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OFFICIAL 🚨 EXACTLY 2 MONTHS TO GO UNTIL NEW JUJUTSU KAISEN SEASON 4 INFO DROPS — DECEMBER 19TH. 😭🔥 After everything MAPPA has been cooking lately, DECEMBER 19TH CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH.

JUJUTSU KAISEN: MODULO getting a MAPPA-animated promo just made me realise how BADLY I need a full season of this 😭🔥 Gege actually made a sequel that felt like it had a reason to exist. Because let’s be real… every long-running shonen eventually introduces ALIENS when it wants to expand the world 💀 But Modulo is one of the few stories where IT WAS EXECUTED AMAZINGLY WELL.

The whole “BORUTO ISN’T CANON, IT’S JUST BORUTO GT” agenda is disrespectful to Kishimoto 😭 This is what happens when people read ONE headline saying: “Kishimoto says Boruto is Ikemoto’s manga”…and build an entire narrative around it. First of all…here is every reason Boruto is canon: • Boruto was introduced by Kishimoto in Chapter 700 of NARUTO itself • Kishimoto then wrote the screenplay for BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE • He created the foundation of Boruto, Sarada and the new generation • Kishimoto wrote Naruto Gaiden, establishing Sarada’s story • He literally wrote the Mitsuki one-shot, where Orochimaru’s son chooses BORUTO as his “sun” • When Shueisha wanted the story to continue, Kishimoto recommended his assistant Ikemoto Kishimoto then gave Ikemoto the broad outline of Boruto’s story, before trusting him with the series, So he was just giving his long-time assistant credit.

The “Naruto copied NINKŪ” argument is STUPID. Calling this “copying” misunderstands how art works. Artists absorb ideas and themes from the things that came before them, then reinterpret those influences into something new. Kishimoto openly saying NINKŪ inspired Naruto doesn’t mean he copied it. It just means he’s being honest about where some of his ideas came from. The real question is not: “Did Naruto use ideas that existed before?” Of course it did. The question is: “What did Kishimoto do with those ideas?” And the answer is that he transformed them into a completely different world, power system, and cast that became recognisable on its own. That is how art evolves. Influence becomes imitation only when nothing meaningful is added. But Naruto obviously added something.