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Begging pleading throwing my last $2 at Gege crying for Sukuna's talk-no-jutsu next chapter

My prediction hope & dream for JJK 266

So far I've been correct on Yuuji's domain being one of non-violence, (although the details I have gathered have yet to be revealed unless this is enough evidence).

and that

Yuuji's talk-no jutsu would be ineffective, but he might be capable of a listen-no-jutsu.

Sukuna can't relate - it probably feels like Yuuji is just rambling about his childhood, showing off how peaceful and carefree it was. Yuuji enjoyed shoveling snow (interesting how much snow came up, since this is important to my theory on Yuuji's domain. I guess it is still December 24th, isn't it? That's crazy. It's been at least 30 chapters by now).

Anyway, they're still in Yuuji's domain. I really, really hope that we get to see Sukuna's childhood next chapter. No one is aware of Sukuna's past, of why he became the monster (I believe it's a desperate grasp for his own autonomy).

Idk whether Gege will give us redemption but I still believe it could bring Choso, Gojo, etc. back.

Yuuji admit to not understanding his own domain, and I think it would be rly cool if Sukuna helps him to develop it. Maybe Sukuna could learn the value of life and connection, since Yuuji has this ability to reach people.

The thing with Choso is that he's like ash, but we don't know the size of Yuuji's domain - Sukuna's lacks a barrier, so I half expect Yuuji to be capable of that as well. Either way, I think his domain could cover the area where Choso's remains were scattered. He and Sukuna have this insane RCT ability, and domains get a can't-miss effect.

I really wanted to see Sukuna vs. the merger, maybe teamed up with the other sorcerers, but at this point I think that between Sukuna's destruction and Yuuji's reconciliation, they might be two halves of a whole that can redeem Japan from the chaos Kenjaku has caused with his merger.

Idk the details these are just thoughts I've gathered since yesterday.

Also we got to see baby Yuuji, show me baby Sukuna 😤 and how he met Uraume and also give me details on Tengen, I want confirmed lore so help me Gege.

If this upset you, then pls:

Listen I love Yuuji, and Megumi, almost everyone tbh (Mei and Mahito and Haruta, idc about u at all) but I also have Strong thoughts & feelings (especially) about Sukuna and I take his pain more personally. I know what I say is often unconventional and polarizing. I'm not saying this is canon, I'm saying that I have a hyperfixation and need to release these thoughts on my own blog. I don't want to start fights, I just like to see different interpretations and share my own. Frankly Yuuji was my first favorite character and I could never hate him. I just spend less time breaking down his perspective lately bc everyone else got that covered.

BABY SUKUNA THIS WEEK LET'S GOOO

The end of ch. 265

-sukuna has a moment of vulnerability w Yuuji (and verbally communicates this gently)

-Yuuji immediately threatens Sukuna. Give up all your autonomy (return to me, the perfect cage that kenjaku made specifically to contain you) or I'll kill you.

Of course Sukuna lashes out. He feels betrayed, probably even by himself for showing a moment of honesty and weakness, and being proven right after that he needs to keep his guard up always and forever.

Ch. 266

Sukuna is the traumatized kid turned edgelord.

We see over and over again he is not in touch with his emotions, afraid of looking inward, not aware that he feels anything.

This page of Megumi and Yuuji looks just like the time when Gojo dragged him into the world of jujutsu. He didn't really have a choice - it was to be sold to his family, where Tsumiki would suffer. Or become a sorcerer (which he still resented at the end of middle school). Now Yuuji is trying to do the same thing - but he's offering all he can to understand, to let it be Fushiguro's choice. He's saying I miss you, but I won't guilt you into coming back.

2 other interesting things in this chapter: the last panel sounds just like Nobara. We've long suspected that the last finger was still hidden (Gojo hid the last finger to suspend Yuuji's execution forever), and that Nobara could return and use her resonance technique on it (she was the last person still recovering who Shoko mentioned, and Yuuji isn't allowed to know because Sukuna might pick up on that. Also why Yuuta lied to Sukuna about eating it).

This post goes more into that, with a foreshadowing image and how i believed Yuuji's domain would be snowy (and there was a lot of snow this chapter). The rest of my predictions for his domain's ability are still unseen, but with Megumi coming back, I have to wonder if it's related (maybe it isn't but I'm too Naruto Influenced).

Maybe Yuuji's way of bringing Megumi back is more like a baptism, as I gathered from the flowers mentioned in ch.265.

This was my prediction for ch. 266 btw

On one hand I am sad we didn't get to see baby sukuna.

I also feel stupid for thinking that Yuuji would ever listen to Sukuna - he ruined that chance at the end of ch. 265

But I think this was a rly good writing choice that gege made. Ch. 265 especially, but throughout the series as well, we see many faces of trauma in Sukuna's expression. He normally gets laughed off as being grumpy or dismissed as a heartless monster.

Not knowing Sukuna's past life details explicitly makes this even more realistic. He really reminds me of Laura Palmer (along with real life people who have cptsd from that kind of thing). The signs are there, the story is there, if you know how to listen. But almost everyone does not. They say they understand, but their impressions are all wrong or shallow at best.

My comparison with Laura Palmer is in this reblog - OP's post is long, but provides a lot of context for the child abuse we believe that Sukuna went through. Be mindful of the content warnings.

I made another short post about ch. 266 here, that's short and simple with images from the manga.

My prediction hope & dream for JJK 266

So far I've been correct on Yuuji's domain being one of non-violence, (although the details I have gathered have yet to be revealed unless this is enough evidence).

and that

Yuuji's talk-no jutsu would be ineffective, but he might be capable of a listen-no-jutsu.

Sukuna can't relate - it probably feels like Yuuji is just rambling about his childhood, showing off how peaceful and carefree it was. Yuuji enjoyed shoveling snow (interesting how much snow came up, since this is important to my theory on Yuuji's domain. I guess it is still December 24th, isn't it? That's crazy. It's been at least 30 chapters by now).

Anyway, they're still in Yuuji's domain. I really, really hope that we get to see Sukuna's childhood next chapter. No one is aware of Sukuna's past, of why he became the monster (I believe it's a desperate grasp for his own autonomy).

Idk whether Gege will give us redemption but I still believe it could bring Choso, Gojo, etc. back.

Yuuji admit to not understanding his own domain, and I think it would be rly cool if Sukuna helps him to develop it. Maybe Sukuna could learn the value of life and connection, since Yuuji has this ability to reach people.

The thing with Choso is that he's like ash, but we don't know the size of Yuuji's domain - Sukuna's lacks a barrier, so I half expect Yuuji to be capable of that as well. Either way, I think his domain could cover the area where Choso's remains were scattered. He and Sukuna have this insane RCT ability, and domains get a can't-miss effect.

I really wanted to see Sukuna vs. the merger, maybe teamed up with the other sorcerers, but at this point I think that between Sukuna's destruction and Yuuji's reconciliation, they might be two halves of a whole that can redeem Japan from the chaos Kenjaku has caused with his merger.

Idk the details these are just thoughts I've gathered since yesterday.

Also we got to see baby Yuuji, show me baby Sukuna 😤 and how he met Uraume and also give me details on Tengen, I want confirmed lore so help me Gege.

If this upset you, then pls:

Listen I love Yuuji, and Megumi, almost everyone tbh (Mei and Mahito and Haruta, idc about u at all) but I also have Strong thoughts & feelings (especially) about Sukuna and I take his pain more personally. I know what I say is often unconventional and polarizing. I'm not saying this is canon, I'm saying that I have a hyperfixation and need to release these thoughts on my own blog. I don't want to start fights, I just like to see different interpretations and share my own. Frankly Yuuji was my first favorite character and I could never hate him. I just spend less time breaking down his perspective lately bc everyone else got that covered.

Link to the vid ^ (also they have a lot more of jjk analysis, references to paintings and Buddhism stuff etc it goes so deep)

The spiral staircase is from a music video?

This was my thought on the last page

I've been wondering where it is - if it were in the cursed warehouse, or further down with Tengen, then kenjaku might have found it.

I think Gojo might have hidden the finger overseas - maybe during his trip to visit Yuuta before the exchange event.

Then either Gojo could have gone to retrieve it, or Larue and Miguel brought it with them.

JJK 266 & Megumi's Childhood

i wanted to talk about megumi and his childhood for a bit, and how it ties into what happened in the most recent chapter, specifically the reasoning behind why yuuji's "i'm so lonely without you, fushiguro" was so moving for him.

i sincerely believe that everything about megumi and the way he acts can be traced back to being abandoned as a child, and i have a lot to say about this that doesn't pertain to this chapter, but that's for another post. for now, i want to talk about the logic megumi adopted to explain why he'd been left behind as a child, and how that carries through to 266.

the elephant in the room first: this is not a safe space to defend toji. you can say whatever you want about him "loving megumi," but it doesn't change the fact that he wasn't a good father, and he was never around for megumi. he gave megumi the first of many wounds, the one that megumi built his whole sense of self around.

what brought this up for me is this line that megumi shares to yuuji after yuuji has made contact with his soul in 266.

i've already talked a bit about how i don't think this should be taken literally (you can read my full thoughts here), but to paraphrase: megumi isn't saying they are literally walking side by side, rather that he holds them to the same level in his mind, and he wants to see them achieve peace and happiness. it's also implied by the "seeing off" part that he is standing back and watching this happen. he isn't a part of said peace

in that post, i touched on the way megumi is always willing to shoulder the burden of being a "bad" person when it comes to tsumiki and yuuji, and how that relates to this line, but for the sake of this post, i specifically want to draw the comparison between this line, and what megumi says to gojo in ch79 when talking about his dad.

he assumes that when toji and tsumiki's mom leave them behind, it's because they're going on to live a happier life without the kids. he adopts this mindset at a very young age, and with the previously mentioned line, we can see how it's carried through until now.

megumi has internalized the idea that he's nothing but burden that drags other people down. his young mind couldn't come up with any other explanation. he thinks he's the dead weight that's been cut in order for toji and tsumiki's mom to achieve happiness, so he believes that no one can be happy as long as he's around.

he also comes to accept that he will always inevitably be left behind. he assumes that everyone will outgrow him and move onto something better, so he lives in anticipation that he will be abandoned again eventually, hence, it is natural for him to envision the two people that matter the most to him needing to leave him behind to achieve happiness.

enter: yuuji.

he basically outright rejects the idea that he would be happier without megumi around. he tells megumi directly, "no, i'd be lonely without you." and he says this to child megumi, the one who only knew the feeling of being left behind and the idea that everyone else would be happier without him.

this is what pushes megumi to finally fight back, because he realizes his life actually is worth something to someone. he sees that him being gone won't make the people (or uh. singular remaining person) he cares about happy.

Sukuna going after Yuuji this chapter especially reminds me of that video where

Someone had adopted a bird who was abused in his previous home, so the dude's crushing the cage they had there under his feet while the bird curses and cheers him on.

I'm not saying that Yuuji deserves to die, but that Sukuna doesn't respect him as a sorcerer because Yuuji is first and foremost a cage to Sukuna, and I'm not sure if he'd be able to see past that.

Also bc of the way that Yuuji only tried to find humanity in Sukuna in ch. 265, briefly, but immediately ignored sukuna and called him annoying and only tried to communicate with him to demand help, all while sympathizing with school shooters (like the time he called Sukuna out to save Junpei). Bro has so much to say to Sukuna but it doesn't land bc he never listened enough to know anything about him.

Yuuji's domain felt like itafushi propaganda since the end of the Shibuya incident.

This post has aged well so far (ch. 267 is out now, only 4 remain)

But I noticed something else from those scenes in shibuya!

First, that Yuuji holds a rabbit as soon as they appear.

And the rabbits can keep appearing, after they've been taken out.

Second... The dogs? I forgot about that. And I can't say with certainty what they represent, but...

This page from the culling game arc reminded me of it.

(culling game foreshadowing & ending predictions will be their own post(s) because gege is driving me insane)

Sorry that the links have links, each post is quite short though, I'm just trying to stay organized without repeating myself every day.

In summary, Yuuji's domain was always itafushi propaganda, and the cryogenic sort of property feels even more foreshadowed now, so do with that what you will.

The fact that the rabbits can't truly be killed, and the white dog (who died in the detention center in season 1) appears there first. And then the black dog (who still lives, might have represented Kenjaku in this scene, but could also represent Megumi, in reference to Ch. 266)

Culling game foreshadowing - part 3/?

Yuuta & Uro, Hakari vs. The manga artist

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 4

Spoilers up to Ch. 266, foreshadowed up to Ch. 183

Yuuta recognizes that he has something Uro wasn't privileged to experience. That he doesn't have words that could have reached her. Much like Yuuji's failed talk-no jutsu (why do these guys think they can mansplain compassion, when if they would listen they could better understand and better talk to their opponent...)

I want to believe the first bit is a hint that there will be a prequel or sequel series announcement.

The tiger here always seemed like a reference to the tiger of west middle (Yuuji), but I didnt get it at the time and moved on. Now, it seems to be about Sukuna struggling to fight Yuuji, due to the love that he showed Megumi in ch. 266.

Anyway, this chapter seems to be much about what goes on in Yuuji's domain during Ch. 265/266

The next 2 pages sound like passing time in your innate domain.

The first page here - Megumi's despair. Even before losing Tsumiki, he was so filled with angst during this arc. Losing motivation as a reader... Megumi used to read a lot (I think he stores books with his technique), but it can also mean that he's lost interest in observing and affecting reality. It's already been taken over by Jujutsu, and he's had enough.

The second page - - this is about Yuuji in ch. 265. Taking Sukuna on a walk to ramble about his (very happy, very unrelatable) childhood. And then turning suddenly against him with a death threat, when he was ready to speak vulnerably... Aren't stories for communication about understanding? It felt as out of place as using a pen as a weapon.

His vessel is already broken (Sukuna is losing control bc Yuuji connected with Megumi). He's also very emotional at this point.

Then Hakari opens his domain, but Yuuji's childhood also feels like a garbage infodump. It's also interesting that a train appeared in both of them, and not for any violent purpose.

It you're not over Itafushi in ch. 265 and 266, then this is for you.

So this follows part 4 of the culling game arc foreshadowing, regarding flowers.

I found that they've been used as amacha in a bathing ritual for Buddhist statues. Keeping that in mind as context...

The label on Fushiguro's drink here reads midou, or meedō if we're going to translate it phonetically. It isn't in katakana, so it's probably a Japanese word, but I don't know it.

Only one definition came up, and...

That's interesting. That's suspicious.

I know the statues by Grandpa Itadori's grave represent Yuuji. And I've guessed that the origin story this ritual celebrates is about the Buddha who represents Megumi.

And I guess he's also a statue, who will be enshrined and bathed.

Tldr I assume this all is foreshadowing to the curse bath and to the figurative one, that happens in Yuuji's domain.

Speaking of Yuuji's domain.... It's peak itafushi, I should make a masterlist of itafushi stuff at this point.

I'm not an expert on flowers, Buddhism, or Japanese so any additions to this are appreciated

Bruh I kept saying that based on the hydrangea appearances and their connection to the amacha bath, that Yuuji would basically be giving Megumi a baptism...

So how did I miss sukuna saying that Yuuji's CT breathed life into him??

it's always "i love you," and never "eating meals we made out of habits, watching the sunlit laundry, walking side by side with a person like you, and seeing off tsumiki...i wanted to think, ah, i'm so happy."

a manga panel cannot hurt and heal you at the same time

the manga panel in question:

may the power of yaoi save megumi and itadori

Baby Megumi whose mom died at a young age, whose father abandoned him and sold him to the Zenins, whose step-mother ran away with the money they got from the Zenin clan. I wholeheartedly believe that kid would have grown up with serious abandonment issues. That little boy who only wanted the best for his step-sister because in the end she didn’t abandon him like the rest of his family so that’s why he has to protect her, her kindness, he has to become a jujutsu sorcerer so he can be strong enough to save her. That kid meeting another kid who is kind, compassionate, silly enough to eat a curse object, but he loves that kid now and that means he needs to save him too. This boy who only wants to save his sister and this new kid he befriended but ends up harming them both, killing his elder sister with his own technique and unable to do anything as the curse residing in his body harms the pink-hair boy he loved and wanted to save while his soul sinks deeper and deeper. So…he gives up…he gives up fighting because who else is left, there is no one, no body that wants him around anymore.

That little kid hearing the words “it’ll be lonely without you around”….i can only imagine the feeling of being wanted, being needed that would have rushed into him after hearing that. The feeling of ‘I am not alone’, ‘there is someone that wants me for me’ coming from that one boy that he needed from the most.

MY SON IABSUEVWQIWG

ITAFUSHI CANON

People thought that the divorce arc was over with Higuruma. But no, look at these two now. Yuuji better get the house, the dog, the car, the lawn, bag that cash- EVERYTHING IN HIS RIGHT. Suck that old geezer dry, hah!

Pinky and ring finger... pinky promise finger (also the one that represents communication) and marriage finger... Broken promise, no communication and no love okay, Gege. Okay, fine.

FIGHT FUSHIGURO ❗

Artist: @sepira01001011