#maki fanbook

[halveablock]

PYRE, my Maki fanbook, is now available digitally!

there’s two options:

49pg fancomic (pay-what-you-want): free, low res

58pg fanbook: high res, extra sketches and notes

thank you for reading!

#jujutsu kaisen #maki zenin #maki fanbook #jjk spoilers #jjk comics

[maybetomoko]

Q&A about some characters (Jjk official fanbook)

Nobara Kugisaki

Q: Is there a meaning in the heart engraved on her hammer? 

A: No. She carved it herself when she was a child and just as she was beginning to regret it, her hammer broke (in chapter 7).

Q: Nobara's technique uses a part of the target's body as a conduit; is there a limit to the attack radius?

A: The radius limit is a secondary aspect, the size and value of the target part is more important.

Yuta Okkotsu

Q: What is Yuta doing abroad? 

A: It is a secret. But the person who knows it appeared a short while ago on a certain front page together with that other person who knows it. 

Is Okkotsu part of the four special level sorcerers? 

Yes.

Q: Will Okkotsu as senpai appear in the future in the main story? I want to see how those in the first year interact. I want to see him act more! 

A: He will appear. 

Toge Inumaki 

Q: When did you come up with the idea of Inumaki talking by listing the ingredients of onigiri?

A: A long time ago, I thought it would be funny to have a character who gets angry and shouts “tuna with mayonnaise” angrily! 

Maki Zenin 

Q: She not only uses swords but also akido. Does Maki's fighting style come from a particular school of martial arts? 

A: It's more of a mix of various things. The way she uses swords is more like kung fu than Miwa. 

Panda

Q: What does he do when he has to go to a public place? 

A: If he has to move from one place to another among normal people, he pretends to be a puppet and gets carried away, or he pretends to wear a costume and moves accordingly. 

Q: Did Panda attend a kindergarten or at least a school for wizards before Jujutsu High School? 

A: He did not. What you see in Chapter 39 was the room the headmaster had built for him. 

Q: Does Panda senpai poop?

A: No. The nappy we see on him when he was little was made for him to wear by the headmaster (because he was cute).

#tomokotranslates #jujutsu kaisen fanbook #jujustu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanbook #jujutsu kaisen manga #jjk spoilers #kugisaki nobara #nobara kugisaki #okkotsu yuta #yuta okkotsu #inumaki toge #toge inumaki #maki zenin #zenin maki #panda jjk #panda jujutsu kaisen #tomoko's translations

[getouuu]

That jjk haul next month will be crazy ..outing me as a satosugu rabid dog

#aside from them very excited for xeds maki fanbook

[van-del]

My desire in life is to have enough disposable income to go to an anime convention with Internet friends (and to have enough Internet friends in the first place) and have money for cosplay and merch and food and explore and to even pay for any moots who may need it and to buy fancomics because they make me feral

#this is because of halveablock’s maki fanbook #I want it #but I don’t have a stable paycheck yet #the second I do #it’s all over for you #(by you I mean poverty) #kambili x jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #personal #moots 🥰 #anime

[mortemappetens]

The official fanbook states that Toge’s biggest source of stress is morning assembly and I find funny (although, considering his manner of speaking, I can’t blame him):

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It’s Monday, 8.30am, and because it’s summer the students are gathered outside. Jujutsu High is so far from a normal high school; but for some reason Principal Yaga insists on subscribing to some of the more typical and, frankly, mundane high school experiences.

Morning assembly, being one.

The schedule looks a little bit like this:

All students (wow, six of them, what a crowd) are to be gathered and organised by year at the bottom of the steps of the main campus building.

By 8.30am, all school faculty (all four of them, the fifth being on unpaid sabbatical while the third years are suspended) and the principal should also be present.

On confirming all attendees, they proceed with singing/mumbling the national anthem, voices drowned out by the inappropriately loud speakers blaring out an instrumental accompaniment.

Principal Yaga then takes centre stage to remind everybody of the school rules (perhaps because at least one is broken on a daily basis), before then moving on to students accolades.

General announcements follow, and if there are any, teachers step up to share their own announcements.

Before they end at 9am, Principal Yaga leads a very embarrassing stretching exercise to the beat of some 80s electropop music, then closes with a five minutes’ silence for “quiet reflection”.

And even if it is only once a week, Toge still sweats. Every single Monday at 8.30am, he sweats. It is particularly terrible during the summer, because it feels like he is trapping steam under his uniform. This Monday isn’t any different.

The moment the familiar trumpet instrumentals crackle out of the speakers, Toge feels the eyes on him, the grinning, even hears a giggle, and he is ready to put everyone to sleep just so he leg it the fuck out of there. Because-

Because he’s fucking singing out the list of ingredients for one of Musubiya’s more popular rice balls to the tune of Japan’s national anthem.

Like every Monday, he almost dies on his feet when he hears Panda “discreetly” transition from appropriately singing the anthem to singing rice balls ingredients. Why is Panda even here? The fuck does Panda have to be patriotic about anyway? Aren’t pandas from China? And Toge is pretty sure the materials he is constructed from is made in China, too. Fuck off, Panda.

Like every Monday, Maki sings a very unpatriotic bastardised version, a game of rice balls Mad Libs. This morning, she decided that the opening verse should be, “May the nori of the onigiri last for ten thousand servings […]”. The fuck is that supposed to even mean, Maki?!

Like every Monday, Nobara tries her best at channeling her inner pop idol and belts out the lyrics, each week louder than the last. But of course, with the antics of her upperclassmen, she punctuates each verse with a cackle - each week louder than the last. Come on, Nobara, pop idols never break character.

Yuji is a relatively new addition. He doesn’t know the drill very well. Toge is grateful for it. It is a refreshing change to have someone sing the lyrics of the anthem without inserting any laughter or culinary flairs. He does stare a lot, though. Toge can feel his comically large eyes burn his ears red.

And Megumi- Well, like every Monday, Megumi stands perfectly still, lips slightly parted though no sound is uttered, his eyes resolutely shut. Toge wonders how long it took him to perfect his talent for sleeping anywhere, on his back or standing upright.

And it’s not like any of them can be ignored. There’s just the six of them. There’s no cacophony of voices to drown out Toge’s, no sea of bodies to duck behind. There isn’t the anonymity that comes from being just another student, another face. And surely, most definitely, none of the teachers miss what each of them is doing.

But Jujutsu High is no ordinary high school staffed with ordinary teachers, run by an ordinary principal. And Toge’s no ordinary student. So Principal Yaga doesn’t say a word, Gojo sensei sways to the morose beat of the anthem, Dr. Ieri takes a leaf out of Megumi’s book, and Kusakabe sensei scrolls through his phone. And Toge (and Panda, and Maki) ends the anthem with a mumbled “pickled plum”, wiping the cortisol saturated sweat from his forehead.

At least the worst of it is over. Now he just has to mentally prepare for Principal Yaga’s fucking morning aerobics.

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk crack #jjk fanfic #inumaki toge #maki zenin #jjk panda #nobara kugisaki #yuji itadori #megumi fushiguro #yaga masamichi #gojo satoru #shoko ieiri #kusakabe atsuya

[brickme]

💕💗❤️🥰❤️💗💕

The print quality is beautiful and it includes WAY more than the 300 pieces of art they promised! I'm very very happy to own it and so grateful the exhibition made Shueisha get off their lazy butt to put this together.

As expected, the selection of art focuses largely on title pages. It includes almost all Narumi and Aira title pages, which is lovely, but there are a LOT of Ranze title pages missing, which I have to ascribe to the original manuscripts having been lost (like Ikeno has told her fans in private multiple times).

16 of the missing Ranze title pages were reprinted in the 1987 furoku "Memorial scene collection", so my theory is they were all lost in the process of printing this furoku, and the ch. 4 title page might have been lost when it was reprinted for the "Anime special issue" magazine. This would also explain why the Italian edition uses different cover art than the Japanese tankobon edition for volumes 2 and 9! I've been wondering about that for a while. If this is true, a ton of beautiful, wonderful art has been lost. :(

Other titles pages which were not included: Ranze ch. 1 (included in the Tokimeki manga-michi tankobon), ch. 21, ch. 22, and side story Christmas no okurimono (included in the Romantic Album fanbook); Narumi side story Ginga romance no yoru ch. 1; Aira ch. 20, Aira side story Poteto no Merry Christmas. Ribon covers which were not included: Aira cover of Ribon bikkuri zokan early spring 1993.

Of these I'm missing Ranze ch. 22 and Ginga romance no yoru ch. 1 in my collection, so I'll make it a priority to pick up the relevant magazines in the near future.

Other than that, there are six pages reprinting a more or less random selection of furoku art, a smattering of black and white manuscript pages, and three pages (one for each arc) reprinting preview illustrations, magazine spine illustrations, novelty phone card illustrations, and other rare and beautiful art, which might be some of my favorite pages of the whole book <3 I absolutely adore Ikeno's preview illustrations, so much cuteness and beauty crammed into such small spaces! These pages are a must see and must own for fans. The interview with Maki Yoko and Mochida Aki is fine, not particularly insightful but you can tell they're both genuine fans of Tokimeki and of Ikeno's art.

One glaring omission from this book (aside from the Ranze title pages) is the numerous rough sketches that were displayed at the Tokyo venue of the exhibition -- only five of them are reprinted here. Just more reason for people to go to the venues though, because holy molly those were absolutely amazing!!! I really hope they'll be displayed at the Kyoto venue too, so I can take pictures of every single one of them.

But all in all, this is a wonderful book. If you visit the exhibition, or if/when it goes on sale online, you should definitely pick it up -- it's a masterpiece of 80s and 90s shojo art!

#tokimeki tonight #ikeno koi #text post

[jarimaa]

Sukuna vs Gojo/ Gojo's Narrative Development

So, I wanted to put some of my thoughts here regarding the fight and mainly how I would like the outcome. This is in no way a theory that I believe will come true but something I would personally like to see. At the end of the day Gege is gonna do whatever he has in mind for his story and I would respect it.

So far, I love the fight, Gege is literally giving a cinematic experience with this, especially when we are reading it weekly, chapter after chapter it ends with so much speculations and excitement that it’s crazy. I am not lying when I say very, very few series can pull out such level of excitement from me. As for the outcome of this fight, like many have speculated for various and reasonable reasons that Gojo should lose. I don’t disagree. But…

Gojo as a character has always revolved around strength, his friendship with Geto also existed because he thought both him and Geto were above everyone else so naturally they would understand each other. Its not like other people were not ready to understand him, it’s just that Gojo never let them in, for Gojo anyone weaker than him cannot understand him and that’s why he wants to raise equally powerful allies so that no one is ever alone.

But this is delusion from part of Gojo, people don’t need to be his equal in strength to understand him, but his is stuck in his own head regarding the idea of strength. Gojo cares about people, yes, but he values and have always valued strength the most. That’s why he still considers the one person that ever came to his level, Geto Suguru, as his only best friend.

It’s not like Shoko was not there, but he never let her in, cause probably to him she is not strong enough to understand him.

Contrary to the belief many people, Gojo in fact did NOT raise Megumi, and Megumi considers him a benefactor or a teacher at best.

In the fanbook it is clearly mentioned that he saves students especially when they are strong. And I think with exception of Yuta and Yuji no one genuinely respects him, they saved Gojo because they thought he will solve all the problems. What Gojo raised are mini versions of himself, they do not have any goals which align with his own, none of them particularly care about changing the jujutsu society, even maki just wanted to be the head of Zenin clan to spite others and to make a safe space for Mai. Gojo’s students are strong but they don’t work together that well, its hard to call all of them friends, these kids instead of valuing their friendships value their strength more, just like their teacher. And this is a blunder and huge mistake from Gojo’s part.

Gojo’s ideology is heavily flawed and does not really help change the system, he is just replacing cogs with another cogs, like higherups with people who agree with Gojo, and this high emphasis on strength being so important, its not helping at all, it’s what the society already values. Gojo is not really changing the system when he believes in the same things that system requires of him. He is the perfect embodiment of the system itself. That is part of the reason why I don’t subscribe to his philosophy.

And now let’s come to the actual part I gave so much background to, i.e., Sukuna vs Gojo

Sukuna in many ways is Gojo’s true equal, both are THE strongest, they both suffer from isolation that comes with being the strongest, both value strength the most. So, in many ways they truly understand each other. Both are probably having time of their entire life fighting each other and from the looks of it, enjoying themselves to the fullest. For the first time in both their existence they have someone who can give them a great match and even defeat them.

This is the best time to question the idea of strength itself and possibly make Gojo realise that maybe it was not strength that was important in relationships, but the personal feelings. I want Gojo to lose and I want him to realise how flawed his thinking was and how badly he has failed the students whom he was nurturing to stand beside him. I want him to realise that he completely failed Megumi because the end of Megumi’s side of bargain was the safety of Tsumiki, which Gojo failed to give him.

Sukuna and Yorozu fight made me realise that the concept of 'love' of going to be brought again in this fight, their fight makes it clear that the love yorozu has for sukuna is more related to isolation sukuna feels because he is the strongest, yorozu wanted to fill that isolation by showing him the ultimate expression of love that is being equal to sukuna and defeating him. Yorozu realises that the ultimate way to show sukuna that she loves him is by defeating him, but she was unable to show him that ‘love’ because she was not his equal.

Sukuna thinks about that line yorozu said to him about love during his encounter with gojo, well it can’t be a coincidence. In sukunas head maybe its gojo who will show him the ‘true love’ which is the overpowering strength in a fight.

I want Gojo to look at sukuna and realise that even though Sukuna is the true equal of Gojo, that he is not like him, he does not consider Sukuna a pal, even though this is his most enjoyable fight because it actually has stakes, he realises it’s at the expense of the first ever student he scouted and someone he failed as teacher.

Narratively Gojo losing makes sense, but I don’t want him to go down without having this realisation that maybe strength was not the only important thing, personal connection, teamwork and relationships were too. I want him to realise how he pushed people away when he could have had so many friends genuinely caring about him and correcting him, sharing his burden and covering his blind spots. How he could have been a respected and beloved teacher of students, how it was not just strength that made Geto understand him but also their personal connection as humans. That he is not above these people he deemed weak, he is very much like them, I want him to be grounded and this is the best time for this character development from Gojo.

I mean I will still like him as a character even if Gege takes some other route, but to be honest I would really like a good conclusion for his character, I want him to realise his flaws and then go down, more like how a sorcerer never dies without regrets. And he should have many many of them, afterall he is the strongest. I know this is less than ideal ending for his fans, bur story wise I think it would make a lot of sense.

If you guys have some thoughts let me know, and please be civil here, I don't hate him, he is one of my favs too, I just wanted to share some of my personal thoughts, I know I could be proven wrong at the end but that's fine, that's the fun of theorizing.

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk meta #gojo satoru #ryomen sukuna #sukuna vs gojo #so i am finally thinking of writing more #this is one of my first metas and since i had some things going on in my head i just dumped them #i would like to improve my writing and theorizing as well #sukuna #jjk manga spoilers

[cursedvibes]

I just saw the academic stats of the official fanbook and cry laughing how Yuuji was second to dead last. Gojo is the epitome of that gifted physics PhD student who knows * everything* but forgets not everyone knows or learns like he does naturally so the students are left swimming in the dead end.

For reference:

*sigh* don't remind me. Twt's response to that has been bothering me for a while. Just another opportunity for people to completely misunderstand Yuuji's character and just jump to the conclusion that he's dumb. Of course they are gonna bring up him counting down Mahoraga's attacks on his fingers as if that's unusual or a bad thing. Even saw someone say he would only finish high school at 20 (because he's too stupid not because he's busy fighting for his life). They are just running full force after those Dumb Shonen MC tropes, completely ignoring his actual character. That very same fanbook even says he's a pretty good student in regular high school, does his homework, no signs of being behind, only sciences are his weakness.

I think it's very noticeable that the Kyoto students seem a lot better in academics than the ones in Tokyo and I don't think that's because Kyoto happens to attract Mensa-level students. They just have better teachers, meanly Kusakabe and Utahime. Like you said, Gojo is a pretty shit teacher. He barely taught Yuuji or any of his other students anything in terms of jujutsu (as his fight against Sukuna reminded us) and I doubt it's any different for common subjects.

Most of the regular school teaching is done by windows and assistant directors, but they are also notoriously overworked and that might be the reason for why the students are lacking behind in comparison. I mean, Hakari is a very intelligent guy. If the school hadn't treated him like shit, I'm sure his score would be much better. Same with Maki. I could see her having to serve as the only weapons teacher at the school cutting into her study time. Don't know why else she would be behind Mai. Hell, the students don't even have theoretical knowledge of jujutsu, like barrier techniques for example.

I guess Tokyo Tech just banks on the students dying before getting a high school degree. It is a very neat tactic to keep them from seeking a non-sorcerer occupation. Nanami and Ijichi got lucky with their education.

The other categories Jujutsu Sense (Ability to use CE & CT) and Reflexes (Motor skills without CE enhancement) are a lot more even, with Tokyo leading in places, but it's also something that's a lot more reliant on innate talent not teaching. Like how Yuuji got only a couple of useful lessons from Todo and Nanami (and Kusakabe) and thankfully that was enough to get him to the level of a grade 1 sorcerer. Thank god he learns fast or he would be fucked.

Also, all those people making fun of Yuuji for not having straight A's in physics or math are also the ones complaining about CTs being too complicated or don't know how the Culling Game works. Yuuji understood that pretty quickly.

#sorry you hit a bit of a nerve there ^^' don't take it personally I'm just ranting #hate how often Yuuji's character gets dumped down to generic tropes #and I love to talk about how shit Jujutsu Tech (Tokyo & Kyoto) is #asks #jujutsu kaisen #itadori yuuji

[yutaleks]

your jjk blorbos and spanish:

yuuta is good at it, probably has a bit of an accent but that's because he actually tries too hard not to have one, so it makes him nervous dsdshsd very eager to learn too, except the first things he remembers are the curse words so don't bring him to family dinners (he starts going "hola me llamo yuuta hijo de puta, como estas mi poquita mierda, voy a joderte :D")

megumi is lowkey fluent because he decided to learn in secret the first time you mentioned speaking spanish, except he'll pretend like he doesn't because that'd mean he has to listen to your complaints in more than one language (/j) (one day you learn he's fluent though, either because he's decided to be a loverboy and tell you "you're not too bad", or because he insulted that annoying family member at a family dinner)

maki butchers spanish. you don't even want her to try anymore. still. she keeps trying. sometimes if she's feeling like trolling she'll keep mumbling "spanish" words even after you've sat on her face to shut her up

is gojo your blorbo i forgor gojo's fluent. who do you think taught megumi how to insult entire family lineages under ten seconds.

i feel like i'm forgetting a jjk blorbo somehow

On my JJK blorbos tier choso and naoya are above Gojo <3 I don’t talk about them much because Yuuta’s place in my brain is at like 99% capacity but they are there !!!

I always imagined Gojo to be like… fluent at literally whatever language he tried. Probably a polyglot. Megumi I think could learn it well! He’s very smart. Maki and Yuuta are notoriously of average intelligence (from the fanbook LOL) but I think Yuuta gives it an earnest try (he learns a few words. Definitely has an accent. Unknowingly says curse words 😭 LMAO). Maki learns the basics (derogatory) LOL

Since my native language is Spanish I’m not a very good judge of whether or not it’s a difficult language to learn. Mr aleks has learned more or less enough to have basic convo but he tells me the conjugation/grammar is rather difficult

#ϟ asking aleksandria #fwb anon

[yuesya]

I was wondering if you take into account any details or trivia revealed from the official fanbook for the fic? Some interesting details that could affect Zenith of Stars there like:

- Gojo having taken Megumi to visit the Zenin clan at some point (this is how he met Maki and Mai in canon)

-Megumi already having a long career as a Jujutsu Sorcerer before enrolling in Jujutsu High but only because Gojo kept taking him out to missions rather than being officially called or assigned

-Rika came out of her accord rather than due to Yuta's doing and this is how Tokyo High managed to easily decimate Kyoto High during the 2017 Goodwill Event (the cleanup was hard)

- The Inumaki clan being outlaws in the Jujutsu World and its members are normally hunted down but Toge was spared due to his cursed speech ability

-Hakari temporarily transferring to Kyoto High during the events of Jujutsu Kaisen 0 because of his incident with one of the higher ups and being present at the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons

-Members of the Three Families not being required to attend Jujutsu High at all and only do so out of the individual's accord.

Hello! So I haven't read the fanbook, which means that various details will probably be a little jumbled in comparison. In zenith of stars, Fushiguro Megumi met Zenin Maki and Zenin Mai during Obon, so we're already too late on that front lol.

Megumi being familiar with missions prior to attending school is also a thing in zenith of stars. As of chapter 31/32 Megumi has already accompanied other sorcerers' missions, as stated in the text.

2017 Goodwill Event is still quite a ways off in the current timeline, no comment from me on Okkotsu Yuta and Orimoto Rika.

In zenith of stars, the Inumaki are acknowledged as a sorcery clan. Members were once hunted, but currently are not.

I believe JJK0 makes mention of third years and fourth years being assigned to Tokyo, while second years were stationed in Kyoto for the Night Parade event. Then I think at some point canon JJK mentions the then-second-now-currently-third-year students having gotten into a disagreement with higher ups in Kyoto.

So, to the best of my knowledge there wasn't a student transfer between schools. Hakari and Hoshi were suspended, but still considered to be affiliated with the Tokyo school as upperclassmen. No comment from me on how the events of 2017 will go in zenith of stars.

In zenith of stars not all sorcerers from sorcery clans attend the jujutsu schools. Many are trained internally. More on that in the future!

#QA #zenith of stars

[halveablock]

i just finished a maki-centric comic. 47 pages, though the actual fanbook will have few more pages of extra content. this is a preview of the cover. (there’s some small WIP previews on twitter)

preorders for the physical books will open within two weeks, as well as ones for the print re-run of continuum (my stsg fanbook from last year). see you there!

edit: preorders are live now!

#jujutsu kaisen #maki zenin #jjk spoilers #jjk comics #i will tag this one #maki fanbook

[duefault]

the fact that the fanbook says that maki’s speciality is crushing empty cans is so funny to me. what a menace.

#★ ・﹙ faustian bargain bin ooc ﹚ #is she showing this skill off to people #do they pity clap and go wow that’s awesome #i need to know more

[maybetomoko]

Q&A about some characters (Jjk Official Fanbook)

Q: Who are the most popular male and female with the opposite sex? 

A: Geto and Miwa. 

Q: Among the Jujutsu High characters, the sorcerers and black sorcerers, are any of them married?

A: Masamichi Yaga, divorced. 

Q: Who is the one who drinks the most, who is the one who becomes annoying when drunk, and who is the one who cannot hold the liquor?

A: The big drinkers are: Shoko Ieiri and Kento Nanami. The heavy drinkers are: Utahime followed by Naobito. The non-drinkers are Gojo (and all underage characters are obviously excluded). 

Q: Do Itadori and first-years go out together a lot on their days off? (For example, to go to karaoke, to Chinatown, to Tachikawa City, etc.). 

A: Yes, they do go out together a lot but (including second-year students) they tend to separate male and female students. 

Q: Of the first-years, Itadori is the best at cooking, but who wins between Fushiguro and Kugisaki? 

A: They're more or less on the same level. Both can cook to a certain extent. 

Yuji Itadori

Q: In Chapter 4, Itadori says that he is not very popular with the girls, but what is the reason?  

A: Apparently the girls who fall in love with Itadori are not the type to talk about their feelings to the people around them. Not even Itadori himself, of course.  

Q: In volume 2, in the extra “Walking with the Institute of Occult Arts” he went to karaoke. I'm curious to know what he sang. And I'd also like to know the singing skills of each character. 

A: Itadori is the best one. This is due to a prejudice of mine that people who can do imitations are also good at singing. 

Q: In Chapter 34 he said: what if I became even more stupid? Maybe Itadori is not good at studying? 

A: He is not good at maths (arithmetic?), while he is quite average in subjects where he just has to learn by heart. 

Megumi Fushiguro

Q: When did Fushiguro and Gojo meet? 

A: A long time ago. Fushiguro is related to the Zenin family and the Zenin family is related to the Gojo family and the Jujutsu High. This is the point of contact. 

Q: Fushiguro often touches his left shoulder, is there something wrong with his shoulder? 

A: It's just a habit. I think it even started at the time of writing the storyboard for the series pilot. 

Q: Fushiguro uses shikigami through shadows, but how many animal images can he learn to create with his hands? 

A: Excluding the propagation technique, there are ten types of shikigami. 

Q: Why is Fushiguro's father resistant to curses even though he has no evil energy? 

A: Papaguro's divine baptism (Heavenly Restricted) is stronger than Maki's. While Maki has the same evil energy as a normal person, papaguro's is zero. The reason why Maki is not resistant to curses while papaguro is yes, is that the latter's divine baptism (Heavenly Restricted) has strengthened him to such an extent that his eyesight is exceptional and his stomach is extremely strong. This means that his eyes can see curses and his body is fine, even though he has a cursed spirit in his stomach. His baptism of God (Heavenly Restricted) is the rarest of all; the fact that he has totally eliminated evil energy paradoxically makes papaguro resistant to curses. 

#tomokotranslates #there may be some translation errors or grammatical mistakes (maybe) #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jujutsu kaisen fanbook #jjk fanbook #jujutsu kaisen manga #jjk manga #itadori yuuji #megumi fushiguro #yuji itadori #fushiguro megumi #tomoko's translations

[saga-jihen]

Zombie Land DEMPA!! ( ゾンビランド DEMPA!! )

Sung by: Franchouchou (フランシュシュ) & Dempagumi.inc (でんぱ組.inc) Franchouchou (フランシュシュ) Members: No.1 Sakura Minamoto (源 さくら) [CV: Kaede Hondo (本渡 楓)] No.2 Saki Nikaido (二階堂サキ) [CV: Asami Tano (田野 アサミ)] No.3 Ai Mizuno (水野 愛) [CV: Risa Taneda (種田 梨沙)] No.4 Junko Konno (紺野 純子) [CV: Maki Kawase (河瀬 茉希)] No.5 Yugiri (ゆうぎり) [CV: Rika Kinugawa (衣川 里佳)] No.6 Lily Hoshikawa (星川 リリィ) [CV: Minami Tanaka (田中 美海)]  Dempagumi.inc (でんぱ組.inc) Members: Mirin Furukawa (古川 未鈴) [nickname: Mirin-chan (みりんちゃん)] Risa Aizawa (相沢 梨紗) [nickname: Risa-chi (りさちー)] Ayane Fujisaki (藤咲 彩音) [nickname: Pinky! (ピンキー！)] Rin Kaname (鹿目 凛) [nickname: Perorin (ぺろりん)] Eimi Naruse (成瀬 瑛美) [nickname: Eitaso (えいたそ)] Nagi Nemoto (根本 凪) [nickname: Nemo (ねも)] Composed by: Miyoshi Keita ( 三好啓太) Lyrics by: NOBE Album: Zombieland Pia (ゾンビランドサガぴあ) [bonus CD accompanying fanbook]

"I’m going to bet my life Turn this moment into a song Burn it! Beyond the limits and common sense The other side of soul Hurry up! Eat your despair Dance! Even if this body is exhausted It won’t rot! Hey! Like each other! SAGA saves the earth with love Zombie Land DEMPA!!"

#Zombieland Saga #Zombie Land Saga #ZLS #Dempagumi.inc #Franchouchou #Sakura Minamoto #Junko Konno #Yugiri #Ai Mizuno #Saki Nikaido #Lily Hoshikawa #Kaede Hondo #Maki Kawase #Rika Kinugawa #Risa Taneda #Asami Tano #Minami Tanaka #Mirin Furukawa #Risa Aizawa #Ayane Fujisaki #Rin Kaname #Eimi Naruse #Nagi Nemoto #audio #Miyoshi Keita #NOBE

[theogonies]

hiiii umm someone has probably already pointed this out but. uraume is almost definitely a gojo? and very possibly the progenitor of the entire gojo clan. putting the detailed analysis under the cut because this is a long ass post and very slightly spoiler-y for anime onlys

not a very convincing point on its own, but worth pointing out the obvious visual similarities between them. there are lots of other characters with light hair OR eyes but i can't think of any with both. also they're the only ones with pure white hair, even inumaki's is more of an ashy blond color.

but! into the more substantial stuff

according to the official fanbook, uraume and sukuna met 1,000 years ago, around the end of the heian period. in real world history, this was a relatively peaceful time during which japan began developing its own literary/political/intellectual cultures, thus becoming less reliant on china. in jjk, it's referred to as the golden age of sorcerers.

the relevant bit here being that the threat posed by sukuna was enough to draw the world of sorcerers together and push them to their limits.

here's where it gets interesting:

this common ancestor, sugawara no-michizane, was a real historical figure, a poet and politician who earned the support of the current emperor of japan, emperor uda, after lending the emperor his support in a political conflict with another noble family, the fujiwaras.

i mention them by name because in the culling games arc, uro calls yuta a fujiwara, not a sugawara--here's some interesting analysis for the curious. the relevant bit here is that while we don't know of any fujiwaras in the contemporary period, apart from maybe yuta, they were at some point an influential family of sorcerers in the jjk-verse. put a pin in that.

sugawara fell from favor after uda abdicated. eventually the fujiwara clan accused him of supporting the wrong candidate as successor to the emperor's throne, and he and his entire family were banished. sugawara died in exile.

a series of natural disasters led to the belief that sugawara's spirit was attempting to avenge its wrongful death. this is probably why maki refers to sugawara as "one of the three greatest japanese vengeful spirits." the real sugawara is now recognized as a benign deity in the shinto religion but it appears that this conversion never happened in jjk's alternate history, or that it isn't something the sorcerers recognize as fact.

sugawara was very fond of plum trees, and just before his exile, wrote a poem as farewell to his favorite, in his garden in kyoto:

When the east wind blows, flourish in full bloom, you plum blossoms! Even though you lose your master don't be oblivious to spring.

in addition, the sugawara clan's crest is the backside of a plum blossom.

in japanese, ura means behind, or back/other side. ume is plum.

there's a good breakdown of the name here which suggests that ura may symbolize a reversal of the values represented by plums in japanese culture (nobility, loyalty) or a betrayal of the sugawaras--possibly referring to uraume's choice to take sukuna's side.

another possibility that i'd like to raise is that uraume is either sugawara no-michizane himself, or a descendant of him. in this case the backside of the plum could represent exile--ie, sugawara's beloved plum tree seen from "behind," as he left his home. interesting in this case that uraume has a pinkish, almost plum colored patch on the back of their head. again--a beloved family symbol as something that is behind them.

their family's betrayal by the fujiwaras could have been the motive for their loyalty to sukuna, and perhaps a hatred of sorcerers' society in general (an interesting parallel to gojo satoru, no?)

thus: rejecting sugawara (a recognized sorcerer name) in favor of uraume (both a way of honoring their own family--the plum--and rejecting the culture it belonged to--the reversal). the "betrayal of nobility" interpretation of their name takes on a double meaning if this is the case.

anyway this may all be a bit of a stretch but i do think it would mesh really well with the themes gege sensei's established re: traditionalism, bloodlines, etc. really curious to see what they do with uraume and sukuna going forward.

#sorry researching this sukuna/ura fic sent me down a rabbit hole #and i had to get my thoughts out lol #jjk #uraume #sukuna #sukuna ryomen #gojo #gojo satoru #ronan talks

[tempenensis]

Hi there! How are you? If you don't mind, I'm curious about some things currently going on in the story, just so this doesn't catch you off guard, this ask contains spoilers for Jjk Ch. 219.

Alongside a mutual of mine we were interested in the occurrences currently happening in the manga and, since you are more expert in the lore of the narrative, your opinions are of particular interest to us.

First and foremost, we don't completely understand how is Sukuna able to summon and control Mahogara as Megumi didn't exorcise it prior to being possessed; Sukuna is able to summon part of it when the wheel appears on top of him and summons half of him when destroying Yozoru’s perfect sphere, does that means that he was able to exorcise it (out-panel perhaps?) or the fact that he didn't summon him completely allows him far more control over it? After all, we are shown how Sukuna is able to summon the wolves without giving them a stable form (as he compensates their deficiency with his enormous cursed energy output that Megumi doesn't seem to possess naturally as Yuta does), but he did complete the technique with the deer and ox (the deer uses Reverse Cursed Technique, does that means that if Sukuna doesn't summon the beast in complete form, not only are they still consuming the summoner’s cursed energy, but also they can't use their innate techniques?). In any case, Mahogara looks quite solid, so how does he works?

Secondly, is it possible that Yorozu is the ancestor of Mai and Maki Zenin? After all, Mai’s technique it's also “Creation” and also has the same handicap that Yorozu‘ possess, as the Curse Energy output is deficient with this type of technique (as Maki is part of one soul alongside her sister, once Mai dies she awakes her full potential, the same can be said for Mai, right? Had Maki died, she would have the potential to become somewhat similar to Yorozu). Furthermore, Yorozu vs. Sukuna (Tsumiki vs. Megumi) it's incredibly similar to Mai and Maki’s final moments, Yorozu implying that she’ll create a final gift for Sukuna before dying is just a parallel to Mai’s own last gift. I think that's made on purpose by Gege.

Thank you, have a nice day.

Hi!! Sorry for rather late reply. This week is kinda unforgiving.. I have so many deadlines QuQ

For your first question, honestly this is something that hasn't addressed yet in the series. Using the logic of normal incarnation, where ancient jujutsushi takes over a vessel, the vessel's soul sould be overwritten, meaning that not only their personality, but if they have any curse technique engraved in their soul, it should also can't be used by the new soul, a.k.a. the incarnated sorcerers. However, two characters completely destroy this logic - first is Kenjaku, which has been explained that it's related to his body-crossing ability, and the second is Sukuna. Both seem to have ability to steal "curse technique" and make it their own.

For Sukuna to be able to subdue all shikigami in the Ten shadows technique, I think it might happened during the bath ritual, as part of his effort to suppress Megumi's soul further. He has actually beat Makora once during Shibuya incident, so subduing Makora is not out of question for him. We still don't know the logic behind why he keeps certain shikigami in complete form while others not, but I think it's because the solid ones that he summoned have stronger technique and so, more "useful" for him.

Your second question, the official fanbook actually has mentioned that the Zenin clan is characterized by having multiple inherited techniques. So Yorozu's creation technique is an inherited one. Mai possessing the technique means that Yorozu's bloodline married into Zenin clan, be it actually her (I don't think so though), or someone else from her family.

Although Mai's death "elevate" Maki, if the opposite happens, I don't think Maki's death will affect Mai much, because Maki born with just very little curse energy. So what returned to Mai won't be significant. Mai can possibly grow to be as strong as Yorozu if Maki had never conceived at all. The heavenly power regards twins as one soul, hence why these two "weakened" in the womb because they have to share everything between them.

Also, interesting that you point about the final gift parallel. The Zenin bloodline is truly interesting

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