Jujutsu Kaisen, vol. 8: joya oculta

呪術廻戦 [Jujutsu Kaisen] #8

by Gege Akutami, Carlos Mingo (translator), Irene Tellería (translator)

Itadori y los demás derrotan al segundo y al tercero de los hermanos de los fetos malditos de las nueve etapas de la descomposición que se habían reencarnado, y recuperan el dedo de Sukuna. Debido a los buenos resultados obtenidos, son recomendados para ascender a la categoría uno de hechicería. ¡¿Cuáles serán las intenciones ocultas de Gojô…?!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Horror, Comics, Graphic Novels, Shonen, Supernatural

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 2020

About the author

Gege Akutami 芥見下々 is a Japanese manga author, known for their work Jujutsu Kaisen.

The author does not show their face in public, and their gender is not disclosed.
They previously worked as assistant to mangaka Yasuhiro Kanō.

List of works (including one-shots not published indipendently yet):
2014:
Kamishiro Sōsa (神代捜査) on Shōnen Jump NEXT!! vol. 2 [debut work]
2015:
No.9 on Weekly Shōnen Jump 46-2015
2016:
Nikai Bongai Barabarujura (二界梵骸バラバルジュラ) on Weekly Shōnen Jump 44-2016
2017:
Tōkyō toritsu jujutsu kōtō senmon gakkō (東京都立呪術高等専門学校) serialized on Jump GIGA (volume 1 to 4)
from 2018:
Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦) on Weekly Shōnen Jump

Reviews

[laura]

therapy is expensive but thinking about second year gojo satoru is free

[simran]

SATOSUGU ARE SO POWERFUL, TALENTED AND HOT..... AND FOR WHAT???? I LOVE THEM!

[Alexis]

My one complaint is that I think the overall story composition lacks a little. It feels like there are a lot of abrupt jump cuts that leave a lot out sometimes. Especially with regards to flashbacks.

[Ken Kap]

I just know everyone hated gojo when he was younger

[Angela]

things to live for: (1) nobara & megumi pulling ultra-deduction to get yuuji a girlfriend, (2) second-year satosugu constantly on the move maligning people, (3) toji fushiguro losing bets, eating takeout, stabbing high schoolers, & not remembering his son’s name : )

[lane]

fellas is it gay to be so wholly and overwhelmingly in love with your best-friend to the point you go mad with grief at nearly losing him and try to rewrite the basics of your society

[Keeloween]

Toji. That is all

[myo ⋆｡˚ ❀ *]

sorry but i love this gojo and geto high school arc

[skylar ₊˚⊹♡ [less active]]

‹🧸› ‧ 𝟓 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 ⟢ ᶻ 𝘇 𐰁

(warning: extreme bias is going on here, i WILL rate every volume 5 stars and i WILL praise every line i don’t care)
↑ do not trust me. ALSO I’VE SEEN THE ANIME BTW.

EWWWW FREAKING OZAWA I HATE THAT GIRL ISTG TRYNA TAKE ITADORI FROM MEGUMI YOU LITTLE BRAT UFHHHFHFHFHFHGFHFB. no why did gege try to add a random love interest (megumi’s right there and they have more chemistry but ok??) like it’s not cute!!! he has more chemistry with the floor i fear! ugh i hate her and her stupid backstory NOBODY CARESSSS DUSIWKNX. like you were bullied boohoo (ok joking)

BUT ALSO…hidden inventory arc has arrived…AHHHH HIDDEN INVENTORY ARC I CAN’T DO IT I CAN’T DO ITTTT I CAN’T GO BACK TO THIS. THE MENTAL TOLL THIS HAS TAKEN ON ME IS INSANE I’M HAVING WAR FLASHBACKS HELP ME. but i love geto and gojo’s friendship smmm HAISOCMSJQOFKNSNA IDK I’M CONFLICTED BECAUSE THIS IS PEAK BUT UGHHH

lowkey wanna be riko like gojo protecting me and taking care of me like that heheheheh 😛😛 also i love the scene where riko, gojo, geto, and kuroi are just on the beach having fun like those scenes are always so nice. and the fact that it was gojo’s idea for riko!!! he’s so thoughtful oml. andddd geto being concerned about gojo (which, btw, he’s putting himself through sm for them) is so sweet. and then gojo going “i’m good, man. […] besides…you’re here too.” LIKE!!! 💗 SATOSUGU THEY COULD NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU.

(toji fushiguro i'm coming for you. lock your doors.)

[Alexandra Elend Wolf]

“Society should protect the weak and keep the strong in check. You see Satoru, Jujutsu exists to protect non-jujutsu users.”

Everything about this volume was so delightful I couldn't help but squeal a lot.

Seriously, I don't know what I was expecting when I started to read it, but it wasn't quite expecting the very different perspective that we got to explore more of the characters, the story, and the world in general.

It was clever and funny, filled with interesting ideas and the gut-wrenching knowledge that something terrible looms just around the corner like a nightmare it had me hooked and raving in instants.

“Those who are focused on a single way to win are easy to manipulate when presented with the opportunity.”

The characters, though familiar, were all really refreshing and interesting to get to know better... or, rather, to get to understand better.

I'll admit, that the change in perspective disoriented me a little at first but, well, I can hardly argue with the way it expands and details the events that are currently happening. After all, our present is hardly ever standing alone in an isolated, frozen moment.

Let's not forget that it was also rather amusing.

Seeing the personal beliefs of certain characters also shed some light on their actions, as it's often the case, and made it all the more fascinating.

“Anyway, it should be okay. We’re the strongest.”

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This was a lot more fun than I was expecting... and also way much tenser than I had thought.

I need to grab the next volume ASAP.

RTC.
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I am beyond excited to finally be reading this volume as, finally, here starts what I don't know about the story and I AM ALL HERE FOR IT.

I suspect, rather strongly, that things are going to go very wrong soon, way sooner than later, and I'm not sure I'm here for it. I need all the characters to be happy, and Yuuji to remain the sunshine child he is. Anything else is unacceptable.

[annie]

who needs therapy when you have gojo

[Jose]

This new arc is fascinating, seeing a second year Gojo is the best thing I would ever seen. He's just so cool and sexy. And seeing him working together with Geto is a concept I thought I've never going to see.

The introduction for Toji Fushiguro is also pretty interesting. I still don't see the appeal that people have for him, but well, it's still too early to say something.

AND, seeing a first year Nanami, is something I didn't expected!!

[jut]

free therapy session includes: satosugu, back stories and flashbacks.

[Sima Khairullah]

things are about to get interesting!!! Megumi you got the hot genes🥲

[Shawna Finnigan]

Volume eight is a pretty solid volume. It wraps up the death painting arc and begins Gojo’s past arc. The major flaw to this volume is it introduces two really interesting characters… but the series never gives them the full-fledged attention they deserve. There is so much mystery surrounding them that is never resolved. Yuko’s brief chapter shows Yuji’s sweet personality really well, but she basically gets ignored for the rest of the series. Yu is a character who seems sweet, but again, he gets completely ignored and you never get his ending explained. There was a lot of missed potential with these two characters.

[Mizuki]

My review for Jujutsu Kaisen -Fans' Gudiebook- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for Jujutsu Kaisen vol. 0: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for vol. 7: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Jujutsu Kaisen vol. 8 is where season 1 of the anime ends and where season 2 will start, I'm so excited to read it. Now I'm half way through and it really doesn't disappoint!

At the beginning, we got to see Yuji and Co. fighting two of the Cursed Infants brothers and the fight scene is very impressive!

Then in the next part, we go back in time to see the younger Satoru, Geto and Shoko in their high school year and they are just sooooo cute!! I even like Riko Amanai as well!!! But Megumi's dad is scary!!! I also like the younger version of Utahemi and Mei Mei doing a mission together (before they got interrupted. LOL)

The interaction among Satoru, Geto and Riko is also so cute damn it! So it makes what happens next to be even sadder.

PS: the author really doesn't mind killing off their characters it is damn scary!!!!

PSS: I saw this fanart online and I do believe it's what the Fushiguro Family's homelife would have looked like if things were different. XD


(Source: https://m.facebook.com/groups/3530152...)

[Afifa Afreen]

Given how nonchalant teenage Gojo is about the plight of others, and how it is actually Geto who's a sensible foil in this duo, you'd assume it'd be Gojo who'd become a bad guy in the future. How the turntables.

[Lucy (the invisible life of a reader)]

4.5
What the hell was that ending?! I'm concerned but also not. If you've read this you probably know what I mean..
Also I live for young Gojo and the flashbacks 🥺

[tilly]

4.5 not to be dramatic but satosugu and the hidden inventory arc changed my life.

[Jenna]

We finally meet the elusive Fushiguro Toji. I knew he was a deadbeat, but dang, he exceeded my expectations. This was equal parts hilarious and action packed. It’s always nice to see Gojo, Geto, and Nanami as students.

[kristine ✨]

"you cryin?" gojo lives in my mind rent free

[b. ♡]

*whispering through tears* satosugu <3

[cyra]

So glad this is fictional because if a fine man like Geto Suguru asked me to join a cult, I'd be down.

[hope]

"I don't go by Zen'in anymore. I got married and took my wife's name. I go by Fushiguro now."

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING TF UP!!!!! another one of my fav characters is here 😭😛😩 that fact that toji doesn't have any cursed techniques but makes up for that and MORE. he's such a unique character and i love him so much even with the small amount of time he has in the series.

geto and gojo 💔 i love how gojo is the chaotic one and geto is the calm between the two. young geto is everything to me 😭 they are so tragic it makes me want to cry. getting to see their past together in the volume was so good, i want more!! i'm so ready for the toji x gojo fight next volume.

side note: does anyone get excited to rank their fav characters by the end? because i’m so excited to see how it will change once i’m fully finished. i’m definitely doing a ranking after the last volume 🤭

[fish]

I want Geto Suguru to choke me and if he indeed chokes me I want him to spit in my mouth

[almas]

the ending !!!! and nanami as a first year so cute omg AND GOJO SHIRTLESS I NEED TO SEE THIS ANIMATED 🤌🤌

[Lauren Lanz]

Meeting Toji with extended flashbacks to Gojo and Geto’s past at jujutsu high? Obviously this was my favourite volume. (Plus, Itadori reuniting with the girl from his grade school was so cute!)

[Zuli]

Gojo doing anything
Me: OMG

[oscar⭒]

surely better than the previous volume, especially because finally we entered the gojo's past arc.
funny thing is, I thought everything was going fine and chill and in the very last page they stabbed my favorite character. good morning i guess???

[Andrea]

Aquí empiezan los líos con Tengen, pero Satoru de joven y Toji hacen que no le dé demasiada importancia.

Portada 🔝🛐