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Weeks ago I discussed the dichotomy that existed between Sukuna and Maki here. I also wanted to explore Yuji and Yuta in connection to the King of Curses, so here's a character breakdown for all of them.

TLDR: Yuji is a sacrificial love, Yuta is a harmonious love, and Maki is a rational love, but Sukuna is without love at all. If it's too long, I recommend simply reading the section that interests you, and the final section. Original post with images for easier read.

Hana, and even Sukuna himself, refer to him as "the Fallen/Disgraced." [1][2]

Sukuna's backstory remains a mystery. Most of the information revealed about Sukuna's past comes from other characters, so others tend to shape how readers view his backstory. The most objective depiction of Sukuna comes from Yorozu's flashback, when he sits alone with Uraume by his side. Even then, Yorozu's own memories shape his attitude and the scenario Gege depicts of this past event. Honestly, he looks bored.

My analysis will be dedicated to Yuji, Yuta, and Maki respectively. I will demonstrate the ways that the three of them act as foils to Sukuna, and explore what they may reveal about him and his true nature.

Yuji is Sacrificial Love

Similar to Sukuna, people other than Yuji shape the way readers understand his past. Kenjaku and Wasuke have revealed all the information readers knows about Yuji's past as a child made to house Sukuna. [3]

Throughout the story, Yuji repeatedly demonstrates his willingness to sacrifice himself for others. Yuji ate Sukuna's finger to save Megumi, he accepted death by Sukuna to save Megumi, and he planned to let Angel kill him to save Megumi. Each scenario was meant to kill Yuji, yet he acted without fear each time.

Yuji's sacrificial love, seemingly targeted directly to Megumi, reveals his fatal flaw. His resignation to death can be read as a coping mechanism for giving up early. For example, after Shibuya, Yuji was ready to quit right there due to the guilt of what Sukuna had done. Todo's speech gave him new hope to fight, yet Yuji relapsed after meeting Hana. His readiness to kill himself to save Megumi reflects his desire to do the "easy thing."

Yuji's sacrificial love also marks him as a hero. Sukuna has tried to break his spirit, but Yuji remains steadfast in his beliefs that love prevails. [4][5]

Yuji's love for others shapes his steadfast will that motivates him to fight, despite his painful losses. Yet, Yuji has a strange discernment for his own responsibility that's informed by his inclination to self-sacrifice. He places the blame of Sukuna's actions onto himself; instead of advocating for his own autonomy that obviously challenges Sukuna's, he readily accepts a death sentencing from Judgeman. Yuji's selfless nature, as opposed to Sukuna, actually makes him too eager to take responsibility for others' actions. In return, Sukuna's selfishness grounds him in reality and informs his awareness of his own responsibility. Sukuna would never think of feeling responsible of anything Yuji does.

Yuji begging for that dark night

Yuji's extreme selfless nature represents why he and Sukuna directly oppose each other. Sukuna refers to himself as human in the past tense, meaning he sees himself as having evolved beyond that condition. Uraume echoed something similar to Hakari. Yuji's fears that lead him to immediately choosing his own death over others' shape his humanity, and according to Sukuna and Uraume, shackles him from his own growth. To put it simply, Yuji is willing to go down without a fight if it means saving others. This attitude is what marks him as the sacrificial hero.

I wager that Yuji's story will end as a tragedy. He will likely sacrifice himself to stop Sukuna, as he planned to do for Megumi anyway. Kenjaku declared that as long as Yuji and Sukuna exist, bad things will keep happening. Since birth, Yuji has been tied to Sukuna and remains the only person who can host him without immediately losing control. Even if circumstances may not demand it from him, Yuji would likely jump to the opportunity to sacrifice himself for Megumi and everyone else.

• Sukuna is someone who only takes responsibility for himself and no one else; his disregard for love reflects this attitude.
• This juxtaposition between himself and Yuji leads to his disgust at the hero willing to sacrifice himself at every chance he gets.
• Yuji loves to a fault. He cannot discern his own autonomy apart from Sukuna's which only reinforces his own self-sacrificial nature until it reaches extremes.
• In opposition to Yuji, Sukuna demonstrates complete selfishness, isolation, and lovelessness.

Yuta and Harmonious Love

As established above, Sukuna represents isolation and lovelessness. Uro warned Yuta that for him to gain power and transcend, discarding love and becoming a calamity would be an inevitable step in his path. Yet, Yuta disagreed and regards himself as being blessed. [6][7][8]

There are two main implications to Yuta's blessed distinction:

• Yuta's willingness to love and be loved makes him blessed.
• The use of the word "blessed" directly juxtaposes Sukuna, who is called the disgraced one.

Just after Ryu says he doesn't understand why he's blessed, Yuta continues with the plan he and his friends made to save Tsumiki.

Yuta can't understand a loveless nature

Gege uses Yuta and Rika to represent an idea of harmonious, mutual love via wedding motifs. To activate his true power where he harmonizes with Rika, Yuta dons a ring on his fourth finger, which is commonly considered the finger for a wedding band. His domain expansion has even more wedding themes that accentuate this motif. [9][10][11]

Yuta's power comes directly from his love for his friends and Rika. It's unquestionable and true; Gege uses Yuta to show an idea of true love rooted in adolescent bonds. While he and Rika were only kids when they promised to marry one another, Yuta felt so powerfully about this promise that it still affects him years later.

Uro's warning to Yuta was useless, because his true power relies on love. Yuta can't "awaken" any kind of powerup that would force his story to resemble Sukuna's or become a calamity in the same way as him. Sukuna's loveless nature directly contradicts the source of Yuta's power. Yuta will not become a calamity like Sukuna because it contradicts his story's foundation and the literal source of his power.

• Uro's comments reveal that somehow, and at some point, Sukuna's growth caused him to cast away his "humanity" and become a calamity.
• Yuta and Rika's love boosted her power so much that even Sukuna refers to her as the Queen of Curses, in recognition of her strength.

Maki is a Rational Love

Maki is the one of the three that resembles Sukuna the most, in terms of characterization and sensibilities. Both are described as something beyond human, with Maki being called a monster and Sukuna called a calamity. I have already gone into great detail about the ways Gege has tied their characters together since Hidden Inventory, so I will casually reference information such as their paralleled connection to Gojo and Toji.

While the backstab in 251 cemented the connection between the Toji -> Gojo and Maki -> Sukuna, the fight in 253 developed the more immediate motivations within the narrative between the two. The art and Sukuna's monologue demonstrated how tied these two have become. Toji and Gojo act as a narrative vehicle to foreshadow the events of this final duel. Yet, the events of 253 finally give both Maki and Sukuna a reason between the two of them to fight with everything on the line. 253 provides the appropriate stakes for their clash. [12][13]

• Sukuna seeks to prove the might of jujutsu sorcery over a power that rejects it, and ultimately him as the greatest sorcerer in history.
• Maki must end this now. Yuta has been cut down and Maki feels it's now her responsibility to kill Sukuna or things will only continue to get worse.

The monsters clash

Throughout the chapter, Gege depicts both Maki and Sukuna with shadows obscuring their faces and bodies, demonstrating a shared darkness within them. [14][15][16]

Both monsters seek to eliminate the other, creating a drastic scenario for Maki to end the battle so her injured friends don't have to fight anymore. Sukuna has finally found an opponent that makes him excited and has pushed him to use more of his power. The difference in their motivations exemplify their relationship to love and their own egos. [17][18]

• Maki represents someone who refuses to allow love to hold her back from her own potential.
• Sukuna casts love aside and seeks only power, from himself and others.

Both Maki and Sukuna put themselves and their own power first. While Sukuna discards love, Maki holds onto her bonds with her friends and sees herself as a protective force. Her desire to protect Yuta from Sukuna exemplifies her obvious capacity for love, and her role as a protector.

Conclusions

What do Yuji, Yuta, and Maki reveal about Sukuna?

Uraume distinguishes a human from whatever they represent. When they acknowledge Hakari's powerful reverse cursed technique as being above Gojo and Sukuna, Uraume no longer sees him as human. Not only is it Hakari's rct that makes Uraume respect him, but also his willingness to sacrifice his body to fight. The ascension, or change, that Uraume describes requires both power and the will to use it. [19][20][21]

Sukuna's title as "the fallen/ disgraced one" will likely be tied to Uraume's idea of a being who transcends their own inherit humanity. Sukuna sees himself as someone who stands alone as the greatest, and he reached that peak with the purpose to maintain it. Yorozu, Gojo, and Kashimo's sympathy for him reads more like projection rather than a real understanding of Sukuna. Uraume and Sukuna both describe themselves as something better and other than human; this distinction may be apart of Sukuna's real cursed technique and his hidden past.

Notes on 253 because why not:

• Since joining jjk reddit, I realize many people already assumed Yuta or Yuji would be tasked with ending Sukuna. I truly am in the minority here LMAO.
• Since Maki's arc began, Gege always begins her big fights with two prerequisites: she starts off with confidence against her opponent, but then they overwhelm her. At the end of the chapter, she's seemingly killed off. She always gets back up and fights even harder than before after an awakening of some sort. [22][23]
• Maki also proved to be a protective force over Mai. Even though they had yet to truly make up for Maki abandoning the clan, Maki still returned with the intent of saving Mai from them. She refused to stay with the Zenin and be belittled, but she also refused to allow them to kill her sister.
• A lot of people seem to be under the impression Yuji or Yuta will undergo this dark transformation into a hearltess killer. They somehow ignore the fact that that was Maki's storyline and she's evolved past that already. It would only be redundant.

Yuta so far:

• Has both parents and a younger sister all alive
• One of the most powerful people in the series with a busted CT
• The only surviving special grade (RIP:(()
• Hasn’t taken any L so far
• Admired and renowned in jujutsu society, considered second to Gojo
• All of his second-years friends are alive
• His initial source of conflict, Rika, has been resolved and turned into a docile pet
• His possible love interest Maki is the only relevant female character in the story

My man is basically living on Easy Mode while the actual MC Yuji is undergoing character development every arc.

Anyone else think Gege is setting up Yuta to die? Think about it, he is already reaching his peak and a lot of characters like uro, ishigoori, kenjaku all comment on how he isn't as impressive as we're being led to believe despite his amazing abilities.

Personally based on the latest chapter I wouldn't be surprised if he sacrifices himself to free gojo, taking either Sukuna or Kenjaku with him before he goes. It would be a good send off for our old MC sacrificing himself to save sorcerers and finally getting to reunite with Rika in the after-life. Yuta is my favorite JJK character but it would make perfect sense for him to die, he already had his story.

Sorry Maki-Yuta stans as fond as they are of each other I don't see Maki and Yuta working out unless Gege really wants it to happen, what do you guys think ?

His powers in the prequel volume (Jujutsu Kaisen 0) are extremely unique, and he’s believed to be the strongest current student. My question, however, is where is this man at? Have there been any hints as to his location that I may have missed? I love his character a lot, and am extremely excited to see him pop up in the main storyline.

What is his ability And is the jujutsu kaisen 0 based on the manga of jujutsukaisen 0

This is my first time doing a character scaling post. I'm on mobile so I can't do that fancy trick with the images. Please be nice with the feedback. If the movie diverges from the manga I'll be sure to mention it.

A lot of people around here often downplay JJK0 Yuta, and think that he is a weaker character that is carried by VCS Rika. And while Rika is definitely stronger then Yuta, I don't think she necessarily carries him as hard when it comes to the later parts of JJK0.

PART 1: HIS TALENT AND NOT BEING AN AVERAGE SORCERER.

The first part I want to go over is his mastery of outputting RCT and how talented he is in general. This is a very big deal as only a handful of characters (3 to be exact) can output RCT and heal others. This is something not even Gojo or Kenjaku have the ability to do. And while I don't think he's as strong as them in JJK0, it still goes to show how talented he is. This makes something like fighting cursed spirits easier to do, because if you insert RCT into them, it does a lot of damage.

In regards to his general talent he is not an ordinary kid. Even with Rika leaving at the end of JJK0, Yuta was able to obtain the title of special grade in only 3 months. While this part isn't considered JJK0 (unless you count the ending scene from the movie, this Yuta would be closer in power to Sendai Yuta, but I digress). It still goes to show much much of a prodigy he is.

PART 2: YUTA JJK0 SCALING (and some Geto Scaling)

This is the long part. So get your popcorn ready.

The main source for this section will be the JJK0 movie. This is where Yuta and Geto have fights. So starting off with Yuta, before he even fights Geto he has to deal with a swarm of cursed spirits. He uses cursed speech in order to kill them off. This is impressive because he dispatched a large group of them, and cursed speech has a recoil effect when using it.

Before we talk about Yuta's scaling in regards to fighting Geto. We need to talk about Geto's scaling and the cursed tool he uses.

For his general stats he should be pretty good in that department. The reasoning for this is because of the reinforcement limits a body has as noted by Mei Mei. For reference Mei Mei is only 2 years older then Geto and Gojo, she is a fourth year in Hidden Inventory and Geto is only a second year, Mei Mei may have reached her bodies reinforcement limit.

The reason I bring this up is because of Kenjaku. He is a sorcerer who took over Geto's body. While his output is probably higher and that can impact your physical stats, I don't think it's that much higher when compared to Geto when he uses his tool. Kenjaku is someone who is praised for his physical showings in a qna gege did. In this, he stated that after Toji, Gojo and Kenjaku were equal in grip strength. There is another statement talking about hand to hand combat skill, but it doesn't factor in cursed energy. But from what we see Geto being able to do in JJK0, he should be at least relative imo, he has good fighting technique.

This next paragraph talks about his fights with Panda and Inumaki. For this the JJK0 movie will be used (but it diverges from the manga since Panda uses gorilla mode in the movie). Geto was able to dodge most of Panda's attacks in both base and GM. After a brief scuffle he's able to destroy one of Panda's hearts with a spear, after that Panda and Inumaki finshed off my a curse swarm. During the Goodwill event Panda was going to be used to face Todo. He was stated that even though he barely compete against him physically, he would still be able to put up a good fight and the statement doesn't outright say that he can't physically compete against him.

The version of Geto that defeated Panda was not using playful cloud. This is a cursed tool that enhances your physical capabilities. This is shown when Maki faces Hanami in goodwill. When Maki uses her sword she can't even do anything to Hanami, but when she used playful cloud, she launches Hanami from the rooftop into the woodlands below. While Hanami didn't take too much notable damage from that, the fact that it still launched her is pretty impressive.

Maki is someone that Geto was able to basically no diff. Fight was so one sided that she got off screened. So giving playful cloud to someone who has good physical feats like Geto does, would make him pretty strong.

PART 2.5: YUTA VS GETO

This is the main part of the Yuta scaling. I needed to cover Geto's scaling first so that we have a good base to scale from.

Geto in his fight against Yuta and Rika is basically a 2v1. Geto was able to fight both of them at once thanks to his good physical technique and the amp given to him by playful cloud (which is quite massive). During tbe first parts of the fight it is quite even. Everyone is clashing weapons. During the fight Yuta and Rika get tangled up and have to fight cursed spirits. But unlike Yuta's friends, they are able to deal with most of these curses (I'm getting to her u/Individual-Turn7950).

During the first part, Yuta get's hit by playful cloud to his skull. With how strong it's been shown to be that would be very bad for the average Jujutsu Sorcerer. Yuta isn't your everyday sorcerer. When he gets hit a drop of blood spits out of his mouth. But he tanks the attack pretty good. He even confirms to Rika that he is okay, no RCT was needed.

Yuta then starts to get used to the fight or cursed energy. His speed tempo change causes Geto to miss his attack, but unlike the fraud named Yorozu, Geto manages to save himself from getting the Kenjaku treatment. He does this my ducking his head. But the fact Yuta pulled off a tempo change and suprised Geto was quite impressive.

After that Yuta lands a punch (black flash in the movie and game). And while Geto blocks the attack with a cursed spirit, it still launched him a good 30 feet and bloody's him. Even Geto compliments Yuta for it.

At this point Geto decides he's going to use Uzumaki to end the fight. In order to regain control of the fight he deploys Tamano-no-mae Incarnate to protect him. So if Yuta and Rika were to attack, Tamano-no-mae could delay them so that Geto can use Uzumaki. (Thanks u/Individual-Turn7950 for mentioning this, it's only mentioned in the novelization for JJK0.)

Part 4: CONCLUSION

All in all even in JJK0, Yuta is quite strong and has good stats to where Rika getting mad after he dies wouldn't be as common in a vs matchup. I don't think Jogo can quickly kill off JJK0 Yuta like some others suggested. He couldn't even kill Yuji in the domain.

This is part of the character series for the new Golden Age series as we delve into the depths of the lives and abilities of the original characters in this series and the future of characters from the original series. Now we are seeing most overwhelming powerhouse and the second half of the title of strongest in Japan and the most busted sorcerer in the world. We are seeing a 29-year-old Yuta Okkotsu and how strong he became. Let's begin:

Name: Okkotsu Yuta

Age: 29

Sex: Male

Marital Status: Married with 3 kids

Grade: Grade 0 (top 1)

Appearance: Yuta in this timeline had a glow-up as he is now 6'1, put on 60 lbs of muscle mass, and grew a chad beard. This is mostly because he had to work out a lot just to survive being "intimate" with his wife, Maki Zenin. After all, he could keep up with her superhuman body with CE alone (and the fact that his pelvis has broken multiple times along with his skull, and fingers and nearly got his tongue and dick ripped off by accident). He has the same hairstyle he had in the original series, but now wears a pure white jacket similar to his student uniform and black pants. The jacket doubles as a cursed tool filled with talismans to nullify CE-based attacks and is as durable as a modern-day bulletproof vest (which in 2030 is made of a combination of graphene and ballistic gel for ultimate efficiency). He no longer has his stitches, but has the stitch scars Kenjaku has when he was in Yuji's mom or other vessels, which at first made people of America and China think he was Kenjaku in another body.

Personality/Life: After the Shinjuku showdown and the release of the JJK manga in-verse by Charles Bernard, Yuta became a living legend and became both immensely respected and feared by curses and curse users alike. He and Yuji were deemed as Japan's strongest sorcerers and had extreme levels of influence on the reconstruction of Japan's jujutsu society becoming the standard on how powerful a jujutsu sorcerer can be in the new golden age. He was the one who gave the idea to teach the world jujutsu sorcery and how to take down curses in the first place in exchange for the world not nuking or attacking Japan, making him extremely influential and have political power overseas as he was one of the sorcerers who were sent to teach how to use the fundamentals and kill extremely powerful curse spirits the world didn't know how to take out along with Maki. And because of this level of influence, the Gojo clan offered for him to be their new representative to gain back some of their status and political power in this new age and offered him and his family to live in the Gojo estate. He accepted this if they accepted his girlfriend Maki Zenin, and weirdly enough they honestly loved her since she eliminated the entire Zenin clan.

Yuta has celebrity status similar to Gojo as he is the strongest in Japan along with Yuji and was a fan favorite in the JJK manga which also caused a debate on the internet on who would win between Yuji and Yuta. He is given missions to exorcise special grade and supreme grade curse spirits, negotiations and business overseas (specifically America and South Korea since they like him so much) and with the Japanese government with problems in the new jujutsu society (specifically with new laws and policies concerning with sorcerers). He isn't as lonely as Gojo since he doesn't distance himself from everyone like him, but it has gotten difficult to meet his friends more often since he has a very busy schedule (he does find ways with time management skills).

In 2023, after dating Maki for 4 years he proposed to her and they got married on December 24th, 2023. They have a very happy relationship together in their married life and make time together and are very intimate with each other every time they get together. He even took up the hobby of killing curse spirits to create curse tools/weapons for himself and Maki which he is actually talented in. He even collected the fabled Muramasa Blade as a wedding gift for Maki which prevents regeneration and cuts any material like butter. The Rika shikigami started off as hostile to Maki but ended up actually liking her as much as Yuta and deeply loves both and protects their children from any harm. He is a very devoted husband who always finds ways to make her happy and loved in both romance and satisfied in bed (he literally trains his body and CE reinforcement to survive the force that is Maki and uses his CE reserves to keep going as she can go for hours without stopping, and she will not take no for an answer). As of now, Yuta has 2 daughters (4 and 4) and 1 son (5) who have inherited powerful curse techniques, and their son has the same heavenly restriction as Maki and Toji. Their oldest child, Tsuyoshi, has the same HR as his mother and is superhumanly strong but breaks things easily, his daughters Rika and Mai have an extremely deep pool of CE even at this age which both are the size of half of Yuta's CE pool. Yuta barely even survived the conception and had his arm broken when they were born.

At first, he wanted to get Souta out of the SRG cult to get information out of her that would help, but after seeing what she has gone through and seeing that she isn't like her brother but more like the Suguru Geto his mentor admired he later became more of a father to her and giving her a happy life before he has to go back to the cult. He spoils her and his children rotten as he has a problem of not saying no to his children since he is a big softy/pushover to them and this is one of the reasons why her weight got so out of control in the first place as he doesn't say no to her when she wants food or when she doesn't want to exercise. Because of this, Maki becomes the strict parent who says no to Souta and her children and scolds Yuta for being a big pushover in the first place. She is the one who wears the pants in the relationship and the authority in the house (like Nicole Watterson from TAWoG on Cartoon Network) as she keeps everyone in check prevents her children from becoming rotten children and prevents Souta from devouring everything and becoming too fat to fit through the door (she makes her do her workout regimen and combat training, but can't get her to diet as she uses her curse spirits and connections to get snacks and junk food). He has accepted Souta as one of his children and is doing everything in his power to stop her brother and the rapid growth of the SRG as he believes Satoru Geto will be a more dangerous threat than his father on a global scale and will protect Souta from the abuse and malice of the heads of the cult and her brother.

Curse Technique and Abilities: Yuta became a formidable powerhouse in this era that surpassed Satoru Gojo on the count that he has grown his arsenal to a terrifying scale as he exorcised special grade and supreme grade curse spirits, defeated hundreds of curse users in Japan and the other CE superpowers, he accumulated a staggering 455 curse techniques. These techniques include Comedian, Hakari's IDG, Idle Transfiguration, Cursed Forge, Muscle manipulation, Mass manipulation, Construction, flat planes, Technomancy, Ui Ui's teleportation, Elemental techniques, and many more. He also created and collected hundreds of curse tools along with Maki (which they have a two-story arsenal under their estate and carries 150 tools/weapons inside Rika and each weapon in imbued with a special effect of CT and one of them is a gauntlet infused with Yuki's Stars Rage and the cleaver of life and death.

He couldn't get his CE efficiency at the level of Yuji or Six Eyes, but he found a genius solution to this by permanently integrating a passive CT along with his copy technique in his brain. When he trained Lee Jiho for Samsung, he found his technique, Closed Circuit, extremely useful and used a special ritual and tweaking of this technique to imbue it into his brain and soul next to his copy technique. This technique makes the user into a self-contained loop of Cursed Energy, ensuring zero waste and near-perfect efficiency on output by forming a closed-loop system, the user creates an internal electromagnetic field, reinforcing their movements and drastically increasing efficiency in combat and giving him instantaneous reflexes. This means Yuta will never run out of CE and be the strongest next to Yuji, along with extending his limit to 25 minutes instead of 5 in exchange for having a 10-minute cooldown for his copy while still having the CC technique always active (with the help of his RCT). Even in his cooldown he is still a powerhouse with mastery of RCT and RCE output, all of the NSS school teachings, and a master swordsman who achieved the title of sword saint.

This is the other half of the strongest. Next will be the vessel of the king: Megumi Fushiguro.

Well he is still a special grade despite the fact that Rika is dispelled. I have some questions about him. Was the technique copy and limitless cursed energy coming from rika or can he still do that? I am not caught up so do we learn more about his current strength?