JJK 2x23 FULL REACTION!

there are so many reasons why executing yuji won't work: 1. it's become clear that sukuna has something planned and he was not about to let yuji die with 15 whole fingers in him. he would probably just bring him back and that would just end up with the problem of yuji not being able to be killed 2. even if they executed him without interruptions there are still 5 (?) fingers out there and even though the chance is extremely thin someone could absorb them and become a vessel. even though it's only 5 still no one can kill sukuna. there are only 2 people who would be able to kill him. mahoraga who's bit the dust and gojo who isn't allowed to be unsealed because of their saltiness 3. yuji is gonna gain sukuna's techniques as stated in season 1 and probably wouldn't even let himself be killed until he's made his bones

sukuna glazer

Talia, I appreciate the response. But that's the point: i never even mentioned any "mark" on yuuji's face to begin with. I was being corrected about something i never said. I knew that about yuuji's face. I was complaining about the narrative style and "rushed" explanation of the magic/rule systems of it. I've seen the show 2 times now and i'm REALLY trying to go through a third, and things are a bit clearer but still, i like JJK, i'm not shitting on it because i like the premise, but i'm saying the show does itself a disservice sometimes because it's alienating a good majority of viewers because of the story telling style and rushed explanations AFTER something happens.. it doesnt do a good job at planting the seeds of "this is a rule, now u know it, it may come up later"... instead, they just "wing it" with a random action/event and then explain it affter it happens, almost like the writer's making up the rules on the go.

Cyber

The person who first responded to you was right, the 'mark' on yuujis face is from mahito cutting him not sukuna. The narrator comes in for the very reason that a lot of people get confused and don't realise or remember stuff that would otherwise help you understand or predict things. In the manga you often get thought bubbles for characters where you see them realizing stuff and what not but in my opinion the narrator works better than having ten people narrate their own thoughts. Jjk does take maybe a second watch to understand more and if you do watch again you will pick up the foreshadowing and crumbs that you didn't notice the first time around. It's definitely worth rewatching.

Talia Twain

Hell if I know. I was posting my thoughts about that season and trying to see if I missed something and I had Lucius Malfoy over there coming in hot like I just gave his household elf Dobby a used sock. Never asked for his condescending bull.

Cyber

My dudes, why are you arguing on patreon of all places?

DarkNoctum

What are you even talking about?. Are you talking to yourself? You are saying that you're not gonna bother reading my yapping but then you literally went all the way down to my last section so you did in fact read it. Does it make u feel so special or empowered to pretend to not read? Like your opinion would matter more? Because it doesn't. Also my "baseless yapping" is based on the dogshit narrative that was presented to us so I'd say I'm more coherent than the narrative of this second season. It's ok to admit when something is not done well. I liked season 1. I liked geto and gojo backstory but the Shibuya ark in the latter part was such a mess.

Cyber

How do so many people not realize that thing on yujis face was not Sukuna, it’s a wound, Mahito slashed open Yujis cheek so there’s literally a hole in Yujis face and u can see his teeth through the hole, it is not Sukuna. I didn’t even bother to read your whole comment cuz it just seems like a bunch of baseless yapping without any understanding of the themes the show is trying to present and the direction the plot is moving to

LuciusArtoriusCastus

I'm so very confused with this season... and i'm usually the one winning all my anime trivia games :/ I can't tell if it's the writing or just weird story telling of said writing or if im being dense. I was so excited in season 1, then got somewhat interested in geko/gojo's backstories, but then just.. huh? Everything felt chaotic and random... even the clutch moments sometimes felt like deus ex machina IN THAT INSTANT, only to be "explained" with a backfill flashback or some narration... Look if the damn narrator has to come in and explain to us what Mahito figured out from previous fights in the competition and to create something like poly deus dump of random info in 0.02s in the middle of the attack itself and not letting us process, then that just feels like a last second cop out. At least show those "lessons learned" or "hints about a technique" earlier and put in some easter eggs and foreshadowing... the show just straight up doesnt trust its audience to understand some stuff with trails of breadcrums ahead of time, and then goes on to just assume everyone should understand everything in this exact moment because the narrator told you so, without actually letting anything breathe or let us use our brain... the show doesnt trust you to predict stuff or see motives or potential rises and falls, it just..does things... and then goes "you werent going to get that anyway because i think you're dumb so ima just say TRUST ME BRaH and then narrate over it without giving any reasoning... ) .. it's like someone said here, there's just weird plot armor for the evil folk. Also, in the fight of itadori, right before the rabits scene, Itadori had "a second mouth" on his face, similar to sukuna apparations, but no one, not even the show is acknowledging any of this... did the animators just say fuck it and put it there? or is it implied something else? there's no goddamn context to anything in this season.

Cyber

Not sure why two different people now have responded with spoilers regarding Tengen

Khalayx

Your complaints surrounding Riko and Tengen will be visited in the future, keep in mind the Shibuya incident takes place over a few hours. In these hectic and dire hours, why would the plot revisit Riko and Tengen at all. Those first five episodes were setting up Tengen for the future, not for right now, those episodes were also primarily about Gojo and Geto’s backstories and how they developed their differing ideologies while also introducing us to Toji, Riko was just a plot device. Tengen does play a role in the plot of jjk and u will see it next season. I have to say tho, if your favorite character is a relatively weak one, don’t have high expectations in getting cool moments from them, this is where JJK differs from many shounen in that in its context, it’s pretty realistic in its fights. To put it simply, the heroes have little to no plot armour (often times it’s the villains who have plot armour), so if a character is weak, they will simply lose or die, no bs, no plot, that’s it’s for them. Noabara and Megumi are fodder, sorry to tell u, u can love them but if u expect to see badass moments from them in a world with ancient special grade sorcerers then u are going to be very disappointed.

LuciusArtoriusCastus

for me personally its more that yuki was useless and completely irellevant. if you remove yuki from the episode everyone still gets free from ice because of choso's blood being mixed with uriume's (poisoning), geto still does everything he did and walks away and literally nothing changes. she is S tier like todo, imagine earlier in season when todo finally appears he says his line and then claps his hand and woogie boogie out of the combat making viewers go "wtf just happened" :D

Cayseron

I have nothing to criticise about the writing for this arc, this arc is very entertaining in my opinion. It is the unpolished animation that gets to me, you can tell which episode they didn't have enough time to finish and which one is more complete. Keep in mind the writing of a manga does not associate with the pacing of its anime, season finale of an anime was not within the writer's consideration. One arc completed, new arc next week, it is just how it goes, in JJK manga it went into the Culling Game Arc immediately after the Shibuya Arc. I don't know if this makes you feel better it's just the way I see it. About the importance of Riko and Tengen, it will be explained it's not overlooked. I do agree Geto's exit is a bit weak, in my understanding when I read the manga he unleashed complete chaos to the whole country and it makes sense he could get away from there so I didn't feel something is lacking. But in the finale the curses he unleashed did not have that presence, even the "Night parade" in JJK0 looks more imitating, for this I also hold MAPPA accountable for not giving animators enough time and respect. As for Yuki, well in my interpretation Yuki is meant to be the character that is not that much involve in the group, I always feel she has potential to become more interesting but maybe give her too much spotlight just doesn't work for the entire story. (Because Yuki does not hold a grudge to Geto2.0 , they just have different viewpoint, further dive into Yuki's motives and actions just complicates the goal of everyone taking him down.) To me it's just the animation failed to deliver the enough amount of emotion, it isn't the writing. I think we might be surprise how much better it could feel if we ever have the chance to see the 100% complete version of this season, or maybe just a few scenes.

Jason

I agree, Cayseron. Writing out my comment I realized what really bugs me most is that this entire arc revolved around all characters needing to "get to Geto to save Gojo", many of them do catchup to Geto in the end, but then we don't even see how Geto gets away from them once he's surrounded. I guess a bunch of black smoke and low-tier looking curses is all it took. Since it cut away mid-conflict we'll never really know. Even if Yuki had saved the day, it would have been a little meh for a character not in the rest of the season to deus ex things like that. But her doing nothing but talking us to death is even worse. She may be an S-tier, but apparently she wasn't able to prevent Geto from just strolling away after their conversation? All she did was act like a taxi service for the good guys? It's still so weird to me.

Khalayx

PREACH :D i said in discord how i felt this ending to a season was a huge lackluster. Especially yuki's part in all that was huge disappointment. Her whole role in this episode was just some goofy faces and empty threats. She is supposedly S tier? one out of 4? she is on same level as yuta and gojo and whole episode she was standing there like a passive waste of space listening to geto until geto just decided to walk away and she does nothing to stop him? i think i am way more saltier than i would be if she appears in the middle of the episode, but knowing her showing up was a cliffhanger of previous episode and this is what i waited a whole week for really pissed me off.

Cayseron

I feel the same. For me, it was a poor end to a season. The S-rank girl came just for the aesthetics. She did nothing against “Geto”.

AZuXa

I agree with you for the larger part. A larger part of where the show is lacking is no clear objectives any more. Why are the bad guys doing what they are doing? Why is pretty much anyone doing what they're doing? Beyond "free GOJO" which seems a bit too little too late. What else do we have. However I cracked and checked out the manga after this lack luster episode (maybe that was the point, to force our hands) and answers to your first few questions are given right away. Although the same thing remains. This show introduces you to baddies and then fights said baddies in the same breath and gives little plot toward most anyone. Its very weird, like a conveyor belt of non stop action. But at some point you forget what it's all even for and at all points it feels like the good guys are just running on borrowed time.

Ttsukasa

I though this arc was some of the best shounen anime I've ever seen, honestly. I'm 34 years old and have seen quite a bit. It was mature, emotional, funny at times, and utterly epic.

The Great Santini

Couldn't disagree more.

The Great Santini

I really, really disliked this episode when it aired - I paced around my apartment for 20 minutes afterward to burn off frustration. Took a few days longer than normal to watch the reaction here. I'm honestly not sure how to feel about this season as a whole. - The first five episodes set a bunch of stakes with Amanai Riko and Tengen, then never brought it up again. I guess we were lied to about her importance. - My favorite characters are Fushiguro and Nobura and they barely got any good moments. - Even purely action-wise, I think my three favorite fights in the show are all still from the first season. - This finale had no action or emotion and was largely just muggles getting ganked, a quick Yuta cameo, and a bunch of setup for next season just getting thrown at us? - The entire season was everybody fighting to get to Geto to save Gojo. Everyone (still alive) gets to Geto in the finale, and then...he just vanishes? They don't even show it. Does he teleport away? Fly away? How the heck did they all let him get away? The screen just goes dark - what the heck is that?? But what I disliked the most about this episode was that it felt like the entire genre of the show is now going to change next season. Rewatching it now, I'm recognizing maybe this was just a misunderstanding on my end all along. Maybe I will end up loving season 3, and then this season will look better to me in hindsight as a way of getting there. Maybe I will rewatch it 8 times and like it more with each viewing. I guess time will tell. Comments on Patreon and on Crunchyroll in particular also have me feeling like the only person in the world who wasn't pure hype for this arc :/

Khalayx

Yeah I totally get it. It technically works but I think its still a downer in my opinion. Yuta can do whatever he wants, release or make pacts or whatever but he will find a way around it with his so-called flexible curse energy. If he revives people I won't be surprised. The limit is only Gege's imagination. I still like JJK but just saying it's a buzz kill. I couldn't help thinking 'Rika was too good to get rid of so we are keeping it' kind of situation. Won't deny the fact how epic the fights are going to be but come on...

Decaf

two things can be true the turn of events can make it look like Gojo was in on it and the higher ups hate Gojo and use this as an opportunity to get rid of him

J-or-Dan

I think JJK power system is one of the most interesting in anime and probably my favorite. I will agree that the Rika and Yuta situation is a little strange and we were convinced that he no longer had Rika, but when u think about it a little bit, it kind of makes sense. We know Rika as a curse was a manifestation of Yutas cursed energy, he was the one who created her and bound her soul to the curse, after releasing her soul at the end of the movie, all that did was separate Rika from the curse that Yuta created. So basically, “Rika” is just a manifestation of Yutas cursed energy, and even if you took that away from him, we can assume he’d just be able to create another curse again anyway. In other words, what he has is not really “Rika” since Rikas soul is no longer there, it’s a curse he wields that he just calls Rika

LuciusArtoriusCastus

I really enjoyed how curses work in JJK and its mechanism aspect at first but I feel like it became its weakness down the line. All the techniques, cursed tools, and Rika stuff all get explained but it wasn't very convincing in my opinion. It's just 'bang bang almighty magic curse energy doing magic'. Lots of 'actually..' and 'secret property is...' moments. If you let go of those details of technicalities it's still a cool series tho.

Decaf

yuta is my favorite entrance to shibuya, and he barely did something😭 but when i read the "i will kill itadori yuji myself" oh god🧎 CHILLS EVERYWHERE shibuya was a whole fun journey with ya'll, sad af but the reactions were always fun hahaha, really can't wait for your thoughts next season!! thanks for posting on holiday season ya'll, much love always!

beannie

From what you're saying I'm assuming they'll revisit that fight at the start of season 3 but the vibe I was getting from the anime was they were going to forget about it, so I'm glad that's not the case but yeah, even if the season was good, the finale was lackluster and maybe not the greatest moment to end it in the anime, skipping a fight that was hyped in the previous episode, dumping a lot of info and just hyping the return of other characters. It felt more like a commercial for season 3 than the finale of this season TBH.

KaijinGarou

The difference with the manga though, is you'd be able to quickly know what happens because you'd be able to read it directly after. So it probably wouldn't feel as lack luster.

Gabriel Barott

Nah I'm with Carlie and Ange. Those old bastards were raring to jump at the opportunity to frame Gojo. They knew they were friends as much as they knew he fought him and killed him anyway. If it hadn't been that excuse, it would've been any other.

KaijinGarou

you understood fake Geto's motives really well! the episode was kinda confusing but I think you got the gist of it. my thoughts on season 2: it has been really good for the most part, it's sad what is happening in Mappa so unfortunately that affected the quality of some episodes but overall I'm satisfied with the animation. the story was great, albeit sad. we still need to see if the injured characters have made it and what happened to them. I think Choso is my new favorite character and my new husbando now that Gojo is out of the picture 🤣

Martina

Don't worry about other people's complaints over minor things like MVP of episode. You guys do you. Everyone has diff opinions about shows and that discussion and debate is what makes it great.

Uzair Islam

the real main character is hereeeeee

Amos_san

Oh I didn't know it was just one arm thanks for the clarification lol

Maya Coleman

Originally it was just 1v1 but the memes continue to a spider man meme with Makima too 😂

James Janak

just one arm, i think there was a translation issue lol

yasmina C

Rika being 'back' is eventually explained, for now we just get to be confused. Inumaki likely got clipped by Sukuna, bad luck tbh.

JadonTheEternal

i think you missed Yuki saying that Geto underestimates "human rationality" so they're not forced to fight if they don't want to, like Geto makes it sound. As for age, Geto said he's been planning this for 1000 years, so he's not in the hundreds lol Sukuna might be older, but Geto is def older than 150. -- great reaction as always!

yasmina C

Well I was blaming the author for that from the beginning, not the anime in particular 😅

KaijinGarou

Isnt it makima

Night Sterling

Carlie and Ange, have you seen the memes of Battle of the Groomers- Mei Mei vs Hisoka? They’re too funny 😂

James Janak

Also you know what's funny is most the villains losses were cause of other villains 😂

Night Sterling

Remember that the higher-ups HATED Gojo since he essentially controlled jujutsu sorcery society because of his strength. He stopped Yuji's execution and claimed him as a student, he continuously threatened the higher-ups, and did whatever he wanted. They could not do anything about it. Then Shibuya happened where Sukuna killed thousands and essentially ruined Japan. So they took advantage of that with him knowing Geto in your reasoning to create the perfect storm to ban Gojo

Ellijah Brown

Rika will be explained near the end of next season.

Shaw

DELETE THIS!!! THIS IS A MASSIVE SPOILER

Shaw

The reason why Gojo got lined up as an accomplice to Geto is because the two were known to be friends and Gojo let him go the first time in Hidden Inventory and then is the one that said that he killed Geto in the movie so in the higher ups minds he faked Getos death so that they could set all this up and just got betrayed by Geto in Shibuya. And unfortunately the Principal caught a stray bullet as their teacher who didn't see "the evil" his two students were plotting.

J-or-Dan

Kriss

You're correct on the inumaki but. The manga made it clearer

Pulse rifles suck in pve

JJK hits on all notes for me. More so than others that are still going. Cant wait for more

Unholy

I feel like that’s still a pretty shallow reason though, on the scale of this anime. Like knowing who Yuta was in the movie, he was a pretty compassionate and understanding person. Maki, Panda and Toge all came to like Yuji and can differentiate between Yuji and Sukuna. I would have figured that Yuta could be a more sympathetic person. (not a manga reader btw, so no real way to know definitively for me)

Gabriel Barott

I’m fairly certain the manga runs in a very similar fashion. If I had to guess, we don’t actually see the events of this fight until next season.

Gabriel Barott

1. Concerning Rika; I think Yuta freed her, so she didn't have to suffer any longer but she chose to stay with him anyway, so they still do everything together. 2. Pretty sure Inumaki got hit bei Sukuna's domain expension and barely escaped with his life. As you already said they treat Yuji and Sukuna as one person and Okkotsu doesn't know Yuji at all, so for him they are also the same person. So I don't think they lied and it makes sense for him to want to kill Yuji. But they didn't explain how Inumaki got hurt, so I could be off.

Phil

Next season my favorite character HAKARI FINALLY APPEARS he is mentioned in s1

Coils J

The reason why inumakis arms got cut off was because of sukuna's domain expansion

Maya Coleman

Gonna be interesting to see how everything plays out especially with two very loved characters.

Nick

nd ange is really good with his predictions and if u add some of both of your predictions together in a way u guys almost can understand the premise of the next arc

Coils J

Yuki's reintroduction was disappointing. Why would you bring back a character in the middle of an important fight with so much hype just to have her chat a little and do absolutely nothing else? If they wanted to get her back in the plot, they could just show her at the end of the episode like they did with Yuta. We didn't see her fight at all and considering how much of an information dump this last episode was, I reckon there was time for it.

KaijinGarou

What a crazy season 😭 Can't wait for the next one, I hope the animators get a well deserved break

noya22

So yes Yuta/Okkotsu (personally prefer yuta) was meant to be the mc of the story. And toge’s arms got cut off by sukuna during his domain expansion. As for the brain parasite( manga reader) I’m pretty sure that he’s around the same age as sukuna but I would have to re-read. And Yuta is someone who really cares about his friends and was implied that he couldn’t care less yuji is gojo’s student because “yuji” cut off toge’s arms, which is why he has 0 problems with being appointed as his executor.

Aaron Mitchell

With this arc, JJK surpassed Demon Slayer in my ranking :) everything was very well executed in this season. It kept us on our toes every episode. I think we are supposed to be confused about Okkotsu and Rika. In the end of the movie, she clearly died. I'm hoping it will be explained in the future. VERY EXCITED for the next season!

Aizensalami

The age of the brain parasite hasn’t been stated yet but he is at the very least from the same time period as Sukuna (Heian era 1000 years ago), the 150 year old thing was about Kamo Noritoshi, and brain makes it clear that Kamo was just one of many names he’s had, he also said in this episode that the contracts he made with the millions of curses and sorcerers are from the span of the last thousand years. So at the very least he has to be around 1000 years old, this is also why he speaks directly to Sukuna about the golden age, it’s because he lived through it just like Sukuna did. This also helps to explain why Uraume is working with him, they must have some sort of connection from their pasts. I wish we could’ve seen Sukunas reaction to the brains plans, that would’ve been really interesting

LuciusArtoriusCastus

I too am confused about Rika. Yeah, didn't Yuta free her at the end of the movie and she went to the afterlife or whatever? What's going on? Did Yuta make her come back from retirement? What an asshole 🤣

KaijinGarou

Dropped it after season 1 because the plot wasn’t gripping enough and watched season 2 through a bunch of reaction channels including yours. I’m disappointed in myself and wished I would’ve watched it as it aired🥲

Nah I’d win

That little girl at the end looks older than my grandma TBH. It's like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 🤣

KaijinGarou

Toge got caught in sakunas domain expansion so it was yuji/ sakuna who took his arms so no they are not lying to yuta.

RunAwayCloak

He basically made vessels like yuji and he brought people’s potential

Mesha

You pretty much got everything right with what fake Geto explained about the 2 types of sorcerers but just to clarify the cursed objects he fed are from other sorcerers and are like sukuna's fingers and also he gave them the strength to be vessels like yuji so he's saying that those people are a vessel for a sorcerer like yuji is with sukuna. And Toge got hit with a stray slash from sukuna's domain expansion and lost an arm cause he was on the edge of it. If you go back to the episode there are some rando's that he saved that said he was nearby right before they get killed by sukuna.

Night Sterling

Shibuya arc I think is a top 2 arc reacted on the channel along with the shiganshina arc (aot season 3 part 2). Probably the next season of jjk is coming in 2025, hopefully classroom of the elite is the next show you guys react💪

mohamed rafee