Jujutsu Kaisen - Ch. 271 - From Now On

[MangaDex]

 

[shozen]

Really?! 🤦🏻🤦🏻

 

[HunterCO]

Like it's not a bad ending, just underwhelming. Welp at least the anime will look nice. (I hope)

To think out of all the last gen manga, Fire Force and Demon Slayer would be the few with a solid/good ending.

 

[ku4eto]

This was pretty underwhelming.

 

[valhau]

Bruh what is this

 

[SuperOniichan]

The ending of this manga made me realize that deep down I hate "and the adventure continues" endings. Because they don't provide any satisfying end to the story and are essentially often used to end the manga without much effort or thought about the ending. But maybe it was just axed in the style of the original Bleach and Beelzebub?

 

[Mangamoz]

I have never seen a single chapter, or animated episode of Kaisen, simply cause of how obnoxious it's young fan base is.

Now that it's over, all I see is fans mad that the ending was bad.

From a fan's POV, is it worth reading it anyway?

 

[Bramia]

The ending of this manga made me realize that deep down I hate "and the adventure continues" endings. Because they don't provide any satisfying end to the story and are essentially often used to end the manga without much effort or thought about the ending. But maybe it was just axed in the style of the original Bleach and Beelzebub?

I mean... The only way for that to happen would be to destroy the dragon veins or kill all the sorcerers in order to get rid of all the curses. The former option would honestly have been a much more believable way to beat Sukuna after Gojo lost to him... But we can't expect that level of story telling from Gege

 

[SuperOniichan]

I mean... The only way for that to happen would be to destroy the dragon veins or kill all the sorcerers in order to get rid of all the curses. The former option would honestly have been a much more believable way to beat Sukuna after Gojo lost to him... But we can't expect that level of story telling from Gege

Well, I don't expect this manga to have a

Spoiler: Title name

Fruits Basket

style ending where almost every character finds a family and a place in life. It's just that endings like these usually feel like the end of yet another arc.

 

[PrecureHunter]

man, so glad its over
i havent paid a cent for this series, and i still feel like i didnt get my money's worth... although i do value time higher than money, everything from the start of the culling game onwards was complete asscheeks


i will probably never read anything from Gege again, but i hope he comes back after some years stronger than ever

 

[TENSEl]

 

[ocsibrm]

"I'm the only one left sulking like a child?"

Hell yeah you are, get rekt idiot.

 

[blehblehblahblah]

From a fan's POV, is it worth reading it anyway?

Honestly? I won't say no as a way of deterring, but it isn't anything special, and thus I wouldn't go out of my way recommend it either.

It starts off great, but it has a very clear fall off point and it's kind of hard to enjoy reading it after that point. I'm not under the impression that Gege is completely at fault for this, but it's definitely noticeable.

I still don't think it was anything terrible, but it's hard to get me to actually feel that way about a manga. Personally, I'd probably wait for the anime if you're truly just somewhat curious, as it'd probably end up being the overall better experience.

 

[fatto_catto]

I guess it could have been worse, but I don't think I'll ever read anything by this author again.

 

[mug3n]

I have never seen a single chapter, or animated episode of Kaisen, simply cause of how obnoxious it's young fan base is.

Now that it's over, all I see is fans mad that the ending was bad.

From a fan's POV, is it worth reading it anyway?

I stopped reading typical shonen manga a long time ago because the formula just doesn't make it anymore for me, I'm old. And I have to say Jujutsu Kaisen is the first shonen in a very long while I really liked, but it's only good until the mini arc with Maki and Mai ends, about half of it.

At first it's quite fresh, it has punch, has really good action with good hype moments, characters are good (specially female characters, which usually don't are in shonen), the magic system is whatever but has its quirks that make it interesting, it has some genuely heart wrenching moments I haven't seen in a shonen ever. First half is really good stuff.

After that, it starts to meander in the smell of its own farts. The author makes a battle royale, if you know, you know it's a terrible idea because battle royales in manga are the most braindead bullshit masquerading as something profound and this one is no different. He also gets trapped into the poisoned well Araki set up for the shonen genre with the stand system that less talented authors tried to copy and failed, with magic systems upon magic systems, and chapters being half exposition because it gets unnecesary complicated. The paneling deteriorates and action gets hard to follow. The final fight it's an excruciating and long winded battle against the final boss' plot armor the author had to set up because how the magic system got so bloated, with real time commentary from secondary characters because paneling got hard to follow.

Because the author also got trapped a little too much in the trope of "You have to kill characters because that means is real shit, bro", he had to introduce new characters that didn't had the time to develop properly and are useless and uncharismatic. Like, he could saved up the writing on the gambling guy, his boyfriend and the other old resurrected coot and nothing would have changed, at all. And I'm on the fence with the lawyer because he at least has an interesting background. And also another secondary character gets killed for very stupid reasons and its resolution is just braindead, his surrogate son just says to his father's killer that everything is water under the bridge cause life's a bitch. Like, whatever, dude.

This was hard for me, it was a candle transforming into a formless mass. It started really good and it deflated completely. I suppose if you are young and haven't read much manga in general you will find it better, I've seen people very passionately discussing the ins and outs of the curse system on twitter and I'm happy for them, but a magic system doesn't make a good story for me and it definetly doesn't hide the very obvious shortcomings this manga has. Still, I already had more than enough of my fill of shonen for the rest of my life and it genuely trapped me at the beggining, so there is that testament for its initial quality.

Just read until Maki gets powered up, then imagine she goes and kicks Sukuna and Kenjaku in the coot and everyone lived happily after, I suppose. That mini arc is the best part of the manga in my opinion, I think you should read this manga just for that.

Also also, he made the female character I was interested the most into anime Ayn Rand, pedophilia included. Thanks, I hate it.

 

[MangaField]

Man, this manga really fell off hard after Shibuya. I literally only skimmed through the last ~50 chapters.
Well, at least Gege‘s hate for Gojo was hilarious. Very unprofessional to let your own hatred for a fans‘ favorite sip into your story, but…. the memes were fire lol

Let‘s throw this one on the huge pile of „bad ending“-manga. Japanese really can‘t write great endings.

 

[Tyrn]

I have never seen a single chapter, or animated episode of Kaisen, simply cause of how obnoxious it's young fan base is.

Now that it's over, all I see is fans mad that the ending was bad.

From a fan's POV, is it worth reading it anyway?

From a 'not so young anymore' manga fan: tldr; - yes.

I think the obnoxious memes are just a natural consequence of popularity since anime and manga are mainstream now.

Overall my impression is that it's a good battle shonen manga. It's strong points are the combat sequences and the diversity in abilities that feels reminiscent of hunterxhunter. The story itself isn't 'groundbreaking' but the author does try to subvert expectations and that goes a long way in a genre that is typically very generic. I personally don't think the ending is bad but maybe fans expected a more impactful ending instead of 'and their adventures continue' from an author who enjoys breaking expectations. I've read far, far worse endings.

 

[mug3n]

To think out of all the last gen manga, Fire Force and Demon Slayer would be the few with a solid/good ending.

I tried to watch the Demon Slayer anime and got very bored by episode 12 of first season I had to drop it. And for what I have been told the anime carries it hard, so my opinion on my limited exposure to it is very negative. I find hilarious this ending is so nothing that Demon Slayer has a much better one, it's so funny.

 

[DiscountJoJo]

I.. well- its- ... Its an ending. I don't hate it, I don't wanna shit on Gege, but man he really needed an editor that could keep him in check a bit better. The first half of JJK is freakin awesome, genuinely some peak shit for real, but things got pretty dicey as it made its way to the finish line. And I get it, writing endings is fuckin hard, and no matter what it wont be able to satisfy everyone. Choices were certainly made and even if they weren't the choices fans might have wanted, it's what we got.

First half of JJK gets an easy 9/10
Second half: 7/10

Even in the worst of it the fight scenes and art had some amazing moments to shine

 

[HunterCO]

I tried to watch the Demon Slayer anime and got very bored by episode 12 of first season I had to drop it. And for what I have been told the anime carries it hard, so my opinion on my limited exposure to it is very negative. I find hilarious this ending is so nothing that Demon Slayer has a much better one, it's so funny.

For me Demon Slayer has always been solid, it kept things simple for the most part and has some really fun fights/moments. And for me at least the ending wrapped everything fairly well. Excited for the last arc, the fights were great and are about to be godly animated.

I think what kills some of these recent manga endings is that the authors will add these subplots, questions, ect... only to get overwhelmed, forget, or underdeliver.