Yuji Itadori would possibly simply be a excessive schooler preventing for his life within the Jujutsu Kaisen anime, however now he’s caught the eye of a world star IRL. Rapper Megan Thee Stallion — official hot girl and anime lover — shouts him out in an enormous method on her new album, MEGAN. Her music, “Otaku Hot Girl,” comprises an introduction narrated by the English voice actor of Itadori and quite a few references to Jujutsu Kaisen and different anime.
Megan Thee Stallion launched MEGAN on Friday. Followers rapidly took be aware of the introduction of “Otaku Scorching Woman,” which begins with a voiced introduction from Adam McArthur, the voice actor of Yuji Itadori within the English dub of Jujutsu Kaisen along with sampling a tune from the anime. Within the music, McArthur says within the voice of Itadori that he likes, “a tall lady with a pleasant massive ass, like Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion,” and references different characters from the sequence by title, like Gojo Satoru.
The introduction references a viral fan second inside the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom. Within the official English dub, one other character asks Itadori who his sort is and he says, “A tall lady with a pleasant massive ass. Simply saying, Jennifer Lawrence.” Primarily based on this, followers popularized the concept Itadori would even have a crush on Megan, since she could possibly be his sort and since she is a identified anime fan. In response, Adam McArthur shared an audio clip on X in 2021 the place he rerecorded the road and changed the title Jennifer Lawrence with Megan Thee Stallion. The clip later grew to become standard and broadly used on social media platforms like TikTok and the concept Itadori may have a crush on Megan has turn out to be broadly accepted by followers. And now, the monitor has prompted pleasure amongst followers as folks share viral reaction videos on TikTok.
However the music’s anime references aren’t restricted to only Itadori, the lyrics additionally point out issues like Gojo’s area growth powers and Sasuke from Naruto. Nevertheless, the singer encountered bother with this monitor. The musician stated she needed to rerecord the monitor a couple of days earlier than the album launch as a result of she didn’t get clearance to make use of the characters’ names in her music. “I actually hope y’all suppose this shit sound hearth as a result of I needed to leap via 8 million hoops to get this shit,” she said in an Instagram live.
The monitor oozes Megan’s love for anime. Nonetheless, the artist has needed to take care of followers who suppose she’s a pretend fan regardless of her repeated participation in a number of anime fandoms. In her years as a star, she has turn out to be identified for her incredible cosplays and referenced Naruto in certainly one of her breakout hits, “Ladies within the Hood.” Now, this music permits her to answer skeptics. In a single line she talks about how she received’t be bothered by folks with anime avatars on-line. She sings, “I’m not finna argue with a Sasuke avi/Incel mad, I’m a weeb and a baddie.”
So if you wish to rock out to some anime-inspired lyrics “Otaku Scorching Woman” is out to listeners now.
