Current chapter is Chapter 260
This will be filled with spoilers for Jujutsu Kaisen. If you really don't wanna know any of this. Simply leave that's it move on. I also wanna say I did expect a much better final battle than this. I'm already going into this quite disappointed. Chainsaw Man Chapter 165 was more entertaining to me than this. Honestly if you choose to read this, maybe some of this you might agree with.
Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, Jujutsu Kaisen does have some crazy fights. Especially for the Dark Trio, this final battle against Sukuna is a rather mixed one for me. Indirectly it's technically better than Bleach's final battle against Yhwach. In terms of almost everyone fighting to take down Sukuna for good. Kinda like in Fullmetal Alchemist, almost everyone took on Father.
This might not come as a surprise, Yuji stayed in this insane fight the longest. It took a long time for Sukuna to finally started to show Yuji respect. Personally I preferred how Katakuri done the same towards Luffy in One Piece. He even went out of his way despite both being pirates to stab himself with his own spear for fairness.
By now many people likely comparing this particular fight to Madara Uchiha taking a similar stand. We also could compare that to Aizen late into the Arrancar Arc against a lot of characters. In all cases, we got someone very experienced, overly prepared and scary strong. All of that screams repetitive writing in a nut shell.
This is the biggest scale fight to date within Jujutsu Kaisen. It almost came off the heels of Gojo vs Sukuna. Despite the controversial ending, it was a surprisingly decent fight. One of the last truly well written fights in the series. Sadly how the author chosen to end that fight actually one of the worst endings to a fight yet.
All of a sudden, such a great fight got ruined instantly through this rushed conclusion to this. As of Chapter 260, I can directly talk about this. Gojo is back to finish what he started with Sukuna. I really don't think it's Kenjaku because Yuta went out of his way to make sure he's dead. Even if it were Kenjaku, I don't think his betrayal would go far here.
Kenjaku virtually the Shang Tsung of Jujutsu Kaisen. Constantly both swap to a degree gaining what essentially are those people into themselves, I say that's right on the money. Even a few characters you aren't expecting did show up like Miguel. Even bringing Jujutsu Kaisen 0 into this, he barely shows up within the story.
I had a gut feeling Todo would eventually show up. He does from Chapter 259 following Choso's death. I came to like Choso, I did feel bad for how his story ends. But he did go out the way he wanted to in the event he died. I guess it wasn't all bad I suppose. Maki being more like Toji tried putting up a fight against Sukuna.
Right now, a lot of characters' fate is up to debate. Mostly because Todo's technique funny enough. You can tell that famous clap on, clap off, the clapper commercial was an inspiration. Although the newest variation of it made such a technique borderline ridiculous. Not only his range notably gotten increased. He no longer needs to clap his hands for it to work.
Instead he has a device that greatly accelerates the entire process. We are talking swapping with anything marked 50 per second. This means the swapping occurring so fast, no one possibly can keep up with it. Not to mention, it could easily change on the fly without warning. Considering Yuji previously teamed up with Yuji against Mahito.
Now having Gojo teaming up with them, Sukuna really in for one hell of a fight. There's other famous moments I didn't like very much. Like Higuruma through Yuji's suppose strategy to kill Sukuna. The lawyer activates his Domain Expansion one more time. The plan was to give Sukuna guilty in order to carry out the death sentence.
In this case being a sword exclusively designed to instantly kill someone given that sentence. The easiest kill method they had available. However the questionable writing ruined this. It took me a long time to figure this bad twist out. Simply because Sukuna was carrying an cursed object recently given to him.
The death sentence Judgeman given actually went towards that object instead of Sukuna. Keep in mind, this was still early in the fight. Even Yuta, another special grade sorcerer had trouble with him. This guy can copy other people's techniques. He's accompanied by a special grade cursed spirit named Rika. This itself is partly from questionable writing.
Once again I have to bring Jujutsu Kaisen 0 into this. A huge spoiler for anyone that didn't read the short manga series or seen the anime movie. Yuta frees Rika's spirit during the conclusion of that story. Which occurred after Gojo eliminated Geto. It isn't made clear how parts of Rika's still with Yuta. Special grade beings were stated to wipe out nations in canon by Kenjaku.
I should point out a fight happening away was going on during all of this. Thankfully that remained as one on one fight with little shown. The entire point of this raid was in the event Gojo loss his fight. Everyone would work together to take him down. A possibility they heavily considered. I do mean heavily considered, Yuji took advantage being separated from Sukuna.
Right now, Sukuna possessing the body of Megumi. Yuji's plan before finishing Sukuna off is to free Megumi. The big issue is everything Sukuna done to break his spirit limits that possibility. Currently Megumi gave up allowing Sukuna as much control over his body as he wants. I bet Megumi fans are beyond piss right now.
This is exactly why Yuji kept giving Sukuna Black Flash. Black Flash directly targets the soul, in this case to weaken Sukuna's hold over Megumi's soul. This is starting to become his Getsuga Tensho. Oh come on you knew at some time I had to reference Bleach. Both these attacks has black aura. Yuji is essentially Ichigo with slight changes.
Sukuna in a flash back reveals his weird spiritual relationship to Yuji. Yeah check out this JoJo's Bizarre Adventure style family relation. In the spiritual wound, Sukuna devoured his twin brother. Then his twin brother eventually got reincarnated as Yuji's dad. But wait there's more no joke, Kenjaku strangely also has an unexpected family connection to him as well.
He possessed the body of Yuji's mother. Just when you think that would be the end of that weirdness nope. It also turns out Kenjaku in another body was the father of Cursed Womb: Death Paintings. What exactly are these right? Basically hybrid of humans and cursed spirits. You know like in Bleach we had both the Visored and the Arrancars respectively.
Which would make Yuji brother to all of them, nine to be exact. Believe it or not, that gets even weirder. Yuji agreed to devoured the remaining ones. Keep in mind, two of them previously got killed off. He devoured six of them to help better his chances. I am not sure if that's playing off the twin potential twist or not.
Maki with her twin sister, Mai had their potential limited because they share the same soul wavelength. To sum it up, it's two similar people with one potential. In order for one of them to increase their potential notably, sadly a twin must die. I personally dislike this twist with a passion myself. What a horrible way to ruin things.
The original backup plan concept was Sukuna meant to be weakened enough to kill him off. No body was expecting him to still have that much cursed energy left. Also Sukuna didn't eat his last finger. Somehow he was able to regain his full form. Another sign of repetitive writing. Sukuna's Domain Expansion changed but currently incomplete with a time limit.
This particular Domain Expansion had a very high kill radius. Of course, we got to talk about all these bending vows. Sukuna took a lot of short cuts within techniques by doing bending vows. They allow him to use techniques more easily with notable restrictions. I am just glad he isn't on The Price of Right show lol.
Obviously, there's a lot of people losing this fight. So much destruction for a final battle it's somewhat satisfying. I don't have a lot of positives regarding this particular fight though. What would further ruin it for me is if Sukuna activates the merger. A plan he didn't show much interest in prior. His only real interest with it is facing off with the merged being that's it.
This is Kenjaku's plan involving Tengen as well as a lot of people forced into a merger. This also would greatly increase the rate of cursed spirit creations too. Basically full blown chaos awaiting whose left if Sukuna chosen to activate the merger. From the beginning, the sorcerers wanted to put an end to Sukuna for good.
Therefore activating this merger making that being the final antagonist of the story ruins it all. I already had more respect for Rien, the main antagonist of Hell's Paradise. Even Makima from Chainsaw Man Part 1 earned more respect from me. A good number of the chapters plays out like this. Someone joins in the fight, quickly Sukuna takes em out.
Yeah get used to that as you're reading the manga that late into it. I already wanna give up reading this story. But I made a vow with myself like I previously done with the Big 3. Although when I done that, I actually wasn't aware of that trio name existing for a couple years true story. Here, I knew right away I would do this with the Dark Trio.
Therefore, I must finish reading the manga series within that trio regardless how bad they get. I will confess for the next Bleach, Jujutsu Kaisen ended up disappointing me. Half the story was decent enough. The way it's currently falling, I thought Bleach had it rough. At least, the final story arc there had some rather interesting stuff going on.
This final battle feels like an eternity. I really can't wait for the day Sukuna finally falls. Sukuna used to be a decent villain too. I still like him more than Yhwach. Then again, there's not many manga characters I dislike more than him. Jujutsu Kaisen is trying so hard to be good. The actual writing with parts of the art work notably suffering.
Now it's difficult to imagine how the next few chapters possibly going to. Not only we have someone constantly swapping everything very often. We also have Gojo that has Limitless. Which by itself is a truly broken power to go up against. Plus Yuji having the potential to surpass Sukuna. It's only a matter of time before he falls.
There's no way Sukuna can keep up with all of that by himself. Even if the ice chick showed up to help. I highly doubt she would do much to help things either. This also could bring the broken casino guy into the fight too. From all of his fights, his powers virtually rigged fights. Therefore adding him into that makes it impossible for Sukuna to win.
This is assuming that possibility happens. Which it might or simply won't it's up to the author. Personally, I don't think they even need his help to win against Sukuna. I still have one other character to bring up despite their status for whatever reason still unknown. Nobara previously took a vicious blow to the head by Mahito.
They never confirmed if she's dead or it was possible to revive her. Assuming the possibility she might make a surprise return to further prevent Sukuna from winning. She can use nails on anything that belongs to her enemies like a voodoo concept. Obviously, Nobara can constantly stun up Sukuna. Further preventing him from doing anything.
Assuming five of these characters faces Sukuna. I don't see a possible way for Sukuna to win this. Up till Todo showed up, things were constantly looking grim. Following the long tread of the main protagonist never giving up. Especially when things gotten as bad as they had. Very recently, I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
There's a few possible characters that could return as well. Even Todo stated he isn't aware how effective the range of his technique to rescue a lot of sorcerers would be. I don't think the author going to give us an definition answer on that. The fact Gojo surprisingly came back already marks the end for Sukuna.
I still prefer if the author would've waited on having Gojo taking on Sukuna. This alone just made Gojo's death moment pointless. Not only that, the story itself already gotten too repetitive. I'm struggling to wanna keep reading this honestly. Also even if Sukuna activates the merger. Yuji might be the only one well enough despite how long in this fight he's been in to take that thing down.
We already figured out Yuji going to be the one to defeat Sukuna for good. I just wish this final battle didn't take so long. Even when Hell's Paradise had fights so close together in later portions of the story. The story itself remained interesting to the point you don't feel the repetitive nature of it. To me, it's becoming more obvious the author wants to stop writing Jujutsu Kaisen.
Not to mention, a lot of characters were involved with this fight. Quickly you became to loss track of who actually fought Sukuna there. A good amount of them didn't last long. Some lasted a little longer than expected. No body was expecting Yuji to still remain standing despite the punishment he endured. I should mention another weird twist.
Ui Ui, the little brother of Mei Mei look I didn't come up with these names. It got revealed not only he can teleport anything he's marked. He also can swap people's souls but in a way you have to find out what you gain. This was done to help better some of their chances against Sukuna. Yuji agreed to a lot of additional stuff with most of it being well bizarre.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure theme plays
On a more serious note, the actual dragging things out like this isn't doing it for me. If the final battle was notably fewer chapters. Maybe I could find some possible enjoyment in it. This all felt like a massive rush with everything considered. Even the joke fight that actually gotten me to laugh a few times was better.
You know such an important battle being bad when a joke fight ends up being more entertaining. This has to be among the longest fights in Shonen history. I am kinda curious to know what the actual longest Shonen fight ever done is. I'm sure that fight done way better than this. I'll even give Case Closed aka Detective Conan credit for such great story telling.
Despite the more kid friendly stories turns me off. Look I know it's a huge franchise in Japan. I have no real problem with it. Those stories are the only thing I don't like about it. Otherwise, it's one of the best stories ever written. A different style Shonen story deserves more praise than JJK. I guess I should also give praise to Death Note, another vastly different Shonen story that's way better than JJK too.
I will be honest originally I didn't plan on writing this. However doing so before the story ends. All of this won't be in the final review blog. Thus saving you time while reading it. I figured let's get what I can off my chest about it. I am deeply disappointed how the author choosing to end his story. I would be happy for the day it finally ends.
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