FIRST REACT to Jujutsu Kaisen as a Literature PhD | 1x4

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]Hi, my darlings. I'm Sophie darling and welcome back to the channel. If you're new here, hello. My name is Sophie. I have a doctorate in literature, which means I get way too emotionally invested in the shows that I'm watching. So, if you're looking for a reactor that likes to talk about themes, symbolism, and character development, then you're definitely in the right place. So, why don't you hit that subscribe button so you never miss a video. Today we are reacting to episode 4 of Jiujitsu Kaizen and we have mentioned of a cursed womb at a juvenile detention center and then about one of the students that were sent to dispatch it dying. So I don't think everything's going to be as it seems.

[00:00:42]But this idea of a cursed womb is quite fascinating. Is it a cursed womb because it might give birth to something more powerful than the current curse that it could be something birthed from it that has the potential to be more powerful than what it resides within right now?

[00:01:03]I'm not sure. We got introduced to Nabora who is the final first year student who has had experience with curses in the countryside who has only come to Tokyo because she doesn't want to live in the countryside anymore because it's more authentic to her true self to live in the city and be away from the toxicity of the country. But also she wants to be reunited with her childhood friend that was driven out by those in the country that saw them as outsiders. They ostracized them. So she obviously has negative feelings towards the countryside and where she resides because of how they treated someone that she loved and cared for. So hopefully they get reunited. That would be nice.

[00:01:54]But yeah, it's very fascinating, very confusing series so far. I am trying to keep track of as much information as I can, but it's throwing a lot at me in a very short space of time. And then what it throws at me isn't fully explained.

[00:02:14]And you're kind of left with more questions than answers. So, I'm hoping we get a bit more detail as Jiu-Jitsu Kaisen progresses. so that I can make more sense of it in my head. Because as of right now, I'm like, okay, I'm just nodding along like, yeah, I kind of understand it, but I also kind of don't understand it at the same time. But without further ado, we're going to jump into episode four.

[00:02:54]Oh, damn. Okay. So, it's gonna be quite strong if they're having to evacuate so many people.

[00:03:15]Oh, okay. So it can become something more powerful.

[00:03:23]Same bestie. I don't either.

[00:03:42]That's why they got rid of so many people because It's too much of a risk to have them.

[00:03:48]So, okay.

[00:04:00]Okay. So, Gojo could help, but Gojo's busy.

[00:04:10]So, it's very much do your best.

[00:04:20]I love how unfaced he is. The other two are like stress and he's like Well, that's not going to calm her down if she thinks her son could be poisoned.

[00:04:52]A >> like I don't want her to lose her son. I love that the buttons on his uniform that were customized by Goju are the same as Sukuna's markings. That's kind of cool.

[00:05:06]Okay, so they said that there's people that can see curses that aren't sorcerers.

[00:05:15]So, not everyone that can see a curse becomes a sorcerer.

[00:05:31]Ignorant.

[00:05:42]Good boy.

[00:05:47]What the all twisted What a good saying to them like you're too calm.

[00:06:23]He's also very calm.

[00:06:28]Oh, his buttons also have the same markings. So, there must be like another meaning to it other than it looks like Sukuna's markings. I thought at first like it was just a customization and then it zoomed in on him. His buttons are the same was free people.

[00:06:58]It says juvenile facility, right?

[00:07:03]That doesn't look like a juvenile. That looks like a fully grown man.

[00:07:12]Like a teenage boy.

[00:07:39]He's going to say some lives aren't worth risking your own for I mean he's not Oh, I hate it.

[00:08:26]his hand.

[00:08:33]The dog, but also it's a Dori. What the [ __ ] is happening?

[00:08:46]Oh, I don't like it. It is special grade, right?

[00:08:51]But there's so many different curses residing here, right? Or is it just the one special grade?

[00:09:06]Skuna, not.

[00:09:14]Oh, not enough for him to actually want to help.

[00:09:19]It's like What?

[00:09:57]Is it playing with them? Cuz it missed.

[00:10:09]Yeah, it's a loving wife.

[00:10:15]>> So, is this what's been born from the womb? This special grade curse?

[00:10:26]Is the other one like gone for good or >> it makes sense that a juvenile detention center would be the place that okay to complain at that game that like a special grade curse would manifest because everyone there whoa >> is going to have negative positive emotion and fear and anger and regret over what they've done.

[00:11:04]This is like a manifestation of that environment.

[00:11:10]Oh my god, is he dead? I know he said that one of them would die, but like I don't think it will properly die.

[00:11:28]Oh my god, he's loving life.

[00:11:45]You can't have regrets. You're not allowed to.

[00:11:53]If you don't want to die, then keep fighting. Somehow, I don't know.

[00:12:17]What?

[00:12:21]This is different to the mask.

[00:12:32]I hate frogs after this.

[00:13:07]Set it aside.

[00:13:14]Oh, the music.

[00:13:18]>> COME ON, SIDORI.

[00:13:20]>> HE underestimates you.

[00:13:24]Oh, >> it's the signal that they got out.

[00:13:38]Oh, he's come out to play. Oh, he's like, "Oh, I [ __ ] up."

[00:13:47]>> Oh, he's like, "Oh, shit." You can see that like look of just [ __ ] pure fear when Skuna comes. Is it Skuna or Sakun? I kept saying Sukuna. But then when I was like picking up the isolation, which is rare for me to do because I'm hearing impaired, if you don't know, I am deaf in one ear. So, I do find it hard sometimes to pick up pronunciations, but it's like it sounds like schoona. So, maybe I'm saying it wrong and it's schoona. This special grade curse is like, "Oh, I [ __ ] up. Schooners come out to play." But I thought the principal said jiu-jitsu sources never die with regret, but he actually said they never die without regret. He also was warning him against that because it could manifest into a curse. So, it's about channeling that into being something bigger than yourself. seeing that scene play back. It's never die without regret. So, my bad. We're now seeing how Itidori is using that as a way to channel the rage and regret and fear that he feels by manifesting it into something bigger than himself. But this idea of death isn't like an actual physical death. It's maybe like a death of who he was before he met this special grade curse that he acknowledges the parts of himself that he needs to let go of in order to move forward and be someone that is worthy of saving others and to be a better person and live a better life, which is what his granddad wanted for him. So, it's almost like an emotional death. It's not a physical death. It's a release of the parts of his past that are holding him down potentially. It's a metaphorical death in a sense. Maybe unless he actually dies and then that just completely like counteracts everything I said.

[00:15:56]Give me a sec.

[00:16:07]No, he's going to use him against me.

[00:16:15]Meumi me.

[00:16:18]He's not going to play ball. He's terrified.

[00:16:21]His plan's not going to work because we have a special grade curse that is terrified, which is a sussy little [ __ ] isn't he?

[00:17:00]What?

[00:17:03]>> Okay. He's kind of cool.

[00:17:07]I know we're not supposed to [ __ ] with like Skoona, but I don't know. It's that level of Gojo on phaseness that I find really endearing and interesting.

[00:17:28]He's going to wait for him.

[00:18:00]Skooner. What the [ __ ] Is he just been tearing him apart limb by limb?

[00:18:08]>> Okay.

[00:18:15]I love that he's like, "We could have worked together, but you didn't want to go on a walk, so your fault."

[00:18:25]>> He's like, "He did the bare minimum."

[00:18:44]What? Domain expansion. What?

[00:19:00]Oh, one of his fingers.

[00:19:06]>> What was that, though?

[00:19:14]I love how he's kind of playing ball.

[00:19:17]He's like, "Come on then.

[00:19:25]Oh, he's on one. Oh no, they haven't switch. So something's wrong for Itidori to not be able to switch back because usually it would have happened by now.

[00:19:36]So he's kind of like testing the waters.

[00:19:38]And he's like, "Oh, it's not going to happen. Good. I can go on my rampage now." Guna was like, I'm gonna make Itidori's life a living hell by actually pairing up with this special grade curse, and then we're gonna go and target Magumi, and we're going to force Itri into like a really difficult situation. Because the whole point of Itidori only letting Skuna out was once he knew that his two comrades were safe and he got the signal so that he could actually not worry that Skoona was going to then turn on his friends and kill them. So, it is a very devious tactic, but it is a good thing that Mumi is staying behind because something has happened where Itidori isn't able to quite take back control. And it could be the poor boy is just absolutely [ __ ] exhausted after everything that he's gone through and this near death that has happened. He is likely not able to kind of pull himself back through the consciousness as quickly. He might be able to do it once he's had like a little bit of a rest, but it's kind of dangerous to even let Skoona have like a minute out of the body without Itidori being able to just switch back. But hopefully nothing bad happens to either Itidori or Mumi because that's part of my worry is that they said in the previous episode like somebody dies and we've seen that Nabora is okay. She's being taken away to hospital. So the only two that could die is Itidori or Magumi. And I don't know if they are doing the metaphorical death of Itidori in this episode or because we haven't quite seen the impact of Skoona and Megumi discovering that Itidori hasn't switched back. Whether that's going to lead to Magumi potentially dying or Itidori potentially dying, but I don't think either of them are going to die. I think it could just be like we're made to think they died, but they didn't actually die. Or it could just be a metaphorical death, and this metaphorical death is about leaving your past behind in order to channel everything you feel into the future and the potentiality of what you can achieve, of actually living up to your grandfather's words. But such a good episode. I love all the characters so far, but Skoona, I don't know what it is. It's Skoona and Gojo. I think it's the sarcasm and just the aura that they give off just makes me immediately like them. And I know Skoon is supposed to be like a bad guy, but there's just something about him. just that unfazed attitude. The way that Gojo was when Gojo was fighting Skoona on the rooftop when they first discovered that Itidori had eaten the cursed item and was able to contain it. But it's like that level of chillness like I don't need to really see you as a threat because you're not a threat. You're not on my level. If I met someone like that in real life, I'd be like, "Oh, you're such a condescending, cocky asshole." And I just wouldn't vibe with that person. But because it's anime, it's just really amusing and fun.

[00:23:09]And all the characters that kind of give off that attitude end up being ones that I immediately like. And I think because it is just this level of confidence that makes them quite endearing. I don't know how to explain it. I think they're just cool. I think that's really what it comes down to. But I love that we saw Itidori's desire to bring the body back to the mom, knowing that she wouldn't believe them if they just said that her son was dead, that she would want actual evidence of it. That words really don't compare to actually getting that closure of seeing your loved one. So I can completely get where it is coming from.

[00:23:53]But Mumi is very much of the philosophy of no one here in this facility is worth dying for because of what they've done.

[00:24:03]But at the same time, the juvenile facility is designed for redemption.

[00:24:10]It's designed to give people a chance to atone for the harm that they've caused.

[00:24:15]It doesn't mean that what they do is justifiable. But at some point, we have to understand that if we just see everyone's lives as only being equal to their actions and that no one is able to be forgiven, then why did he allow it to live? And that's essentially what Itidori is saying. Like I have embodied this harmful special curse that could destroy the world as we know it essentially. like it's seen as a god this curse that I have consumed but instead of killing me you advocated to let me live because you thought that I could bring some good into this world that I could be useful so who's to say that the lives in this facility weren't capable of also learning from what they've done and creating some good once they were released it's this theme I see a lot in anime which is the concept of life being precious even if it's the life of someone that has caused harm to others that all lives are equal even if some may not see it that way. So we've got this conflict of interest between me essentially saying our lives are worth more than the people residing in this juvenile facility because I know what crimes they have committed and I don't think they're worth saving. And you have Itidori who has this philosophy that no one is beyond redemption, no one is beyond saving. That if we have the chance to save these people, we should be taking that chance. We shouldn't just allow them to be slaughtered. They should be allowed to continue to live and have a proper death. And this isn't a proper death. So, I love that we're seeing this conflict of interest between the two of them. But it's interesting that Itidori and Nara were very like, "Yeah, we're going to go in and we're going to save these people and Mumi was like, "Yeah, I had no intention of saving them. I have no interest because at the end of the day, they're not worth saving in my eyes." And I would disagree on a personal level. I would say that every life is precious, even those that have committed horrendous acts. But that doesn't mean that people shouldn't be punished for what they do. I can see where Mumi is coming from. But of course, it does depend on the severity of the act. And yes, this juvenile, he didn't look like a juvenile, let's be honest, did harm. I don't remember if it said kill if he killed a little girl because he hit her with his car when he was driving without a license. And this is the second time that he's been caught doing this. So, it's kind of like he didn't really learn from his first mistake. But at the same time, I can also see where Isidori is coming from of well, if we're going to operate with that philosophy, technically I should have been killed because the curse I have residing within me has slaughtered thousands and reviled as this curse that cannot be destroyed. So you advocated for me to live because I could make a difference. So, who's to say that these people couldn't make a difference once they've served their punishment? So, it's just interesting to see that conflict kind of align, but I'm kind of a little bit worried for why Itidori is not able to come out. I'm hoping it is okay and he's just a bit tired and that he'll be able to sort of take control of Skoona once more, especially because Mumi is very much of the philosophy of I have to reside here because if he can't get Skoona under control, I'm going to have to eradicate him and take him out. But if they couldn't even take down that special grade curse, I don't think Meumi is going to stand a chance against Scooter because they couldn't even control this one. And the only way that they were able to actually destroy it is because Skoona came out and it was also petrified of Skoona.

[00:28:27]That's why it wasn't listening when it was like, "Hey, let's go for a walk.

[00:28:31]Let's band together." It was like, "Oh, [ __ ] This curse is so much stronger than me and I'm in danger here. So, I need to defend myself. I can't listen to this cast." It was acting out of like fear and irrationality. But, it makes sense that like such a special grade cast was made in the juvenile facility because it's a place of intense emotions, especially negative emotions.

[00:28:59]People are being punished for the crimes that they've committed and are likely wallowing in that regret, resentment, anger, frustration.

[00:29:12]But it's not just the people that are residing within it. It's the families that come to visit. So you have the families that are coming to visit that are also experiencing negative emotions and all that kind of manifests into this like womb that births this like special grade curse who is hellbent on toying with them and having fun. But there were like other curses residing there that were not as strong that they interacted with. So clearly this is just like a place where numerous curses have come to exist because of the intensity of the emotions residing within it. But I'm looking forward to learning more about Skoono, especially this domain expansion and the way that like everything kind of flipped. It was like an alternate dimension. It was like opening a rift into another world and he was like sat on this like shrine obviously because he was worshiped as a god at one point and it was just insane crazy. And he says like you guys don't understand like what curses actually are. So hopefully we do get a bit more context especially because we seem to be getting little bits of hints from Skoona that there's more to it than we give it credit for. I am very much looking forward to learning more, but I am very nervous. That domain expansion was trippy and awesome, and I imagine that's not going to be the last time we see domain expansion come into play. But I think that's all I want to say for now.

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