Little Yuji Sketch (a Bit Late) For His Birthday! ✨

This articulates so many of my thoughts! This rushed ending really made me wonder what might be going on behind the scenes.... I don't know much about the industry and don't want to speculate too much, but I found it weird that he had a hiatus and then the ending came so soon....

I really don't know what to expect from the ending and maybe that's better, going in without clear expectations....

I guess I'll have to wait....

Honestly, considering how Gege is treating JJK in interviews and talks about it and the characters i also doubt he will continue it

Again, JJK as we know it now is NOT what Gege intended for it to be

He changed a lot of things to please a editor of his and ended up with a complete different story and had to adapt characters to fit the new concept

Yeah, I know those interviews where he wasn't pleased with his first editor he had right before the JJK serialization and at the start of it. He did have to change many things because that editor didn't think his original ideas would work. In a recent Q&A he talked again about the changes JJK went through at the beginning before the current characters and storylines were ultimately decided on.

Those original ideas included having Megumi as the main protagonist, him being possessed by Sukuna, the story starting with a Culling Game like setting and other things.

To say though, that because Gege didn't/couldn't start his manga like he wanted to means he would be glad when it's finally over now... that sounds a little ridiculous. It's like saying Gege doesn't have ownership or love for his own story and chaarcters and that's... not something that I ever got the impression of.

In his last interview he talked openly about how he changed things to make the story work better. A bad editor at the time of course would've soured that process but with a good editor changes like that would've happened anyway. Look eg at the original concept of Demon Slayer.

And in the end, Gege still got to implement the ideas he had. Megumi still got possessed. The Culling Games were realized. From what I remember, the things Gege regretted in the story are bad buildups and that he didn't manage to have Yuji and the real Tsumiki meet once.

On that note, if we go with "he couldn't write the story he wanted to", a JJK Part 2 would actually be something he could look forward to in that regard. Starting everything with a fresh chapter 1 with editors he actually gets along with, he can write the story as he actually envisons it. I guess, but I have no idea about the actual industry machinations here, that he could negotiate better pay and the like for himself as well.

Of course that doesn't mean JJK 2 is guaranteed or something. Gege could love his story to bits and still not make more of it but ultimately we'll see that next week (or next year if we look at other manga that got a sequel where they waited some time before anouncing anything)

I have such a niche idea for an AU but I still struggle so much drawing the main trio that I went back to screen redraw sketches to get more comfortable with their features.... only got one sketch of Yuji far because I'm on a triptan and incredibly tired....

Everyone would probably be as overwhelmed as me with all this (potentially) cool artwork

if you all could see all the fanart i imagine in my head and never draw it’d blow your tits clean off

Little comic about an idea that has been stuck in my head since ch 267.... The gang goes to the movies!!

I really enjoy thinking about movie nerd Yuji and the 'Everything Everywhere All At Once ' parallel in ch 267 had me thinking about this....

unconditionally

binding vow

me at 7am walking to work and listening to iris by the goo goo dolls: what is..... a one-shot with yuuji and megumi going on their first mission after sukuna and both of them struggling with flashbacks and trauma

Bit more happy with the sketch page today....but I'm afraid to ink it

I don't want to regret the way I lived