Ah, Young Love.

Ah, young love.

Also, are we not going to talk about how Matakara was flashbacking and literally says "after Ara-chan left me" like bro went through a divorce when he was ten and proceeded to spend the next five years trying to get over it by bulking up and joining a gang wtf? 😭

Arajin: man maybe i do kinda want him...

Matakara: i NEED to kill him so that the voices stop.

I was wondering if you’re going to do another part of your arjin x reader x Marito? It’s so good!!

Thank you! I am planning another part, I have so many stories I've yet to finish 🥲 I swear they're not forgotten my schedule is just nuts and I'm a mess.

you know i started watching bucchigiri and i'll tell you my opinion arajin isn't a total idiot but he's very empty.

I saw that a lot of people want him to have a redemption but I don't think he will. I also found out that the author is the same as banana fish and sk8 infinite and I hope it doesn't have a traumatic ending like banana fish or an ending like sk8.

I've never actually seen Sk8 and I do know of Banana Fish (too much of a bummer for my personal preferences) but I guess I wouldn't mind Bucchigiri has a bittersweet ending if it all pans out. I like to reserve major judgements until the whole show is over and I can critique it as a cohesive story. So far I really like Bucchigiri and while some parts feel a bit rushed and elements not examined too well, I am still enjoying it, I'm invested. As for Arajin, I wouldn't say he's empty so much as a confused self centered teenager who doesn't know how to act right; I kind of love that he's not the protagonist we usually see in these kind of stories (openly kind, friendly, optimistic, idealistic, the emotional center of the cast, etc.) Like if anything I'd expect Matakara to be the protagonist, though I guess he would still be considered a deuteragonist.

My biggest gripe now is I think the story could benefit from a longer season (or maybe they're planning to see how popular this season is before pitching season 2?) but for an original idea this is pretty good. I almost want it to get a manga or a light novel adaptation to flesh out things a bit more.

THANK YOU!

Seriously, not to harp but this is the exact sort of thing that kind of keeps coming up in JJK that keeps me from loving it. Like, I love it, but also...there's a pattern here I dislike and megumama is a prime example of what that is and some bigger issues I have when it comes to how JJK handles characterization, particularly when it comes to the women.

It just irks me how female characters like mamaguro are so central to the plot, to the motivations of male characters and their arcs, heavily influence how they act, etc. but damn this woman doesn't even get a name. She's just Toji’s dead wife and Megumi's dead mom. We don't know anything about her except how her death impacted their lives.

Don't get me wrong, Gege generally has this habit of introducing characters and then they get sidelined or, ya know, unceremoniously killed/gravely injured, but his male characters get so much more focus and development in comparison and they hardly are ever used as plot devices in the narrative for female character's stories/arcs. There's literally a scene where Momo is about to fight Nobara in the tournament and she's like "I'll teach you what it means to be a female jujutsu sorcerer!" and it is immediately interrupted by Panda and Mechamaru's fight and the story goes into their back stories and stuff 😐.

That sort of sums up how Gege views a lot of his female characters. They're mainly there to serve as plot devices, background, or eye candy. They will always take a back seat, maybe a passenger seat, in comparison to their male colleagues. Gege has no problem writing these interesting, nuanced, compelling, three dimensional, and quickly iconic male characters (Yuji, Sukuna, Gojo, Geto, Toji, Megumi, etc etc.) and as much as I do love Yuki, Shoko, Nobara, and Maki, they feel so overlooked and underused by the story.

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I think Megumama is the true MVP of JJK, period.

Cause just imagine JJK verse if she were still alive. Toji wouldn't have spiraled down to his self destructive lifestyle, he wouldn't have left Megumi, wouldn't have returned to being the sorcerer killer, wouldn't have taken the commission to kill Riko, Riko wouldn't have died, Gojo wouldn't have awakened early, Geto wouldn't have a midlife crisis at 16 and become a racist mass murderer, Megumi would've grown up with a complete happy family because you bet Megumama would keep Toji tame, Toji would've given up on gambling and fucking around because he'd be too smitten with her and maybe that way he'd have a better relationship with Megumi, Riko could've enjoyed her youth a bit longer before assimilating with Tengen so Tengen's state would've been more stable, Geto wouldn't be killed, Kenny wouldn't have gotten his hands on his technique, and if still by sheer shit luck shibuya still happened we could've had Daddy Toji making a bitch out of every curse user/curse, Geto wiping the floor with Mahibitch AND GOJO WOULD NEVER HAVE GOTTEN SEALED! And there's SO much more!

We don't even know Megumama's name, but SHE is a BIG catalyst of JJK and people don't talk about this enough. We could've had it all if only Gege was a bit less of a sadistic kitty... *sigh*

Rest in power, Megumama. Throughout heaven and earth, you truly did no wrong.

Listen....ds nice as it is to see confirmation Zabu is alive and the excitement and dread that's steadily being built up for Arajin and Matakara's confrontation and the reveal of what happened to make Ichiya think Senya was looking down on him and all that drama....it is too funny to me that someone (Mahoro? Outa?) is holding a kebab under Marito’s nose like he's fucking scooby doo being bribed to consciousness with a scooby snack omfg 🤣🤣🤣

Preview images of the last episode of BUCCHIGIRI?!

The long awaiting fight between Arajin and Matakara has arrived!

ZABU IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!! (Just injured.)

I wonder what role would Komao would play in the final episode given his surprised reaction.

Marito is still in coma tho. Hope he’s ok.

Jabashiri and Hagure are alright but pretty worried. But I’m more worried about Outa tbh.

THIS and also the parallels between him an Matakara: like they have very similar flaws but the way they go about dealing with it and how they choose to essentially tamper down on them makes their relationship so compelling to me. They're so different but they've both been fighting their own fears and insecurities this whole show. At Bucchigiri's core I think it's a coming of age story.

i know a lot of people hate Bucchigiri because of Arajin, and tbh I totally understand that. But he is utterly fascinating to me as a character in a way that's really compelling.

He's selfish, shallow, a kiss-ass, and he despises confrontation. And yet he carves pretty stones to show his affection. In that way he's careful, devoted, and motivated by other people. But he doesn't actually think about what those people genuinely want from him; he projects his own desires onto others and by attempting to fulfill them, only ever really satisfies his own ego.

He's so simple-minded, so straightforward and determined, but he makes everything so needlessly complicated. I can't tell if he only cares about what others think of him, or if he genuinely fundamentally cares about people and just doesn't know how to show it or act on it because he's an immature teenager.

He's great to watch and I enjoy his cringe fail nature.