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A review by evgeniya
Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 9 by Gege Akutami
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
"are you the strongest because you're gojo satoru? or are you gojo satoru because you're the strongest?"
if you're not giving this volume its deserved five stars, what are you even doing? this is so perfect in my eyes, i'm ready to buy the volume and then eat all the pages, or tattoo them all out on my back somehow. something along those lines. i'm not even exaggerating when i say that gojo and geto's story will forever be one of my favorite pieces of not just jujutsu kaisen, but media in general. they're so tragic, so fucking tragic, there is no happy ending for them and my heart will never stop breaking. geto was gojo's blue spring, his youth that was taken from him too early. so whenever he says that no one should ever take away the youth from the young, whether he's talking about yuji or yuta, it hits too damn hard. their bond was so special to him, because it wasn't 'i'm the strongest' anymore, but 'we're the strongest', he didn't feel as much of an outcast when there was someone who could finally match him in strength and who didn't treat him like some kind of untouchable god. until. fucking toji. yeah, i'm not the biggest fan of the guy, i don't really get why anyone would be. he has beef with literal teenagers because they're strong. and he killed a child too. and forgot his own son's name, the name he gave to him. so yeah, it's fuck him in my book, i don't feel bad for him and will always love the moment when gojo puts a giant hole in his body using hollow purple. because it all started going downhill the second toji showed up. the only good thing he did was make gojo unlock his full potential, and even that was accomplished by basically killing him. and gojo now being the sole strongest sorcerer in the world, put a (literal) distance between himself and other people. including geto. and the fact is, he did notice that geto wasn't well, he noticed that he lost weight but he brushed it off because geto himself brushed it off. but he just kept getting worse and he was left completely fucking alone. and shitty things just kept piling up, one after the other. there was no breaks for him. and so, 112 people were murdered, his parents as well. and suguru was now considered a curse user and was to be executed. it's not anyone's fault but geto's, but i honestly blame so many other things for making him go down this path. i blame the cursed technique he was born with, i blame the jujutsu world for using him as nothing but a storage for curses (and just the way the jujustu world works in general, making children risk their lives every single day), i blame people at the school who were around geto at the time for not noticing how bad he was taking the events of last year and not reaching out to him in any way, i blame the people who clapped with a smile on their faces when a teenage girl died, i blame toji for fucking everything up because of his pride and greed and putting the word 'monkeys' in suguru's brain in the first place, i blame the people who beat up two little girls because they were different from them. geto did what he thought was best for him and people like him, he took yuki's lesson to heart and even though she said she was not crazy enough to kill all the non sorcerers to rid the world of the curses, he realized that he was, so i don't blame him, i can't. his methods and the attitude towards non sorcerers were not the best, but i understand him too well to care enough about that. and after he killed over a hundred people, he pulled up to shoko looking healthier than ever, and smiling. i think it's the first time we've seen him smile so brightly, so genuinely. and i just love how casual shoko was with him. yes, he killed people, he didn't even deny it, but she still wasn't scared of him, she wasn't crying or yelling 'how could you?' at him. she didn't take his actions personally. that's gojo's job. so of course she would call him right away, even though i don't think geto wanted to say goodbye to him in particular, because he knows him too well and i'm sure he already knew how the other man would react. but if shoko didn't call gojo right away, we wouldn't have the infamous kfc breakup scene. who thought that eating chicken wings could make me sad?
if you're not giving this volume its deserved five stars, what are you even doing? this is so perfect in my eyes, i'm ready to buy the volume and then eat all the pages, or tattoo them all out on my back somehow. something along those lines. i'm not even exaggerating when i say that gojo and geto's story will forever be one of my favorite pieces of not just jujutsu kaisen, but media in general. they're so tragic, so fucking tragic, there is no happy ending for them and my heart will never stop breaking. geto was gojo's blue spring, his youth that was taken from him too early. so whenever he says that no one should ever take away the youth from the young, whether he's talking about yuji or yuta, it hits too damn hard. their bond was so special to him, because it wasn't 'i'm the strongest' anymore, but 'we're the strongest', he didn't feel as much of an outcast when there was someone who could finally match him in strength and who didn't treat him like some kind of untouchable god. until. fucking toji. yeah, i'm not the biggest fan of the guy, i don't really get why anyone would be. he has beef with literal teenagers because they're strong. and he killed a child too. and forgot his own son's name, the name he gave to him. so yeah, it's fuck him in my book, i don't feel bad for him and will always love the moment when gojo puts a giant hole in his body using hollow purple. because it all started going downhill the second toji showed up. the only good thing he did was make gojo unlock his full potential, and even that was accomplished by basically killing him. and gojo now being the sole strongest sorcerer in the world, put a (literal) distance between himself and other people. including geto. and the fact is, he did notice that geto wasn't well, he noticed that he lost weight but he brushed it off because geto himself brushed it off. but he just kept getting worse and he was left completely fucking alone. and shitty things just kept piling up, one after the other. there was no breaks for him. and so, 112 people were murdered, his parents as well. and suguru was now considered a curse user and was to be executed. it's not anyone's fault but geto's, but i honestly blame so many other things for making him go down this path. i blame the cursed technique he was born with, i blame the jujutsu world for using him as nothing but a storage for curses (and just the way the jujustu world works in general, making children risk their lives every single day), i blame people at the school who were around geto at the time for not noticing how bad he was taking the events of last year and not reaching out to him in any way, i blame the people who clapped with a smile on their faces when a teenage girl died, i blame toji for fucking everything up because of his pride and greed and putting the word 'monkeys' in suguru's brain in the first place, i blame the people who beat up two little girls because they were different from them. geto did what he thought was best for him and people like him, he took yuki's lesson to heart and even though she said she was not crazy enough to kill all the non sorcerers to rid the world of the curses, he realized that he was, so i don't blame him, i can't. his methods and the attitude towards non sorcerers were not the best, but i understand him too well to care enough about that. and after he killed over a hundred people, he pulled up to shoko looking healthier than ever, and smiling. i think it's the first time we've seen him smile so brightly, so genuinely. and i just love how casual shoko was with him. yes, he killed people, he didn't even deny it, but she still wasn't scared of him, she wasn't crying or yelling 'how could you?' at him. she didn't take his actions personally. that's gojo's job. so of course she would call him right away, even though i don't think geto wanted to say goodbye to him in particular, because he knows him too well and i'm sure he already knew how the other man would react. but if shoko didn't call gojo right away, we wouldn't have the infamous kfc breakup scene. who thought that eating chicken wings could make me sad?
"if you want to kill me, kill me. there would be a point to that."
i could talk about this volume all day, simply because there's just too much to say and i have a lot of thoughts about these characters, and they mean a lot to me, but i feel like there would just too many words for one review, and it's already pretty lengthy. i have two things left to say: rest in peace to haibara, i didn't know much about him but he reminded me of yuji and that makes me feel a lot more sad; and i'm excited to see mechamaru vs mahito again, because i completely blacked out that part of the story and mechamaru being a mole, it took mappa to animate it for me to remember it was a thing at all, and i'm not a huge fan of robot fights in general, so i'm excited to see how i will feel when i read it again. that is all.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child abuse