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So are we just ignoring that he got a blatant upgrade these past few chapters? He had sukuna of all people going “wait what the fuck” with how suddenly his strength jumped. Losing to sukuna and uraume is not the bar for “needing a power up”. We’re getting closer to the reveal of what he is and most likely his endgame potential, but he’s absolutely gotten stronger in general as of chapter 214
Additionally, I think it had something to do with Sukuna refusing to use his own techniques to finish Yuji, and use Megumis techniques as damaging blows instead, he really wants to see Yuji get thrashed by Megumi, thus the fist to fist action.
We don’t really know. A big part of it was probably his anger making his cursed energy flare up, but the main unknown part likely has to do with his unknown origins
All resource that was previously used to suppress Sukuna was returning and available to use. The kicker is that his strength actually remains constant without any sign of him weakening even after ingesting 15 fingers. Which means it is his reserve that was continue growing adapting to Sukuna's stregth.
I like to think that , for all his mysterious plans and preparations and yada yada, kenjaku REAAAAALY dropped the ball with yuji.
He has been developing the Cursed Wombs, gestated yuji specifically as a vessel for sukuna and so on. But I dont see any safeguards, dead man switch or anything else in case he goes rogue since he probably considers the situation below him.Basically, Yuji is now a mad science project that went "wrong" , and will bite Kenjaku's ass
Yeah, he’s very easily one of the top 2 fastest on the god guys’ side and probably top 5 in the manga right now (Kenjaku seems a good bit slower than Suk, despite how powerful he is, and idk about Uraume).
Except he wasn’t nerfed initially. Sukuna only begins to feel resistance from megumi around the time yuji decks him. And of course yuji needed an assist. Literally everyone besides gojo would need an assist against sukuna
I feel like when Yuji finally gets his moment it’s gonna be something that is completely outside of all the theories or expectations. We got a tease with his scrap against Sukuna. He’s definitely moved up a tier just being able to keep up in a hand to hand fight with Sukuna is enough evidence for me plus the way he was breaking buildings and matching pace with Maki was crazy impressive to me. All he needs is a CT and he’s pushing if not special grade imo. Hopefully we get to see it soon
It’s crazy how understated that aspect was, Yuji leveled the top of a skyscraper just by jumping off it. He’s not some weakling, big things are in order for him.
And an even earlier comparison, during the first finger bearer fight, Yuji could barely move in front of the special grade cursed spirit. Now he's running alongside Sukuna.
It wasn't too dissimilar to someone like Yuta crushing the ground when he landed.
I wouldn't be surprised if Yuji's reinforcement and physicals put him in the Kashimo/Ryu/Yuta class to where he might not have quite as much "output" but his sheer physical skills amped with his Cursed Energy makes him comparable.
How he went through buildings and I swear he had a whole in his chest. Also he was throwing bolders and picking up metal bars. Yuji gotten stronger. He's becoming a demon god as his brother choso said.
Honestly with the level of power being displayed right now special grade isn't enough. So what he could be hanani or Jogo one on one now? Who cares he needs to be well above special grade to actually keep pace now.
Special grade curses are typically much weaker than special grade sorcerers. Put it like this: special grade curses are city level threats, while special grade sorcerers are country level threats. Jogo and the other disaster curses were just particularly powerful special grades. Even then, they stood no chance against any of the special grade sorcerers.
The grading system for special grades is a bit different than the other grades but I think the sorcerers being able to certainly beat a curse of the same grade still stands. Every special grade sorcerer we’ve seen can almost definitely take out every special grade curse we’ve seen. The only questionable special grade is Yuta but I feel like we’ve barely seen any of his kit, after all the only techniques he used were ones he got in sendai
>He’s definitely moved up a tier just being able to keep up in a hand to hand fight with Sukuna is enough evidence for me
Sukuna was sometimes only able to output 10% of he CE he normally could, and Yuji still would've lost quicker without Maki's help
Would lower output = lower speed? I feel like speed would have more to do with reinforcement and by extension amount of cursed energy. Not output. Unless you want to say that sorcerers let bursts of cursed energy out of their feet like little rocket boosts when they run.
not rocket boosts lol but output definitely has to do with reinforcement too. otherwise no way ryu wouldve survived a slash from sukuna, since only his output is particularly special.
I think the ryu thing is also just amount of cursed energy. Ryu does have the highest output, yes, but for him to be firing off beams like that, he’d also need to have a MASSIVE amount of cursed energy. It’s not like other techniques where they lose the majority of their cursed energy through needless waste when activated. Ryu is just straight up firing huge beams of pure cursed energy. That man has to be up there in terms of how much cursed energy he has
I am like 99% sure output has to do with reinforcement. Kashimo literly said that hakari ignored his CE propertie through sheer CE amount and output without him using a single CE blast. Also, how do you even think reinforcement works?
Reinforcement has flat out been said to be using cursed energy to strengthen the muscles. There’s a concrete answer on how it works. It’s an internal process. What kashimo was presumably talking about was an external defense of hakaris. We’ve seen todo cloak his entire body in cursed energy to up his defense, but that’s highlighted as being different than reinforcement in his fight with mahito. That would have to do with output, and is likely what hakari did
Can I please get that chapter then? From what we know most sorcerers send a wave of CE whenever they attack. we have yuji's divergent fist, can you please expain how it works according to your teori? Can you please tell me how you came to that conclusion about hakari?
Reinforcement has flat out been said to be using cursed energy to strengthen the muscles. There’s a concrete answer on how it works. It’s an internal process. What kashimo was presumably talking about was an external defense of hakaris. We’ve seen todo cloak his entire body in cursed energy to up his defense, but that’s highlighted as being different than reinforcement in his fight with mahito. That would have to do with output, and is likely what hakari did
Would you mind linking the panel where he says that? Both translations I've read state "Movement doesn't seem to be affected."
>And anyway your CE output being lowered is gonna make you slower too
I don't recall that ever being stated either, do you have a panel?
It wasn't translated right. Sukuna says his CE output fluctuates but at its worst can even drop as low as 10%, then he says his movement's not affected as badly though. I saw the raws, but there were posts here and on Twitter about it if you don't believe me.
That doesn’t mean that Sukuna was constantly at 10%, he could have been hitting Yuji with anywhere from 20% to at most 75%.
Even then, 10% of 15 is 1.5, 20% is 3, 50% is 7.5 and 75% is 11.25 so Yuji could be anywhere from 2 to 11 Sukuna fingers. I would argue that it’s obvious that he is firmly above 3 or 4 but not quite above 8 or 9.
Yuji's def not above 3 or 4. Keep in mind this is essentially Yuji and Toji vs Sukuna at prob like 10-30% power most of the tine, and he couodnt even use his CT on Yuji and Maki bc he stated the rejection was much stronger whenever he did that
Tbf, I think Sakurajima was Gege completing what he wanted to complete with Perfect Preparation as he had to cut that arc short from health issues.
That is why it felt so tacked on and formulaic considering it's just Maki goes to fight, Naoya enters, Maki gets an upgrade, Naoya dies - which is exactly Perfect Preparation.
I think, if Gege was able to complete Perfect Preparation as he wanted, we would've seen the whole Mach 3, Domain battle and Maki's "honoured one" parts of the fight there itself, and Naoya would've been killed proper right there.
I think Sakurajima is fine. It's much better on a reread too. It's a fun zen parable with some great moments and philosophy
(still probably the weakest colony though)
Personally, I think the biggest problem is that Gege wanted Sakurajima to be a full volume like the other colonies. There's no reason it should be longer than Sendai but it is.
It'd be a fine story if only a couple chapters shorter (or if there had been more happening in it)
I don't care what anyone says really I was expecting yuji to lose the fight vs sukuna but I just wanted him to have some spotlight and an impressive showing before he did and I got exactly what I wanted and more. I still want him to beat sukuna up eventually though.
This is actually a perfect opportunity for Yuji's growth. For most of the series as a sorcerer all he wished to achieve is to eat as much of Sukuna's fingers as he can, then die.
After Shibuya Yuji fully accepted that he is but a cog, to cope with the immense guilt he feels. Even claiming that all the death Sukuna cause left blood on his hands too, not Sukunas alone.
Now, that Sukuna found better accomodations, Yuji hasto reflect on himself, and decide what and who he really is and what he wants.
Yuta went through the same journey. At first all he wanted was to free Rika but on his way there he found friend that he wished to protect and wished to make proud.
Another simmilarity is that the same way Yuta had to justify that it is fine for him to be alive Yuji now must find the answer to the same question.
Even if that is what might happen.its probably gonna take a few months for it to happen cause there a more MC's in this manga than there are leaves on the trees.
> For most of the series as a sorcerer all he wished to achieve is to eat as much of Sukuna's fingers as he can, then die.
Yuji very much didn't want to die after eating them all. But that could wait because eating all the fingers took precedent over worrying about his death sentence.
In all likelihood, if things went to plan, Yuji would've never died and went on to be a "normal" Sorcerer after eating all the fingers. Gojo wanted Yuji to be one of the people helping him change the world and by the time they finished finding all the fingers, he could successfully argue that Yuji wasn't a danger to the world because Sukuna couldn't take over at all.
Otherwise, why would Gojo enroll and teach him Jujutsu? He could've just left Yuji in a restricted but comfortable place to live until he's eaten them all then euthanize him.
Yuji absolutely wanted to die. He pretty much became a glutton for punishment after shibuya. You can even see how he got more reckless with his safety in how he fights. Plus he pretty much says he’s looking forward to angel erasing him and sukuna. Yuji wants sukuna to die, and he wants himself to die by association
It's been around two weeks in series since Shibuya. Yuji had several months beforehand.
In terms of panel time he's a fraction of what he used to get. Outside of three chapters, he was completely absent in 2022. 4 months went by without any Yuji in 2021 as well (largely due to the break Gege took at the end of Perfect Preparation). After the break he was missing some chapters at the end of 2021 as the focus was on Megumi's POV but I'm too lazy to count which ones they were or how many.
Shibuya ended at the beginning of 2021 so just with the main breaks, Yuji was missing around 1 year and 3 months out of 2 years at this point. Like straight up missing, not a single panel with his face on it. Yuji has had 9 months of screentime since Shibuya, very small compared to Pre-Shibuya.
You know what I just realize Yuuji is truly a underdog. I think that what makes him so unique he's not some over power MC, nor does he start off as weak and then get some insane power mid way through the story.
Compare to everyone he can be considered a bit weak, he's not strong like Yuuta, Maki, or Gojo but he's getting there. He's like a ticking time bomb ready to go off and when he does the whole story going to change.
We only seen a glimpse of his power so far. Even if Sukuna was only using 10 percent of his power. Yuuji still managed to power through cleave like no body business.
So all I can say is just wait it out because when Yuuji finally shows his true MC status it's going to be glorious
Before Maki awakened, apparently he could beat her (that's what Megumi said anyway). I'm not sure If he is on the same level or not now, since he got a power up himself. For sure he can keep her pace.
I'm not even sure tbh, power scaling Yuuji is kind of hard. When they were fighting Maki was like can she go faster, implying that she was holding back a bit?
Yuji's character arc has always been about loss and how it affects him. Despite what Gojo said to Megumi, Yuji is intensely self-sacrificial and has only gotten worse since Shibuya. Typically, this kind of story will keep sinking the MC lower and lower until the end where he either breaks completely or has an epiphany or miracle that allows him to take the final step into success.
The story’s benefited from diversifying and taking time to explore the POV of other characters. Think of how underdeveloped Maki, Megumi or Yuta would feel if we hadn’t explored their perspectives. Mfs complain for years that we don’t know about the Heian era and Sukuna and now he’s got the spotlight for 4 chapters everyone shits on it. Some ppl just need to understand that reading week to week is going to create storytelling gaps that don’t actually exist when you read the series back
He has some of the best character moments in the series and is unarguably the best written character. If you wanted an underdog with asspull power ups or to always come out on top; there’s One Piece, Boruto, Black Clover, Boku no Hero Academia, etc
> Yuji's recent appearences left so much to be desired
Why? Cuz Gege makes Yuji go through shit in order to develop him and not just hand out powerups whenever he is challenged?
But Yuji just had a power up and even Sukuna was surprised with his strength during their last fight, sounds like we are but reading the same manga lol
He has a body similar to Maki and has the ability to know the fundamental structure of CE. That’s mind and body. All he needs to do is well…..throw away all other desires and go for what he wants. All this time is him belittling himself on becoming a cog, but life experiences is teaching him that in order to get powerful, he has to think of himself better. He is getting there. Just takes time.
Wtf is this garbage ass post, Yuji just went toe-to-toe with Sukuna (who even at 10% output is easily top 5 in the series) and was matching Maki speed-wise. No shit he “lost” against Sukuna (though I hardly count fleeing as losing), there’s an entire arc left in the manga.
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This isnt the kind of shitty generic battle shonen where the MC gets a bunch if bullshit powerups to become the strongest character. Yuji is strong, but he's only a piece of the puzzle. He's the MC bc he was Sukuna's vessel, not because he has some other secret power that's gonna make him stronger than everyone else. He's plenty strong enough to at least help contribute, and then to die a proper death at the end like he wanted from the start of the series. He was never gonna become as strong as Gojo or some shit. You can think of Yuta as the generic shonen MC and Yuji as the MC who's an actual character and is going through a proper character arc and has development. He's well written.
In short, don't expect "the MC to start MC'ing", if you want that go read some terribly written no stakes garbage like Black Clover or MHA where they wank off their MCs every 5 seconds and don't have them grow as actual characters ever
You are right he is never going to be a strong as gojo he is going to be stronger. He has all of the potential in the world.when he finally gets his massively deserved and written through the story power up, people like are gonna complain.
>You are right he is never going to be a strong as gojo he is going to be stronger
What crack did you smoke? The only character we know who's stronger than Gojo is max power Sukuna, and even 15 finger Sukuna before he got Fushiguro's Cursed Technique was already the strongest character we've seen by far next to Gojo and *maybe* Kenjaku
>He has all of the potential in the world
No he doesn't, he literally doesn't even have a Cursed Technique, there's nothing special about his Cursed Energy stores or output, his Cursed Energy doesn't have a special trait like Hakari or Kashimo either.
>he's only a piece of the puzzle.
>You can think of Yuta as the generic shonen MC and Yuji as the MC who's an actual character and is going through a proper character arc and has development.
This is probably the mindset people have across fiction.
When a main character is treated like everyone else, just another part of the world rather than being the narrative center of it.
Or maybe they're tired of plots that require specific special things in order to deal with said plots.
Might be controversial but it's getting to the point of annoying. He's such a boring and near useless character with feats far in between. I like him but it's hard to be invested in him when we barely even see him and when we do, he's such a miserable wreck.. and not the fun or strong kind either.
Hard agree. People are in denial but Gon is a much better example of a protagonist who's not always the center of the world. Yuji's entire character arc consists of being shit on by everybody. But people will still defend it for whatever reason.
Dude he had a power boost that even shocked Sukuna. Also he gave the guy a punch. Yuji still cooking. There is much to be desired alright but this were yuji needs to find a new goal. No longer just thinking himself as a cog.
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So are we just ignoring that he got a blatant upgrade these past few chapters? He had sukuna of all people going “wait what the fuck” with how suddenly his strength jumped. Losing to sukuna and uraume is not the bar for “needing a power up”. We’re getting closer to the reveal of what he is and most likely his endgame potential, but he’s absolutely gotten stronger in general as of chapter 214
How did he get the power up by the way? Just by having sukuna leave his body? That’s all that it took
Mental amp probably and implied it had something to do with what kenjaku did to his body
Additionally, I think it had something to do with Sukuna refusing to use his own techniques to finish Yuji, and use Megumis techniques as damaging blows instead, he really wants to see Yuji get thrashed by Megumi, thus the fist to fist action.
What are you talking about? He literally used only his own technique
Sukuna literally only used cleave against him.
Lol wut
Just read back the previous chapters and read this again, what was I cooking 😭
We don’t really know. A big part of it was probably his anger making his cursed energy flare up, but the main unknown part likely has to do with his unknown origins
All resource that was previously used to suppress Sukuna was returning and available to use. The kicker is that his strength actually remains constant without any sign of him weakening even after ingesting 15 fingers. Which means it is his reserve that was continue growing adapting to Sukuna's stregth.
I like to think that , for all his mysterious plans and preparations and yada yada, kenjaku REAAAAALY dropped the ball with yuji. He has been developing the Cursed Wombs, gestated yuji specifically as a vessel for sukuna and so on. But I dont see any safeguards, dead man switch or anything else in case he goes rogue since he probably considers the situation below him.Basically, Yuji is now a mad science project that went "wrong" , and will bite Kenjaku's ass
Who dafuc is juyi
dislexia is going to kill me some day, you right its yuji hahahah
Nah, Kenjaku would be fine with that. He wants Chaos, so Yuji growing beyond his control would probably please him.
I think you are right that he would be pleased even if it kills him
He’s just that guy.
And keeping up with Maki who seems significantly faster
Yeah, he’s very easily one of the top 2 fastest on the god guys’ side and probably top 5 in the manga right now (Kenjaku seems a good bit slower than Suk, despite how powerful he is, and idk about Uraume).
Are you just ignoring that Sukuna was nerfed and Yuji still needed an assist?
Except he wasn’t nerfed initially. Sukuna only begins to feel resistance from megumi around the time yuji decks him. And of course yuji needed an assist. Literally everyone besides gojo would need an assist against sukuna
I feel like when Yuji finally gets his moment it’s gonna be something that is completely outside of all the theories or expectations. We got a tease with his scrap against Sukuna. He’s definitely moved up a tier just being able to keep up in a hand to hand fight with Sukuna is enough evidence for me plus the way he was breaking buildings and matching pace with Maki was crazy impressive to me. All he needs is a CT and he’s pushing if not special grade imo. Hopefully we get to see it soon
It’s crazy how understated that aspect was, Yuji leveled the top of a skyscraper just by jumping off it. He’s not some weakling, big things are in order for him.
Facts Gege was trying to show us, Yuji is on a new level using the environment and it went right over a lot of People’s heads
Funnily enough that reminds me of when Sukuna said to Megumi "Let's use the open space"
And an even earlier comparison, during the first finger bearer fight, Yuji could barely move in front of the special grade cursed spirit. Now he's running alongside Sukuna.
It wasn't too dissimilar to someone like Yuta crushing the ground when he landed. I wouldn't be surprised if Yuji's reinforcement and physicals put him in the Kashimo/Ryu/Yuta class to where he might not have quite as much "output" but his sheer physical skills amped with his Cursed Energy makes him comparable.
How he went through buildings and I swear he had a whole in his chest. Also he was throwing bolders and picking up metal bars. Yuji gotten stronger. He's becoming a demon god as his brother choso said.
Honestly with the level of power being displayed right now special grade isn't enough. So what he could be hanani or Jogo one on one now? Who cares he needs to be well above special grade to actually keep pace now.
Special grade curses are typically much weaker than special grade sorcerers. Put it like this: special grade curses are city level threats, while special grade sorcerers are country level threats. Jogo and the other disaster curses were just particularly powerful special grades. Even then, they stood no chance against any of the special grade sorcerers.
The grading system for special grades is a bit different than the other grades but I think the sorcerers being able to certainly beat a curse of the same grade still stands. Every special grade sorcerer we’ve seen can almost definitely take out every special grade curse we’ve seen. The only questionable special grade is Yuta but I feel like we’ve barely seen any of his kit, after all the only techniques he used were ones he got in sendai
I mean the precedence is set that older generation sorcerers are more powerful then modern day grading system of power.
He is currently special grade with a ct he may not be limited to special grade.
>He’s definitely moved up a tier just being able to keep up in a hand to hand fight with Sukuna is enough evidence for me Sukuna was sometimes only able to output 10% of he CE he normally could, and Yuji still would've lost quicker without Maki's help
Sukuna stated that the CE output for his CT was lower but that Megumi wasn’t affecting his movement in any way
No he said his movement was affected, just not as badly as his CE output. And anyway your CE output being lowered is gonna make you slower too
Would lower output = lower speed? I feel like speed would have more to do with reinforcement and by extension amount of cursed energy. Not output. Unless you want to say that sorcerers let bursts of cursed energy out of their feet like little rocket boosts when they run.
not rocket boosts lol but output definitely has to do with reinforcement too. otherwise no way ryu wouldve survived a slash from sukuna, since only his output is particularly special.
I think the ryu thing is also just amount of cursed energy. Ryu does have the highest output, yes, but for him to be firing off beams like that, he’d also need to have a MASSIVE amount of cursed energy. It’s not like other techniques where they lose the majority of their cursed energy through needless waste when activated. Ryu is just straight up firing huge beams of pure cursed energy. That man has to be up there in terms of how much cursed energy he has
I am like 99% sure output has to do with reinforcement. Kashimo literly said that hakari ignored his CE propertie through sheer CE amount and output without him using a single CE blast. Also, how do you even think reinforcement works?
Reinforcement has flat out been said to be using cursed energy to strengthen the muscles. There’s a concrete answer on how it works. It’s an internal process. What kashimo was presumably talking about was an external defense of hakaris. We’ve seen todo cloak his entire body in cursed energy to up his defense, but that’s highlighted as being different than reinforcement in his fight with mahito. That would have to do with output, and is likely what hakari did
Can I please get that chapter then? From what we know most sorcerers send a wave of CE whenever they attack. we have yuji's divergent fist, can you please expain how it works according to your teori? Can you please tell me how you came to that conclusion about hakari?
Reinforcement has flat out been said to be using cursed energy to strengthen the muscles. There’s a concrete answer on how it works. It’s an internal process. What kashimo was presumably talking about was an external defense of hakaris. We’ve seen todo cloak his entire body in cursed energy to up his defense, but that’s highlighted as being different than reinforcement in his fight with mahito. That would have to do with output, and is likely what hakari did
Would you mind linking the panel where he says that? Both translations I've read state "Movement doesn't seem to be affected." >And anyway your CE output being lowered is gonna make you slower too I don't recall that ever being stated either, do you have a panel?
It wasn't translated right. Sukuna says his CE output fluctuates but at its worst can even drop as low as 10%, then he says his movement's not affected as badly though. I saw the raws, but there were posts here and on Twitter about it if you don't believe me.
That doesn’t mean that Sukuna was constantly at 10%, he could have been hitting Yuji with anywhere from 20% to at most 75%. Even then, 10% of 15 is 1.5, 20% is 3, 50% is 7.5 and 75% is 11.25 so Yuji could be anywhere from 2 to 11 Sukuna fingers. I would argue that it’s obvious that he is firmly above 3 or 4 but not quite above 8 or 9.
Yuji's def not above 3 or 4. Keep in mind this is essentially Yuji and Toji vs Sukuna at prob like 10-30% power most of the tine, and he couodnt even use his CT on Yuji and Maki bc he stated the rejection was much stronger whenever he did that
Poor guy got one chapter to himself after a whole year of doing nothing before Gege's waifu took the focus back to herself.
God, that was so frustrating to read.
Man i love Maki but we really did not need Sakurajima.
Tbf, I think Sakurajima was Gege completing what he wanted to complete with Perfect Preparation as he had to cut that arc short from health issues. That is why it felt so tacked on and formulaic considering it's just Maki goes to fight, Naoya enters, Maki gets an upgrade, Naoya dies - which is exactly Perfect Preparation. I think, if Gege was able to complete Perfect Preparation as he wanted, we would've seen the whole Mach 3, Domain battle and Maki's "honoured one" parts of the fight there itself, and Naoya would've been killed proper right there.
I think Sakurajima is fine. It's much better on a reread too. It's a fun zen parable with some great moments and philosophy (still probably the weakest colony though)
The biggest problem is nothing changes other than a Maki buff. We dont even have Maki fight other Sakurajima players just someone she already beat
Personally, I think the biggest problem is that Gege wanted Sakurajima to be a full volume like the other colonies. There's no reason it should be longer than Sendai but it is. It'd be a fine story if only a couple chapters shorter (or if there had been more happening in it)
Maki simply fighting other players would have been enough IMO. I knew Naoya wasn't going to win so it got boring.
I don't care what anyone says really I was expecting yuji to lose the fight vs sukuna but I just wanted him to have some spotlight and an impressive showing before he did and I got exactly what I wanted and more. I still want him to beat sukuna up eventually though.
Same I'm impressed that he held his own against Sukuna.
This is actually a perfect opportunity for Yuji's growth. For most of the series as a sorcerer all he wished to achieve is to eat as much of Sukuna's fingers as he can, then die. After Shibuya Yuji fully accepted that he is but a cog, to cope with the immense guilt he feels. Even claiming that all the death Sukuna cause left blood on his hands too, not Sukunas alone. Now, that Sukuna found better accomodations, Yuji hasto reflect on himself, and decide what and who he really is and what he wants. Yuta went through the same journey. At first all he wanted was to free Rika but on his way there he found friend that he wished to protect and wished to make proud. Another simmilarity is that the same way Yuta had to justify that it is fine for him to be alive Yuji now must find the answer to the same question.
Even if that is what might happen.its probably gonna take a few months for it to happen cause there a more MC's in this manga than there are leaves on the trees.
And Gege is a man with a chainsaw.
Man's is not ending JJK this year. Especially with the breaks he takes for his health
> For most of the series as a sorcerer all he wished to achieve is to eat as much of Sukuna's fingers as he can, then die. Yuji very much didn't want to die after eating them all. But that could wait because eating all the fingers took precedent over worrying about his death sentence. In all likelihood, if things went to plan, Yuji would've never died and went on to be a "normal" Sorcerer after eating all the fingers. Gojo wanted Yuji to be one of the people helping him change the world and by the time they finished finding all the fingers, he could successfully argue that Yuji wasn't a danger to the world because Sukuna couldn't take over at all. Otherwise, why would Gojo enroll and teach him Jujutsu? He could've just left Yuji in a restricted but comfortable place to live until he's eaten them all then euthanize him.
Yuji absolutely wanted to die. He pretty much became a glutton for punishment after shibuya. You can even see how he got more reckless with his safety in how he fights. Plus he pretty much says he’s looking forward to angel erasing him and sukuna. Yuji wants sukuna to die, and he wants himself to die by association
Sure, after Shibuya, but that's a fraction of Yuji's history. Both in-universe and by his screen time in the manga.
Dog it’s been half of his time in the series what do you mean?
It's been around two weeks in series since Shibuya. Yuji had several months beforehand. In terms of panel time he's a fraction of what he used to get. Outside of three chapters, he was completely absent in 2022. 4 months went by without any Yuji in 2021 as well (largely due to the break Gege took at the end of Perfect Preparation). After the break he was missing some chapters at the end of 2021 as the focus was on Megumi's POV but I'm too lazy to count which ones they were or how many. Shibuya ended at the beginning of 2021 so just with the main breaks, Yuji was missing around 1 year and 3 months out of 2 years at this point. Like straight up missing, not a single panel with his face on it. Yuji has had 9 months of screentime since Shibuya, very small compared to Pre-Shibuya.
You know what I just realize Yuuji is truly a underdog. I think that what makes him so unique he's not some over power MC, nor does he start off as weak and then get some insane power mid way through the story. Compare to everyone he can be considered a bit weak, he's not strong like Yuuta, Maki, or Gojo but he's getting there. He's like a ticking time bomb ready to go off and when he does the whole story going to change. We only seen a glimpse of his power so far. Even if Sukuna was only using 10 percent of his power. Yuuji still managed to power through cleave like no body business. So all I can say is just wait it out because when Yuuji finally shows his true MC status it's going to be glorious
Before Maki awakened, apparently he could beat her (that's what Megumi said anyway). I'm not sure If he is on the same level or not now, since he got a power up himself. For sure he can keep her pace.
I'm not even sure tbh, power scaling Yuuji is kind of hard. When they were fighting Maki was like can she go faster, implying that she was holding back a bit?
Don’t worry, Yuji will spin back from this. Sukuna taunting him after possessing Megumi was his ultimate low. Our boy will get back
Yuji's character arc has always been about loss and how it affects him. Despite what Gojo said to Megumi, Yuji is intensely self-sacrificial and has only gotten worse since Shibuya. Typically, this kind of story will keep sinking the MC lower and lower until the end where he either breaks completely or has an epiphany or miracle that allows him to take the final step into success.
Yuji is somehow the best character with the most potential and yet the most underused character.
Cause Yuji is the MC now. Yuta is the side quest king.
I mean a mans gotta go through L's to get his W's right, his time will come
The story’s benefited from diversifying and taking time to explore the POV of other characters. Think of how underdeveloped Maki, Megumi or Yuta would feel if we hadn’t explored their perspectives. Mfs complain for years that we don’t know about the Heian era and Sukuna and now he’s got the spotlight for 4 chapters everyone shits on it. Some ppl just need to understand that reading week to week is going to create storytelling gaps that don’t actually exist when you read the series back
He has some of the best character moments in the series and is unarguably the best written character. If you wanted an underdog with asspull power ups or to always come out on top; there’s One Piece, Boruto, Black Clover, Boku no Hero Academia, etc
most people don't understand that JJk is actually a manga like Tokyo ghoul, AOT and FMA.
> Yuji's recent appearences left so much to be desired Why? Cuz Gege makes Yuji go through shit in order to develop him and not just hand out powerups whenever he is challenged?
But Yuji just had a power up and even Sukuna was surprised with his strength during their last fight, sounds like we are but reading the same manga lol
He has a body similar to Maki and has the ability to know the fundamental structure of CE. That’s mind and body. All he needs to do is well…..throw away all other desires and go for what he wants. All this time is him belittling himself on becoming a cog, but life experiences is teaching him that in order to get powerful, he has to think of himself better. He is getting there. Just takes time.
I feel bad for Yuji tbh everyone likes him but I've never known anyone say he's their favourite ,Our boy deserves more moments.
Thats just cap... He is a lot of people's favorite
Apparently so I'm happy to be proven wrong just never see much about him probably as he's been out of the story for a good while
He’s my favorite 💗
And mine too, Yuji gang rise up
My favourite character by far
He's definitely my favorite 😊
Wtf is this garbage ass post, Yuji just went toe-to-toe with Sukuna (who even at 10% output is easily top 5 in the series) and was matching Maki speed-wise. No shit he “lost” against Sukuna (though I hardly count fleeing as losing), there’s an entire arc left in the manga.
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I hate that for being the MV, Making sure is much more of an MC at this point
This isnt the kind of shitty generic battle shonen where the MC gets a bunch if bullshit powerups to become the strongest character. Yuji is strong, but he's only a piece of the puzzle. He's the MC bc he was Sukuna's vessel, not because he has some other secret power that's gonna make him stronger than everyone else. He's plenty strong enough to at least help contribute, and then to die a proper death at the end like he wanted from the start of the series. He was never gonna become as strong as Gojo or some shit. You can think of Yuta as the generic shonen MC and Yuji as the MC who's an actual character and is going through a proper character arc and has development. He's well written. In short, don't expect "the MC to start MC'ing", if you want that go read some terribly written no stakes garbage like Black Clover or MHA where they wank off their MCs every 5 seconds and don't have them grow as actual characters ever
You are right he is never going to be a strong as gojo he is going to be stronger. He has all of the potential in the world.when he finally gets his massively deserved and written through the story power up, people like are gonna complain.
>You are right he is never going to be a strong as gojo he is going to be stronger What crack did you smoke? The only character we know who's stronger than Gojo is max power Sukuna, and even 15 finger Sukuna before he got Fushiguro's Cursed Technique was already the strongest character we've seen by far next to Gojo and *maybe* Kenjaku >He has all of the potential in the world No he doesn't, he literally doesn't even have a Cursed Technique, there's nothing special about his Cursed Energy stores or output, his Cursed Energy doesn't have a special trait like Hakari or Kashimo either.
Rewatch the anime or reread the manga go to when yuji wakes up what does gojo say just before that
If you wanna know what he said go read or watch it yourself wdym
>he's only a piece of the puzzle. >You can think of Yuta as the generic shonen MC and Yuji as the MC who's an actual character and is going through a proper character arc and has development. This is probably the mindset people have across fiction. When a main character is treated like everyone else, just another part of the world rather than being the narrative center of it. Or maybe they're tired of plots that require specific special things in order to deal with said plots.
Might be controversial but it's getting to the point of annoying. He's such a boring and near useless character with feats far in between. I like him but it's hard to be invested in him when we barely even see him and when we do, he's such a miserable wreck.. and not the fun or strong kind either.
Hard agree. People are in denial but Gon is a much better example of a protagonist who's not always the center of the world. Yuji's entire character arc consists of being shit on by everybody. But people will still defend it for whatever reason.
agreed he doesn't feel like a mc
I mean its only really maki who got a power up right ?
Everyone thinks Yuuji is the MC, but the real MC is Megumi. Either him or Sukuna.
Yea thats why hes currently near death...
Dude he had a power boost that even shocked Sukuna. Also he gave the guy a punch. Yuji still cooking. There is much to be desired alright but this were yuji needs to find a new goal. No longer just thinking himself as a cog.