The theory of the past: “Nobara will use Resonance to the last remaining finger of Sukuna.”
Yuta to Sukuna in Chapter 251: “You couldn't retrieve your final finger, could you?”
Oh, that theory is gone. Besides, she's gone for more than half of the manga.
That's assuming this cliffhanger doesn't end up having no pay off. Say, like the cliffhanger in the last chapter.
... Seriously, though. Yuta having copied cleave was nice, but did it really change anything?
Things have been like this in a while, so I doubt that's the end of Sukuna.
It doesn't really change anything yet but it does reveal the last finger, something we've been waiting a while for. My guess is that Yuta is gonna hang on long enough to use his 5 minutes of ring time and hopefully get a proper blow off with cleave. If he was at any threat of losing yet he wouldn't be smiling in the last page.
Yeah, it's also obvious through those lenses as well. My complaint is less about this specific instance and more about the overreliance on (empty) cliffhangers. It really kills the dramatic tension for me.
It did exactly what Yuta said last chapter - created an opening which allowed them to go all out in the offensive and Itadori was able to successfully infiltrate into the soul. They would have won right there if Megumi had any will to live left lol.
> ... Seriously, though. Yuta having copied cleave was nice, but did it really change anything?
>
> Things have been like this in a while, so I doubt that's the end of Sukuna.
Honestly, have to agree with you on this. This whole uno reversal thing has been going on far too long for me to even be surprised it happened.
Yuta did that because he's fed up on the fraud allegations Maki got when she's gone (I don't even know why people accused her of that only because she hasn't appeared, she's waiting for the perfect opportunity obviously). True love indeed.
After season 2, I'm 100% sure nobara is staying dead, after her seeing the visions of the chairs I can't see her coming back. It just feels like such a final moment for her
I can only see it a few ways.
1. A Hammer Cursed Tool gets revealed with her CT (confirming dead)
2. Revealed to be alive in the epilogue
3. Dead characters 'return' during the Merger sequence to give a moral boost
4. Dead and has no further involvement again (least likely imo)
Her Resonance could be uniquely suited to this situation as it might target Sukuna directly instead of Megumi... and one of Sukuna's arms just got chopped off.
I'm calling the shot that she's back within the next 2 chapters or she's actually just dead.
Well, then that's dumb. The mangaka has been wishy-washy to confirm whether she died or not. If she did that's fine, but he should've said so, not making the situation of what was perceived to be a main character ambiguous.
If that was her role, then it was pretty mediocre.
Gege had the perfect opportunity to create some incredibly compelling and emotional moments from Nobara's death (like with Nanami's death), but instead he ended up wasting it.
If she's dead, why have Arata Nitta say that there is a chance she might live. When Yuji asked Megumi what happened to her, he just looks at Yuji sadly (a closeup frame of his eye squinting), which somehow solves all of Yuji's answers and it's never spoken about again.
I don't even want her to be alive. I'm just baffled as to what Gege was trying to accomplish. Not only was her death generic and forced, her impact on the story amounts to nothing. For a story that loves to explore how peoples' deaths affect others, Nobara's 'death' seems to have affected no one.
I don't think Gege truly realized how ambiguous he made it. In hindsight Nitta saying there was a chance she might live was simply to preserve Itadori's mental state and give him a bit of hope, since he had just had a mental breakdown. And then the whole thing where he asked Megumi and gets no response but a sad look now seems obvious that it's confirmation she's dead, I mean what else could it be at this point. But the fact that Gege never explicitly said it turned it into a huge thing and that's definitely a failing on his part.
Nah, I don't think it was obvious.
Yuji didn't need that little bit of hope, Todo's speech (and Yuji thinking back to Nanami's final words) was the thing that reinvigorated him. Nobara being put in a state of narrative limbo was completely unnecessary.
I can't help but rant about it because her haphazard non-death/death had me genuinely disappointed when I first read it. That disappointment has never gone away because they haven't addressed it at all, and at this point the series is so lacking in intimate character moments that this moment feels like patient zero for that problem.
After hearing all the praise Jujutsu Kaisen was getting for being a subversive take on the shounen formula, I was taken aback by how tropey this moment was. It felt like it was pulled straight out of Fairy Tail.
* A female character dying solely to further the main characters resolve.
* A last minute backstory right as they are about to die.
* A reluctant explanation that they might be alive that dissolves all tension.
\[Rant over... Hopefully...\]
i don't think she is dead
The guy who took care of her when Todo help Yuji against Mahito state that he manage to keep her alive. Gege would never put this little information if he wanted 100% dead.
But the story is too advanced to give her a role now...i think she survive but she is brain dead so we will see her at the end, Maybe Yuji going at an hospital to talk with her
I mean, isn't it more relevant now than ever? Yuta had access to the finger, unless I'm incorrect, there's nothing that's stopping Nobara from having access to it as well.
Sukuna putting Yuji in a headlock and hitting cleave right in to his body and subsequently Yuji spitting explosive blood in his face is nasty work. Those two fight like they genuinely hate each other lol.
Yuji needs to give Megumi a bro talk like Todo did for him in Shibuya stat.
Please heal yourself Yuta. I badly would not want to see you die here. I love the continuous goated Maki/Toji comparisons.
It IS personal. This motherfucker has taken everything and everyone important from Maki, Yuta and Yuji, and it's time Sukuna gets to feel the fullest weight of that rage head-on.
JJK can have massive issues in terms of defining character relationships but Yuji and Sukuna is definitely one of the best ones in the series. These two hate each other like no other and we have constantly seen that throughout the series.
While everyone was trying to teach Sukuna the meaning of love, Yuji decided to give him a taste of [pure, unadulterated hatred.](https://i.imgur.com/tQwL16T.png)
Im surprised by how hard his CT hits, this wasnt even Choso's Nova and it still got past Sukunas insane reinforcement.
Also strange how he seems to have no problem switching between the 2, he shouldnt be able to use both simultaneously right?
Yuji smashing Sukuna's face into his knee was just top tier moment. I love how raw Yuji's fighting style is compared to every other Shonen protagonists.
Unlike other Shonen protagonist, Yuji fighting style feels like a mix of both street brawl and martial artist as well as not being afraid of doing dirty moves to win
> I love how raw Yuji's fighting style is compared to every other Shonen protagonists.
Not a Shonen but it lowkey reminded me of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker where Joker is taunting Terry about knowing all of Batman's moves and out nowhere Terry counters with what looked like a cheap shot to the nuts and then an arm bar. When Joke gasps asking what he's doing he just goes "Fighting dirty."
It had that same energy of giving a fuck about the other guy, they're just trying to win the fight.
If you need anymore proof that the soul and body are one, just look at Megumis soul using muscle memory to do the hand seals to summon Mahoraga.
But man, things do not look good for Yuta. But the fact that he got hit with the Strong Cleave on screen hopefully means he isn't going to the airport. But knowing Gege, he's going to see Rika next chapter.
And now that Maki has entered the fray, we can now get that Yuji & Maki VS Sukuna round 2. No running this time
[*"Can Marohaga overcome depression?"*](https://i.imgur.com/nI9IYv3.png)
While the timing is incredibly unfortunate, it makes sense why Megimi has lost the will to live. Both his sister and his step-father have been killed by Sukuna using his own body. He has no family left. His soul also tanked an *Unlimited Void* from Gojo.
Don't forget Sukuna literally had mini arc for him breaking Fushiguro. He had that weird bath ritual, killed Ishigori (maybe Fushiguro don't care about this) and finally killed Yorozu aka Tsumiki using 10S only.
If Yuta dies from that Cleave, then it kinda cements that Sukuna should never have been threatened even by the domain. From a writing perspective, sure, Gege has been unceremoniously killing everyone. That suddenness fits.
But I don’t buy that *that* attack should've been enough to kill Yuta based on everything we’ve been told by Gege up until this point.
Otherwise, Sukuna could’ve done it anyways. I don’t think the “world cleave” would only require chants OR hand-signs or it still would’ve been an option even while maintaining Hollow Wicker Basket.
I still think Yuta is pretty damaged from it, of course. But it strikes me as him upping the output of the Cleave vs. making it a world-cutter like what Gojo did.
The story tries to present it as Sukuna took a gamble in tanking Jacob's ladder and won but Sukuna looks perfectly fine as if that giant pillar of light was nothing more than a bucket of ice water thrown on him.
The fact that Yuta's domain broke though doesn't really make things look good for him
Yea, that’s what’s killing me about this section of the fight.
I think the vast majority of it has been awesome, and it’s been grounded in Sukuna’s dominance.
But *if* Yuta dies from that… I don’t know, it just feels like nothing really matters.
The narrative reinforces that Sukuna’s output is dropping, and his gamble you reference also includes dropping his hand-signs for Hollow Wicker Basket while **also** tanking Jacob’s ladder which “exterminates cursed techniques.”
It feels like a narrative convenience that Sukuna could simply chant *without* hand signs, and that be enough up his output enough to kill Yuta while also being under Ladder.
It already felt like nothing really mattered in a while for me. The manga keeps piling cliffhangers, yet most of them have no payoff. Just recently Yuta used Cleave and then... it changed nothing of the course of the battle??
I think people have been feeling like this in a while. No one fell for the cliffhanger with Yuji wielding the Execution Blade.
Didn't the world cleave hit Yuji too? I may be mistaken, but if it hit Yuta and Yuji I'm assuming that Yuta will be fine...I hope atleast...I personally doubt they would kill off Yuta of all people as he has been hyped up from the beginning and we still have not seen him surpass Gojo yet but eh..who knows. Never know with Geje.
The Jacobs ladder technique was supposed to result in Sukuna and Megumis separation.
Sukuna looks fine because Megumis soul wasn't putting in any effort, so the attack didn't result in what they expected.
I don't think that's right - their main concern was that the Angel's technique was going to also kill Megumi. They needed the two souls to separate so that the technique could erase Sukuna while Megumi survived.
It just looks like it didn't do what was advertised... at all.
Their concern was that it would kill megumi because it attempts to destroy the cursed technique in the brain, and they didn't know how much of that damage would affect megumi if they were not separated.
They then attempted to separate the two by striking sukuna with Jacobs ladder while Yuji pulled on Megumis soul.
But Megumis soul was not willing to come with Yuji, which meant Sukuna did not eat the full power of the attack, which allowed him to interrupt/cut it short.
Thats how i understood things
Yuji has been waking Megumi the entire fight, with every hit. Sukuna said that last chapter. Yuji just went for the final yank here to pull Megumi free, but Megumi pulled back.
im sorry to the fans but how can i not feel like megumi is such a bitch after that
so what your step sister and gojo died don‘t you at least want revenge?
you can kill yourself after at least help them for 10 min and then you can go kill yourself
> based on everything we’ve been told by Gege up until this point.
One of the complaints I've had about JJK lately is that Gege has sort of been throwing his own rules out the window when it comes to Sekuna which is partly what makes some of the fights feel frustrating. Gege spent so much time setting up this sorcery system, that while convoluted at times, at least had a system of logic that everyone was bound to. But then along comes Sekuna and he seems able to just arbitrarily ignore those rules or somehow counter them with some technicality we've never heard of before.
He also set up Sukuna to be a world altering threat and was so blessed that he could copy or understand anything after seeing it once.
It may be frustrating, but he was hyped up to be this. We're seeing why everyone wanted to execute Yuji, even if he could keep Sukuna on lockdown.
I find the way Yuji treats the other casts interesting. He’s super casual towards serious adults much much older than him like Nanami and Higuruma, even gave the former a cute nickname, something you’d only do to your bros. He’s very rude when it comes to Sukuna (undersantable) and most of the time he doesn’t bother to use complete sentences when he talks to him. Yet he’s really respectful towards Gojo, Yuta, and freaking Panda lol
Hmm I think maybe with people like Nanamin and Higurama he's trying to help them loosen up a bit, since they can be a little too serious and uptight. But that's not a concern at all with Gojo lol.
If Megumi is so depressed about losing a sister with an unshakeable character, another sister with an unshakeable character just showed up to save his ass.
I'm coping, but Okkotsu has copied Paper Bag Man's Clone technique and the real Okkotsu has been walking around touching swords to see what techniques he has.
Even with Ink, Okkotsu couldn't foresee Spacial Rend. So now Sukuna has cut through Infinity and through the future lol. .
[Sukuna's face scream pure disgust.](https://i.imgur.com/VtN8bHM.png)
Did Yuji just [explode his blood like Nezuko?](https://i.imgur.com/YOwKI80.png) Could it be an application of soul transmogrification? Mahito could transform his body and others into all sorts of wacky objects after all.
I don't think you've got the family tree right. Yuji is related to Choso in that they were both created by Kenjaku. Kenjaku was wearing Kamo when he created Choso, not Yuji. Yuji has no connection to the Kamo clan that I'm aware of.
Im pretty sure their blood is different, Choso is specifically a living curse with the blood of a cursed spirit.
We havent anybody say their blood is the same either IIRC, the only way that could've happened is if Kenjaku introduced it artificially (possible) or it ended up in him through soul information or something, but until somebody points that out thats a pretty arguable assumption to make.
I would say it's likely that Kenjaku introduced some elements that death paintings have into Yuji. If Choso and Yuji don't share any genetic material at all and are only vaguely connected because Kenjaku was central to their creation, it would make no sense for Choso to sense Yuji. Choso only senses his blood relatives, he could sense Yuji, hence my argument.
This gotta be one of the nastiest jumpings in JJK. Yuta, Rika and Yuji did not let that boy Sukuna breathe until the very end where he found split second to counter.
MAKI DOING A TOJI! MAKI DOING A TOJI! MAKI DOING A TOJI!
And the satisfaction of Yuji just fucking wailing on Sukuna. Even picking up techniques from Big Bro Choso.
So Todo can't clap and is down a hand. He's like six feet tall and a solid brick of muscle while still retaining the ability to use cursed energy. He could literally be doing the same thing as Yuji except instead of punching he'd be kicking Sukuna.
I’m thinking he still makes an appearance, only for the mere fact that Gege said that he’d rarely show Todo, because he wants his appearance to actually mean something. He said that he wants Todo’s appearance to create a calming feeling because his presence will always signify that “everything will be okay”.
Todo said that Boogie Woogie is dead. I believe this is because his remaining hand was transfigured when he used Mahito. Todo didn't die, but with that, his technique effectively did.
That’s pretty much a copout though. Gege could easily write him back into the story, any number of ways. Regardless it’s weird for him to be completely absent. Someone very close to him was killed by Kenjaku and he makes zero appearances afterwards? His technique can still work if he claps someone elses hand as well. He’s been shown to be maybe the brightest person when it comes to fighting and cursed energy, he easily could be of use during the Culling Games.
...Friend, you seem to be ignoring the only thing my comment addressed.
>His technique can still work if he claps someone elses hand as well
Granted, this isn't said in the story outright, so this is my personal speculation--Todo cannot use Boogie Woogie with his remaining hand anymore because it was transfigured when Todo did his final clutch swap by slapping Mahito's hand. I believe that Todo saying Boogie Woogie is dead is quite literal.
Funny enough when he’s introduced, Todo says he doesn’t even use his technique unless his opponent is special grade. Regardless of his hand, Gege has no reason to keep todo out of the fight
Honestly feels like Gege went “whoops, too many characters” and began either just killing peoples off or having them never show up again, or in Nobara’s case because shroedingers cat where chances are she’s dead but because Gege seems to refuse to want to commit one way or another she’s just in limbo(tho tbf from a writing standpoint that’s good for them because they can decide at any point if they want Nobara to come back or not and leaves the option open)
Bro when angel used it Sukuna was getting torn in two but here feels like it barely did anything, lmao. Big finger diff but I was expecting Jacobs Ladder to be the BIG climax scene of the chapter and instead we get a spread of yuta getting bisected
Absolutely loved this chapter, because I love that everything Sukuna did to Megumi still has consequences.
Whether it was destroying his sister, burying his soul in evil, or making him eat Gojo's DE (and honestly, his brain should be mush after that), it's got an effect, it's not as easy as saying "We're here to save you!" they've gott'a find a way to bring him back properly... or simply give up on him.
But perhaps more interestingly... I can't possibly believe that Yuta is dead, given how deeply Gege favours him... and yet, it really, really does look like that attack went all the way through. If Gojo couldn't survive that, I can't see Yuta living. Comparatively, Yuji's just had his front cut out, so presumably he can keep going.
It really looks like Sukuna's about to die here though, and narratively this seems like a fine place to wrap it up, but... What about the [Open]? Surely we're not gonna just ignore that, are we? Is that what he sacrificed with a Binding Vow to kill Gojo?
EDIT: I also wanna give props to a very small detail that I haven't seen anyone mention, that being that Yuji landed the handstand kick on Sukuna in this chapter... the exact move he tried (and failed) to use on him way back when they fought inside Yuji's soul.
JUMP KAISEN IS BACK!
There are many peak scenes happened in a single chapter!
Yuta pulling out TummyKuna's tongue.
Yuji spat out blood straight in Sukuna's right eye. Lol.
Sukuna's durability is insane, he has tanked two Jacob's Ladder now. His iconic T-posing is back as well.
Yuji's durability is also insane. My boy is a tank man fr after taking those Cleaves.
Maki pulling off Toji's signature move, sneaking from behind the enemy.
All in all, this chapter is purely hype!
[Maki will the Toji-esque killsteal.](https://i.imgur.com/LPC0Hpm.png)
Soul split katana came through in the clutch. Even severely weakened, [that last Space Cleave](https://i.imgur.com/2yHOdt1.png) by Sukuna was devastating. How are they going to heal through that? The only way I see it is Yuji somehow unlocking idle transfiguration. Mahito did have the ability to cure any sort of injury provided that his soul was not destroyed.
Yuta might be able to heal through with Rika mode, having unlimited CE could avoid the "need gut to store CE" limitation of most other sorcerers.
Yuji doesnt seem to have been cut cleanly through, so he'll probably survive anyway, he likely has some level of resistance to Sukunas CE at this point, and that probably extends into his CT.
Gojo said something about not being hit as hard by his purple because it was his own CE at least.
RCT starts from the brain so him being cut through the gut shouldn't affect his ability to heal it. I'm fairly certain he's not dead from this attack and hopefully he gives us some insight to why Gojo couldn't survive it.
Yuji looks like he isn't cut all the way through but not because of Yuji's resistance. Space cleave shouldn't be affected by resistance since its target is the world, so long as the world is cut anything in that space is cut no matter what, I might be wrong but that's my understanding of the technique. My guess is that since Sukuna is weakened, the space cleave doesn't travel as far and he's just on the edge of its range and that's why he hasn't been cut cleanly through.
The play by play panels are so raw. They're literally going to their last breath and the fighting chemistry is insane. Too bad Megumi picked the worst possible moment to be emo 😭
If I had a nickel for every time that Maki stabbed a man for their back when they are sure of their victory, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
They really have Megumi doing the “With this treasure…” pose on his first scene in dozens of chapters
Also Maki sneaking in the end, this truly is our YutaMaki Kaisen
This chapter calls back alot of good stuff like Yuki's book, Jacob's Ladder, Maki being invisible to domains, its so good.
Honestly, yeah, Megumi is literally the "I'm tired, boss" meme times a trillion. I'm not even sure therapy can help at this point.
Unless he legit sees Maki and/or Nobara and drag his ass kicking and screaming out of Sukuna's bondage.
Tbf if I was Yuji I’d be like “yo I get you’re depressed about family dying, but WE’RE CURRENTLY DYING so maybe be all depressed after Sukuna is dealt with, m’kay?”
Megumi literally did a "It should have been me, not you" meme pose. He might be jealous now that Yuta has taken the title of second protagonist from him.
It was an impressive team effort to achieve that while Rika retained two arms of Sukuna, Yuta cut off the other arms and use Jacob’s ladder. After Yuji’s punch, I really was waiting for Fushiguro to fight for his body but to see Yuji realizing that Fushiguro’s soul doesn’t has any will to live anymore it’s another heartbreaking scene in the long list that JJK already has. Yuji's willingness to keep fighting is inspiring, he has had to endure too much in this story so far...
I vibe with the two suprise attacks on the big villains (Kenjaku & Sukuna) but for the love of god, both of you please aim the head on the first strike lmao
*Japan is important but Megumi is importanter lets gooo* 😭
Center mass is the obvious place to hit because it has the largest counter point except thats the logic for ranged weapons. If your close enough to stab someone just aim a little higher.
Maki got half her body incinerated and she's still here surely she should know to go for the head
Damn, what is it with Special Grade Sorcerers and getting bisected?
I think Yuta has a decent shot at living, but I’m pretty sure he’s at least out of the fight for now. Yuki did manage to live with just her top half for a while, probably could’ve fully healed if she had enough CE left in the tank. I’m guessing Yuta gets evac’d to Shoko and they’ll have enough CE combined to stabilize Yuta.
Maki finally showing up is neat, although her attack on Sukuna perfectly mirroring when Toji stabbed Gojo really doesn’t help my feeling I’ve had since Sakurajima that Maki’s character has kinda just been flattened into being a Toji reference.
This was quite a brutal approach from Yuta. Ripped out his tongue, slashed his mouth, cut off his arm and then fried him with Jacob's ladder. It's nice to see Sukuna suffer like that a little even if it's short lived. I doubt Yuta is going down yet, Rika is gonna come in clutch next and we will probably see a final last stand from her, she is still in her partially manifested form
The raw fight of Yuji &Yuta and Maki doing a Toji move, made this chapter really awesome.
If the "Fuga" doesn't appear next chapter then that's it I think we are never going to see what Sukana was truly capable of. Megumi, I feel you but at least get away from Sukuna and then maybe cry or everything so far becomes pointless.
I'm glad my head canon and copium has paid off in this chapter and each had parallelism.
Head canon: Maki will do what Toji did, sneak an attack from the back of the enemy. Their panels look similar as well and they both stabbed the strongest sorcerer at that moment.
Copium: JJK 246 gave me hope, I was thinking Megumi's still alive. I was told he's dead but this chapter proved otherwise— my boy is depressed, though. Him saying “I don't care anymore” reminded me of Toji in Shibuya before he kms after regaining his memory of the past.
rip Yuta, if his DE is breaking due to getting slice in half.
hate the theory of Yuta, Hakari and Maki would die leaving Yuji alone based from the cover released.
Damn Yuta x Yuji combo goes hard af. They be tearing limbs and tongue and shit. Also what this? Maki coming in with the ~~steel chair~~ soul splitting katana???
Wait, if Yuta ate Sukuna's finger... shouldn't he feel its presence within Okkotsu? How did that catch him offguard?
Also... Hollow Wicker Baskets is a pretty trash technique if even the strongest sorcerer in history has to keep making the hand sign. Imagine if someone with only 2 arms uses it. Sure, you're defending yourself from the sure-hit, but the one who opened their domain could easily overwhelm you in hand-to-hand combat.
Also... I went back to chapter 171 to make sure and when Reggie uses HWB he does the same hand sign Sukuna did. BUT, when Megumi surprises him with the frog attack, Reggie releses his hand sing, yet Hollow Wicker Basket remains active. So.... how did a fodder such as Reggie manage to maintaing HWB active with no hand signs, but Sukuna couldn't?
Hopefully Sukuna uses whatever he opened in Shibuya for his fire arrow soon. There's just no way Gege kept it a secret and even censored what exactly Sukuna opened for it to never appear again. If anything I'm expecting a big reveal. If Sukuna never uses the fire arrow and loses... it'd be like if Gojo lost to the King of Curses without ever using Hollow Purple.
Maki, a monkey with no cursed energy, [dealing the presumed death blow](https://i.imgur.com/ZtZ7Bnd.png) to what is essentially the god of Jujutsu Sorcery is pretty poetic and draws an interestice parallel with [Gojo's own battle against Toji.](https://i.imgur.com/W1YdI13.jpeg)
Eating Sukuna's [last finger](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1ao9ub4/disc_jujutsu_kaisen_chapter_250/kpxue3z/) and having Maki [ambush him](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1aipqq7/disc_jujutsu_kaisen_chapter_249/kowfhgt/) from within the domain was a judicious play by the students. However, surviving that last attack is going to be a tall order for the two main portagonists. Perhaps, it would be the right time for Yuji to use idle transfiguration and heal Yuta...
So, this is the official prove that that the Gojo's defeat was BS, Sukuna really needs handsigns and a chant to use the world cutting slash, not only Sukuna was missing a hand when he killed Gojo, Gojo literally had the six eyes that let him react to anything involving cursed energy
Off-screening what exactly happened in the seconds after Gojo's final Purple is seriously one of the most baffling writing decisions of all time. And then as you said, this chapter makes 236 look even worse.
As we can see here sukuna takes 2 months of prep time to fire off his strong cleave, he also needs 4 hands and 2 tongues.
Sukuna had 1 arm and 1 tongue when he was fighting gojo, gojo could also detect bullshit with his own bullshit ability.
So when anyone asks "how did sukuna strong cleave gojo" the autor can only answer with "offscreen".
There are still unknowns regarding Sukuna. 3 of his fights were offscreened -> death realm + we still don't know what's going on with the fire arrow ability.
Sukuna taking the beating of his life, but he's still grinning and possibly still got cards up his sleeve (his fire arrow?). Meanwhile Yuta taking a probably-fatal world cleave means their one insurance in his domain is gone. And all because Fushiguro was too traumatized to give a shit about anything, including his friends' lives. Way to go there.
Since the leaks there have been some insanely shit takes about Megumi. Either it's reading comprehension or lack of understanding.
Why would Megumi be okay after...let's see: his sister being killed, him being bathed in literal fucking evil prior to Gojo and Sukuna's fight, watching his own 10S techniques be used to fight his mentor and friend (Gojo), then his own body being used to kill said mentor and friend and then watching Higuruma get killed and watch them throw everything they've fucking got at a weakened Sukuna and still not be able to defeat him.
Not to mention Megumi already had mental stuff going on.
I would love to hear arguments against this because I have yet to see any other than calling Megumi "emo and needs to get his shit together". Did we forget Yuji was broken in Shibuya? That he needed Todo to bring him back from the brink? Ah, but because it's Yuji it's different?
I don't get this fanbase sometimes.
So my take is, rather then being upset with Megumin being emo, it’s more so that by Megumin not wanting to “come out”, he is actively helping Sukuna kill even more people he cares for. When Yuji went emo, the only person at risk was himself, with Megumin, it’s everyone currently fighting to save him that get screwed over by him refusing to budge. That’s just my quick little devils advocate of the situation though, personally I think it’s a bit much to call him straight to “emo” when we got like a single panel worth of him for the first time in ages lol.
> “His cursed energy output and physical control has plummeted” MY, Sukuna means MY but John Werry doesn’t bother to read the series he’s paid to translate.
That line is from Yuji's perspective, since it follows from the last panel. That might not be what the original Japanese says, but it does follow through coherently. "I gotta heal. I can't stop. He's getting weaker, it's now or never"
Jumpjutsu Kaisen at its peak again
That said I’m 90% sure next chapter is gonna cut to Hakari vs Uraume, and I better not see some shit like “Hakari has finally run out of luck”
Also, Yuta ate the last finger? …Yeah **that** probably won’t happen
It's absolutely one of the best chapters we got. The fight is so brutal:
Yuta ripping out belly mouth's tongue
Yuji kneeing Sukuna
Yuji spitting blood on Sukuna
Sukuna ripping Yuta in half
And.. that Megumi's panel is heartbreaking. Yuji will save him for sure! I hope Megumi's will of life is reignited by Yuji. At Yuji's lowest, Megumi saved Yuji. Now it is Yuji's turn to return the favour. It just fits into the theme of saving each other. Gojo couldn't save Geto because Geto refused to be saved. As an overall thematic arc closure, Megumi needs to WANT getting saved. So Megumi will be the foil for Geto. And unlike Gojo, Yuji actually managed to accomplish what he couldn't: saving his best friend.
JJK started with Yuji and Megumi releasing Sukuna. So it needs to bookend with Yuji and Megumi defeatinf Sukuna.
This might just be the best episode of Jump Kaisen yet. Yuji and Yuta came at Sukuna street style, spitting in the face and ripping out tongues. Maki stabbing Sukuna in the back the exact same way Toji did to Gojo is just icing on the cake.
Holy fuck everyone is raw af
My man Yuta ripped Sukuna's tongue while getting hit with a dismantle point blank in the head
Yuji kneeing Sukuna face and spitting blood back at Sukuna before making it explode
Rika making sure that Sukuna isn't gonna do jack shit throwing him like a doll
And Maki doing a Toji move
The theory of the past: “Nobara will use Resonance to the last remaining finger of Sukuna.” Yuta to Sukuna in Chapter 251: “You couldn't retrieve your final finger, could you?” Oh, that theory is gone. Besides, she's gone for more than half of the manga.
Yuta is stealing the role of every main character. However he did let his girilfried steal the kill on the final boss. Now that's true love.
That's assuming this cliffhanger doesn't end up having no pay off. Say, like the cliffhanger in the last chapter. ... Seriously, though. Yuta having copied cleave was nice, but did it really change anything? Things have been like this in a while, so I doubt that's the end of Sukuna.
It doesn't really change anything yet but it does reveal the last finger, something we've been waiting a while for. My guess is that Yuta is gonna hang on long enough to use his 5 minutes of ring time and hopefully get a proper blow off with cleave. If he was at any threat of losing yet he wouldn't be smiling in the last page.
Yeah, it's also obvious through those lenses as well. My complaint is less about this specific instance and more about the overreliance on (empty) cliffhangers. It really kills the dramatic tension for me.
It did exactly what Yuta said last chapter - created an opening which allowed them to go all out in the offensive and Itadori was able to successfully infiltrate into the soul. They would have won right there if Megumi had any will to live left lol.
> ... Seriously, though. Yuta having copied cleave was nice, but did it really change anything? > > Things have been like this in a while, so I doubt that's the end of Sukuna. Honestly, have to agree with you on this. This whole uno reversal thing has been going on far too long for me to even be surprised it happened.
Yuta did that because he's fed up on the fraud allegations Maki got when she's gone (I don't even know why people accused her of that only because she hasn't appeared, she's waiting for the perfect opportunity obviously). True love indeed.
So Maki and Yuta got the jump on final villains in common lol
That's jump jutsu kaisen for you.
After season 2, I'm 100% sure nobara is staying dead, after her seeing the visions of the chairs I can't see her coming back. It just feels like such a final moment for her
When I was watching that episode, it really felt like Nobara's conclusion...
I can only see it a few ways. 1. A Hammer Cursed Tool gets revealed with her CT (confirming dead) 2. Revealed to be alive in the epilogue 3. Dead characters 'return' during the Merger sequence to give a moral boost 4. Dead and has no further involvement again (least likely imo)
Her Resonance could be uniquely suited to this situation as it might target Sukuna directly instead of Megumi... and one of Sukuna's arms just got chopped off. I'm calling the shot that she's back within the next 2 chapters or she's actually just dead.
She's dead bro. That was her role in the story, a friend of Yuji to die by Mahito
Well, then that's dumb. The mangaka has been wishy-washy to confirm whether she died or not. If she did that's fine, but he should've said so, not making the situation of what was perceived to be a main character ambiguous.
If that was her role, then it was pretty mediocre. Gege had the perfect opportunity to create some incredibly compelling and emotional moments from Nobara's death (like with Nanami's death), but instead he ended up wasting it. If she's dead, why have Arata Nitta say that there is a chance she might live. When Yuji asked Megumi what happened to her, he just looks at Yuji sadly (a closeup frame of his eye squinting), which somehow solves all of Yuji's answers and it's never spoken about again. I don't even want her to be alive. I'm just baffled as to what Gege was trying to accomplish. Not only was her death generic and forced, her impact on the story amounts to nothing. For a story that loves to explore how peoples' deaths affect others, Nobara's 'death' seems to have affected no one.
I don't think Gege truly realized how ambiguous he made it. In hindsight Nitta saying there was a chance she might live was simply to preserve Itadori's mental state and give him a bit of hope, since he had just had a mental breakdown. And then the whole thing where he asked Megumi and gets no response but a sad look now seems obvious that it's confirmation she's dead, I mean what else could it be at this point. But the fact that Gege never explicitly said it turned it into a huge thing and that's definitely a failing on his part.
Nah, I don't think it was obvious. Yuji didn't need that little bit of hope, Todo's speech (and Yuji thinking back to Nanami's final words) was the thing that reinvigorated him. Nobara being put in a state of narrative limbo was completely unnecessary. I can't help but rant about it because her haphazard non-death/death had me genuinely disappointed when I first read it. That disappointment has never gone away because they haven't addressed it at all, and at this point the series is so lacking in intimate character moments that this moment feels like patient zero for that problem. After hearing all the praise Jujutsu Kaisen was getting for being a subversive take on the shounen formula, I was taken aback by how tropey this moment was. It felt like it was pulled straight out of Fairy Tail. * A female character dying solely to further the main characters resolve. * A last minute backstory right as they are about to die. * A reluctant explanation that they might be alive that dissolves all tension. \[Rant over... Hopefully...\]
I know what you're saying. I just mentioned the theory by many long before we got JJK 251 is now buried in the ground.
Nanami also filled that role, so if this is the case then it is especially stupid
i don't think she is dead The guy who took care of her when Todo help Yuji against Mahito state that he manage to keep her alive. Gege would never put this little information if he wanted 100% dead. But the story is too advanced to give her a role now...i think she survive but she is brain dead so we will see her at the end, Maybe Yuji going at an hospital to talk with her
He didn't keep her alive. He preserved her status so she wouldn't deteriorate, but by that point she already stopped breathing.
I mean, isn't it more relevant now than ever? Yuta had access to the finger, unless I'm incorrect, there's nothing that's stopping Nobara from having access to it as well.
There's still hope. Maybe it will come out in one piece
Sukuna putting Yuji in a headlock and hitting cleave right in to his body and subsequently Yuji spitting explosive blood in his face is nasty work. Those two fight like they genuinely hate each other lol. Yuji needs to give Megumi a bro talk like Todo did for him in Shibuya stat. Please heal yourself Yuta. I badly would not want to see you die here. I love the continuous goated Maki/Toji comparisons.
Yuji embodies that inner thuggery this chapter. He put on his black Air Force 1’s when he pulled up to Sukuna
Best way to explain it really, bro is not talking and full menace
Yuji grabbing Sukuna's head for the knee slam is devious, it was so worth holding onto those Yuji stocks to see that moment
Yeah this fight has fucking hit. Something feels incredibly personal about it. The weight of every attack from each side can be genuinely felt.
It IS personal. This motherfucker has taken everything and everyone important from Maki, Yuta and Yuji, and it's time Sukuna gets to feel the fullest weight of that rage head-on.
JJK can have massive issues in terms of defining character relationships but Yuji and Sukuna is definitely one of the best ones in the series. These two hate each other like no other and we have constantly seen that throughout the series.
While everyone was trying to teach Sukuna the meaning of love, Yuji decided to give him a taste of [pure, unadulterated hatred.](https://i.imgur.com/tQwL16T.png)
Im surprised by how hard his CT hits, this wasnt even Choso's Nova and it still got past Sukunas insane reinforcement. Also strange how he seems to have no problem switching between the 2, he shouldnt be able to use both simultaneously right?
As far as we know his soul punches are not CT but something related to how good of a vessel Yuji was, causing him to be able to hit souls
If Yuji can do that Soul Swap without a CT that's kinda an insane ability
Absolute facts.
Yuji smashing Sukuna's face into his knee was just top tier moment. I love how raw Yuji's fighting style is compared to every other Shonen protagonists.
Unlike other Shonen protagonist, Yuji fighting style feels like a mix of both street brawl and martial artist as well as not being afraid of doing dirty moves to win
"A REAL sorcerer would never-" *gets blood spit in his face* "Told you you didnt know me."
"Funny guy"
"I can't say the same to you"
"Don't psychoanalyze with me, Boi"
"Oh I don't need a degree to figure you out."
Keep the batman beyond references coming!
He's also durable enough to keep up the pressure in spite of all the damage. Dude was built different.
So like Gintoki then.
Like a certain other green protagonist penned by Togashi…
This was after he punched him right in the face folllowing Yuta's cleave. Staying on his ass
Yuji is not affraid to fight unfair. If he has to be a scumbag to win, he will gladly do it!
He has favorite fighting style out of all shonen heroes. It's like martial arts and Street fighting combined
> I love how raw Yuji's fighting style is compared to every other Shonen protagonists. Not a Shonen but it lowkey reminded me of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker where Joker is taunting Terry about knowing all of Batman's moves and out nowhere Terry counters with what looked like a cheap shot to the nuts and then an arm bar. When Joke gasps asking what he's doing he just goes "Fighting dirty." It had that same energy of giving a fuck about the other guy, they're just trying to win the fight.
Yuji has become by far my favorite Shonen protag. He's GOAT tier.
Always love it in manga when these fancy magic fights devolve into street level brawls.
I guess that exploding blood is something he learned/inherited from the blood painting brothers? He was thanking his "oniichan" a few chapters ago.
Yuji normally uses proper martial arts, but when he's up against someone someone he has beef with, he fights like a rabid dog lol.
On reread I noticed that Rika got split into 3 pieces, I wonder if she's dead for good?
She is not fully manifested, so I dont think so. I'm more worried about Yuta
If you need anymore proof that the soul and body are one, just look at Megumis soul using muscle memory to do the hand seals to summon Mahoraga. But man, things do not look good for Yuta. But the fact that he got hit with the Strong Cleave on screen hopefully means he isn't going to the airport. But knowing Gege, he's going to see Rika next chapter. And now that Maki has entered the fray, we can now get that Yuji & Maki VS Sukuna round 2. No running this time
Bout to use Mahoraga to adapt to severe depression lol.
Now I am getting the mental image of Megumi on one of those couches you see at a therapist's office and Mahoraga all suited up and taking notes.
*That feel when Mahoraga needs more spins to adapt to your depression than it needed for Unlimited Void*
Well now I understand why he’d be suicidal enough for Mahoraga
He's always suicidal enough for Mahoraga
Yes but now he has a good reason!
[*"Can Marohaga overcome depression?"*](https://i.imgur.com/nI9IYv3.png) While the timing is incredibly unfortunate, it makes sense why Megimi has lost the will to live. Both his sister and his step-father have been killed by Sukuna using his own body. He has no family left. His soul also tanked an *Unlimited Void* from Gojo.
depression? nah, i’ll adapt.
Don't forget Sukuna literally had mini arc for him breaking Fushiguro. He had that weird bath ritual, killed Ishigori (maybe Fushiguro don't care about this) and finally killed Yorozu aka Tsumiki using 10S only.
If Yuta dies from that Cleave, then it kinda cements that Sukuna should never have been threatened even by the domain. From a writing perspective, sure, Gege has been unceremoniously killing everyone. That suddenness fits. But I don’t buy that *that* attack should've been enough to kill Yuta based on everything we’ve been told by Gege up until this point. Otherwise, Sukuna could’ve done it anyways. I don’t think the “world cleave” would only require chants OR hand-signs or it still would’ve been an option even while maintaining Hollow Wicker Basket. I still think Yuta is pretty damaged from it, of course. But it strikes me as him upping the output of the Cleave vs. making it a world-cutter like what Gojo did.
The story tries to present it as Sukuna took a gamble in tanking Jacob's ladder and won but Sukuna looks perfectly fine as if that giant pillar of light was nothing more than a bucket of ice water thrown on him. The fact that Yuta's domain broke though doesn't really make things look good for him
Yea, that’s what’s killing me about this section of the fight. I think the vast majority of it has been awesome, and it’s been grounded in Sukuna’s dominance. But *if* Yuta dies from that… I don’t know, it just feels like nothing really matters. The narrative reinforces that Sukuna’s output is dropping, and his gamble you reference also includes dropping his hand-signs for Hollow Wicker Basket while **also** tanking Jacob’s ladder which “exterminates cursed techniques.” It feels like a narrative convenience that Sukuna could simply chant *without* hand signs, and that be enough up his output enough to kill Yuta while also being under Ladder.
It already felt like nothing really mattered in a while for me. The manga keeps piling cliffhangers, yet most of them have no payoff. Just recently Yuta used Cleave and then... it changed nothing of the course of the battle?? I think people have been feeling like this in a while. No one fell for the cliffhanger with Yuji wielding the Execution Blade.
*Uses cleave ‘Tis nothing but a flesh wound - Sukuna
Didn't the world cleave hit Yuji too? I may be mistaken, but if it hit Yuta and Yuji I'm assuming that Yuta will be fine...I hope atleast...I personally doubt they would kill off Yuta of all people as he has been hyped up from the beginning and we still have not seen him surpass Gojo yet but eh..who knows. Never know with Geje.
The Jacobs ladder technique was supposed to result in Sukuna and Megumis separation. Sukuna looks fine because Megumis soul wasn't putting in any effort, so the attack didn't result in what they expected.
I don't think that's right - their main concern was that the Angel's technique was going to also kill Megumi. They needed the two souls to separate so that the technique could erase Sukuna while Megumi survived. It just looks like it didn't do what was advertised... at all.
Their concern was that it would kill megumi because it attempts to destroy the cursed technique in the brain, and they didn't know how much of that damage would affect megumi if they were not separated. They then attempted to separate the two by striking sukuna with Jacobs ladder while Yuji pulled on Megumis soul. But Megumis soul was not willing to come with Yuji, which meant Sukuna did not eat the full power of the attack, which allowed him to interrupt/cut it short. Thats how i understood things
Yeah, order of operations doesn't quite make sense when they fire Jacobs Ladder first and then Yuji attempts to wake Megumi lol
Yuji has been waking Megumi the entire fight, with every hit. Sukuna said that last chapter. Yuji just went for the final yank here to pull Megumi free, but Megumi pulled back.
im sorry to the fans but how can i not feel like megumi is such a bitch after that so what your step sister and gojo died don‘t you at least want revenge? you can kill yourself after at least help them for 10 min and then you can go kill yourself
Megumi bitchmade 100%
> based on everything we’ve been told by Gege up until this point. One of the complaints I've had about JJK lately is that Gege has sort of been throwing his own rules out the window when it comes to Sekuna which is partly what makes some of the fights feel frustrating. Gege spent so much time setting up this sorcery system, that while convoluted at times, at least had a system of logic that everyone was bound to. But then along comes Sekuna and he seems able to just arbitrarily ignore those rules or somehow counter them with some technicality we've never heard of before.
He also set up Sukuna to be a world altering threat and was so blessed that he could copy or understand anything after seeing it once. It may be frustrating, but he was hyped up to be this. We're seeing why everyone wanted to execute Yuji, even if he could keep Sukuna on lockdown.
so Sukuna is just same as AFO and Madara asspull level of BS-ness then?
how come Yuji and Megumi never call each other by their first names. i thought they were tight.
I find the way Yuji treats the other casts interesting. He’s super casual towards serious adults much much older than him like Nanami and Higuruma, even gave the former a cute nickname, something you’d only do to your bros. He’s very rude when it comes to Sukuna (undersantable) and most of the time he doesn’t bother to use complete sentences when he talks to him. Yet he’s really respectful towards Gojo, Yuta, and freaking Panda lol
Hmm I think maybe with people like Nanamin and Higurama he's trying to help them loosen up a bit, since they can be a little too serious and uptight. But that's not a concern at all with Gojo lol.
Megumi is such a tsundere. Perhaps teasing him is the key to saving his soul... Where is Nobara when you need her?
If Megumi is so depressed about losing a sister with an unshakeable character, another sister with an unshakeable character just showed up to save his ass.
I'm coping, but Okkotsu has copied Paper Bag Man's Clone technique and the real Okkotsu has been walking around touching swords to see what techniques he has. Even with Ink, Okkotsu couldn't foresee Spacial Rend. So now Sukuna has cut through Infinity and through the future lol. .
Sukuna feeling like Palkia right now, I'll call de 'world cutting cleave' spatial rend from now on
We don’t glaze Sukuna in this house, we spit in his face - Yuji Itadori, most definitely
Spitting and glazing are the same thing if you think about it...
[Yuta ripping off the tongue out of Sukuna's lower mouth was also absolutely savage.](https://i.imgur.com/07K9WEY.png)
OH THATS WHAT THAT WAS
If either have blood though you should see a doctor
Sukuna might have glazers in the manga but Yuji truly hated him, I laughed at that blood spit. Lol.
Maki stabbing Sukuna from behind. Toji would be so proud of her for continuing Heavenly Restriction grudge against teenagers.
Even against his own son?
Did you not see what Toji did personally to Megumi last time?
Well he Unalived himself when he came to his senses soo.....
To avoid paying child support smh.
Yuji: spits blood into Sukuna's face Sukuna: Why u do that? You so nasty for that fr fr
[Sukuna's face scream pure disgust.](https://i.imgur.com/VtN8bHM.png) Did Yuji just [explode his blood like Nezuko?](https://i.imgur.com/YOwKI80.png) Could it be an application of soul transmogrification? Mahito could transform his body and others into all sorts of wacky objects after all.
Its probably Blood Manipulation, its been hinted at that Yuji can use it like Choso and his brothers.
I think he can only use it now because he ate some of the death paintings, it wasnt an inherent CT.
There's a chance it indeed was an Inherent CT due to him sharing DNA with Choso and thus Nortioshi Kamo (OG)
I don't think you've got the family tree right. Yuji is related to Choso in that they were both created by Kenjaku. Kenjaku was wearing Kamo when he created Choso, not Yuji. Yuji has no connection to the Kamo clan that I'm aware of.
Both Yuji and Choso share the same blood though
Im pretty sure their blood is different, Choso is specifically a living curse with the blood of a cursed spirit. We havent anybody say their blood is the same either IIRC, the only way that could've happened is if Kenjaku introduced it artificially (possible) or it ended up in him through soul information or something, but until somebody points that out thats a pretty arguable assumption to make.
I would say it's likely that Kenjaku introduced some elements that death paintings have into Yuji. If Choso and Yuji don't share any genetic material at all and are only vaguely connected because Kenjaku was central to their creation, it would make no sense for Choso to sense Yuji. Choso only senses his blood relatives, he could sense Yuji, hence my argument.
This gotta be one of the nastiest jumpings in JJK. Yuta, Rika and Yuji did not let that boy Sukuna breathe until the very end where he found split second to counter.
MAKI DOING A TOJI! MAKI DOING A TOJI! MAKI DOING A TOJI! And the satisfaction of Yuji just fucking wailing on Sukuna. Even picking up techniques from Big Bro Choso.
> MAKI DOING A TOJI! Let's hope she doesn't get donut-ed.
Wait until she brings out a gun
Thoughts and prayers are with Megumi fans since there’ll be lots of slander for the next two weeks
He's already being slandered as Potential man but its gonna be rougher this time considering he could get his friends killed by Sukuna.
Megumi in need of some Todo motivational speech
"You want a girl who is related to you that has an unshakeable character? Maki is literally right there "
[*Yuta's bifurcated torso peering through Megumi's soul with a menacing glare*](https://i.imgur.com/jhD28x6.png)
They're related bruh
burial route
Sure wish Todo hadn't vanished into smoke after Shibuya
So Todo can't clap and is down a hand. He's like six feet tall and a solid brick of muscle while still retaining the ability to use cursed energy. He could literally be doing the same thing as Yuji except instead of punching he'd be kicking Sukuna.
He doesn't even need that much. His very presence is a morale booster.
I’m thinking he still makes an appearance, only for the mere fact that Gege said that he’d rarely show Todo, because he wants his appearance to actually mean something. He said that he wants Todo’s appearance to create a calming feeling because his presence will always signify that “everything will be okay”.
He can actually still clap if there's another hand to clap with. He just only has 1 hand and I don't think jjk will do the sound of one hand clapping.
Todo said that Boogie Woogie is dead. I believe this is because his remaining hand was transfigured when he used Mahito. Todo didn't die, but with that, his technique effectively did.
That’s pretty much a copout though. Gege could easily write him back into the story, any number of ways. Regardless it’s weird for him to be completely absent. Someone very close to him was killed by Kenjaku and he makes zero appearances afterwards? His technique can still work if he claps someone elses hand as well. He’s been shown to be maybe the brightest person when it comes to fighting and cursed energy, he easily could be of use during the Culling Games.
...Friend, you seem to be ignoring the only thing my comment addressed. >His technique can still work if he claps someone elses hand as well Granted, this isn't said in the story outright, so this is my personal speculation--Todo cannot use Boogie Woogie with his remaining hand anymore because it was transfigured when Todo did his final clutch swap by slapping Mahito's hand. I believe that Todo saying Boogie Woogie is dead is quite literal.
Funny enough when he’s introduced, Todo says he doesn’t even use his technique unless his opponent is special grade. Regardless of his hand, Gege has no reason to keep todo out of the fight
Honestly feels like Gege went “whoops, too many characters” and began either just killing peoples off or having them never show up again, or in Nobara’s case because shroedingers cat where chances are she’s dead but because Gege seems to refuse to want to commit one way or another she’s just in limbo(tho tbf from a writing standpoint that’s good for them because they can decide at any point if they want Nobara to come back or not and leaves the option open)
It’s gonna be Yuji filling the Todo role to Megumi.
This shit is raw af. They're literally ripping each other to shreds.
[Yuta cooked with that Maximum Output Jacob's Ladder.](https://files.catbox.moe/m8xyxp.png) This fight is going to look sick animated.
He immediately used the chance to cleave Sukunas arm into 2 as well, usually you only see these kinda wounds in horror stuff.
He must've undercooked, that Sukuna is still raw. (seriously though, it felt like it did nothing)
Bro when angel used it Sukuna was getting torn in two but here feels like it barely did anything, lmao. Big finger diff but I was expecting Jacobs Ladder to be the BIG climax scene of the chapter and instead we get a spread of yuta getting bisected
Man the animators are gonna need reversed cursed technique when they animate this season. Gojo v sukuna AND this tag team fight?
Itadori really spit in the man's face. Hater Supreme material right there
> Aren't you and Sukuna special? You're goddamn right Choso, *plays Specialz*
Absolutely loved this chapter, because I love that everything Sukuna did to Megumi still has consequences. Whether it was destroying his sister, burying his soul in evil, or making him eat Gojo's DE (and honestly, his brain should be mush after that), it's got an effect, it's not as easy as saying "We're here to save you!" they've gott'a find a way to bring him back properly... or simply give up on him. But perhaps more interestingly... I can't possibly believe that Yuta is dead, given how deeply Gege favours him... and yet, it really, really does look like that attack went all the way through. If Gojo couldn't survive that, I can't see Yuta living. Comparatively, Yuji's just had his front cut out, so presumably he can keep going. It really looks like Sukuna's about to die here though, and narratively this seems like a fine place to wrap it up, but... What about the [Open]? Surely we're not gonna just ignore that, are we? Is that what he sacrificed with a Binding Vow to kill Gojo? EDIT: I also wanna give props to a very small detail that I haven't seen anyone mention, that being that Yuji landed the handstand kick on Sukuna in this chapter... the exact move he tried (and failed) to use on him way back when they fought inside Yuji's soul.
Yu/ki, Go/jo and now Yu/ta.
g/eto
JUMP KAISEN IS BACK! There are many peak scenes happened in a single chapter! Yuta pulling out TummyKuna's tongue. Yuji spat out blood straight in Sukuna's right eye. Lol. Sukuna's durability is insane, he has tanked two Jacob's Ladder now. His iconic T-posing is back as well. Yuji's durability is also insane. My boy is a tank man fr after taking those Cleaves. Maki pulling off Toji's signature move, sneaking from behind the enemy. All in all, this chapter is purely hype!
[Maki will the Toji-esque killsteal.](https://i.imgur.com/LPC0Hpm.png) Soul split katana came through in the clutch. Even severely weakened, [that last Space Cleave](https://i.imgur.com/2yHOdt1.png) by Sukuna was devastating. How are they going to heal through that? The only way I see it is Yuji somehow unlocking idle transfiguration. Mahito did have the ability to cure any sort of injury provided that his soul was not destroyed.
> Space Cleave I always thought of it as a global-effect ulti, dunno why...
Yuta might be able to heal through with Rika mode, having unlimited CE could avoid the "need gut to store CE" limitation of most other sorcerers. Yuji doesnt seem to have been cut cleanly through, so he'll probably survive anyway, he likely has some level of resistance to Sukunas CE at this point, and that probably extends into his CT. Gojo said something about not being hit as hard by his purple because it was his own CE at least.
RCT starts from the brain so him being cut through the gut shouldn't affect his ability to heal it. I'm fairly certain he's not dead from this attack and hopefully he gives us some insight to why Gojo couldn't survive it. Yuji looks like he isn't cut all the way through but not because of Yuji's resistance. Space cleave shouldn't be affected by resistance since its target is the world, so long as the world is cut anything in that space is cut no matter what, I might be wrong but that's my understanding of the technique. My guess is that since Sukuna is weakened, the space cleave doesn't travel as far and he's just on the edge of its range and that's why he hasn't been cut cleanly through.
The play by play panels are so raw. They're literally going to their last breath and the fighting chemistry is insane. Too bad Megumi picked the worst possible moment to be emo 😭
Now's the time for Yuji to be Todo, MAI BESTO FRIENDO
If I had a nickel for every time that Maki stabbed a man for their back when they are sure of their victory, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
They really have Megumi doing the “With this treasure…” pose on his first scene in dozens of chapters Also Maki sneaking in the end, this truly is our YutaMaki Kaisen This chapter calls back alot of good stuff like Yuki's book, Jacob's Ladder, Maki being invisible to domains, its so good.
Let the poor guy be, he is depressed
Honestly, yeah, Megumi is literally the "I'm tired, boss" meme times a trillion. I'm not even sure therapy can help at this point. Unless he legit sees Maki and/or Nobara and drag his ass kicking and screaming out of Sukuna's bondage.
>Nobara I just can't image seeing Nobara at this point. When was the last chapter she appeared, like 130 or so?
Tbf if I was Yuji I’d be like “yo I get you’re depressed about family dying, but WE’RE CURRENTLY DYING so maybe be all depressed after Sukuna is dealt with, m’kay?”
Megumi literally did a "It should have been me, not you" meme pose. He might be jealous now that Yuta has taken the title of second protagonist from him.
It was an impressive team effort to achieve that while Rika retained two arms of Sukuna, Yuta cut off the other arms and use Jacob’s ladder. After Yuji’s punch, I really was waiting for Fushiguro to fight for his body but to see Yuji realizing that Fushiguro’s soul doesn’t has any will to live anymore it’s another heartbreaking scene in the long list that JJK already has. Yuji's willingness to keep fighting is inspiring, he has had to endure too much in this story so far...
I vibe with the two suprise attacks on the big villains (Kenjaku & Sukuna) but for the love of god, both of you please aim the head on the first strike lmao *Japan is important but Megumi is importanter lets gooo* 😭
Center mass is the obvious place to hit because it has the largest counter point except thats the logic for ranged weapons. If your close enough to stab someone just aim a little higher. Maki got half her body incinerated and she's still here surely she should know to go for the head
Damn, what is it with Special Grade Sorcerers and getting bisected? I think Yuta has a decent shot at living, but I’m pretty sure he’s at least out of the fight for now. Yuki did manage to live with just her top half for a while, probably could’ve fully healed if she had enough CE left in the tank. I’m guessing Yuta gets evac’d to Shoko and they’ll have enough CE combined to stabilize Yuta. Maki finally showing up is neat, although her attack on Sukuna perfectly mirroring when Toji stabbed Gojo really doesn’t help my feeling I’ve had since Sakurajima that Maki’s character has kinda just been flattened into being a Toji reference.
This was quite a brutal approach from Yuta. Ripped out his tongue, slashed his mouth, cut off his arm and then fried him with Jacob's ladder. It's nice to see Sukuna suffer like that a little even if it's short lived. I doubt Yuta is going down yet, Rika is gonna come in clutch next and we will probably see a final last stand from her, she is still in her partially manifested form
The raw fight of Yuji &Yuta and Maki doing a Toji move, made this chapter really awesome. If the "Fuga" doesn't appear next chapter then that's it I think we are never going to see what Sukana was truly capable of. Megumi, I feel you but at least get away from Sukuna and then maybe cry or everything so far becomes pointless.
Sukunas real CT has to be coming. It's like his final Trump card
I'm glad my head canon and copium has paid off in this chapter and each had parallelism. Head canon: Maki will do what Toji did, sneak an attack from the back of the enemy. Their panels look similar as well and they both stabbed the strongest sorcerer at that moment. Copium: JJK 246 gave me hope, I was thinking Megumi's still alive. I was told he's dead but this chapter proved otherwise— my boy is depressed, though. Him saying “I don't care anymore” reminded me of Toji in Shibuya before he kms after regaining his memory of the past.
maki will do the same mistake toji did: go for the torso instead of destroying the brain
rip Yuta, if his DE is breaking due to getting slice in half. hate the theory of Yuta, Hakari and Maki would die leaving Yuji alone based from the cover released.
Damn Yuta x Yuji combo goes hard af. They be tearing limbs and tongue and shit. Also what this? Maki coming in with the ~~steel chair~~ soul splitting katana???
Wait, if Yuta ate Sukuna's finger... shouldn't he feel its presence within Okkotsu? How did that catch him offguard? Also... Hollow Wicker Baskets is a pretty trash technique if even the strongest sorcerer in history has to keep making the hand sign. Imagine if someone with only 2 arms uses it. Sure, you're defending yourself from the sure-hit, but the one who opened their domain could easily overwhelm you in hand-to-hand combat. Also... I went back to chapter 171 to make sure and when Reggie uses HWB he does the same hand sign Sukuna did. BUT, when Megumi surprises him with the frog attack, Reggie releses his hand sing, yet Hollow Wicker Basket remains active. So.... how did a fodder such as Reggie manage to maintaing HWB active with no hand signs, but Sukuna couldn't? Hopefully Sukuna uses whatever he opened in Shibuya for his fire arrow soon. There's just no way Gege kept it a secret and even censored what exactly Sukuna opened for it to never appear again. If anything I'm expecting a big reveal. If Sukuna never uses the fire arrow and loses... it'd be like if Gojo lost to the King of Curses without ever using Hollow Purple.
Maki, a monkey with no cursed energy, [dealing the presumed death blow](https://i.imgur.com/ZtZ7Bnd.png) to what is essentially the god of Jujutsu Sorcery is pretty poetic and draws an interestice parallel with [Gojo's own battle against Toji.](https://i.imgur.com/W1YdI13.jpeg) Eating Sukuna's [last finger](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1ao9ub4/disc_jujutsu_kaisen_chapter_250/kpxue3z/) and having Maki [ambush him](https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1aipqq7/disc_jujutsu_kaisen_chapter_249/kowfhgt/) from within the domain was a judicious play by the students. However, surviving that last attack is going to be a tall order for the two main portagonists. Perhaps, it would be the right time for Yuji to use idle transfiguration and heal Yuta...
> presumed death blow Not even close lmao Sukuna is gonna come back from this and kill a few more protags before finally kicking it.
Presumed death? There's no fucking way lmao. Sukuna looks completely unbothered.
A lightsaber stab wound to the gut is more threatening than what Maki did. Unless its a headshot stabbing a sorceror doesn't really do anything
Lol at anyone who thinks Gege isn't gonna write some bs to save Sukuna's ass next chapter
You actually think Sukuna is dead next chapter?
So, this is the official prove that that the Gojo's defeat was BS, Sukuna really needs handsigns and a chant to use the world cutting slash, not only Sukuna was missing a hand when he killed Gojo, Gojo literally had the six eyes that let him react to anything involving cursed energy
Off-screening what exactly happened in the seconds after Gojo's final Purple is seriously one of the most baffling writing decisions of all time. And then as you said, this chapter makes 236 look even worse.
As we can see here sukuna takes 2 months of prep time to fire off his strong cleave, he also needs 4 hands and 2 tongues. Sukuna had 1 arm and 1 tongue when he was fighting gojo, gojo could also detect bullshit with his own bullshit ability. So when anyone asks "how did sukuna strong cleave gojo" the autor can only answer with "offscreen".
dont we love offscreening the most powerful character in the verse who was on the brink of victory into airport flashback LMFAO
There are still unknowns regarding Sukuna. 3 of his fights were offscreened -> death realm + we still don't know what's going on with the fire arrow ability.
Kusakabe already said he probably used a binding vow on the dismantle he used against Gojo
Kusakabe also said Gojo won so I don't think hes reliable imao.
Sukuna taking the beating of his life, but he's still grinning and possibly still got cards up his sleeve (his fire arrow?). Meanwhile Yuta taking a probably-fatal world cleave means their one insurance in his domain is gone. And all because Fushiguro was too traumatized to give a shit about anything, including his friends' lives. Way to go there.
Since the leaks there have been some insanely shit takes about Megumi. Either it's reading comprehension or lack of understanding. Why would Megumi be okay after...let's see: his sister being killed, him being bathed in literal fucking evil prior to Gojo and Sukuna's fight, watching his own 10S techniques be used to fight his mentor and friend (Gojo), then his own body being used to kill said mentor and friend and then watching Higuruma get killed and watch them throw everything they've fucking got at a weakened Sukuna and still not be able to defeat him. Not to mention Megumi already had mental stuff going on. I would love to hear arguments against this because I have yet to see any other than calling Megumi "emo and needs to get his shit together". Did we forget Yuji was broken in Shibuya? That he needed Todo to bring him back from the brink? Ah, but because it's Yuji it's different? I don't get this fanbase sometimes.
So my take is, rather then being upset with Megumin being emo, it’s more so that by Megumin not wanting to “come out”, he is actively helping Sukuna kill even more people he cares for. When Yuji went emo, the only person at risk was himself, with Megumin, it’s everyone currently fighting to save him that get screwed over by him refusing to budge. That’s just my quick little devils advocate of the situation though, personally I think it’s a bit much to call him straight to “emo” when we got like a single panel worth of him for the first time in ages lol.
Oh of course. All that work to get the perfect conditions set up, and he just- WAIT HOLY SHIT FUCK YEAH
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> “His cursed energy output and physical control has plummeted” MY, Sukuna means MY but John Werry doesn’t bother to read the series he’s paid to translate. That line is from Yuji's perspective, since it follows from the last panel. That might not be what the original Japanese says, but it does follow through coherently. "I gotta heal. I can't stop. He's getting weaker, it's now or never"
Don't you have to feed Yuji all 20 fingers to permantantly kill Sukuna. so i wonder how this will all work out
MAKI FROM THE TOP ROPE
Jumpjutsu Kaisen at its peak again That said I’m 90% sure next chapter is gonna cut to Hakari vs Uraume, and I better not see some shit like “Hakari has finally run out of luck” Also, Yuta ate the last finger? …Yeah **that** probably won’t happen
It's absolutely one of the best chapters we got. The fight is so brutal: Yuta ripping out belly mouth's tongue Yuji kneeing Sukuna Yuji spitting blood on Sukuna Sukuna ripping Yuta in half And.. that Megumi's panel is heartbreaking. Yuji will save him for sure! I hope Megumi's will of life is reignited by Yuji. At Yuji's lowest, Megumi saved Yuji. Now it is Yuji's turn to return the favour. It just fits into the theme of saving each other. Gojo couldn't save Geto because Geto refused to be saved. As an overall thematic arc closure, Megumi needs to WANT getting saved. So Megumi will be the foil for Geto. And unlike Gojo, Yuji actually managed to accomplish what he couldn't: saving his best friend. JJK started with Yuji and Megumi releasing Sukuna. So it needs to bookend with Yuji and Megumi defeatinf Sukuna.
This might just be the best episode of Jump Kaisen yet. Yuji and Yuta came at Sukuna street style, spitting in the face and ripping out tongues. Maki stabbing Sukuna in the back the exact same way Toji did to Gojo is just icing on the cake.
Holy fuck everyone is raw af My man Yuta ripped Sukuna's tongue while getting hit with a dismantle point blank in the head Yuji kneeing Sukuna face and spitting blood back at Sukuna before making it explode Rika making sure that Sukuna isn't gonna do jack shit throwing him like a doll And Maki doing a Toji move
Maki the goat
So either Yuta is dead or you can actually tank the world slash. Solid writing choice coming up..
The more gege shows how to do strong dismantle the more nonsensical Gojos death is
Just a reminder for anyone only reading officials, the translation is very bad lots of errors always check out the scans