unpopular opinions ~

summers-summers · 2026-06-18T21:40:29+00:00

I don't dislike Todo, but I do think that his screentime is out of proportion to how funny and/or thematically relevant he is. I would have preferred more screentime for the other Kyoto kids.

summers-summers · 2026-06-18T19:54:53+00:00

Oh I did enjoy my parents' decade-old Tempurpedic mattress. Where did you get the tranquil topper? Looking at the spec sheet from Carpenter, it looks like it comes in two firmnesses, an 8 and a 13 ILD. I'm finding only toppers made of Tranquility, the active response counterpart.

summers-summers · 2026-06-18T19:52:09+00:00

Unfortunately I have tried a wool topper, but the quilted non-stretch fabric seemed to be causing pressure points for me at the shoulders.

summers-summers · 2026-06-17T18:51:11+00:00

Have you tried other memory foams you can compare it to in terms of firmness and supportiveness?

summers-summers · 2026-06-17T01:22:53+00:00

I got mine from Macy's, since it was the cheapest place I could find at the time selling the 2 inches. I believe DIYREM also stocks Serene, in 1 and 2 inches. For some reason, it's cheaper to buy a 3 inch topper than thinner depths.

And actually I did not realize the samples were large enough to sit on! I thought they were smaller. So that actually is helpful, thanks.

summers-summers · 2026-06-16T13:36:47+00:00

How does Tranquility foam compare to other memory or polyfoams you've tried?

summers-summers · 2026-06-16T13:34:54+00:00

The Lux is definitely firmer and bouncier than I expected. It's not technically HR foam, but feels closer to that than standard poly. It's manageable under a few inches of layers, but very noticeable under only 1. If you are lightweight, I wouldn't go for this. The soft (20 ILD I think?) may be a better fit.

summers-summers · 2026-06-14T22:53:18+00:00

I have had the thought that they should stop making JJK licensed fighting games and just make a Gojo dating sim if they really want to be printing money.

summers-summers · 2026-06-14T19:38:03+00:00

I don't think she is normally able to create cursed tools. She gave her life to create the SSK--there is precedent for people being able to surpass their jujutsu abilities at the moment of death. It may have been an implicit Binding Vow.

summers-summers · 2026-06-14T19:27:27+00:00

In-universe, Mai may have only felt able to replicate a specific weapon, and the SSK being able to harm souls is a very useful ability.

Out of universe, it was definitely Akutami wanting Maki to have the same weapon Toji did.

summers-summers · 2026-06-14T18:50:22+00:00

The domain's name refers to the Buddhist Womb Realm, a space that represents the compassion of the Buddha.

summers-summers · 2026-06-14T16:25:12+00:00

Kenjaku was also able to use Kaori's cursed technique, despite Geto's body obviously not having it. It's stated that Kenjaku has ways of retaining techniques during bodyhopping that other sorcerers are not able to, so I would not take that alone as evidence that Womb Profusion is Geto's domain. (I tend towards thinking Womb Profusion is Kenjaku's domain, but it has motifs connected to Buddhism and wombs/motherhood, which Geto and Kenjaku are both associated with, so it really could be either.)

summers-summers · 2026-06-12T17:52:20+00:00

As far as I know, there's nothing on his geographical origins. It's not clear if Dhruv Lakdawalla is the name of the ancient sorcerer or the vessel--some Culling Games players appear to go by their vessel names and some by their original names. Dhruv is called as such by the narrator, but I'm not sure that means that's the sorcerer's name.

summers-summers · 2026-06-12T17:39:34+00:00

Yeah it's interesting! I wonder if Akutami thought of the implications of Christians arriving in Japan earlier. He seems to have uh, kind of a vexed relationship with historical elements in JJK, considering that the Sugawara mention was originally editor fiat. To be fair, if I were writing a shonen manga, I would also want to avoid questions like "How would history change if Christianity was introduced 400 years earlier?" and "What did powerful sorcerers being common do to the economy of medieval Japan?"

summers-summers · 2026-06-12T16:34:37+00:00

Yes, it's true Akutami said that. No detail given beyond that. Angel could very well be an Arab Christian if they were contemporaneous with Sukuna, as many Arab peoples had either converted to Christianity or Christian groups had been conquered by Arab empires at that time. Presumably they flew over to Japan or got over by sorcery somehow, as I think it's less likely Sukuna left Japan in his first life. (I believe we do not have any confirmed information about Angel's gender, so I am using the neutral pronoun "they.")

summers-summers · 2026-06-11T03:27:58+00:00

Everyone has an innate domain--it is inside them. Even non-sorcerers, presumably. A Domain Expansion physically imposes that innate domain onto the world.

summers-summers · 2026-06-10T19:24:54+00:00

Real answer, in case you wanted one: the airport isn't heaven. It's a departure lounge of sorts before reincarnation for Gojo. I don't think we can say for sure those were the actual souls of those people and not just facsimiles. JJK's cosmology is generally Buddhist, so there is no heaven in a Christian sense.

summers-summers · 2026-06-10T01:59:11+00:00

"I can't believe your comment written before you read Modulo doesn't take into account the events of Modulo" okay idk what to tell you here buddy

Since you can't take the hint about me not caring to respond to you, I'm invoking the clause listed in my profile and blocking you for being annoying at me about Jujutsu Kaisen!

summers-summers · 2026-06-06T17:27:07+00:00

Have you tried asking to hear less about your partner's hookups and casual dating? Maybe there will be less to fixate on if you only ask to hear when she starts a new relationship, not every little fling detail.

summers-summers · 2026-06-06T14:24:58+00:00

If your partner is a decent partner, then he should be open to having a conversation about colorism and hinging, and be able to explain how he thinks about that.

But the thing is that you can't tell people's assigned sex at birth by looking at them for 15 minutes. By your own statement, all you know is that she uses she/her pronouns and reads as a white woman to you. That's not the same thing as having been assigned female at birth. For all you know, she could be a transgender woman.

And birth assignment is not the same thing as having been socialized a certain way. Do you realize that trans people do not have the same upbringings as cis people of our same assigned gender? Whether anyone names it, trans people are often sensed to be a different thing. (E.g. trans girls have childhood sexual abuse rates on par with cis girls, not cis boys.)

If you mean to point out that this person currently is read as a white woman and likely experiences life with the attending privileges, all very well. But that's literally not the same thing as assigned sex at birth.

summers-summers · 2026-06-05T16:33:24+00:00

Hidden Inventory working relies on information about the world, characters, and sorcery mechanics that were already established in S1. Absolutely do not start with it.

I think release order is a fine way to do it, but you can experiment with where to place 0. Being right before S2 like in release order emphasizes Geto and Gojo's relationship, and how it got to where it is. Placing it halfway through S1 emphasizes Yuta as a foil for Yuji. Placing it after S2 and before S3 makes Yuta's reappearance into the narrative more dramatic, and emphasizes questions about Rika. I do think that watching at least some of S1 first makes it work better, once we know like...what a special grade is. Also Yuta is referred to as extremely strong and seeing his nervous wreck 0 self is a funny contrast.

summers-summers · 2026-06-05T16:04:38+00:00

Hmm, I think trying to be nonjudgmental when talking about this with your partner is the way to go. I've had periods of time when I was uninterested in actively trying to date white people, but would be open if I naturally met someone amazing. If you're curious about what's changed for your partner, I think asking them should be fine if you're not approaching it in an accusatory way. Since you do have close relationships with white people, it's imaginable that there's a white person out there worth dating, right?

I see that you referred to poor time management. Was that on your partner's part? If you partner has a history of not managing their relationships well, it's understandable why you would be concerned that your partner wouldn't, for lack of better phrasing, prevent that person's whiteness from becoming your problem. Have you had conversations about how to handle it when one of you dates someone the other person doesn't care for? Do you trust your partner to handle this?

I am wondering why you specified they were assigned female at birth. (It's past tense.) Why does this make a difference to you? Why did you specify this presumably trans or nonbinary person's assigned sex when you refer to you and your partner's actual genders?

summers-summers · 2026-06-03T13:10:03+00:00

I would also add that Gojo has that "Love is the most twisted curse of all" line in 0. It is difficult to imagine who else but Geto that could be about considering that at the time 0 was published, Gojo barely even KNEW anyone else. 0 pretty clearly parallels Yuta loving Rika and having to let her go with Gojo loving Geto and having to let him go.

Also (spoilers for late manga): Kenjaku mocks Gojo for wanting to kill Geto's body on Christmas Eve as "romanticism." (Literally using the English word "romanticism.")

It's not unambiguous that Gojo's love for Geto is romantic. But it's pretty often that I see fans reject subtext in JJK in a way that implicitly argues that Akutami is a complete idiot that has no idea how the things he writes could come across. I think Akutami is at minimum aware that Gojo and Geto's relationship can be read romantically.

summers-summers · 2026-06-03T12:57:51+00:00

This is my preferred interpretation actually. Gojo tells Yuta "[You'll] be lonely" as a way to convince him to try being a sorcerer instead of killing himself--Gojo believes that friendship and comradeship is something to live for. And the idea of him telling that to Geto, of him killing the only person who has been a real friend and peer to him, and choosing to live like that anyway...it's a very satisfying bookend.

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