Yuji really giving out Black Flashes like candy (as he should, I'm here for it always) and Sukuna is like "is he really trying to be equal to me"!

You know what's hilarious about this?

Knowing Yuji, he actually probably doesn't give a damn about being on his level. He just wants him gone. Sukuna, I'm sorry, but you ain't fighting someone trying to prove his worth to you. You're fighting someone who wants you dead.

This reminds me of how some of the fandom are so adamant about throwing powerscaling into the mix, sometimes to even bash Yuji when Yuji is a character who isn't into all that "I want to be the best" bullcrap.

And why should he be?? THERE ARE PEOPLE DYING AND YOU REALLY THINK THIS KID IS GOING TO CARE ABOUT SURPASSING OTHERS FOR THE #1 SPOT?!

Can't even acknowledge all what he's done before up until this point... too busy bashing him and now wanting to switch up like this kid ain't been a menace since day one... well... in his middle school days...

Yuji Itadori and selflessness in Jujutsu Kaisen

(MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE JUJUTSU KAISEN MANGA, GO READ IT WHAT ARE YOU DOING IF YOU'RE NOT UP TO DATE???) Our sun, our boy, our beloved Yuji Itadori, protagonist of the hit series "Sorcery Battle". One of the most beloved and well known protagonists of the modern era of manga, along with Denji and most likely...Deku??? Or Eren maybe, who knows, that's far from the point. The point is, Yuji is the protagonist of one of the most brutal mangas in recent memory, as anyone who's read it knows, people die, A LOT, like, actually dropping like flies every 10 chapters or so, and it ain't just a background character, even in the volume 0 of Jujutsu Kaisen, where Yuta is the protagonist, we see the death of Geto Suguru, a pretty major character, though at the time the author didn't intend for him to be major so he just kinda, poofed him, even though, in this first chapter, the trend which we will dwelve into soon, starts. This trend is the trend of selfish people being powerful. In the first chapters of Jujutsu Kaisen, we see Yuji's grandfather pass away, his last words telling him to "Help people", in the jujutsu world, someone's last words carry inmense weight, due to people being able to tap into more cursed energy as they're about to die, normal people as well not just sorcerers (even though if you ask me, Yuji's grandpa was a sorcerer but that's something else for another day). These words deeply mark Yuji and he does as his dying grandfather tells him, he helps people to the best of his ability, being selfless and always helping everyone when he can, which as we all know turns out preeeetty poorly, we see Junpei die, we see Nanami die, we see Nobara die, we see Todo get crippled and unable to use his boogie woogie (practically death for a sorcerer), we see Yaga die, we see A LOT of death, and a lot of Yuji getting beat up so badly he on various times wants to give up, but he doesn't cuz he's just BUILT like that, Yuji's philosophy even states he sees himself as a cog in a big machine, a lot of times he doesn't care if he's gonna die, as long as he does his best to fulfill his role.  On the other side of trying to save everyone and be a good person, we have Ryomen Sukuna, the most powerful jujutsu sorcerer to ever live (Yeah I think he's stronger than Gojo, I like Gojo more but like bro...PLUS it's not even bad that Sukuna is stronger, he's like what, a thousand years old, Gojo is barely 28, give him the time Sukuna had and he no diffs, but as of his last appearance, yeah Sukuna is stronger Imo). Sukuna's philosophy throughout the whole series is of being selfish, and needing that hunger to reach your goals, he finds people who lack this hunger and desire to "burn it all down and grab what you want" as weak, he explicitly finds Itadori lame for this same reason, he's too much of a good person. Even after he kills his opponents, Sukuna basically goes to hell or heaven with them and talks to them about their fight, telling them they were strong and such if he had a good time, for example in Jogo's death, he tells him he should've been more selfish instead of caring about his curse brothers, and that way, maybe he would've given him a better fight. Even apart from these two, every time we see someone being selfish, they're strong, like really strong, and every time we see someone being selfless, they get punished, HARD. Just look at our "hero" cast, everyone's who's a good person gets absolutely TRASHED by the evil selfish characters, Mahito killed Nanami, a sorcerer who really cared about his students and wanted to keep them safe, he fought for them and only them, which got him killed, even in his last moments, he carefully thought of what to say, as to not curse Yuji Itadori. And RIGHT AFTER THIS, we see Mei Mei, who ran away from Shibuya when she had nothing to win from it, not giving a single thought to his fellow sorcerers or innocent people trapped in Shibuya, and what is she doing? She's chilling in Malaysia, if you remember correctly, this is the place our beloved Nanami wanted to go to rest, this LOVELY WOMAN (no) quite literally stole Nanami's dream, and gets to live, SOLELY because she was selfish. Another example, Megumi, who always fought for the rest and saw himself as expendable, which kept him back from developing as a sorcerer until Goatjo Satoru told him to stop being such a pissy pants suicide boy (actual words trust me), only THEN when he started being the tiniest bit selfish, he got stronger and developed his domain expansion. We could even take the example of Gojo not killing Yuji when he met him, cuz he was a dangerous vessel, containing Sukuna, this single act of benevolence and selflessness, literally has caused ALL of our pain in the Jujutsu Kaisen story. Lets go even further and talk about Gojo's massive growth after he died and came back to fight against Toji, the growth we see here is CRAZY, he acts completely unhinged and couldn't be more rewarded for it, he goes from maybe a grade 1, to truly the strongest there is, when he forgives Geto's actions and doesn't throw a hollow purple at him in the middle of the crowd of people, he is later punished. The message couldn't be clearer, it's kill or be killed, it's be selfish or DIE. Which. Is why seeing Yuji steadily climbing the ranks of power, when being selfless and a good person, is HYPE, this man is defying everything we've seen narratively, Yuji and Sukuna aren't only mortal enemies, their ideas and philosophies clash with a passion, though Yuji has lost everything and Sukuna hasn't lost a single thing, Yuji has always acted for the good of the people he loves, and Sukuna knows nothing about love. Truly our Jujutsu Kaisen, go read it right now and draw fanart. -Javier Salinas

JJK Episode 18:

Ayo... Megumi was straight up trying to commit murder in today’s episode 😭 he was making sure to Kamo like “watch what happens when you try to touch someone who is dear to me” type of vibe.

I like comparing manga/anime’s becasue while I do love how everything is in the anime, I still prefer the manga. But anywho, he literally didn’t give a shit at this scene becasue someone is trying to kill someone precious to him. That’s how much Megumi cares about Yuji. I hope that Yuji acknowledge that Megumi would literally curse anyone or something jsit to make sure that he is okay.

I know i say this a lot but it’s okay but I really love the dialogue between Megumi and Kamo. You can tell that while Megumi was talking about saving people that whole mindset was hella different when we first saw his way of thinking. He knows that Yuji influenced him with that mindset. While I was iffy with Kamo while I was reading the manga, I honestly can’t help but not be upset at him. Like Panda said two previous episode, “We know Yuji is a good kid becasue we all got to know him but people who don’t know Yuji knows him as Sukuna’s vessel” (it went something like that) that is honestly a realistic standpoint for people tbh. When you hear from your superiors and a very famous curse then you are always going to have your guard up and have a set opinion on it. Plus, Kamo is going to be the head of his clan. He already needs to handle these type of responsibilites. 

Another thing I love was:

This scene. Honeslty, I know some people are always saying that Megumi is always getting his ass beat (I know it’s a joke😂) but this dude is hella strong. Stronger than most of your fav character but he doesn’t like to show off and that’s okay (I also don’t want spoil for some of you guys). While Yuji was dead and Nobara/Megumi were fighting, you can tell that both of them busted their ass off. But we aren’t talking about Nobara since we already discussed that Queen last week. Now, it’s Megumi’s time to shine. If they weren’t interrupted, Megumi would’ve legit cursed him in my opinion. He worked his ass off becasue he even says right there he was only recently able to tame his Elephant shadow and he recently discovered how to store stuff in his shadow. That’s how serious he was about getting stronger and avenging Yuji. He was a fucking beast in this episode!! I swear I fucking love that kid so much bro 😭

We can’t forget about this scene! 😭

I honestly think that Megumi’s dogs love getting attention and belly rubs! Like, look at this cute baby! 😭😍 how can you say “return” like bitch I would’ve kept it by limy side! 😭 but it’s a good thing he did becaue the mf dog would’ve died 😭 Inumaki is ugh! I think his powers is kne of my favorite! If you read Vol 0, you see why he is powerful for someone who is a teenager. I can’t wait for you guys to see more of him and just ugh! He is too cute and bad ass!

EXTRA:

What the fuck was up with Jujusanpo! 😭