In Commemoration Of BSD BEAST’s Volume 3 Release. Have Not Read It Yet, But Damn, The Cover.

I just found it yesterday and I read it up to the current chapter yesterday too. I am addicted.

i have been laughing for 10 mins

Seriously, curse me for always not finishing my pieces. =_=;

Well, Sukuna is the biggest Megumi simp of all

does ryoumen sukuna is simp??? (what got lost in translation in ch.9 and ch.118)

yes, yes he does (but here’s an overanalysis why:)

you see there was a callback to ch.9 in ch.118 that got lost in translation

when i first read the manga in english i missed it, so i thought i’d share just so everyone knows how highkey sukuna’s simping is (this is sukufushi btw)

this is from ch.9:

the context is that megumi is fighting sukuna; nothing too out of place here

but in japanese:

if we only look at what is pronounced what sukuna is saying is “show me (what you’ve got)!! fushiguro megumi!!” (hence the english translation “entertain me”)

normally when shounen manga says “show me (what you’ve got)” it is with the phrase “見せてみろ (misete miro)” , literally meaning “let me see”

but here sukuna replaces “見” with the kanji “魅”: the pronunciation is the same (mi), but whereas “見” means “see” and the phrase “show me (what you’ve got)” is very common, “魅” means to  “bewitch”, “fascinate”, “enchant”, or “charm” (translation taken from wikitionary), and the phrase “魅せてみろ” (“bewitch me”) is virtually never used because why would it ever be used like bro you’re coming on way too strong tone it down a little

anyway so the dude is literally yelling “bewitch me!! fushiguro megumi!!” in megumi’s face (in fact the chinese translation is somewhere along the lines of “make me fall for you!! fushiguro megumi!!” which i think is neat but that’s beside the point)

but because it is pronounced like “let me see”, and “bewitch me” is a very rare phrase (it’s not in the dictionaries i think), megumi interprets it as “show me (what you’ve got)”; he never knows what sukuna really means and honestly someone should write a miscommunication fic about it

but then it gets even better:

this is from ch.118 (so SPOILER ALERT for the shibuya arc):

megumi has summoned his strongest shikigami (it’s basically self-destruct but with a more complicated procedure) and is currently out cold and dying; the only known way to save megumi is to defeat said strongest shikigami, which is precisely what sukuna is doing here

pause, rewind—some background info for this scene: in ch.9 (at the end of megumi’s fight with sukuna, when megumi is desperate) megumi tries to summon his strongest shikigami, i.e. he wants to self-destruct and take sukuna out with him—hence why he says the things about how he never once regretted saving yuuji—but yuuji comes back (and promptly fucking dies) so sukuna never learns in ch.9 that megumi wants to self-destruct to kill him

but here in ch.118, megumi has summoned that strongest shikigami, and sukuna approves of its strength, saying “if it was me from that time, it may have been able to defeat me”—if megumi had summoned the strongest shikigami in ch.9, sukuna might have lost

basically: sukuna is really fucking impressed (cf. ch.9, where he tells megumi to “show me (what you’ve got)!!” or “bewitch me!!”)

you see, in the second-to-last panel with the hands, sukuna says “you showed me the way… fushiguro megumi!” which is not necessarily an inaccurate translation, but the callback gets lost in translation

look at the raw scan:

in the panel with the hands, once again we have the very rare phrase of “魅せて” (“bewitch”) but this time with past/present perfect tense

if we only look at what is pronounced, in ch.9 we have “show me (what you’ve got)!!”—and here in ch.118 we have “you have shown me (what you’ve got)… fushiguro megumi!!”

but looking at the rare phrase with the kanji “bewitch”, in ch.9 we have “bewitch me!! fushiguro megumi!!"—and here in ch.118, sukuna is saying “you have bewitched me… fushiguro megumi!!”, which is strangely maybe romantic?? tbh however you look at sukuna’s dialogue it’s a nice little callback to ch.9

the entire plot with sukuna in shibuya is some really really—and i cannot stress this enough—really fucked-up shit, but at the same time im endlessly entertained by the idea of sukuna being the megumi simp to end all megumi simps so there’s that

8th Prince, Choran

aptitude: gold and fire

these are photos of a lesbian laysan albatross pair. lesbian pairs in this species engage in the same behaviors heterosexual pairs do, such as preening, nesting together, and even raising chicks together. the albatrosses have been known to mate with males for the sole purpose of fertilization, having nothing to do with them after breeding, and raising the chick with the other female. laysan albatrosses have a high amount of same-sex pairs - an estimated 31% of the population.

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this is a whole new level of denial...

16!Chuuya trying to flirt: You have a face.

16!Dazai: Yeah? You too.

Chuuya aggressively blushing: No! I mean you have a nice face!

Dazai: Thanks???

Chuuya: Ugh! I hate you and your damn face! (leaves angry, muttering 'stupid mackerel')

Hour later

Chuuya hiccuping and sobbing: And he just said thanks! Can you believe him, Ane-san?!

Kouyou: How was he supposed to know you are flirting with him?

Chuuya: He is a genius!

Kouyou: Oh boyー

...

Dazai: I really don't understand why he got angry with me today. I literally thanked him!

Oda: I think he was trying to flirt with you.

Dazai: Him? No way! He would rather save me over and over than develop feelings for me!

Oda: Mhm...and he saves you because?

Dazai: Because he hates me! Simple as that.

Oda:...

‘If I were Jokaste and a king maker, I’d have chosen Kastor over you too.’

‘I suppose you are going to enjoy telling me why,’ said Damen. He felt his hands curl into fists, heard the bitterness in his throat.

‘Because a king maker would always choose the weaker man. The weaker the man, the easier he is to control.’

‘What makes you think Kastor is the weaker man? You don’t know him.’

‘But I’m coming to know you,’ said Laurent.

A cake for the heart

Jujutsu Kaisen Fic Rec List

i’ve been meaning to put something like this together for a long time, because there are a lot of amazing fics in the jjk tag and many of them definitely deserve more attention. here are several fics that i’ve read and enjoyed since joining the fandom; this list will be satosugu heavy, since that is the majority of what i read, but there are others listed as well. be aware that the majority of these contain heavy manga spoilers:

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