Kageyama With A Lil Yuki Ishikawa Twist 🏐

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Kenma: I’m gonna fucking kill myself, if Lev misses the ball again.

Kuroo: Language!

Kenma: Heckity heck, I crave death.

I love the message this chapter was sending.

It's so cathartic to see Yuuji, a character who had embraced the worst parts of the cog mentality, realize that there is more to life than what he could do for the machine that is life and a society like ours.

It's also such a great message; to enjoy the mundane in life, to live in the details and the memories you had. It might not amount to anything at the end of the day. Hell, it might not even amount to anything at the end of your life, but at least you can say that you lived, not as a cog in the machine, only designed to fulfill your role in society, but made to fill your existence with the experiences and people around you.

That's why his grandfather told him to die surrounded by loved ones.

"Don't take them away.."

After the match + 2 bonus pic.

1- What it looks like

2- What it actually is

3- Meanwhile in Japan

4- Later that night

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Brazil Hinata ☀️

made with highlighters :)

I keep wondering why so many fans (including myself) were bitter about the jjk ending.

Best I can think of is that it's because of the collectivist nature of the narrative -

defeating Sukuna was a collective struggle.

Jjk narrative seeks to dismantle the extreme individualism/hero-cult.

For us - a society built on the logic of hiarchy, that's a hard pill to swallow.

Gojo "winning" by having played his part in the collective struggle and having no regrets and Sukuna "losing" and thus regretting his choices that were proven wrong, choosing for the first time ever to reincarnate open to love -

... means there are no simple solutions, people can change, love, and work together no matter their personal differences.

There is no solitary evil mogul that we can pin all the evil on, and no solitary hero that we can push our own responsibility for saving the collapsing society on. No, it's our own responsibility to carry on as the new generation.

Also, there is a point of how mundane were the last two chapters before this. As if to remind us that life goes on and that there must come a time when students fly out of the nest and pick up their role as the next responsible ones.

Ah.

...

(( But i still miss Gojo, man. ))

I'm all for people hitting yams with the "long hair and a cool fashion sense" beam but my favorite timeskip flavor is lame office worker

I just think that Kenma has anxiety yeah, but he also has the best friend override, in that he is 10,000% ready to square up against anyone who says shit about his best friend

And it's usually in a words are sharper than knives kinda way. Like, he observes everyone carefully all the time, so he knows exactly what to say that will haunt them

Some kid to his friend: don't you think Kuroo is really annoying lol

Kenma, immediately: that's bold, coming from a loser who spent three weeks pestering a girl who told all her friends that you disgust her