#megumi analysis

[wraithaku]

hey! I was wondering if you could write something about toji? Iv always thought he was such a lover boi bc like what do you mean he loved her so much he kept her name even after she died..

okay so

1. we know megumi and tsumiki are NOT blood related

2. “fushiguro” is TSUMIKI’S MOM’S surname, not megumi’s mom’s surname

this means toji was toji zen’in his entire life. when megumi was born, when he was with megumi’s mom, and after she died. his name was still toji zen’in. why? because shiu called him zen’in before toji corrected him, and we know shiu was in toji’s life even before megumi was born because he later helped with the kid.

megumi says in a panel: “my dad and tsumiki’s mom got married when i was in first grade, then left.” so megumi is testifying that toji married tsumiki’s mom, this is the wife toji talks about in the panel with shiu.

so toji took on tsumiki’s mom’s surname, he didn’t take on megumi’s mom’s surname.

i’d say the reason he decided to take tsumiki’s mom’s surname was because during this period, i believe toji was genuinely trying not to change completely, but trying to figure out: “what can i do to make my son’s life better with the capabilities i have as a fucked up man?”

not saying toji was the perfect father (ive spoken about this before) but i believe he married tsumiki’s mom because he wanted to create a family for megumi. megumi didn’t have that because toji saw how hard it was to raise him alone. he wanted megumi to have that family structure.

and he didn’t want megumi to carry the burden of the zen’in name. i think this is huge for understanding toji’s character. the story would be completely different if megumi was “megumi zen’in”, don’t you think? just the name zen’in carries a massive burden which toji was painfully aware of because he suffered his whole life as toji zen’in.

so i believe toji married tsumiki’s mom, changed his surname, to give megumi a family AND to protect him from the zen’in name. as i’ve said before in my previous post he was trying, in his fuckedup way, to save his son from the curse he lived under.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[ace-touya]

Y’know one thing I think people get kinda wrong about Megumi is that I think he’s really empathetic and good with other people’s emotions (like remember the time he asked Yuji if he was okay because he could tell something was off and he didn’t even know about Junpei?)

He’s not the best at expressing his own emotions but he does understand them. His emotional intelligence seems really high and I think it’s just another part of growing up too fast

[kentuckyfriedmegumi]

i wrote a short 300-word megumi analysis in jjkcord and i forgor to share it with the class

the catalyst:

my analysis in response:

what’s really interesting i think is the way that we start to see this change in him from the detention center. he never really strived to be the strongest or cared about any of that stuff until he realized that he wasn’t able to save yuji, which can parallel back to how he wants to save and protect tsumiki.

we see when he and nobara both agree to the exchange event that he does want to be stronger, but he still doesn’t know how to. its not til OoO when he unlocks his domain and remembers that convo with gojo that he realizes if he wants to actually get stronger, he’s going to have to broaden his world and ideas.

but even with this first push away from those ideals, he’s still sorta “constricting” himself (not the right word but i can’t think of a better one) because he’s still not living or fighting for himself. but even then, we still don’t see him using maho until the shibuya arc when he really was going to die, which also shows his growth as a person.

then with the time skip post shibuya and pre culling games, we see that he HAS become stronger, but again it’s because he’s realized that tsumiki is being dragged into kenjaku’s plan. all this starts leading up to him expanding his boundaries more and more until sukuna takes over him and now we are seeing him revert fully bc he has lost his purpose to protect his sister.

the entire story has been a long, drawn out progression of his character and i LOVE that we are reaching the conclusion. i cannot wait to see where gege takes it, as we’re slowly seeing him start to fight for himself (him using the 10s to throw off sukuna’s footing in 266)

sorry for the yap, i just really love megumi.