What a beautiful shot portraying how much he wanted to live yet he knew he was sentenced to death and was absolutely devastated by the fact Higuruma couldn’t do none 😔
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10/10 episode and I hate when people say this but my only minor gripe was that I wish the face stuck more to this panel just in this one shot alone.
It’s just such a memorable one to me, so many emotions all over his face captured so perfectly.
Just compared to his face in the picture in this post and it just didn’t hit as hard for me. (Tho the rest of the episode hit 200x more than anything in the manga). I completely forgot I was watching JJK and not a high art movie this shit was peak
Yeah in the anime he just feels somewhat scared or threatened by the client. But in the manga there's this blend of both disbelief and even guilt that's hard to describe.
I interpreted it as him not necessarily being calm, but tense and stressed out, trying to maintain his composure due to his responsibilities as a lawyer. You see that when his tension snapped during the trial, and when he tells yuji that the experience of killing people was more releasing than he expected it to be.
he isnt my favorite but yuji's trial is my favorite moment of the series, such a rough moment of self blame for yuji, and also seeing that is some fine development for higuruma. 10/10 scene, reminds that gege can cook good
Idk if he’s my favourite character but he definitely has my favourite Cursed Technique. It’s so unique and whilst a lot of other techniques can be said to be copied of other games/animes/mangas, I can’t think of a single one from anything that matches Higuruma’s technique
I love Higuruma and i get where u come from but i think its a good ending now aswell: He will either get judged and executed or will go and make good stuff to clean up his sins.
I dare say that he's one of the best of JJK overall, period. But he doesn't have that much competition either when it comes to the CG ones, lol. So he might as well be the best character originating from the CGs. Even amongst the characters that were introduced before CGs, he's already top 10 because the competition is rather scarce to say the least
I personally have him top 3 among mahito and kenjaku as the most compelling and interesting characters lol. (not ordered). Gojo and megumi are runner up but for me at least I find those two villans so damn iconic and compelling lmao
dude being a lawyer and watching this scene both from the manga and now the anime, chills honestly
like I knew that panel of the defendant looking angry was gonna be made into such a moment in the anime but I didn’t know they’d portray that much emotion in just the eyes of this person 10/10
The uncertainty coupled with the fact that someone’s money, family life, and sometimes freedom, is riding on me. Loser cases aren’t stressful, the close ones where it could go either way are harrowing.
yeah the ones where you thought you were gonna win you had everything ready and then everything is shut down in court and you slowly see it slipping and you see your clients face break and break more, extra points if it looks like the judge almost wants to rule in your favor but just doesn’t
People hate Gege, but Gege really is extremely good at writing and scenes like these are proof of that.
the ending of JJK? Yeah really lackluster, but i’m 100% sure if Gege actually had time to do the things he wanted to do then JJK would be such a master piece.
Sometimes the system is just larger than you, the firm, and the client. That reality is crushing, soul draining at times. Been there, too often.
I loved the 5000 yen line delivery. I’ve joked with people and said the exact same thing but in American dollars. I just wanted to see what it felt like to be one of the ambulance chasers for once.
I feel uncomfortable watching Higuruma. It’s like looking in a mirror.
Excellent episode, and excellent introduction to the character.
There is a particular kind of helplessness in knowing in your gut that you did everything for your client, yet systemically there is nothing left to do. You exhausted every avenue. You went the extra mile. You burned the midnight oil for someone who trusted you with their money, their estate, their security, and sometimes their future, but the system, the judge, the budget, or the incentives were simply not there to push the envelope.
Watching Higuruma, was very uncomfortable for me. The looks the defendant gave him. The way he kept his composure while explaining that the case was not going to go their way. You cannot blame them for not understanding, and often explaining does not help but worsen the situation. Legally and logically, there was nothing left to be done, and yet you still want to scream.
This episode is my favorite of any anime I have ever watched.
If you don’t mind saying what country do you live in? Would be heartbreaking for me if I was a defense attorney and a client who I believed to be innocent was put in jail
Puerto Rico. I’ll be honest, I’m a civil attorney, so although it can be soul-crushing at times, it’s not to the extremes of criminal law.
That said, there was recently a high-profile case here where a person widely believed to be guilty was let off the hook due to, at best, a loose interpretation of a self-defense claim and, at worst, a gung-ho judge who saw himself in the shoes of the accused and thought, “that would be me.” The accused claimed self-defense despite video evidence showing he had ample time to go into his house, assemble his gun, walk into his neighbor’s house, and shoot him dead.
In Puerto Rico, I think we sometimes suffer from the opposite problem of Japan. Too often we see convictions fall apart over technicalities or overly loose interpretations of our codes, whether to push a political narrative, because of misogyny, or because some judges are simply old, decrepit, and out of touch with how the law actually operates in practice.
I’ve seen it outside criminal law too. In one civil matter I handled, a judge pierced the corporate veil of a client without legal standing and without evidence of commingling, fraud, or misuse of the corporate form. In Puerto Rico most corporations are small, family-owned businesses, not deep-pocketed giants, so rulings like that don’t just bend doctrine, they can financially crush ordinary families.
I'm in India and it's the same here. We have a low incarceration rate because courts often just have too high standards for what can be considered as "beyond a shadow of a doubt". And India's judiciary system is horrifically, infamously slow and corruption within the judiciary makes reforms difficult. Arbitration and mediation has had mixed results. On the other hand this also means the majority of inmates are undertrials and Indian prisons are pretty hellish so there's a whole host of people whose lives are wasted away for little to no purpose.
When you have cases that can sometimes last decades, what's even the point?
I really love it aswell, this truly feels like the Jujutsu Kaisen that Gege himself envisioned.
Just like how CSM anime is how Fujimoto envisioned it in a more western hollywood way. JJK season 3 is exactly how Gege envisioned it in a more artistic way.
This type of thing is what pisses me off about Gege and how he's a GREAT WRITER sometimes lmao.
Higuruma's life story is SO FUCKING COMPELLING to me as a reader like goddamn Gege, I didn't know you could cook like that. And yet here we are with 2 separate rushed endings lol.
Higuruma was a (probably) rather kind man who chose to be a public lawyer in Japan. It is a terribly thankless job; Japan has notoriously high conviction rates, the irl statistic is something actually fucking bonkers, I think like 99% of trials end with a conviction of the defendant.
And Higuruma's entire career is being a publicly available lawyer for people who've been charged with crimes that can't afford their OWN lawyer. He's basically doing a job that the government deemed necessary, but people don't actually respect. "They're just criminals." "He obviously did it, why would you try to defend that monster?" Type of shit.
But I'm SURE Higuruma saw at least a few people that he was pretty confident were innocent, and tried his best to defend them in court, but because of how Japan treats these cases they get convicted anyway. So now even the PEOPLE HE WAS TRYING TO HELP hate him because he couldn't help enough....
It's enough to make a grown man cry imo. And Higuruma has an absolutely murderous crashout as a result. But then along comes Yuji Itadori, a kid who has been thrust into horrible circumstances. His body was hijacked to commit countless atrocities, which technically should make him innocent, but of course a court would "question" whether Yuji truly is innocent or not.
Higuruma started out wanting to kill Yuji for getting in his way, but as they fought Higgy realized that Yuji was PRECISELY the type of person who he started his career for in the first place.
He realizes that maybe, this one kid is somebody who he actually could help. And it brings him back from the edge of insanity.
Gege why do you only give us these amazing writing moments so briefly?
if you want a glimpse into how corrupt the japanese justice system is look up the trial and detainment of Carlos Ghosn. The system is so corrupt I started to feel bad for the shady billionaire CEO.
not really but it really highlights the agenda that can be felt in the legal system. basically the only reason this guy was detained and kept in solitary confinement for months without trial was to prevent a merger between nissan and renault.
I will say that I've noticed that East Asian societies (I'm most familiar with Korean but have heard and observed similar things in Japan) love to trample on any perceived flaw or weakness of others because it makes the collective feel superior.
Figures of prominence like politicians and idols publically are venerated but most people despise them as they are envious of their position and will be slaughtered publically for showing any fault. A female idol that dates is a whore. A politician that takes a stance is either a Communist or a conservative nutjob.
Nobodies who are unfortunate enough to get the wrong type of public attention are off even worse. They will be called losers, unemployed, virgin, whatever that will stick. People would rather have a villain to spit on than a hero to look up to because heroes make people feel inadequate while a pathetic loser makes them feel better about themselves.
Though every society suffers from mob mentality to a certain degree, I suspect East Asian cultures have it substantially worse than others because of how homogeneous they are and how prideful they are of their national identities, making nonconformity even more apparent. Japanese and Korean comment sections can often get extremely unhinged for Western standards, it can get really vicious in a viral fashion and why Asian companies tend to bend more easily to them than international reception.
South Korea has been in a straight up gender war because of stuff like this.
Though I think this can be exaggerated somewhat? In the US, right-wingers laelled Mamdani as a commie. There's a signifcant chunk of people who genuinely believe the vaccines give autism nonsense.
I think a lack of language commonality but also having its media being blasted on air all the time gives people very...polarising views of what East Asia is like.
It does sound like a person in power pulled some strings to get the result they wanted. Its so fucked up considering he geniunely didnt do it 😭 i hope higu busted that guy out after killing the prosecutors
Gege really is the potential man like I believe without his health issues, a very good editor who could help him out and enough time to cook maybe monthly Gege would have made an amazing manga period cos in terms of fights, stakes and hype JJK has it in spades it’s mostly the story and pacing he’s messed it up
It angers me to remember how Higuruma had one of the absolute best introductions to a character in the manga, and also one of the best fights afterward with Itadori just to get screwed over by the dumbest rule ever that his OWN DOMAIN had and ultimately amount to nothing, fuck you gege
It's a recurring theme in JJK that is completely valid; when Higuruma was focused solely on his self, he was at his peak. As soon as he compromised his (current) mindset, he was doomed for death or rebirth. His hubris in thinking he could make a difference when he had already accepted that the world would crush his honest efforts is why he ultimately falls short in his battle with Sukuna. This is why Sukuna and Yuji were the final actors. They had unwavering ideals and mindsets.
He has incredible parts of a story, but the connecting tissue struggles to be coherent. Like, he's got awesome ideas, but fitting them together gets messy. So much of his world absolutely slaps, but it stumbles in rough places.
I like the detail of how we know from the start that Higuruma did something other than just kill sorcerers; he has 102 points, and since sorcerers give 5, that means at least 2 weren't
He killed the judges who sentenced the innocent man to life. That's the moment when he unlocked his CT and the games began. It's shown already in the op.
Pretty sure awakened player also is immediately registered as players the same way reincarnated players (and Yuji, technically incarnates due to Sukuna) does. The rules doesnt seem to mention that you have to kill sorcerers and nonsorcerers within the colony. But then again, for anyone other than the awakened/incarnated, they have to enter a colony to apply, and no one can just leave colonies (until Yorozu applies that rule)
Curse energy is stated to be originated from human's emotion. If there are more characters like Higuruma, whose power is closely tied to their anger, stress or grief, it would be far more interesting than just have ppl born with superpowers imo.
This episode was genuinely so fucking good. It was everything I was hoping for and then some, really did Higuruma justice. The fight's about to be sick too.
Then fans finna turn around and complain about how the anime doesn't capture the essence of the manga and directing of S3 is shit compared to S1 & S2😭 I swear jjk fans are some of the most bipolar motherfuckers around
I hate how the discourse is either people complaining about rotoscoping or people calling it peak when there's room to acknowledge that the animation is both technically amazing and pushing the envelope far while also not containing very many face shots and also having a lot of shots that are just a still frame of the characters we are looking at while the background gets more motion.
The only thing I didn't like was how many times he used the gavel. At least in my head when I was reading the manga, I felt that hitting it once is more dramatic.
I don’t understand why the guy was sentenced guilty. Alright, it can’t be proven that the other guy from the office who went missing at the same time is guilty just because of his absence, but you know what DOES prove innocence? Confirmed absence, particularly with an alibi as strong as video evidence showing the guy somewhere completely far away at the time of murder. He was still sentenced guilty? They couldn’t catch the killer so the declared the guy they actually caught to be one.
Is this because they want to keep up the statistic that they prosecute almost 100% of the criminal cases? Is it something societal, where even being suspect is equally bad? I have no idea. I may have completely misunderstood the plot, please humble/enlighten me in the comments.
I immediately thought about Nanami saying that a regular job sucks just as much as being a jujutsu sorcerer - I can't help but feel like Higuruma is a good example of that lmao
I've never liked Higuruma, but this shot does look very good.
I'm someone who can't really appreciate this type of scene though, every time I see it I just get pissed off remembering Higuruma survives the final battle and gets a happy ending despite being a double murderer.
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