THANK YOU!

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.

To piggyback off this fun fact, I've been wondering about this but isn't toji supposed to be in his late 20s or a bit younger? I remember a lot of fans really disliked his English VA for sounding too young and like I know gege never said his age specifically but I thought it was implied? In that case his English VA actually fits pretty well, he sounds more like a young man. I think fanon just sort of headcanoned Toji as being in his 30s or older because he is a hot dilf and his original VA has such a deep voice.

It's always so funny to see people go "Toji sounds like a teenager in dub" because his voice actor indeed did voice a teenager in JJK. Toji is also Junpei!

One thing I really want to know is where matakara's parents are - they're not even mentioned. I thought that was a bit strange - we're on episode 8 and no mention of them.

They might be dead or working abroad? I don't know if the side material specifically mentions their relatives as parental or just general relatives who own the bath house. If they aren't present in their lives it only highlights how attached Matakara would be to the closest person he has for family.

After watching episode 10 of bucchigir my heart is shattered into a million tiny pieces. Matakara…..he needs someone to snap him out of it. I was not expecting what happened with the other gangs and Marito🤯

I was expecting it, like Matakara has to work his way up to Arajin (Senya) and Ichiya wanting him to get over whatever is holding Matakara back from fighting him. I'm still excited to see where this goes but damn is this getting sad to watch.

You know it was a bit underwhelming but I enjoyed the bucchigiri ending. If I have to rate the show as it is, I'd give an 8/10. It was funny and dramatic in the right places, it kept my interest the whole way through, the animation, characters designs, music, loved it all. It's grounded enough I cared about what was going on and it seems like a lot of the story itself wasn't meant to be taken too seriously or literally. Bucchigiri sort of reminds me of Space Dandy or Gurren Lagann. You just kinda gotta sit back and go with the weirdness and vibe of it and all if that makes any sense? Again would have loved for more time to flesh out certain details and characters, but it looks like the ending leaves room for a potential second season, I guess that really depends on how successful this one did. If they do decide to greenlight a season 2, I'm all for it, I would love to see more of these characters and this world.

Now the SPOILERS!

HOLY SHIT MITSUKUNI ISN'T DEAD!? Man I thought they killed him off maybe I misread something in the subtitles but whatever I'm so happy! 😭

ALSO OMG ARAJIN KEPT HIS FRIENDSHIP STONE ALL THESE YEARS 😭😭😭

And if from the beginning who planned this was shindo and the genius ichiya hurt matakara's brother so they could manipulate him but I have a bad feeling about this like what if both senya and ichiya are limited for example they can't make some wishes like kill someone or bring someone back to life .

I'm not sure how that would work but if Shindo and Ichiya did somehow pulled the strings behind Mitsukuni being stabbed trying to stop that fight, that's so fucking diabolical. I just hope he lives. 🥲