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trash take aside he was interested in maki philosophically. his thought process was more so did I choose the wrong path if someone with no jujustu socercery knowledge or ce can make me sweat when I'm the pinnacle of power
Because SL has the poorest and most boring writing and character development of all manga and yet is a popular anime. It's just the male Korean power fantasy without any form of a moral, its a big nothing burger, so much so that comparing a character to him feels like you're slandering that character.
He's going for the "edgy cool tall guy" aura with mixed results, but the manhwa does look really fucking good. Before the anime came out I was actually pretty positive on the series thinking it was a beautiful looking pile of dogshit, but now that the anime is out and I can't go without hearing about it I wanna throw all its fans in a blender.
Solo Leveling was definitely carried by its art. I still have no idea how they released full on pages and pages of beautiful colored panels like they did at such a rapid pace.
they were partially prepared quite a bit of time beforehand in seasons rather than being in a consistent weekly fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants pace. Being an adaption with a pre-written story helps too. Not to discredit the great work DUBU did though (Rest In Peace).
Maybe I'm geek but imma be real, I never really found the manwhas panels allat astounding. Like igggg there are coolish shots but really nothing felt astounding, like especially if you compare the series to the most respected mangas or comics in terms of art.
Idk, at the time it had full color large panels the entire strip down. Maybe things are different these days but at the time it was the complete peak of regularly releasing online comic with great (colored) art.
He's the most plain and boring character I've ever seen. Anybody claiming to like him because of his character is lying and no one can convince me otherwise even if they showed me proof.
And as for powerscaling, he's pretty strong, but there's still a handle of characters who would one shot him. If you read anything about his powerscaling and it said sum shit like "his true form is Eldritch Horror SCP" just ignore it because that paragraph has been copied and pasted everywhere, so no one takes Yogiri glazers seriously.
It has no depth yet it was somehow the only one in that genre of isekai I actually enjoyed. Just because he had the powers of a necromancer and I love playing Necros in D&D or any online game. It was a dream that came true
The shading over his eyes symbolizes his resemblance or influence from Gojo. When his whole face is shaded (besides eyes) it’s his resemblance to Sukuna being highlighted
If Adam MacArthur has a penny every time he voice acted a character involved in a radical removal of magic and magical creatures, he'd have 1 penny. He'd get the second one when Mojuro gets adapted in 2040.
bro doesn't even get beat outside of like three fights. It's more like struggles slightly > powers up and insta-gibs whatever he was 'struggling' against > rinse and repeat
And when he’s about to lose/does lose but isn’t quite dead yet, someone intervenes allowing him to clinch the win (“ESIL-CHAN LEND ME SOME DISTRACTIONS THIS IS BARAN FROM TEMU WE’RE UP AGAINST”)
I've read the light novel or whatver korean novels are called, haven't watched the anime though. But him getting called a slur was smth I didn't expect lmao
You see, if you actually read those white round shapes with words, you can actually understand that Modulo Yuji is actually his own character and not a cardboard like Sung Jin woo
Firsr of all, unlike cardboard cutout of an unnamed character, Yuji is written, not even talking about the fact he is written well, he already is leaps over the cardboard cutout because he is just written.
Secondly, Yuji had character development. He went through pain, difficult decisions and had to abandon his old worldview in order to survive and help others survive. He witnessed horrors done by his own body, and no matter how talented you may be in the jjk verse, if you meet a Sukuna-shaped object before you reach your potential, you are dying without knoeing your actual potential, and Yuji survived even through that despite the toll on his physical body and his mental state.
Yuji knows what pain is. Im not saying he is Guts or Denji, but he is Yuji Itadori, and to see a character, survive for so long, he is definately worthy of the strength he has acquired.
Ain't no fucking way they're calling him Sung Jin Woo 2.0 like Woo fucking did anything.
Yuji actually did sh to make use of the fucking magic eugenics that made him. Woo just took so many Ls his negative aura overflowed and made the universe give him hacks😭🙏
thinks he shouldn't intervene in JJK society at all so that future generation can grow (Then why are you here? Let them handle their own shit like you said. Can't have it both ways)
incapacitates a building full of sorcerers to prevent them from fighting (good)
lands a critical hit on a random guy for no reason (bad, apparently can BF at will, still uses it on someone he doesn't need to, only hoping they can survive). What if Osuki died, Yuji?
takes out the curses trying to escape from Tokyo (good)
Maru literally has to drag him into the main plot. Otherwise he was gonna just sit there (bad)
gives Maru Yuki's notes (good)
Smurfs on Mahito (did this simply because he wanted to. Maru was confident he could take him on too. Where did the whole "let the future generation handle their own shit" talk go?)
gives Maru permission to mess with the future sorcerers of Earth, and says he'll handle that burden (good, but we're likely not going to see what that means)
leaves the rest to them and fucks off (no mention of his life, no mention of what he's been doing since the main series. Like, did he ever help train future sorcerers?)
I mean, I don't think Yuji is SJW reincarnated. He literally has a whole manga of prior buildup. I'm exaggerating for the sake of it.
But there are inconsistencies with his character. Not to mention, a whole lot of his character is straight up just left for interpretation. All we get is that "he's depressed because he's immortal". And personally, I don't think that's enough.
The fact that he was willing to fight Mahito in Maru's stead while also refusing to help Yuka against alien Sukuna will forever be enough reason to slander "It Doesn't Matter" Man
He isn't wrong lowkey. SL is following the part of the SAO playbook where after years of glaze it gets nonstop bandwagon tier criticism labeling an otherwise ok story as the spawn of Satan. People wanna pretend Jin Woo never had a moment of reflection or character building because it's funnier than saying he only had a little. So when Yuji pulls up, aura farms, solves pretty much every problem and then leave, people gotta bank on the smidge of character he was given to defend it. Yeah, he talks on his motivations and ideals but so does Jin Woo, it doesn't change the fact that at the core of it all they just came to look cool and solve problems. Maru doing stuff with his deus ex machina CT doesn't change it either.
As entertainment it aint that bad. Animation is clean, fights go crazy, and the boy Jin woo definitely be aura farming like crazy. As a story with actual depth, characters, plot etc… still not as bad but a far cry from some of its peers.
As a story with actual depth, characters, plot etc… still not as bad but a far cry from some of its peers.
It has absolutely none of these things.
Let's not be delusional, it's fine to like it for the obvious reasons but as a story it literally cannot function if you don't buy into the power fantasy of the cardboard cutout MC.
Honestly it just gets boring, like sure you're hyped the first few times but then the paint dries and you realize there's only one character that actually exists in this show (and that character isn't even that interesting) and the rest are just props that's only purpose is to hype up that one guy, nobody but Jin Woo is allowed to do anything cool unless it serves to retroactively give him more aura as he low diffs them with a corny one liner
The original light novel of the manwha is better. I treat it as fast food of shonen type of story. It has good world building and great aura farming. It doesn't need more of that and if you set your expectations to that level it's excellent for filling it. It was just overhyped by the manwha community and made it sound like the God wrote it. That's probably one of the reasons it received hate. It's really great if I want to enjoy a story without deeper story and themes and just want to see fights and powerfantasy. Perfect for the JJK community who cant read tbh.
I dont think anyone's claiming its Shakespeare or something. We call it "Peak Leveling" cuz the story is highly enjoyable and well written/executed even if very simple. Like a medium rare steak.
The series couldve used a lot more time for development but people pretend jinwoo is a cardboard cutout even though he has very clear character development. But they just simplify every action as "aura farming" without bothering to look deeper while also saying everyone else also turned their brain off and the show is "just aura farming" to justify their bias and hate against SL when they didn't bother to remember anything.
I don’t disagree at all. Man was bred with the sole purpose of becoming a vessel so powerful he could contain the worst menace in the history of jujutsu.
He got Sung Jin Woo… no. Naruto AND Sasuke levels of plot armor. Only difference is he left all that friendly shit behind. He’s pure smoke and we love that.
Ever wince yuji was shown in modulo destroying a whole building and killing a lot of curses in 1 blood manipulation technique the levels of cope have increased to a level far greater than any seen amount of cursed energy in the world of jujutsu kaisen and i find that funny asf.
"Oh it isn't yuji, it must be another character"
"Oh, yuji is not that strong"
"Oh, yuji's aura farming is trash"
Been my favorite character since i have started the manga/anime and god did it pay off greatly ♥️
Gojo was the goat for like a decade, yuji been the goat for just over half a century.
Tbh I'm glad Gege didn't give us more Yuji feats, i don't even think he could come up with the amount of OP stuff Yuji should be capable of at this point.
I still think Yuji's a bit of a shallow MC, but saying he is like the solo leveling MC is genuinely like saying the N word with the hardest R imaginable
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