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Water represents the world of jujutsu / curses, I think.
It rains when they're up against something unprecedented, something too strong, often before someone dies (not a proper death).
Opening scene - flooded train car, water on Yuuji's fingers, not in the palm of his hand. Up to his knees. He wakes up in it, looking innocent, naive, optimistic. Like he doesn't know where the train is going but he isn't worried about it.
Juvenile center (rain, then Sukuna rips out Yuuji's heart).
Sukuna's innate domain (it isn't deep but Yuuji is pinned face down in it)
Jogo ankles deep when he uses his domain expansion - Yuuji hadn't been touching the water bc gojo is sharing his infinity and protecting him
Dagon’s domain (the special grades & kenjaku hang out there, and later in Shibuya they couldn't defeat Dagon without the ghost of Toji, who was like oil against the water of the jujutsu world, untouchable).
Nanami and Yuuji fight the first transfigured humans - rain, for the first time they saw people contorted like that, it wasn't to mourn a sorcerers death but they were shaken emotionally. I think this rain was to show that Mahito was stronger than them, like the special grade at the detention center was.
“school is just a tiny aquarium, swim where you want to” JUNPEI'S MOM SAID THAT and his life ended in that tiny aquarium bc he brought jujutsu there and died. If he didn't to to school, if he'd called Yuuji to verify Mahito’s narrative, he might have gone to jujutsu high instead. Also his shikigami is a jellyfish. With poison. (Also this scene w junpei in the jellyfish feeds my theory that kagewani inspired jjk but I digress).
Mahito grooming junpei, and how he was often outside with water in sight.
That outro song with the beach. No one went into the water. They were alive.
Fighting Hanami ankles-deep in the exchange event. It was rough but they survived. Also interesting that Hanami was so close to using domain expansion.
The pool at rikos school, overgrown and unkempt, gojo's foot touches it while he's on the phone with yaga.
Riko is first seen in a bathtub. Contained, kept clean and safe to combine with Tengen. Her inner world is at the bottom of the ocean. All her life, it was - the wreckage of her parents car is there, she always knew she was different, kept apart. Things change for her in Okinawa. She sees the jujutsu world from the outside world. Playing in the shallow ocean at first, but then Gojo pushes for another day. They ride in canoes over the water. They visit an aquarium - we don't see Kuroi there at all. Gojo and Geto keep watch from a distance, but the focus is on Riko looking into those tanks from the outside. She has a new perspective. She wants to stay alive outside of the ocean.
The intro for the hidden inventory arc with the beta fish, fish that are kept in separate bowls. So similar and torn apart, in the same world but not.
Yuki asks geto if he hates nonsorcerers (and it rains. Not on them bc they're inside, but her words seep in eventually).
Going to see mechamaru (this rain covers the whole shibuya arc imo, bc it begins there and he doesn't make it out).
Sukuna vs Mahoraga. When mahoraga was pinned underwater, that was a sign.
Also Dagon using water outside of his domain, bad sign.
IK this isn't everything, but I felt too insane to keep updating the list.
I'm rereading the manga again rn so maybeeeeee I can post a part 2 for things not yet animated? Though at this point the symbolism is evident enough that idk if it's worth doing.
(anyway @cyrus-solaris u for pulling this out from where it was rotting!)
does anyone know why jjk seems to have this whole ocean theme going on?? i’m on my second watch and i still can’t seem to figure it out :/
(no, i don’t read the manga)