I Miss Nobara Kugisaki [Random Thoughts]
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2024
- Spoilers for up to Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 251
A random though i had a couple days ago and just felt like rambling about Kugisaki Nobara from Jujutsu Kaisen. I really wish she were still in the story
#jjk #jujutsukaisen #nobara #nobarakugisaki - Zábava
Dude… fr, she still had a lot of character development in the story to go through…
The "Oh im innocent and ditzy" jump cuts to Miwa got me rolling
😌
I miss her and Nanami on a daily basis
Its clear that out of the female characters, Maki is the only one that Gege truly cared for.
tbf maki is better than most female sc in shonen but yea i agree
I honestly agree, i miss her so much, loved her and her CT, her being able to directly hit the soul would've been so useful rn.
It feels like Gege got halfway through writing this manga and was just like "man i dont wanna write this anymore" and just started speedrunning the end. There are so many stories, character development, arcs, plot twists, that couldve made this series LEGENDARY. But he just kind of started picking people off one by one as fast as possible. Its incredibly dissapointing.
And yet somehow it's still fascinating and great I just wish they had patience.
Gege wants to write his POP Idol manga in peace
It definitely feels like he lost that original spark when he had when he made the manga during shibuya and then got a new one during culling games
Yeah he never really wanted to make jjk in the first place he wanted to make an idol manga
i agree. i haven't liked the direction of the story since shibuya
You get it bro. I literally miss her for all those exact reasons. She became my favorite character for sure during the "it's like that" chapter in the manga.
Right!? The "its like that" chapter is probably where I actually started to like her, and then they just took her away.
When killing a character you have to weigh something, you have to weigh whether the impact this death will have on the story or characters is more valuable than all further interactions and plot relevance the character will have. Gege managed to do both perfectly and terribly within the span of a few chapters. Nanamis death was perfect it had massive impact on both the audience and yuji as a character and his role in the story was already finished, yuji was mentored and already a proper sorcerer nanami is a complete character with a perfect send off. Nobara was killed almost flippantly with seemingly none of this taken into account the impact of her death was lessened by having an already so impactful death right before it detracting focus and her further interactions with characters and plot relevance could have easily outweighed the minimal impact her death had. I think her death was a complete misstep
no doubt, her death is the worst writing decision of jjk close to the yuki stuff, no thought put into it whatsoever and just shock value, we dont even get a proper griefing chapters or even pannels from her friends, gojo doesnt even mention it and everyone seemingly moves on. It marks the beggining of the decay of jjk and it started a lot of the tropes that would later greatly undermine what was previously built
@martinx.floresrodriguez4507 agree with everything you said. can't believe no one especially gojo doesn't even mention her since it would be fresh news to him he barely reacts to nanami. I think the second biggest mistake is skipping the month in between the sukuna gojo fight literally awful writing choice. Third is probably yuki being a jobber
To me, Nobara parallels Nanami the most. What I find most devastating is that she came to her life’s realization at 15-16 years of age. Like Nanami, she left her home. She wanted to go to Jujutsu High to become a better sorcerer. To have autonomy. Nanami had that and when he lost his friend, understandably so, he left. He’s even said he ran away to a mindless job. Nobara when faced with death or a major threat, always faced it as Nanami then did for all. At the start, Nobara said she only had so many chairs for people so cared for, and before dying, she realizes they all brought so much into her life. Those seats were filled and in facing her best friend, she comforts him to not get cursed and truly dies without regret. She reached that state of mind Nanami still could not before dying in font of Yuji too. 😢 Tremendous for a. 15-16 year old.
The problem with Nobara is… her technique is too damn convenient. Being able to directly hit the soul from a distance would have been too convenient for the stories progression. Her technique along with Hannah’s would have probably been able to save the reincarnated sorcerers’ host. Basically her technique would have ended the series by now. I do miss her though.
She got Gojo-ed, was too powerful to live 😭😭
You forget she has to hit her nails with a HAMMER!
Not a gun. A hammer.
Try throwing a nail in the air and hitting it with a hammer to land on a target.
Her aim is pretty good, but we've still seen people easily dodge her nails.
Both Haruta and Mahito dodged her nails.
It's not hard to dodge, plus there's always a chance she'll miss.
It would only be convenient if it was like a domain, with a guaranteed hit.
But she doesn't have one.
Also, the damage done isn't that much. She hit Mahito,
and he was still able to fight both Todo and Yuji afterwards, who are
definitely stronger than her.
Other than that hammer and nails, she's a regular person,
only with the ability to manipulate cursed.
Also, I doubt she would be able to choose which soul to hit like Hanna.
Jacob's Ladder is the only technique we've seen capable of doing that.
She would probably just end up hitting both since they live in the same body.
Though, I could be wrong. We haven't seen her hit someone with 2 souls, so I can't be sure.
@@TheGospelGuy listen my boy… Nobara hit a clone of Mahito which effected his real body. Striking his soul directly. If Nobara used that same technique on Sukuna’s finger, it would directly strike his soul. She doesn’t even need to be around. She could be held down in a bunker somewhere using straw doll and resonance on Sukuna’s finger while he gets jumped and once his soul is weakened enough Angel’s technique could destroy the curse object inside the host.
@@gustavoburciaga6200 Listen my boy _ Mahito was only stunned by resonance.
He wasn't hurt. He fought both Yuji and Todo by himself, afterwards.
Even if he was hurt, it wasn't by much.
If Mahito could do that, Sukuna can definitely do it too.
And don't say, because Mahito has better understanding of his soul.
Sukuna split his soul into 20 pieces, so there's no argument.
If that was really a problem then it would mean Gege just wasn't a good enough writer to find a way around that; you're effectively deciding on a whim that this obstacle for the villain simply doesn't exist anymore instead of coming up with something to subvert your readers' expectations. If a character's ability will make things "too easy" for the heroes, create a situation that prevents them from just attacking the villain however and whenever they want.
Now I'm not claiming that to be the case or saying I could do better, since we don't know for sure what he was thinking when making that decision.
Nobara kinda felt like a parallel of Noelle(Black Clover) development wise and that made her so approachable as a character.
I wish she was able to get more time in the show overall
I would literally sacrifice almost any other character in the show for her to come back
My goat nobara got cooked (or incapacitated or whatever idk), and they left us with just megumi asides from yuji.
Nobara had, and still has, more actual potential than the literal potential man.
U put into words so well I miss her so much. I didn’t appreciate her enough while she was around and now that she’s been gone so long I realized what we had. Her power would work so well for like tag teams and she was so confident and headstrong in a way yuji and Megumi weren’t, I feel like if she was in culling games yuji and Megumi wouldn’t have gotten as fucked up mentally as they did, especially thinking about the conversation she and yuji had after killing Choso’s brothers. Idk I want her back but also don’t at the same time cuz it feel like it’s just too late she’s been gone too long
She's alive (im coping)
I'll sip on some of that copium with ya
I need me a Nobara in my life
she became one of my favorite characters in this show and Im just, so disappointed that her character was just, killed off
Like, i think her death was written alright enough, it's certainly impactful, but like, god- I would have much preferred her live and get to develop further and just,
idk
I cant help but feel it is the biggest waste of potential in this show
her death was terrible because the only impact it left was a yuji power up, which was already done with nanami a few chapters before. Not only its a massive waste of potential comparable to the yuki situation but she didnt even die for something unique, she shares with nanami the "and yuji sank deeper into despair". I know gege is under a lot of preassure but after nobara's "death" the series just fell off, terrible writing throught and through, u dont kill a character of the main trio unless its gonna pay off, nobara's death doesnt pay off at all except the moment it happens
@@martinx.floresrodriguez4507 Thank you! You get it! Killing someone of the MAIN TRIO like that is just absurd and nonsensical
i have hope she will come back one day. the way her fate is always glossed over in the manga just feels like setup for her eventual return, and honestly i can almost see her coming back to help hammer the nail in Sukuna's coffin (pun very much intended)
Everything you said in the video 100%. She was an amazing character but her author didn't care about her. It sucks for us.
That’s one thing I hated, they made her stand on the levels of yuji and megumi, even fighting mahito, even if he was a clone, it’s still impressive and I was legit shocked, but then they do a whole 180 and kill her off.
i miss gojo, gege fumbled my king
Was one of my favourite characters :(
it's gege's bad habit to just throwing away character roles i guess...even the character might had a lot of development potential in the story, but if gege is done with one chacter, either he'll make them die or just simply make them compeletely vanished. just like Todo
HUH?!?! WTF Happened with TODO?!?! I’m an anime Watcher!! The Brothers won’t stay together?!?! 🥺🥺
@@julianbalenzano6432 Yes, he seems to never appear again after Shibuya
@@s-volt8613let Todo cook... I'm sure he's out there hauling a huge load of copium in Kyoto to overdose sukuna
I mean he has one hand and can’t use this technique anymore 😊
@@Rieky22 couldn't he just get a prosthetic or something? I mean it's still clapping, even if the hand is fake. Idk, gege is a hack.
I miss her too...
Nobara was clearly waisted to me. She kinda got that Sakura treatment to be be honest.
You know.. When a female character starts to shine and ACTUALLY doing something which raises your expectations and makes you think the character is going to be really THERE only to be thrown away 2 sec later ? I say "Sakura treatment" because I saw the 2 being compared a lot when season 1 came out and people praising Nobara and saying that she was what Sakura should’ve been which is now so hilarious because she was done even worse.
MAAAANNNNN ME TOOO 😭 one of my favorite characters ever
I think part of the reason gege killed her off is, she would be to op against sukuna. Imagine if she used stawdoll on one of sukunas fingers.
Blood he ranked Jacob’s ladder she not doing nothing to the king of convenience
@@inafrenzy1348 Just keep hammering Resonance would be a massive annoyance
@@khulmach9662 Then he finna use his secret doxxing technique he hadn’t used since the heian era to snipe her
She was alright, sad to see what happened to her character.
I miss her too, her fighting style was super tactical n visually amazing.
it does feel like after season 1, the pacing got sped up to eleven and it just became battle after battle with no downtime and every character, not just Nobara, had less chance to develope
No kidding
Choso beats up Yuji, ok now Dagon is fighting the sorcerers, rip Dagon oh wait now Toji is fighting Megumi!
Alright, now what's Kusakabe doi--- OH GOD JOGO AND SUKUNA ARE GOING AT IT!
listen, you can't just make the perfect female characters, make them have a fight then kills them. Like bro I was so deceived. Yuki wasn't even fully developed but blud decided to chop her off.
And Nobara, her death was wasted potential tbh. And the fact that she died and then nothing like her death stays suspicious and "blurry" to me.
Gege's process is like: introducing female ch. -> Everyone loving her -> she dies-> he forgets abt her -> Creates another one -> repeat.
And I'm mad in a very mad way. Like not in a "her death was necessary" way. Her death wasn't necessary at all except making Yuji feel more guilty and suicidal (to me Yuji didn't gave a f 💀 like bitch please can you cry like JUST A SINGLE DROP BBG)
Nobara is the sakura we all wanted. But yea no, she isn't here anymore ig
Tbh I lost a bit of interest in jjk after her death, the story became complicated to me (who likes simple yet interesting stories) and I knew, everyone was going to die, Yuji is going to have suicide thoughts and new corny characters will appear then disappear like my dad buying the milk.
Brooo what a wonderful video !
She had to die in order for Sakuna to live. She would of been able to at least cripple Sakuna while being on the other side of the country.
And we all know Gege can’t have his fav Sukuna be screwed over 😂
Your voice is relaxing
I can see several ways how she can come back and do a surprise Hail Mary
Me too man wasted potential of an amazing female protagonist 😢
Welcome to jujutsu kaisen man
I feel the same 😢😭
Gege is slowly crawling up to be a bad writer
I disagree
Didn't he have a previous one-shot manga? I came across a sample of it online. Pretty mid to me.
I read somewhere he's moving on to write/draw an idol manga.
I agree with every word
She’s such a good character😂
Me too bro
i forgot she exist 😭
Probably would’ve been a monster with RCT and her technique would’ve made the defeat of Sukana a bit easier.
Nobara is cool, but Gege didn't really care her. We literally dont the bulk of backstory until her death.
me too
Same
My brother had a theory that she would come back in chapter 251 by helping the fight by taking the last Sukuna finger and using her cursed technique on it but apparently Yuta ate it
who else think that gege's editors lowkey told him to get rid of her for political reasons ?
i'm definitely on the "don't let that character become famous" conspiracy theories
i hate how miwa got to live and nobara did not
I mean I don't want miwa to die, but I feel you lol
Truthfully speaking Sakura is a good female character too not in Naruto but in Shippuden, let's consider shall we; she isn't just a hi, I'm a girl. She is shown to miss both Sasuke and Naruto and in the first episode she shows how she likes how Naruto has matured until he does something stupid for which he would be smacked on the face I would have done the same, she has her own personality, her own girly love, her own resolution that she'll get stronger and not be a burden on Naruto (say anything about how the story and writer sidelined here the major problem has always been the Hate from the fanbase). She becomes a useful individual from a useless crying girl the same shit could be said for Izuku Midoriya. Don't give me shit that oh but Izuku ran to a villain to save his friend, well guess what So did Sakura as a child stop her two friends from fighting she was literally going to throw herself between them which meant death btw (the fight on the rooftop). The humour side of her being mean or hitting was done by the writer because that was the most common way of doing humour for girls. She had a great moment too defeating an Akatsuki and holding her own in war both as a soldier and a medic (it's just that no one gives a crap about how important medics are in a war) + she saved Naruto's life. She always got much stronger than others its just that she had very very crappy dialogues.
Coming to Nobara, I miss her too, she is different from Sakura. She has actual good dialogues and humour, but she too got overshadowed by the others. She had the potential to be much better because she was never shown as a kid hitting the main character which is a common punchline in Japan. However, the way she was handled was just like fuck off, she was just offed and never brought back and it has been 200 chapters it's too late now. She was done much worse than a supporting female character, she was used as a sacrifice to break the already broken character Yuji. Gege didn't have a story for her same like Naruto's writer didn't know what to do with her during the story, the difference is one just killed their character and one sidelined them until they could give her good moments she can shine at.
Lowkey gege is so bad at writing characters. "Heres a fire character with so much potential."
Man this character is reall cool. I cant wait to see where they g-
"Off screened"
Oh😐
bro megumi is gonna flip as he was down bad for her.....
Was he? It's been a while since I watched jjk so I don't remember much (+ I haven't read the manga), can you explain? 😭😭
This is what happens when a ranged fighter goes into narrow spaces bruh. She should've played cs.go, got some strats
ngl monster go replaced by maki in terms of important female character
As Mahito said, the battle against the Curses and Sorcerers is a war. Wars don't wait untill a character goes through their develepment.
Her and many other characters honestly prove to me how bad of a writer gege is
Eh Maki was more my interest personally so im not crying
I like Maki more than nobara too, but i still wish she were here
To be honest the idea i came up with is that sorcerer's no matter how potential they have they will never continue in life to see through thier potential no matter who you are really the Shibuya arc was filled with deaths and destruction both curses and sorcerer's and she was one of them that couldn't make it out of Shibuya
I think people put Nobara too high... Like come on dude, she's not that strong. How can her ability become stronger than that? I can't think of her becoming Maki level (who is the female lead at this point).
Use mei mei for example. If nobara fully maxed her physical capabilities, her nails would be like bullets. Her straw doll could buff her if she nails herself. There's always DE and RCT. At the cost of a weaker Resonance, her nails could have an AOE. Then she's got the soul hitting ability which could prob have utility rn. Gege could've came up with a ton of stuff.
She doesn’t need brute strength alone. There are so many techniques can completely bypass that too. Her straw doll technique could literally damage anybody in the series. Also her powers are unique and interesting too. I don’t think people are drawn to her because they think she’s op
A character's limit in strength is only what the writer wants it to be. I think his point is that Gege could've chosen to make her grow more as both a character and fighter but didn't.
@@DOCTOR.DEADHEAD
Exactly.
@@sharkguy2340
"Gege could have come up with a ton of stuff."
Yep. However, word on the street is he wants to move on away from JJK to write an idol manga. He's not going to flesh it out more. Now, he's speed running the whole series with the goal of ending it this year.
She's meh. I don't care about her. I mean, she's the tritagonist and most of the characters are way more interesting. Maybe I just don't like her type.
This is me with gojo, so much time is given for like the most boring guy, and everyone like him
@@purviswilliams2502 gojo is a badass and super strong. And that's it. I kinda like this power fantasy, but yeah there's nothing more than it.
@@purviswilliams2502
Even Gege hates him. Gojo's an overpowered twink.
No one cares about petra 2.0