This made me go back and reread that arc. Man, Nobara is an actual psycho in the best possible way.
Couple of things that stuck out to me rereading Shibuya:
- Whatever happened to Choso (I still think Gege is full of it about it being unrelated to Todo), it wasn't Sukuna. There's a glance at the man inside looking out and being all annoyed with Yuji, then acting confused right as Choso starts reacting to his imaginary memory. And no matter the truth of his relationship with Yuji, it
was fake. Brother or not, they weren't having tea parties.
- Sukuna's fingers are all slightly different from one another. When Jogo unrolls his collection before he feeds them to Yuji, the bases of the fingers have different features. One has plants growing off it, another has crystals forming, a third has tentacles, and then there's a bunch more I had trouble identifying. I think that maybe each one corresponds to a different technique, and that's how Sukuna can do so much stuff.
- Man, Mahito really is a next-level bastard. I'd forgotten about the hand puppet.
- After Todo shows up, he begins stripping for reasons that are not entirely clear to me. Tosses off the jacket and literally rips his shirt in half. Wasn't damaged or anything.
- I could probably write an essay on how this series handles sexuality compared to something like Bleach. When your "pose for fanservice" female character is wearing a... well, I don't know what it is, but it covers her from the top of her neck right down to her ankles, it hits different than when you've got women with ta-tas the size of her head covered mostly with the power of positive thinking. There's ways to do "sexy" designs that aren't just gross otaku bait. (And of course giving them character and agency and personality goes a long ways, but at the end of the day a bad design is a bad design)
- I say that, and then the character in question is apparently naked in bed with her much younger brother. Oy vey. Forgot about that.
- How big is Choso? He's sitting down and clutching his knees and the man is nearly as tall as the doorway. Or is this some tiny door for some reason? I have so many questions. Can he grow and shrink at will? Does Japan have tiny cubbyhole doors for maintainence robots to come out of, or are workers supposed to crawl?
- We were talking about Miwa's hair: I think it's naturally blue, or at least, not naturally black, and I don't quite see why she'd dye her hair blue if her mother dying her hair black was a sticking point in her past.
- Given that China is also highlighted in the "US and middle east will object to your plan" panel but goes unmentioned, I think that it might just be a bad translation. Maybe that'll get cleared up in the volume.
