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whats so funny to me about this satosugu situation is that when I saw the movie for the first time I was like…they kinda sus but not that much I don’t get the hype, then when satoru is saying his final confession to suguru the italian version dubbed over the silence so basically satoru said “my dear, friend…” to which suguru responds “at least now you could throw a curse at me” I WAS SO CONFUSED PLEASE 😭😭

Like the translators were sweating bullets, they had to make it EXPLICIT that it was not a love confession, they hit me with the “historians will say they were very good friend” just for me to then read the manga and be like “oh these bitches gay”😭💀

I think kenjaku hit Rika with his car.

My thoughts on Yuuji's customized school uniform

Fushiguro said that Gojo has a habit of doing that sort of thing- but he only did it for Yuuta and Yuuji.

Yuuta has the white jacket to represent Rika. Pale and external but covering him. Something that might be removed.

Yuuji's hood, shoes, and the shirt under his jacket are red. Red like sukuna's fingies and eyes, or like Yuuji's old shoes. Always a part of him.

Yuuji's pants also have a different shape. They're wider and shorter. I think Gojo was taking precautions to have Sukuna's vessel easy to recognize in a crowd, but to also let Yuuji be comfortable. He was facing a lot of change and loss in a short time, and Gojo recognized that. So the uniform fits like the clothes he would usually wear.

I don't know if this was to pacify the higher ups on Gojo taking in first years with special grade curses that didn't know anything about jujutsu. It could have been his own, unusually responsible choice.

Nobara didn't even know that the uniforms were customizable and I'm still sad that we don't get to see what she would have chosen.

AT THE END OF THE MOVIE Yuuta is wearing a normal black uniform jacket. After Rika was free.

I think he showed up wearing white in Shibuya to be easily identified, or because it's what was on him - - in Kenya we only see Yuuta with his white jacket. He only wore the black one when it was snowing.

Also IN THE BEGINNING OF the movie he was wearing a baggy white shirt.

White shirts are normally under the black jackets, so Gojo just reversed that to give Yuuta something like his own style I'm. Screaming crying into the void bc this shit is what makes me fall for Gojo. He fucking cares about people, in the ways that he knows how to. Pls appreciate him oh my god he's always just called weird and he deserves to be recognized for ittttt.

My thoughts on Yuuji's customized school uniform

Fushiguro said that Gojo has a habit of doing that sort of thing- but he only did it for Yuuta and Yuuji.

Yuuta has the white jacket to represent Rika. Pale and external but covering him. Something that might be removed.

Yuuji's hood, shoes, and the shirt under his jacket are red. Red like sukuna's fingies and eyes, or like Yuuji's old shoes. Always a part of him.

Yuuji's pants also have a different shape. They're wider and shorter. I think Gojo was taking precautions to have Sukuna's vessel easy to recognize in a crowd, but to also let Yuuji be comfortable. He was facing a lot of change and loss in a short time, and Gojo recognized that. So the uniform fits like the clothes he would usually wear.

I don't know if this was to pacify the higher ups on Gojo taking in first years with special grade curses that didn't know anything about jujutsu. It could have been his own, unusually responsible choice.

Nobara didn't even know that the uniforms were customizable and I'm still sad that we don't get to see what she would have chosen.

Also in the beginning of JJK0, Yuuta isn't wearing shoes or socks.

Which feels like he's on suicide watch, no laces, not even socks.

Actually that makes so much sense bc I always wondered why he was alone at some other building with some unidentified man while getting ready for his first day of class.

And the entire time I watch this movie I always think about how comfortable his shoes look. Like you're not wearing anything, or it feels even better.

There's also the way that Gojo asked Yuuta about the knife - giving him the chance to say for himself what went down, to say in his own words that he tried to kill himself.

Gojo might seem out of touch but he rly is trying to let these kids be their fullest authentic selves while also keeping the mood light - Satoru will not bring a heavy mood onto his students. He refuses to do that, but in return they don't respect him bc he comes across as an idiot but he's rly trying so hard 😭😭😭😭😭

My thoughts on Yuuji's customized school uniform

Fushiguro said that Gojo has a habit of doing that sort of thing- but he only did it for Yuuta and Yuuji.

Yuuta has the white jacket to represent Rika. Pale and external but covering him. Something that might be removed.

Yuuji's hood, shoes, and the shirt under his jacket are red. Red like sukuna's fingies and eyes, or like Yuuji's old shoes. Always a part of him.

Yuuji's pants also have a different shape. They're wider and shorter. I think Gojo was taking precautions to have Sukuna's vessel easy to recognize in a crowd, but to also let Yuuji be comfortable. He was facing a lot of change and loss in a short time, and Gojo recognized that. So the uniform fits like the clothes he would usually wear.

I don't know if this was to pacify the higher ups on Gojo taking in first years with special grade curses that didn't know anything about jujutsu. It could have been his own, unusually responsible choice.

Nobara didn't even know that the uniforms were customizable and I'm still sad that we don't get to see what she would have chosen.

(anime-only friendly post)

Evidence in defense of Suguru Geto - the real villain was Toji's worm.

Banana Fish inspired Jujutsu Kaisen - these parallels aren't important, I'm just making connections bc AFAIK this isn't confirmed, but other sad BL mangas are.

Jessica & Yuki Tsukumo

Dress the same, act the same, do their own thing and come back.

Ash / Eiji & Megumi / Yuuji

Ash & Megumi share a voice actor. They have been thrust into a world that exploits youth from a young age, and this dynamic is normalized by the adults around them. They don't hesitate or fear risking their lives for their friends or their own sense of morality.

They grew up without a mother, having a complicated yet absent father, prone to violence, who in the end made a sacrifice for them. Also their older siblings' similarities.

Eiji & Yuuji are new to this world, innocent, loyal, optimistic compared to those around them.

Yuuji's uniform is a copy of Ash's outfit. Black jacket, red hoodie, red converse (nicer shoes when his uniform came in but still).

Banana Fish (the drug) & Toji's worm

I swear that this worm acts as the drug in Banana Fish, it preys on people's minds making them vulnerable to suggestions, and over time they lose themselves, becoming violent toward others and themselves.

Toji had sliced Geto open with a weapon that was inside of the worm, laced with it, you could say. Geto was unconscious when Toji said "but you, with all your blessed talents, lost to a monkey like me who can't even use jujutsu." that seeped into Geto.

We can tell from JJK0 that Geto took the worm after it crawled up to him. It had already submitted itself, so he would have no reason it absorb the curse. This means that he was spending time with it - the worm could have been crushed and put into his pocket, or even swallowed the way Toji had (no orb, just oroborous worm).

Then there was the conversation with Yuki (which is one reason why I felt like she was planted by Kenjaku, influenced in some way-- and recent interview revealed that Gege was considering Yuki as fake Geto's true identity. I told u all her vibes were off 😤) where she told Geto that he could kill all non-sorcerers. That it could be the easiest solution.

Actually, let's check out the manga page. He looks horrified and shocked that something he said as an off-hand morbid joke to cope with the loss of Haibara and Riko was validated as a real option.

I think that the worm ate away at their minds/souls - from Mahito's antics, it seemed like there was some connection between the soul and the brain. Anyway, I believe that Kenjaku used this curse to lure sorcerers. He would leave it in their path, let it be impressionable to their training, and the worm would eat away at them. This may have assisted in Kenjaku's transfer to a new body, made the process faster, or just caused his victims to devolve so that he could become them.

The worm is a cursed spirit, so naturally it would have fed off of cursed energy, right?

But Toji has no cursed energy. So the spirit could be forced to adapt, though I think that the fear Toji struck into everyone around him could suffice. It seems like Toji fed the worm, and idk the details but Gege has said that Toji found the worm and trained it.

It also seems that Toji lost himself quickly, while Geto held onto himself for much longer.

Toji did not remember his own son's name, which seems like more than just a result of grief over his wife. I know that trauma brain is real, and Toji had been through abuse from the Zenin clan as a child. But it still feels like something more to me. Shiu, who was his friend for 10 years, broke that off. To see Toji only for work, or in hell. Which could imply that's all that Toji was good for. Impossible to connect with as a friend.

Geto had a lot of mental strength, due to raising his family or the rituals he held with affirmations, etc. This might also be due to having cursed energy for the worm to feed off of - though by this time, I'm not sure how much that applied.

I think that Kenjaku was feeding suggestions to Geto by some means (Kenjaku is a master of games and manipulation, planning ahead, etc) in order to break him down, all because he wants the Curse Manipulation technique.

It seems like Geto's true motive was to get Gojo to curse him the way that Yuta had cursed Rika. But by the time that Gojo arrived, Geto already had critical damage by cursed energy, and Gojo cannot heal others with RCT. This is why Geto said you're late.

Geto has spoken about monkeys, about killing, but his actions say otherwise. Even when he does say those things, the way he carries himself changes. It reminds me of Buffy (the vampire slayer)'s mom saying random things due to a brain tumor. She isn't in control, and she doesn't mean it, even though she might insist on something during an episode.

He runs a cult, but it's more like he took over a cult. The same as the village - they were scapegoating young kids, using violence and killing them and gloating in it. He could see that even by removing the victims from there, the cycle would continue, more scapegoats would be found. And they were killing off those who would grow up to be strong, to protect the weak, to guard over them.

Geto's cult was, I think, demonized by Jujutsu Society because it was a powerful group outside of themselves. Mei Mei worked independently from graduating, but she isn't on Geto's level. He lessened their workload, though, by seeking out curses and by letting non-sorcerer victims seek him out for help, even though they had no idea what was going on, they were able to find relief. And he did this without asking for money or anything else in return.

He did break the rule of laying hands on non-sorcerers. (he had to, in order to end the cycle of abuse with Mimiko and Nanako's village, with the cult that killed Riko. They would find another scapegoat if he'd just removed the girls from there). What about that guy he killed?

(sanitizing thoughts here, btw)

This dude is drawn just like the corrupt, greedy capitalist in political cartoons. We don't get details, but we can gather his general character and actions, that he chooses to live in a selfish way that causes harm to many people in a position beneath him.

In JJK0, Geto's people are constantly reminded to not go too far, to just hold them back. I think the exception to this rule was likely to be conservative higher-ups, that Geto was still being protective. Nanako and Mimiko hanged them, I think they were explicitly given permission to. Ijichi was threatened because of the ignorant way he spoke down to them. Obv Ijichi is fine.

What about all of the people Shoko had to heal? She seemed pretty overwhelmed.

They were sorcerers who got hurt by the curses.

Non-sorcerers had already evacuated. If Geto truly hated non-sorcerers and was actually trying to build a world without them - I can't see it. His actions repeatedly protect non-sorcerers (sometimes from oppressive non-sorcerers, which is forbidden, but he still protects them from curses as well).

Gojo said that he can't believe that Geto would start a war he couldn't win, and that it worries him. That it seemed like Geto was bluffing with his number and strength of curses. He even knew exactly how Principal Yaga would react

Calling for help from the clans, from the Ainu Jujutsu Society, who we never hear of again. Geto was getting them to prepare as much as possible.

Why? Why unleash his curses?

And why divide them between Tokyo and Kyoto? He would have won, if his forces were not divided.

Geto was preparing for his own death. He wanted Gojo to curse him the way that Yuuta had cursed Rika, but that meant Geto had to die. And when he dies, the curses he's swallowed would be unleashed (idk if he knew for certain this would happen, or if Toji's caution to not kill Geto for that reason stayed with him. Either way, Geto wasn't going to let that hurt anyone - so the curses that he's absorbed had the best chances at being exorcised with the least amount of casualties, when they were divided between several locations. When the sorcerers had all the time to evacuate the cities, and have a set date to prepare for.

If Geto wanted to hurt anyone, it would have been a surprise attack.

Why was Geto preparing for his own death? We see his mental health break ten years earlier. Despite everything, he held himself together, he had a purpose and a family to care for. Mimiko and Nanako weren't dependent on him- they loved Geto, but they recovered really well. They were so comfortable with themselves, to speak up, to complain, to lounge on the couch with Larue and Miguel. The strain of the worm had enough leverage to drive his actions to drastic places. And he had a story behind them that his family would believe - Geto absorbs Rika, and they can rid the world of curses.

So I think that the worm spirit was used to make Geto more vulnerable. He was distraught, overworked, isolated, but that wasn't enough. He had a strong sense of ethics, I think he had routines that were strong self-care (he spoke with Yuuta about affirmations), and he was not breakable enough for Kenjaku to use.

Also, Utahime said that one of the moles (other than mechamaru) would be a higher-up well above the principal. I wouldn't be surprised if Kenjaku had that connection for decades.

I also think JJK was inspired by Elfen Lied, Kagewani, and maybe Vampire Princess Miyu.

Edit to add: more analysis (and Geto defense), looking at the KFC breakup here - he was misunderstood and did nothing wrong.

It didn't rly fit into my Suguru Geto did nothing wrong theory post, but hear me outtt

or tell me if this super obvious and I just didn't notice until now??

Geto's CT tastes rly, rly bad. The years he's spent swallowing curses has made him associate that taste with non-sorcerers (bc they create the curses). Since taste and smell go hand in hand, it would linger in his senses.

No one else can smell it, of course, it's only in Geto's sinuses. So they're like...?? Ok dude, whatever.

It's also interesting that Gojo and Geto's techniques involved a sort of sensory hell, and were mentally draining.

Gojo was able to overcome this by covering his eyes and using RCT. But Geto had no relief. As long as he was absorbing curses and breathing, he could taste them.

Edit to add:

Monkey makes sense as a descriptor - I can't think of any other fitting metaphor (though the idea was born from Toji's words in the first place).

Even the non-violent sorcerers like Mrs. Sa(ito) and her daughter, who seek out help and benefit from Geto's services, are in the animal realm - at the mercy of whatever happens to them, of how sorcerers and curses treat them. They can't see or understand or control these things themselves.

And the non-sorcerers calling for ignorant violence are like monkeys wielding knives (which is why I have this fear of monkeys. Stop stealing knives!! No other animal does this. Respect your hand privileges).

Additionally - I've been searching my own memories with monkeys. And I cannot remember actually seeing them - but the first, the main flashback I always get about the zoo, is the monkey smell.

And Geto having to endure that stench left from the non-sorcerers' leaking cursed energy... Monkey just fits.

(anime-only friendly post)

Now that we know Gojo's schedule only gave him 3 hours to sleep... (I doubt this is canonically true but ohhhhhhhh I want it to be)

Gojo was often sent out on missions that only he could take care of. The other special grade sorcerers (Yuuta wasn't there yet, Yuki bummed around overseas so hard that her salary got frozen, and Geto left jujutsu high (but arguably was more proactive against curses in his own way))

Gojo is overworked, he cannot possibly keep up with everything, but no one else can be assigned his mission - so he tells Geto where the curse is, and he takes care of it. (and if Gojo gets lucky enough to miss a meeting or something for this mission, then they could meet up)

(which could also be a reason that Gojo didn't doubt Geto's bluff about his number of curses, and their strength... Some that Gojo supposedly exorcised were absorbed by Geto. Could also explain the way he snapped and took out that giant one along w the buildings in JJK0)

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