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WE HAVE SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT. It's the first two episodes in a double-feature that is one of my favorite sets of episodes...in the series? Maybe in the series so far.

New characters, new reveals, new rivalries, new alliances, and Gege trolling us all by becoming Perfect Cell from Dragonball Z with this..."Culling Game." I'm sorry I talked so long. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did!

LINK TO REACTION: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/MEC7czVgGHAQuGgURvNJpk

Thank you for watching with me and for all the support!

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Romania Black - Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: Episode 1-2 Reaction! EXECUTION & ONE MORE TIME!?

LINK TO REACTION: https://share.vidyard.com/watch/MEC7czVgGHAQuGgURvNJpk **EXECUTED HEADPHONE WARNINGS** 00:00 Introduction! 15:01 Go to the Reaction Link! 15:04 WE'RE SO BACK! PRE-DISCUSSION HYPE! 21:13 EPISODE 1 Discussion Start! 23:36 "Blood is Thicker Than Water" 24:35 The Struggles of Being Yuuji 29:28 The "Act" of Being Yuuta 32:37 NAOYA & The Zen'in Clan! 49:45 Yuuji & Choso's Sibling Time! 58:56 Naoya VS. Yuuji & Choso 01:02:10 The "Aura" of Yuuta Arrives 01:07:39 Yuuji VS Yuuta 01:14:09 EPISODE 2 Discussion Start! 01:15:17 Megumi Goes Forrest Gump 01:18:04 Naoya VS Choso! 01:27:34 Yuuta Shows Up 01:30:24 THE REVEAL OF YUUJI'S FOLKS 01:38:54 Yuuta's Deception 01:43:35 Megumi & Yuuji - The New SatoSugu? 01:51:48 THE CULLING GAME 01:58:23 A "Pact" is Formed 02:01:18 DOOMSDAY THEORY TIME! 02:10:22 Megumi & Yuuji mourning Nobara 02:12:32 Maki & Yukio & Choso 02:15:28 The Squad Assembles & TENGEN! 02:18:12 CONCLUSION WE HAVE SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT. It's the first two episodes in a double-feature that is one of my favorite sets of episodes...in the series? Maybe in the series so far. New characters, new reveals, new rivalries, new alliances, and Gege trolling us all by becoming Perfect Cell from Dragonball Z with this..."Culling Game." I'm sorry I talked so long. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did! Thank you for watching with me and for all the support! #romaniablack #jujutsukaisen #jjk #jujutsukaisenseason3 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RomaniaBlack My Anime: https://myanimelist.net/profile/RomaniaBlack Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/RomaniaBlack You can mail me a letter or anything (except food, please) at this address: Romania Black PO Box 768 Harrisburg, IL 62946 USA

Comments

Josh Florence

YAY!!! I’ve been waiting for your reaction!

AnNaNN

ahhhh my goat in MAPPA's full glory!!! Naoya!!! I love how he is obviously conservative in sexist views, but he compliments Toji's looks. Truly BL bottom coded. "I want to see his penis crushed, but I also want to see him every episode", truer words have never been spoken Also Brain-kun....wtf..?

tajia

The biggest thing for me is yuji's mom being the brain. The idea of that is deeply disturbing, like what the heck!!!

tinyTRUKK

OMg, like Naoya is my little mewomeow, I wanna see him as much as I can. I also wanna crush him under my boot, but then I wanna nurse him back ok and then I wanna crush him again. Like you wanting to see his demise?? Oh yeah, you're so not alone. Your feelings are valid AF. oh also, since you pointed out smt about how cosplaying female Naoya and his eyeliner... Like omg. For a misogynistic prick, he's quite feminine? I saw a thread on Twitter about this just recently, but apparently, the way he wears his hakama is how women tend to wear it. (basically, women wear the hakama (=pants) higher and men lower). And also his dyed hair, piercings, and eyeliner are more feminine traits, in Japanese culture, especially. Which, in modern society, fuck that. But in a conservative clan like the Zenin??? I wanna shake this man violently. Also, the moment when he was on his knees, coughing up blood. Oh, it has been on my timeline the whole night when the ep came out. I love it. I wanna keep him on his knees and make him crawl on the ground like a dog :D!!!

Shimoyama

Furudate's, the executor of will, VA was NISHIMURA Tomomichi who passed away recently It's good to hear the longing voice

Shimoyama

Sorry TRUKK, but Naoya's Kimono style is Shosei style and very normal style men wear Usually college students and/or live-in helper for household wear it Hakama has to be upper than Obi so Men's Hakama are relatively low, but Naoya's style isn't so feminine Just small picky talk I truly admire your attitude to him

Username123

as a big Vinland saga fan watching this season of jjk is bittersweet, every time I start to enjoy it in the back of my mind I can’t help but think, if jjk never existed or was made by a different studio we would probably have s3 by now or at least an announcement😭.

goldmund

Yes we are sooooo back! I've been looking forward to your reaction and discussion. The thumbnail pics over the corner as visual guides work perfectly, and thanks for putting time stamps. They are super helpful too. Looking forward to the exciting new ride with you!

Anime Annie

Love the use of screenshots in the discussion! Also return of the long comment because I took a break from sorting things as I just have one room and the attic left 😮‍💨 Yay!!! You had the same thought about Naoya as I did. The moment they revealed how he looked I said in the Discord "Oh no, he's a f*ckboy!" 😂 But with the piercings I have to admit my first thought was of Yuki from Given 😅 Completely agree with your thoughts of his character. He definitely has that intriguing aura that makes me want more scenes from him, but at the same time if said scenes involved Maki proving the worth of a woman by crushing him I would definitely not be upset. When he did question who exactly Itadori was though I admit to saying "Fushiguro's boyfriend", but meh, Sukuna's vessel also works as an explanation I guess 🙄 I definitely take my hat off to Mappa for giving us enough similarities between the Zenin characters to be able to tell that they're related but everyone not being just a copy and paste of each generation. But your comment about putting Fushiguro's hair on Naoya immediately made me think of Fushiguro with Naoya's hair and that is an image I would like bleached from my brain 🤣 With hindsight (thanks to Episode 2) I feel like Okkotsu had Rika hold Itadori so tightly so as the "killing wound" inflicted on Itadori would be a more simple one to be able to heal. I did feel some trust in Okkotsu being his sweetheart self, but I would certainly have cursed up quite the storm if they left us a full week after the cliffhanger they gave us at the end of Episode 1. That "Tsk!" 🥰 Your girl here was definitely simping over the return of Suwabe a little 🤣 I adored the Battle of the Brothers! Both in terms of their physical fight but also the difference between Naoya and Choso's ideologies on the role older siblings play. It definitely made me adore Choso's character so much more. All the manga readers I'm sure were cackling hysterically behind their spoiler tags last season over how Itadori is exactly related to Choso. Brain-kun being Itadori's mother was certainly not on my bingo card! "Was Brain-kun in labour with Yuji?"...Romania. My mind had not quite reached that level of questioning the intricacies of that whole scenario 😵 Glad to see you not letting the shipper side down 😁 Like that reaction to Okkotsu's question feels so blatantly about Gojo's sexuality. But the question did make me pause for a moment, because if we look at it from a different perspective from Okkotsu being somewhat heteronormative in his question [he specifically used 女性関係/joseikankei which means relations with women], he's not actually wrong. Something bad did happen to Gojo due to his past relationship with Geto making him pause long enough for Brain-kun to spring their trap. I'll be generous and allow people to consider their relationship platonic or romantic, but either way it was because of that that Gojo was sealed away. Itadori finally called Choso big brother 🥳🥳🥳 I love that that's how he introduces him now 🥺 Though I do also love that Itadori doesn't call him "onii-chan" like Choso wanted at the end of Season 2, but rather "aniki"; still a familiar term but it's a honorific way of saying big brother. It shows that yes Itadori has now fully accepted he is actually related to Choso (and that he's not just another crazy person like Todo 😆), but denotes that they have only known each other for potentially several days, or at most a couple of weeks, and for some of that Choso did attack and temporarily incapacitated Itadori 😅 My first fear when I read that rule about being able to add a rule once you get to 100 points is if any of the Players involved are psychopaths (in a similar vein to the older creepy sorcerer in Season 2 that skinned people and the one that resurrected Toji), what's to stop them going on a spree kill of non-sorcerers to get those 100 points nice and quick 😅 Then my second thought after reading all the rules was that Brain-kun has created this little "game", so does that mean those times we saw them play Game of Life and Mahjong was because Brain-kun likes to play games and was building up to a much more terrifying game with real consequences? 😅 Your theorising on Brain-kun potentially taking over Gojo's body has me terrified for that possibility 😬 Maki is alive! 🥳 She looks so badass. Though Tsukumo mentioning about the scars being left is kinda making me want Gojo's scars from Toji's attack to be discovered...but at the same time it's also making me think of angsty SatoSugu and Geto not being able to shower with Gojo (or be intimate with him if Gojo is naked) because seeing the scars is a physical reminder of that day 😭 Fantastic reaction and discussion as always. Worried but also looking forward to whatever they're about to spring on us this season considering how much they gave us in just these two episodes 😅

alessia_collie

The artist for the ending said he wrote the song with Yuji's guilt of 'killing' people and grief, and having looked at the lyrics, it really encapsulates that so tragically well.

tinyTRUKK

Ohhhh, thanks for explaining!! I saw this being reposted by several people online, so I assumed they were correct. Thanks for clarifying it!!!

Mathπ

That's precisely what I had in mind, but the entire scope of the ending can't be expressed without getting into spoilers. But I do feel like the red window clearing up by the end and the music going from sombre to almost overwhelmingly optimistic represents the process of grief, with the world still moving around you, and finally overcoming it.

Be Happy

May he Rest in Peace. Thank you for sharing this 🙏🏼

Be Happy

WHAT A BEGINNING!!! This set of two episodes was just so epicly good, from animation to story telling to new introductions to setting the stage for things to come … an absolute BANGER!! In ep 23 of S2 , Choso said he has 3 parents : his mother, Brain kun and Kamo Noritoshi’s. So The cursed wombs were procreated with Kamo Noritoshi’s DNA which means they inherited the blood manipulation technique that belongs to the KAMO clan. While Yuuji doesn’t have any technique known that he was born with (otherwise Gojo would have detected it in episode 6 of S1) As Gojo said in S1xep6 , either a sorcerer is born with a technique or not About the poison in Choso’s attack we ve seen this when he attacked Uraumi in ep 24 of last season and almost killed them. Yuta used reverse cursed technique before in jjk 0 when he healed Inumaki, Panda and Maki after Geto almost killed them as far as we know the 3 special grades (Gojo, Yuta, Yuki can heal with RCT) + Shoko Tengen greeted them all 5 (child of Zenin being for both Megumi and Maki) - vessel of Sukuna- Death painting womb and Descendant of Mitchizane ( that is Yuta as We learned in JJK0 and that Yuta and GOJO are both distant relatives and descendants of Mitchizane Suguwara a super famous Big Shot in the jujutsu world and Ancestor to both Yuta and Gojo). Tengen also left out Yuki , just like they were rejecting her when they step in 🤣🤣 Gojo went to see Yuta in Africa when he traveled in S1 before the sister school tournament. Chronogically, that is around the time when Fake Geto and his curses band were introduced and just after he fought Jogo. Which means Gojo felt something was off since that time!! Simalirities and differences between GojoxGeto and YuujixMegumi or more specifically Geto and Yuji : 1/ Satusugo were the strongest and took pride at that but they were put in the exam and failed Riko. There wasn’t blame between them but self loathing and guilt. Same for the boys , they feel a lot of guilt for what happened in shibuya and for what Sukuna and Mahoraga did. with the difference that Yuuji didn’t chose to swap with Sukuna but Megumi chose to summon Mahoraga 🥲 2/Also Geto never verbalized his inner struggles as Yuuji did here , he put on a front, kept it hidden and pent up until the dam broke. And he didn’t verbalize because, well he didn’t want to show vulnerability and weakness in front of Gojo who was getting stronger by the day - the moment Geto d have said that he was struggling, I think (in his mind) he wouldn’t be Gojo’s equal anymore .. Whereas Yuuji never was ashamed to say he s having a hard time since the beginning, he got where he is now step by step and learned from scratch contrary to Geto who was born with a extremely powerful if burdensome technique… a blessing and a curse 3/Yuji’s moral compass is more grounded and realistic thus more solid. Geto’s was more utopic. the moment it crashed on Reality’s rocks, it shattered to a thousand peaces. I can’t describe how ecstatic I was when you drew the parallel between them and I was like (roll my sleeves) 😂😂 Ok about Yuji’s mom : Kaori is seemingly Yuji’s mom. Grandpa said that Kaori is dead, and then she appeared in front of him, gently mocking him and asking : father, what are you talking about? The only explanation (and I m saying this only because it’s not explained well in the manga) is that Kaori died, Jin was possibly in denial and brain kun took over her body. Few I yapped a lot I think 🤣🤣🤣 It’s so good to be back Wonderful wonderful reaction and thorough discussion (are we surprised) Your JJK energy is just something else 🥰

romaniablack

Thank you for the comment! I usually look at the OP and ED lyrics at the end of the season/cour (if they change) so I'll check them after that.

romaniablack

Thank you SO MUCH!! I hope that you enjoyed it -- it's going to be a FUN season, that's for sure!!

romaniablack

MAPPA really went HAM animating Naoya! Not that I’m complaining! TRULY….truly bottom coded, I agree 100% with your thoughts on him! And yeah, Brain-kun is the WTF of the episode set FOR SURE! Thank you for the comment!

romaniablack

I am still....SHOCKED....it's so disturbing and I am still..."wrapping my brain" around it to be honest, hahaha! Thank you for the comment!

romaniablack

Oh no, that's so sad! Definitely agree with BeHappy that I hope his Voice Actor rests in peace - thank you for sharing that as well!

romaniablack

Hahaha, I will happily agree that I loathe Naoya but also want to see him on screen…getting crushed infinitely - what a feeling! What a time to be alive! I’m so glad you all are sharing in the devilish joy and horrific anticipation with his character! 😀”I wanna shake this man violently” - Yes, absolutely agree! I truly missed a golden opportunity when he was on his knees in front of Yuuta - I shant let that go to waste in the future! XD I feel Femm!Naoya is coming…it’s just a matter of time! Thank you so much for the comment! Cheers!

romaniablack

I totally understand that feeling! Not to throw a series I haven't seen under the bus, but let's just tell Mappa to hold off on Hell's Paradise and then we can get Vinland Saga S3! :P Kidding, but I will be "ALL HANDS ON DECK" when we get season 3 of that series! Thanks for the comment!

romaniablack

I am SOOOOO Hyped for this new season! It's been so long! Thank you for the comment, kind words, and I'm so glad that the thumbnail pics in the corner works well along with the time stamps! We're going to NEED THEM I feel with this season!

romaniablack

I’m so glad that the screenshots works for this discussion! Yay! And YESSSS! Glad to read a good ol’ long comment! YAY! Glad we’re all here for F*ckBoy Naoya! And ooohhh, Yuki from Given – I can So see that comparison! We all know Yuuji is Megumi’s boyfriend, but Naoya’s just behind on the times – I just need Maki or SOME woman to crush him, please. It’ll be popcorn worthy! However, thank GOODNESS that in Megumi’s delinquent phase in middle school, he didn’t go full Junpei Hyuga from KNB and dye it…it would not be able to be unseen! The reason for Episode 2 being released with episode 1 is a good one! Suwabe is under contract to be vocal at least every other episode, just watch! The Battle of the Brothers was SOOOO GOOD! Animation, thematically, and Choso – I simply ADORE him, now, more than ever! LOOK. I NOW HAVE MORE QUESTIONS THAN I DID BEFORE – Did Brain-Kun give birth to Yuuji while in his mom’s body? I learned from the comments something the translation didn’t quite get right and now I need to know more but I also don’t want to be spoiled so….yeah….we’ll see on that. More on that in the Episode 3 intro! Look, if you want to make Gojo and Geto platonic - okay - if you want to ship them - you are correct, hahaha - but if you try to tell me Gojo or Geto are/were romantically interested in any female character in this story…nooooope. Hahaha! I can’t let the shipping portion of the fandom down! Itadori calling Choso his big brother is ADORABLE. And that’s interesting to know about the title differences. Ooohhh, that is a fear to have! And the FORESHADOWING WITH THE BOARD GAMESSSS AHHHH – maybe, just maybe, since Choso was playing the games, too, he’ll be able to “fight back” or help fight against Brain-kun that way? We shall see!! I’m also HOPING that the BKGojo theory is NOT correct…nope, we need none of that, here! But hey, no time to worry about that - MAKI is back and I need to see her up close! Oooh, I like that you’re on the Patron Gin’s “Gojo has scars” head canon too! Ahem…that would also feed the angsty fan fiction as well, so Huzzah! *tears up and wipes away* Thank you so much for the comment and kind words! This season seems like it’s going to be WILD as can be, and I know I’m not ready!! But here we go!

romaniablack

WHAT. A. START. Right?! Insanity! It’s seriously my favorite set in the series so far and that is saying SOMETHING! Thank you for some of these clarifications; with the one on Choso at the start – I’m going to be having some thoughts on this for the intro of episode 3! 😛 And yes, that makes sense – I remember when I rewatched the last episode of S2 that Uraumi was poisoned, but I forgot it was Choso’s blood. Makes sense! I had forgotten the info from JJK0 on Yuuta, so that makes sense! And makes sense for him to reject Yuki! 😛Poor Yuki catching strays! Yes, I remembered him going to Africa in S1! It’s wild Gojo had felt something off for so long…and that S1 and S2 did not have that much time passing in the long run. The SatuSugo and YuMegu similarities are just so wild for me; I live for it - obviously differences and I was simplifying in the discussion (which was long enough already) but I just love it. But yeah, the fact that Yuuji doesn’t get to choose when he swaps but Megumi chooses to self-destruct like an Electrode, hahahaha – stop that, Megumi. I honestly was half-expecting him to try and summon Mahoraga in this episode, so I’m thrilled he didn’t! Preaching to the choir on your 1,2,3 points in this! Yesss!! I’m so glad you and hopefully others are on board with this as well! 😀 The whole thing with Kaori is…so bizarre. I’m pretty torn knowing (and am only commenting in case someone else reads this) that this is supposedly unaddressed from here…if this is the only flashback we ever get without any explanation from Brain-kun? That will be a major negative for the series with Gege for me, so we’ll see. Anyway, enough of that – I don’t want ANY negative vibes where this series is concerned, because it’s too good for that! Thank you so much for the kind words and comment! I appreciate it so much and for you checking the comments for me - that’s so kind! I have special energy for JJK when I watch and the fact I’ve had to wait years for this is definitely part of that!