呪術廻戦 21 [Jujutsu Kaisen 21]

呪術廻戦 [Jujutsu Kaisen] #21

by Gege Akutami, 芥見下々

高得点所持の鹿紫雲（かしも）を狙い東京第2結界（コロニー）に赴いた秤とパンダだが、突入の際に分断され秤は漫画家志望の泳者（プレイヤー）・シャルルと相対する!!　一方、予期せず鹿紫雲と遭遇したパンダは圧倒的な力量差で追い詰められ…!?

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

216 pages, Paperback

First published December 2, 2022

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

[hil]

nothing makes sense and i simply don't care that much atp, where are our beloved characters :/

[lou]

why did gege make the cursed techniques so complicated to understand... I literally didn't get it at all but anyways, MAKI'S BACK!!!

[Manvi]

GEGE, THIS IS A THREAT, BRING BACK YUJI!🔪

[library ghost (farheen)]

idk was i supposed to care

[martina]

the only good thing about this volume is the panel when maki appears at the end

[Lauren Lanz]

Hakari winning the idgaf war + Panda being a cutie are always welcome!! I’m enjoying these fun(?) times before everybody starts to die ❤️

[sasha]

i stg if this guy domain expands one more time im gonna get so mad

[skylar ₊˚⊹♡ [less active]]

SO. MUCH. FIGHTING. i actually can’t understand anything but uh!! yeah whatever. no megumi either…🫩

[lane]

~post-read review~

easily the worst of the series so far ☹️ gege please free me from the shackles of reading about characters i do not care about. i had to skim through 90% of this volume to keep my sanity intact


~pre-read review~

“gojo and megumi only have a teacher-student relationship” BLOCKED gojo actually birthed him from his own womb

[Hannah]

I think this will look sick when it’s animated

[MajesticalLion]

Culling Game is wearing thin on me. The entire volume is taken up by Hakari explaining his Domain Expansion AT LENGTH. Nothing else. I'm just thanking Gege that we're moving back to Maki and Noritoshi.

[Ricarda]

Me: Mhh, I kinda miss Yuji and Megumi.

Also me, taking one look at Kashimo Hajime: ... I LOVE YOU

[Youssra {very busy-review slumping}]

love how Gege outright tells us to skip explanations of the cursed techniques because he knows we won't understand them and just gives us the main gist of it😅

[myo ⋆｡˚ ❀ *]

where are the people i actually care about!!!!

[marri౨ৎ‧₊˚.]

reading this is so fun

[jay]

the way gege said "feel free to skip over reading hakari's technique" had me ................

[Alexandra Elend Wolf]

“I’ve seen it all before. Sorcerers, cursed spirits, it doesn’t matter. The only ones who are able to transcend beyond being merely strong are those with an overwhelming sense of self and a complete disregard for others. Natural disasters.”

Oh, I'm liking where things are going!

The fact that the last couple of volumes/chapters have been so action-heavy has not exactly been my preferred cup of tea, but these fights were actually a lot of fun, most of them anyway, and things seem to be finally moving forward and away from so much fighting.

Everything related to Panda hit me like a freight train and really liked it. Even though, really, it also felt a bit disappointing and frustrating it is a very interesting thread.

It made me genuinely emotional.

Hakari was just really fun in his fight and kept surprising me, though it only makes sense. I want to see more of him.

Now, Kashimo had quite a flashy introduction and I'm very intrigued to see more of him. The ways he connects to the story already excited me.

That being said, nothing has me more excited than that cliffhanger ending. Seeing things starting to cycle back and points coming back is one of my favorite things in any story and it's no different this time around.

We got a few new cursed techniques and, well, I'm always impressed by the creativity they all inherently represent. I liked them a lot, even if I don't quite understand them.

Overall, I quite enjoyed this volume, it felt like a return to form, if only a little bit, and it's certainly one of my favorite volumes in recent times.

“Not everything needs you to talk it through to get the right answer.”

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I have many conflicting feelings about this volume... I'm still processing it but I mostly liked how it went about everything it did.

RTC.

[Keiko the manga enthusiast ♒︎]

Checking the new weekly chapters, I think the available chapters included in this volume are only 3 chapters (#185 currently) as of this moment—BUT I JUST NEED TO SCREAM MY HEART OUT RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!! HAKARI WEARS THE CROWN IN TOKYO NO. 2 COLONY AND IT JUST FEELS SO FUCKING RIGHT!!!! AND PANDA (though what happened to his body here is kinda disturbing) BUT YES FINALLY!!! THE FOCUS IS ON THESE MF DORKIES!! PANDA AIN'T DEAD, NAH-UH. CAN'T BE. THOUGH #185 MADE ME CRY PANDA'S PAST IS JUST SO HEARTBREAKING DAMN I LITERALLY CRIED WHEN I SAW GORILLA BAWLING HIS EYES OUT!!!

[Camille]

Absolutely no clue what’s going on, but you do your thing Akutami

[Lucy (the invisible life of a reader)]

what the hell is happening
AND WHERE IS YUJI??

[Maude]

im too dumb to understand the cursed techniques but at least MAKI'S BACK AGAIN

[Arturia Pendragon📚]

Es un 3.5💫

[rogue]

2.5 stars

Kinda boring for a whole volume to be dedicated to Hikari's domain expansion and convoluted cursed techniques.

[saryn]

i don’t have much to say other than i loved hikari in this, even though i had a hard time understanding the explanation of his cursed technique. this was really funny, i liked it. and even though she was only in a few panels, MAKI LOOKED SO GOOD!!!!!

[zaynah ☾]

i have no idea how hakari has done the things he has done but i trust him

[Mila]

Where are Yuji and megumi 😠
I want my babies back

(But more seriously this manga is amazing and maki >>>

[Jahni]

hakari domain expansion confusing as hell like what was even going on? though i do enjoy him as a character but damn man.

anyway..

MAKI COMEBACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Isla.whimsybooks]

Ich will den Hauptcast zurück 🥲!!
Ich liebe JJK nach wie vor. Die Ideen sind super, wenn auch die Fluchtechniken manchmal arg kompliziert sind. Es gibt so viele tolle Charaktere und das Charakter Design ist auch immer wieder mega. Aber wo bleiben meine Lieblinge? Das Problem ist, dass ich es mich aktuell einfach nicht juckt, was mit diesen neuen Charakteren passiert. Vielleicht werden sie später noch wichtig, ok, und ja, ich habe auch kurz Panda bekommen 😭😍 aber ich will jetzt endlich, dass die Metzelspiele enden.

Ich hoffe nach dem Ende allerdings auch auf ganz viel im nächsten Band *booom*

[Jenna]

This volume was mostly fight scenes, not too much dialogue or overall story progression. Honestly, sometimes I just vibe through it and Gege actually told us we could ignore some of his explanations and gave us the short of it lol.

Literally raced against time to finish this, from Libby. I read a “skip the line” copy, so I only had seven days to read it and of course I started it at the 11th hour. We got it done though, thank goodness because the wait time was like 6 weeks.

[Paula Josina]

Well, this felt like a filler for me and I didn’t get the technic. I want the main cast back and the last chapter promises some good stuff for the next volume 👏🏻👏🏻