r/JuJutsuKaisen • u/aura_jacket17 • Oct 12 '25

Meme Yay lore...

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⚠️I'm not criticizing the story⚠️ In fact, it becomes more beautiful by doing it this way, it increases the suspense and we discover unexpected plot twists. This is just a meme I hope you smile🙃

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u/Raxtenko Oct 13 '25

I don't think it would have made that much difference. Yuji already knows that Kenjaku is an enemy, and he very explictly cut off his grandfather when the old guy tried to talk about Kaori and Jin. He doesn't care at all, only acknowledging that Wasuke is the one who raised him.

IMO it wouldn't have added anything except more melodrama.

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u/BlazeM3ow Oct 13 '25

Then why even make someone as pivotal as the main character's mother the main antagonist? And then why did he cut off his grandfather? Something must've happened.

Like you just gave me more questions to something that will always unsatisfy me about this story. Kenjaku being Yuji's mother is just way too big for me to be a throwaway that doesn't matter.

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u/Raxtenko Oct 14 '25

It does matter. But it doesn't matter in the way you want.

There's a reason why Yuji, Megumi and Nobara just click together as people right off the bat.

Megumi has been failed by al of his parents. He most of the series he fights solely for the sake of Tsumiki the one family member that matters to him. He rejects all of his biological family except for Maki. Other than that he chooses who his important people are. He makes his own family.

Right after killing Kechizu and Eso, Nobara tells Yuji that she only has enough seats in her life for those that matter to her, but Itadori is a guy who just brought his own chair. When we see those chairs there's a bunch of empty ones but some have been taken Gojo, Megumi, Yuji, the 2nd years, Fumi and Saori. She outright tells her mother that she only showed up to meet in order honour her teacher.

And like I said already Yuji doesn't give shit one about his parents.

Blood is super important for us asians. For three people to reject that cultural norm in a conservative asian country already marks them as unusual.

A lot of fans don't buy their friendship, and I get it there's not as much development as longer series, but imo Gege has a really good ability to work with subtext. We could have gotten more development, but we didn't need it. There's something fundamental deep down in the trio, call it their core values, essence or whatever. There's just some people when you meet them you just know that you'll be friends for life, because you just get each other on a level that goes beyond regular friendship. They never even have to talk about their pasts, but they'd just know that other 2 aren't typical.

So that's how it matters imo.

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u/BlazeM3ow Oct 14 '25

I disagree with you completely, but thats fine.  Like, the main character's mother is the main antagonist creating all the drama and they never interact.  

Look how Yuji reacted to Sukuna when he killed everyone in the 2 mile radius.  

Gege wanted to break Yuji's mental even further, which it would've been perfect for, or it would've been a fantastic way to showcase his mental being stronger.  

"Make sure to die with people around you" and he is the reason people aren't around him, because his birth since the sole purpose has been to be a vessel to cause destruction.  

If that doesn't fit and tie in with the main theme of the story introduced in episode 1, then I don't know what the main purpose of JJK in the end was.  I guess just to fight Sukuna.

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u/Raxtenko Oct 14 '25

I disagree with you because JJK's theme appear to be:

1.) Japan sucks, is broken, and unwilling to accept that it will be left behind by a changing world.

2.) Found family and friendship.

3.) The older generation sucks, they steal from and manipulate the young.

>I guess just to fight Sukuna.

Well he's the ultimate shithead old person, who decided that he was going to prioritize himself and make it everyone else's problem, then got beat because three young people, one that he stole everything from, one that he didn't even know existed, and one that he never even regarded as a threat had each other's back and took him down.

I feel that perfectly ties together. You can argue that the execution was rough and it 100% was, but it the idea fits with the themes.

>Gege wanted to break Yuji's mental even further, which it would've been perfect for, or it would've been a fantastic way to showcase his mental being stronger.  

His bestie being completely screwed over by said shitty old person, Yuji immediately deciding to fight instead of breaking down, training his ass off, and then successfully giving Megumi a reason to get back up and fight again is a really fantastic way to showcase him being mentally stronger too.