Nobara’s death being a ‘maybe she’s dead, but maybe she’s not’ situation was shit. But i got over that because its been so long gege probably forgot about her. Yuki’s death was so damn useless i dont even know what to say about that. Tsumiki’s death was a goddamn joke, i cant even laugh, because gege never gave us a chance to care about her. White dog dying felt more devastating than that. Gojo’s death had the potential to have the same impact in the story as jiraiya’s in naruto, but no, we are given this instead. Gojo died without achieving a single thing, but its okay coz he's ‘satisfied’. Gtfo.
If this is indeed gojo’s end then that answers geto’s question to him back then. He is gojo satoru because he is the strongest. Who is he if he is not the strongest? A dead man. The moment someone learned how to bypass his infinity he fucking snapped in half, he is only as good as his infinity let him it seems. What a tragic end. This wouldn't be as bad if he achieved a single thing before that, but nah.. gege doesnt want that.
Im not mad that gojo died, im just disappointed at the way his death was handled because i just lost all my trust in the writer. If the most popular character in the manga gets his character assassinated like this, nobody is safe. All my megumi copium just went down the drain, he is not gonna get a proper ending. We will see him in the afterlife next saying “sukuna, what a man you are” and in the next panel we will see his body transform and become heian era sukuna. Goot bai meg mi… have fun in the abyss. (▰˘◡˘▰)
Well I like Gojo enough to put him in top 5 fav characters of jjk, for the reasons that he's quite a contradictory character, not kind or oh so great as many ppl seem to think and that caught my interest. So I agree with your points about Gege's possibly badwriting skills and defamation of Gojo. Just one thing that caught my eye about your question 'did he agree to Megumi's request for stalling Yuji's execution so he could fight Sukuna in his full form?' as a matter of fact I used to think that was a yes bcz remember after Junpei case wrapped up just before Yuuji came back to Kyoto exchange, he asked Nanami where the finger was and Nanami said he gave it to higher-up because if he gave it to Gojo, Gojo would just feed it to Yuuji and he didn't deny it at all. Now if I were a teacher and with each finger found my own student would be closer to: 1) order of execution -even tho I know he cud circle around it once again if he wanted, using his authority as the strongest, or 2) died due to unable to control Sukuna as Yuuji was an unprecedented case and not even Gojo knew back then how many finger consuming was safe before Yuuji snapped and Sukuna came out in full, if I were him I would want to delay it as long as I could at least until Yuuji becomes stronger. That doesn't seem to be the case for Gojo tho and this Gojo insight displayed in this chapter just kinda back up my opinion. Like Gojo cares for his students but at the same time he also seems to have his own priorities that is tied to his inflated ego as the strongest, which is something other characters have insinuated about.
Well said, it would have been better off if they had left him sealed. What a useless fight that achieved nothing, they're still at the same point they were before they unsealed him, with the added advantage of Sakuna now having the power to one shot slash anything and everything. How they beat that will require some ass pull writing like the power of friendship or the true power was always within them. And imagine what his students would think knowing in Gojo last moments, sakuna's satisfaction was all he could worry about. The sensei they all loved didn't even spare them a thought in his last moments. What a let down! #－.－)
he is contradictory indeed.... And i do understand that from the beginning the goal was to feed yuuji all the finger so when he finally eats all 20 he will get executed and the cursed fingers will die with him. That means that from the start gojo was intending to fight a 20 finger sukuna in yuuji’s body. I guess what im trying to say is, was that the only reason - from the beginning to the end? yuuji was just a promise of a good fight for him?… he was really gonna use a kid’s body to satiate his hunger for a good fight,..?
i mean, that's fine too i suppose.
but then why did he get mad when yuuji died? it couldnt be because he lost the chance to fight sukuna, because in that morgue with ijichi he started talking about the reason why he chose to be a teacher. and not a single line in that monologue did he say anything about wanting to fight sukuna.
maybe in the beginning that was indeed the only reason, but as chapters pass and we learn more about gojo's dreams and his hope for the future - did that not change? or is yuuji just 'sukuna's vessel' in gojo's eyes until the end?
and, let's say that sukuna wasnt lying when he said that gojo hid the last finger to stall yuuji's execution even further - i dont trust that guy so i dont really know what happened to the last finger - but let's just assume that gojo really did hide it. then why did he do that? was he just gonna hand it to sukuna so he would get his full power, like how goku handed cell that senzu bean? or was sukuna right and he did hide it to stall the execution? am i taking this magic battle manga a little too seriously than normal? lmao
i know all these questions can only be answered by the writer himself, so it doesnt even matter.
and i know that gojo is a narcissist with a god complex (because he was indeed a god in jjkverse), and that at the same time he does care about the students - its just a bummer that the gojo we saw in the afterlife was just the selfish and battle-hungry version, and not a smidge of his side that cares, i guess. or maybe there was a slight version of him that cared when he mentioned megumi's dad a bit. but still... Just that? He had fewer words to say when he got captured by the prison realm, yet it felt more impactful than the poetry he waxed for sukuna in the afterlife.
He did agree to save yuuji because he thinks he can win against a full power sukuna and wants to fight him too at the same time. I just thought that along the way it stopped being all about the opportunity to fight sukuna and more about trying to help a student with potential. im not even against the idea of gojo being a part-time selfish battle junkie who cares about nothing but finding a worthy opponent, i just wished gege showed that more in the earlier chapters (and not the version of him with all that hopes and dreams) - so that this version of gojo wouldn't feel so sudden and out of place. I guess my main problem with the chapter is how drastically it changed gojo as a character for me?
I mean, I like sukuna (im not a sukuna fan but he is probably top 2 or 3 on my list) and if in the moment of defeat he starts thinking about how he did all that just so he would be able to reach gojo and make him understand, I would be very pissed ngl. The sukuna who only does things for his pleasure. The sukuna who hijacked a kid’s body (Megumi! T-T) just because he can. The sukuna who would cut off your scalp if you didn't bow low enough. The sukuna who did nothing but traumatize yuuji and make megumi’s life more miserable than it already is. That sukuna, saying stuff like “I gave my all to be able to reach gojo, to make him understand my feelings” would be such a bruh moment, I would not recover for a month.
It's how this afterlife gojo feels like. The gojo satoru who was always portrayed as an annoying narcissist with a god complex, who was not a benevolent person that wants to save each and every one he comes across - i mean, he did not care about the people dying all around him in shibuya as long as they did not die by his hands - and yet at the same time he wants a better future for the youth, wanting them to not be robbed of their youth just because they are sorcerers, wants a better system for them so no one would end up like his best friend again. And on this man’s final moment all he can think about is how sad it was that he wasnt good enough to make sukuna go all out. Seeing gojo say so much about sukuna yet saying nothing about the students he claimed he wanted to foster to thwart the rotten jujutsu system just felt.. weird. My face was like this
The power to defeat sukuna was inside yuuji all along of course. because its that binding vow! I dont think that was the last we see of that vow back in ch 212. It will come back and bite sukuna in the ass. trust.
-_- in his entire monologue.
also, about him just feeding yuuji cursed fingers without care - i think that was because after yuuji came back to life he started to have a safety net. he told sukuna that coming back to life as yuuji was a mistake, because they learned that he can just res. so i think that moment of yuuji coming back to life gave gojo confidence, in a way.
when he told yuuji to eat that finger at the crematorium (before he knew that sukuna can ressurect yuuji), he was ready to fight him then and there - but when yuuji was able to hold sukuna back he became sure that yuuji is indeed a cage and thus may be able to handle all 20. that, plus the fact that a few weeks (or days?) after that they learned that sukuna can res yuuji, probably gave him the confidence to just feed yuuji fingers whenever they have one. without putting him in too much danger. still dangerous! but not too too much?
Sorry, I probably left the point somewhere in my ramblings. But I do hope I make sense at least. im not saying my interpretation is the correct one or anything! its just a little different, i guess?
(this site do not accept emojis i keep getting cut dammit)
i'm not even a gojo fan, but wtf happened to his character this chapter? in the airport he was waffling about how lonely it is at the top, coz it seems that's all his character (suddenly) ever cared about. like, the gojo from the earlier chapters who had a dream and ambition vanished into thin air and was replaced by this gojo who cared more about how lonely/sad it must be for sukuna (since he didn't get to go all out) than the entire state of the world he left. i get that maybe gojo has always been this way and im just a dumbass, that maybe he never cared about anything but fighting - but if he was going to be just this shallow character, who only ever wanted to fight a stronger opponent, then why bother making him explain to ijichi the reason why he chose to be a teacher, despite knowing how shit he would be as one? why tell us that gojo wanted to change the rotten system of jujutsu by fostering strong and intelligent allies through education? where was the gojo who was mad because 3 of his students was sent on a suicide mission behind his back? why go out of his way to ensure that the kid of the guy he killed gets taken care of? what was the point of him fighting the higher ups to extend yuuji's life just because a student asked him to do something about it? are you telling me that he did all that just so he can have the chance to fight a full power sukuna someday? all the stuff we saw from the earlier-gojo was just him acting then? the reason why he recruited all those students with potential was because he gets off on fighting a stronger opponent?
i understand he was never a good 'teacher' - but does he have to be such a shit character as well? its not even about how much he sucked sukuna's dick in the afterlife, its that 'saving' sukuna from the loneliness of being the strongest seemed to matter to him more than achieving his own (supposed) goals. sukuna's satisfaction is more important than his students' safety it seems. who the hell was that gojo at the airport? i dont even know him.
the man implies he died with no regrets when he didnt even achieve a single goal, never won the battles in his life that mattered the most, never kept any of his promises, none of his students are ready to challenge him let alone the guy who beat his ass. what did his character achieve in this damn manga man.. i dont even know. i know gojo was only ever a teacher in name but never really acted like one, he was a recruiter - a good one at that since he can see a person's potential at a glance, but even so i still thought that he gave a damn about the students. my bad, i guess.
turns out the man was just an arrogant, selfish prick who is so self centered he died with no regrets just because he went out satiating his battle-lust - even though his death achieved nothing. what about the students that he left behind to deal with the threat that he could do nothing about, you say? fuck them i guess, who cares? at least he is satisfied with the fight. he only wished that sukuna was as satisfied as him. what in the world happened to gojo satoru, man.. who is this guy. i think they opened the wrong box because its not gojo that came out but someone else entirely. a sukuna fanboy came out of the damn box. maybe yorozu possessed him because who the hell was that guy. also, why in the world was he thinking about yorozu's quote? was he there when she said that? wtf
this wouldnt feel as bad if gojo died at the expense of pushing sukuna to throw all his cards on the table. but no, sukuna kept his secrets while gojo all but danced naked in front of sukuna showing him ALL his tricks.
i knew gojo would die (or at least be incapacitated) in this fight, i did not care if he lives or dies - i was even looking forward to see how it would happen - but i did not expect that along with his life his character would also be assassinated like this. THE gojo satoru, devolved into a little kid who is just happy that big brother sukuna acknowledged him. there's no coming back from this.
im not mad at gojo (he's a damn fictional character), im infuriated at the person who led us to believe that there's more to gojo than being a brainless battlefreak. if gege gives this death an actual meaning in the next chapters then it'll be too damn late because the damage has been done - gojo's last thoughts is dedicated mostly to how sad he is that sukuna was not able to go all out. he wants his feelings to reach sukuna-senpai through the fight so much, he gave it his all! lmao! amazing. brilliant even. wonderful! FANTASTIC! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
damn, cant believe i wrote an essay for a character not even on my top 5 faves, look what you made me do gege!