Jujutsu Kaisen has established itself as a contemporary shonen giant with its mix of visceral combat combined with a power structure more reminiscent of an elaborate legal arrangement. The world of Gege Akutami's hit series is one where decisions matter, and no character is truly safe in the hands of the reaper. However, despite all the impressive world-building, the series often finds itself in story dead ends that confuse even the most invested fans.
From international military actions that don't end anywhere, to final threats that simply evaporate, some of the plots seem to defy the logic that the series established in the beginning. Although this subversion of tropes is a very typical feature of the series, the rule of cool overruled common sense in certain cases. These are just some things Jujutsu Kaisen which are completely incomprehensible even in the climax.
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When Gojo Satoru was locked up in the Prison Realm, the rules were very clear that time did not pass in the cube. It was defined as a kind of still, psychological void in which a thousand years should seem like a second, but the body itself is not supposed to change. It was supposed to be a complete stop, a non-time zone that was the only way to keep the greatest wizard in the world off the board without necessarily killing him.
The misunderstanding occurs when Gojo is unsealed. Not only does he come out with a sharper, slightly older face, but he also appears much sharper than before. Assuming that time had truly stopped, there should have been no physical development or metabolic changes. Although fans joke that he spent his time doing spiritual bench presses, it's a glaring inconsistency in a series that otherwise prides itself on strictly applying its supernatural laws in a rigorously scientific manner.
The threat of merger was completely gone
In the Culling Games arc, the impending apocalypse was the Great Fusion. The mastermind, Kenjaku, was very interested in the ultimate goal: merging the entire Japanese population with Master Tengen to create one chaotic being. This was the ticking time bomb that gave the heroes the motivation to fight their way through the long and torturous tournament because there was nothing in the world big enough to end the life of a single human being.
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The surprising thing is that the merge never actually happens after hundreds of chapters of building. The series moves to a huge fight against Sukuna, and the end-of-the-world scenario is literally cut as an afterthought when the antagonist changes. The doomsday device usually plays a role in the climax of most long-running epics, and that's what we find here; this is the most ambitious plot thread of the series; it seemed like an extraordinarily long detour that brought us to a completely new destination.
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In the first half of the show, Megumi was only motivated by the need to save Tsumiki Fushiguro. She was a symbol of civil innocence in the wizarding world; the victim was a nurse in a supernatural coma that had to be awakened. She was the moral compass of the protagonists and fans waited years for the main character to finally wake up and be with her brother after the tragedy they went through.
The disappointment is that Tsumiki never got a chance to become a character. When she awoke, it was discovered to be the vessel of one of the ancient sorcerers named Yorozu, but she was soon killed by Sukuna. Her entire life has become a mere part of a conspiracy that was created to destroy Megumi's spirit. Typically, one comes in and tries to extol a character as a primary target, and then gets dumped after that character's activity as a generator of tragedy is exhausted.
Kenjaku's Black Hole Defying Plot Armor
Yuki Tsukumo, one of the four special class wizards, reveals his latest trick in a desperate confrontation with Kenjaku. She manipulated her own matter to the point where it literally broke and caused her to turn into a Black Hole. A black hole is the lowest point in the world of physics, even when considering cursed energy: it is a force of nature so powerful that it cannot contain light or even space itself. It was a move to ensure a two-way kill.
Instead, Kenjaku was able to live on thanks to what many may call the most convenient plot in the series. He just had the chance to have the “Anti-Gravity” method – passed down to him from taking over Yuji's mother – and it allowed Kenjaku to nullify the singularity's operation. It was almost like a fight on the playground when the kid bragged about having a shield that was immune to everything. Although the series likes its technical counters, having a certain never-before-seen ability to cancel a black hole was reaching too deep into the realms of inexplicable comfort.
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The dead end of the military underdrawing
The Culling Games saw the introduction of a special twist to the series where the US military was introduced to the games. Several chapters were devoted to high-level meetings at the White House, where the most powerful military in the world planned to kidnap wizards to obtain a clean energy source. It was an enormous increase in the dimensions of the world that suggested that the supernatural struggle was finally going global and that firearms might actually contribute to the spirit world.
The logical hole in this argument is twofold: first, the idea that 800 ordinary soldiers would threaten a population of people playing in space is ludicrous. Second, once the soldiers were also used as fuel for cursed energy in a few chapters, the whole international scheme was dropped and never spoken of again. It's as if the US government has forgotten that it sent the military into a death trap. This diversion introduced an unnecessary level of complexity to the world building that had no bearing on the end result.
The complete absence of security for Master Tengen
Master Tengen is the most important in the history of Japanese witchcraft. Without the barriers of the Tengen, the entire land would be flooded with curses and wizard society would fall into ruins. Since Tengen is literally the infrastructure deity of the setting, one would expect the Sun-Moon barrier to have the most advanced security systems and the best guards.
In fact, it was too easy to penetrate the heart of the jujutsu world. Kenjaku literally marched straight into the inner sanctum with almost no opposition to the stakes. With the main cast having been cast elsewhere, it never seemed sensible for such an important facility in the world to remain with such a basic crew. In a show that deals so much with the details of strategic planning, it seemed like a colossal mistake on Jujutsu Command's part to have no protection in the literal aspect of the world.
Jujutsu Kaisen
- Release date
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October 3, 2020
- Network
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TBS, MBS, CBC, Tulip Television, BSN, tys, NBC, HBC, RKK, i-Television, SBS, IBC, BSS, MRO, OBS, TUF, RSK, TUY, tbc, RKB, SBC, KUTV, RBC, UTY, RCC, MRT, atv, MBC
- directors
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Ryohei Takeshita, Masataka Akai, Chie Nishizawa, Daisuke Tsukushi, Tomomi Kamiya, Kakushi Ifuku, Ken Takahashi
- Writers
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Hiroshi Seko
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Yuichi Nakamura
Satoru Gojo
