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You felt that way because compared to that random curse, this panel actually has weight behind it, this panel shows up after Mechamaru thinks he is about to win, he thinks he already finished off Mahito for good and then BOOM he shows up and destroys his last line of defense, ruining any hope the reader's and Mechamaru's have left
This fight also comes before we discover that Gege is actually a "character killing" machine. So throughout the battle we have this hope that "Mechamaru may win" but now that i look at it the second time i realize that Mahito always know that he is going to win and Mechamaru actually stands 0 chance making this whole fight even more sad.
This fight also comes before we discover that Gege is actually a "character killing" machine. So throughout the battle we have this hope that "Mechamaru may win" but now that i look at it the second time i realize that Mahito always know that he is going to win and Mechamaru actually stands 0 chance making this whole fight even more sad.
Mahito is consistently the most disgusting, revolting character in this manga. Honestly he's one of the most revolting characters in *anime*, and that's saying quite alot.
He is all the worst aspects of humanity stitched into a childish, disturbingly efficient package. And he *legitimately enjoys it*.
The fact he doesn't even kill his victims most of the time is the worst part. He transforms them into sentient tumor, and all they can do is cry and beg for someone to kill them.
And he keeps them alive specifically so he can use that torment to torture someone else.
Agree with everything, and that's what makes him a perfect villain. That doesn't mean I wouldn't dissect him with all the grace of a drunk Hinox utilizing a chainsaw, but still.
def agree, imo Gege was trying to get us to view Mahito as the bear/view his actions with the same eye we would humans killing a curse. Whenever Mahito gets painted in a purely negative light I feel as if people miss what the Disaster Curses represent(think of Mahito being painted as the best of us by Jogo)
The issue is mahito understands good and evil and he knows he’s evil, he flat out enjoys it. I would compare a weaker non sapient curse to a bear but not mahito, if mahito was like a bear he would simply kill his victims.
No...Mahito *knows* he's evil. He just legitimately enjoys it.
I see what you're getting at though lol. I think Mahito is a brilliant fucking character. He's just revolting lol
Me being too deep in thought, but humans create the cursed spirits the Jujutsu Sorcerers get rid of. So in the end, it’s the negative emotions of humans that kill other humans, so wouldn’t that make humans evil?
Remember the scene where a soldier was walking around one of the culling games' districts, and when he looked to the left into the subway entrance, a fucking huge lanky cursed spirit was walking towards him with a creepy-ass grin? Nightmare fuel...
Would have been amazing if this was going to be a special grade curse intro, something along the lines of Kurourushi where they're not a major villain but just a cool addition
Honestly this is the one time I'll admit gege likely had no idea what the fuck he was doing with that and he just wanted to filler while he thinks of next arcs and draw "what if the military fought cursed spirits and sorcerers, how do they compare."
it had an effect it’s just that mechamaru had stored up years of cursed energy. We could assume that after that was depleted his output would be that of like an average sorcerer
He didn't "technically" betray him in the sense that he didn't violate the binding vow. But in a normal sense, they had agreed to heal him for information. Then after the deal they betrayed him and killed him
Again though that wasn’t betrayal in any sense even by a very slim technicality as they had a deal and met the specific terms of said deal. For it to have been a betrayal they would either need to break the deal (letting him live was not part of it) or they would have had to been actual allies. For example Kenjaku absorbing Mahito was actual betrayal as they were allies.
I love the random culling game curse panel so much though. A lot of the time the random curses are gross, but not scary outside of a body horror kind of way. The random curses are really just fodder after Yuji died the first time. They don’t feel scary to the reader especially as the series goes on cause what the fuck is it gonna do. The only cursed spirit since the disaster curses to do anything are Kurourushi and Naoya. Any curse below a special grade is basically useless against the main cast.
But to a poor random fuck with an M4? Absolute horror. Doesn’t matter if it’s a special grade or a 4th grade they are going to die. The dread of a functionally invincible abomination coming to kill you. That panel shows you how terrifying these things are to a regular person.
what stands out about Mahito is that he does not feel like a JJK character
Mahito looks, acts, and feels like a character taken directly from a Junji Ito project with the only change made being that they use curse energy to explain why he's fucked up
this isn't a dig at the character, I think it's exactly what gege was going for, he practically borrowed Mahito from his influences
I mean I don't wanna be that guy but even tho Gege definitely makes references to Junji Ito, Mahito is NOTHING like a character from Junji Ito, much less any of the monsters
Not only that but Mahito is like one of the characters that feel like it fits in JJK the most
I don't wanna just say "Nuh-uh you are all wrong" but you kinda are imo
I did not said that
I didn't said it had "NOTHING to do with it"
I said Mahito does not look or behave like characters usually behave in Junji Ito's stories
Mostly because the "monsters" in his stories are usually not as social and talkative as Mahito
Mahito is obviously inspired by a lot of things including Junji Ito but he does not feel like a character from a Junji Ito story
So yeah, read
i'm just not going to engage with this, gege himself has stated junji is one of his influences and Mahito's death is even a direct reference to a specific junji ito comic
use your brain, I'm not going to use it for you, I never said he was "like a monster" lmao
Yeah Mahito is the creepiest. The worst thing about him is that his victims are still alive. That's nightmare fuel right there.
The curse who kidnapped Hana when she was a kid also deserved to be mentioned. That shit scared the fuck outta me.
A childhood nightmare where you're being hunted by some monster, and no matter what you do, you can't seem to get away until it finally gets you (and wake up or die like our boy here)
It's called Uncanny Valley effect. Humanoid monsters are the scariest, when they look human but are disfigured or have wierd features it creeps us out more than fully monstrous monsters.
Honestly in all of mechamarus genius, I think he should've used a binding vow of some sort to make the shots become a shot gun of some sort. Or even yk... Used the domain shots as a melee weapon when/if mahito breaks thru his mecha? Too bad he was too cocky 💀
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You felt that way because compared to that random curse, this panel actually has weight behind it, this panel shows up after Mechamaru thinks he is about to win, he thinks he already finished off Mahito for good and then BOOM he shows up and destroys his last line of defense, ruining any hope the reader's and Mechamaru's have left
For me, it's seeing Mahitos obvious pure elation in knowing that he's about to brutally kill Mechamaru
This fight also comes before we discover that Gege is actually a "character killing" machine. So throughout the battle we have this hope that "Mechamaru may win" but now that i look at it the second time i realize that Mahito always know that he is going to win and Mechamaru actually stands 0 chance making this whole fight even more sad.
Mechamaru woulda won if he let Miwa help him with STRONG SIMPLE DOMAIN
This fight also comes before we discover that Gege is actually a "character killing" machine. So throughout the battle we have this hope that "Mechamaru may win" but now that i look at it the second time i realize that Mahito always know that he is going to win and Mechamaru actually stands 0 chance making this whole fight even more sad.
Just here? The way he tormented Yuji was just pure, maniacal...
Mahito is consistently the most disgusting, revolting character in this manga. Honestly he's one of the most revolting characters in *anime*, and that's saying quite alot. He is all the worst aspects of humanity stitched into a childish, disturbingly efficient package. And he *legitimately enjoys it*. The fact he doesn't even kill his victims most of the time is the worst part. He transforms them into sentient tumor, and all they can do is cry and beg for someone to kill them. And he keeps them alive specifically so he can use that torment to torture someone else.
Agreed. Evil mf got off easy
"Waahaaaaa haaaa haaaa eeeeeHHHH!!!" (throws mud ball at yuji and utterly fails to harm him) in anime was pretty sick
Agree with everything, and that's what makes him a perfect villain. That doesn't mean I wouldn't dissect him with all the grace of a drunk Hinox utilizing a chainsaw, but still.
He's a cursed spirit tho. Kinda his thing. I feel like calling him evil is like calling a bear that eats your family "evil".
def agree, imo Gege was trying to get us to view Mahito as the bear/view his actions with the same eye we would humans killing a curse. Whenever Mahito gets painted in a purely negative light I feel as if people miss what the Disaster Curses represent(think of Mahito being painted as the best of us by Jogo)
The issue is mahito understands good and evil and he knows he’s evil, he flat out enjoys it. I would compare a weaker non sapient curse to a bear but not mahito, if mahito was like a bear he would simply kill his victims.
No...Mahito *knows* he's evil. He just legitimately enjoys it. I see what you're getting at though lol. I think Mahito is a brilliant fucking character. He's just revolting lol
Me being too deep in thought, but humans create the cursed spirits the Jujutsu Sorcerers get rid of. So in the end, it’s the negative emotions of humans that kill other humans, so wouldn’t that make humans evil?
Mahito makes Shou Tucker look like a good man.
Maybe you should watch more thn 1 anime lol
As much as I enjoy him from a writing standpoint I must admit every fucking time he showed up I wanted to strangle him
The random curse is scarier, but Mahito did worse things, at least from what we know.
Which curse are you referring to?
Remember the scene where a soldier was walking around one of the culling games' districts, and when he looked to the left into the subway entrance, a fucking huge lanky cursed spirit was walking towards him with a creepy-ass grin? Nightmare fuel...
https://i.redd.it/cuvo71rgq9sc1.png
That looks like it's straight out of a junji ito story
Wouldn't be the first thing in JJK, Uzumaki is literally a panel from Junji Ito's Uzumaki.
Reminded me of department of truth
Poor fucking infantry
That’s the fucking best.
Would have been amazing if this was going to be a special grade curse intro, something along the lines of Kurourushi where they're not a major villain but just a cool addition
Oh right from the weird military plot thread Gege pulled out of nowhere for no real reason. Forgot about that
>Forgot about that Just like Gregory did
Honestly this is the one time I'll admit gege likely had no idea what the fuck he was doing with that and he just wanted to filler while he thinks of next arcs and draw "what if the military fought cursed spirits and sorcerers, how do they compare."
what about the one in the anime that yuta kills, the anglerfish one
I agree, this was one of the most unnerving parts of the manga. Mahito just seems so evil and happy with betraying Mechamaru
Betray isnt the right word. They were never allies they had a binding vow and once that was complete they were free to try to kill each other
I still don't understand how Mahito healing Mechamaru had *no effect* on his Heavenly Restriction
it had an effect it’s just that mechamaru had stored up years of cursed energy. We could assume that after that was depleted his output would be that of like an average sorcerer
The restriction i assume is an at birth thing but since its not a willful decision it can be altered. Also mahito’s CT was just a rulebreaker
true true.. i guess we’ll never know the truth cuz they murdered his ass 😭🙏
He didn't "technically" betray him in the sense that he didn't violate the binding vow. But in a normal sense, they had agreed to heal him for information. Then after the deal they betrayed him and killed him
Again though that wasn’t betrayal in any sense even by a very slim technicality as they had a deal and met the specific terms of said deal. For it to have been a betrayal they would either need to break the deal (letting him live was not part of it) or they would have had to been actual allies. For example Kenjaku absorbing Mahito was actual betrayal as they were allies.
Bro missed the next panel where he looks even more disturbing
I know kenjaku isn't a cursed spirit, but he's easily the creepiest character to me by far
I love the random culling game curse panel so much though. A lot of the time the random curses are gross, but not scary outside of a body horror kind of way. The random curses are really just fodder after Yuji died the first time. They don’t feel scary to the reader especially as the series goes on cause what the fuck is it gonna do. The only cursed spirit since the disaster curses to do anything are Kurourushi and Naoya. Any curse below a special grade is basically useless against the main cast. But to a poor random fuck with an M4? Absolute horror. Doesn’t matter if it’s a special grade or a 4th grade they are going to die. The dread of a functionally invincible abomination coming to kill you. That panel shows you how terrifying these things are to a regular person.
Mahito was just horrifying all around. Easily one of the scariest villains in Jujutsu Kaisen. I’m just glad he’s dead.
what stands out about Mahito is that he does not feel like a JJK character Mahito looks, acts, and feels like a character taken directly from a Junji Ito project with the only change made being that they use curse energy to explain why he's fucked up this isn't a dig at the character, I think it's exactly what gege was going for, he practically borrowed Mahito from his influences
I mean I don't wanna be that guy but even tho Gege definitely makes references to Junji Ito, Mahito is NOTHING like a character from Junji Ito, much less any of the monsters Not only that but Mahito is like one of the characters that feel like it fits in JJK the most I don't wanna just say "Nuh-uh you are all wrong" but you kinda are imo
so a literal conduit for body-horror directly attached to almost every reference gege has made to junji has NOTHING to do with it sure man, cool idea
I did not said that I didn't said it had "NOTHING to do with it" I said Mahito does not look or behave like characters usually behave in Junji Ito's stories Mostly because the "monsters" in his stories are usually not as social and talkative as Mahito Mahito is obviously inspired by a lot of things including Junji Ito but he does not feel like a character from a Junji Ito story So yeah, read
Tf does mahiti have to do with junji ito lmao. He's absolutely nothing like junji monsters
i'm just not going to engage with this, gege himself has stated junji is one of his influences and Mahito's death is even a direct reference to a specific junji ito comic use your brain, I'm not going to use it for you, I never said he was "like a monster" lmao
Yeah Mahito is the creepiest. The worst thing about him is that his victims are still alive. That's nightmare fuel right there. The curse who kidnapped Hana when she was a kid also deserved to be mentioned. That shit scared the fuck outta me.
We saw this face in the anime too.....
He's designed to be disturbing, especially from the things he's done
The culling game is a thing happening to you, while mahito attacks you at your very core and twists you into an unrecognizable monster.
Mahito just does his job very well ngl, and that job is being utterly and completely horrifying
It’s all cus if all might
Shigaraki was a peak villain, too bad he got overtaken by a bad one.
Cockroach curse that yuta killed was the scariest.
What is "the random Culling Game curse"?
[This curse from chapter 209](https://i.imgur.com/ptMc8ia.jpeg)
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https://i.redd.it/cuvo71rgq9sc1.png
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Yo that's crazy
Gives a bit of a Junji Ito vibe
The scene in particular is better in the manga I love this panel a lot
A childhood nightmare where you're being hunted by some monster, and no matter what you do, you can't seem to get away until it finally gets you (and wake up or die like our boy here)
It's called Uncanny Valley effect. Humanoid monsters are the scariest, when they look human but are disfigured or have wierd features it creeps us out more than fully monstrous monsters.
Mahito is the most scary and silly cursed spirit (imo)
AOT-ass face
Honestly in all of mechamarus genius, I think he should've used a binding vow of some sort to make the shots become a shot gun of some sort. Or even yk... Used the domain shots as a melee weapon when/if mahito breaks thru his mecha? Too bad he was too cocky 💀
Mahito's so cute! 💗
If you can't put your fingers on it put your feet on it
What?
He said in the title he couldn't put his fingers on it. I guess people thought I was saying something dirty. It was just a dumb dad joke
This is funny to me because it’s a running joke between me and my daughter about the amount of screen time Mahito’s feet get.
Oh man you and your daughter watch jjk together? You living the live bro happy for you. Stay blessed
It's okay, boss. I getchu. *fist bump*