A review by evgeniya
Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 20 by Gege Akutami

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

i don't think i have a whole lot to say about this volume, there was just a lot of fighting (cool fighting though, some of the best), and even if i look at all my notes now (there is a lot, surprisingly), it's just me fangirling over yuta and rika. what can i say, i missed them! i still don't really get the logistics of human rika passing but curse rika remaining with yuta, even though there are some limitations to her power now. i wish gege would explain it a bit more, but i doubt they will say anything on the topic ever again, unfortunately. it's okay though, i'm just happy she's still here. and yuta. ah, my yuta. he looks so good now, i will never get over just how well he's grown into himself. the eye bags are a huge part of his charm too. and then there's this weird spirited away looking cockroach special grade, wanting to eat him ("devour", actually). i get it. it didn't get to devour him, but at least it got a kiss, teeth and all. that was the best part of the volume for me, i just love how much of a freak yuta is. he loves his special grades! it definitely runs in the family (talking about gojo and his continues flirting with jogo here). and the second best part of the volume was yuta saying "sensei... i won't let you kill your best friend a second time. i will kill kenjaku." i just love yuta so much, and i believe he will be able to do it. he beat that body before, he can do it again, even better now that he's grown and is more confident in his abilities. if anyone can do it, it's him. and, god, i'm so mad at gege for not letting us see his domain expansion in all its glory, i NEEDED to see it. i can wait though, so they better show it to us before this damn series ends. 

we got introduced to two new interesting characters too, ishigori and uro, just to kill them off within one volume. that's so very gege. but i guess they were fun while they lasted. ishigori's technique is kind of stupid, but he makes up for it with the personality. and it's the absolute opposite with uro. i don't really feel like mentioning anything special about them, because we'll never see them again and they don't really matter in the grand scheme of things, but i did want to hear about uro's past and whether she mistook yuta for someone else or she was actually talking about his ancestors who somehow wronged her. this felt like something worth exploring, but oh well. i can just hope that they didn't actually die, since we didn't hear kogane say that yuta got points for killing them. 

by the way, gege is absolutely insane for giving takaba a powerful ass technique that can give trouble to even gojo himself, and then making him absolutely clueless about it. but i get it, that's the comedy of it all.

i forgot to mention the very beginning of the volume here, because i read it a few days ago and it slipped my mind, so let me come back to it for a second. we got the resolution to megumi vs reggie battle! it was a fun one, though i still find reggie's character quiet annoying. "outsmarted by a modern-day sorcerer and a kid to boot." that's what you get for picking a fight with said kid in the first place, reggie. but i guess i can't be too harsh on him, since he did give megumi all his points before dying, thanks for that. his "i have a feeling it'll be more interesting this way. just a hunch, really. so, please. after all, you're my executioner. let fate toy with you... before you die like a fool." was kind of ominous. hated that. it reminded me of that one chainsaw man scene with aki and the future devil. THOUGH ANGEL SHOWED UP RIGHT ABOVE MEGUMI WHEN HE COLLAPSED, SO I'M TAKING IT AS A GOOD SIGN, NO DEATH FLAGS HERE (i'm coping so hard).