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How Jujutsu Kaisen subverted Shonen tropes to become one of the most popular manga of all-time
100 million copies in circulation and counting, Jujutsu Kaisen has had a remarkable six-year run.
The end of Jujutsu Kaisen is upon us and, with it, the chance to marvel at the remarkable run the manga has had. In just six years and 271 chapters, Gege Akutami’s series has become one of the best-selling manga of all time and spawned one of MAPPA’s biggest anime hits, all by simultaneously embracing and subverting the Shonen tropes that have come before it. This week on Popverse Jump, we celebrate the greatmess that is Jujutsu Kaisen.
It isn’t hard to see the other manga that influenced Akutami as he was developing Jujutsu Kaisen. There are elements of Yoshihiro Togashi’s Yu Yu Hakusho and Tite Kubo’s Bleach in both the art and the story elements, while it is easy to see the similarities between Naruto’s Team 7 and the three protagonists of Jujutsu
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