In Defense of Megumi Fushiguro and His Potential (Jujutsu Kaisen)

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Timing of video is immaculate. We just see Megumi fight back Sukuna and help Yuji in chapter 266.

Hes back

Could you make a video on the mind seat and analyzing Mahito or Sukuna

Nice timing. Right before chapter 266

Great vid like always

For your next video essay I’d REALLY hope you cover Dr Doom, I think you’d love his character.

Our goat is coming back!! ☺

Yo replaying kenshi right now that soundtrack is immaculate. Love to see it

I wanted to see him reach his full potential but it's too late now the manga ends in 5 chapters

He reminds me of Killua a little bit

Can you do a video on fire force?

Potential man himself, Megumi Fushiguro😂

Sage. this was a fantastic video. If anyone wants to see the complete contrast to this Video. Go watch Jaded's JJK Video on Selfish.
i'll continue to study this video as it speaks volumes to me.

Not trying to be weird but my man do you do audiobooks?Cause your voice is soothing

Just beautiful

Best megumi video I have I've seen

My crash out king gets a video !!!!!

I don't know if you are reading these comments but since I saw your video on Hinata being a bad character, I wrote a character analysis on her. If you could read it, I'd appreciate it a lot. Thank you!

Hinata was born to the world shouldering the responsibility of her family, to lead the Prestigious, traditional and old Hyuga clan with a strong unwavering fist. But her personality was that of a soft spoken girl who was kind, gentle and empathetic, her name literally translates to "Pure white lily facing the sun" to signify her purity as a character and a person.

Although Hinata undergoes rigorous and painful training with her father, Hiashi doesn't see her as fit to rule over their clan because of her kind nature. Therefore, Hiashi, as the

strict leader of the Hyuga clan pits her against her younger sister Hanabi in an attempt to motivate Hinata. In this match Hinata lost to her sister since she was unable to land the final blow out of kindness for her sister, Hiashi who saw this as hesitancy and weakness for the sake of their clan disowns her and essentially kicks her out of his family, which deals a critical blow to her self esteem. To Hinata her value was in her purpose that was bestowed upon her by her father, to be the heir of the Hyuga clan. His judgement and views of her alongside with the path he layed on her to follow overruled her childhood. In disowning her, Hiashi essentially stripped Hinata of her self worth, which lead Hinata in a dark path.

Hinata being born with high expectations and being unable to fullfill them to her family left her with a psychological scar in her early years as she felt inadequate, weak and an unloved failure who cursed the way she was. She berrates herself for her past failures and constantly undermines herself. Which in turn made her unable to believe, trust nor love herself and it lead her on a downward spiral of self hate and guilt. She betrayed herself and lost all will to fight and change. She developed an inferiority complex and her repeated failures in missions and in training because of her inability to trust in herself, only made things worse for her. Although she trained very hard every day, it means nothing if she couldn't believe in herself. Because of her past failures she has also developed a fear in failing and so she thought that it is better to stay a failure than to try and fail, and so she gives up on everything, failing herself.

These feelings would eventually lead to the Hinata we see in early part of Naruto, a depressed mess with social anxiety which is seen through her general mannerisms(her shyness & being easily flustured, avoiding social confrontations by avoiding talking and looking down while talking to another, nervousness, stutter and shaky voice etc..). She is passive, indecisive, hesitant and always prefers to be in the background of situations that she is put in, she is always overruled by her peers and her opinions aren't cared even by them as she lacks agency.

Even her character design of wearing cozy long sleeved sweaters as if to hide from everyone, and not showing her skin in the slightest compared to other kunoichi because she doesn't see the value in such things and certainly wants no spotlight as she hates being judged by people, like how her father and her clan by extension did with her in the past.

Around this time she sees Naruto, another loner in the world who struggles with similar feelings of worth, depression, acceptance and failure but a degree worse that what she has to deal with, and yet he faces the world with a smile and a firm belief in himself. He is judged by people around him and despised by them for his circumstances similar to how she was judged and hated for hers by her family, but he is dealing with even worse prejudice. She relates to his struggles of acceptance and mostly his confidence/his ability to believe in himself, the

trait that she wishes for. As a similar failure, she knows how easy it is to give up and lose your worth after constant failure and how discouraging it is. Although her worth was stripped away by her father and her clan in disowning her, Naruto didn't have a sense of self worth to begin with, since no one beleived in him in the first place, but he never gave up on himself and stopped trying like she did, to be acknowledged by people and therefore gaining a sense of self worth. Seeing how he fails repetedly but never gives up, she recognizes Naruto's strength and is motivated herself to try harder and in turn beleive and accept herself, that she too could maybe change if she never gave up on herself. Naruto essentially is restoring her sense of self worth that was stripped away by her father when she abandoned her. And therefore Hinata finds purpose in Naruto in seeing that Naruto is still trying to change himself. Hinata thought that she only had a single path to follow that was given to her by her family, but watching Naruto teaches her that she herself has to find the purpose/path for herself and that it is possible to restore ones self worth by following another path. Watching Naruto and his quality to never give up basically fills her with hope, belief, self worth and purpose making her able to accept/love herself again.

She sees Naruto as a person who although fails, have the ability to stand back up and keep on fighting for his goals, unlike herself from the past who just accepted their fate and stayed sulking with the hand they were dealt with. Seeing this redefines her ideology on strength and makes her wish for that strength for herself too. As she says herself when Naruto doubts himself when he was going to fight Neji, True strength is to never give up and keep on trying even at worst odds, that is also why she calls Naruto a proud failure. A failure who never gives up on trying to change themselves for the better, until they eventually succeed. Her belief in Naruto is based on this aspect of him, this is further emphasized by the symbolical irony of their Doujutsu, the Byakugan. The Byakugan makes them look blind eventhough it grants them the ability to see through everything, but in seeing everything they are blind to their own strengths and weaknesses, which is symbolized by the blind spot. Hinata, before anyone, saw Naruto's strengths despite everyone else calling him a failure, but she was blind to her own strengths until Naruto made Hinata realize hers.

With Naruto's inspiration and of her own volition, to challenge herself and possibly change her cowardly and hesitant self, she enters the chunin exams. Although she passes the written test of the exams and displays courage, mental fortitude and strength in certain moments(such as in passing the written test, of which the aim was to measure courage and helping Naruto at her own risk) she is immediatley challenged by the living embodiment of all her flaws, Neji. A complete contrast of her, an intimidating prodigy with a superiority complex to her anxiety ridden inferiority complex. And Neji is antagonistic towards her to the bitter end, although she, tries to establish a close familial relationship with him adressing him as her own brother, he insists to call her Lady and distance her. Eventhough both of them have suffered because of the Hyuga, While Hinata is offering Neji her kindness and a chance to reconcile his anger, Neji rejects it as his hatred for the Main branch blinds him from seeing Hinata's suffering. Their relationship is in contrast the main family which enslaves the branch family. Neji have misdirected anger for Hinata which he tries to justify in different ways, because he believes that he can't do anything about his situation, the only thing he can do is deflect it with aggression towards someone who used to symbolize the main family, even though she too was betrayed by them. In this sense Hinata is the same as Naruto, someone who gets unjustified anger towards them for the circusmtances they were born with, but both of them tried to change their situations by chosing different paths from what fate had in store for them, compared to Neji. Neji feels like he is treated in an unjust way by the Hyuga and since he can't do anything about it, he calls his situation fate and hides in it, wallowing in self pity and hate, stagnating himself in it. Neji also represent the core aspect of her past self, which is giving up, so this can also be interpret as Hinata challenging her past self in order to cast it away.

Neji beleives that if he couldn't change his standing in the clan with all his skill and effort, she couldn't change as well. And with this he have already given up on trying to change. He believes that everyone should follow the path they are supposed to and live within the confinements of their fate and that going against it has reprecussions as his father suffered. So it angers him to see people try to defy fate and when they are unable to as he too wasn't able to, he rationalizes being unable to change by putting it on fate. He beleives that Hinata can't change, judging by how the past Hinata acted he beleives that Hinata would forfiet the match, he wants her to forfiet because if she chose to fight, it means she have changed herself and that would mean he lost ideologically to her. So he would do whatever he could to make her forfiet.

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And well, sounds like in the end he’s getting up and back.

Please do a video on Hajime Kashimo.

Potential Man and Puddle Man😭