Jump Impressions [2025: No. 3]

I drank and gambled on horse racing and lost like an idiot. It was fun, so I barely forgive it, but it was painful. I'll write my Jump impressions.

Table of Contents: Modulo, Ichigo, Sakamoto, Akane, Samawan, Witch, Kunigoku no Magamaga, Bachi, Ao no Hako, Nige Waka, Gonron, Nue, Himaten, Othel, Postscript

Modulo

It's too interesting. Personally, I've been excited about Modulo's ability to handle difficult themes while making them interesting, but here, the pure Jujutsu Kaisen-like fun has emerged, and I'm impressed. I didn't expect Mahoraga. Is Yuuka's technique the Ten Shadows Technique? Certainly, you could say that the way he fights, incorporating the power of the Dog Claws and Jade Hounds into himself, is a form of it, but this technique, even if the user is weak, is too dangerous as a last resort. I thought the battle with Doubra would be more tragic, but suddenly, there's a chance of winning. Even if it's a Sukuna-level shikigami, it's impossible to defeat if the firepower isn't there. Mahoraga seems likely to adapt to light this time, so it depends on what kind of technique his killing intent is. I said it might be impossible to defeat, but it seems to have deadly firepower, and it feels like one-shotting Mahoraga is easy.

Ichi

Gokuraku, I got the image that he is a gentle guy, so the gap that he overkill is good. I'm a little relieved because he killed the speed type guy first, who seemed like the kind of guy who would deceive everyone and kill the women first.

Sakamoto

I liked the part with the photo booth. Relatively serious battles have been going on recently, so I was glad to see an action scene that was like Sakamoto's.

Akane

It's getting pretty exciting. It's a super hot development to have rivals perform the same act that was done in Act-Age. Emotionally, this new chapter starts with Shiguma's Death God, so the fact that the act is Death God is also exciting. Shiguma's performance was better, so it's also worth seeing how they compete with that. The relationship between Kaisei and Akane has been sorted out, so that's why it's so intense. Up until now, it seemed like it was just the atmosphere that was amazing, but now I understand that Akane and he are different only in the root, so this distance is easy to see, and this rivalry between the two has become amazing to watch. Akane, due to her nature as the protagonist, will probably only incorporate elements of her own style of art at the very end. Shiguma's art seems to be a work-based style with elements of her own style, though, but I don't know.

Samawan

The story progresses properly, and there are severe parts where the protagonist doesn't get involved in Koshien in a convenient way, but there are also love comedy-like delicious elements with the omikuji, so I was very satisfied this time as well. Now that I think about it, it's amazing that the number and quality of jokes haven't dropped at all. I liked Nobunari's Ambition.

Witch

The meeting with Shikimi was tense and good. Especially before searching about the ship on her phone, it was a pretty raw tension, which was good. These things happen in everyday life too. Back when I was reading To LOVE-Ru at a friend's house while my friend was in the bathroom, and my parents suddenly came into the room, I felt a tension of 'Did they see it!?' Anyway, I thought that maybe it was a tension production that made the most of the comedic perspective.

Kunigoku no Magamaga

The art is beautiful and easy to read. Also, I felt like I was seeing my grandchild (maybe because he's a transforming monster hero). It was just plain interesting. I feel like I didn't see the heroine's goodness that much, so that's the only thing I regret. I liked the visual of the sword.

Bachi

Guuzai Battou, it was the best. At first, I thought that if there were more pages, they would have used bigger panels, but after rereading it, I thought this was good as it is. The gap between Akenashi's silence and the butterfly's destruction was even better. It was good that he bothered to change his clothes. Folding up the suit he took off, and showing his mysterious obsession in the first place, is very human. Johan Huizinga seems to have found the essence of human beings in play in 'Homo Ludens,' but the scene where he changes clothes is exactly that. It's far from the systematic, kind of inanimate appearance that I associate with Guuzai's insects, and in this sense, there's a gap, which is good. He said 'Cool' to Zamura, casually used the fourth ability, and as expected, there's a butterfly. I wonder if there are still cards left. I'm also curious about what's on his mind, and the voltage is rising.

Ao no Hako

Youth without romance is good. The poem at the beginning was also good. Regardless of this week's story, the world is full of unreasonable and unsuccessful things, so I like the way they live while properly compromising with that. This week was exactly like that, and it was good.

Nige Waka

It's pretty scary when your family is targeted. Shia and Ayako are strong, but this world hasn't depicted an individual who can do anything with an army on their own.

Gonron

Not just Gonron, but Othel and Ichi too, recently it might be a trend to have the protagonist's overpowered rampage at the beginning. The fact that Jujutsu Kaisen gained popularity by depicting Sukuna and Gojo's big fight in the second volume seems to have had a significant impact. It's not like it just started recently, so it's not like Jujutsu is the origin, but at least it's had an impact on what's popular recently, and it's actually an easy to imitate and interesting development. But if it's done this much, it gets tiring... Gonron doing this third might have had bad timing. The 'shibashi no hima' was cool though... Also, there weren't that many visually impressive things... The order of showing the art in the last action scene was quite unique, I thought. Bringing the panel where the giant tree is split in two not at the moment of the slash, but several panels later is quite unusual. If you look at the butterfly scene in this week's Bachi, it's easy to understand, it's right after the technique is activated. These kinds of panels are like that.

Nue

I like these mellow episodes of Nue too. This week also felt like a happy time that won't come back. If it's before 1300, it's around the Nara period? Regarding Kuubou, well, I didn't have a bad image of him since the sports festival, but seeing his past, I feel pretty sad. He seems like someone who likes people, so I'm very curious about why he's currently opposing them.

Himateen

I was very satisfied with it as a Kanna's face appreciation session. Looking at the pages where cutouts of past panels are used, I think the art style has become much cuter in the past year.

Othel

The Ice King came out, it feels like it's finally ending... This time was just plain good, and Corelio is still a good character.

Postscript

I was recommended to read Centuria and started reading it. I stopped reading it in the beginning, but as I continued reading it, it reminded me of many of my favorite works, so it wasn't bad. I was reading it because I thought the character Rakurama was cute, but while researching it because I thought I had heard that name somewhere, I found out that there is a grape variety called Lacrima (by the way, what I had seen and heard before was Fairy Tail). I bought wine made with Lacrima in order to have a wine-drinking party with the friend who recommended it to me at the beginning of the year. I'm looking forward to the beginning of the year. With that, it ends. With the excitement of Bachi and Modulo, I'm depressed about the New Year's holiday combined issue from now on. See you next week~