals are like the complete opposite of such a world. Hes willing to accept and give 2nd chances (sometimes forgiving, but hes never justified some peoples actions like pains and obitos), hes extremely full of energy and is filled with joy. Naruto wouldve been a marine like coby but he would be exposed to the dark truth of the so called "heroes" or "white knights of the sea" and realize these guys are the villains.

[@libraalibaba]

​@@SlickAndroid94Danzo mostly. Hiruzen was out voted 3 to 1.

[@SlickAndroid94]

@@nikamoreillus661 fair point. Naruto managed to do the impossible and actually change the system from the inside as opposed to how that usually goes down in real life. I will admit a big part of the series is how much Naruto directly contrasts the Shinobi world and convinces those around him to rethink their worldviews. That said, him not learning about Hiruzen's actions (in the original series) is a missed opportunity.

[@lurker230]

One minor nitpick. Maki doesn't get access to her full Heavenly Restriction until after her sister dies. She was basically a normal, but trained person until then. It's only after that, when she becomes new Toji.

[@matthewsnyder2475]

No, She did have a physical stats boost from her heavenly restriction even before then, it just got even stronger after that point, becoming more like toji.

[@bignoob2726]

Which normal person moves like Maki 😂💀. Her boosts were just weaker and she lacked some abilities that required the full heavenly restriction

[@gustavosauro1882]

Counter point: she caught a bullet shot at her with her bare hand

[@benkostowniak9826]

@@matthewsnyder2475 no she didnt have a Heavenly Restriction until maki took her CT. She is still a sorcerer so she can still manipulate CT like one with training which is where her physical stat boosts come from. Sorcerers are still human until they apply CT to a part of their body

[@matthewsnyder2475]

@@benkostowniak9826 no, she explicitly did not have cursed energy levels greater than that of a non-sorcerer human, which is the default for a heavenly restriction. Mai's death caused her heavenly restriction to "max-out" so to speak, reducing her cursed energy levels down to truly nothing, which had previously only ever been seen in toji, and also caused her physical stats boost to increase, even though she did already have it. It works like this Normal human: very small amount of cursed energy, normal physical ability. Sorcerer: significant but highly variable amount of cursed energy, no change in physical ability. Normal heavenly restriction: person who should have been born a Sorcerer according to their heritage, but born with Normal human levels of cursed energy and no ability to control it, and a significant increase in physical ability. This is where Maki is pre Mai's death "Maxed out" heavenly restriction: person who should have been born a Sorcerer according to their heritage, but possess absolutely no cursed energy at all, even greater physical ability than a normal heavenly restriction. This is Toji and post Mai's death Maki

[@projectmessiah]

1:00 Ichigo literally never even tries to do that (He challenges the status quo but he doesnt make a big attempt to change things unless it endangers his friends or is basically right in front of him) and he certainly didnt achieve it outside of changing certain important figures view/outlook on things like Byakuya. By the end of the manga the only real difference in Soul Society are the people in charge and while those are slightly nicer people theres still a lot of corruption and nothing has really changed that much from what were shown, this is basically doubled down on in every arc and is futher explored in the light novels. If you really think Soul Society is unambiguously good by the end then you really werent paying much attention while reading or watching Bleach as in my opinion while the dark side of Soul Society isnt anything amazing writing wise it does a solid job of fleshing out certain characters just by it existing and provides a more interesting hero group than other manga series where everyone in said groups are typically just good people or morally grey unless theres some sort of traitor plot.

[@alexcat6685]

Woah is harder to read all that when it melts all together, that is why breaking them down to paragraph makes it easier to read. Right now my mind is having an engurism.

[@projectmessiah]

@@alexcat6685 Cool, I break shit down sometimes, other times I feel no need to and this was obviously one of them.

[@ebwankanobi6420]

Not sure about that bleach anaylsis

[@Cardboard_Bot]

Instantly subbed. I’m blown away by your skill, from analysis, editing, writing, your points, and your whole execution. I’m surprised your channel is so new, given this level of quality. You managed to explain to me what about JJK I really love and what specific itch it scratches for me, that I’ve previously failed to articulate to myself. I don’t really comment much, but wanted to express my appreciation. Now I’m gonna go binge your whole backlog.

[@ethanorourke278]

You said what I was thinking

[@TakeCareGoodNight]

Same, subbed immediately

[@kiddiesm]

and you couldnt say it better. (what I have in mind after watching this video)

[@SebastiansSebastian-fc4pj]

the only thing I dislike is him later on in the video getting political and shitting on Milei for "zehh inflashioon", togher with that Estonian guy (whos a regular conservative.. jesus christ whats a centrist to him? a rapist? an eugenics scientist?) how about he shits on the previous guys who tried to "own Milei having such high inflation" when the socialists made it that high before passing it off to him? why lie by omission? America, keep your left leaning thoughts in check.. keep destroying our war memorials of soldiers who fought nazis (all because of "muh Gaza" with less civilian deaths than other wars) and we wont treat you any better than an actual nazi, espceialy now that its like the 8th time you destroyed a Holocaust memorial

[@justrad7637]

no , maki has some cursed energy pre-cullinng games , she just has incredibly little , which still locks her full potential

[@godswillotonye6519]

Wrong

[@samuelreid4529]

22:42 We make fun of this man screaming and kicking but he’s four years old.

[@Saabir5000]

„Age is just a number“ ahh response

[@WallNutBreaker524]

"JJKs World is built on Evil!" The Murim and Cultivation World:

[@VerdicoVince]

I do really love this Video essay. The only part I think That’s worth mentioning is Gojo’s motivation. Everything you said is completely true, but I think it extends further than that. Gojo is using the system as a way to undermine it, being a first year teacher Is not to teach them, but to impart his values onto them. As well as wanting to raise them up to be on the same level as he, since he is alone in his existence as the strongest. His motivations are pure, but equally fueled by the selfish desire to have that equal. All in all this video was GREAT! And I hope you continue to spit🙏🏻

[@Thesigmaone747]

2:49 "Are you doing the right thing because you are my specialz? Or are you my specialz because you are doing the right thing"

[@itsquodo131]

Sneaking in the Utopia sountrack as you’re talking about the Post-Shibuya conspiracy is a really nice touch. Cristobal is such a genius

[@pokemonfan877]

damn that was a thought provoking analysis. Great job, really hope you make more.

[@shadymann9468]

"Bleach but good" lmao just cause you don't like something it doesn't make it bad.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

In this context, it's very bad. Ichigo maintained the gross status quo.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​@@stephenjenkins7971whats the status quo?

[@toshido_yamada]

​@stephenjenkins7971 changing the "status quo" was never ichigo's goal, I don't think that was the mc of jjk goal

[@Hardracist]

He said bleach but good because he didn't understand bleach and had a very surface level understanding of the overall story

[@anusaukko6792]

@@toshido_yamada Yeah Yuji's goal is absolutely not ''changing the status quo'' but rather maintaining it. He's a single cog in the machine that is Jujutsu Sorcery, and he'll perform his job as a cog to exorcise curses until the day he rusts away.

[@onlytalktruth12]

What doesnt make sense is that fear and hatred of other humans is as old as humans itself. So why is mahito such an infantile cursed spirit?

[@jbstarkiller4626]

Your point about Bleach at the beginning of the video is just blatantly incorrect, Ichigo at no point in the series tries to change the "broken system" the closest he gets to something like this is during his fight with Byakuya where he challenges the law because it will result in his friend being killed, other than that he really doesn’t give a shit. Calling it a broken system implies that something is not working as intended, but all evidence shows that the system is not the problem it’s the Shinigami. Based on how they’re actions in Bleach are portrayed by Kubo, it’s very easy to see that the Soul reapers are at their core fundamentally evil or at the very least have no problem committing evil acts on a massive scale. Also "traditionalist fascists" is a blatant contradiction.

[@anusaukko6792]

''Oh we shouldn't call it fascism, otherwise people might get the wrong idea. How about... traditionalism?''

[@jbstarkiller4626]

@@anusaukko6792 Is this supposed to mean something?

[@anusaukko6792]

@@jbstarkiller4626 Disco Elysium reference

[@jbstarkiller4626]

@@anusaukko6792 what’s that?

[@MrNickPresley]

To its credit, MHA actually does show the consequences of such a society by showing how easy it is for it to fail. A society that treats heroism like a popularity contest and puts powers on a pedestal as the end-all-be-all actively breeds the kind of people that would ultimately bring it down by subjecting them to endless cruelty and neglect. Hence, why most of the League of Villains exist, and especially Shigaraki. But, you're right, it is a morality tale. So, what it also shows is that you can rise above that, and be better than those who hurt you, like Deku and Todoroki, and that you should. It shows you can change your ways, too, and that you should. Maybe you can't ever truly atone for the things you've done, but you can always try to be better, like Endeavor does.

[@vaultscribe4501]

Based on your own arguments at the beginning of the essay-on the limits of good in an evil system-gojo’s efforts are less noble. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t valuable, or necessary for there to be positive evolution in the system. For a rich man, who inherited or built his wealth through a system of exploitation and literal blood, making an orphanage does not erase his sin or the sin of the system. But it should be acknowledged as a step in the right direction.

[@olivierdubois9372]

Counterpoint : MHA went in a more interesting direction that what you described here, because the society and authorities completely fall apart at some point It's a really provocative statement when you think about it, it's telling the reader that a society built on prejudice and oppression will create groups that will try and succeed at destroying the system that allowed them to be born Of course the manga can't really focus on that, since it is about heroes saving the day, but it still did *some* stuff with its weird world and premise.

[@pacmiller7564]

Yes Mha did go in a far better or more interesting way than this guy claims he seems to be a jjk Stan which is why he's complicating jjk's story which isn't complicated whatsoever Hirokoshi handled his characters way better than Gege this guy is just a dishonest fanboy.

[@mattiasilva1705]

That thing was completely made irrilevant the very moment it was revealed that AFO was secretly behind everything wrong in the society. It was never a natural unjust stagnation of a society wrongly built on super powers, but instead the crimes of the super mega evil guy that secretly was behind everything? Mutants discrimination? He was forcing it Quirkless people considered lesser in the society? He was behind it, even stealing quirks to random children People born with destructive quirks? True only in part, since it is reveled shigaraki's past was his own manipulation all along (from his father 's abuse to him getting such a destructive quirk), and so he probably groomed many people into being a villain himself while also financing deviants to succede into becoming powerful criminals by gifting them other quirks. The whole castle of cards fall apart the very moment the whole thing is just a manipulation from EVIL MC. BADGUY. It failed in Naruto, and is failing here too.

[@nolannolan4612]

tbh I don't think he ever read mha

[@tobywizardb]

MHA fans when there are objectively better stories or someone likes something different:

[@anusaukko6792]

@@pacmiller7564 Gege's weakness ironically enough seems to be building up his characters, Hidden Inventory and by extension Gojo and Geto together is the best character writing he's ever produced, but he seems almost allergic to trying to replicate his earlier amazing success with newer characters and plots.

[@nosmirc7222]

15:30 We got a southern african, doing anime video essays. Lets gooo

[@memyself_and_i]

SO IT WASNT JUST ME THAT PICKED THAT UP?🇿🇦🤪

[@LizardKingRequiem]

Okay lets not slander bleach just to lift up jjk, bleach had years of unfair bad faith criticism burying it alive until recently. JJK is literally so beloved that it doesnt get criticized half as harsh when it does the same things as other manga. I mean, for example, black clover gets relentlessly bullied for being a “naruto clone,” but megumi is literally sasuke and shikamaru combined like you said and no one says anything about it or anything else that is just like naruto (literally sukuna is the nine tails but without a misunderstood backstory)

[@finalwitness203]

The only similarities Megumi and Sasuke have are that they both have black hair lmao polar opposite otherwise

[@diogenesbarrel7350]

Sukuna is nothing like the nine tails. He doesn't give a fuck about yuji. In fact he despises him. He torments yuji as many times as he can and will only take over whenever he knows he'll benefit from it.

[@LizardKingRequiem]

@@diogenesbarrel7350 so literally exactly like kurama before he was changed to be a misunderstood friend, exactly what i said

[@wumbojet]

"Bleach but good" is just bleach, let's not joke around here.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

No, no, he's right. Not once did Ichigo do anything to overturn or question the mucked system in place. He accepted and even defended it.

[@wumbojet]

@@stephenjenkins7971 buddy, he literally singlehandedly destroyed a lot of thousand year old laws when he saved Rukia from execution, caused the pardon of all vizards, fixed relations between the sereitei and hueco mundo, and changed the laws around substitute Shinigami. He's a force of reform, not collapse. He never strove to change the world for the better, but his journey to protect everyone dear to him led him to start long lasting change.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@wumbojet Ichigo reformed nothing. He softened the regime. The system that tried to execute Rukia hasn't changed, as Ichigo didn't "destroy" those laws. Merely ignored it and got away with it. Heck, didn't Soul Society send a hit man squad to kill Ichigo if he goes "traitor" in the Fullbringer Arc? The only positive change he made was improving relations with the tiny kingdom Tier made, and he didn't even intend to do that. Ichigo, in terms of changing the world for the better, was a loser.

[@wumbojet]

@@stephenjenkins7971 you literally missed the point of the fullbringer arc, Ichigo THOUGHT he was the target of a hitman squad because Ginjo was manipulating him. Yamamoto gave an order to protect him because the sereitei owed him everything. Now, even assuming what you said is true, which it isn't, that doesn't make bleach bad. A protagonist doesn't have to be a revolutionary with high hopes for the world for his story to be good and the fact you seemingly think so is kind of sad.

[@markisreal775]

@@stephenjenkins7971 who cares anyways humans are always on a moral conquest when no human truly knows anything

[@Zxmegabomb]

Also, not entirely sure If i'd characterize the jjk world as evil. I think a more apt way to put it in a way that rationalizes Yuji's and Mahito's Pov is uncaring. Mahito isn't evil, he just is. Since curses are a natural function of the universe, it's hard to sit and call that function good or bad. In the same way that Yuji realizes that him killing curses is stifled in that same seeming meaninglessness, Mahito kills humans in the same way. While the world does run on negative energy there is no statements made on that in terms of how its a positive or negative thing, which also makes sense given that the main antagonists in the series for a long while were called Disaster Curses.

[@petrolandcoffee]

the characters themselves aren't evil. they are a reflection of the system they live in and the way the system tilts is toward the evil i speak about in the video.

[@xiiir838]

​@@petrolandcoffee Curses are literally the result of negative emotions. There's no system that doesn't create negative emotions, it is part of life. They are not good or bad, they are, and do things their nature demands. The disaster courses, and every other curse, are creatures created by things like anger, anxiety, fear, and emotions like those, there's literally no system to reflect, because emotions are the core of a human being. That's why Geto was so fixated on making every human a sorcerer, so they learned to control their cursed energy thus curses would cease to exist.

[@welloraps4492]

South African anime youtubers deserve all the love mahn

[@spoderspidercow6480]

WOAH! Bleach has a flimsy execution? Let’s not get crazy. The ending was foreshadowed all the way from the beginning of the series. Don’t downplay Bleach

[@karkarrot5786]

Thing is bleach isn’t a commentary on society or corruption as a whole. Kubo purposely didn’t dive into that because it would detract from the main idea of bleach

[@alswisha8519]

Yeah he said the first 2 arcs made the afterlife seem not as good as we thought but ignores the lost agent arc and tybw arc literally being the result of ss's devious nature. The cfyow even goes further shinigami were never the good guys they are neutral at best and at worst they are evil lol

[@spoderspidercow6480]

@@karkarrot5786 dude, The gotei 13 were a bunch of savage killers. Later that resulted in many people attacking them for their deeds such as Yhwach, Kariya, Koga, Ouko, Aizen, and many others

[@karkarrot5786]

@@spoderspidercow6480 that has nothing to do with my point

[@spoderspidercow6480]

@@karkarrot5786 then go reread and rewatch Bleach. You’ll understand why Kubo **did** tackle those subjects

[@Soulferno]

I think we're at a point in time where Bleach should be used as a litmus test to see just how well people actually pay attention to themes, symbolism and various forms of storytelling. Bleach isn't perfect but saying something like the Soul Society becomes good immediately after Ichigo's main story shows a massive lack of attentiveness. Seriously, its wild to me how often people parrot these ideas and opinions about how Bleach falls short so often yet just a few minutes of genuine review and thought provocation shows there's more under the hood than what people care to give the series credit for. Again, it ain't perfect but Kubo's style of storytelling is subtlety and symbolism with heavy emphasis on underlying themes. You don't have to like it but saying it always failed in its execution or whatnot tells me more about a person's ability to be properly critical and abke to analyze writing. It reminds me of people who say FromSoftware games have no story. Its just wrong

[@RyIuth]

6:37 I'm so glad someone mentioned jagaaan, one of my favorite mangas

[@regissmith1601]

THIS WAS ONLY YOUR 4TH VIDEO!? KEEP GOING!!! This was so well put together. I subbed and hit the bell. Good job bro.

[@BlueViper8907]

Holy crap that was a brilliant analysis! Love that I found this channel! Subscribed!

[@YumesukeSutashika]

I agree that Jujutsu handles the evil parts of its society better, but the other manga have better settings overall when it comes to things like lore, history, and locations. Also, shonen and seinen are demographics, not genres. They also dont indicate how mature a story will or wont be.

[@soinlur1782]

saying mha is hopeful is a crazy statement after whats happening in the manga 😭

[@AtomicOwl]

Maki has low cursed energy thats why when mai died she took the rest of it leaving her with zero. Thats what really happened. Thats why her Heavenly restriction finally kicked in.

[@alswisha8519]

Yeah he kinda makes a few mistakes.

[@petrolandcoffee]

Honestly there's a lot I could bo back and fix, i'm learning a lot about making these as I go, appreciate the corrections they help me realise faster

[@alswisha8519]

@@petrolandcoffee keep up the good work

[@marvelmaniacs1]

great video but I have to say here's a problem I find with the MHA analogy, If you read the recent chapters of (which I'm pretty sure you have considering the fact you put stars and stripes as an image up on the screen but I'm still not sure So just in case, spoilers) but izuku use the same line that shigiraki used on him which is I'm going to tear that rug apart and in that moment he was talking about hero's society and the whole thing which saving shigiraki It's more based off of the fact that if they don't save him there will just be another one like him due to the system that's been created which is why he says that he's going to tear the rug apart that being society because they have to build a new society and start from the ground up cuz they can't work with what they have anymore because what they have hasn't been working in all actuality it's just not a lot of stuff has been covered up. I also believe that because of him reshaping society, that's how he's actually going to become the world's greatest hero and he's going to do that across the world, not just Japan. But anyways that was just my thoughts. You gave a good analyzation on JJK so keep up the good work 👍🏾

[@lamonthayes6782]

THANK YOU finally someone with some sense

[@yaboi279]

I've been trying to get into deeper philosophy of JJK since the first season, but always failed miserably This video really showed me how many things I overlooked and if it weren't for you I would've stayed ignorant about it forever. Thank you.

[@quickforce9004]

The way this man called Bleach & MHA MORALITY stories got me mad as HELL. Sure, the villains are causing chaos. But the grand majority of these villains were FUCKED in the ass by either life, the people in their immediate surroundings, society as a whole, politics or some combination of these things, if not all of them. They were treated like scum until they broke, saw the path of villainy as the only option available to them. Some, like Tomura, were even taken advantage of. I'm really hoping that Izuku takes the experience of all the people he's met that got screwed over and uses that knowledge to better society. Because if not, things will just go back to being the horrible way they are and people like Tomura, Himiko, and Touya would keep popping up. And lets not forget the fact that Izuku and others of Class - 1A could have very easily become villains as well. Izuku from his discrimination for being quirkless, Ochako for wanting to the provide for her family and having no other choice but to steal in order to do it, Mina, Tsuyu, Shoji and Tokoyami from being discriminated against for their mutant features. Need I say more? Case CLOSED.

[@haydenh3217]

This was genuinely one of the most entertaining yet thought provoking long-form anime analysis videos I have seen, prolly ever. Usually when they’re this long I get bored… and have to try to keep my attention. I genuinely enjoyed watching this. Nice

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

This is a short form video, though.

[@haydenh3217]

@@AbstractTraitorHero nah it’s not, it may not be a true long form but a 25 minute video is not short form content

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

How? A half an hour is nothing, that's short form, you watch it easily in one sitting.@@haydenh3217

[@dexx0417]

I got to read the recreated MAKI MASSACRE and it surprised me how it should look😳 W CLASS W VOD MAN

[@Ironbreeze53]

Kenjaku's experiments with the Death Paintings that ultimately lead to Yuji Itadori's conception as the perfect vessel is exactly why Suguru Geto is wrong about creating a world with only jujutsu sorcerers would stop the creation of cursed spirits.

[@obm_levelled_up1656]

'Otlang tseba' made me spill my hypothetical water fellow S.An here

[@mastername5373]

13:19 I guess the canon one is not included in it since Kenjaku absorbs Mahito making it so that Yuji can't kill him

[@Karlos1234ify]

Izuku has far too much in common with Naruto. Goes on trying to be a symbol of hope & unites everyone. Yet does nothing to fix the underlying problems that’s causes suffering.

[@mateot6020]

Huh? Deku is the only one willing to try and save Shigaraki (Tenko’s soul) despite everyone telling him that it won’t work.

[@Karlos1234ify]

@@mateot6020 True, keep in mind after fighting Nagant. She brought up the dark shady side Hero side chooses to keep under wraps. Izuku didn’t even acknowledge that & just tells her she can still be a hero.

[@mateot6020]

⁠​⁠@@Karlos1234ifyhe does acknowledge it at the end of chapter 314 in the manga. And he says that Nagant has the “soul of a hero” (a hero in its truest sense) in ch 315. He asks her to fight on the hero’s side because all of the fake heroes have been weeded out at this point and the ones that are still fighting are the ones that want to do genuine good

[@slush7113]

​@Karlos1234ify By Hero, he doesn't mean what Hero society arbitrarily classifies as one like Endeavor, he means being a genuinely good person. The story makes it clear that being a Hero doesn't have to do with a strong quirk or much money you earn, Deku at the beginning of the story was acknowledged as one by All-Might despite not having anything. Jiro too, managed to save Eri with her concert, and in a way Gentle criminal was a Hero to Labrava. (Probably one of the reasons Deku struggled agaisnt him so much.)

[@Karlos1234ify]

@@slush7113 I see

[@PhenixTP]

Really like this video, feel like it got the appeal of JJK down very well. Just want to point out that there were some rougher mistakes in there, but I'm sure you've seen enough comments about those, like the precise nature of Maki's restriction and how exactly she got to the level of Toji.

[@appelfarmer]

this is exactly the kind of video i want to have endless of. you’re so fantastic at this thematic analysis and i can listen to it all day

[@dnbqup]

This is one of the best story analysis videos of Jujutsu Kaisen on KZbin. Keep it up.

[@thatoneguy4504]

This is an incredible video, you need way more subscribers, very entertaining and insightful

[@amiasg9305]

Interestingly, it's just fear that creates cursed spirits. It's guilt, malice, regret, etc. random tangent i wanted to mention

[@dudemgee]

I have a lot of problems with the storytelling in jujutsu kaisan, but the way you present it makes it seem like such a well made piece of media, and I honestly I have to congratulate you on it. The story isn't perfect, but looking on what the story does well is a nice thing to see

[@R7dman]

Cool video, really well produced but sheesh there is some unfortunate misrepresentation of Bleach & even heroaca, which I'm not even the biggest fan of but I still noticed some weird things. It was a fun watch but I feel like everything you said about Bleach & MHA can be very easily sliced apart and a lot of the propositions you make for JJK having superior execution can also be applied to them, in many ways. I'm not a hard believer in comparative analysis to prop one series above another but I can understand putting archetypally similar stories side by side and seeing where they each take things but a story should, first and foremost, be held to the standards it sets for itself. You're using stories from completely different authors with clearly different intents and postulating that Jujutsu Kaisen gets it right because it does it in a way you like better... That being said, everything besides the needless comparisons was pretty well done. Look forward to more.

[@pacmiller7564]

Jjk stans nowadays wank off every aspects of the story Bleach is far better written jjk is only better in a few ways none of which are the ways this guy claims.

[@petrolandcoffee]

I can appreciate disagreementd over the comparisons but I feel in the aspects I compared them it's pretty fair. Maybe the bleach comparison could've used a lot more time seeing as how the point really needs to be explored more but ultimately I stand by the analysis itself

[@RandomGuy-ci9nt]

Oh a defense of Bleach with someone who really know what they are talking about

[@julianallen5492]

the essay was already going fantastically, but then you brought out the Cristobal Tapia de Veer music from Utopia and that magnetized my finger to the subscribe button!!

[@cat_jk00]

There is absolutely just a dark core at the heart of jjk that I find fascinating and I really think its so interesting that this series has gotten so absolutely huge and massively mainstream for how weird and often cruel it is

[@HellishSpoon]

14:00 Is that Measure head's theme from disco elysium? banger choice.

[@TheAssassin13th]

Amazing video essay. Definitely sharing this around

[@deengieer117]

4:08 wasnt needed ,we 're here for anime

[@petrolandcoffee]

I'm h here for a lot more than that though

[@chance4827]

​@@petrolandcoffee Are you a zionist?

[@deengieer117]

@@petrolandcoffee Can you answer the question as eager as you were to make that comment

[@mrblake9220]

Maki really did snatch every mfn birthday

[@omghag6201]

This video was a masterpiece... Especially considering the subscriber count, my boi really put some effort into making this

[@Isaac265]

Don't get me wrong, i agree with what you're saying about mha mostly, but this whole ending of mha is deku refusing to just end things with a united states of smash and almost irrationally trying to help someone who was a product of their fucked up world even though anyone else would say he's too far gone

[@joshuamccann1092]

Incredible video I especially liked the bit at 22:35 especially with Mahito screaming immediately after it genuinely unsettled me

[@PureVessel-hollewknight]

Why'd it sync so perfectly?

[@FullRamenAlch3mist]

@14:05 💀💀 LMAO, I did not expect to see Kagame in a Jujutsu Kaisen video

[@2RyuGo]

You pulled no punches. You are proud of your vision. You know who is your public. You have my admiration. 👏

[@thundershrike1448]

1) are you fluent in japanese? 2) i think i recognized that song from when you were talking about gojo's powers, it's on my sleep playlist 3) "a world built on evil" this is exactly what i've been trying to communicate abt why i love this series so fucking much, it's the pinnacle of that which bleach & shaman king before it tried to convey

[@petrolandcoffee]

1) I have enough Japanese to hold down a 3 minute conversation and pretty much nothing else lol 2) Forgot the name but I think I put it at the corner of the vid so I'll check it when I'm off work 3)Man I should watch or read shaman king I've heard some great stuff about it and the pages I've seen were pretty solid. I love that the guys who came up with Oda all draw in that "interesting first " style , super expressive stuff fr fr

[@kunknown2340]

I like that one arm in the thumbnail is smaller than the other. Guy went out of his way to add attention to detail that the right arm has been busy. Lmao

[@comedygold6249]

you analysed how different series do worldbuilding beautifully, i really like how you criticize their world systems too

[@Jaxjax207]

11:40 2500 is a huge underestimate IMO. More like 25000-40000

[@DefinetlyNotACrocodile]

Seeing how dense in population shibuya is, aswell as there being an event going on, there were probably like 50000 people in that 130 meter radius

[@KemkenHan-wo1bg]

Wow, I think I just attended the best class of my life, keep these video essays up bro

[@quickforce9004]

03:58 "He teams up with the Sasuke-Shikamaru collab." This part had me on the ground with my sides ACHING from how funny and true those words are. Good job man. Hats off to you.

[@blufyres]

The thing i like about tuji is that hes really just as "special" as everyone else sure he has some really unique stuff about him but it never makes him immediately overpowered

[@Itachi5492]

There's no good or bad in bleach , just character's in pursuit of what they consider right. The world is grey, two things can be right.

[@Biostar96]

2:30 Weird take considering one of the major consequences of the manga was the "system" falling apart, revealing the faults of their society and who wanted to do good because it's right, not because they're special or wanting fame and glory. Deku wanted to do good before he knew anything about himself or what he would become. His goal is to save Shigaraki, not punch the problem away. You showed Star and Stripe so you must know atleast this much. And the Vigilantes work with the authorities all the time, the MC even becomes a pro hero in the end.

[@taltus674]

I hear those Cristobal soundtracks in the background. You valid brother

[@Kaatheds]

11:30 "JAPANESE 9/11" funny how japan already had a "9/11" and people convenient how people "forget" that, even with the lot of kaiju shows and all the bomb simbolism that fire sukuna power has kkkkk, oppenheimer movie was an error

[@zeinnanla5422]

Those were actually all my exact thoughts on MHA. For years I haven't had the words to really describe why I never really vibed with the heroes and found the arcs focused on the villains way more compelling.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

MHA official power structure isn't nearly as bad as you think it is. For example Toga's powers can be contrasted with the powers of that guy that can control anyone by them replying, he was even more shoed in into potential villian by his peers. Clearly the system had a way to resolve that.

[@wastyaza]

Ehh idk if their quirks can really be compared because toga’s quirk genuinely made her act out her desires in different ways to other people which were seen as very “bad” while shinso just had a power that allowed him to exploit people but it never naturally pushed him to do these actions, so he never actually did any bad deeds like toga and was still somewhat normal

[@pablotomasllodra4423]

Doesn’t help that MHA mainly happens in Japan, which still has a few draconian societal values that are the sources of many problems in the setting, which are quite exacerbated with the existence of superpowers compared to our vanilla reality.

[@tamavehemental6701]

I suspect MHA was done dirty by the editors. The artstyle and themes made it look like something that had to be family friendly while there was a lot of potential for social commentary (Stain and the way the League got constituted, the roles of pro heroes in media, the discrimination towards quirkless and people with uncommon appearance, and I know I'm forgetting some) So I feel some kind of pressure has been exerted along the way. Vigilante is amazing because they had the chance to actually show more of the contradictions of the world.

[@ikengaspirit3063]

@@tamavehemental6701 I think the mangaka just got confused about the themes somewhere there while making it.