I am a bit confused by this statement I will not lie.
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.
But what changed my mind was rereading I believe the chapter the blonde haired lady (Heal) reveal herself, because I thought it was a really good tie in and helped
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
Like for example, if you go back and check the chapters in which Mujin first betrays Mori in ragnarok, you can find how the author already foreshadows the incredibly parallels between Mujin and Tathagata. And then from there we find Mujin’s whole goal is for humanity and as the story progresses he gets continually pushed down and down and down, a lot of it deserved mind you but still brutal nonetheless. All until the final culmination of events where Mujin becomes the supreme god. All the result from all the set up of breaking Mujin down and drawing the parallels between him and tathagata.
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, 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.
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.
I think it’s not necessarily just about the crazy ride for goh. I think it’s a series that continually gets better each time you read it for all the other details and set up the author does for the plot points in the story.
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.
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.