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Everyone talks about how "cool" Chihiro is, but if you look closer, it’s actually tragic.

Most shonen protagonists have a goal that belongs to them. Naruto wanted respect. Luffy wants freedom.

Chihiro? Chihiro is just a tool. His entire personality is built around the Enchanted Blades — things he didn't create, but feels obligated to die for. He calls himself a "swordsmith," but he doesn't create. He only destroys what his father left behind.

When he says "Every day I wake up with fresh hatred," it’s not a badass line. It’s a confession that he has no internal life outside of his father's legacy. If all the blades were destroyed tomorrow, Chihiro Rokuhira would cease to exist because there would be nothing left to define him.

He’s wearing his father’s scars and carrying his father’s guilt, but we still haven’t seen who Chihiro actually is when he’s not holding a sword. Hokazono is writing a story about a boy who deleted his own soul to become a guardian of weapons.

Tenoi.

honestly, after 30 chapters it’s clear that hokazono is doing something most authors fail to do in 100+.

usually, "classic" stories spend way too much time in the beginning just finding their footing. we’re used to seeing slow starts where nothing happens for tens of chapters, but bachi just skipped the boring part and went straight to peak.

it feels more professional and tight than what we usually get in this genre. it’s not just hype anymore, the actual structure of the story is way ahead of the curve. if you think a story needs years of "build up" to be good, you’re just stuck in the past.

this is the new standard.

tenoi.

honestly, the Shiba slander in this sub is getting embarrassing.

every time a fight starts, i see 100 comments calling him a "fraud" just because he doesn't kill 50 people in one chapter. do you guys even realize how Jujutsu-obsessed your brains are? you want every character to be a mindless fighting machine.

Shiba is the emotional and strategic anchor of the story. he’s not there to be Chihiro’s bodyguard; he’s there to make sure Chihiro doesn't lose his soul while hunting the enchanted blades. his teleportation isn't "running away," it’s literally the highest level of tactical support. without him, the series would have ended in chapter 5.

Hokazono is clearly cooking something massive with his past. he fought in the war alongside Kunishige. you don't survive that by being "weak." the fact that he stays calm while everyone else is panicking shows how much higher his ceiling is.

stop expecting him to yap about his powers or show his "bankai" every 2 minutes. let the man breathe. when Shiba finally locks in, 90% of this sub is going to have to apologize.

Shiba is peak character writing and y'all just want another generic battle shonen MC.

Tenoi.

man im so tired of people comparing chihiro to every other katana-user in shonen. calling him "edgy" is such a surface level take.

what makes him goat is how locked in he is. like, he doesn't do the whole "power of friendship" scream or cry for 5 chapters. he has a job to do, he feels the weight of his dads legacy, and he just gets it done.

the contrast between his cold fighting style and how much he actually cares about innocent people is what makes the writing top tier. hes not trying to be cool, hes just efficient. if u think hes boring bc he doesn't yap every 2 minutes, u probably just want another generic mc lol. hokazono really cooked with this one.

I am lowkey tired of people saying Giorno has no personality compared to Joseph or Jotaro. Honestly, that is the whole point of his character. He does not have a traditional arc because he does not need to change. He is a fixed point in reality.

Think about it. He has Jonathan's heart and DIO's drive. That mix made him too perfect to be human. He does not struggle with morality, he just executes it. He is the catalyst for everyone else in Team Bucciarati. He is the Golden Wind that pushes them to their fate.

By the time he gets GER, he is not even a stand user anymore. He is basically the administrator of reality. We call him boring because we want him to be relatable, but you cannot relate to a guy who decides to overthrow a god-like mob boss at 15 and actually does it without breaking a sweat. He is the most successful JoJo because he is the least human out of all of them.

Change my mind.

like actually think about this for a second

Josuke isn't a guy with amnesia. amnesia means you forgot who you are. Josuke never had a who to forget. Josefumi Kujo died. Yoshikage Kira died. what came out of that crack in the ground was a third thing that nobody created, nobody wanted, and nobody planned for

every other JoJo has something at their core. Jonathan had his dignity. Giorno had his dream. Jolyne had her need to escape her father's shadow. even Johnny had his guilt driving him forward

Josuke has a void

he walks around with Josefumi's kindness and Kira's coldness and neither of those belong to him because he never lived a single day as himself before the story started

and then after 10 years of Araki building the most unsettling identity crisis in manga history — the answer is a cake shop

Josefumi's mother was standing right outside that hospital. the woman who raised the person whose literal body Josuke is wearing. and he walked away. chose not to meet her. because he decided he's "neither of them anymore"

ok. but then who ARE you Josuke

the manga never answers. it just implies that choosing a family is the same as having an identity

it isn't

every JoJo got a moment where the story looked them in the eyes and said THIS is who you are. Josuke never got that scene. not once in 10 years

JoJolion is the greatest identity story in JoJo history and it ended with a shrug