It's just something about writing as an idea, you can't get every cool scene or idea in without damaging the story. I feel it applies here.
Depends I suppose then.
Tie in to what? It's cool that they're not raw introducing a new character, but we knew basically nothing about Heal before and just have the revelations dumped on us as a strict pacebreaker to beating Mujin. She doesn't even really add much to the story, she's just another person that got indoctrinated into Mujin's supremacist beliefs, that's something we've had in our heads since the very start of Arc 6
Tie in to Mori’s journey of realization. The whole point of that mini arc on new earth was to show how absolutely nothing is useless, to show how everything Mubong abandoned comes back to haunt him as Karma.
They follow the same line, but they're very clearly different. Tathagata is out for his own power and transcendence at the cost of anyone in his way, Mujin was out for revenge and hellbent on undermining the gods at any cost by propping up humanity as much as possible. Even if it's similar, these two goals are still extremely opposed to another,
Good. Why do you find that problematic? That’s good for there to be those differences between them because in the end Mujin was the one who ate Buddha and took over his power. He didn’t submit to him or fully fuse with him, he was the one who took control. So there being established differences between them helps establish this overarching ending of Mujin taking control of Tathagata.
But that wasn’t really my point. The point I was trying to illustrate was to showcase the massive amount of foreshadowing and set up for Mujin to fuse with Tathagata in the first place. It was set up even in the very chapters of ragnarok when Mujin betrayed Mori and further developed on as the series went on. Hell Mujin being set up as a villain was established at the very start of the series. Which I think showcases the author’s good foreshadowing and set up skills.
but more problematic for me is the fact Mujin could have fulfilled his goal right then and there by just saying "no" outright, thus halting his resurrections in his tracks, maintaining the non aggression contract between Gods and Humans and letting Generation X propagate in peace, at least for the foreseeable future. The author clearly had a sense of this, so they have the flashbacks and situation hammer in how worthless humanity is to Mujin so it makes more sense for him to turn his back on it, despite that strictly not being in character for him.
He did, he did say no and opted to kill the supreme god in the beginning. But was questioned on the matter. Everything about Mujin’s journey throughout the entirety of part 6 was meant to break him down as a character. He was obviously willing to die for his beliefs since he sacrificed himself to save Dean, but everything just kept getting worse for him from there since he killed his best friend, his people that he once lead all turned their backs on him, he watched another one of his lovers die in front of him.
But Mujin is a flawed character, he’s narcissistic, he’s bigoted, he’s deceitful in nature. So when everything keeps pushing him down and down and further down, he eventually breaks and accepts that power. And I think that culmination of events which were meticulously set up throughout the series was very well done, it’s why I think goh has some of the best standalone chapters out there because the chaoter Mujin does become the supreme god is quite impactful.
Yeah, it did set up that something happened with his past, but "I sacrificed my sister, your lover, to Beelzebub, and not only never apologized but doubled down by joining Nox and trying to do it all over again now" is a slight that doesn't really line up with this, their rivalry has always been treated as a schism of ideas and a petty desire for dominance over one another, arguing about removing the bongs from their names and things to that beat as opposed to a visceral hatred of one another due to unforgivable sins being committed to their loved ones.
Not really? Of course they have their “friendly” moments with each other mostly for their comedic purposes, but there always most definitely has been an underlying hatred between the two since the very beginning they were shown. Mubong started off by ripping his arm off after all. They may appear friendly towards one another, but there is an underlying hatred between the two.
In your very link, those same line of events first lead with Mandeok literally screaming and charging at Mubong for tricking him with
nothing but rage in his eyes. Hell the very chapter you pulled that link from, set up the flashback between the two that we see later on. Showing how they started off as friends, so obviously something must’ve happened to make them go against each other. So I don’t really understand this criticism you have either since this was pretty well established.
The list of things I knew about GOH before I got into it:
- It escalates obscenely fast
- Mori Jin multiplies his power 25700 times over to kill quad/quintillions of clones of Satan
- People did not like the anime because it cut stuff to make the pacing faster and speed to the Monkey King
I've always had it advertised as spectacle and my experience definitely doesn't contradict it, even if that spectacle stretches past simple events like what happens in the fights. They retool the prophecy's vagueness like, 5 different times throughout the story just to make you think they're paying it off or at least somewhat keep you guessing until it finally settles on "The mark of the beast is actually Wi-Fi this time guys, Generation X was actually the new son of man, the bloody rain was borrowed powers being funneled into Mori"
Like, one of the things Mori does to try and beat Mujin is get 19 different weapons simultaneously, all of which have the Yeoui's abilities which are already wild in their own right as demonstrated by everything it's done in the story up to that point.
I think it goes more than just the spectacle and I think each of the things you point out for the prophecies I think were well set up. Like the mark of the beast was literally the Wi-Fi symbol so I saw no issue with that. Generation x being the new son of man was set up essentially since generation x was first introduced and the borrowed powers raining down on Mori was another one of the culmination of events showcasing Mori as the real child of prophecy which was presented all throughout the arc.
yeah, Yongje does set things up, but not like, super methodically, he shoots his shots and some of them are rounds he already put on the table.
I disagree, I think Yongjie is very purposeful in how long his story drags on for and how much development he puts into each set up. And more often than not I believe it pays off very well in the story.
But like whatever dude that’s just my point of view on the series, think however you want on the series lol