Summarization of the Interview with Akutami Gege // SPOILERS

//warning big spoilers, proceed with at ur own risk












- nanami was planned to die (or at least lose an arm) against mahito —> character development became bigger than what was planned (he's pretty much a character who went beyond his scripted role.)

- gege didn't plan the sister school fight at first

- todou = strong character name, inspired by BLEACH Zaraki Kenpanchi

- yuuji's non-existent memory isn't his cursed technique —> todou and choso saw it due to a different reason. gege didn't really think about it (this prolly means that Yuuji doesn't have any sort of memory manipulation, the memories from Choso and Todou are just memories implanted and created out of nowhere for sm absolute no fucking reason lmaoo.)

- panda vs mechamaru is gege's favorite fight for clear competition

- gege didn't plan on 1v1 fight during the sister school arc, there wasn't much movement per character so ended it by adding enemies

- hanami —> honour student, didn't think far as doing domain expansion (i think they meant that akutami-sensei hasn't decided what domain expansion hanami should have.)

- utahime, mechamaru and todou's scars are not related

- yuuji's middle school classmate ozawa's story does not exist as a memory

- gege liked drawing the death painting arc. nobara in a fight is expressed well

- after the shibuya arc gege isn't planning on a slice of life moment

- the other 6 fetus (choso's bros) aren't planned to show up in the future —> the first 3 fetus were born while the mother was healthy so others are like dead from the beginning. onichan wants to get it back.

- satoru and suguru's ideology being the opposites were planned from the beginning (they were planned to be complete opposites)

- suguru was created to approach like yu-yu-hakusho's sensui —> gege was drawn into sensui on emotional scale but couldn't with suguru

- satoru's past arc made it possible to add toji into megumi's character setting

- possibility of toji's past companion konshiu showing up again

- mechamaru vs mahito was parody of evangelion fight —> gege wrote it to graduate from eva

- wanted a bit of romance but only miwa was able to fit in

- the lines underneath tsukumo's eyes are eye bags

- gege was thinking hard whether satoru should be imprisoned during the night or day
(FINALLY GOJOU IS SEALED, he said enthusiastically.)

- "good good, gojou is finally gone." (the reason for this was because Akutami-sensei said that Satoru was just too powerful and would get in the way of the flow of the story.) (He's literally incapable of running out of Cursed Energy, we all want that shit boxed up right away.)

- hard to make a reason why satoru isn't there when there is an important fight

- after shibuya arc, jujutsu sorcerer levels means nothing

- satoru overseas trip —> to go see yuuta

- choso has kamo family's blood thats why he can do blood manipulation technique

- gege believed it was satoru's responsibility to tell megumi about his father, which is why megumi didn't recognise toji in toji vs megumi fight (yes, this also means Satoru unboxing.)

- what sukuna wants from megumi is "censored" (literally censored, he's still hiding something after all these spoilers he's giving out lmao.)

- in order to draw/move yuuji, he had to be broken (hence, is why nobaras' eye had to be popped in order to break yuuji and move him forward.)

- nobara's past was drawn from third perspective in order to shine nobara's character more

- at the time of nitta doing first aid to nobara, she is already dead —> where she is brought back alive is a key (idk what the fuck they mean by this but i hope shes alive and well too.)

- nitta has siblings. the brother showing up again is undecided

- gege will write and draw about yuuji's parents (im excited to meet my future parents please take me in as yuuji's wi-)

- choso's hairstyle is from a magazine

- hokari (suspended 3rd year) will show up but his cursed technique might anger some people (probs related to shueisha)

- the story is currently at 6 ~ 7th station of mount fuji —> with the currently weekly pace, it might end within 2 years (yes you read that right, jjk ends in two years, see you suckers in two years bawling our eyes out, yeah?)

- the ending of yuuji and megumi is decided

- sukuna's end is undecided yet

**Heres other random Facts that I just want to put in just in case???**

- Akutami-sensei finds nice protagonists annoying, that's why he built Yuuji as a normal teenager with flaws like everyone else. It's also quite hard to move Yuuji (in terms of like drawing how Yuuji decides, reacts, chooses in like a chess kind of speaking.) because Akutami-sensei is far from Yuuji's kind of personality and person bc Yuuji was based off his big brother who was good in studies and pretty much anything iirc.

- He commented that the most fun and easiest characters to move were Panda and Toge. Panda existed for comedic purposes where he has two sides to show, 1. being an like actual panda where he once said, "I Panda, I no understand human language." and 2. being like an actual human where he converses in human language fluently and acts like a person among other people. And for Toge, is simply because his language is just rice ball fillings. (Salmon = Yes/Affirmative and Fish Flakes = No/Negative, then everything else is gibberish.)

- Akutami-sensei likes Jogou

- Akutami-sensei wasn't really at favor with Junpei because he thinks Junpei sees things from above like looking down on people or smth like that

- Nanami was planned to be an evil sorcerer who massacred a whole building but that was cancelled and realized he could fit Nanami perfectly in Junpeis' part of the story

- Akutami-sensei mentioned that he could never draw Nobara in a cute way. (he also said that Nobara's intro was from a manga's female protagonist who decided to study in Tokyo bc its cool. Tho I forgot which manga.)

- Yuuji's custom uniform with the hood was the show he had some kind of chuunibyou

- Ryoumen Sukuna's name is from an actual historical legend also named Ryoumen Sukuna who wasn't very famous. But he didn't want to follow the historical history of the legend bc he'll get criticized if he did so the name was sm sort of similarity and he made his own story

- Satoru's techniques and shit will be explained further in the near future

- Akutami-sensei is not very invested in Suguru (I'm so sorry my fellow Suguru simps/kinnies/stans/fans, we'll get his birthday soon enough bc its possible that it can be the opposite of Satoru's birthday (December 7th) which is June 6th.)

- JJK wasn't supposed to have a school setting, that was Akutami-sensei's idea not to, but his Editor had insisted that he has to bc of how most mangas are turning out nowadays. That is why the first ever episodes had to take place in a school and also sorcerers attending Jujutsu High. (I like how his Editor made him have a school setting but Akutami-sensei is clearly doing everything he can to not do anything with the school setting.)

- JJK was at risk of getting cancelled due to it being published in JUMP, that had sm sort of moment where readers would get to vote their favorite published manga and there were only 3 slots for mangas that would get accepted, and if it wasn't in those three slots then your manga gets cancelled even if you were a super famous mangaka, and because JJK wasn't famous at first. (Thats why it's also a school setting.)