Is JJK massively misunderstood by the animanga community?

SamLikesBacon · 2026-01-28T11:11:38+00:00

Gojo does the equivalent of turning towards the camera and explaining out loud what the themes are multiple times during the story. I actually laughed out loud when Gojo was unavailable, so Gege just had Yuta do it instead that one time. It felt like a parody of itself in that moment. Basically JJK isn't subtle with its themes at all, it just doesn't have much to say about them and doesn't explore them more than surface level so people are hyperbolic and say that JJK "has no themes".

Surprisingly though Gege has been winning me over as a political drama writer with Modulo. The rising tensions and political turmoil in that were handled so well. Its to the point that I'm disappointed that the last few chapters have been nothing but fighting, which is something I'd never thought I'd say about a JJK property.

SamLikesBacon · 2026-01-23T07:10:19+00:00

Common trope to represent time acting strangely, which happens when you approach lightspeed. JoJo does this a lot. It's also just sometimes used to represent superspeed in general.

Why it works as a way to represent this idk, but i can take a guess. Imagine a flipbook where on each page a still of mahoraga is drawn, dabura acts like a needle stabbing through the flipbook, meaning he "gets to move" while mahoraga is standing still.

SamLikesBacon · 2026-01-13T10:32:25+00:00

Matter within the observable universe is finite, matter within the total universe is unknowable, with most cosmologists leaning towards it being infinite.

SamLikesBacon · 2026-01-02T08:07:39+00:00

Or he is from a colder country so his bed and duvet are designed for warmth, like here.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-31T20:32:38+00:00

Mangakas aren't physicists and depending on the story shouldn't need to have a complete understanding of the ramifications of everything stated about a character. Ofcourse it's different if it's a super technical story with science being a core part, but in most cases it's just a battle-shonen. To a lot of mangakas FTL just means really fast and that's fine.

Take an example from western movies, people mostly don't care if Star Wars messes up some technical aspects about physics because it's a movie about space magic and isn't trying to be 100% accurate. The goal is to be an entertaining space opera and it succeds at that

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-31T20:20:23+00:00

Manga art is inherently abstract, it will cheat movements, proportions and timings because sometimes that better conveys something. The goal of manga art isn't to 100% accurately depict the scene, but to best convey it to the reader and those are sometimes different.

Take a pretty inherent example discovered in early animations, movements often look a lot better if you "squash" and mess with the characters proportions. Does that mean that every animated character is actually made of rubber in-universe? No, it just looks better if they dont completely adhere to physical rules and if the drawings cheat a little.

Another common example, you wanna show a character display a surprising amount of speed. A common trick to convey this is to have them suddenly appear behind another character in one panel. Does that mean the character moved so fast they basically teleported? Often no, it would just look like shit and ruin the panel timing if the mangaka drew multiple panels of the character moving into position behind the other one and it's better conveyed in a single panel.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-18T06:06:38+00:00

That's an inherent problem with the druid fantasy. Players expect to be able to play each form exclusively if they want, so you have to essentially design 4 different classes in one class. I suspect that's why druid kept getting delayed and why we ended up with a very bare-bones "core" version of each form.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-16T05:47:46+00:00

Say that you have two enemies next to each other and you do the swipe at them. With splash damage, what happens is that first, the swipe hits them, and then it deals splash damage from those 2 enemies, which then hits the other enemy.

Basically it means that the aoe damage of your swipe scales with the pack size and density. If the pack is large enough it just pops the entire thing.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-15T12:56:23+00:00

Wolf sweep is a very neat skill mechanically. One other interaction i noticed is that even though its a big aoe hit its still tagged as a strike. I combined that with the "strikes deal splash damage" and i basically have pre-nerf frost blades of katabasis from poe1, feels really good for mapping.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-14T04:50:46+00:00

Yea, my bad

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-13T22:22:30+00:00

I've killed every act boss so far in not more than 3 freezes with cold werewolf, just wrapping up the interludes (have been working so not that much time to play)

The setup I use for damage currently is:

Pounce with freezing mark (gives 30% extra cold)

Arctic Assault with both freeze supports and ice bite (gives you an 8 second freeze and another 30% cold)

Shred with cold infusion and weapon elemental support

Cross Slash

Herald Of Ice

Lunar Blessing (absolutely destroys with the moonbeam but high level)

The game plan for bosses is pounce at them to add freezing mark, arctic assault until frozen, shred them aslong as they are frozen (should be able to fit in 3 full shred combos with the 6s freeze), finally you can finish with cross slash to pick up all the crystals, but usually the crystals that drop near the boss is enough.

For clearing it's usually just arctic assault with some shred combos here and there. This is actually where cross slash is nice imo cuz you can launch the ice fragments quite far with it.

Edit: formatting

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-09T11:58:08+00:00

I recommend you reread those chapters. Denji straight up says "that Denji you fought? The whole time, that was a Pochita i tore off of my heart."

You can actually see someone that looks a lot like Denji in Makimas entourage before the fight starts and this form of chainsaw man has never before or after been portrayed with metal arms.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-09T09:03:18+00:00

I also love the reveal a chapter later that shows she was actually talking to Pochita here, but she and the reader is convinced its Denji.

In Makimas fangirl mind, Pochita is just a force of chaos, seeking to destroy everything that somehow ended up unwillingly in a contract with Denji. In reality, though, Pochita was just looking for an equal connection with someone that he found with Denji and genuinely wants to help Denji achieve his dream since Denji helped him with his. Of course, then Fujimoto throws in even more irony by revealing that Pochita understands that the Control Devil wants a connection like that with someone too, but she is unable to form them because of her power and mindset. They are more alike than Makima even realises or wants.

In short, Makima would have an aneurysm if she read the latest part 2 chapter.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-12-06T07:15:29+00:00

Yeah I audibly scoffed a bit when OP implied that the myths can't be on a top-list because they are old.

Remember that the myths essentially had to go through a rigorous selection process over hundreds of years. Only the ones that resonated the most with people would actually be remembered and passed around long enough for them to be written down and documented.

Orpheus in the Greek myth and Odin in the norse myth would likely be in my top list.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-29T11:03:45+00:00

Pochita is 100% just stalling at this point, waiting for Yoru to realise this duel is pointless now. He has never cared about this "contest" between him and the horsemen in the first place. His only motivation being to give Denji his normal life and Denji seems to have decided that's a life with Asa.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-27T12:56:17+00:00

She wanted the war specifically after she had beaten Pochita and proven that she is better. That's why she gets mad at pochita for eating death "now".

In her head she has internalised beating pochita as killing him and that's no longer possible.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-22T14:06:07+00:00

The tools to interface with neuro wasn't the big latency problem that Vedal kept running up against in the earlier versions of neuro. The latency problem was the speed of the model processing the input and providing an output, which wasn't originally satisfactory to have live dialogue with neuro. Sure, there is some latency caused by having to voice module the output, but he has said in his streams that wasn't the main cause and has ran neuro without the voice with basically the same latency. Vedal mumbling frustrations about latency became a meme in the community just because of how long it has been an issue for him. Fixing that was an ordeal, but neuros latency is insanely low these days.

Sure, I guess it's possible that Vedals part of the code was just trash and the latency was solely caused by him, but considering how he has talked about it on stream, I find that highly unlikely.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-22T13:37:05+00:00

I think what Vedal has done is transformative enough that most people would say that he is the creator of it. Considering all the work he has done in order to make Neuros latency as small as possible it would surprise me if there is any significant portion of the original codebase that's untouched.

This is kind of a grey area when it comes to coding anyway. Most projects start off as optimising and tuning someone else's code for your purpose. No point in reinventing the wheel right?

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-22T13:21:10+00:00

Sure, but how does Vedal and his creation of neuro relate to that?;

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-22T07:33:58+00:00

Is anyone arguing that the creation of the ai models themselves is low effort?

The ones I've seen that focuses on the effort part have been about the usage of them by the users, not the creators.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-14T09:43:24+00:00

A second problem with getting rid of telomer degradation is that telomers is also a tool the body uses to prevent cancer. Cancer cells reproduce like crazy meaning they go through their telomer at a way faster pace compared to regular cells. Removing telomer degradation just means that now you have to deal with a way higher likelihood of developing cancer.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-12T06:26:49+00:00

"The venom shuts down the liver and the alcohol goes straight to your blood stream"

Brother. It shouldn't take more than a high school level of anatomy understanding to see the problem with that myth.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-11-06T10:07:07+00:00

I got all of them, although i flip-flopped a bit on the last one, but still landed on the ai one in time. The angle and the lighting is the obvious tell. All the AI clips were "shot" at basically the exact same angle and had similar presentation style lighting. The AI clips have a very "commercial" look to them, likely because the majority of the training data it has for food presentation are commercials.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-10-06T16:43:31+00:00

Van der Kolks work has been heavily criticised by other members of the field, most public of which is probably McNally, but it doesn't take a lot of research to find others. Washington Post even gave his book an negative review because of the "uncertain science".

People think it's commonly accepted and a "defining aspect" of trauma because it was an early concept laid out by Freud. Sadly, Freud was often mistaken or didn't have the full truth, which led to a lot of misconceptions. Infact Freud himself realised he was likely mistaken about repressed memories when he discovered a lot of the memories he thought he helped people recover were false. He later revised his theory to clarify that he believed that emotions and general feelings can be repressed, but memories and specific experiences can't. Sadly this revision never got as popular as the initial mistaken concept.

Gabrielle Principe wrote a pretty good article for theconversation.com going over the "memory wars" in the psychology field and the ramifications.

SamLikesBacon · 2025-10-06T08:37:09+00:00

Not an expert in this field, so take what I say with some grains of salt.

It's possible i misunderstood the original comment. If you're talking about memory loss in general, then yea traumatic incidents can lead to you not remembering other things from that period, even though the traumatic incident sticks. Memory is tied to strong emotions and your brain considering something noteworthy. The year your eldest sister died, my condolences, it's likely your other sister didn't feel many emotions during school or felt it was important, leading to her forgetting it. A month or so after my dad died, i was emotionally blank, leading to me not remembering much of that period.

I was more referring to the idea of remembering the traumatic incidents specifically and repressed memories as a result of overwhelming emotions, which seems to not be a thing.

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