The Shibuya Incident Is Peak Fiction | Complete Thematic Analysis

I feel there's one thing that's overlooked about the brilliant plan of sealing Gojo: They incorporated the good guy having a flashback as part of their plan! Usually when this happens or a character has an internal monologue, everyone watching is like "This is taking way too long. Why hasn't anyone moved yet? Don't tell me this is all happening in real time." The flashback counted toward the sealing time. They used the interruption of a flashback as part of the plot!

When the arc gets animated people gonna talk about jjk differently . I gotta look back and reread cause a lot of crazy stuff happened that is still affecting the series rn

Bruh you didn't give Nobara NEARLY enough credit this arc. Yeah at first she was just used to hype up Nanami but there's a reason for that. When she's facing off against Mahito's clone you're scared for her. She didn't have a good showing before so the reader goes into this fight expecting the worst. Only for Nobara to give us literally the greatest moment of HOPE in the entire arc when she lands the hit. You CANNOT understate just how hype that moment was reading Shibuya for the first time. The smile on Yuuji's face made it feel like maybe everything was going to be alright afterall. And then, yes, she dies. But you see how much more devastating the moment is when you line it all up like that? It's not like she just showed up to get bodied. Which is why I'm also not convinced she's really dead. I'm thinking that she's going to finally tap into the "core of cursed energy" in that death state and learn reversed cursed technique. I'm reading every chapter of JJK just waiting for her to pop out of the box.

Alot of people have been calling jujutsu kaisen generic just because its a shonen, always makes me laugh because I know that when this shit is animated, they'll be saying very different things.

Yessir can’t wait for this arc to get animated

Every day I’m just waiting for that season 2 announcement. Reading this arc week by week just anxiously waiting to see what will happen next. Truly put JJK to be considered among the best of the best.

Gojo is almost like a Saitama of sorts. If he's around there's no way The Curses are going to win. He's like a life insurance for the Jujutsu Sorcerers, even if all of them they were to be killed, Gojo could still turn it around and win entirely on his own

Nobara being under utilized in this arc is my main argument for Nobara returning in the culling game

I think every manga reader has said it at this point but I’ll say it again,SHIBUYA ARC IS NUTS! There are like 6 points this arc could have stopped and it would’ve still been a satisfying end but it just kept getting better and better! With MAPPA adapting it will break the internet and people will stop calling this series “generic”

I feel like Choso should have at least been mentioned in the video. His psyche has been pretty much shattered by a false memory. He has been known to be very caring for his brothers, and was shown is grief after Itadori killed two of them. So once Itadori, the killer of his family, suddenly appeard in his mind as another brother of his, Choso had no idea how to react. So he stopped thinking about it and accepted the fact that him and Itaodri are in fact siblings. Because that mindset gave him a reason to fight and be alive. I love the panel with him trembling at the stairs mumbling "Yuji Itadori...what are you?".

"Yuji is just too nice." The writing is beautiful.

I think it’s amazing how post shibuya JJK feels like an almost entirely different series. The status quo is not permanent and I really like that about this series I am still holding out for nobara still being alive though

The Shibuya Arc brought this level of intensity and interest in me that forced my undivided attention for so many chapters to the point where I just had to read it all in one sitting. Manga that can do that are so very special in this landscape and I'm so excited to see it animated

I think the criticism for Nobara's utilization in the arc is fair but I have the feeling that Akutami purposefully sidelined her for the sake of her character development. I think we can all agree that she's definitely not dead. So I think upon reflection of her performance in the arc (struggling against Haruta, only for Nanami to come in and completely body him, and then going in anyways, against Nanami's advice, only to get crticially injured like Nanami predicted would happen), that's going to motivate her to continue fighting to get stronger and to keep up with Megumi and Itadori. One of her main defining traits is how much she cares about the people around her despite sometimes trying to hide it, so I think once she hears what Itadori went through (accidentally massacring Shibuya) and that a hit has been placed on him, that's also going to motivate her to continue getting stronger. I guess my point is that I think Shibuya is going to be the main starting point of Nobara's development through the rest of the series

I think the biggest issue in this analysis is giving Mahito too much credit. You mentioned how Mahito was right about Yuji being like him and such, but I don't think Mahito is right at all. Multiple times, it's referenced how Mahito's view on the soul is limited, flawed, or outright wrong, and I think this holds true for all his half-baked sophistry. The thing about Mahito is that he has no real purpose. He's a Curse, and his only goal is to do what Curses are supposedly born to do: kill and inflict suffering. Contrast this with Jogo and Hanami, who both have well-formed, if flawed beliefs on the dichotomy between humans and Curses. Mahito doesn't really believe in anything, and if you have to make a comparison to Yuji, I'd say it's that both of them use a hollow ideology to hide behind. For Yuji, his ideal of saving people distracts him from his desire to live and for his life to have worth. For Mahito, he cloaks his demented, childish desire to hurt others in something resembling the philosophies that Jogo and Hanami have. And you can see this clearly in how Mahito dies versus how Jogo dies. Jogo dies facing an opponent he can't win, knowing he'll die, because he won't give up on his ideals even if it kills him. Once things stop going Mahito's way and he realizes he can't just use Yuji as a plaything anymore, he does what he always does: he runs like a coward. And so, Mahito died as he lived, accomplishing nothing. He is nihilism given physical form. He believes in nothing, cherishes nothing, and lives for nothing but his own whims and fancies, and he dies with a pitiful whimper having left nothing of substance behind. Jogo at least earned Sukuna's respect on some small level. Mahito just died as a disgraceful, scurrying pest.

I was hoping you talked about Maki’s character development and what she went through while the Shibuya arc took place. I can’t wait to see what they do with her

The animation for this arc is just gonna take it to a whole ‘nother level

I noticed that there was no credit for the first two songs playing in the background, I recognized them so I'll say the names. The first one is "Green Path" and the second is "Resting Grounds" both of the songs are from a game called "Hollow Knight". A Metroidvania which has around 30 hours of playtime due to its multiple endings and 3 FREE DLC. Theres also a free update which polished the game even more then it already was. only for 15$ on Steam. It still goes on sale sometimes to! Please check it out, because it's getting a sequel as well called "Hollow Knight: Silksong"

Chimera Ant, Shibuya incident and re zero arc 6 are some of the greatest arcs ever written

If you need to kill a character you need to confirm afterward that they are dead. Akutami has kept Nobara's death very vague there must be something. If he had to kill her he would have confirmed her death long ago.