Jujutsu Kaisen Fans Say Goodbye To Nanami Kento As He Passes Away With A Smile
Nanami’s VA, Kenjiro Tsuda, thanked his fans and requested that they continue to support the series ahead of the episode where Nanami dies.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 continues to make headlines across social media, from animators complaining about poor working conditions to fan polls ranking the hottest characters, garnering over 34 million responses.
But this time, it’s a sad day for Nanami Kento fans as he bids farewell with a smile by dying at the hands of Mahito in Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episode 18.
Before facing the Special Grade Curse, he had already sustained significant damage from fights with Dagon, and Jogo.
It was actually Jogo’s fault that our boi Nanami’s half-body was burned to a crisp. But he’s unfazed as his best bud Haibara pays a visit from heaven to answer an important question: “Why did I come back to the Jujutsu world? Just to suffer?”
To which, Haibara points at Yuji. Nanami talks to Haibara more, stating that he cannot say something that will become a curse to Yuji, and that it’s not right.
Nanami tells Yuji that he’s got it from here with a bright smile on his face, and gets blasted into smithereens in the very next moment by Mahito.
Nanami died right in front of Yuji, who was heartbroken and enraged. And, Nanami’s death only makes it worse for Yuji as the arc nears its end.
Nanami's final moment pic.twitter.com/fhI2PQ3fAV
— Myamura (@Go_Jover) November 23, 2023
Nanami has always been a fan-favorite character in Jujutsu Kaisen for several reasons, including his turbulent relationship with Gojo, his concern for young sorcerers like Yuji, and his severe but caring demeanor.
While anime viewers must be completely surprised by the events, manga readers are probably still reeling from the emotional impact of losing one of their favorite characters. Nevertheless, everyone is upset about what happened to Nanami and began to mourn for his death.
The anime adaptation only injected more emotional depth and impact through its tear-jerking music and Yuji’s scream at the end of the episode. Fans took to Twitter to express their appreciation of the character to say goodbye to Chad Nanami Kento, the worker who never liked to work.
Nanami Kento, in the manga, was only given a vision of what a Malaysia beach looked like. JJKS2 ep18 mf elevated this scene, making him feel like he WAS in Malaysia & giving him one last dance😭 I am NOT well #呪術廻戦 #呪術2期 #JujutsuKaisen pic.twitter.com/PJKMzPIMzy
— Masked_saiyan101 (@DbsContents) November 23, 2023
interviewer in 2035: tell us about nanami kento
31 year old me:
pic.twitter.com/4VU8Ewpeun— plu (@inumaken) November 16, 2023
goodbye Nanami Kento, you were bigger than the whole sky pic.twitter.com/s5JXc0xCro
— tou 🌸🌙 | satosugu brainrot (@getosape) November 23, 2023
and thank you nanami kento once again for saying this pic.twitter.com/MB38m2DqRt
— ً (@vantaeprod) November 23, 2023
rest in peace nanami kento you were so loved 🤍🕊️ pic.twitter.com/qRBuhaSldN
— riri ✰ (@angellgojo) November 23, 2023
what i would do to let nanami kento have the best ending where he’s actually alive and in kuantan, malaysia having the time of his life
he deserved peace, happiness, and everything in between pic.twitter.com/Oim589TQoy
— aini爱你 saw infinite ㅠㅠ (@solaceifnt) November 23, 2023
for once, i want him to be selfish, i want him to think of himself more than others so he can live his life to the fullest, but his kind heart and soul are always acting up that he should protect the others, the youth. he did everything he could, his best. my nanami kento 🙁 pic.twitter.com/Uj4eQia2Xt
— cas (@allfornanami) November 18, 2023
Nanami’s Voice Actor, Kenjiro Tsuda, thanked his fans and requested that they continue to support the series ahead of the episode where Nanami dies.
Tomorrow, November 23rd, is the broadcast date of "JujutsuKaisen" in Japan.
To all Nanamin fans and JujutsuKaisen fans, please support us.#JujutsuKaisen #nanamikento #nanamin #kenjirotsuda— 津田健次郎 KENJIRO TSUDA (@tsuda_ken) November 22, 2023
I would like to post in other languages as well as Japanese and English, but unfortunately that is not possible easily. However, you can read everyone's replies using the translation feature. So feel free to write in your language.
thank you as always.— 津田健次郎 KENJIRO TSUDA (@tsuda_ken) November 22, 2023
In reply, fans thanked the voice actor for his performance and wished he’d come back to Jujutsu Kaisen to play another character, say Higuruma, as some fans suggested.
when we get tsuda back as higuruma when the culling games gets animated pic.twitter.com/l8g3D64Me9
— beth (@KYUUJOH) November 23, 2023
Hearing Kenjiro Tsuda's final performance in Jujutsu Kaisen is 😭😭😭
COME BACK TO DO HIGURUMA PLEASE 😩
And Yeah, RIP Nanami #JujutsuKaisen #JJK pic.twitter.com/MG12qso5qy
— Anime Explained (@AnimeExplained_) November 23, 2023
THANK YOU KENJIRO TSUDA SAN🙏
For pouring life into Nanami's character pic.twitter.com/IUfG01c2oD
— Myamura (@Go_Jover) November 23, 2023
thank you kenjiro tsuda for being our nanami
— CLOSED (@hourly_nanami) November 23, 2023
A big thank you to the extremely talented Kenjiro Tsuda for bringing Nanami Kento to life!!#呪術廻戦 pic.twitter.com/9FZgHJWAro
— 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓮𝔂 || FREE 🇵🇸 (@Kuyroon) November 23, 2023
About Jujutsu Kaisen:
Jujutsu Kaisen is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since March 2018, with its chapters collected and published in 24 tankōbon volumes as of October 2023.
Studio MAPPA brought the world of JJK into anime by airing 24 episodes of season 1 from October 2020 to March 2021 and a 2nd season, that premiered in July 2023.
Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Jujutsu Kaisen as:
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna.
Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses… and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
Source: Twitter