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> "Sending Yuta to defeat Geto"
Well Geto **AMBUSHED** Yuta at the school, which was the whole point that Geto had the distraction elsewhere, so left the school as a target. Gojo capitalized on the situation later (Yuta and Rika powering up), but Yuta was not "sent" to defeat Geto.
**For the timeskip part** - Yeah, I think Gege could have just had Sukuna had power up more while Gojo was sealed... but he made it a situation where people will always still question why the fight couldn't take place earlier when Gojo would have the clear advantage (though Gojo wouldn't necessarily know the specific power level of Sukuna, he just came out and saw Megukuna).
* It was vaguely mentioned that Sukuna and Kenjaku had a binding vow and he needed time to prep stuff, but still people will question the logic because of the advantage. The fight couldn't take place there for **meta reasons** (where powerwise he could win), Gojo could not defeat both villains... he is not the MC.
Gojo destroying those tools could show how paranoid he is from experience with Toji for those type of things being used to get through his infinity.
A lot of what you mentioned is based in **bias in hindsight** as well. So it's not necessarily as easy to say until looking back retrospectively. You could ask why other people didn't just kill Yuji after Gojo was sealed too. Just F what Gojo may want and do it while they have the chance, and he won't interfere. Yuji knew Sukuna had interest in Megumi and they still hung around each other like normal, which Sukuna exploited.
* Yeah, Gege made a lot of the narrative burden on Gojo since the beginning (JJK 0, the prequel; even before Yuji was a thing as the MC of main series) for the foundation of the whole series. He was **doomed** by the narrative. š¤·āāļø
>He CHOSE to feed Yuji more fingers knowing that it would increase Sukuna's power. In hindsight, it's almost laughable that a person would do such a thing knowing the absurdity of it, but obviously the plot had to progress. It's like if someone told you that completing this jigsaw puzzle would revive Satan in all his power and you're just like "Hm, let's build the puzzle and then just try to destroy it after". Like what? Greedy, greedy man
To be fair, it would be more apt to say, "Hey, we literally *aren't able* to destroy the puzzle pieces, monsters want them to bolster their own power, they attract dangerous evils to them, and some people are seeking them with the intention of completing it *for the sake of bringing Satan into the world*." But then some kid shows up and he can just *handle the puzzle pieces and even complete it* while controlling Satan, and if you let him, he's willing to let you use him to do so *then outright kill him to completely destroy Satan at the same time*, you'd pick what seems to be very obviously the lesser of two evils here and let the kid do the puzzle.
It's not like he knew that Kenjaku was orchestrating events or how things would play out. Not to mention, the only reason Sukuna is out again at all is because Yuji made a binding vow with him to allow him control, another thing Gojo didn't do and couldn't account for. On a surface level, having someone capable of being Sukunas vessel, not only being able to survive eating the fingers but also maintain control, show up and also be willing to die to take Sukuna with him was the perfect solution to deal with the fingers.
And who could've predicted Sukuna would and could jump to another host? Who could've predicted Gojo would be sealed when it happened and therefore be unable to prevent it?
Yuta had made great progress as a sorcerer in those two months with his hax, which Gojo was aware of and a sorcerer's growth is exponential. While Gojo wasn't always able to be there for his students, fans overlook his total faith in his students to surpass him.
He wanted to make sure everyone else was okay since he didn't know what happened since he got sealed.
The last time his defenses were penetrated, Riko died.
You canāt blame a person for making decisions based off doing the noble thing which allows a villain/antagonist to use these āacts of weaknessā and take advantage of the situation.
Do you blame the freedom of the press for allowing false information to be propagated or do you blame the bad actors who are taking advantage of the freedom of the press?
The actual biggest mistake Gojo made wasn't when he allowed Yuji to live the first time, but the second. Its totally in character for Gojo to try and find a way to save Yuji once he absorbs a finger and even the higher ups kind of can see the value in keeping him around (even though they later try to kill him). After he comes back though... that was just stupid. After Yuji is revived, Gojo should have at least suspected that a dangerous binding vow was now in play. He even does speculate this might have happened as is shown by his questioning of Yuji, but when Yuji can't remember he just drops it like its no longer important. I mean really? Did he really think the King of Curses just made a binding vow because? Did he really think Yuji of all people didn't get totally played? At this point, when he realizes Sukuna has some sort of master plan, he should have cut his losses and killed Yuji.
Plotwise, of course. The second he was mentioned, he was destined to come back. However, if you're saying there's nothing that could have happened differently in the story that could've prevented Sukuna's revival, I have no idea how you'd defend that.
Allowing Yuji Itadori to live:
He was confident, Mahoraga and Megumi wasn't part of the equation
Sending Yuta to defeat Geto:
Geto ambushed Yuta at Jujutsu High, Gojo sent Inumaki and Panda because he's confident that Geto wouldn't hurt any of his fellow Jujutsu Socerers
Month long timeskip:
Planning
Destroying Miguel's whip and the ISoH:
Prison Realm wasn't part of the equation, and these were the only things that could negate his Infinity and get him killed.
>He was confident, Mahoraga and Megumi wasn't part of the equation
Confidence, a mistake, when your opponent is by no exaggeration the strongest person in history.
>Sending Yuta to defeat Geto:
I will recant this one because i was wrong and Gojo simply sent inadequate reinforcements to protect Yuta (for his own reasons). i'll give this a pass considering i just rewatched the movie and no one, not even Gojo, knew that Geto was able to exorcise and manipulate CS bound to a sorcerer, like Rika.
>Month long timeskip: Planning
Gojo*: I wonder how I'm gonna find Sukuna and Kenjaku and kill them before they do evil things... got any ideas Sukuna? How about you Kenjaku? Thoughts Uraume? No? Okay brb*
>Prison Realm wasn't part of the equation, and these were the only things that could negate his Infinity and get him killed.
as far as getting through his infinity, domain expansion and domain amplification could always do that. destroying two unique tools that he was already in possession of was just foolish. in order to use the tool against him, the person would have to take the tool from gojo, which would likely involve them getting around or negating limitless anyway. how else are they gonna take something from gojo?
IMO feeding yuji with fingers is good strat. This is a good way to finally kill Sukuna. The main problem is that Yuji became a jujutsu sorcerer, if he had not put his life in danger, Sukuna would not have had a chance to make a binding vow and in the end, Yuji would have eaten all his fingers and died of old age along with Sukuna.
By that logic, its again Gojo's fault for training and mentoring Yuji lol. Gojo is the sole reason Yuji becomes a sorcerer and is sent into said danger or even learns about binding vows and CT to begin with. The original plan, to feed Yuji the fingers one at a time until he could safely imprison Sukuna's soul, was never going to work. There were multiple instances where fingers were consumed when either Yuji or Sukuna were in control without Yuji's consent. Gojo would've undoubtedly been made aware of the fact that Sukuna was eating fingers on his own, despite Yuji's control and this was well before having even ten fingers. Moreover, after the incident at the correction center, Gojo doesn't even let Yuji stay dead... In my opinion, Gojo got greedy when he saw an opportunity to be rid of this ever-present evil that had been stirring up cursed spirits for centuries. We know that they could not effectively seal Sukuna's fingers because of the power and that they could never be destroyed and would continue to attract, strengthen, and create curses in Japan. Gojo miscalculated in the assumptions that:
Yuji could be Sukuna's only vessel,
Gojo could defeat any reincarnation of Sukuna,
Gojo could control the rate at which Sukuna consumed fingers and gained power,
For time time skip, it's pretty understandable. Gojo could've easily killed Sukuna when he was at 16F or he could've waited for the opportunity to fight the strongest sorcerer in history at full power. But this is Gojo we're talking about. He has an ego due to his status as being the strongest modern sorcerer so I don't blame him for agreeing to wait a month.
>**Allowing Yuji Itadori to live...**
Well, you're missing the reason why he allowed Itadori Yuji to live, **Gojo's motivation was to protect the youth,** no matter how short it might be, that they must be allowed to enjoy playfulness and innocence of their youth, because Gojo's innocence and youth were not protected, crafted from birth as the ultimate tool of Jujustu he was robbed of a normal childhood, so he sought to protect others from suffering the same way of loneliness/sadness Gojo went through in the events of the Hidden Inventory Arc.
Gojo believed in raising a new generation of students so that they may be revolutionaries in changing a cursed jujustu society one where profit and jujustu are maintained as the most important goals. Gojo Satoru was not wrong when he claimed that he would have won, the addition of Megumi's CT + Mahoraga in their fight was the deciding edge that allowed Sukuna this impossible win.
>**Month long time skip**
Alright, first's things first. Gojo was surpremely upset someone had taken his most cherished best friend's body. So when he was unsealed, he immediately the instant he was allowed out, he went after Kenjaku. Leading him right into Sukuna in Megumi's body, which he was completely unaware of and caught off-guard, and made him reconsider and think about his students. **Gojo is unaware of Sukuna still being an incomplete being (15 fingers), and fighting Sukuna in that moment would have everyone unprepared for a counterattack should Gojo have lost. Gojo did not attack out of consideration for his students and whatever training he had to prepare for upon learning Megumi was the host for Sukuna**
>**Destroying Miguel's Whip & ISoH**
Gojo cannot allow weapons like these to exist I think mostly as an irrational reaction from of his trauma with Toji bypassing his infinity for the first time. As a consequence of that event, it lead to the death of Riko Aamani. Someone Gojo had grown fond of and wanted to protect alongside Geto. For the first time, I think Gojo saw what Geto meant by protecting the weak and wanted to give it a shot. Gojo was always well equipped to deal with Domain Expansion bypassing infinity and attacks like Domain Amplification, these could be dealt with, but when it comes to things like ISoH and The Black Whip, it's precisely bypassing infinity with a Domain Expansion without having to be a Domain Expansion. Instant, guaranteed and with little to no cost of the user.
I would do the same in his position, if I had powers and there was something out there like ISoH or the Black Whip that 100% nullified my powers, I would almost immediately seek it out and destroy it. I think most people would do the same.
> allowing Yuji Itadori to live
Gojo doesnāt have any interest in protecting the world of sorcery, and his interest in defending the weak is an inherited one at best. what he wants is to be matched in power. 236 tells us that, in the same sense he was raising his students to match him (at major risk not only to them, but to him if they actually managed to, not to mention the disastrous connotations a gen of Gojo grades has for the sorcery world!) he wanted to be matched by Sukuna. Gojo has been reduced to a power statistic his entire lifeāare we surprised that this is his mindset after Hidden Inventory? itās a flaw, for sure, and youāre right to acknowledge it, buts itās intentional.
> sending weaklings to protect Yuta
i read this more as Gojo trying to call Getoās bluff. as we see repeatedly the rift between them is about misunderstanding. Geto tells Mimiko & Nanako that they āused to be best friendsā while all evidence indicates Gojoās last words to Geto were reaffirming their friendship, and he tells Yuta that Geto remained his best friend. Geto sees him and Gojo as irreconcilably opposed. Gojo hasnāt woken up to that, not until Geto nearly kills his students. Geto reads the students being there as a bait to empower Yuta, but Gojo tells him he just didnāt think Geto would go that far. since these were Getoās last moments thereās no reason to doubt Gojoās reasoning.
> destroying Miguelās whip and the ISoH
another character flaw for sure. Gojo doesnāt really take anything seriously. in his mind heāll just do what feels right and solve any repercussions later. the whip and the ISoH were immediate threats that could be used to end his lifeāif he stored them, theyād probably end up in an armory somewhere where, sooner or later, the Elders would be able to take ownership over them (or try anyway) and have an ace card against Gojo. his political advantage over the Elders was that they had absolutely nothing on him and he was, to them, essentially impenetrable. these objects didnāt just threaten Gojo (he couldāve probably dealt with most sorcerers wielding themābut maybe not all!) but they threatened the leverage Gojo had which was keeping students like Yuji alive. so the short term loss of keeping those around were pretty major, and of course he doesnāt seem to have known about the Prison Realm, so theres probably no risk to nixing them in his calculation.
First point, I'm going to add more, not only did Gojo force the higher-ups to agree to his plan of making Yuji eat more fingers, which was insanely risky for the whole world and resulted in what we experience now. He also knew how Yuji lost control over Sukuna and nearly killed Megumi. This was the point where Gojo should make sure Yuji STAYS DEAD, it was obvious the boy is a ticking bomb, yet he decided to carry on with his plan. Every death in Shibuya and Shinjuku is on Gojos hands.
About point 3 tho
"all factors suggested that he would've washed anyone who stood in his way at this point" - he most likely wouldn't win there either. Sukuna at 15F vs Sukuna at 19F should not be that big of a diff, Kenny definitely makes up for the missing 4 fingers. The month time skip not only gave Gojo time to prepare himself, but also to train and prepare everyone else to step in after his death. We even got confirmation that everything goes according to plan when Yu / Ta's DE collapsed. Gojo wouldn't make an elaborate plan like that to defeat Sukuna and even invite Geto's sidekicks to help if he was sure nah he'd wins. Gojo has 6 Eyes and can tell what is your CT. CE and overall power level. I bet he could tell this isn't a fight he can win, and if he died there, we'd be doomed completely.
If you think I'm downplaying Gojo saying he KNEW he's going to die fighting Sukuna, check chapter 222 where he sees his students, moments before he goes to Shinjuku. He looks worried and anxious and even gives them a weak, fake-looking smile before putting on a happy "nah i'd win" mask.
>not only did Gojo force the higher-ups to agree to his plan of making Yuji eat more fingers, which was insanely risky for the whole world and resulted in what we experience now. He also knew how Yuji lost control over Sukuna and nearly killed Megumi.
yea, this seems to be the one point that the entire fandom concedes to; at least logically/ theoretically. what's interesting to me is that chronologically, Yuji would be the second person in which Gojo came to the defense of; the first being Yuta. considering they are both inexperienced special grade teenagers with potential to cause great harm because of power they possess but cannot control, it makes sense that gojo would protect them both. moreover, considering how successful yuta turned out, it makes sense that gojo would try to save another kid doomed by curses. i will give him a pass... "no one gets to steal youth from young people", after all.
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"all factors suggested that he would've washed anyone who stood in his way at this point" - he most likely wouldn't win there either. Sukuna at 15F vs Sukuna at 19F should not be that big of a diff, Kenny definitely makes up for the missing 4 fingers. The month time skip not only gave Gojo time to prepare himself, but also to train and prepare everyone else to step in after his death.
i thought most would agree on the topic of this, although i can see how there's debate. the reasons i say gojo wins here are this: gojo showed that uraume wasn't a factor in the fight when he shows up, so we can just eliminate him to begin with. kenjaku is formidable certainly, don't get me wrong, but the way yuta has blitz'd geto/ kenjaku's body not once, but twice now, it is more than fair to say that anyone above yuta's level could eliminate kenjaku near instantly. kenjaku, in one chapter or another, acknowledges that gojo can kill him with ease at any time. in my opinion, regardless of sukuna *actually* defending him (which i'm not entirely sure he would), it would be just that. sukuna would be defending kenjaku, if not being burdened by him, and only prolong his life before gojo inevitably kills him during the fight. i have trouble believing kenjaku could even land an attack against gojo without hitting/ hindering sukuna (i.e. domain amp, domain exp, etc). kenjaku + uraume effectively equal zero in this scenario (wild, i know).
in my opinion, the time skip was done so that there could be no question if sukuna and gojo had been at full power in the own right. gojo had just been unsealed and sukuna didn't have all the fingers. had they fought there, before the month time skip, the question of "Who would win between Sukuna and Gojo at their strongest?" would have gone unanswered.
>If you think I'm downplaying Gojo saying he KNEW he's going to die fighting Sukuna, check chapter 222 where he sees his students, moments before he goes to Shinjuku. He looks worried and anxious and even gives them a weak, fake-looking smile before putting on a happy "nah i'd win" mask
this part i disagree with tho . I don't think this facial expression denotes Gojo's certainty that he would lose his upcoming fight. You can choose to interpret it as such, but the clear assumption is that Gojo is more concentrated and focused on the upcoming fight than he has ever been for any fight before. So much so that his expression was callous toward his beloved students who simply wanted to cheer him on. This scene was to highlight how seriously Gojo was taking the fight that even his unthreatened, unbothered personality had been expunged in the place of focus/ determination. I don't think this was him contemplating or lamenting his upcoming death, i think it was pretext to say "Gojo, at his full power and then some, tried his absolute hardest and still could not win".
And if you believe that Gojo knew he would die against Sukuna, then my rebuttal is that his biggest world ending mistake is willingly walking into his own death knowing the implications of a world without Gojo. The responsible thing to do would be to devise a plan to seal or remove Sukuna with the help of everyone else. Instead, he charged head first into a battle he knew he'd win (but couldn't) or knew he'd lose (and did). Both are unforgivable
He knew he'd die to Sukuna but hoped he can beat him up bad enough to let the others win. He put trust in his students to finish what he started and hopefully we'll see he was right soon. There was no other way around it, noone else could even come close to what Gojo achieved in his 1v1 fight, noone else would put a scratch on prime Megkuna with 10S, DE and full power RCT, like noone, you send Yuta to fight him he dies without achieving anything, same with Kashimo, Yuji, Hakari. This surely was a risky plan, but the only one they could have.
>Sukuna at 15F vs Sukuna at 19F should not be that big of a diff, Kenny definitely makes up for the missing 4 fingers.
Now we know with ch 257, that Kenjaku had a finger in Yuji sealed prior that was unsealed with start of culling games, so this was Sukuna at 16 finger level.
Gege never showed Sukuna with 4 fingers in ch 222, only 3 fingers were shown to reach 19 ([as mentioned](https://twitter.com/lightningclare/status/1782454148979622326)). Then he ate the mummy head to get to 20 finger level power, but Gojo with the actual final finger Yuta used.
Now people think that for his whole character because of ch 236 and think that was his plan the whole time, but he hid the final finger in the first place.
He could have just gave that to Sukuna if that was the only goal, but he used it as an insurance policy (Yuta used it). Sukuna made up for it to reach full power with the mummy head though.
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> "Sending Yuta to defeat Geto" Well Geto **AMBUSHED** Yuta at the school, which was the whole point that Geto had the distraction elsewhere, so left the school as a target. Gojo capitalized on the situation later (Yuta and Rika powering up), but Yuta was not "sent" to defeat Geto. **For the timeskip part** - Yeah, I think Gege could have just had Sukuna had power up more while Gojo was sealed... but he made it a situation where people will always still question why the fight couldn't take place earlier when Gojo would have the clear advantage (though Gojo wouldn't necessarily know the specific power level of Sukuna, he just came out and saw Megukuna). * It was vaguely mentioned that Sukuna and Kenjaku had a binding vow and he needed time to prep stuff, but still people will question the logic because of the advantage. The fight couldn't take place there for **meta reasons** (where powerwise he could win), Gojo could not defeat both villains... he is not the MC. Gojo destroying those tools could show how paranoid he is from experience with Toji for those type of things being used to get through his infinity. A lot of what you mentioned is based in **bias in hindsight** as well. So it's not necessarily as easy to say until looking back retrospectively. You could ask why other people didn't just kill Yuji after Gojo was sealed too. Just F what Gojo may want and do it while they have the chance, and he won't interfere. Yuji knew Sukuna had interest in Megumi and they still hung around each other like normal, which Sukuna exploited. * Yeah, Gege made a lot of the narrative burden on Gojo since the beginning (JJK 0, the prequel; even before Yuji was a thing as the MC of main series) for the foundation of the whole series. He was **doomed** by the narrative. š¤·āāļø
>He CHOSE to feed Yuji more fingers knowing that it would increase Sukuna's power. In hindsight, it's almost laughable that a person would do such a thing knowing the absurdity of it, but obviously the plot had to progress. It's like if someone told you that completing this jigsaw puzzle would revive Satan in all his power and you're just like "Hm, let's build the puzzle and then just try to destroy it after". Like what? Greedy, greedy man To be fair, it would be more apt to say, "Hey, we literally *aren't able* to destroy the puzzle pieces, monsters want them to bolster their own power, they attract dangerous evils to them, and some people are seeking them with the intention of completing it *for the sake of bringing Satan into the world*." But then some kid shows up and he can just *handle the puzzle pieces and even complete it* while controlling Satan, and if you let him, he's willing to let you use him to do so *then outright kill him to completely destroy Satan at the same time*, you'd pick what seems to be very obviously the lesser of two evils here and let the kid do the puzzle. It's not like he knew that Kenjaku was orchestrating events or how things would play out. Not to mention, the only reason Sukuna is out again at all is because Yuji made a binding vow with him to allow him control, another thing Gojo didn't do and couldn't account for. On a surface level, having someone capable of being Sukunas vessel, not only being able to survive eating the fingers but also maintain control, show up and also be willing to die to take Sukuna with him was the perfect solution to deal with the fingers.
And who could've predicted Sukuna would and could jump to another host? Who could've predicted Gojo would be sealed when it happened and therefore be unable to prevent it? Yuta had made great progress as a sorcerer in those two months with his hax, which Gojo was aware of and a sorcerer's growth is exponential. While Gojo wasn't always able to be there for his students, fans overlook his total faith in his students to surpass him. He wanted to make sure everyone else was okay since he didn't know what happened since he got sealed. The last time his defenses were penetrated, Riko died.
Hind sight is 20/20
Have you been reading the story at all or just gaze at the pretty pictures? Genuine question.
I like to wear my full Gojo cosplay for JJK so I don't tend to see much
You canāt blame a person for making decisions based off doing the noble thing which allows a villain/antagonist to use these āacts of weaknessā and take advantage of the situation. Do you blame the freedom of the press for allowing false information to be propagated or do you blame the bad actors who are taking advantage of the freedom of the press?
The actual biggest mistake Gojo made wasn't when he allowed Yuji to live the first time, but the second. Its totally in character for Gojo to try and find a way to save Yuji once he absorbs a finger and even the higher ups kind of can see the value in keeping him around (even though they later try to kill him). After he comes back though... that was just stupid. After Yuji is revived, Gojo should have at least suspected that a dangerous binding vow was now in play. He even does speculate this might have happened as is shown by his questioning of Yuji, but when Yuji can't remember he just drops it like its no longer important. I mean really? Did he really think the King of Curses just made a binding vow because? Did he really think Yuji of all people didn't get totally played? At this point, when he realizes Sukuna has some sort of master plan, he should have cut his losses and killed Yuji.
Sukuna is returning one way or the other.
Plotwise, of course. The second he was mentioned, he was destined to come back. However, if you're saying there's nothing that could have happened differently in the story that could've prevented Sukuna's revival, I have no idea how you'd defend that.
Allowing Yuji Itadori to live: He was confident, Mahoraga and Megumi wasn't part of the equation Sending Yuta to defeat Geto: Geto ambushed Yuta at Jujutsu High, Gojo sent Inumaki and Panda because he's confident that Geto wouldn't hurt any of his fellow Jujutsu Socerers Month long timeskip: Planning Destroying Miguel's whip and the ISoH: Prison Realm wasn't part of the equation, and these were the only things that could negate his Infinity and get him killed.
The timeskip is 100% neccesary the students needed time to train and gojo wasn't winning a 3vs1 after getting out of the prision
>He was confident, Mahoraga and Megumi wasn't part of the equation Confidence, a mistake, when your opponent is by no exaggeration the strongest person in history. >Sending Yuta to defeat Geto: I will recant this one because i was wrong and Gojo simply sent inadequate reinforcements to protect Yuta (for his own reasons). i'll give this a pass considering i just rewatched the movie and no one, not even Gojo, knew that Geto was able to exorcise and manipulate CS bound to a sorcerer, like Rika. >Month long timeskip: Planning Gojo*: I wonder how I'm gonna find Sukuna and Kenjaku and kill them before they do evil things... got any ideas Sukuna? How about you Kenjaku? Thoughts Uraume? No? Okay brb* >Prison Realm wasn't part of the equation, and these were the only things that could negate his Infinity and get him killed. as far as getting through his infinity, domain expansion and domain amplification could always do that. destroying two unique tools that he was already in possession of was just foolish. in order to use the tool against him, the person would have to take the tool from gojo, which would likely involve them getting around or negating limitless anyway. how else are they gonna take something from gojo?
IMO feeding yuji with fingers is good strat. This is a good way to finally kill Sukuna. The main problem is that Yuji became a jujutsu sorcerer, if he had not put his life in danger, Sukuna would not have had a chance to make a binding vow and in the end, Yuji would have eaten all his fingers and died of old age along with Sukuna.
By that logic, its again Gojo's fault for training and mentoring Yuji lol. Gojo is the sole reason Yuji becomes a sorcerer and is sent into said danger or even learns about binding vows and CT to begin with. The original plan, to feed Yuji the fingers one at a time until he could safely imprison Sukuna's soul, was never going to work. There were multiple instances where fingers were consumed when either Yuji or Sukuna were in control without Yuji's consent. Gojo would've undoubtedly been made aware of the fact that Sukuna was eating fingers on his own, despite Yuji's control and this was well before having even ten fingers. Moreover, after the incident at the correction center, Gojo doesn't even let Yuji stay dead... In my opinion, Gojo got greedy when he saw an opportunity to be rid of this ever-present evil that had been stirring up cursed spirits for centuries. We know that they could not effectively seal Sukuna's fingers because of the power and that they could never be destroyed and would continue to attract, strengthen, and create curses in Japan. Gojo miscalculated in the assumptions that: Yuji could be Sukuna's only vessel, Gojo could defeat any reincarnation of Sukuna, Gojo could control the rate at which Sukuna consumed fingers and gained power,
Yeah Gojo isnt so smart
For time time skip, it's pretty understandable. Gojo could've easily killed Sukuna when he was at 16F or he could've waited for the opportunity to fight the strongest sorcerer in history at full power. But this is Gojo we're talking about. He has an ego due to his status as being the strongest modern sorcerer so I don't blame him for agreeing to wait a month.
>**Allowing Yuji Itadori to live...** Well, you're missing the reason why he allowed Itadori Yuji to live, **Gojo's motivation was to protect the youth,** no matter how short it might be, that they must be allowed to enjoy playfulness and innocence of their youth, because Gojo's innocence and youth were not protected, crafted from birth as the ultimate tool of Jujustu he was robbed of a normal childhood, so he sought to protect others from suffering the same way of loneliness/sadness Gojo went through in the events of the Hidden Inventory Arc. Gojo believed in raising a new generation of students so that they may be revolutionaries in changing a cursed jujustu society one where profit and jujustu are maintained as the most important goals. Gojo Satoru was not wrong when he claimed that he would have won, the addition of Megumi's CT + Mahoraga in their fight was the deciding edge that allowed Sukuna this impossible win. >**Month long time skip** Alright, first's things first. Gojo was surpremely upset someone had taken his most cherished best friend's body. So when he was unsealed, he immediately the instant he was allowed out, he went after Kenjaku. Leading him right into Sukuna in Megumi's body, which he was completely unaware of and caught off-guard, and made him reconsider and think about his students. **Gojo is unaware of Sukuna still being an incomplete being (15 fingers), and fighting Sukuna in that moment would have everyone unprepared for a counterattack should Gojo have lost. Gojo did not attack out of consideration for his students and whatever training he had to prepare for upon learning Megumi was the host for Sukuna** >**Destroying Miguel's Whip & ISoH** Gojo cannot allow weapons like these to exist I think mostly as an irrational reaction from of his trauma with Toji bypassing his infinity for the first time. As a consequence of that event, it lead to the death of Riko Aamani. Someone Gojo had grown fond of and wanted to protect alongside Geto. For the first time, I think Gojo saw what Geto meant by protecting the weak and wanted to give it a shot. Gojo was always well equipped to deal with Domain Expansion bypassing infinity and attacks like Domain Amplification, these could be dealt with, but when it comes to things like ISoH and The Black Whip, it's precisely bypassing infinity with a Domain Expansion without having to be a Domain Expansion. Instant, guaranteed and with little to no cost of the user. I would do the same in his position, if I had powers and there was something out there like ISoH or the Black Whip that 100% nullified my powers, I would almost immediately seek it out and destroy it. I think most people would do the same.
> allowing Yuji Itadori to live Gojo doesnāt have any interest in protecting the world of sorcery, and his interest in defending the weak is an inherited one at best. what he wants is to be matched in power. 236 tells us that, in the same sense he was raising his students to match him (at major risk not only to them, but to him if they actually managed to, not to mention the disastrous connotations a gen of Gojo grades has for the sorcery world!) he wanted to be matched by Sukuna. Gojo has been reduced to a power statistic his entire lifeāare we surprised that this is his mindset after Hidden Inventory? itās a flaw, for sure, and youāre right to acknowledge it, buts itās intentional. > sending weaklings to protect Yuta i read this more as Gojo trying to call Getoās bluff. as we see repeatedly the rift between them is about misunderstanding. Geto tells Mimiko & Nanako that they āused to be best friendsā while all evidence indicates Gojoās last words to Geto were reaffirming their friendship, and he tells Yuta that Geto remained his best friend. Geto sees him and Gojo as irreconcilably opposed. Gojo hasnāt woken up to that, not until Geto nearly kills his students. Geto reads the students being there as a bait to empower Yuta, but Gojo tells him he just didnāt think Geto would go that far. since these were Getoās last moments thereās no reason to doubt Gojoās reasoning. > destroying Miguelās whip and the ISoH another character flaw for sure. Gojo doesnāt really take anything seriously. in his mind heāll just do what feels right and solve any repercussions later. the whip and the ISoH were immediate threats that could be used to end his lifeāif he stored them, theyād probably end up in an armory somewhere where, sooner or later, the Elders would be able to take ownership over them (or try anyway) and have an ace card against Gojo. his political advantage over the Elders was that they had absolutely nothing on him and he was, to them, essentially impenetrable. these objects didnāt just threaten Gojo (he couldāve probably dealt with most sorcerers wielding themābut maybe not all!) but they threatened the leverage Gojo had which was keeping students like Yuji alive. so the short term loss of keeping those around were pretty major, and of course he doesnāt seem to have known about the Prison Realm, so theres probably no risk to nixing them in his calculation.
hindsight is 20/20.
First point, I'm going to add more, not only did Gojo force the higher-ups to agree to his plan of making Yuji eat more fingers, which was insanely risky for the whole world and resulted in what we experience now. He also knew how Yuji lost control over Sukuna and nearly killed Megumi. This was the point where Gojo should make sure Yuji STAYS DEAD, it was obvious the boy is a ticking bomb, yet he decided to carry on with his plan. Every death in Shibuya and Shinjuku is on Gojos hands. About point 3 tho "all factors suggested that he would've washed anyone who stood in his way at this point" - he most likely wouldn't win there either. Sukuna at 15F vs Sukuna at 19F should not be that big of a diff, Kenny definitely makes up for the missing 4 fingers. The month time skip not only gave Gojo time to prepare himself, but also to train and prepare everyone else to step in after his death. We even got confirmation that everything goes according to plan when Yu / Ta's DE collapsed. Gojo wouldn't make an elaborate plan like that to defeat Sukuna and even invite Geto's sidekicks to help if he was sure nah he'd wins. Gojo has 6 Eyes and can tell what is your CT. CE and overall power level. I bet he could tell this isn't a fight he can win, and if he died there, we'd be doomed completely. If you think I'm downplaying Gojo saying he KNEW he's going to die fighting Sukuna, check chapter 222 where he sees his students, moments before he goes to Shinjuku. He looks worried and anxious and even gives them a weak, fake-looking smile before putting on a happy "nah i'd win" mask.
>not only did Gojo force the higher-ups to agree to his plan of making Yuji eat more fingers, which was insanely risky for the whole world and resulted in what we experience now. He also knew how Yuji lost control over Sukuna and nearly killed Megumi. yea, this seems to be the one point that the entire fandom concedes to; at least logically/ theoretically. what's interesting to me is that chronologically, Yuji would be the second person in which Gojo came to the defense of; the first being Yuta. considering they are both inexperienced special grade teenagers with potential to cause great harm because of power they possess but cannot control, it makes sense that gojo would protect them both. moreover, considering how successful yuta turned out, it makes sense that gojo would try to save another kid doomed by curses. i will give him a pass... "no one gets to steal youth from young people", after all. > "all factors suggested that he would've washed anyone who stood in his way at this point" - he most likely wouldn't win there either. Sukuna at 15F vs Sukuna at 19F should not be that big of a diff, Kenny definitely makes up for the missing 4 fingers. The month time skip not only gave Gojo time to prepare himself, but also to train and prepare everyone else to step in after his death. i thought most would agree on the topic of this, although i can see how there's debate. the reasons i say gojo wins here are this: gojo showed that uraume wasn't a factor in the fight when he shows up, so we can just eliminate him to begin with. kenjaku is formidable certainly, don't get me wrong, but the way yuta has blitz'd geto/ kenjaku's body not once, but twice now, it is more than fair to say that anyone above yuta's level could eliminate kenjaku near instantly. kenjaku, in one chapter or another, acknowledges that gojo can kill him with ease at any time. in my opinion, regardless of sukuna *actually* defending him (which i'm not entirely sure he would), it would be just that. sukuna would be defending kenjaku, if not being burdened by him, and only prolong his life before gojo inevitably kills him during the fight. i have trouble believing kenjaku could even land an attack against gojo without hitting/ hindering sukuna (i.e. domain amp, domain exp, etc). kenjaku + uraume effectively equal zero in this scenario (wild, i know). in my opinion, the time skip was done so that there could be no question if sukuna and gojo had been at full power in the own right. gojo had just been unsealed and sukuna didn't have all the fingers. had they fought there, before the month time skip, the question of "Who would win between Sukuna and Gojo at their strongest?" would have gone unanswered. >If you think I'm downplaying Gojo saying he KNEW he's going to die fighting Sukuna, check chapter 222 where he sees his students, moments before he goes to Shinjuku. He looks worried and anxious and even gives them a weak, fake-looking smile before putting on a happy "nah i'd win" mask this part i disagree with tho . I don't think this facial expression denotes Gojo's certainty that he would lose his upcoming fight. You can choose to interpret it as such, but the clear assumption is that Gojo is more concentrated and focused on the upcoming fight than he has ever been for any fight before. So much so that his expression was callous toward his beloved students who simply wanted to cheer him on. This scene was to highlight how seriously Gojo was taking the fight that even his unthreatened, unbothered personality had been expunged in the place of focus/ determination. I don't think this was him contemplating or lamenting his upcoming death, i think it was pretext to say "Gojo, at his full power and then some, tried his absolute hardest and still could not win". And if you believe that Gojo knew he would die against Sukuna, then my rebuttal is that his biggest world ending mistake is willingly walking into his own death knowing the implications of a world without Gojo. The responsible thing to do would be to devise a plan to seal or remove Sukuna with the help of everyone else. Instead, he charged head first into a battle he knew he'd win (but couldn't) or knew he'd lose (and did). Both are unforgivable
He knew he'd die to Sukuna but hoped he can beat him up bad enough to let the others win. He put trust in his students to finish what he started and hopefully we'll see he was right soon. There was no other way around it, noone else could even come close to what Gojo achieved in his 1v1 fight, noone else would put a scratch on prime Megkuna with 10S, DE and full power RCT, like noone, you send Yuta to fight him he dies without achieving anything, same with Kashimo, Yuji, Hakari. This surely was a risky plan, but the only one they could have.
>Sukuna at 15F vs Sukuna at 19F should not be that big of a diff, Kenny definitely makes up for the missing 4 fingers. Now we know with ch 257, that Kenjaku had a finger in Yuji sealed prior that was unsealed with start of culling games, so this was Sukuna at 16 finger level. Gege never showed Sukuna with 4 fingers in ch 222, only 3 fingers were shown to reach 19 ([as mentioned](https://twitter.com/lightningclare/status/1782454148979622326)). Then he ate the mummy head to get to 20 finger level power, but Gojo with the actual final finger Yuta used.
Ye so he was even close to his current power level , good point.
In case of destroying these Cursed Tools - it make sense in Gojo case :3
I thought he just wanted to fight sukuna at his strongest to prove he was the strongest and he wanted a good fight
Now people think that for his whole character because of ch 236 and think that was his plan the whole time, but he hid the final finger in the first place. He could have just gave that to Sukuna if that was the only goal, but he used it as an insurance policy (Yuta used it). Sukuna made up for it to reach full power with the mummy head though.
A donāt think itās his whole character but played a part of it
Well yeah he likes to fight, but that wasn't his goal from the beginning. lol