#shinjuku and shibuya

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‼️‼️‼️JJK 236 To 238 MANGA SPOILERS‼️‼️‼️

LONG RANT HEADS UP

I’m still irked by the way the fandom responded to certain fans reactions to this chapter—-

and specifically their reactions to Gojo’s death.

Mfs were all over social media saying that those of us who were upset with the chapter just ‘didn’t understand Sukuna’s strength’

Or that we were ‘blinded by our obsession with Gojo’

Or that every single one us had ‘underestimated Sukuna’

They were realllyyy tryna make it seem like WE were being upset for no reason. That we were just trashing the manga because our favourite character died…

That’s literally not the reason for most us (at least from what I’ve observed)

I’m not a hardcore ‘stan’ for any character in particular and I know a lot of other fans who aren’t either—-so to see that our criticisms and opinions were all being dismissed because ‘we were just being dramatic that our fav just died’ was so irritating

I don’t have to be Gojo stan to be annoyed with the chapter.

Because ultimately, it’s the overall writing of this entire arc (that’s been fluctuating up and down the whole time) that’s created this collective backlash that’s now fully come out with 236’s release.

In Shibuya, after Gojo was sealed, a lot of things went south. Nanami’s death, Nobara’s unknown fate, Itadori’s deteriorating mental state, Inumaki losing his arms…and the list goes on.

Perfect Preparation Arc starts off with the cast working with Tengen to create a plan to navigate the culling games and achieve their goal of setting Gojo free.

When Gojo was brought back a few chapters ago, we saw him interact with Kenjaku and Sukuna and then later we had an entire month timeskip.

We didn’t see his reaction to the entirety of the Shibuya aftermath, nor did we see his inner feelings on everything his students went through.

For nanami, he only has one line…and it’s so dismissive. He trusted nanami to mentor Itadori. He knew him from back when they were in high school. He knew him for a long time and could rely on him.

And yet despite this, Akutami just doesn’t even bother reflecting their bond in Gojo’s reaction…

The way Gojo just reacts to his death…that’s not how people react to their friends’ death.

And I know people are gonna be like ‘oh well Gojo’s not emotional in the first place’

Yes, he’s not—for the most part, he keeps his emotions bottled up to maintain the energy of being the strongest.

But Gojo does have moments where he’s vulnerable.

He was Shoko and Ijichi in that scene—we’ve seen Gojo loose a bit of control over his emotions in front of Ijichi when Itadori died. He gets upset and angry—-he doesn’t fully show it, but Ijichi picks up on it and so do we as the readers…

And with Shoko in particular…their friendship goes way back. They were both part of their high school trio. And even though Satoru didn’t have a close bond with Shoko as he did with Suguru…Akutami has made it clear that the two are close friends.

Now he’s neglected Shoko a lot in the series but in the second last chapter before this one…Shoko has a whole ass monologue about Gojo and we see that she does know how he feels, how he isolated himself, and how he keeps burdens on himself only.

If he’s with these people who he knows and trusts….why isn’t he allowed to be vulnerable in front of them?

And fine, even if he’s not vulnerable in front of them…why doesn’t he get a separate scene of his own where he reflects everything that went down after he was sealed?

Why doesn’t he say anything about his students? He wanted to raise their generation to be even stronger—-he wanted them to be able to stand on their own.

When he’s released, how does he not have anything to say seeing all the changes those kids have been through?

Why doesn’t he have anything to say about Maki reaching the same type of strength Toji once had?

Why doesn’t he say anything about Itadori who has such intense survivors guilt?

…his unsealing moment was cool af…but his actual comeback was so emotionless…

We were hyped for his return. We waited for years. We knew how much of the plot was focused on ‘unsealing’ him.

The story continued to give his return an underlying significance all throughout those years. But for what?

His return felt so empty…his death feels the same

Gojo had a whole arc dedicated to his past to help readers learn and understand him and his relationships and ideals better.

So why is it that we’re being ‘overdramatic’ when we want his return and death to feel more meaningful and more elaboration like before?

Even with the month timeskip, we barely got any flashbacks showing his interactions and views on the fates of those around him.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; after Shibuya, jjk’s pacing increased so much that intaking the severity of the outcome of jujustu society and the fates of the characters is so difficult because the story doesn’t let emotional impact keep a continuous effect.

But with Gojo—I genuinely thought that Akutami wouldn’t do him so dirty…and obviously I was proven wrong…

The problem isn’t that Gojo died…the problem is the fact that Gojo is a character that Akutami has expanded on in regards to his characterization and ideals, and everything he has built up in regards to Gojo’s character is all thrown away for the sake of ‘shock value’

Gojo dying wouldn’t be a problem if it was executed in a manner that actually had a cunning build up over the course of their fight.

Gojo dying wouldn’t be a problem if we actually got to see him integrating back into his world that is nothing like as it was before he was sealed.

We literally saw that Sukuna was terrified at one point in the fight. We saw Gojo send hits after hits.

There was literally no indication that the fight would end up with Gojo dying. Even now when I’m rereading the previous chapters, I cannot for my life find any hints that could point to Gojo losing. Like bro lost an arm and grew it right back???

I wouldn’t care that he lost the fight had there been some sort of moment where the story takes an extreme turn of both Sukuna AND Gojo near death and then Gojo could’ve attacked Sukuna and seemingly won for the end of the chapter, and then in the next we see Sukuna actually do an uno reverse.

It could’ve been something like that—the problem is that the tension build up till that point was on Sukuna’s end. We didn’t have a lot of big ‘oh shit’ moments with Gojo.

If the tension was distributed between both of them so that we genuinely didn’t know or couldn’t even think of who would win, then Gojo’s loss wouldn’t have been a big deal.

And even if none of that’s possible, because I can acknowledge that Sukuna’s explanation made sense, at least don’t give him an off-screen death…

Like what the actual fuck????

I’m still so pissed about it.

We saw the attack that Sukuna used to finish Gojo in this last chapter with Kashime.

And omfg it’s such an insane attack.

THAT should’ve been shown with Gojo.

We needed to see how the tables turned between the two of them. We needed to see all the tension from Sukuna’s end shift to Gojo’s. We needed to see that because he’s the strongest so we need to actually see what managed to kill him…we needed to see how brutal Sukuna’s ace card to grasp a firmer realization of Gojo’s death.

And I’m saying realization and not understanding because Sukuna’s move makes sense. Akutami did the bare minimum of actually giving us an explanation…But We needed to see Gojo being taken down to see that he lost…to see that he died.

An off-screen death for a character who’s the strongest?…what a joke…

I just feel so annoyed…the fact Kashime managed to dodge the move that killed Gojo…the fact that we never got to see a meaningful reunion between him and the rest of the cast…the fact that we never see how Gojo was doing when he was back with the others and new characters…

Its all so emotionless and empty…I feel like gege felt he needed to get rid of this character, but couldn’t he have at least written Gojo’s return and death with more care?

I’m not even a hardcore stan but I’m so tired of the way JJK’s been playing things out for a while.

And the fandoms reaction to those who wanted better writing and not just action heavy content in regards this particular arc…like oh my god, why is it a bad thing that readers don’t want rushed stories?

[tokyowalking]

Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

東京都千代田区丸の内の街並み

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Tokyo Blues

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How (not) to recruit more players for your MMORPG

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Just got back from Japan, magical place as always (February-March 2023)

[julyenmari]

been missing japan

[gramoturtle]

Wings: Reapers, Pig Noise and Soul Pulvis

While playing around with ideas for my AU, I came across some interesting similarities between Reaper Wings and Soul Pulvis Wings.

We've seen both in the TWEWY and in the Animation that Minamimoto has had quite interesting wings. He has multiple pairs of wings. They can shatter or can gain a purple Taboo haze depending on the media. They're messed up in some way.

Even though Minamimoto isn't a Reaper in NEO, could our Chaotic Math Man have a new type of messed up wings as he continues to absorb dangerous birds?

Let's dive into that and see where that leads.

Shibuya Reaper Wings

First, let's take a look at a couple of Reaper Wings. We see some variations with the Shibuya Reapers.

Since they are similar to bat wings, I'm going to try and use the same terminology where I can.

Generally speaking, we have the Arm leading up to a central point called the Wrist where the Thumb(s) and Fingers can extend from. One outer Finger forms the outside edge of the wing and then multiple inner Fingers extend out from the Wrist and along the Arm. The Reaper wings also have a smaller extrusion right by the Thumb too, which can either be a second Thumb or another Finger. The Fingers extending downwards are connected by an Arc, which connects back to the Arm.

Coco's wings are smaller and more curvy while Kariya's are larger and sharper. Uzuki's are even larger, very rigid, and the inner Fingers don't all extend out from the Wrist, but along the Arm.

For the extra piece by the big Thumb, I'm leaning towards it being another Thumb, for theory crafting reasons way below. But if sticking with bat terminology, it would be another Finger I think.

Shinjuku Reapers

We kinda get to see Shinjuku Reaper Wings. I did some Level Correction to see some of their wings better. (Mourn the variety. It's hoodies only in Shibuya, if you're not good enough, or something.)

Anyways, they generally follow Kariya's wing style.

Pig Noise

In TWEWY, Pig Butoh (along with Polka and Tango, blue and red colour palette swaps) have Reaper like wings. In NEO, we have Pig Mambo (light) and Pig Bolero (dark). It's a little hard to tell but they appear to have the same wing shape as they do in TWEWY, just that they curl around in front. The overlap might make it look like it creates a "gap" like the wings like for the Pig Mambo (light).

Both the Reaper and Pig wings have a connecting Arc across the Fingers. However, the Pig Noise has an extra piece where the Arm connects to the body, not like the little Thumb or extra Finger by the big Thumb for Reaper Wings, and there is a circular cut or hole removed from the Thumb.

But in general, we can see that Reapers and Pig Noise have a similar structure to their wings.

Now let's get theory crafting!

Soul Pulvis

So how are Soul Pulvis wings and Reaper wings related?

I stumbled on this by trying to make a Reaper Wing look a little more like a Soul Pulvis wing, and then made a Soul Pulvis wing look a little like a Reaper Wing. Added an additional step, modified the other stages and I got something like this:

With that, we can see that the Soul Pulvis has a similar wing structure to the Reaper Wings:

The fully connected inner Fingers in the Reaper Wing gets separated from the Wrist. One Finger moves down to where it would connect to the body, kinda like the Pig Noise or maybe like Uzuki's Wings. A star "eye" symbol appears in the gap between the Arm, outer Finger and Arc. The Arm and Thumb have shrunk. The second Thumb or other Finger by the old big Thumb has grown and now is curving in the opposite direction, away from the Thumb. We could say that the central Star Eye is part of the Fingers or is an entirely new thing.

So what does this mean?

Well, if we were able to see Minamimoto's Reaper wings during NEO (say if, an Angel could still see them), I think they could be at various stages of the above transformation. Maybe they would not reach the same design as the Soul Pulvis wings, but I think they would at least have gotten influenced by his bird snacking.

But that's not all.

There is something else that is similar to the Soul Pulvis and is linked to some Minamimoto:

The open floating eyes that Felidae Cantus, Minamimoto from NEO's Another Day's Noise form, has. And it can be hard to tell, but there are Soul Pulvis flying circling around the fight, in addition to the mathematical formulas.

Keeping the Soul Pulvis and the open floating eyes that Felidae Cantus has in mind, we can see similarities. Let's do another transformation to make it clearer:

Most of the transformation occurs on the side closest to the body. There is a question of how the body side of the wing either grows another Finger or if the innermost Finger strengthens its attachment back to the other inner Fingers. But really they're not that different. And there are some similarities to the Reaper wings too. The tips of the Fingers are closer to the pointy Reaper wing spikes instead of the Soul Pulvis curves.

If the floating Eyes are not something separate, they could be Soul Pulvis wings that separated from their body.

This is why if we continue to use the same wing structure terminology, the Soul Pulvis and the floating Eyes that the extra bit near the Thumb, might be a second Thumb. Although, it could be that for Reaper-like wings that it would be a Finger, even though it's pointing in a different direction and isn't connected by an Arc.

So what does all of this mean?

Super theory crafting time! Let's consider everything so far:

Reaper Wings and Pig Noise Wings share similar wing structures.

Minamimoto in TWEWY and the Animation can have 2 additional pairs of wings compared to regular Reapers.

We've seen from TWEWY and the Animation that his (totally 100% normal) six wings can get messed up by shattering (TWEWY) or get a purple Taboo haze surround them (Animation). The Animation makes it clear that the haze is Taboo haze, which he gains once he gets very Taboo-ified.

Minamimoto has been consuming Soul Pulvis in NEO, so it may mess up his wings again.

There is a possible transformation from a Reaper Wing to a Soul Pulvis Wing.

Felidae Cantus has Soul Pulvis circling around their fight.

Soul Pulvis wings are very similar to the floating open Eyes that Felidae Cantus has.

Therefore, it is possible that our mainline NEO Minamimoto has messed up wings by absorbing the Soul Pulvis, and if Another Day Minamimoto is an even further Soul Pulvis infused Minamimoto - and if those floating Eyes are not something separate or a transformed/part of a Soul Pulvis - there is a possibility that the floating Eyes are his wings.

Now there are only 3 in the fight, which is not 2 or 6. But this is a different Minamimoto. Maybe his wing growth is in progress. Maybe he's learning and can't convert all his Wings into Eyes. Maybe he wants the fight to be fair(-ish). I dunno! But let's consider a Minamimoto who grew so skilled that he could turn his wings...Into weapons!

Anyways this was mostly an exercise in seeing how I could potentially mess up Minamimoto's Reaper wings and this is where it got me. If there is cool fan media of this or someone makes cool stuff based on this, feel free to send it my way cause I'd love to see it!

(Master Post of TWEWY Series Analysis)

[akkivee]

i got a picture of the bb mochi display in the ikebukuro animate!!!!!!

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夏空にクレーン

新宿、青山〜渋谷

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✨ＪＡＰＡＮ ＆ ＣＨＩＬＬ (渋谷) SHIBUYA ☔

📍- Shibuya City, Tokyo (渋谷区 - 東京) (35°39'34.3"N 139°42'01.9"E)

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Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo

東京都台東区上野の街並み

[randomszzz]

that Hazuki genuinely wanted shibuya purified but stepped in and undid it in order to interview Rindo is honestly hysterical to me.  Just the mismatch of priorities, “This city should be cleansed” “no wait go back hey. hey friend. explain this to me” cracks me up.  Knowing not rescuing the other twisters and creating phoenix cantus was in part because he still actually wanted shibuya gone, yet he still saved it; hazuki’s quite the character. 

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selected scans from daido moriyama’s ‘DAIDO TOKYO’ and the jane and louise wilson retrospective by lisa g corrin

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Shinjuku, Shibuya, Japan 🇯🇵 !.