i cant believe it has only been 10 chapters, this fight feels so long its like we've been here for years. im no sukuna fan but i want to see him do something other than defend, goddamit. but i dont want him to win, but i dont want him to lose like this, but i want megumi to come out of this alive aggghhh. this whole decisive battle is stressful af since im not even rooting for either gojo or sukuna, i just need to hear from megumi again. megumi! get the fuck up (╯°Д °)╯╧╧. i wish sukuna possessed panda instead so i wouldnt be this stressed! If that was someone else’s body I'd be cheering everytime gojo gets a W, but I can't even be happy when he landed that black flash coz that's Megumi in there! Agh!
copium ahead
no. 1 reason why megumi cant die (at least not like this): we need to see his domain at maximum potential! chimera shadow garden is one of the coolest domains (im biased), we better see that shit fully realized or istg! his slow progress towards perfecting his domain was the only one shown out of all the students iirc. yuta, hakari, mechamaru and todo are all the students able to cast a domain expansion (two of those are simple domains) - but it is something that they already have. meanwhile, megumi's domain was the only one we witness from its conception (not counting mahito or naoya for obvious reasons) and gege gradually illustrated its improvement in all the times megumi used it.
1st time casting; succeeded in defeating a special grade but domain is incomplete. he threw up and collapsed immediately after using it coz domain expansion is draining af (emphasized when mahito created his domain vs nanami & yuuji)
2nd time casting; still incomplete, but he was able to maintain it longer than the first time without collapsing/throwing up. was still able to fight toji afterwards, got hit by a sneak stab from the random annoying twink (i think they fought a little off screen too) and still have energy to summon makora. at face value it might seem like not much but considering how he only got to casting that incomplete domain just recently, that is a commendable feat.
3rd time casting; still incomplete. but not only was he able to hold it for longer we are now starting to see it take shape. its no longer just a formless mass of shadow, it now has a spine looking thing with veins and shit in the middle - despite him being unable to create a barrier for his domain, thats still a big progress! The word ‘chimera’ in his domain’s name is slowly starting to make sense! It's very clear that gege wants to take this somewhere promising.
Overall his domain is slowly but surely improving each time, all he has to do is overcome that mental block and i dont know a better way to do that than be quite literally trapped in your own mind and face yourself. I'm 60% sure that what we're seeing everytime Megumi gets a cameo is him in his own innate domain, he doesn't seem to be sharing an innate domain with sukuna like yuuji was back then. yes, he's just laying there right now - but he will get up!（/TДT)/
i doubt that slow progress on megumi’s domain was shown only for it to never have a pay off. not only would that be lame it would also be a waste of all that build up. Leaving Megumi with a half done character arc will just be so sad man I don't believe gege would do that to a character he built up this carefully. megumi's comeback is gonna be euphoric after all this suffering┗( T﹏T )┛until then i'll just trust the process.
i cant believe it has only been 10 chapters, this fight feels so long its like we've been here for years. im no sukuna fan but i want to see him do something other than defend, goddamit. but i dont want him to win, but i dont want him to lose like this, but i want megumi to come out of this alive aggghhh. this whole decisive battle is stressful af since im not even rooting for either gojo or sukuna, i just need to hear from megumi again. megumi! get the fuck up (╯°Д °)╯╧╧. i wish sukuna possessed panda instead so i wouldnt be this stressed! If that was someone else’s body I'd be cheering everytime gojo gets a W, but I can't even be happy when he landed that black flash coz that's Megumi in there! Agh!
copium ahead
no. 1 reason why megumi cant die (at least not like this): we need to see his domain at maximum potential! chimera shadow garden is one of the coolest domains (im biased), we better see that shit fully realized or istg!
his slow progress towards perfecting his domain was the only one shown out of all the students iirc. yuta, hakari, mechamaru and todo are all the students able to cast a domain expansion (two of those are simple domains) - but it is something that they already have. meanwhile, megumi's domain was the only one we witness from its conception (not counting mahito or naoya for obvious reasons) and gege gradually illustrated its improvement in all the times megumi used it.
1st time casting; succeeded in defeating a special grade but domain is incomplete. he threw up and collapsed immediately after using it coz domain expansion is draining af (emphasized when mahito created his domain vs nanami & yuuji)
2nd time casting; still incomplete, but he was able to maintain it longer than the first time without collapsing/throwing up. was still able to fight toji afterwards, got hit by a sneak stab from the random annoying twink (i think they fought a little off screen too) and still have energy to summon makora. at face value it might seem like not much but considering how he only got to casting that incomplete domain just recently, that is a commendable feat.
3rd time casting; still incomplete. but not only was he able to hold it for longer we are now starting to see it take shape. its no longer just a formless mass of shadow, it now has a spine looking thing with veins and shit in the middle - despite him being unable to create a barrier for his domain, thats still a big progress! The word ‘chimera’ in his domain’s name is slowly starting to make sense! It's very clear that gege wants to take this somewhere promising.
Overall his domain is slowly but surely improving each time, all he has to do is overcome that mental block and i dont know a better way to do that than be quite literally trapped in your own mind and face yourself. I'm 60% sure that what we're seeing everytime Megumi gets a cameo is him in his own innate domain, he doesn't seem to be sharing an innate domain with sukuna like yuuji was back then. yes, he's just laying there right now - but he will get up!（/TДT)/
i doubt that slow progress on megumi’s domain was shown only for it to never have a pay off. not only would that be lame it would also be a waste of all that build up. Leaving Megumi with a half done character arc will just be so sad man I don't believe gege would do that to a character he built up this carefully. megumi's comeback is gonna be euphoric after all this suffering┗( T﹏T )┛until then i'll just trust the process.
tldr; megumi will rise from the shadow. trust.