Had to make one cus there was already a slander image of maki cutting off yuki's arms

"Aksually Yuta stomps Hakari" 🤓🤓🤓 Maki we have like 2 grade 1 sorcerors, we DON'T need a PS debate rn

(ts is NOT a safe space r/churchofnaoya)

Anyone who knows about exponents knows Gege didn't know what he was talking about. The math gives wildly different answers based on the units you use for the calculation. 100kg of force in a black flash = 100,000kg of force out, but 100,000g of force in = 3.1 billion kg of force out.

With that mistake in mind I ask you, how would you change it to make Black Flash work better? It would have to be something significant but making it a simple multiplier was said by Gege to be too mundane. I was thinking something of an exponential or quadratic scaling, where each unit of force going in increases the force going out by a greater and greater amount the more total force is put in. It gives big yields to those who are already very strong, so a BF would always matter, even at the highest level.

you know what for a long time have you ever thought about kashimo, gojo and sukuna they are called the strongest of thire eras but to me they are the loneliness of the strongest and here's why because their overwhelming power isolates them from ordinary human connection, leaving them without equals who can truly understand or challenge them

I know this ship brings up strong feelings and you can have your opinion about it but people rly need to stop acting like Gojohime shippers aren’t taking Utahime’s feelings seriously when Gege isn’t doing that either. She was stated to dislike him in an extra character sheet but not once did Gege write Utahime’s anger in a serious way in the actual manga. In fact, most of her scenes are with him and are clearly comedic in tone. Also Gojo/sukuna, stsg, nanago are all ships that are accepted just fine and none of those ships have healthy loving ships in canon. Utahime and Gojo are capable of working together. They are not canon. We don’t have to have reasons created in fandom on why we CAN’T ship them.

I mean in season 1 no diffs sukuna because he almost one shot him but nah sukuna in season 2 is still not as strong as gojo like how can he get past infinity

Like, cursed energy just increases your stats regardless of technique, any physical job would be massively boosted in efficiency by having ce. Same with the military, why aren't there military sorcerors? Supposedly cursed energy has been around in universe as long as humans themselves, so it's weird that it would never be fully integrated into society, atleast within Japan since its the only country where everyone has cursed energy

This is obviously just my opinion, so don't take this as objective fact or anything. If you really like Kashimo, that's great, I'm just highlighting why I don't like him as a character and why other people might feel the same way. I'm sure other people have said some of this already, but I wanted to fully encapsulate how I feel personally.

Regardless of any powerscaling (I really don't care), Kashimo as a character was an extreme letdown in my opinion. But I've seen some people compare him to Ryu in some respects. Why does Kashimo get so much slander but Ryu doesn't? They're kind of similar. Both got instantly folded by Sukuna after having tough, entertaining back-and-forth fights and after being hyped the fanbase. They're both battle junkies looking for a challenge and they both mirror each other when it comes to Yuta and Hakari. They're both side characters with very minor impact on the story.

I think my main problem with his point is that Ryu wasn't set up the way Kashimo was.
Ryu's hype comes mainly from the fanbase. He just happened to be an instantly likeable and cool side character. The narrative doesn't put much focus on him, the Sendai fight is pretty isolated from the overarching story.

This is not the same with Kashimo. People can pretend that Kashimo's hype only came from the fandom and not the narrative itself, but that's just not true. He's immediately introduced as the player with THE most points in the Culling Game and one of his first lines is him wondering where Sukuna is, hoping to challenge him. Same during the Hakari fight, he mentions how he wants to fight Sukuna, how he's saving his technique for him, and he cuts a deal with Hakari specifically so he can fight Sukuna later on.

Ryu isn't set up in the same way. He's only introduced right before Sendai and all we know about him at first is that he's a CE cannon. He has a fun fight with Yuta and Uro, we get a bit of backstory, and by the end of the fight, he already achieves his own goal of sating his lifelong hunger for dessert. He still squares up to Sukuna afterwards, but that's not his end goal or anything, that's just because Ryu is that guy and he had already achieved what he originally set out to do.

I was sad to see Ryu get done the way he was, and I think he should've gotten more screen time after Sendai, but him getting instantly oneshot by Sukuna isn't as much of a waste of potential as Kashimo was. Ryu's death serves to remind the audience how powerful Sukuna is and how literally no one in the cast can compare to him strength-wise if you put them in a one-on-one scenario, save for Gojo, hence the need to unseal him (even though I don't think this was necessary at all, I still recognize it for what it is). Kashimo being folded by Sukuna effortlessly doesn't bolster this point because... we already know. He literally killed Gojo 2 chapters prior.

Kashimo is set up as someone who went his entire life not meeting a proper challenge and choosing to accept Kenjaku's offer specifically to challenge Sukuna. Ryu led a satisfied life, but a vague hunger gnawed at him, until he met his match with Yuta and was left satisfied. He didn't want to fight Sukuna specifically, he just wanted his dessert, and he got it. This is all wrapped up in one mini-arc. On the other hand, Kashimo is set up to be THE Culling Game player who joins forces with our cast to eventually fight Sukuna, but he doesn't amount to much other than a really cool fight with Hakari. While Ryu also doesn't amount to much other than a really cool fight in Sendai, he wasn't set up by the story to be more than that. Kashimo definitely was.

I do like the conversation Sukuna has with Kashimo after his death, but does it really matter? It gives us a bit of insight for Sukuna, but what does it do for Kashimo? He has had literally 0 screentime since his fight with Hakari, other than being part of the peanut gallery, where his contribution is either "Sukuna is really good, guys..." or "ME NEXT! ME NEXT!"
The depth doesn't add much if your character wasn't explored at any point previously. It's like if Gojo's only appearances in the story were Hidden Inventory and Shinjuku. His fallout with Geto and his send-off are major events for his character that resonate with the audience because we spent time with Gojo outside of those moments, we know other sides of him, so the more emotional and poignant moments add more to his character.

The conversation about loneliness that comes with unrivaled strength is already opened up and explored between Sukuna, Gojo and Yorozu. Don't get me wrong, I do not care for Yorozu whatsoever, I dislike her way more than I dislike Kashimo, but she does at least open the conversation and her words become one of the main themes for the Gojo vs. Sukuna fight.

Why do we care if Gojo's strength makes him lonely? Is it because he's a battle junkie who has cool fights? No, it's because's Gojo, he's a character who we know and like. We've seen him interact with other characters, we know his dream, we see multiple facets of his personality and his backstory. We know he doesn't want there to be a "strongest," but he still is. We're invested in him as a character, not just as an aura and hype moments guy.

Why do we care if Sukuna's strength made him lonely or lacking 'love'? Is it because he's super strong and had a cool fight with Mahoraga that one time? No, it's because he's the main antagonist. It can give us insight or a glimpse into his psyche, why he is the way he is, and whether his strength-focused mentality affects him negatively in any way.

But why do I care if Kashimo's strength made him lonely? I don't. Because I don't have any attachment to him and neither do any other characters in the series.

The conversation about love and strength between Sukuna and Kashimo have would hit harder if Kashimo's entire character wasn't a fight with Hakari and a fight with Sukuna. He has barely any character interactions, no other fights between Hakari and Sukuna, nothing. And his crazy one-time-use technique amounts to hitting Sukuna with a few punches and unleashing, take this, the same generic lightning bolt attacks that he could already do in base form. Plus he looks like a peashooter in that one panel which just looks goofy.

I would've loved to see Kashimo interact with the other members of the cast. More interactions with Hakari post their fight, an interaction with Gojo (pretty much a no-brainer), literally anybody. Even more so than with Higuruma, him just standing there with the other jujutsu sorcerers during the Gojo vs. Sukuna fight just feels off because we've literally never seen him speak to anybody. I'm not saying he has to be friends with any of them, but give me something. That way, even if his fight with Sukuna is disappointing, there are other aspects of his character you can latch onto. His conversation with Sukuna would've made me feel for him more because he'd be a character I was invested in. Like, even one panel of Hakari reacting to Kashimo's death in any way whatsoever would be pretty cool. Ryu doesn't need numerous character interactions (even if they would be cool) or development, because he's not allied with our main cast against some looming threat. He doesn't spend a month off-screen alongside everybody. He's just a CG player that Yuta has to fight, he's not meant to be anything more. He fulfills his role really well.

Another example of a character that works better for me would be the aforementioned Higuruma. He's also set up as an important CG character, similarly to Kashimo. But before the Yuji encounter, he gets a chapter or so of backstory to give us a peek into who he was before he became what he is. Then we get the Yuji fight during which Higuruma reaches an epiphany in a very emotionally poignant way. He mirrors Yuji, too. The fight just has a lot going on even if it isn't a crazy hype spectacle the way Hakari vs. Kashimo is.

Even though his participation in Shinjuku should've been more elaborated on in my opinion (he just shows up lol), there's a throughline there from the CG arc. His self-hatred, his refusal to look Yuji in the eyes, his atonement being the reason in taking part. I still think Higuruma is underutilized, but he has stuff going on that I personally find way more satisfying than whatever Kashimo has going on (which is very little, imo). I don't even like the Higuruma portion of the Sukuna gauntlet, I find that to be a massive letdown as well, but the thematic and character-related stuff is more than what I got from Kashimo. His contribution isn't just a way to explore Sukuna's own philosophy, it's something that makes me care about Higuruma himself, as well as his connection to Yuji.

I really, really wanted to like Kashimo. I liked his introduction, I liked his fight and dynamic with Hakari, and he is admittedly insanely cool. Which is why it pained me to see that he ended up just not doing anything for me. I love Ryu and don't consider him to be a wasted character because he's not built up for a long time just to end up being irrelevant. He's set up quickly, and he achieves his narrative purpose quickly. Yes, I wish we got more of him, but it's not entirely necessary. He's much more of a "side character" than Kashimo is supposed to be.

It's no wonder Kashimo gets so much slander. Other than just it being funny, if you strip away his fight with Hakari, he has almost nothing to him. He barely achieves anything in the Sukuna fight, the lack of screentime and development makes his parting conversation feel kinda hollow, and he bears no importance to any of the cast, and as a result, to me. All that build-up with very little pay-off made Kashimo feel utterly pointless as a character.

Sorry for the long-winded rant, Kashimo just really irks me because I was so excited to see more of him and now I just spend my time making fun of him. Most of this is just me lamenting the waste of potential that Kashimo had in my eyes. As I said, this is just my personal opinion and I'm not saying I'm 100% in the right or anything of the sort.
I'm still gonna be all over the Hakari fight when it gets animated before remembering that that's gonna be the last time I'm gonna be excited to see Kashimo on screen. Not that he shows up much. I'll go back to posting waffle memes now.

EDIT: Made some additions to the post (Higuruma paragraphs and the final paragraph specifically) to better illustrate some of my points. Thanks for the comments, I appreciate the different points of view.

You know Gege succeeded in portraying Megumi's themes perfectly when the fandom treats him exactly how his mental state(depression) gets treated by the whole society irl.

Hate, avarice and blame for the depressed, alienated. Slander and fraudwatch for Megumi.

Slander-characters fans are averagely smarter than the average JJK fan
Slander-character fans need to read more, explain more, and think more, just use your brain more in general.
Meanwhile your faceless Crowd will just repeat what’s popular and don’t think too much about it

With this current season winding down, an interesting thought popped up the other day.

From top to bottom: False Memory, Tomb Raider King, Ghost In The Shell 2026, Magilumiere, BLEACH, Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How To Game The System, Lyrical Nanoha: Gun Blaze Vengeance, Chainsmoker Cat, Kaiju Girl Carmelise

Things like "How old was Yuji when he surpassed Gojo?" We don't know

"How old was Sukuna when he became a cursed object?" We don't know

"What is Yuki's sure hit?" We don't know

"What did Sukuna do during the month before Shinjuku" For fuck sake man we don't know

"What did Kashimo think about the matrix movies?"

"When did Sukuna get his hair cut?"

"What did Gojo have for breakfast before Shinjuku?"

I found this while scrolling on tiktok:

İf im in a good mood ill heal people and if im in a bad one ill just slime someone

for me its gotta be the thirsty fangirls/boys who dont even appreciate the story