Jujutsu Kaisen's First Draft REVEALED (Jujutsu Sousen)

Over the course of Anime Expo and other Conventions, Gege Akutami (author of JJK) has slowly been revealing earlier aspects of Jujutsu Kaisen's story and discussing how he feels the story ended up from where it began. From this interview, we received the entire first manuscript and sketch draft of "Jujutsu Kousen" the original version and pitch of Jujutsu Kaisen's full form manga after the success of the One Shot with Okkotsu Yuta. Let's explain everything there is with the Draft and how Jujutsu Kousen really set the stage for not just the start of the series but for where we are even now!

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[TheDivineDice]

Knowing Megumi was originally the MC makes so much sense, I'm glad that was changed tho

[willisassounga]

fair to say that tsumiki gets A LOT more characterisation and interactions in this version of the story. really would've been interesting to see how things would've panned out had gege stuck with it

[Grayson-Winchester]

Gege already admitted that he missed a few things with the culling game arc

[Takashii]

Cant lie, this version is pretty good. What upsets me is that Gege clearly never intended to create Kugisaki. And the potential for her return further confirms to me that its not happening, as shes not important to the story at all..

Edit: yes, fellas, I read manga too. Sadly i had the misfortune of receiving reply notifications BEFORE reading the chapter, thus ruining the impact of the chapter 😐

[JustJeff]

The name Sorcery Fight makes a lot more sense in this story

[MrSwade]

I find it interesting that Nobara isn’t in the original draft which shows he never had much of a plan for her in the future.

[makito]

11:00 wild.
Fans: I wish Gege kept them fighting random spirits in different places while looking for the fingers.
Gege: I CAN'T WAIT TO START THE CULLING GAMES!!!

[JustSoji]

I love seeing early drafts for a series, like Fate/Prototype. It does make me curious what the timeline where the draft gets completed would look like

[waffleboi]

It’s so weird hearing about earlier plot points in the series mixed in with the beginning of the final version of the culling games together in one arc

[sery.iousy]

The king of curses almost came with horns. We got the good timeline

[Giovonni_]

Honestly it’s so crazy how gege planed the CG from the beginning of jjk and damn near kept the arc the same way beat by beat, is crazy to me.Also it really shows that gege wanted to implement the CG arc some way possible. I’m glad what we have now because the CG is my favorite arc in jjk🏀🐗

[gayathris]

The only thing I didn't like here is Megumi and Gojo's relation. In the real story, its cool that Gojo was the guardian and raised Megumi but here it just feels like two strangers.

[tythepoet]

This rough draft of jjk is interesting but I prefer what he made it into. The final product is enjoyable and very compelling, I’m glad he changed it.

[ThyranG]

Gege says he shouldve made the CG as a tournament arc, but I myself actually enjoyed the unpredictably of the CG we got as a story.🤔

[markgregorygacosta]

In my head canon, I hereby proclaim this as an alternate universe - a parallel dimension or multiverse. A somewhat less depressing version of the events. Oh wait...

[anon]

Yuji would probably get along with toji lol

[CoolOkay_]

I'm glad we got what we have, Megumi having horns was so cringy too. What we got was so much better imo.

[SentinalSlice]

Sukuna just hating Yuuji across all versions and timelines is pretty funny.

[SemekiIzuio]

Im glad this version did not come to pass, its sounded very average. Still though Gege never had any intention of having training arcs or school setting etc given the interviews or fanbook but it was his editors pushing him to go the average shounen route in which he did for the early chapters lmao before completely doing a 180(shibuya) segueing to culling games doing what he wanted to do. Im glad we got Sukuna tho having a huge presence and identity early on and Yuuji being the protagonist instead. Im curious how he tried this to yuutas early conceptions as well

[brooklynk]

If Gege ever decided to do alternate timelines, drafts like these could be their own real storylines. This would be perfect, a never ending JJK franchise