(this isnt to shit on Miura. his work has endlessly inspired and meant a lot to me, but that doesn't mean that it is exempt from constructive criticism)
i love Casca but damn it if she isn't the most misused character ever. I can understand what happened to her in the Eclipse from a narrative standpoint (Miura really didn't need to draw that scene in titillating angles though. It was fucking disgusting already). I can understand Casca loosing her memories. And as much as I despise it I can even understand her going into a zombie child-like state.
But what I can't understand is her being in this state…for what is essentially almost the entirety of the main story (20+ real life years) and GET 0 CHARACTER DEVELOPEMENT IN BETWEEN.
Don't get me wrong, arguably the best scene in the story is when she finally "wakes up" in Elfhelm. But they couldn't even give her a single thought, a short internal dialogue of the conscious part of her brain in between all this time? Nothing for who is essentially the tritagonist and supposedly the main heroine of this story, to who is at her core a really interesting and beautiful character with tons of wasted potential?
I confuse people. i have a happy personality and a sad soul. i'm bold but shy. i love deeply but sometimes i feel heartless. i'm healing and hurting at the same time. i'm dedicated to growth, but i self sabotage
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier The Defiant Ones (1958) dir. Stanley Kramer
At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
If I’m not the best by my own standards, then I’m nothing.
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
THANK YOU I always wanted to call this out but you said it better than I would’ve. It’s so disgusting how being a literal pedophile is so normalized here. Sadly Megumi and Maki fell victims to this the most and barely anyone talks about it. And dont get me started on the “it’s a drawing”, “aged up”, or the “the age of consent in japan in different” like SHUT UP. It’s so disgusting.
One thing I will never understand about the Jujutsu Kaisen (and others) community is how many people have 18+ on their profiles, then proceed to make nsfw content about the minor characters who are under 18 specifically on their accounts.
And the “they arent real” excuse don’t work w me, cause at the end of the day, they are fantasizing about a child being in those type of situations.
Like - Yuuji, Nobara, Megumi, etc etc they act like children and they clearly emphasizes that in JJK w Nanami’s first appearance in the anime, where he told Yuuji it’s okay to be a child. And they all have the same mentally of a child of their age.
Literally people who sexualizes them makes it so difficult and normalized for people of the same age to talk about themselves in that light. And I will admit, I’ve been one of them after seeing adults talk about child characters as such like that in such a light for so many years.
Also the sexualization of Maki is WAY too normalized.
Why the fuck are you sexualizing the minors too, when Gege gave us fine ass adult men and women??? Shiu, Takuma, Shoko, Yuki, Utahime, Mei Mei (ew.), Nanami, Toji, Satoru, Suguru, Choso, Sukuna, Uraume, etc etc. GO FOR THEM. I honestly want them all on me.
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath